skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. I just read it (for the interested, it starts on page 69 and is well worth the read for anyone even the slightest bit interested in constitutional law), and it brings up some very good points.

My counter would be this: Of course it would be hubris to think that SCOTUS can "create 'liberties.'" But that is not what SCOTUS is doing in this case. There's a clear reading of the Bill of Rights where it is up to SCOTUS to clarify the definition of "liberty" or "equal protection" in the 14th Amendment as the general human understanding of human rights expands - as ambiguous language in the amended Constitution, it is very much in the federal judiciary's domain.

Now, if the states or the citizens feel strongly that this interpretation oversteps what should be the judiciary's domain, then there's a process for the other branches and the citizenry to tighten the limits of the judiciary's domain. That is the process of a Constitutional amendment. But to say, as Scalia implies, that SCOTUS should wait for an amendment or legislation before being able to expand the interpretation of ambiguous language in the amended Constitution, is counter to the very mandate SCOTUS was given in the first place - it should not wait or falter when a reasonable case is presented to the body, and where constitutional language is ambiguous. I applaud the Court's courage in living up to that mandate today.

...

And at the end of the day, Mr. Scalia, when it comes to bodies-not-representative-of-the-human-citizenry broadly interpreting ambigous language in the fundamental Laws, we should truly be glad that this is what we're seeing, not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evitable_Conflict ... :)
People keep building that app, using it to acquire customers, then pivoting into a generic payment platform because payment processing is a volume business and consumers splitting checks is such a tiny percentage of the market. It's the founding story for PayPal (originally for PalmPilot!), WePay, etc.

If you really want to make sure everyone contributes, try Tilt maybe? I think the idea is that the pool can't be used until everyone pays in. https://www.tilt.com/

For mobile payments, Venmo perhaps? https://venmo.com/ Though I would probably just use PayPal myself.
We could assume that each student has as close to perfect knowledge about his/her preferences as is attainable. The student will have to work to communicate that to the system one way or another -- I'm suggesting that using several rounds might mean less work (and/or less unpleasant work) for the students, than if they have to fill out an impossible number of choices/preferences upfront -- just so the system have the data it needs to complete in one round. Which would be optimizing the wrong part of the problem (or even the wrong problem).

No matter how interesting the problem might be from an algorithmic point of view.
>12 year olds [...] are not oppressed minorities facing a long history of brutal discrimination.

No, they absolutely are -- not in a way that really bears on whether they should get married, but seriously, have you been 12? Ever spent five minutes inside a Jr. High?
To be clear: SafeStack does NOT prevent return oriented programming. It makes the bar much higher, and it should be lauded for that. But please don't for a second think that this is a solved problem: ROP can occur on the heap, for instance.
CPI as a system also does not completely solve the problem: it is possible to break, for example (http://web.mit.edu/ha22286/www/papers/conference/Oakland15.p... ) and despite the CPI author's conclusions, produces high overheads for programs with large amounts of code pointers (C++ programs with vtables are good examples). Also not prevented are attacks that use data pointers (non control-flow data attacks), an area that has seen little study.
thanks for making this and sharing!
Separation of church and state gets a bit murky when there is a state religion.
I hope you also find the legislative process a joke because it certainly is.
I'm curious why you think he was clearly suffering from mental illness.

Did he leave a long broken worded diatribe full of references to imaginary voices and animals? Did he have a recorded history of increasingly frequent or intense mental breakdowns?

Certainly just because someone commits mass murder does not mean they are 'insane'. They can merely be evil.
According to Travis Kalanick, Uber's preference stack is less than 1/10th their earlier $40B valuation.

https://twitter.com/travisk/status/598313405905113088
I expect this will be inevitable, but since the density of self-driving cars is so low, developing such a protocol is premature.

Also, the over all design should exist in such a way that it doesn't rely on such car to car communication. For example, if a person is standing in the road, or a deer jumps into the lane, the car should be able to react accordingly.

Having a car-to-car protocol would be helpful for the average case, but since there are so many tricky edge cases, I suspect full autonomy being developed to its maximum potential may make it unnecessary.
Why should people respect a system that doesn't respect them? Disrespect for immoral laws is valuable for the continued evolution of liberal societies.
Is that new? Back when they started implementing they were saying that the did it as privately as possible, so that google couldn't track your browsing. It seems unnessecary. You do t get hits very often, so they could just redownload the entire list when there is a hit if they feel like double checking.
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Let's remind ourselves of the countries that have nuclear weapons, and the date they obtained them...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_nuclear_weapons_...

US - 1945

Russia - 1949

UK - 1952

France - 1960

China - 1967

Isreal - Unknown, but appear to have them in the 1970's

India - 1974

South Africa - 1979 to 1991

Pakistan - 1998

North Korea - 2006

Have any of the countries above avoided conflict since WW2? Perhaps France, China and South Africa, though it could be argued they've been involved in conflicts in other ways. The US, Russia, UK, Isreal, India, Pakistan and North Korea have all been involved with wars against other countries since WW2 ended even after they got nuclear weapons. Why do you suspect this is?

As for the Yom Kippur War, it's not one I'm overly familiar with, but it is relevant so thanks for mentioning it. However, the impression I get from reading this account was that the arming of the missiles was a cry for help in order to get the backing of the US. What would the Isrealis have stood to gain if they'd really set them off?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/06/opinion/the-last-nuclear-m...
Yeah, I'm hoping it will be used that way also, since you can read and write data both by hand and using SQL and immediately see the effects.
What happens between me and my roomba is none of the government's business.
While true, it's not a valid reason for preventing progress on the deconstruction of marriage.

'Our system is messy and complicated, so if we add more variables, it will be an even bigger mess!' - so make the system less messy and enable more variables.

Can you imagine if someone came and said add this function/feature to the program and in response you said "the program is complicated and the code is long, no need to confound it any further with features."
I didn't say they should be paid quite a high salary. They should be paid at least minimum wage.

Regarding your MBA:

“A degree has value only if the degree is scarce, and the MBA is completely unscarce,” says Jeffrey Pfeffer, professor of organisational behaviour at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/2313a2f8-7c81-11e3-b514-00144feabd...
> I try to understand the code and keep it in my memory so that I could predict the behaviour without the debugger.

That's the theme I hear when prodding people who (sometimes loudly) say they don't use debuggers. They work on codebases that are either small, solo projects, or change very slowly. That way they can keep an accurate simulation of the entire program in their heads.

Meanwhile, I've always worked on codebases that were changing faster than I can keep up. The majority of my debugger time has been in code I've never seen before.
Ah yes, very good point, I imagine a trolling-car-communication hack would come very soon after a car-to-car link is created. :)
I agree that laws protecting privacy would be good, criminals notwithstanding. I'm much less afraid of identity theft from a criminal, than I am that the police will come to my door someday and take me to prison because I match an algorithm.
Hypothetically, if overnight the earning potential of a developer was significantly reduced because some competitor could suddenly provide software development services better and cheaper than I currently can, would I expect the government to force the consumers of my services to pay my inflated rates and be less happy with the service - of course not!

I'd be in a pretty bad situation, but I'd just have to accept reality, retrain, specialise, or find a new way to be competitive that sustained my existing lifestyle or at least didn't have it drop off a cliff.

Of course in reality it's not overnight that these things happen, and it's not a sudden decision that people have to make because as yet, technological and societal progress isn't fast enough that people can't see change coming a few years off if they have their ear to the ground and follow what's going on in an industry.

It's a really bad position to be in and I understand the instinct of wanting to fight it and looking to regulation for protection when it doesn't feel like there are many other choices. However, to continue to support the idea that taxi services the way they are currently operated and priced are needed, or even wanted, by the majority of people who know that a better way exists (i.e. Uber etc) is absurd. It's just denying reality.

If a majority of customers know there is a better option, and want that better option, it will happen. The same will be true when driverless cars come along, are even cheaper and more convenient, and are therefore what people want more than a car with a driver.

The choice then becomes: are you going to embrace change by changing yourself and trying to ride the wave, or put up an exhausting fight, ultimately lose and be left behind.
The key word there is "adults." Polygamist communities have a documented tendency to seek out younger and younger women for marriage. (http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/367/1589/657)

EDIT: added source; had previously assumed this was common knowledge
Nothing is stopping you from doing that today. In fact, if you're really serious about advancing polygamy, this would be the way to start: show -- don't tell -- us how it would work. Because right now the poster children for polygamy are (AFAICT) all white male religious nut cases who just want to use it as an excuse to keep a harem.
The problem with against-the-flow is that it's unexpected to cars that are making a right turn.

The other day, I was coming out of an alley, turning right on to a one way street. I'm turning right, so I expect all road traffic to be coming from my left. That's the direction I'm focused on in making my right turn.

Now, I always check to the right, but I never really expect to see anything. When I did actually see a cyclist zinging up from my right, it kind of gave me an adrenaline jolt. He was never in any danger, my car was fully stopped and never moved: but it was so unexpected to see him there, that i kind of went "oh god, I almost ran him over".

Point is: if safety is your concern, then probably the safest thing you can do is to follow the same laws cars do. Be where a driver expects to see another car.
I think they should stay out of marriage since it's almost entirely a religious construct. Instead, they can be in the business of civil partnerships, which dictate those things required by law - HIPPA/healthcare rights, inheritances, child custody, death rights, and so on, and so forth.

Then "marriage" can be defined by your religion. My wife and I were not married in a Catholic Church. Therefore, in the eyes of the church, we're not married. That's fine with me. In the same vein, I'm friends with a gay couple who's synagogue married them before their state legalized gay marriage. In their eyes, they were married, whether or not the state acknowledge inheritance/HIPPA rights.

It seems relatively logical, but it's never come up in conversation. Let the state make rules around civil partnerships, and let religions deal with marriage - which, basically, says that if you say you're married, then cool - you're married.
I won't stop using it. I think it's bullshit. I'm honestly sick and tired of the language police trying to change society because they are somehow offended by a word that is non-offensive.

The word "cis" and "mansplaning" are both pejoratives..and it offends me. But it doesn't stop those same people who don't like the word "guys" from using it (and making it normal).

This is my problem with the entire discussion about this. It's not about removing offensive words or "equality". It's only about giving power to one group of people. The politicians love it because whenever there is an US vs Them mentality, they can take advantage and win votes.
could you share your pylintrc for others to learn from?
With the evidence being a survey done via Twitter.
Thanks for the link. I wasn't sure how true the story was.
Have you guys started?
I've seen a lot of WWII games that simply use the Iron Cross of German coat of arms as the symbol of Germany.

That said the CSA had a real flag, there's really no reason to continue using the flag of its arguably most famous army to represent the entire thing.

I think the people interested in Civil War games, would appreciate the realism in using the actual CSA flag.
> But... between great bits of Open Source like React, cool infrastructure projects like this, and a technical culture which seems a whole lot more open than many other big companies, it's getting kind-of hard to go on hating. Walk back a bit from the obsession with open plan offices, and I might just cave...

Wholeheartedly agree with you comment, Facebook's engineering blog is truly humbling.

There is not a day where I do not try to think of something that would both make the Internet more decentralized, anonymous and secure while being extremely profitable. The latter is crucial because capitalism would make the change viral and being profitable would let me attract talent.

In short, make something that people want AND that promotes values I believe in.
You asked, why this minority? Because two consenting adults want to get married, that's why. Not two children, but two adult Americans want to get married and have it recognized around the United States, not just a few states.

States screwed up when they took the civil part of marriage and associated it with the ceremonial part in a church.
Removable steering wheel..that's kind of funny:

http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/25/googles-latest-self-driving...

We are certainly still in the "Every single one of them still absolutely requires a driver." phase. Given that you've been in the automated transport field for years, and I haven't, I won't make any comments about the many years/decades timeline, except to say that, in general, the pace of technological growth in many areas has surprised me.
When I was a kid, I instinctively felt (did not have any kind of intellectual ability at that age) that I was in a trap. I can NOW supply language to my instincts. That instinct gradually grew into a concept - or a non-concept - and at 35 while still not sure what IT was - started saving, saving and more saving. In a country with high interest rates - that helped. I finally quit in 2010 at 50 - exactly 50. I spent the last 5 years doing absolutely no work for money. I never felt that I was missing out on anything at all. And I am sure I will never ever have to ask for help outside my family - unless of course any one of us is struck by an expensive disease. But then what that mostly would mean is physical pain. So we are now getting mentally ready for pain. Preparing to endure unendurable physical pain, which I personally have never experienced before. I do not feel like I am prostituting myself. That takes a lot of misery out of my system. I never ever switch on the TV, but spend a lot of time reading random stuff off the net.
I've used Klocwork. It will tell you all kinds of nitpicking stuff, but you can get it out of your face very easily, and just look at the stuff that you think is important.

But if you're in virmundi's situation, that's more a people problem than a technical one, and no tool will save you there.
Thanks, I'm very glad to read it, and I'm excited as heck at all the positive feedback!
HN Office Hours with Kevin and Sam
Starting at 11 am PDT today, Kevin Hale and I are going to try online office hours. If you'd like help with your startup, please post a top-level comment with one or two sentence description of what you do and the first thing you'd like to talk about. We'll let the community vote, and talk to the top 5 companies.

Unless you're one of the companies we're having office hours with, please don't comment otherwise on this thread until we're done at 1 pm PDT so that we can keep a clear flow in the conversations.

UPDATE: We're going to do office hours with ismail, trsohmers, ljd, ph0rque, and dzine.

UPDATE 2: Ok, have to sign off and go do office hours with YC companies. Thanks everyone!
Company: http://PlaceAVote.com

Pitch: We're replacing congress with voting software. We are running 70 candidates in the 2016 Congressional elections on our platform, if any of them get voted into office we'll take all bills before congress and put them on our site where each voter in that district gets one authenticated vote.

Question:
In your experience, what's the most effective way for B2C company to educate users that you even exist?

I know that signups and conversions are an art, but more than all of that, just telling people that you have something new that they may not be searching for but could still dramatically improve their life. We will take any demographic that will have us, so we aren't picky on that front.

We have 100% week-over-week growth during election cycles, and 10-20% when it's not, so we know the message is received, we just want to get more people in the top of the funnel.
"make (something that was previously illegal) permissible by law."

Try again...
Labor laws aren't (EDIT: intended to be) immoral.
In this scenario, Uber should be able to maintain their own cars at a lower cost than individual car owners can, due to their scale. They would also probably be able to buy the cars for less to begin with.

Keeping in mind that Hypercar would have to pay car-loaners at least the amount that the car loan is costing them in maintenance & depreciation (or else who would loan their car), Uber would come out ahead.

Maybe in the short-term, this Hypercar company could rely on car-loaners to underestimate maintenance/depreciation costs but surely that would only last so long.
See, I would have thought someone who has been discriminated against would have more sympathy, not less.
Taxi drivers earn a lot more than minimum wage, if your competent.

"Regarding your MBA:" Or whatever degree pays.
Hi Sam and Kevin,

The potential market for automated micro-farming (backyard farming) is huge, but it will take a long time to to reach its potential. My question is, at what point would AutoMicroFarm (http://automicrofarm.com/) become attractive to investors (both YC and others)? Would 10% weekly growth for a year be key, or something else?

Two and a half years ago, we AutoMicroFarm founders had an interview with you, and you decided not to invest, saying it was difficult to see how AutoMicroFarm would generate the kind of growth startup investors are looking for. However, YC invests with infinite time horizon and is not afraid of risky-looking companies (http://blog.samaltman.com/new-rfs-breakthrough-technologies).

So what would YC or other investors like to see before investing?

Thanks!
Sam, Kevin,

We are building a platform that allows anyone with a mobile phone to earn a living by performing discrete tasks.

Our platform aims to break down complex jobs into easily actionable items, that can be performed easily by anyone, anywhere.

The first vertical we are applying this to is reservations. The Loft Club (https://useloft.com) is a service that makes reservations for you at amazing restaurants every month on your preferred day, saving you the decisions and the hassle. Through our platform, we centralize restaurant recommendations and assignments, before farming out the logistics of making and manging them to our agents.

Our question is: Should we work on building out the generic platform and expand quickly into other verticals, or focus on building out The Loft Club and owning this space first? We've customers paying us for The Loft Club with the mild publicity it has received thus far.

Thanks!

Zhuang and Derrick
You said it would "only serve Uber in the long term". Except that there is some extra publicity, what else could Uber benefit in a long run?
>> this is a ludicrous statement. the Express.js transfer of ownership was a ridiculous fiasco full of angry drama, hurt feelings

True, I should rephrase; from the consumer's point of view it turned out fine :p
The project is still healthy.

About ExpressJS, I did read something about one of the main developers not even being aware that the transfer was happening until the last minute. I also heard that there might have been money involved and it probably wasn't a fair process. There are a lot of ethical dilemmas there. A transfer of ownership doesn't have to be this nasty though.
It's a crappy policy, why can't we hate on it?

For all the 'south will rise again' talk, there's no actual chance of a national split in the foreseeable future. The civil war is 150 years old, and quite dead.
Solution: Just make sure your fork has better SEO than the root! Work hard at promoting your fork, have blogs link to you as the best thing since sliced bread, etc. After all, since SEO is all about grassroots efforts, it's not at all like you're kowtowing to a central entity's policies and trying to work around their ridiculous restrictions. Because that would be counter to the distributed nature of Git and FOSS in general, right?

Oh, wait.

/s
You might be interested in https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/the-unsafe-rust-programmin...
I'm a co-founder at Stay22 (https://www.stay22.com), a Montreal-based startup that has developed a platform for users to search for places to stay (hotels & Airbnbs) around events

We provide a free solution for event organizers who are tired of doing customer service to their attendees by embedding our widget as easy as embedding a YouTube video. Other conferences have already hopped in like Traction Conf, check it out in action: http://www.tractionconf.io/accommodations

Let's just say that getting more events one by one isn't hard and our next step is to partner directly with ticket providers (SeatGeek, Ticketmaster) and do some sort of revenue share deal on accommodation sales.
The audio is flash for me too http://connect.soundcloud.com/soundmanager2/soundmanager2_fl... (Firefox Linux)

The funny thing is that the video is mp4 but on Firefox with NoScript it shows the same kind of placeholder as Flash does (when allowing instagram.com but not cdninstagram.com). My first reaction was "wow, Flash?!" And I missed the flash in the audio player.
You support a group that has had a broken business model for decades and the only reason it continues on is because of thug-like tactics like this.

Changing society for the better and unions generally don't mix. Unions prevent technological advancements and many times are just as big and corrupt as any corporation.