skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of off-topic, but one avenue where serial numbers stamped on all major bits have been useful is to collectors. I've seen a few that Forgotten Weapons covered that went for a pretty penny at auction because everything had matching serial numbers...

But that's a really good point about liability since there's so many after-market replacement barrels for Glocks. Heck, I've been tempted at times to get one just for the standard rifling (and I don't shoot lead).
We have been using FusionIO cards to get effect.
The Lonely End: in aging Japan, thousands die alone and unnoticed
Currently we provide our partners Jira access, however they need a simple way to create issue's without knowing everything about the codebase.
Also we use Jira Agile, which is stunningly awesome and simple.

However we just use a half of JIRA's feature so providing a better way to define issue's for external without code access would definitly help.
Also I'm looking forward to migrate away from stash / jira as soon as possible however we have a 3 year subscription which is now at it's half so we need another year to finally go to GitLab Enterprise.
M16 can shoot full auto, AR-15 can not.
Seems to me that the question of whether denying same-sex marriage is sex discrimination lies outside of law, and the law's purpose is simply to discuss which forms of discrimination are legal. I would say that at the time the 14th Amendment was written, it would have assumed that sex discrimination in the context of who can get married was allowed, not that it didn't consider it to be discrimination in the first place. But that's really just splitting hairs.

I think the important bits are: the 14th Amendment wouldn't have been considered to allow this when it was written, but now it is.
How Much Startup Equity Should You Give?
Yes let's drug all the population. Soma anyone?
I thought the same thing. It would make an interesting annecdote in the article to talk about lithium ion batteries. I thought I read somewhere that China has a large stock pile of lithium.

Still, an good read.
CloudKit in Context
I think our wires got crossed here. I'm arguing against the idea that we should change the name to civil unions and make it legal, as opposed to just legalizing equal "marriage".
>I didn't say the founders' intent should be venerated, or even necessarily taken into account.

Hm. I'm a little confused. How can you make a claim about what the intention of the clause was ("Actually, that is exactly what it was intended to mean") without claiming that Founder's intent should be taken into account?

Additionally, it's not pertinent to disclude the "explanator preamble" because, as you say, it's explanatory. The clause and the Amendment itself comes before an Amedment that speaks of quartering troops in peace time. It's clear that the writers intended the clause to be read in the context of militas.

"Equally anachronistically, individual rightists read “the people” to mean atomized private persons, each hunting in his own private Idaho, rather than the citizenry acting collectively. But when the original Constitution spoke of “the people” rather than “persons,” the collective connotation was primary. In the Preamble, “the People” ordained and established the Constitution as public citizens meeting together in conventions and acting in concert, not as private individuals pursuing their respective hobbies.”
[..]
“Founding history confirms a republican reading of the Second Amendment, whose framers generally envisioned Minutemen bearing guns, not Daniel Boone gunning bears. When we turn to state constitutions, we consistently find arms-bearing and militia clauses intertwined with rules governing standing armies, troop-quartering, martial law, and civilian supremacy. A similar pattern may be seen in the famous English Bill of Rights of 1689, where language concerning the right to arms immediately followed language condemning unauthorized standing armies in peacetime. Individual-rights advocates cannot explain this clear pattern that has everything to do with the military and nothing to do with hunting. Yet states’ rightists also make a hash of these state constitutional provisions, many of which used language very similar to the Second Amendment to affirm rights against state governments.”

Amar, Akhail-Reed. "America's Consitution: A Biography." 736-737

I'm not making any claim about how the clause "should" be read, only pointing out that the current reading of it was decidedly not the intention of the writers themselves. Further, to pull it out of context and make a claim about its meaning 'full stop' is to ignore the nuance of the document as well what those words would have meant when the document was drafted.
Hey now, I get it, but this is a good step that big foods are moving toward ingredients you can read. Heinz has a reduced sugar ketchup... unfortunately that is just shifted to sucralose and I'd rather just have sugar personally.
Anyone care to speculate how that might impact real estate (short and long term), particularly US markets that have seen heavy Chinese investment?
This sounds a lot like rationalising poor UI.
I find Vannevar Bush so interesting. There's lots of good material about him in the (excellent, albeit kind of depressing) Oppenheimer biography American Prometheus:

http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/13787/american-prometheus/978...
>How could it be consensual between all adults?

Are you trying to say multiple adults can't all agree on something? Your argument is based on ignorance and you're no better than the people who oppose gay marriage. You've been fed Christian and feminist propaganda to make you believe that only two consenting adults can love each other and that if you happen to love more than one person you shouldn't have the same rights as other people who don't.

You basically don't think polygamists are equal. Now let's see you do a full 360 from being pro-equality to using the same arguments the bigots used against you.
In most places I'm familiar with, when you are riding on the road, you're a vehicle. That means riding with traffic. (How do you ride against traffic if you're "taking the lane"?)
I half expected it to be a static site with the word NO in big, bold letters.
Pick the words you prefer. If someone is within 3 metres of your front door and can't find it, you have a more serious problem.

On the other hand, if multiple front doors are within the same square (a block of flats, for instance) then using this single piece of data is going to fall down and a floor number or flat number would be needed as well.
> Because the second amendment isn't really taken seriously by anyone, not even the gun nuts.

check out this article / video: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/texas-guns-poncho-neva... - the "constitution" is the entire rationale that open carriers use to call congresspeople "traitors" and threaten them inside their offices.
Play around with Redis from your browser in real time
FWIW, here's a related data point:

> One in every 10 Lyft ride matches passengers with friends in common, according to Lyft.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/lyft-launches-profi...
Just be careful on long term lithium. Even when taken at the proper dosage it will destroy the kidneys, eventually leading to death. This is not as well disclosed/known as it should be.
That's the problem with critics, they get paid to analyze things. Sometimes things don't really need to be analyzed, just taken at face value.
> After I was admitted to the institute's adolescent ward, I thought the nurses and doctors and therapists were trying to poison me.

Well, they kinda are. Theraputic doses of lithium are disturbingly near toxicity levels.
A 9 year old can't give consent, by law (at least in 1st world countries).
IANAL but couldn't you argue that legal marriage is basically a special kind of corporation? One that pays way less taxes, sure, but still.

One part that might be different is the special rules for child custody, but there are extramarital legal arrangements for that too.
Isn't the New Yorker satirical? One of their headlines is "Scalia Arrested for trying to Burn Down Supreme Court"...
Re: vandalism

The building had no access controls at all. I walked into an unattended lobby and rode up and down for a while. I saw no evidence of vandalism.
I haven't seen that usage for higher-order components before. This is the pattern I've been following:

function decorate (Component) {
let HigherOrderComponent = React.createClass({
render () {
return <Component {...this.props} />
}
})

return HigherOrderComponent
}

as explained here: https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/mixins-are-dead-long-live-hi...
Before I clicked on the comments, I had a suspicion that this article wouldn't resonate with the HN crowd. It's very much an example of "humanities" thinking.
Zynga's case was more nuanced than that story leads on. Zynga built out its datacenter capacity assuming a base line of users, which in hindsight, was optimistic and left them with significant excess capacity and costs.
Side note: It's ridiculous that webpages are often several MBs in size these days, while offering nothing more in value for all that extra weight.
Looking at other works - this is the sort of backhandedness and snark that I enjoy. While there are plenty of artistic peatures featured on the site there are a few that make me laugh.

http://www.mobstr.org/image%20pages/critic%20buff.html

I'm sure the bad color matching looks worse than any graffiti that was there.

http://www.mobstr.org/image%20pages/surveilance.html

Dual meaning behind that statement.

Also if you liked Red, this other progression piece is nice:

http://www.mobstr.org/image%20pages/progressions/THE%20STORY...
> Well, nation states have only existed for 500 years or so

Wat.
Here's a quick overview of the distribution of easily accessible lithium: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2010/ph240/eason2/

In short: Chile, Bolivia, China, United States.
Note the URL for that headline:
http://www.newyorker.com/***humor***/borowitz-report/scalia-...

Although it is saying something that the top 3 most popular stories are from the humor section.
Pick couple of bugs and fix them. Best way to familiarize yourself with a new codebase.
I am biased, but I think that if it was possible in America to graduate with virtually zero student debt and 20-24 months of industry experience in a five-year bachelor's program, despite having little to no savings prior to starting college, leading software companies wouldn't need to import developers and engineers on H1Bs and TNs. Immigration lawyers are expensive, you know.
Then you better start your own company, as working for somebody like this means you won't get rich (they will) and you won't have a work-life balance either. Know what you want to do in life, and then make the moves you need to pull it off.
How do you distinguish yourself from adf.ly?
If you look at the URL for that article, you'll see it's filed under the "humor" folder. Other articles on the site are legitimate.
I'm trying to figure out why I like this so much...
Nice job.
Which is why these aren't built anymore, I guess. Especially the wheelchair example is a very good reason (I'd argue the other reasons can be largely considered irrelevant, depending on the building/use case).

So, they're neat, interesting, but probably irrelevant.

But removing them for safety? That's just stupid - just like the article.
In German Cities Car Sharing is becoming very popular and a lot of Manufacturers have introduced their own car sharing offers or formed Partnerships with existing Companies. Tesla probably would do the same, because otherwise they would risk that Uber buys their cars elsewhere next time.
If you want to give people access to the issues without the code consider making guest accounts for them. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/perm...
It does feature satirical articles and columns, including the Borowitz Report, of which that Scalia article is one installment. (One of its most famous regulars was James Thurber, creator of Walter Mitty and a rare kind of humorist, still widely read decades after his death.) But it is not a satirical magazine cover-to-cover. It's particularly well-known for its short fiction and criticism.
"Marriage" is the term under which those rights are defined. Marriage is not a religious construct. Rather, religion and culture are deeply intertwined, but you seem to be accepting the Christian Right's assertion that it alone can define marriage. But I reject that claim. They are free to place their own restrictions on marriages their churches will endorse, but they are not free to define my marriage. Turning the word "marriage" over to "religion" (and ignoring the millions of religious people who fully support same-sex marriage) does more harm than good to reaching our goal of equality.
Honest question, what does that mean?
This is certainly well disclosed in the article!

He was alarmed at my combination of high creatinine levels, damaged kidneys and heart-attack-level blood pressure (185/130). At Mount Sinai Hospital, my doctor’s fears were confirmed in a matter of days: My kidneys were irreparably damaged, an ‘‘uncommon but not rare’’ side effect of long-term lithium use.
I'm a psychiatrist, and I prescribe lithium quite a bit. It really is the gold standard for treating Bipolar I Disorder.

Aside: If you are a person who uses the word "bipolar" as a synonym for moody or indecisive, I hope reading this will help you understand what actual bipolar mania looks like.
Kevin/Sam: This is way off-topic, but it's an unusual and I think worthwhile situation: A couple of Nigerian teenagers have their project on the front page and one found his/her way to the discussion. Unfortunately, most of the thread is nitpicking criticism. A quick comment might do a world of good.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9787010

Sorry to all if this comment is inappropriate.
Show HN: Jabba wants his money Solo
> Now you seem to be arguing about the integrity of the entire fields of psychology and sociology?

Yes, I am. Because opinions change, scientific or otherwise. Recently opinions changed from calling homosexual marriage an absurdity to a civil right. They also changed from saying that a parent should teach their child about what it means to be male or female into saying that a child can choose his own gender.

> What "plenty more people" do you have in mind? ... tell me how those cases aren't covered by my discussion of consent and we might get somewhere.

Polygamy/Polyandry:

Three consenting adults all love each other and are currently being denied the right to be married. Why should they be deprived of this "basic civil right"?

And if a person loves 20 other people and wants to marry them, then why should they be deprived? Because you don't personally feel that way? Because it's too much paperwork?

Pedophillia:

We are now told that young children have enough understanding and mental faculty to decide that they should be assigned to a different gender and that they should have the ability to control their own sexuality by obtaining birth control with only their individual consent (not their parent's).

If we have come to say that a child can consent and be in control of their own sexuality, then how can we say who they are allowed to have sex with or marry? And by what standard?

If a child is convinced that they are in a mutually consensual, loving relationship with an adult, what right do we have to violate that child's consent?

Zoophillia:

PETA has already shamefully attempted to exploit the pain and persecution of Black Americans (just as the homosexual movement has done) in order to try and say that animal freedom and rights are equivalent to human rights.[1] If animals can feel and think and be happy and give signs of cooperation and acceptance, then who are we to deny their freedom? If an animal wants to marry a human, then how can we deny the two individuals this basic right?
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PZBV8O5pfI

And feel free to add on any other combination that an individual decides is their civil right. Because as long as it doesn't harm anyone else, who are we to stand in the way of love? Right?
Lithium, like lead, is an element, not a drug. And lithium, like lead, has a significant environmental impact on the general population -- specifically, on behavior. And the current lack of lithium in our environment is detrimental to us, and not what we evolved for, just as the past prevalence of lead within our environment was.
Yup -- I'm excited for the Starfighter CTF by patio11, tptacek, et al.
Don't get me wrong, I love Xamarin, but this:

> We could then build thin, platform native UIs (also written in C#) over the top of our business logic..

"thin, platform native UIs"? From my experience this is a complete fallacy. I obviously can't rule out all situations but my experience is that 15%-20% of the code is shared and 80%-85% of the code is platform UI specific.

However, having said that, if you want to develop a single app for iOS, Android and Windows Phone, as far as I'm concerned, there is no better alternative than Xamarin.
The fiendish fluoridators are after us again! It depends whether you would view this as imposing an artificial medication or just correcting a dietary deficiency.
This Is the Time to Move Past the God vs. Gays Debate
http://mvnrepository.com/open-source/jvm-languages
Easy Custom Web Servers with Dart and Redstone
I would be genuinely interested in knowing how they could have scaled organizationally without money from investors who would have pushed them to make a profit.
The link at the end points to this slide deck, which has more specific details: http://www.slideshare.net/denshikarasu/all-your-iops-are-bel...

I recommend taking a look at it.
And not much has changed since then, unfortunately.
> And the current lack of lithium in our environment is detrimental to us, and not what we evolved for, just as the past prevalence of lead within our environment was.

Much like weed or cocaine.
> The difference is critical as it pertains to discrimination against a certain type of persons.

How do you define "type"?

> Prohibition of poly-marriage has nothing to do with whom you choose as a partner.

Does it matter? It's still hindering people from being in the relationships they want.

> There is no whom, the only factor is how many, a quality completely detached from the qualities of any individual.

There is a whom: People who have multiple partners. The important quality of those individuals is the fact that they want more than one partner.

> The structure of one's union is not a trait of an individual.

If it were not a trait, then we'd see no preference one way or the other, and yet we do see preference; preference strong enough to lead to prohibition.
Litigation risk. Uber now hides behind "just a contractor". Unless they don't actually own the cars, they're liable...
It's interesting how this post hasn't made the HN front page despite having higher points than many of the other stories.
Yes this could work for personal things. But it is often you need to represent your understanding of the current state of affairs and propose your ideas, so the UML is a good tool to do it - everybody understand it or could learn in like 0.5 hour.
I think understanding when a movie is just for fun is part of a film critics job.

In Australia we used to have Margaret and David before they recently retired. They were really good film critics with tastes that covered a large spectrum of movies.
The chess benefit from memorizing openings reminds me of two amazing articles reporting that many Scrabble champions are non-English speakers who've simply memorized the word list without having its contents in their vocabulary:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/dispatches/f...

http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2005/dec/11/features....
The US government just cut down the amount of fluorine in the water supply. Everyone is overexposed to it. And it is detrimental to brain development.
At least those are usually pretty quick to fix.
This most likely got flagged due to the 4chan mention in the title.
same. Wave of nostalgia for my ti-83 coding days.
Study finds a good appetizer could make your main course less enjoyable
> I'm not so sure that the states would not have resolved it [slavery].

Opinions among historians seem to vary, but the impression I've gotten (albeit not with any careful study) has been that the slave states likely would have been extremely slow to abolish slavery, because:

1) the dollar value ascribed to enslaved people represented a huge proportion of the wealth of politically-powerful slave owners; and

2) many non-slave-owning voters in the slave states --- all white males, of course --- aspired to become slave owners and thus tended to sympathize with the interests of slave owners.
The planet will always be able to sustain a larger human population, so long as that human population is willing to accept worse living conditions.

How bad do those living conditions have to get before people will be comfortable taking steps to limit the growth of the human population?

Intelligent people read articles like this as if it's some great leap forward for humanity, so apparently having to eat bugs all day isn't bad enough.

Are any living conditions bad enough? Or are we just going to keep expanding into the 10s of billions until human life itself is devalued to nothing, and we can't afford to eat anything but bugs?
You Don't Have to Know English to Play Scrabble (2004)
If it's in Haskell, I start cleaning up and refactoring datatypes.

Like changing some function like:

Text -> Text -> IO ()

into:

ServerHost -> Path -> IO ()

Changing the types will naturally lead you through the codebase and help you learn how everything fits together via the type errors.

In any language I'll try to read the project like the Tractatus.

In stuff that isn't Haskell? Break stuff and run the tests.
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It is politically unviable because it would basically take away the current benefits from straight married couples to further a libertarian pipe dream.

Politics is the art of the possible: extending marriage benefits to gays and lesbians is a lot easier than clawing it away from all straight couples in order to satisfy a desire for libertarian ideological BS.
Even better, as soon as PARRY, the artifical paranoid was created (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARRY), it became a fun parlor trick to hook them up to each other over the ARPANET; I saw that live in the summer of 1978.
Lever (YC S12) Is Hiring Distributed Systems Engineers in SF
https://github.com/orange-lang/orange/wiki/Language-Specific...
Thank you!

Regarding the flash issue, you're right, I'm noticing this too. Completely didn't think about that. The "let's go" button waits for the sound to finish loading, but if it never does, you can't start it :/.

I'll look into this, hopefully not too many people are affected.
All of the things I listed are part of the Java language and standard library.

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/P...

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/ClassLoad...

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/annotatio...

etc
The first comment in the linked thread says:

>>> It's amazing how much the title submission can influence comments.

>>> Original title: "Hated expensive, crappy stock photos so I made this."

>>> Current title: "Free hi-resolution photos for your website. 10 new photos every 10 days"

So that explains a lot, and puts a good emphasis on how important is the title. These type of titles work out pretty well in other areas but it is a gray area here in HN. It also makes me appreciate the original title rule which we have here in HN.
I was hoping it would be an Elon Musk quote.
Yeah, it was at the second page when it disappeared.
Some of these are, I think, quite spot on.
> [825] How we plan to burst the bubble with our niche startup!