skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Larvadain, who is now 74, worries that young lawyers are less concerned with right and wrong than with chasing dollars. Although Patricia Parker’s lawsuit against Woodworth offered small hope of a big payday, Larvadain agreed to represent her. “Because I saw wrong had taken place. And I knew someone had to take a stand.”

I know a lot of young lawyers who'd love to take on a case like this one. But matching people who need help to lawyers who have the time and institutional resources to take on these projects pro bono isn't easy when you're talking about folks wronged in rural Louisiana.

Also, I think there's something of a hesitancy to for business law firms to add suing municipalities to their pro bono docket. Which is a shame--a few New Orleans firms building up a pipeline of pro bono suits against places like Woodsworth could do a lot of good.

EDIT: If you're interested in (potential) justice porn, it's worth following Fant v. City of Ferguson. The DOJ gave a lot of ammunition to plaintiffs' lawyers when it concluded that the city was systematically using fines and other police actions as revenue sources, particularly against poor black people. It's Woodsworth writ large. The complaint is here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/08/us/ferguson-co.... The docket is available here on Justia: https://dockets.justia.com/docket/missouri/moedce/4:2015cv00.... With her opinion last month on reconsideration, the judge has effectively denied the city's motion to dismiss. Dispositive motions are due May of next year, so we'll likely see by then whether this is granted class status. If so, things will get interesting.
Facebook's answer to Magic?
It's certainly supercharged bloviating article headlines.
"I'm sure Larry and Jeff had good intentions when they started their companies but now that it's in the hands of middle management it's no different than any other big corp."

One of the weird things is 'success metrics telephone tag.' Basically it works like this; Boss creates a function and defines what it means to be successful. Hires a group to do that function. The group grows and its bifurcated into sub-groups which each have a part of the problem, and each has their own "success metric" which should, in theory, contribute up to the top level metric. However, there are no 'peer ranking' of the metrics, so if you have one group that is keeping your HR costs under control (success metric is 'cost per employee') and you have another group with is keeping your employee's happy (success metric is 'employee retention') and a third group which is keeping employees productive (success metric 'revenue per employee'), they all sum up, in theory to success metric 'keeping people happy and productive at the lowest possible cost'.

Now you find an employee who discloses a condition which will both cost the company money (benefit payout), and reduce productivity (external issues, loss of focus at work) and suddenly two parts of the HR group are having their success metric impacted by this event. You can reduce that to only one group making the person quit. So from the top level "we're hitting two of our three metrics" is a better report to send up then "we're hitting one of our three metrics".

A fix for this is an suitably enlightened senior manager providing scale options, so "retain good employee" gets a weight of '6' and 'save money' 2, and 'productivity' 3. Now when you score it retaining them gets you 6/11 but getting them to quit only gets you 5/11. Retaining your best employees becomes the managed-to goal.

Understanding how a company approaches those problems will say a lot about the quality of its management and the maturity of its processes.
Since that article contains more detail, we've changed the URL to it from https://www.facebook.com/Davemarcus/posts/10156070660595195. Happy to change it again if anyone can suggest a better.
How China's economic slowdown could weigh on the rest of the world
They don't need to pay me for it. If they've taken it without diminishing me, they're free to go about their business and I'm free to spend time with my family, living off the bounty of a richer society.

(Your original description sounds an awful lot like the goal of open source, is what I'm saying. The infinite replicability and liquid scalability of software makes it hard to apply industrial-age metaphors to it ;) ).
Yes, but I meant more from the gadget-assistant side of things.

Q seems fitting (in terms of James Bond characters) to be your personal AI.
What is so incredible about it? Is it incredible to understand that in countries where universal health care is the norm the US system seems completely alien? For example, I gave up trying to explain to my parents who still live in Europe how my health care works. They don't understand why it's part of the package when I take a new job.

I tried to find a source but couldn't, it's too old, all the matches I got where about the new spin-off. I remember seeing it mostly on TV and TV magazine (critics of the series). Just to be clear, it wasn't a full documentary about the US system :) just a note to explain that the US doesn't have universal health care and that people without insurance were in deep shit.
Ask HN: Collapsible comments?
Hi, I think it has been a year or so since I saw that Collapsible where coming.

Any news about that?
It always surprised me that these people treat their mobile game studio as a going concern when this business has all the features of the lottery where you enter repeatedly till you win big and when you do you get the cash and take off with no more time and money spent on buying lottery tickets and "optimizing" your chances to win.

I guess this could be attributable to the gambler mentality where they believe that the fact of past winnings is indicative of more and bigger winnings in the future but I think that AB were rather prudent albeit rather late that they cut their losses and laid off people to buy them some time.

Will they get out before it's too late? This remains to be seen.
Indeed. The officer pulled them over for no reason. This isn't even disputed. The officer admitted as much, apparently thinking this is something he's allowed to do.

The entire stop should have been voided instantaneously the moment it touched a court because of this.
Show HN: Dead Man's Switch
My layman impression of the part is that it looks like a traditional piece. Is there anything about it that couldn't efficiently be done with traditional machining?

If not, is the next step to leverage the additive process to produce a unique design? Meshes, hallows, etc.?
> magical libertarian

That's a pleonasm.
Nobody asked you to intervene in their marriage, investigate their spouse, or enforce any laws -- adultery isn't even a crime in many places. You do not get to impose your morals on others. A stranger cheating on another stranger has nothing to do with you.
Zesty (YC W14) is hiring engineers to work on routing/scheduling automation
That may not match the definition in your book, but their book is bigger and is written with the blood of multiple wars and genocides.

So it's right just because the UN say so? Sounds like an appeal to authority to me. But anyway, it's kind of a moot point, because we're never going to get 100% agreement on this stuff. The divide over positive/negative rights alone is too sharp and to ingrained in people's psyche. And the UN document is a muddled-up mishmash of both kinds of rights. There's some good stuff in there' but a lot of it is total hokum as well. shrug

I think society in general, and I in particular, expect companies to honour that definition and stand up to the obligations it engenders in them.

I don't see any particular reason that companies (or anyone else) should adopt the UN's doctrines over any other.
Those estimates might have worked out if funding wasn't continuously being cut.

http://i.imgur.com/FR0TsYF.png
Fred Brooks: “A Personal History of Computers”
S/he's talking about the HTML exporter.
Safari does this, as does Chrome. For example, typing "webex" will show this discussion as one of the autocompletion suggestions.

Safari will suggest also suggest things like Wikipedia articles and popular sites. Similarly, if I type "imdb michael mann", Safari will suggest "Search imdb.com for michael mann".

Firefox's location bar is arguably much worse than both Safari and Chrome — it won't really autocomplete anything except "search Google for this" and bookmarks/history. Safari also leaves the search standing in the location bar when you submit it, whereas Firefox replaces it with an obscure, unreadable google.com URL.
Ask them to loan the 50k from a bank instead of from you.
Hey everyone!

I built this ruby gem at Tuft & Needle to know when our jobs fail to complete in production. It's patterned off a dead man's switch. I'd love your feedback and ideas!
They're not just being called assholes, they're having all personal and financial details dumped in the process. There's a difference.

We've generally determined that sexual practices, as long as they're consensual and do not involve harm to anyone outside the participants themselves, should not be subject to persecution. This includes incest, as much as it may disgust you. A lot of people are disgusted by coprophagia, that doesn't mean we should publicly shame people for having sexual tastes that aren't to our fancy. It is as arbitrary as shaming people for musical preferences.

Domestic violence is a wholly separate problem altogether. There's nothing that doxing will do to solve it.
Yeap, they treat their people frugally.
Given that the original search was blatantly illegal, the original citations were not in fact reasonable.

Law Enforcement generally gets away with this behavior, in part, because the public only pays attention to the end result (in this case "no insurance") and pays no mind to the fact that a search was never justified in the first place.
Yeah. It increases the cost to sue but I suspect pregnancy -> PIP -> cancer -> terminated insurance -> effective demotion on return should be winnable in a perfect world. They just know no one is going to fight it and they can make it expensive enough its not worth it.
The website is ridiculously slow for me in Safari.
in order:

how to get the money: bitcoin, move to russia and use wire transfers, launder it through lawyers, etc

life afterwards: one hell of a lot richer

fbi: part of the agreement is ashley doesn't go to the fbi, again, with the full data release hanging over their heads. And no, I don't think the fbi would be particularly motivated. They have plenty on their plates. Because, crucially, Ashley Madison wants this to go away (hence the hush money), so they're unmotivated to pursue legal challenges because it quite likely results in the full data release.

Particularly with the potential of disrupting the ipo, it seems straightforward to cut a deal.
How do you figure? Seems that the demographic hit is just a bunch of people with dysfunctional people skills.
> Amazon's lawyers are probably expensive right? They also have to risk setting precedents and future cases not being so easily intimidated. Seems like they would have a lot to lose letting this go to court, even if they intend to drag it out.

But that's the thing: they don't need to let it go to court, they just have to drag out the pre-trial proceedings for a few years until you've either moved on with your life or forgotten enough of the details. Most cases settle out of court, but before that happens there is due process that a good HR defense attorney can absolutely stretch out for years.

As far as their lawyers, it costs a big company like Amazon very little, since the lawyers are likely on salary. They would probably hire an outside attorney to represent them in person at a trial, but since the vast majority (>95%) of cases settle before they make it that far, their internal HR lawyers would probably handle most of the grunt work of filing paperwork until someone actually needs to show up at the court house.

Also it's probably not as much money as you think; unless it can be proven that the company's actions were malicious and intentional against a protected class, you probably won't see much more than 6 months salary. The problem is in gathering the evidence to prove this and keeping track of it over the course of a few years.
YCF is an awesome move guys. Stays true to the funding of a good team/idea philosophy YC began with.
The opposite of Gyges's ring. If every fact of everybody's lives, everything you ever thought was public - would you behave more ethically? It's sort of like a panopticon where everybody guards everybody else.
> Then that's a breach of contract between two private parties which is of absolutely no relevance to outside observers.

That's one way to look at things. I happen to have a different philosophy about marriage, that it actually does affect other people, and since you're so understanding, I'm sure you'll grant that my philosophy is equally valid.
Let me rephrase you: "Who are you, or anyone else, to evaluate 'abuse' in a relationship..." -- the answer is "anyone who knows how to count". While there are exceptions to every rule, the majority of cases fall into rather ordinary examples. Not everyone is special.

I'm guessing that you haven't talked about this with anyone who is into BDSM. Just because you witness something that you think is violent abuse doesn't mean that you're right.

Conversely I've seen perfectly pleasant looking couple who engage in constant verbal abuse disguised as pleasant commentary. Most people won't recognize it for what it is. Go read http://www.amazon.com/The-Gentle-Art-Verbal-Self-Defense/dp/... and you may do better than most people.

Be very, very careful about judging what happens in other people's relationships. It may be bad. Or you may not know. For real.
The parent didn't quote the spec, they quoted a GitHub issue with 71 participants. If you want to post a link to the spec text please do.

If true I'm not sure it matters if every browser throws an exception.
I have no inside info, but I think YC Fellowship could be a startup lead generation system: when you get a Fellowship grant and your company begins to work out, you will probably apply to YC and get accepted. Then YC receives equity (and only the equity of the huge winners matter financially).
> but calls over cellular are not data

Does this change with VoLTE?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VoLTE
Having morals also means speaking out about things when it is your concern. 37 Million (of course potentially non-unique) accounts on a website advertised with the express intent of cheating on your spouse with nobody knowing is fucked up. It's a sleazy website run by sleazy people with sleazy business practices, used by people who are trying to do something which their spouse VERY LIKELY disagrees with.

Of course there are portions of the AM leak which are bad, like the gay men in Saudi Arabia, but pretending that this is the norm and not the exception is feeding a delusion. Just because a small portion of the website does not follow the same perogative does not mean that we should derail the discussion from the main issue.

An epidemic of cheating over the internet is a concern for people who intend to get married. Estabilshing strong social taboos here is not some awful thing.
I see, for some reason I thought it was Voice over IP tunnelled to google via VPN (over wifi or LTE). My mistake.
But, you have choices.

Correct. It would be nice if they were appropriately presented to beginners.

like allegro for example that comes with a nice IDE: allegro-composer.

Do you... use Allegro? Do you find it good? Have you used LispWorks?

In the past couple/few years, Franz introduced a single-stepper.[1] They released a video alongside the new feature, demonstrating it. Literally, by 20 minutes into the video, the narrator was still mucking about with configuration and such and hadn't gotten to the point of being able to single-step through Lisp code.

(Also, Allegro's licensing terms require a runtime license fee for every unit of software developed with Allegro that you distribute. LispWorks' do not.)

[1] (It's unconscionable to me that that could be a new-ish feature. I don't even know that I had heard of the term "single-stepper" prior to that - I always just assumed it was a natural v0.1 part of a debugger that didn't bear even mentioning. But what can you do...)
Well, but it is pretty typical for banana republics.
Not the same everywhere, or wasn't. At least two women arrived at Qualcomm QCT about 10 years ago, from outside the US, so very likely on H1-B, then within months announced they were pregnant, and Qualcomm took good care of them. Fellow Americans thought it looked conspicuous in timing, though Qualcomm still took care of them. And it seemed to hurt nothing to do so. [edit: typo]
what if she wasn't doing great before she went on the first maternity leave and was in fact doing poorly?
> Facebook for a website..

That might be the greatest understatement I've seen for a while.

It's technically true but it really doesn't paint any kind of picture.

Facebook is a website in the same way that the Library of Congress is a 'place that stores stuff'.

I'm not a huge fan of Facebook as a company but I admire the engineering talent that goes into dealing with 1.5 billion active monthly users, the incredible problems of adding even tiny features at that kind of scale.
I really think it's more than that for many people. The game Jetpack (Joyride) for instance, offers a paid version. I do not know a single person who purchased it, but I know lots of people who were extremely into the free one. Same with Fruit Ninja, and Peggle.
Can someone please define "PIP"? I honestly have no idea what it means.
So I'm 85% sure that ${User} is connected to a CP ring in some way.

Should I publicly out ${User} even though I could be wrong and let them suffer the ramifications that it causes?

If they lose their job, spouse, shunned by family, receive death threats, and have an internet hate mob trying to find where they live because the evidence was "leaning towards them" does that make it okay for me to call them out as being connected?

"Oops, I was wrong. They aren't connected after all." doesn't fix ${User}'s life. Even if it opens up a defamation lawsuit, it won't fix their life - and the lawsuit will be expensive - and even when they win they'll hardly see any money because I'm some nobody who doesn't have any money for them to sue for to begin with.

Do you still not see the problem?

Edit:

Not to mention I may not even be in their country.
> Also with a VPN you'd be able to send voice traffic over both a carrier connection and the wifi connection at the same time to avoid dropouts.

Does this double the bandwidth you're using when MPTCP is in effect?
I guess I'll never see this screen since I don't like to be logged into google when I do my searches.
robots.txt is widely ignored. User-agent fields are faked out to make robots look like Firefox on Windows.

Anyone can make a crawler and then have it report as Googlebot. That doesn't even violate the robots.txt; it says, if your name is Googlebot, you're allowed.

Blocking crap requires cunning: code that looks for suspicious access patterns and responds.

A genuine Googlebot should be operating from a Google domain. If we reverse the client IP of a Googlebot request, we get something in the ".googlebot.com" domain.
My partner was discriminated against in a similar way. An employment lawyer told her several things:

(1) it's difficult to prove, and often juries really want bright line discrimination (eg an email saying fire that bitch for getting pregnant); a pattern of discrimination without a smoking gun is a harder sell to a jury

(2) be ready to never work in that industry again, and maybe to never work again

(3) do you really want this to be what you do with the next 2-3 years of your life

She declined to pursue it. Or as the saying goes, "in its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread." One law for the rich, another for the rest of us.
Well, I'd like to hear you actually elaborate on your differing philosophy. That'd be helpful.
> They can only afford to pay $50k. They claim their seed round gave them a valuation of $10M, so therefore they offer 50k / 10M = 0.5%

Certainly not for such a low % and at a seed round and at such a low salary to market.

Also, since you would be certainly investing in the company, you should ask for preferred equity that vests each month (as your paycheck would be paid)
Congrats on your twins!

I work for Google, and when my wife had twins last October, my team was extremely supportive when I took six weeks of paternity leave - they even threw me a little party and chipped in for an Amazon gift card for diapers etc. It was an entirely positive experience. A female coworker had a baby a week earlier and she was out from mid-September to early February. And she and I both applied for promotion that September, with the full support of our manager and her manager. I've since seen friends at Google have kids and take leave with absolutely no issues.

It's awful that your wife had this experience - she should escalate it to her boss's boss. I don't think it's standard for Google.
What ammo?

Some people of questionable ethic and questionable intelligence gave a third party incriminating information about themselves and also gave them money all while hoping for discretion. (I say questionable intelligence because the real rich and powerful use different services provided by different people..) Any privacy agreement was a private one between 2 parties, at best covered by civil law, maybe Canadian civil law. Certainly nothing binding in any substantial way was signed.

It's certainly making light of online privacy but I'm not sure there is a battle here, it's just demonstrating that it's still very much the wild west out there. What should happen here? Should AM pay a fine to some government? Class action law suit? (I think that idea is particularly hilarious..)

Riddle me this, so suppose AM goes bankrupt. Can their creditors just take that data and sell it? It's an asset, right? Is it possible for a EULA or some sort of agreement to prevent that? Hackers or not, all that information could be in someone else' hands, that the users have no agreement with. AM is sort of the poster child for these problems but you may have given a lot of information to companies that you wouldn't want other companies to have.
Often unknown dynamic linker trick, not a backdoor.

Although, if anyone reading this has never heard of LD_PRELOAD, take a look at a better resource than this link because it can be a powerful debugging and testing tool.
I grew up in Europe, been living in the US for 15 years now.

I would not have bought the premise of that show 15 years ago. Absolutely not. It would have seemed beyond far-fetched.

But not anymore, sadly. I can totally believe it now. Makes me wonder if I need to re-evaluate some of my biggest choices in life.
If they seed round give them a valuation of 10M, it means they must have got at least something like 1M for 10% or 500k for 5%, so it seems weird they can't find the money to pay you.

Even if 10M valuation is confirmed, you should get more equity to compensate for the risk. Usually, startups without tech co-founder tends to fail so your might want to take account of that when you are accepting equity. If the startup fails, the equity is worthless.
As a clarification, by 'shutdown' do you mean failed, or does that include people who sold or were aquihired?

Good to see the 90% of startups fail 'statistic' blown out the water with some facts!
It appears to be a photo post (i.e. images uploaded to FB natively) as opposed to a link post, where FB chooses a thumbnail for you (or not, if it's a YouTube link). I've been seeing posts like this when friends upload image albums (if more than 4 images, you get a 'see more' box in the lower right)
I googled "Pass1234" assuming it was some sort of exploit tool but didn't find anything. Can anyone explain what this answer means?