skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Radicalizing" someone isn't a crime and shouldn't be.

Actively getting a random person to join a terrorist organization and then fly overseas to fight for it is a crime; it's the crime of "Providing material support to terrorists" (18 USC 2339A), which (sensibly) includes "personnel" in its definition of "material support".

As usual in Message Board Law, we're here being asked to fall into the trap of considering each of this person's actions independently, ignoring the greater (and in this case crystal clear) pattern of their intent and the outcome of their plan. "Putting two people in contact is not a crime". Sheesh.
Re: OpenBSD MIPS32 Support
Nullability is an interface, not a data type. Python objects can always be None, as per duck typing.

Python has a strong dynamic typing system, with metatypes, type rewriting and so on. You couldn't be more wrong.
What it is missing is an easy way to declare interfaces - the idea is to use duck typing and handling exceptions when something goes wrong.
Our family just visited Yellowstone a couple of weeks ago. What surprised me apart from the geysers and hot springs which I never grow tired of, is the variety of the landscape from stunning water falls, to mountain peaks, and lush valleys full of wildlife. We saw plenty of bison, and even a grizzly and her two cubs from a safe distance in Hayden Valley. But all is not well in Yellowstone. The park is being overrun by tourists. At the main sites, it feels more like Yellowstone City than Park. There are literally people jams on the boardwalks. There is a fair bit of trash at most of the hot springs sites, not out of neglect (we saw plenty of park volunteers cleaning up after the tourists, and we even chatted with one to talk about his techniques — he uses a fishing pole), but simply because of the sheer number of people visiting the park. There are tourists getting airlifted all day out of Old Faithful Village (we must have seen five helicopters land and take off) because, with that many people, there are bound to be medical emergencies. Morning Glory pool is not what it once was because tourists feel the need to throw coins and whatnot in the pool [1]. Last year someone crashed a quadcopter in Grand Prismatic which is still at the bottom of the pool [2]. There is now a ban on quadcopters in the park.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_Glory_Pool
[2] http://www.digitaltrends.com/photography/tourist-crashes-dro...
Moving a finger is not a crime. Driving a car is not a crime. Closing a door is not a crime.

(Firing a pistol, running over sb., incarcerating a hostage)
Dear Huffington Post, WTF Is Going on with You? (IGNORED – Day 25)
Back here in the real world we understand that the most cost effective manner for device manufactuers to comply with this moronic regluation is to lock down the entire device.

Phone, Routers, Tablets and even some Laptops will be shipped with out the ability to change the operating system, or firmware. As that will be the cheapest way to comply with the regulation and since less than 1% of the customers ever bother changing there will be no backlash

This will be a nightmare for Computer security, and innovation.

I hope you love botnets becuase the FCC is creating the next wave of them with this moronic regulation.
When he sold it for 2.5 I felt really sorry for him, this was so much to be expected. It is very hard to be happy and live a fruitful live with such amounts of money. Most people do not understand this, they find out once they have it. I wish you all the best notch.
The people you're trying to inform are incapable of seeing beyond what Big Brother tells them the way things are.

Best of luck waking others up
Ashley Madison hack was inside job says McAfee
Lita 4.6 released with support for chat-service-specific APIs
There are drone jammers that block radio frequencies and GPS signals in a area making the used drone inoperable. (https://crab.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/how-to-down-a-drone/)

These devices are used at film sets and important buildings which makes it probable that they are a measure to protect the president.
3 years into a math degree and this never clicked until I watched Feynman's QED lectures.

Everyone just tells you, "oh now this can be a matrix." Nobody tells you why matrices are useful, or how we ended up with them. Just, you know matrices use them.
The things you own end up owning you.
Tangent: Are you a front end developer? This page shows some of what bugs me about what's happening to the web. It didn't used to be this way.

My screenshots of this page:

http://imgur.com/a/v0Wmf

I'm using FF on linux, and my browser occupies the left half of my screen.

The first, top image is what that tab looked like when it was initially rendered. Everything jumbled on top of everything else. Maybe that's partly or totally FF's "fault", but it is where the page is going to be rendered for a significant portion of people, and it is what it is, despite what the page designer wishes.

The second image is the browser in full screen mode. Everything readable. Big left and right whitespace columns, which is fine. In fact if the text stretched across the whole page that would have been its own readability problem.

Notice the code sample, rendered in a box. There's a significant amount of whitespace on the right of the box, making the box wider than necessary. Notice the article text seems to take the width of the box. I don't know enough about the front end to want to figure whether that's the case, or if the text and box are taking the width of some more encompassing element.

Either way, the third image is the browser un-fullscreened. Somehow the act of fullscreening and un-fullscreening made the page render sensibly. Yay.

But now the text is cut off on the right. The text is flowing according to some element or directive that ignores browser width. I hate this, particularly because it's so unnecessary.

The fourth, final image is that page, rendered when the browser has styles turned off. It's so 90s! It's so readable! It also shows that it can be done.

Had the page been designed with all its beautiful design elements (and they are beautiful), but rendered more to the browser than to some static design idea, we all would have been spared this rant, and I would be finished reading the article by this time.

Won't you help?
Sounds like another battle in the "coming war on general purpose computing" http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
I had always trouble with math at high school. I managed to pass in the end, but I never really got it.
I think math should be thought like programming. They should present you with a problem and then show you a cool way to solve it. My math classes consisted of memorizing formulas and algorithms for standardized tests. I learned about hyperbolas, matrices, integrals etc. but none of them stuck with me. One of the few things I remember is basic trigonometry, because we used to do practical stuff like getting an angle from the ground and length from the building to calculate a person's height.
Moreover, I think math seriously needs a REPL. At my math exams(not tests, written ones) I never could calculate the solution right, I would always make a mistake.
We need to acknowledge the fact that we are human and humans make errors. We need to teach high school math in a hackable, practice-oriented way.
The current math curriculum excludes pupils who think different. If you can't solve it in the traditional way, you're doomed. But you're actually smart and can understand math if you learn it by doing, hacking, programming.
I don't see any backlash at all for the ~90 people that were killed today in the US in motor vehicles [1]. I doubt there will be a massive backlash, unless the vehicles were operating in a known dangerous setup. These vehicles are filled with loads of sensors so accident reconstruction will be trivial.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...
Exactly. I can't feel bad for people complaining about having too much money, when it's such a simple problem to solve if you really mean it. And there are so many people who really need that money, too.

Even at my meager $70k income, I've gotten some sense that after a certain point, money's not going to greatly increase my quality of life. And if I had billions, I wouldn't give the money all away either, but at least I wouldn't complain about what a burden it was, living in my $70 million Beverly Hills mansion. That empathy has to go both ways, and those words are really grating to the truly less fortunate in life who can't even put food on the table reliably.
Dave's book gives a great overview of Elixir.

If you want a deeper look at Elixir - I'd recommend Elixir in Action by Saša Jurić (Manning publications).

Ben Tan Wei Hao's book is also promising (still in early release) - The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook also Manning.
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If the burden is unbearable a solution is easy - he can just give everything away. Usually problems of life are not that easy to solve. This was very childish for Notch.
Nobody does because it's tied to Objective-C runtime, Cocoa etc. which don't work well either in Windows or Linux - due to different dispatch model. GNUstep is essentially a compatibility library, works sort of meh and is incomplete. See the other leg of the thread.
I'm not sure there necessarily is a "consensus" on HN.

However, in general, people feel that you shouldn't take a very large salary cut just for a few options. Most startups are not going to have a significant exit. Some (like Zynga), will manage to find a way of screwing you out of options if they do have a substantial exit. Only a few will have options that have a very large upside.

So, if your options only add up to some very small percentage of the company, they shouldn't be given in lieu of a very large amount of salary. Sure, you're working on something exciting at a startup and there is some potential upside, so maybe take a 10% salary cut and a few options to compensate for it. But don't take a 50% salary cut (or a 100% cut, where you're only paid in options), and look at your options and say "it's worth it because these have a chance of being worth millions."
It's interesting that you bring up disgust, because that exact reaction is at the core of the seminal work by the sociologist Norbert Elias, The Civilizing Process[1].

He traces the evolution of manners through etiquette books (a remarkably enduring genre going back many centuries), and shows how things that evoke a strong digust response in us today were actually slow-evolving social norms that have been internalized and turned into habitus (or a super-ego), and he even mentions urine, which for a long while hadn't evoked the same reaction as today. For example, some centuries ago in Europe, urinating under the staircase indoors was actually quite acceptable, and blowing your nose into the tablecloth was considered good manners.

This, of course, doesn't mean that the capacity for disgust isn't evolutionary, but that its particular triggers are social, even though we perceive them to be natural.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Civilizing_Process
Little girl has great weapons
Ad Blocking stops ads from being shoved in your face. There's an obvious and immediate benefit to every user who tries it.

Do Not Call stops annoying phone calls from interrupting you. Again, people demand it, because it makes a real difference in their lives.

Do Not Track, on the other hand, seems to be a total flop. (In FireFox, 8% adoption rate and falling; in other browsers, presumably even worse.) I don't see how you could refer to "the rise of Do Not Track" with a straight face. This is due in large part to the fact that the vast majority of people aren't particularly interested in making the ads they see less relevant and don't really care about whether a website is giving them an anonymous cookie.
> knowledge is true justified belief

Or is it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettier_problem
Good suggestion, thanks. I'm also going to look for a local opportunities to exhibit.
They clearly had a choice whether or not to accept the job.
What happened to Web Components?
Content development, Small bug, yeahh something like those things that required some time. And also, image fixation requires more time than it should be lol
What's the difference between D and C++?
What's the difference between D and C#?
What's the difference between D and rust?
Who(which project or company) is using D?
What's D is mainly designed for?

I like the syntax of D instead of rust, because it is much more like c++. The syntax of rust is weird to me.
Hypothesis: People will lie on internal surveys more often if they feel either nothing will be done or an honest response could be used against them. I wouldn't put too much stock in the results of those surveys.

Anecdotal support for hypothesis: Have been told firsthand by several people that they lie on these types of surveys and don't think results are truly anonymous.

I'd love to see a broad study of this across companies, conducted by a third-party organization with no affiliation to any company studied.

In general, I'd estimate anything below 4 (on a 1-to-5 scale) on those surveys could indicate a problem. What if "3/neutral" really means, "This actually sucks but I'm not willing to tell you that because I don't trust you"?

I doubt there are many internal surveys showing "tons of unhappy people" unless employees a.) have no fear of company reprisal, for whatever reason; or b.) have entirely given up on the company and are in open rebellion.
"Maybe there is even an attractive hostess, who wants to play drinking games"

And they say there are sexist attitudes in startup companies.

Regarding your goal, your competition include governmental sites like naturstyrelsen.dk/naturoplevelser/overnatning/ , which list the places in Denmark to pitch a tent for free on national lands, and camping organizations like http://www.friluftsraadet.dk/indhold/overnatning-i-det-fri.a... which also list private and municipal camping sites in Denmark. These are almost all places where you pay literally nothing, and sometimes include a shelter, firewood, and water. One that we stayed at was in a Scouting building, with access to their kitchen.

At least one of the blurbs for a private campsite says that you can share some of the owner's beer, but it didn't say if he was attractive or interested in drinking games. What is your resolution process if he turns out to be not as attractive as he says he is?
Show HN: String Bean – The Featherweight CSS Framework
Ask HN: Good short programming books
Recommendations for programming books that are short in length but still valuable in content? I find that many programming books are lengthy and as a result I am demotivated to start (or finish) reading them. By short I mean preferably under 200 pages.
Depending on how you count, I'm on my 5th or 6th startup, starting from 1996. Of the previous 4-5 (ie, not including Starfighter), all but one had good exits; three of them grossed me a pretty substantial amount of money.

Only one of those companies demanded my evenings and weekends; it did so because I was a cofounder and I let it do that. And it's the one that failed catastrophically.

2 startups back for me is Arbor Networks, which I joined in 2001, and which was acquired in 2010 for a very large amount of money (it had hundreds of employees at the time). I was hired to take over as lead dev from Dug Song on their flagship product, which at the time (a) had no major customers and (b) was locked in an intense dogfight with two other well-funded competitors with the same small set of customer prospects.

I worked one weekend. Arbor got a deal to monitor the South Korean Winter Olympics for DDoS attacks and the engineering team took shifts managing the deployment. A big deal was made over the fact that we were being asked to do that.

(I later switched from dev to product management, and my schedule got grueling; in particular, I had the worst travel burden of my career. But I asked for that.)

No. I don't think I have normal weekends because I'm wealthy enough to thumb my nose at the startup lifestyle. I thumb my nose at that lifestyle because it is moronic and doesn't work.
Please don't take this the wrong way and this is just one man's opinion. When that 3 year old girl is older and naturally becomes independent and moves on from you to the next steps in her life, that pretend grocery store experience will be orders of magnitude more meaningful to you than solving ANY hard algorithm. Not judging, not preaching, just giving you thoughts based upon experience.
The European Migration Crisis in Charts
How is it different from HDF5 (h5py and pytables)?
There's a long history behind the collective implementation failure of "Do Not Track". The point is that there was stakeholder demand for the feature, even if the demand was to avoid regulation, or even if the implementation was botched.
> the US is trying to outdo them

Emulating the enemy is a key feature of the Paranoid Style of typical American politics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paranoid_Style_in_American...

> why the press insists on calling them ISIS

1. Don't underestimate the value of consistent branding.

2. You might want to reconsider the motives of "the press". If they get paid in proportion to the size of their audience, they are incentivized to act in ways that draw in viewers, i.e. sensationalist stories. The Islamic State is not their audience, so their opinion is not important.

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[from the plea agreement at justice.gov]

> the defendant knowingly waives the right to appeal the conviction and any sentence
> within the maximum described above [of 15 years] ... in exchange for the concessions
> made by the United States

Maybe I'm missing something, but the only concession made by the United States in the "plea agreement" sees to be a vague promise not to prosecute the defendant again. Given that the government should already have this restriction thanks to the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause, is this even a concession by the government?

> The defendant agrees to forfeit all interests in any terrorism-related asset that
> the defendant owns or over which the defendant exercises control, directly or indirectly,
> as well as any property that is traceable to, derived from, fungible with, or a substitute for
> property ... involved in the offense.

That could be almost anything.

> the defendant further agrees to waive all constitutional and statutory challenges
> to forfeiture in any manner (including direct appeal, habeas corpus, or any other means)
> to any forfeiture carried out in accordance with this Plea Agreement on any grounds, ...

How much do they have to threaten you with to get you to agree to that crap?

> ... including that the forfeiture constitutes an excessive fine or punishment.

How is it even legal?
I think Republican Carly Fiorina threw her hat into the ring I took notice.

After all, Fiorina was the most powerful woman in business during her 1999-2000 stint as CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), shares of which have had a peak gain of 64.3% since I first recommended them to you in July 2013.

Carly Fiorina is the presidential candidate from Silicon Valley.

Not only was Fiorina the first female to lead a Fortune 20 company, but she served as the captain of a global tech enterprise that was struggling to navigate through the troubled waters of the early 2000s.
I honestly can't see how an 11 year sentence is "insane" for actively aiding a group massacring people.
Short range radar no, long range yes. The problem with using those frequencies (for WiFi) are that they are very useful for radar, they reflect off rain drops very well and propagate in the clear very well.
ah, perfect. was just going to suggest this. moves along
Norwegian butter crisis
He didn't force his friend to join ISIS.

His friend is the one providing "personnel" to ISIS, by joining the organization, if that's in fact what happened.
You can get to a million dollars by working hard and saving. You can't get to a billion dollars that way - it takes exceptional success and scale.
> Only the [scientifically and rationally understandable] mechanisms behind the emotional and sentimental connections are useful knowledge.

You understand that that is a pure value judgement.

At their heart, love of freedom over slavery, compassion over apathy and wisdom over ignorance are value judgements. I know them to be true, but I cannot prove them rationally.
Actually, the Yellowstone hot spot is stationary. It's the North American continental plate that is moving westward over the hot spot. If you look at a geological map, you can trace the path. It's similar to the Hawaiian island chain in the pacific and it's hot spot. Older islands trend to the northwest as the pacific plate has moved eastward.
Well, we we now understand a lot more about how people think than before. We're finally past that id-ego-superego and black box theory bullshit (although some people still ascribe to freudian ideas). There is real treatment for people with mental illnesses other than hospitalization and drugs (e.g. people with personality disorders, dissociation disorders, etc. can now receive structured talk therapies)

The crowning achievement would probably be the ability for people who are mentally ill to receive help and understanding from trained professionals rather than be considered possessed, needing drugs, shoved into insane asylums, or eugenics'd.
I'm not saying that everyone feels the meaning given by those tasks. IMHO, if you asked those same men "overworking to avoid going home" what they regret later in life, not being with their kids will rank very high.
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>Just because one is wealthy does not mean that all your problems will suddenly go away.

Nope. It does mean that you lose the right to complain though.
Surely "multiplication" is a scalar operation and that's why you need to define dot/cross vector products. You can multiply vectors, by scalars.
Controlling Outbound DNS Access
There were problems with the concrete mix even before they started pouring. http://www.concreteconstruction.net/infrastructure-projects/... (Feb 2013)
I think people find it difficult to empathize because there's a cake-and-eat-it-too problem here. He wants to enjoy his (well-deserved) wealth without the loneliness that comes with it. He can mitigate many of these problems instantly by giving up his fortune and 9 to 5'ing.

Or buy a nightclub like Jamie Zawinski, or travel the world taking photos like Tom Anderson.
Most investors will view this as a factor among many when deciding whether to invest. Sometimes that factor will be a negative, sometimes a positive, sometimes neutral -- depending on the circumstances. It definitely does give them something to think about and to be concerned about; but doesn't mean investors won't invest.

What will a VC care about when analyzing this factor?
The best explanation of what the VC will consider is probably similar to what a couple-team should be considering before forming a startup.
Perhaps you should get 11 years for paying your taxes.
Unless Fastmail is really dumb, and they've not been dumb in the 6 1/2 years I've been using them, they've got contingency plans to move their business (as opposed to their servers, which can't realistically be in Australia with its very expensive connections to the rest of the world) to a better jurisdiction if/when Australia continues to have the 1st World's worst Internet regime.

They've already experienced this sort of thing in the 2010-2013 period when Opera in Norway owned the company (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastMail).