skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because a felony is damn easy to get and almost impossible to get rid of.

Pissed on a wall or mooned somebody when drunk in front of a cop? Felony AND sex offender--just for good measure.

Had sex with your 17-year-old girlfriend when you were 18? Felony although some jurisdictions make exceptions and try to reduce this to misdemeanor depending upon age difference.

Picked up for drunk and disorderly and had a knife on you that exceeds specifications? Felony. Side note: there is a reason so many people like MagLite flashlights--they are similar in size to a billy club or truncheon but are legal.

Picked up with a small amount of marijuana while your friend was in possession of a much larger amount in the car. Felony.

Every single male I know has done something sufficiently stupid when he was young that could have been a felony.

In addition, if a cop picks you up, they can probably find a felony somewhere in the law that will stick unless you are a teetotaller.

The real problem is that non-violent felonies need to go away after a while. I seem to remember some research showing that if a felon manages to stay out of trouble for 5 years he is less likely to get in trouble than even the general population.

So, to answer your question, felons who stay out of trouble for more than 5 years are actually a better pool to hire from than the general population.
This is true of most metrics Facebook brags about, like the size of their Git repository.
That might be a sign that it's over-regulated.
I'm curious about this, because I read your response but think I'm missing something.

Non-techy people routinely consume digital content on YouTube or on their Facebook feeds. Most new 'smart' TVs stream YouTube at least as a minimum.

Which part is difficult? Are you talking more about the tech from the content distributor's side (as opposed to the consumer)?
Well, the most important thing you gain from moving your apps to the web is owning the relationship with your users. And that is HUGE.

With the Apple iOS App Store you are isolated from your users, it is very difficult and nearly impossible to build a list and keep in touch with them in a meaningful way. I am sure there are cases where this isn't true, but I think I can say this is probably the case for the vast majority of apps out there.

By being on the web it is your business, your platform and your users. Not Apple's (or whoever).

And, yes, depending on your niche, building an audience could be very difficult. Guess what? The vast majority of apps on the app store fail. I think we might actually be able to say success on the web might actually be easier.
uBlock can use disconnect's filter lists, its in the options. I'm not sure why you think disconnect is giving you a "free proxy", that doesn't seem to be a feature.
I think this is a very well written article, potential sour grapes aside. My concern is for the future though, what happens when/if Apple has it all but still wants more? Will they then sell you out?

There was a post here a few days about Apple advocating for CISA or some other act (not American, I don't remember the exact act) and how Apple is amongst those pushing to want to share data.

There is no doubt about it the way Google has managed to entrench itself is disgusting - Google Analytics is so common and that alone lets Google correlate your viewing habits to your user account.

I realised this a while back and have been browsing with SafeScript and 3rd party cookies off. The web is still surprisingly useful.

Just need to wean myself off Gmail... But I don't see that happening any time soon.
Wake me up when they open source it like they said they were going to. Proprietary languages are evil acts of lock-in committed against unwary junior developers. Swift is a great language, but I'd really like my skills to be somewhat transportable.
3-D Printing’s Next Act: Nerve Regeneration
Electrifying flight: very different aircraft may end up taking to the sky
Because while some of the facts are true, most are are not and are baseless speculation. As it stands, the "acceptable ads" list is not in uBlock Origin.
This sentiment is heard too often. It comes more from xenophobia and propaganda than from reality. In reality China is about as duplicitous as we are.
It forces you to resolve conflicts.

Two developers create a migration on the same day, but they get merged later. Alembic stops you and ask which goes first. ActiveRecord::Migration runs them both. This is particularly bad when one migration is a table drop and another is an add_column on the same table.

And that's just one short coming. Our monkey patched ActiveRecord::Migration doesn't do this (yet), but we've done quite a few other improvements to it.

Another significant difference is the migration generation. Once you've generated migrations with alembic, it's hard to tolerate anything else.
Dan Harmon has said he doesn't want to do time travel plots in Rick and Morty.
9,000-year-old case of ritualistic beheading may be oldest in Americas
Without a denominator, that's like being told your salary will be "X". As in, they literally say the letter X. How could anyone accept that?
It probably has to do with how people/VCs don't see selling hardware alone as a super profitable model on it's own, and want a cloud dependence to sell you more stuff or to sell your data.
92Y Talks http://92ytalks.libsyn.com/rss

All About Books http://feeds.feedburner.com/all_about_books

Authors on Tour Live! http://feeds.feedburner.com/AuthorsOnTour-Live

Conversations with Richard Fidler http://abc.net.au/queensland/conversations/conversationspodc...

Freakonomics Radio http://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio

Get-It-Done Guy's Quick and Dirty Tips to Do More http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/xml/getitdone.xml

Great Lives http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/greatlives/rss.xm...

HBR IdeaCast http://feeds.harvardbusiness.org/harvardbusiness/ideacast?fo...

Listen to Lucy http://podcast.ft.com/rss/18/

MIT Press Podcast http://feeds.feedburner.com/mitpresspodcast

Plain Simple Management (now defunct but worth listening to back issues) http://feeds.feedburner.com/PlainSimpleManagement

TED Radio Hour http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510298

The Accidental Creative http://feeds.feedburner.com/accidentalcreative/podcast

The Engaging Brand http://www.blubrry.com/feeds/engaging.xml

The Moth Podcast http://feeds.themoth.org/themothpodcast

The PMO Podcast http://www.botinternational.com/thepmopodcast.xml

Thinking Allowed http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/ta/rss.xml

==

I've also found it useful to download YouTube videos and convert them to MP3s so I can listen to them later.

Some of the channels I've subscribed to are:

GoogleTechTalks https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtXKDgv1AVoG88PLl8nGXmw

Harvard Business Review https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWo4IA01TXzBeGJJKWHOG9g

Talks at Google https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbmNph6atAoGfqLoCL_duAg

TED Talks https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUUnT6oDeKwE6v1NGQxug

TEDx Talks https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsT0YIqwnpJCM-mx7-gSA4Q

The School of Life https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7IcJI8PUf5Z3zKxnZvTBog
> Power is still a problem for IoT.

I'm not sure about that. If it's a stationary, long-term thing, just tap the main power conduit on whatever device you're hacking.

If it's mobile or short-term, Li-Ion cells are pretty awesome. For a few bucks, you could buy a Li-Ion cell, and a smart charger that will switch the load between battery and main power depending on voltage levels.
> Hiring a murder convict as a beat cop sounds unacceptable.

I could go either way on this. Certainly you don't want someone who has control problems as a cop. But, someone who got convicted of gang stuff very young and then got his shit together could be a really effective beat cop. He knows the people and the neighborhood while serving as an example of doing good.

The problem is that a cop has to give legal testimony. And that would get challenged if he has a prior. Perhaps when cops all have to wear video so we don't have to rely on human testimony that will change.
>Swift is a great language, but I'd really like my skills to be somewhat transportable.

Huh?
I don't think being in 40s is a problem.
But you seem to be doubting yourself and even your idea.
That is a HUGE problem !
I had to kill the My Fitness Pal app on my Android because the notification dispatch was inside some kind of infinite loop where my phonr would not stop vibrating even after disabling notifications in their UI.
This is excellent. I know many people for whom this would be cheap enough to just add on to their next phone contract, who otherwise wouldn't have dipped their toes in it.

As an aside, I really wish Google and Oculus could get together and work out how to allow Cardboard apps to take advantage of the extra hardware from the Gear VR if it's available. Using a Gear VR and then trying Cardboard shows how woefully inadequate Cardboard is; but there are some cool Cardboard apps that I'd really love to be able to try with the much much better tracking of my Gear VR.
Adblock Browser
You have to be logged into a Google account to use Contributor anyway.
Sentry cofounder lecture on bootstrapping an open source startup
Pull requests welcome! (Especially if you figure out a non-clunky way to implement custom lists.)
Abusing sockets with SO_REUSEADDR set in the old days (2012)
Ask HN: 50k round not taken seriously by angels?
I am raising 50k for my startup Blastchat on iOS! However, "people" are telling me I should ask for more money because serious angel investors will not invest because I am only asking for 50k! What's up with that?
Yes, US healthcare sucks, but is still-- despite being less universal and less efficient than that of any other modern advanced economy (all of which are also mixed economies) -- better than anything that existed anywhere when capitalism was the dominant model, and not just due to (non-social) technical advances.

Of course, the US has adopted, in many areas and healthcare particularly, less elements of socialism than other advanced mixed economies. So maybe there's a reason US healthcare sucks so hard, and its not insufficient devotion to capitalism.
I don't get the resemblance to the Australian flag because nz registered its flag years before australia did. So technically the Australian flag resemblabes our own.

Regardless as a kiwi I wish they would leave the damn flag alone. This is as bad as wanting to give the north and south island official names. Instead of just calling them the north and south island.
Sift: (another) alternative to (faster) grep
Think of it as an enclosure for Samsung phone that is significantly better than a high-tech Google Cardboard.
https://www.reddit.com/r/swift/comments/3kbjjn/so_swift_isnt...
That could be part of it, yes.

But the general sentiment four years ago, when I started MemShrink, was very clear that Firefox's memory usage was a problem. Every discussion thread about browsers on this very site would degenerate at some point into discussion about Firefox's memory usage. (Indeed, this was a big part of why I started MemShrink.)

That's no longer true. Comments about Firefox's memory usage are much rarer now. And when somebody does say that Firefox has bad memory usage, more often than not they'll get pushback from other commenters who have a different experience. Not to say that they're wrong or Firefox is perfect, but the situation is so much better than it used to be, particular when it comes to avoiding the bad memory spikes that cause the worst problems.
Phrased another way, in any language, Monads work as a design pattern, and Rust had built-in implementations of that pattern; but some languages (Haskell, etc.) support Monads as a construct against which you can program directly, which is a more powerful abstraction than spring or implementing it as a design pattern.
You can't even hire one person with 50k.
I remember the same thing. I thought there was some form of fraud associated with this because the electrodes would only work for a little while. I thought there was a malpractice suit about patients being left with a bunch of unremoved wires in their legs.
Open Source Slack-Alternative Adopts GitLab Flavored Markdown
NDP’s stock option plan would ‘kill’ Canadian startup ecosystem
Pijul combines speed of git, usability of darcs
Is there really so much content scattered across so many sites that you couldn't easily pay for the content you enjoy, if it came to that? I would pay a small Tumblr subscription. I already patronize comic artists and musicians whose work I want to continue to exist. Jenna Marbles and Medium ego-pieces I wouldn't miss.
Ah good news. Hopefully there is a standards track for it as well.
I don't think anyone is contesting the fact that ads are needed to pay content creators.

The problem is, if you go to Engadget with ghostery, leave it disabled. It shows 27 additional items loaded in the page. For WHAT?

That's insane. Even imgur has too many external resources for ads and tracking.

If ads were not blocking, intrusive, and there wasn't so many of them and not so much tracking. People probably wouldn't care about ads. But websites like Engadget have ruined it for everyone.
we need to rapidly enter the age where tech can address issues like this to make life easier for people with these disabilities.
GrubHub, DoorDash and Caviar face lawsuits over worker misclassification
Here's why the Antikythera Mechanism is even more marvelous than it first appears: It was (arguably) lost during the reign of Julius Caesar. When Caesar ruled, the book hadn't been invented yet. There is some evidence that Julius had a codex (book) but the official history of the codex puts its invention in the following century!
Yeah, I'm not too worried either.

There is one class of cryptographic code, however, that is entirely unsuitable to distribute in Bitcode---DPA/EM-protected code. EM attacks on middle-end ARM chips have been demonstrated recently [1, 2].

Protecting against these attacks usually involves splitting the computation into 2 or more "shares" (see, for example, [3]); these require strict control of which register each word goes into, and which registers overwrite which. This cannot be enforced in Bitcode---or any other bytecode, for that matter---and direct assembly must be used.

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/561

[2] http://cr.yp.to/talks/2014.09.25-2/slides-dan+tanja-20140925...

[3] http://keccak.noekeon.org/NoteSideChannelAttacks.pdf
You can't feed a family on people viewing stuff. Money needs to change hands. The billboard operator charges the advertiser. There is no obligation on the part of the viewer to look at anything.

Under your definition, getting up to go to the bathroom during commericials or making a conscious effort to look away from ads is ...immoral? Illegal? Fraud? There is no contract no quid pro quo.

The content providers are selling real estate. Thats it.
I switched to Chrome about 6 months before MemShrink, right around the time everyone from Mozilla kept blaming addons for memory problems and saying there wasn't a problem with Firefox. When the MemShrink project was announced I just laughed.

I've got it installed for development and I have no complaints, but now that I've got Chrome set up for syncing and all that it's just become my default. I'm sure I'll get annoyed at Chrome at some point and switch back.
Graphic Presentation (1939)
>Websites also can't spam you with push notifications

I remember reading about this a while ago; not sure how widely implemented this feature is

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/push-notif...
Lenovo Again Installing Spyware on Its Machines
The store won't carry 32-bit ad blockers but they do work.
Try: https://medium.com/@searls/installing-a-content-blocker-on-i...

Instructions to build and install a blocker that works on iPhone 5 and iPad Retina, where they work fine.
The obvious answer was "as planctonic wandering larvae" from the start. No big surprises here.
The "natural" interest rate is whatever rational people expect the risk to be, plus whatever profits they can add on top of that without losing too much business to a competitor.

In societies without good statistics and calculators, that could just as well have been 10% risk + 10% profits, or some other combination of round numbers. If you're unsure what the exact numbers are, better err on the side of making more money.

Better information, more efficient markets, and computers can make calculations more precise, so I don't think there's any more need to use round numbers anymore, even without government intervention.
Thanks for this! PayPal growth numbers are fascinating. Wondering if anyone pressed Reid on the point: was merely scaling customer service (adding more employees) adequate or were the problems with PayPal usability more systemic?
On Acceptable Ads
Using ad block is equal to infringing copyright, simplest don't use the app or web stupid
> A lot of these are automated alerts for systems I don't manage, and so get rule-filed into the trash.

So what's the problem? If I'm counting all automated alerts and notifications, reminders from bugtracker, VCS and CI, mailing lists and not that important stuff that happens to have my email in CC — there's probably much more than 100 emails per day. You know what? It doesn't really bother me. Thunderbird has filters for that. Since I have figured out what do I care about, my inbox is almost empty: all stuff gets sorted out by folders automatically, most of it marked as read immediately and most likely I won't even see it if something really unexpected doesn't happen; for another 50-80 I will read titles and occasionally skim through some of them if I feel like that, just to keep myself updated. I've got 10 emails left in my inbox to be sorted manually on the quiet day, only 3 of them turn out to be something important and will stay in the inbox for a while. So, with the help of filters and 20 specialized folders in the end of the day I'm left feeling almost lonely and longing for human communication. All that email isn't really noise for me, as it doesn't distract me from anything.
If USA journalists had any self-respect remaining, it would be embarrassing to see the agencies' puppet hand run up the media's ass like this.
This is such a cool idea!
>String interpolation now allows string literals.

But do editors highlight this properly? (JOE 4.1 does).
I switched from YCM to neocomplete[1] a few months ago and haven't looked back, performance is much better. I'm on Arch and never really had crashes with YCM, but if the crashes are performance related it might help.

[1] https://github.com/Shougo/neocomplete.vim
asyncio provides an event loop in the standard lib now
I'm guessing they'll announce open source Swift at the next llvm conference this fall.
Warren Buffet is just a lucky coin flipper.
How is this not a bait-and-switch? And thus fail the implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose?
If they didn't have online ads they would pretty much be out of business and there would be no reporting.
The amount has little to do with whether an angel investor will be interested in you. They will want to know whether you can a) make your relatively small company into an actual money making organization and b) whether they'll have enough skin in the game to be profitable. If you are asking for $50,000, but are giving away 50+% of your equity, they won't be interested because you aren't a serious entrepreneur. If you are asking for $50,000 and really need $500,000 to get a demo or a mvp out the door, they won't invest because you'll never get out of the gate. Your business plan and equity agreement mean way more than the amount. Heck, if it turns out you are the right fit and need more down the road, they will be one of the first groups to reinvest.
This can be done via a checkbox on the app's info page. It's nice to know it can also be done directly from the notification too, that's even more convenient.
This makes the very poor assumption that the only reason you raise a round from an angel is to hire people. A small business can, and should, be able to do quite a bit with $50,000.
or just use firefox for android then, which also works with ublock origin anyway, and uses way less ram than chrome for android with and without ad blocking.
No, i honestly believe you are being willfully ignorant; specifically in this situation precisely because i assume everyone on here has a relatively high baseline of knowledge and experience.

Question: what is worth going to war over?

EDIT: more thoughts came to me.

I get the feeling, from rereading your posts, that you may be of the thought group that thinks war is never necessary and always avoidable. I must say that i find this line of thinking (whether you are a part of that group or not) is dangerously naive. The title Warmonger gets thrown at the US constantly. This makes the rash assumption that if any other nation were in the US's position they would comport themselves differently. The Chinese government loves that we cannot agree on the blueness of the sky or the wetness of water. They absolutely do want to take our place, and they are very comfortable with using 'appropriate' aggression. Their actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis demonstrate their intentions and resolve.

Having combat units stationed in strategic countries is a small price to pay for avoiding global conflicts. Due to the nature of the global economy, any shooting war between or among the Big 10 means a global crash.

I know this will be frowned upon, but in ASoIaF by J.R.R.Martin, the Night's Watch and The Wall serve as great metaphors for the necessity of vigilance.
It just depends on the person - I spent a lot of years working on trading floors (open office, lots of noise, elbow to elbow with other developers) and you just learn to tune out the distractions and be productive regardless.
A Tribe Called Quest is a seminal group in Hip Hop History. Without their production, we would not have a Pharrell Williams or Kanye West.
I don't really understand the point you're making here. Who suggested having ads improved the reporting? It made the reporting available to you at a lower (or free) price.
personally i dont wanna keep "acceptable ads" because I believe there is no such thing. its unsollicited and always in my face => its an ads, and it annoys me - and im not even going to buy the product behind it.

thus, i find ublock (for ex) much simpler to deal with than ghostery.
Relik, depending on your needs, you may also want to build one yourself. We built ourselves a lasersaur.
I glossed over that while skimming the article. How ridiculous.

"Anything you do that interferes with my shitty business model is stealing." Whatever you say, Jason.
I feel exactly this way about a certain image sharing site. After numerous bad experiences with their app, I went back to their mobile website and found it fully functional. For some reason, copy and paste didn't work in the app, which is unacceptable in a community based on copying and pasting cat image URLs.
I think OP is talking about multi platform code. Swift isn't "write once compile anywhere" like C or C++. This is also the reason I haven't used it yet, although I read the swift book and I'm looking forward to multiplatform capabilities (if that were to happen)
Actually, my team & I can live off of 12 months and work on Blastchat 24/7!
Show HN: WeRead – Hacker News for non-geeks
"So maybe there's a reason US healthcare sucks so hard, and its not insufficient devotion to capitalism."

The list of problems that the previous poster provided were almost all (especially cronyism and cartels) characteristics of systems other than capitalism.

Is it possible we're using different definitions of capitalism, here? I think you might mean crony-capitalism, a.k.a. fascism.
Spentable: How we built our first app for watchOS 2
> Yes, even if it's one of those free local 90%-ads-by-volume dealies.
Why Quirky Failed
Yeah, we are raising 50k at 1m valuation . . . . . I'm guessing they are saying this because the valuation is too high? Maybe investors want more equity . . . . Or they assume that we will need more than 50k to grow which will increase our valuation?