skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are of the opinion that the granting of a police power does not necessarily mean it will be used? I would like to suggest you familiarize yourself with the history of how police powers generally work.

As to your second point... If this article instead contained a brief mention of how a tech company had shared personal information of anti-Olympic protesters with the London police, would you still flag it because that was not the main point of the article?
Getting a warrant can be fast under existing laws; there doesn't appear to be any need for them to remove that requirement as far as I can see.
I don't get it. Was your comment a sarcastic observation that the topic is not hacker news?
NYC is not as expensive as people make it out to be but it IS expensive. It's not just rent, though that's quite a bit of it; it's also the price of food and entertainment. I'm not saying that there isn't a ton of bargains out there but it takes work to find the fun and cheap things to do in the city.

I love it here but you have to be ready to make compromises if you want to live in the city.
> At some level, I'd argue that tags are solely to give the reader a better idea of subject category. Do others agree?

I want something to help me find "interesting to me". If tags are "solely ... subject category", they can't be very useful because subject is neither necessary nor sufficient when it comes to interesting.

Here's a test - are you actually interested in everything in any subject? Are you ever interested in something in a new subject or a subject that you typically don't care about? If your answers are "no, yes", subject category information isn't enough for you.
Olympics are rare enough that I don't know if any formal study has been done.

However, similar arguments are made all the time in support of building new sports stadiums. And at least in those cases, the arguments simply don't hold water: the beneficiary is the team ownership, NOT the taxpayers.

See http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-339es.html :
The economic facts, however, do not support the position that professional sports teams should receive taxpayer subsidies. The lone beneficiaries of sports subsidies are team owners and players. ... Indeed, the results of studies on changes in the economy resulting from the presence of stadiums, arenas, and sports teams show no positive economic impact from professional sports -- or a possible negative effect.
Section 32(1) is blatantly unconstitutional, not under Section 2 of the Charter that you quote, But Section 8: "Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure."

The conversation occurred until a lawyer looked at it and said, "Folks this is going to cost a crapload of money".
Unfortunately for too many people their excess tax withholdings are their only saving plan.
Not sure how conclusive that really is. To me their heat map tells me that people are blind to results that aren't at the top of the page. If the real-time results were at the top I'm sure people would pay more attention to them.
"they should probably be a bit more concerned with keeping up with the market"

why? is the average user's experience going to be any different between the current crop of MBP's and the next?

I'd rather a longer wait and then have x25-m's standard =)
Thanks for the feedback. The goal is definitely to cover a wider range of movies, not just new releases but new releases seemed like a logical place to start as these would be fresh in peoples minds.

The ratings apply to the movies/music and not the actual reviews themselves so maybe that's something I need to make clearer.

Voting on reviews is something I definitely want to incorporate so that might get pushed up further in the list.
Greely Speaks at Cal Poly - Neuroethics & Law Blog
My sense is that revocation targets the software players more than the set-top boxes, but I note also that the set-top boxes are firmware-updatable.

HDCP is also not where the battle's taking place; the rippers are targeting BD+, Blu-Ray's built-in DRM scheme. BD+ is considerably more sophisticated than a simple key you can rip out of memory.
Those feature sentences are so complex that I would have less trouble scanning the information out of a paragraph of easy english.

I love the idea though!
The Toyota Witch Hunt
Limiting the query language only limits your ability to optimize

This seems backwards. The more general a language is, the harder it is to analyze and transform, and that is what optimizers do.
I've done quite a bit of work in Java in threads. They're not as bad as people say if you know what you're doing. However, like memory management, they're really easy to mistakenly believe you actually know what you're doing.

The downloadable version of BCC uses threads in at least three ways: the embedded HTTP client runs in its own thread (to avoid blocking the GUI), the printing logic runs in its own thread (ditto), and about a dozen threads do a bit of a dance to verify the Registration Key. (Took me about an hour to code up -- probably wasted time.)

The online version of BCC just handles everything by process separation and message passing. I prefer this model to threads, as it imposes rigid discipline about data sharing/sychronization/etc, and it makes it easier for my brain to grok the consequences of changes which look trivial.
Ambiguous question - There is a a point to the survey, but no endpoint to the questions.
No. Some kludginess is, in fact, excusable on grounds of being a counterkludge to unkludge the physical processor. ;-)
FF 3.5.8 Win7, can't add anything. Enter ticker, percent, click plus sign, nothing.
>Entrepreneurs

[really sorry, but bad apostrophes get my goat]
From the comments on the page: "This is actually just one screen shot from the study. Overall, Oneupweb did track all of the real-time results, including those in position 2, 3, and 4 of Google."
I'm not sure the idea of a "User Interface Designer" instead of a web designer will not fix a startup. Folks like Steve Blank and Eric Reis have been saying for a while that (for a web app) user experience is where a lot of startups fail. Eric Reis talked about having customers come in to their office and sit next to their engineers and talk through user experience. Steve Blank talks about "getting out of the office" and talking to your customers.

The answer to better user interfaces isn't having another "expert" in the office with a fancy title. It is making everyone in your company into a "user interface expert" by bringing in the real expert, the user.
In solving these problems you're creating an ad hoc search runtime that is likely slower or buggier than the well tested search runtimes in constraint programming implementations.
The only things that really matter are your constraints for reducing the search space and the search strategy you use. When using finite domains (+,-,<,>,*,/ on integers) the implementations provided by constraint libraries are faster than anything you can easily create. There are a variety of search strategies already implemented (and that you can also tweak).

The likely explanation for the inelegant solutions in topcoder and this challenge are that constraint programming is hardly mentioned in undergraduate cs curriculum so even top students are unfamiliar with it.
I wish they had gone into what genetic markers got assigned to which diet types, but that might be a bit too much for the BBC. A quick search of Google Scholar is not turning up a likely candidate for the paper.
Well I can't complain, I bought a 8800 GTX (G80) 2,5 years ago and still play all new games on high settings and 1920x1080 resolution. No other piece of hardware I ever bought had such longevity - this chip is pure gold.
Often the real-time results (especially from twitter) have duplicates or simply very sparse info that may scroll by too fast, making it easy to just ignore altogether. The real-time results box on google also feels cramped to me.

It can be useful if you're aware of what it is and the likely nature of the rt-results (or if that's precisely what you're looking to see) and willing to sit and watch or scroll through. How often that is done or is useful is a question.
Consumerism Kills
New Cell Phone Charger Turns Water into Electricity
Suite Arrival Delivers Toothpaste (And Other Essentials) to Your Hotel
Ask YC: what happened around September 2009?
I think they just won Buzzword Bingo for the month.
Tell HN: U.S. gov't blacklisted all DNS entries pointing to Linode machines
This means DNS queries will not resolve for government employees if they point to Linode hosted machines.

I've verified this with USMC, USDA, & Sandia national lab. Heard that the top level domain linode.com was black holed due to its association with malicious activity as per a US-CERT Situational Awareness Report 10-015-01A UPDATE.

This is a big pain in butt for those of us that are grant funded or work with U.S. Government.
Well I was responding to "breaches of trust", which seems like propaganda given that all that can be pointed to is some minor errors that are bound to happen in a large scale undertaking. I don't think calling those "breaches of trust" is very scientific. Maybe the one about the Himalya glaciers could be called like that, but I don't think it was the actual scientists being sloppy in that case.

I was only using the word "denialist" to shorten the sentence - what would have been an appropriate word, then?
In addition to ETFs, I would also like to be able to add mutual funds. Specifically, those offered by Vanguard.
My Stupid Industry (Author writing about the Amazon eBook pricing wars)
You misunderstand what I'm saying. This is a description of fact: the United States Supreme Court has a well-established body of law which holds that the Constitutional protections afforded to speech of a commercial nature are less extensive than the Constitutional protections afforded to speech of a non-commercial nature. Therefore, there is at least theoretically a risk of the government being allowed to do something analogous to this in spite of the First Amendment against speech restrictions, on the theory that the prohibited speech was commercial in nature.

However, it is unlikely that that action would be in the mainstream of constitutional interpretation in the US, and it is vanishingly unlikely it would be upheld if the commercial speech was also political, such as if the speech self-referentially criticized the government.

This is a statement of opinion: non-withstanding the well-established body of case law, I believe that the Supreme Court is wrong and that commercial speech has and deserves full protection under the First Amendment.
How do you evaluate teamwork?
Most jobs today have 'teamwork' as a requirement for the candidate. But how exactly do you evaluate and rate teamwork objectively?

What methods do companies use to reach conclusions like 'this empoyee is 70% team player and next year he will need to improve by 8%' ?

Is it wise to poll the team about each member in order to reach to a relevant conclusions?
This article did not make a good case for living in NYC. "If your apartment has no heat, hot water, or kitchen, you may get away with not paying for a couple month's rent!"
I went to all the trouble of creating an interesting test portfolio before finally getting told that this tool proves useless to me because it uses Flash. Please at least say up front that you require Flash, so I don't waste my time. Better yet, just like you created an impressive interface for creating a portfolio using only HTML, please consider making an impressive interface for viewing a portfolio using only HTML.
yes, i think that's a valid way of looking at it - the grid adds some extra properties to a general graph which you might be able to exploit to get better efficiency.

[but i don't really want to spoil things for quora by discussing a solution here, i was more interested in swapping final results so that people could check they have the right answer]

ps i believe my solution is ok, now, after checking it at lunch time, but it's a little slower than theirs, which is making me think i have missed something.
Notes in themselves are only barely CRM, but we plan to allow you to share them with your team. And that's about as much as Highrise allows you to do! (Ok, there are also tasks, deals, cases etc. but who actually uses those?)
One of the values of Esperanto is as a learning tool for Western European languages--according to one study, students with 1yr Esperanto + 3yr French instruction speak better French than students with 4yr French instruction.

Since I am about to start learning Bulgarian, I am particularly interested to know if this language has similar properties with respect to Slavic languages. Obviously since it's only been around since 2006 there isn't a comparable 4-year study, but even anecdotal evidence would be appreciated.
I know what you mean... I realized about 20 colors in that I seemed to have a different name for each incarnation of blue, but all shades of green were just "green" to me.
> I didn't say "unlimited" health care, anywhere.

You said that it was wrong to limit healthcare access. If there aren't limits, it's unlimited.

> I just believe that in this day and age, the US should join other first world countries in valuing life above military.

What makes you think that it doesn't? The US spends far more on health care than it does on the military.

Yes, that's true of the federal govt. Note that state and local govts also spend money on health, and they spend very little on the military. And then there's private spending.

In fact, one of the big arguments by folks arguing for more govt healthcare is that they claim that it will cost less than the current system.

> Care to elaborate?

If I observe your life, I'm pretty sure that I'll find several things that you do that are not as good for your health as they could be. (Here are easy ones - is your weight ideal? Do you exercise enough? How about sleep?) Their existence proves that health isn't your highest priority.

I'm not saying that you're wrong to have priorities other that health, but it is absurd to criticize others for doing the same.
Really? I specifically chose an ATI card for its Linux support, and so far I've been extremely satisfied with both the open source and the binary blob drivers.

The nv driver used by default in most distros is quite sluggish, and is plagued by all manner of quality issues. The radeonhd driver in comparison is quite stable, implements working VT switching, and full EXA acceleration with a start on 3D. (EDIT: nouveau will provide a very good replacement for nv, but so far its deployment is limited)

As for the closed drivers, is stability really a problem? While I haven't had an NVIDIA card for a year or so, I seem to recall a fair number of kernel panics in graphically-intensive programs, while I have yet to experience one using fglrx (although the comparison is a big flawed, since my needs have changed quite a bit). Speed is also quite acceptable and does what I need.

I'm willing to grant that nvidia is better than fglrx. Honestly I don't do all that much 3D work on Linux. But in my experience, calling nvidia "far and away better" does ATI a bit of a disservice.
I could only stomach 30 or so... once I exhausted all of the prismacolor marker colors I could remember, it became oddly exhausting.
You know, I hate to dog on attempts at innovation, but I fail to see what is new or exciting about this language. It looks like it's just solving some of the problems with Java and C++ that were apparent 15 years ago. I suppose baked-in support for parallelization of list operations is nice, but I wonder how that works with mutable state. And really, I thought (hoped?) OOP was starting to die out in the latest generation of languages that we were seeing, especially very formal OOP.

I suppose strong support for meta-programming and compile-time reflection is a leap forward, but one glance at the grammar of the language, in all its complexity, made me wonder how feasible manipulating the abstract syntax would be in a real environment.

I understand not everyone wants to rethink and update older languages like Lisp (Clojure), Perl (Ruby), or Java (Scala), a but this just seems like the author got tired of waiting for C++0x and decided to make his own.
I developed a Windows service in C# that would listen for TCP connections, spin off a new thread and perform a text to speech translation as required.

I'm not university educated, so the biggest hurdle for me was becoming familiar with mutexes and semaphores.
My biggest problem with understanding some Slavic languages (I'm a native Russian speaker) is the fact that I'm not sure how some of these consonants and vowels are pronounced. j, ż, ę, etc.
I read over the article. I don't exactly understand his desires to keep a developer from converting an instance of a superclass into an instance of a sub-class (presumably to implement the specific methods). Maybe I don't understand his paradigm properly, and that situation can never happen (there was mention of no virtual methods, either. Perhaps that has something to do with the above situation never actually existing), but why would this be an advantage.

Furthermore, can't that very restriction be circumvented by making it a two-step procedure instead of 1?

Eg:

Any a = (Any)someObject;
DerivedObject b = (a as DerivedObject);
I'm guessing it's serving up mostly the colours with ambigious names (based on what others have entered), I'm not sure why but I'm sure we'll end up with some sort of graph on XKCD
uh....118%?
That of course requires that the developer have UX knowledge/experience which many developers don't. I think ideally all persons involved with the creation of a user interface would have both UX knowledge and interest in creating a usable interface.

The design process should be more fluid instead of just laying out a UI and then having the designer make it look pretty.
> I think we should become a First World country, which means universal healthcare.

The US has univeral healthcare. As I've pointed out, most people opt out, in part because it's a lot like the DMV. It's unclear why making it bigger would change that.

The US has a lot of experience with govt healthcare and it's mostly bad. (The Indian Health Service is especially bad.) It's unclear why we'd go for more before demonstrating that we could do it well.

In other words, as long as Medicare and Medicaid are disasters, why would we want more?

And yes, you can fix Medicare/Medicaid without increasing their scope. If they're fixable. And if they're not, increasing their scope won't fix them either.
Here ya go http://opinbot.com/reviews/show/agdvcGluYm90chwLEhVyZXZpZXdz...
> To brute force the CCV, you do need the clear text CC.

No you don't; the ciphertext will do. There CCV codes are three or four digits, so you have 1,000 or 10,000 keys to try. Try all of them. If the plaintext is encoded in ASCII, then throw out all the ones where the plaintext isn't a number. There will very likely only be one left, and that's the credit card number.

If the plaintext CC number is encoded as a binary number (does anyone do this?), filter for (a) proper length in decimal; (b) number is positive (if stored signed); (c) check digit verifies; (d) card type code (first few digits) are sane; if you still have more than one, (e) bank code (next few digits) is sane.

And naturally, once you have the CC number, you know which key got you it. So you have the CCV as well.
Please read through the discussion around the winning entry, including what the winning coder and other participants have to say: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1168289
If Nerds Can Learn Linux, Why Can't They Learn Not To Interrupt People?
Has google acquired pdfmenot?
A blog post about the acquisition was here:
http://www.labnol.org/internet/google-buys-pdfmenot-pdf-viewer/12957/

but is now showing a 404. and http://www.pdfmenot.com now redirects to google docs.

No other mention of the story elsewhere. Is google trying to keep this one quiet?

* edit: "why is google trying..." changed to "Is google trying ..."
I basically didn't, and ended up going to school for an extra year and a half from all the failed classes, which added quite a bit onto the student loan total. In the end, the degree doesn't even matter, because I'm doing startup stuff.

A warning, more than advice.
A literate Haskell entry: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1168991
Thanks! I think we may send out a poster to Hotel Managers to post in there gym asking users for reviews.
Wireless TV uses a much lower bandwidth, and picture quality, than HDMI offers. ATSC (current US over the air HDTV standard), for example, delivers around 18mbps, three orders of magnitude less than HDMI.

SDTV did not use bits, it was analogue (and had even less quality than ATSC).
I think for small teams especially - if you've got a guy/girl who can't code CSS, HTML and some light JS - you hired the wrong person.
I've been working on a standard guideline for postmortem communication, and ran this post against that template:
http://www.transparentuptime.com/2010/03/google-app-engine-d...
I had a similar experience - from first phone call, to last (rejection) phone call was about 4 months.

Their actual interview process wasn't bad however. They never asked me any trick/puzzle questions. Everything was based on coding, algorithms and designs.

4 months, however, is inexcusable. If I was actively looking for a job at the time I would have given up on google long before they got back to me.
Nice product. Making it easy to use/launch sounds like a big plus to me. I originally thought this had actual voice chat along with the visual element, but that's not the case, is it? Oh well - bummer.

One use case that could prove useful for me: I can see using this to help design UI on distributed teams - rather than creating or modifying screenshots and sending back and forth, you could mark up ideas at the same time.

In the demo, were you guys writing on a Wacom type of device or something? I can never write that nicely with a mouse or trackpad!
The comments about Vancouver 2010 are all valid. I had to laugh during the closing ceremonies when I noticed that one of the bands had been forced to cover the logos on their Marshall amps with black tape. Marshall obviously did not pay any money to have their brand seen by 3 billion viewers.
"..Apple® today announced that its magical and revolutionary iPad will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3,.."

I was equally irked when Steve referred to the device as "magical" in the unveiling. Someone in marketing at Apple must really be trying to make the term stick, but I hate the word choice.Anyone else?
Many of my color names were based on Crayola crayons and answers from Celebrity Jeopardy.
Thanks. We have an option in the write a review to indicate that a hotel/motel has no gym. Thanks for the tripadvisor suggestions. I'll look into the appropriateness of contacting their members.
Someone who is a "User experience designer" is simply someone who can't code or draw. That's the person you should be firing. Everyone on your team should understand "user experience".
Don’t Let a Bad Day Turn Into Bad Customer Service
Minor bug report: you can add the same stock twice, and it gets two separate entries rather than adding to the same entry.
Some would say (have said, actually) that we never got them in the first place; we have them by nature, and we can only keep them or lose them.