skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be a bit playful, there is a sort of "Magic: the Gathering" version of this dissent, if it helps people.

So a Conviction is basically a type of enchantment which says you have 3 fewer life points and trouble getting a job. Now someone managed to cast Reverse Conviction, which exiles one conviction -- it's not even in the graveyard, as much as legally possible it's like it never happened, with the only exception being double-jeopardy laws etc. And the question is whether you get those life points back.

According to the majority opinion, having your life points converted into tokens on the State Government card was part of the ongoing enchantment, and so this ended when the enchantment ended: they should be converted back.

According to Clarence Thomas, it was an instant effect that happened when the enchantment was cast, and the ongoing effects were the other parts of the enchantment. So when it was cast, that was the time when you were "deprived" of your life points; it's not an "ongoing deprivation" but a single event which happened in time. You don't get them back unless another card in play says you do.

(A more full analogy would also include the fact that there is this Exoneration Act card which says "(3) Take a conviction token from the State Government and gain a life point. You may not do this if there is an enchantment which creates these tokens either on you or in the graveyard," and a house rule called Due Process which says that you cannot be deprived of life points without some card in the field of play saying so. )
Anyone know how far spread this is? it just Hit our school emails
The Adversarial Implementation
Just because you can find a specific example where a solution doesn't work doesn't mean the solution has no merit.

A fully hollow sphere may not be possible, but support structures can enable even more complex parts than hollow spheres.
Regarding your edit, it baffles me that people continue to bring that quote up. Zuck said that at 19 years old. Do you realize the amount of dumb shit that I thought and said at 19? People grow and learn and change. You don't think he learned a thing or two after growing his company from nothing to a $400B behemoth?

Now if his behavior was consistent and he continued to say things like that today, then maybe the evidence would hold some merit. Otherwise it's just pointless cherrypicking. To hold something like that against him over a decade later? That's just irrational hatred.

And just to be clear this is the full quote with context: https://pastebin.com/4a2aLp11

And with the extra context, the quote makes more sense. At the time it was dumb of those people to just submit personal information to a random dude at Harvard.
Facebook Puts New York Times Veteran in Charge of Stopping ‘Fake News’
I can't back the statement right now and do not even remember where I read it, but I do remember reading that autism spectrum women (who are rarer than autism spectrum males) tend to be drawn to fantasy setting and express themselves in fan fiction far more often. It would be interested to see the gender breakdown in fan fiction and related interests.
Thoughts on supporting source maps or something like it? It's very common to use source maps on production code when debugging live site issues and it's nice to have that translation capacity.
> It's worth nothing that everyone who works at Facebook, including the CEO, are random strangers

There is a big difference between a multi-billion dollar company that has a reputation, shareholders etc. and a completely random person (who could literally be anyone with any motives). You can't go to Facebook and give them an envelope of cash for keys to access other peoples Facebook accounts whereas some random guy is much more likely to be open to this.

Security online is already shit and people freely handing out access to their online accounts is not making things better. There's need to breach servers anymore, you just create a "fun" browser extension with god permissions that auto-updates and then after a few weeks just start harvesting usernames, passwords, card details, instant messages and emails... :/
> What is the worst thing of it all - artificial scarcity. I'd buy sets I didn't really care for because I was afraid they would go out of stock. This has happened to some of the popular sets where scalpers charge 10x. They even have web sites where people do this full time. Just say no.

Hell, they even do it at the Lego store. I was in Bellevue WA and they had about half a dozen of one of the Star Wars sets, and the guy there suggested I might want to buy several of them because they were about to stop production...

(Alas, though, my Lego fetish is Architecture, and some of the Creator stuff).
Ask HN: Is it harder getting a tech job now vs. 5 years ago?
I've been self-employed for the last 5 years. I created several SaaS apps that have collectively made $1.5M pretax during that time. I also have a semi-popular open source project, prior experience moving from a senior role into a management, and have kept my skills current learning things like Sass, Bootstrap, Angular and Flask.

I don't necessarily need a job right now, but I wouldn't mind taking one because my income is 100% passive. However, I haven't been getting any e-mails back.

What I remember about applying in the past was how easy it was to get an e-mail requesting a phone interview. Probably 1 out of every 3 jobs I applied for would yield one. Over the last week, I've applied to 25 jobs and only one yielded a phone screen.

Am I out of the loop already? Is my experience that much of a commodity nowadays? What does it take to differentiate yourself in 2017?
Yes. Among other things, TDD lets you code from the inside out. That is, it makes it a lot easier to build and verify the business logic core of your code (which is usually the interesting part from both a technical and learning POV) without havin to first bootstrap all the additional boilerplte required to wrap an application around it to do click-throughs.
I've long wanted to build a National Shelter System[0] for pets.

At Gingr[1], we work with hundreds of kennels every day. Many of which have expressed interest in participating in such a program, but feel as though some oversight from a govt agency would be needed.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Shelter_System

[1] www.gingrapp.com
Apparently Google has already shut this down. Likely they revoked the access from all accounts as well.
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This would require a big plunge in the greek economy that people are not willing to take. To be able to recover swiftly from such a crash, the greek economy would have to switch from a very inflexible and sclerotic one (that it is now) to an adaptible, flexible and liberal one. The demographics of Greece do not support such swift action - greece is aging rapidly and the brain drain has gotten really intense. With regards to trade, greece probably benefits from things like e.g. the common agricultural policy more than it loses through restrictions. There is little support for grexit, because of a) the rhetoric and FUD from almost all political parties (including the pro-euro syriza) and EU and b) because there is not enough consensus on the side of the people to go through what would amount to a revolution.
It's Gentoo, but that doesn't really matter--it's built to only expose a browser, not to be a general purpose computer.
Just realised there's a discussion in place about this here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14258918
> It's ridiculous movies don't tell women stories, nor show women characters; just "love interest", "plot device", etc. Even in fantasy a female lead is surrounded by a male ensemble or is a proto-male.

Looking at the Disney films made in the past decade, it appears female protagonist leads are more prevalent (e.g. Moana, Brave, Frozen, Spirited Away, etc.)
Civil forfeiture is very much not limited to when the property owner is unknown. That is perhaps where the practice started in some distant past, but forfeiture has expanded to include the seizing of property as long as there is a pretence of a crime, but no conviction nor usually even an arrest.

Here's a some search hits under "civil forfeiture cases"

[1] NFL defensive tackle Letroy Guion was stopped and had 190k of cash seized. He had bank statements to prove the provenance of the money.

[2] Overview of cases and depts sued for systematically seizing cash from people stopped, but never charged with a crime.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/11/civil-asset-forfeit...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2014/03/12/...
Seems like it's allowed in the oauth form: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-7NlIzXUAErblp.jpg:large
Go to a lego store after they launch, buy it. Even the rare porsche was widely available. There hasn't been a lego set I "missed" because I didn't order it the second it was available, and I even have the "ultra rare" 4x4 remote control car.
Selling my baby
If you want to learn mechanics with LEGO, you don't want a particular set -- you want a book.

You want the Unofficial LEGO Technic Builder's Guide: https://www.nostarch.com/technicbuilder

which is an excellent reference for how to build steering mechanisms, differentials, transmissions, suspensions... and Sariel usually offers two or three different ways of accomplishing any given goal.

Highly recommended.
> Then they send the money back home. But if they send cash back it gets stolen 90% of the time. If they transfer the money it from one bank account to another, they don't lose their money.
Making transactions more customizeable/

WTF are you talking about? No one[1] uses bank transfers to send money to their families in the SADC region: it's quicker and cheaper to use formal and informal money transfer agencies where the recipient gets cash, which is not stolen "90% of the time".

I swear HN seems knowledgeable on all subjects except those I am deeply familiar with...

1. SWIFT transfers do get used for big transactions or paying corporations, but no one I know will be sending amounts less than monthly income this way
Existing discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14258918
One of the weird things (for Americans) about UK elections is the really tiny amount of money involved, because almost all advertising is banned or spending-restricted. Everyone gets a free mailshot and a 10-minute TV slot or two (party political broadcast), but you don't get tons of attack ads on TV, "PACs", or even paid billboards.

Facebook is very different. There was apparently a lot of very sophisticated targeting going on for Brexit.

(There are a number of conservative MPs under investigation by the police for violating spending limits, plus a developing story about money laundering from HSBC: https://www.thecanary.co/2017/04/28/breaking-dark-money-hsbc... )
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Why would they do this?

EDIT:
Data customers would pay for access on an individual basis. Helicopter-parent countries might cry foul, but what leverage do they have? It's not like they were going to launch things with SpaceX and they can threaten to stop.
It managed to hit regional mainstream media here (like 10 minutes ago).

I guess that probably just means someone working there got it though.
Apply through a recruiter, you'll get some interviews.
Thanks for this. There seems to be an existing discussion if people would like to continue there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14258918
Maybe it's more like the weirder people are pushed away from things they find awkward. They're pushed to the easiest alternative. Social cues come into play; males are cued that technology is acceptable for them, females are cued that it isn't. More transgendered people than cisgendered people may not identify with those gender-based social cues, and disregard them.

What are those social cues? I don't know, in general. In my case, my father used the computer much more than my mother did. He built and maintained it. "Computer people" in the late 80s and early 90s were almost all male. My grandfather taught me, but not my sister, about electronics and soldering. My sister certainly played computer and video games, but not nearly as much as me or my brother.
Thanks for the background. There are indeed awful things about git's design, but I think it would have been very hard to out-market git.

Git is both free AND viral. It's viral because if you want to use someone else's code, you have to use their source control system. Linux using git is a big deal in that respect (and yes I realize the kernel used BitKeeper :) ).

Also, Github as company and git the open source project are pretty complementary. It's hard to house both entities under the same roof, and you need that for ecosystem to succeed. Github is basically a UI/app company, and git is systems plumbing.

It's analogous to some PaaS companies wanting to make their own web framework. No actually that's a huge amount of work and you underestimated it. For all its faults, rewriting Rails is not something anyone can do. Heroku ended up being one of the early success stories because they just took your rails app and ran it.

Likewise everyone thinks they can rewrite Github, but that's pretty hard. It's at least 10x more work than you think, and you can get it wrong. If a tool isn't open source, there's much less incentive for a company like Github to come around and "popularize" it.

It seems like it's very hard to make money in developer tools in general, because so much is open source. And honestly they should be -- I would be a hypocrite if I said I didn't choose tools because they are open source. I guess Github and Atlassian are the outliers.

Anyway, my overall point is that I wouldn't necessarily chalk it up to marketing :) I do think open source got much bigger in the last decade, and it's hard for me to imagine that it wouldn't be built around an open source VCS.
That's a good idea, although I'd rather work with companies direct. Recruiters can be shady.
I learned Japanese by osmosis-watching lots of JAV in my younger days forced me to learn in order to identify what was being said to maximize utility.

Our drivers were different but you actually produced a patch enjoyed by a lot of j-RPG fans that came
True, but my understanding is that an injunction in cases like this is very hard to achieve.
Lawsuits, or indirect pressure like limiting Tesla sales.

They could always keep operating anyway, but it's only a matter of time before these governments set up jammers.
Exceptions as flow control is an anti-pattern, unless you're ducktyping like in Ruby or Python
A similar situation to consider: drug law repeal.

Let's assume some drug law is relaxed in the future. Do all prisoners currently serving sentences get released automatically? I don't think so, since they were convicted and sentenced under current law. I believe it would take an additional act of the legislature to release those prisoners. (This Supreme Court ruling seems to make this step unnecessary in the case of money+overturned conviction)

And let's not forget that they won't get anything for the years and opportunity lost while in prison for things that are no longer crimes.
I hate to bring this up whenever I see a Facebook project, but it still warrants saying: the patents clause in this project, like in others including React, is too broad. I really wish they made a "version 3" that limited the scope of the revocation to patents pertaining to the software in question, e.g. Prepack, React, rather than a blanket statement that covers any patent assertion against Facebook. While I suppose the likelihood of this occurring is small, I can imagine a company holding some valid patents, such as something related to VR, that aren't related to Prepack that Facebook infringes upon, as well as using a software that Facebook produces like Prepack, sue Facebook for infringement, and then losing the right to use Prepack as a result. From my understanding these kinds of clauses are beneficial overall, but the specific one that Facebook uses is too broad.

Tangentially related: what would happen if you did sue Facebook for patent infringement, and continued to use this software?
The same thing applied to Secret of Mana (Seiken Densetsu 2): the original translation had to drastically simplify/cut details from the English translation to fit into the dialogue boxes, which used a large fixed-pitch English font. There's a ROM patch ("Variable Width Font edition") that changes the dialogue font to variable-width, and uses the additional space to improve quite a bit of the dialogue.
I think a lot of it has to do with CNN and cable news presenting politics as sport. Jon Stewart's take down of Crossfire is still relevant and if anything, CNN doubled down on what Jon was criticizing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE
You don't need those specialised bits. You can just buy the creative boxes, and then some extra bits off bricklink (I bought jets, wheels, propellers, and seats) and then just mash them together.

Don't under estimate kids' ability to change and invent.
Yeah OfferZen is the localised version of Hired in South Africa
Yes, until some of the thousands of small satellites about to be launched (not just by SpaceX) star breaking down and creating space junk that will become a serious problem to the launch of new satellites and spacecraft

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/20/mega-constellatio...
I can confirm, a couple months long break always does wonders for me. That's why I prefer to be a contractor, as such breaks are not compatible with full-time employment.
What is the business model for a tool like this? Who has the resource to spend man/years of work while also create such a fantastic, simple yet comprehensive landing page?
Agreed, I tend to stay away from anything taking more than a week to arrive.

I recently made my first purchase on Etsy for mother's day for my wife. Her father recently passed and I got his fingerprint on a necklace from https://etsy.com/shop/RachelRothJewelry I received terrific customer service, the shop owner went way out of her way to edit the fingerprint which was basically a blob. I received the print a couple days ago and for about 1/5 of what the funeral home would have charged for the same thing, even after editing. So there are definitely some great shops on etsy but I did have to look around a lot to find a shop which could deliver this in under 2 weeks.
The early stuff he shows can be done on most emulators as a way to cheat. Done it ever so often when i get bored with a game. Sometimes locking the health value will freeze a game though as developers use a cheap refill animation on leveling up or beating a boss, and you end up with the animation getting stuck as the emulator keeps resetting the value.

I have never owned one, but i think gamesharks and others work similarly.
Pilosa: open source, distributed bitmap index in Go
Off-topic, but has anyone else noticed that many images shown on the Guardian lately have been really bad quality JPEGs with many artifacts? The "who targets me?" picture is one example.
> Where, how? I've never heard of someone needing a Facebook account for credit and any employer asking for your Facebook profile is a huge red flag.

Here[1]. Saying "wasted" as a status update can affect a credit score. And even if it isn't disclosed, employers, and other entities, may use your Facebook activity. This is a totally valid issue. So, yes, Facebook does matter, whether you like it to or not. It isn't just a toy, and you can't just stop using it, without it potentially harming you. I think it's totally unfair, but people now have to consider their online presence when hunting for a job.

And they don't have to ask for your Facebook account specifically. Companies like ru4.com can tie your financial identity to your social media identity[2]. Just like how even though you didn't submit anything to the 3 credit bureau, they will find data for you, it is also becoming true with social media. I can't log into chase.com without allowing scripts from ru4.com. Luckily, I use a sandboxed Firefox profile, that has never touched Facebook.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media-network/media-network-blog...

[2] https://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/02/1521239/even-the-ad-...
Planning on going for corporate cards first? They'd eat this up -- directly enforce expense rules at the card. Maybe look for a buyout by concur :-)

Separately, looking to make this a platform for other vendors to issue cards? E.g., so another company can add logic for say, a teenager's card that the parents manage, and use your platform for this?
It's a cool system. There's a slight disadvantage that the satellite-to-ground link is at 10-15 GHz for users, so it will go down in a heavy rainstorm, and some fraction of the time due to other atmospheric effects. Should be reasonably reliable but far from fiber, and it will be interesting to see what uptime they guarantee. Assuming this all ever actually happens.
Links of interest:

https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=4&iid=c7...

https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/692cr4/new_google_d...

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/3/15534768/google-docs-phish...
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But you can still buy the creator sets, and they use general purpose pieces?
> The answer has always been professional licensing.

That's only the answer if you're asking people who have no real experience in security. Those who do are more likely to tell you that will only make the problem worse.

Professional licensing for writing or operating software will never work, and if it does, it will be extremely harmful.
> That doesn't seem like an unreasonable way to draw the lines.

It's a turing tarpit otherwise, after all.

Regarding C++, I've not used the newer versions, but using that feature to capture only copies would match what I said upstream, as a limited usage of closures that would happen to match objects, while closures themselves can do more. Capturing by copy also means that it's instantiating a new closure variable slot specific to the copy, and is no longer closing over the original variable, so it's an additional step on top of the fundamental closure mechanism which would by nature be agnostic to private vs shared variable slots.