skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the age of the child. With an infant you're changing 7 diapers per day, feeding 6 times per day. Also you forgot making breakfast (7 days/week), lunch on the weekends (although many husbands take a bag lunch, so the wife makes that too) and 7 days/week for the kids. Dishes (and if you have kids you probably know that a lot of stuff needs to be handwashed).

Additionally there is bathing the child. Once they get teeth and hair, brushing their hair, and brushing their teeth twice per day.

Also grocery shopping. Clothes shopping. Random nicknack shopping. Going anywhere out of the house takes an extra 10 minutes on top of how long it normally takes, with the car seats and grocery carts.

When children get older, 2-5, you don't have the diapers, but you have potty training, which takes forever (and sometimes results in 3 baths per day). Also the bedtime routine (which can be an hour per day for nap and nighttime).

Then there's random stuff like dentist visits for the child. Doctor's visits for the child.

And then there's just teaching the child. Teach the child how to eat for themself. How to pick up their toys, taking them to the park or on playdates.

And this assumes you have a pretty troublefree kid. Add relatively common complicators like a kid who is collicky or has food allergies (which often means a span of a few months with a lot of trips to the hospital) or has GURD and there's more time there.

I don't know how many more hours this stuff. I suspect it is highly variable. And if you have four kids, it's probably a lot different than one. But if someone told me they were working 60 hours per week taking care of a household with kids age 0 to 6, I'd believe them.

Once children go to school fulltime, things change quite a bit. But I think most people are referring to the period of time when they have to take care of the kids.

BTW, I had my first job at 10. Paperboy.
Yes, I like his comedy but this really trivializes a serious subject. It is juvenile but not actually funny or clever. A pity, because Dilbert often has worthwhile insights into ethics, authority and similar subjects.
Being a Swede, I have to say that Adams doesn't really have all his facts straight. First, this kind of thing is very rare. Hooking up with girls in Sweden would not get you into this kind of trouble any more than in other western countries.

Assange had a bit of bad luck when he met Anna Ardin, the girl who stirred up this whole thing. She's a very peculiar person in Swedish "politics" as she is working hard to merge religion and politics, something a vast majority of Swedes believe is a really bad idea. She is also a sort of radical feminist, and she's written an article called "7 Steps to Legal Revenge" where she describes how to really crush someone who has cheated on you or hurt you in any way. By the looks of it, she's following that very article to get some revenge at Assange for sleeping with a friend of hers.

So, Swedes are on Assange's side even though the idiot prosecutor might make things seem like we aren't. We're all shaking our heads at this whole farse and we're all embarrassed. There is, however, no way that Assange will be convicted for any of the charges he is facing. It's just a case of "we have to get him here to interrogate him because that's the procedure".

So, from Sweden, just want to say that we're sorry that a couple of idiots have managed to create all this fuss. But don't be hatin'.
JavaScript had everything to do with its own success. It was a language written specifically to be run inside the browser.

People should rush out to code in any language because of the capabilities of that language. It is silly to focus on minor syntactical differences as the determining factor for a language. I happen to like prototypal languages quite a bit, despite some oddities languages like JS & Io have.

Religious wars only pop up when you have a dozen languages/frameworks that can all do the exact same thing, just written with a different syntax, so people come up with superficial reasons to differentiate something. In the grand scheme of web apps, Python == PHP == Ruby. That certainly won't be a popular thing to say, but it is true when you look at the capabilities of each compared to other types of languages and approaches to programming.

I choose JS because it is the only language that runs in the browser as well as the server (<--- Killer feature). It is the only one that has that unique capability. If it weren't for JS, you'd be writing Java applets while wanting to shoot your brains out. JS created the position it is in by giving the web a native programming language.
The explanation given here is pretty decent:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_electromagnetism_and_...

The main thing is to consider how charge densities change as we switch reference frames. Because the lengths contract when we switch to a reference frame where things are in motion, we see higher charge densities (same charge per less length).

A simple demonstration: Say we have a charge neutral, current carrying wire. We model it as a bunch of positive charges staying still, and some negative ones moving. The positive and neutral balance, but there is still a current because only the negatives are moving. Now imagine we switch to a different reference frame, one where the negative charges aren't moving, but the positive one's are, we are flying along parallel to the current. Now the positive charges contract relativisticly, so the density of positive charges is now greater than the negatives, and hence the wire appears to be carrying a net charge.
Dear clueless author,

how do you know if the government is working in your interest, if nearly everything it does is secret?

Do you know how much it takes for the government to access your personal email address?

Do you think that the government is always right? Do you think that the people there don't have personal interests?

As time passes the government demands to know more and more about you and let's you know less about it, don't you think at some point this becomes a problem?
Anti-SLAPP statutes are products of state law and do not apply to federal claims for copyright infringement. (See a sample discussion of the issue in this blog post: http://tushnet.blogspot.com/2008/08/copyright-and-california...). So these won't help.

The key to what happened here is that the defendant was able to elicit the help of EFF and the Fenwick firm, undoubtedly pro bono, and this gave them first-class legal talent with which to pick apart the Righthaven claims. Unlike patent trolling suits, where the claimant is typically able to assert credible claims for millions of dollars, the Righthaven model relies primarily on bulk processing of settlements resulting from threats to file suit. Righthaven will scout out the web and find one-fer instances of "copyright violation," as when a contributor to a site posts an excerpt from a news article in a comments section. The damages associated with this, even in a worst case, run no more than into the tens of thousands of dollars and likely would be far less. However, Righthaven takes an assignment from the newspaper that owns the copyrighted content and threatens to file its bullying suit, i.e., it threatens to subject the defendant to an expensive federal copyright suit that will cost far more to defend than is worth it for a typical defendant. In that context, Righthaven's business model depends on the vast majority of defendants caving and being willing to settle for a comparatively small dollar amount in order to avoid the suit. Righthaven does this in volume and that is how it makes its revenue - by coercing a lot of smallish settlements and relying on bulk processing to justify the economics of its efforts.

This model rapidly falls apart in any case where a serious defense is mounted and particularly where the defendant (a) is represented by first-class lawyers (as it was here) and (b) forces Righthaven to spend far more on processing the case than it can ever hope to recover. Here, Righthaven got hit with all this, plus aggressive counterclaims, leaving it unable even to dismiss the case without getting permission from the court. Seeing it had a major loser on its hands, Righthaven brought just such a motion to get permission to dismiss and met with a response from the defendant saying that the court must condition any such permission to dismiss on Righthaven's paying all of the defendant's attorneys' fees. All in all, a pretty disastrous result for Righthaven.

I am not sure how much this may be replicable in other cases but it certainly underscores that the Righthaven model is vulnerable to attack and may spur others to mount similar efforts. It is in any case a good first step.
I like to polish my commits and make them be concise, informative and correct. I wrote a tool to help with some of that: http://dustin.github.com/2010/03/28/git-test-sequence.html

It takes time to write a good change, but it takes way, way more time to figure out what the purpose of some random change was later. I've had people contribute code to a project and try to tell me they didn't understand it well enough to separate it and document it. If you don't understand it, how can I possibly understand it?

The largest, least well-documented commits are the ones that seem to cause the most confusion when I go back to figure them out.
Seems like a shame to shut it down. I've never heard of your product until now but the site is beautiful and it sounds like a super-useful service.

If your NLP is that good and you could figure out how to sell it for more money, you could potentially take on companies like Meltwater News.
You can't do what you suggest in an open, collaborative model. It's too susceptible to malicious actors.

What Anon needs is hackers, not spies. They need people who know what the fuck they're talking about to build tools and strategies. LOIC may be slightly improved, but it's still terrible. Having a bunch of angry skiddies is a great resource, if used properly to shield the activities of more capable members.

Also, it's dox, not docs. /pedantic
> It took several hours of research, several hours of work, four reboots, a near heart attack, and inspired heavy drinking.

Just because he didn't know how to do it, doesn't mean that Linux is worse than Window. Just because you speak English doesn't make <insert other language here> worse.
I've noticed that too - but it only happens on some profiles. I think it has to do with the privacy settings of the user (which were possibly just ignored before).
I'm amazed that a pretty basic plea to withhold judgement about an investigation until it's been completed and all of the facts are released is getting downvoted so heavily here. Why?
There are limitations on what I can open-source on the microcontroller side. My NDA with Apple explicitly prohibits disclosing communications protocols connection details. There are no restrictions on open-sourcing the iOS side of the software, including drivers for the device. My intention is to GPL the iOS code and let people build whatever they want with it.

My idea is further to have an open RESTful API to the data that anyone can use. I want to make the data genuinely useful to other people. I want to have a GPL-style license for data as well.

SignalActive are in San Mateo. I've been to their office, they are real friendly people.

Cobra has a bluetooth detector: https://cobra.com/detail/cobra-iradar-radar-laser-safety-cam... . It's closed source. You cannot get to the data.
How does this actually discover peers without any centralization?
There is a ton of misinformation and confusion out there.

This is the most clear-headed piece I've seen about the charges: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6B669H20101207

And on the smearing of the alleged victims: http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/12/07/julia...
The part that confuses me (and that seems to be corroborated by the victims tweets and other interviews) is that instead of going to the police right away after this 'rape' (in quotes for now, until convicted) is that they did not seem at all concerned with it afterwards.

Typically a rape victim does not throw a party in honor of their attackers, nor do they tweet about them as 'the coolest people in the world'.

Another bothering item is that when you sleep with people that are known to 'get around' (as in does not have a fixed place to stay) you have to wonder if you're successful at hooking up with them on the first night if you're the only one they've done that with (if someone is 'easy' you're 'easy' too) and that increases the risks of STDs regardless. Condoms or not, this is risky behavior.

Last but not least, the risk of STD transmission runs both ways and it is possible to have yourself tested as well.

I hope that we can count on Sweden to pursue every case of injustice against Swedish nationals this vigorously from now on, it would be nice to see how this case stacks up in terms of evidence and circumstances compared with other cases. If this is typical of the Swedish prosecutors then more power to them for being thorough, if it is not then the chances that there are more things here than meet the eye will go up.
Same here, I just memorized "target [the] link name".
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I'd seen the reuters one but not the salon piece. Thanks!
Yeah this one is particularly annoying.
Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World
I would have linked to the paypalblog but it seems to be down at the moment :)

https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2010/12/updated-statement-abou... for when it is accessible again

perhaps this is a 'less biased' source -- http://emoney.allthingsd.com/20101208/paypal-releases-funds-...
>You can't do what you suggest in an open, collaborative model. It's too susceptible to malicious actors.

Sure you can. All you need is a suitable counterintelligence and counter-deception wing to crosscheck sources. There's plenty of good open source literature out there on how to set up such a structure (the intelligence scholar Roy Godson's books being one).

>What Anon needs is hackers, not spies.

That's like saying what the military needs is more engineers and less intelligence. Obviously you haven't read your Sun Tzu. To win, you need both. You also need some overarching strategy as well, so far, it looks like Anon is lacking in that department.
I think people have the perception at the Female part is being invoked to excuse the Non-Developer part.

Without specific reference to this post, have we ever read:

I'm a male developer, and I want to do a startup. I can handle all the coding - I'm such an underappreciated genius - but I need some of that stuff. You know, that marketing stuff. With the pretty words and stuff. I would do it myself, but it's just all I have all sorts of manly responsibilities. I mean, hello, wife and kids? Like I'd ever have time for marketing stuff. It can't be too hard, though.

I went to a networking party to find a marketing stuff person. All twenty something girls, pff, it figures. Well, they probably have time for learning that marketing stuff since they don't have anything more important to do. I talked to a couple of them, but it just didn't click. Besides, give away half my company to a marketer? Are you crazy?! It's just some words strung together in a particular order.

I hired a marketing stuff firm. I was always more cut out for asking for stuff than for doing stuff. It takes so long and their stuff doesn't look like the stuff I would write if I could write stuff! And every time their incompetence requires a redo, they charge more money!

It's no wonder there aren't more men doing stuff. I feel so unwelcome.
From the article I linked to above:

A research project last year funded by the European Commission found that Sweden leads Europe in reports of rape, with 46.5 per every 100,000 citizens, compared with 36 in No. 2 Iceland and 26 in England and Wales. At the same time, Sweden’s 10 percent conviction rate for rape is among Europe's lowest.

So it would seem like no, the prosecutors haven't always been so vigorous. Sweden certainly seems to have it's issues with punishing sexual assault, but I'm not sure if we should really let things like that influence our judgement of this case until all the facts are known.
Google is not currently optimized for technical people - if anything, it's anti-optimized. It shouldn't be hard to beat it for technical queries.
Why not just yank the creative commons licence and replace with one that explicitly does not allow scraping?

That would be the fastest way in my book. I've never worked out why SO allows it in the first place. Is it just to appear open and web 2.0-y, or is there a business reason. It's a proper business now, users are loyal, cancel the licence. I can't think of a single person who would say 'oh, but I much preferred to read those spam sites'.
Thanks for your kind comments.

Im not sure if I would be able to post about negotiations any time soon. Drop me a line when you enter negotiations and if you want an outside perspective. I will be happy to help. You can reach me through the feedback form of the site in my profile.
> So, from Sweden, just want to say that we're sorry that a couple of idiots have managed to create all this fuss.

I'd say us Americans should understand that perfectly
With numbers like that, it is hard to fault Gmail for having a few hiccups lately.
Indeed. I have several friends already who are too caught up in him and what he's doing to even consider he could be guilty- and I suspect one of them may even feel that guilty or not, he shouldn't be prosecuted.
Yeah, I remember Numbler! It sounds like a very similar story except that you just got a little further down the road. If you'd be willing to tell it in more detail it would be fun to interview you on the podcast I co-host - TechZing (www.techzinglive.com). If you think you might be interested then please send me an email.
I wonder if the scariest part of code isn't so much obvious badness but badness that somehow still works.

I've seen much worse code than what I was dealing with. But this particular stuff had all these calls Xlib to "aid" in the rendering of Qt windows. How could I reproduce that? (fortunately Qt by itself now does everything this code did)
This is really great to hear. We need more of this.

I'd pledge if I had any hugely significant sum like the others in the pledge, but alas.
Not all users are created equal. We know this, just as we know that the customer is not always right. None of this is black and white, there is gray across the board.

These are complex decisions being made by complex businesses...why does no single company deserve the benefit of the doubt?
I think you over-estimate how much people within Anon actually care about public perception of the group's activities. As long as they are making headlines, that is all they care about.

It's like the kid in high school who you could dare to eat anything for $1. The more he does it, the more attention he gets, the more he is motivated to do it.

The more the press covers their activities, the more exposure they get, the more people join their IRC server, the more people download LOIC, which all turns into the more damage they can do. Repeat.

Look at the highest rated comment on this page, it contains a direct link to how people can get involved.
The big question will be does Zuck's fortune liquify at anywhere near the level that it is now. :)
I don't know what you're calling not true. I never suggested that Firefox wouldn't fix this in a x.1 revision. My point is more than 14% of Firefox users are using a version lower than current stable (and that's not counting who is in the [3.6.0, 3.6.12) range.
it'd require changing of the domain name.

So? He only started yesterday. If the domain isn't already taken then what's the big deal... it's not like he's spent a lot of money advertising it. :)
And I should believe that the location of "the most critical gas facility in the world" has been a secret all along. :D
epynonymous, I don't right now, but I do know that StartupDigest covers Shanghai <http://startupdigest.com/>, which is how I've been promoting the hackerspace so far. You could hear about something through that. I'm sure in the near future we'll have relationships with all of the China-based hackerspaces, if you want to email me I can update you as we learn about them.
These are two great SDK's and I'm looking forward to using them in future projects. Also kudos to Amazon for tackling the problem with AWS credential storage in apps for mobile devices.

It should be noted that this SDK is only for testing and not for deployment, since the two proposed solutions for secure credential management (IAM and session tokens) are not yet released ("Credential Management in Mobile Applications": http://aws.amazon.com/articles/SDKs/Android/4611615499399490)

"Embedding credentials in source code is problematic for software, including mobile applications, because malicious users can de-compile the software or view the source code to retrieve the Secret Access Key."
Lots of people focus on success stories like Angry Birds, but there is a lot of money to be made from enterprise mobile apps.
Free pdf of a recent (Sept 2010) textbook on social network and market theory. Pre-production draft. Written by two Cornell profs. Looks good.

Its recency affords it nice coverage of Facebook and Twitter as practical examples.
Firefox is just playing catchup these days, isn't it? Don't get me wrong, that's fantastic. I think everyone benefits from auto-updates.
That is a lot of phones. What does it actually mean though? Android is fast becomming the lowest common denominator for a phone OS?
Official Wikileaks statement on DDOS attacks.
I have heard that other manufacturers originally starting using reverse-thread propane fittings to work around a 1896 Primus patent, and the situation has simply persisted.
Thank you for all the great feedback! I am Ari Krupnik, the guy in the KickStarter video.

My idea is to make and sell devices, and make the software free--as in freedom and as in beer. The business model is that stuff that costs money to make (hardware) costs money to buy. Stuff that users collect (data) I distribute for free. I want to make sure that data that individual users collect is available to users--for any use that they want for it. There are several closed systems on the market. These companies get people to collect data for them--and then lock it up. They create an artificial scarcity of data and try to make money from that scarcity.

I say--let the data flow.

Ari.
http://thenextweb.com/media/2010/12/09/caving-to-pressure-fr...
'nuff said.
Hell, I'd say more than some. It seems to me that real business gets done on the phone and in person, much more than anywhere else in the digital realm (email, social media, etc). If someone isn't willing to take your call, then they probably aren't serious enough. If they aren't willing to meet face to face, then it's more of the same.
Thanks for that. I'm trying to apply a lot of the lessons I learned from Preezo and I think it's going to make the difference. Also, I think have a good blog post brewing on the subject, so stay tuned. ;)
I think the scenario you imagine whereby him doing a few designs for $15 leads to him being old and alone with a ruined life is pretty far fetched.
Word of mouth? (This could work well in environs like a university.) Twitter? All one would need is one peer to bootstrap.
It could be using the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kademlia distributed hash table. I don't know know if it is or isn't, but it's one way to do it.
Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to do this for any site you didn't want to see in the search results? Is it already possible with Google personalized?
I used to just cheat. I normally cd-ed to the directory I wanted the link in then just let the name of the link be the name of the file, so I didn't need a destination file name, just ln -s source_file