skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's like that in every country on earth, more so in most countries other than the US. Much of South America still operates under Napoleonic law in which there is a presumption of guilt. I'm British and would never dream of speaking to a police officer anywhere in Europe without legal representation. American police are slightly more corrupt than the first-world average and sentencing is unusually punitive (especially for drug offences), but by global standards the US legal system isn't exceptionally bad.

How could we possibly architect a legal system in which it doesn't make sense to speak to a lawyer before giving evidence? Unless we massively simplify the law and train every single citizen in the law to a fairly high standard, the benefit of representation will persist. The system recognises this and enshrines the right to legal representation.
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That's not a good metric. Everyone sleeps in their bed for a lot of hours per week but only a subset of people are sensitive to discomfort or back issues.

Why does anyone spend their time coming up with rules for what other people should do in situations that are inherently based on personal values?
There's an interesting piece about the potential Fischer-Karpov match where Kasparov notes: "This includes testimony by Karpov himself, who said Fischer was the favorite and later put his own chances of victory at 40 percent."

This is the same Karpov that a few matches earlier ceded that Spassky would win that current candidates cycle, and then Karpov goes on to beat Spassky quite comfortably in the semi-final match.

I think this speaks for Karpov's public-facing modesty and pragmatism, rather than an objective examination of playing strengths.

But still, a Fischer-Karpov match could have been absolutely epic, perhaps potentially surpassing the previous Spassky-Fischer match.
Eight Ways Not to Pitch a Blogger Tech
I liked this insightful comment:

"Then on January 17, 2008, he died in Reykjavík after a long illness for which he had refused treatment. Even this was somehow typical of Fischer, who grew up playing chess against himself since he had no one else to play. He had fought to the end and proven himself to be his most dangerous opponent."

It seems like Fischer was playing against himself all his life. That being said, I don't think today's cold, database driven world of chess (e.g. see http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/03/21/110321fa_fact_...) would have had much use for his individuality, had he stayed the course. He probably would have lost to the new breed of players.

Good for him, then, to stay a legend, albeit a disturbing one.
As a YC hopeful, this article really helped me to understand what really goes on during the three months. It's inspiring to hear stories about companies who pivot right before Demo Day and actually receive help with their ideas from PG. I'm just starting to learn about the difficulties of running a startup. We're really lucky to have guys like PG out their who are truly interested in innovation and not just the money. This article proves his dedication to the industry and to all of the people who are working so hard to get to the top. My day = motivated.
The token idea is genius. This could be applied to programming languages as well. Why settle with crazy delimiters like ',"; /xxx/ and manual escaping with \n \x \\\\\\ (making a \ in a regexp in a string :P). A subtle visual hint could be enough to distinguish different kinds of textual "object".

Sure, not everyone will like this, but for people that are visually oriented like me it will make things a lot of fun.
Yes, but when the original author said it he was rude and condescending. Rude because there is simply no polite way to call someone a loser. Condescending because he assumed that ignorance was the only reason someone would buy something of low quality and that everyone reading the article would have money to buy high quality things.

Almost everyone in the U.S. has access to an internet connection. If not in their home, in their local library. The median household income in the U.S. is around $50k. Many people earn much less than that, and they still manage to get access to the internet. If you are used to living with above-median income, you should be humble when saying what people earning much less than median can and can't afford.

And that's just considering the U.S., which is easily in the top 10 of median income.

By contrast, yason did not assume anything about the readers ability to afford things and he or she did not put anyone down, except maybe people who buy the best of absolutely everything and still claim to be frugal, and even then, yason only addressed their behavior, not them as people.

There is a right and a wrong way to say things. The original author went with the wrong way.
BHL comes to DSK's defense, with stupefying assertions
Post about TermKit: http://axisofeval.blogspot.com/2011/05/termkit.html
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PSN has been hacked again
And you overlook the point that "better" != "more expensive".

Being frugal is not mutually exclusive to living a good quality life.
Seriously. But I wish all fonts included a monospaced variant. Why shouldn't I use Helvetica in my terminal?
There’s more to programming than producing lines of code...
Modal Semantics and Dropbox
Except Skype is not a product that corporate IT wants - as you point out, it is a botnet and they do not want their bandwidth being sucked up for calls.

MS does have access to the market - but it's one increasingly dominated by Cisco and their solutions just work. I do not think Skype will succeed in the enterprise.
My cr-48 lasts 8 pretty easily.
I don't think Facebook's questionable language contains the "fully sublicensable" bit, which clearly implies they plan to sell anything created using a DS.

(And even just the "worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive" bit is draconian. Facebook was under fire for adding "irrevocable."
The server itself can and does catch the signal that indicates the user hit Stop. Whether or not your code can detect this -- that's the tricky part.
A start-up's #1 competition...The Back Button
WordPress is likely to be the best option for a blog. There are cases where it won't be, but more often that not it is. It's great because it's easy to setup and get going very quickly. However, you still have the option to customize as much as you want, when you want. It can also grow as your needs change - you won't be stuck with "just a blog" if you need the site to do more later on. It's great from an SEO perspective, and there are a vast number of plugins available, many of them excellent quality.
Improving Usability with Fitts’ Law
Facebook is Great for Dead People
API Boycott in Practice
I've just finished a browser-based bitcoin miner, written in Java (as an applet).

I'd love to get some feedback on it.

Once the page loads, hit "Start generating" and it should start mining bitcoin.
I just want it there every time as a small unobtrusive clue.

How many times is that feature used vs how many times could it be useful? (or the others suggested here who need user intervention and never allow you to code while seeing this info)
Yes, buy a quality product and you only cry once.
Sorry, I wasn't particularly clear there.

From the viewpoint of interviewer and hirer rather than interviewee, I thought the process was better than anywhere else I've worked.

I liked the expected level of rigor, I liked the decisions being made by a separate committee, and I liked the salary package being set by yet another group.

The main problems I saw were:
* recruiters dropping the contact chain with the candidate
* interviewers not preparing enough
* not enough of a feedback cycle to interviewers about their performance.
Bernard-Henri Levi (affectionately known as BHL), a well-known and (in most circles) respected French philosopher/journalist/author wrote a piece to defend Dominique Strauss-Kahn. This in itself is not surprising, he says he has known DSK for 20 years.

However, some of his statements are unbelievably elitist, so much so that it's almost a caricature of the French elite stereotype:

"This morning, I hold it against the American judge who, by delivering him to the crowd of photo hounds, pretended to take him for a subject of justice like any other."

"I am troubled by a system of justice modestly termed “accusatory,” meaning that anyone can come along and accuse another fellow of any crime—and it will be up to the accused to prove that the accusation is false and without basis in fact."

There are many more despicable phrases, e.g. about Tristane Banon, a French author who has come forward with rape allegation for DSK.

And this coming from a man who was criticized in France as being too in love with America. I used to admire him.

EDIT: BHL is not alone in his elitism: Even a leftist such as Eva Joly, the French magistrate, representative to the European Parliament, and possible 2012 presidential candidate (for the Green Party) declares about the hancuffed images of DSK (http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2011/05/the-per...):

"These are very violent images and I think that it [the American system] doesn’t distinguish between the director of the I.M.F. and any other suspect."
When data is sent across a channel it is converted to text so that it can be sent to (or even through) external Unix programs.

In a very loose sense of homoiconicity...
There are studies that indicate that runners wearing $100+ shoes are much more prone to injury than runners wearing sub-$50 shoes. In fact, what's initially "comfortable" insulates our feet from important physical signals, leading to a lot of physical pain. (read the recent, excellent book "Born To Run" if you find this interesting)

My point is that not thinking about decisions "makes you a loser", and equating price with quality is often a mistake.
Apple isn't really known for rushing vital security patches on its own products, so how can anyone expect them hurry up with products from other vendors? Apple makes decent products, but they really should hurry a bit more when flaws are discovered.
Frugal: performing intense cost/benefit analyses on everything, including the analysis itself.

Cheap: not spending more _only_ because the price is higher.

Frugal builds wealth. Cheap squanders it.
The tent that turns into concrete in less than 24 hours
The cheap vs frugal debate can go on forever. I think it comes down to cost vs. convenience. If you're spending a ton of time and inconveniencing yourself trying to be frugal maybe it's not worth it. When I'm trying to save money on something I just ask myself whether the savings are going to inconvenience me a ton. If so, I just buy a better, more expensive product. If not, hey just get the cheaper product.
Usage isn't user content.
There's no reason they couldn't track anonymized usage data. But they've meaningfully conflated usage data with other Personally Identifiable Information. Which means, no, it's not just boilerplate to cover the collection of broad demographic and usage data.
What an opportunity for you, if you have local market knowledge and can clone & localize the concept.

(edit: or for someone like you)
There is potential for TermKit to send files to your client's Vim, which opens a lot of possibilities. For example, it would be easy to have files from two different servers open. It would also reduce the number of places you need your configuration files.

TermKit's author may dislike Vim, but I suspect that he's helped its users in the long run.
Not So Fast: Sony's PlayStation Network Hacked Again
I'll be contacting you as well, fyi. I'm tired of clients working with me for a couple of months, and then asking me to quit my day job to work full-time for them.
There's lots of scope for this kind of thing. My main concern would be whether a single WebKit control is the right way to go - it'd be nice to, for example, embed custom controls within the shell (but this might also be possible).

Yes, that's possible. Webkit embeds JS, and you can do the craziest of controls in JS, communicating with your process through JSON packets (at least, that's how I understand the article). This would need some extension mechanism at the side of the shell, though, but that's not rocket science.
It's a story we've probably all heard many times before, but I give you a story from the old Apple days: -2000 lines of code http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lin...
Seems rather expensive, but the money probably just keeps churning around many of the same circles eventually anyway.

I guess they'll try anything as long as it doesn't involve using remote workers or satellite offices in less expensive cities to attract other competent developers.
Coiner of "disruptive innovation" on fixing health care
Will someone pull these assholes aside, slap them a couple of times and remind them that they're messing stuff up for the rest of us? Call of Duty multiplayer be damned, every time this happens they're giving those knee-jerk, reactionary geniuses in Washington more rope to hang us all with when it comes to the Internet.
No, he shouldn't be making compromises at all. He's rightfully aiming at making the shell of the future. Features to comfort people that are stuck in their current ways can easily be backported in later, as we know how they work since the 70's.
Are these the ones he sent Hardy,or something else?
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I couldn't read past "I'm not worth it". Based on that and your reply here it just seems as though the author is materialistic. They're defining their worth by the quantity and quality of the goods they possess.

I don't see how that's a healthy attitude. I'm probably on an extreme end of the spectrum as I'm pretty minimalistic and don't have many possessions but those I do have are typically of higher quality. I don't buy those things because they make me feel like a better person, that I'm worthy of the higher quality things, or that I deserve them but rather because they generally don't cause me pain. Isn't that why we here on HN try to build high quality software? To solve and cure some kind of pain? I appreciate when a product does that so I'm willing to pay for it.

Qualifying your worth based on what you choose to purchase is short-sighted, physical goods no matter their quality deteriorate in usefulness and lustre with time. Experience, knowledge, and human relationships are enduring. Therefore I reject any notion that a person's worth is valued by the quantity and quality of their possessions.
Good point. Trying food in person is a very different experience to seeing it online. Only problem is that it doesn't scale so well..
US only _for now_. Give them a chance to get the site launched in the US and then grow as demand allows.
Probably nothing related to mathematics but Ramanujan's hand writing is awesome! Not something I would expect in a notebook.
Thanks for the pointers. You're right that it seems like it is a full time job. Probably if I really wanted to help her the best thing to do would be to hook her up with a information marker agent who would handle a lot of the strategizing for her while she provides the expertise.
How to choose the best Linux for you?
I have a small knife for in the kitchen that costs €8.95. This is relatively expensive for that kind of knife, you can get a similar one for €0.75. I have used it nearly every day for 3 years (that's about 2 cents per day) and people are still amazed how sharp it is when they cook at my place. The problem with the very cheap knives is that they bend and they get blunt quickly.

http://www.scharenenmessen.nl/index.php?act=viewProd&pro...

This is the best knife I've owned, better than much more expensive chef's knives. Sometimes the best things are not the cheapest nor the most expensive.

As a rule I've found things that look cheap but are expensive for how they look are the best. You can buy good looking expensive "design" scissors that are likely to be bad in every other department, or you can buy relatively expensive cheap looking scissors that stay sharp forever.

The one thing that I'm still looking for are quality bicycle lights on batteries.
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http://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/ps3/current/accou...

For having three different security firms working with Sony on the hack a month ago, are they really just pushing out the new PSN without a proper, full security review? I mean, any competent developer would immediately realize that this password reset system is flawed by design, especially with the fact that the user's information requested is the information the hackers already have!

This does not bode well for the near future of PSN as a whole. If something as simple as a password reset feature is still being built without security in mind, then how does the rest of the updated system fare?
Plenty of YC companies make money. If you are referring specifically to the ones in the article, many of them are in the initial stages of building the company. Unless you are a consulting company it is not easy to make money from day 0.
Smart Startups Think Global But Act Hyperlocal
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Haven't REALLY pushed it yet but the new thinkpads do amazingly well on battery with a 9 cell, and if you get one of those batteries that use the optical slot it would probably last 2 days.

Biggest battery drain I've found so far is (surprise, surprise) flash. Compiling is a hit but not an insane one, using Visual Studio on a WPF app.
Worse: it's easy to incriminate yourself in something that is not even illegal. You could say that you were not at the store that was robbed, but actually at your grandmother's place two hours away. However, if someone (incorrectly) believes that they've seen you, the police now has (incorrect) evidence that you are lying.
I buy CDs because I find value in paying $10-12 for a CD that I'll listen to multiple times. There are CDs that I bought 15 years ago that I still listen to multiple times in a year or even a month.

I do not buy DVDs because I find no value in paying $30 for something I'll watch once and then let sit in a box somewhere. Instead, I pay Netflix $8 a month to watch a a couple movie or TV series in a month. I don't have something lingering around on a shelf taking up space I'll never use again and I think $8 is a reasonable price.
Not quite; the point was, better stuff will last longer, you never have to replace it. It was a utilitarian argument.
People often talk about technical debt, but arguably what projects need is an entire balance sheet of assets and liabilities. I don't mean this literally, but just having the idea of debt doesn't quite sum up the possible state of a project in the same way that a balance sheet sums up the financial state of a company.
Kanban Vs. Defect Hell
I'm not sure how HATEOAS could be bundled into a framework as there is no straightforward process for realizing it. Designing a generic hypermedia format is a huge undertaking and a RESTful service must be almost completely specified by such formats.

If you can implement your service entirely with existing formats, that could make things much simpler. But the only kind of hypermedia for machine data access that I've ever heard of is RDF, and there is nothing simple about that.
I like the concept, I think it's well designed and the iPhone app seems to be really great. It's got a bit of a chicken and the egg problem at the moment, but I really hope it grows.
To some extent, yes; but in that case the neighbours have much better reasons to think that they are not a suspect than when a police officer starts chatting to them for no apparent reason.

[EDIT: make it clear that I'm referring to the neighbours, was "To some extent, yes; but in that case it's a much more reasonable assumption that you're not a suspect."]
Twitter for Mobile Browsers, Simply Wonderful
Fascinating. Too bad NaCl means something entirely different in the Curve CP world than in the Chrome world.
I hear all these talks about Linked helps people connect and make contacts and keep in touch and yada yada, can anyone on HN actually share some personal experiences in which Linked In may have helped them at all?

Cause personally, I think it's no use to me, but I am willing to take advantage of something I might be overlooking.
Now if someone could created an integrated device around the $200 price point that will allow me to watch these items via the Internet and still DVR OTA broadcasts, I'd be set.

Roku is close, but they don't do the OTA part. TiVo is way too expensive to just use for OTA and they're very slow I brining on new online content.
And since when did homo sapiens evolve to need a $600 matress? Folks around the world sleep on a futon, or the floor. Do they all get terrible sleep? Or do they adapt.
Let's take it a step further and write a T&C that is written by the consumers. Like GPL, but for T&C and privacy policies. Something like:

* All content generated by the user with the help of the product belongs to the user

* The user is free to take apart, modify, reverse-engineer, etc., the product

* No data is to be sent to any outside network without the user's explicit permission.

* No sensitive data, including but not limited to location data, communications, usage patterns, identifying addresses, personal information is to be stored without the user's explicit permission.

* These terms may not be changed without the user's explicit consent. If the product producer wants to change the terms, and the user does not consent, the old terms stay in effect.
Right now I think noone is building such a thing because it's not clear that the feds won't shut it down as soon as they notice. This isn't a big problem for users of virtual currencies, but people running an exchange market could be prosecuted on money laundering charges at the very least.

If there were legal precedent that virtual currencies are fully legal to exchange with USD, I think you'd find that exchanges would mushroom overnight, and that virtual currency (particularly Bitcoin) would have a huge spike in value.
I contract for aliving; I make $80 if I say "screw it, this one is fine", buy it, and get back to work.
i am n00b in webdev, but i have a feeling this is pretty useful tool.
I wish the quality of documents was better. Really hard to read this.
Bingo. If you haven't pissed anyone off, it's because you're not doing anything important. There are people who invested DECADES of their life into a vanilla terminal ... and here you are, fucking with THAT.
Missed the point: the neighbors are ignoring the police, and you suffer. Now you are frustrated at the advice "don't talk to the police for any reason". Just an example.
> 4. Be a little less naive, as breaking into two FB accounts that I own[sic] or control is not illegal, breaking into someone else's is somewhat illegal even for demo purposes.

FaceBook's TOS specifically states that anything uploaded onto their site, including the text of a status update, pictures, videos and comment text, is the irrevocable ownership of FaceBook. This gives them the ability to use your friend's pictures inside targeted ads, as well as take general screenshots of the site that may contain your comments or pictures as marketing tools for their own benefit and not yours.

I wonder if unauthorized access to a FaceBook account is deemed theft of stolen property with the owner of the account as the victim, or if this was to go to court, would FaceBook be in the prosecution chair claiming their property was stolen†. If the latter, does anyone besides FaceBook have any say on how an unauthorized entry to some account should be treated?

†Stolen in this context just means the "downloading" of page assets that occurs when one visits a web page.