skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UN report declared that taking away all access to the Internet over claims of copyright infringement was too large of a punishment for the crime. And one of the U.N.'s human rights is a functional justice system (or something like that).

By the logic that says that UN is saying that the Internet is a human right, theft is a human right because I say that the death penalty for stealing $1 worth of stuff is too large of a punishment.
Thanks AJ, I appreciate it.
Don't use the jQuery .data() method. Use .attr() instead.
The landing page design is gorgeous.

But really - would YOU ever use this app in the intended social setting?

The horse is getting beaten to death already, but the last thing people out drinking want to do is log their drinks in their phone.

If you're out drinking so much that you have to keep track of how many drinks you've had, I doubt you're going to care about being charged for an extra drink or two when you and your buddies split the bill at the end of the night.
How to indefinitely detain JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon
My non-expert, second-hand information is that it's very hard to start a business in Shanghai without either a Chinese citizen as cofounder, or a joint-venture arrangement with an existing Chinese company.
What's SOPA and why is vetoing it important?

Short serious video:
http://youtu.be/1ngRPuXpCIw

Long video with lots of sarcasm and a great British accent:
http://youtu.be/JhwuXNv8fJM
Geeks are Beating Celebs in Firefox Charity Challenge
Note to sibling comment by ibisum: it looks like your post on Easter Island heads have bodies got your account algo-killed.
Already gone.
Odd, similar link works from reddit:
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/veto-sopa-b...

Maybe update the link?
There will never be a shortage of problems to be solved.
We might disagree with his policies, but this isn't evidence of corruption in the slightest.

These not-particularly-large donations could very well be a consequence of his political opinions, not (as everyone seems so eager to assume) their cause.

That's how most political donations work, after all - you give to people you already agree with.
You know what? I realized that I didn't read the whole question. I switched from Octave, not Python. Oops.
That page has some bugs/usability issues:

- Labels below the input are going to be a mess. I made the same mistake because I copied wufoo, but moving them to the top cut the time to fill out the form, and the number of errors significantly. Just trust me on this one.

- County/State/Province should be State/Province. (County and country look the same, and only the UK uses county in shopping carts, but it is unnecessary.)

- I am getting a mixed content warning:
I see a <img src="/">, which loads https://chec.kout.me/ which redirects to http://kout.me/ which causes the mixed content warning". You need to fix the code so when there is no flag, it loads something like "blank.gif" through https.

- The credit card expiry year is way too long. I think the official limit is 4 years, but double check that.

- the security code question mark doesn't seem to do anything and you should be aware that the code is on the front of Amex cards, though pretty much everyone knows by now.

Hope that is useful.
The congressman does not have to be an expert, they have to be able to become WELL INFORMED on anything in which they have policy directing power.

As an IT director I dont have to be an expert in python, ruby, networking, exchange admin, etc... That's why I hire staff who are experts in their areas. They inform me as the best direction to take.

I set the policy, understand to a certain level (rather technical, but not for example CCIE level - thats why I hire CCIEs) what each person does.

But I would never stand up at a company meeting and say "I have no clue how our firewall is configured - but I think we should block all traffic to ports 22, 80 and 25 because that seems to be where all our attacks come to. (blah blah blah port knocking blah blah blah)
Right on! Leon, I'm connected to the HK startup folks (founders of StartUps HK and Boot) there as well. Feel free to ping. Here is their FB group which most communication is done: https://www.facebook.com/groups/startupshk/ It's a closed group but I could add you.
The completion mechanism is actually the same as what it has always been. `completion-at-point' is Emacs's generic completion framework, and what they've done is replace all those mode-specific hatchet jobs with the more generic one. As for the electric stuff, that's the same story: every mode had its own way of doing it. I used (and still do, not migrated yet!) skeletons for my electric pairing as it did a really good job of handling all the edge cases (you're in a word, you're at a bracket already, etc.)
Look at the MPAA and it's current CEO, Chris Dodd, who voted for the DMCA in 1998.
Mozilla Firefox Challenge Event (charity)
The Dangers Of SOPA In A Nutshell
Whitehouse.gov petition to veto SOPA
Most of the methods are still valid (you'll find out that the results are definitely dated, though)

You also need to keep in mind that strings in Python 3 are Unicode-only, so much of the processing will be different. The equivalent to a Python 2.x string is called 'bytes'. It would be interesting to use this to compare string vs bytes performance under Py3k.

The one test which definitely will not work out-of-the-box is #3, for the reason above. "Character" arrays are now referred to as "byte" arrays, and you'll have to change array('c') to array('b') to get the original 8-bit behaviour, or to array('u') to use Unicode characters.
Have fun guys. I am sure you guys will do well in any country.

Once I settle, I will definitely invite you to Nigeria. Your visas will be taken care of ;)
Never said there would be. Just saying that the problems are going to be increasingly obscure and harder to solve.
My advice on completing projects:

Developing a big web project can be a bit like running a marathon badly. You put on a giant chicken outfit. Run around trying to trip over celebrities for the cameras. And nearly die of a heart attack. Okay, maybe that's just me. No, seriously, let me start again. Developing a big... bit like... running a marathon. You are full of energy at the start and set off at a frantic pace. Before you know it, you have the concept design and prototype done. Then you begin to start on the database hierarchy, the sign up forms. This is tiring work and soon your pace begins to slow. But you are still excited by the project so you push on.

There comes a point however on most large projects - usually around two-thirds to completion - when your enthusiasm begins to wane. You look into the distance and cannot see the end in sight. There is so much work to do and this work is the boring detailed stuff rather than fun conceptual work. You begin to wonder if the project is any good. You begin to get distracted by Facebook, Hacker News, flash backs of the mangled dying Action Man you threw out of the window with only a paper bag as a parachute when you were a kid (Okay, that's just me again). In short, you are flagging and unless you pick yourself up soon you will be retiring from this race.

NEVER GIVE IN
This is usually when a good manager will step in and give his team of developers a good motivational talk (or a kick up the butt). But when you are working on your own projects as part of a startup, when you ARE your own manager, inviting yourself into your own office for a motivational talk does not usually do much good and could easily get you taken away by men in white coats (for me, writing this from Bradlington Mental Asylum, this is no longer a problem). It is easy to give up at this stage. So how do you motivate yourself in such a situation? How do you pick yourself up from the road, and crawl, if necessary, crawl, crawl, until bloodied and weeping, you inch over the finishing line on your stomach, a slimey trail of your inards in your wake (sorry, more flashbacks. My teddy this time. Tug of war with sis. Big Ted never was the same again). Yes, how do you do this...

Stop looking at me. Like, I have the slightest clue. What, you were expecting - because you had invested the time to read this far - that I magically would have the answer to one of the most intractable questions in software development - nay, in human psychology: how to motivate yourself and others. Or maybe, if you hadn't quite got the gist of this article, you were wondering how I could help you finish a marathon when, two thirds of the way through, your legs are buckling like a soldier who has taken one direct to the head. To the latter, I've heard that energy drinks are pretty good. Else, take a bus - nobody will probably notice and the money is only going to charity anyway. Later, you might want to invest in some smart drugs...

As for the former, get out of here - there's only one way you are going to finish your project, and that is by doing it. So stop reading frivilous articles like this, and get down to some serious coding.
It would seem to reason to me that given the positions advocated by DHS and the RIAA that it would be perfectly acceptable to take down both their domains (including email) and plaster it with a big warning label that it's been seized by the Citizens Commission to Investigate the DHS and might be returned sometime in the next year but the CCIDHS can't tell you why it was seized because all the evidence is secret. In a year they'll have their domain returned because the investigation turned up no evidence of wrong doing.

If doing that based on the contents of some russian website seems insane then perhaps it is equally insane to put laws like SOPA on the books.

Apathy towards police hypocrisy does not excuse the behavior.
Could you clarify what `Velocity', `Correctness' mean?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AvBGESHWxhk2dHJ2...
Or more to the point: doesn't either Scribd or YC have some kind of code of ethics? Fake 'Download' and 'Play Now' buttons make the web worse, not better.
Do we not have a standardized org structure for the support staff of each politician:

Who is in the following roles as an aide to each congressman?

* Technology Consultant

* Foreign Policy

* Energy

* Agriculture

....

etc.

We should be able to reach out to EACH layer of aides for all of congress and say "To all the congressional technical advisors, as silicon valley reps, this is our stance on issue X"

These aides should then go to each congressman and say "this is what the tech on the street is saying" and inform them of opinion and reality.

The current system is DESIGNED to keep stupid.
What is SOPA and why should you care about it?

Short serious video:
http://youtu.be/1ngRPuXpCIw

Long sarcastic video with a British accent:
http://youtu.be/JhwuXNv8fJM
Great Fire Wall which blocks Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox...

However, I think China Government does welcome startups in Shanghai/Beijing with more goodies and support than Hong Kong's gov.
Is the group still active? My request's been on pending for a while now :-(
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Unfortunately I cannot say I agree with Vinay completely. He himself lays out the premise that most of the political power is held by the old bureaucrats. I would in fact correct him and say that, at least in Western democracies, it's held by powerful lobbies and economical entities.

Neither the lobbies nor the corporations are entities that were ever voted or chosen by the people, and the only thing the last two years of politics in the West have shown us is that it's pretty astounding just how much they can get away with flexing their political muscle without suffering any consequences, even if the power they exert affect the vast, vast majority of the population negatively.

What that would imply is that the democratic process is corrupt to a point where supporting progressives is reduced to being merely a gesture; Obama won the elections because there was a certain expectation of correcting many perceived problems of the "old establishment". He was unable to fix any of them, and in fact contributed to furthering the power of these interests.

At this point, the calculated balance Vinay hints at just falls flat on its face. And while it's true that there are many political powers that are downright illegal and obscure in everything they do (such as the mafias he hints at, and at more contemporary level, some massive drug cartels), the reality is that the institutions that threaten out freedoms act very much legally and partially in the open. And against such institutions, Assange's plan works remarkably well, as evidenced by much of the political action that some of the Wikileaks papers has helped fuel in the past few years. Not only that, but it can still claim a certain level of moral legitimacy that many governments are willing to stand up for, and part of the reason they have to speak openly is because some of the world issues Wikileaks has raised are just too big to keep quiet. I doubt that other, more conventional methods of "working with the system" would have gone that far.
Off-topic, but such backgrounds should be forbidden. I could hardly focus on the content.
I don't think that assumption has been true since Python 2.4 (released 7 years ago); it's just a persistent myth about Python performance.
You should have chosen "419TheNigerian" as your username :)
Show HN (again - fixed now): I made this before getting out of bed this morning
I like to think of .plan files as Twitter for the 1990s.
Theoretically YouTube could kick them form their automatic filtering program for a period of time or put some other requirement on their continued use of it.
NFA in a single line of Haskell
Now that HK went back to chinese rule years ago - how is HK not behind the same great FW?
Sorry about the initial posting - it was working locally, but not on heroku. It's been fixed now - thanks for the feedback!
Most people don't understand the work "complect" ([kəmˈplɛkt] vb (tr) Archaic to interweave or entwine). They probably (as I did) thought it was a typo for 'are complicated', making your whole comment a tautology. Or perhaps they thought you were trying to start a flame war by mentioning Rails.
Just come to Spain guys :)
It's always good to read posts like this that give thanks for the fantastic community that HN really is. Too often it seems it can be taken for granted. While nothing is absolutely perfect, truly this community stands out as one of the best, from my personal perspective. It has been and continues to be an invaluable tool. So, from me as well, thank you, all of you, for this wonderful bazaar of thoughts and ideas!
I don't understand why either.
I block all ads, so I often don't realize when a site is being evil. Those kind of ads sound pretty bad for Y Combinator's image, I wonder why it's being allowed.
"Miracles" wouldn't be evidence of the divine unless science was, in principle and permanently, incapable of explaining them. If the laws of physics were changed or ignored in order to perform some feat which was explicitly an attempt to prove the existence of the divine, then sure. If, however, a long-dead person were to spring from the grave and perform a jig, scientists would be (to borrow from the vulgar vernacular) "all over that shit". Even so, the mere existence of permanently inexplicable phenomena is evidence only of the strangeness of the universe, and not of a conscious omnimpotence behind it.
Veto SOPA: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/veto-sopa-b...
Setting up companies and working visa should be pretty easy in HK. I have never heard anyone having issue regarding that.

There has always been funding but investors don't usually add as much values as ones here do. The main reason could be these investors made their fortune from other non tech business like stock or real estate real estate. They are usually great business minded people but they may have a hard time advising tech startups.
Even if drug offenses held a less-serious punishment, there would still be an immensely wasteful amount of money spent trying to find and apprehend drug criminals. This whole underground market is thriving; instead of collecting tax revenue, we are using taxpayer money to enact an impossible ban.
They still have a (somewhat) separate judicial system and government, which results in a considerably freer media and society; for example, many of the newspapers print anti-PRC editorials that wouldn't be allowed in mainland China, and there are open demonstrations on things like the Tiananmen anniversary.
While I've never seen anyone use .plan or .project files, the finger command is still widely used on MIT's network. In fact, MIT's user search (http://web.mit.edu/search.html) is just a front-end for the finger command.

It does raise some privacy concerns though, as you can see here: http://amap.mit.edu/
Yup. It's Christmas time. Everyone sees their parents.
I'm getting certificate errors -- is this part of the point or something else?
Because life is finite and relentless. Because it's better to take opportunity before it's gone forever. Because some things take two, and if you don't go all in in time the other will move on, n'er to return. Because better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Because procreation is awesome. Because not procreating, ever, is (for most) an emotional black hole. Because your business doesn't give a damn about you, but your spouse always will.

Because my daughter lying in front of me pestering me to play a game is the best thing ever, better than any technological or business success - and I'd best get to playing that game now.

And (game now over) because, when she's just 3 months old, having a doctor wonder why you're still alive and whether you will be a week hence, the indescribable melancholy will be about her and her mother, not about whether a project was finished.
I hate plugins also.
Actually someone will save megs of traffic and seconds of computation doing ones own lightboxes and sliders. Any kind of them.
She has to take money from somebody, or she doesn't get elected.

Hence the problem.
Not part of the point, try the http version: http://www.reddit.com/r/SOPA/comments/nhfes/do_you_guys_real...
I have burned through 8 SSDs in VM hosts. Using TRIM. I am not ready to trust them yet.
The Hong Kong Basic Law stipulates that it will have high degree of autonomy at least 50 years after its transfer to Chinese rule. (ref http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong)

The Hong Kong Telecommunity Authority is, therefore, not required to implement the GFW.

Even in China, there are some GFW-free spots. You might find some 5-star hotels giving you unrestricted access to the likes of Facebook, Google+ etc
ya the group is very active. maybe you can ping the group owner directly as it's a closed group :)
Thanks! I didnt know.

I spent 3+ weeks in HK in October of 2000 - but most of that time was partying - so I really didnt learn much about the place whilst there.
Good luck in HK guys! Who knows, we may have to join the HK startup scene ourselves if we also can't get a work visa, ha :)
Group is very active. I think they require people to physically show up to their Startup Monday event to be added to the group. Ping me offline and I could connect you to the group organizers. Or tweet them at: http://twitter.com/startupshk
For the use made out for records there was no reason to derive Eq, Ord and Show.
They could host Reddit in Spain (or anywhere else), but the whole US "market" would still be closed to it (via DNS blocks). And I'm betting the majority of Reddit's population is from the US.

And of course other countries will probably decide to follow the US's lead.
Which university is it? We'll manually add it in, and if we get a lot more comments about universities not being city-specific, we'll make the change.
Great news for our privacy in Ireland. Although I can't seem to find anybody else reporting on this.

For those who are interested, Eircom is also the Irish ISP which continues to enforce a complete ban on any of its customers accessing The Pirate Bay due to an out-of-court settlement with the Irish music industry[1] - despite there being no law requiring them to do so.

Subsequently, Eircom then launched their own (as expected, below par) music streaming service the following year.[2]

[1] http://torrentfreak.com/eircom-agrees-to-block-pirate-bay-ac...

[2] http://eircommusichub.ie
7 habits I learned to become more efficient programmer
One phrase I associate with startups is "dumb enough to try". Startups usually have to break rules, and the most reliable way to pull that off is to not know you're breaking rules (i.e. youth).

It's not a death sentence for older entrepreneurs, though. A simple countermeasure is to live/act/feel young.
This article sets up a straw-man argument by claiming the reason why VCs invest in young people and not older people is because creativity diminishes in older age. I think their refutation of this idea is well done with good evidence, but who's to say that's the reason VCs invest in young people?

I think one of the main skills that young people bring is relentless execution and incredible thirst for learning. Especially when you pair these skills with the investment team who bring tons of experience, it seems to be a winning combination for the 100x ROIs.
He's not the one fueling violence. Our government's policies are fueling the violence, so by that definition none of us are "nice guys."
I think that picking all of your business ideas out of a group that's immersed in a particular technology and culture also has a downside: lack of diversification. There may still be lots of money to be made, for example, in innovative software for corporate IT departments, but nobody in their 20s is likely to be interested in that. From an investment point of view, an undiversified portfolio is risky -- if all of a VC's investments are in social networking or iPhone apps, then a decline in that market segment could wipe them out.

Also, a large amount of the low-hanging fruit is concentrated in narrow areas, like web-based businesses. Social networking web sites are something that you don't need a lot of experience or education or capital to be able to build -- some smart guy who has been programming since his teens can drop out of college and do it. But you're less likely to hear about some guy who just dropped out of college starting a successful bio-tech company or figuring out how to design a more efficient car, since you're not likely to be able to pick up too much experience in those fields on your own. This leads to a further lack of diversification the VC world. Not to mention that if everybody is pushing into the same crowded market, they'll all be competing against each other. All this may help explain why, as the article points out, VCs are underperforming the Russell 2000 (a very broad-based stock market index).
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I'm not even sure that clear, literate laws would do it. They'd help a huge degree, for certain, but I think the breadth of issues that Congress has to consider would still overwhelm pretty much anyone who wants to deal with it, save those who can afford a professional staff to help them out.

Consider an issue like water-use rights on the Colorado River. Even if you codified all the regulations relating to it into a well-organized and clear format, there's still the difficulty of figuring out what the right answer is. How would an average literate and interested citizen consult with farmers, environmental groups, conservationists, power companies, land-use stakeholders, first-nations groups, agricultural companies, municipalities, individuals who have been on the river for decades, bureaucrats, etc. and then link all those consultations to what's going on with other affiliated riversheds, general environmental and developmental polities, fish stocks, etc.

Even if the law is super-easy to understand, I think it would still be difficult for an average unsupported person to understand the subtitles and implications of something like a water-use bill, let alone one that regulates complex financial and regulatory transactions.