skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To keep the park, one must leave the park.

Why the military tactics and metaphors? Many occupiers seem more interested in "fuckin' shit up" than expressing a message. In Oakland, the city was willing to let people assemble every day (when other people would actually see their protest), but the occupiers insisted that anything less than camping in Frank Ogawa Plaza was defeat.
For Baseball Nerds - OBP invented in 1916 by FC Lane?
One of the nice things about baseball is that people have been serious about compiling statistics for a long time. To my great surprise there were arguments about batting averages and what they mean that goes back for an entire century.
Are you joking about the matching contributions to a retirement account part? If not I would be really curious to see how that works in that context. Not that I'm expecting a textbook on the subject or anything.
ltu discussion: lambda-the-ultimate.org/deca
Another simple way to reduce nesting is to use "continue" rather than wrapping entire loops in if statements.

For instance, this:

for (file in files) {
if (isOK(file)) {
... // nested two levels
}
}

becomes:

for (file in files) {
if (!isOK(file)) continue;
... // nested only one level
}
Steeply increasing the cost of water bottles or scarce items during a flood or hurricane lessens stockpiling more effectively than rationing. Furthermore, prohibiting "gouging" eliminates the incentive for shops to keep an oversupply of water in case of a hurricane.
The problem with running criminal business is that as soon as he tries to scale, he would inevitably and very seriously piss off lots of people.

That would put extra pressure on law enforcement to catch the thieves and they would eventually be caught.

Next step is several years in jail and close monitoring of the future crime activities.

End result - the only expertise that he would gain over the years (in stealing) would be not marketable.
Ah, I knew that pg was. Don't get me wrong, I think what you guys are doing is great.

But just by the pattern and placement they seem like testimonials, when they were not said in testimony.
The same proportional cut, or the same constant cut? I'm unfamiliar with how their revenue sharing with drivers works.

But, either way, I'm fine with this practice. The only possible controversy is how well they inform their customers that it will happen, and how clear it is on their app what the price will be. It would be bad for them to have a bunch of customers expect to easily get an Uber on New Year's Eve, then be disappointed by lack of availability or high prices.

I wonder why Uber does this? Is it mainly an incentive for their drivers (to get as many on the road during a high-stress time)? Or is it because they would rather have customers see high prices than to see zero availability?
The way “acceptable ads” works, Mr. Palant and Mr. Faida explained, is that Web sites agree to publish certain advertisements that meet Adblock Plus’s standards on intrusiveness — no beeping or flashing, nothing that slows the computer’s operations. They are then added to the “white list” of acceptable advertisements.

Well, I'm okay with this.

I don't block Slashdot ads, though Slashdot gives me that option. I don't block ads at FARK because FARK enforces non-intrusive ads. There are other sites that ask me not to block their ads, and I usually white list them as long as their ads are not intrusive, and that follows what adblock plus seems to be seeking:

no pop-ups, not flashing, no marquee, no flash crap,

I don't mind websites making money, I prefer the ones I like stay in existence. I only ask that their ads let me read the damn site and not attack my senses.
I went to Lowes and bought a single bulb fluorescent fixture like what you might see in a garage or workbench, along with a 'daylight' bulb. I put it above the window nearest my desk, and it seems to really help with the murky Pacific Northwest winter. I'd guess I paid less than $30, though I did have to wire up a plug myself (should be no hard task for an HNer).

As long as I remember to turn it off by about 9pm, I have no problem getting sleepy by about 11 or midnight.
Diet 'can stop brain shrinking'
"having revealing pictures and even stats (measurements) of the women is pretty much the definition of objectification."

So what? I don't recall reading anything that indicates these women were forced to do anything against their will.
no, the one problem with a criminal business is that once you make a mistake, it's typically a long time (many years in prison) before you get another shot. Non criminals get many do-overs for their mistakes without a waiting period.
For this winter, I've made 99400 lumen lighting powered by 1kW of metal halide lamps with full, close-to-sun spectrum. This is about 50-100 times brighter than usual room lighting (100-200W of incandescent lamps or 15-35W of luminescent lamps).

It feels great! It's even lighter than in the daytime on the street (at winter of course). I tried really hard to sleep with light on, and it's just impossible :-D I might write an article, if there are guys interested.
Sexy cars and pin-up girls have gone hand-in-hand for generations, and probably always will. Are you really outraged at the notion of dudes wanting to look at hot girls?
The developer should explain the concept behind the document/view. Is there a fixed document and then a view path/graph? I would be interested to know what the conceptual model is.
No, I'm dead serious.

Colin (the aforementioned kid I grew up with) figured it was easier to attract good talent and keep them happy if he treated his operation like a professional job.

So, he employs his team through an auto-repair shop, where they're full-time employees with full benefits and he sets them up with a 401k (that he matches up to some percentage of, I don't know the number). That's pretty much unheard of among actual mechanics, never mind car thieves.

And he gets to cherry-pick his team, and they like the stability and "legitimate"-ness of the operation.

He's been doing it for a while, so his numbers must make it a good decision financially (he has elaborate spreadsheets of every facet of his business).

The most "boss" I ever got to look to impress a girl was in college when a friend of mine went out to Boston on a Friday and ended up at the end of the night having her car stolen. She calls me all upset, and I think, "Maybe I can see if Colin can get her car back."

So I call her an hour later and let her know that if she goes to a specific T-station parking lot, her car will be there. She calls me later and lets me know that, it is, indeed there, and there's a case of beer in the passenger seat with a note saying "Sorry".

Nerdy, adolescent me felt like a puffer fish that had puffed itself up.
totally agree. In fact, I never heard of this company before this story and the minute I saw the tag line for their business, I thought oh that's dumb! Sort of surprised they didn't see this problem beforehand.... CEO must be really stupid or thinks potential investors are really stupid...
Tech reporting itself is pretty bad. TechCrunch, Business Insider, etc are essentially tabloids.
How much watts?
Hey Juanda, after not finding anything that looked appealing on airBnB I used inbed.me to book a room for my first month in Bogotá this month. Looking forward to it!
"having revealing pictures and even stats (measurements) of the women is pretty much the definition of objectification."

I imagine if the women in question didn't want to be objectified, they were free to not accept the money.
Yup, computers that run unaudited software (that was probably rushed to market) are dangerous to your LAN. Nothing to see here.

Are there any printers that run a Free Software (or at least open-source) firmware? Are there any peripherals that do?
What a treasure trove of open source project / startup names. Gobo, Boober, Mokey, Doozer, Gorg. One of them already ends in ly, Wembly.
yep. for folks playing along at home

http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/code-case-study-parsin...
Every monad solves exactly this problem.
You probably meant "expert thief". Somebody who had 10000+ hours of expertise. Somebody who risked to get caught while gaining that expertise.

There are not so many real expert thieves. That's why extended security measures do work: less experienced majority of thieves is caught outright, and more experienced minority of thieves is eventually caught due to unforeseen circumstances (unexpected witness, unexpected new security measure, etc.).

For example, GPS transmitter can stay silent until it gets "You are stolen" signal.

There could be more than one transmitter in a car.
It may get activated only when on the move (and not in a garage) etc.
So, there are artificial constraints to the scalability of an operation like his.

For starters, all territory is split up among the different crews who run them. That they do this democratically and unanimously without anyone muscling in on surrounding territory is something I've never quite figured out; but it's been working for forty years.

That limitation on potential territory makes you maximize your resources in the geographic areas you control. You get to the point where you know the best neighborhoods for your guys to work based on time-of-day, holidays, local sports schedules, which neighborhoods are composed of people who primarily have others over for the holidays, vs. which neighborhoods primarily go somewhere else to celebrate, etc.

So there is a pretty small limit to how large an operation like that gets, but he's able to pay for his house, send his kids all to private school, and ensure they all can go to any college they want.

It's a decent "lifestyle business", minus the fact that it's a terrible thing to do to people, and unbelievably dangerous.
I would pay for this tool to take in something like MultiMarkdown and spit out a presentation.

It could work with some custom markdown tags like
First sl[[i](transition=leftrotate target=second slide)]de

Personally, I dont have a presentation which I cant express through markdown.
I use Armin Ronacher's RST blog (https://github.com/mitsuhiko/rstblog). I even wrote a guide for its use: http://mattdeboard.net/2011/05/09/more-tips-on-rstblog/

minimal static site generator. Worth it if you just want to put your content up and don't need or want pre-packaged bells and whistles.
Sirkel
Thanks for your wonderful answer. I'm a generalist as well and have many of the same feelings you describe: "If only I knew more deeply".

I've dealt with the bottom falling out very recently. I spent last summer becoming a specialist in Adobe Flex for our desktop app and we know what happened there.
I apologise for being a lil off topic but I do have a question for you. Before I ask that question, let me tell you a story.

When I was growing up, I knew this girl who works part time at a cinema. Her job is basically to clean up the place after everyone has left once the movie has ended. While cleaning up the place, 7 out of 10 times, she will find something someone has left behind and out of that 7 times, probably 2 items will be valuable (wallet, mobile phones, jewellery, etc). Instead of returning it to their respective owners, she ALWAYS pocket anything that is valuable with the excuse of finders keepers.

When I found out about what she does, I had a moral dilemma. I knew she probably did it because she (to make a long story short), had a very unfortunate and underprivileged life so she just found a quick and easy (albeit illegal) way to supplement her pay. Yet at the same time, I knew what she was doing was wrong and I contemplated telling the authorities about her but couldn't bring myself to do it because she trusted me enough (i've always helped her in dire times) to tell me about it.

Now, here is my question. Do you ever feel that you should report your friend knowing he is breaking the law? Do you find yourself in a moral dilemma knowing that you know a person committing a crime but you have not (i assumed) turn him in?
What I've learnt, from growing up in a highly connection based society (China), is that your own worth and networking are two side of the coin, and you must have both.

Although, in some cases, who you know is part of your value, so it kind of creates a self-reinforcing loop for networking.
Jasper Garvida Spring/Summer 2012, London
The Red vs Arri lawsuit story they ran felt that way. It looked like it was cribbed off the Reuters report. It struck me like the author didn't actually read the papers filed in the lawsuit. The biggest issue was the lack of reporting on the accusation that Arri sabotaged a Red One on the set of a movie. The original report was written before court papers were available (I think), but the TechCrunch story was posted well after court papers were available. It just seems like they are getting sloppy nd not checking things.
A surprisingly fragile business model. I've wondered how Zipcar et al. haven't been killed by this? Or have they just done a better job at figuring theft into their model as a cost?
I couldn't find the article any more, but it was talking about shopkeepers' reluctance to hike the price of bottled water in times of emergency because it harms their long term relationship with a customer.

There's nothing wrong with what you talk about in a perfect economic setting. I think humans reason beyond short term economics alone, and an act of graciousness during time of need will be reciprocated in the long run.
This issue comes up a lot between me and my coworker. He is very anti-nesting, and i prefer methods with single points of return. Obviously it is a balance to create readable code.
If you know about Colin, then probably some other people know about him too. So when his business would start to scale (greed is inevitable) and would cause serious problems to society, somebody would sell Colin out.

401k's of mechanics could be used to pay off victim's compensation (so the mechanics could stay out of jail).
The biggest issue I see with Wordpress is the free plugins. I've seen more Wordpress sites hacked by way of poorly written plugins than anything else. If they had some sort of robust security screening process for the plugins it might be OK... but as it stands, there's far too many plugins floating around written by people who seem to have zero knowledge of basic web app security.

Honestly, I think you're better off just writing your own blog software. Obscure it, close source it, lock down DB permissions and put it on your own VPS, you could knock out a simple platform in a weekend. And you're much less likely to get hit by hackers.
Not quite, he actually might have been working with a contract depending on what the communications were between Apress and Mike.

An oral contract with implied commitments on both sides can still be legally binding. It is certainly possible to sue someone for breach of an oral contract.
Echoes of Power
I'm an outsider to whom webOS appealed a lot to. I was an iPhone 2G user, and to me webOS was a totally new approach to mobile UI. The Cards-based multitasking model was (for a mobile OS) at that time revolutionary.

But I can understand how and why it flopped, Palm was haemorraging money like anything. Its investors were doubtful at the best. And the lack of backwards-compatibility (or a planned roadmap to implement it) forced the Palm faithful to take their business elsewhere.

I would argue that webOS and Palm in the greater sense failed because of mismanagement, and maybe not so much due to technical issues/inabilities. The fact that the Phone app (the most important part of a smartphone OS) wasn't stable when the product was out the door casts some serious doubts on QA. Palm has handled the one product that might've saved them from extinction with a "Ship it, then fix it" mentality.

Palm has had their focus all over the place. They wanted to out-do Apple, which given their finances was the one approach they shouldn't have taken. They could've focussed their resources on the core product, the OS and the phone itself. Rather than on accessories and creepy marketing campaigns.

Questioning the technical ability of the team seems unfortunate, but an inevitable outcome of the product being flawed. If the developers, architects, evangelists of webOS knew what they wanted they would've settled on a set of objectives before beginning to work on an entire Operating system. And clearly if they were opinionated they would've nudged the h/w team in the right direction.

Articles like these make me wonder if webOS might've had a totally different fate had it ended up with a company like Facebook which has had a huge success in developing and nurturing one of the largest platforms on the web.
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Publisher and distributor aren't the same thing.
Not to be overly prudish, but as someone that has had a car stolen -- not recently, but when I was right out of high school, completely broke and using it to get to work (where there wasn't any public transportation option) -- I'd really encourage you to turn in your friend. You may think it's not your problem, but you're complicit in those crimes and acting very unethically.
Thanks for all the replies everyone! It definitely seems like it'd be worthwhile just going through and learning 2.7 then and using related libraries to create what I want (once I've learned and am able to do so).

However, this has me thinking. It seems like Ruby (and related frameworks, like Rails) don't have the backwards-compatibility issue that is seemingly plaguing Python?

The newest version of Ruby was easily adopted (compared to Python 3) as it remained backwards-compatible. Even upon researching the next evolution of Ruby (2), it seems that it won't be huge leap and, again, will remain backwards-compatible.

My question is... if I'm looking to start building a website now and use Python 2.7 (and likely Django), what would I do when the time comes and Python 3 is really the go-to version?

Would I need to rewrite the code entirely? Will the older code ever become compatible or easily transitioned?

It seems like Ruby would be the better choice to avoid possible fragmentation issues?

I could be entirely wrong here though. So, please, if someone could help me with this, that would be great. I went through some of Learn Ruby the Hard Way. And I'm willing to switch over to Ruby.

I like them both in different ways in terms of syntax/readability. But I don't know enough to really make a decision beyond that.

But this Python fragmentation between 2 and 3 makes me worried. I'd feel safer choosing to learn Ruby. I don't know though.
A fix to the halting problem?

Jokes aside, timing out would be useful.
Not many car thieves want to steal a Scion xB with a giant ZipCar logo on the side.
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Otherwise do Something Else
So, where I grew up, everybody was a criminal. I don't mean that hyperbolically either. Everyone in my family (mostly bottom-of-the-barrel criminals, but a few actual bad-ass criminals), every other kid who lived in my neighborhood. All criminals.

My older brother ran away from home when he was 15, partially to get away from all of that. I stayed until I was 17, but left for much the same reason.

If I felt obliged to report everyone in my history who has broken the law (or made it a habit of breaking the law), I would have quite possibly spent thousands of dollars on phone calls to the police.

I removed myself from the moral dilemma by going far away from all of that and not going back. I've been a boring nerd for the past twelve years.
"I am going to create a supermodel meetup!"

Is not that easy (...could it be?)
i vacillate between using continue/return to skip code and using indentation. It is shorter, but I find that it is not as skim-able -- (all?) other control flow is hinted at by indentation, but continue/break/return is not.
Ok, thx.

Rust certently has a runtime, cant argue with that.

I thought Rust allows a pretty tight control over allocation with the pointer hierarchy feature. The GC is designed not to be global and should be pretty easy ignore.
They even have diffrent kinds lambdas to allow the programmer if the should be allocated on the heap or the stack.

I have not done alot of low level programmig but I want to learn more about writting Jits and the pretty much need to be rather low level atm there is not really an alternative then writting them in C (witch sucks).
Also, increased price after a natural disaster causes the supply side to overcome obstacles such as downed trees, and dangerous hazards such as structurally unsound bridges.
I'm looking for alternatives as well for ad block plus. Anyone used Privoxy before?
The glad for open source and love that someone can fork something if they want to or feel they need to, but I have a hard time understanding bits like this:

>While some have couched their concerns within long notes about their affection for the project, others, like “felix,” kept it short: “ ‘acceptable ads’ is an oxymoron ... i accept no ads. you fail; goodbye.” There has been a movement proposing to “fork” the project — that is, run a version of Adblock Plus before the changes, as is allowed for open-source projects.

It sounds like the defaults are being changed and it's easy to switch back to "block all". Seems like the "fork" would be a boolean value in a default config file.
Nobody asked me, but: I don't like any of these linked pages.

Overriding the way scroll works feels like a horrible thing to do, especially if it alters the nature of scroll (as those 'infinite scrolling' pages do), but even if it just results in extra animation that is still too much of a surprise. Scrolling should be a surprise-less action, just like clicking a link, IMO.
Yea but it only takes one expert thief to tell his minions what to do.
So much for the Raspbery being an affordable board. Making bids like this is going to blow the whole concept out of proportion a scare away a lot of people.
Why would you even expose yourself to this? It just makes no sense.
on OSX I use Glimmer Blocker
NeWS was Postscript and a contemporary of NeXTSTEP which was also Postscript, but much more sane to program (and this comes from a Postscript lover).

I hope we come up with something better than HTML / CSS / JS, because they are a step back from the current app platforms. Hopefully there will be an evolution / revolution.
Totally random, but I scrolled down this page while listening to Limp Bizkit's "Take a Look Around" and thought: someone's got to create a movie credits page using this, just for the fun of it.
There's an inkscape extension Sozi http://sozi.baierouge.fr/wiki/en:welcome which is also very easy to use tool to make prezi like presentation and it's also FOSS.
This is great, but rather than making a resolution to learn programming for the sake of programming, I'd recommend newcomers to programming to have (or come up with) a particular app they want to build right from the beginning and just learn what they need to in the process of building it.
a silly question, but isn't there any insurance on the said cars ? if the cars are lost/stolen etc. and they do have insurance, let the insurance company deal with law-enforcement or other 'out-of-band' mechanisms (too many hollywood movies) to retrieve the stolen property...
You're probably in the wrong country (as I am). The script checks to see if (asterisk)google.co(asterisk) is monkeying with the links and stops it. If your local version on Google isn't google.com or google.co.(something) -- in my case, it's www.google.ca -- then it allows the behaviour. You need to alter the script to work for your locale.
Sadly, such a situation is not unique.

Kudos for being open about it.

Kudos as well for being able, and having the balls to make the exit.

I'm speaking from a background of gangs, where there is no exit. Except a coffin.