skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a daily user since basically day one.

I basically like the changes and nothing was dropped that I used, and they upgraded my favorite basecamp feature; Simplicity. I do however have some concerns about a couple things:

* Information density is improved in a lot of places it needed to be, however the todo list where it was good in the old site is much worse in new basecamp, you get around half the amount of todo's on screen as before.

* The WYSIWYG editor is not perfect and taking away textile leaves me without the tools I need to format messages with code, nested lists and many other essential things.
They're not using native scrolling, here's the code: http://docs.sencha.com/touch/2-0/source/Scroller.html#Ext-sc...
This article misses one point, law school is expensive!

Students generally will want to pay their 6-figure debts with a matching salary.

When you don't have to worry about a huge debt, it allows you to be riskier and try other avenues, such as public interest, or work in small lesser known industries
Actually, r/askscience is still on the frontpage, they were only off it during Christmas due to the expected influx of users.
perhaps an intrepid researcher or phd student in comp sci/ee/IT could do a project on how trackable and hackable those RFID chips are. A bit how cambridge researchers hacked the Chip And Pin system and published their results awhile back. (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/banking/nopin/pres... )
Any way this market can be disrupted? Maybe through some more efficient/decentralized/AI-based services that would do much of the lawyer's jobs, forcing them to reduce their billing rates?
> Now, the obvious argument against China imitating the growth of a country like SK is that SK is small enough that it was able to grow at a phenomenal rate ...

Really? I would think the obvious argument against China growing at the same rate would be a consistent application of laws, respect of property rights, and some form of political maturity. Granted, China is improving on all of those factors, but they still have such a long way to go and that is what will hamper their growth.
From what I know, rent in Beijing is very expensive, on par with the bay area or worse and wages are not dramatically lower for anybody who's in china and is somewhat competent. It's not the vast price difference gulf between a US factory worker and the peanuts that a chinese factory worker gets.

What will happen after the chinese property bubble bursts and to everyones rent could change things although.
If you are not from the US, UK, Canada, Australia or Japan, you may only be able to download apps. No ebooks, games or movies. They should at least add private, non-commercial podcasts. No benefit to me in South Africa.
Source - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/introducing-google-pl...
I'm not sure if you can say that it's a direct result of Evercookie, but a number of high profile sites use this kind of tech - for example KissMetrics.com is used by a number of big companies, and they use ETAG cookies, Flash cookies - the lot.
That would be good but not enough when there's money on the stakes. Say for instance a company that has decide between two candidates and one of them has a complicated medical history that can be infered from exchange of messages with friends and family. This is subtle enough that it would be very hard for the employer to be liable and also quite impairing for the candidate that will have a very difficult time getting a job because he has people that care for him and express those feelings through social media.

That's also just scratching the surface of the problem when you begin to consider sexual inclinations, religion, political views and ehtnicity.

None of that information should be relevant to most job applications, but once available they will surely be used to the employers will and you have no say in it.
If we're ever in a design meeting together, please, please don't act like this.

I already know the benefits of my design, that's why I presented it. I don't need you to point them out again. I need you to criticize my design and think hard about edge cases I've missed. Don't waste time trying to think of something nice to say, spend your time trying to tear my design apart.

I might feel bad to have the flaws pointed out, but I'll feel a hell of a lot worse if we go forward with my design only to find a devastating roadblock months down the road.
I think NoScript's clickjacking protection works even if the site is whitelisted or you have javascript turned on for all sites, it still checks for XSS type behavior.
It's been moved to a proper location:
http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/
Any news on Machine Learning? I'm starting to lose hope.
If you sold some artwork you made in your basement and were then defrauded by chargebacks from your payment processor, would you be required to prove that your "artwork" has value in order to claim damages?

The fact that you sold if for an amount agreed upon by you and the buyer is what matters, not any provable intrinsic value the thing being sold may have. Whether you sell $1M diamond or a 5-cent bottle cap for $100, that's $100 in damages if the processor does a fraudulent chargeback.
Google+/android public-by-default photo policy on the non-nerd internet
That they would try such deceptive tactics to prop up G+ shows how truly desperate they are.
How to run an efficient open access journal
One question: If the FBI knew of additional hacks that could expose things such as customer credit card numbers, should they have intervened? Did they intervene?
Inside the hacking of Stratfor: the FBI's case against Antisec member Anarchos
In Firefox, the cursor flashes above the like button. Still easy to miss, but certainly not bad as it seems Chrome is.
HP working with OpenMobile to get Android apps to run on webOS
The Google+ Page for the Event, please follow.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/113891941847169025385/posts
The article did mention student loans. Also, I can't help thinking that the reason law school can be so expensive is that the students can then get overpaid jobs and pay it back.
System Down!

http://imgur.com/e0GMk

Not sure how 37signals can claim 99% uptime when on the first day of launch, it's not working.
And here I was hoping it would be a damn nice RSS/Video downloader/player in the way Google Listen is a fantastic RSS/Audio player...
BSNES emulates every published SNES game
The BSNES project has just reached a milestone by achieving 100% emulation of all published SNES games.
Encoding trends from our first 20M files (Zencoder)
As opposed to early south korea? Didn't they only start the whole elections thing in the last 20-30 years?
I only wish I had that kind of willpower.
There is far more to growth than technology. You are taking some things for granted. In 1912, the US already had a mature political and legal environment. It had a healthy respect for property rights. You can't say the same of China today.
I see they mention insurance and new types of policies, but if something does happen .. its just a huge inconvenience or lets say something happens that isn't discovered till weeks later.

Im probably in the minority but I'm not sharing my car or my home to people, even though I know inherently most people are ok.
Twitter API Housekeeping
You mention "some might call it an MPD Client"? Why not advertise it as such? Because it might scare away users? What are the features from MPD git that you depend on?

How does it compare to other web/browser-bsaed clients such as relaXX [1] or MPM [2] ?

Note that I haven't tried groovebasin yet.

[1] http://relaxx.dirk-hoeschen.de/
[2] http://code.google.com/p/musicpm/
The post will show up for the submitter on their userpage and in their submitted links panel, however it will not show up in the new queue, not even for mods. This may be different for shadowbanned users, but I don't think it is.

Actually, I'm almost certain it's the same for shadowbanned users, because we got two modmail messages today from shadowbanned users asking to have their posts taken out of the spam filter because they can't see them in the new queue.
There are services like legalzoom.com ...but they didn't seem to make a scratch in this world. Or at least not big enough.
"They need a lawyer. And they need to stop spending time searching, and get on with resolving.
So a lot of claims from lawyers that they operate in a free market are really not true. They mistake what are basically extortion/price gouging rates for free market pricing."

It's interesting because the same fundamental problem is true of health care in the U.S.

It's essentially, "they need a doctor. And they need to stop spending time searching, and get on with not dying"

The market dynamics and model are entirely different with these sorts of emergency industries. It's almost always "first available" and not "best cost". Even with shopping around (when the luxury is available) the decision is perceived quality first, cost second (or lower).
I receive occasional announcements and event invitations through FB groups. Sadly, this is the only way my company chooses to disseminate some information.
Dev.to Ethical Hacker\Security Engineer
Currently, I work as a software developer and I really do like it. At the same time I often think about becoming a cop or going into the military. I think about this alot because I have a passion to help and defend people that can not do it themselves. My latest thought is why not go into system security? First of all it is much more safe then the other options. I feel that such a move will help me feel like I'm contributing more to society and making a difference for the good from a techie standpoint without completely leaving tech. I really want to do something with my life that will help my fellow man and citizen not just make app software that will outdate in 5 years. So at this point I'm thinking about leveraging my knowledge base toward a sys. security engineer. I was wondering if there are any ideas out there in how one becomes a corporate security engineer? What type of degree? What type of experience? Right now I'm taking the Stanford Cryptography class for fun. Any wisdom someone can throw me? Thanks..
Let's not legitimize this silly article with obviously true corollaries like the above
and visual studio...
It has a WPF frontend anyway. I'm sure it drops into native code pretty quickly.

Evernote actually did a great post about switching from C#/WPF back to a C++ app and how it actually let them move faster. Pretty interesting read. http://blog.evernote.com/2010/10/26/evernote-4-for-windows-i...
You're thinking of liquid democracy if you want to demand that from your representatives.
Plasma Active is a fast embedded UX platform with minimal memory requirements
The law school is as expensive as the medical school, or almost.
While at medical school you can understand the infrastructure you need to teach people, what infrastructure you need when learning law?
Part of the reason might also be that the law has become so complex (as well as, in my opinion, intentionally obfuscated) that it demands a certain amount of resources to engage it at all. If you can't meet that level, its best not to engage it at all.

You can't launch a satellite halfway into orbit to save a few bucks. You go all the way, or stay home.
The unobvious but major thing missed is that hiring the wrong lawyer is far more expensive than an additional $300 per hour.

Since the only way to know if you are hiring the right lawyer is to base it on brand, top firms have a lot of pricing power and middle firms dissapear.
I know Objective C, C++, Java and have basic knowledge of C#. Of all these I'd rate Objective C as the easiest to learn and to handle. It's much more forgiving and easy on the programmer, and the syntax is trivial.

You seem to make a big case of the message passing syntax, but your example is very poorly chosen. Rather than 'performAction:withTwoParameters:' it should be 'performActionWithFirstParameter:andWithSecondParameter:' as are most Cocoa methods. Named parameters may seem verbose but they are much more readable than 'performAction(param1, param2)'.

If Objective C is a "large" language, I wonder what you'd call C++ or C#. Huge ? Humongous ? If you think Cocoa is large and complex, the C++ Standard Library or the Java library will make you weep.
By default I have JavaScript blocked on all sites, allowing it only as needed, case by case, because JavaScript is a remote-code-execution vulnerability of modern browsers.

More and more of the applications we use and our private data live in the cloud. We now access our personal files, manage our bank and investment accounts, and make retail purchases on our web browser.

Browsing the web with JavaScript enabled by default allows code written by complete strangers to run on your browser!
Startup Offers Razor Blades For $1 a Month
It's why Legalzoom is doing so well.
A: Because they get other jobs that meet their income requirements.

People who make it through law school usually aren't idiots. So if they fail to achieve a satisfactory career in Law, they move into other areas. Attorneys work in government as political appointees, lobbyists and policy people; they work as corporate managers; they run businesses in areas other than law, etc.

Also consider that the barriers of entry for lawyers are high. Referrals are a huge source of business, so it's difficult to start a new firm without alot of capital.
Wouldn't our rulers be shrinking, so when we measure the distance between two objects, the number of inches greater than before?
Honestly, HTML may not be a bad idea for a total beginner. It's not a programming language, but it allows you to introduce a number of ideas that are the building blocks of programming- the distinction between 'code' and rendered output, nesting, quotations and escapes...
Microsoft's Halo Effect Opportunity
IPad 3 Confirmed to have Retina Display
TOUR: After Hours At Yammer, The Hot S.F. Startup That Just Scored $85 Million
Nools rules engine for node
Don’t get fooled, Microsoft hasn’t changed much
"Back to Econ 101. What happens when you double the price of something? Demand for it decreases."

Pretty sure what he's describing is sliding the supply curve straight up, which has exactly the opposite effect.
If she really is motivated to a degree to learn code. I would start first with theory, and explain it to her as if she was learning a new language.

With that said, IMO would start her off with logic and OOP. That's if she really wants to code.

If it's just a simple understanding of how the web works, the posters comments about HTML would suffice as a starting point.
No need to lose hope. There already was an (excellent) machine learning class last semester, so they should have the material ready.
Target Bans Sandblasted Denim
Target announces a phase-out of sandblasted denim by the end of 2012 due to social concerns.
There's a service that used to be called "Prepaid legal" with essentially a small retainer, and a minimum guarantee of services, with favorable rates when the service was used beyond that. It operated basically as a kind of legal insurance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LegalShield
Thats great to hear
NASA to use Virginia site to launch five rockets
There used to be offers here: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/thinkpad-laptops-with-dos.shtml looks to be nonexistant now though.

https://www.system76.com/ is pretty popular in some circles
FBI names, arrests Anon who infiltrated its secret conference call
Asyncdynamo (dynamodb client lib for tornado)
Desired salary is inelastic. Everyone would like to make as much as possible, regardless of debt level or career/education.

If anything, a higher debt load should make someone risk averse, and more willing to take on more lower paying jobs, rather than waiting around hoping for a high paying job. In a situation where there's more supply than demand, those risk averse people should be pushing the overall price lower (there will still be niche situations where price isn't affected).

Having a higher debt load might make you desire a higher salary, but it's real debt and needs to be paid off. Unless you're a member of a cartel who is fixing an artificially high price, competition should come into play and prices should drop.
Interesting ideas about HTML. Never thought about that.
I have some input on your todo list:

If you give an id (or class) to your p tag that contains the links you said you wanted to make easier to click, then you could use css and easily add a :hover state. Then on the hover state just make the cursor normal so it's easier to click those links. Upon mouseout the cursor will go back to 'normal'. =)
I'd much rather use a driver than use this. Both require installing 3rd-party packages, so why would you want to do this?

It would be interesting to see the performance of Emscripten SQLite.

Can node.js and the V8 engine itself be compiled to JS? Could be interesting for sandboxing.
You realize there are huge outsourcing industries (in the legal and accounting sector among others) where workers in India, China, etc. are trained to learn American standards, etc.
This isn't a bug.

The validation that they are doing when you enter the card is just Luhn validation.§

This is basically just to ensure that the numbers entered into the field "at least have the possibility of being a valid credit card". No processing of the card is being done at this stage.

§ - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm
Doug Stanhope offers a great perspective on this issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYva71V3YRw
Perhaps it is because lawyers are, by definition, the experts at defending dubious practices.
She is just being nice to me...but she is also investing in our 'couple time' together. The way I pitched it is, "something for us to do together". She loves that idea.

Javascript, definitely not. HTML...for sure. Thanks!
So, Forbes is republishing Quora answers now? This must be part of that new strategy where they try to gain more traffic (http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe...) with other people's content (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h...).
DB2 Express-C for OS X out of beta?
>However, they're also adding to the language in ways that makes the code expressed in Objective-C simpler:

>Synthesizing properties

>Dot-syntax for accessing getters/setters

>Garbage Collection

>Blocks (closures)

>Automatic Reference Counting

>Weak references

Sorry, but none of these things make the language any simpler — they all add yet another style of doing things that only raises the bar and the learning curve for new developers when reading existing code, in precisely the same way that C++ and Perl have done. And this is true even of garbage collection (which, by the way, is deprecated in 10.8), because it needs to coexist with other frameworks and code that might not be garbage-collected, and more importantly because all heap-allocated C buffers consequently require their own low-level wrappers (e.g., NSAllocateCollectable, objc_memmove_collectable, etc.).
Chart libraries headaches – finding the best grid step
> EVERY employer may ask this and then you simply won't have a choice.

Pretty sure a few well placed class action lawsuits would cure this practice.

/sarcasm
The ACTA worries Medecins sans Frontieres: http://www.msfaccess.org/content/counterfeit-substandard-and...

More:

http://www.msfaccess.org/content/counterfeit-confusion

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2155038/acta-kills-...
It's not the exchange system that matters, it's who holds the account.

With bitcoin if I hold my coins in a currency exchange (which is basically a bank) they can obey the court order and reverse transactions.

And I can become my own bank, and then hide, in which case it would be hard to serve a court order on me. (Although banks often have accounts at the fed, so they don't hold the money themself.)

What's unique about bitcoin is most people hold their own accounts. So you have to find the account holder, which is hard. But, as I said, it's not the exchange the matters, it's the account holder.
"News: DB2 Express-C for Mac OS X officially released (Feb 23, 2012)"

Oddly it is the v9.5.2 level, but has January 2012 file dates in the tar.

Interesting for the (few) who are still interested in DB2 and run Macs.
evertime.. everytime the same thing. Why are those services most of the time not available in my country?
Makes me mad.. Google Voice, Google Music, Google Play, netflix, hulu, pandora, etc etc etc(!!!)

pff... :(
Many sites work reasonably well and some are even better, as many developers use Javascript to make website perform annoying advertising routines.
I think 37signals won't do that for the same reason Apple won't make a $399 laptop, they don't want to be in that business. That's not the business they're in, and knowing what business you're in and not in is extremely important. I'm sure there are a dozen Basecamp competitors with $10/mo plans that would probably fit your needs.
Google Chrome Offline Installer 17.0.963.66 on Downloads App
Do accountants in other countries know US tax law? According to this source [0] at least some do. I don't see how general law would be much different.

[0] http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/605/essentials/p54.ht...
Thanks for that :) I was thinking of perhaps creating an invisible target for them with the same offset as the FB like/button, so that they could be clicked with the 'fake' cursor to enhance the effect!
This was probably the single biggest reason why I didn't participate in the last Humble Bundle. Having to sideload APKs of updated games is a huge timesink that I'd rather not have to deal with.
Having worked some recently with lawyers, their chief value is similar to that of the historical value of having assassins on the king's payroll. The power is not in using the assassins, which is expensive and dangerous, but in that people are more scared to provoke and escalate with someone known to employ assassins.
The author is doing just that. He talks about it at the end.
Does using the <i> tag have any negative effect on the semantic markup of a page? I see that it doesn't impact screen-readers but what about if someone is trying to parse your HTML?
Yes, some company offer that. Cheap, but you lose the case with cheap lawyers. Penny wise, pound foolish.
Sorry, but it looks like twitter bootstrap barfed all over... http://i.imgur.com/ReAdC.png

I'm guessing something went wrong, hence the "Code Corrupted" message.
And the award for most unexpected f-bomb goes to...
I don't think that becoming dependent on a particular product, service, or supplier makes it "not a free market."
SEO shouldn't be hurt (unless of course you are running the same site at both swomb.at and swombat.com), however with that said you won't get the seo boost that .com gives.

Another thought: swomb.at could be considered worse than say swombat.at as it is using the TLD to complete the word but I may be completely wrong in that case.
Lots of people are trying (including me) in many different ways. No doubt technology can help in various ways, but I think the single most promising change is top-notch lawyers breaking away from megafirms to start their own smaller shops with a much leaner cost structure. That's what I did, but I didn't want to make the article all about tooting my own horn.
With bitcoin if I hold my coins in a currency exchange (which is basically a bank) they can obey the court order and reverse transactions.

It would be trivial if it was that simple, but the stolen funds were of course withdrawn from Tradehill, and so are no longer in control of an exchange.

It's no different from a criminal running off with a bag of cash; how are you going to "reverse" the transaction of the money being physically picked up, put in a bag, and carted off?