skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> marriage is only an issue because some Republicans feel they have every right to control your personal relationships

This is completely OT but marriage is by design, its very nature and tradition not a personal relationship. That's why you have a gathering (the wedding itself), someone usually perceived as important presiding, a party (the reception), why you take your vows in public, why its registered in often publicly accessible registry, why you announce it in a newspaper etc, etc. The concept is even established in the common law by which you can, sometimes and in some places, become married by "acting married" in public.

Marriage is for the society much more than it is for the people getting married. And in the western culture governments decided the terms of marriage (also, possibly more importantly, divorce) on and off since antiquity. It's not some new development.
As do banks and credit cards.
Out of curiosity do you still work as a trader? If not why did you quit? What's your backstory in terms of education and trading experience?
I tried clicking "Fork me on github" but couldn't because I couldn't position the real mouse pointer in the right place.
I know politics is a tiny bit taboo for discussion here, but imagine how much saner political discourse could be this technique was used (in earnest.)
What resources did you use to learn what you needed?
I highly, highly recommend http://hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=40 for build your own pc advice. There are some very knowledgeable and helpful people that frequent that forum (in my experience, more technical than tomshardware and reddit).

If by chance you don't find a thread by someone with similar needs and budget(seriously, thousands of these threads), then just start your own and it will be answered promptly.
>I'd much rather use a driver than use this. Both require installing 3rd-party packages, so why would you want to do this?

If you're running Windows and can't compile the existing driver.
A similar click-jacking trick is used a lot for spreading videos like worms on Facebook, at least in French. Videos with baiting titles like "How could she do that?", "I can't believe she did this in front of everyone" and such.

Most people will click just to see what it might be and not miss out. Then the video player says you have to click on some letters to prove you're not a robot (clever trick, people don't think much of it because it reminds them of CAPTCHAs)

The letters actually have Facebook Like button iframes on them with opacity set to 0. I edited the opacity on one of them with the Chrome Dev tools:

http://polyprograms.free.fr/tmp/FacebookLikeClickJacking.jpg

Unknowningly liking the video will create a story in your friends' feeds, who will in turn click to see and spread it to their friends. No real harm is done except for the spam and all the ad views generated.
This space is really starting to heat up. There are already a good number of new legal startups, and I think it's only beginning.
WOW. That has got to be really hard to do. Hand-eye coordination wise.
It's generally not technically possible for the US to seize individual domains located in ccTLDs, so that's a pretty moot issue.
Of course, but it probably would be more gratifying to her to FTP it, see the process and be able to go online to check it out. Or else she might be like, what do you mean locally? Then a bunch of questions will follow... How do I access it from my computer? What's the web address? I am on the phone with Judy, how can she see what I did?
It has. When I was at the company, the most common were a string of .info sites that would show a video player chrome and a title like "embarrassing blooper leaves actress topless" or something equally inviting. The video wouldn't exist, but there would be an invisible "like" button behind the play button.
YouTube adds thumbnail previews, and other seeking features
> Luckily for them and, in my opinion, you and me as well.

Elaborate, please?
An NPR story earlier today said he was arrested and pled guilty, agreeing to a plea bargain with the FBI.

I'm too lazy right now to dig up the link on NPR's site though :(
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I fear I may be a different kind of chap than Mr. Gundotra, but if my friends were posting on Google+ then I don't think they'd be sharing tips on the best microwave to buy.

I don't really understand why Google+ is so stagnant. I know I'm not attracted to it as no one I'm interested in posts there. I guess this is a classic (lack of) network effect. There's nothing much wrong with the interface, but with no reason for me to visit I can't see it going anywhere.

Most damningly I do not know a single person in the real world who is also on Google+ and has posted more than once. A few have signed up after I nagged them, posted once and then given up, but the majority have not even got that far.

Google need to find a feature that attracts users to Google+ in the first place. So far I can't name that.
How do you distinguish between "keeping you from switching" and "it being inherently difficult to switch?" If you buy an expensive car that only runs on expensive and rare fuel (thereby restricting your choice in fuels), is the free market somehow violated? If you buy a Gillette razor that only works with Gillette blade cartridges, is the free market violated? I find the distinction rather fuzzy.
Please make a poll out of this.

Workdays: 8-9 on work, plus 3-5 personal at home (and then about 6hrs of sleep paired with 2-4hrs of personal activity like cinema or meeting friends. A day seriously needs more hours!)

Weekends: Depends, laptop is almost always on and I just sit down, get up, sit down, but I'd say its within a 6-8hrs rate.
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Maybe it's been a long day, but this actually hurt my eyes. Too Perfect!! O_O

Did anyone else have eyesore issues when they first saw it?
Go after four months
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Interesting. I figured these services ran on bots but they are just applying their knowledge of how to promote videos through cheaper ad networks.
Or an effective lifetime non-compete if you're talking about Renaissance. Then again, their flagship fund, which is now only open to employees, regularly beats 50% annualised returns after fees.
You need to acknowledge and own the power you have to tell assholes to go pound sand (phrased nicely like OP of course). Learn it early and practice often. If you produce value then the employer has more to lose than you do.

If every employer demanded this I would have the easiest choice in the world. Start my own company and not ask to read my employees personal communications.
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(This is a pretty interesting online workspace and templates to validate your concept and refine your product, might be worth checking out for some of you guys)
in memory data bases can be very useful! they allow you to slice and dice and aggregate data without you having to write the logic to do that yourself.

I'm guessing this is in memory, the main purpose would be for you to use sqlite in the browser since node already has a sqlite driver, as such, IO blocking is not an issue because there is no IO, it can block the same way that cpu intensive code can block however
I love font icons and these are great. Thanks for sharing.

Two notes:

1) When I first started using font icons, I encountered an issue that might be worth sharing - you need to make sure your web server properly handles the more esoteric file types that are included in the @font-face declaration.

2) Paperclip icon!!!! I'm sad when these icon sets are missing this very useful metaphor for "attachment": not "my dog just died" sad, more like "I wish I could fly" sad. I am just throwing that out there.
A few quick thoughts (am about to go into a meeting):

1. Lawyers are not immune from market forces. This is easily seen at the micro level: a new practitioner with no established reputation can charge $800 per hour and see where that gets him (of course, precisely nowhere). On the macro level, law has been a boom business ever since at least the 1960s when expansive liability theories came to be widely adopted by the legislatures and the courts. So, what used to be regarded as a dispute over garbage at the local dump becomes a massive environmental enforcement action by which dozens of parties face multi-million dollar liabilities; what used to be a distribution chain in which only the end-point seller typically bore liability to the consumer becomes massive product liability suits going back to the manufacturers and imposing strict liability on them in ways that can ruin a multi-billion business; what used to be the $.25 that a cab driver overcharged you because of some shifty trade practice becomes a major class action in which all the vendors in the area are swept in to face a protracted legal fight and potentially substantial damage exposure; etc., etc., etc. The point being: the legal landscape has changed dramatically and, for example, the Big Law firm that I worked at in the early 1980s grew from 23 lawyers in 1965 to about 250 in 1980 and is today over 1,000 lawyers. Demand is up in a huge way over the decades and law remains a boom business in this respect (certainly Big Law remains so) notwithstanding the recent economic calamities that have beset us all. That is the main reason why the very high fees are charged: because businesses are willing to pay them (when they are not, overt or disguised discounting occurs with great regularity).

2. That said, I am no fan of the Big Law model and have expressed my criticisms at some length elsewhere (see, e.g., http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1648342). I also have stated in some detail why I think the large firms have been left reeling from the recent economic shock and how this has caused a general revulsion against the billable fee structure used in these firms (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1649507).

3. In reality, the legal field is pretty diverse and price does matter for those who consume legal services (why shouldn't it?). The providers of those services who remain stuck in old ways will need to adapt to the short-term problems but they obviously hope to keep the old structures in place in hopes that the good old days will return. For the broader legal market, however, there is already wide variety in the range of services and pricing offered. As a consumer, you need to do your due diligence and shop around. In the broader market, lawyers want your business and will adapt as needed to get it.
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It may indeed be the case that communications issued through "friends only" might give rise to findings of "confidence" -- you'd be on the hook for breaking confidences.

(IANAL, TINLA)
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Saying a definition is a description is a total dumbing down. I don't know why they don't teach this stuff in grade school anymore... they should.

A definition must identify the nature of the units, i.e., the essential characteristics without which the units would not be the kind of existents they are.

And

The rules of correct definition are derived from the process of concept-formation. The units of a concept were differentiated—by means of a distinguishing characteristic(s)—from other existents possessing a commensurable characteristic, a Conceptual Common Denominator. A definition follows the same principle: it specifies the distinguishing characteristic(s) of the units, and indicates the category of existents from which they were differentiated.

The distinguishing characteristic(s) of the units becomes the differentia of the concept’s definition; the existents possessing a Conceptual Common Denominator become the genus.

Thus a definition complies with the two essential functions of consciousness: differentiation and integration. The differentia isolates the units of a concept from all other existents; the genus indicates their connection to a wider group of existents.

For instance, in the definition of table (“An item of furniture, consisting of a flat, level surface and supports, intended to support other, smaller objects”), the specified shape is the differentia, which distinguishes tables from the other entities belonging to the same genus: furniture. In the definition of man (“A rational animal”), “rational” is the differentia, “animal” is the genus.

Both are from
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/definitions.html
|Since the only way to know if you are hiring the right lawyer is to base it on brand

I suspect there's an opportunity for disruption here. Google doesn't hire most of their engineers based on 'brand'. They hire based on ability.

If one were to create an efficient way to identify GOOD lawyers from middle tier firms and these solo outfits, this may wrest a good amount of business from top tier firms.
Same deal, but I left my iMac 2 years ago for a Linux laptop. In the same way that I had that warm glow of the post-Windoze-to-Mac conversion experience 5 years ago, I had the same feeling when I left OSX for Fedora, like coming home again ;-)

Sony Vaio F12: quad core, 8GB, SSD, 23" LG travel monitor (5.5 lbs, nice!), iRizer laptop stand. Cost: 1/2 MBP. Code warrior: I be

The only thing I miss from OSX is Finder; well, the window manager as well; let's not forget the spinning beach ball either ;-) People, Linux is a gift from above. OSX is great for consumers, and is de facto the best OS on the planet, but Linux is the best OS in the universe -- big difference...
The same reason professional athletes make so much money even though high schools and colleges are full of kids who want to play for a living. Just having a good lawyer isn't enough - he needs to be better than the lawyer on the other side.
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Actually it sold out within a few minutes. It took a few hours to figure that out apparently.
Most of those are doing the grunt work. But when it comes to go in the court who is going to go?
You may want to check out the forums at wilmott.com or the forums at nuclearphynance.com

A lot of work in finance is also done in statistical programming languages like R. Some firms have also made big investment in vector processing / APL type languages like q (or k) and time series databases like kdb+.

Event processing / correlation platforms and programming is also gaining a lot of traction in finance. Progress Software's Apama platform, Streambase, and a bunch of other start ups are competing in this space as well.

Technology in finance is huge. It goes from building pricing models for derivatives and bonds (post under discussion), high frequency trading (FPGAs, event correlation,etc), to trade processing (high throughput transaction processing), to web app development (retail trading platforms, ebanking).... I could keep going on and on. It is wide field and if you are interested in working in technology in finance, it is safe to say you could find some nice in which you could use your skills. Obviously pay grades, job quality, etc. vary..
How's her COBOL? I probably get 2-3 recruiter requests a month for long-term consulting gigs. Most aren't remote positions but often do pay enough to make it worthwhile if you can uproot your life for 3-6 months.

Alternatively, have her ask her current clients what their requirements are. Much easier to continue consulting with them than to find new business with a fresh language.

If she's doing 'Fortran', I would think Python may be close enough to pick up easily. She could branch into C which I believe is the typical replacement language for most Fortran installations.
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Funny and cool use of price arbitrage -- assuming the LA times article is correct in its assumptions.
1) Good catch. I'll look into what's going on there.
2) I like the idea for a paperclip icon. I'll look into adding that into the next version.

Watch the repo or follow @FontAweso_me on Twitter to stay apprised of updates.
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Perhaps I should edit the article to explain this. I used a VISA Debit card to pay for the domain so while I do have the ability to charge back erroneous transactions the money does also just come straight out of my VISA Debit account, for better or for worse.
The details of small claims courts vary wildly from state to state, but more importantly, they're not courts of general jurisdiction. They have severe restrictions on what they can and can't do, and the losing party is often entitled to a de novo trial in a court of general jurisdiction.

The USPTO appeals board you mentioned is not a court at all. It is an administrative body whose holdings are again subject to review in US District Court.
While I like the overall concept I find that the navigation on Play is horribly broken. For example from Google Play Music I don't see any way to get back to the main Google Play store to buy apps or movies:

https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#start_pl
Really, I think I'm being charitable towards the schools with my interpretation. If we look at it from the "Facebook owns your data" perspective, then you have no right to give them your keys even if you honestly want to, because that's against Facebook's TOS and the employer/school could be charged with felony unauthorized use of computing resources, aka hacking.

Really, I'm probably trying to hard. This is phishing, plain and simple, and should be treated as such.
I wasn't talking about holding on to a bad dev for 5 years... I was talking about the possibility of hiring a "bad" dev and seeing how they do in a real work situation for a couple of months maybe. Typically it should become very clear pretty damn quickly, in a matter of weeks. If you cannot afford that to happen then you have no business opening a dev position and you are VERY likely better off with trying to make it with the devs you currently have available. I seriously doubt those almost-Stasi methods will ultimately get you a 100% sure pick - so you will ALWAYS have to deal with the possibility of having picked a bad one, but those methods will very likely drive the real good ones away because they couldn't care less and usually they have TONS of other options available.

Do you really expect a potential employee to implement a customer-requested feature you are getting paid for for free, just for the mercy of being allowed to apply at your small 2-men shop? Really? You expect your employees to be productive and billable from the first hour they work for you? Sorry, good devs would never ever work for you... they have way better and more rewarding and realistic options available.

Nobody worth your time or money works for free - or do you give your customers a "freebie" without ANY strings attached?
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Thinkcomp, I agree with almost everything you say about the economics of the legal profession, but I think you miss out on something crucial.

Before I went to law school, I unconsciously thought of law as a branch of engineering: Learn the rules, twist the right dials, and things will happen as you expect. That was naive. Law does have rules, and dials to twist, but for socio-political reasons I won't go into here, the rules and dials aren't tightly locked to outcomes. As a result, law has long struck me as being more akin to weather-guessing than to engineering.
I wouldn't, troutwine is probably informing as well!

Why else would one pretend to be so dense except to get you to go on the record as supporting Anonymous?
I thought that was pretty obvious, since you can just share the URL with anyone, with out any sort of auth.
I don't experience the sluggishness on my Galaxy Nexus in Chrome Mobile Beta (16.0.912.77). It scrolls very smooth (no lag, or jitter), although the refresh button is a little off (square corners on the bottom).
I think it's more to do with the moderators to posters ratio that contributes to a higher signal to noise ratio. They have about 30 moderators.
Or as it's known in Germany: "Leider ist das gewünschte Dokument nicht in Ihrem Land verfügbar."

Stupid geo restrictions...
The supply of lawyers doesn't quite follow the simple market relationship either. The study and practice of law are still associated with some prestige, and the high cost of legal services leads many to believe that they'll quickly pay back their inflated student debt.

There definitely is regulatory capture going on. Small, more affordable schools are in a real bind over having to meet stringent and arbitrary accreditation criteria, but that doesn't affect the number of lawyers because students are willing to pay anything to become a lawyer anyway.
In short, Anonymous targets and humiliates authoritarians and those who service them. This is at the core of my morality.

Their hacks illustrate the glaring weaknesses of our technology and that the incompetence in infosec so often spawns from negligence at the highest of levels in the industry. Despite this, powers that be (nation-states, militaries, and regional law enforcement) invest nearly nothing in securing their (public) assets. They demonstrate that organizations like Sony, the State Department, and the Pentagon can go months without even knowing of full-root breaches, only to wait yet more months to inform the public.

Luckily, Anonymous does all this for the sake of Teh Lulz (public humiliation), rather than corporate or state espionage.
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I think $20 is cheap enough.. I'm wondering why they switched all prices to ending in 0 now and how that will affect conversions. I feel like we are always so used to ending in 9's or 7's
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No more free tier?
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.local conflicts directly with the mDNS protocol (used by Apple Bonjour and Linux Avahi service-discovery systems).

.is, however, is managed by Iceland. Iceland has been positioning itself as a haven for organizations concerned about free-speech and broad-sweeping censorship.
So, ideally, if you "shared" an endpoint, and the Gist was marked "private", you'd get something standard like "unathenticated". Why else make it private?
I may be wrong, but I doubt there are people using WebSQL storage as an in memory database that will be wiped out as soon as the page is closed.
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"We have a lot of great ideas we’ll be exploring down the road. Time tracking may or may not be one of those – we haven’t made any decisions yet."

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My girlfriend (a lawyer) tells me that if I ever need a lawyer I should get the most expensive one I can afford, because price does roughly reflect quality.

And, I'd note that we have little else to go on. After all, we can't discern the quality of a given lawyer by the outcome of our particular case. Say your lawyer lost. Were they a bad lawyer, or was it simply that your case was poor? As a non-lawyer, you don't have the expertise to judge. Furthermore, lawyers won't discuss the qualifications of other lawyers for various reasons, so it's difficult to get any sort of objective ranking.
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