skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on what we're talking about. If a person stole money then they should have to pay that back with reasonable interest. So that wouldn't be tied to how much money the person has, they're basically giving back what they took.

If it is some other crime that can't be handled by simply giving the money back you could just scale up the costs, for example. E.g. if you make $1m/yr, then the penalty is 90% of your earnings. If you make $10m/yr, it's 99%.

Just brainstorming. I don't know what the proper solution is, but looking people in a cage seems crazy to me.
(Just in case you're not trolling)

You can get a vim mug from thinkgeek http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/mugs/7bbe/

Personally, I prefer the viemu cheat sheet http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial... (and viemu is well worth your time if you like vi and want to use it in MS software, imho)
In-tab settings menu land in Firefox Nightly
Can you explain to me why you need a turn-by-turn navigation app when you know your route already?
Not speaking for Shereef...but, he mentions that the spring cohort was incredibly motivated. Accepting anyone willing to pay the fee would really take away from the power of the program. I don't know if that was Shereef's plan, but the spring class motivated themselves and each other. It was an infectious environment to be around others who were determined to bang their head against the wall until they broke through. If the class was not pre-filtered for these qualities - it would have been a very different atmosphere.
My friend managed to lose his keys down the gap. Elevator technicians got them out next time they were in the building.
We're really happy for you, you have so much money you can afford to waste it.

But normal people doesn't.
Schemaless would let you add/remove a field easily. What is hard is if you need to restructure things, which is also probably a more common occurence in a document db then a relational one. If you hit a few million rows, you are in for a world of hurt changing things in any data store
Automating Visual Studio 2010 builds and deployments with Nant.Builder
This is very true. What we need is a readability-type program that will alter a stylesheet to red/green/grayscale at night.

The problem is that it wont always work - if someone uses a gaudy background image, it's still going to look like crap if you use a plugin to change the CSS.
Interesting to note you get the VIM mug even by searching on the word 'emacs': http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/mugs/7bbe/?pfm=Search...
> automation of electrical sockets

It seems to be surprisingly difficult to find a way to automate a power outlet without having to deal with mains wiring.

There's this http://www.powerswitchtail.com/Pages/default.aspx but it rarely seems to be in stock and doesn't offer a non-kit 240V version (which I want being outside the US).

I recently discovered this http://www.pwrusb.com/powerUSB-digitaI0.html and apparently it supports standalone operation but is considerably more expensive--although it also offers more controllable sockets. I've not played with one yet but it looks like a possibility. (Apparently also supports 240V operation with connector adapters...)

In the past I've rewired the remote control of RF-controlled sockets but the signal's not very reliable.
You seem to know your way round words so I'd advise freelance writing. Submit a few articles to a few places that are relevant to your interests and fairly current. Naturally taking time to get a feel for the style on the site. Make sure the editors are aware that you're giving them free stuff as a good will gesture and are available for more content if they need it. You should be able to get to $300 this way fairly easily, but it may take some time for responses, and a few rejections if people don't like your writing, but eventually you'll get a few gigs, maybe some steady ones, for monthly, weekly articles.

If you think you can write something good enough (and it's not that hard to be better than 90% of the target audience) then it'd be a nice quick way of getting the cash.
In germany for certain contracts (such as buying a house or creating a LLC) it's required that a notary reads them aloud for you. That's quite a bit of fun if the contract contains annotations that make it fill a binder. There are some loopholes though: The contract may refer to another document that the notary may read to his assistant, so not everybody has to go through the whole ordeal.
I don't think it matters too much when starting out. For a beginner (in the framework, not coding in general), they are all relatively equivalent.

Pick a framework and begin using it. After a few projects, you'll quickly learn what you like and don't like about the framework.

I'm a fan of CodeIgniter, but mostly because it is what I'm familiar with. It has some irritations and kludgy things required, but they don't annoy me enough to warrant a change (yet).
IOS app success is a “lottery”: 60% (or more) of developers don’t break even
So as a result of the recent UDRP, Google now owns the domain googlesucks.com? lol :)
You sure about that? Dude built an app that did photo sharing better than anyone else. Of course FB had to get their hands on it. That wasn't _just_ luck. That took vision, determination, execution.. and yes, _some_ luck.
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I think the eventual consistency is what narrows riaks use case. Only heard good things about it though
Or how about people take responsibility for their own safety and the safety of others by using a product which does support spoken turn-by-turn?
Yep, fair point, your mentioning Steve Jobs made sense in the context of the article (good article by the way, I agree about engineers tending to undervalue decent sales guys). I don't know about babarock, but I was thinking more of the "10 business secrets of Steve Jobs" linkbaity articles you see floating around. Hence my pre-emptive apology for taking this comment thread off-topic. (I also think this is one issue with nested comments like this as opposed to traditional linear forums).

(IIRC the one time we spoke on Twitter I was also offering some vague criticism so I don't want you to think I'm some faceless internet critic. I'm actually a big fan of your blog).
On a Mac at least, the Preferences window is not modal. You can still interact with Firefox even though it is up. Is that not the case on other OSes?
Blaming the doctor for Government mandated privacy policies due to HIPAA is not going to fix the problem. You have your wonderful legislators and the president to thank for this mess. If you have a problem with the law complain to your representatives to change the law. Every doctor office I have been to has shown me their privacy policy and none are 3000 pages long.
Ask for the documents in advance. Tell the title agency that if you don't get copies in advance you'll happily sit in the room and read them all at closing. Call them a few times to remind them that your are "Really looking forward to reading every word of those contracts". They want deals to close smoothly and will provide you with the documents.
Unfortunately, this seems to be a standard Phoronix article.

They picked an interesting topic and ran some benchmarks. In some cases the older CFQ scheduler is much slower than the NOP scheduler. In others, the Deadline scheduler pulls way ahead.

The analysis in the article is essentially the paragraph I wrote above. No discussion of why one scheduler may be performing so much better/worse in one case. In fact, there is only a single sentence description of each scheduler.
Also, what common binder can hold 3000 pages?
54% of Canadian wireless customers own smartphones, BlackBerry slips
It seems awfully strange to nit pick about the savings. So what if it's saving him only £50 per year or whatever? Can we agree that it's nonzero? Ok great. Now we can move on to addressing the meat of the comment.

Which is that iOS users have been denied the luxury of excellent and free turn-by-turn navigation available on Android, and this maps update does nothing to address that.
Is there no communication between all the individuals working on the 'internet of things' ?

I mean this hardly is an exotic problem and you'd be wise to use standards.
Enjoyed reading the story and appreciate the challenge to balance out sales and development. They are both important but need controls to ensure 1) money comes in and 2) you develop and focus on the right product.

The point that stood out was the final lines on the importance of sales. This almost promotes the mantra of building sales first, product second; and ensuring you are having money arriving in to pay the bills (and/or investors).

Having recently heard profitable entrepreneurs speak, the common story is how when they spoke with potential customers about their idea (even pre MVP) and customers paid them. Yes, paying customers suggest you are on to a smart product. Maybe some merit in this approach.
I don't know about the Opera version of tabs but in Mozilla 0.9.3 I used tabs because the new window delay was ~2s due to excessive XUL overlays and I installed the save tabs extension because the browser crashed every 2 hours or so and I wanted to keep my tabs.
Can I choose to use google maps if I wish? Or is that against apples command?
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Does this give anyone else the sense that with amazing processors we have available that we're being really wasteful with these bloated apps we currently have?

I mean if these guys are able to do this in 4K, what else could be done in operating system terms if we achieved that same level of excellence?
They're not speculating based on fact, they're speculating based on an anonymous source's tip, which may or may not be true. In fact given their history of posting about every Apple rumour that exists, I wouldn't put much weight onto the accuracy of this rumour at all.

This doesn't mean I don't think a new maps app is coming, I just don't think 9to5mac's sources would know about it if it was.
Holy shit that book looks bad.

From the inside cover:
"DiLorenzo portrays the sixteenth president as a man who devoted his political career to revolutionizing the American form of government from one that was very limited in scope and highly decentralized?as the Founding Fathers intended?to a highly centralized, activist state. Standing in his way, however, was the South, with its independent states, its resistance to the national government, and its reliance on unfettered free trade."

No mention of, you know, slavery? Or the fact that southern states seceded before he was even inaugurated? I'd like to see a Venn Diagram of people who like this book and people who own confederate flags.
Offtopic: I liked how minimalistic the site looks, so I looked at the source - just a bunch of <p> with a h1 on top. The head was also really clean - a title, encoding, favicon and

<link href="stallman.css" ... >

This a 404, but if you try to open /stallman.css you get http://www.stallman.org/stallman.css

Again, pretty minimal just a few rules and comments... and then this:

/*
This causes the entire page to be red when you click anywhere so I
do not want it. Not sure why we had it to begin with.
07/26/2010 jcv
:active {
color: #FF0000
}
*/
> Neither is perfect (both operate at about 0.5 level in validation studies),

So not much better than a coin flip?
The MyDesk concept "Next Genration Computers"
I doubt it's actually true, in that brainteasers aren't scored on a pass/fail basis but are used as tools to see "how you think".

Still, don't give Al Sharpton any ideas, or brainteasers may be the new frontier for anti-discrimination lawsuits.

Perhaps the end-game is a system where job interviews are illegal; instead, you tell the Department of Labor your needs and the Department of Labor (in fourteen to eighteen weeks) sends you your new employee, chosen according to race, gender, sexual preference and [if at all possible] qualifications.
UI is a subset of UX.

Craigslist has a shitty UX, but it's free. The search is terrible, it's spammy, it's not semantic in any way, and post administration is weak.

But it's free. You could argue that being free is part of the UX, but I think that's a specious argument.
i think you might want a better font for the "I use it" links, they were difficult to read on my screen (it could also be the contrast between the text color and button color)
It requests data from a website before you actually press enter to make the request? Or it fetches whatever locally cached data it may have for that website? Big difference. I assume the latter. I haven't used Chrome in a year or so.
> Are they legally prohibited from doing so?

Yes. They can be charged with obstruction of justice or interfering with an investigation.
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I leave my browser open always, only closing it to clear out the memory leaks. So start-up isn't terribly important to me.

My FF opens pretty quickly by my standards. What seems to take forever is closing it. It seems to me that there ought to be some performance optimizations to be found in that area.
No, I was legitimately curious. Thanks!
Did you have a lawyer to represent you? That's their job... to make sure that the contract you're signing is OK. Actually reading a contract without knowledge of the law, case history, and background can get you into just as much trouble as not reading it at all. That's why you have lawyers review important contracts.
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It could have a sharding aware data definition language and some support for "on-the-fly" data migrations.
I would be good with getting rid of prisons entirely. If someone is violent and dangerous then they're probably insane and should be treated, not "punished".

As far as your example, I find it bizarre that you find a person threatening to kill you with a weapon in your face is on the same level as someone who empties your bank account behind the scenes. The latter is more financially devastating but the first is more terrifying to be on the receiving end of and could result in you dying or being crippled.

Further, I didn't really have in mind some guy doing a hold up. I was thinking more about murders and people who will do violence to others if not contained.

And finally, it's not about "evil" and it's not about what someone "deserves". Throwing someone in prison doesn't fix anything. It doesn't make them stop committing crimes, in fact it usually means they'll commit more when they get out. It might make some people feel better about themselves to know that someone is suffering, but I would question the mental health of that point of view as well.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698919
EU’s Erasmus Prepares MOOC Rivals To Udacity, edX, Coursera
As speculative as it seems, this coincides with that mapping company Apple bought in recent times. Forgot the name of the company, but they had some beautiful 3D views of select cities. For all you know Apple might make 3D maps standard in iOS 6. Damn, wouldn't that be something :).
As others have said, track your budget so you know where your money is going.

Past that, start investing in your retirement. I strongly advise reading this thread over at SA: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=289...

In summary:

1) Contribute to 401(k) up to employer match. Employer match = free money. There is not a single investment that has a greater return on investment than your employer match...even if the 401k has shitty fees and shitty funds.

2) Max out Roth IRA (or possibly traditional IRA if you are in a high tax bracket)

3) Max out 401(k) - optional step, depends highly on your 401k plan. If the plan is good, this is a great place to shelter tax-advantaged dollars. If your plan is bad (high fees, etc) you may be better off just using your money in step 4

4) Start a taxable savings account, brokerage account, or go out and blow some money at a strip club or something.

That's all retirement savings. You should also divert money towards long-term, non-tax-advantage funds. This is something that you want to put money in and gain more than 1% interest in a bank account, but may need to liquidate before you retire (purchasing a house, going on a trip, etc)

Edit: Also, if you ever have the desire to purchase individual stocks - stop and invest in an index fund. If you accept that you will never beat the market (which in all likelihood you won't, especially if you don't have time to research stocks), you should never purchase individual stocks as a means to make money.

Now, I purchase a few individual stocks on the side, but this is my equivalent to gambling or buying lottery tickets. All the money that is set aside for retirement or long-term investing is firmly placed inside of index funds.
They are doing something like that, but auditing the machine first to see if they can get any information on why the FBI returned it so quickly.
Easier said than done. We'd all love to just make it up as it goes. But there's aHUGE problem with that. It's fine if you're single and don't have a ton of responsibilities, but if you're a parent and a responsible to a bunch of other people in your startup who are parents too, then what Ryan has done here is nothing short of remarkable.

Call it what you will, but it sure as hell is effective and true. And if you have to sacrifice being a "rebel" or "free spirit" for anything, your kids, family & health are probably the right things to do it for.

Not to mention, he's already pretty out there for running a startup, working from home and still caring for stability and the health of his families. I know many people who work their regular 9-5's who're doing far worse & they think they're real "rebels" for hitting the bars every night or something else that's utterly stupid...

I'd gladly transform myself into a cron daemon and have the best of life, family & work that I love doing.

Thanks for the post Ryan, you're an inspiration to other Dadtreprneurs!
I just increased the contrast, thanks for the feedback!
A (really) brief look at how engaged people are with Google on Google+
What's really the problem with this situation is that it's really hard to point a finger to a single culprit in the system thereby pointing to a way to solve the problem. That's why it's a wicked problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem)

* The doctors cannot be blamed because they want to protect themselves (e.g. see the insane amounts of insurance required to practice medicine in the US to guard against suing by patients) and "the system" forces them to create such documents and have them signed.

* The patients cannot be blamed because, well, you don't want to sign your consent to a document that you haven't read and that may (and will) contain clauses that are clearly adversarial to you. But the issue is not just having access to the document, 99% of the people won't have the knowledge, let alone the patience, to parse such a legal document.

* The politicians are not to blame because they are just bowing to public pressure (and of course powerful lobbies) and many of these laws and practices are one way rachet-up, i.e. they can never be loosened (see, e.g. the overly strict sex laws in the US).

* The lawyers are not to blame because they are just being employed by people, i.e. they are not evil by themselves but may be put to evil use (similar to "guns don't kill people" defense).

For a recent example of suing madness (in a slightly different area) in the US consider that Nutella was sued and was fined $3.6M just because people couldn't read the clear nutritional sign (http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/02/10/133565759/a-mom-s...).

I don't know what the solution is. But the US healthcare industry is converging to disaster if we don't solve problems like this.
Why are people bitching about the cost? Just think about it. There is one show I want to watch that I can't get watch on netflix/hulu/OTA, which is Game of Thrones. Can you really justify $80+/month for 4 episodes of a single show? If you really watch a lot of cable tv already, then sure, it is not a lot of money, but paying $10-$20 an episode is ridiculous.
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I just have a git repo with latest rails and more options then drone...plus it is easier to add newer things to it.

https://github.com/desireco/Starter-Rails-App

It has all I need to quickly start, rspec, cucumber, simpleform, spinejs etc...
> "Do thing with Dick and Jane at Location tonight at 6:30 pm"

Isn't this an event instead of a task? At least for me tasks and events are very separate beasts. I built http://timegt.com productivity app and specifically try to keep clear that it's not becoming calendaring and events tool but focusing on tasks. But yeah, sometimes it's hard to draw a clear line.
I know many people who I presume like you, let chaos and drama rule their lives.

So you either wake up at 4:54 AM or you let "chaos and drama" rule your life? Aren't we missing some possibilities in between?

balanced, productive and stress-free your life is.

Yes, because waking up at 4 AM and working till 6 PM sure sounds balanced, productive and stress-free. Thanks for the amazing insight.
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I subscribe to the 'when you're in a bank, read everything, even if it takes four hours' theory. The last time I set up a really simple business chequing account, the account manager:

- spelled my name wrong
- spelled the company name wrong
- claimed that I was an electrician
- listed my job title as 'oner'

None of these are terribly material errors, but they demonstrate just how frequently errors occur in financial documents. Frankly, it makes me queasy to imagine all the errors that could pop up in a mortgage document...
Have to start when you're young =) I'm in the same place as you. Pretty sure if I started doing it when I was 10, it'd be self-obvious by the time I turned 12.
Depends on what you need it for. Different frameworks handle different situations better than others. If you haven't had the need for a framework yet, then perhaps you shouldn't bother too much with looking. I generally start reaching for tools when I feel that what I'm currently using could be improved on.

Most PHP frameworks are just some sort of approach to the Model-View-Controller pattern and a collection of libraries for helping with typical things that you might deal with in web development. You can mix and match libraries from different frameworks and they all have their different methods of usage.

I would probably go with something simple, lightweight and well documented. Some frameworks have so many steps and focus stealing side shows that it's a project just to get started with the things.

Maybe take a look at Fatfree (http://bcosca.github.com/fatfree/) and then expand into other frameworks from there if it doesn't do what you need it to.
Moncton is a city in the Canadian province of New Brunswick.
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The noderivs clause is similar to the case of invariant sections in the GFDL. Stallman is quite consistent in considering that his writings do not need to be free.
I have never heard of anyone being asked "what's your most embarrassing moment?" What a bizarre question. Clearly, my most embarrassing moment, whatever it may be, is far too embarrassing for me to go around telling random strangers about.

The only utility I can see in that question is to assume that it's a question you're expected to dodge, and that the deftness with which you deflect the crazy question is a measure of your interpersonal skills. To launch into a story about this one time at band camp is presumably the worst possible answer.

Still, I don't think it's good even for that question.
I don't feel much of a reason to upgrade.

Security updates? IIRC they are not releasing security updates for non-current versions.