skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that this is a somewhat contrived example used to illustrate a point, but there are many more options available to the court in this case:

1. Both men that fired a shot are found liable because firing a shot knowing one of the men may be in a line of fire is irresponsible and potentially criminal.

2. None of the men that fired a shot are found liable because the third man went into a section of the forest he wasn't supposed to go into because by doing so he put human life under significant risk.

3. The establishment that manages the hunting grounds (a private organization, the state, or even the federal government) is found liable because it didn't properly segment the area to sufficiently prevent risk of human injuries.

4. All three men are found liable because they didn't properly define necessary rules in order to prevent risk of human injuries.

In fact, in this case I'd argue that it's irrelevant which man fired a shot that hit the third man. Either

a) Both mean fired when they weren't supposed to, in which case they're both liable.

b) The third man went where he wasn't supposed to, in which case he is fully liable for his own injuries.

c) A third party organization that manages the hunting grounds didn't properly set up the rules, in which case it is liable.

d) The men were responsible for setting up the rules themselves, in which case all three of them are liable.

If you look at the case this way, you can easily find an outcome that doesn't screw anyone. Someone was responsible for ensuring proper safety precautions, and they didn't do their job. That party (or group of parties) is liable. The others are not.
Wicker Furniture Sets – What About the Material?
Decorating your backyard is a real challenge, but what can be more challenging than picking the right Wicker furniture? The prestigious producer is well known for the varied models and architecture you can choose from, not to mention about the styles and also the materials.
Microsoft wants you to think that So.cl is for students, but don’t be fooled
I think you should consider that probably the largest reason you have so much trouble is that they cannot use your credit profile to verify your identity.

You can fix that very easily. You don't have to have a line of credit to get into their database. All you have to do is apply for one. That inquiry will be reported, you will have a credit file, and from then-on to whomever is pulling your credit it won't look as though you just made-up a 9 digit number in place of a real social security number.

The best way to do this will be to apply for credit some place in-person, like a bank.

So I'll reiterate: Having no credit is a much better position than having bad credit.

Having no identity? That is a problem I'm sure.
Presuming Ms. Fong was driving, and her death was caused by operator error, she would likely be to blame. If her death is caused by a mechanical issue - yes, the manufacturer could be held liable.
I wanted to get started in the open source community by contributing to some well established ones out there. I went with Mozilla Firefox. Signed up on their "Help" page and was contacted by a mentor in a couple of days time.

I was able to patch one bug successfully and while I created another patch for another bug, the owner of that specific module rejected the patch. And he/she wasn't too civil about it. That was offputting really.

After pondering a bit, I realised that there was a need for another GUI for PostgreSQL based on my own experience with the default GUI tool bundled with postgres.

I created pgXplorer (http://pgxplorer.com). I am extremely satisfied with it. So far some 16 watchers and about a 1000 uniques in 20 days. I am thinking of adding some killer features that will really set it apart from the current open source GUI tool out there.
From http://donottrack.us: "Do Not Track is a technology and policy proposal that enables users to opt out of tracking by websites they do not visit, including analytics services, advertising networks, and social platforms."

Emphasis on "websites they do not visit" directly, meaning that it only applies to iframes, popups, etc. If you typed it in the address bar, or clicked on a link to get there, the site isn't limited by DNT.

This is not legal advice.
Rethinking text handling in GIMP /1
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics collects this data regularly. They are pretty interesting in that they expose many surprising things about relative wages. Annual mean wages (from http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm)

- Plumbers: $51,830

- General Practitioner: $177,330

- Chief Executives: $176,550 (added for entertainment value)

Medical specialists can make even more.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/12/international-backu...
While I don't disagree that its a little bit far fetched to say the two are equal, I don't think it is as far off as you say. 3 points:

- you are comparing a GP or specialist surgeon (average age... maybe 45-50) with a 'plumber I' (average age... maybe 25).

- Plumbers do a lot of cash-in-hand work that will never be declared as 'salary'

- Pay for tradespeople can vary enormously from place to place. I have noticed living in the UK for instance that tradespeople there earn far less than they do on average in the USA or Australia.
For people who are good with their hands, don't enjoy academia and don't navigate institutions and bureaucracies well (whether from temperament or lack of access to that kind of knowledge in the family etc.), the trades are a kind of passport. They let you earn a healthy income, find decent work almost anywhere in the world (provided you can get a visa etc.), and ultimately set up an independent business and earn as much as you're willing to work for.

To be frank, I think programming may be better suited to a trade-oriented approach for many people, with only a relatively small academic oriented aspect for things like discrete mathematics.
I've been in technology long enough that I've learned that when I see some random person I don't know claim that something was "the first" it usually was no higher than like the 4th. And if someone says "one of the first" it usually means like the 13th or 29th or so. But yeah, I'll let this one pass as possibly legit for certain narrow definitions. :)

Meanwhile, back in the 80's we had BBSes and later Usenet and we had user profiles, notifications (only while logged-in, only some BBS instances), chat and topic/interested-based discussion groups, and file sharing. Shocking I know. Yes with simple to no graphics. Yes with slow speeds. Yes with weak computers. But we had it. And one positive it was mostly academics and techies in the community, so the minimum quality bar in terms of intelligence and education was fairly high.

I'll be back on my old man porch.
I was a finalist for Thiel's 20 under 20 program last month (i was rejected). During interviews, I met the other finalists and current fellows who dropped out of school for this program 1 year ago.

The two main problems I saw:

* Their projects were much more academic than entrepreneurial. About half of the fellows are working on very technical projects like making better CAD software, robotic bioautomation, microorganisms to solve global warming, etc. Many seem like they'd be better served in academic environments

* Most of the current fellows do not seem self-sustaining, which may become problematic at the end of their fellowship

IMO it's a good program for the few that are working on startups and need some cash to be able to drop out of school, but I worry that it's doing a disservice to the academic oriented fellows.
Actually it is tyre in Australia.

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=tyre
Non-technical.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/news/index.html
Harga Samsung Galaxy Pocket 2012
Samsung galaxy pocket adalah hanphone Pintar terbaru dari samsung, handphone ini diciptakan untuk semua orang khususnya menengab
Mark Cuban on success and motivation: http://blogmaverick.com/2011/04/07/shark-tank-success-motiva...

The whole post is gold, but this is the best part:

The point of all this is that it doesn’t matter how many
times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost
get it right. No one is going to know or care about your
failures, and either should you. All you have to do is
learn from them and those around you because…

All that matters in business is that you get it right once.
So far, about 1100 USD. A MacBook Pro and the domain name. It is an open source project and there is no biz angle as of now really.
Make Google pay more tax (in Australia)
That is absolutely not the case, and I don't see how you could make that conclusion.

To draw an analogy, imagine your car runs out of gas near the top of a mountain. You put on the e-brake, and assess your situation. The nearest gas station is 20 miles away, and it's snowing, so there is no way you can walk it, and there is no other traffic on the road to offer you some help. Sucks to be you, but you should have planned better. You could let go of the e-brake, and roll down the mountain in reverse, but there is just a deserted valley at the bottom - it would not improve your situation. But, a ha! You realize that you are only 20' from the top of the hill. the gas station is still 20 miles away, but it's all down hill. If you can push your car to the top of the hill, you can then roll all the way to the gas station using gravity to power your car.

But, alas, a lawyer pops out of the woods, and hands you a document stating that you are not allowed to push your car up the hill and then use gravitational potential energy to get to the gas station, because Acme, Inc has been issued a patent on that process, and you are not allowed to use it without their consent. Coincidentally, you have an ongoing lawsuit against Acme, Inc, for a completely unrelated reason. They tell you "Drop this lawsuit, and we'll let you use our push-up-the-hill process to save your car".

That is pretty much what happened in this circumstance.

Yes, the engine failed to operate properly. No one is blaming the patents for that. The satellite got stuck in an unusable orbit due to the engine failure, but was otherwise still functional. Since launching things into orbit is very expensive, and the things being launched are very expensive, the company that owns the satellite will try pretty much anything within reason to recoup their costs. One option, popularized by Belbruno and Ridenoure from an similar incident in the past, involves using only a small amount of fuel, to send the satellite around the moon and back, which would make it possible to put the satellite into the correct orbit around the earth. THIS is what was denied them due to the patent on the low energy orbital transfer that Boeing apparently has. So, it is not the fault of the patent system that the rocket initially failed, but it is the fault of the patent system that the company was not legally allowed to recover it's still-functional property.

edit: I should add that, yes, SES Americom may have committed insurance fraud if they didn't disclose to their insurance company that the satellite was recoverable for $50M(the cost of dropping the lawsuit against Boeing). However, that doesn't change the fact that they were prevented from essentially running their engine at particular times due to patents.
AMD Llano GPU modesetting troubleshooting postmortem
Yeah, three of my friends are "Thiel fellows". You can check out all of them here: http://www.thielfellowship.org/
How about lifetime income, with the plumber beginning work at age 18 and the doctor starting at age 37, paying off all student loans, with both retiring at 65?

The doctor may come out ahead by 50-55 or so, but certainly not by 37. This holds doubly true if the plumber invests anything at all. 20 years of compound interest on a small base will produce a surprisingly large amount.
To name a few...

"The Stewart Method: How Not To Suck" -- http://www.shimweasel.com/2011/05/08/the-stewart-method-how-...

Chris Dixon's "Some lessons learned" -- http://cdixon.org/2011/09/28/some-lessons-learned

"Thrust, Drag and the 10x Effect" -- http://www.tempobook.com/2011/10/25/thrust-drag-and-the-10x-...
right. And its a mistake to conflate, "income" with "reported income for income tax purposes".
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"Ask them for work. If they deny you work, ask for bread. If they deny you bread, take it." - Emma Goldman

I fall into the "some college" category. I have no issue with mopping floors, unloading trucks, waiting tables, etc. What I have an issue with is the number of applications I've filled out without getting so much as an interview. Here's my view in a nutshell: I am not above being a dishwasher. I am, however, above begging to be a dishwasher. You can only fill out so many applications for employment at literally the lowest level before you start to wonder when stealing becomes justified.
For the life of me I can't find the article but years ago I read an article called something like "Our Genes Are Not Us" in Discover or Scientific American magazine. (I searched them without any luck.) Maybe someone else will have better luck finding the article.

The article mentioned that one of the problems with cloning a mammoth is duplicating the envitro environment as this controls the expression(1) of the genes. In other words, it isn't enough to have "the code", you also need the "computer" to run it on.

(1) A butterfly and a catepillar have the same DNA but it is expressed differently.
Definitely wouldn't change anything for people who are determined. But it probably would reduce casual pirating & it's so simple I just am surprised we don't see more of it. Not saying that I want it to happen, just surprised.

It definitely works on usenet - virus spam can make some things impossible to find.
The refactoring tools in IntelliJ make it possible to catch a lot of things that would be very difficult to do with emacs of vim. For example, I know a certain utility method exists in several different classes, so I want to extract that method and utilize it throughout my project. The IDE will search the project for any block of code that meets this pattern and will ask you if you want to replace it with this new utility class instead. For smaller projects (<25k LOC) this isn't a big deal, as any major dev will have seen every line of code. For very large projects, I can't imagine going back.

Also, if you're basing your IDE experience solely on Eclipse and Netbeans, give IntelliJ a try. Both Eclipse and Netbeans pretty much seem unusable after you use IntelliJ for a while.
FTL: "As the German school system differs slightly from the Anglo-Saxon system, these high schools are Gymnasiums. This corresponds more likely between high school and college. The university exam, the "abitur" is often compared to a high school diploma in the United States, it is academically closer to the associate degree of a US college"

So, I don't see how Germany is any different.
Give it time. It took entire lifetimes of tradition and "conventional wisdom" (house prices never go down!) to make the housing bubble possible. By the time the higher education bubble bursts, there may very well be the derivatives. Remember that while housing debt was secured by the value of the real estate itself, student debt is secured by the fact that it's impossible to discharge, even in bankruptcy.
It enables social pressure on sites to honor it.

Once it exists, sites can be forced to explain why they don't obey the users' express wishes.
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics has a General Practitioners earning ~3.5x the mean wages of a Plumber. Other countries may differ.

See: http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm
Editing image uploads with Python
Sign in to So.cl with Facebook

Or you could, you know, just sign in to facebook directly.
We are partners in crime. You could say he handles code and I handle design, but that's simplifying things. We worked closely throughout the whole process.
The ALP (Australian Labor Party) changed the spelling of their name deliberately in 1912 order to distinguish it from the general labour movement and also to make them appear more progressive and modern by using the American spelling.

More information on Australian spelling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_English#Spelling
Since no one's mentioned Ghostery yet, I highly recommend it as a way to opt-out of all sorts of stupid tracking mechanisms on the Web.

http://www.ghostery.com/
Normally, the majority of comments disagree with the OP. That's the nature of commenting. But in this case, the disagreement is almost complete: I see only one comment slightly in agreement.

I have no idea where this post came from. I can only assume ryancarson is going to different hackathons and hacker houses than everyone else.
She's naive because she's choosing to re-enter a partnership based exclusively on the perceived benefits (make money, save the world, etc.) without having a clear interpretation of the associated risks. Worse yet, she doesn't even have a clear answer on what her current liabilities are from her previous vehicle. I'm amazed her insurance company offers her a policy given her apparent disregard for liability she's potentially assuming on their behalf. I agree with your last sentence.
I never said I thought it was a great idea. I imagine it was far more sensible in the days when individuals that controlled land were making loans to their tenants.
That's true for covering the material damage, but in my understanding the liability for corporal damage/medical costs is not as black & white, and falls on the driver first.
Python vs. Processing as a First Language
Sure, but that shouldn't get in the way of making more advanced topics available to kids in late grade school and early high school if they show aptitude for it.

I might not have been ready to choose a career in 9th grade, but I sure as hell would have taken a class on linear algebra, astronomy, computer science, etc. if it had been available. Having the choice to take advanced classes in any interest gives you a much better foundation to start with no matter what career you choose later.
with a domain like that, I had expectations of an awesome URL shortener. I wonder how much they paid for the domain?
I thought the same thing, but also, the "research" label could be just a safety net in case it doesn't turn out very well.
Behind the scenes at Adioso - Part 2: Stunts
Can you explain how exactly I could be taken advantage of by going to a hackathon?
Linux 3.4 kernel released
You can't anticipate anything? I think you need to expand on that.

I don't think I saw anyone advocating making decisions now based on assumptions of a Utopian society. Personally, I advocate making decisions now that increase the odds of said Utopian society.
children are also starving in africa, does that mean anything more trivial than that should not be addressed until that is?
He was probably talking about lifetime earnings and not yearly income. If you factor in the 11-19 years of additional training and lost income that doctors go through and make a plumber work the same amount of hours as a doctor, then I bet their lifetime earnings will be close.

Heres a post comparing doctors to UPS drivers, which shows what i'm talking about
http://www.er-doctor.com/doctor_income.html
FYI for Windows users..."pip install bpython" won't work. You must install the Curses binary. I suggest from here: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#curses
I don't know what legal ramifications could follow sites which declare they support Do Not Track as a spec but in actuality do not support any of the features of the spec in a meaningful way. Other than just bad press if discovered, I don't think there is any punishment for not properly following a technical spec outside of civil lawsuits.
I'm wondering if this article takes into account the amount of iPod Touch owners.
Handling Failure in Videogames
It's "tire" in Canada, but our Commonwealth status has stopped meaning anything at all. We owe more to our American cultural ties than to our historical monarchy and our tendency towards UK English.

Source: my entire life and, I suppose, http://canadiantire.ca
That's not Google's home page, it's the search results page.

Trollbait.
Bug in Google Search Calculator
> Hahaha, where do you come from that you think a janitor gets payed $20/hr?

This is the case in Australia
>Anyone genuinely interested in these facts could check Wikipedia, Google Scholar, or a Google Books textbook and find copious citations.

That's what I thought. You have no idea what you're talking about.

>Why do people who have clearly not exhaustively studied a particular field put forth their own ignorance as an argument in their favor?

Oh, the irony. It burns!
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Well, websites are the ones to lose with this, not browsers(except ones with conflict of interest like Google and Microsoft). So websites can say "Hey, a popular browser like Chrome doesn't support it, so why should we?". That's why it's important for all browsers to support it so that there will be more pressure on websites to support it.
Don't just write good code, write less code.
I fail to see how this is taking advantage.

A typical intern wage in the Valley is 5-6K per month. This is 10K for a 12(?) week stint. The pay is a bit low, but it sounds like included perks make up for it. That rent must be about $1500 per person per month, bringing the total salary up to 14.5K - not significantly less than the standard.

A lot of young developers like this lifestyle - I know I did (I am sadly not 22 anymore). Just because it isn't the right lifestyle for you (and other people with families and responsibilities) doesn't mean people are being taken for a ride.

Edit: I now see that that 10K is for 10 weeks, bringing the salary right into the middle of the "normal" Valley intern range (aka higher than most American's highest lifetime salary)
just how awesome can a URL shortener get? tbh, I'm surprised bit.ly is a company and not just a guy's hobby.
> So.cl (pronounced "social")

💩 (pronounced "so-dot-cl")

Sorry, couldn't resist. Microsoft should really stop underpaying their marketing people so that they would stop producing kaka for branding. If Bing was a red flag, this is really someone having a field day. How would they ever settle on "s-o-dot-k-l" being "pronounced social" is beyond me. The logo looks like a diver with snorkel tube on a side. The /S/ is completely f#cked up in terms of glyph design, it is unbalanced and appears to be falling to the left. A wordmark that looks like retarded smiley that lacks any sort of concept subtlety, and a name that sounds like a chemical compound, based off a poisonous gas that was unleashed by sneaky Germans during WWI. Perfect all over.
Beautiful interface design - how do you go about designing and implementing a look like that?

When I make iOS apps they all use the default controls suppled in XCode. I'd like to learn to make nice looking interfaces.
What's next after GPL and Apache?
Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing in the Ambient Cloud

http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/12/16/building-super-sc...
An American GP is typically done with all schooling by age 30. There are specialist surgical fields where training into your mid-30's possible, but the income they command is also vastly higher, and your loans are entirely forgiven after a few more years of academic medicine at that point.
The problem with college education in America is that we have stigmatized vocational school.

Some people just aren't meant to be academics, and that's fine. They will never excel at school. So let's teach them something that is useful to society like plumbing or electrical of HVAC.

And now for an anecdote: I was paying a plumber for a job once, and after I handed him $1000 for the 4 hours of work he had done, he told me that his kid (who had been his apprentice for the job) was in college on a sports scholarship, but planned on taking over the family plumbing business upon graduation because it was far more lucrative than anything he'd be able to get with his college degree in humanities.