skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Non-Union Lawyer here.

Contracts are never set in stone; all you need to do is make a new offer to this employer. Do this by sending them (CEO/CFO/Manager) a Notice. Call it "Notice of Private International Remedy Demand." (this is patio11's step 0.) Tell him that they owe you $NUM for services rendered (triple damages are not uncommon), and that they have 10 days from receipt of the notice to pay you, or swear in an affidavit (under penalty of perjury) that they don't owe you that money. Tell them that if they don't respond, a default judgement will be rendered, and a commercial lien may be filed with the Secretary of State's office (in whatever state they're registered).

if they don't respond in 10 days. send a second notice, keep everything but the date and the title (NOTICE OF FAULT IN DISHONOR - OPPORTUNITY TO CURE).

if they don't respond again in 10 days, file a UCC-1 Financing Statement, listing the CFO/CEO/Manager as lien debtors, and a copy of all paperwork you sent to them, with the Secretary of State's office. This lien is now considered an Asset.

Then contact a bank in your area, and let them know that you have a lien filed against these parties, and would like to sell the lien to their bank, so they can collect on it for you.

Hope this helps.
Yeah it locks up Chrome for me, pressing Ctrl+w closed the tab after about 10 seconds. Chrome 20 on Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64. Core 2 Duo with Intel graphics.
Without magnetic shielding I'm not sure how far large scale terraforming is going to get us. Any atmosphere we try to build up will just blow off into space. But I agree, put the dome on the moon.
Arguably, even human brains work that way. You can't really draw a line across part of the CNS and say "This is where the brain stops." The retina, for instance, is almost as much a part of your brain as it is your eye.

By the same token, it's not always easy to classify complex movements as reflexes or thought-guided actions. Cut a chicken's head off while it's walking, and it will keep going for a while. My understanding (IANABiologist) is that the same is true for a human.
That was... perfect.

-> You send us X

<- We give you Y

Why is it so many api docs fail on this basic level?
I think the largest 3rd party insurance provider of mobile devices is Asurion.
Next up: Sperm count.

In all honesty, this is ridiculous. Not as if the full body scan/patting down is bad enough or anything.
The problem with the misrepresentation in the article is that unlike other hacker houses, Chez JJ is pretty damn close to spotlessly clean. It's why we pay professionals to do it. And one of our houses was actually 50% female.

It's hard to make people envision something else, once the words are out there, but we really aim to make life as frictionless as possible for our guests.
> The manifesto appears to denounce government-enforced IP law

Out of curiosity, what do you imagine is non-government-enforced IP law?
$6B is going to be hard to recoup; American Idol only took 8 seasons to reach that mark, and that's probably the most successful reality show so far.
Unfortunately, lispbox is badly out of date: "Last updated: February 6, 2011."

If you're on windows, try Lisp Cabinet. Elsewhere, you'll have to configure things yourself.
Funny, after a couple years of webmail I have just installed Thunderbird again today since I wanted to have more powerful features. I was positively surprised that it had improved quite bit.
Federal Circuit Grants Samsung A Temporary Stay On The Galaxy Nexus Injunction
The other thing is that Chrome updates work. They've only broken something once in I think 3 years of daily use at this point (some update unchecked "warn before quitting"). They also don't generally create popups and the update process itself is literally invisible.

Firefox on the other hand... sigh. I really liked that browser, but the updates, and the broken plugins, and the shit memory management, and the developers' heads up their shitty asses denying their shit memory management, and did I mention the enormous memory usage on OSX? Chrome essentially has the same uptime as my laptop, ie months. Firefox required daily restarts with the same browsing patterns. Plus they regularly corrupt the backing file that holds the sites you had open in your browser, so before restarting the browser to get ram back, it's a best practice to copy the location of each and every open tab to a text file.

We got my gf's laptop 8 gigs of ram to accomodate ff and I'm working on talking her into chrome. A browser written by people who know how to use free(3). Plus the updates don't hork random stuff. Plus on the rare occasions I've restarted the browser it has never broken the backing store holding the open tabs.
Combine http://kickassapp.com/, http://kathack.com/ and font bomb for hours of fun.
I disagree -- nobody has of yet come close to matching Apple's Mail app. It does a simple job exceedingly well, with a minimally impeding user interface.

The alternatives -- including Thunderbird -- are bulky and poorly designed. I believe the wide migration to gmail is in no small part due to the extremely poor showing of e-mail clients on Linux and Windows.
Here is why you should not become a (lame) programmer
I'm pretty sure Postbox (http://www.postbox-inc.com/) is based on Thunderbird's source, no? I wonder that this means for them?
I like the way they are executing it. Interacting with the people, not just sitting in the lab doing random science.
The Pal-V flying car
I also just used leandomain to find the name for a camera search site I'm working on. It gave me wantcamera.com ... sold!
My mom has a strict no-gifts-from-reps policy-- she won't even take a card, as far as I know. There's been one exception to this: At one point, a rep found out it was her birthday, and delivered a huge cake. To the unit.

Of course, she wanted to refuse it-- but after they walked it all the way down the wing, how could she tell her staff that they weren't actually getting any cake?

They are scumbags, for sure.
That's called a "privileged method". The advantage of those is that they can access any private variables from the constructor, and they keep those variables in scope for their lifetime.

The disadvantage however, is that the method is re-created once for each instance when the constructor runs, so they are not as memory-efficient as the prototype style.

Also, when you add methods to the prototype you affect all instances from the past and the future. So for example if you add a method to String.prototype, all current and future strings get it.
Will you be allowed to bring a Pepsi through security in Atlanta?
"Your users do not "love" your software. Your users are temporarily tolerating your software because it's the least horrible option they have -- for now -- to meet some need."

This is the hardest lesson, and what I need to remember most. As a developer I really do like to tinker with new software (most of the time), but as a rule users do not and we had best not forget it!

I knew the firefox updates annoyed me but I had no idea they bothered the general population just as much. I actually switched to chrome because of the memory leak in firebug so I didn't have quite the same experience.
Wow. I'm so sorry. This sounds all too familiar. I wish you and your family all the best. For what it's worth, I'm happy my story could connect with you, but I know we all have our own unique burdens, may it ease yours even just a bit.

Also: fuck cancer.

Edit: Is she a redditor?
I might be asking a dumb question here but can it be possible to eventually simulate the worm's reproduction cycle so that we can fast forward the simulation to millions or even billions of generations to see more complex organisms evolving?
The lobsters weren't Russian. They were uploaded in San Diego.
I didn't have anything specifically in mind, but from what I know about the Pauls I suspect they might approve of IP through non-governmental means, like through voluntary contracts between content producers and consumers.
Very interesting, thanks!

By the way, the for loop seems to be irrelevant to the invocation, (1,eval) just returns eval. (1,console.log)("hi") looks like it should work, except it raises an error. (1,2)+3 returns 5, however, and (1,console.log) returns the log function.
C. elegans (a type of nematode) is even simpler, with exactly 302 neurons and ~15k synapses. But despite having the complete connectome, there has to date been only limited success at simulating the whole worm. Although see: https://code.google.com/p/openworm/

Edit: Also see the NYT article below.
Academic Analysis of a Startup: Sumazi
What a great series of comments. I couldn't agree more with all of this.
California Senate approves funding for high-speed rail
DNS Changer will shut down 250K users off the internet
Surprise! Thanks so much.
Filename validation, I would imagine, is far more common than content validation.

If you are inspecting binary data for validity, and not checking the parameter (filename) that affects how Apache serves your file, you are doing something wrong.
i don't get it why they try to make this look like something that can be done as they say.

it's a joke. we don't know what are the effects of spending one day on mars let alone be there for the rest of the astronauts life.
and we'll just make it a $6 billion dollar reality show out of it... oh and the astronauts, will learn how to work on mars. they better do because with 6 billions budget to get there and provide them with life support for the rest of their lives is not gonna be easy.
I guess I am being thrown off by the words you're choosing. "Sacrosanct" means inviolable, above criticism or priority. If something is "sacrosanct," by definition it must always come first, no exceptions. It's a black and white term. If work is sacrosanct then that means that family will always be sacrificed. But then you seem to indicate that there are time that family should come before work.

You also said "I think if friends and family don't understand that your work is a priority, they should be cut loose." That seems like a pretty black-and-white position to me. But then you say that there are times that family should come first.

It also seems like you're conflating family and work, saying things like "my family was my work." When what most of us mean by "work" is an external employer. When you say "My work saved my life" are you talking about raising your family or working for an external employer?

So I guess I am just confused as to what you are trying to say. At first I thought you were trying to say that work should always come first. Now your devotion to your family is very clear to me, and you seem to be saying that people need to strike a proper balance. Which I agree with.
We recently purchased a TV for a short conference we were having. We didn't have much time to pick it out, so we picked out a reasonably well-reviewed name-brand television (my apologies, I can't remember the brand off-hand).

Like your experience, the device required an immediate network update.

Once the update was complete, I was astounded to see the television automatically download promotional advertisements and display them prominently on the main menu of the television, amidst the standard options.

If we hadn't required the television for the conference, I would have returned it to the store then and there. I anticipate that we'll see more of this in the future, and I don't look forward to it.
Only if I login and thereby allow google to connect my mobile profile with my browsing profile. Which I decidedly don't want.
I don't think the Pauls would intentionally deny or conceal that government funds were used to create the beginnings of the Internet. Just like NASA, I suspect they would take their usual stance: that even when governments use tax revenue to do worthwhile things, it would be preferable (certainly morally and perhaps economically) for private enterprise to accomplish the same things.
Reminds me of LittleBigPlanet.
Sarah Lacy shares what makes a good story for PandoDaily
Some stuff is in real time, some is pre-calculated. There is an enormous amount of research and testing going on in this space all the time, its complex and it's evolving fast.
No big. I suddenly have a hugely negative bank balace. My bank is closed, so I can't even address the issue. Makes this bullshit conversation pale in comparison. But thank you for your kindness.
Terrorists would just put a bag in their bladder and use a syringe to fill it up with whatever explosive fuel they needed anyway. I don't think the TSA would detect it at all unless it failed the sniffer test due to bad container.
one step closer to a DNA swab
You are of course entitled to your opinion but I must disagree. Users don't care what it iss called, they care about being annoyed. Firefox was always nagging you about updates while chrome silently updated in the background. And I personally have never had a chrome update do anything that I noticed immediately (like breaking my addons.)

I disagree about expectations too. Users have a great deal of built in expectations for chrome after having dealt with other browsers for years.

If firefox and chrome switched their update systems, the story we would be hearing would be "I tried chrome and i hated it.", and they probably wouldn't even bother to tell us why (the nagging update system.)
Visit slideshare.net/netflix and read my architecture slides, there's plenty of detail about how Netflix works available if you have a few hours to look through it.
A shoutout and thanks to the Pharo Smalltalk developers
Show HN: If Google owned Twitter, what would the Android Twitter app look like?
Frustrated be the lack of anything approaching the quality of TweetBot on Android, I decided to write my own Android Twitter client with the above goal.

The result is Tweet Lanes, which I just released for phones running 4.0 and above.

The big ticket items are: borderline theft of the Google Talk & MMS app styling; New take on composing tweets; Reply to multiple tweets at one time, or block multiple spammers in one action; VolScroll - navigate the feed with volume up/down buttons; and plenty more.

App & screenshots can be found here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tweetlanes.android
And armchair sociologists.
I have not had an extension break since FF7 (now on FF14)

Firefox has come a long way and I as a developer I don't like how Chrome hides everything.

It's also super easy in Firefox to turn off automatic updates and only update manually when you are ready (help -> about firefox)
We need to end the TSA
this is sexy, but why only ICS? Older phones need some <3 too!

Fantastic job. You should be a Google dude.
Not that I am aware but I did not look recently. The 2 other services that I have checked are Urban Airship and last I checked they did not have it (they have the concept of tags which is similar to Parse's channel).
The other one I checked is applicasa.com and they may offer such service in the future. The page: http://applicasa.com/Push.aspx has a 'coming soon' for a feature that look similar.
So looks like Parse.com is the first one to offer it, and my experience so far with their API is good.
That's not what someone means when they say "every child has a right to an education". They do not mean "the government cannot prevent you from getting an education". They mean "the government must provide you with an education".

No one has a right to travel. It's actually phrased as the right to freedom of movement, which is a good confusing phrase because it prevents you from thinking you already know what it means. You have (in a free country) the right to go where you want. You don't have the right to a plane ticket.

Positive rights are dangerous. Positive rights inherently impose obligations on someone. They should be phrased that way to begin with. I can rationally discuss the idea of "education is an obligation of government" because it means what it says. If I dare say "children don't have a right to an education" I'll get lynched.
Sorry but I suddenly have a hugely negative bank balance and no means to address it. So my capacity to try to do any further clarification has disappearred, along with nearly $4000 in funds that I simply don't have.

Just when I thought things were getting better... <wry smile>
GOTO 5
TeX was first released in 1978. BSD UNIX in 1977. I don't know how much of that code is running today, but I'd be very surprised if the methods embodied in that code (the patentable parts) have changed very much in 20 years. There may well be chunks of code more than 20 years old in both those widely-used and absolutely relevant systems.

Lots of decades-old C, Fortran and Lisp code compiles and runs just fine today. Code has been quite well decoupled from architecture since the 1970s, if you choose to write it that way.
I can't remember about the 360, but the PS3 does have this functionality.
That's probably a good opportunity to make sure that they're comfortable with being used to promote the petition too. The script / using big names to promote the cause is a pretty smart idea.
Hi, author of the post here. I never anticipated HN-style traffic on my personal blog. My poor lighttpd server couldn't handle it. I just rebooted; should work now.
Thanks a lot for the feedback. Once I add a few more core features and implement tablet support, I will backport it to Android 2.x.
Living there [Mars] is comparable to getting by on Antarctica, and provides similar challenges.

That right there is complete, unadulterated bullshit. The cost of getting a pound of supplies to Antarctica is several orders of magnitude cheaper than getting a pound of supplies even as far as orbit, let alone Mars. And Antarctica is a much less hostile environment (breathable atmosphere, for one).

That line alone tells me this isn't remotely a well-thought-out, plausible venture.
I think he is quoting someone with that line but I can't place it. If I remember correctly the purpose of that advice was not to keep you from ever changing your UI, but to instead weigh the cost carefully.
I just noticed today that Thunderbird was using 300 MB of my RAM, and was surprised at how bloated it had gotten. I was going to blog about how my 2012 computer feels as snappy as my 2002 computer because of these sorts of things, but I didn't get around to it.

There must be a good case to be made about light, responsive software. From the other posters here, I take it there's no light alternative to Thunderbird, and I'll keep using it, but 300 MB of RAM for an email client is a bit ridiculous.
> If access to the Internet is a human right, that means every human in the world should be able to demand access to the Internet?

You seem to be asking this rhetorically, but I don't see what your objection to people being allowed to demand access to the Internet is. Could you actually spell it out?
>I have not had an extension break since FF7 (now on FF14)

It's been my experience that extensions don't 'break' (i.e. stop working as expected) as much as they self validate against the currently running version of FF and refuse to load unless the developer has flagged it as workable.

Every time a major release comes out, half of my plugins are disabled. Then, I go and download the compatability reporter plugin (which gives you the option to override the version check), and 9 times out of 10, every single plugin works fine.

Also, what did you mean "how Chrome hides everything"? I'll admit the plugin system isnt near as robust, but for web development, I'm in passionate love with the Chrome/ium developer tools.
How I am trying to market my video course
It's not a model of the worm's genome, let alone its full development required to actually produce the worms, let alone of populations of the worms, let alone populations of the worms interacting with a full blown natural environment. Which is what determines what happens in natural selection.

Evolution does not naturally tend toward complexity, it tends toward fit to the environment. In one case that may be specializing in eating eucalyptus leaves. In another case it might be having a big brain. We tend to think that the whole direction of evolution is toward producing us but there is no basis for that in evolutionary theory. We ended up with particular traits because they were available in our population and gave our ancestors a leg up in their specific environments.
Follow-up from more thorough journalists:

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns...
Considering that nobody outside the jains seems to think there is an ethical issue with experimenting on invertebrates like insects, and those are significantly more complex than c. elegans...

and that not even the jains have said anything about computer programs symbolically representing a real animal...
You have to think beyond immediate practical applications and consider what an event like this would mean to our species as a whole. Neil deGrasse Tyson makes this argument better than anyone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlGemHL5vLY
Is there a good web-based email client? Like a html/javascript email client that can talk POP3 & SMTP or IMAP. It's like a Thunderbird on the web.

Note I don't mean Gmail/YahooMail/Hotmail. Just a web-based email client that can talk to multiple accounts using standard protocols. Some light server storage support for buffering the POP3 mails would be great.
Half the fun of online discussions is being an armchair whatever. Telling people how to behave sounds awfully judgmental to me.
Yeah, I'm aware I can do that, but it gets a bit painful for code that is stateful & executes on load (like IIFE does). You end up having to write a separate test script to run in a separate process for each test case...way slower than if you can isolate the module and 'restart' it in a closure for each test.

A different approach that might work for me would be to subvert require.js, so that it pulls in mocks. I see there's other people thinking along the same lines:
https://github.com/tigbro/requirejs-factory-plugin
Yes, memory has become better, but only marginally. That's why I use the "restartless restart" extension.

And if you use Firebug, you are screwed as well, only quicker.

I never really liked Chrome, but it's so fast and snappy, and Firefox has still not catch up in that area.
Every time one is posted (at least once a month), you and others complain loudly about how PHP is being unfairly picked on.

You can't be satisfied
I'd kill for a desktop client that was as good as Gmail. I'm surprised nobody has done a straight copy of the UI in a desktop deployment. Heck, you could do it in Javascript+HTML in an embedded gecko/webkit.
Comparison of machine learning classifiers for medium-sized data (part 2)
Clawsmail or it's ancestor, Sylpheed. If you're one for a beautiful and flashy UI then these options are not for you.
Memory management was terrible for ages and ages before the updates. I don't think the updates ever broke memory management.

if you don't use addons, the memory management in Firefox is pretty good - actually measure it competitively against Chrome sometime
I'm okay with saying that it's an obligation.
In the past week I have been reading _Essays Ancient and Modern_ by Bernard Knox. In the autobiographical introduction, he writes of being trained for infiltration behind German lines in WW II, including a class with a master safe cracker, then an inmate of Pentonville Prison. Knox flunked, as having insufficiently sensitive fingers, and the safe cracker advised him to stick to dynamite. As matters worked out, Knox never had the chance to practice burglary, though he saw a good deal of action.
Most people in the US have the option of a vary cushy life, they just don't realize it. The real problem is people are only aware of a minuscule fraction of their choices.

And no joining the military long enough to get a collage degree does not qualify as a 'hard' life compared to say living in as a super max prisoner, a hunter gatherer, or 95% of humanity before the 1500's.
My "breakthrough moment" with Javascript was realizing that I could just treat it like scheme.