skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Size information is hard to find, but they are organised and powerful.

(http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-cit...)

$20 billion "flowing back to Mexico".

> One Mexican national-security expert estimated that the [Sinaloa] cartel moves a kilo of cocaine over the U.S. border about every 10 minutes.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Drug_War#Sinaloa_Carte...)

> Mexico's most-wanted drug trafficker and whose estimated net worth of US$1 billion makes him the 1140th richest man in the world and the 55th most powerful, according to his Forbes magazine profile.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinaloa_Cartel)

> The United States Intelligence Community considers the Sinaloa Cartel "the most powerful drug trafficking organization in the world" and in 2011, the Los Angeles Times called it as "Mexico's most powerful organized crime group."

(http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1031785...)

> Los Zetas — a paramilitary group that acts as enforcers for the Gulf Cartel, the organization of drug gangs that controls narcotrafficking on Mexico's east coast. Many of the Zetas are former Mexican soldiers who were trained to combat drug gangsters. Some of the gunmen are thought to have received training in the United States at the military School of the Americas.

[...]

> The Zetas were among the first criminal groups in Mexico to employ military tactics and heavy weapons, including 50 caliber machine guns, grenade launchers and even ground-to-air missiles.
Awesome recap!!!
Kenya’s mobile telephones: Vital for the poor
The kid definitely got off with nothing more than a slap in the wrists.
Really? Only now people are working out that legalising pot destroys cartels? Not just that, the networks too.

Imagine if the tobacco companies sold it. Imagine if the gov told them to secretly stock up , and suddenly put it on the market at half the usual price. Imagine all those dealer holding stock that was on credit. Imagine not being able to sell it. A huge market crash. Game over.

All the gov do now is hold the prices high. They actually do control the market. A bit socialist, no? Why not let the worshipped capitalism deal with these cartels? If all western governments legalised, these evil cartels would be out of business.

Any one worked out how much tax revenue the governments could make? Or would people just grow their own?

Anyway, the best way to destroy these cartels over night (ish) is instant legalisation, and the tax raised can pay directly for rehab, etc. Or is the too communist?
> They make great devices that just work.

After learning that the App Store actually uses Spotlight (!) to find out what's in /Applications, and that sometimes you need to reindex to get an upgrade, or change permissions set by App Store itself, I'm not so sure. And after seeing what iOS 6 did to my battery life, I'm even less sure...
Why do people not use SSH tunnels/OpenVPN?
"If that is your qualification for a dictatorship"
Gmail on touch devices
If it was just naked asses, yeah, but this seems to be targetting hetero males (and technically bisexuals and lesbians to a lesser degree) and is just lame.
Security through obscurity is not the best of strategies. If someone notices your shoulder surfed password doesn't work with qwerty, it's a trivial step to try it on dvorak/colemak.
Not sure why you think most people don't ask their dealer what kinds of cannabis they have, but even if it's just one kind, I assure you they know what kind it is. The difference between Mexican Sativa and home-grown Indica is extremely obvious at a glance and the price differential is 2-5x.
I would assume that it's very difficult to assess the quality of cannabis which puts sellers of high quality weed in a difficult position. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
If you compare making an iOS app now to making a successful Symbian game a few years ago, it's night and day.
An open letter to Asus India
Perhaps I simply know different people but I'm accustomed to Travelling Salesman, without explaining which version is intended, being given as the canonical NP-Hard (implicitly the optimal solution problem).

I normally see SAT given as the NP-complete example.
Apple sues over the design. The design is not the design of the iPad.

Apple says 'they copy our products! See, look at this court case'

Case goes against them, they're ordered to apologise. They fail to stick to the terms and put a load of stuff around it that muddies the waters and talks about unrelated cases in other juristictions.

Judge gets annoyed and makes them take down the other stuff as misleading, specifically noting that they haven't even tested the question of the iPad, and that the decision in this case does not contradict decisions in other cases where this design was brought up.

And the court clearly does think it can make apple carry an unembellished statement, and they're probably right .otherwise I guarantee we'd be seeing appeals.
7digital[1] is great for music, and they don't use any DRM.

[1] http://www.7digital.com/
Copyright Industry Madness Takes 6 Years To Catch Up With The Worst Satire Of It
I think it's a great way to get a pointer in the right direction.

Rather than using Bountify to get completed projects it's probably best to ask for help with specific algorithms or approaches.

People answering could be those wanting to learn about something (eg, someone wanting to learn a bit about matplotlib) or an expert who wants to encourage best practice. Or someone wanting to build up a reputation for a resumé.

I agree that when compared to actual wages it's very cheap. The bounty is more a way of saying "thanks!", of buying someone a coffee for their help, rather than paying them for their work.
A priori it would be a computer science revolution if this would have been missed by everyone until now. So forgive me to be particularly cautious with your proposal. What I think is missing in your analysis is that we are lacking a polynomial method to build an hamiltonian path with cost <= C. If we had, then we would apply your algoritm to optimize in polynomial time.
You are comparing a radio and a speaker with an mp3 player and a computer. Not everything is design.
So is it "lower is better" for all scores? In the raw_score a combination of the two previous scores? By that measure, dvorak is better on all nontrivial texts (so excluding the quick brown fox).
Secondly AFTER the above has been done AND adopted they need to develop a new standard to replace HTML as the display format for e-mail (XML based). This should include things like signatures, quoting, in-line pictures, tables, and a small subset of text styling. Essentially take HTML, remove 50%+ of the functionality and then ship it as a standard people can cheaply implement.

Why? People who like HTML emails are happy with it; people who prefer plain-text emails (like me) won't like your solution either, since it's XML.

I think we already have a decent format for lightly formatted email, and it's the plain-text conventions (in which Markdown was based). Or Markdown itself, if you want something closer to a standard.
Attorney creates fake child porn for case, now must pay $300,000
The above construction is a not a breakthrough and it is how I was taught in my approximate algorithms class. Also the way the optimization problem is usually defined is not as "give a circuit with minimal cost" but "what is the cost of the minimal-cost circuit?", which is easier to reason about in an approximate way.
Apple products are not designed in a vacuum. Their designers take inspiration from many sources, and Braun is one of them.

There is a big difference between being inspired by a design, and blatantly ripping it off.
joe@alchemist~$ rethinkdb
joe@clockwerk~$ rethinkdb -j alchemist:29015

Dota player?
No revolution intended. This is well known. The revolution would be finding a polynomial time D.
The "next 20 posts" link goes to localhost...
I'm guessing simply because he could not verify that he was the account holder.

Of course there could be numerous curatorial reasons, but that first one would seem to be a deal-breaker regardless.
Both of those would not do any harm as well.
"I never publish my code. Ever. Users get to give me feedback, but I don't give a shit what other programmers think. Sure, I learn from them, but never in the context of reviewing the code I wrote. I learn from the code of others and apply those lessons to my own work" (from here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2096007)
Hackers release Windows Phone 8 Malware - to be showcased at MalCon
There should be nothing new. Google services are blocked for several years. But not every service is blocked in the same way.

Google+ and Docs is wholly blocked a long time ago. Google.com is blocked intermittently. Gmail and Maps are usually OK, but not very fluent these several days.

GFW is a mysterious monolithic and complex system. No outsider knows the rules and mechanisms.
However I do find bootstrapping yourself a web app is way easier today than say, 10 years ago. The tools are efficient and a pleasure to work with. Frameworks increasingly abstract out many pains so you can focus on your problem (e.g. Meteor). You might have to spend a few days getting a hang of all the different options before committing to one of them, but once you're set, you can get up and running really quickly.
My thoughts exactly. I sometimes read about these people getting fired from IT jobs after a couple days and keep wondering why their bosses even hired new people. Either the boss is too overconfident in their ability to gauge someone's skills based on a couple of days, or they never really needed new people.
If you want to follow a particular topic in the "new" articles, you could try doing what I do - I follow the RSS feed at http://news.ycombinator.com/rss using Google Reader, and since the search in Google Reader results in the feed and query going in the URL, you can bookmark that search. For instance, you could bookmark http://www.google.com/reader/view/#search/functional//feed%2...

By the way, Reader has many of the same awesome keyboard shortcuts as Gmail - you can use j and k to go up and down in the list, 1/2/3 to switch views, v to open the link, etc. (Try hitting ?)
When I buy hardware, I don't buy it from a "team" or a "department". I buy it from a company. It's the company that I deal with. So I don't really care if it is an "overzealous legal team" — the letters were signed by "Toshiba", just as the laptop I was about to buy.
am I the only one that noticed the lambda at the bottom right of the webpage? :)
Don't groupon deals actually hurt a lot of small merchants?

I remember reading some articles back in the day about the profit margins for merchants participating in groupon 50%+ off schemes (i.e. slim to negative) and that people would turn generally up to take advantage of offers but not become repeat customers.
Rich Hickey started out with simultaneous CLR and JVM implementations, then dropped the former when he realized he was slowing down the development of the language by half. Since then the CLR version has been picked up by others, and although I'm just getting back into the Clojure community it sure looks like ClojureScript is getting a lot of respect, there is a very minor breaking change in the JVM version 1.4 for compatibility with ClojureScript (very minor in that if you're ... wild enough to name record fields with a leading dash (e.g. "-a") one syntax for accessing them no longer works, which allows something else useful in ClojureScript and JVM Clojure 1.4).

If you want the unquestioned primary one, it's the JVM one found at http://clojure.org and I don't see that changing for a very long time unless Oracle goes insane in very unexpected ways (not likely, seeing as the first new JVM version they put out adds some support for dynamic languages).
The mid-late 80's were also a good time to be a 14-year-old developer.

Computers were $200, and booted straight into a development environment, and came with sufficient printed documentation to actually learn that language.

At that time, the budget for low budget commercial games was 1-3 man-months of effort, very much within the reach of amateurs.

There also existed a good market for amateur productions -- things like the "disk of the month" clubs.

I was able to produce a game in a weekend, and sell it for one to two hundred dollars. If you factor in inflation, that's a pretty good wage for someone who's just learning and playing around.

The market for cheap, easy to make games dried up in the 90s. Even successful shareware games required a level of polish, effort and knowledge out of reach of most 14 year olds.

I'm really happy to see that 14 year olds can once again have experiences similar to mine. I hope it lasts, but it does appear that mobile development is shifting to the more standard "winner takes all" marketplace.
You are of by a factor of ten: 108,000,000/34,000,000,000 = 108/34,000 = 0.003-ish m^3, or 3 liters of gas to produce those 30kWh. That is in line with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline, which claims 9.7kWh/l. So, the volumetric difference between battery and gas is 30, not 3. If it were only a factor of 3, as in your calculations, I think all cars would be electric by now.
Yes. All you see are the windows of things you're working on, and a panel (or two). If you autohide the panel, then all you see is what you're working on.

After using lxde (lubuntu) for about six months, the Windows desktops and the fancier Linux desktops now look like the red light district with prostitutes on display in flashing light-lined windows.
It's never been easier to be a young developer either.
I would assume that Groupon has thought of most of these ideas, probably years ago, but let's not underestimate the power of the hype cycle. If you are literally the hottest startup in Silicon Valley as they were a couple years ago, the last thing you do is anything that could jeopardize growth. Now that they are public it's a very difficult retreat back to a leaner, more innovative mindset.
sounds like they could use or try similar logic to HN karma, voting etc... to automate some of this... imagine if each purchase of a coupon was a vote and the karma collected by a vendor gave them more freedom in posting new deals...
The Past, Present, and Future of Note-Taking
I can only assume that they're following the letter of their contract with media companies to include anti-debugger measures, while not really trying very hard.

Just to be clear, I'm not trying to defend Apple here, just telling people how they can get around this if they feel like debugging iTunes or whatever.
Years ago finding the service manual of my Toshiba laptop helped me disassembled it to fix the broken power socket (it was non-standard and I ultimately had to find a workaround, but still).

I'm sad to see on OP's site that ASUS is not cooperative either, as I currently have one.
It's endemic at hackathons. If you're a 14-18 year old girl, you owe it to yourself to head to the nearest hackathon with an interesting first place prize. You'll win.
The story behind Rocky
More precisely, binary search (with a correct termination condition) takes "is there a circuit with cost less than X?" and answers "what is the minimum circuit cost?".

Going from there to "what is a minimum-cost circuit?" is a bit more work, but still polynomial:

G' = G
X = TSP-minimum-circuit-cost(G)
for E in edges(G):
if (exists-circuit-with-cost(G' minus E, X))
G' = G' minus E
return (G')
Update: I bought a D2 and posted about my experience at http://acooke.org/cute/AudioEngin0.html (am very happy with it).
How to Make a Trestle Table
Glass shape influences the rate of drinking of alcoholic beverages.
The thugs would be ratting the drug lords out all over the place to get plea bargains.

The biggest winner in the war on drugs are criminal enterprises, just because of the profit margins. These are agricultural products that anyone could produce given some soil and modest investments. How could this sustain the lavish lifestyles the top of the cartels have gotten used to?
A "Super App" That Shines on the Dock
Really? $6k per year in the UK seems a bit too low. Thats what a junior programmer in Bangladesh (where I live) makes.

I always assumed that salaries for programmers (even without any academic degrees) would be much higher in first-world nations.
These bullshit laws need to be updated. Its no different than someone making anything and then being unable to sell it themselves.
Unless you had a Mac, in which case $200 was the price of simply buying the API reference (Inside Macintosh), without which your pirated copy of Think C was inscrutable.

I did do some cool stuff in HyperTalk though.
Every article and comment I read on this topic seems to assert they're doing badly because they're in a business with "no barriers to entry".

Building an email list of millions of people seems like a formidable barrier to entry to me. Particularly so when the CPC cost for anything even vaguely daily-deal related has shot through the roof over the last couple of years and is in the $5-$10 range per click now. It usually takes several - several tens of clicks to convert to an email subscription, depending on landing page.

Not to mention the cost of hiring and organizing thousands of salespeople nationwide.

I don't recall precisely, but I believe that LivingSocial & Groupon are still far bigger by market share than the rest of the players put together... that's not what you get in a space where barriers to entry are low.
Oh sure, the upshot is a punch in the face for the public relations department, and perhaps a bunch of extra work for customer services, as well as the cost of maintaining a legal department with nothing better to do.

If they conducted an audit of the policy taking into account its effects on all areas of the business, they'd probably determine it was a waste of time and money, and adopt a more laissez-faire attitude as Dell, HP, and even Apple do.

It irks me when people see corporations as these cohesive entities that only ever act with deliberate intent. In reality, if you conducted a survey of Toshiba staff, I'm sure a sizeable number of them would disagree with this policy.
You should read up on how Winston Churchill micro-managed a world war. Interesting stuff, and possible.
Sorry, still ridiculous. Could I then get a patent on the same process but not using hairspray?
An ASCII train for when people confuse ls with sl
Patrick Collison: Could Stripe have been started in Ireland?
"politically conservative, fiscally liberal"

Fiscal politics are still politics so this doesn't make much sense, do you mean socially conservative?
"The bounty is more a way of saying "thanks!", of buying someone a coffee for their help, rather than paying them for their work."

This usually works when the guy giving the bounty is not just another random guy on the internet.
To say nothing of brain plasticity.

However actually shipping when you're that young is hard. It was not til I was 19 or 20 that I finally felt like I could write "real" software. The pieces just never fell into place before that despite dabbling for a decade or more as a child. Granted the web as it exists today makes it infinitely easier to learn today than it was when I was a kid, but I'm not going to use that as an excuse. Even with Google in all its glory I can't say unequivocally that I would be shipping code if I were 14 today.
It is the perfect prank for multi-users environments. I mean it is funny and not as bad as an alias to `rm -Rf`. It might make you win a one way trip to HHRR with no return tho.
Sorry.. think im seen too much camelcase c++ classes these days :/
Banks shift losses from card fraud back to customers [UK]
Guadeloupe National Domain registrar hacked
Although I wouldn't generally recommend to a normal person, this being hackernews, I can confidently recommend a Clevo. These laptops come with reference hardware which means that you don't need to wait for your manufacturer to release their versions of the latest drivers. This becomes a problem especially with display cards, with AMD/ATi and Nvidia releasing new drivers quite aggressively while the large companies take their own sweet time to customize the drivers to their hardware. Another thing I'd like to add is that as far as my knowledge goes, these guys use copper heatsinks/heatpipe system. Sure, you pay for it but good hardware makes for a longer lasting laptop.

The service manuals for Clevo are incredibly detailed, possibly almost as much as those Thinkpad ones. Reiterating again, the sheer joy of installing reference drivers over the course of years definitely outshines any advantages that I'd get by saving a few hundred bucks if I'd have gone with a popular laptop brand.
Or you offer the cop a cigarette? Anti smoking laws are poorly enforeced in Beijing.
Thanks! Like I mentioned before, I am glad a lot of people liked the title!
The loss is tiny and indicates profitability is in sight. GroupOn currently has a market cap of about 1.8B, which seems reasonable for a company that size, though perhaps still a bit on the high side given how low their margins are likely to remain.

They went through their childhood years thinking they were going to take over the world, and not too long ago Google offered $6 billion for those dreams. No wonder investors still had some hopes that this was something more than an ordinary business of an ordinary scale. It's not.

If anyone would like to keep dreaming, AMZN was running over $300 million losses on a ~$600 million revenue every single quarter around the year 2000.
Agreed. But we could consume better. Like buying tickets to the moon for a holiday.
All servers flooded by salt water - is it possible to recover data?
How can such a law be anything but bad for an economy?
Show HN: Save your podcasts, listen to them later
not bad...

...the self-serving issue is the big issue though. Local merchants at this point in time still don't do web-based self-serve solutions much or at all. Maybe that will change as the world becomes internet-savvier in general, but it's where we are right now.
Presentation - CoffeeScript: Good, Bold, and with Sugar
Requiring a human employee for individual sales works for Best Buy and McDonalds, where labor is cheap. I wouldn't think that scales to higher cost sales professionals.
Brands Will Become Media: Here's How
Objclibs: an index of objective-c frameworks
Show HN: RubyGems Browser for Android
Yes, I've always seen SAT as the canonical example given. Though, when I did some reading into phase transitions in NP-complete problems, 3-SAT was usually the example given (and used).
I'm not a merchant, and I've never used a Groupon deal as a consumer. I say that to show how disconnected I am from Groupon. And yet, I hear that merchants often have trouble collecting whatever they're supposed to get from Groupon; they're sort of the PayPal of deals. That rep must not be good for sales.
Shwups-cms
This CMS is impressiv!
German only, but impressiv.

http://shwups-cms.ch
It's about as far to the other extreme as possible, but when I worked at Google and we'd play soccer after work, there were usually a couple balls available and we always played with the best one we could. Better balls feel better against your feet, do what you're expecting them to do, and increase your enjoyment of the game.

If you're a kid anywhere, and you have a choice between a ball that bounces well and has a sweet spot that lets it leap off your foot and doesn't hurt or make you bleed when you get smacked in the face with it, you.will.prefer.that.ball.every.single.time.
Can clojurescript become a primary clojure implimentation?
This just sounds like desperate clawing of a doomed business model to me.
That is ridiculous. A car is a product like any other product that can be sold. Apple sells phones and MacBooks directly to the public. Outlet malls have clothing manufacturers selling directly to the public. The car dealerships is an outdated model and this is a sign that they are desperate. They are just suing because once the Tesla stores prove to be more efficient other car manufacturers will follow suit.