skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, we don't see causation at the neurological level. The "correlation ≠ causation" meme doesn't just undermine overspeculative econometric conclusions: it undermines overspeculative biological conclusions too. The article may show correlations at the econometric level (I'm not convinced). It reports correlations at the medical level. But correlation still ≠ causation, and so it's not clear that lead causes crime "neurologically". Indeed it's not clear that any single factor trumps the human element in committing crime. At some level, crime is always a human choice. That's why we call it "crime." The overall fallacy of the article, therefore, is that statistical analysis—with its weak ability to establish causation—can shed more light on crime than human factors can, when crime is clearly a highly complex, volitional, and "human" behavior that resists analysis of any kind.
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Can you give an example of a good close for him?
He might get a letter like this [0]:

We are intellectual property counsel to PayPal, Inc. of Palo Alto, California. As you are well aware, PayPal provides financial services under the PAYPAL name and service mark and owns and operates the website at . Our client's name, service mark and website are among its most valuable assets.

We have recently been made aware of your operation of two websites, and , that infringe our client's service mark rights in the PAYPAL mark. Printouts of your websites are attached to the confirmation copy of this letter. We further understand that these websites provide a forum to criticize PayPal, Inc. Our client respects your right to do so--provided your websites do not contain any false, disparaging or defamatory statements. We must remind you that any such statements contained on your websites are actionable and can subject you to liability.

Regardless of your purported mission, your use of our client's PAYPAL mark in connection with the operation of websites and in domain names constitutes trademark infringement. Quite simply, use of the PAYPAL mark in a commercial manner is not protected free speech. It is quite evident from your websites that you are profiting off of the PAYPAL mark by selling banner advertisements, offering competing financial services, and using your site to attract PayPal's customers for your own commercial gain. For such infringement, you can be held liable for monetary damages (tripled), an injunction and our client's attorneys' fees.

On behalf of our client, we must insist that you immediately cease all further use of the PAYPAL mark and transfer the domain names to our client. We further demand that you provide an accounting of the profits that you have received in connection with your operation of these websites.

Your swift and full cooperation would enable us to resolve this matter quickly and on an amicable basis. Please contact me as soon as possible, and no later than June 7, 2002, so that we may facilitate a prompt resolution of this matter.

Very truly yours,

Anthony J. Malutta
TOWNSEND and TOWNSEND and CREW LLP
Two Embarcadero Center, 8th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111-3834
Tel: 415.576.0200
Fax: 415.576.0300

[0] http://www.paypalsucks.com/domain-name-disputes.shtml
A few obvious drawbacks without even reading into the subject:

1) The additional sense of security may lead people carrying pepper spray to take more risks, to travel through more dangerous places, etc. (risk compensation, a la bicycle helmets)

2) Few people who carry pepper spray have received appropriate training in its use, and even those who are appropriately trained will take a not-insignificant amount of time to retrieve and effectively deploy it;

3) The person using pepper spray is almost certainly going to fall victim to the pepper spray themselves, hindering their escape from the attacker;

4) The use of pepper spray is likely to anger an attacker, leading to an escalation in violence; even if the attacker has difficulty seeing as a result of the spray, they may still inflict an awful lot of harm on their victim;

5) In the worst case scenario, in fumbling to retrieve and deploy pepper spray, it may be snatched by the attacker and used against the victim.
I was involved in a company in which one of the co-founders used the company debit card as his personal card to purchase food, snacks from vending machines, gas and groceries. He ended up spending almost half of the money we had made from contracts and equity we had put in and refused to pay it back.

We had a choice here, we could have taken it to the police, we could have used the law to our advantage because technically he was embezzling. Instead myself and the other co-founders called for a board meeting, we sat him down and talked to him. We considered his misappropriation of the funds ground enough to fire him from the board/company and considered the money taken to be more than enough compensation for his share of the company (to which he agreed), in return we wouldn't pursue him. This worked out for the better for all of us, since it meant we didn't have to spend time and money on a lawyer/court case and he could walk away without any penalties.

We had him sign a document stating that he no longer held any interest in the company (we had already long deactivated any and all accounts he had on the company network/services and his access to the bank account) and let it go.

Every so often I will still get calls from people looking for references (his name can still be found on Google to be associated with this company), and I will simply state that I have worked with him the past, and he was let go.

Unfortunately due to various reasons it never really did work out and the company fell apart. We made some money, I learned a boat-load and had my first failure. We were trying to bootstrap the company ourselves, so the only thing lost was the equity we all put in to start the company.
Thanks for pointing it out -- I'd glanced over the post and missed that
How did Snapchat get traction?
If this is indeed the case (I heard otherwise, scary stories about the legal immigration gray area, but don't have the time to hunt down relevant URLs at the moment), then why do people put up with this sort of harrassment?

I mean, the land of the free, and all that — and border guards tell you to go to a payphone to get the address of the place you're going to? This just doesn't make sense.
Looks good. Does anyone know what is the monetization approach for this kind of apps in the mobile platforms?
A page on throwww is on Reddit returning "Server error": http://throwww.com/a/3xm (via http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/164cnb/how_abou...). This is very bad PR.

ankit84 a few comments below linked to http://throwww.com/a/41k which is also not showing up.

You could have the best UI in the world--nobody's going to use your service if it randomly deletes their work.
>>most prisoners aren't psychopaths

"In a typical prison population, about 20 percent of the inmates satisfy the Hare definition of a psychopath, but they are responsible for over half of all violent crime."

http://www.hare.org/links/saturday.html

Your claim is true but it is an oversimplification. There is at least a factor of ten over representation, since 1-2% of the total population are psychopaths.

Edit: Considering the large incarceration rates in the USA (more than 1% of the adult population), 10-20% of the total number of psychopaths should be in prison there... Oh my!

Edit 2: Consider 50% of all violent crime committed by 1-2% of the population... Everything else pales.
See kriro's comment, but to address your question:

Do we ever mention geographical location in other articles, as in "this startup from the Eastern US has..."? Nope, we don't.

Yes we do. We say "Northern America". For the US we also talk about the West Coast versus the East Coast, and the Midwest.
Here’s what I learned hanging out with Jason Fried
His point was that the allegorical "free CS2" sign is conspicuously missing in this case. I couldn't find one either...
the CEO/chair/president/etc is legally bound to do this.

No, that's an excuse.

CEOs aren't allowed to steal from shareholders by, e.g., making the CEO's political campaign or mansion a company project. That is illegal. However, CEOs have the legal right to prioritize the long-term health of the company, which they can define to include ethical decency and environmental impact.
The Science of Procrastination and How to Manage It, Animated
I don't see a sign that says "free bread" that is my issue.
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The article is a bit disingenuous. Both sides are not the same, but both do tend to cater to the big media companies pretty readily.
The new style of sales page is not about flowing downwards - its about having one message (getting to school in the US), emphasise what the purchaser will gain, filter out those its not going to benefit, and be consistently repeating the message.

The kids page does this - it sells his sponsorship needs really well.

Everything else is noise.

I cannot point to any research but I am pretty sure that a sales page that

has focus, one message, filters out its non-target audience and clearly and simply repeats its message

is better

than unfocused, off message, vague sales pages.

Whether they flow downwards or not is of secondary order.
I'm a student that uses an iPad with ebooks exclusively, and I much prefer the experience to a physical book.
As others have said, you complain about software problems, and not inherent problems in the hardware device. In fact, GoodReader lets you set up bookmarks so you can flip back and forth. It also lets you open books in multiple tabs, so you can work with a few books simultaneously.

Don't forget another important feature of eBooks - you can search the whole book. You can also annotate without ruining the physical copy ;-).

The only problem is books that aren't well made, for example, PDFs without hyperlinks (like "Equation 2.6.1" is not clickable so you have to flip back).
Consumers pay the hidden costs for the 'free' app ecosystem
I must be getting old. Is the example "boring" page really out of style? I've always found that icon bullet point presentation to be great at conveying all of the up-front information I want in a compact and easily parsable way.

The Prey Project website (http://preyproject.com/), to me, is one of the best designed product pages I've seen. It uses the "boring" style, too..
Yes, node-webkit does that too. Check out: https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/How-to-package...
According to this article, yes: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/11/the-case-f...

Seems to cover a lot of studies, but it could be a "submarine" post. http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
There is a better way: just boil 100-200g of citric acid in a kettleful of water. It will dissolve the limescale with no damage to the heating element.
Pentagon Claims LGBT Sites Are Blocked For ‘Operational Security Reasons’
What's the disingenuous part?
It's not US, it's in Norway. See the link at the top of the blog: Norwegian Startup List. As well, a link to his company's website: http://businessmodelpress.com/
Another version, this time of infinite mario (ported from Notch's Java version to javascript) https://github.com/robertkleffner/mariohtml5

A friend of mine hacked https://github.com/odbol/mariohtml5 with me during arthackday.net/gaffta . We made it a one-button game that you can only die once. It was fun!
What makes mobile retention so difficult
CS50 online was a really awesome experience. I haven't found another online CS course with an equally or more effective teaching style and material.

CS51 looks great, the problem is of course they won't open it up. Harvard has every CS51 lecture, help session, etc. recorded, with all assignments online. The class even makes use of CS50's VM. Harvard Distance education students can access this full material if enrolled. It's a shame it just goes to waste after every semester.

Anyone know the CS51 professor? Maybe they can be convinced to make a CS50-style permanent online offering with a small amount of effort.
A host family does not pay for its student's tuition. A host family will, in exchange for monetary compensation, provide a student with a bed to sleep in, meals, and a means for transportation to and from school and school activities.

However, Marek's use of the word volunteer - "I'm looking for volunteer host family in California for the next school year." - leads me to believe he doesn't want to pay the host family for room and board. We could clear up the confusion by emailing Marek.
Will 3d be useful for mind mapping?
Rebuttal: Why a Rocket IPO Would Indeed be a Big Deal
Designed in USA, crafted somewhere cheaper, and finally sent back to the US so it can be sold to you for a prodigious amount of money. Hell yeah, I'll buy one.
Disney parks introduce RFID bracelets to collect data on visitors' behavior
No, but it also wouldn't kill you to check with the store owner first
Yes, pylab stuff is boring, but it seems like prof. John Guttag loves it. Python and pylab are popular in medical and biology departments, and simulations is what they do a lot.

But the other half of the course, which explains you how classes and methods were implemented (as frames of environment) is important. It comes from early (and much better, in my opinion) courses, based on Scheme.

The main point, I think, is that they teach you that there is no magic in OOP, and if people remain sane (not stuffing 70 methods to a List class) everything is simple and straightforward.

Another realization should be that OOP is not necessary, unless you're doing some very specific kind of programming - simulations. It is not just an opinion, they show you that it is nothing but a bunch of conventions. It doesn't really matter how I glue procedures and data together and how I call them - via this arrangement of pointers or that.

Much more interesting things happen when I have a general way to do it - list structure, first-class citizens and macros, so code is data, but they don't teach Lisp anymore.

They used to teach fundamental concepts and the canonical ways to implement them. Then you can add (or avoid) any complexity you wish.)

At least, after this course you probably could realize that there is much better way to do OOP than Java, and it is already a big deal.
Minimize phone screening, both in length and in depth. I am on a mission to get rid of them altogether

Phone screenings can be very useful to the candidate. I've taken the trouble to travel (via public transportation, so it took quite a few hours out of my day) to a potential employer only to find out within 10 minutes that there is no fit, and the lack of fit would have been obvious within the same 10 minutes of a phone interview.
>> "For the first time in three years of non-stop travel, I wish for a home."

Something I had to learn myself. Something, I did learn and it centered me, gave me context and a lot more happiness.

So I am happy for everybody living that way. If it does please them and does not hurt anyone else. But I know for me, that this is not my style of life.
Men don't always use a penis for rape. Nor do they always use the vagina.

I wouldn't want to risk bloodshed from a rapist. Risk of HIV infection is already high, but made much higher with blood around.

Rape-aXe is an idea that's {at least a decade old} EDIT been around since at least 2005. There's a reason why it's not being produced nor sold.
but he doesn't have a better server! zing
I'm an anti-psychopath, and most people wouldn't consider me empathetic, because I have such a moral extremism about me.

Actually, I think of psychopaths as lawful evil, so the opposite is chaotic good. Chaotic good tend to have strong empathy but a sort of moral extremism/pathological honesty that can override it. In fact, they're willing to be disliked if they believe they're doing good for others or the world.

The chaotic-good anti-psychopath is the anti-authoritarian who insists on Living in Truth (Vaclav Havel's concept) whereas psychopaths revel in manipulation and lies.
Ask HN: What is the biggest growing expenditure of your startup?
What are the biggest cost savers? What did you splurge on accidentally?
If I had to go that far, I'd be more inclined to install Windows- for all those other edge cases when you just have to have a Windows instance.
Holding Down a Piece of Time: Currency in the Digital Age
I think the difference here is knowing what you want. Generally you'll go to Linode because you know what a dedicated server is, you know you want to buy one. You get a comprehensive list of the features because it assumes you know the domain.

I think the newer, 'trendy' flow pages tend to be marketing a solution to a problem you didn't know you had - stuff that's less defined than 'I need a dedicated server'. Perhaps you need to be won over to the idea that you need the product in the first place.
This could be great, but I doubt maths-heavy subjects can be studied effectively with an iPad.

This is kind of sad, because maths-heavy textbooks could be vastly improved if they were properly implemented for tablets.

Man, if I had the time, I'd love to work on a comprehensive solution for this: e.g. an app for studying maths-heavy material by letting you leverage the power of the device while making user interaction at least as good as ordinary paper - and maybe better.
Say, you have a maths or physics textbook to study, and you're about to work on exercises. The solutions to these could then be immediately accessible (no need to enter page numbers), along with an editable list of relevant theorems/quantitative relations or wordy definitions. Wolfram Alpha integration would probably work well for many kinds of problems (e.g. calculus, or more basic algebra), to provide checks to solutions, or even to find solutions that the author didn't provide. I bet this sort of stuff can accelerate learning, and it's just the tip of the iceberg.

If this could be done, then you can imagine a physics student graduating with 4 years' worth of textbooks, in-class notes and each and every exercise he/she worked on all properly accessible on one iPad and preserved for the future. (Currently, lots and lots of instructive exercises and worked examples just get chucked out once the course is done.)

Maths-heavy subjects obviously introduce many formatting issues, and there's always the added layer of difficulty due to the constant need for exercises and solutions. As far as I can see though, many of these problems have already been solved in other contexts (e.g. LaTeX) - so maybe they 'just' need to be cleverly wired together and coated with an innovative UI.

Just a thought.
Me too, but to be fair, it becomes clear what this is about pretty easily. And perhaps the provocative confusion of the name causes more people to click through out of curiousity
Man, how about finishing that jQuery plugins site instead of a redesign? :)
Ask HN: What is the future of mobile advertisements?
agile is particularly hard once you have paying, enterprise customers on any kind of SaaS - they demand stability as they have live, costly processes running over your stuff. any bug, regression, UI change will be met with hostility (down to legal).

that kills a lot of agility as QA suddenly becomes way more important, simply iterating something that isn't working right is simply not possible. and getting rid of technical debt is becoming a very interesting exercise.

as long as you're building that plane on the ground, in the hangar, it's technical nerdvana. but once it's in flight, with paying customer who pay for eternal uptime, you suddenly realize why SaaS is freaking hard - and pure agile does not cut it (pure as in what's out there, I am sure someone here will point out that it perfectly applies in theory).
I find it weird that the only sample application built with it is the old Wunderlist. Wunderlist 2 - which was released a few weeks ago - was developed native for each platform.
Nice update! Much appreciated improvements.

The only thing I noticed that was weird is the search box seems to have different behavior between the instant results and the results you receive when you hit <enter>. Not sure if this is intended, but the instant results seem to be limited to whatever categorical scope you're in.
My takeaway from all this was that the RSC (Republican Study Committee) is somewhat disorganized, not that there is any political shift occurring. I think the tech world turned it into a bigger news story than it should have been because we wanted to believe a shift was occurring.

That said, I do think the younger, more tech-savvy generation of Derek Khanna is much more informed and critical of copyright issues than politicians. A shift will eventually occur.
My absolute favorite on this one is a dialog that pops up if an assertion fails in a .NET program. It has three buttons whose names have a distinguished provenance: Abort, Retry, Ignore.

Those names don't exactly describe what the buttons do. Fortunately, though, someone at Microsoft noticed the problem and fixed it. So now the title bar reads, "Assertion Failed: Abort=Quit, Retry=Debug, Ignore=Continue"
can somebody point me to some good examples of co-founder/partnership legal documents? preferrably free of charge and 100% tweakable of course :)
A while back I wrote a Scheme interpreter in Prolog. I would recommend nobody use it. Nor would I recommend writing Scheme in Prolog.

https://github.com/FigBug/scheme
I think Adobe kind of want people to do that

Also see the big lack of competition in that area (for professional use, I mean).

There's AI and CorelDraw, Inkscape is "good enough" for home use but it barely registers

There's PS, some other apps like Pixelmator, Gimp, etc, but PS is the most used

And then there's InDesign. CorelDraw can do some of its work, still...
Fitbit announces Flex wristband
well, this one is far more impressive

http://www.nytimes.com/skimmer
How would you feel if it was "this 16 yo african american" ?
‘Give Green Cards To People If They Buy A House In The U.S’
Yes we were. We covered them, scribbled on them, wrote errata in, copied pages for people, ripped out pages, occasionally watched nitric acid dissolve them, accidentally set them on fire, sold them and swapped them for other things and occasionally clunted someone round the head with them.
This is similar to the way that Borges' short story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" starts, a fake country is found in an obscure encyclopedia. It ends with the imaginary world supplanting the real one, because it's so much cooler.
That's awesome. I did notice that Last.FM used to go down fairly often but I don't think it has given me any troubles in at least the last several months, luckily. How have you found the quality of the data from Echo Nest compared to Last.FM?

I didn't realize how extensively you use music semantics in tubalr. I'd say that's not as big of a difference between our products as I originally thought.
Mobile Payment Systems: The Era Of A Cashless Future
Though mostly we just go out to Starbucks.
Thanks! I hope you enjoy using it as much as I do.
Comment supprimer la demande de mot de passe pour la corbeille Mac OS X?
If you ask me, making the old one faster would have been much better; I don't go there for the nice design, I go because I have stuff to get done, and I'd rather get that stuff done fast.
I agree completely, I would have hated to have to read my text books on a backlit screen.
It doesn't matter if it's an extreme end of a spectrum of human behaviors. The words are still just as true, and the actions just as alien to normal people. Just like all other personality disorders.