skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RIP (Remove it Permanently) typically nukes those just fine, though you may have to re-nuke it as the page is redesigned and xpaths change.
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Yup, most people don't buy Apple products. Still doesn't quite spell dooooom.
Sorry, I missed the footnote. Well, then that is somewhat a bad point, but... it is ultimately up to the company to figure out who they are and what image they want to represent, and saying that a female marketer came up with the idea (Is Annie Dirk an iron-fist controller of all ideas from her company?) is still no excuse for the company's executive team to be mindless in their company's image.

We could also point fingers at the fashion industry as well. There is no other industry that I can think of that perpetually exploits women yet is full of women workers. Fashion schools aren't exactly male-dominant.
Every year or two I have a pen crisis and try out a few new ones. Last few years I've sort of settled on the Uni-ball 207 Micro as my default. $16 for box of 12. http://www.amazon.com/uni-ball-Retractable-Micro-Point-61255...
Is it really a DSL or just an expressive interface?
Did you post that link to the 1776 NJ Constitution under the assumption that nobody would actually read it? Because it is more or less the opposite of what you claim:

* It contains no bill of rights

* It explicitly leaves intact the law of England

* It concerns itself primarily with officeholding (available only to those with considerable fortunes for the time under this Constitution) and voting (available only to those exceeding a monetary threshold)

* It establishes a freedom of religion only for Protestants (thinking this might have been some semantic subtlety of the 1770's that I didn't get, I looked into this further and found that not only does "Protestant" mean exactly what it says here, but that other states explicitly forbade Catholics and atheists from holding office at all in their 1776-1778 Constitutions).

I gather you refer to the modern New Jersey Constitution when you praise the additional rights it grants. I don't think 'rayiner is talking about modern Constitutional law; something about how we resolved slavery in the 1800s suggests that maybe he understands that states no longer have unlimited power.
There is a lot to have fun with here. I would imagine though that in a lot of NFL coaching rooms there has to be a balance between coaching and analysis.

Like someone else said, it's about match-ups.

Semi-related :
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/03/polian-think...
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Inside the Anonymous Hacking File on the Steubenville 'Rape Crew'
The legality or lack of it really is irrelevant to Jack Daniels. If someone brings the jack back into the county, then sells it, that is not Jack Daniels problem.
On the other hand, and I certainly don't know how this works, I don't think the CEO or President of many firms personally okay each ad in a campaign.

They give the marketing department a budget and say, there, go, spend that money.

So the interaction here is between a bunch of marketing people, we don't know the genders of many of them, we don't know what their relationship to tech is, we don't know what their relationship to the execs is.
A trick that Neil Gaiman mentioned, and I quite like, is to alternate your ink colour each day. That way you can quickly see how much progress you've made.
Ordered November 27th, still waiting :(
He must have been aware of the convenient double meaning.

We all know that if he had been born Larry Bartowski, it would not have been called BartowskiRank.
If you have a daughter this is so scary! Thanks for posting.
There is an easy way out of this. If the government seizes any of your assets prior to finding you guilty, they should have to lend you the market value of the assets at no interest solely for the purposes of putting on your defense. If you then lose, you never get the stolen assets back (which go back to the owner) and you continue to owe the government whatever money you borrowed, which they collect as though it were unpaid taxes.

This will understandably result in many defendants borrowing money which they will never be able to repay because they are then sentenced prison, but that's the cost of doing business. Call it de facto adequate funding of the public defender's office.
A cool idea - fonts to help dyslexics read - becomes a legal battle
... or not: http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-gas-goes-below-absolute-z...
Like Sailor. Damn they're expensive. But they're also the best.
Not so much the timeline, but the constantly changing "Sort:[most recent / top stories]" setting is frustrating.

I really only ever want that to be on most recent.

My other problem with Facebook interface is that I just don't know where to go to "do stuff" - eg: if I want to unlike a company page. There's a bunch of little icons in the top blue bar (10 clickable things in that bar), and then there is the list down the LHS, and the almost hidden follow / report this post button.

I do like the fact that it's being refined; I notice the occasional difference. And the new privacy announcements were clear enough.

I guess I don't use FB like most people use FB. I only have less than 50 friends and I don't like a bunch of products or companies.
Nobody tell management about this.
While I'm not an expert here (thank god), I believe D&O insurance is one of those things where the insurance companies pays after the fact, when you file a claim. So instead of sending you a bill for the lawyer's fees, they likely would just dispute your claim and not reimburse you.

EDIT: Huh, it seems that although it's rare, yes, sometimes your D&O insurer will try to recoup costs by sending you a bill. Look at this:
http://www.dandodiary.com/2012/11/articles/d-o-insurance/do-...

Interesting, the article says many (presumably non-criminal) securities cases settle because companies are afraid an adverse judgement would void their D&O insurance. I wonder if anyone ever pleads nolo contendere in a plea bargain just to maintain D&O coverage.
That's how science goes: a phenomenon is observe, an hypothesis is formulated, and then it is tested. As it isn't possible to test economic policies on countries, economy often deals with hypothetical models whose limits aren't tested.
BMI is an absolute crap metric. It's vaguely useful for populations (and even there serious objections have been raised). It's utterly inappropriate for individuals, particularly when ready alternatives exist (waist size, for example, is a more robust predictor, despite its own vagaries).

For individuals, BMI suffers in that it generally understates obesity in unfit, but "BMI-compliant" individuals, while overstating obesity in fit, BMI-noncompliant individuals. Which means that interventions are not indicated for those who would benefit and are indicated for those who would not.

Generally, there's also the issue that there are large natural variations in healthy human weights, and no single target or designator will be appropriate for all. Fitness is multidimensional, and any attempt to reduce it to a single metric will likely fail.

My lay recollection is that slightly higher-than-prescribed BMI is positively associated with greater life expectancy. Rationales vary, but among them, sick or ill individuals typically have lower-than-average bodyweights (skewing life expectancy down for low BMI scores), and athletes typically have elevated BMIs. Studies of Scandinavian Olympic athletes shows a pronounced lifetime mortality benefit to having competed in games (which tends to balance out the notoriously poor life expectancies of US professional athletes, particularly football, many associated with cumulative injuries sustained).
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Lawyers are an essential component of society.

However the law is, as my favourite legal blogger says, "a broadsword, not a scalpel".
You are correct, and I stand corrected. They didn't invent it, they just made it what we today know as Santa Claus. In other news, Pepsi is known to have invented festivus. News at 11. :)
Perl is Free Software's COBOL, and That's Ok
Certainly increased mortality would be the obvious explanation for low population grow absent birth-control...

[Which makes H-G society sound rather less peachy than the original article seems to have been claiming...]
I would like to see a study that controls for meat production methods, particularly prophylactic antibiotic and hormone treated CAFO raised beef and pork, vs. grass-fed / free range animals raised without antibiotics and hormones, under organic certification.

One set of studies specifically noted precursors of colon cancer conditions immediately following ingestion of red meat, with seems like a bad thing.

That said, I'm cautious but not convinced by these studies. I eat beef, though not daily.
MDMA in a clean, pure form is absolutely the most therapeutic thing you can share with yourself and your spouse. It does wonders and the positive effects can be felt for months afterwards, but it has --has-- to be clean. If you ever have an opportunity to try it don't pass it up.
Like the spirit of the blog. I'd love to see the following:
1. Common misconceptions about planning code
2. Real-life examples of how our pre-shipping hypotheses are often wrong
3. How to be smarter about optimizing post the initial feedback

All the best with the blog
Those were my exact initial thoughts. I am surprised this isn't the most highlighted aspect to be honest.
If the CA issues certs like that they actually are compromised.
That's just a post-it note with "Home Premium 8" written in blue pen.
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On your about page, you have about 16 different unsolicited marketing messages. You coul dhave just written a nice about page about who you are. But you chose to spam (by your definition) people with every link to your business.

I wouldn't go as far as calling those unsolicited marketing messages -- This is his personal 'about' page, and most web publishers with their own site include such information.

And the 60x20px Typekit image is hardly as intrusive as receiving daily unsolicited emails about irrelevant products and services.
Yeah, AT&T likes to sending texts to confirm my monthly payment at the ungodly hour of 2 PM. For some reason, these idiots assume that everybody works 9-5 and nobody works nights.
Adding 3D effect to flat Google Maps with CSS shaders.
Hire, the author of the article availabe now.
Better idea: Get lawyers to accept retainers which are refunded if not used after a number of years, and which is meanwhile invested at interest in market securities. Then you just put a good chunk of your retirement fund into the "retainer" and get it back before you retire if all goes well.

Naturally the lawyers would have to figure out whether (or how best) you could do something like that in such a way that the money couldn't be seized.
I had to google to see what that meant. It appears that some moderator is a bit touchy regarding the Go programming language, because of all the comments I've made that's the only one that was modded as negative.
This is why I use yepnope [0].

"yepnope.js has the capability to do resource fallbacks and still download dependent scripts in parallel with the first."

[0] http://yepnopejs.com/
It varies from country to country.

Trademarks can be a bet-the-business problem. Best to see a trademark lawyer. Shop around, there are lots. I prefer small law firms as you have a better chance of getting personal attention from a principal.
Right column, top.
I'm curious what their "web" presence looked like in 1978, which is the initial copyright date listed at the bottom of that page.
It's not thought crime, because it's coupled with action. They didn't just think "bad thoughts" they engaged in a whole operation they thought was in violation of the law.

The "crime" = "action" + "state of mind" conceptualization is the result of the Model Penal Code (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_Penal_Code), which is an extremely well thought-out systematization of the centuries old principles of Anglo-American penal law.

Ango-American law has always placed a very heavy emphasis on state of mind, though the Model Penal Code is more rigorous about applying the principle. However, it stops far short of punishing thought crimes, because it always requires a guilty state of mind to be accompanied by action.

As for why this is rational, think deeply about the attempted murder example. Consider A plots to murder B, and with that plot in mind buys a gun and heads for B's house. The police catch him and charge him with attempted murder because: 1) he intended to kill B; 2) he took a substantial step towards carrying out his goal. Why do we punish A? Nobody has actually gotten hurt, and B might not even know he was in danger. Moreover, say A unknowingly bought a defective gun that wouldn't shoot. Is he still guilty of attempted murder? Yep. Why? Because he had the required guilty state of mind but not only that he took action while having that guilty state of mind. We don't punish the state of mind by itself, we punish the convergence of guilty state of mind and action.

In this case, the people: 1) intended to smuggle illegally-taken lobster tails; and 2) actually imported the tails. The secret code they used and their failures to report are evidence that they knew or believed they were engaging in illegal activity. Should we punish them? Why not? How is this situation any different? The fact that the tails are legal under Honduran law is merely a fact like the inoperable gun in the previous example.
>>They give the marketing department a budget and say, there, go, spend that money.

I don't know how this company works. I used to be a marketing director and I know it didn't work the way you describe at all. No manager is an island and everyone has to answer to everyone somewhere along the line.

I will argue that a CEO should be well-aware of what their company is and what it represents. I don't fault the company in the article for okaying the image portrayed in the ad, though. It is truly their own decision.
> Do people need to be told everything?

No. But I like reading about personal experiences and the little details.
I use the following pens (all of them are 0.38mm/0.4mm/0.5mm):

- Zebra Sarasa (0.4mm)

- uniball signo 0.38mm

- Pilot Hi-Tec-C

- Pilot G2 Pro (0.5mm)
Money Google spent is close to the sum of what all other companies above spent. Talk about not doing evil.
Slightly more severe than typical - two words are duplicated.
Jim Weirich derives the Y combinator in pure Ruby here:

http://vimeo.com/45140590

EDIT: Correct video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FITJMJjASUs

It is some of the ugliest ruby code I have ever seen, but it was something amazing to watch happen live.
If you go to Nicaragua, and buy what you think is heroin, and smuggle it into the country and it turns out to be baking soda, is it a "thought crime" to punish you for drug smuggling?
An absurdly clever thermal imaging camera
Do you have a better source? Not being snarky, but a couple of sentences with no cites isn't particularly compelling.

Especially when he starts by saying it's a rough estimate, and finishes by saying that the pay differential does exist, and is partly caused by bias and prejudice.

> Q: I’d be interested to know your thoughts on the feminisation of poverty and the male-female wage differential. How much of that is due to career choice?

> A: Rough estimate: About 50 percent of the differential has to do with different career choices made by women and men. Twenty-five percent involves greater time women spend on care-taking of children and elderly relatives. The other 25 percent is due to bias and prejudice in the labor market.
They're talking about what happens when you load an infected jquery.min.js from cache when you get back to your home wifi network.
13 Promising East Coast tech startups to watch in 2013
So pinterest is a fail?
That has been my combo for a long time. I've switched though to the uniball sign 0.38mm and zebra sarasa 0.4mm which I seem to enjoy more (non scratchy, nice ink flow)
No one needs to be told everything. But everyone needs to be told something.

It was only a couple of years ago that I discovered the benefits of writing on paper vs. computer. I needed to be told, back then.
Right, when the impact is calamity, and the probability is high, risk is astronomical. Which is why I'm bothering to make this point in the first place. See the other arguments in this thread as to why, with an intelligent AI, what it starts out controlling is unlikely to have any bearing on what it is capable of gaining control of... In risk management terms this is about as serious as it gets.
Seems like a cool idea. I can't do anything without giving an email though, so consequently I didn't do anything. Might be nice to let people see what you have to offer before they hand over their personal info.
1. Notice that Ray Kurzweil mentions provoke flamewars.

2. Ask if Kurzweil is "full of shit".

3. Make sure to work "Ask PG" into the title, that's always good for a handful of upvotes.

Where're the reddit "TrollympicsJudge" novelty accounts when you need them?
They're not made-up things. They're real on-the-books laws and crimes, often used to convict someone who's been deemed undesirable at some level, though the "real" issue cannot be directly addressed.

Look to retrials of persons who've been found innocent of crimes by state courts but are then re-tried in Federal court on related, but distinct charges. Vagrancy laws, sit-lie laws, and the like are used against the homeless (who may in fact be creating other problems). Al Capone was convicted not of racketeering, murder, conspiracy, or smuggling, but of income tax evasion. Stories of traffic stops resulting in drugs charges for incidental possession of prescription narcotics are rife. The kids-for-cash scandal in Wilkes-Barre resulted in juvenile detention stays for minor school offenses, on account of a corrupt relationship between two judges (Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan) and the manager of the for-profit detention facility. Similar situations exist in Texas.

The Founders had strong reasons to put restrictions on government in general, both state and federal, due to their experience with both local (crown governors) and national (monarch) levels during the Colonial era.
It's an effing mess! With way too much windows 8 inspiration. No way facebook will look like this!
Ask HN: "Hacker" friendly products for managing finances?
Is anyone aware of a good product for managing finances that is hacker-friendly -- specifically, I'd like one that provides an API that allows me to automate custom queries and have more control over the categorization of expenses.

I know there are security concerns since this is financial data we're talking about, but stripe did such a good job of providing a hacker-friendly product for accepting payments -- I'd love it if there were something like this for managing my finances.

Any ideas? What do other hackers use to manage their finances?
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Wi-Fi, WiGig Alliances to wed, breed 60GHz progeny
While soap may not bring about intense discussions about its design, and one might say that it is less designed than the UI of the app the article talked about, the ideals that art and design revolve around are wholly intertwined. Art and design talk about things that would seem ridiculous and esoteric from an engineering standpoint (thus the primary argument of the article that none of the changes made any difference to the usefulness of the app). These are things that hold little value outside of the face that they communicate the purpose and intent of the app or button better than a different size or proportion. There is a reason that design schools have such a close relationship with the art community, while designers don't always maker art, and a bar of soap may not seem to be art at all, disconnected from its purpose, the design of a simple bar of soap can be put in a gallery and be viewed as art. (see the toilet that started the Dada art movement).

Design is not art in and of itself, but you can't talk about one, without talking about the other.
On mobile devices it's pretty hard / impossible to setup adblocking; as far as I know mobile browsers don't accept extensions (Chrome for Android or iOS certainly doesn't, as well as Safari, for instance).

Blocking ads at the router level lets you escape ads on any device.
Seems looking like the new myspace?
Also, does that mean iOS and Android both fail with their grid designs for app buttons. I would be interested if someone can find an actual UX article with solid facts.
Let the usability wars begin!
"A work of art is created by definition to be beautiful."

Why is the always treated as truth whenever non-artists discuss art? This is a backwards, 19th century era concept. Art broke out of this generalization over a hundred years ago.
Okay, well thank you, then for the information.
I'm half way through the article... and I still haven't figured out what the future looks like. Anyone could summarize it here?
Unhelpful recommendation: create your own and get them to acquire you.
High school football players are treated like Gods in small-town America, and are allowed a shocking amount of leeway in terms of behavior. It's sad to see people turn so irrational over a game of teenage boys knocking one another over and playing with a ball. I never personally understood the fascination, which certainly didn't do me any social favors when I was in high school.
The issue is not relatively minor, although I think the author wrote this article in good faith not realizing how non-minor it is.
I'm surprised that the largest solar project is only worth $2.5 billion.
Very cool, I like it and definitely don't find it useless because it's a nice product. I made one:
http://phrase.it/show/wMQYy
There was a pretty good reddit IAMA (edit: not at all) on the subject.

Umm... here-

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/11cd1v/updated_hello_e...
>If the mobster has allegedly ill-gotten gains and the government wants to freeze them, then $5M of those gains would be placed in escrow; if the defendant is acquitted or later proves that the money was earned legitimately, then it would be deposited back into the public defenders’ fund.

I read this wrong the first time, but the thing I thought it said is an I idea I'm now very happy with: We should make all asset seizures from guilty defendants (which don't have identifiable victims) go to the public defenders' office.

That would in one fell swoop provide a significant amount of funding for the chronically underfunded public defenders' office, and deprive law enforcement of the perverse incentive to engage in de facto theft by asset seizure solely for the purposes of padding their own budgets (because at present that is often where it goes).
Why do you assume lobbying == doing evil?
Interesting to look at the product that he was working on: http://www.google.com/enterprise/mapsearth/products/coordina...

Based on the screenshots, it looks like something developed in-house for Google security guards. I wonder if Google can actually put the right kind of expertise and resources into selling these sort of specific IT solutions to non-technical organizations.