skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the most popular answer is sub-optimal. The problem example given is not an issue if you simply use method overloads. eg just add a new method to the original interface and you break nothing :

interface ILogSink {
Log(DateTime timestamp, string message);

Log(DateTime timestamp, string message, CultureInfo culture);
}
You're replying to a comment that is a reply to the idea of having the wash basin outside the door.
Yes this is great, but it ignores the fact that a corporation is more than a group of people. It enjoys considerable legal benefits in the form of protection of its owners from various liabilities. In the US they also tend to enjoy considerable tax and other legal benefits.

These are all benefits provided by the US government, and by extension every American.

The beef is:

>people should not be deprived of their constitutional rights when they act collectively

A corporation is more than a group of people acting collectively. A corporation is also a group of people who get together and petition their government for special treatment. This is not a bad thing as it is basically what allows any company of more than a handful of people to even exist. But, if that special treatment comes with strings attached (i.e. restricting what that group of people are allowed to do with their collective resources and in the name of that corporation), I personally do not take issue with that.

I have no problem with a group of people freely getting together and wreaking havoc on the American political system. In fact, I encourage it. But I don't think everyone else must subsidize their activity.
I prefer public toilets that have no door at all.
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No. 5 on that list is not valid any longer, fixed font sizes were only an issue with IE6 where fonts specified in pixels wouldn't respond to the user's font size setting.
I think you just wrote the next Cohen Brothers film. ;)
In the UK doors almost always open inwards. From the more public area to the less public area. I always figured this was for safety so you don't hit people in the more public area when opening the door. The comments on the linked site also indicate this could be to stop the possibility of the door being blocked from the outside.

Interestingly, in Finland, in my experience it's the opposite - almost everything opens outwards. Which is surprising considering the much higher probability of being snowed in and not being able to push the door out.
> 10% lower than legal minimal wage and 20% lower that is common in your profession, and openly says this is because of your gender and race

That completely breaks the comparison you're trying to draw. Paying someone less than minimum wage and paying them something different because of their gender or race are all explicitly illegal. A tough deal offered to AIG is none of those things, and it does not follow from "these specific things are illegal" that "any generalization of those things is therefore illegal". If the comparison weren't so speciously constructed, I'd also complain that comparing the behavior of the government towards a multi-billion dollar corporation to the behavior of lenders towards a poor person is pretty lame.

Legality aside, the actual advantage the US government had was that no one else wanted to loan AIG money. That's a pretty good reason to give them tough terms. The US would just be making a sweetheart deal with AIG otherwise. One way to think about it is that the most obvious alternative is for the US not to have bailed them out at all.
Barclays Cuts IT Costs by 90% With ‘Internal Cloud’, Times Says
will using open tech be a real trend in banks?
You're not nearly as harsh about the Java version as I am. The relevant comparison, though, is not "BCC as released" versus "BCC as could hypothetically be implemented by someone with a Jobsian level of attention to detail", it is "BCC as released" versus "45 minutes with a straightedge, construction paper, and incipient carpal tunnel syndrome."

I totally missed the resize thing for the first several versions for the same reason my customers did: I don't resize things.
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I happen to have had a Bloomberg terminal on my desk the day AIG was bailed out. Lets just say I have a pretty good idea of what AIG meant to the economy.

For the same reason the government gave AIG $187 billion, the banks would have figured out how to craft a deal such that to the public it appeared that AIG was a viable financial entity.
I don't know how to take this (joke, irony or genuine) but that's a good example of thinking outside the box vs focusing too much on the apparent cause of the problem. Designing the restroom so that there's a corner obscuring the view solves all problems.
That's an interesting visualization of every day in the year. Anybody know if there is a standard name for them and/or any good tools for generating them in JS?
I'm disappointed. I thought this was going to be about why stall doors always open toward the actual toilet. And I thought the accepted answer was going to be so the user can hold the broken door closed with his foot.
I've switched to Aurora for the past month and it's noticeably faster than FF18b on my older hardware.
I usually avoid using the handle and open the door by pulling on the top of the door. Even when I open a door, I try to pick a place that's least likely to be used by other people.
That makes for a nice sound bite but how do you decide it? I'm not even opposed to the idea (I'm overwhelmingly in favor, actually) but what mechanism is used to establish "too big to fail?" I realize that we can't legislate on the basis of "unforeseen consequences," but legislation by bumper sticker slogan is just as bad.
for toilet, people usually hurry in, but not so hurry out.
You think a crack addict is a rational actor?

From the article:

>While the driver kept the car idling, a heavily tattooed, spiky-haired detective named Alexander Mallari jumped out holding a laundry bag filled with a few bottles of Tide and lots of bonus items—a dozen pairs of Philips earphones, a dozen or so bottles of Victoria’s Secret perfume. Mallari’s mission was simple: He’d enter the shop, disclose that the items were stolen, and try to unload them.

>Ten minutes later, Mallari emerged with an empty bag and a small wad of money in his pocket. He was offered just $30—a pittance by the standards of the Tide trade. “That’s a true crackhead price right there,” Thompson said.

This is the drug that brought us "smurfing" - addicts would earn drugs by taking very many blister packs of OTC medication and popping the pills out of the blister packs to be used in making drugs.

Bob fences stolen goods from drug addicts because the margins are so good - and the margins are good because drug addicts just want enough money to get more drugs.
Definitely interesting, and I'll probably try it at some point should I find both the time and the inclination to do so. Admittedly, I paid for that application because I didn't want to implement it myself. But I'm glad there are some building blocks in place that would make rolling my own a relatively easy task. Thanks for the suggestion!
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To channel money through a source or by an intermediary.
I have 3 kids (singleton+twins). If my kids are not counted as consumers, then I hit this number by mid-year point each year (and we do use donated clothing from friends). If you count my wife (we buy under the same cards), 130-ish would be about accurate aggregated.
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People are addicts. They don't have cash. They get cash by burgling houses; mugging people; shoplifting tide (and other products); or prostitution.

Getting cash by shoplifting has advantages over burglary, mugging, and prostitution.

People selling crack are criminals. They have some organisation and are usually involved in other crime. Once you have the network and are committing crime selling Tide is just more profit.
if you have a manual misadventure and end up with poo on your finger, do you really want to be dancing out into public with it held out in front of you?
https://twitter.com/gannonburgett/status/288463363053334528
"teenage mutant puppeteers turtles" doesn't quite have the same ring...
sorry but that

Remove 'www' subdomain

is just harmful. force 'www.' instead. why? shitty URL parsers, marketing people and DDOS attacks, that's why.

let's imagine you write a

- blog post
- blog comment
- press release (distributed via free and paid press release services)
- mail
- word
- forum post
- ...
- ...

if you have a non-www URL it's a game of chance, your in text "whatever.tld" domain will get transformed into a clickable link. yes, a lot of modern URL parses will transform whatever.com into a clickable link, some will even transform whatever.in into a useable link, but a lot of old, shitty, idiotic, strange URL parsers won't. and well, a big part of the web, i would say most of it, is not up to date. so using non WWW will lead to a loss of inlinks and to a poor user experience of users who want to reach your site, but can't click on the in-text-domain (they need to copy/paste instead)

and the situation will get worse with the new commercial TLDs to come.

yes, you can - in most cases - force a domain to link conversion in most CMS if you write http:// in front of it. but well, in a promo text most marketing/pr people will not write "and http://whatever.tld has a new feature to give people endless bliss" they will write "whatever.tld has a new ....".

oh, and by the way. whenever a journalist will write a piece about you, in print or online, they will always (or at least in a lot of cases) write www in front of your domain anyway. yeah, that's not an issue if you have redirects in place, just annoying if you have an non-www webproperty.

plus

having a subdomain is another layer of defenses agains DDOS attacks. see this discussion on hacker news from may 18 2011 (my birthday by the way) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2575266

go for www.
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but without a door, you can't guarentee that the stall is private, and anyone could just walk in while you do your business - a rather unpleasant thought.
sorry, saw this too late, please see my comment above https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5025293
that's pretty common in india, both, as you say, because it saves overall floor space, and because it lets people who want to simply wash their hands not have to vie for space with people who are using the toilets.
I'm tempted to fork this, change name to my daughter's name and frame it or make a Tee. Not sure if the author would think of it as disrespectful.
Bathroom doors are lockable so that the bathroom can be closed; ordinary single doors that can be locked swing away from the locked-out side so that the jamb and hinges are on the correct side.
> I have no problem with a group of people freely getting together and wreaking havoc on the American political system. In fact, I encourage it. But I don't think everyone else must subsidize their activity

So, what are your opinions on mandatory union dues, and on whether recipients of government assistance should be allowed to vote?
Any patches are quite welcome.
Oh fucking great, so now we can have the DEA confiscate your car because you have some laundry detergent in the trunk.

The last half of the article detailing the "detective work" (read: harassing destitute drug addicts) made me sick.
Except that Bitcoin isn't actually anonymous. If you have a wallet address, you can trace the blockchain, and most (if not all) exchanges that transfer BTC to dollars, or vice versa, require a lot of personal information that can be tied to that wallet.

I'm not too sure where the "bitcoin is anonymous" misinformation comes from, sadly.
I guess it is better to have both. A sink inside and a sink outside.
Presumably using the same metrics and observations that go into the decision to bail out these organizations?
> Side note: those "thank you" commercials feel so terribly disingenuous;

Not to mention misdirected. The implication is that the American people are the ones being thanked, as if they had any choice in the matter.
Great comment.

Everyone should read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Autobiography_of_Benjamin_F...

Many good quotes and lessons therein.
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While it's not the main problem he's talking about, I think Marco Arment blogged a related solution for this. Here's the link, http://www.marco.org/2012/02/25/right-vs-pragmatic. It's a great post guys, I encourage you to read it. :)
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now add html5 http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+coldfusion%2C+clo... (yeah, i know it's not a programming language, but hey it's basically javascript in recruiter speak)
I was about to say that it reminds me of the Haiku's I've been collecting:

http://timelessrepo.com/haiku

Or Tribute (that I wrote):

http://timelessrepo.com/tribute
Firefox version numbers could hardly be any more meaningless.
you are right to be concerned tho - despite the data originally being public, a collected view of public data (that wasn't easy to collect previously) can give new information.

The best way to solve this is if via some sort of toggle to turn off the view. Or, with more engineering effort, toggle each individual contributions that you don't want in the collated view.
I think they're talking about the big room containing all the stalls, not the individual stalls themselves.
> Alice goes to grocery gets laundry detergent;

No, Alice steals laundry detergent. The jugs are going for $5-$10 on the street, but $20 in the store. Nobody is buying the stuff from the store unless they're doing laundry.
This probably doesn't work, but couldn't the government have let AIG fail and just focused on returning something to it's creditors?
How are the union dues made mandatory? That's important. And, if there is government involvement in that, is there also some regulation involving how unions are expected to behave? Also important.

I don't have a problem with recipients of government assistance giving up their right to vote in principal, although America would cease to be a democracy at that point. However I don't think the likely outcome (disenfranchisement of the poor, eventual oppression without any means of placation of said poor, probable rebellion) would be good for society, so I don't think we should do it.

Keep in mind, I'm not saying "corporations receive special treatment and so shouldn't be allowed to contribute to political campaigns". I'm saying "corporations receive special treatment, and I have no problem with putting stipulations on that". All I'm arguing against here is the meme that a corporation is "just a group of people". It is not.
This has nothing to due with obfuscation but the malleability of ruby itself, read the required file he made a DSL.
You're misunderstanding both the issue and the motivations of the person.

This person is not trying to avoid a ticket for riding alone in the carpool lane. He does not want to avoid that ticket. If he avoids the ticket because a judge accepts his logic and agrees that corporations are people, he has failed.

This person is trying to demonstrate that corporations are not in fact people by use of an absurdity, and probably intends to take the case as high in the judicial system as he can. He wants to get the judiciary to rule that no, corporations aren't people because he disagrees with the recent Citizens United ruling, which found that corporations were people, and therefore had free speech rights and therefore could make practically unlimited contributions to PACs.

It's not my personal politics, but some people believe trying to reduce the influence of corporate money in politics would help a lot of people and make a huge difference. This guy is not at all the time-wasting weasel you think he is.
What if everyone all thinks like that and pick the same spot as you.
There is no legitimacy to that claim. They did not have to take the deal. The government did not owe them anything.

Maybe there was something about the bailout being really a Goldman bailout, and if someone can prove actual corruption there, maybe there could be grounds for the Government to sue Goldman.

But there is no reason here the Government would owe AIG anything out of this.
I'm guessing the washrooms in your area don't have sanitary paper(toilet paper).
why is there nothing on lego's site about this? (i'm assuming there isn't; google doesn't turn anything up and none of the blog posts and press articles i can find link directly to lego)
I did Ticketmaster's file compression. Denny gave me a magazine with LZW. I screwed-around with many good ideas to combine with LZW, but that was just a white-trash waste of time. I had the sense to keep it simple, in the end, with straight-up LZW.
In France, virtually all public areas have doors that open outwards.
To the best of my knowledge, there is no law that make this mandatory, but the reasoning is that in case of an event that requires evacuation, doors that open inwards would trap people inside, whereas doors that open outwards would let them go outside.
I'd be interested in learning more from an armchair. Any suggestions? I'm pretty familiar with martial art philosophy in general, so it's more the specifics that I'm interested in.
I'm a fan of using cut or sed or awk and ending it with:

| sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r | head

to get a nice top 10 whatevers in the whoosit
Yeah navigation via A* / other traditional algorithms is almost always a no-go in Battlecode because of the way the bytecode limitation works. You almost always have to create some extremely custom pathfinding algorithm tuned to the constraints of the engine.

The simple algorithms are stuff like bugnav (walk in your desired direction until you see a wall then attempt to trace around it), but you'll find that even in something as simple as bugnav, there are a _ton_ of edgecases you have to account for in a discrete implementation that results in robots tracing around each other / stuck in infinite loops, etc.

Our 2012 bot uses a special implementation of the discrete tangentbug algorithm that allows us to precompute squares during rounds which we have extra bytecodes to spare[1]

It's probably _the_ most complex part of our codebase, and the person who wrote it doesn't even really understand how it works anymore.

[1] https://bitbucket.org/Cixelyn/bcode2012-bot/src/default/team...
So going by the number being sought (I haven't bothered to read the complaint), the government should only have taken an 85% stake instead of a 92% stake? This seems like an instance of chronic denial by Greenberg and his remaining admirers - anything to put the blame on someone else.
yea but that doesn't mean that Earth's configurations are the only ones that yield life. example: the role water plays here on earth might not even be necessary in other chemical/physical systems, or could be played by other chemicals given different gravitational/atmospheric pressures, etc

and i don't think there is anything about earth that is unsusual as far as planetary systems go
For a lot of programmers, or at least for me, there is a mental wall that comes up whenever attempting to analyze the responses of other humans to one's own creations. Scaling that wall is not impossible, but it's difficult and draining, and the same mental effort has to be expended every time the wall is approached. I think when people are saying that Patrick is uniquely good at marketing, they're saying that for him, the wall is not there, or at least he's a lot better at climbing it repeatedly to iteratively improve his marketing.
All unlicensed passengers would create more traffic by taking a taxi alone. I think the only ones not allowed in the carpool lane should be a taxi with one passenger (of course, in addition to the lone drivers).

However, you could extend the logic further by saying that a lone taxi driver looking for a better fare causing a second taxi to pick up the unlicensed driver causes more traffic than a taxi with one passenger. So I've neatly saved the current carpool lane rules.
What about Nike vs. Kasky? Nike claimed it could lie as its expression of Free Speech (as a person), but Kasky thought otherwise. Supreme Court didn't decide so it's still up in the air. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Kasky)

The issue seems pretty important to me.
If you've ever worked in a union shop in a state that isn't right to work, you have no say in the matter of union dues. If 50% + 1 vote to enact a union you're required to pay the dues.This is of course different in right to work states where you can have so called split shops.
[control-p] then ;)
> By hanging onto this idea of no compromises, it seems like the Surface Pro will be a mediocre mix between a laptop and a tablet that doesn’t particularly excel at being either.

Nail on the head.
Ask HN: Favorite iOS Game Revenue Model
I am building an iOS game, and was wondering what the community thought of the different revenue models.

Here are the three I am considering:

-One time purchase.

-Free, completely based on many microtransactions.

-Free, demo with full game as in-app purchase

One time purchase.

- Reach Smaller Audience

- Full experience without bothering user

- Customer must buy before trying

- Fixed profit per user

Free, completely based on many microtransactions.

- Reach Larger Audience

- Must bother user constantly for small in-app purchases.

- Possibility of high profit per user.

Free, demo with full game as in-app purchase.

- Reach Larger Audience

- Less annoying than microtransactions.

- Customer has tried and enjoys enough to purchase.

- Fixed profit per user (possibility of higher price than one time)

I would love input on the ideal model for maximum revenue and app experience.
> Once it's thoroughly demonized, they'll start going after people with bitcoin balances

How do you determine that someone has bitcoin balance?

> They'll probably also focus on methods for converting Bitcoin back into mainstream currencies.

This sounds more viable strategy: attack the exchanges. After all, the value of bitcoins comes from the fact that it is liquid - easily convertible to existing currencies and back.

However even shutting the exchanges down would require global cooperation from goverments and probably heavy internet censorship as well. That is because many exchanges don't even need any ties to the existing banking infrastructure, and can operate from any country.
What interests me more is: Why are the free/occupied indicators on those doors always so small?

Especially since the light in rest rooms are usually insufficiently bright to distinguish between red and green.
True, I guess I am thinking more from a personal interest perspective, like you would glance down a rescue time breakdown, rather than a telling the world. So one possibility would be to have your personal profile view show both.
Well the cost of the iPads is a fixed cost, and they'll run them as long as possible. The savings won't ever cover the costs, but we're also missing figures for how it changed IT spending (did they need new machines? Have they avoided them?). It's an expensive proposition that's for sure, but so were computer suites 15 years ago and they had those when I was a wee lad.
So how would the recovery look if you measured it using the official methodology for computing the CPI-U in the 80's and 90's?

25% unemployment rate, up to 10% inflation... Shocking.

See http://www.shadowstats.com/