skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Entrepreneurs Beware: In the US, legal equality is myth
This is NOT intended to be a political discussion. Yes, it can certainly take a deep and ugly dive in that direction. Let's have a discussion about how entrepreneurs can protect themselves in this environment.

Legal equality only exists when there's a good impedance match between the parties involved in litigation.

If you, as a small to medium entrepreneur, tangle with a large entity you could very well be screwed. It really doesn't matter who is right. He who has more money can prevail in spite of the facts by causing financial pain. You either give-up or go broke fighting. You are not receiving the same kind of "justice" they can effectively buy.

The same applies (sadly, apparently Aaron's case) to situations in which the government sinks it's teeth into you. The whole idea of government-provided public defenders sounds great. Then you realize that it is the equivalent of a call-center support person who's script always seems to call for erasing the operating system. In other words, not a very good option when your life and liberty are at stake.

Again, I don't want to have this become a discussion about politics. I think we can generally agree that our country is navigating an incredible surreal political period when it seems impossible to get even the most sensible things done. Nobody is going to fix this until a significant tipping point of some sort is reached. It's the "waiting for Superman" syndrome. Don't count on it.

When the justice you get is directly proportional to how much money you can spend you can't really call it justice. I'm not sure we can even call it "the rule of law".

So, then, how does one protect life, property and the good-old pursuit of happiness when faced with the potential for being on the wrong side of this equation? What should entrepreneurs do (or not)? How have you dealt with it yourself?
The program in question copies data from stdin, does the barest minimum of preprocessing, statically remaps all characters, and writes to stdout...

Why on earth is this a demonstration of what Haskell can do effectively? There's no room to exploit anything interesting about type level reasoning.
Will internet personality @sarahaustin be there?
"The Cuckoo's Egg" is one of the defining books of history of the Internet. Anybody in this field really should read it, and it is an exciting story.
It's a salutation based on his position, not an award.
A lot of Jiro's values are in Japanese society too, so you can get an idea of those ancient values that define that society from the documentary. That was what I was trying to emphasize with my comment.

But yes, I agree, the circumstances were very important and without them Jiro wouldn't be the way he is.

Thanks for the response!
Windows 8 Pro upgrade to jump from $40 to $200 on Feb. 1
Yet they do. Browser vendors are implementing new extensions all the time, and arguably for better reasons than people changing the language.
Robotic Strollers, Creativity, And Baby Exoskeletons
There are many more ways of responding to a "f* you" than, telling them they are not very nice. He just drove a customer away with all his responses. A few hints from a blog post I wrote on dealing with angry customers just two weeks ago: http://www.olark.com/blog/2013/how-i-chat-part-3-dealing-wit...
My opinion: People don't read individual glyphs, they read words. The amount of variety between different glyphs and other factors such as kerning which help the letters combine to make an elegant whole word. A classic example of how not to do this is blackletter; all the glyphs are so similar that at a glance, the text looks like variable length blocks of repeated characters. It is also very hard to read.

In my experience, many computer fonts also fall into this trap. By trying to establish a consistent theme or feel to the glyphs, they iron out all the letters' individual quirks that make them easy to distinguish and recognise, thus readability suffers.

I think in terms of readability, the sans/serif issue is largely irrelevant (as the article might suggest).
I hope that was sarcasm because it sounded very narcissistic.
Politics helped get us into this mess, we're going to need it to get out.
This hardly seems worth asking for. Do they not have Google in your neck of the woods?
MOX is hiring mobile web engineers
$33 dollars per day is not "wrong". A bottle of drink costs $4. Coffee or Tea? Egg sandwich? Noodle soup lunch special? $10 A few beers with friends? God forbid a date? Popcorn at the movies? Takeout indian or sushi? Oh and buying a steak on sale and freezing it at the same time..
There are plenty of interpretations of his actions that would not amount to 13 separate felonies while still enabling some charges to stand.
Look, research how fracking is done and what how it actually works. I'll start you off with the first step, they are not drilling straight down. The number and size of these new holes is pretty much a non-issue.
Professors and researchers should start charging for time spent helping the closed journals at the very least.

If you think your reviews are valuable, charge accordingly. You provide value to the publishing process and should capture that value. You are providing the service of "expertise". If you provided that service to a lawyer, you would earn several hundred dollars an hour.

There's probably a business opportunity in creating a clearinghouse for reviewers, editors, etc. and managing the accounting.

Edit: Grammaring more goodly
Encourage productivity with a good workspace environment
Needs support for a list of items (like PayPal shopping cart API functionality), not just one item.
Top senator scolds Holder over Reddit founder's suicide
Oh really? http://stockcharts.com/freecharts/historical/djia1900.html

The only crash that was nearly that drastic was the Great Depression, but it still recovered and grew from there.

But even considering that the stock market is volatile, there are always other decent investments to be made.
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Google files patent for virtual keyboard
If HN has no policy against it and allows it to continue , then I suppose yes.
Oculus Rift Will Change Your Gaming World
Yes it is. It's how journalism works -- including paparazzi journalism.
NetflixGraph Metadata Library: An Optimization Case Study
> Expect to see lots of superficial genuflection from Republicans

Politicians play politics. News at 11
I think he means that, the reason he took it to the extreme that his family life suffered was due to his unfortunate circumstances.

This is a really great documentary. Just saw it because of the post and the entire time I can't help but think of how this applies to any life and the to the pursuit of happiness.
Speaking as an author, paper reviews are very helpful (although the useful ones are generally much more than two sentences). Speaking as a reviewer, I don't mind doing reviews for free (I consider it part of the job) and if volunteer reviews are needed to make open access work I think it's a worthy tradeoff.
Good god yes.

That being said they're making insane progress. I am very happy with them.
>Stated with such certainty. What evidence do you have that the commenter here in particular didn't develop in some way as they grew up?

No evidence, speaking from personal experience and the belief that ADD is over diagnosed.

I don't find it hard to believe there are millions of students unable to focus in public school. What I find hard to believe is that medication is the answer. Sure its an easy answer for those teachers to have their students sit quietly in the classroom for 50-90 minutes with little interruption and be expected to focus on subjects that relate little to their life with little or no control over what and how they study. I was diagnosed with ADD, and I had these views about 12 years ago to when I was diagnosed. I'll stick to cabbage, green tea, and the occasional meditation to help with my so called add.
That's an interesting move for a failed product. I have no plans of moving to Windows 8 at all after watching a number of reviews on youtube.
" Musk isn't some random dude. Between SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, he probably knows a thing or two about putting large things in the air and electric batteries."

No doubt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing engineers know a thing or two or three or four about putting large things in the air and electric batteries, but this is a specific and unfortunate problem. Inviting a few twitting strangers (competitors too) out of the blue, unless they have a specific tip, maybe isn't the way to go. If Elon knew the problem, he'd get 100 times better press by telling them.
The people need a new party to defend their interests.
The do not bully party.
... & move fastER fixing things. FTFY
Secure Your Website and Protect Your Audience
I don't care if this is blatant pandering or not; At least he's asking some of the tough questions. It's good to see someone other than Lessig saying "I'm not sure this was appropriate"
It depends: Do you pay for coding or anything IT related, or do you pay for a psychologist to hear your problems?

Of course you have the right to fire your psychologist in that case.
Both parties make hay with the DOJ when they are in opposition.

The Democrats with the firing of U.S. Attorneys by the Bush administration. Before that it was the Republicans over Elián González in the Clinton Administration.
Can We Strike a Balance Between Agile and Waterfall Software Development?
Yes, thank you for posting the better format.
Easy there. It'd be a shame if Elon got into the aircraft industry...

Looks like someone is building Stark Industries more and more.
Ask HN: How to recover after failure?
I was a co-founder of a startup that never delivered and gained the reputation of not being able to do so. We decided not to launch after reevaluating the marketplace. We're in a city that doesn't embrace failure among startups so it's been especially difficult. I've learned to stay more stealth but in reality would love to talk to people about my ideas. Personally, I've grown from this "failure" and pivoted on to something great. How do I regain my reputation and should I even care? My focus is my customers and have already gained significant traction on my new startup.
More than half of the 17 are free.

I could spend a little more time searching for a list of exclusively free habit forming tools (or prepare one) but that's not necessary to prove my point.

My point is that free alternatives exist.
>It didn't even occur to you to say "Sorry can't replicate it?"

That would clearly have been the right answer here.
7-2 decision seems fairly solid to me. Breyer is being... Breyer (whose judicial philosophy seems to be more of "that's just like your opinion, man..."), and I would say Thomas' dissent is more focused on "in loco parentis" role of the state (in line with his other decisions involving minors) -- which I haven't really noticed amongst other prominent jurists (given Thomas is generally very solid on 1A).

The law overturned in Brown [originally -- in irony of all ironies -- Schwarzenegger] vs. Entertainment Merchants Association was created by a fellow who is currently better known for gems like these:

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0201-0250/sb...

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?...
I would never encourage use of the f* I/O functions from the standard C library for high performance code. They're all buffered which means there's an extra copy happening. You should use read and other POSIX I/O functions instead.
> Yes I did. No, it doesn't seem dishonest

and

> Also, I would like to point out that studies cannot force the patients to take medication.

plus: "it was a well-controlled study"

= dishonest.

If they don't know for sure, then why are they reporting it as fact? Some people, as many have already said, are misdiagnosed with A.D.D., so it is no surprise that many people would stop medication as it would have not had a benefit to them.

> don't you think that's a little bit of a warning sign?

No. A lot of the time when that happens, in my experience, it has been due to other's opinion on the effect or usefulness of the medication. (i.e. you).
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It is for 1 month starting Feb 4 and ending Mar 6. Right now, flights from the US are as cheap as 330 bucks from Washington DC, LA, NYC, and Chicago. Rent will be $800.

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That's the most likely course for Boeing. For Musk, it's very good free publicity anyway.
FCC Chairman Wants Gigabit Internet in all 50 States by 2015
From what I understood from his post, using a buffered input function would a) make the code differ from the specification, b) require more refactoring than the Haskell code needed. b) seems particularly important when the program is not <100LOC, but tens or hundreds of lines of code.
I'm not very familiar with viral mediated gene therapy, is it reasonable to assume that it would be possible to infect enough T-cells with the virus to overlap a significant portion of the HIV infected cells? And if so, is that achieved by having the viral vector spread rapidly as well? Wouldn't that be nearly as damaging as the HIV infection to start with? Or is the goal to try to introduce entire modified HIV genomes into cells and then have those be fortuitously replicated and bound into HIV particles which will hopefully go out and re-infect other T-cells and in the process inhibit the HIV production rate?
"Do you like random people offering help when you are doing something?"

If they are domain experts and they are actually likely to be helpful, then absolutely I do. If they are just being polite and can't really help, then not so much but I'll usually still appreciate the offer unless they are being persistently annoying about it.

When I was younger and more insecure about my own abilities, I did not accept help so graciously, but luckily I grew out of that phase.
If he was advocate for more open access to government records, why is it surprising that he would be concerned about the Aaron Swartz case? I agree that this letter could be seen as part a larger battle between Republicans and the Obama DoJ, but does that mean that questions about Aaron Swartz' prosecution are only valid if they come from Democrats?
My claim wasn't that there was no rhyme or reason to human communication but rather that grammar does not capture that rhyme and reason, just a small part of it.

That is, there is no "rule set" in reality. Nevertheless, you can create a rule set that describes some of reality. Just don't start thinking it's the real thing.
An ad partner that doesn't do due diligence and may allow malicious scripts to be inserted is no small matter - web browsers are rightly warning about that.

It doesn't matter if you're piratebay or Obama's website - first clean up, and then ask to be reconsidered as a safe site.
I'm not sure Turbo would be available on the Webkit version. It seems like a feature quite deeply integrated into the engine.
I couldn't find an email to shoot you a message, so I'm responding here.

I meditated for a few months back in 2006 and it was fantastic. I, too, have trouble maintaining it. What other sorts of practices would you recommend?
>...Dart’s structure lets the VM take a snapshot that’s stored in the browser, which can be booted up in one-tenth of the time it takes to load the full code from scratch. “That’s hard to do in JavaScript because in setting up the program you have to execute the source code; that source code has side effects and those side effects cannot be snapshotted,” Bak said.

Vyacheslav, I bet everybody and their dog would be most grateful if somebody pointed out those side effects that prevent JS from being snapshotted.
Wonder what The Pirate Bay will brand them like?
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless AI
Boeing has issued a response:

“Space transport guys are not going to just walk in and figure this out."
No voice? No real skin (gloves)? ... not the best trust campaign? :P
True, but so what? Isn't the point of having an adversarial political system that when one side fucks up, the other will call them on it? Even if they're being giant hypocrites in the process?
That's brilliant -- I always wanted to remove this behavior, but didn't know where to start. Thank you.
Unlike many diagnosed with A.D.D., I wasn't indoctrinated with medication or treatment at an early age, so I've lived for 25 years without treatment and can speak to the differences. They are great. You can't see depression, mental illness, sexual orientation. Not being able to see something for yourself doesn't eliminate the possibility of its existence. That should be kept in mind.
If you are worried about that kind of thing, I'd recommend doing that stuff in a VM with an encrypted file system. Then, when you delete it, you know everything is gone.
I'm not sure, I was really just curious. It's probable he won't regret any of it.

Perhaps in his profession? I don't know.
And more usually, you'll use the tool the tool that your most familiar with or can become most familiar [quickest]. You say so yourself, HBase is relatively hard to quickly come to terms. We can observe the same when viewing the "SQL camp" with MySQL and PostgreSQL (and MSSQL).

It is also true of the Facebook HBase install! Completely unnecessary jab; the use of HBase was politically driven -- what the architects wanted to use. What are the proofs that it was the "right tool?" Well, it works, but you won't find it behind Google's Gmail / Talk, so who knows!?
One unfortunately fact of Swartz' death is that we'll never get to find out how the case would've actually turned out.

And this 35 or 50 year sentence has now ossified into the "truth," despite is actually being, as far as I can tell, not true.

Orin Kerr:

"Why are you hearing that Swartz faced 35 or 50 years if it was not true? First, government press releases like to trumpet the maximum theoretical numbers. Authors of the press releases will just count up the crimes and the add up the theoretical maximum punishments while largely or completely ignoring the reality of the likely much lower sentence. The practice is generally justified by its possible general deterrent value: perhaps word of the high punishment faced in theory will get to others who might commit the crime and will scare them away. And unfortunately, uninformed reporters who are new to the crime beat sometimes pick up that number and report it as truth. A lot of people repeat it, as they figure it must be right if it was in the news. And some people who know better but want you to have a particular view of the case repeat it, too. But don’t be fooled. Actual sentences are usually way way off of the cumulative maximum punishments."

(http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/16/the-criminal-charges-agains...)

Etc.
Not the best illustration, as there's no such thing as a comma splice in Latin (or most other languages, actually, including English a century or two ago). There is however a rhetorical term for the construction: asyndeton.
Year later SOPA/PIPA supporters still ignore public
There is no line. To take another example, in British English, alternate does not mean a kind of alternative, whereas in American English, this is now accepted usage. Is this wrong? Not really any more, and certainly not to a large enough group of speakers to normalise the usage. Language often evolves through mistakes, particularly in words which sound similar (see loose versus lose for another example which will probably change from an error to a change in common usage over time). So I imagine most descriptivists would simply refuse to accept that there is a clear line between error and evolution in language usage.
"For example, I've met maybe a couple of persons who have an iPad and tap into its potential (e.g mobile digital library that enables annotations and dictionary; wireless, customisable MIDI controller; client for remote controlling your computer; digital notepad;"

So this is what qualifies as being interesting / cutting edge now huh? I don't know, maybe the article is right...
The Swartz case aside, nobody likes the DOJ. Liberals don't like them because they're tasked with defending laws like DOMA (until recently), drug laws, etc, and people like John Yoo, etc, that are unpopular with their contingent. Conservatives don't like them because they are tasked with defending laws like the Sherman Act, etc, that are unpopular with their contingent. But each side likes the laws that are unpopular with the other side, so they also rag on the DOJ for not doing enough to enforce those laws.
Great, perhaps Mr. Conryn can recommend a place for Mrs. Ortiz to go waterboarding in Cuba, I hear the water's great this time of year.

Maybe once she comes back she can fight for those habeas corpus rights the US DOJ says gitmo prisoners don't have.
WTF! Thats exactly the same as SixthSense, the gesture inteface by MIT labs (they decided to be open). Google have no right to patent this.
Would you like me to invite her?
Since we're OT, "whom" only works in objective case.
No, I'd say that's a fair request. This Senator is asking some important questions in a very succinct way that could bring reform, and tptacek is publicly trying to discredit and undermine him.

tptacek should support that statement.
On a Mac you could use fluid with a separate cookie store for this.
Hopefully we'll get to see you out!
Sometimes you don't have a choice but to get into a fight. In that case you would be right. Aaron had a choice. Raise awareness by educating the public about flaws in the law and work to change them OR raise awareness by provoking a fight. He chose the role of the heroic underdog. Aaron was a smart guy who made a bad choice. He wasn't strong enough to deal with the results of his actions.
His point is that the Obama administration actually did revamp the federal FOIA policy and got no credit for it, I think. But that's kind of by-the-by.
Seriously? You feel that his thinly veiled threats of violence to federal judges makes him a credit to your state? You think it's representative of the popular opinion in Texas to suggest that "None of your civil liberties matter much after you're dead"? Pretty low standards, eh?
Well that point is complete nonsense so you should undrive it.

Just because a piece of code incurs hardware related performance issues does not mean it's "no longer close to the real machine". Cache misses? Reorder your data, or start inserting prefetch statements. Mispredicted branches? Issue a hint, or structure your code better.

Both of these are profile-guided optimizations. It's very difficult for compilers to optimize for access patterns that will only become clear in the context of execution, and often depend on your target spec machine.