skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Better suggestion: Find out first if the 30 year sentence was actually chosen to be handed down, or had to be put in place due to the way the law is currently written. If it is the latter demand the law be fixed, not the person who's job it is to enforce the law.
Even though getting officials fired is not your preferred method to help jumpstart reform there are no reasons for you to discourage others of doing so.

Exactly. Bottom-up action is strongest when supported by a diversity of tactics. Alice may not like Bob's methodology, and Bob may not like Alice's, but when they expend their energy discouraging each other from doing something they believe in, neither have a shot at advancing their shared cause. Gatekeepers are the undeclared allies of power.

Put your energy into action you believe in, and let the chips fall where they may.
I am aware of App Bodega, but as you said, it's like the App Store. It's not meant to sell source code/copyrights/sales rights/website/etc.
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At least I am just rabbling anonymously for my own peace of mind and not to establish myself in any way or to polish my cv/application when the hr drones google me or for whatever other profit-oriented reason most blogs really are created in the first place.

The "choosing" part was included in my suggestion, you let your people recommend someone and you give that person a chance and it will become very apparent very quickly if they fit well or not.
Definitely something I've had to realize as I got older. One of the lies that I tell myself is that I can buy new stuff because I can easily sell it a year later for so close to what I bought it for, I'd be a fool NOT to buy it!

Apple products are the only things that this has been true for ultimately.. And honestly, having a laptop around enables me to make money so it's a no brainer.
This is a great essay, especially a great timing for me. As a 22 year old graduate student, I've only just saved enough money (from my assistantship) to consider spending on leisure items (a portable gas range was particularly hard to say no to at a garage sale).

I'm greatly comforted by his opinion on books though. I never sell my books (except really bad textbooks). So, I've already accumulated a somewhat large library. I was considering donating it to a library, but I'll think more about that now.
even if the tax break was found unconstitutional and retroactively revoked, how is the "interest and penalties" bit in any way legal?
Wow, clojure in emacs after just a few commands (get emacs 24, then input the 2 or 3 commands for leiningen and emacs live).

Now I have repl, code highlighting (with the lambda symbol rather than 'lambda' !?!), parentheses matching etc.

Thanks Sam!
Going through it now!
Completely agree. I didn't before. I come from a strict conservative and authoritarian background where glorification of the state (as long as it was run by the Christians) was the default assumption.

Someone pointed Chomsky to me. I read some. I think it was Failed State or Manufacturing Consent. And thought, well, surely this is all liberal commy bullshit. Except for one little problem -- Chomsky seemed to have thorough references and footnotes, with which it was very hard to argue.

Stuff like "Well those countries hates because of our freedoms", a common slogan, kind of ingrained in many people's minds by now. Well it turns out that that isn't the case. Even results from National Security Council' finding show that (Many hate us because we installed and supported brutal dictators and suppressed locally elected governments). That's just one silly example.

Or, for example, assumption about how we have free media who regularly reports objective and informative news as opposed to media, that is heavily biased. Then Manufacturing Consent carefully dissects that and presents a different picture. I read that not wanting it to be true, however Chomsky has this nasty habit of providing good references for his points, not accepting them would be intellectually dishonest.
HATE the new SoundCloud, but LOVE that the song continues playing wherever you navigate on the site.

HATE that they limit the total duration of files you upload, rather than total size of files (although this way they save money on server space).
Optimizing the Netflix API
What's your email? I'll send it on over! :)
At first I read that as altruistic, and I was going to agree. In fact, I think that's a more accurate statement than autistic... or perhaps just more optimistic.
But if private industry profits less from the research, they will pay less for it. Pretty quickly you will see two exclusive sets appear: a little open research funded with a little public money, and lots of proprietary research funded with lots of private money.
That was specifically for the example server - if each request uses 5ms of processor time, (1000 ms / s) / (5 ms / req) == (200 req / s)

https://gist.github.com/4532177#file-application_server-js-L...
For more complete frameworks around Backbone, try:

https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone-boilerplate

http://walmartlabs.github.com/thorax/

https://github.com/marionettejs/backbone.marionette

https://github.com/chaplinjs/chaplin

Outside of Backbone, there's also http://emberjs.com/
> That's sarcasm right?

Nope, not in the slightest. And I'm not saying that Mexico isn't worse in those regards, just pointing out that we have plenty of problems with corrupt and organized crime here anyway. To the point that I don't think it's entirely ridiculous to suggest moving a business to Mexico, depending on other details.
This is what I did as well. Seems to make more sense to me than putting an odd opacity value on an element.
The point was that you can "alter the z-index" without actually altering the z-index. At least, that was my takeaway.
I am not promoting vigilante justice. I am merely pointing out what causes it.
What library did you use for speech-to-text? Looks like it's working great..
The point of the example was to show how something other than z-index, position, and order can affect stacking. It wasn't demonstrating the correct way to go about changing the stacking order.
To quote the post you're replying to:

"Indeed. That's never been in dispute."
> they ran through the scenarios of whether the downloading was a cover for accessing classified information, etc.

Classified information? Do you know anyone that can get physical access to a computer network with classified information on it? If it is easy to get access to it, it better only have access to sensitive but unclassified data (SBU).
Maybe it's just me but this needs to be a lot funnier to pull out that sort of metaphor.

As it is it's just slightly bad taste.
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Funny you mention glasses.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgAwdixodjw
MegaUpload was ad-supported, which IMHO is worse than charging a simple fee.

Yes, the community is going to do as good of a job curating as the New England Journal of Medicine, etc. Please.
I think even going at step farther and throwing in Knockout too. I agree with everything you said about Backbone.
Yahoo's Chief Information Security Officer Departs, With More to Come
I don't doubt they open it to their platform but at the same time... remember what happened to people playing on Microsoft's Windows platform in the 80's/90's. And from the scuttlebutt I've heard about dealing with FB execs, they're much better at analyzing data, have clout, leverage, money, power, traffic, so it's hard to deal.
It can't be, no jokes are allowed on Hacker News.
Slightly amusing, but this parody of The Atlantic's sponsored Scientology debacle doesn't really add much to the conversation. The one thing it parodies correctly is "Hey look, we too can publish things that aren't up to our normal editorial standards!" However, this piece blatantly makes up facts (i.e. Instagram & Epicurious opening offices), whereas the Scientology piece was opinionated and disagreeable, but not factually wrong.

In fact, countries have a long history of advertising in magazines under sponsored content. Items like "Come visit XXX" are a staple amongst travel and lifestyle magazines, though such pieces are usually differentiated via different fonts and layouts.

If techcrunch had somethign to add, I wish they had actually argued their point instead of hopping on the "Look, Controversy! Let's ridicule it!" train.
I use Cue/Greplin for full-text social search. I use it primarily for finding things I know I've seen in my news feed or on Twitter before. It works well.

https://www.cueup.com/
Graph Search is Facebook's bid to compete with...everyone
Money in itself is a fairly neutral motivation.
You can perhaps justify doing something immoral for money if you plan to use that money for purposes that are more moral.

I don't think getting rich counts.
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The point was to illustrate the stacking behaviour introduced by opacity, not how to trivially arrange 3 elements using z-index.
Thanks for the reply. Another quick question how do you showcase client work, if I am designing a website how do you find the best way to show the work?
It's supposed to be innocent until proven guilty.
OTOH, Diablo had a very limited backpack.
The electricity problems are more or less self inflicted by the generators to loosen up wholesale rules. Texas has /plenty/ of energy.

Water is a problem...a BIG problem. But...we have a large coastline, salinated deep water tables etc, so if it comes down to it we could expensively desalinate. That would be brutal, though.

As far as schools -- the overall decline in public schools is counter-balanced by the rise of good charter schools. If you care about your kids' education there are options.

The road situation is kind-of a pain but here in Austin and Central Texas area at least, we have improving public transportation. And there is the toll option (of which I am not a fan).

But the tax policy is pretty nice. And Austin cannot be beat in terms of livability if you can stand the summer heat. I think we have a $20-25 billion surplus this year so we won't be going broke anytime soon.
The point was that there are factors other than z-index involved in determining the stacking order. I'm certainly not suggesting anyone use opacity to move things around in the stacking order. I was just trying to make people aware of it. It's confusing if you don't know what's going on.
That's pretty much it. If you're into having absolute control over your code and how it's structured Backbone is where it's at, if you don't want to deal with the plumbing and don't mind the framework having an opinion on how your write and structure code, then angular is probably for you.
This is hacker news, and Aaron was a hacker that most users here see as very, very much like themselves.

Bradly Manning has received plenty of attention in other circles. This site usually only deals with politics when it directly relates to tech.
That is how I feel. Facebook is a bastardization of technology. We should focus on secure, anonymous approaches. Not stalking applications. That is why no one created Facebook. Because personal information and the like should be protected. Facebook goes the opposite direction.
The actual 0.9.10 changelog is at http://backbonejs.org/#changelog
A National Fraternity's Founding Father becomes CTO
Proactive Log Review Might Be A Good Idea
It seems like a telling omission that he doesn't say whether his former employers compensated him for posting about them.
Thanks for the clarification. My natural reaction after reading the post was to get worried what Ninite does, which I regularly use.

Could you please elaborate how exactly do you automate the installers? Do you modify the applications being installed?
Blogging schedules
Don't Make Your Customers Steal
You won't find me in disagreement with a campaign to change or repeal the CFAA and similar laws. But I think you mistake the point of attempts to remove these prosecutors. It isn't about them as individuals, it's about them as symbols of the broken system they represent. I would not be surprised to learn that the average prosecutor would have done exactly what these ones did, but that's the issue. You can't be a saint while working in a factory whose product is human imprisonment. We need to shut down the factory and turn it back into a justice system, and in the meantime disgorging a high profile offender can serve as a warning to the others -- that seems like something prosecutors should be able to relate to.
How to Disable Java in Your Browser
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5062938
But most people don't need the whole country, they want a couple of tiles near their home or where they're on holiday.

I agree the pricing is off but I think there's a model for something short of the whole country for £8. Sure there are people who will want the whole thing (for about the price of one paper map) but not everyone.
> there is no secret power

Yap and I think mixing Chomsky up with conspiracy theorists and building straw men arguments is a common tactic of those who are ideologically minded and want to protect their preconceived notions. "Chomsky is a commy nut", "CNN isn't in cahoots with Walmart and FBI, he is just crazy".

The point to take home, I think, is that there are rules and assumptions built into the system that make it evolve in a certain way. There aren't necessarily heads of state and corporations sitting down in dark basement and scheming against the poor and the weak.

Now this doesn't mean the rules cannot be changed. It just means there isn't one central surface of attack. Like "well if we just replace all these people, things will fix themselves" one sort of has chip away and find what incentive and rewards there are.

However, this also doesn't mean that individuals who are part of the system and play by its rules even when that is at odds with basic morality (like in the case of Aaron) shouldn't bear responsibility. Both approaches should be taken.
At no point did I make that claim. Please re-read with a critical eye.

Hamachi is effectively null routing legitimate users of the space within their network.
Goto their site: http://www.installmonetizer.com/AT_advertisers.php and checkout their advertising partners. Babylon and JackpotRewards are hardly the kind of "advertisers" to get excited about. Babylon has several toolbar partnerships (I have worked on these) and I can imagine how their partnership with Install Monetizer will just lead to another toolbar offer being presented to the users during install time.

Here, you are coming off as a sycophant who is blindly supporting PG and YC without checking your facts which could be the reason for your downvotes.
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You're right, he does highlight the distinction between people you know and people you should know. I instantly thought of Ark when hearing about this. I'd like to see how they and Ark might facilitate those connections once you've identified them. If I'm traveling abroad and meet someone from the same small town, I don't know how inclined I'll be to message them. Not to mention, those messages in Facebook get lost in the "Others" section where I've heard countless stories of people discovering important messages months later.
I would've hoped the lack of advertising, missing link to my linked in profile or resume, or lack of any sort of "donate" button would've established that I'm just doing this because I have a personal interest in writing and software development. Hell, my real name isn't even on the site!

But yes, thank you for your critical feedback.
I recommend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_%28book%29

Btw in Lost why did sayd was nice guy in the beginning and died as an evil torturer ?
And why does every action series and movies, event toy story 3 promotes torture ?
Love this, so so true. I've done rather well for myself financially and can buy most things I want, or thought I wanted, and now realise that rarely does stuff, beyond the essentials of life, bring much happiness. My recommendation is to spend more on experiences.
I think stuff to facilitate experiential travel is ok. You have to go camping with that range though.

Planning the trip, the trip, and reflecting on the trip provides far more happiness than the instant temporary gratification of a new thing. Not the greatest support for my argument, but there it is: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/10/happiness.possessions/i...
Depending on how you look at it, I either own 20,000 plus five things, or just two plus five things.

I'm exaggerating, but I've got a core point:

There are two things that I spend a LOT of time on and get a lot of enjoyment from:

* cooking

* wood and metalworking

I've got two meticulously organized sets of things that reflect that:

* a great kitchen with all sorts of implements, frozen stocks, a hundred spices, etc.

* a great workshop with all sorts of tools and supplies

I keep those two areas perfectly organized, because this increases my enjoyment of them on a daily basis. ...and I have no desire to prune them. My workshop has a long tail: I may not need the #3 dental pick every month, but when I want it, I really really want it. So it's in a drawer with a label. I may use it just three times a year, but I use SOME long-tail item every day or two.

Outside of my kitchen and shop, though, I abjure clutter. I own one coat, one sweater, five shirts, etc.

I entirely agree with Paul that one of the biggest expenses is the mental expense of keeping things cataloged.

My advice: if there's something you really enjoy that requires tools, get them and use them. ...but aside from that, yes, be a minimalist.

My two cents.
The point of this exercise was to show that opacity has an effect on element position, which was surprising to me! It matters because it might fix a z-index bug you have one day (:
Surely he's not perfect in his views but he is highly objective, intelligent and visionary.

Given the chance to sit in on a random lunch with Chomsky or a captain of industry (Buffett, Gates, etc.) I'd pick Chomsky without pause.
again , very interesting work , thanks John.
Making History with Bash
I don't really want to add to the dogpile of comments explaining why you missed the point, but the blog post pretty clearly states what the criteria for the "challenge" were:

"Here's the challenge: try to see if you can make the red <span> element stack behind the blue and green <span> elements without breaking any of the following rules:

Do not alter the HTML markup in any way.
Do not add/change the z-index property of any element.
Do not add/change the position property of any element."
I used to think books were special, too. Having thousands of books is expensive: they are literally expensive, you buy or build shelves for them, they take up a lot of space, they're extremely painful to move, you have to organize them, and you keep mental space for them -- I own this book, I don't own that one -- otherwise, you might as well not have them. You don't use them constantly. Moreover, you can get an instant electronic copy or a physical copy in minutes, or at most a day (Amazon prime).

Also, you confuse quality (good) and fragility. Most of the stuff I have is very high quality, which is why I use it every day and I don't have to worry about it falling apart.
Which is a eye opening to show the hipocrisy of the white house.
Interestingly, the InstallMonetizer overview image [1] shows a dialog containing the text "customizable and will help you search the Internet" - which apparently is from the Ask Toolbar EULA...

[1] http://installmonetizer.com/AT_images/process.gif

[2] http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/ask_eula.shtml
US warms up to EMV credit cards
Consider this allegory as a way to recontextualize the question.

Let's say that you have a software project, and one of the engineers on the project is fixing bugs. His bug fixes generally fix the bug but often are found to have performance impacts, or later when another problem is found his bug fixes require complex refactoring.

This person is doing their job, day in and day out. Will firing them make your system any better? No, it won't.

This is a management problem, the manager talks to this guy and sets guidelines and standards for his bug fixes, the manager creates policies around how bug fixes are evaluated and the way in which engineers are evaluated that fix them. And then if this engineer can't do the job, as the manager needs it done, then you let them go because you really need a better engineer in that slot.

Its always the manager's fault if someone is let go for just doing their job. If how they did it is an issue, the manager should fix it, and if they are incapable of fixing it then you let go the manager and replace them.
I'll argue that you'll get more utility out of a portable gas range than out of almost any book randomly pulled from your shelf, or any 10 books. I could go to my bookshelf right now and probably select 20 books that I have never more than glanced through and quite honestly will likely never read. Maybe someday I'll find a burning need to refer to a VAX architecture manual, but if I want to go camp out even once or twice a year, the portable range would be more useful.

Now, a portable gas range won't get you the massive HN/San Francisco cred you'll get from a house full of books, that's a given.
I would not recommend anyone pin their entire business model on this; but it certainly comes at a nice time for some companies.
To solve the issue of z-index only working on positioned elements, what I do on all new projects is set the following:

* {
position:relative;
}

This does two things. Allows me to set z-index values without hassle, and also allows me to set top/bottom left/right values.

Refer to my GitHub repo for the code for my base structure for new projects.

https://github.com/garand/base
The goal is to make the next politically-motivated prosecutor think twice before unleashing hell on some kid.

Right now the only feedback these asshats ever see is positive. That leads to an unstable system.
Unless your account offers >3% interest, saving your money in a bank loses you money. The only question here is how much.
Heck, if it was just downloads I could still somehow steer clear of it but I really hate it when companies like Oracle and Adobe bundle this with their security updates and it is checked on by default[1]!!

Even worse to realize that reputable companies such as Google, Ask and McAfee compensate them for doing it. [2][3]

[1] http://i.imgur.com/3zWPK.jpg

[2] http://i.imgur.com/5mAdH.png

[3] http://i.imgur.com/P9CKl.png
Wow. There are a lot of interpretations on why this is HUGE - a game changer.

In addition to what's been mentioned above, this is the shot across the bow of Google. I suspect Google has better search, but their social graph is much worse. (Google+ is only extensively used by their captive audience) The search on Facebook will get better over time, and they have the better social graph. This also gives them a new "neat" factor that will keep people coming back, especially those bored of seeing cat and children photos from long forgotten friends.
Quick, someone grab facebookjewels.com
> People don't like being bothered by strangers

People love being bothered by strangers. Just try it. Make any half-funny observation about the world around you to a random stranger in the line, at the hairdresser... just not when they're actively doing something. Weather the surprise, repeat what you said if necessary, allow them to come up with a response. If they don't, follow through yourself.

At first it seems like you're a crazy person talking at others. But after a minute (though it'll feel like a little longer) most people will happily talk to you.

And don't think of it as "bothering". You're diverting your precious attention to them. The thing that every website and channel on the planet wants from you.

That used to be just normal, polite behaviour BTW.