skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nader loses his mind, compares game developers to child molesters
irony: this site looks bad on firefox for android
Yes, thank you for posting exactly what I said.

If you take out the words and meaning of "fee exemption" you get something close to what you said.
Author here. Happy to answer any questions or concerns!
I sort of wish this wasn't in a sub-comment, because it's a valuable contribution that may get buried.
What criteria would you use for ranking tasks by importance?
Ten cents per page returned as search results.
There is a great difference between being tempted to do something and actually doing it. Not following your temptations (blindly) would be one of the greatest strengths of men.
The 30th Anniversary Of MIDI: A Protocol Three Decades On
Great to see this site coming back to life. Thanks, Jacques!
My Forever Project is Deca. Well, that and the epic scifi/fantasy (first one, then kind of the other) story I want to write.
..and did it give anyone superpowers?
Sorry, didn't mean to imply it was a feature unique to CL.
They used to have a free tier of the old basecamp - I'm fortunate to still have one
NEC says two phone screens are better than one with Medias W
How is that verified? Does PACER publish hashes or the like, so that RECAP can confirm that the documents are authentic? It seems pretty unlikely.
This is why if possible, one should stay away from company driven languages.
> Which raises an interesting question - how do you make money on a platform like this?

Traditionally you sell a development environment. You release a command line compiler for free, and a full development GUI for money.

Then you make some useful (but non core) libraries and sell those as addons.
https://www.recapthelaw.org/about/#authenticity

"How do I know that the documents provided by RECAP are genuine?

Unfortunately, you don’t. We rely on RECAP users to donate documents to the repository."

I.e., any joker in the world can upload what they want to RECAP. It's a very useful service, but any actual lawyer relying on RECAP instead of paying pennies to get the documents from PACER is probably committing malpractice on his clients.
I wasn't wondering why this was front page on hn, I've long again tried not to second guess what appeals to the masses. Just look at your own product's trending for that. Who'd have thought that Maru's first snow encounter would be youtube worthy!

I don't mind page size either, everything I've ever written has started out including jquery. Anyone that argues that jquery is too big doesn't have a clue what they are talking about (CDN's/Cache etc)

Having written dozens of web apps that use mustache, I totally get why you like client side templates (json+mustache is completely awesome), bootstrap is awesome.

My point was that with bootstrap, json, gdata, mustache etc the features you mention are all straightforward, no Angular required. Nothing wrong with AngularJS. No disrespect intended. I was just saying that I could have put that together with the technologies I mentioned very easily and quickly with all those features.

I liked it though, I wasn't trying to put down what you've done.
In Silicon Valley startups, the most valuable thing you can provide, as a manager, is the ability to attract a great team. When startups look to hire a manager, it's almost always with growth in mind. Your career is an opportunity to build a group of people who will follow you anywhere, thus making you very valuable yourself. Getting people to love working for you, while still making execs happy, is a non-trivial skill.

Therefore, the best way to be successful as a manager, in the long term, is for people to love working for you. You will get amazing results. They might not be exactly what the people above you asked for, but that's where your skill is required--show that it's better and that they can trust you and your team more than they thought.
>It's sbt on Scala and ghc-pkg/cabal on Haskell that have been a pain in the ass.

And yet scala people will tell you sbt is totally fine and has no problems. Just as you pretend pip has no problems, and go has no problems, despite it being trivial to get package conflict errors in both of those.

>Cut the tu quoque bullshit, not everybody has a crappy ecosystem

No, not everybody does. You just pretend a couple do because you have an irrational dislike for those particular cases, while ignoring the fact that they are actually equally good to the languages you do like.

>Stop denying there isn't a problem. I'm far from the first person to mention the Haskell ecosystem need works.

True. And because the haskell community is tolerant to a fault, they humour trolls like you, and try to find ways to make a perfect packaging system. But the reality of course is that all the packaging systems are 95% identical, and the 5% isn't making a difference.

>My REAL isn't ghc-pkg and cabal, but rather that I keep running into crazed partisans like you that won't admit there's a problem. You're the problem.

Yes, obviously I broke your packages and made you troll haskell articles like a petulant child. I had nearly forgotten about doing that, I am quite sorry. To make it up to you, I'll let you give an actual, real example of a problem cabal presents that doesn't happen with python. Ready? Go!
So You Didn’t Get Crunched, Now What?
I don't think there's any reason to single out Ortiz. She's doing what federal prosecutors do. What all federal prosecutors do.

People want to blame prosecutors, but the real problem here is Congress (as usual). Too many things are illegal under federal law. The justice system would take half the budget and we'd all spend half our time on jury duty if we wanted to take every single illegal act to trial. The only way out for the judiciary is to bully people into accepting plea bargains so only a tiny percentage of cases go to trial. If everyone refused to take a plea the entire system would grind to a halt.

Were I in charge plea bargains would be illegal. That would remove the incentive to throw the book at every minor criminal, and if Congress can't allocate enough money to prosecute a crime it's not important enough to be on the books.
Beginning Game Programming for Teens with Python
We'd be happy to port in your GV number, we do this a lot, you can ping me: ash [at] sendhub dot com, and we'll do it for free.
Have you tried Heroes of Newerth? It works great under Linux. ;)
It was likely yanked off the front page because going to a compromised website is dangerous and a security risk.
I am a firm believer of such socialist mindset as you call it.
It makes a slight problem for those who want to use RECAP in the manner suggested in OP's post.
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Case study with RethinkDB: Muni's predictions
While, won't argue that Lexis-Nexis and West Law provide a value-add, in addition to the raw data, I have the impression that the raw data isn't easily available elsewhere. So, even if all you want is the raw data, you still need to pay them for access.
Stories are Fragments
Probably a few factors:

1. How important I say it is.
2. How important the tasks it is blocking are.
3. How close to the due date it is.
Do you have any novelty numbers available? like 0000 or other easy to remember ones?

We're using GoogleVoice for our company now, but it's not ideal, especially the limitation that a phone can only be connected to one GoogleVoice number.
Oh shut up :P
wasn't Sabu working for the government?
and the most affected pages were the MIT opensourceware, libraries and iniciatives, concidence?
Regardless of how the PACER or JSTOR issues shake out, we're pretty clearly headed to a place where public records are all available for free to everyone.

I wonder if we should rethink what needs to be a public record in light of legitimate concerns like yours.
Text messages count as minutes?
I discuss the court's ridiculous disclaimer here:

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=85
I actually find that Audio is my favorite way to consume content because I usually want to use my sight and hands to be doing something more proactive and creative (ie. programming)

Perhaps this is unique to myself, but I have found that I can function amazingly well digesting something through Audio and working on something visually. I have no formal neuroscience education, but perhaps it's something to do with how the brain (or perhaps just my brain) processes various inputs and outputs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateralization_of_brain_functio...

As a secondary note to the author of this app. What a great idea! I really like where you guys are going with this. I do find it hard to listen to as the narrator still sounds like a robot. But I'm sure with enough time this will be solved as well.
I think people reasonably expect it these days. I'm often comforted by it because generally a site with it also has the correct lost password recoveries by email, etc.
The book looks really interesting, but at $63 it is out of impulse purchase range. Has anyone else read it? Would you too recommend it?
Pretty awesome that you completed a project using a not yet released* programming language!

* for various definitions of the word released
Nutrition has a significant role in teeth health that is completely ignored by dentists. Apparently, vitamin D and vitamin K2 can do more for you teeth than regular brushing, provided that you don't keep your mouth sugared for too long: see e.g. http://www.westonaprice.org/journal/journal-spring-2007

And a pre-emptive answer to all those who will say Weston Price was a quack: No, he wasn't. Ignore the soundbites, read his studies, and modern follow-ups.
Thank you for that clarification!
"Troxler's Fading" is an awesome optical illusion.
Yes, but if you message the subclass with the alias, only the superclass's method gets invoked, because the alias apparently contains the IMP of the superclass's method. Or it must, if what you said before is to be believed.

This is pretty nasty, because it breaks the idea of message sends and subclass overrides of methods. There's two ways you could solve it:

1. Set the IMP to a static function that looks up the method it should forward to and re-send the message there. This is hard to do in a manner that supports all arguments, and you'd need at least 2, possibly 3 versions anyway (one for regular, one for strret, and on some architectures, one for fpret). It would probably need to be written in assembly in order to forward the arguments.

2. More recently (in iOS 4.3, and whatever the corresponding OS X release was), the runtime got a nice little function called imp_implementationWithBlock(). This takes a block and returns an IMP. Bill Bumgarner has a nice blog post about it (http://www.friday.com/bbum/2011/03/17/ios-4-3-imp_implementa...). You could use this function on every alias in order to invoke the correct method, passing along the correct arguments.
This is great! I've been struggling to find good example apps for things like Symfony2 on the PHP side - are you planning on expanding to other languages/frameworks?
I think you may have misunderstood the criticism. Yes, of course Lexis and Westlaw provide digital copies of case reporters. But they also do a ton of other stuff. One of their extremely expensive services allows you to watch state and federal court dockets and get a notification about new entries.

Published cases themselves are in relatively good shape -- most of what you can find in the West National Reporter system over the last 50 years is available for free on Google Scholar.

In response to your, "These services do not charge you for access to the case law, which are in the public domain." Sure they do. It costs money to buy the West Federal Supplement or Tennessee Reports in print. It also costs money to access those reporters online, via Westlaw or Lexis-Nexis. Many of these old cases (despite being uncopyrighted) are only available by visiting a law library or a paid online service. You can't just download them for free.
Good, good. Now take it to the next level. Rather than just using a scary word that means something very ordinary and mundane, try making up totally nonsense combinations. Like "I shouldn't have to learn co-recursive monomorphic functoid transformers just to open a file!".
As a user of PACER, it's very frustrating. $0.10 per "page" is total BS, since most federal filings are done electronically anyways. There is very little marginal cost for me to download a PDF from their servers.

I wouldn't mind paying a flat monthly fee for access as opposed to the current fee schedule. PACER is definitely getting further and further behind the times. It seems designed to discourage use by its own users.
I often wonder how other projects have tackled a similar problem to one I am tackling - today's example being multi-day events on a calendar. This list will make it much easier to see projects where there might be overlap. Thanks for the effort.

And I love the design.
"Ten cents doesn't seem like much, but when you consider that an average court case consists of thousands of pages of text in PDF files, those dimes add up rather quickly. When you further consider that in the course of prosecuting one's own court case, one must refer to many, many other cases because of the nature of legal precedent, legal research can suddenly cost thousands of dollars—and that's without even hiring an overpriced lawyer."

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=84
So you're using some sort of SIP account to GV to avoid using minutes?
I wondered for ages whether Reid would do any public writing.

From his about page "On this site, I will be posting longer essays on entrepreneurship, Silicon Valley, civics, politics, and perhaps some philosophical topics, too"
YES! That 2nd one. Thank you!!!!
Introbot: A Script to Ease the Process of Writing Introductory E-mails
Try my app, "Contacts Journal" (http://itunes.com/apps/contactsjournal). It's iOS only, so no web interface, but it might be exactly what you need. Users love it (check out all the great reviews).
We try our best with vanity numbers - we can see if we can find you good one (and people are usually pretty happy) but otherwise you can also port in any number you own to SendHub.
Both!
more precisely, at least one large quant shop, at least one normal hedge fund (apparently theres a difference!). Probably others in the finance space.

Theres at least 2 not finance enterprise focused haskell shops in NYC that are currently profitable and growing, theres at least 1-2 other places that have a smidge of haskell here and there.

Oh, and theres my place, Wellposed, which is pre launch but for the first product, only Haskell is used, and if it works out, the # of (partially) haskell shops will increase quite nicely :)
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It's impossible to really measure how and how much something achieves in the long run. Not that I want to compare this defacement to that, but just to point out the impossibility to measure such things: does the photography of James Nachtwey help to improve the world? I'm thinking "of course it does, there is no way it doesn't", but nobody can know how much.

If this made just 10 people reflect a bit on stuff they otherwise wouldn't have reflected on, how much trouble and costs would this have to cause to not have been worth it? Everybody fuzzes this kind of "math" for themselves based on their perception and biases, there is just no clean, objective way to go about it IMHO.
From iOS to Android, and Living to Tell the Tale
We ended up with an overall controlling agent, but then a wide variety of developers built various parts of the development. So there's a fairly nice selection of home styles, and builders, from one-room condos to 6500 sq ft super homes.

Utilities are controlled, we get our internet from Verizon (FiOS), trash, etc. but with the controlling agent as the broker and bundle negotiator.

There's a semi-elected board that runs the place, I think 7 of 12 are developer people and the rest are elected from the neighborhood. The condos each have their own controlling boards.

AS the neighborhood gets more and more developed, the developer will be ceding more and more slots from the board to elected officials.

I don't know if there are any plans for a mayor, but I think we'll end up with around 15-20k residents once everything is complete.

It more or less works.
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Awesome, thanks for that -- and no, I haven't done enterprise Java in a while. If one could swap out Spring with Guice (annotation-driven as well), sounds like a framework I could live with. I do appreciate the move away from configuration files to annotations that a lot of Java frameworks seem to be embracing.
Perfectly sensible for those who have no potential of achieving more but for others who do have potential it seems rather cruel to lock them out of the labour market. Unless an employer is atruistic, they are not going to hire such a person and thereby help them realise their potential because to hire them at minimum wage would result in a net loss.
The 30 person limit "per project" got me excited until I looked at pricing and that just seems like the "team size" of "workspace members".

I was thinking to try using Asana to collect feedback from beta testers (of real world items). Across several projects, this would total more than 30, but the 30 limit per type of thing being tested would be fine.

Is this going to work for me or any other suggestions? I haven't dug in to try using Asana much yet.
Yep, we'd love to expand to additional languages frameworks in the future. We'll need a core maintainer for each new gallery (we're not PHP guys) but I would happy to help set things up.
Why Is Google Funding Its Own Competition In The Firefox OS?
Well, the tunnels near the border aren't really an offensive threat to SK, but regardless I'd be willing to bet that technologies like SAR(Synthetic Aperture Radar) and others we don't know about have already been used to map the majority of their tunnels near the border. Considering the massive defense expenditure by the South, I'm equally sure they are keeping close tabs on the activities of the DPRK military in general. I think the real concern is the dam mentioned in another comment combined with boots-on-the-ground invasion, attempting to overwhelm through sheer numbers(would be short-lived as the preparations for which would no doubt be noticed beforehand).

If Seoul installs an Iron Dome-like system similar to Israel(but on a much larger scale) it would render any remaining artillery bombardment from the North mostly ineffective(as SK and US forces would likely hit the majority of their installations very quickly):

http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=10007...
>Microsoft has lost; there's no getting back the head start they once had.

Couldn't we have said the same thing when Apple lost to the IBM PC when they didn't "get" business computing? (the debacle that was the Apple III - a supposed "business" machine)
Just noticed that SendHub has an easy API for SMS.
legislative power

Do you mean can they bring a lawsuit against you? Legislative refers to the making of laws, e.g. Congress passing a new law.
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I like the UI. A lot faster than YT, too.
> I liked it though, I wasn't trying to put down what you've done.

Thanks! No worries!

> My point was that with bootstrap, json, gdata, mustache etc the features you mention are all straightforward, no Angular required.

Sure, but I could just as easily turn that around and say with angular, all these features are fairly straightforward, no jquery or bootstrap or mustache requred, right? Why is one better than the other? Or if they're not, why bring it up (serious question)?
Thanks. What do you currently use?
Why doesn't the government just make dumps of all documents available either by BitTorrent for free or on a hard drive at cost, and let the free market decide how much to charge (or not) for access?
Funny. Mention "free markets" in a positive light and get downvoted as a troll.
When I first read this headline, I thought it had to do with purity of a certain Swiss-made variety that left its mark on San Francisco (and surprisingly, Palo Alto---e.g. Jerry Garcia and Ken Kesey). My mistake
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Next-gen Xbox system specs leaked
Fair enough. I was pleasantly surprised how much ASP MVC had cribbed from Rails, and it sounds like I'd likely be similarly enthused about new JEE developments. I have noticed the trend towards annotation-driven development and moving away from configuration in Java frameworks and heartily approve.
I agree that each side is apparently blind to the civil liberties abuses of their own proponents. If a president named Bush were doing what Obama is doing wrt drones, wiretapping, Justice dept overreach, deportations, and zealous prosecution of Marijuana laws (even when states have clearly taken a different path), I can only guess how many HuffPo articles a week would be foaming at the mouth.

What the Left fails to seem to realize is while they may love Obama to death, the Presidency is not any one person, it is an office. Obama's extension of executive powers is inherited by the next Republican president just like Bush and Cheney's were inherited by Obama.

This is probably another downside of the hyper-partisan tone of today's politics. Obama supporters stay quiet about his abuses for fear of weakening him in his zero-sum fight with the Tea Party. But this ends-justifies-means selective outrage is not a principled stance, and in the end the next Romney type who gets in there will reap the benefit of our collective silence.
I'm curious how many people have actually read his books before attacking his positions. A lot of the criticisms about his predictions seem to be based around the charts and graphs he's used in his Ted talks and articles.

In his books, he goes into great detail describing each aspect of the GNR (Genetic, Nano, Robotics) revolutions that will contribute to the singularity. He's actually addressed a lot of the criticisms that seem to crop up in HN, etc. over and over.

Forgive me if your position was based on having read his books (especially The Singularity is Near), but it didn't seem like it. Especially considering that cracking general AI is specifically mentioned as not being a requirement to obtain greater than human intelligence (for example, augmentation of biological human intelligence, specialized AI coming together to solve general problems, etc.).

Also, his prediction for the Singularity is 2045 (32 years from now), so your figure of 16 years seems to be incorrect.

Edit: D'oh, you were talking about the 2029 figure mentioned in the article, not the date of the technological singularity. I'm an idiot.
DOTA2 is based on their Source engine, just like TF2 which is already ported. Your productive days are numbered, I'm afraid ;)
>Do you really expect that a get-depressed-and-die instinct would reliably result in at least that much benefit to someone's close kin? If not, then you don't really expect such an instinct to evolve by kin selection.

Consider the case of cancer. Cells have builtin functions for commiting suicide when something goes awry, and also do not breed excessively normally. However since knocking those inhibitions out is advantageuos in the short term, cancer arises again and again. The mutations seems to confer an advantage, for the first generation, the second generation... quite a few generations actually. Then suddenly, as the cancer cells reach critical mass, and the parasite/parasitee ratio grows to large, it becomes a huge liability. The cancer cells die. Every single one. The end.
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Scrappy social media analytics startup raises $8M