skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is much larger than you acknowledge.

First of all in California it is against the law to fail to inform people of their rights. Thus even in the cases when contracts include those clauses, the impact is severely watered down.

Secondly in New York, even contracts without these clauses by default have them implicitly included.

Thirdly the "claim we're working on everything" issue is real in California, but only for people working for large corporations. People working for small companies can usually make a good case that they are working on something different.

Fourth, there is a real difference in culture. In California it is common for people to do things like"start companies on the side", and therefore the natural response upon finding that someone has done so is to not try to contest it unless they have specific cause to. By contrast in New York this is not common, which means that employers are much, much more likely to try to explore their legal options.

I am sure that it is possible to live in New York, sign careful contracts, and find people who will be supportive. However if management changes, or different lawyers examine those contracts, or someone just does the calculation that you won't be able to afford to assert your rights, I believe that your odds of running into trouble in New York are significantly higher than in California.

Maybe I'm overreacting. But once burned, twice shy. This is among the reasons why I never again want to live in New York. (The weather would be another. The fact that it never quiets enough for me to sleep soundly would be a third.)
The FTB doesn't have a choice. The court invalidated the statute which provided the benefits. The legislature could pass a new statute which provided similar benefits without the features which made the old statute unconstitutional, but the FTB is an executive-branch agency and can't make up its own laws to replace ones that are struck down by the courts.
The crime he committed was not, in any reasonable world, a felony.
I suggested my company use MailChimp to send cold-lead emails for our sales department and it has worked phenomenally well.

Lots of closed deals, lots of profits and their website is very easy to use, especially with custom email templates.

What more can I ask? I hope they don't get feature bloat and in fact, remove some un-used features.

They are well worth your money.
I guess what I mean is, sometimes the grant money is to "buy" the results of research, and sometimes it's just to encourage research along certain lines. Or anything else... Think of it this way: if the government requires all publicly-funded research results to be public, a lot less people are going to take them up on the deal.
OK, thanks for the details.

However, I do think there is still a key importance: Ayn Rand was using her books to dispense a specific philosophy and this has been clear both by interviews given by Rand and by the content of at least one of her books (I've only read one).
The books were a means to that end.

In the case of Sherlock, this is a work of fiction and as far as I know, no specific philosophy is the framework of any of the Sherlock stories.
great story bro

Now, seriously, when you post your own content, deep down it's always more about self-promotion than something that interests the community. You post because you're afraid no one else will do it - you just did the same here on HN. It's frowned upon in most places, not because it means you're a spammer bastard, but because it's so hard to draw the line: if every company started posting their own stuff it would fill the boards with trash.

I've done it too, but have started refraining from posting my own stuff because of that. If I'm allowed, everyone should be, and I don't think that's a good idea.
He refused to surrender, so it's fair to go nuclear?
Similarly: I always leave the TO: line empty in emails until I'm sure that the message is done.
Ask HN: Looking for programming mentor in east bay area California
Hello, I'll make this brief.
I'm in my 30's and I have been programming for about a year and a half. I started with C++ and moved to writing with Javascript and web technologies. Thus far I have written an app that is a steel drum instrument emulator with audio effects (and a clean layout), developed a website that attracts about 2000 unique visitors a day and have worked on various small incremental projects.Books and Stack Overflow aren't moving me forward at this point and I need/want a mentor to work with.I have very little money but am willing to exchange labor,house cleaning,etc in exchange for your time. Contact wturner76[at]gmail

Thank you
>Then again, that could just increase the amount of noise on Facebook and drive people away even faster.

How is this any different to just creating an event normally ?
Since we're doing great opening lines I'm going to throw two odd ones into the mix (which are still great!):

"In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
- Douglas Adams 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe'

and...

"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four Privet Drive were proud to say they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."
- Harry Potter (right below the opening chapter name called "The Boy Who Lived")

So humble and small compared to the journey you're about to go on.
Having grown up in Wyoming.

While Wyoming is definitely not a tech hub, they do protect your right to use lethal force to protect your property.

Plus if they steal your horse, you can hang them and shoot them. win/win
Yea a friend was telling me about that. Schwab doesn't impose a limit (that I know of, I've max gone into the $30 range in fees in a month). Schwab also covers international fees, which I believe USAA does not.

I do think USAA is a great org as well, and if you need loans they seem to have some of the best rates, but for my needs Schwab works better
Is that the font that's sort of a "cheaper" Helvetica? (In price, not quality)
Node itself is a bit low level for this functionality, but it could be built into frameworks like Express.
This is a great strawman that you've knocked down.

I think it's closer to #1 with "popularity" replaced by "preferences". But that has the problem that i don't care what all of my friends think about most things, or even most of them.
Breaking Someone With the Law
Crowdsourcing the destruction of the career of an out-of-control prosecutor is a repeatable process, and, as Internet forums gain mass, a process that will get easier to apply.

In other words, this is the public perception of crime on the move. You can see this in other areas of discourse, like cannabis legalization, getting rid of red light cameras that have been shown to increase collisions, etc.
Thanks for sharing. I just enrolled!
Well sure, expert users can certainly reverse engineer installer scripts and some intermediate users might be diligent enough to go doing research before they install each program.

Not a solution that scales very well though, if it did we wouldn't have the problem we do on Windows at the moment.
BETA? I'm supposed to deposit my money in a BETA?

I'd recommend dropping the BETA label. When it comes to money, I don't think BETA works.
While the language & feature-set might be a direct competitor to Lua, the license may make it a non-starter for many.

Lua: MIT: can be used in closed source software.

Jx9: Symisc Public License (basically the Sleepycat license): Very similar to the GPL in that all source code using it must also be open source upon distribution. Otherwise, a license must be acquired at some unknown price to use it in commercial software.
Yes, but they don't require you to do anything with it- IIRC you don't have to fund it, and you certainly don't have to use it or maintain any kind of balance in it.
Yeah. Extortion is fine as long as the government does it.
Why would she be charged with manslaughter?

There might be some stipulations for overzealous prosecution, (malicious prosecution?) or something like that.

Justice is not perfect. There are countless people in jail in error (through no malfeasance). People identify the wrong person, someone was somewhere at the wrong time and circumstance is too strong, etc., etc. It can aim for perfection, but it's hardly that. Of course that does not preclude the aggrieved from being angry and disillusioned. Life is full of these weird uncertainties.

It's not as though the girlfriends or boyfriends of people who become distraught and commit suicide because of a breakup would be charged with manslaughter. I've never heard of that being a successful case.
Am I missing something?

The query, at one point, is "People who like Cycling and live in Seattle, Washington" yet the 2nd person "card" clearly states they live in San Francisco, California.

Pic: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2148004/Screenshots/~-mm.png
Screwing over workers happens all the time in business. So lets screw over tax payers instead so they wind up having to spend tons of money to finance benefits that they are not receiving.

I think what most people have a problem with is that pension benefits are written by politicians who've are strongly supported by union's and looking out for their interest while no-one is watching out for the interest of the tax payer. As a result, pensions are gamed to max out the benefits by working overtime etc. There should be caps on the size of pensions. Bankruptcy could be used as a tool to re-negotiate some of these abusive pension benefits.
Yes, that was what I was getting at. While we are at it, traffic tickets as a revenue source or actually any fine as a revenue source is potentially bad.
Can anyone with experience comment on the number of regressions each release of Fedora compared to Ubuntu? Many of them aren't the distros fault of course, but I'm looking for something up to date with a bit more focus on QA.
You're right. What am I talking about? Vancouver is a shit hole. It's clear that nobody wants to live here.

I mean just look at where it ranks!

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

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/propertypicturegalleries...

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-world%E2%80%99s-best-place...
Building Graph Search Beta
Reasonable banks just offer you a small line of credit. Then those 10 overdrafts cost you about $0.15.

I don't think there are very many reasonable banks in the U.S. though.
It's a word that could be misused worse http://www.mergersandinquisitions.com/investment-banking-lin...
I'll take an invite :)
What Should We Be Worried about?
I don't find the "other top HN post right now" regarding this, but as I understand it [paraphrasing], nobody told him "hey, you'll probably get 6 months", they only told him "hmm, you can reduce it to 25 years. maybe. if you beg."
He could have either taken 6 months and the charge, or the maximum sentence. Note: This happens every single day for all types of crimes all around the US.
Thanks for the write-up, I'm enrolled and have been looking forward to it, now even more so after reading your description
Umberto Eco: http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_casablanca.html
Is this any different than bluebird by Amex/Walmart?
What exactly are you showing us? You complained Facebook wasted your time. I complain your blog post wasted my time!
I'm in the process of bank shopping, so I looked into it just now. If you set up automatic deposits into a checking account, they waive the $1000 minimum for the brokerage account.
Single affinity scores would not be very effective since my affinity towards various friends varies with different queries.

You'd need a very large matrix of combinations, which would be really expensive to build, and probably really expensive to use during scoring.

I'm guessing they use something similar to this with a bunch of other ranking signals. I guess i'd just be really surprised if they've actually made it work well.
while I can't recommend it my Bank of America pin is 6 digits.
Wow. If an employer asks me to provide a breaksown of my personal expenses, I'm going to be very uncomfortable. That's none of your business. If I'm going to adjust my lifestyle to fit your salary, I'm going to do it by myself, thank you very much.

(If you're truly offering me a dream job, I might tell you that I'm interested if I can make my finances work. But, if you have to ask whether or not you're offering me a dream job, then you're not.)
> the effort to get her fired is blinding us to a bigger problem and a proper solution

Small steps, walk before you run, etc. I don't see any blinding here, just a common cause.
http://betabeat.com/2013/01/tom-dolan-defends-carmen-ortiz-a...
Here's a likely controversial statement: I am much more worried about the effects of prosecutorial overreach on our society than I am about gun violence.

We are rapidly developing a "criminalized culture" to which the easy and popular response to everything is "put them in jail". Sandy Hook was a horrible tragedy, to be sure, but in my mind, our growing population of prisoners is a much more concerning problem.
I'm curious as to the political implications of this, given social media's increasing presence in recent civil uprisings and government monitoring.
Your glasses analogy is interesting but I think is misleading, in that it assumes there's a correct way to view things. This approach is one of the major problems I have with Chomsky and other writers like him, i.e. "you have been duped by the (mostly US) media, the military-industrial complex, by the secret powers that may be; here is the real truth about matters". Rather than being presented as the truth, these opinions be seen to be another viewpoint that enhances your understanding of the situation.

Let me give an analogy that may not be totally appropriate but I find is kind of illuminating: Many people, based on their everyday experience, believe in the existence of the centrifugal force (otherwise how to explain what they are experiencing daily). Then, their physics professor explains to them that in reality there is no such thing. Only if they study physics farther than the freshman year do they learn that that is not true either. Other similar examples of hypercorrection can be given (see this interesting answer: http://physics.stackexchange.com/a/13568/852). The intent of the professor is benign, i.e. not to confuse the students, but it perpetuates a half-truth.

Coming from a non-US country, I have to say that those of you who heavily criticize US media for manipulating opinion should look deeper into the media of other countries (not that I'm saying that the US media is non-manipulative, it's that the breadth of publicly sharable opinion is astonishing).
Nah, I'm here to get shit done, get paid and get out. Keep your games for the fresh graduates. I'm a professional, not a monkey that will work on Sundays for you because "it's fun."
Causality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality

Klout scores are assuredly based on how many retweets you get.
There's Fedora Rawhide, akin to Debian Sid: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide
Not sure about his linguistics, but his politics is adolescent.
Ortiz was nominated to her position by Obama in 2009. She resides in Milton, MA where it just so happens Gov Patrick, Obama's close personal friend also resides.
She's well-connected and a double diversity quota. She's going nowhere.
Nope, almost all machines support 8 digits.
I did a similar experiment years back on hotornot years back. Took pictures of myself from various different angles and watched the scores after a few days.

A self shot face picture got me about a 5-6. A side profile head shot got me about a 4 and a shot taken by a photographer friend with a good camera and my shirt half undone got me a 9.5 or something.
The company I work for (a face recognition software company) has done some research on assessing attractiveness from photos of faces (as have some other research groups and no doubt other companies). Maybe using this to assess yourself would be useful. Or you could just put yourself on hotornot.
Pretty sure that's not true. At my credit union, I set a 6-digit PIN, and I never had trouble at ATMs or anything like that.
Facebook Takes On Google, But, Social Search Has No Clear Winner Yet
Add a +1... Had to log in to my computer via LogMeIn to request an invite. Currently traveling in Nicaragua, but I'm a California resident.
It would seem so. At least, it wasn't one of those repackaged installers that some download sites offer.
Issues I have with Grouper (having not gone on any "groupers" yet):

* You must have 2 single friends in the vicinity willing to join you in paying $20 apiece for a single drink on relatively short notice

* The photos they showcase on the site make it look like, as a friend put it, "a six-way sexcapade"

As a startup founder who recently moved to a smaller town, I have vanishingly few friends who are both single, male and fun enough to tag a long to something like that.
My first Graph Search will be:

Find people on Facebook whose first name begins with Robert'); DROP TABLE users;--
I agree with the sentiment. However, I would certainly expect this to be politicized even though that's something I don't approve of.
They're going to have the same problem wolfram alpha has, since in the space of "all queries" only a tiny, tiny fraction of them are going to be ones that Facebook can resolve. Now, it might be less of a practical problem since the use cases for FB search are pretty clear and obvious, unlike W|A. But it doesn't sound like this is an open-ended search engine. Imagine typing say "shoes for sale on amazon" and getting "Sorry, Facebook doesn't know how to answer this query." It will quickly pigeon hole the product.

Also, similar to W|A, there is value in the queries themselves since they are mini-algorithms. If someone comes up with a clever query to get FB to say, find me people who I actually might want to hire, it could be valuable. I really hope they build an API on top of this so that startups can build products around novel queries.
The honors and AP classes were generally pretty good (in math and science anyway) but those weren't always options. For example, in 10th grade, there wasn't an honors world history class, so I had to take the normal class. That's where I was taught what the big bang theory was. I knew it was wrong and tried to argue, but the teacher was pretty sure she was right. I immediately went to my adviser and got switched to a different teacher, but the rest of the class didn't know any better (many of them probably thought the teacher was right).

As for parents not getting involved, I'm not sure I ever told my parents about that stuff because I thought it was normal. Middle school was by far the worst part of the district, and a few years ago my brother and I were telling my parents stories about how about once per week there were school-wide riots in the lunch room that the FAs (bouncers) couldn't contain and we could do basically whatever we wanted for 30 minutes because of the chaos. It turns out my parents had no idea this was happening (my mom said she wouldn't have let me go back to that school if she'd known). We never told any parents because we thought every school had riots like that.
You are right about the status of retirement. However, the role of government is to serve the public first, not to serve public employees. Everyone should have a dignified retirement, perhaps on the order of 60% of earned wages. Social security benefits should be raised accordingly, retirement age should be lowered back to 65 for max benefits and we should mint a platinum coin to ensure its all funded.
Given the flood of news stories on Aaron's death over the weekend, it's a pretty sure bet the issue is on the radar of some mid-to-high level staffers. At the edges, to be certain, but there's an awareness of it, I'm sure.
You cannot walk into Barnes and Noble and take a copy of Penguin Publishings' The Complete Works of William Shakespeare off of the shelf and walk out with it without paying just because the work is in the public domain (Note: lets not get into the digital vs. physical depriving anyone of content argument for the 10000th time).

Time and money was spent organizing and publishing the book / article, so they do have a right to charge for it. If you want wholesale free access to public domain documents, then you find a place which will provide these to you for free. You don't get to ignore a companies right to charge for something just because you disagree with the premise.
Is there any advantage of gobank over simple? It seems like they're the same thing.
I'm on the same page as you. This is like Google doing a press release because it changed the search algorithm on gmail. It's kind of underwhelming.
Feels like I'm trudging through peanut butter when I scroll up and down the page. I suspect there's just too much going on and it's killing performance.
Our[1] entire model is based around open source software. And I mean real open source software... developed in the open, with an open bug tracker, discussion on public mailing lists, etc.

Now, we don't have a lot of outside contributors at the moment, but we're certainly open to them and the code, bugs, etc. are already "out there". And all (or almost all) of our stuff is (or will be) Apache License V2 licensed.

Eventually we'll have a mix of both "productized" versions of existing projects (somewhat akin to the way Red Hat "productize" Linux) and projects that we started and wrote the bulk of the code for from scratch. Our goal is to very much follow the Red Hat model with subscriptions being a major part of our revenue stream, and then complemented by professional services, training and other add-ons.

In the end will we "make money with Open Source"? I don't know, but we're going to try, because A. it's what we believe in, B. it's The Right Thing To Do and C. it makes the world a better place whether we succeed or fail.

[1]: http://www.fogbeam.com
That is a curious argument.

The point of this petition, and everything else done to remove Ortiz, Heymann, and Garland is that it is a repeatable process.

Making a spectacular example of Ortiz et. al. is a first step, but it's a fine first step.

Or put it this way, would we have as many lawyers willing to shield torture had John Yoo ended up delivering pizza for a living?
You can either hand me your wallet, or I shoot you in the face with this gun. This happens every single day for all types of people in the US.

Man, mugging and extortion sounds so much better now that I realize how often it happens. Thanks, res0nat0r!
So the alternative is to do nothing? Which is better? At least this gets some momentum going, hopefully being picked up by press, maybe even them questioning the president about it at some later interview.

Doing nothing means nothing will get done. This is probably exactly what the government would like you to do.

"The people rose up and caused a sea change in Washington" ~ Aaron Swartz

This last part of his speech is so powerful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgh2dFngFsg&t=16m57s
I'm not sure what you can do in Mathematica that you couldn't do in R http://www.r-project.org
Like what? E.g. in Chicago, the infrastructure is crumbling so that teachers can get paid far more than they would earn in the private sector given their qualifications, meanwhile getting 13 weeks off each year.
I'm not sure why you're talking about "firing" customers. That might be the equivalent of teachers firing student's parents? Anyways, what I was trying to get at is that people working at a company choose to work there, MOST of the time they are doing something they are good at. Compare this to students, teachers do not get to choose their students from a set of applicants. Also oftentimes students do not see the benefit of being in school. I am not opposed to the study, I was only addressing the point you made about comparing a school to your company. I do not think it is a very good comparison.
Which is why efforts to end her career should go forward with as little restraint as her prosecution