skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The absurd idea that we all each take self defense into our own hands is just ridiculous, just as you don't build your own water supply, or generate your own electricity, or train to be a doctor just in case you get sick.

Then I suppose you also shun the idea of CPR or the first aid in general. That's what first world society has doctors for...
Slightly pedantic, but Keith's note says:

"With increasing frequency, we hung out, drank wine, and I helped prepare him for interviews with tech startups"

...so this case doesn't seem to involve women, not directly. Your observation still stands, though.
What boundaries exactly got overstepped? It's a legal collision. US law says no online gambling. Antigua law says "Gambling is great, we welcome US consumers!". US tries to enforce its law via sanctions (I think). WTO law says you can't do that and awards Antigua $21M US in "equivalent sanctions" or somesuch (i.e. it's not a cash award).

Yawn. I mean, I think the US law here is dumb, but it's the law. I think the enforcement was clumsy, and it was rebuked. But this sort of nonsense happens all the time in international law. Must every trade dispute involving the US become some kind of para-nationalist rant against the "world's bully?". Can't it just be a dumb law like the literally thousands of other dumb laws?
Hypothetically, how would you feel if a business owner knowingly profited off of illicit activity while keeping jusssst enough distance between himself and the criminal to say "I didn't see nuthin!"?

THAT is the argument here. Not saying it's totally righteous, but that the theory isn't preposterous and litigating the case isn't absurd.

In this case I think the real failure of the gov't was not taking more aggressive steps at a paper trail. Giving this guy notice, so to speak.
Get ready for 'Objectify a Male Tech Writer Day'
This is much better than smalltalk. In Smalltalk, you could just edit code on the fly, but nothing would happen if that code wasn't continuously executing in an infinite loop. LightTable, on the other hand, supports real liveness. Its something that we never got in Smalltalk or Lisp.

Edit: Morphic (from Self) does support liveness, but only when it is being edited at the graphical level. If you are editing code, you are stuck in the same refresh trap as Smalltalk or Lisp, but to be fair, morphs are continuously updating themselves in infinite loops so it doesn't matter :)
"Other Europe" is actually just slightly under-represented, not overly popular. All the small countries are pretty big when put together.

Europe has a population of 595M, UK+France+Germany+Italy is 269M, or 45% of Europe. On StackOverflow, the big countries account for 54% of all European respondents.
Fake Dating Profiles For Sale - Who Are The Clients?
Yeah, that's merely an annoying thing that seems to crop up occasionally with RSS.

My main frustration here is not finding a menu of feed options; instead, I just see one big site-wide feed.

I've had this frustration with many sites, and it's kept me from following things I otherwise would have followed. I'm just much more mystified when the entire aim of the site is “web design, by web designers, for web designers”.
Since they both know as much about the relevant subject matter, no. The former.

I know HN has a thing against college education, but I sincerely believe that neither major relevant information nor a piece of paper certifying that were the most valuable things I got from my time in college.

Peer interaction and exposure, exposure to ideas and studies outside of my apparent interests, practice with long-term commitment and responsibility, etc. These are all things that you can certainly, perhaps even easily, have without going to college... but a college education serves as a certification of these things as well.

The "relevant coursework" part of a college degree is not of particular interest to me (I saw complete idiots get the same degree as I did, and I know many people without relevant degrees that know as much as I). Given two candidates of equal knowledge, one with no degree and one with a degree in art history, I would hire the art history guy with little hesitation.
Relevant comments posted by tptacek in a previous thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5084996

Leads me to question whether this case is as black-and-white as it would seem.
Nice! Was not expecting it to work internationally, so was pleasantly surprised when my Australian postcode showed up flawlessly. Beautiful design and interaction too, you've really nailed "the best ui is no ui"concept.
It doesn't matter how the bonds are obtained by Social Security or the Fed -- no matter what it affects interest rates.

If Social Security weren't buying government bonds (ok, not technically treasuries), that same debt would be issued as Treasuries or similar. Greater supply of treasuries means higher interest rates.

If the Fed weren't buying treasuries in the open market, demand would decline and the market interest rate would go up. Primary dealer bids are influenced by the market rate for treasuries, so the interest rate on new debt would go up.
my opinion: having physical relationships other than wife (whom even one is married to) is a sin.
I think the foolish part is advocating that as a solution, like people are doing here, by presenting them as alternatives to this governmental initiative.

As an individual, I should protect myself. But I expect my government not to rely on me, or my grandmother, having to learn how to shoot.
Because not everyone wants to optimize for the same thing, and optimizing for security is probably a better default than optimizing for speed.
Android app party: Six services to get your files from anywhere
I'm the exact opposite, which is why I love Watsi and have donated even though I've never been a donating kind of person. I don't like giving money to something that feels abstract, where I don't really know how the money is being used for. I think what makes Watsi compelling is that we are supporting individual, specific people; solving a concrete, easily solvable problem (as opposed to, say, hunger, which requires more long term support); and lastly, the solution is low-cost, as opposed to hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars. The combination of these three factors is what I think makes Watsi a winning recipe that will entice people like myself who have always wanted to give but never felt comfortable with the current options of donation.
TARDIS in pure CSS (from Doctor Who)
Perhaps I am the only one having issues here, but I cannot seem to get drake to run. Is there anything that is supposed to be done after building the uberjar?

Further, I don't understand how I'm supposed to alter my path to be able to run drake by simply entering 'drake'- would it be possible to get some help?

(I'm sorry if this is really obvious)
Summer after junior year of high school, small company: $7.25, eventually raised to $10.50.

Summer after freshman year of college, late-stage startup acquired by IBM while I was there: $15, free snacks and drinks and Friday lunches.

College in general, startup: By contract, but "Aim for $15-20 per hour".

My friend, Bay Area, Yahoo: $30.

Me, this summer, anywhere: Asking for $1000+ / week, expect to get it.

In short: It depends.
We do have multiple such methods. Just some of the procedural protections that exist for the accused:

1) Evidence can be suppressed for numerous reasons due to police misconduct or even honest mistakes.

2) Prosecutors have an ethical obligation not to bring bad cases. They can be disbarred if they do (e.g. like the prosecutor in the Duke basketball players case).

3) Prosecutors must get a grand jury indictment to bring a case.

4) The defense can motion to the judge to exclude evidence that would unfairly prejudice the defendant.

5) The jury must convict.

6) The defendant can appeal to the Court of Appeals (in the federal system) or the equivalent.

7) The defendant can appeal to the Supreme Court or the equivalent.

8) After losing all appeals, the defendant can file one or more habeas petitions to collaterally attack the judgment.

9) The defendant can petition to set aside the judgment based on new evidence that would have changed the jury's verdict.

I'm not well-versed in criminal law--there are a raft of other ways to attack convictions. And the convicted do use these avenues. A substantial fraction of the federal dockets are habeas petitions that have no merit but must be heard as part of the process of ensuring justice.

Before you add yet another "protection" by allowing the convicted to sue prosecutors, you have to think about what it would do to the system when all the actually guilty people started filing those suits. Does it really add to "justice" more than it burdens an already strained system?

Remember: prosecutorial immunity does not keep people in prison wrongly--it keeps those people from subsequently suing prosecutors for damages. Moreover, where do you set the bar for liability? If you set the bar too low, e.g. allowing suit when you simply think the prosecutor was too harsh (as in Swartz's case), then you basically make prosecution impossible. If you set the bar very high, you end up actually punishing a very small number of people (e.g. prosecutors who manufacture evidence to get a conviction), but you still create a huge number of lawsuits from those that are justly convicted.
Swartz didn't face prison until feds took over case, report says
I explained how you do know the return type, it is of some known, universally quantified type variable.

A type variable is a compile-time known type.
The Million Dollar Club: Conclusion
I've always found HN to be pro-college, so I'm not sure why you think people have something against it. However, someone who has a demonstrated college-level education without direction shows extreme motivation, and ability to adapt to adversity. Going to college is the easy way out, so to speak. Of course the attributes you list are valuable too.

I don't think you can say one is better than other. You will find great and not so great people in both groups. As always, you need to evaluate the individual, not the piece of paper.
Obfuscate.js - scramble sensitive text away from web page screenshots
Effectively Planning UX Design Projects
Reversed out type is so hard to read. If you are going to insist on a black background please use green type.
I hoped this line "From personal experience, I’ve used APIs heavily with only two languages; JavaScript and PHP." would convey that I'm only going to be talking about these two...
I'm not asking whether the general-purpose stacks are that inefficient at general computing, but whether there are classes of applications that could gain from a much more specialized stack. "Order of magnitude" comes in only as a way of saying that the gain would have to be large to justify the effort.

Edit: Perhaps I should explain where I'm coming from. I work on a high-performance spreadsheet system. One of the things that makes spreadsheets interesting is that their computational model is powerful enough to be valuable, yet not so powerful as to amount to general-purpose computing. Think of a server that doesn't need to do anything but access spreadsheet data, perform spreadsheet calculations, and serve them over the network to some client. Such a server's responsibilities are so specialized that one can't help but wonder how far down the stack one might push them and what one might gain by doing so. I daydream about this sort of thing.
what is unique about it?
So more a matter of the atmosphere around the language than the language itself.

Intrinsically, Python and CL seem just as fit for functional programming (with semi-legitimate reliance on TCO being a slight benefit for CL's side).
It's better than Kernelang.

You could get frowny faces from HR with comments like "Can you start the server Kernelang, Gus?"

Yeah. That was bad. I'll go back to lurking.
LA at large may be flat but hello, the Santa Monica Mountains run directly through it. The trains that used to go through LA went all through the hills. The tunnels are still in many of them.

http://goo.gl/wBRSG

The Angel's Flight Train is still there.

http://goo.gl/UMqCB

The worlds oldest Freeway, the 110 goes through a valley.

The 5, 101, 10 and 60 wrap around all kinds of hills within a few miles of downtown LA.
Regarding direct democracy:
1) Let's be clear, California's politicians haven't done a great job except for propositions
2) I think direct democracy is a solvable problem. One really simple thing: don't use 50% as the threshhold. Something like 70-90% makes sense to me. Not claiming it is easy, or politically feasible, but if we are in the "what big dream could/should the government work towards in 10 years" category, it seems to fit.

Regarding serving for voting:
I went to West Point then was in the Army. I like the book Starship Troopers. I think it is a terrible idea in practice.
1) The only thing this does for sure is increase the size of the public payroll.
2) No evidence to support it actually making the country better.
3) I feel like I help my country more working in the private sector than I ever did in the Army. (Anecdotal)
I just registered hnypot [dot] info for a few bucks and will see if I can get wildcard DNS running with some tracking. Haha, I don't want to type the name as a link until I get the tracking going...

If anybody wants to collaborate or you just want an NS delegation off that name to try to roll your own, just let me know!
Awesome, glad you liked it!
There is certainly the other side of the coin, as you point out. Which is better depends heavily on perspective, so yeah, I'll accept that one is probably not definitively better than the other.

I do think that they are certainly different though. It should not be the same piece of paper because both routes, regardless of relative merits, are very different animals.
I guess I just don't see who, other than the couple in question, was harmed here. Is the author being intentionally vague about what really happened? Was Square harmed? Was a third party harmed?

You seem to desire a world where Square is exalted to some sort of sovereign status, answerable to no law beyond their own policies and procedures. Which is a horrifying state of affairs.

Why would it be a horrifying state of affairs? I'm not saying you're wrong, I just don't understand!
Here's the previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5084791
...will lead to founders doing the easy thing and simply not hiring women.

Those who encourage baseless sexual harassment claims (and baseless lawsuits of all sorts) couldn't care less about the hiring of women. Those who do care about the hiring of women ought to consider making this issue a priority.
We're switching over to Stripe and they've been kind enough to hook us up with a better deal than PayPal (we'll be paying cost which is something like 2.4% flat, inclusive of Amex and international transactions, which constitute more than 30% of our total donations).
Ask HN: What's the site that displays an uploaded image on an iPhone?
I saw a post on HN the other day about a site that lets you upload a photo and then pick a device for that photo to be show on. For example, you could upload a photo and then that photo would be placed on the screen of an iPhone or macbook. Does anyone have the url for that site?
Certification is nothing but acknowledgement of knowledge. I agree that coming from a reputable source has more currency that the knowledge. Would be interesting how the certification from separated from the source of knowledge pans out. There is absolutely no reason for the source of the knowledge to be one to certify rather than administrative ease.
I guess we have a different definition of flat since I hiked up and down Tokyo hills all the time. But even if it's not has hilly as SF it's streets are far more curvy.
I must say this is a really interesting conversation.

It seems to have two camps, people who have not considered what they are wearing, and those who have.

I reminds me of foodie arguments where arguments over frying potato chips and baking potato chips break out.

A very useful technique for creating recognition and 'mind share' is to wear something credible but unusual. You go to a bar and remember the gal who had the low cut blouse and ample cleavage but not the dozen who dressed more modestly. You remember the person in college who wore a cape but not the folks who lived in your dorm and you shared a couple of years with, you remember the person who always wore a red shirt and red sneakers, or all purple, or always something leather. The list goes on.

For what ever reason our brains tend to 'note' those folks who stand out a bit through their clothing choices. You may have experienced it personally, or you may not. If you haven't, consider the advice of the OP or something like it and pick some 'thing' to make your brand stand out. Then use it regularly and at the same time try to track your personal 'visibility' in the conversations around you. You may be surprised (if you choose badly you may be horrified) but you will be noticed.

Bashing the idea that you wear a bow tie is silly unless you've done it and can relate how it ruined your life. Its perfectly reasonable to wonder how effective it would be but since bow ties are relatively cheap you could satisfy your curiosity if there was any truth to this by wearing one and seeing the results. You might be surprised at what you find.
Word. But that said, one totally legit use is learning from other coders. I figure as long as you learn from and don't just rip off stuff, apk decoding could enable an almost front-end-web level of collaborative learning.
It's possible to fool GitHub by changing your system clock before committing. You can make commits appear from the future too. See http://blog.metamorphium.com/2012/12/02/just-for-fun-code-fr...
The Quite Rubbish Clock - QR Code clock on Raspberry PI
Few crits & suggestions:

- The layout does render correctly at 1024x768 (iPad).

- Some of the drop downs do not work when tapped.

- Make the movie detail page URL more SEO friendly (include the title instead of your internal ID).

- Don't force users to download images & titles from a few dozen other movies when looking at the movie detail page.

- Focus on being mobile friendly. I can imagine a site like this being most useful when I see a poster or trailer at the local theater and want to remember it. In that situation, I'm on my phone with a slower connection (or one that is capped).

- You're building a site with lots of utility, not a content site. I'm not sure links to half a dozen social media services will serve your users (along with forcing mobile visitors to download all that JavaScript).

- Movie release dates vary greatly across countries. Even the US, smaller independent films will have slow roll outs over longer periods of time. Some bigger films will premier in NY and LA weeks or months before being released in a wider market. And not all films will be available in all areas. Your site gives no indication of any of this at all.
Working on this! After Stripe integration, it's one of our top priorities. In the meantime, you can view every patient update on our transparency document (see the last column):https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ah3wJ9CRQzyHdDZ...
>Third, environmental economists have pointed out that fuel use will unambiguously decrease if increased efficiency is coupled with an intervention (e.g. a green tax) that keeps the cost of fuel use the same or higher

Yes, the point I made from the beginning, except that I added that such a policy would make the contest for the supercar superfluous -- it would eliminate all the marginal uses of energy (i.e. where the benefit doesn't exceed the cost + tax) in the first place!

One step above copy-paste is analysis, and one step above that is understanding.
As mentioned, the reactivity makes this interesting to me. The amount of reactivity required for a project like LightTable is pretty ambitious, which we don't really see in most Lisp object systems (or any object systems for that matter).
thank you but the bit-rate is not nearly good enough for anyone that really enjoys their music
This is the magic quote: "Now, educators in Wisconsin are offering a possible solution by decoupling the learning part of education from student assessment and degree-granting."

Speaking as an educator (I teach undergrad-level CS) I would love to be able to not have to give high-stakes assessments: I'd still assign projects and give exams to be able to give students feedback and help both of us understand where they're at, but the whole process would be so much less stressful (on both sides) if the assessment-for-credit came from someone else somewhere else.

(Interestingly, I also am very interested in writing and working out how to fairly score the for-credit assessments; I just don't want them to be part of my class.)

That said, there's a lot that's a little scary about initiatives like this (from a job security standpoint), but I do think that something along these lines is both inevitable and, ultimately, the right direction to go.
Okay, I understand developers can spend their time doing whatever they want. Nobody can (or even should) tell other people how they're going to spend their spare time.

But... wouldn't the effort be better spent improving the existing interpreter? The vague description makes it sound like they're trying to run Erlang without an OS "getting in the way". Looking at the language shootout benchmarks [1], it seems like there's still a lot of room for improvement before the OS would be slowing them down. Operating system services aren't causing Erlang to take 3-25x as long as the C code.

[1] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?te...
What if I stare at you while eating my sandwich... slowly.... licking it before each bite?
If their business was that brittle, it should have been in bankruptcy court already, not in 2-3 hours.
What analytics app is that in the dashboard screenshot?
I didn't go to college but as a front end dev I've made anywhere from $15 an hour to $80 the past year. It's been mostly contract projects however and not a big tech company. Your experiences will vary based on what you want and location but the money's out there if you go after it.
Weird to see this in their HTML code:

<!-- Prompt IE 6 users to install Chrome Frame. Remove this if you support IE 6.
chromium.org/developers/how-tos/chrome-frame-getting-started -->

I'd probably remove that after I've made my decision about whether or not to officially support IE 6.
I wrote the first native Dalvik decompiler, and it wasn't used for any of the things you mention. Decompilers of this sort are tremendously useful tools in security work.
Replying to myself since I can't reply directly to you.

Social Security gets special bonds specifically to avoid the bond market distortions you describe. They have been purchasing these bonds in high volume for decades prior to the financial crisis, and marketable Treasury rates were much higher for most of that time.

In addition, in 2011, SS tax receipts dropped below expenditures for the first time since 1983, so SS stopped purchasing these special bonds in any significant net volume. (The trust fund is still cash flow positive due to interest earned on bonds they already hold.)

As for the Fed's purchasing program, Treasury rates were historically low before Fed started buying. In fact the historically low rates were why they started buying Treasuries in the first place--with interest rates bottomed out, QE was one of the only levers left to them. You've got the cause and effect backwards.
The project's README file (https://github.com/Factual/drake - scroll down) contains building and running instructions, as well as how to create a simple script to run Drake which you can put on your PATH.
Is it difficult to scrape? I log my balance daily with a simple Python script that logs in and scrapes the value.
Cheap ones from Mexico: Vivaerobus, Volaris and Interjet are missing too.