skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firing her would give other prosecutors a reason to think twice about aggressively pursuing a case. Something along the lines of, "Ortiz was fired over this sort of thing; maybe I should not try to abuse the law the way she did."

It might be overly optimistic to think that, but really, the government needs an occasional reminder that it serves the people and that angering us is a bad idea.
> Is there any inherent reason why you couldn't write a performant game in ClojureScript

From the parent:

if you want to run at a reasonable framerate you need to perform quite some logic in about 16 milliseconds[...] simply "iterating" over a seq made of a hundred elements in Clojure apparently takes more time than that.
Amazon can't grow 5x without taking share from WMT. That should explain part of the valuation gap.
would you mind elaborating on what you like about it? We're currently using posterous, and very unhappy with it.
How can I tell if my home printer is securely protected? Is there a good web page or text book anyone can recommend that will teach me more details about this? Thanks.
I haven't updated the list of cameras in a few years, and seem to have lost my script to do it. I'll see what I can do later.
a "jury of your peers" is no more infallible
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IMO, survey results like that are often indicative of a bad survey question, or a survey question hunting for a desired outcome.

Often you'll see a question like: "Are you better, worse, or about average at doing multiple tasks at the same time?"

Writing the question that way is letting the person answering the question set the scope. Average of what? The general population? Quantum physicists? Secretaries? Nursing home residents? Peers?
You keep saying that you have to research how they work every time. But we tell you: no, you only have to write the wrapper shell script once. It is a one-time effort. Just like harthur put a one-time effort in writing "replace". You wouldn't have to remember find/sed every time, just like harthur doesn't have to re-write "replace" every time.
If you recall from the early days of google, there are plenty of indexed dark data that Google actively scrubs out of the public results. For example it was trivial at one point to find credit card numbers and social security numbers.
I'd quibble a little with that, or maybe just clarify; there are two kinds of rail systems in the Bay Area -- local (MUNI in SF, VTA in Santa Clara) and regional (Caltrain, BART, Capitol Corridor). I really think regional rail serves a purpose. For all the tomatoes we tend to throw at BART (some of which it certainly deserves), it's a big contributor to keeping cars off the road -- or letting people get by without cars -- for trips that you really couldn't walk, such as between SF and Oakland. When I worked in SF and lived in Foster City, I was taking Caltrain in daily, and while that wasn't without problems it was a hell of a lot nicer than driving -- and once you figure in not only gas prices but parking fees, cheaper.

On the local level, as much as I've generally preferred to ride trains rather than buses, I think you're right -- although buses are helped immensely by having dedicated bus lanes for main arteries, and I'm not sure how feasible that would be in SF.
>Some societies don't have the luxury of an idle childhood.

I don't bother arguing this point because pretty much anyone who hasn't taken part in nor witnessed this won't be able to comprehend. For whatever reason, it's assumed de facto that child labor is bad.

It took the great depression to restrict child labor in the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labor_laws_in_the_United_...
Most of the interesting parts of Tokaido are in tokaido-bootstrap, muxr, tokaido-dns, and tokaido-build. They will be integrated into Tokaido.app in the next few days.
Ending plea bargaining first would imply the end of the war on drugs. This nation would be unable to continue without its courts, and if plea bargaining ended, our courts would be overwhelmed within a day. Politicians would have no choice but to let drug offenders go free, because they would otherwise have to deal with a population that is asking why murderers and child rapists are not being arrested or prosecuted.
Thank you for the update. I'm glad the project is still progressing. Also, thanks for mentioning Michal Papis. I know he's been working hard on binary builds of Ruby for both RVM and Tokaido.
We send children to school without their consent.
Well, he engaged in 'arsehole like tendencies' two days ago. When an alcoholic is on the wagon for a long time and then falls off again, they're still an alcoholic.
http://railsinstaller.org anyone?
Code too: https://github.com/railsinstaller/railsinstaller-nix
A significant portion of the Rails ecosystem -- who we should encourage -- is people coming into web development from a background which doesn't include an engineering degree or years of command line experience. For example, many of them are designers or folks who've otherwise built web pages, for whom <h1><%= @post.header %></h1> is an awesome step forward in terms of their ability to deliver software which solves actual problems.

Eventually, a few years from now, they'll have a better understanding of the full stack, but for now, we want to clear as many possible roadblocks from their way so that they don't either abandon web development or begin using Programming languages which are reasonably Hospitable to People who come from non-traditional backgrounds.
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I find that any skill that provides me with additional option when performing common tasks is "useful" to some degree.

re LEDs for standing out: i did say "within the context of social norms"

re "dedication to ~something~" I never said, or implied dedication. I said "willingness". This is VERY different. I don't want employees who are "dedicated" to finding alternative ways to do things. I want employees who are "willing" to find alternative ways to do things.
If you're installing on Linux, rather install OpenJDK. Works like a charm, no more Oracle.
The economy is hampered by too many useless, marginal workers; a point system would attract well educated, in demand workers. The kind of workers that companies need to grow, in turn hireing more people.
Technologies require mindshare - Tokaido is software conversion optimisation for Rails.

Also "relatively clean system" is an important qualifier. A lot of curious developers won't have one of those, and instead will have to deal with dependency hell and tedious gotchas.

Jumping into learning about the framework is better use of their time upfront.
Temp work is bad in the long term. Employers do not have to provide benefits for temporary employees, and they also have access to less privileges from the government. This approach is a race to the bottom IMO.
I've heard the word followship used in this way. Basically "trying" to lead rarely works, but just leading works fine.

You can then touch base with folks to find out what works and doesn't. So using the GP example you can inform folks you're hiking on Saturday a 10AM or something, and after a few of these you may find someone who expressed an interesting in hiking has never shown up, and you can check in with them. "Hey the hikes have been going great, would love to see you some time so we could hike together. Is there something that would make it easier for you to attend?" And you might get "ok my kids play soccer on Saturdays" or "I'm swamped with house projects" or something else.

If there is something you can try, like alternately going on Sundays or early morning weekdays, then try that. Sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn't.
I may or may not have just printed out some random messages for people to find.

There is something strangely compelling about sending thoughts out into the ether with no chance of feedback. Fax pranks are before my time, but I totally get it. I hope I made somebody smile today.
This is where text messages can be nice - you can write it out before you leave and not send it. Then when you hit your point just hit "send".
Lets not overreact here.

The printers are on public wire.

You had not done any crime by using Google to find them.

You obtained access to their open HP admin panel via public link with no password or credentials you had to pass.

You haven't stole any information and, furthermore, there is NO confidential information even to be stolen to start with.

On the top of that, you cannot even determine who they are (name, company, address, email, nothing?). They are totally undefinable sitting by a raw IP address. Sure you know someone is using HP printer. Can you get legally punished for that?

I don't think that taking advantage of a publicly accessible information is punishable by jail, especially since noone got hurt and no information were stolen, whether it is information someone made their living off of (Aaron case), or just totally worthless information as of what brand computer of printer is being used. It would be hard for a company to sue you -- (lack of merit)?

If Google got away with snooping private data from open Wifs (and I am sure they made some sort of use from all that gathered data, even if only internally), then I am pretty sure you wont get any heat for such a petite stretch of snooping people's printers.

another though: you may say that someone can sue you for printing a page using their material and toner, but thats too little of damage to even start with. However, arguendo, if you would get slammed with class action lawsuit, you are most likely a millionaire from your idea anyways :)
My thing takes your investment capital and cohorts it sensibly against your time horizons.

It's new. A lot of what you get from an is along the lines of "Oh, you want this money in seven years huh? You should probably just buy a bunch of bonds." That's crazy. A .15% change in interest rates will wipe out a year's worth of interest on the long bond.

My thing is an invented modification of a CDO/CLO that keeps your global risk sensible while making sure that your short term objectives are preferentially met. It also makes really customized risks available at almost no cost.

It's cool. PM me for details.
"Has the implication that if you think you're terrible at it, you might be good."

Which is often the case. When you understanding something well enough to be good at it, you also understand the limitations of your knowledge, and are more likely to rate yourself poorly as a result.
Right, until they all move away to the suburbs in < 10 years because 'It's just a lot nicer out there, you know what I mean? Not so many homeless people.'

If you think this bubble is going to force any permanent change on San Francisco, youre delusional.
It seems like having to install multiple different versions of Ruby/Rails is an important thing for a new person to learn, but we have RVM.

It seems like getting a rails app deployed on a server is an important thing for a new person to learn, yet we have Heroku which takes little effort.

We can say this about many of the things ruby/rails and the community has abstracted away for us, but that doesn't mean these tools aren't important in moving forward as a community.

I'm no slouch as a developer. Yet when I've installed RVM on 5+ systems, something _always_ goes wrong, and never in the same way. When it works it works great, but when it doesn't you spend your day bashing your head into a wall.

How will we encourage new programmers to join Rails and the Ruby community when they fail to even get it running?
It's not impossible there'd be something interesting there... but Java is a more likely attack vector simply because part of its normal functionality is to execute code downloaded from the internet.

Before this recent patch, that code would be executed without even prompting the user.

Sure, there's a sandbox, but (as we know) sometimes a sandbox has cracks, particularly when the runtime is designed to let code to only enforce the sandbox for some code it runs, not all. (Compare to JavaScript execution, which also runs downloaded code without prompting, but JS in the browser is always in the sandbox -- there are things it simply can't do, vs. Java's "this is do-able but not for you".
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I agree, but temp work is better than no work and it'll allow newbies te get some experience.
Excellent, would use it (the backend stuff), would need to be in the EU though :-(
Ask HN: Who in NYC is hiring?
I am a Philadelphia native looking to work in NYC, but only so many postings are on the (good) major resources out there. So, I ask: who in NYC is hiring?

I presently work with Rails at the moment (and the things that come with it -- HTML/CSS/SASS/Bootstrap/JS), but I have an interest in just about anything I can get my hands on in order to keep things fresh. For example, I'm presently reading a copy of the newly printed Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!(!) In the future, I'd like to learn more about database and systems design, and am planning on taking advantage of the bountiful online courses offered these days to try and do so. I'm self-taught and development has been primarily a hobby to date, but I would love to make it a career.

If anyone is hiring, feel free to send me an email (paul at define dot io), and/or check out my Github (user name is cuttooth). I also welcome anyone who might be looking in NYC to use this thread.
How are you getting the unique names for the owners?
Perhaps you should take a closer look at the justice system. What typically happens is that you are offered a plea bargain, and if you refuse to take it, the government will add more criminal charges to the case. There have even been cases where the government delays prosecution until a convict is released, and then arrests him and sends him right back to court.

The ultimate problem here is an overly expansive legal system, which is made worse by an obscenely powerful executive branch of government. We are desperately in need of reform, but we are a nation that is populated by right-wing law-and-order types, and whose politicians are mostly from that same category (yes, that includes the Democrats, who have no aversion to using paramilitary police teams to serve search-and-arrest warrants and who appoint people like Carmen Ortiz).
I said to me, I did not say it is objectively. I am just saying that a fan-made mod for a modern engine, using modern gameplay ideas is not the same as the original game.
Happiness is a choice.
You don't see this as a problem? I find that akin to saying "The Soviet Union had a perfectly functioning economy. The problem was just that half its citizens were starving."

One of the best aspects of buses, aside from the cost, are they can go anywhere you want. If a lot more people move into the Mission, you can spend a few million dollars and double the number of buses (as opposed to literally billions of dollars to build a rail line). If people move away from the Tenderloin, you're not stuck with billions of dollars of infrastructure that now isn't needed. Just move the bus routes.

Also, lets look at NYC, one of the most successful rail systems in the world. As OP states, it costs nearly $14B a year to operate and only generates $7B a year. That means people who don't use it are paying $7B/year to the people that do use it. I wouldn't call this "perfectly functional". And as I mentioned above, the more rail you build, inevitably the less resources you have for more efficient and economical transport.
How about a requirement to run laps around the hustler school building while employees yell "hustle!" at them. Back to the roots hustling.
You might also say that startups fight unemployment already, by creating a cadre of jobs. They do, but most of that impact is felt in the neighborhoods of the startups -- Silicon Valley runs an unemployment rate of as low as 4% vs. 7.8% nationally.

Sending work to job training programs in the rest of the country lets us share the love a bit.
In the narrow context of software that exists entirely to deal with other software, you're probably right. But I build software that mainly optimizes non-virtual processes. These processes often require human oversight due to laws or safety regulations. Even in the cases where I'm building software where regulations don't get in the way, the real world is usually too messy for the computer to automatically take action because it would need to control a robot much more advanced than current technology allows for.
I keep these 3 printed out, near my desk:

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires.
Seek discipline and find your liberty.
- The Coda (Dune Series)

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1. Learn From Everyone.
2. Follow No One.
3. Watch For Patterns.
4. Work Like Hell.
- Scott McCloud (Comic Book Artist, TED 2005)

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The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you're already doing. Thinking more about what their needs are, and responding accordingly. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe. They can't help you any more. Their stability model no longer offers that much stability. They are extinct, they are extinction.
- Hugh MacLeod - http://changethis.com/manifesto/6.HowToBeCreative/pdf/6.HowT...
I remember an anecdote of a bagel delivery man that calculated

I expect it was about Paul Feldman -- it was a very interesting story -- the guy was an MIT-trained economist who, in frustration at getting nowhere at a certain point in his career, gave it up to deliver bagels, etc. to companies every day and he collected data on people's behavior when it came to leaving payments.

The following NY Times Magazine article is by the Freakonomics duo about him (the story made it into the Freakonomics book):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/06/magazine/what-the-bagel-ma...

PDF of the same article from one of the authors (i.e. a non-nytimes.com link):

http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/WhatTheBagelMa...
Quinoa isn't bad for Bolivian and Peruvian farmers; ignore media hand-wringing
After long, long e-mail discussions over plans with friends I also started using this approach. Just go, see who comes along. Makes organising much easier, and somehow I also care less if friends don't show up. It's my party, the more the merrier but if you're not there, your loss. Wish I knew this two years ago, would've saved me quite some time and hassle.
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To be honest, I think you're completely missing the point. The game, Chromashift, is not a serious attempt to make a quality game. It was an opportunity to try building a (somewhat) complex system with the IDE they've been working on. Along the way, they took some inspiration from CES, and brought it back into LightTable. And yes, CES can be used to create games with relatively good performance. Take a look at Replica Island [1], an open-source 2D side scroller for Android that runs well on the low-powered Android devices that came out 2-3 years ago.

Anyways, the main point: what does the fact that Clojure isn't a great language for building games have to do with this post?

[1]: http://replicaisland.blogspot.com/
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Congrats on hitting TC.

If you guys haven't read Peter's piece on Thorium it's worth noting that these guys aren't just about analytics: http://rein.pk/thorium-reactors/
The problem with underage workers is:

1) Education is a right which far too many people miss out on

2) Children's bodies and brains are still forming and so making them repeat actions many times per day is intrinsically harmful and the lack of mental development is similarly harmful

3) Children in factory jobs removes opportunities for adults to do the same jobs.

4) The pay is rarely "fair"; the conditions are rarely "okay".

You're right that it's better that children earn a bit of cash to help with family bills. But that would be better done by paying the parents a fair wage.
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I'm a little confused as to your assertion about Clojure and iterating over a 100 element sequence.

On my machine, at least (map identity (range 0 99)) takes 0.046072 milliseconds, which is somewhat less than 16 milliseconds. Now, maybe there's something I'm missing here, can you clarify the source of your assertion?

Again, definitely not trying to be confrontational, and I don't know clojure very well, nor do I know anything about games programming, but that was what I found on my i3 core with nrepl running in emacs 24.

On topic, I think that the architecture proposed sounds really interesting (as does much of Light Table).
Liking the user interface!
Dismissing smartphones as a fashion trend seems naive. There is a segment of PC users who emotionally react to the suggestion that the "PC", in reference to a box sitting on a desk, is in its twilight. I think it's due to a fear of losing mastery over the system.

PCs are horrendously complex for what most people would use them for--taking pictures, browsing Facebook, watching movies, and so on. It's no surprise that, as mobile devices have made these things easy to do, PC sales have been on the decline.
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> The renaming was entirely political.

Well sure; the FSF is essentially a political organization. I'm not sure what point you're making here. The renaming was a statement that the organization believes the license is not always what is most appropriate for libraries. This is entirely relevant to the original point, which was a refutation of the notion that the FSF is dumb for not using the clearly-appropriate-because-they-named-it-that "Library GPL".

> If the author wants their library to actually be used, it should be LGPL.

If the author wants their code to be used as broadly as possible, it should be public domain. If the author, maybe, has some concerns other than just how broadly the code is used, then some more restrictive license may be appropriate - BSD, LGPL, or GPL, depending on your particular goals.

> GPL-ing a library almost always makes it pointless.

If your only goal is broad adoption, then this is certainly the case. Somehow, I think the FSF has goals other than broad adoption of their software.

Even so, it is certainly the case that releasing your library under the GPL will mean that many projects will avoid it. Whether this trade-off is worthwhile depends not only on the weight you place on various goals, but also on the nature of the library: something that adds huge amounts of value relative to alternatives, and relative to proprietary libraries that might serve as other parts of a final application, will be a lot more likely to change the license of prospective projects than something that is easily replaced or displaces other things of more value. This is actually more-or-less the FSF's position, per my understanding, on libraries: "we encourage GPL but do what makes sense." This was their reasoning on readline, and that definitely drove some GPLing of software before workalike alternatives surfaced. This was presumably their reasoning here. This is not to say that the reasoning is necessarily correct.
There are exceptions for warm weather outdoor events, assuming of course a peak or shawl lapel. But definitely not for a job interview.
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