skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well if your credit is ruined, you have seven years before it is taken off your credit history.

If you don't contact the debt company the debt you owe will be written off and the IRS will send you a 1099 form of the debt as income. So you will have $5000 added to your 1040 and taxed on it.

If you do contact the debt company and make arrangements to pay you will be contacted by other debt companies as well. So that 1K down payment and $X month, the other debt companies will want a settlement as well.

What you might want to do is contact a debt settlement company that can consolidate your debts into one monthly payment. Your credit rating is already ruined by owing debt and being sued. Contact a debt lawyer or debt consolidation company to reduce or consolidate the debt and make payments if you want to go that route.

Owing debt and taxes is all too common in the software consultant area. Sometimes software consultants are stiffed by contracting companies, clients, brokers, etc and still have to pay taxes on income they earned but were not paid for. If they ask about your income changing, just tell them it was higher when you had more work and it adjusts to the market. Most credit card or debt companies don't care what you earn, as long as you make payments. They will eventually see your tax form and then make adjustments to your credit based on that. Debt collection companies, by the way, get your contact info from the IRS from what you put on your 1040 form. So whatever contact phone or contact postal address you list, they will contact you with that. Some people skip debt collection agencies by putting a PO box listed as an apartment or a phone number that is always busy or rings and rings and never is answered as their contact phone to keep debt collectors away. But you didn't hear that from me. :)
My resolution is to actually contribute to some open source projects this year.

For upwards of five years, I've been attending linux.conf.au and the Open Source Developers Conference in Australia. Each time, I have a great time; discuss interesting things with interesting people; come home and check out a bunch of interesting repositories; and then... do nothing.

But not this year! Aha!

I left linux.conf.au four days ago. Since then, I've:

- written up one bug report [0]

- joined the discussion on another bug report [1]

- patched a piece of software on github for the second bug report [2]

- realised that somebody else has done essentially the same patch in essentially the same way :( [2]

- created a web scraper [3] for my local council to scrape ~30,000 planning applications for [4] and asked for it to be included

- added 12 sets of traffic lights to OpenStreetMap near a friends house [5]

This feels great. I think I can safely say that this year is going to be different to the others. I'm quite aware that many of these are extremely minor, but they I hope that they get me over the line and get me contributing more regularly. I may be able to make a bit of a difference this time.

Now... if I can just get around to going to the local hackerspace that for the last five years I've promised myself I'll attend...

[0] https://tickets.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/browse/PA-444

[1] https://tickets.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/browse/OA-503

[2] https://github.com/mischat/shareNice/pull/18

[3] https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/shire_of_yarra_ranges_plann...

[4] http://www.planningalerts.org.au/

[5] http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/pserwylo/edits
The Javascript engine on full-screen webapps is slower than the one in Safari (that's why the previous Facebook app was slow as hell).

Not true[0]. Home-screen web apps use the Nitro engine as of iOS 5. It's only embedded web views (i.e. the Facebook app, Google Chrome on iOS) that don't. FWIW Chrome is my favorite browser on iOS, despite the speed loss.

[0] http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/06/ios-5-brings-nitro-spee...
I always feel like everything that is happening in the US, has already happened in Argentina. But every time I mention it, I get dismissed like it was a stupid comparison. And then it happens again and again, and then I hear the exact same thing from other Argentinians that have been to or live in America, they try to warn you, but no one wants to hear, so they get dismissed too.

Seeing Obama reelected was the final proof I needed. Whether the alternative was worse or better does not even matter, the system is doomed. People will vote whatever they see on TV, and will fall for the same old politician tricks. Get the poor and the naive, win the elections, and then steal from everyone through things like inflation and bailouts.

I'll just drop here this perverse quote from Obama, after he saw that the current president of Argentina (who absolutely destroyed what was left of the country) got 54% of votes and got reelected on 2011. He said something like "I have things to learn from you". Sure, it could be nothing, don't listen to me.
I'm curious about this. What sort of tech visas are available if I wanted to go to Britain, or the US?
Japan hit by suffocating smog from China
Because people are used to mirrors. Even people who work around video cameras for a living mix up left and right on daily basis.
We're solving that by actually having an app "installer" on the web page. It looks and feels like the App Store, and you "tap to install" just like you would a normal app.

We do actually download and stash most web resources, to speed up load times, so it's not completely window dressing. Our app is designed to be added to the Home Screen, but it also runs inside Safari or Chrome just fine.
>>>However, I see no point in arguing about definitions. I propose that we just use the terms "complete deregulation" and "partial deregulation" from here on out, so as to be non-ambiguous.

Agreed. All dictionaries disagree, but I'm not talking to any of them.

I believe that all reasonable people agree that history has shown that monopolies are inefficient in a capitalist system(see the 1920s for example). I feel that government-granted regulatory monopolies are also inefficient in a capitalist system. From your comments, I assume that you agree with both of these things, please let me know if you have a different view.

My understanding of the invention of regulations is this: Full deregulation of business seems like the best possible solution, until the point that companies become so big that they form monopolies that stifle competition. Then the government has to come in and regulate them until they are no longer monopolies. From your comments, I assume that you agree with this, let me know if you have different views.

I have to go eat but I have a comment written up about natural monopolies with relation to telcos ready to be edited and then posted.
So somehow moving apps is less difficult than creating shortcuts?
Something comma operator something.
"The cable distribution giants like Time Warner Cable and Comcast are already making a 97 percent margin on their “almost comically profitable” Internet services, according to Craig Moffet, an analyst at the Wall Street firm Bernstein Research."

Comcast's 2008-2011 mean (standard deviation) operating margin is 20% (0.8 percentage points), pre-tax margin is 14% (1.8 percentage points), and net income margin 9% (1.4 percentage points). This is of note for a purported utility, but not "comically profitable".

Let's observe their most recent quarterly disclosure [1] by business segment. Here we learn that the Cable Communications division, which "consists primarily of video, high-speed Internet and voice services (“cable services”) for residential and business customers in the United States", had an operating margin of 40% and spent 14% of revenues on capital expenditures. We also learn that Cable Networks, which "consists primarily of our national cable television networks, our regional sports and news networks, our international cable networks, our cable television production studio, and our related digital media properties", had an operating margin of 37%.

Where's the money going? Breaking out Cable Communication's costs, 35% went to programming, 35% go to "Other", defined as "business services, advertising, network operations, and franchise and other regulatory fees", 12% to marketing, 10% to technical labour, and 8% to customer service. Also of note, 24% of the division's revenues came from residential high-speed internet (50% came from residential video).

[1] http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1166691/0001193125124...
Just use the space bar.
Quantified Self : Mood Sharing and Experimentation
open source your design.
I wouldn't. Java can't deploy to iOS (without some bogus hack like IKVM, and you'll pay for it with your customers' battery life and your software's responsiveness) and has a shrinking viability--though, for now, still viable--on Windows and Macs.
Ratings are silly. It's a huge systemic problem to rely on them so much. If everyone made their own decisions then some would be right and some would be wrong, but we'd end up with market prices. When everyone uses the same model then everyone is in trouble when the model fails.
We are slowly learning to be a lot more disciplined in how we handle changes, but obviously have a long way to go. Thanks for the tip, will do.
Debian runs an Assassins game at their annual conference (DebConf) - usually goes over pretty well.
Taxi Startup Hailo Raises $30M From USV And Others
I don't concede that he did defend the prosecutor. He said the prosecutor didn't cause a suicide. It does not follow from that that Rayiner approves of the prosecutor's actions.

But your logic wouldn't work even if we stipulated that he defended the prosecutor, because defending prosecutors doesn't make you a prosecutor.

It's you, who tried to cut short a debate by saying that Rayiner was defending "his profession" and talking his own book, who's making the dubious argument.

Nobody is calling you out on it because we're all upset about Aaron Swartz and we can obviously all see which way the wind is blowing on the topic here. But I like Rayiner and would like to see him stick around here, so I'll say it: you're out of line. Stop it.
The GDP and population of the EU is larger than that of the United States.
Opscode Chef gets a hand from Facebook
Not necessarily. Refresh the directory, and open the 'same' article.
Where shall I send it? I'll even inscribe a hard copy for you. That's a $44.99 retail value.

More seriously, there is a lot of evidence that promotional copies sell books. You could buy, or ask for a promotional copy of Guy Kawasaki's book about making books. It's about self-publishing, but his experiences with promoting and marketing books apply to any book where the publisher's marketing budget is very limited.

There are some other effects I can count on: That readers of HN are fairly likely to not bother to take something they won't use, because they value their own time. You are only a hypothetical pirate, and your question is hypothetical, too. In the real world, piracy behaves much like promotion.

But, you may be thinking, what about entertainment products?

It's been shown over and over that "pirates" are also top-ranked among paying customers. Is there a real-world case that piracy reduces revenue? If you get past the hypothetical cases, it's much harder to say so.
What alternatives are there

If there is a catastrophic problem looming, and we can't adapt, we're probably screwed. I agree people aren't likely to spontaneously change their behavior just because someone tells them there is a catastrophic problem looming; they will need much harder evidence than that, and on the hypothesis that there is a catastrophic problem looming, by the time there is hard evidence it will probably be too late.

However, that doesn't make centralized schemes look any better, because on the hypothesis that there is a catastrophic problem looming, the schemes will have to be so drastic and so draconian that to say they will be gamed is a massive understatement. The sorts of relatively mild things that are being proposed, like a carbon tax or cap and trade schemes, won't stop a catastrophic problem. We would have to massively re-engineer the world's entire economy. And nobody knows how to do that, so even if we tried a centralized scheme, it wouldn't work; we'd be at least as badly off as if we'd hoped people would spontaneously change their behavior.

(The above is all irrelevant anyway, because we already know we can't re-engineer the world's entire economy; China and India and the rest of the developing world won't let us.)

If there is a catastrophic problem looming, the best we can do is to try to figure out how to adapt. If sea levels are going to rise, build levees. If agriculture is going to have to shift to different areas of land, work on how best to shift it. Or figure out how to induce cooling to offset the warming--for example, by pumping aerosols into the upper atmosphere to simulate a volcanic eruption, since those are known to have a cooling effect. (To me, trying to induce cooling is more risky than adapting, because I'm not convinced we understand the climate well enough to predict the effects. But since we do have past data on volcanic eruptions, we can at least use that as a benchmark if we were desperate enough to try such a scheme.)

I think you're claiming that Al Gore's bona fides as an objective judge are compromised by his profit opportunity

That's certainly not the only reason I think Al Gore isn't an objective judge. I just point it out as an example of the sorts of conflicting interests that are in play in any centralized scheme.

As far as Gore being sincerely worried about the problem, I think he is, but it's hard to be sure, just as it's hard to be sure with any politician. In any case, whether or not his worry is sincere is irrelevant; people can be perfectly sincere and still game the system, because they don't see what they're doing as gaming the system. The very fact that their beliefs are sincere makes it harder for them to do that; they think their beliefs are just reality, since that's how sincere beliefs present themselves to the human mind, so they don't even bother exercising critical thinking about them.
Cool man! What in store for the future? More Patterns? Customizable anything?
Your assertion was that "In those days the men worked, and the women stayed home to take care of the children." As the link makes clear, this has historically, in the 1950s, and in the present day only been true of upper middle class families, where the man's income was sufficient to support the entire family. Everybody else, man or woman, had to work together to scrape together enough income and outsource childcare in some form or another.

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_workforce#19th_cen... (and onward)
Creating a shortcut doesn't accomplish the same thing moving an icon does; you still have to move it.

Also, moving is generally unnecessary on iOS if you install the most important apps first.

Oh, I almost forgot: Yes, moving an app on iOS is less work than creating a shortcut on Android.
Just a nitpick, but news.ycombinator.com is for "hackers". These guys are the real, unquoted hackers.
Revenge porn is “just entertainment,” says owner of IsAnybodyDown
I put "Hacker News" (which I thereafter identified as a organization or group by the drop-down selector) into the search,

http://www.verifiedfacts.org/search

and generated this new conspiracy theory,

"During the Bush wars, Hacker News began plotting their eventual rise to power.

"Local historians living near Area 51 have noticed strange connections between it and the Feds, stretching back to the Bush wars.

"Mentalists and psychics report that strange aura disturbances can be seen wherever fluorine is found in Area 51.

"Outspoken academics who research this topic have had their research silenced by those in power.

"The increased militarization of US police forces can only mean one thing-- when the government's failure to properly address fluorine sparks a rebellion, the Feds will be leading death squads across the nation.

. . . . "

Several parts of that read very much like Hacker News comments I have seen recently under various threads.

About Paul Graham, identified as a person, I get

"Paul Graham isn't just an individual-- they're an organization, and they have doubles everywhere.

"Do you know that if you post a tweet about #mercury and Paul Graham, it will 'mysteriously' disappear from your page within minutes?

"You may think free speech ensures your right to talk openly about Paul Graham's negative influence on our society, but their powerful friends in Libertarians have, in the past, used crippling libel lawsuits to silence brave citizens who did exactly that.

. . . . "
Credit card debt is typically sold to debt buyers for about $0.06 on the dollar, and the buyer/collector is usually very happy to collect a fraction of the debt if it means they earn a profit on your account.

It is common for them to get some information from you to figure out how much you can pay. In any case, give them a call. It is very likely that they will be happy to collect the $1000 down payment and set you up to pay the rest (or some fraction of the rest) in installments.

My understanding is that you are better off working this out directly with them than going to court.

Background: I am not a lawyer. However, I worked on issues related to the debt collection industry as part of the FTC's consumer protection bureau.
What people say about GoDaddy's commercial
I think you make a fair point. However:

> We need to make a clearer distinction between the average member of the tech community and, for want of a better word, the 'asshole contingent' who are the source of the problem.

What I'm suggesting is that the average member of the tech community himself needs to do a better job of being distinguishable from the asshole contingent - and the typical pedantic, aggressive, head-buried-in-sand HN reaction to instances of sexism, chauvinism and abuse is a real part of the problem.
I would watch that.

But title it:

Tagbros.
Two years & three CEOs later, JV Bookish to help users find books
I missed it the first time, so I went back to see what you were referring to.

Now I want my Kudos back.

When you hover over the Kudos button it says "Don't move" for 1 second, and then up-votes the article. There is no way to get the vote back (that I can see) and it takes about a second to read what on earth the thing you just mouseover'd is saying, which means your vote is cast before you know it.

For reference, the following code is the implementation I see :)

function s(t) {
t.addClass("active"),
t.children(".counter").children("span.txt").html("Don&rsquo;t move"),
t.children(".counter").children("span.num").hide(),
e = setTimeout(function() {
clearTimeout(e), u(t)
}, 1e3)
}

[edit] added some linebreaks to the code
Robins can literally see magnetic fields
Selecting "dangerous thing" was pretty amusing too:

The Truth About The NSA and Hacker News

http://www.verifiedfacts.org/i/the-nsa-and-hacker-news/NjA5M...

The NSA is trying to control the minds of the American people-- probably with Hacker News, which they invented and created.

I would love to see some of the emails you get from http://www.verifiedfacts.org/report
I don't think not knowing functional programming is peculiar at all. When I went to school, the dominant language was Java. Aside from a few courses, some of which covered functional programming, every other course and project was written in Java. It'd be very easy for me to imagine a good graduate making it through University and not remembering functional programming at the end.
> bad financial models created by ratings agencies

Impersonal words like "ratings agency" actually consists of a bunch of really smart math, stat & physics phds ( & the occasional finance phd who didn't get into the buyside IBs & hedgefunds :) The ratings are spit out by models. The models ar driven by simulations upon giant matrices whose input is historical correlations. When the inputs fuck up, the outputs will get hosed too.

> Adjusting the models when they produce incorrect answers

Nobody adjusted the models when they produced incorrect answers because the answers weren't incorrect. They weren't the answers you like in hindsight, but they were correct insofar as the model was vetted & the input was correct.

Lemme give you a crazy, absolute bizarre scenario. Lets say there is massive acceptance of sexting pics among US youth starting tomorrow. Youtube is flooded with penises & vaginas. Then the churches start filing lawsuits against google because youtube is actively promoting pornography. You see what I'm getting at. For youtube to be relevant, it has to cater to the youth & not actively censor content especially stuff that has mainstream acceptance among youth. At the same time, it becomes liable. Rock & hard place. This is the exact sort of crazy bizarre stuff that happened during the financial crisis. The models are predictive, not normative. House prices actually went up, year after year, & the cdo ratings simply reflected that. Then people got burnt & are deciding the models are responsible! If the models priced normatively, the investors would simply look elsewhere for different models that priced predictively.
I think there can never be enough D3 tuts, added this to my bookmark list. I really enjoy the wide variety of data representations possible with D3.

Wonder what other good tuts are out there?
See "A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming"

Written by a prof at UMich School of Information, it discusses how we know what we know about climate change.

http://www.amazon.com/Vast-Machine-Computer-Politics-Infrast...
You would be blessed to get 5%! Standard from what I see in early stage startups in Silicon Valley... I'd shoot for 1%, and be happy with 0.5%. Dirty secret of the Valley: You only get rich if you are a co-founder, or join the next Google.
Huh. I find it extremely distracting.
I predict you will be slashdotted.

Edit: I just saw the "Report Inaccuracy" link. Ho boy, you guys nailed this. I hope you monetize it big time.
You're also assuming that there won't be NAT with IPv6; I don't know that that is a safe assumption.

"Current home routers will be replaced within a year or two."

Yeah right! My grandma isn't gunna be changing her router. And she'll be pissed if her stuff stopped working.

At then end of the day, if you have the choice between making a NAT friendly product that everyone can use and a non NAT friendly product that has some extra privacy - you'll be choosing the NAT friendly option.

"Firewalls have been around for a long time."
The thing in windows that everyone disables?

NAT is transparent and fool proof. How can you ensure a 3rd party won't be able to connect to your fancy new P2P chat client? Security holes are pervasive in networking code so without NAT and a with a bit of sloppy code, the "bad guys" can at any time connect directly to your computer. Can you imagine the chaos that would happen if there was a zero day bug in a P2P Skype. With NAT 99% of your problems are gone. It's physically impossible to connect to a computer that doesn't have port forwarding.

Unless the US gov't comes in an enforces a switch to IPv6 (like it did with digital TVs and all those subsidized converter boxes) directly connecting to computers isn't going to happen.
I disagree. To each his own.
Your sha for OSX does not match those listed on the site.

Also the size is different:
9.6M	evasi0n-mac-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f4157f2d7eb568f106c4f-release (1).dmg
9.2M	evasi0n-mac-1.0-3c53ba10e2448d311b0f4157f2d7eb568f106c4f-release.dmg

I'm choosing not to open yours.
This is so awesome. It just made my day.
Reminds me of this gag:

http://www.bbspot.com/toys/slashtitle/

Looking at some of those really makes me feel...not quite old, but dated.
I Jailbreak mainly for SSH, VLC, Grooveshark, and being able to write and install my own software that does whatever I want. SBSettings is awesome, though.
Can't find a close button to hide the dialog box after clicking the bookmarked subblepatterns button