skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can anyone here answer Warren's question, even if the regulators couldn't? I'd be interested to learn about any court trials prosecuting larger banks (that is, if any exist), but it's proving difficult to Google.
Browser Wars, the game
Thanks for the ideas. @phasevar, email added.
How exactly is 3d printing an industry, though? You either do CAD, or you make the printers. Neither really requires any woodworking skill.

I do think you should make him a portfolio, though. If he's in the top 1% and willing to travel, he can avoid being a commodity and start doing one-offs for more affluent clients. Those people are few, and they likely aren't where he is, so communication is key.
Or, instead of inventing some elaborate incentive system, you could simply convince him to put comments in his code (clearly the better practice). If you can't convince him of that, you need to work on your sales capabilities.
_These_ docs:

Ember.JS Guides: http://emberjs.com/guides/

Ember.js API Docs: http://emberjs.com/api/

To be fair there have been a bunch of API changes but as of yesterday Version: v1.0.0-rc.1 is released.

This means that the API for Ember.js should now be much more stable going forward.

The next step is to get Ember-Data to where it's stable and then merge it into Ember.js proper.
Help us build a GIF image directory
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Best site ever. :)

Our goal with matchist is to create the best experience for both parties. We're not trying to sway things in the way of only one party.
installed capacity (e.g. MW) != production (e.g. MWh)
I should also say that the 50 and 60 year old hackers I encounter at hacker spaces or in the course of my work are usually some of the most incredibly impressive people I ever encounter.

I learned everything I know about analog electronics from a retired electrical engineer -- and I am vastly better at it from an intuitive side than anyone in my age group I've talked to. And I'm not even an EE; I only ever took two courses in the field (introduction, and microcontroller lab). Meanwhile, he's building state-of-the-art electron microscope accelerators and x-ray detectors in his garage.

At the same time, he is not a fan of programming, and happily finds 20 somethings to deal with that stuff for him.

Moral of that story -- do what you've spent your life developing the skills to do, and extend from there instead of trying to start from scratch. It's hard to start over at 60 or 70. It's not nearly as hard to push forward from where you are.
You should come back and check out all the progress we've made on going way beyond an affiliate network. I'm writing this post to think, and solving my parents problems is certainly top of mind for me. I called my Mom about 30 minutes ago and she told me she had just been searching on the Internet for movies to go see, since it is raining in Seattle today and she can't ride the horses.

Helping people figure out how to live well and spend their time and money in a way that leaves them satisfied is a universal problem, and certainly one my parents have.
The fact that the people in that room couldn't (who certainly know of any single time a wall street bank has gone to trial in the past years) and that Warren is so sure of her position is enough evidence for me personally
For example the buttons does not work in the levels dialog. I would make a pull request if I could figure out how to build it with Grunt...
If you do this, there's a good chance you're throwing away the main benefit of having a corporation!

Specifically, "intermingling of assets of the corporation and of the shareholder" [1] is a reason that can be used in court by creditor(s) of your business to hold you personally liable for its debts.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil#Uni...
Leave The "Business Guys" Alone Already
Yes, because the first "company that swooped in and marketed the drug" paid for the privilege.
Totally, but remember that this is about recovering FDE keys.

I'm sure that there are plenty of people who leave their bootloaders unlocked, but they're probably also not encrypting their device, so they're out of luck in the case of a physical compromise anyway (and they're probably also running apps as root, so they're out of luck even when it's not a physical compromise).

I don't know of any way to measure this, but my anecdotal experience is that those who encrypt their devices also lock their bootloaders. Maybe I'm wrong, in which case the lesson is: if you're bothering with FDE, lock your bootloader.
Configs, saves and demos are already stored in localStorage.
Location autocomplete for Google Calendar
Focus on profitability. As a bootstrapper who doesn't have the luxury of financial freedom, you also don't have the luxury to work on something unprofitable.
It's easy to build infrastructure quickly when you don't have to bother with property rights, worker safety or environmental impact assessments.
Works really nicely I've found.
There are some very obvious issues here, like the deliberately un-investigated SARs; but I'm inclined to side with HSBC in some places here. Where transactions with and accounts held by persons or countries against whom the US has sanctions in place are concerned, I think HSBC was entirely correct in saying "these accounts aren't in the US, so we're not going to report them to the US government". The US government has the power to regulate banking in the US... not throughout the entire world.
Wow, you weren't kidding. September 2012 and still going strong.
The "being a burden to his family" bit really stuck out to me. That is something that has been deeply embedded into east Asian culture for a long time and would not be at all strange for an Asian to say. On the other hand, it's not something you usually hear from someone brought up in America.
Absolutely brilliant work. I would love to see this expand out into a key reference for git beyond just learning branching. One great feature would be to support "learning modules" where anyone making a git tutorial could define their own lesson modules. This would go a long way to help people learn all the cool features of git, which is very daunting.
Active meditations. Focus on being present to the moment. Stop analysis paralysis and just do it. Take action, stop thinking. Be happy.
In Chrome on Mac and Linux, sound crashes the tab often. Play with ?-nosound or on Windows. The loading image is also not displayed in Chrome (unlike Firefox).
Thanks for all the hard work! As a git noob, this is extremely useful to me. Thanks again!

By the way, what are some recommended git GUIs for linux?
See The Verge article Japan's digital content struggles: the country of the future remains stuck in the past[0] for more on Japan's love-hate relationship with new technology.

Anecdotes like "A decade ago, Tamagoya tried to shift to online sales of its bento lunches, but business suffered" suggest to me that a digital interface to faxes using tablets (for writing) might be quite popular in Japan among those who do want to move away from faxes. Just because the person you're communicating with needs faxes so they get warm, fuzzy feelings while ordering their lunch doesn't mean your own business efficiency has to suffer as well.

0: http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/15/3628376/japan-digital-con...
I'm still shocked even with your more conservative numbers suggesting that China is merely installing 7-10 nuclear power stations (4x 500MW reactors I'm assuming) worth of wind power per year. I know they're enormous, but WOW.

I am very curious what kind of cost per kWhr they are able to achieve at such large scales of deployment when doing the manufacturing locally. I know that shipping and regulatory issues are major cost drivers in the US...
Chrome can do this, right click chrome apps and select open as window.
Http://hackerne.ws/ doesn't auto re-direct anymore
I'm curious to know what aspects of Khan's recruiting/admission policies
resulted in such a large number of female admissions. It would be nice if the authors' response included some description of their policies.

As the person who stands at the end of our hiring process’s pipeline, I find “Mark“‘s idea that we’re sacrificing quality to fill some quota merely very insulting. If I were one of the women who has successfully navigated our brutal interview process, I’d be furious.

This is said as if there is no basis for "Mark's" belief. Affirmative action programs are notorious for establishing two-tier admissions policies for the sole
purpose of fostering "diversity". While official quotas are illegal, it's well known that minority students are admitted to prestigious universities with far lower SAT and GPA's that their white/Asian counterparts. What's to make us think that's not what's at work here? Especially given that increasing female enrollment was a high priority given that there are so many "big smiles" when it was achieved. Again, some transparency would be nice.

Edited for spelling and grammar
If You’re Collecting Our Data, You Ought to Protect It
Does apple respond to questions in it's forums?
> Unless you selected a platform that is too complex to start with. I think that many of the PaaS companies I see today are here mainly for two reasons: Rails & Java frameworks.

I think this is where I misunderstood you originally. For 3 days, Hacker News has been discussing the performance of -Rails- on Heroku. If I had understood at the beginning that your real argument is to use Sinatra/PHP/NodeJS/whatever (you're somewhat vague on recommended alternatives), I would not have jumped in. I do not have enough experience hosting other tech stacks at scale to be advising on the viability of open source solutions.

As for your other 3 points, presuming a Rails stack: all of those smell like a premature optimization for any company with less than 500K customers. If I went to my clients and said "Hey, we should invest 1-2 days in spooling up a server, because if we gain traction 6 months from now, we'll have to pay Heroku a lot of money until we fix it!", they would grin a bit and say:

"That would be a great problem to have. Now go back to shipping features so we gain traction and actually have to worry about fantastic problems like how to deal with having too many users."
JavaScript uses camelCase; the C functions use_underscores. Mixing and matching the two has been a complaint about the entire PHP library for a long time.
Yes I realized that. I was just pointing out that the post above him meant a "Disneyland with the death penalty". He probably realized that as well, I just didn't care for his sarcasm.
I saw the exact same situation before. We were looking to make few custom pieces for our apartment and found a guy, in his early 50s, who did an incredible job. I also chatted with him and he too was complaining that the client stream is dwindling.

His (and probably your dad's) problem is that he was still grasping at straws and willing to have the old world order back. He was longing to build custom kitchens that serve more to demonstrate his woodworking skills rather than to appeal to modern taste. He was also (erroneously) considering middle class to be his ideal clientele.

The solution is right there on the surface. You can't compete with IKEA, so don't. You've got unique skill and it can be applied to make unique pieces. For those who do not shop at IKEA and find the quality of "affordable Swedish crap" simply appalling. For people who don't really mind paying 2-5-10x the IKEA prices to get exactly what they want and in quality they want. It's the top of the market, but that's exactly where the demand for high-quality custom work is prevalent.

Also, the focus should really be not on the intricacy of the work, but on quality. The reason being is that the taste of carpenter is not likely to be aligned with the taste of someone needing a piece for his minimalist penthouse loft. The fancier the design, the more it detracts for the quality angle. So if you are to build your dad a portfolio site, make sure to feature either simple, but casual things or something that is clearly there to demonstrate the skill and not the design.

... it may sound like I ramble, which I am, but it was painful to talk to our carpenter and see how helpless and lost he essentially was in modern reality. You are in a position to help your dad, if not with anything else but your understanding how the Internet works and how it can be used for self-promotion. Do it, dude. Stop day-dreaming and build him a simple tasteful site (e.g. square space). Go from there.
Right now, on the energy side, one can't really compare the US and China. The US is an already developed country, with considerable infrastructure deployed during the past 50-100 years and well established incumbent players, a region with low/single digit growth, etc. China on the other hand is a huge market, until recently with little or no energy infrastructure, fuelled by a rapidly growing domestic consumption, etc.

China has the need to accelerate and be extremely fast in all aspects of its economy, otherwise it is risking not growing at all, with devastating effects to its economy (and the world).
This has been all over HN the past 24 hours [1]. Namecheap (and I use them) is starting to get known for this sort of marketing. They were ALL over reddit when SOPA was the big thing. Maybe drop a marketing person and improve their email/mobile experience?
[1] http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=namecheap
BBC should feel free to invent its own web protocols. They should also feel free to require closed source clients for using those protocols. But the W3C should outright refuse to listen to their demands.
This is great. Adding this to my list of resources for beginners. The ability to build levels, export trees, etc. makes it even better.
This is in part driven by the nature of their street markings. Addresses have 4 numbers, rather than number and street. As such it's awful to find places. It is customary to fax maps. Eventually Google will render this obsolete.
Fixed! Totally my bad, click event properties are super browser-specific
Betting big on hoarding bitcoins? Seems smart, almost like it's part of the design. /s
Chrome supports mouse lock without fullscreen since v21. However, I get illegal invocation error.
It's really a shame more senators can't be as tenacious as Ms Warren. What is the cause of this? Is it because so many are 'bought off?'
Leaving dependency management to distros can cause problems when they upgrade a package to a new one that breaks the old API or when they lack a package for a library you need. Dependency isolation is something that Java got right: compile everything into one jar and then deployment is just copying the jar and executing it.

The drawback is that you are responsible for security vulnerabilities in the libraries you install.
> Depressing information like this, coupled with the sense of powerlessness turns people off and relegates stories like this to the politically aware fringe of society.

Even as a fairly politically-active person, I succumb to this exact sense of powerlessness. It's absolutely the key problem.

> I have an idea for a start-up that could do interesting things with this notion, but between time contraints and not having a partner in crime I fear it will never happen.

If you're comfortable sharing, I would love to hear it. It's a problem domain that really needs some attention and effort.
Connect to human networks to find breakout opportunities
This is really really great. Good visualizations of how git works are really awesome and useful, so thanks!

That said, the intro lesson introduces commits as exclusively deltas. This isn't accurate, and would probably cause confusion with later concepts.

Commits are really snapshots of a tree object (with probably a whole lot of sub trees, and a whole lot of blobs). Since part of the commit meta-data is the parent sha, it's really easy for git to show you the delta, but at it's core git cares about linked snapshots of trees.

I am now done being anal retentive :-) thanks again for the great site, excited to see it more fleshed out
Personally, I pretty often search HN with Google, and read old comments. (Basically, when researching some topics, I query Google twice, second time with site:news.ycombinator.com added.) So upvoting probably makes sense.

That said, I also read a lot of posts ‘later’, but often forget to upvote. (Unless I return to read comments—Readability doesn't work for HN comment threads, unfortunately. Partly I blame page markup for that.)
What would it take for a major player in the the field of eCommerce to accept this? Let's say an Amazon.com, Newegg, etc. Any guesses to what would happen to the value of BTC?
resolving conflicts is not something machines can do. There needs to be a human to decide what is a correct outcome.
Because money is power
How can people who claim to be meritocratic immediately cry "discrimination! misandry!" when women outperform men? Yep, must have been discrimination, because we all know women can never be better candidates unless there's something else going on.

And being excited about a historically underrepresented group overcoming adversity isn't the same thing as "we are favoring primarily women applications". Anyone who's actually meritocratic would be ecstatic that the walls in tech are slowly dissolving away.
Most online games make you agree to an updated ToS (Apple do as well with the App Store) when they come out, not that anyone is actually going to spend hours reading 27 pages of legalese, but still.
The killer of this site to me:

Nothing here should be considered legal advice. We express our opinion with no guarantee and we do not endorse any service in any way. Please refer to a qualified attorney for legal advice. Reading ToS;DR is in no way a replacement for reading the full terms to which you are bound. Disclosure: a list of donors and supporters is published. All legal information and Imprint.

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Get me a service with real lawyers writing up info and now you have something.
Perpetual Motion Patent Applications
Anything you can build in Perl, you can also build in Ruby or Python (or hell, even PHP), so it seems rather pointless to argue any of these solutions are superior to another.

At the end of the day the choice is largely personal preference (or company requirement). Also, I know plenty of programmers who still earn a living writing Perl, so it's clearly not a dead language by any stretch of the imagination.

Personally, I would LOVE the chance to work on a Mojolicious project. IMHO that's the best web application framework today (in any language).
Afaik, Netflix Silverlight and FairPlay for video have not been circumvented (correct me if I'm wrong, I'd love to liberate my iTunes purchases).
> The fact he didn't walk away in the first moment he felt this way, most likely means one of the US agencies killed him.

I'm not sure this makes any sense. Your theory is more believable if:

1) He had no foreseeable plans for leaving.

2) Singapore was more friendly with the US, rather than being in bed with China.

3) Based on #2, Singapore is a surveillance society. I would imagine they would be pissed if the US did this on their soil, and they would probably have some video footage proof akin to what Dubai had.

4) If he didn't have a hard drive full of a Chinese company's trade secrets, that he intended to bring to the US. Why would the US do this before this data made it back to our shores?

Please correct me if I'm wrong.
"it's well known that minority students are admitted to prestigious universities with far lower SAT and GPA's that their white/Asian counterparts"

SATs have been criticised for having inherent socioeconomic bias. The validity of both SATs and GPAs, and their appropriateness as gauges of student intelligence, future performance, learning, and appropriateness for use in admissions have all been questioned.
The parent is describing the postmodern definition of Meritocracy where "merit" is just a point view. In that world all achievements/failures must be evaluated in light of the person or group's privilege/race/class/gender and sexuality. People who subscribe to this definition really don't believe in meritocracy as it's generally viewed as a way to institutionalize white male advantage. Just a heads up :)
It's possible technically, however standard Android doesn't support it. Here's an app to do it (reqires root):

http://f-droid.org/wiki/index.php?title=EncPassChanger
Not necessarily 'bought off' as in handing over cash for favor, but a lot of politicians are already part of 'the machine' and profit handsomely from it, so their personal goals line up.
3d printing is a new industry and I think it's a reasonable bet that it will become a big one.[1]

If his dad knows to carve beautiful things out of blocks of wood, he can probably pick up CAD software quite easily.

[1] http://www.judegomila.com/2012/12/manufacturing-renaissance-...
Transparency about our interviewing process: http://bjk5.com/post/3340326040/in-any-language-you-want-kha... (which comes from the hiring cultures at Fog Creek and Google, see http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/GuerrillaInterviewing...).

Transparency about all past internships, their expectation and accomplishments:
http://bjk5.com/post/36067210182/khan-academy-internship-sum...
http://bjk5.com/post/8826207372/khan-academy-internship-summ...
http://bjk5.com/post/15500332273/khan-academy-internship-fal...

Transparency from previous interns about their work, which I believe speaks for itself:
http://david-hu.com/2011/11/02/how-khan-academy-is-using-mac...
http://dylanv.org/2012/09/14/the-khan-academy-internship-exp...
http://jamie-wong.com/2012/08/22/what-i-did-at-khan-academy/

If any piece of evidence from the above points to an organization that values quotas over excellence in interns and the work expected of them, well please raise the alarm.

We need to get past our default response being a knee jerk assumption of discrimination.
Do you have a better criterion with which to measure?
This has some usability issues, e.g. you drag a file accidentally to another box, then change your mind and drag it back while it is still being copied or moved in the original direction. This sort of thing. It looks like a simple and natural extension to what Synergy has, but in reality it's just a can of worms.
Enough with the “expert” guilt
But doing things like purposely obfuscating money flowing between the US and Iran as a middle man to get around sanctions?
It amazes and depresses me that it takes bad behavior on a level that is easily explainable (i.e. help terrorist launder money) for people to get upset at how untouchable large international financial institutions have become.

The LIBOR scandal is so much bigger and more important than this HSBC case but it seemingly gets a pass from public outrage since there's no easy TL;DR explanation of it.
Ron Paul Dot Com
Our universe within a larger universe? So suggests wormhole research (2010)
totally do not understand what this should do. please give some intro...
I'm a python noob. Why does a kitten die? You're creating a new list of the same size of the source list (once) and iterating over it. How can you achieve the same w/out creating a new list?
How so? Grant money comes from the government, not some private company.
MouseloOk != MouseloCk

Tracking view position from mouse coordinates has always been possible, but handling mouse focus and coordinate wrapping is necessary for games with mouse look. The really tricky bit is that there are security implications in much the same way as full screen mode.

See here for details on Pointer Lock: http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/mouse-lo...
Reading the document kind of felt like being a journalist with a piece of highly secret leaked government data in his hands.