skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conversion might work too. Of course, any suit would probably go after them using as many legal theories as possible. Tortious interference comes into play when you are purposely trying to interfere with someone else's business arrangements, either those already existing or those expected to occur. There's a difference between taking someone's site down for non-payment and putting up a statement saying that X Company doesn't pay its bills that X Company has bad morals. Corporate defamation would be another that I would add to the list.

Of course, then there's the practical reality of suing a company in Germany from SF.
I did some work for a family member and their business partners, at a time when they were in great financial straights, and eventually got stiffed by them (the partners outweighed the family member -- no problem with the latter).

Get paid in a timely fashion!

If this is somehow "inconvenient" for the other party... they are already not valuing your contribution. Walk away.

Trust your intuition, too. If something "feels off", it probably is. I had that feeling early on, with those partners. I stayed in it for the sake of the family member (no regrets, from that perspective).

P.S. To clarify, they pulled through and ended up doing ok. At which time, they stiffed me. It was not a matter of their failure.
Please read the site. You are exactly wrong.

http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/pages/answers.php

MYTH: Candidates would "fly over" most of the country under a national popular vote.

This criticism applies to the current system of electing the President—not a national popular vote.

Under the current system, two-thirds of the states are indeed "fly-over" country. In 2004, the presidential candidates concentrated two-thirds of their campaign visits and money in just five states, 80% in just nine states, and 99% of their money in just 16 states. As early as the spring of 2008, the major political parties acknowledged that there would be only 14 battleground states in 2008. In 2008, candidates concentrated over two-thirds of their campaign events and ad money in just states, and 98% in just 15 states.
I came to HN as a distraction from the mind wrenching exercise of compiling 5 different copies of excel documents where everyone has butchered their version in a different, horrifying way. Luckily, this is only used to keep track of procurement data for a billion dollar engineering project... Excel is a powerful, but too easily abused, tool.
All I can say to Disqus is a big "fuck you" and I will never be back. At least try to sell me something. Right now, it's either whore out my blog to your advertisers or pay $999 for VIP service. The first rule of making a product is to actually sell something. I'd pay $10 or $20 a month to keep the whoring off my blog but there's no option for that.

Good day sir.
You were the one characterising a region based on what happened there in previous centuries, not me. Don't get huffy with me for using your own argument against you.

To paint it even more clearly: I was pointing out that shit happens everywhere - you know, the main part of my comment before the 'edit'. Trying to spread the shit around as you are, the "you know, they do it too" that you're doing, that's exactly what I'm trying to say.

So, the question of my comment that you neatly avoided: show us some real reasoning behind calling the middle-east a 'terrorist haven' over the centures, given your implication that other areas didn't have it as bad.
I wish Apple had improved also the desktop Macs, so I could upgrade my startup iOS dev workstations
It's missing fractional selection and per-layer alpha channels. With those two features, it would be almost usable. Without them, most photo editing tasks are highly difficult.

Fractional selection lets you apply adjustments and effects without harsh boundaries between the adjusted part and the unaffected part. Per-layer alpha channels are needed to blend together different layers smoothly. And actually, you could implement the effect of the former with just the latter.

So yeah; Paint.NET needs editable per-layer transparency channels.
> My point is: a car that has to be driven with a gazillion, million, billion specific instructions or else it's a brick,

You know that cars need to be filled with gas, right? And that using diesel in a regular (or vice - versa) is a big problem? And they need you to check the oil, and top up the oil? And that not topping up the oil is a big problem, right?

> "Your car died and you're in the middle of nowhere because you went 5mph over the recommended by Tesla speed,"

Well, no. "Your car died because you didn't charge it. You didn't charge it even though you knew you had a journey of X miles to go, and you knew you didn't have enough charge, and you were given strong advice (from the car, and from the car makers) that you hadn't charged it enough". Plug the car in - that's not a gazzillion million billion specific instructions. It's just one. Plug it in, let it charge.
User who filed the lawsuit against Instagram is still using her account
You're free to implement your own shaders throughout the stack and push them back to mainline. See the gameclosure/native-core repository @ https://github.com/gameclosure/native-core
Wouldn't it have been nice if the NYT went out and bought a couple of GoPros before the test drive? Musk obviously improved his recordkeeping, how hard would it have been for the NYT to up their game as well?
While I can understand the frustration, I would argue that professionalism does not have to work both ways. If your client acts unprofessionally, you should still act professionally. Try conventional ways to reclame the what you are owed and if all else fails, take the site down - possibly with a small notice that says something like "Site offline until payment in full".

What OP did is illegal in many countries in Europe and from what I understand probably in Germany as well. It doesn't matter if the statements are true, it's still defamation.
http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_stg...
Your account manager is an exception, and your argument is a false equivalency: just because you know of a non-technical person who has experience with IRC does not mean that all nontechnical people have experience with IRC. Indeed, the trend is most likely that people in non-technical roles have less experience and exposure to such tools.
If you're doing anything novel, almost by definition you can't be "qualified" to do it.
waiting for LibreOffice to download so I can wack things together for you. I am a UK developer/student.

I'll be including:

- screencap of my github profile (4 or 5 projects written in python)
- 2 approaches from companies wanting to hire me (through LinkedIn) because I had
"Python" listed on my profile
- Academic references which use "Python" the programming language in a title or
abstract.
- evidence of my experience with Linux (i.e. that python is preinstalled in many
many distributions),
- evidence that I am writing the majority of my PhD code (I'll get you line
counts) in Python.

This makes me very very angry. If you have the address of the company or anything, I'd also like to write to them to tell them they're insane to try this - they're an embarrassment to the UK.
Because some people might not know: Wobbly=member of the Industrial Workers of the World, a union opposed to capitalism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_World . They're over a century old, and are still active.
This is a link to some kind of Ubuntu app store thing. Where are the binaries we can download for other distros?
Asking whether to use Rails vs. Node is like asking whether you should use DirectX or XAML. Both can be used for rendering UI, but every technology has its strengths and weaknesses so the answer is "it depends".

You can either start by choosing a technology, then a project that is adapted to it. Or pick a project, and choose the framework that is best for achieving said project. Here are some thoughts about Node vs. Rails to help with your decision:

Node:
- Uses Javascript (on back-end)
- Asynchronous IO, great for handling high volume of requests or massive amount of simultaneous connections.
- Smaller learning curve, given you're most likely already familiar with JS
- Can do much more than traditional web frameworks (e.g. php/rails), like binding to a specific port, handling socket connections etc..
- It's pretty fun :)

Rails:
- Uses Ruby, so there's a bit of a learning curve here
- Extremely mature framework with impressive amount of existing libraries (known as gems) that plugs into it
- By nature, enforces great software practices (e.g. testing)
- Best adapted for creating traditional SaaS applications
- It's also a lot of fun :P

Honestly, if it's for fun, just pick one and start doing a project. They're both in their respective ways fantastic.
Firebase Fundraising Post-Mortem
And the International Space Station.
They did it to prove that he lied about the speed he was driving.

He claimed to be driving at one speed. He was driving not at that speed, and sometimes significantly faster.
"They ran the LHC on less computing power than your holodeck!"
EuroPython conference - Googling I get mentions back to 2001. I'm sure you could get in touch with the organisers for promo material etc http://mail.python.org/pipermail/europython/2001-November/00...
I'm the OP... I totally agree with you.
it actually does work. Cars usually have a fuel reserve and thus range up to 50km (5 litres) when it already shows 0km.
You're right. They'd have to instead build a load-balancer that solves the problem, and that's too darn hard.
Well remember that the car "lost" 60 miles of range overnight. If the Tesla people told him that charging it for a bit would restore the range it is conceivable that he would think that the whole 60 miles would come back. Remember that not everyone has a detailed understanding of how cold temperatures affect lithium ion batteries.
I know I'm starting to sound like a broken record, but look, just read the site.

http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/pages/answers.php

MYTH: A national popular vote would undermine a partisan advantage in favor of the Republican Party in the small states.

The small state issue sometimes serves as a surrogate for the unstated political concern (and misconception) that the small states confer a partisan advantage in favor of the Republican Party. However, this belief does not reflect current political reality. In the last six presidential elections (1988 through 2008), six of the 13 least populous states have regularly gone Republican (Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota), while six others (Hawaii, Vermont, Maine, Rhode Island, Delaware, and the District of Columbia) have regularly gone Democratic. New Hampshire has been, in recent years, the one closely divided battleground state among the 13 smallest states (having supported the Democrat in 1992 and 1996, the Republican in 2000, and the Democrat in 2004 and 2008).

http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/resources/Withdrawal-V6-2...

An attempt to change the “rules of the game” contrary to clause 2 of Article IV
● would violate the Impairments Clause of the U.S. Constitution and be void;
● would violate existing federal law specifying that presidential electors may only
be appointed on one specific day in every four-year period, namely the Tuesday
after the first Monday in November (i.e., election day);
● would invalidate the “conclusiveness” of that state’s results under existing
federal law specifying that presidential electors must be appointed under
“laws enacted prior” to the Tuesday after the first Monday in November;
[et al]
I think the most concerning part of this is hiding it from site owners when they're logged in. This feels like an admission that what you're doing is wrong, and that it needs to be hidden from the people who can turn it off. How did you come to that particular decision?
I wonder how much this chart will be skewed since it is almost 5pm on the east coast right now vs. late afternoon for the west coast.
No no not a joke and be it post office or another trusted 3rd party that had physical presence so you could walk in and verify and get a reset token is the proposal.

It would be optional and sites would have to offer the option. But it is a approach that for many would work much better.

Also given the goverment has the legal right to your passwords in many countries the post office would certainly be a good option due to them already having presence in many locations.

Now as for the Sunday or late resets - yes that currently would be a issue, but people should not forget there passwords that easily for there own sake and certainly with online orders and dilevry's the post office of today needs to evolve though that is another issue.

So not a joke, just a solution that for many would be far better than the alternatives and one which less technicaly aware would be able to deal with should the need arose.

Now until biometrics evolve and are more common in ther euse household wise then it is a viable option. May not be perfect but certainly better than other options security wise for joe public. It may not be perfect but, nothing is and with that it could work.
Seeing as no-one has heard the phone call, it's hard to say what exactly the Tesla rep assured him of.
Until Jane leaves for greener pastures.

I do understand what you're saying though, there is a time, place, and trade offs for everything related to computing.

(imho) Most 'businessy' systems can and should start out as spreadsheets, it lets the business people solve the problems with process design, and prove its real-world value without bringing a costly developer in. The developers (like myself) should be there to take the codified mess that results, clean it up, improve usability, bring in more stability, and accountability. - Sadly, that is rarely how things go.
When I tried installing the 64-bit version on Kubuntu 12.10, I got a dependency error [steam64 depends on steam (= 1.0.0.27)].

I just downloaded the 32-bit version also and installed them both.
Intentionally increasing the attack surface of the product you deliver is not ethical. It's unlikely any developer in the situation you describe has tested the time bomb functionality well enough to exclude the possibility that an attacker could exploit it, either before or after the payment date or the cancellation patch. An aspect of the Hippocratic Oath applies here.

The case described in TFA seems better, since the developer retained possession of legitimate control mechanisms, and used those in technically legitimate ways. (That is, updating the content and functionality served at a URL is a legitimate activity that occurs regularly.) In effect he's more of an unpaid service provider than an unpaid IT contractor in this case. No one would expect their phone to keep working without paying the phone bill, and until he turns over control of the site he should be expected to use that control. It's not like he's using a backdoor here.
> The car said it would go 32. It went 51. Broder claimed this "fell short". Clearly it didn't.

Your statement is on point only if you don't consider what was in the actual graphic:

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2013/02/10/automobiles/10t...

An excerpt:

"Driving a 2013 Model S with an 85-kilowatt-hour battery pack, which has an EPA range rating of 265 miles...the car barely reached the next Supercharger, 206 miles away in Milford, Conn. The next day, in 10 degree weather, the car fell short of its projected range..."

So when you read the statement in context, and you actually look at the graphic, you realize that the "fell short of its projected range" is a claim made in the summary of the graphic, in which it is clear that, because of space reasons, the journey is described as day by day segments.

So the NYT does not assert that the Model S's final leg was just the 32 miles left on the car. That "fell short of its projected range" is referring to the 265 EPA that the car normally would've had had it not been so cold out.

Should the NYT have been more verbose? Well, maybe. But I guess they also expect readers to actually look at the infographic, the purpose of which is to show greater detail.

It's quite misleading for Elon Musk to harp on a summary-statement in a different context.
Hmmm... I grew up in Iowa and the "old" farmers I knew used GPS units that measured fertilizer distribution to the square foot so they could compare it to yield in that square foot and adjust the flow on that micro level next spray to even out yield.

I don't think farming is what you think it is these days.
soo
1. California
2. New York
and
3. Texas

hardly surprising
PPI Claims: How To Easily Re-claim Your Payment Protection Insurance (PPI)
Show HN: A minimalistic gantt chart in your browser
Depending on how you want to use the data, you may be able to get around this problem by adding a ' infront of the number. It won't show on the cell display and acts as an instruction to hold leading zeros.
I doubt the Tesla does that. If it did, Musk would've said something along the lines of "setting the cabin temp to 50 kicked on the A/C".
Nashville ;)
Pace your sense of the NY Times motivations, I offer Judy Miller:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller#New_York_Times_ca...
Honestly, it varies from "Awesome" to "totally unusable" depending on what you plan on doing with them. A 3D side scrolling shooter might be fairly difficult while a 3D chess or 2D MMORPG is easy (relatively).
You might not realize that just sending an email to a design company saying "Please design us a web site and we'll pay you $500" creates a contract (assuming the design company responds and says "ok!"). I doubt the design company would have gotten started without any kind of price term being set.
> If the question is "should they count the same" -- the answer is an unequivocal yes, and almost every person would agree. Voting reform requires that people put in power by bad systems willingly reform those systems which would see them removed from power. Corruption doesn't remove itself, so discussing this at all is moot, really.

Did you read what I wrote? That's not true of the National Popular Vote. Legislators in a plurality of states[0] can alter the election for President (and so fundamentally shift the nature of national politics) without any cooperation from the President or any Federal official.

[0] Or rather, a number of states comprising a plurality of electors.
My question is on a different level completely:

Where do you actually get those tokens, at a reasonable price ($20-$40 each, not the $100-$500 of RSA and friends) in the US? If I want my users to present certificates like that, I expect them to be able to purchase them themselves.

Once they have the key, the exact procedure is less important (The app I'm working on is not, in fact, a webapp, so I can do whatever I please. In fact, I need the user to sign documents with their certificate, not just present it).
I hear that. Maybe they're coming soon?
I visited SF not too long ago and I found the filth appalling. And the beggars were quite aggressive vs. other cities. It did not leave me with a positive impression.

I don't mind sellers of various good (incl. drugs) so long as they are peaceable and not... in your face.
"The harsh reality is that the Excel version written by Jane from accounting who's the Excel whizz or even the smart college temp will probably be better and cheaper than anything we could ever give them."

Too true, but I've always wondered if this is true because visual programming languages have never really been accepted as part of development or because visual programming languages were touted as a replacement for "normal" programming? Maybe it is the bad taste CASE tools left.
An innovative user interface for an alarm clock
The whole thing smells of Placebo...
Civil fines for a large corporation not properly protecting customer data is very different from making it a general criminal offense.
By default TLS 1.0 is enabled, I disabled it myself ages ago as other more robust options were supported and whilst extensions have been added at the time I felt it was for the best. Worked fine for me until this moment at least when I have used that particular box, but nice to always learn.

in short - no default is TLS 1.0 on, I changed it to disabled for TLS 1.0 and left SSL 2.0 and 3.0 enabled as they are by default.
> How many dynos does Heroku have running for non-paying customers? Do these free dynos actually necessitate this random routing mesh bullshit? If not, what?

Of course the random routing mesh isn't necessitated by anything, this problem is already solved by bigger companies.
> This developer may have exposed himself to a level of risk based on his own contracts and work arrangement. Why was the site up in the first place if he was not paid in full?

I mean, I'm a small fish compared to this guy, but I always have the site up and running before hand. Most of the time, I just outright buy the domain and transfer domain rights. This is exactly the kind of thing I do when the contract is violated- that is, when I deliver on my end, and there is a functional site, but they didn't pay.

What I'm saying is, I think you're assuming too much about the nature of how this guy does business. Money isn't about trust, it's about contracts; trust is just what gets the contract signed.
...or they are providing their own childcare and managing their household.
Looks like they took all their fitnesssf facebook pages down. https://www.evernote.com/shard/s15/sh/d1096855-0c3a-4ed6-a87... lots of people telling them to pay their invoices. And the owner trying to do damage control by telling people their website got hacked.
Hm, I didn't say a word about time.
It's an empty package.
If you don't pay the mechanic, the mechanic doesn't get to put a sign out front saying "BOB DOESN'T PAY HIS BILLS. HE'S IMMORAL!"
Grantmanship is grantsmanship. At least this way the research will be public from the get-go. I think it's a fantastic development.
"Corporate defamation would be another that I would add to the list."

It's not defamation if it's true of course.
I'd love to see a Dropbox IPO just because I'd like to take a look at their numbers. They have built an amazing brand but I'd love to see their revenue justifying a $4b valuation especially with so much competition in the space.

Box seems to have a larger enterprise brand which is where I assume most of the money comes in, but I may be wrong.
You are correct, each state can decide on its own how it portions out the electors for President. Most of them currently use a winner takes all system for their electors. Some states break them up according to vote totals. In the past the state legislatures often chose the electors. But over time this has changed to popular vote methods, as you say, which is interesting since that eventually lead us to a discussion about abolishing the Electoral College in favor of a national popular vote.

Not is there only no Federal requirement for people to vote for President, there's nothing in the Constitution about the right to vote in the first place. It's more like a privilege that can possibly be taken away. There is a list of reasons in the Constitution that cannot be used to prevent you from voting, many of them added in later via the amendment process. Most of the language of the Constitution doesn't actually give rights to the people, but restricts the actions of the government. The "right" to vote is considered a human right to determine your own leadership, but technically the states can prevent you from voting for any number of reasons. One common example is you lose your ability to vote if you commit a felony. I bet in some states it's even being convicted of a lesser charge is the threshold.

If you do have a "right" to vote, according to government, then it most likely will come from your state's Constitution.