skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Got to agree with you, tptacek. People are conveniently forgetting that so many other fired CEO's with fat bank balances have not bothered to be honest about their reasons for leaving.

This is classy.
How do I open a new client like what Chris demo'd in the video to eval JavaScript & CSS?
Full responsibility. Let's break that down.

Full responsibility, on the surface, means that Manning is taking full responsibility under the law, and is not shying away from the legal consequences of his actions. He knows that according to the laws and the power structure, he's accountable for his actions which threaten said laws and power structure. Those self-interested parties will react in the appropriate way to defend the status quo.

Full responsibility to history means something else entirely.

Full responsibility to history means that Manning doesn't shy away from the responsibility he has in challenging a corrupt power structure, and fighting for the rule of law. He's accepting responsibility for standing up for truth, in spite of the legal consequences. He's accepting full responsibility for being part of something bigger than himself.

Salutes
True. In fact I personally do this. I really want to run an exit node, but I'm also terrified of having my apartment raided and turned upside down for traffic flowing out of my place.
I was a low-carb zealot until I started learning about endotoxin (I also had some random health issues on low carb like severely low blood pressure) and I started drinking orange juice again.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20067961 is just one study, there are others. I try to accompany my meals with some flavonoid-rich food or beverage. My biomarkers have not shown any indication that I am heading towards diabetes and are identical to those I had on a low-carb diet.
We totally agree, and we're excited to to integrate updates into the platform as soon as possible. For now, you can view updates (and tons more info) for every patient we've ever funded on our Transparency Google Document: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ah3wJ9CRQzyHdDZ...
"But you, and these guys, and everyone else just do what we've been doing for hundreds of thousands of years."

I don't mean to scare you, but that is the mother of all sampling bias (to quote xkcd). The parents that don't do so well, generally have a smaller chance of being grandparents. I'm sure all of you reading this will do just fine though.

I also need to say that that judge was awesome.
The Delayed Promise of Health-Care IT
Is it just me or is Hacker News turning into an advertisement for Balanced Payments?
I'm not aware of an Emacs one being updated yet, although I think that someone's finished it for Vim.

If you want to be an open-source hero -- go ahead and do it yourself ;) It's mainly a matter of taking the Markdown package, and the CoffeeScript package, and pasting the latter into the former, right where the syntax rule for "code block" goes.
One thing every CEO in the world can do is spin an off-the-cuff bullshit story about how their business is sustainable. Mason didn't? That tells me very little.
What are you passionate about in a company?
I consider "political correctness" to be the sort of back-bending linguistic contortionism typical of politicians and PR departments terrified of offending anyone. That's not what's going on here. I'm gay, and while I don't have children, the idea that, were I to adopt one, I'd risk sexually damaging said child with my gayness is offensive. Can you imagine the reaction there would be to someone asking a parallel question about race ("Does the white child adopted by black parents have problems with his racial identity?").
Does not being GRAS imply a duty to test edible plants for containing something? That seems difficult. Of course, it wouldn't be the first crazy regulation...
Yes. You can sign the binary the same way Microsoft, or anyone else, would sign the binary. At that point, you need only to add your public key to your key database and are good to go.

Microsoft has no way to prevent this (short of requiring vendors not to allow people to add keys).
> scam law firms ran on people emotional about losing money in the market.

No, it's a scam they run to get a class-action settlement and protection from any other similar (possibly meritorious) lawsuits, regardless of who loses money in the market. Every major decision (such as a merger) by a company, is met by an ambulance-chase race to file class actions with boilerplate charges. Check the financial news ~7 days after any public-company acquisition happens for the near-duplicate stories with differing law firm names.
Pandora to Cap Free Mobile Listening as Costs Surge
So synchronous APIs wouldn't be a problem if they were 1. Asynchronous or 2. Guaranteed to be really really fast? You do realize that the problem is that you can't guarantee that spinning rust will be fast, right?
I made a calc to crunch the numbers, here:

http://instacalc.com/10103

[Shameless plug since it's my own pet project :)]
Hmm. I'm not sure why anybody would think that using transform in a javascript callback loop would be faster than setting top/left in a javascript callback loop. However, it's obvious why using tranform and css animations would be faster: there's no javascript loop required.

If animating in javascript, every frame requires a new javascript turn, and every frame requires crossing the js/native bridge. Theoretically it should be faster to cross the bridge only once, which is possible when using translate because both x and y can be set in one crossing of the bridge, wheras setting top and then setting left requires crossing the bridge twice. However the cost of setting up and tearing down the turns required to do the animation in js would dwarf any tiny advantage gained by only crossing the bridge once instead of twice.

However if you instead simply use a transform with a duration and set the x and y to the final value instead of manually setting all the intermediate values, it's obvious why things should be much faster: there are no longer any js turns required to carry out the entire animation other than the first one where you set it up, and there's no bridge crossing required except for the first one, either.

Did I miss something here? Why would the author think that setting transform in a loop would be faster than setting top/left in a loop? They are basically equivalent. CSS animations with a duration are vastly different, however.
There are opportunities for people who are just "passionate" enough, but those are pretty low paying.

Usually we tend to hire through referrals of people we know and VC know plenty of people.
(The fact that we seem to always display prices pre-tax only aggravates this)

I find this practice of American retailers incredibly pernicious. I really think displayed prices should be out-the-door on everything - you can still put the tax data on the receipt. When I moved to the US from Europe, I found it very difficult to manage my grocery bill for the first year or so until I got used to adding 8% to everything.
Sean, who also posted in the forums on page two and apologised for the moderator's behavior, contacted me by e-mail to send him the spam e-mails that I received. It looks like they're taking it seriously now :) Needless to say, I provided all details that I have (connection log, full mail source).

For those who are curious, this is what I received:

Hi Luc,

My name is Sean, I work on the User Security team at Dropbox. We'd like to look into the issue you repoted on the forums. If possible can you forward the emails in question directly to me (xxxx@dropbox.com).

Thanks.
Sean
This got me too. And there hasn't been much that moves me to a few tears in many years now. My two daughters born are about the only things. That's probably why, i'm a big softie for kids now.
That's a good reason to ignore CSPI as a parasite on the American public, not to throw out the baby of public health with the bathwater of bullshit rent-seeking pseudoscience.
https://watsi.org/profile/f7523849edfd-kingsley

Done. This is amazing.
LoL. What a great 1.6 to 1.7 oz burger analogy he makes. I'm convinced this man is an expert in .NET and it's pro's and con's in relation to other platforms.
Crew-app has launched a crowd funding campaign
The part that made me laugh about all of this is the fact the moderators are saying that spammers most likely guessed all of the unique email addresses people are complaining have been spammed that are only used for Dropbox. That doesn't sound plausible at all, especially considering it's multiple people complaining of being spammed here.

Dropbox's customer service has really gone downhill, what happened?
RESTful, white-label ACH API by Balanced (YC W11)
Imagine what'll happen if technology eventually makes this kind of reconstruction possible for hundreds of dollars instead of the six- or seven-digit [1] sum presumably spent to produce this ad.

[1] US dollars.
I don't know why people would say this does not belong here. Social hacking gets so little respect.

Two thumbs up.
I don't understand this error (I get it too). Why doesn't Chrome allow you as a user to understand the security risk and bypass it? Firefox and Safari let me at least continue.

http://cl.ly/image/2c1I0U2o3t0I
Wow with Eric Lefkofsky as the new CEO they went from bad to worse. Lefkofsky has always been the one behind the scenes pulling all the strings from early investment, cashing out his $1 BILLION and to the IPO. Yikes!
Looks like they finally broke him.
I agree about West LA completely, but I feel people are missing the bigger story about LA's homeless problems: skid row. I volunteered at a soup kitchen there for a few months several years ago, and it was as bad as the worst I've seen in SF, except more concentrated, with less normality in the immediate vicinity. This means there's less harassment, but perhaps even more complete, down and out, blatant drug use and prostitution.
this is very true and very sad.

Google should give the archive to archive.org or similar if they don't want to use it.
The irony is that their actions can in fact make cookies their customers are using for their sites invulnerable.
The hard part isn't condemning the decisions of busy people operating in an environment of limited information, it's determining a system that works better and isn't vulnerable to bad actors, which is AFAIK an unsolved problem.

When you put out an ad for someone to decide what everyone in a country will spend billions of dollars on, you don't get fair-minded public servants, you get the most compelling villain moneyed interests can afford.
When I refreshed my resume [1] last year, I went with Bootstrap first. But I found it really difficult to modify the defaults that Bootstrap provided. The deal-breaker for me was that the responsive grid worked only when the container width was set to the default value. Changing the default width broke the responsive grid. In the end, I tried out Foundation and it was a breeze to customize it to my needs.

My take is that Bootstrap provides a lot of stuff out of the box (including a rich third-party ecosystem) but Foundation is better suited as a customizable, well, foundation for your site.

[1] http://antrix.net/resume/
MORE FEATURES WON’T SAVE Your PRODUCT
When your tax dollars are paying for military strikes, and you yourself are then made a target by angry foreigners blaming you for supporting your own government, I'd say you have a right to know what "they" are doing.

How much? As much is needed for everyone to have a rationalised discussion. As I write this I realise that with media outlets such as FOX, that makes it pretty hard.

As Bradley Manning said, most military information has a tactical shelf life of 48-72 hours, after that most information can (and should) be released. Perhaps a more transparent/accountable military would be a harder target for fundamentalists to rally support against, but I wouldn't actually know.
I don't want a bigger force to make the decisions for me, but I am quite happy to delegate some of my authority to the government and have it act on my behalf by requiring more accurate labeling and so forth. I eat a very healthy diet, but I don't have the time or inclination to keep up with every last additive and food manufacturing process out there. In fact, I'm happy to pay some of my taxes so other people can study that as their full-time job.
You could use the "Understanding the Linux kernel" book by Bovet and Cesari.
Agreed, "I failed at this part of the journey"

Yes a few hundred million will make life easier but admitting you failed, up front in a letter you know will be read by everyone you can think of - it takes a certain kind of raw
It controls for etnic variables, by using trends instead of comparing raw numbers and some more advanced techniques.

It can not control for family because it was population-wide, not person-wide (and yes, that is a flaw that the authors acknoledge).
I think you are really overstating this. We're meant to believe that going shopping, bringing the food home, preparing it (just rice alone takes a good half an hour, and chicken takes twice as long) and serving it takes less time than going to the McDonald's drive-thru?

That is very much not my experience.

I actually like to cook. It's fun and the food is perfectly suited to my tastes. But when I'm pressed for time, I'll still just stop by a fast-food restaurant because it's faster. And I have better access to fresh food and good cooking implements than many poor people, so cooking is even more of a decision for them.
Andrew Mason asking for advice on "selling a website idea" (2006)
Another Steve Jobs in the making. This has happened with Steve as he was fired after founding Apple.
If you need the bleeding edge of a package, install that package from a pinned archive (or similar). If you need the bleeding edge of everything, I don't believe you. If you just want the bleeding edge because 'hey, it feels cool', then you're not the target demographic for ubuntu - something they stated from the outset.
Staring at an empty bank account, a pile of bills & wondering how you're paying rent next month does a remarkable job at distracting you from the emotional aspect of getting fired as well.
Hi, HNers. I've been sitting on this link for about 4 years now. This post on Sitepoint is from shortly after Andrew Mason first pitched The Point, which later became Groupon, to investors in Chicago.

On a day when folks are discussing the end of his time at Groupon...this link shows where it first began and the hopefulness and optimism that comes with a new project!
This was originally demonstrated by Professor Bach-Y-Rita in his work on neuroplasticity. Things other than cameras work just as well, interestingly; they've used the same kind of system to help people with inner ear damage learn to balance, give people built-in compasses, and to give people radar and sonar "vision".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bach-y-Rita
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainport
How do we know this is Andrew Mason's writing?

(The page contains no instances of "Andrew", "Mason", "Andy", "Drew", "Groupon", "coupon" or "the point".)
A Revolutionary Marketing Strategy: Answer Customers’ Questions
That problem already exists, except currently there is generally a six month minimum before it gets resolved.
Jeremy,

I am a big fan of the goals of your work (CoffeeScript, Literate Programming).

Both projects make code easier to understand and more accessible to everyone.

I have the feeling that many of us forget about the value of this, after having invested many hours to understand complex syntaxes and general patterns.

From lowering the entry barrier and increasing efficiency, everybody will profit in the end.
How is Signifyd different than other solutions?
He's spent a good % of his life in prison, he's facing spending the rest in prison. Admirable that he is attempting to try and take the heat off of WikiLeaks/Assange, even after the incarceration he has already suffered (and likely to suffer into the future).

If only more people were like him. Hell, how many people do you hear about, who, when charged with a crime put their hand up and say "Yes, I did it". Not many, even for simple things like traffic violations.
Thanks for the reply. I'm a pro-RDBMS bigot, but path dependency is path dependency. In your position I would probably make the same decision.
> What is that supposed to mean?

It means that, when you read a study, also read the name of the entity financing it.
But that sounds haaaaaaard.
A good place to look is Rocky Agrawal's articles on Groupon. Here's his author feed:

http://venturebeat.com/author/rockya/

just scroll back a bit.
"History is littered with startups that didn't exit in frothy markets, then cratered."

Not very many with a $6b offer
The relationship between Marx and Lincoln is also the subject of a book by Robin Blackburn: http://www.versobooks.com/books/954-an-unfinished-revolution
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=andrew+mason+picnichouse
Ok, I just read the code, and it looks like the transition/translate tests are setting the final values and a duration. Looks like the numbers for these tests are the highest for each browser, as I expected.
Wow, what a horribly misinformed post. Users of jQuery UI complaining about not being able to build that 1.7oz burger in the .NET ecosystem, while having not a sliver of understanding what a virtual machine is and just calling it all a "language".
> the responsibility he has in challenging a corrupt power structure

What's the corrupt power structure and how did he challenge it?
For Barnes & Noble, selling e-books is even worse than selling the real thing
What if Microsoft refuses to sign your kernel because it violates their patents?
i'm assuming there's no "callback" or event to "listen" for that can be hooked to identify the end of the animation when using the translate method, you just have to rely on the preset duration?
News alert to the uninformed about military conflict. Innocent people die when you go to war.

Bradley Manning just leaked one instance of human error that caused innocent people to die. Now he will spend much of his life in prison.

No idea why people call this guy a hero. If you read any history of any war, innocent people die because of human error.
Very, at least in the education funding. There are courses (financed by EU, of course) that teach you how to write proposals for EU projects, to make it seem more in line with expectations of the "program" you want to finance your project. They basically say "you have to put 'developing intelectual capital among unemployed people in the countryside' there, that is more likely to get you the money. You may do a few free courses for 50 people on whatever in that building after it's finished, and it will be OK. And while your're at it buy projector and laptop for that courses too, and put it in costs". And the building is intended as library or sth, but to get money you add whatever you can.

EU money on education are wasted so much. On the other hand infrastructural funds are handled more or less OK.
Also, it's not like the dual-CEO thing is supposed to be permanent at Groupon. I think they are just looking for some breathing room right now.
> I, for one, am hoping for an impact.

I am, too, but not because of any higher principles or concern for humanity. I simply think it would be incredibly entertaining to watch something that big smash into a planet at Mach 164. The fact that we have quite a few cameras on and above Mars is a huge bonus. It would be the closest we could get to experiencing an impact of that magnitude without the unfortunate side effect of existential oblivion.
"they've certainly got a problem"

If you mean they should sort out their forum moderation policies then I agree.

If you mean that this must be a technical problem on their part then I disagree. A 3rd party submitting their address book to a Friend Finder or similar tool would not be the responsibility of DropBox.
Ah you're right, mixins seem to be more useful for specific nuggets of style. Updating my comment.
Thinking about this just makes my mind go numb. All someone had to do was have the idea that they should back their database up. It would be done in 5 minutes, tops!

I automated ours on S3 with email notifications in under an hour...
What war crimes do you mean?
https://github.com/hraberg/deuce
Well, there were some of that information, but there were also secret cables which had little to do with any war crimes. He could have just released the videos and not the other stuff, if you wanted to argue the war crimes angle.

Finally, I think I agree with others. If you truly believe in your actions, you take responsibility, no matter the consequences. Such is how many in the war of independence saw it. They knew that if the British caught them, they'd likely be tried as traitors. Not saying all revolutions are have 'honorable causes'. Just saying it's honorable to take responsibility for what one does to further one's beliefs, even if the actions are not honorable, depending on view.
I think the author misses the most important thing:

The customer.

I'm genuinely mentally obsessed about customer service. When things go wrong (and they do, it's only natural) I painstakingly pull them apart to make sure we know why things went wrong, at what part they went wrong and how we can stop or at least spot in advance the possibility of things going wrong that way again.

I've driven customer service to be the number one thing about all customer interactions with my company. I don't just want my customer to be happy, I want them to be backflipping in the streets happy. It's a high goal to aim for, but I feel it's an area we can strongly compete in.

The other two areas I'm passionate about are customer acquisition and retention. I push our sales team to provide more handholding and pre-sales support for a service company than similar companies we compete with - again, this is a customer service thing and for us service starts at the point of contact, not when the invoice gets paid (which usually comes at the end in my line of work).

Don't get me wrong, the author wrote what works for them, but I felt a lot of the things (like "Work only with the best people") are quite harmful, you're not always going to have the option for the best people, and they're not always the people that work best. Likewise the "be on a purposeful mission" sounds insincere to me. Sure, you might want to do something you enjoy, but not everyone needs to be on a mission to save the world through a photo sharing service.
I can't deny that he violated the trust placed in him by the military. That's a scary game, and one that I can't honestly take a position in, as I've never served.

However, I feel that service is more than to your branch, commander, or unit. What is a soldier? Someone willing to sacrifice themselves for a greater, to defend those who can't defend themselves, to bring honor to their service. A US soldier serves the people first, the government second. Manning realized the risk he was placing his life in, and like a true soldier, he didn't let that knowledge deter him. In taking responsibility, he's holding his head high, not cowering behind attorneys and HTTP proxies.

I can't say if he's right or wrong, but I can say that he showed courage befitting his title.
Maybe Microsoft has patents on the PE format. And they're crossing their fingers and hoping Linus loses this argument, so they can become the next SCO and sue the entire Linux world.
Living with Legacy Code a questionnaire
Legacy code seems ever prevelant even in modern code bases. My colleague, Leon and I, are preparing a short talk entitled "Living with Legacy Code". We're planning on conducting interviews with various teams within our company to see what they think of legacy code and how to deal with it. We thought it'd be interesting to get a broader perspective so we humbly ask if you would mind answering the following questions...
Welcome back Ed. :)
Yup. I used to do this with a personal domain. After a while I realized that the spam folder was filling up faster than I could manually empty it!