skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your response. Can you help me understand what would happen under this protocol were an investor to pull out because of something that is discovered in due diligence? Or if the proposed modification were not to be acceptable to the company seeking investment? I would imagine in that case that any dispute would be over whether the discrepancy was material enough to justify the modification or withdrawal.

Either way, though, there is a clear difference between this and a verbal agreement in that if the parties cannot reach a reasonable compromise, a dispute around a verbal agreement will most likely (although not always) be dropped, and an email exchange such as this would provide a greater opportunity to litigate.

From my point of view, one primary rational of having a written contract is to reduce the likelihood of litigation. With that in mind, a verbal agreement seems perhaps a better option than an email-based protocol, in a weird sort of way.
Uber approved him as a driver, he receives clients through Uber, he receives payments through Uber...
- apt-get install rss2email
- add some feeds
- be done with it
>Not to diminish what is going on but at this point all we have is heresy, we don't know what actually happened

It is only ever sexual assault cases where this many calls for skepticism -as to whether a crime even happened- are made.
Really liked this article. Great tips from a clear master of the game. Thanks for posting.
Nice! A simple 2PC [1] for deals!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-phase_commit_protocol
I think a 2013 Reader should be an open source web app you can run yourself or pay to use as a service, which runs on a server pulling in feed data, and then as a detachable HTML5+JS+localstorage client that downloads the data and can run offline.

Building another hosted RSS reader project just gets us back to step 1 in terms of one company's ability to yank away a tool that functions almost like a newspaper to many people today.

NewsBlur looks like it just got a ton of new github watchers since this announcement, and would maybe be good to treat as the defacto "open RSS reader platform" leader -
https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur
Not really, but in this case, they have failed to give any justification for not following a standard that industry giants like Apple follow and which Microsoft is close to implementing on Windows Phone. Perhaps there is a technical reason, but Google not being open about it makes people assume the worst.
You'd think so, but unfortunately it's not the case.

Banks are very effective at excluding poor people through a combination of:

-Minimum initial deposit to open an account

-In the US, much higher minimum initial deposit if you don't have a social security number (this excludes non-wealthy immigrants)

-Monthly maintenance fees if your average daily balance for the month dips below x

-Overdraft fees if your balance ever dips below 0

-Additional fees from the payee if you ever bounce a check when paying a bill

These policies are practically invisible to wealthy customers, but pose insurmountable barriers to entry for the poor.
The startup sends the investor an email or text message saying "This is to confirm you're in for <offer>."
The investor replies yes.

== This not a handshake deal, de-facto or de jure.

Therefore, this is a terrible, misleading article. A/k/a why god invented lawyers.

[0] The Handshake Deal Protocol (ycombinator.com).
Do men swear more than women?
Show HN: WProller.com - Custom WordPress install configurator
Long time lurker here on HN but wanted to share a project I completed last week that allows someone to choose the plugins and themes they need and have them auto-magically added to their WordPress installer zip. No more hunting around for plugins and themes post-installation - they are right there ready to activate. Check it out and let me know your thoughts.<p>Roadmap for future features:
- allow language choice for WP main zip
- allow users to upload their own commercial plugins and themes to add to their installers
- allow users to choose any plugin from the WP SVN repository
- allow the site to push into GIT<p>Any others I should consider?
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Right. And under CA law...
Seems like a proxy layer that speaks CalDAV on one end and Google Calendar API on the other might be handy. Any idea of how much the latter API has that would be difficult to translate?
Or alternately: people inclined to use taxis to facilitate rape are not really driving for a living anyway, and are likely not concerned about violating a licensing law.
rather than being so aggressive and waiting for downvotes you could choose to be constructive ;) and answer a concise technical question to a sub-thread that you yourself started

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5377101
Long time lurker here on HN but wanted to share a project I completed last week that allows someone to choose the plugins and themes they need and have them auto-magically added to their WordPress installer zip. No more hunting around for plugins and themes post-installation - they are right there ready to activate. Check it out and let me know your thoughts.

Roadmap for future features:
- allow language choice for WP main zip
- allow users to upload their own commercial plugins and themes to add to their installers
- allow users to choose any plugin from the WP SVN repository
- allow the site to push into GIT

Any others I should consider?
The one we know for sure about is related to gravity -- you normally ignore it in particle physics, but there's a point where you can't do that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_scale

Now, it's quite likely interesting stuff happens before that point! (Such as the extra Higgs suggested by supersymmetry.) And there are also other, complicated reasons to suspect that the Standard Model breaks down, to suspect that it is really what we call an "effective field theory".

That's all ignoring issues like dark matter or the neutrino mass, which are not predicted by the standard model. But it's kind of interesting that the model (in a certain sense) naturally limits its own predictions.
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Love the CSS animation :D
there are goats as well!
Such a position is tantamount to saying that information brokers should be responsible for what others do with their information. That would basically moot the 1st amendment. Understandably, the limo/taxi business is somewhat exceptional, since a passenger is so much in the power of the driver. But even here, we now have technology that could moot such laws. (There's no reason why drivers couldn't be required by companies to install cameras, for example.)
Cross-Gender Avatars in Games
I truly don't understand how this can be described as a 'purely greedy, evil' move. Some of the money that those ads generate go to independent developers looking to make income from their hard work, many of whom use this site. The more people that see the ads, the more ads Google sells, and the more money both Google and developers make.

Personally, I think it's selfish to block ads on applications and websites.
Emails definitely do (though IANAL).
I don't have a direct link, and this is a little old, but it looks good: http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2012/07/04/new-baby-boson-is-b...

Look carefully at this graph: http://www.quantumdiaries.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Hig...

This graph shows how many pairs of photons were crated, classified by the energy.

There are a lot of ways to create a pair of photons, so there is a lot of background noise even if the Higgs Boson doesn't exist. This is roughly the dotted line (it's very difficult to see, because it's almost covered with the red line).

The black points are the actual measurements. They almost agree with the dotted line, except in the range of 125-130GeV where there is a bump. In that energy range there are more pairs of photons created than the expected quantity. The energy of the photons is essentially equal to the mass of the HB, but there are some dispersion because of the measurements errors and some quantum effects.

The red line is a simulation of how many pairs of photons would appear if the mass of the HB were 126.5GeV. They adjusted that parameter to get the best fit. This red line has a bump near 126.5GeV that is similar to the bump that the measurements have (black dots). The dotted line is very similar, so the red line cover it everywhere except in the bump range.

There is a lot of noise, so one possibility is that the bump is only a lucky streak, so they wait until they get a 5 sigma deviation, i.e. there is only 1/2000000 chance of getting a deviation as big as that form random fluctuations and noise. (The graph is old and shows only a 4.5 sigma deviation.)

The complete analysis is more complicated, but the general idea is that if there were no HB, they would get a different signal.
Very nice! I'd really like if you could mark which ones are available open source to run yourself.
Mine aren't usually as detailed, even for the most micromanaged hostile enviroments. Typically along the lines of:

Boss Person,

Per our conversation yesterday on the evening of Month Day this will serve as my two week notification of my departure from Company with a last day of Friday, Month Day. Any day earlier than Friday is acceptable as well.

I have gained a great deal from my time here and hope that our paths cross again. Thank you for the opportunity, however, for my own personal career growth I must pursue a role that is more closely aligned with my goals.

Thanks,
wcfields
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"Like many of you, we were dismayed to learn that Google will be shutting down its much-loved, if under-appreciated, Google Reader on July 1st."

Somehow I doubt they are dismayed. Excited, maybe?
You say "code becomes less object-oriented" like it's a bad thing. Sure, being tied to a specific implementation of SQL is bad, but OO-structured code is not necessarily a good thing. If the interesting part about your app is the data, maybe your app should be structured like your data, rather than vice versa.
By rename feeds do you mean the title? For example, Craig Mod's feed (https://feedreader.co/feeds/http://craigmod.com/rss/) has a rather ungainly title ("...considering the future of ...") which would make sense to rename.
Personally I do it for every case. I see it happen for murder trials, sexual abuse cases, everything in the media where the presumption is that the person is guilty and it's just a question of how much. Right now what's been reported does look fairly damning but the evidence itself hasn't been shown to the public or a jury yet. The only way for someone to be presumed innocent until proven guilty is to be skeptical of everything.
Simulations of the three-body problem
"Don't get me wrong; there's plenty of room for "decent Mexican places," but if too many of them open, then they might all end up with not enough customers to survive. Limiting the number of restaurants means that there will be enough customers for most of them."

Too bad. That's not the business of government, its the effect of market. They may all go out of business if people stop liking Mexican. Government shouldn't be picking winners that's the people's business.
He's pointing out that the only "evidence" so far against the driver is not coming from the most reliable source - in this case, a woman so intoxicated that she was kicked out of a bar.

If you get high enough you get symptoms of paranoia. Maybe the fact that he talked to her a little bit in the cab scared her, and when she got raped she didn't have a good enough look at the perpetrator and assumed that it was the cab driver.

Innocent until proven guilty. It's unfortunate that his name is being plastered over the news like this.
Dennis Rodman is a obviously a spy and has already connected the USB device :D
its nice - but you might want to just mine the twitters mentioning these sites to get a bit more content.
what I would like to see it's an aggregator with a nice ui, like the oldreader, but also with a nice api so we could have all the ecosystem we have right now around google reader. i'am searching and I didn't found one yet :(
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"It's not just jacking up prices; it's about keeping competition down to reasonable levels.

Limiting the number of restaurants means that there will be enough customers for most of them."

There's no such thing as 'keeping competition down to reasonable levels.' That's why we have a market. The optimal supply of restaurants and customers should be determined by the market, not government or protectionist incumbents. Unless you can make a legitimate case that allowing more food trucks, restaurants, or whatever else harms the health or security of society, there is zero reason to limit their numbers.
For that matter, so can gcc.
It's a matter of trust in the brand, not of whether Uber could have prevented it.
Huh. I started with the video and closed the site. Didn't realize until I saw your comment that this wasn't a dudebro stalker thing like Girls Around Me.

I don't get it. The rest of the site is trying to be respectable.... which just comes off as really unsettling now after imagining it coming from the barhopping bro.
neat. not digging the contrast in the browser section though. also, is there really a need to show the huge barely visible browser icon next to each figure? just use browser icons (in their native colors) as column headers.
Ow, sorry :) I think we should change the text of the box.
To be fair, Google didn't kill Writely. It now lives as Google Docs. There may be other services in your list that are not entirely dead.
A year ago RPS did an interview where they talked about how the simulation was going to be done.

“It’s not like each Sim has a specific job that’s his, and a specific house that’s his,” says lead designer Stone Librande, like this knowledge might mitigate the situation. Instead, each Sim that will inhabit your thriving metropolis (or crime-ridden housing project, as the case may be) will wake up each morning and start the day by looking for a new job – if they’re not sick, that is, in which case they’ll look for a hospital. And every evening, that same Sim will leave work and take a moment to look for a new place to live. Filling out employment applications and being interviewed by already-unbearable roommates every single day. Oh, the humanity!

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/03/28/first-look-simcit...

Then when they realize how much everyone hates the game they talk about how the simulation was nothing like they were promised.

These are reports, of course, and we’re not experts when it comes to AI. But what we’re seeing people say is rather than each Sim having a unique life, they’re instead operating on the same sort of systems that control the sewage and traffic. Which seems rude. It also explains why there appear to be lots of rather odd behaviours found in the game, with distribution of jobs, buses, and the like feeling a touch odd.

...

But where it gets even weirder is when their work day is through. They don’t trundle off back to their well-loved home, as you might imagine a Sim would do. They, just as with work, move into the nearest available house. There’s no consistency to their lives, no permanence.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/13/simcitys-sims-don...
If this is as successful as their Digg reboot then I'm sure it will have hundreds of users...
Except Uber drivers are licensed with their parent companies who provide the cars and services to fill Uber requests. Or that was my impression of their model.
why did you use the word "iterate"[1] in this context?

[1]http://www.thefreedictionary.com/iterate
The whole point of Node is evented I/O in JavaScript. That's it - it doesn't take a stance on frameworks.

The point of npm is ... to be a package manager.

Express is a framework. I admittedly don't know much about it, but I believe it basically has pluggable middleware, like Rails.

Not sure these things share the "point" you are claiming they do.

It's great Node has both framework choices and a wealth of small modules that do one thing. I think there's room for both.
We had a scandal similar to this in Peru a few months ago:
http://www.larepublica.pe/26-06-2012/imagenes-demuestran-que...

"Taxi Satelital" is a taxi company valued for its safety and overall ease of use, that subcontracts each ride to a pool of licensed drivers (like uber).

A young woman accused one of its drivers of drugging and abusing her. Everyone assumed she was right and went all "duke-lacrosse" on the firm, which we assumed will have to go bust soon. The next day, the CEO appeared on TV with a CC video, the phone call audio, GPS records, and even one witness, showing that she was indeed making it up.

After seeing this happen one too many times, I think its prudent if we withhold judgement and let the police do their job. That said, I do believe unlicensed drivers are a huge issue in thefts, kidnappings, and rapes in many parts of the world (London as you quoted, but this is also common knowledge in most of Latin America)
The first tab extension for Chrome that actually does something useful. Well done !
I really like Bourbon Neat: http://neat.bourbon.io/
So, I didn't really answer because I knew you were kind of baiting me with that question. Whatever I wrote, you probably knew that you were going to be able to reply with "they can already do that under ECPA" (HN has had that discussion previously and I was paying attention). So let's just fast forward all of that.

Last time around, I believe you said CISPA is one giant legislative NOP. I think you have probably revised your position on that. Someone is trying very hard to pass this, and they don't do that for no reason. There is something very important in CISPA to someone.

It sounds like at least part of the reason for it, in your interpretation, is related to legal assurances. Since you have studied both, can you provide an effective 'diff' between CISPA and ECPA, within the scope of 'cyber'?

For what it's worth, after doing some basic searching on who is backing it and what their business objectives are, I feel like it is more probable that there is not evil intent behind CISPA at this time.

The problem, as I said, and as described by EFF, is that it is vague in many key areas (I'm not going to enumerate them, it's too tedious and not relevant enough to go into specifics). Look at the CFAA. The intent there was not to nail a MAC address spoofing wget loop or a fake email submitted to a captive portal to the wall for 35 years. The intent behind the PATRIOT act, at least as far as some supporters were concerned (even though they were probably duped) was actually to fight terrorism. Both have since become wildcards for bad actors to do things that the original supporters didn't intend. We have to expect this when we write laws.

It's the same as auditing C. You know those conversations you have with those "special" clients who respond to your bug report by saying "yeah, but that is only meant to hold a username, no one is REALLY going to try and have a 2GB username"? This is the legal equivalent.

> what is the privacy-protecting language YOU would like to see in a bill that aimed to address that problem?

This is an unreasonable rebuttal. "It's not perfect, but you don't have anything better" is not how we make laws. Obviously, a journalist or a security consultant discussing something as important as this is not going to just spit out a bill that solves every problem in an HN comment.
Step 4 needs to be:

The investor replies with Yes within 96 hours.

Otherwise it's the equivalent of having one party execute a contract, and the other party just sit on the contract to wait for more information. Either executing if it's clearly beneficial, or ignoring if it's not.
I clicked through and was puzzled!! This is in no shape or form a chart???

It's a table. You need to have a graphical element for this to be considered a chart.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chart
Why North Korea Makes Everyone Nervous ... Except Dennis Rodman
As a non-lisper reading over some of those examples I definitely prefer his "Sweet-expression". Seems much more approachable.

Once I make a serious foray into Lispland maybe that'll change...
He's wrong. The lack of capitalism where malaria abounds is the reason that malaria gets little funding (assuming that's even so; I've not checked).

If you want to improve the lot of people, give them capitalism.

Bill Gates is a great example of the aphorism "trust capitalism, not capitalists". He's a capitalist, but he himself does not believe in capitalism. It's like the quip about Karl Popper's Open Society and its Enemies: "by one of its enemies". Gates lacks the authority on this subject that his success would appear to lend him. Beware!
Are you serious? I'm Chinese and I'm like "Why would they do that?"
Before we launch into the Chinese hacking rethoric, let's looks at EADS, which was being attacked from some location in China. But why did we manage to find out?

It's either that the hackers behind the attack weren't up to snuff to cover their tracks (maybe set something up outside of China?), or it's the Chinese government trying to demonstrate that they are indeed capable of digitally attacking foreign targets. And if you got any familarity with actual Chinese people, you know they won't spill their hand just to show you what they can. That'd be...very unchinese.

Yes, Chinese people aren't overt when they cut deals. But trying to disrupt a minor target (yes, it's Github, but in the scope of the entire US, it's one service, and there are several alternatives) in a Country that owes you a lot of doe...what sense would that make? Also why only Github? Why not any of the other Repository services?

Your chinese conspiracy hypothesis really doesn't hold up well, does it?
Gender in online games is a well-charted territory. The linked post echoes this more in-depth article from 1999: http://tharsis-gate.org/articles/imaginary/GENDER~1.HTM.

Edit: There's also the following quote on men playing as women from a 1993 paper [1] on MUDs ("multi-user dungeons", see [2]). I find myself amused by how true its final sentence rings twenty years later [3].

>Many people, both male and female, enjoy the attention paid to female characters. Male players will often log on as female characters and behave suggestively, further encouraging sexual advances. Pavel Curtis has noted that the most promiscuous and sexually aggressive women are usually played by men. If you meet a character named "FabulousHotBabe," she is almost certainly a he in real life.

[1] http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~asb/papers/gender_swapping.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD

[3] But don't misread it as reenforcing the tired cliche that "there are no girls on the internet". It's rather about how the "FabulousHotBabes" of the Internet are very often not its girls.
Made me learn about http://www.feedly.com/ which looks really nice.
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This was pretty much the best way to do it pre-Ad Block. I recall doing things like this in the late 90s and it worked rather well.

One of the caveats to this method is that it can limit you from accessing some CDNs.

MVPS Hosts is worth a look:
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

Also another solution from the early part of 2000s was to use Proxomitron:
http://www.proxomitron.info/

It was handy because it was basically Greasemonkey in the form of a proxy server. However, it is no longer maintained and the original author has since passed away.
Here in Brazil this is not to avoid fare, fare is chump change, it is to extort, or "repent". One case that I know, the woman had consensual sex with the driver, and got pregnant, her boyfriend dumped her, and then she accused the driver of rape. Happily for the driver she was a bad liar and contradicted herself many times, so the cops dropped the case.
I'm not saying your code should be OO-structured per se. What I'm saying is simply that your code should influence the database more than the database influence the code.