skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is absolutely an adult form of bullying. Filing a lawsuit, though many will trivialize it, is anything but trivial. It requires time, energy, and most importantly, $$ to be spent on a lawyer. I'm still amazed that so many people go through with it for petty matters or fights.

I've had customers rent a car from my company, damage it, and then sue us to try and recover the damages after we bill them for it. They spend double the cost of the damages to have their lawyer file the lawsuit, and every one has lost the lawsuit so far. So why do they even bother? Because it gives people in a less-powerful position some semblance of control/power (which, by no coincidence, is where bullying often comes from.) - "This car was damaged under my watch, they used my deposit to bill me, I signed a contract agreeing to this scenario, but I'm not happy about any of this and I'm used to getting my way, so I'm going to sue."

Anyway - that's not advice, just background. My advice - if the situation is indeed as you present, is that as painful as it is, you need to defend yourself. If you don't, you risk the court entering what's called a 'default judgment', which is basically a loss on your part.

I'm not sure what the amount is (you said it's more than you were paid, but I don't know what order of magnitude that is) - if it's small-claims-scale, you do not need a lawyer and you can defend yourself in person in court. If it's above the small-claims threshold, you'll need to take it a step further.

In either case, I suggest you at least speak to a lawyer first. It will cost something, but it won't cost thousands to have a conversation, and it may not even cost that much to respond.

One thing that's important to remember: It gets VERY VERY VERY expensive to take a lawsuit beyond the initial filing and angry-letter-exchanging phase. Nobody wants to go there - not the plaintiff, and not the defendant. Filing a response costs time and money, but after that, a world of pain gets opened up with discovery, etc. etc. And that's on both sides -- to the tune of tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars. So honestly, very few people actually want to go that far unless there is a lot of money at stake.

So likely, you'll want to at least make contact with the plaintiff and figure out what they really want (it might be nothing more than making you pay for a lawyer to respond), but either way - get a lawyer and at least have a conversation.
I'm convinced that e-ink displays will become ubiquitous in a not-so-far future.

A e-ink screen is a great idea for a workstation aimed at text editing, be it writing emails or programs or even using spreadsheet software.

I spend most of the day in front of a screen blasting light into my face and I find it very aggressive. I'd be ready to pay a good price for a 20"-ish e-ink display that i could plug into my PC.
Looks pretty readable and coherent and the examples seem well-conceived. Thanks for the share.
After Marissa Mayer came in, I read that their acquisition strategy became to buy distressed companies with talent on the cheap. This fits that description.
Do you know anything about PyLadies? What led you to believe that PyLadies is about "virulent feminism" or is masterminding provocations?
Agile Terminology for SAP Project Teams
"I just saw a person screw up, should I base my decision to fund an entire gender's disadvantage on a single person's irrationality?"
Is there any data on offering a lower first-months or first-years price on a subscription deal? (i.e. "Pay $2.99 for your first month!" with "$7.99 a month thereafter" in smaller print)
Taking Punches is a Sucker’s Game
> the equally [sic] negative and virulent feminism

You mean the negative and virulent feminists who were threatening to rape and decapitate someone they didn't like?

Oh, right, no such thing happened.

Please, please do not equate attempts to bring people's attention to inappropriate sexual language during conferences - whether you agree with them or not - to the massive outpouring of hatred, abuse, personal attacks and misogyny that accompanied this incident.
Well played, well played indeed.
I see, so the main benefit vs compiling c to asm.js is that the development process is easier because you dont need to manually compile.
Sounds interesting to use as a scripting language inside a c based game engine. So the core of the engine would be directly compiled to asm.js while the game logic scripting could be done in LLJS to be able to live-test your game.
Does Facebook Drug Test Potential Employees?
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If you deployed Go in production, I'd love reading about that since I'm having a closer look at it now (coming from Ruby). Is there a more widely used option currently?
I don't think people need to be comfortable all the time. The manager who decides to take the team out on this tightrope needs to know how to prevent everybody from falling off. He or she needs to "buck Ted up" by the end of the meeting, and everybody else as well. But if one can do that...both take a team to the edge of chaos and bring them back in one piece...I think everybody will be the better for it.
> "Needless to say that didn't end very well for said employee"

Did you mean employer?
> for the world-of-warcraft set to apply to anybody that doesn't spend their time playing video games

"I hate how all video game players generalize everyone else."
That's actually true of LTA vehicles, too, since the atmosphere gets progressively less dense the further from Earth you are.

It's just that the distance above ground at which the buoyancy changes sign is much, much higher :)
Talk to a lawyer before pursuing this, but it may make you smile a bit in the midst of your worry so I'll post it here.

You mentioned that you are living off of a student's budget. Does that mean you are a student? If so, did he hire you on a contractual basis? Meaning, without benefits, etc.? If so, you may have a play that will not only get you some $ but make him look absolutely incompetent in front of his investors. It's actually pretty easy to show (in some states anyway) that you should have been compensated as a full-time employee. MA, for instance, is very harsh on owners who hire 'contractors' who do the work that would normally be done by employees. Even if you have a written agreement to the contrary, the court could decide that you were in fact an employee and award you triple damages.

My friend just lost a case like this. It absolutely stunned me (and her, for that matter). She fired an incompetent contractor, and the contractor turned around and sued. And won.

It sent chills up my spine, but if it fits your case then it could work for you as a threat to embarrass him if not even for the money.

But, ffs, talk to a good lawyer!
The comment you link doesn't even remotely state it's impossible though. Mostly, that you won't have the same tree up there than you natively have on the ground. Which is kind-of obvious really, especially if "on the ground" is flat lowlands.
Please don't use "This." one-liner. It's corny.
> Women can just marry someone after college and make the husband pay off all of their college loan debt for their women's studies major or whatever.

> Women have far more options with career paths these days, and very rarely have to worry about money.

That's some first class trolling there.
The U.S government is going to have a tough time recruiting hackers if they keep asserting their right to assassinate them.
I think at least two of them didn't want to be in the spotlight in the first place. And after what happened, probably the three of them.
It sold for ~30 mil, not really on the cheap for a 10 person team
Bcrypt is an adaptive password hashing algorithm. Blowfish is a block cipher.
> the previous controversy had no real winners

Sadly, I have to disagree. The hordes of abusive misogynists scored a big victory in their tireless efforts to terrorize and deter women from working in tech or, indeed, speaking publicly at all.
Pluto Could Have Ten Moons
Nice, works for Uruguay :) , small nitpick, it should say "I'm an" not "I'm a" where applicable (for example for Uruguay and other countries that start with vowels).

It would also be nice to set defaults to U.S., and to try and detect the person's country from their IP or something.

Small things, overall it's nice to have and it works nicely (I like the detailed explanations)
LLJS, asm.js, & Emscripten are really moving Javascript forward at incredible speed. I wonder if these projects will affect the future of the JS spec (ECMAScript Harmony + above). It's an exciting time to be a web programmer.
I've got a different approach.

1) Train staff how to define SMART objectives (Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Relevant, Timely) 2) Let them create and present their objectives to the group periodically (weekly, monthly, quarterly) 3) Then let them self-report the outcomes for the prior period, and give the group a chance to discuss and give feedback.

With this practice I can put more focus on training and standards, get less involved in operational details, and worry less about my performance as meeting ringleader.
Note that the highlighted text in the headline and in one of the sub-headlines should be tested against the same version without highlighting, and another with a [red,blue,green] underline. I say this because this sort of highlight tends to test lower than underlines. But in your case it needs to be tested (if you haven't done already).
By "I'm being sued," are you saying that a suit has been filed and you have been served with papers? Do you have a court date?
Why kids say "pasketti" instead of "spaghetti"
It's worth pointing out that there are a ton of frameworks and libs for propriety development environments too. Even where there is a dominant framework you then get micro architectures on top of that.

With the web as an application development platform it's still very young and there is yet to be a defacto standard for a few years. Until then frameworks will come and go. jQuery for example more or less won out against dojo or prototype (and I expect 100's of others that were less popular).

The democracy that drives the web forward is a double edged sword. While the Android, iOS SDKs are great now, they may well be dead in a few years, whilst the web will still be here. Just ask Swing, JavaFX, J2ME, Enyo, Symbian, Flash or Silverlight developers ;)
The Ironic Success Of Experimental Philosophy
Yes, and Blowfish (or rather, a variant of it with an expensive key schedule) is used as the main building block of Bcrypt in roughly the way you describe. That doesn't mean that Blowfish is Bcrypt.

I feel like such a pedantic dick for harping on this, but the distinction is worth making.
Learn design in nine weeks this summer in Chicago
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Do yourself a favor -- don't go down the bankruptcy path too soon. Speak to a good lawyer first and try to get things resolved. Bankruptcy has long-lasting consequences, stays with you in some form for the rest of your life and should really be avoided unless absolutely necessary.

Since you're a student (didn't know your age when I wrote my other comment), it's even more likely that they have no intention of actually following through with the lawsuit, so rest (slightly) easier knowing this will likely cost them more $$ than it will cost you.
Shortcut link: http://thedesignation.co
Looking at the source, and having looked at how nginx does it, this looks like a pretty straightforward implementation with no real frills. I imagine anyone doing this in production with Go already has just rolled their own solution not much unlike this (doing this for some pet projects of mine has been on my TODO for a few weeks, never got around to it though).
Keyboard shortcuts should be remappable.
Hoe verf je zelf je plafond zonder strepen?
It's one of the best compositing desktops IMO. It renders fast, even without hardware acceleration.
Excellent. I know you, Mozilla guys, are on HN, so a question.

Any ETA for allowing to block Referer header from being included in cross-origin requests? If I'm on the page that pulls down something from Google Fonts, I see no reason why I should be sharing with Google the URL of the page I'm visiting.
That's certainly a possibility! It would be neat to see powerful debugging tools develop, after the language stabilizes. I also like the idea of somehow linking it with emscripten-compiled code so that it can be used as a sort of scripting language.

I'd like to explore the possibility of porting some of the C toolchain to the browser too, though. It's possible that it could be quite successful, and in that case LLJS would target people who just want to write small parts of there app for asm.js.
I imagine Google would choose Dart for the web. They seem to have lost interest in GWT.
It destroyed the competition as it was growing, and became the backbone of multiple services. Imagine you have all your documents on Dropbox, in multiple applications, and then Dropbox shuts down. Dropbox is already a part of your workflow, but now you have to find an alternative for the apps you use.
Seems like just the time in the container being shipped would eat up a lot of that.
AdBlock just killed all your examples on Google Chrome, guys.
Have you looked into whether or not your school provides free legal services?

My university's student government paid for two pretty awesome lawyers (through a student tax) which could be used for pretty much any legal matter (from starting up a business to criminal charges) for free. At the very least they can probably refer you to someone who can help you.
That's great, gals and guys. Let us know how it turns out when you're finished.
Is the cost of living in Seattle high? How much is the take-home post-taxes, etc.
Here is a great fireside chat with Nasty Gal's CEO Sophia Amoruso http://video.pandodaily.com/t6t2/fireside-chat-with-nasty-ga...
It's just a startup trend for catchy domain names.

Recently, .io has been fairly popular as well.
It's great for a language that is not whitespace-significant. Python requires hacks like backslash just to do a line break, which makes both alternatives (with/without line break) equally ugly.
I kind of wonder the same thing; he's more or less admitting to trespassing and providing all the evidence. I will admit, this takes guts and I applaud it.
I guess it is the service (unofficial api) it provided (syncing bt. multiple devices) as opposed to the website itself.
Scientists want to bring 22 animals back from extinction
It's not impossible to be successful as a defendant in a civil suit representing yourself in the US, but I'm not sure the odds are good. The best case is if the judge immediately recognizes it as a specific kind of nuisance case that they've seen before, and is sympathetic to dismissing it as quickly as possible. In that case they might pretty strongly hint to you exactly what motions you need to file so they can get rid of the case. But it's also quite possible for a groundless case to not look obviously groundless if the defendant doesn't explain why well.

Were you by any chance in a civil-law country (most of Europe outside the UK)? The judges in civil-law systems take on more of a hybrid judge/investigator role, which makes it easier for them to play the role of helping out a defendant, if their investigation finds the facts warrant doing so. It's also more common for them to make decisions of their own accord, while the US norm is that the judges only rule on motions from the parties, rarely sua sponte. That makes it particularly important to file the right motions at the right times, to even give the judge a chance to rule in your favor.
It's a catch-all term for people who don't fit cleanly into one of the other archetypes 20-somethings still somehow get labelled as (such as jock or nerd or prep).
You're correct, it uses Google Translate to generate the in-line translation, and offers a more in-depth translation from wordreference.com in a sidebar (for the language pairs it supports). I find the Google Translate result good enough to get the meaning the vast majority of the time, which is enough to enjoy reading. When you start to learn each word, it's very much encouraged to verify and edit each translation the first time the flashcard appears. I agree that blindly accepting and learning the google translate results would be a very bad idea. I'll also investigate different dictionaries and translation services as the project progresses.
integrate the future!
I'm confused as to why you think that you're not a programmer. I think it's awesome that you've become such a master with your development environment that you're able to integrate various functionalities not normally found in mere text editors into it.
Oh yes, Diablo II skill icons with a Monty Python-esque flavor.

I'm having a nostalgia crisis right now.
Gafapasta is probably the best choice I'm aware of. Pijo doesn't carry art-geek creds or suggest youth.
I respect their intentions and I am sure they are doing good work. Regardless as a matter of principle I do not donate to organizations that discriminate on the basis of sex.
Excellent point. OP - have you actually been sued / physically served? Or did you just receive a letter threatening you with a suit?

Huge difference. Both require lawyers, but the former will cost more to respond to. The latter typically requires nothing more than an equally-strongly-worded letter right back at them to let them know you're not a pushover.

Remember - from the plaintiff's side - a letter costs a few $hundred. A filed suit costs a few $thousand. A fought suit costs $tens of thousands. A long-fought suit can costs $hundreds of thousands.
As someone who was a lab TA for a little while and a district-level sysadmin for a while longer, the thing which comes to mind when I think of school machines is "fragile". They could in fact be "broken" in the sense that it would take a nontrivial investment in time to get it back to a state where anyone could find it useful again. Even firing up "ghost" (or whatever the equivalent is these days) takes a while to happen.

I guess this probably isn't as bad now with actual privilege separation (non-admin accounts) in Windows and Macs these days, but some memories are hard to forget.

There's something to be said for a box which is going to be just fine if you power-cycle it.
I love the idea of this service; was just discussing the need for something like this last week (was looking at the Youtube Upload Widget).

I was sad when I went to record a test video and received this message "Chrome's version of flash has a bug which prevents sound from being recorded. Disable pepper to continue."

Ugh. Disabling "pepper" probably isn't a big deal for me, but for my end users, this could be a major show stopper. :(
I noticed you got close prices from Yahoo that you are using for your backtest. If you get the close prices in real life and optimize, when are you going to trade?

You have to deal with intraday prices now. Got those? Well they are not split or dividend adjusted. Good luck.
Dangers of Meditation
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Finally got it to load. Don't know what the problem was. I kept getting a blank page (wouldn't even let me right-click). Cracked open the dev tools, and the DOM was there, and all of the resources were loading. No clue what the problem was.

[ Running: Chromium Version 26.0.1386.0 Ubuntu 12.10 (177362) ]
Google is in the ad business making it tougher for them to go in this direction. Go Firefox
From the [reddit submission](http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1ay8jn/scientists_w...), there are a few interesting links to related TED talks:

http://www.ted.com/talks/stewart_brand_the_dawn_of_de_extinc...

http://www.ted.com/talks/jack_horner_building_a_dinosaur_fro...
It's called capitalism.
No, but long lines that are broken intelligently so as to fit in an 80-character wide space are easier to read than a single line.

MyObject object = MyObjectBuilderFactory.getBuilder().essentialProperty("the value").otherImportantProperty(42).specialThingyReference(someVariable).build();

vs

MyObject object = MyObjectBuilderFactory.getBuilder().
essentialProperty("the value").
otherImportantProperty(42).
specialThingyReference(someVariable).build();

Or how about:

cookies = responseObject.headers.findAll { header -> header.key == "Set-Cookie" }.collect { cookieHeader -> new Cookie(cookieHeader) }

vs

cookies = responseObject.headers.findAll { header ->
header.key == "Set-Cookie" }.collect { cookieHeader ->
new Cookie(cookieHeader) }

Just because it is one statement does not mean it has to be on one line.
Show HN: sw4tch - Style swatches with CSS, SCSS & Compass, or Stylus & Nib.
If you're looking to do API trading as a retail customer, Interactive Brokers is the best I've found. 1/2 cent per share per trade with a $1 minimum commission per trade.

A downside is that they are between you and the exchanges at least when you use their SMART routing, so I get the impression your fills will be optimized for their benefit (via their Timber Hill subsidiary), not yours. Years ago, you could get filled substantially better than your limit order especially at the open for example, but no more.
Nice. Similar idea to this one a colleague built. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/looks-good-to-me/h...
I knew this was going to be the top comment on this story.

I'm a comment hipster.
Before its release, West Virginia may regulate Google Glass while driving
Ah, I wanted to clarify a bit.

I think it is awesome you want to create a mindfulness practice informed by secular western developments. If you have a chance to participate in a (genuine) shamanic ceremony, your philosophical training will bring a lot to the experience. (There is a mind-to-mind phenomena you can observe in vipassana retreats or in shamanic ceremonies; the content of your mind doesn't just inform your experience, it also affects the collective. So when you bring your Western secular experience into the mix, it brings a, in my opinion, vital perspective into the experience).

I suggest that there is a allergy/aversion to religious traditions that should be investigated by a meditator at some point. Likewise, there are aversions to secular methods as well that needs to be investigated.
I'm not sure it is AdBlock. Whether I have it enabled or not I get the error: "Error:Chrome's version of flash has a bug which prevents sound from being recorded.". Seems like a genuine bug with the Chrome Flash player.
Swipebox - A Touchable jQuery Lightbox
> Typically places that trees cannot grow are also places that humans find difficult.

The windows on tall buildings don't open, which is not a coincidence. Humans can't survive for very long 50+ stories in the air either.
If you are a still an active student, check if your University has free legal counsel (usually provided by law students)
An idea for non-technical co-founders: try a service-first business
But in a way a lot more honest than 99% of the implicit sex-driven advertising.
iTunes Breaks Free of a Break-even Model
Back to the USSR by Way of Twitter
router functions i think are sufficient. if size is a problem, multiple routers could help. different routers could also generalize instantiation for certain types of pages. if it gets more specific than that, i put it into the page view logic like you suggested. does this sound reasonable?

aside, but to my original point, you could use any router and you'd still have this problem. these type questions are probably best not answered by Backbone.

edit: no need to downvote. i am open to suggestions or criticism.