skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, the beauty of the law is that almost always, the outcome is decided on a case to case basis.

It used to be less case-to-case when there were mandatory minimums. These were basically algorithmic processes to output a time range for imprisonment during sentencing. Judges had to abide by these sentencing tables. Since then, they have been abolished and judges are now empowered to make the decision themselves based on the facts of the case.

There are situations in which the outcome is not decided case-to-case. These situations are called "strict-liability" where if you commit a violation, you are punished no matter what. Thankfully, these aren't crimes. Usually, it's if you double park, you're getting a ticket. It doesn't matter whether you had the intent.
Even the word “phone” is interesting, I have a feeling people will continue to apply it to increasingly advanced portable personal technologies far into the future.
> This could easily be misinterpreted as tripping an automated throttling system

He walked into the server closet covering his face with a bicycle helmet. Whatever improvements MIT might be able to make to the message of "you're not welcome on this net", Aaron definitely received it loud and clear.
but wtf is a "folder", now?
I never had that kind of data, unfortunately.
"Taxation: How do governments collect taxes on transactions in Bitcoin? The answer is they don't, and they can't."

Grossly misleading.

You tax something at the point at which it gets exchanged into an externally viewable good or service. If either party refuses to disclose the value of the transaction, then the state just assigns one and uses its monopoly on force to collect.

That said, an increasing dependence on opaque stores of value would likely shift taxation away from income and towards consumption.
People with relatively poor vision may have a problem identifying those icons.
for $10 a month, I'll build you a pinging service :)
If context makes clear what is meant by “macro” then it will often be used without any further explanation, i.e. “macro” can mean both just “macro” and “macro style”, depending on context.

I would argue that is the case here, though your (honestly baffling) confusion might be a reasonable point against that.
Is it relevant that America's incarcerated population (mostly working age) is not included in that %? (I mean the shadow economy is statistically significant here)
> How can this immensely vital symbol be communicated in a timeless form so we never have to go through this again?

How about by picking a form that will always be in the past, and already well-documented and broadly understood, instead of trying to guess which of today's fads will be remembered?
> CO2 is not a rare chemical.

Never said it was. The point is, that you can just pull it out of the Martian air in industrial quantities.

> We don't know enough about Martian soils to be sure that we can grow crops there.

Many experts would disagree.

> All successful settlements of Europeans in the new world had some economic purpose for existing.

Yes, there would be a considerable initial economic barrier. But given the potential payoff, and that it's well within the budgets of current major powers, it's bound to happen. Just a matter of time and political will.

> Even something like light bulbs would be hard to do.

With current tech, we need a population of about 500 million to sustain a comparable technological infrastructure. This is going to go down with advances in technology, however.

> None of this is to say that I don't want to see permanent human settlement on other planets, but I think that comparing it to the settlement of the Americas is very unhelpful.

Because you're mistakenly using the analogy as a descriptor of difficulty. You're right that it's much more difficult in both an absolute and comparative sense. However, it's meant entirely as a descriptor of potential payoff. Compare the investment involved in establishing initial colonies and the value of interventions that resulted in British hegemony over North America with the value generated by the US economy. For English speaking western civilization, the payoff has been astoundingly huge.

I strongly suspect that there are people in China and other emerging powers who are well aware of this as well.
Don't people still use manilla folders and hanging folders to keep records of various medical/insurance/tax/legal papers at home? (these industries haven't exactly digitized their workflow)

(I certainly do)
I'm as big a book fan as anyone, but an online course might be appropriate too.
The # of translations is linked in the article but not the actual USD volume of the graph.

Also, the blockchain data doesn't tell us much because for all we know it might be that somebody is merely moving coins from one wallet to another.
What I Learned from the QueryTree Private Beta
If this person is a minister of interior affairs then yes, we should just turn them all off.

And HSBC is something like that. It's exactly the bank that "we all the citizens" should trust in order to not be "anti-democratic" as another article put it.

And you know what, we're not going to trust HSBC or any other bank, no more.
The datapoint I cited was the most concrete irrefutable one. Firstly, BitPay is a big enough payment processor that their growth generally reflects accurately enough the growth of Bitcoin (their market share is actually slighly decreasing over time, as other payment processors sprang up in the recent past). Secondly, all other datapoints show as well that the volume of transactions increases:

- Estimated volume of USD transactions (attempting to ignore "change"): http://blockchain.info/charts/estimated-transaction-volume-u...

- Silk Road going over 2 years from zero to $2 million/month of Bitcoin revenues: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/study-estimates-2...

- A bitcoin casino went from 0 to $0.5 million profits in 6 months: http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/01/bitcoin-based-casino...

- Etc. Generally all vendors and payment processors report huge increases.

It is wrong for the author to silently ignore all these facts.
I think they should get away from the word "save" and focus on the word "store". It abstracts the final location, and would be easier to "icon-ize".
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Thanks very much! Thats just what I wanted :)
Aaah, d'oh. Makes sense in retrospect :) thanks!
Sublime just always felt like a "ported" app. Chocolat is native, fits in with OSX perfectly, and at least for me, achieves the perfect sweet spot between customizable and minimalist. I just find myself being less "distracted" by the editor, and just getting my work done, than with anything else I've used. It isn't really one single thing that does it, but just the sum total of it. Not sure if that helps...
Counterpoint: I love it.
> What if...

Are you talking about the "share" button? On Android this is three dots in an equilateral triangle, with two of three sides connected by a line.
Just a note, I think Ubuntu is marketed as an open source OS, the OSI definition says it has to be freely distributed. Strangly enough it's free software that is free as in freedom, not as in free beer, open source is free as in free beer (according to OSI).
The closest my company has come to mainstream fame was in the Wall Street Journal. It was a half page article on page 2 - not about us but more the data from our system (a specialist kind of weather data for energy-data analysis).

I don't think it drove more than about 100 extra visitors - truly a drop in the ocean. As a kind of direct marketing I think it was pretty much useless as the readership is so broad whilst our business is so specialist (no use in exposure unless it's to the right audience).

But we can now mention the WSJ piece as a kind of credibility signal. And for that it is great.
"for years deliberately channeled hundreds of millions of dollars of the prohibited transactions"

If that isn't money laundering then what is?

The charge means nothing. Show me one person behind bars; until then the charge means nothing.
The story's been updated with information from AMI - it sounds like the keys are only intended to be used for testing purposes and should be changed before use, but it's obviously possible for vendors to ignore that advice.
<frameset rows="100%,*" border="0">
<frame src="http://coblee.github.com/litecoin/" frameborder="0" />
<frame frameborder="0" noresize />
</frameset>

Looks like it, yeah. You can just go to http://coblee.github.io/litecoin in the meantime though.
Is this necessary? We use plenty of symbols the origin of which have since become obsolete and mostly forgotten. Almost everyone is familiar with the meaning of arrows, for example, but not many people are immediately conscious of how it derives its shape from an archery context. The shape has transcended its origins and now simply refers to a context; the same can be true of floppy disks for save (and I'd argue, already is, as I'm sure there are young people now who are aware of what the symbol means but might not be familiar with its originating technology).
No one is called Abdul, a guide to Arab names
Maybe I'm getting old, but seeing conversations like this irritate me. All I see in that wall of text are activity indicators, upload icons, and "TO THE CLOUD!!!" icons.

Internet Comment Designers seem to think that skeuomorphism (a word they love using to tell the world 'LOOK, I KNOW BIG WORDS SO I MUST BE GOOD AT THINGS') must always be a bad thing...as if using the icon to save as a floppy disk is somehow less confusing to the average person than a circle with line, space, longer line, space, shorter line, space, rest of circle is somehow more intuitive.

People use & all the time and don't know what it means. Hell, @ doesn't even have a clear definition! But people know what it means, and that's what matters.

How come people don't use a hard disk as a save icon? How come the icon of a CD didn't catch on as a "Burn" action?

Its not because these actions are any less actionable than "saving" to a floppy disk. Its because you can clearly tell WHAT a floppy is compared to other donut looking objects, and that is what matters!

You don't need to flatten the UI or make something you think looks like an IEC symbol (protip: the symbol you all use for on/off is IEC 5009 symbol for "standby"). All you need to do is make sure that the symbol is unique enough that it can't be confused for anything else. Having the added back story that it used to "be" something else makes it trivia fodder in 50 years.

Yes, Apple is stupid for making their calendar look like a book. No, I am not a knuckle-dragging cave man for thinking a floppy disk is a good symbol for "commit to disk."

Get off my damned lawn.
That would make me automatically twice as good as I am now!

Now I just need to find a surgeon with questionable morals...
Use a drawing of the universal media, punched magnetic tape.
Yes! This is definitely something the user shouldn't have to care about.

I used to have vim autosave every time I changed focus. This worked really well, until I edited something which wasn't in revision control. That time I just cancelled the experiment, but maybe I should restart it and just autodetect if I'm in a repository or not.
I do. My sister, however (not in tech), has a cardboard box with papers in it - and she is considered The Organized One by all her friends.
Two things stand out:

said about 150 employees had been fired while about 50
senior managers and executives had been retained.

If that is true, it says a lot about the internal culture.
And it ain't good.

April 22 deadline to repay a portion of a $193 million
low-interest loan from the United States Department of
Energy. Although Fisker was originally granted a $528.7
million loan in late 2009, that money was frozen after
Fisker fell short of its production targets.

Look, if the government loans you 1/2 billion of soft loans,
its really really important to cheat and lie about how those production targets are going.

Oh, and now that the US taxpayer has funded a 500m dollar investment into developing electric cars, European and Chinese manufacturers are sniffing around to pick it up at pennies on the dollar.

Come on guys! Pick free market or protectionism. And if you must mix the two, do it the right way round !
I remember even the copy protection puzzles of these games! This attention to detail and charm is hardly found anywhere today.
Things I won't work with: Chlorine Trifluoride: Some Empirical Findings
A $70 text editor with pretty effects.. perfect for an Apple user, I suppose. Meanwhile, there are plenty of free and open alternatives, such as Geany, which I much prefer.

Pay with contributions to the project and also gain a reward to yourself.
Why would Intel block my personal web site?
That's a good point. Someone could troll you by spending such an output in a "valid" transaction which you would treat as invalid, but who cares.
Where do you see that in the open source definition (http://opensource.org/osd)?
Absolutely. Anyway, if skeumorphism is bad, and the floppy icon is so unrecognisable as to be abstract (which appears to be the 'problem' these designers think needs solving), doesn't that mean the floppy icon is now good?
I think that is not a really fair comparison, Python with PyPy is pretty fast. Actually I would like to see a comparison for Python on PyPy vs JS in IonMonkey/V8.
There was just a higher incentive to optimize Javascript as it was pretty slow to begin with and was exposed to a lot more users (in the sense that it runs on clients rather than servers) than Python, Ruby and Perl

Edit:
First hit on Google shows that jited Python (PyPy) is very close to jited Javascript: http://blog.kgriffs.com/2012/10/23/python-vs-node-vs-pypy.ht...
This could be a potentially valuable resource but the definition of zombie seems to ignore that at least some of the investors on this list do more seed deals than anything else. It should filter for that appropriately.
Obviously if I want styles to vary by context of their container, I'll need to create those rules. The desire for and utility of being able to do that is not at all in question. I don't see how having such rules is in any way mutually exclusive with element queries.
I would'nt say 30 minutes but i would say they push a lot of updates. The only problem I have with that is that it's not always apparent what they're updating.
Indeed it does apply to gold and to currencies using the [Gold Standard](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard) which has caused problems in the past, which is why it isn't used anymore as a currency on any significant scale.
Personally, I love Quora of late. There is a huge audience there already (that are actually intelligent and I care about). There are tags for everything and comments and up/down votes, not to mention the real time aspect of everything.

So, if I want to write anything (thats not really technical), I'd probably use Quora at this point. Quora is all about content anyway, so your content a'int going anywhere. The ability to create new blog on Quora is pretty good too.

I feel bad about their aggressive user acquisition strategy needing everyone to sign up to even view the content and I wish they were much more open; but despite that, the platform, content there and the people there are too good for me to consider looking anywhere else for general writing.
Arrington's Ex-Girlfriend Claims He Physically Abused Her
Here's a link to the actual article, rather than a sleazy way to get you to pointlessly visit businessinssider.com:

http://gawker.com/5993695/techcrunch-founder-michael-arringt...

A quote from the article:

> When TechCrunch founder turned venture capitalist Mike Arrington was accused last week of rape and abuse by an ex-girlfriend, many in Silicon Valley were shocked, but not entirely surprised ...

"Accused" or "rape and abuse"? Where's the police report? Why is this not an official police investigation? If Arrington has not been charged with rape by the police, then he hasn't been "accused" either, at least not as that term is used by professional journalists.

Let the source for this claim go to the police and file a report. If she doesn't, then Arrington has the right to sue those who claim that an accusation has been made. The reason? Until the claim is made before a judge, it's not an accusation, it's hearsay.

On further research, it turns out the "rape" claim was made in a public forum by someone posting under a pseudonym and who certainly has no intention of going to the police. This is unbelievably irresponsible.

Want to see this sort of crime prosecuted? Go to the police. If you don't, you're only adding to the perception that women lie about sex crimes. And they do -- FBI Labs reports that between 20% and 40% of sex crime reports are simply false:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194032,00.html

(the linked article was written by Wendy McElroy, editor of ifeminists.com)
They're probably fall-dampening cables with very light tension. These types of cables are like rate limiters for falling objects. It would prevent it from slamming down on the floor if balance was lost, but the tension is very light; just enough to take up slack. Because they're positioned only to the sides and the rear, their greatest effect would actually be to make balance more difficult for a bipedal robot.
Publishing frontiers: The library reboot
It might be via BI because Gawker links get [dead]ed. (Note I did not submit this item.)
"USCIS has also received more than 20,000 H-1B petitions filed on behalf of persons exempt from the cap under the advanced degree exemption." So, advanced degree 20k cap is filled. The other way it via lottery.
Someone tried to make an effort.

The load icon's arrow is bright green, while the save icon's arrow is teal. Which is downright impossible to see at 1440x900.

...I think the idea might have been better than the implementation.
#NeedImmigrationReform
Nobody tells me that I need to win a lottery to just work...
What's so bad about a floppy disk icon? Even if the kids today don't know what that is, they still know the icon means save. We recognize a pawnbroker's symbol or a barber pole without knowing where they came from.
People aren't okay with depression. They don't care about depression because it doesn't affect them directly, but it still carries a stigma.

Try having a casual office conversation about how you were sick last week. Compare the tenor of the conversation when the sickness is 'the flu' versus 'depressive episode'.

Every mental illness is stigmatised, it's just that some are more stigmatised than others because they're 'louder'. Part of this is due to mental illness being really hard to understand if you've never been exposed to it (as a sufferer or a loved one of a sufferer).
Please stop submitting this and links like it - all it is is a link to the Adrian Chen Gawker article. When you find something of more substance, rather than a gossipy tabloid rag, then we may be more inclined to discuss it. There's a reason Gawker submissions are autodeleted.
Can they do better? If so, why aren't they, and how do they propose to do so? Nice to see they realize that everyone hates them... Now if only they'd provide something other than useless rhetorical spin. Good example of how NOT to run a company.
On Apple, isn't a major limitation of iOS? OR is there a mechanism to utilize push better?
Who's Afraid of Michael Arrington?
Meanwhile, Obama gives citizenship to illegal immigrants.
Grim Fandango is at the top of my short list of games I replay once a year, at least. Followed closely by Mega Man 2 and Wind Waker.

There aren't any surprises to it, just a good story, style, music, and humor. Some people like to watch certain movies over and over. I like going back to Rubacava and feeling like an ace detective when I remember Tuesday is Kitty Hat Day.
Yes, I completely agree. Having the icon be a floppy disk is only weird during this transitional period when there are software users that regularly used floppy disks and now recognize them as antiquated. Most of the youngest generation of current computer users have probably never seen a floppy disk, so for them, that symbol (like the phone) just means "save," rather than being a representation of an actual thing. Eventually it will probably become more stylized and less recognizable, as people forget what it originally meant.
Great point about the value of the social validation from high-profile media coverage! That's usually more important than the minimal traffic it drives.
They could've "done better" by actually saying what they will do to improve things. This was an absolutely atrocious PR piece. It didn't address any of the issues people were having.

"45 million registered users are proving them wrong."

Such a goofy and useless statistic. When you require registration for your products, that doesn't mean people are satisfied users of your service, it means you got a lot of people to sign up. It's not an accurate metric for how many people actually enjoy and use the service.

Continuing...

"Some people think that free-to-play games and micro-transactions are a pox on gaming. Tens of millions more are playing and loving those games."

Again: just because you have a bunch of people willing to pay you money for your crap, doesn't mean it isn't crap and you couldn't be doing better.

This sort of defense mechanism doesn't even address the problems people are having. It's almost insulting to everyone who does, legitimately, have a gripe with EA as a company. Those folks angry with EA's principles, games, or for simply not getting the value of what they paid are being cast aside.

It's extremely obvious they're less concerned with addressing issues and more concerned with telling everyone about how many users they have or what their sales are:

"But here’s the truth: each year EA interacts with more than 350 million gamers; Origin is breaking records for revenue and users; The Simpsons: Tapped Out and Real Racing 3 are at the top of the mobile charts; Battlefield 3 and FIFA are stunning achievements with tens of millions of players; and SimCity is being enjoyed by millions of passionate fans all over the world."

It seems possible to paraphrase the entirety of this press release: "We recognize a lot of people hate us, but hey, we've got a lot of other people paying us who aren't you, so we can't be that wrong, can we?"
If government really wanted to fix this, they would give priority to international students graduating from universities in US first, then allocate any remaining H1-Bs for consultancy agencies from India and elsewhere.
Exactly, I never understood Obama's stance on Immigration. He comes to SV and promises us that he will fix High Tech Immigration Problem but in actuality he does little. His policy instead focusses more on Illegal Immigration. This is where I prefer Republican party's agenda.
> This is the same poll that last year judged us as worse than companies responsible for the biggest oil spill in history, the mortgage crisis, and bank bailouts that cost millions of taxpayer dollars.

Thing is, customers don't have a love-affair with the products of those other companies. We do with EA's products at their best. A great game is a treasure, personal, forming great experiences and memories in almost the same way a child or puppy does.

So when a game maker fails so epically, betrays their customers so thoroughly and completely, it tends to spark a serious reaction. A reaction more akin to a friend betraying you and selling you out.

As for oil spills: I can envision how that might happen through mere incompetence and laziness. I have more trouble envisioning how EA can do what they've been doing through mere incompetence; it's far more baffling than that.
I don't even know why people are having this conversation. Most of those guys from Lucasarts' golden age left to form a studio called Double Fine.
Worry less about beating the author and more about editing your top-level comment to be correct. Guvante is right.