skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When people use the term "mob justice" they are usually referring to something less benign than the public collaborating online to provide the FBI with the tips they're asked the public for.

We're using the term advisedly. It's the interpretation of events that there seems to be some disagreement about.

> Anyone finding themselves in the spotlight unexpectedly is going to be stressed. He's doing the right thing by going to the authorities. His name will then likely be quickly cleared.

You completely ignored the question, and it's an important one. Do you really, sincerely not understand how being fingered as a suspect in a very public way, in America, in 2013, in a terrorist bombing case, will cause a dark-skinned guy with a foreign name to experience well-founded and reasonable fear for his safety and the safety of his family?

I don't know how much further I can unpack this for you. "The subreddit" (whatever the hell that means) engaged in a small - perhaps accidental, in the way a lot of what a mob does is accidental - act of terror in a time of terror. Good job with that. It would be nice if they actually acknowledged it, but I expect they'll soon just move on to putting words over pictures of cats.
Technical people and people who need to get things done love working with the guy. Everyone else, not that big a fan.
Angelhack, the largest hackathon in the world
AngelHack organizes hackathon competitions for web developers and entrepreneurs, called AngelHacks, where they can learn developer tools, meet new friends, and receive funding and mentorship for their startup ideas. In 2013, AngelHack will organize 100 hackathons, bringing together 10,000+ developers in 50+ cities. Winners from every city are put through the AngelHack Accelerator Program, where we mentor them for 12 weeks before bringing them out to Silicon Valley to raise investment and introduce them to incubators.

Previous winners have gone on to attend Y-Combinator, AngelPad, TechStars, 500 Startups, and incubators around the world
Exactly.

Worse still, it justifies terrorism too.

A terrorist will argue that sacrifice is worth it to achieve their goals, which they see as justice in their terms.

We have to be better than that, or there is literally no point bothering. We just do their work for them. People say Islamic terrorists hate American freedoms. So how come Americans give them up so easily citing the likes of Islamic terrorism? It just goes round and round, bomb, less freedom, bomb, less freedom, until you have less freedom than they have.

Madness. Some one had to stop the spiral.
Body language experts are trained to look for groups of behaviors. Often, certain behaviors such as crossed arms could just mean the subject is cold. It is also hard to judge someone's body language after you have just met them; it is much better to compare their behavior to the "baseline" of their normal behavior. That is because certain behaviors are not innate but learned unconsciously from parents, relatives, close friends, and is also dependent upon regional culture. If you want to learn about body language, you should spend a lot of time practicing watching several different people and finding groups of behaviors that signal their respective moods before you start to start to make inferences with confidence. It is helpful to watch people from different cultures or different classes so that you may see how much variation there is. Otherwise, decisions made with little knowledge and practice is actually harmful because your inferences will likely be wrong. "You should never cross your arms again" may be good advice, but only because you can then guard yourself from people that overestimate their powers of observation.
Comments like this one [1] in this thread [2] didn't just appear out of nowhere. There was plenty of wild speculation (the worst of which has since been edited or deleted) in that thread in the hours following the event.

This widely circulated spreadsheet [3] contains a "suspect summary", not a list of "somewhat interesting people".

1: http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1cf5wp/2013_boston_m...

2: http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1cf5wp/2013_boston_m...

3: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AgtCl8YvqiBodEl0...
What is an IIS and why should I care? :-)
Agreed. I was thinking it was under graphs until I saw the image.
I use:

map <leader>e :e <C-r>=expand("%:p:h") . "/" <cr>

you can make one that splits:

map <leader>v :vs <C-r>=expand("%:p:h") . "/" <cr>
FBI Releases Images of Boston Bomb Suspects
Yeah I was thinking of doing a SaaS based play where there will be some monthly recurring revenue from the hosting and providing CMS-like features for them to update their content.
Ask HN: need recommendation on payment solution / gateway
Just curious, other than Paypal as a payment gateway for your web startup, do you have any other preference for web startup to start their business?

I think Square only do physical credit card processing.

Thanks in advance.
Their site is absolutely hammered right now. The live video feed here (http://live.reuters.com/Event/Boston_Marathon_Explosion?live) has details. They have video of 2 suspects, one of which set down an "unusually heavy" backpack.
In 30 years, it'll be interesting to read the studies of how our capacity to give convicts a new chance has increased or decreased. Before Google, we gave people second chances because we didn't know any better. Now that it's ubiquitous, it seems almost necessary for us to recalibrate what it means for someone to have paid their debt to society.
When I saw the word "than" used in place of "then," my estimation of the author plummeted, even though I agree with most of the article.
App Tips from a Three-Time ChallengePost Winner
I think this would definitely help in some situations. I don't think it would make sense to set up a hard limit though.

Imagine that once the user starts the game for the first time, they are asked if the app should track how much they spent on in-app purchases and let them know if they are at that limit.

If they are about to make another purchase and it will go over the limit, the user is shown a message with the total amount spent so far and that this purchase will push them over the limit.

This would stop the "trigger finger" effect. It would cause the person to break from the heat of the moment with the game and instead of making the question one of - "I want to buy this so I can get ahead in the game.", it becomes - "I already spent X amount on this game, do I want to spend another xx amount.".

I think if someone has a lack of self control, there isn't too much that can be done from blowing a lot of money in this in-app purchases. But I do believe that for the average person, having that second level of intervention (ie. the message with how much they have spent) provides enough pause to really decide if they want to make the purchase.

Does this make good business sense to add this feature? As a game developer, likely not. I don't know how this would benefit a game developer aside from "doing the right thing".
I agree. Although, it looks like they're going for something bigger here. My guess is that there will be a number of changes to both the navigation and the layout of the page.
The problem here is that the most reliable delivery channel (email) is not sufficiently secure enough for a lot of situations. Worse, some users share email accounts, so you can't even depend on the auth of the account. If an app or service has to achieve a certain level of security, it can't rely on email as a direct message channel - it can only really use it for notifications that a message is available.

Contrast that with Android apps, where the app can show a notification at the system level but then handle (or retain) the service-specific login (and/or respect its rules about timing out the login.)
There you go: https://github.com/hcarvalhoalves/python-package-template
Somehow there's always someone complaining about a "generalization", isn't there?

Here's what I said:

>> Every government is corrupt, because the very arrangement of government itself leads to corruption.

In this statement, "every government is corrupt" is a description of the state of affairs that the arrangement of government leads to. This does not contradict the idea of a government possibly not being corrupt at its inception - the point was that a government is a flawed institution right from the start.

Bear in mind, a government is a group of people that:

- Wields power over millions of people, and decides everything for them, even though their one-size-fits-all -solutions are practically guaranteed to not fit all.

- Forcefully extracts money from millions of people, and then uses it as they see fit.

- Is not responsible for their actions to anyone. In other words, no matter what they do, they won't suffer any negative consequences. Sure, someone may not get re-elected, but that doesn't really matter, and they'll still enjoy a fat pension (of other people's money) and so on.
I like the design, but I think it could do with three improvements;

1) Allow for greater time ranges than 1 Month, as some of the projects I work on only have a couple of commits a month.

2) Allow us to change the bar graph to show other things, as well as commits per user.

3) A more important "pulse" would be time from open of a commit, to close. Rather than just the number opened / closed.
Obama himself probably doesn't know nearly enough about technology to make these sorts of decisions on his own. The difference between him and all the politicians who appear not to know anything about technology is that Obama hired a competent tech team and actually listens to them.
Try Venmo?
Salah was wearing a bright tracksuit that stuck out, and I think he's got a pretty memorable face -- I would bet a good amount that when a day or two passes by, what people will remember would be that he was one of the suspects. The association in their minds has already been made. And, there's a non-zero chance at that point that someone will misread the post, or recall it inaccurately, there's a chance that someone might attack him in an attempt to catch him or something. Public, vigilante justice is bad, full stop.

I've (reluctantly) edited the comment.
I've done about $120,000 of business through Dwolla with multiple parties and I've not had or heard of any bad experiences whatsoever.
The veto threat is more than just a simple threat to veto, it's a tactic to make the executive opinion obvious and to try and influence lawmakers to change a bill before delivering it.

They obviously don't have to listen.
In the Netherlands you could sue anyone publishing your face without your permission. There are exemptions for media in some cases, but suspects like here still have to get at least a black bar so that they're not easily recognizable. Doesn't America have similar laws?
Wow, elegant. Thank you!
Good point. For example, I tend to lean forward (with forearms on the table) out of respect. It shows I'm interested but I can see how it could be misconstrued as a nervousness, or 'low-power'.
My understanding is that Dwolla is trying a fairly unusual approach to handling fraud, which is that they pay out of their own pockets for fraud (instead of kicking it down the line as all other financial institutions do) but this requires that they actually prevent fraud, not just identify it after the fact. And the cost of really stopping fraud turns out to be something that many people do not feel comfortable paying when they're personally confronted with it.
Is there anyway to download the entire collection as a pdf?
Clowns implies that they screwed something up or did something wrong - from his story, he signed up and moved 5 figures of cash immediately (which is either exactly the limit of a business account or over it, see https://www.dwolla.com/about ) if I were in the payments business (and I was previously) this would have been a fraud red flag.

This is something that happened today (April 18th) - this is not five days of waiting around for money to free up. This is a gripe because the author triggered ever fraud alarm in the book and they have not responded fast enough.

I'd lean towards the "give them a little bit a of break" - yes it sucks he had to provide additional documentation and they haven't sorted it out yet, but no business could allow anonymous folks on the web to sign up and move 5 figures of cash providing only publicly available information as documentation.
If the cautious stay silent for fear of the careless, then they cede a monopoly on speech to the careless. Aka, the remedy for bad discussion is more discussion, not less.

Some may argue against this. Some may use the internet to claim that internet discussions are harmful, but not without a certain degree of inconsistency between their words and their actions.

A natural response might be, "Yes, but I'm RIGHT, of course I should speak..." but the trouble is, no one knows whether they're right or not without submitting their ideas to the crowd for a full and proper vetting.
Google did not seem to think they could make enough money from it to make it worthwhile to them∗
I'll attempt to compress everything into one file after he finishes up.
I opened an account about a year ago and did nothing with it. I had my account suspended about a week ago, after not really touching it that whole year. When I asked Dwolla about it, they couldn't tell me why it had been suspended, so I just closed the account. Very unprofessional, all around, I was very glad I never attached any real accounts to it.
An NDAA passes regularly to fund the armed forces, including benefits for veterans etc. Every President in recent memory signed a bunch of them. That's not comparable to CISPA
I hope so. Just look at how many toolbars/buttons there are on any given repository page: https://github.com/django/django

In my opinion, they need to simplify their layout
Historically the Republican party has been libertarianish, at least in the sense that the guiding principles were minimizing the size and reach of government, keeping the government out of people's lives, and legislating at the most local levels possible (don't make a state law if a local law will do, and don't make a federal law if a state law will do).

This changed in the '60s- Democratic support for the civil rights movement caused a massive shift in the south, in which a huge number of voters (evangelical, socially conservative voters who had supported the Democrats since the end of the Civil War) switched allegiances from Democrats to Republicans. That period also saw the rise of Barry Goldwater, who also wasn't a traditional Republican- he was more of a demagogue who engaged in a lot of flag waving and and emotional oratory to get people riled up.

Ever since then there's been a cognitive dissonance within the GOP- the old-school libertarianesque beliefs wedded to the social conservatives and demagogues of the Religious Right (who aren't traditionally right-wing (or left-wing) at all, they've just latched on to the Republican party as being more amenable to being bent to their will).

This cognitive dissonance has reached epic proportions in the last 10 years, in some cases leading to polarization in the party (fiscal conservative/social liberals vs. those who are completely driven by religion and social conservatism). In other cases it leads to politicians who somehow try to appeal to both the libertarians and the Religious Right (Ron Paul being a prime example), and I just don't know what to make of that. The views of the world embodied by those two groups could not be more different, and seems impossible to reconcile in any intellectually honest way.
Valve doesn't have a CEO. It's an undifferentiated mass of people, at least as far as power structure goes -- sort of like a slime mold. I think that's a lot different than having a CEO who prides himself on being an inspirer instead of a controller (if I'm reading the article correctly). In other words, it sounds like he is a constitutional monarch. (Of course, that bursts the whole "American miracle" thing about him being like the president.)
Whatever your views are on gun control, it's hard to see yesterday's events as anything but an example of an entrenched political interest using its power (money, exclusive relationships, incumbency) to maintain the status quo...

Nonsense. Yesterday was how things are supposed to work, when a small minority cares passionately about an issue in the face of a lukewarm majority.

The politicians involved realized that this was a 'time to organize to throw the bum out' voting issue for the portion of the population against it, while the larger portion of the population that was tepidly for it will end up basing their votes on other issues. They therefore made the correct call.
re #1: https://github.com/rails/rails/pulse/yearly (yearly works, it's just not present in the menu)
Obama disagrees with some details of the bill, not with the broad outlines. He wants the bill to pass, but he wants some also wants some changes made. He's using (threat of) veto power as leverage to get those changes made. A veto would be a blunt and somewhat counter-productive response, but veto power is the main piece of leverage that comes with the office.

So yeah, he actually likes the bill and the likelihood is that he will sign it or some form of it. The veto threat is just part of the dance.
FBI needs you help. Do you know these individuals?
I've been closely watching this subreddit from the beginning, and have not seen anything of non-negligible prominence (including the comments you link to) accusing anyone of anything other than being worthy of a closer look.

The spreadsheet has 10+ people on it. You'd have to be willfully misinterpreting it to an absurd degree to conclude that reddit thought they all were simultaneously guilty.
Mozilla Labs' Hatchery
These reports of what went on are almost as confused as speculation about what happened in the bombing.

I watched this going on all day yesterday. Certainly, there were many counterarguments and so on, but frankly the Reddit thread was a confused mess, with the same stuff getting posted over and over again, no coherent plan on organizing files by resolution or time, and no schema for IDing people, leading to multiple subthreads like 'I think this guy looks super-fishy' 'Which guy there's 100 people in that photo, who do you mean?' 'In the middle, on the left, once you've seen him you can't un-see him.' I don't think the Reddit community or subreddit moderators were at fault, but their search were nowhere near as well organized as you suggest.

What happened in the case of the runner kids is that another forum, AR15.com (dedicated to gun enthusiasts, as you might guess) pretty much decided that these two guys were guilty (based largely on the early photo speculations showing backpacks looking large enough to hold a pressure cooker). then one of the members decided to post on the Facebook page of the teenager in the blue tracksuit, which was then noticed by a Reddit user who was also watching the AR15.com thread (not me).

The teen saw the post on his Facebook page, stated that he had nothing to do with it and immediately contacted law enforcement; At this point the subReddit moderator went through and cleaned up the old threads and so forth. IIRC the 'non-suspect' went to a court building or a police station (wherever the investigation HQ is) straight away, and later returned to post an update on his FB page. The ar15.com folks meanwhile ostracized the person who had posted the link on the FB page and convinced themselves that they're all targets now (that community is heavily invested in the idea that it should be Muslim terrorists, presumably because they're feeling sensitive over the gun control issue).

I don't mean this as a criticism of the Reddit folks, who were doing their best. I'm posting this more to observe that social media in general does not do that great of job at this kind of thing. EDIT: I think social media and crowds can do a great job of that, but it needs pretty strict.active moderation and a gameplan at the outset. That proceduralism slows down people who want to dive right in and help straight away, but it also helps to eliminate false positives.
Taking Apple Private: Makes Sense but Nobody Has the Money
For me, the HN part of the story is that the FBI servers are having trouble keeping up with the traffic to their site.

Edit: Here's one of the responses I got while trying to load the FBI website

ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved

While trying to retrieve the requested URL the following error was encountered:

Zero Sized Reply

Footprint did not receive any data for this request.
Footprint 4.8/FPMCP
Generated Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:42:44 GMT by 8.12.217.126 (Footprint 4.8/FPMCP)
Wow, amazing! Here's the youtube version without the audio sync issues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks-_Mh1QhMc
Acrylics don't cause itching (unless you let them get filthy, at which point the filth may cause itching) and can be cleansed of the latest plague the kids brings home from school/day care. Wool, not so much. And it sure sounds like the value of the gift is in the work rather than the materials to me.
There's more. Oh my yes. I just stuck the converted PDFs in a zip file because Scribd is a pain. Why were we using Scribd anyway? No matter, here's a zip. http://cl.ly/OOCV
> I'd love to learn how to better communicate in writing on-line

Replying to people instead of editing your post helps.
I understand where you are coming from.

A bit of my background - I referee futbol (or as we call it, soccer). Every game, I try to give my best performance to the players. Sometimes, I make bad calls. The score is still the score.

Obviously, you're pretty damn good. Your competitors deserve to compete against you. Cheating is unfair. Mistakes aren't. Play long enough and it all evens out. At least statistically.

Good luck.
Surveillance video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M80DXI932OE

This is from the FBI Youtube account and it's linked to on FBI.gov.

Guy in the white cap is the one who they say placed the bomb.
Lots of people on Reddit were casually referring to people as suspects, notwithstanding the subreddit guidelines.
The second bomb. The first bomb is unknown, and they haven't stated why Suspect #1 is of interest
The only place sending an email to notify someone of a message is a Good Thing(TM) is in highly sensitive or security conscious environments like medicine, law, finance and the like. Where the sender must be certain that the message is received in a secure manner, ie. over https.
FYI, those sound like credit check questions. They probably did some sort of credit pull.

(They know the answers to these because the credit reporting agencies know how much the house cost, where it was located, what previous address(es) you've had on your credit accounts (including credit cards), etc.)
By that logic, any emerging industry has this Ponzi-like characteristics. Early players will always have a large share, almost by definition.

A more defining characteristic of a Ponzi scheme is that the early player's dividends are actually paid from the principal of late-comers. Which only works until you have a steady stream of new investors. As far as I understand Bitcoin, this is not the case there. It just gets harder and harder to "mine" new coins.
People who you think are about to get funded, or have JUST (like in the last 1-2 months) taken on a series A round.

Edit: My reasoning for saying this is that these are the companies where great positions will be opening up and created very shortly. Also given that they've taken on funding, or are about to close, they've been put through their paces by the VC's, so you can have some confidence that they know what they're doing (This is also why i said Series A, not seed...seed is a real gamble)
Can you point me to docs on in file searching? Those symbols are predictably hard to google. Based on a little messing around, it appears that * is what I expect from bash, and can also include directory separators.