skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You really hit the nail on the head and i agree 100% with this line " This isn't all the peak of innovation, many times it's just people working on a CRUD site trying to "disrupt big industry player x" until they run out of money and then resort to the same cheap tactics as everyone else." I have to ask myself is it worth it to start a web or mobile phone startup right now or wait a few yrs. The reason why i am thinking along these lines, is because it is so hard to find product differentiation in this climate with everyone running lean and trampling all over each other.

An example, i clicked on the above link and assumed i was on the website Medium, but then i saw that he was the creator of svbtle, so i decide to check it out, assuming it might be a fashion site, then i realized that svbtle is the site i was on. It seems like the only place seeing any real product differentiation and innovation is the hardware space right now.
If the part about the good grades and perfect record are true: Why would a student in good standing do something like that maliciously? It doesn't fit the "profile" of a good student.
Another source: http://www.wtsp.com/news/topstories/article/312750/250/Stude...

According to this report, she brought the bottles of chemicals from home to the school at 7AM (likely before first classes), where she mixed them and caused the explosion. Not quite the same as mixing the wrong vials in chem lab without permission.
"Nothing to back it up"?

You've considered only the single-use nature of the 20 byte attack, without realizing that that can be done over, and over, and over again.

As moxie pointed out elsewhere in these comments, Travis Goodspeed and Dan Kaminksy embedded a eulogy to the Len Sassaman in the blockchain. See http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=BUB3dygQ .

But no need to read the other comments, since the author wrote "Some folks have exploited that feature/flaw to publish Wikileaks cables." Information about that publication is in the immediately previous article: "That publishing capability was put into use a couple of days ago when someone publish 2.5 MB of Wikileaks cables in the bitcoin blockchain. It cost a bit of money (about $500) to accomplish that, but the information that was published is now going to be public forever."

A search finds someone who wrote "The wikileaks data starts at transaction 5c593b7b71063a01f4128c98e36fb407b00a87454e67b39ad5f8820ebc1b2ad5".

Therefore, I find your claim that there is "nothing to back it up" untenable.
Presumably they have more than one of the same class of ship, which (further presumably) has the same emergency start tanks (and air pumps + power to refill them for additional tries).

Could be a loooong wait, though. I guess that's why they have two.
so s/always/often/ the fact remains that the first step is often the most difficult.

It's a pattern - applicable to any "analysis paralysis" scenario - break the ice by suggesting a lowest-common-denominator (bad) suggestion, and let others be the "winners" by suggesting "acceptable" choices.

By suggesting the unseemly, you actually end up doing the graceful thing.
I get the point of view. I disagree with it, but even more, I find it jarring to apply a faith-based approach to thinking about these things in lieu of a critical assessment one. As if it were sufficient to cut through all the tangle and uncertainty with, like, "Daniel 11:3 'And a great king shall stand up ...'" and think that was case and point.

What's more, it's hardly clear that you've got this proverb the right way around: It seems as likely that corrupt legislators create regulation to enrich them and their kind, as opposed to well-intentioned regulation leading to the corruption of legislators. I've cut out the middle - corrupt legislators creating corrupt legislation - which is what we actually have and also the sort of murk that doesn't lend itself to witticism.
This is the kind of stuff that until now, only major intelligence agencies could do with very expensive surveillance equipment.

'Major intelligence agency' is apparently now code for 'anyone with a few hundred dollars and an Internet connection'. Google did not invent the concealed camera!
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I was only half serious with that remark (hence the smilie). It was not intended to be an Ad Hominem attack to weaken wtvanhest's argument (though it could have that effect -- thanks for pointing that out). I am aware that "I could care less" is a wide-spread US idiom and understand the intended meaning it conveys; but it still makes me cringe whenever I see it.
And yet if the outing is good, the "worst idea guy" is always invited. Results matter.
It's probably worth noting, as someone who lives in Miami, that the New Times is considered closer to a tabloid than a reputable journal. I can't speak for this particular article, but I would not be surprised if there were editorializing substantially.
"don't aspire to be JFK on your first shot."

Thats interesting. Public speaking advice from politicians would be awesome. They have to deliver moving speeches and be able to respond intelligently on the spot to questions they haven't heard before. I'm sure they would have a lot of great advice on how to deal with stage fright and think clearly in those situations.
So... what were the chemicals involved? Article is very vague.

Some stuff is obviously more dangerous than others.
At Thumbtack we use Github for our source control, but not our code review. We use rietveld -- https://code.google.com/p/rietveld/, which is an open source code review tool made to be similar to Google's internal code review tool, Mondrain.

It has a much better view of the diff, incorporating much more context and a side-by-side view (here is a example change I just randomly pulled from rietveld's internal rietveld: https://codereview.appspot.com/8726052/diff/1/pom.xml). It also has the ability to group multiple in-line comments together in chunks, so it is apparent to coworkers when one round of the code review is done and they should work on it and get it back to you. It also has tons of other great features (email integration, keyboard shortcuts for moving around the code, etc etc).

Of course, you can only use this if you control a project, and you will have to do a little integration work, but if code review is an important part of your team's workflow, I highly recommend the investment.
Interesting site, but the process is more complex than I think it needs to be. Try instant-runoff voting[1], Australia already switched to it: http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/the-alternative-vote-explained.h...

Of course, this assumes that people know how to vote for the parties best for them. Which comes down to quality education and good news sources. You’d have to ban paid political ads, SuperPACs, lobbyists.

Then there’s the matter of voting fraud. Voting computers shouldn’t be used at all, all voting should be done on paper and the ballot design should be standardized. Voter registration should be done away with. On election day, all public transport should be free and workers should get at least one hour paid leave to go out and vote.

(None of these things are going to happen anytime soon, but I think they would help.)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
>Edit: I suspect she stole the chemicals and/or this was a repeat offense.

There are no grounds to suspect such, the article says "Kiera Wilmot got good grades and had a perfect behavior record.". It's more reasonable to assume that this reaction is a result of the increased fear that recent bombings and school shootings have brought about.
In answering this I will ignore details specific to the two tools (such as how the implementations are modified), the merits of either, how they are used, and only compare their design goals.

It is true that both tools are mutable and that hypothetically their potential use cases will overlap entirely.

The reason this will not occur though is a consequence of one tool aiming to provide a general environment by design and the other tool aiming to provide a general environment for a specific use.

Less abstractly, consider the difference between having a factory which produces a specific item and having a factory which can produce any factory.

Possibly the specific item the factory produces is sufficient for the recipients of the specific item, and further that specific item may even make other items the recipient possessed moot.

However, the factory which can produce any factory can still (and possibly already has done so) produce the specific item.

Emacs' design (and Light Table's) is much more similar in breadth to the factory which produces other factories.

Sublime Text is more similar in scope to a factory which produces a single item.

The difference in design choice leads to Sublime Text and other text editors being comparable in features and it is also why Sublime Text can replace Emacs' text editing functions.

At the same time the design choice also leads to Emacs being a RSS client but Sublime Text not also having that functionality (or being reasonable to expect), despite the potential for the functionality to exist in both tools.

The difference between the two goals is why Light Table is much more intriguing to me than Sublime Text is despite the utility Sublime Text provides and how well executed Sublime Text is.
I wonder how honest Dustin was to Ben and Dom. It's entirely possible that his negative feelings about each product helped drive it further. Sometimes criticism is more important than praise. I would rather someone call my product stupid - and point out why - than to just say, "Yea, it's okay I guess."

To Ben and Dom's credit, I have a feeling both saw Dustin's apathy, read it correctly as apathy, and used that to either strengthen their products, or their story, or both.
PCH is the global leader for supply chain management and manufacturing (they make some of the most popular products we all use today) and they also have a new accelerator program launching this summer.

But accelerators are generally reserved for people with little to no experience in the craft, bare-bones resources and simply just ideas... They help a lot and bring great resources (connections, labs, some get little funding) but I've personally never been a big accelerator supporter... Except YC, which seems to have a 90%+ funding rate once you pass... But this is a subjective position here.
You're confusing "for-profit" and "publicly traded". It's commonly held that publicly traded companies should be maximizing shareholder value (which is not necessarily the same as profit), because that's the purpose of publicly traded corporations.

There are also various protections for minority shareholders in privately held companies to prevent majority shareholders from screwing them over.

And there are various rules about how the company's officers need to pay attention to the shareholders.

In this case, there is precisely one shareholder: the Mozilla Foundation. So the various minority-shareholder protection stuff does not apply, but the officers of the Mozilla Corporation do need to pay attention to what the Foundation wants the Corporation to do. And what the sole shareholder wants the Corporation to do in this case is decidedly not to maximize profit.
She will be tried as an adult? That's ridiculous, even if she was being intentionally malicious (Which I don't really believe). How do they determine whether to try kids as adults in america?
I read this, and if this story is anywhere near accurate, I can only wonder what the hell is wrong with adults today.

What is wrong with administrators, and what is wrong with prosecutors?

And where are the lawyers working pro-bono to defend her? And where are the other parents in the school to demand the school do the right thing?

I am appalled and saddened by the crap we force today's youths and young adults to put up with.

Zero tolerance has to go.
No one needs 20,000 pills
If you're interesting in an alternative, I highly recommend Phabricator [0], a fantastic suite of tools that came out of Facebook. It has all sorts of random modules (memegen equivalents, etc.) but it has a really great feature tracker and a really great code review tool. Addressing your particular issue, it also shows the output of git diff, but includes buttons for '20 more lines of context' at the top and bottom of the diff [1].

Also, Evan Priestly (the lead contributor) responds immediately to any sort of issue and the source is readable. My workplace hosts our own, but I think there may be a hosted version available, too.

[0] http://phabricator.org/
[1] http://imgur.com/BK55AKF
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Expulsion? Seriously? I am grasping at straws here but since it's Florida is it possible she is "the wrong color" ? Would another kid just get a suspension at best? Horrible to be thinking that way.

Did she have prior issues? If there were prior issues with warnings/suspensions, yeah I could see expulsion. If first time ever in trouble, there is something else going on here. perfect behavior record seems to suggest no priors.

added: apparently this is an institutionalized system she was just shoved into, please read the link in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5636788
Someone pointed out that Bitbucket actually already has my "click '...' to expand" idea. Might be nicer with an animation, or if they started loading the AJAX request upon hover instead of click since it takes a while, but overall works well.
The article's header says "Obama to Name Wheeler to Head FCC", but the HTML title attribute says "Obama to Name Wheeler, a Former Lobbyist, to Head FCC".
This is kind of like saying "We don't need PNG/JPEG/ETC, we just need to put image data in an XML file! It can do everything! Standardization at last!"

Which is true. Except for that little "implementation" detail.

I like the idea of using SQLite as a complex-data-in-single-file format. Hadn't really thought of that for cases like this. But it does nothing to solve the problem of standardization.
There's a whole lot of ignorance going on in there.
Zero tolerance rules: most schools have had them for a long time now. Anything that explodes is a weapon, and weapons on school grounds are an automatic expulsion.
Expulsion is nothing compared to a felony charge.
Such idle distractions are quite popular world wide. It's definitely not limited to western nations.

http://thesocialskinny.com/100-more-social-media-statistics-...
Ok, what she did was something stupid, but remember, how many times good scientists have failed like this, this is actually thinking out of the box, no one was in the vicinity, she was clearly not using this to hurt anyone, the intention was clear here, a OUT-OF-BOX experiment, she was sure no one would give her the go, since it might have been as per her judgement, on the line of safety. So what? if it went bad? If it had went good, you all be calling her a genius or something! Expulsion from the school? This is ridiculous! At max suspend her for a week, so she thinks it through, her parents should sue this school, if nothing, for causing a good kid such trauma, a good student gets devastated by a expulsion, cause it sticks, on her hard work.

No wonder we asians are talking up the good jobs in America, if this is the policy for such out-of-box thinking.

If I had done that, ten people would have asked my well being here in India, and at max, I would have had to pay the cost of destruction, and later, me and my friends would laugh it off, since its pretty badass.. blown up the roof pfft!
It says she brought A bottle and then mixed the ingredients. God knows what actually happened, but the journalist certainly isn't giving an accurate depiction.
You actually followed a quora link? You have a higher tolerance before being annoyed than I do.

For more detailed considerations, read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_mountains#Consi...
Perhaps we can lay that and any similar suspicions to rest:

http://www.9news.com/news/article/332375/188/Teen-arrested-e...

"She is a good kid," said principal Ron Pritchard. "She has never been in trouble before. Ever."
If the statistics are to be believed race and gender and age, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_as_an_adult#Demographics
> people are inspired to come up with good ideas to ward off bad ones.

Interesting theory, but I think something else is happening here.

If you have a bunch of people trying to solve a problem, the game is implicitly defined as "propose the best solution." After the first proposal, the game changes to "improve on the best solution so far."

This is something to keep in mind during interviews [1] for people on both sides of the table. If a candidate is silent for too long, propose a bad idea and ask them to improve on it. That gets them talking out loud, and you get more info to go on. If you're a candidate, you can start with a bad (yet probably obvious) solution and explain why it's bad. In the process of talking it through, you'll likely think of a better solution.

[1] The algorithm/coding one-big-question-over-45-minutes style of interviews commonly conducted by large software companies.
They call it network effects: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect

Notoriously difficult to dethrone. Craigslist being such a piece of crap for so long is an object lesson in the power of network effects.
So if a kid put a mentos in his soda at lunch, that's an expulsion?
How do i delete my account? I created one to check it out, but didnt realise i would not be able to hide my name or email address...
Great game, I had a lot of fun, I just passed by:

---spoiler alert---

- make the doctor, psy do some basic work, and when the engineer is close to finish the radio, kill them all(get extra meal).

- survive w/ the soldier until the end.
Actually, Toulousse, is where I want to go..
Oh hey, it does. Apologies. (Viewing title tags is inconvenient on a phone.)
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Possibly, if any kind of administrator dares call it an explosion. I'm not in favor of zero-tolerance policies either, just acknowledging how common they've become. Packing a metal butter knife in a lunch box can lead to expulsion these days (it's happened several times, and made the news each time).
This seems like a textbook case of why zero-tolerance rules are terrible.
Yeah, maybe this is going to far, but you're an ass. The article specifically mentions, in the first goddamn sentence, that she has good grades and a perfect record. My guess is that you think she is a thief and a repeat offender based on prejudice due to her race.
Even if the girl practiced poor judgement, it's obvious she was not malicious. it's remarkable how the US has become completely intolerant to people making mistakes.

So according to the article we have a girl with good grades and behavior doing something stupid which did not cause any damage or hurt anyone. Her punishment for this is expulsion and trial as adult?
on a totally off-topic note the next paragraph is quite funny:

"Advocates for the abolition of juvenile court
Critics of the juvenile court argue that the definitions of childhood and adolescence that were used to establish the first juvenile courts in America are no longer equivalent to the definitions of childhood and adolescence today. These critics state that the boundary between juvenile and adult is no longer as clear, as children appear to grow up faster, with more exposure to adult ideas, and as adults more often engage in juvenile behaviors and activities."

That's quite a charge against 21yo drinking limit, but I don't imagine the same person using the same arguments in both contexts...
Well it will be pled down to misdemeanor and juvenile record will be sealed, but yeah that pretty much ruins job applications.
Huh. Most of the JVM shops I've worked at deploy apps as a monolithic fat .jar, built by their CI system, rather than trying to manage libraries on classpath.
So, let me get this straight: this girl was theoretically exploring science, and as a result, was admonished and forcibly removed from the one thing meant to inspire and represent education and learning.

Maybe "real life" immediate consequences but I can't help a strong sense of frustration at the "system" even more than sympathy for this one individual given the irony.
For my high school physics group project we built a 20 foot air compressor powered potato cannon. We got a few good shots off across the football field before one of the joints failed spectacularly. Fortunately no one was injured, aside from some temporary hearing loss.

I have no idea why they let us do that, and I'm pretty sure we got an A, but this is absurdly on the other end of possible reactions.
Thanks for the Scientific American link. It's much clearer than the Wired article. <:)
First rule of organic chemistry - if you mix something organic with enough nitric acid in the presence of enough sulphuric acid to use as a catalyst chances of getting something that can blow up in your hands are high.

And it is something not worthy of felony charge. The message that is sent is terrible.
I don't think I'm confusing forever with a really long time; I'm just assuming they're effectively the same.

(Aside: nothing exists forever - even time crystals - because eventually the universe will be a bunch of infinitely far apart black holes or something. So I'm not sure how that assumption is relevant.)
My immediate reaction to seeing the multiple occurrences of "She must have done something to deserve it." in this thread was "Because, Racism!".

But on second thought, it's probably just the reflexive servility of the average american. The "authorities" charged her with something, so they must be right.

Bah, I mean, what's one more black girl driven to a life of marginalization and petty crime because she was too inquisitive; after all. She wasn't the first, she won't be the last; the system is supposed to divert people like her into career paths appropriate to her social status; in this case, curiosity about vinegar and baking soda means that meth cook is her only viable career choice; because it's not like she could learn enough to be an actual chemist or anything...

This country is FCKD, if we are wasting the potential intellectual capacity of our young, like we are here.
Having done the mentos "experiment" after lunch in middle school, I can confidently say it was not classified as an explosion.

We did have to miss out on recess the next day thou...
Wow, never thought about that in the Google Car context. To be fair, I dislike driving in heavy rain myself, and most people drive much slower in such conditions. Still, that might be more of an issue in rainy Hamburg compared to the Bay Area ...
The charges may well get dropped when cooler heads prevail. The expulsion, I'm guessing, won't be, which is shameful. Ruining a kid's life because she put some chemicals in a bottle and didn't hurt anyone is heinous.
'Science experiment' my ass. She knew EXACTLY what she was doing--making a 'Works-Bomb'. Don't be naive, did the same thing when I was her age, just not at school.
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How exactly would a sealed juvenile record affect job applications? They don't show up on any criminal background inquiry that companies have access to. Police and government (i.e., clearance or priors), yes. Juvenile charges are practically thrown out by everybody, minus things that require clearance or sensitivity. Regardless, the article says she's going to be tried as an adult, which means it's an adult charge. It'll stick, but...

Even an American adult, in most states, can make a felony disappear with some effort and the cooperation of the convicting judge. In other states, it becomes a charge but no conviction is recorded from the company's perspective, so you can say "no, I've never been convicted of a felony."

(I'm a felon with extensive experience in this area.)
Of all the things threatening bitcoin this is by far the least worrisome. What if people start writing links to censored/illegal content on circulating dollar bills? Nothing, that's what.