skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's clear to me from these articles and studies is that there's no silver bullet - if you want to raise your child well, you have to spend a lot of energy understanding your child and guide him, but from his perspective, not your own. Be firm, for his own sake, but without injecting yourself too much. It's wrong to forcefully impose your own goals and expectation borne out of your own insecurities on your children at a stage when children can make decisions on their own, but it's also wrong to be secretive, manipulative and passive-aggressive about your expectations or pretend to yourself that they don't exist. Instead be gradually open about your own feelings and expectations and why you have them and allow them to make decisions that incorporate, but aren't forced by your own desires. All of this is a hard balancing act that demands a lot of mental effort and emotional maturity, not something we can follow out of a book. The more we try to follow someone else's rules for raising a child, the less effort we spend understanding own child and/or look inside ourselves to understand what we truly need to do.
And the gov't. They'd like to more easily gain access to everything you subscribe to.
There's a few things on the list I disagree with (games, sleepovers, school play) but otherwise? Spot on. Kids lack sufficient perspective to understand which activities are important and why.
I wonder when the White House will be offering an RSS feed of citizens they've executed extra-judicially? Or perhaps a social network graph linking lobbyists and politicians & their staff?
> Not really a concern in America, but in other places like Mexico, Latin America, India, Asia...

Well it would be if biometrics became widespread.
I completely agree. But how many of us vocalized support? I think the lack of support is just as bad as posting mean comments.
I'm an introvert and a shy one at that. What do I expect when I call? What should I say? I feel like a fish out of water even thinking about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
I went to the same high school as Ubalo CEO Jacob Mattingly, and even in a school full of smart people he stood out as particularly talented. I also saw his presentation at RICON last year and was impressed with the potential of their technology for facilitating API sandboxes and lowering the barrier to entry for developers. I'm happy for Ubalo that they've been successfully acquired and wish them all the best!
Serious question - can you negotiate your hospital bill like insurance companies can?
Why do we associate attending an Ivy League institution as a 17 / 18 year old for an undergraduate education as some sort of metric for success?

Because, by all accounts, it is one of the most reliable indicators that the child is going to be successful.

but to consider one's parenting model as "working" at age 17 because one's child is going to Ivy league is hilariously short-sighted

Well, at some point you- as a parent- stop being responsible for your child's life. Many would argue that occurs when the child goes away to college and makes their own choices.
You can try MS office. If you dont want to buy/install it you can just use the in browser version. All you need is a MS account and you can also export the files as pdf..
Perhaps it was docker.io, the linux container engine? http://www.docker.io/
True, but if the code ends up easier to understand, it might well make it easier to create alternatives to Bitcoin, the currency.
I learned them concurrently, translating lua in Programming in Lua into the equivalent moonscript. It's a pretty strait-forward translation and is definitely doable. I already had experience with a reasonable variety of languages before learning it though, and for people still getting into programming, I think Lua is a simpler and still awesome language.

I don't think it's possible to learn moonscript without learning lua concurrently, since lua makes up so much of the underlying semantics. So I think the choice is either (a) learn lua, or (b) learn lua and moonscript for some nice syntactic sugar.
Why apply free market tactics to a service that is almost certainly necessary for everyone in their lifetimes? If anything, I feel like that would make things more expensive because this is a resource that people can frequently NOT decline (at the risk of losing their life) because the cost is too high. People are essentially a captive audience, so that's where regulation should ideally step in to keep costs down. Obviously that's not working, though..hmm..
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I think enjoying something you spend 40 hours or more a week on is probably a good ideal to have, and that is what being passionate about what you choose to do ensures.
Hey! Interesting, I've been doing this all my life, now moved to London, still doing the same. Actually I think one of the reasons I got this job in this agency was because of my Skateboard. It's funny to find other people like us :) I skate street btw, I'm a web dev. Also, another interesting fact is people usually get surprise once I say I'm a developer and not a designer, in this context of the agency... mostly because of the way I look...
You are forgetting that it only works for your finger sensor.
2FA: your specific finger sensor's token + some key your sensor generates from your fingerprint
Really surprised to hear such a scary thought as being arrested for something you say from someone who monikers themselves "thoughtcriminal".
If the pacemaker develops a fault, or you're seeing your doctor and they want to see your natural rhythm, or several other situations where you want to go 'natural' for a while. There's a leaf switch inside - it's a design feature, not a fault.

You do need a decent magnetic field next to the pacemaker - having it near a fridge magnet while you open the fridge looking to sneak a snack isn't going to do it.

I used to work as a neuro tech, and we would occasionally reprogram vagus nerve stimulators (sort of a defibrillator for the vagus nerve). Every few minutes it would send a charge up the vagus nerve, which could scramble rhythms that might be developing into a seizure. You could dell when it was firing if the person was talking - every few minutes, their voice would go funny for a couple of seconds as the vocal chords are innervated by the vagus. It wasn't the most pleasant experience, but you did get used to it, and it was better than the general level of seizures you'd have to have to get one implanted in the first place.
Ask HN: What do you think of private clouds?
And what are your thoughts on this idea?
http://cl.ly/0Q3j0z1V3x2E
> some decent, reasoned arguments why the DMCA shouldn't be fixed

I doubt there can be any decent arguments, since DRM itself is by definition indecent, and DMCA 1201 is DRM derivative.
That's sad man. People in NYC are paying what would get you a nice apartment elsewhere for the equivalent of a basement, closet or prison cell. Some of those should be even illegal to rent as residential, no?
clickable link http://cl.ly/0Q3j0z1V3x2E
Personally, the benefit it would give me over IM isn't sufficient enough to download, and convince others to (the latter being the biggest hurdle)
Nevermind, it appears that the photos are not as present as the original press release would have you believe:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/09/actually-snapchat-photos-ar...
Oh crap. Why do someone want to do this with their own children?

I am especially puzzled about the purpose of:
"- play any instrument other than the piano or violin
- not play the piano or violin."
I just don't understand the logic behind this two restrictions.
These are rooms to sleep in. If you think these are that bad, try visiting a real slum. It's first world privilege to consider a small clean room in New York City a horrible place.
> With numbers this low, and steadily decreasing, electric vehicles are viable for nearly all drivers.

I guess I should go look at the actual NHTS data, but mean and median might not actually support this assertion. They're way too generalized. As an example: over the past few years, I've driven 4000-5000 miles per year. You could express that as 11-14 miles per day, but that's pretty misleading. I might only drive 40 or 50 days a year, so in reality I'm driving an average of 80-125 miles per day. Not a good fit at all for today's electrics.
If you needed to turn off the implant right here and now, how are you going to do it? Carve into their chest and flick a switch? Magnets are common and can be found in most locations.
Why would it be creepy for someone using a social networking site to search for people they've met over the years?

Also, how much of the perceived "creepiness" of someone searching for someone on LinkedIn just a variation of this: http://thedoghousediaries.com/1042 ?
So what you said is that if you don't let your kids run around, that's authoritarian parenting, not authoritative parenting. Which I'll concede is true.

I will also concede as true that not letting your kids run around is a specific case of not letting them "be kids" but requiring them to be "mini adults."

However, that does not mean that requiring your kids to be "mini adults" is a sign of authoritarian parenting rather than authoritative parenting, for the obvious reason that you can require your children to generally act like "mini adults" while also letting them play once in awhile.
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You don't have to convince anyone to do anything (nor do you have to download it). It just emails them the links.
It says right in the article, it is an acquire.

I've had Twitter sniffing around my last two startups looking to bring in talent. At this point I just don't think they are getting qualified engineers applying.
Great eye. Shirt was not actually ours. The blazer and bow tie were though.
That's pretty horrendous that a recruiter would mention that to you. I'd heard initially there was a master password for fixing things before they had a proper login/auditing setup for account access.

Didn't think people would actually be logging into accounts on a whim to check out users.
Time to ban the Internet?
So are knives, a clearly dangerous object! Knives should be regulated to emit constant noise.

No, seriously, I think you do the blind a disservice. I don't think that blind people rely on, "Hey, did I hear something" to mean, "I can blithely cross the street without danger."
Batteries and electric motors predate ICE. How is the Tesla not incremental?
Here in the SF Bay Area, we routinely have collisions between our (loud, and belled) train and drivers and pedestrians. It turns out, sometimes people run into trains. Even noisy ones.
I'm saying that it's big. Specialization requires special cases, which require more lines of code. One should be able to reason about the entirety of a Python implementation, and that's very difficult to do for PyPy.
Disclaimer: IANAL, this is not legal advice.

Inducing someone to infringe a patent valid in the US by importing (downloading) your product into the US is itself an infringement of the patent under 35 USC 271 (b). Even with the banner, plaintiff / prosecution lawyers could argue that you were inducing infringement - otherwise, why use a banner and not one of the widely available IP geolocation databases for an IP based block? Why, for example, sell to credit cards issued by US banks? Obviously, if you put more effective technical measures in place, but people from the US are, say, using a non-US proxy and paying by BitCoin, it might be easier to defend.

If someone in NZ breaks US law, there is then a question of whether they can face any consequences for it if they never leave NZ. Patents law has both a civil and a criminal aspect to it.

Under NZ civil law, the New Zealand courts can enforce civil judgements made against a New Zealand resident person, but only if the matter doesn't relate to taxes, and the person was either physically in the jurisdiction that made the judgement on the day the suit was filed, or the person takes any action in the foreign lawsuit other than arguing lack of jurisdiction.

New Zealanders can be extradited to face criminal charges abroad, but subject to the following test: "if the conduct of the person constituting the offence in relation to the extradition country, or equivalent conduct, had occurred within the jurisdiction of New Zealand at the relevant time it would, if proved, have constituted an offence punishable under the law of New Zealand for which the maximum penalty is imprisonment for not less than 12 months or any more severe penalty". That doesn't necessarily stop long and protracted proceedings - Kim Dotcom was probably protected by the safe harbour provisions under New Zealand copyright law.

Even if someone is safe from civil enforcement of a foreign judgement or criminal extradition, the US might still have power over them. For example, if they have assets in the US, they might not be safe. How do people pay to download the software - if it involves a payment system with US operations, like Visa or Mastercard, they might still be able to shut it down or garnish customer payments. Selling only by BitCoin might seriously hurt conversion rates.
If my friends see I used a third-party tool to email them, they might be concerned that I'm signing them up for spam. I have to trust that the email sent won't misrepresent me in any way. Maybe address those concerns like you have with "no spam ever, we promise".
You can see it in this picture: http://www.bloomberg.com/image/iZbO1N0jA7eY.jpg

As I commented above, this is usual practice for cardiology publications. And her dad is a cardiology subspecialist.
Dad is a cardiac electrophysiologist.
1.e. No PDFs.
Damn. What the hell is wrong with people? "Go kill yourself." Are you kidding me??? I thought he had to be one of the funnest/funniest people in the world after the video. I'd honestly thought he'd take advantage of the celebrity status and use it to his advantage. . . . . but idiotic bullies/kids/highschoolers will be idiotic bullies/kids/highschoolers.
Have you tried getting funding before for something that's complex, though then could easily be copied / re-engineered by big companies? Investors will know this and you won't be able to start the business with investors' money in most cases like this.
Interesting datum you used. That chart shows that, on those compilers, on those programs, with those test data, Perl and CPython are VERY similar in speed. If you compare your link (Perl / CPython) with the inverse (CPython / Perl), you almost can't tell the graphs apart.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?t...

So CPython is about the same speed as Perl. PyPy's speed comparison suggests that PyPy is 2-20x faster than CPython. What else do you want to know?

Perl, btw, is not noted for its "great performance" in any context I've ever heard of.
They are a part of FIDO.
That's a good suggestion, trust does play a central role here. I'll change the email copy to include that, thank you.
I disagree. The problem lies in the definition of "passion," which a lot of people take to mean that it's going to be some sort of thrilling, meaningless underwater basket weaving. In reality, combining interest and hard work can lead to more fulfillment than simply drudging in and out of an 8-hour work day to collect a paycheck. When a person simply believes that they're working for a paycheck, their satisfaction will tend to decrease, as the paycheck starts to seem smaller and smaller with regard to the amount of time they're putting in. 8 hours a day is no small chunk of one's life. It also doesn't have to be the most fulfilling time in a person's day, but to say that having a passion for your work is a BS ideal (and to attribute it to baby boomers at that) is oversimplifying the issue.

That said, you're completely right that living a normal life is not enough for some people. These people will tend to be either extraordinary or extremely depressed, all the while thinking they're normal/below normal.
Well, a "PayPal exec". I think we can skip reading this article :)
Even if they weren't bullied, having a billion people laughing at an embarrassing moment isn't going to be great for a teenager's self-esteem.
"many designers don’t have the time to learn the WordPress Codex. It’s huge. It’s intimidating. It’s confusing." — maybe it's just because I know Wordpress quite well, but the documentation I found when learning years ago (it's even better now) wasn't difficult at all. The Wordpress community is so big that you can Google solutions to most problems, find solutions and learn at the same time.

Of course being a designer and not a developer, you're going to struggle learning syntax and convention (that goes for any language or application like Wordpress). Stick with it, the Codex is great.

It's true the Twenty Ten and Twenty Eleven default Wordpress themes were bloated and if you were trying to use them as a base or learn, you'd probably be overwhelmed by the kitchen sink approach the core team took when creating those themes. Having said that, if you want a clean starting base for a theme, try using the bundled Twenty Twelve: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/twentytwelve — which is arguably the best default theme ever to grace Wordpress. Most naked themes you encounter for Wordpress aren't naked at all (Bones especially abstracting an already abstracted CMS even more).

Having said that, this naked theme looks good. It's actually naked and well commented but not naked to the point it's really any less simple than Twenty Twelve (just less files). The benefit of considering a default theme as a starting base is that you get to see how the experts develop a Wordpress theme and the added bonus of how to use the custom background functionality and the Theme Customization API as well.

This kind of reminds me of my Actual Barebones HTML5 Github: https://github.com/Vheissu/Actually-Barebones-HTML5-Template — It's literally a HTML file that gives you a HTML5 structure without assuming you want jQuery or anything of the sorts. The term naked and barebones seems to have lost a lot of meaning in the web world.
This Perfectly Timed $40 Mil Global Cyber-Heist Is Better Than a Movie
Ask HN: What news sources do you follow?
If any, what news sources do you follow and for what?
>They say it because in their circles, that's a perfectly acceptable thing to say, and no one would interpret it as anything more than an expression of disapproval. (think 4chan, many subreddits, etc.).

I like how you qualify your statement in regards to reddit by saying "subreddits", which implies that it's only a portion of reddit that demonstrates such behavior, but make no such distinction about 4chan, which, contrary to popular belief, does not solely consist of /b/, and in fact has a number of boards that are actually quite civil.

That said, your point is valid, and, as a regular of one of the more vitriolic boards, I sometimes forget to "switch modes" so to speak, and find myself acting in the manner you describe. My anecdote, for what it's worth.
It's just a teaser for the actual article, or have you read the full one?

Also: "It was “a very dark period,” he said. “No matter how hard I tried to ignore people telling me to commit suicide, I couldn’t help but feel worthless, like my life wasn’t worth living.”" >> $4k and an iPod.
That was awesome and showed a high level of grit and audacity. Kick. Ass.
> Why do we associate attending an Ivy League institution as a 17 / 18 year old for an undergraduate education as some sort of metric for success?

Because, statistically, they're going to earn a lot more money over the course of their careers (especially when you factor engineering students out of the state school equation).
See also Making Clouds Go Away on MapBox Satellite http://mapbox.com/blog/improving-mapbox-satellite-by-making-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5475571
Personally I don't have a big enough pain-point of emailing this out to use it but I totally get having something I think is cool that isn't getting much use http://searchco.de/

In your case maybe a video showing the advantage of this over copy pasting emails and the like. For all I know it might be better then what i'm currently doing, but for what I see as no gain I have no real incentive to try it. A video would solve this for me.
I used to use Furl for the content-saving feature. Its eventual shutdown has made me wary of any bookmarking or other archival service that I can't host myself.
It's always torment to watch your babies languish. You build it, and then it just fizzles. I've got a few projects like that, borne of spare time and such, most of which aren't particularly marketable.

This looks like a far more marketable thing than the last thing I built that nobody uses (obligatory self-plug, http://tweetasenator.com/), which I sort of halfway mention when I get the chance, but doesn't have the ability to make me rich, so despite its utility, will almost certainly just languish as a tool that me and a few friends use.

This looks nice, and while I can't tell if this is the obligatory marketing kickoff post or if you've just noticed that nobody's using it, I wish it well.

Edit: For what it's worth, I'm not entirely sure that this is better than Instahero, which you also wrote, and guessing that it's throwing a connection refused, I guess nobody used it either.
As electric cars become more popular, it will become less of a special request and more of a foregone conclusion that parking will have electric charging capability. It's not terribly expensive to add, as long as the building's wiring is capable of serving it.
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I want a widely adopted standard for 2 factor authentication. You are not sending your fingerprint to companies, you are sending a key generated by your hardware from your fingerprint.
Do white victims get more attention?
Mutually odd functions
Wow. Fortunately you probably can't afford to live in the city, so no one will have to deal with your entitled attitude.
Yup. Straight up hate speech. Which is a form of assault.

Hate speech is more than insulting someone. It's advocating physical harm.
> Spot on. Kids lack sufficient perspective to understand which activities are important and why.

Important to whom?
I am pretty sure kids know what is important to them and why. Sure, this may be different to what their parents think(e.g. their parents may find games, sleepovers and other stuff "unimportant").

BTW, you can use the very same logic as justification for controlling adults. [And frankly speaking, this logic is used by (almost?) all politicians]
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You may find that the niche you need isn't the software industry, but the industry that your clients are in. So from the marketing angle you become a custom software agency that specializes in the _________ industry.
People forget about the amount of data LinkedIn has available to them: ConnectedHQ (the predecessor to LinkedIn Contacts) has direct access to thousands of email inboxes, Rapportive can log any time someone hovers over a new address, and millions of connections have been gleaned through 'import your contacts'.

If you really want to talk about creepy, I'm fairly sure they use your IP address to match against other people who live/work at the same location: when I created a test account with dummy information, the first contacts that were suggested to me were my roommates.
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(no particular order)
daringfireball.net
digg.com
gizmodo.com and other gawker sites
noupe.com
smashingmagazine.com
highscalability.com
sometimes engadget.com
i still enjoy reading wired.com sometimes
major events - foxnews.com or msnbc.com (don't really care for cnn.com)
and obviously HN

if i find myself going to the same site from an aggregate often, i'll add that to my daily morning news blitz before i get to work, but there are SO many news websites / blogs, i stick to my list and follow the links if a headline catches my attention.