skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A childhood friend was sent to juvenile detention on a statutory rape charge (not a rapist, they were both 14). After 2 years he emerged to be a worser human being with a huge, justifiable, chip on his shoulder. By 16, he was dealing in cocaine (not weed, cocaine, he gained the connections for that in JD), prostitution (addicts will do anything for blow) and weapons.

And Scarface, the movie character, became his idol. We used to be backpackers (the rapping kind, check urban dictionary) and he transformed into everything that was wrong with hip-hop. And I blame everything on how all the adults completely snowballed a 14yo.
Teachers like to point to it because it's destroyed any chance we had of fixing the issue.

And the issues previous to the law were appallingly bad salaries. There are some people who love teaching so much they would do it even though they earn probably 40% of what they could be doing with their credentials. But not as many as we need.

Sprinkle in the problem of parents blaming teachers for bad grades instead of kids and it all gets worse.
You seem to be conflating two separate things - the question of whether the core principles of GNU, Linux and other 'free' software are important, and whether they have been achieved.

Venomsnake's point very much seems to fall into the latter category - having devices that you need to jump through hoops, exploit holes etc, in order to be able to get full access to them is hardly a 'victory' for Linux (even if those devices are mostly running a form of Linux).

You seem to be trying to argue against this by saying those principles aren't important to most people. That may or may not be true - but regardless of that, it's not achieving what Linux set out to deliver.
Early on they didn't say much about their being in Perth -- like most Perthans I assumed that they were in Sydney or Melbourne.

I found out that they were here by looking the company details on ASIC.
The butterfly effect - or how a single font can take you down
Works perfectly on my 16GB rMBP with Thunderbolt Ethernet to 100Mbps fibre in central London. Sheesh, what is everyone complaining about.
> If you believe teacher quality is the primary drivers of educational outcomes and outcomes are not as you desire, it must be caused by low teacher quality.

Wrong. If you believe teacher quality is the primary driver of educational outcome then anything effecting teacher performance could effect those outcomes. It does not follow that only teacher quality plays the only role unless the teachers are completely empowered.
1st, I speak from experience.

I can see why he didn't get to go to the camp. Usually if your a flight risk (like you ran when you got your indictment), or if you are violent (which could be the unseen possibility here given his previous profession), BOP won't deem you appropriate for a camp.

I agree strongly with tptacek's comment that when you look at a whistleblower's case it's really hard to see that someone who was apart of the problem will grow a conscience (very possible), remove themself from the problem (possible), without intervention or pressure, disclose information about what you and your other people did (unlikely).

I don't believe this guy deserves the attention he is vying for. Although some of the CO's are assholes, the mailroom checks all incoming and outgoing mail, so if some of the details in the letter was true...it would've been lost on departure (shit, I couldn't even get my wired magazine subscription cause I'm a hacker).

Many people inside that I met (at a camp) have hopes of writing a book, explaining how it is, making a change in their life for the best, and profiting off their experiences. Not me, people on here ask me how it was, and I give that experience and advice for free (feel free to email me).
Merchant accounts are a huge PITA.

You have to pay a bunch of money up front and then, if you're not a fish-and-chip shop or similar, you'll probably be told "no".

Plus, each bank will ask if you've ever been knocked back somewhere else. If you honestly answer that you have, guess how that affects your chances?
Could they not turn the development over to the community? Put the source code up on Github? Seems a shame to kill it off.

*I'm not a user and not sure how popular the browser is.
Storytelling: After the Like and After the Spike
Set up a custom motivational message as an alarm
"I have little patience for critics who don’t see the value in a liberal arts education. We don’t mock people who have children -- and there’s no practical value to having children."

The fact that after spending so much money on his libarts degree, he'd use the skills from his "education" to make such a terribly stupid and obviously factually wrong analogy just proves his critics right, invalidating his argument. (Many people have kids because they want to be taken care of. Duh.)

No matter how many of one's fellow liberal arts peers might preen about their fancy, overpriced sheepskins, the fact is that these would be emperors in reality have no clothes. (God forbid you point that out to them, though.)

"We don’t mock people who play the guitar, or go on walks in the woods. Why should we mock people who want to learn about their world and learn about themselves?"

Yes, perhaps, but if someone spent $200,000 on a beginner's guitar, or paid $30,000 for the a membership to a private property to go walk in your everyday typical (and accessible for free at a metro park) woods, we'd definitely be side eying them for it.
"Born in the U.S.A." is ringing in my mind at this point.
> Yup. Thats well worth pointing out. Pin is awesome for Australian facing businesses, but if you want to trade in USD, better off elsewhere.

"Better off elsewhere" - where? Braintree seems like the only similar option, and as discussed elsewhere in this comment thread: you need a merchant account if you want to engage with them.

(I'm happy to take suggestions, but there's just a dearth of them!)
>your employer has every right to search your work e-mail

Not in countries that care about the rights to privacy of their citizens. Where I live, the company can only look at the contents of email I send from my work account if the subject reasonably appears to be about work. If the subject is obviously personal, they can't legally read it.

Americans need to start standing up for their rights instead of having their rights dictated by what ever is most convenient for the corporation.
Give Opera Next a chance. I have been using it since it came out and although it has a couple rough edges it feels more user focused than Chrome.
In the eyes of fanboys, anything that isn't praise is a slur.
That's silly. Medium is another well-executed minimalist design like Svbtle. Neither one of them is particularly ground-breaking, but they are both better executed than 95% of similar web designs. I say this despite the fact that I have always had something of a visceral distaste for blog networks.
But keep in mind that I will occupy some space at the supercharger 4-5 times longer than with a regular gas station.
The benchmark[1] includes scimark, which measures FLOPS. I get 0.62 MFLOPS. In scimark running in the JVM[2], I get 353.4 MFLOPS (units explained here[3]). So in conclusion, the Oracle JVM on x86-32 is 570 x faster than lua.vm.js on V8 on same platform.

[1]: http://kripken.github.io/lua.vm.js/lua.vm.js.html

[2]: http://math.nist.gov/scimark2/run.html

[3]: http://math.nist.gov/scimark2/faq.html
If you guys are interested in a similar tool like medium (without the network), I'll be launching http://www.postagon.com next week.
I've definitely bought games over Steam that work offline.

In fact the only game I've had a significant problem with was Heroes of Might and Magic VI, and that was because of Ubisoft's DRM/uPlay platform and the vast quantities of bugs (even 2 years after release!).

I think you have a good point though. It's the 'sugar', not some objection to DRM or always-online gaming, which keeps me using Steam.

That and their support for indie developers, which is quite heartening for me.
Fascinating - I have a dozen questions for you !
I will stick to three, but really desperate for high quality info on elance and the like

1. Roughly how many jobs a year do you take on?

2. What's the median price - and roughly how long does it take you to do (ie what's your daily rate?)

3. Are the projects / buyers high or low quality (I get the impression it's a lot of unrealistic projects or simple projects at 10dollars total

I assume you live in the Isle of Man ? This does not strike me as Vietnam-cheap-lifestyle so I am surprised to say least - is that 80k USD

(for non UK folks, Isle of Man is an island just off UK mainland near Scotland. It's basically same as living in UK For lifestyle purposes but technically it's its own independant region)
I don't see how, given that hell is other people, and other people in prison are quite infernal.

If I ever get in prison (which I hope to avoid but nobody can be guaranteed) I hope to be in solitary.
Georgify: Make Hacker News More Readable
It is easy to push for such stuff when you are out of power and don't have the paralysing loyalties that force those in power to make compromises.

Let's see someone in power push for legalization.
http://caminobrowser.org/contribute/
Well, Chromium and Firefox are open source. Give it a go, if you know C/C++ it shouldn't be that difficult.
Maybe. But the proof also gives a lot of cute ideas for how to go further with this sort of demo. Since adding random variables amounts to doing convolutions with their distribution functions, if you had a Fourier transform package in JS you could probably show people some nice visualizations of adding together various random variables, and what it does to their probability distributions. This might give more insight into the generality of the CLT: you take a strange curve, convolve it with itself a bunch of times, and in the convolutions and rescaling it becomes first a skewed distribution, then a normal one.
The Hivemind is read.
I've probably spent tens of thousands of dollars over the years traveling and other experiences that are monetarily worthless. And honestly I probably consider it the best money I've ever spent.
What problem does Google Glass solve? Is it the best way to solve that problem?

Would Google have been smarter to not include a camera, at least initially?

Is the tech there to make this a viable product yet?
One of the successful startups in India (Flipkart - An Amazon clone), a couple of days back shut down it's digital music store Flyte [0]. Here's the statement by the Head of Digital Media Payments

“We have realized that the music downloads business in India will not reach scale unless
several problem areas such as music piracy and easy micro-payments etc are solved in great
depth. Which is why, we feel that at present, it makes sense to take a step back from Flyte
MP3s and revisit the digital music market opportunity at a later stage.”

It gives some insight on the issues with digital music market in India. Some of it may be even applicable (or already included in this article) for other startups too. The keywords being "piracy" (free loaders) and payment technology constraints (micro payments etc.).

[0] http://www.nextbigwhat.com/flyte-mp3-shutdown-297/
2 minutes later: It's installed ;)

But the menu a little bit small and this light grey is hard to read but the rest is really good ;).
That's not a bug thats a pious and wishywashy mission statement.

Does Linux and FOSS movement want to be known as the Lib-Dems of the software world :-)
Yeah, the problem with Medium is that it's beautiful and well designed – almost perfect, really – but the community is so Silicon Valley. I wouldn't want my writing associated with that trash.
> I'll look for those here in Minnesota, but I don't think those have been installed yet.

Given that they were invented in UK, are made by a UK company and recommended by a UK government agency, this is not much of a surprise.
Gorgeous indeed!
Help save podcasting from a patent troll
An entrepreneurial curriculum
I'm probably in a minority here, and I'm speaking purely for myself, and it's a strictly personal view, but ...

I hate it.

I'm sure it's technically very clean, elegant, and "nice", but more and more as I look at the "gorgeous" and "beautifully designed" sites pointed to from HN, I just feel like my face is being pushed through mush.

I know that sounds entirely negative, and I'm sorry about that, but the obsession with blended buttons and perfect pastels and crafted corners and so on just makes the whole thing feel wishy washy.

Am I alone in this? I'm sure lots of people love it, and I hope you get lots of great comments, but I just thought I'd mention that not everyone is the same in their perceptions.

Please, can someone with design skills equal to the ones demonstrated here have a go at something with a bit more "edge."

Oh, and here's the discussion from last time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2410195

It's great to see that many of the comments from that discussion were taken on board and acted on.

Added in edit: I see that this is a controversial comment. It's getting both upvotes and downvotes, so people clearly agree, and disagree. But I think this comment is genuinely of value. If you create something and there were dissenting opinions, would you not like to hear them? Do you only want "Yes Men" in your entourage? Dissenting opinions can be hard to take, but if you block them out you get an echo chamber. Please, if you think this comment is of negative value and doesn't belong on HN, tell us why. For the downvoters, that's certainly your right and privilege, but ask yourself: are you downvoting because you think this comment doesn't belong on HN, or simply because it's an opinion contrary to yours? FWIW, I've upvoted the submission.
UN considers ethics of 'killer robots'
wow, there seems to be a degree of confusion about this term, depending on the context.

Mathematically speaking it means that you can apply it multiple times and get the same result, i.e. reverse(reverse(name)) == reverse(name)"

However, I heard it using it many times where the correct term would be "pure function" (one whose output is defined solely by its input). But this is clearly misleading.

I guess that the confusion stems from the use of "applying multiple times". Formally multiple function application means f(f(x)), and not simply repeating function evaluation f(x); f(x).

Furthermore I saw people distinguishing "side effect idempotence" (observed by all pure functions) and "return value idempotence".

To add more confusion to that, some some HTTP (GET/...) operations are called idempotent,
even though it's clearly not in functional sense (if you take the output of the GET and feed it as argument to another GET, you won't get the same result again), but only meaning "side effect free".
See the Rails release policy: if I understand well, it will only be supported until Rails 4.2 etc comes around.

There is a general question about how to keep up with the release pace, when you have many apps to support.
In most cases the question makes no sense, as bitcoins do not have identity.
Unlikely, given that London is rolling in money, and that Greater London is ten times the size of Greater Perth. Though I really couldn't tell you what the VC culture is like there, because I don't move in those circles :) I have seen a few decent techs coming to Melbourne with places in WA on their resume though.
"Add $100 to ship outside the US." Ouch. That's $150 for international shipping total, plus import tax :(
They profess to be above such concerns. Having to worry about food and rent money is too mundane for such a sophisticated mind, didn't you know? Less readily disclosed is the fact that their parents are paying for everything but maybe the beer money. And yet they still claim to be "putting themselves through college"...
So unfair.
Even a "well balanced person" can commit a cri
me. Actually, human beings are notoriously bad at avoiding future harm. We're wired to survive immediate dangers, but it takes a lot of mental effort to realize long term dangers.

How else would you explain the widespread of tobacco smoking, over-eating, and other behaviors that are extremely dangerous but not immediately punishing?
There are several client-side-script solutions.
I use http://hckrnews.com/about.html#extensions.
Do they, or did they used to, have light sensors to detect emergency vehicles coming through? Perhaps that was just an urban myth.
The website claims that they are backed by the government but doesn't go into any detail.
Can anyone clarify?
Yeah, most of the people who get on the PoC privilege train clearly haven't interacted with low income people for a while. I saw a girl from a $70,000+/year family say once that her family was lower middle class. wtf. One of the worst SRWs I've met, everything was racism to her. She went into social work, and the last I heard was a blog post complaining about how one of the people in a case she was working had called her spoiled. El-oh-el.
I am using the HackerNew Chrome extension, more spacing seems to be the consensus;

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd...
Well the FTS100 and Global 500 Publisher I used to work for where very interested in using authorship and publisher markup up to stop crappy sites ripping our content off.

Farmers weekly where the most keen and you can see the result in the serps - though Matt why are you picking a pic from the Telegraph to go with thier articles?
I would also like to point out another alternative that does something similar that is just a pleasure to use: https://github.com/tommoor/HackerNew
12 Obsolete Technologies Americans Still Use
So this exact post was made almost exactly a year ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4078334
for Branding purporses
After the first term, I mostly stopped buying books and used the library instead. The books I did buy I've hung on to.

Today, I mostly regret not living close enough to an academic library to visit when I want.
Kickstarter New Project Preview
Video tutorial: CRUD on an existing database using Portofino 4
Oh god yes. I looooooooove rain and cloudy days, but hate heat and sunlight. No Texas for me, I think!!
The tubed is pumped vacuum. See http://launchloop.com/VelocityShear. That also argumentatie that having a heavy fast-moving Core close to a heavy stationery ouder tube is less of a problem than having a hard disk platter close to a stationry 1 gram (possibly less) disk head. I do not quite get that. The damage, once something goes wrong, is way higher, so we should make a much larger effort to decrease the probability that something goes wrong.
Agree. There aren't a lot of great options.

At the low end (transaction volume/amounts), you just get murdered on costs. If you've got a niche or high margin business this might be fine.

At the higher end. Well. It seems that a US entity is the way to go. If you structure the vehicle according to some strict rules, you don't incur any US tax. The fixed costs are much, much higher, but the breakpoint is probably lower than people think. This is especially true if you have any kind of cost-base in the US.

There are a few other hacks too. If you're a SaaS business you might consider deeper discounts for annual payment. This is good for cash flow & bumps up your individual transactions. This can change the equation a little - and it's probably better for the $ to be in your customers' pocket rather than a bunch of intermediary financial institutions.

As you say. I'm open to hearing constructive suggestions too! It's frustrating how complex this still is.

Edit: One of the biggest bugbears is AMEX. Even if you get yourself a NAB USD account - AMEX only ever process in the home currency (i.e. AUD). It's easy to be ignorant of this in Australia as AMEX is considered reasonably rare. However, it's pretty much a requirement to operate in the US... So you get this expensive facility, then half your transactions come in AMEX and get processed to AUD anyway (damn). Very open to hear better solutions!
I've kept about a dozen, mostly higher level, books and chucked the rest. Of those I've probably used 3-4 over the past few years, and I've never missed any of the ones I chucked.
omg. only 58 days of sunshine!? I think I need to move to this place for at least part of my life.
Closed alpha testing vs public availability?

Progress, not the exact same post.
User-triggerable NULL pointer dereference
Almost all lights here in Christchurch have buttons to request that the lights change, except for a few like https://www.google.com/maps?ll=-43.553027,172.663193&spn... where the button does nothing, and you have to stand on the yellow pad until the lights change, or have a metal bike.

Not everyone understands that you need to keep standing on the pad, or that the bike crossing doesn’t last long enough to walk all the way across.
Looks lovely, but I feel uncomfortable weakening my security just for a bit of sugar.

I use ihackernews.com/ for reading on mobile, and log in at news.ycombinator.com itself for posting or upvoting.

It takes longer, but I feel safer.
Founders should be Developers
Breast Milk Protein HAMLET Reverses Antibiotic Resistance in MRSA, Pneumococcus
i didn't know that g'kar (andreas katsulas) and zach (tim choate) had passed away. thanks for posting.

g'kar and londo's story lines were nothing short of fantastic.
Libby should be still in jail if not on death row - note that AFASK Manning is accused of releaseing secret information however the real identity of a CIA officer is Top Secret.
C++ auto and decltype explained
Goodbye to Painful Image Loads on Small Devices
Perhaps the real hell is being left alone.
Be aware that the UX alpha is highly unstable. Many things are not finished and from time to time just appear and vanish out of thin air.

So it can only be used as a direction indicator and as such, I think it looks good.
just read the whitepaper
Wow, I'm a little surprised to see this for two reasons:

1. Doing anything financial in Australia is hard. For better or for worse (IMHO it's mostly better) there is strict financial regulation in Australia (mostly due to the Corporations Act revamp under the Howard government as well as the longstanding Trade Practices Act, which is one of the most consumer-friendly pieces of legislation I think in the world).

I'd be interested in knowing the story and how high compliance costs are for something like this.

2. It was done (based on comments here) at least in part in Perth. Perth is my home town and has become increasingly tech unfriendly for three reasons:

- a lot of the bigger employers got bought out and consolidated their software development over East;

- the state as a whole is very focused on digging stuff up from the ground (or under the sea to be pedantic) and selling it to the Chinese. The startup scene is tiny; and

- cost of living in Perth is terrible in wage-adjusted terms. Honestly it's cheaper for me to live in New York (I moved here about 2.5 years ago to start a job with Google). Housing is a huge part of it but food, utilities and, well, everything is expensive in Perth now.

I'd certainly like to here more about the development story and the team (the site is scant on details on this).

As for the service itself, I'll echo the comments of others and say the FX and other fees coule make this quite expensive.

Still, good to see this coming out of Australia and good luck guys. I'm also glad to hear about more tech things happening in Perth. I might have to check out the meetups and stuff next time I visit.
I get you don't like it, but why? I've never heard about "wishy-washy" in relation to Web layout and design. If you could be more specific, that would certainly make your comment better.

With that said, I personally think it needs less whitespace and smaller fonts. I'm not a fan of Georgia either.

Off-topic: Also, I'm tired of all these Hacker News iPhone apps, scrapers, browser plugins and whatnot. It gets too "meta" for me that these things are posted constantly.