skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was particularly struck by this line:

"Younger brains, predictably, are set up to focus on the negative and potential trouble."

Could this have some relevance on the excessive negativity HN comments have been accused of recently? What are the age demographics of this site's most active users?
He also (used to?) post a lot on slashdot, osdev, osnews, twitter, reddit and (arguably) 4chan, and he's been banned from most of those. You often see his comments (as Terrence A. Davis) on articles that rank highly here.

At some point Poe's law kicks in, and i'm no longer sure whether it's a mental condition (which would be highly regrettable) or if it's the hivemind playing out some elongated surreal prank.
There is no way this will ever pass, this is the most ridiculous sounding proposed legislation I have ever heard. You think SOPA is bad if something like this were to ever be passed theoretically of course, you can bet the world would be a sad, dark place to live in.

There are consequences to this kind of thing and many things to consider. I mean imagine if hackers somehow managed to find a security exploit in the malware the entertainment companies are forcefully installing on peoples computers? Ransomware one minute, botnet the next.
Amazon Is Working On A Plan To Deliver Your Groceries
That is not what is being proposed by this paper at all.
You can guarantee that? I dont think so, Im not a sysop but if I was, you would need to explain why ICMP needs to be open.

Whether Im in Norcal or not. Most sane organizations are going to turn off ping, its not a cultural thing and it doesnt seem like you faced any friction since you got it opened in 2 hours.

Ive been working here in norcal my whole life and I dont see a culture of lax security in shops that have actual security requirements. Its not the country is the quality of the network administration team.
skipping through that video without sound gives me the impression that this is a video about all thats wrong with the startup scene.
Everybody on that stage looks like a complete douche, even the TC guy.

I know they probably want to portray a certain image, but gawd...Sunglasses WTF ?
I didn't mind what you said until you brought in the horrible example of the tea party. Even ignoring its political message it was pretty much all astroturf, pumped up and hyped by established players. A few election cycles later it's pretty much gone.
I also have the right to lock the doors and take pictures of the assailant who stole it and send them to the police.

Wouldn't locking the doors effectively be kidnapping?
Although I do question what being "acquired" means?

I know a friend of mine who sold his YC company and left. So I guess for him he was just wanted to make a quick exit.
From the paper - "Recommend that Congress and the administration impose a tariff on all Chinese-origin imports,
designed to raise 150% of all U.S. losses from Chinese IP theft in the previous year, as estimated by the
secretary of commerce."

So... they want their people to pay for the crimes of others?
Advice for Software Testers from Bug Validation – By Krishnaveni
Comment on: "Classical signature of quantum annealing"
Laptops? On laps? Weightlessly?
In one word: Experience

I see some correlation with what Malcolm Gladwell talked about in his book 'Blink'.

The article is weak in citing facts/research though. (May be I should read the author's book which I imagine was the intent for the post!).
Wow, finally! Pypi was so damn unbelievable slow at some times, i'm really happy for this change, great great great!
Inside of an atom snapped
Wow yeah, I'm sure they're brilliant, but they seem like massive douchebags
>To my mind the fact that including pictures or video is less ad-hoc with Tumblr makes it more of a protocol,

I see what you mean, it's like Twitter but customizable to the core - true to any good protocol. What made twitter really a protocol was that so many clients were made for its liberal API.
If your bachelor's was in comp sci then go for master in data science.
[Coursera] Malicious Software and its Underground Economy
Is it kidnapping when doors lock in robbers during bank robberies? I believe that it would be covered under citizen's arrest common law and statutes. Generally, a private citizen has the right to make a warrantless arrest during or after the commission of a felony or during the commission of a misdemeanor.
Quebec has a rich history of socialist laws (not necessairly a bad thing) and rent seeking laws(bad):

Tuition is one of the lowest in North America

Medical benefits paid by the employer are considered taxable income

Weird laws on lotteries and prize giveaways that excludes Quebec from many said prize giveaways

Tourisme board that tacks on a 'travel agency insurance premium' when purchasing vacation packages

Quebec rental board that is very pro tenants and they can stay without paying rent for many months
#5 Safety (guaranteed freedom from malware, etc.)... was the one thing that legally purchased media had an undeniable edge in over pirated media.

Disagreed. Sony rootkit was on the legally purchased media. DRM on streaming services can do all kind of stuff without users consent. DRM built into hardware with cameras can do even weirder stuff (just note the crazy DRM idea patented by Microsoft regarding detecting the people in the room). Since DRM is a black box, you never know what it can do. There is completely no reason to trust that it will respect your privacy and rights. Therefore DRMed media has no edge over pirated media at all.

Safety requires transparency (for the user), as well as trust in the used technology. DRM by its very definition is non trustworthy and non transparent, it's the antithesis of that. It's totally opaque precisely because it attempts to hide something from the user. Because ironically, DRM proponents don't trust the user! User is treated as potential criminal by default. How can users in situation when they aren't trusted, trust the DRM vendor in return? They can not, and they should not! Trust can be only mutual. I.e. DRM always implies something shady and risky. DRM proponents should be treated as potential criminals by default in return. And what do such criminals usually hide in their code? Malware.
That it's less likely for someone to have so many random friends over to their place when they're not around.
Fantastic news! Pypi downloads were the slowest and most unreliable part of our install process. It is/was so bad that it almost always failed when you have a mid sized list of new packets to install.
This analogy only holds if there's a corresponding improvement in engineering to come from giving up freedom on the Internet, which there is not.
I understand where the original poster is coming from. news.ycombinator.com is not a very intuitive url for a website that is known as hacker news.
As mason55 said, a bonus will typically be reduced a lot when paid out (so that a $5k bonus ends up being more around $2.5k in your bank account), but in the end, when you do your tax return, you're taxed the same rate on your salary than on your bonuses.

Think about it this way: on your W-2, (assuming the US here) gross bonus and salary are not separated into two different categories. Thus, it can only be taxed at the same rate.

That being said, I'm surprised you'd say that salary is taxed higher… the typical misconception is to think that bonuses are taxed higher for the aforementioned reason.
Google's Eric Schmidt 'perplexed' over UK tax debate
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Why not?

Don't you want your own submarine? I do.

Check out this homemade Russian sub. Great pics.

http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/home-made-submarine.html
US people to Congress: make it legal for us to share what we love
It's really not cool when you see blatant design ripoffs like this.
I am not by any means an expert in compilers/language design. But apparently according to this talk [1] dynamic typing is not the reason JS and other dynamic languages are slow, given the optimizations that effectively "solve" that problem.

I would guess that both 1) metaprogramming, and 2) lack of low-level memory management contribute more to the fact that JS is slower than dynamic typing.

[1]https://speakerdeck.com/alex/why-python-ruby-and-javascript-...
Exactly, without a Stallman the overton window is narrowed in a non-beneficial way.
Can't blame them. Who would want to live in Mountain View? There's nothing there.
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At the risk of sounding too negative, it seems like this was probably not a voluntary departure.

Yahoo's home page still suffers from ADD overload, Flickr's UX has been mangled, and Yahoo Mail is underwhelming, at best.

Add in the fact that the All Things Digital article mentions Marissa Mayer's "hands-on" approach to design, and it sounds like what happened here was a clash of personalities, possibly tying Tom Parsey's hands and resulting in a series of designs that no-one was happy with, including Parsey or Mayer.

It will be interesting to see who replaces him, and whether she or he is allowed to have a long or short leash, publicly.
Not actually true. The colonies could have received the things they wanted had they actually attempted to fight for them (and by 'things they wanted', I mean the things we wrote about England (and specifically a king with little political power at that time (it was all parliament's by that point)) not giving us).

The American Revolutionary War was started because of political activism. They saw a chance to start a new country in whatever manner they pleased, and leapt at the opportunity. Even just a little effort put to really trying to get a voice in parliament would have worked fine, but instead we went and write the bloody Declaration in an attempt to rally support of other nations not really pleased with England (I'm looking at you France), and filled it with rhetoric, half-truths, and blatant lies. Okay, maybe not blatant, but they're there.

Really amazing that a war is mistaught to most American students. Okay, it isn't that amazing, I mean, you're going to teach your country's history in the most favorable light possible, but, still...
Oh man Gettier problems! That takes me back :)
That was my initial thought as soon as I read the headline. This seems like he got Forestalled.
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There are regulatory mechanisms to make hotels and B+Bs pay their share of externalities. These are things like property tax, room tax, and insurance.

Suppliers of airbnb units avoid a lot of these payments because they're paying taxes at normal residential rates.

If the cost of a room is $100/night, and the cost of that extra stuff is $50/night, then there is no way that hotels can compete on an even playing field with airbnb.
Costa Concordia as seen by a pair of drones
You mean they might actually get rid of the dozen shades of purple that currently afflict their sites?
"ballersourcing", however, is an awesome idea.
Yes, but US labor laws don't apply to someone living in Germany anyway.
It's a proprietary in-house system.
Aye, that's why real law enforcement have an oath of honor and are held to the standard of the constitution.

Here they are asking to authorize vigilantism.
I think this is one of the simplest and powerful thought in building something. Just do something everyday.
http://hackerne.ws works if you want a more intuitive url.
Amazing that you got downvoted for this. The comments in this thread which are cheerleading "disruption" are completely glossing over the issues of taxes and regulations. Other startups are out there making good faith attempts at following the law and competing fairly. Why does HN seem so eager to collectively give AirBnB a free pass?
Tell them, becoz the safety of the users is more important then your competition.
Microsoft Files Dispute Against Current Owner of XboxOne.com
Is there a difference? Isn't money just a means to power?
I recognise myself in your story. I took off with a backpack before the ink had dried on my last exam paper. I look back on those years now, 15 years later, and wish I'd had the courage to walk off earlier. In retrospect, it's obvious to me that everything I learned at university I learned in year 1. The remaining years were simply "finishing what I started" because a "degree is good to have."

We're all different, and we all get different things from formal education. If it's not for you, do your future self a favour and don't waste the time.
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"essentially combines a long run and a visit to the weight room"

I'm sorry but it just doesn't, even if it is based on science.
Basic economic theory says you're wrong. Corporations don't have incentives to be good outside if their bottom line long-term, the only reason they occasionally do good is due to social or regulatory pressure. For the most part, corporations are going to do what's good for their bottom line without carrying about the long-term effects.
With four cones, she may well be able to perceive electromagnetic waves outside the range we can. In other words, it may not be only about seeing finer colors, it may be about seeing more colors as well.
I was a stock analyst in the 1980s. Indeed, I was the #1-ranked software stock analyst. So for me, it was a very real discussion.
Abdulaziz Ghuloum's An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction is seriously underrated. The notes from the tutorial seem to have disappeared from the internet. You can get a copy here: https://sites.google.com/site/juliangamble/Home/Compilers%20...

I'm interested to see more of this in Clojure.
They are talking about one million hues. Hues are "pure" colors without saturation and lightness.

So humans can see more than 1 million colors.

Edit: maybe this image will make it clear: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/HSL...
if you ever been in a design meeting with Mayer, you will know how true it is on her "hands-on" approach to design. She is also very meticulous and border line pedantic when it comes to design. Don't be surprised that there was probably a clash of interest between him and Mayer.
What is MOV?
This PDF files is about what is MOV file format, and explain the mov file extension for you.
Isn't it possible it's a generic template they both used? There's no investigation as to whether there really is one ripping off the other, nor which one would be ripping off the other.

This is really just saying "these sites look just like one another, let's make assumptions and vague accusations about them with no evidence."
It beats the pants off of Joomla, anyway.
Add it to your CV
Sorry, didn't notice I was replying to someone else.

Your point wasn't obvious from what you wrote; there's a mention of which DVCS BitBucket supports but not which DVCS you use.

> [BitBucket] has almost all the same features, supports git and mercurial and unlimited private repos.

BTW, GitHub indirectly supports Mercurial. They wrote an hg-git plugin [1] that allows you to push to and pull from a git remote repo using hg.

[1] http://hg-git.github.io/
Hey, look, it's time for me to try linux again...
>and its proposals are for going after foreign entities who steal intellectual property

No it isn't. The proposals are for going after anyone who attacks American corporate/government systems, including Americans themselves. The report spends much time waxing philosophical on int'l contributions to IP 'theft' -- specifically China -- but nowhere does it restrict jurisdiction to foreign entities.

As laid out the commission seems to want broad application here that plausibly could allow use by consumer entertainment companies. The problem there is that while you don't think consumer entertainment seems important enough for companies to bother protecting, consumer entertainment companies do. So it while you'd only bother securing Important Research Co. with genius solutions like rootkit-as-a-feature, Big Music Corp. is going to do it to little Timmy's copy of a Biebz single.
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Drones film the wreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia [video]
Genre knowledge to enhance persuasion: structure and language choices
Or what the article wants to present by selecting them.
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That would be a cool setup. I might try it, are you using automotive tachometers or just a digital one? Automotive ones would look pretty sweet! And by firewall do you mean your local router?
> It is tempting to give RIAA and MPAA the rope to hang themselves with, sit back, and laugh. However, let's not forget that every piece of code they write and every root-kit they successfully deploy will soon be taken advantage of by black-hats

Wouldn't it be the opposite? Like a free pentest? Malware they come up with would be widely available (included in the price of any movie) for dissection.

BTW Next release of Qubes[1] will need an "entertainment" AppVM.

[1] http://qubes-os.org/trac/wiki/QubesArchitecture
I don't want to be that guy who points out minutia, but the title alludes to a news event that isn't true. Bezos clearly states in the article that Amazon has "not yet figured out the grocery model," but the title makes it seem like it's rolling out outside of Seattle.
Thank you very much for the link. I'll use this site from now on. It's sad MDN url is not returned first with a google query.
If I ever find a rootkit on my system, that OS gets binned permanently, no questions asked. I have a zero tolerance policy for who's system my computer is: it's mine. Not the US's, not Law Enforcement's, not the MPAA's, not MS's. If it achieves sentience, fine, it can be it's own; until then, any OS which fails to understand this arrangement (that a secure OS means that only I and system services (Windows Update, various package managers and their delegates) install software...third parties are not allowed), will be binned. If I can't trust my machine to have my singular best interests at heart, I cannot work with it; multiple tethers, trojan rootkits, superseding accounts with permissions higher than my own...these run contrary to my designs, and make it difficult, in the very least, to know when a problem is being caused by them, or by me. Plus I despise being spied on; if I'm going to put on a show, I'm going to get paid for it (no freebies).

I am more and more disturbed with the way OSs are going in general. They are...slowly removing usefulness from themselves, making it hard for admins to work with them, and adding on crap, like Windows Store...which is not needed. It's starting to feel like the computers I work with are...owned by someone else...which means I will start caring for them a lot less. The least of things which currently bothers me are the cross-threading errors which seem to appear in Windows 7...why have these not been fixed?
Useful tips for Backbone.js
I'm ashamed of my province. I'm seriously considering moving south of the border if they don't start to get a little more liberal (not talking about the party here).
That this news is being released the Sunday prior to Memorial Day is certainly no coincidence.
Yes, maybe it was karma. But the man has been without his hands for 32 years. I think he's paid the price for his actions.
As someone who lives in Seattle and has used Amazon Fresh, I actually prefer to go to the grocery store for most things. Items like produce are almost always not the best of quality, even though they have a quality ranking system. I've found that it is not worth it to purchase produce.

There is also the lack of browsing on amazon. I am fine with that for almost all other items, but something about food makes me want to walk the aisles and find food that sounds good. I do love cooking, so I might be in the minority in that regard.

I would rather walk a third of a mile to a real grocery store. That is mainly because of the produce and meats which is the bulk of my purchases. The rest of the stuff, cleaning supplies and such, I order through prime and get them in 2 days. Otherwise I would have to pay a delivery fee or meet a minimum order amount for free delivery.
It is also less interesting as they balance out the overhang by extending bricks in other direction.
I often present it this way:

- when you join a company as an engineer, the best case scenario is probably something like 1%.

- a pretty good case scenario would be for a company to be bought in the $100M range. Say, $250M? You'll have cases in the billion-range, but that's exceptional.

So that's $2.5M! Nice! But a couple of things:

- you've been diluted in the meantime.
- investors have liquidation preferences, so your percentage is coming out of a smaller amount.

That $2.5M got reduced a bunch. And you'll have to pay taxes on this. So, you're likely under a million in the bank at that point. That's honestly fantastic. But it won't last forever (meaning you're not set for life) and to compare it fairly, you'd want to divide that amount by the number of years you've worked for the company. (compared to a more stable job that pays more, with a regular bonus plan, less hours on the job, probably better benefits, etc.)

But the thing is that in most cases, people don't get 1% and in most cases, companies don't get bought for $250M or more. So, no you most likely won't get rich. Some do (the people at Instagram and Tumblr recently), but they are lucky exceptions. And even then, reports say that most people at Tumblr would get somewhere around $350k. Certainly very nice, but not life-changing and the reason it's been discussed at all, it's because it's an exception.
Basic but it does what it says on the tin. I'll be downloading this later. I have a few questions.

Are there any options to customize its output?

Maybe this'll become clearer once I have a play, i noticed in the pictures that you use push notifications, what would the drain on your battery be like given that the prices will always fluctuate?

edit I downloaded it (Uk App store) but it does not look like what you have in your screenshots. I can see a single refresh button with the basic mtgox API price information displayed. There are no options for me to customize notifications or button text either.
Interesting. The Google Ngram Viewer largely bears this out. The term seems to have come into use in the mid 1970s:

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=money+launderin...

A brief modern history:
http://www.fincen.gov/news_room/aml_history.html
Do you seriously think it's the responsibility of the service provider to make sure its users don't engage in any potentially illegal activities?

These services are simply glorified communication tools, and limiting what people can communicate with them is limiting free speech.