skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be very careful.

There is a kind of "first-world problem" which is objectively rather trivial: My Xbox Live account got banned. My electric car is cold in the mornings. You know what I mean.

But there are other sorts of problems: I was imprisoned for possession of a controlled substance. My mother refused a life-saving ambulance ride because the debt could cripple our family for a generation. I used to go to sleep hungry every night so that my children could eat, but I just lost my job; I'd kill myself if I had life insurance. Perhaps they take place with the trappings of technology and civility, but these horrors are surely no less so for that they occur in the so-called "first world".

As the wealthy and powerful -- and we are that -- I do believe we have a moral obligation to help the less fortunate everywhere that we find them. But we cannot do that, we cannot even assert our obligation to do that, if we cannot solve or even seem to care about the human misery that lives with our tacit consent just next door. And it is so hard for me to buy that there is nothing we can do about that.

I do not know what we do either. These systems did not arrive by any happy accident; powerful men willed it to be so, and undoing their careful work will not be easy. But I do know that if it seems powerful men stand to benefit from the status quo, we should treat any feeling of powerlessness we may have been told to experience with a certain skepticism.
Be careful going overboard with pure functional programming. It could become one of the immobilizing factors the blog was talking about. Is the code pure FP? Can I get rid of the states? Am I doing correct FP? Should I write generic function for more abstraction? Am I doing DRY enough?
Even Homejoy execs scrub and mop at online cleaning service startup
I am not the parent. I wrote the original comment, and my point was that I use hg, and github does not support hg.
There's no incentive for participation. In this sense it does not resemble Bitcoin very much at all.
Well, both of those articles explain that this was just perceived as a dissonant interval which could be used a a musical representation of the Devil. The interval was likely avoided for essentially aesthetic musical reasons, and the Wikipedia article says that "...suggestions that singers were excommunicated or otherwise punished by the Church for invoking this interval are likely fanciful." Unfortunately the BBC article seems to be light on facts and heavy on stereotypes of medieval monks as ignorant religious fundamentalists.
Right-handed writer, batter, thrower. Left hand driver, by wide margin. My left hand knows things about how to drive a car in straight lines that my right will never know.
To be fair, the US was imprisoning witches as recently as 30 years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_ritual_abuse
It's still possible. I used pidgin today for Facebook Chat.
Laptop with thermite self-destruct mechanism
Probably I did a big offtopic, I just wanted to share what's the current situation in Argentine, and what's going on in Latin America.

Perhaps the main reason for Google Play is the current laws restriction for getting foreign currencies and to get the money out of the country.

Google has other business in Argentine as well (as google ad sense), but on the last months we also have restrictions to buy things in dollars with our credit cards, to extract money from foreign ATM (most people were going to Uruguay to extract U$S from the ATM), and the government is trying to avoid by force to let people or companies to take the money out of Argentine.

So it may be related to our laws.
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Do you have links to relevant articles/essays/etc. about homeschooling?

All the homeschooling families I've seen were the religious-nut kind, but I frequently see commenters on HN mention that they homeschool their kids, which is causing me to do a double take on the whole thing.

I'm quite a few years from having kids, but am curious about the subject. Thanks in advance!
The original title was "Arg. Gov. Fucked up mobile devs" as this is what happened and what i think is most interesting
But if you get the money into a bank in a country close to Argentine (you can go to Uruguay and get back to Buenos Aires in the day for U$S 60), you can then get American Dollars from a bank account in Uruguay, and you get all that money back even with earnings by selling the dollars on the street.

Definitely its not an easy way to start, but its a way to survive.
If I was hit by a car if be happy to know my organs were helping unrelated people. Sure.

But you're postulating the murderer gets my organs.

That's insult to injury. If I was an animal I'd want you to choke on me, not eat your fill and use my remains for odd jobs.
"In 2011, Hulu’s owners put the company up for sale and were looking for a bid of at least $2 billion; in exchange, they would offer content licenses that would run for two to three years."

Given that Hulu is now owned by the folks who license its content, any new buyer/owner can expect to pay astronomically more (think of what happens to Netflix every few years as they license content) or lose access to content every few years. Essentially, the owners would sell you the company and retain the option to put you out of business. It's a really bad deal.
> The main problem we have now, is that the government spends a lot of money on social plans to get people to vote them (instead of creating real jobs, obama care?)

So, even when it's not clear what caused this change in Google Play, you're blaming the government.

> what can you expect from a government that used to put bombs on the street and kill innocent civilians?

What?

> And most people in Argentine loves Kichner (54%) in the same way most people here loves Obama

It's called democracy. It works pretty well in most countries.

> At this point, we would love to have a "Second Amendment", the right to have a gun and defend ourselves, pretty bad we never had it

You can legally own a gun in Argentina.

Please, try to improve the quality of the information you bring here, so we can have a rational discussion about this news, which in essence is a change in Google Play that affects developers in Argentina. At this point, everything else is speculation.
Maybe they want to own it so they can get exclusive control over the ads. The platform really allows many of the kinds of ad revenues Youtube can generate, so could be a sweet deal for both content owners and Yahoo.
Maybe the government had a talk with Google? We've had currency restrictions for almost ten years now in Venezuela and we don't have any restrictions related to Adsense income. I don't have a way to get the dollars to Venezuela but I can deposit checks via snail mail to an account in the US or Panama.
The black market price of the dollar here is almost 5 times the official rate! Imagine what that does to the economy of a country that produces nothing but oil...
And then when you are older and your body less resilient and your obligations much higher, you cash in and do all the fun, adventurous stuff you missed out on in your 20s, right?

Concentrating on savings is betting against your own future earning potential. Generally this advice comes from people who always hate their jobs. Better advice: get a job you enjoy. You'll never work a day in your life
$200 is pretty low for food, the host family told me that they will have dinner prepared almost every night which was included in my $400 rent so I lowered it from my original $350. I hope to freelance and make my skills more valuable while working here in my free time as well. Thanks a lot for your advice, I really appreciate it!
My bullshit de tectector is twiddling. 1) Uruguay is only close to BsAs 2) passing everything on the Kirchners without talking of either the dictature or Menem and the mess he created seems a bit disonhest, because there is no simple way out 3) don't forget that Cuba and Venezuela are actively sabotaged by the most powerful country in the world, we have no independent mesure of their government actions without foreign interference.

There is no easy way out for Argentina, and fleeing the country being for Chile or the US is not helping anything.
It would be nice if the WWDC invite could somehow be interpreted as having anything at all to do with their PC products and/or their OSX operating system.

Not only does it appear not to, but prior to this comment, the string "osx" is not in this comment thread anywhere.
Participation is the incentive, right?
What's the value of Hulu to Yahoo besides trying to buy itself into the cool kids club? What is Yahoo these days anyways? Search? Content aggregation?
> What? This made me very angry.

And anger is what made this happen in the first place.

I'm not trying to draw any platitudes or grand truths here. Just... think on that.
>I've never understood why people dislike the commercials so much.

Speaking from a purely speculative and subjective opinion, it could be partially due to neurodiversity within the population. The root cause could be that differing clusters of people have differing cognitive processing abilities.

For example, personally I despise commercials, because they break the flow, and force a context switch. Similarly, movement on the computer screen, whilst trying to read text is highly stressful to me. For this reason, I choose to install extensions (adblockers etc) to make sure that the screen is static, and only moves when I want it to.

Some people try to control their environment, others tend to adapt. Case in point, my oldest friend, is the opposite to me, and he doesn't mind adverts, or distractions, and actually prefers to study with music playing. I'm constantly amazed how others like him, manage to blend so efficiently into the environment.
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I can relate to this, somewhat. I've spent quite a bit of the last few years writing code either under deadline, or for work that's ultimately charged hourly. That doesn't lend itself to thoughtful refactoring.

As such, when I'm not under those constraints, I sometimes go a little overboard factoring out duplicated code and looking for the beautiful solution. To me, beauty is the maximization of clarity and conciseness. Since I'm usually writing Perl, there's quite a lot to work with in that regard.

For example, yesterday I spent 4-6 hours writing approximately 40 lines of Perl (along with another 40 lines of tests).

On the plus side, what I generate during these binges is generally an efficiency multiplier for the other code I write, as well as a god way to really examine some of the more esoteric, but useful, ways to use your chosen language.
As another data point, I've found Philly to have a lively and close-knit startup culture, albeit much smaller than NYC and SV. Gabe Weinberg (founder of DuckDuckGo) keeps an on-going list of links related to the Philly startup scene: http://foundedinphilly.com

I'd be curious to hear what ways you think Philly can improve.
Well sure. I doubt Kim lobbied for software patents.

I oppose the use of land-mines in general but I support their placement in the boardrooms of corporations that manufacture them. Because heartless execs are nothing like innocent children. Context matters.
Google to bankroll, build wireless networks across Africa
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Wow. When are you going to post a comment that isn't about Our Malicious Overlords?

The people who promote careful programming methodologies aren't trying to make people miserable. In fact I'd lay half the blame with the OP, who needs to rein in a tendency to overthink things. We don't need a villain here.
"Currently, developers in the below countries may register as Google Checkout merchants and sell paid applications. We're working hard to add more countries, but we're unable to provide any guidance on timelines.

Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Hong Kong
India
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Russia
Singapore
Spain
South Korea
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
United Kingdom
United States"

Source: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...

That leaves out Chile and Uruguay as well, so this change appears to be unrelated to the current situation in Argentina.
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This is interesting. Four minutes for proof of work is tough, though. That's a long time to wait to send a message.

Bitcoin itself could often use sideband communication protocols for, e.g. transaction details, but this doesn't seem to tick all the boxes: incentives alignment needs to be worked on, and I would suggest that the spamming prevention is somewhat naive; there should be a market.

Consider -- all bitmessage messages are considered "high quality" by default, and therefore sent directly to one's phone.

Botnet operators determine that while one botnet client could send 100 e-mails per minute, the open rate on one bitmessage message is nearly 100%, making it economically feasible to botnet spam bitmessage.

I would like to see more self leveling, and a pricing market baked in to something like this, as well as a way to send messages instantly.
Why would you say they are burning women as witches, if not superstition? "Why could they believe that witches even exist?" seems like a pretty damn important question to ask, but I suppose that is just my opinion.

Superstition must be fought with education if we are to fix these problems. There are other ways to fight superstition, but they are almost universally not palatable.
Yahoo is its Alibaba stake. No more, no less.
Look, there is simply no chance that Apple is going with flat UI and color coded icons. The changes wont be extreme, Apple is not going to fire their graphics department so they can implement flat squares. Yes they will get rid of the kitch.

Think how many peoples' apps would break if they went to Flat UI, think how many users they would alienate? Think how iOS is supposed to have some kinship with OS X design ethos. Is anything in OS X flat?

Linen is staying. Drop shadows, gloss and rounded corners are staying.
You can be house-full and yet still homeless. Dwellings are becoming more and more just that, it seems. Not a "home". Not a Fortress of Solitude, if you will.

So why keep up the charade if you're out of the weather anyway?
I see a lot of people down the thread complaining about advertising and saying how it has become a normalized part of the experience.

I tried scanning the thread, but ironically more knowledgeable people have not mentioned cable television did not originally have ads; at least one of my parents said this was the appeal of premium cable at its inception. Wikipedia kind of confirms this in several places, but does not discuss the history of ads on cable TV specifically, which I would want to read more about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_television_in_the_United...

So, keep in mind it is the lazy or indifferent among us who let them get on cable in the first place, so surprise surprise Hulu and other content providers are not going to diverge from the inertia of greediness set by their industry decades ago.

Also, not to defend Hulu, but they tried a lot of experimenting with fronting the ads in blocks so you can watch shows interrupted. I respected they made an effort, and they need to show with ad revenue and subscriptions (just like cable companies and satellite providers before them) they can use these models on the web to turn a profit. I actually considered Hulu subscription, even if it is garbage, because supporting legit streaming content in any form is the only way to drive it home to these morons in the entertainment industry that I want internet-based services, not DVDs, movie theaters, set-top boxes with encryption cards, etc.
The problem with this approach, while great for you, the developer it is a nightmare for the future team.

I am now working at a startup where the early devs have left. They did precisely what was needed at that point - build quickly, ensure it works for the 3/4 customers we had back then and document it as well.
Fast forward a year later, that same code is no longer extensible for many clients. Its rigid and tightly coupled and rewriting some parts means, we have to pretty much rewrite a whole lot more than we bargained for. We will have to burn through a lot of cash to just build a whole new product based on some of the scalability and maintenance learning we now have from a year of learning and growing to client# 100.

The point is, there is always going to be "this is the right thing right now, its what our customers want" and then something else for the future.

I have seen that people who have worked for a while and in many startups do the smart thing (as expected) and while follow "build for now" they also do the sensible thing of investing for the future (from experience).
0.001% of the global population is 70k people. Most people on the planet do not live under the immediate daily threat of sectarian violence.
Could somebody explain why he insists on using bullet proof material to make the body? He could have picked simpler and cheaper components/materials. Is this a common practice for higher end quad-copters?
I've taken two stats courses, and I still don't understand the derivation of the Bell Curve (why it happens, why it's shaped like it is, etc). I did well in the classes, too. It's weird how "unintuitive" probability is to me.
`Do not ask, ``Why were the old days better than these?'' For it is not wise to ask such questions.' (Ecclesiastes 7:10)
Or "speculative fiction" - which often uses currently impossible or implausible technology in order to make a point about society itself.
Yes, I'm not sure that they're diseases, per se.

I think a better term should be found, perhaps 'phenotypes' or 'variants'
Upvoted to make up for MBlume's mistake. :)
Great idea. But I guess the performance and latency must be an issue.
From 4 minutes to instantly? I would say anything under a few seconds is feasible so long as it's easy to use.
I asked the bank rep about if they open up their backend API for payout processing. Most came back to me with '??'. lol. what exactly should I ask them?

Do banks have their API open for us to do payout?

oh yeah, from my investigation, I found that wells fargo has the best fee, 0 fee if i have checking and savings acc and do monthly transfer between them.
Agree. It seems much more complementary to Flickr, and avoids all of the negotiation with the networks that any deal with Hulu would entail.

This article is a leak, the question is by whom, and to what purpose. The cynic in me says that Yahoo made some lowball offer and Hulu leaked it to try to drum up more interest.
on charges of operating an illegal financial business

sentenced to five years in prison for engaging in the business of transmitting
money without a license, a felony violation of state banking law

So is bitcoin illegal too? Is this worldwide? I can't transmit money to another person or between two people without some license? Where would I get one?
I don't think so. I find it more like meta-interaction. You're interacting with the results or consequences of someone else's interactions.

If you're actually talking or communicating, via exchanges of comments or instant messages then I feel that's interaction.
This is a good idea if your time in the future is worth less than your time today.
Is a hammer a weapon or a tool?

Is a military mortar a tool when ski patrols use it to save lives by safely triggering avalanches?
This is good. But how does it any better than a Vim over a tmux session?
Probably shouldn't take this through the airport.
It's not like the content providers are going to abandon a rather large channel with a lot of momentum.
1) BA is not only the political and business capital but has 40% of the population and is 10 times larger than the next biggest city.

2) Menem was last president in 1999 and the last dictator was in 1983. The Kirchners have run Argentina continuously for a decade. They are responsible for many of Argentina's current problems.

3) The US is not sabotaging either Cuba or Argentina. Like in Argentina their leaders have done a fine job by themselves.
If you're an exchange, you need a license. If you're a consumer you don't.
http://fincen.gov/statutes_regs/guidance/html/FIN-2013-G001....
It Is Not Flat Design. It's Just Proper Design
I've missed coding with whimsy and curiosity. There was a time in my life when it wasn't all engineering. Characters from the Lord of the Rings trilogy made their way into tutorials and references to the Flying Circus were everywhere. Communities were a lot more accepting of newcomers and few people were so paranoid of bad, unmaintainable, spaghetti code. There was less of a focus on being a 10x developer and more on learning, having fun, and doing neat things.

I'm probably remembering things with rose-tinted glasses.

These days, even in open source -- the once proud land of eccentric hackers and the can-do spirit, there is such a negative focus on bad developers. I can certainly see how the OP could feel paralyzed when just trying to write a line of code.

In reality we're all at different points in our journey and have had different experiences along the way. There's always room to improve ourselves and it's important to listen to criticism so that we know where to start. But sometimes you just need to cut loose and let it all hang out. I started writing a library I call "Horton," for this very purpose: whimsy, pleasure, and most of all to avoid the engineer mindset!

In order gain insights and develop new ideas you have to find new hunches and investigate them. It's hard to develop hunches in a vacuum where your reality doesn't expand beyond your own self-made bubble. You've got to push once in a while... and people out there who complain so loudly about shitty developers? Get a life and help someone out. We're just making programs.

update: https://github.com/agentultra/Horton forgot the link...
| please don't sleep in the Dojo ever, it
| endangers our zoning

That seems odd. I've heard of people sleeping in the office before, does that endanger the zoning of that particular company, or does the Hacker Dojo have specific circumstances?
You are asking the wrong question. Superstition was one factor, but what about instances where superstition does not cause violence? Or instances (like lynchings) where mob violence is not triggered by superstition. Did you understand my analogy earlier? It seems like you are not addressing all of my argument.

Let me ask you a question this time: How would donating to any of the causes that the post I replied to advocated, help the situation in PNG. And "magic" is not an acceptable answer here.
Yes, very interesting. Reminded of http://prog21.dadgum.com/173.html
A Bell curve (generally a Gaussian Curve but not always, though what you are inquiring about would be) is just where the data is laid out so the sum of the data adds up to 1 and symmetrical around the average (with the average being the center point). Since the data adds up to one (so you would have to convert each data set to percentages). Useful when you don't know the exact distribution of the data at hand.

To give an easy to visualize example, a teacher that grades on the curve, does so by normalizing the data (taking the top 10% of the grades for a test and making those A's regardless of previous score, then making the top 10%-20% B's regardless of score and so on. There are different methods to calculate the percentiles (and what those percentiles are could vary by grading system), but that's just the most common one.
So the United States can grab someone out of a foreign country and try them here?
I'm not even remotely in your league when it comes to pissing people off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh8Wl37HYgQ

You're the popesquatter. ;-)
That's right RYUUSEiiSTAR! its http://codetry.org
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