skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
| I think theres a rather large difference between finding away around the
| law to defraud/steal from someone and finding a way to send money
| cheaper/easier then existing methods.

| I mean really, what business is it of the governments is it who i send my
| money to??

My response about fraud was an example to highlight how 'working around the
law' doesn't necessarily mean that you are or aren't doing something. You may
not be doing it by the legal definition, but you can still be doing it by the
'common' definition.

| designed to protect existing incumbents

So, you're saying that tenants breaking their lease agreements is a good thing.
Because the tenant is 'disrupting' the landlord (the 'incumbent')?

If I have a house that I want to rent out, am I an evil person that needs to be
put in my place by the tenants that rent it from me? Is there someone wrong
with me wanting to vet the people that will be living in said house (especially
since damage done to the house can be hard to recover in some municipalities)?
The quote you're responding to said "past 10 years". Strictly speaking, that's accurate. You can play with the chart here - this is a chart of an average of several global temperature series over exactly the last 120 months, with trendline:

http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/wti/last:120/plot/wti/last:...
Google In Talks To Buy WhatsApp For $1 Billion?
I can't speak to the forest practices of S. America or other continents but regarding US and Canadian forest practices that article is complete FUD.

First, it equates 'forest loss' to legitimate forest management - grow, cut, replant. Second, there is more forests now than there were in 1930 (I'll find the source in the morning). Now that's a slightly dubious stat since post-railroad logging there was only natural regrowth but we manage our forests very, very well these days.

The last place for environmental concern in the US and Canada should be to the forests. It's in everyone's interest to have healthy forests - from the logger to the landowner to the mill worker to the multinational.
> But I can tell you as much, $7500 is a freaking bargain.

Proof please. Show your working.
Saying "I disagree" is a pretty useless comment. Say why you disagree, or don't bother saying anything at all.
Perhaps not exactly what you're looking for, but one of the best "life" books I've read is The Wealthy Barber. It covers a lot of personal finance advice in an interesting way.
Also QuietWrite.com
I am still amazed at how small the UK is (I think I read it was roughly the size of Florida).
Even though I knew the general area I had to zoom farther than I thought to see it.

On second look I think it's the type of map. It seems lower than I would recognize from other maps.

The area around Cairo expanded like crazy.

Definitely bookmarking this for later.
I believe the photons are simulated backwards; they emanate from the camera.

So you don't have to simulate the same photons lots of times for different parts of the frame. You just simulate the photons that will eventually end up in a certain part of the image.
Great concept. I will check this out for sure.
And when do they believe crime is going on? When you're driving with cash, no more evidence and no conviction needed to confiscate that cash, says the law. Search for: Eighth Circuit Appeals Court ruling says police may seize cash from motorists even in the absence of any evidence that a crime has been committed.

> should [they] be blinded so that they don't accidentally accost people who are not engaged in crime?

Given the law above, yes. So they don't intentionally accost people to get their cash.
Ask HN: How to get contracts signed.
I'm making contracts for professional services work such as analytics consulting. What's the easiest way to get a document signed by both parties?

Enterprises are still doing the print, sign, fax thing and some like comcast are using clunky web tools. There must be a better way!

I see a few apps in the appstore that allow you to sign on iPhone. I was also wondering if something like "I agree to this contract" in an email would suffice.

Wondering if anyone has a good app or process recommendations?
> Python took a relatively long time to put out a comparable product. I don't remember if Django existed, but there certainly wasn't the situation you have today where Django is basically the "Python Rails" and they're seen as being on roughly equal footing. Instead, Pythonistas were all talking about how you should take Twisted and twelve other libraries and you just write all this glue code and then it's sort of like Rails if you squint really hard — and nobody really found that exciting either.

This is the most informative part of your comment. I came to Python around version 2.6, and Django was already pretty near its modern form. I also first started hearing about Rails at that time, so my perception was "Python has always had Django, and Rails is a new thing." If Rails is older than Django, that explains much.

> Python invariably loves explicitness

Before I used Python, Java and C were my main languages. I was amazed at how short programs became in Python. For this reason, saying "Python loves explicitness" strikes me as strange, since it gets rid of braces, semicolons, variable declarations, the 'new' operator...

> A lot of other people hate that kind of code, and they will be much happier using Python.

This is totally me. I've ranted elsewhere in this thread about Ruby's syntax. Maybe some clever person will write a Python-to-Ruby translator someday so you can use Rails without having to deal with Ruby syntax.

> inertia matters a lot

I'm just a little surprised the momentum isn't swinging back to Python. Since IMHO Ruby's syntax makes the language...very undesirable, and if I was forced to use it to take advantage of tools that only exist in Ruby-land, I'd be looking to switch back to Python as soon as the tools were ported -- and even devote effort to helping with ports.

Everybody was excited about Perl in the beginning, but very few people still code in Perl these days. I think Ruby suffers from similar problems and will eventually be eaten by Python.
Facebook is a private company and depends on income from advertisers to provide a "free" service. So in reality it is the advertisers who control Facebook I would say, and therefore have some weight to throw around.
> to make room for farmland

(bad for carbon if they feed livestock or use fertilizers there)
Lake Mead is artificial. It will 'ebb and tide' as those who control it see fit. Therefore, it's not a great indicator of environmental collapse.
That was the question I was going to ask. I don't understand any possible means that the system can resolve this issue. Traditional database systems always have one canonical value of row X at any point in time. The value can change for earlier transactions but there can never but multiple values of X for the same time. What happens as soon as client 3 comes along and wants to read row X? Making a decision is akin to choosing which transaction you will accept as valid and which you will reject!

The paper describes this scheme as READ Committed which doesn't make generally make sense except in the context of a database with secondary indexes.
So I was a memcached engineer. The memcached team barely works on memcached anymore, because there are no real returns. Being product focused means that it doesn't make much sense to really increase the perf on something when there's other stuff to be done, even if you could do it in a really glamorous way (user space network drivers spring to mind for this -- that'd be pretty cool)

Instead, they focus on superior libraries and different use cases that make the stack more efficient. (Mcdipper was my project here). In infra, you are measured by two things: 1) dollars saved and 2) features made possible (in a very global way, sometimes this means business deals). You also get points for the site continuing to work
I think this is a big one, and one of the reasons I would be uncomfortable calling myself a "data scientist" despite meeting some of the more tool-oriented definitions - my work has a much larger focus on attempting to infer causality.
Post author here. Hmm. The invariant we're trying to maintain is that any write in 'good' should have its transactional "siblings" in either 'good' or 'pending' on their respective servers. So if we are trying to write x=1 and y=1, then, if x=1 is in the x server's 'good', then y=1 should be in the y server's 'good' or 'pending'. But in the example under "not okay", y is not present in either.
PHP 5.3.0 offers a wide range of new features
It's good practice to comment when necessary. Sometimes, even a "well named" method will not be expressive enough. Other times, you need to do something non-obvious (eg, work around a bug in another system). Comment when necessary.

I've also found that comment tend to be both easier to maintain (due to the smaller amount of code) and more necessary (due to the higher density of information) when using more powerful languages (eg, Haskell).
The theme-changer/audio/fullscreen options up to the left don't seem to work.

I had a double take when I opened the sidebar. After digging through my bookmarks I found that it reminded me of Scratchpad's (http://scratchpad.io/example) sidebar.

Overall, pretty cool.
Get a better IDE ;)
> python's requirement of object methods requiring the self arg

I originally hated it too, but it's grown on me. I've come to the conclusion that it's good to have that explicit signal that something is a member variable rather than a local. And I've started adding explicit "this." to member variables in all my Java programs.
I would argue that computer scientists (academia) is the biggest offenders when it comes to writing "non-clean" code. They normally don't have any incentive to create reusable and maintainable code.
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Shitty OS? This is not OS X we are talking about!
After reading the article, I didn't really catch any tips on how to get a job other than use HireArt. I guess that was the message?
Yes, the MOBI quality has been very good for commercial ebooks and even clibre made ones. But I do not know about color.
Sales Advice for Enterprise Startups
The Stunning Fall Of Generation X
So, if I use GPG, but call it Uncle Al's Bargain Basement Email Privacy Dohickey, then it's ok?
Closer to a Quantum Internet
I've seen your posting before, but don't see the relevance. Our indices are a trivial portion of our data size, and even if they were zero bytes in size it wouldn't make an appreciable difference to the data size.
This does not seem to be encouraged behaviour.

via http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/articles/243...

If I already have a game(s) in the bundle do I have the ability to
gift the extra copy in the bundle?

Unfortunately, if you already have a game in the bundle you will
not be able to gift the extra games to a friend.

Please consider your bundle a "unit", and not to share copies of the
games or Steam keys from it.

If you'd like to give a copy of the games away, we have a system in
place that allows you to buy a gift key from www.humblebundle.com so
your friends can have access to direct downloads as well as any Steam
or other keys we have included.
Google Chrome 28.0.1500.20 dev, Mac OS X 10.7.5
As someone who is apart of the 2-6% who dropped out of an Ivy (about a year and a half ago), I assure you it wasn't because it was too hard. The reasons are multi-faceted, and closer to wanting to get away from this pervasive air of "I realize we are extremely spoiled (so lets milk it for what it's worth and cba about anything else)".

Been trying to find my way through the start up world in NYC for about a year (coming from the midwest), meeting amazing people and experiencing things with a perspective many would even be afraid to try because of fears that are so far removed from things like death. I haven't "made it" yet (not sure if I will ever feel like I will no matter what I do), but I am far from being spoiled (I've been sleeping on a couch for over a year, doing occasional freelance work, and helping out with friends projects, meeting founders of start ups, sitting in on university classess), have a good beachhead, content with where I am and what direction I am moving in.
Disclaimer: My web development company built the website for these guys, but the backend is all theirs.

http://www.recombo.com/

These guys help you to perfect contracts, from building the forms (as complicated as you need, they do hospitals, financial services and more so yours should be a piece of cake) to sending them, sending reminders and making sure the client follows the correct funnels.

That aside: https://www.echosign.adobe.com/en/home.html

Echo sign is what we use here for our employment contracts, it's all legally binding and it's fast and easy.
Einstein's 'spooky action' common in large quantum systems
Heh... I'm not sure this qualifies as something for "every day life", but since I seem to wind up recommending this book in every other thread on books, what the heck:

The Four Steps To The Epiphany by @sgblank
I can confirm the same experience as a non-engineer.

I worked in a group that was not engineering, and had the same schizophrenic experience with respect to what I was told was the culture, what was expected and what the reality was.

The culture of facebook is that of a pretentious enclave of people who think that simply their being at facebook is validation of their any actions or motivations.

While the benefits of the company are amazing, the actual actions and methods of teams is utterly broken.

I was accused of not providing information in a timely manner, even though I was simply statusing other employees and teams on their activities. After multiple escalations regarding not receiving status from said teams, I was ultimately held responsible for those that literally ignored every request for an update, inclusive of escalations to both my and their managers.

I was accused of overstepping my bounds by looking into information required for various projects and interfering in other teams responsibility even after being explicitly asked to gather this information on thie behalf. I was told by my manager that I should document all requests in email to ensure that I was not perceived as being encroaching on their area. I complied, and was praised for covering for that team, then denigrated by my very manager for overstepping into their area....

I was accused of spending too much time in the social scene at FB, while I joined a total of ~5 groups within FB and only posted a total of ~10 times between all groups.

The fact is that there is a ruthless political system within facebook that ruthlessly seeks out people who are too active and cuts them as early as possible.

When I was fired, jsut minutes before I was assured by my manager that all was good and that the person who was difficult was just someone I was supposed to get to understand.

Then, all my colleagues disappeared from our desk line and I received a call that I needed to leave the building. It was the most cowardly and disgusting company exit I have ever experienced.
I have a Yale degree. I hope one day you grow up enough to be embarrassed by your post.

do consider that financial barriers to the Ivy League are basically non-existent nowadays

For middle-class families, that is categorically false.
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They obviously have weight to throw around, but it seems really odd that they are getting into the arena, and then complaining about the conditions (even though they should have known what they were getting in for when they threw in).
Uncertainty revisited: Novel tradeoffs in quantum measurement
You just aren't reading what I wrote.
Installing packages is now quadratic time. Go doesn't scale.
As someone who has had to deal with huge methods in PHP - high-level dynamic languages are not immune from incompetent programmers. "Prefer smaller methods" is usually good advice (or as I prefer to think about it, methods with smaller logic). Especially when you feel tempted to put comments inside your bigger method - it's a sign that it's getting too big.
The Most Travelled Watch In the World
I suggest that a simpler hypothesis is that children mature at different rates. Empathy and moral self-control emerge at different times in different children. The overlap between adorable sociopaths who can talk and adorable intellectuals who can feel lasts for quite a while.

To make it worse, children are placed together in a deliberately infantilising environment with very few role models who aren't basically wardens as well as educators.
its a good recipe. what are you talking about?
> The way HireArt works, explained Sharef (who was my daughter’s college roommate)

Congratulations on the free advertisement in the most respected newspaper in the world.
Do you have localStorage disabled?
Did you check out any of the other recipes?
Sad that it only applies to State authorities, and not Federal (where it's really needed).
I did rtfa!
So, you want to study computer science
Then how come they are separate? If they want to discourage people from giving away the games as a non-unit, shouldn't they make it one code like they used to?
Great stuff. Just one thing though - your copy reads 'me, me, me' - people don't care about you, it's better to phrase it in such way that it addresses _their_ problems, and talks about them.

See http://www.kingofcopy.com/copywriting-tips-re-you-vs-me/
A Tesla representative gave a talk at my company recently, and supposedly the plan is to produce an EV at around $30,000. Tesla's supply-side partnership with Toyota still gives me hope for more affordable, ubiquitous EVs.
I am going to enjoy watching TX flip Blue as more young, urban, and Latino voters register Democrat. It might even happen in 2016.

links:
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2013/05/28/2058031/texas-d...

http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/could-hillary-clinton-turn...
> People accuse NATO soldiers of war crimes everyday without even realizing the legitimate war crimes we prevented every single place we went.

Had we gone into Afghanistan in the 90s when various groups of locals were asking us to we might have fought about as much, in the end, but we'd have been there at the request of the people, actually building relationships, instead of continually rebuilding a failed-by-design state for some bullshit 9/11 excuse.

Bin Laden might still have happened because he wasn't depending on Afghanistan, or he might not have, because the allies could have had a better (good) reputation in the area negating much of the terrorist fervor.

But, I (one who criticizes our soldiers for war crimes) do recognize that we often, ultimately, bring some good to the survivors - hospitals, clean water, etc, and often stop many ongoing killings and other horrible practices. But never for the reasons we say we're there and only in doing things that perpetuate the cycle of war such as setting up dictators and selling critical resources and infrastructure.

Even if in their specific case any given soldier may save more lives than they cost, our war overall and our continued ability to wage it via the complicity of our soldiers, will cost far more lives in the end.

Refusing to fight for an unjust cause, or hurt without need, is a duty of all soldiers of modern civilized militaries. Sure, it realistically means jail for those who refuse - but it means death for their victims if they don't.

Afghanistan and Iraq were clearly not justified by 9/11 or implicated by any related evidence. By fighting for the USA and allies despite these lies, without the mandate of the people, soldiers are essentially pissing on the rule of law.

We're showing - through action not words - that no matter what they do we'll just make shit up and bomb them. Why do we expect them to expect anything else?

If our governments couldn't field the army unjustly, our peacekeeping might not only be welcome but might finally work.
You should give Python another chance. Here's why:

> meaningful indentation

Indentation in other languages has meaning too. If you have Java code, for example, that looks like this:

public static boolean isIncreasing(int a[])
{
boolean result = true;
for(int i=1;i<a.length;i++)
if (a[i-1] <= a[i])
continue;
else
System.out.println("a is not monotonically increasing");
result = false;
return result;
}

Can you spot the bug? The topic we're discussing is a huge hint as to what the bug is, but if the only clue you have is bad behavior in a longer program it can be much harder to spot. When skimming the code, the visual cue of the indentation is so strong that it's very easy for your brain to see what the programmer clearly intended to write rather than what's actually there. (The diagnosis of the above bug might be even hairier if the bug was introduced by inserting a "safe" print statement to help you debug an unrelated problem!)

Forcing your code's visual cues and behavior to match defeats an entire class of bugs. And even if you start out hating it, ultimately it's like the required semicolons in C/C++/Java: It's an annoyance at first, but after a while it becomes so automatic that you no longer stop to think about it.
Secure Boot isn't about lock-in, at least not on PCs. To qualify for the Windows Logo program, it must be possible to disable Secure Boot.
This is how doctors in India (and a lot of other countries) work, and it's super efficient. His prices feel very competitive to me. I would carry a high-deductible insurance plan for catastrophes but this would otherwise be a great option.

More doctors need to follow this lead.
Generally, yes. Granted, I don't know the specific details of this. I'm just a JS programmer, not familiar with Asm.js (other than browsing their homepage and slides and articles). But it seems like the people working in these communities have written off or not focused on JS ever being compiled to Asm.js JS and achieving near-native efficiency. And that instead, the focus is on more traditional languages with static typing compiling to Asm.js JS. And I suspect there's a reason for this, that it's hard or impossible to compile regular JS to use asm to achieve near-native efficiency. But I'd like to know specifically why, because in my naive view, it's possible (and even if really, really hard... totally worth it since you can then speed up all the JS that's ever been written to date and all future JS we write... and even if that's not possible that we can focus on avoiding certain features of JS to make compilation to Asm.js JS possible, i.e., a saner way to write Asm.js JS in JS).
I'm sold on "don't pass null" for collections. Return empty collections instead of null, this saves you from a world of pain, and it reduces the code size.

The right way to work around null for scalar variables is to use Maybe/Option, preferably in a language with pattern matching, as opposed to using "magic values" like 0 or the empty string. This means removing null pointer errors by construction.
Blogging with Nanoc
I doubt there's any hope of making money off the project, but it's a great piece of work and something he can add to his portfolio.

Note the prominent mention of nodejs. That is irrelevant to anyone using the app, so adds to the likelihood he is probably hoping to score a job(s) out of his now proven ability to ship products with node.
Nope.

EDIT: From what I can tell, the textarea is over the div.settings

Add a z-index to your .settings rule.

eg:

.settings {
z-index: 99;
}