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I get what she is doing. I know it must be hard, as a mom, to watch your little girl work hard to build her castles (little kids get so attached to things) only to have "some boy" repeatedly knock it down.

However, I have a real problem with this statement on the last paragraph;

"Take each of these three boys and consider what he might do when he’s older, say, at college, drunk at a party, mad at an ex-girlfriend who rebuffs him and uses words that she expects will be meaningful and respecte, “No, I don’t want to. Stop. Leave.”

Really?

That's not fair. Just because he is a little boy who likes knocking down some girls castle, why is he all the sudden destined to be a rapist come the time he is in college? The thing that gets me the most is it is totally OK for a woman to say that about a guys.

This gem too;
"The “overarching attitudinal characteristic” of abusive men is entitlement."

I have no problem against feminism (I assume she is), but my only gripe about it, is it does not promote woman as equals; feminism inevitably turns into "man bashing". If men were to say the same thing, but reversed, we would be labeled as "sexist" or a "misogynist". Women, on the other hand, are applauded as "independent" or "free thinkers".

Sigh.
Eh, I get where the admins are coming from, on the one hand I'm glad to have been told about this, on the other hand this seems more like Digg or Reddit content than HN content. If HN put outrageous things on the front page whenever they occur, we'd probably have nothing else left.
All I can say is that the dog owner failed to properly control his dog...

Sadly, the dog paid for it with his life.
Motoblur.
Business Insider omits Firefox from browser charts
Some of these seem like shots in the dark, but I can't imagine both Cuba and Venezuela not offering Snowden asylum if he can get there. They really have nothing to lose in the pissing-the-US off department.

an EU country offering asylum would indeed be huge, I just can't see it happening.
"It's that nutters are disproportionately attracted to certain types of posts.

And yes it is a measured response, there are almost always a lot of annoying nonsensical shouters whenever the topic comes up"

This is what I disagree with. I don't think posts on sexism attract significantly more "nonsensical shouters" than posts on, say immigration, or abortion or any other topic. I don't have direct data on this, but neither does the article, which is why I'm questioning its propositions.
Start with Python, Google tutorial for python is good, google code jams, numpy, panda, opencv, scikit - even as beginner you will feel power of those frameworks even if you will run just tutorial apps/projects.

When it comes to high-level langauges like Java or .Net NLP and ML is so heavyweight and you don't have many useful libraries available. Scientists use Matlab,C or Python.
Its interesting to look at the legal department salaries. Mid-level Alameda county counsel seem to be at $150-160k base + $40k pension contribution, or roughly comparable to a mid-level associate at a private law firm, while working far fewer hours.
Smart move including all these countries. The media in each country will report on it, and the citizens will be forced to think about it. A groundswell may form in one of them.
A better title would be 'Quantopian wants to turn stock trading algorithmic for everyday investors'. These techniques are used by quants already (as the article states).
That all sounds extremely unnatural, and uncomfortable. What's I'd be far more interested in is how to naturally change the sleep cycle to be "early to bed, early to rise", and waking naturally rested, rather than the more typical "stay up 'till dawn, sleep 'till lunchtime" routine, with enforced scattered alarms to get up earlier, with resulting sleep deprivation.
I've had a somewhat similar path to you in that I had no development experience, yet after a year I'm now developing at a startup.

As mentioned, I think that the best route for freelancing would be to start with Wordpress development. I say "best" in that there is consistent demand for websites and these are projects that are great to learn on. You could definitely start freelancing right now and charge $35 p/h. Just bill for 1/3 of your time as a previous poster mentioned & learn on the job - this is the most efficient way.

In your spare time (if any), I would highly recommend learning Javascript. Not Jquery - core Javascript. This will be incredibly useful when you do want to go to a startup. You will most likely be positioned as a front-end dev anyway, so focus on that. I have had to learn angularJS on the job and it's been incredibly rewarding, yet I do wish that I had learned serious JS earlier (rather than just rolling WP themes). Once you've got JS relatively down, move to Ruby & Rails.

Enjoy!
http://www.trulia.com/local/#crimes/san-francisco-ca
Indeed. Even New Jersey gets some love. Brookyln too. No hipsters on the upper east or west though.
So sites like Medium are effectively driving down the pay of most authors (except some stars) by competing with other sites that pay for content. Bad news for authors.
Reddit to thwart the NSA’s tracking plans with a gift exchange? Yup.
Facebook and Twitter OAuth implementations both support response_type=token for serverless authorization.
The EU has been trying to do this for over a decade [1] but it hasn't been fully implemented yet.

That said they have implemented a directive [1] on how to handle asylum requests which is a great improvement on the previous system of the lowest standards of any relevant country are applied to all of the requests.

[1]http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/asy...

I think the issue preventing a common system is state sovereignty. States, like us, really dislike giving up their rights and liberties, such as the right to deny access to a non-citizen. A common system would force states to accept asylum seekers despite their desires and interests, which could damage foreign relations. Not that this should be a factor in deciding whether to grant asylum.
Yelp is very aggressive against crawlers. They IP banned me for curl'ing their site a few times for something or another that their API didn't provide. I had to email them and promise never to do it again. I'd imagine it has provoked some to attempt to crawl them via Tor. I just use the Open Table API instead.
Although I think this was because it fell off the edge and kept moving forwards as it fell.
I've never understood that about America. You guys have weak doors. In Western Europe you have brick houses, heavy double glazing, and the outer doors are solid wood or stretched metal, or one of the very heavy plastics reinforced with metal bars. The walls, nearly all of them, are concrete or brick. Security doors are reinforced concrete. Lately there has been a big push (by the police) to replace traditional locks with security locks and put locks and shutters on the windows, security doors, ... complete with tax breaks and a personal advisor (police would come down and do a security survey of your house if you wanted them to. They'd index all the entrances and exits, point out where there would be no visibility, tell you to have at least one locked barrier inside the house, ... Then give you the report, and I don't think they even kept a copy. Not that it would help them that much to get in). Windows get double tax breaks : better security and better isolation.

The big problem they're trying to protect against is power-tool equipped robbery gangs coming in from outside of the country, but within the EU.

Frankly, given the response to self-defense these days (intrusion = 1 year probation, hurting an intruder goes from 6 months to 10 years, but guaranteed not to be fully probation), you're pretty much forced to do things this way, plus it's a lot safer.

If the police wanted to kick down my door (previous owner installed a security door) ... they'd have to bring a tank, or heavy power tools, and it would take them 20-30 minutes to get in. SWAT teams exist of course, and they regularly get into that situation. Person locks himself in with drugs, and they need the entire afternoon to get past the door of the house.

Then you go visit America, and you see American houses. I'm not exactly fit anymore, but I'm pretty sure I could kick down one of those doors. The windows do not resist a light tap (average West European windows will easily resist a football getting kicked into them, good ones will resist a hammer, and when they do shatter, they shatter like plastic does, which still doesn't give you access without 10 minutes of cleanup)

Always wondered why that is. Is it just cheaper ?
Step 2: never have those 'fire drills' at work so you can leave at 5 every day, all the time, so you can get to bed at a decent hour and still get your 6-9 hours of sleep.

It feels like every time I come in early to work, and yeah, my morning is more productive, something happens and the world goes crazy that afternoon, forcing me to stay until 7 or 8 or 9pm, because things went bad and it has to be fixed right now.

I may be a bit jaded.
The DAU Onion
It's got 4744 upvotes and 7708 comments on Reddit atm. I agree with you entirely.
Does CEO of a tech company need to know programming?
Do read up more on the history of both wars as 'seeing a situation' was a pretty simple-minded opinion there. It took much much more than a call for justice to move the military gears. There were always political or economic agendas hidden under any wars and that makes one reason for criticism. I don't even want to get started on other reasons.
If you're comfortable sharing your browsing history with the government, feel free to email it to them at the frequency you prefer. However, I demand that they get a warrant from a non-secret court, so proper checks and balances can work, and their actions can be later scrutinized by the public and abuses can be tracked and punished if necessary.
We definitely intend to -- it's at the top of the list of new stuff to work on.
Presumably you'll know if your phone has gone missing and can then deactivate it as an authentication token long before someone could combine it with guessing your PIN. There has been a secure token business operating for years without a major problem due to token loss. Migration to using your phone instead of a separate token is a natural transition and doesn't change the fundamentals much.
The question here is if that government is willing to encourage such leak against secret agencies of a government. If a government granted Snowden such asylum, what kind of signal it sends to its own employees?

I am a supporter of Snowden, but I doubt there is a "free" government that will take the same side as Snowden against the U.S. government. Snowden might have a better chance with a government that deem U.S. government as an enemy such as Cuba. But there might be a dilemma that the U.S. government can portrait him as one that took the enemy's side.
You can save yourself trying to guess how to navigate a page and simply use page up / page down :) It's also faster that way.
I like the idea and I've done it successfully for a couple of months, but my conclusion is that you can't fight your tendencies. I simply got a lot more done by staying up late than by getting up early.

Also, I think its a little facetious to namedrop early risers without doing research into similarly successful/creative people who stay up late.
Fisherman's wharf is no colosseum. Golden gates worth a look though.

Overall sf city culture is the main tourist attraction of sf, so it makes sense to seek that out. I was pretty unimpressed by sf until seeing some of the massive displays of humanity its fond of putting on.
SEEKING WORK - native British freelance developer currently living in Hanoi, Vietnam. Seeking (presumably) remote work.

Here is my portfolio, I've been freelancing for 5 years: http://iandundas.co.uk/portfolio

Twitter: @id | Email: contact@[mydomain].co.uk

I'm an experienced iOS developer (using rubymotion of late, but traditionally using obj-c). I'm decent at Rails so writing the app and the server-side backend to go with it is my bread and butter.

My last iOS app was written for Audi and was their new Mileage Tracker app: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/audi-mileage-tracker/id53130....

And before that: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/predix/id638720699?mt=8

Also fluent in: mongodb, node.js, the LAMP stack, etc.

I can offer great rates because of my locale.

Ian
I don't follow that logic, could you explain it?
Surprised Switzerland is on the list. The Swiss really really want to talk to him about his time in Geneva as a CIA spy that took part in a blackmail operation on a Swiss banker.

http://www.thelocal.ch/20130611/bern-seeks-us-response-over-...

But Switzerland does give asylum to the stateless. But I think now, as of a few weeks ago, he would actually have to get to Switzerland to apply. You can no longer apply for asylum from outside of Switzerland as it was being abused. The Swiss take more refugees than most other European countries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPl10L40pBM
"...the thing that Medium excels at is amplifying an individual idea. Not necessarily a writer, but something that writer says."

You hit it on the head with this. By and large I like following links to Medium, but I rarely connect to the author afterwards. It's almost like reading the Economist. Well thought out, but the magazine is the brand, not the writer.
That's good news! Did that change with Kepler? Any links to more info?
Can't wait for Economics 2.0 to harvest the inner solar system.
Facebook Is Experimenting With Becoming A Mobile Games Publisher
I don't like having a narrow strip of content with acres of whitespace on either side.

Also the font for the article title is HUGE and why is it not a link to the article?

I don't like that the way it shows that an article is read is by making the "Mark as read" button pressed in.

You don't have any social sharing stuff - people are going to want that.

I think you should have keyboard shortcuts for like/dislike so people can zoom through their feeds going nope-nope-yep.

There's no unread count.

There's no indication of how old an article is.

Also I don't know if it was trying to download every article from every one of my feeds or something but it maxed out my internet connection for a couple of minutes.

As far as marketing copy goes, I found "Free during beta
No credit card required or commitment." scary. Who would pay for a beta? It feels like you're thinking about money before I've even had the opportunity to see if your product is any good. There are a lot of feed readers out there right now and a lot of them are free or cheap, so it's got to be GOOD for me to consider cracking the piggy bank.
Chapter 12:

https://mises.org/rothbard/newlibertywhole.asp#contents
17 injured in BRT bus collision in S China
I honestly don't know which ones, as I am not a lawyer or familiar with the processes that surround passport control. But I think it is very likely, verging on certainty, that some rules were broken.
Reading the things you say is like reading to what Senator Ted Stevens from Alaska said about the internet. The phrase 'newfriend' and anon, out of your mouth, made me cringe much the same way as when I receive tech support requests from tech-illiterate friends and relatives.

You're so out of touch it's ridiculous
I wondered about this a few years ago when my bus stop in Redmond, WA was moved temporarily and I had to walk by the police station to get to the bus. In the parking lot sat an armored personnel carrier. What in the hell does Redmond, a town of 50K at the time and about as low on crime as you're going to get, need with an APC? And what excuses does the PD find to use it? This in a town where one patrol cop, when interviewed during a ride-along by the local paper, stated that patrol is pretty boring in Redmond.

At first I thought that they got it cheap or free, but it still costs money. Personnel have to be trained and regularly drilled, and maintenance isn't free. When money is being spent, it's going to get used. And I can't help but think of Barney Fife when I think of quiet little Redmond's PD running around in an APC.
"Backtest your algorithm, for free, against our 11-year history"

Hahahaha, yeah, I don't think so. If you guys are really interested in this sort of thing, the MOST important thing is to have a comprehensive database free of biases and errors. For example, survivorship bias is a huge deal, and I wouldn't trust any platform that isn't serious enough to have a historical dataset that is longer than 11 years long to be free of these kinds of things.
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I'm sorry, what does this have to do HERE?
I don't follow it. He seems folksy, but if "Not taking outside money, and serving customers based out of a low cost area" were the path to $912 million in Sales, wouldn't a lot more people be doing that?
Oauth has been made to avoid to store passwords, but it is not a simple protocol to implement.
I just think you are talking here about the main debate between protocol versus applications/platforms.

- Protocols provide standardization, and independance, often as recipe/instructions to follow. Protocols keeps things open, into nodes not hubs.

- Applications/platforms provide easy comsumption, with a user design but also dependancies. It is like a menu to order, as you choose what you want to eat but you don't have to care about how to do it (the recipe). They mutualize things as code librairies, CPU etc... but are hubs, not node and close the network in counterparty of user experience.

To see in depth the difference of design between a recipe and and a menu, more explanations in the Donald Norman book " The Design of Everyday Things"

Edit: To see the difference between a protocol and an application, why people are using Gmail instead of STMP? User experience vs implementation
I've always been a "morning person."

From my childhood days of waking up before the sun in order to check the surf conditions from our living room window, to military service, to my present tendencies towards waking up at 4 am in order to be more in sync with my online counterparts, I've always enjoyed waking up early.

I don't have any secrets as to how I maintain my early-bird ways, other than "you just have to want it."
I love that he included his middle name in the signature, after the US bungled its extradition request by getting that wrong.
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Apple Plans A Reno Solar Farm To Power Data Center
A common trait among type A early risers is that they assume that's the only way to be a productive member of polite society.
Try telling that to Hollywood.
There are plenty of US regulations that apply to gold: purity, weight standards, futures regulations, security standards, etc. And i'd be pretty surprised if they didn't trade through COMEX or use them or someone similar for clearance or bonded storage.
Microsoft shutters TechNet subscriptions
I know what his father said. You're reading it wrong is all. You're also incorrect that nobody but me mentioned solitary confinement or Virginia courts. Snowden himself brought that issue up and it's been widely discussed.
Since you disclaim any knowledge of the subject, how is it that you feel qualified to make a pronouncement that something is almost certain?
I'm not sure how your solution gives a uniformly distributed sample?
I should have been more clear - those more extreme measures were only to deal with the initial change in sleep cycle from going to bed at 4 am to going to bed at 9-10 pm. It took me about a week to adjust and wasn't all that bad. Otherwise you can try shifting an 45 minutes a day (which seems to be the ideal time) until you're at where you want to be.

Now I just use Sleep Cycle.
I'm still not sure if this story says more about Microsoft, Zynga or Electronic Arts. The implication is all three.
In defense of Gawker's internships, and everyone else's
While the whole holographic thing does indeed smell of pseudoscience, it's the real deal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle (and if you still don't believe me, check out the names on Wikipedia's references). I suppose it lies past the frontier where even the interested layman can no longer tell the difference anymore.
Upvoted for the concise answer, and for having the perfect handle under which to post it.
I was about to say that's not my experience at all. But then, it seems that the majoritarian experience of the the people that studied with me until our equivalent of high school was just like that... The difference is that I studied from the books, and just needed the teachers to ask questions (not during the class, of course).

At my undergrad things got slightly better. I guess the most advanced teachers got something from the lesson.
It's tough to control your dog when you are handcuffed.

This is one of the most shocking examples of overzealous police force I've ever seen on video. This story is not going to go away, no matter how many times the thread is pulled.

They should have let the guy put his dog back in car - he was 100% cooperative.

But I guess a no-knock raid with assault rifles, tactical entry and armored carriers gets the blood flowing...
https://www.quantopian.com/faq

> The data includes all companies that were traded, including companies that have subsequently gone out of business. This is very important in order to avoid survivor bias. Without this complete data set, your algorithms would be be blind to the possibility of bankruptcy and the resulting losses.
Then downvote this. We don't need your observations.
Think about it for a second before blaming the victim here... Police are advancing towards this guy to apparently illegally arrest him, one of them armed with what looks like an assault rifle.

Now you're suggesting that after getting the dog into the back of the car he should try to get in the front seat to raise the windows? (assuming they are power) How do you suppose the police will respond to that?

He had to make a split second decision while heavily armed men, having demonstrated no respect for the law or his civil rights, are advancing. I can only imagine my adrenal response would be in full gear and all that entails, while this man is helping them with the handcuffs.

In my opinion this citizen deserves our sincere respect and condolences for his dog, and good luck to him in his criminal defense and, if all goes well for him, civil suit against the city of Hawthorne.
I think the title is an overreaction. Just because something can and has violated your trust doesn't mean you should never trust it. Never is a very strong word.
Well, except the UK and Germany, who both secretly participated (and presumably benefitted in return). It's hard to find bigger influencers of the EU than those two. :/

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/nsa-spies-on-500...

Though, if it ends up being France, I will run out and buy a TV just to watch the stupidity that will come out of TV news afterward. :D
They provide similar performance where there features overlap but Cassandra is still missing important RDBMS optimizations. A great example being transactions, if you actually need that type of protection it takes a lot more overhead to fake if you don't have DB support. That said I am a believer in mixing both approaches it takes a little more thought and effort, but the benefits can be dramatic.
Hello HackerNews!

Putting this up here on hackernews looking for some feedback!

This is an event library for PHP I developed over the years ... it is pretty awesome ... at least I think so ... :)

Enjoy!
So, is this an effort by more sophisticated players to plant the seeds for a new market to reap? You know, since algorithmic trading is starting to dwindle as a cash cow.