skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That the Bank of America contacted the city attorney's office to reportedly urge prosecution has become part of the dispute.

Make that, they called and visited her office repeatedly over the course of many months to emphasize the quid pro quo established by previous political donations. If any corner store had made a similar ruckus for a one-time chalk-on-sidewalk "incident", the store owner would have been cited for interfering with the duties of the City Attorney.

I look forward to voting for Mayor Filner when he runs for higher office. I'm also glad the jury saw fit to correct the judge's egregious Constitutional error.
Someone is working on that very idea, bridging an OBD-II scanner to Glass:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2yX1ZkR2JI
Big Day
While I'm not flip-flopping my position at all, I totally respect that it's a difficult job. I've got 8 kids, and I can't guarantee that on any given day I won't encounter a tyrant or a harpy. :-)
It's quite likely that Ben Franklin had a mutated gene that caused familial advanced sleep-phase syndrome, and it's silly to try to shoehorn yourself into a sleeping pattern that isn't right for you. Early risers seem to have a genetic predisposition, just as do those few people who need less sleep than most[1]. Chances are if you try to force yourself to be an early riser you're likely to end up more tired, less productive, and more prone to mistakes for absolutely no benefit other than a sunrise. (On a side note you don't need to be an early riser to see the sunrise. I see the sun rise every day and it's my cue to go to sleep.)

The rest of this article isn't worth refuting because the arguments are so obviously flawed or subjective.

Also, just because Franklin said something doesn't make it correct.

[1] http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2009/08/13-02.html
You are welcome! Let me know if there are any things that you would be particularly interested in hearing about!
Although I won't try to debate most of your points--I think we'll have to agree to disagree--I do think you're being unfair to say that a strike is extortion. The striking workers are also suffering. Every week that the strike continues is a 2% pay cut for this year. After a few days of the strike, commuters will have adjusted and the transit union leadership will start hearing it from their members and the "balance of power" will shift back towards the BART management. Eventually, there will come a point where the workers are begging to come back to work and the union's power will have been blunted for many years.

Not much else to say, just wanted to point out that the decision to strike is not taken lightly by any union. The potential downside is huge.
At least that doesn't justify the tapping of the fax machine at Brussels.
I'm just pointing out the problem for any country of accepting Snowden. You're saying to your people, "It's okay to leak classified documents."
It should have been one of those news stories that are saved for the 'look at the absurdity' humor sections of the news. It does seem to illustrate the political fighting that has gripped the nation though. The Mayor and DA hold opposite views and drug this into the open.

My tendency is to agree with the mayor; massive waste of money. On the other hand it does serve as a small legal precedent now so I guess there is some absolute value. Maybe.
>Rising Early: Why Successful People Do It & How You Can Too

Define "successful". Made lots of money? Happy? With a quality creative output?

And why should I care that some -- surely not all -- successful people do it? Correlation does not imply causation, and I've known many succesful people in all of the above categories to know that there's hardly correlation either.

Perhaps some business and self-improvement junkies wake up at 5 or even 4, but I'd hardly call those successful.
> a few rambunctious boys

As the parent of a less rambunctious boy, I believe that discrimination should be on the basis of behavior, not gender.

> The classroom dynamic was an absolute necessity to the healthy social upbringing of each.

I think that it is great to have everyone learn to work together, but I don't think it has to be all the time.
As a long-time teacher in multiple countries, I've also had this concern. I realize it's a fairly heretical belief to hold on this site but I think boys are systematically discriminated against in most western societies.

As a child that teachers (nearly all women) tended to be biased against boys and downright dismissive of male dominated interests such as science fiction, video games or arm-wrestling. Talking with students in recent years, I get the impression that my teachers were actually more tolerant of boys than most current K12 teachers are. Invariably boys get punished more severely for similar infractions, boys are more likely to be forced onto medication and more likely to receive "tough love" in the face of academic difficulties.

Compounding this is that even in this day and age when there's nearly a 3-2 ratio of females to males in college, it's the boys who get fewer grants, fewer sex-specific support organizations and less support in general. This chasm continues, even for mid-career adults. Many organizations provide women with free training in various fields, including tech (see Railsbridge, Women Who Code, etc) and allow men only as guests of women at all. In fact the amazingly good hacker school I went to charges men $2000 more than women.

Things probably still seem okay at this point due to the fact that the trends have gradually been getting more extreme and the educational imbalances weren't so bad 15-30 years ago, when much of the workforce was in formal schooling. But the swelling ranks of disenfranchised young men is a demographic that isn't going to be good news for anyone, including women.
Have they published the leak of Ecuador's surveillance system plans yet? [1]

Admittedly the documents keep getting pulled but apparently they are available on DocumentCloud still.

But I just checked the Ecuador page at WikiLeaks [2] and have yet to see anything. Maybe they just need more time to authenticate the contents? Although then again, Ecuador itself seems to have authenticated it [3].

On that note, Ecuador's page at WikiLeaks seems pretty sparse after 2009 or so. I guess there have been any major secrecy scandals since then in Ecuador?

[1] http://thedesk.matthewkeys.net/2013/06/28/scribd-removes-buz...
[2] http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:Ecuador
[3] http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/ecuador-defends-domestic-s...
Yeah, absolutely. Honestly, I'm not the biggest fan of memes myself. The opportunity arose, so I asked myself why not.
Dissecting the Snowden Situation
It hasn't happened in the last 4 years and it won't in the next 4.

The only way to bring justice to banks is to cause a run on them. Take your money out and put it in a small, local credit union.

You'll be glad you did, if only for the level of service you'll receive.
And what will you do for this blatant spam account?

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=sexyalterego

It's a shame the mods didn't shitlist your domain entirely, you're obviously here just to exploit HN.
"Europe" can be as angry as it wants, at the end of the day, it's a singly country that will have to give asylum to Snowden, and I can't imagine a single country in all of Europe (including Russia) that would challenge the US in that way.

The only countries I can see willing to take that risk would be the likes of Iran, Afghanistan or other similar enemies of the US.

Not going to happen.
If I lived in San Diego I would be tempted to organize a chalk-in at BofA branches
Thank god. Reason prevails!
I love reservoir sampling. When I first heard about the algorithm I had been preparing a lab session for a course I was a TA on. (I had a lot of freedom to create labs in this course -- a good and bad thing!) I made dinner in a bit of a daze while I proved in my head that reservoir sampling worked. It's a simple inductive proof, which is a good thing because if it was more complicated I might not have been able to do it without paper, and I might not have eaten that night.

I've since learned there are many other interesting sampling algorithms that apply in a streaming setting. A few are give here: http://people.cs.umass.edu/~mcgregor/slides/10-jhu1.pdf
It's high quality content that people want to share. Some of those people will inevitably share it on their blogs, with links pointing at the site. As a result, Yelp's pagerank improves and they stay ahead of their competition for things like "best restaurants in San Francisco".

A ton (I'd guess 80%+) of Yelp's traffic comes from Google / Bing search. Maintaining / growing that traffic is probably a substantial driver of their decisions.
Some people appear to be trying to use rational arguments to persuade me that I shouldn't feel creeped out.

You'll fail. Rational arguments reach an entirely different part of my brain.
HackaDay for sale; look at the candid numbers
Their suffering is of their own doing (unless they are among those that voted against the strike. they're suffering as well). They don't have to beg to come back to work. They could come back tomorrow if they were not being so unreasonable.
> You are misunderstanding my argument

Not at all. I quoted each point that I responded to. Which one do you think was misunderstood?

> I'm not getting into a Mac vs Windows debate in 2013

Hopefully next time you'll realize that before you invite one by making bigoted comments towards the vast, vast majority of people who run (and prefer) Windows.

In any case, it's time for me to check my mail in my open source email client (Thunderbird) after I close this (mostly) open source web browser (Chrome) and then I'm going to get back to developing some closed source software using some of Microsoft's open source .NET packages before I go to bed. Good night!
That debate effectively ended in 1865.
Andrew Mason's album "Hardly Workin'" now available
Restore the Fourth Organizes Protests Against Unconstitutional Surveillance
Another option is USAA. Unlike their insurance, you don't have to be a member of the military to use their banking services. They are an online-only bank and have magnificent customer service. I switched to them from Wells Fargo a few years back and can't recommend them enough.
> Are you aware that refusing to engage with children undergoing temper tantrums is a standard technique for avoiding having them become more intense?

Yes, of course.

But I'm not talking about kids having temper tantrums, I'm talking about kids being obnoxious (i.e., the kid is clearly not in any distress, he's just being annoying), and where it's pretty clear the parent just thinks the kid is cute (when they're paying attention).

I certainly feel for parents that are trapped in that environment with a kid who's frightened, and when that happens I just grit my teeth and wish them luck.

Parents who simply don't feel the need to make even the slightest attempt to control their kid are an entirely differently story. There are tons of places where you can be indulgent with your kids and let them go wild—but a crowded trans-pacific flight is not one of them.

[At least in this context, it usually seems to be a certain "type" of parent in my experience: conspicuously image conscious, wearing lots of brand goods, an "upwardly mobile" vibe (though not rich, as they're back in coach with me), giving off a certain sense of affectation...]
I compiled servo and here's what it looks like
Why “real journalists” hate Sean Parker’s wedding
AltaVista. What’s That?
No, you provided initial payment using the credit card account, but you signed up for the service until you cancel it, not until your method of payment expires.

Even if you cancelled the card outright, you're generally technically (and legally) still on the hook for a subscription if you don't go and cancel. Read the ToS for just about any recurring subscription. It's your obligation to cancel, not their obligation to guess when you want to cancel. Honestly, I'm not sure how that's unfair; it's not a service provider's business to interpret your payment methods and how they might map to your desire to cancel or retain a service.

The only reason most services don't bother to pursue payment for expired cards is because it's not economic to do so. So when a card expires, they eventually mark the account as overdue and disable it. That's not the same as a clean cancellation; technically you still owe them for the services rendered between the last invoice and the final cancellation.
"Data scientist" is a really vague term. It's really a matter of looking at your current skill set and interests, and seeing where they fit.

For example, many CS grads don't have strong stats/maths backgrounds. However there are still many "data science" jobs open to them. For example, you can work on the tooling that goes into storing and processing data (e.g. Hadoop), or you can build visualisations. If you want to work on, say, data analysis you need to have a stronger background in stats.
Feast your eye on these FOXES: Firefox OS hits market
I could not express my elation in words for this victory!

I said it before when this trended on HN, that I hoped he would go to trial and not take a deal. I don't care if BOFA showed video of him doing it, he had chalk on his hands, and posted pictures up online on FB or Twitter...if I was on the jury, I would've said he wasn't guilty.

Ridiculous lobbying of resources and obvious oppression by BOFA!
This depends a lot on the particulars of the individual subscription agreement. But in most cases, you owe for the services once the new subscription period starts, not when payment is received. (In most cases, your card company actually pays long after the services are rendered (30-60 days), anyway.)

You're saying this is a service you don't want, but it's unclear how the provider is supposed to guess that. You signed up for it, you haven't cancelled it, and now they're going to provide it and then seek payment for it. The failure to cancel is on you, not the provider. Even if you cancelled the card outright, in most good ToS, they'd still have a right to bill you directly for the service if you don't cancel.

Let's say I run a gym and you're a signed up member. If a new month starts, and you've got an active account, even if your card expires I'm still going to bill you for the month unless you come and tell me you want to cancel your membership. The two things are unrelated.
I don't know, but I rarely can submit new stuff...

When I joined HN I submitted a lot, but suddenly I could not submit for two weeks, then sometimes I can submit twice or three times in a week, and then have to wait two weeks again...
'Quake 3 Arena' Bots Evolve World Peace After Four-Year War On Pirate's Server
Russia. It is a big place with lots of choices of interesting places to live. And there is no way that the USA could ever get you out, even with rendition teams, except possibly in the capital Moscow. In fact, In Russia it is easy to disappear completely so that even the Russian state no longer knows where you are. Find a girl, go off an build a cabin in the woods, and live out your life off the grid. There are countless Russian doing just that all over the country because it is just so vast. Even Canadians, who pack themselves in a narrow strip along the US border, have no idea how vast Russia is. Snowden has done his job, leaked the info and demonstrated the incompetence of the US intelligence establishment in protecting its classified data. Other who desire to do similar data collection and leaking now have a roadmap as to how to proceed. Of course there are other countries where you can disappear like Brazil, New Guinea, Parts of Indonesia, but nowhere would give you the government shield that Russia can give.
Time to learn Russian. You could be fluent in 3 years and then just disappear. Actually you could likely also disappear in some relatively urban areas once you become fluent, as long as you can keep moving.
I think we're talking about parties who don't actually have an order in. Rather they have automated a process to enter orders in response to certain conditions. Depending on what those conditions are, you won't be able to rely on a continuous price trajectory.

Admittedly, I don't see how this is different for BTC than it would be for any other asset.
If you've ever used a banks website an thought to yourself "This is fucking retarded, who built this pile of shit" switch to USAA. If only for the superior web presence, it's the best thing ever.
Where did this guy get a permanent chalk WMD?

Wait... you're telling me this was chalk like my kids use on my driveway nearly every weekend? The same stuff that takes about 2 seconds to hose off? No shit he's not guilty of vandalism. SMH
Show HN: A news service built with Clojure
Clapper under pressure despite apology for 'erroneous' statements to Congress
I was making a case for why it is worth throwing another $5M at when you have already thrown $2M. You were asking why they got the funding, not if it would work. Very different propositions -- they only have to get to 1 in 10 odds to make it worth funding.

...

But as for the points,

1 & 2. It's a better marketing proposition than Facebook is today if done right. There is $17B spent on postage and maybe about $30B spent on printing in direct mail today in the US alone. Once you get penetration, the ads will come to you digitally and would know what people want (because they will tell you by opting out what they don't) and you have rooftop location which Facebook doesn't have or doesn't expose.

Trust me -- this is my business. A good replacement for direct mail is giant opportunity.

3. Yeah, I don't like the last mile part either. Will and Evan do. However, it is clearly a place to extract value if they can saturate the dense zip-codes and have a good relationship with the individuals. It is no different than JetBlue taking traffic on major routes. The USPS is burdened with Rural delivery. UPS and FedEx prove that Urban delivery can be profitable.

4. Bill Pay. The existing services in this market charge the biller $0.75 to deliver. The biller saves on printing so both sides win. This is a proven market with PayTrust being the pioneer. At scale, it is clearly a good revenue source. Outbox is a natural to capture business from the existing services.

5. Saturating zips. I don't think you've demonstrated that the costs won't work. You assume a certain ratio of FTE to customers and then say it is impossible. That same type of logic is why everyone said UPS and FedEx would never work. I don't know if you are right. But these VCs are not dumb money -- they probably have better numbers on this than you do. This is exactly what they are testing in Austin and SF today so, internally, they have some decent estimates of the costs.

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6. How often do you get mail that you care about? For me, it is once per week at most. Using Outbox lets you change what you get in the mail. People will opt-out because it is easy. Thus, people are likely to wind up with only a few items being delivered per month once Outbox builds relationships with the billers and stops the paper advertisers.

ps - I don't think they are talking about a smart mailbox. I just like the idea.
You're right, but it's not that simple. HK people don't like to speak Mandarin, and don't like the mainland. It's normal in HK for there to be public demonstrations that would be unthinkable on the mainland.
I'm not sure you know how Wikileaks works "I'd really like to see Wikileaks devoting more of its time, energy, and fund-raising into breaking news about government-operated surveillance programs in the last two countries where Edward Snowden has been located, namely China and Russia."

From my understanding people submit content to Wikileaks which then decides what and when to publish. But I guess this depends on if you believe Assange pushed Mannings to release documents.
Really? As I understand it the world is quickly becoming saturated and major players are starting to take their chips and leave the table. The risk is quickly catching up to the reward and consolidation into a type of commodity equilibrium is inevitable.

What areas of algorithmic trading are escaping the Great Chill?
Art isn't about copying something so that it looks realistic. Anyone with a decent amount of hand-eye coordination and patience can learn how to draw photorealistically and learn the techniques to copy a cup in front of them onto a piece of paper and make it look damn real.

But it's hard to understand that art isn't about realism, because it's hard to get out of that perspective of thinking: "I can do that."

Well, you probably could. And you probably, given enough time and patience, can learn how to paint like Leonardo da Vinci.

Any child can be taught how to play some songs by Mozart. Given enough time and patience, someone with relatively good coordination will be able to play many very difficult pieces by the greatest composers.

But no one would honestly say that a piece of music is good only if it is difficult to play. That's just ridiculous. Some of the best music is playable by anyone who has been practicing for a few years.

And no one would say that you are as good as Mozart because you could play one of his pieces on the piano.

Many artists are, however, technically good. The reason for this is because they paid their dues before reaching the higher level of talent, a real understanding of their medium. But this isn't necessarily always the case.
Seems like this would flood the market, and perhaps do good things for the values of the Bitcoins in the Winkelvii personal account, no?
Just for a reference, the old HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5948804
for a while, I remember when ESRI was constantly hiring new people. The problem is, it's in redlands, and redlands in way the heck out side of L.A.C. or O.C.
DAU? Wait a minute, I've seen this acronym before

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/DAU#Acronym_2
"According to the thread on 4Chan"
New Approach to Depression
Application for registration approved – The Wikileaks Party
I can imagine the user base for this is a tiny yet interesting bunch.
My impression is the big virtue of getting up early is nobody is around. It's time for solo thought. There's no waiting for equipment at the gym, if it's open early. And it's possibly to plan the day.

It's not for everyone. This could also be done after everyone else goes to bed, for those so inclined.
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