skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Key parts:

Imagine this pitch (a VC pitching a founder):

"Hello, we’re Founder Friendly Capital. We

• Give you a quick and clear answer. 3 meetings, 2 weeks, yes or no.
• Sign up to a plain-English, Founder-Friendly Termsheet. We pay our own legal costs.
• 1x Liquidation Preference, no veto on Arms Length transactions. Four weeks to decide. No one-way NDAs.
• We’ll always do our pro-rata in the future or sell you back our stake.
• Will never bring in an outside CEO without at least 50% Founder consent.
• You’ll get access to the following resources. X hours of our recruiter time. Access to Y network. Office hours with your Partner.
• Board Seat above $X, Board Observer below that, no Board Control
• No Option Pool Shuffle – the Pre-Money is the true Pre-Money
• Minimum investment amount is $__; Minimum ownership percentage is __%
• Choose your Partner – don’t be embarrassed to ask
• 10% of the Round can be used for Founder Liquidity
…"

Well said, Naval.
nope: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5952266
The best JavaScript developers (Remote is OK)
IE has had auto-update since IE9. IE9 is in the process of being auto-updated to IE10, unless auto-update has been disabled.
I think you're doing something wrong.

Are you using the Go App Engine SDK? Then you just run dev_appserver.py $DIR and it runs.
I'm willing to bet a dollar that the $3.4B number is wrong or at least misleading. A very likely mistake is that the article is quoting the total size of the entire academic coaching industry in India. Engineering schools admission is not the only highly competitive field in India.
At this point everyone knows that the NSA cares very, very little about what is legal or not. They are confident that Obama will cover their asses in any way he can, and any judge that tries to rule against them - including the Supreme Court judges - will be branded an activist terrorist-lover.
YouTube SmartSearch serves 1,000,000 videos in 8 weeks.
He isn't being threatened with anything that draconian. It's bullshit reporting, designed to attract clicks from gullible people.
Judge Howard H. Shore :

http://www.sandiego.courts.ca.gov/portal/about/depts/sd15.ht...

http://www.sandiego.edu/law/academics/faculty/bio.php?ID=663

http://www.martindale.com/Howard-H-Shore/220226-lawyer.htm

This previous case will tell you exactly where he stands on those "hippie types" he despises.

http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=6128

This man is an affront to justice.
https://github.com/ioerror/duraconf might answer some questions...
but, er, browser gc's are not tuned for this purpose at all, so not sure what that tells you.

For a console, it's actually an easier task, because you are not as worried about CPU usage (in the sense that if you use too much CPU, you kill the battery)

Metronome, and other garbage collectors, can do consistent bounded near-real or real time time collection with bounded CPU usage.

They can hit 6ms without too much trouble.
We use Apache as a frontend because we are an hosting company and customers want .htaccess (sad but true). But behind Apache frontend (read: frontend) there is ALWAYS uWSGI (even for php). Unbit.it uses uWSGI for everything (even for load balancing MX servers ;) and i am proud we are the first (only...) company giving php hosting on uWSGI by default. Finally, we moved to github because customers/contributors wanted it, i was perfectly fine with self-hosted mercurial, but customers are more important than my taste :)
A lot of the major feeds out there don't even return valid RSS or atom. So, the problem begins when you have to start adding heuristics to your parser just to get it right.
AT4AM: The amendment authoring tool used by EU Parliament open sourced
It's important to note that the system I want isn't in the end "direct democracy." I want "distributed democracy."

Most citizens will not participate in day-to-day votes, because they will have proxied their votes to other party members they trust. This will bear some resemblance to the power structure of modern day political parties, but it will be transparent, accountable, and easy to change. Some people will still be influential and hold big swaths of votes in their district, and then continue to command this power after the election.

In some cases, the candidate might have such faith that he/she holds the majority of the proxies in the district, meaning they have broad power to make all decisions.
I didn't see anything new in this rant. Was this just a summary of the other "PHP is bad" posts that have crept up in the past 12 months or so?
However, corporations can still do assassinations, espionage, or even spying on customers

Haha, funny that you find "spying on customers" to be more worthy of an "even" than assassinations or espionage :)

I remember an argument I had with a friend years ago .. would I rather have Google owning my information or the Government. I argued, Google of course, the worst they would use my info for was serving me better ads.

I was wrong because I never realized that the government could force Google to hand my information over to them.
Gaming the Attention Economy
The public is simply jealous that they don't have them money to have a wedding like that and so they feel like they have a right to complain about it.
If studios started making games in Java then they would develop more engines for Java. There are a lot of libraries in Java as well.

Java has its faults, but it's a higher level language than C++, and that lets people write code in it more quickly.
After reading an ammendment to the copyright law being debated in the Australian parliment, I went looking for tools to view a diff on the old act and the proposed changes.

That lead me to an old HN discussion [0] about using VCS to manage laws. In turn, that discussed the tool AT4AM that the EU parliment uses to create what are essentially "patches" to existing laws, in order to debate as ammendments. To my surprise, this was released as open source only a few months ago, and seems under active development.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3967921
We're getting off topic here, but in what way is a CVT less efficient?
Are there any chargeback fees? (For those who don't know a fee in addition to the chargeback which is usually $25.)
The demand for college education is still elastic. College loans merely allow colleges to extract values greater than the student's ability to pay.
Given today's scenario the quality of engineers is dipping.So does the gap and thus even a decently meritorious engineer looks much better than the rest of the crowd.An old study http://careers.learnhub.com/news/544-90-percent-graduates-an... shows how poor the rest of the colleges are.That said the socioeconomic gap keeps widening and thus opinions.Opinions are hard to break lest someone disprove.Vast majority of indian IT companies still run aptitude test to figure out who squares out a big number faster and cracks the tell-tale puzzle quicker rather who can understand the system and engineer better.So are their parent's prioties:education is BIG investment and they only want returns not knowledge.Well then these IT companies pay for a 12 hour code/test/typo job!And these companies are PRESTIGIOUS in india!!
It is better to take cognizance of how things really are rather than how you really, really wish them to be.

Where you start in life doesn't matter, but how big a jump you make in improving your lot does, and that's something that's entirely up to you. Please lay off the Rawlsian stuff - it doesn't square with the things I've observed in my own life. Nor does it square with the experiences of many of my friends that started life out poor, and chose to make something of themselves.

At this point, some might say, "you didn't earn your brain/parent's money/etc." I say that's nonsense, because the entire idea of "earn" arises in order to distinguish real people who choose to act toward a goal from those that choose not to. To do that, we have to look at adults - lots of them, ranging from bums to billionaires, across time and professions, on and on. Then at young adults, then at small children (to fully see the contrast with adults). Choice is the crucial thing here: nobody could arrive at the idea of "earning" or "deserts" or "justice" by studying newborns or fetuses.

Relying on "earn" (which depends on the idea of choice and free will, as I've indicated above) in a statement intended to undermine the idea of choice and free will is bogus.

EDIT: I am making some serious points here. Disagree all you want in comments, but downvoting me reflexively does not refute my argument.
That is correct.

For example, if you want to study engineering you have to have certain math skills. Otherwise university won't let you in, no matter how much you pay.

Oh, free college no. But tuition is something like $700 annual in germany/france. There is no housing or anything.
I think you are missing the context of the question (mpyne's comment). If the max that will logically be handed down is way below the summed offenses, why is it being used? It seems like it's a threatening tactic and yes, draconian.
The Nexus Q feels like the Nexus One. An experiment paving the way into a market. A hardware beta test.

I expect to see an amazing Samsung gaming+streaming machine running Android.
Thanks, your feedback is much appreciated. A couple people have actually reached out, so I suppose luck was on my side. I will add to my github as you've suggested.

Cheers!
They should say that it comes from being a shitty browser that lacks many apis, tools, extensibility, stability that other browsers have; just to get a cover-up for the first time.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/it-leadership/21657/how-maste...
They should have a better grace period, they are afterall a hosting company and this really affects trust with users. I would pay extra if there was a checkbox to enable a 30 day grace period (snapshot, not a live site) because sometimes stuff happens in real life where you are not able to check your email/credit card.

At the very least let users download the snapshots that they pay for.
Interesting. It has to be remembered that the UK and in fact all the allies, with the partial exception of the Soviet Union, were applying their war efforts to avert precisely this aggregation of nations during the Second World War. That war broke the back of the UK's economy, and the Marshall plan and the post war support of Germany was always intended to be a reintegration of the largest nation in continental Europe into an Anglo Saxon idea of a global economy. It was to avoid a repeat of the decimation of Germany after the First World War, which provided so much impetus to the events leading to the second.

Far from being a mis sold notion to the British public, it was in fact a preferred popular view. The acquiescence of Chamberlain to notions of compromise were well remembered, and the effort and loss of treasure to overcome that mistake gave rise to caution and defensiveness.

Viewed from the German and French perspectives, it appears very differently. But England has a very long history in needing to attend to other nations ideas of supra nationalism as it relates to the British Isles, and its own inclinations to state power inform its decisions as well.

While not my view, to many 'middle englanders', the Franco German alliance is a continuance of historical european politics. The French compromise, with some resistance, and the Germans see Europe as a larger political entity, having the characteristic of land locked imperialists. Even recent diplomats have expressed this view.

The decision to limit the European project to a trading agreement was in the first instance all that could be politically managed in the UK.
He didn't run a red light with tons of steel though, he wrote words. Even if you consider property damage, fuck that comparison big time. Thankfully,

"In fact, since the defendant has no previous convictions for vandalism that I'm aware of I'm pretty sure the maximum penalty that can be imposed under CA law (CA PC 640.5/6) is community service and a $1000 fine."

seems to imply that at least in this case it is slightly more than "just arithmetic".

This is a human we're talking about, too. Arithmetic, bleh.. speaking of that, if society gets to pay for the ill-meant fuckups of banks, why can't it pay for the well-meant fuckups of individuals?

Who would even mention 13 years, even as a joke, in this context? I think that's my question. I understand that such idle threats are used to get people to give in without trial, and that's bad enough, but in this case, I still can't fathom someone saying or writing it with a straight face. Without stopping to think for a second. That it would not actually come to such a punishment is a small, but not sufficient consolation for me, I'm still puzzled.
I would assume he's referring to the fact that evolution works by allowing the weak to die, or at the least not reproduce and without those mechanisms evolution is a different beast.
Because the first amendment does not apply to private property?
It's completely irrelevant.
Here, the judge is rightfully trying to avoid having someone try to confuse a lay jury about the law. Otherwise, he'd have to spend a lot of time trying to cut off the lawyer, or write up very complex jury instructions explaining first amendment law, when it's simply not relevant at all to private property, or this case.

There are certainly cases of vandalism of private property where it may even be an issue (if the property involved was owned by people acting as agents of the state/federal government, etc), but this isn't one of them.

Honestly, the fact that this question is being asked repeatedly proves the judge's point: People don't understand where and when the first amendment applies, and where it clearly doesn't, the only possible outcome is to confuse the jury.
But how else would you do it? You still have to let the guy know what the max sentence could be, whether it seems threatening or not.
Which begs the question: how familiar are you with Assange? Aside from reading articles that try to characterize him, have you read any of his writings or listened to his talks? Have you met him? What basis are you using to judge his character?

I personally am under the impression that he has given much more thought to his policies for releasing information and organizing Wikileaks than you give him credit for.
Yeah, on Android C and C++ developers are second class citizens when compared to what they enjoy on other mobile platforms.
The constitution protects people from the government.
Not people from people.
Not at all. In europe you'll be treated equal. Except for UK we don't assassinate people, period.
"Market forces" are you making a decision to go to that school and not one of the thousands of others that offer reasonable tuition. None of that describes the school I went to.
No, it doesn't tell you anything like that. It won't tell you much about the law either, considering that they don't even bother to cite the case in question so people could read the documents for themselves. It's a press release, not an objective report.

Now, I have got up in front of a city planning commission to advocate for medical marijuana clinics (which were subsequently approved). I'm heartily in favor of medical marijuana. But if you have an amount of marijuana growing on your property that exceeds the amount you are allowed to grow for medical purposes, then you can't rely on the medical defense as a matter of law. That's why smart marijuana growers take the advice of their lawyers and establish a growing cooperative which allows them to pool their legal growing allocation in a shared facility.

There are rules about how much pot you can grow for medical purposes, just like there are rules about how you can sell alcohol and tobacco. If you ignore those rules then you're liable to get fined or even jailed. You can't break the rules and then invoke those same rules as part of your defense - this is criminal law 101.

Rather than him being an affront to justice, it's you who have no understanding of how criminal law operates.
There is no law against murder, only a law that requires the punishment of murderers. ("A person who commits X, Y, or Z shall be sentenced to W.") There is, however, a moral imperative against murder ("Thou shalt not murder"), as well as a moral right for me to protect myself from harm. The validity of moral imperatives and rights does not depend on the existence of any law. I definitely care when people disobey moral imperatives or violate moral rights.

As a matter of fact, the majority of people in any society obey the majority of the law the majority of the time. After all, laws are often specifically designed to coincide with what the majority thinks is right, convenient, reasonable, etc., so the majority will obey those laws for the sake of doing the right thing, doing what is convenient, doing what is reasonable, etc. But if you want people to obey the law for the sake of obeying the law, I don't see what might justify such a demand.

In my opinion, criminal law is just a device to facilitate obedience to moral imperatives. (Other laws might serve other purposes, such as facilitating commerce.) It's like a proxy server that helps me talk to an authoritative data source. A lot of the time, the proxy is good enough. But if the proxy interferes with my websocket, I have every right to bypass the proxy and talk directly to the data source. Note that this doesn't mean that I'm going to ditch the proxy altogether. I'm still going to use the proxy for all of my non-websocket needs because it's faster, better documented, etc.

By the way, sorry for the vagueness surrounding the phrase "has the right". I meant it in a justificatory sense. In other words, if and only if a law contradicts moral imperatives, anyone has JUSTIFICATION to break that particular law and try to evade punishment. If, on the other hand, the law coincides with moral imperatives, there can be NO justification for breaking it (not because of the law but because of moral imperatives), but a person may still be justified in trying to evade punishment depending on whether the punishment is moral. For example, if the law requires disproportionately severe punishment for a petty crime, that's immoral.
It looks like "lack of judicially discoverable and manageable standards for resolving it" doesn't apply here. The 4th amendment clearly applies to the question of whether the government should be recording your mother's phone calls.
Cases like this are corrosive to the legitimacy of the judicial system.

More like news stories like this are corrosive to the credibility of the media.
Why would the state encourage unrest? The state wants to encourage that everything is A-OK.
John Carmack seems to have other opinion

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/342324071004008448
What he did was wrong, but the punishment is not right. We know how the saying goes.

The appropriate punishment would have been to force him to clean the chalk off.

That's also the appropriate punishment for any vandalism. A written apology and reparations for the vandalized property.

What I don't agree with is the idea that using chalk makes it "not vandalism" -- it still is vandalism. The punishment is absurd, though. Obviously BOA has heavy influence over the authorities in this case.
In Canada when someone takes an the oath of citizenship they still swear an allegiance to the monarchy. I think there is a similar component for elected officials and people in the military. That has always struck me as bizarre.
Right one brother! Those arab named bastards.

Just like that??
You can't raise a defense that isn't valid in law as part of a trial in the common law system. His lawyer knows this perfectly well.
As a whole it is more efficient, because it always picks a ratio that maximizes torque. When I talk to car enthusists, they always emphasize that it is less efficient, because for each specific ratio, there is more overhead (belts, etc.) than a gear.

The point I am trying to make, is that in the real world using Java is like using an automatic: it allows you to focus on the big picture while it optimizing the little bits for you the best it can.
JEE rankings are public knowledge, in the sense that unranked == failure. (You don't get a rank if you don't get one of the top 10,000 spots). If you do get a rank, and choose to hide it, it can be pretty easily inferred by what you are studying (CS at IIT Bombay == top 100 or lower. Mechanical at Guwahati == over 1000).

It is definitely a source of pride/honor, and so NOT taking the JEE is definitely seen as somewhat shameful. For example, I grew up in India, and went to the US to study at Williams College. My parents were a little sad about me not writing the JEE, and it was seen as somewhat of a cop out. (I decided at the end of 10th grade that I was going out of the country for college so I didn't write it.)
>>Where you start in life doesn't matter, but how big a jump you make in improving your lot does, and that's something that's entirely up to you.

How big a jump you can make in improving your lot is a function of where you start in life.

It is significantly more difficult for someone born into a poor, single-parent household to bootstrap and "choose to make something of themselves" compared to someone who is born into a white middle-class family.
Have you seen the joke meme where they label Obama "you were the chosen one" - sadly it's not a joke to me. It really, really feels that way.

I had no illusions he was perfect. I despised the marketing pitch of "change". But I didn't expect this. I mean even the right would have to admit they are a little surprised.
>Even it 99% of games on mobile are below par the 1% from that set is better/bigger than any curated/controlled console market.

I strongly dispute this point, while there may be a few decent mobile titles, the quality and number of quality titles is still nowhere near traditional platforms.
No, I don't think that would be an appropriate headline in that case. But that is somewhat of a red herring/straw man since I am sincerely doubtful that was the first headline they put up. More likely that came a day or two after the story broke. And in that case, it would be appropriate.
Who would even mention 13 years, even as a joke, in this context?

A lawyer, to drum up sympathetic media coverage for his client (and increase his own public profile).

a reporter, to get eyeballs on a story.

Seriously, just because you read it on a news site does not mean it is true.
>>Anyway, that's my undercooked idea to help college education.

So undercooked, in fact, that consuming it would make everyone sick.
Again, correct the facts, if you will. I live in San Diego, I used to do criminal law here, and I know for a fact that thetq
I'll just take this as another of Google's side project that generate some buzz but ultimately lead nowhere.
IPhones on AT&T get mandatory government alert update
Nearly 550Mbps: 2013 802.11ac AirPort Extreme Benchmarks
Why isn't IAFCU part of CU Service Centers? That seems like a way to open it up to more members.