skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never heard of it, but I wouldn't be surprised if we did.

But: It's not clear to me that the rule is at all relevant to that scam. As you describe it, it's not that the victims reasonably appeared to be agreeing to do one thing when what they signed said something different. They were persuaded to buy a blanket for x thousand dollars, and did.

The most obvious tool contract law has to undermine that is misrepresentation. If the scammer told a lie to get the victim to sign, then the contract's voidable by the victim. (This is true even if the misrep is innocent. If it's fraudulent, then you get a better measure of damages - and, of course, the scammers might've committed the criminal offence of fraud).

There's also a doctrine of 'undue influence', which if proved can also make the contract voidable.

Finally, even if the contract is valid, since R v Hinks [2000] UKHL 53, it's not impossible that the scammers could be convicted of theft of the money. So, validly transferred per civil law, theft per criminal law! Which is... surprising. (IMHO it's bloody stupid, but that's another debate).
On bonds, I'm not sure actually. I am generally short term bearish on the asset class, but I'm not a pro, and I tend to be bearish on most asset classes. Bill Gross wrote about it recently. (http://www.pimco.com/EN/Insights/Pages/Bond-Wars.aspx)

Over most time horizons, when the yield curve isn't inverted, the longer bonds due perform better, but not necessarily enough to justify the volatility.

In terms of equities - I agree, you should hold them. In general equity investments should be "Buy and hold for a long long time". That said, if you look at the past 20 years, there were many 5-10 year periods where you would be down or flat. If you are assuming a fixed retirement date, there are a lot of bad years to retire.

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=SPY+Interactive#symbol=sp...

I believe that it's much safer to assume we may have to keep working while we keep saving and waiting for asset values to return.
awesome work..
is this open source? Can someone share the link please

many thks
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Worse yet, they are push problems into the future. The pension holders can't count on the money, and the pension funders are allowed to kick the can down the road.
Concept cars are awful things. Non working dials , pie in the sky features , crappy engines hidden under plastic promises, most of the time they are vapourware. Not the best thing to comparing your product to

Or is it?
99% of the world's population is in a bubble, and you see yourself as part of a fortunate 1% that can see clearly. Seems legit.
Anatomy of the Internet
I will refer to my comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6173274

It is probably a bad law, but it certainly not criminalizing people for what they are doing with their genitalia in private. He was probably thinking about Saudi Arabia or Iran, but there is strangely little outrage against them.
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"Calling all code coyboys! Come ride with us into the Ruby sunset!"

I lol'd, but I did not respond.
That, and also petrol is $9.23/gal.
If you want to link your proprietary software to GPL-ed MySQL, you can't. They used to sell (expensive) licenses if you wanted to do that.

I know because I wanted to use it this way and was forced to use SQLite instead (which performed nicely btw).

I am not sure how MariaDB solves these issues though? Because they will have to stay on GPL forever if I understand correctly.
We didn't throw the Dixie chicks in jail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pussy_Riot

I mean, the US has tons of problems and what's really disturbing are the trend lines -- seems like liberty peaked somewhere in the mid 70s with the CIA hearings.

But Russia being nicer than the US to US dissidents means nothing -- how do they act towards their own dissidents?
Heh - Yup, it's been pretty much pay cuts in the end. It's a real pain when you dont go out to dinner or vacations and still keep living paycheck to paycheck as everything gets more expensive.

Around this part of the US there are jobs, but ever since the economic downturn the pay never rebounded, and now that employers realize they can get us developers cheaper, I don't expect them ever to go up that much any time soon.

Given also that I can work from home, and am the sole support of my family, I don't want to take the risk of getting in an even worse position.

This is why I spend many, many hours trying/doing side work to pay the bills. Here's to hoping my upcoming saas will actually gain traction...
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I lived in Breda, The Netherlands for a month several years ago. I agree completely with the article: its a matter of both culture and safety. There are dedicated bike path lanes--fully separated from the roadways. Moreover, both cyclists and drivers alike follow the law.

Compared to New York City, where I live now, it's the exact opposite. Bike lanes, in the few places they exist, are rarely anything more than a faded paint line on the road. Very few people (pedestrians, cyclists, or drivers) follow the rules of the road. Even as a twentysomething male--presumable predisposed to a higher degree of risk--riding a bike in NYC seems downright reckless.

A contributing factor to its dangerousness may be the city's density; you have trucks at all hours dropping off newspaper deliveries, Amazon.com packages, FreshDirect orders, and so on. These may be some of the worst offenders--not necessarily because of the drivers but also how the vehicles lack visibility.

Some recent examples:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/01/nyregion/6-year-old-fatall...
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/23/bicyclists-fami...
Couple of things...

First, I really dig the "Made with ♥ in Nashville, TN" footer. Way to have some pride. People need to pimp their non-SV residences more.

Second, I've been mulling over doing something like this. Since you're doing it already, please steal my idea. Make a connector for LightRoom and make it stupid simple to link a RAW with exported JPEGs.
That's like saying it's not the Prince, it's a prince. Source: Medieval Europe.

When talking about the singularity in context of technology and AI we're talking about an emergent super intelligence so superior to human intelligence we are unable to predict events beyond it it akin to how all physics seems to break down in a space/time singularity and we cannot predict beyond that point.
It looks like MariaDB is getting some good run lately. I just installed Fedora 19 on one of my older boxes and they decided to have MariaDB as the default DB.
That's what I was talking about in the last paragraph. It's definitely unfortunate, but I stand by my statement. If it's one or two people, then it doesn't affect you that much and certainly isn't worth Apple limiting users ability to comment. If the number is large enough to be significant, then you should fix the bug that is causing a large fraction of your user-base to feel the need to rate you poorly.

I'm sure there are bugs in the beta or bugs in your code that really need the new SDK to fix, but I suspect that the vast majority could be fixed or worked around without too much trouble. Maybe your grand iOS 7 redesign is going to be the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you can likely bodge a fix together in the meantime.
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Nope, you've been able to run python scripts on your python phone for years. What this seems to do is make it easy to package together an app written in python into an independent package that you can install just like any other android app
I do IT support for a few working architectural photographers. Over the years I've thought about this too (at least, I've worked the numbers a few times). It's hard to make it work; they need a minimum of 8TB of storage for existing material, then growth by about 2.5TB yearly (to date, but most are about to start time-lapse video). Though, your cold storage approach is intriguing.

Napkin calculations:

0.04 /GB * 1000 = 40.00 /month (curr) = 480.00/yr
* 2000 = = 960.00/yr
* 3000 = = 1440.00/yr

0.004 /GB * 8000 = 32.00 /month (cold) = 344.00/yr + 48.00/yr/TB
+ 100.00/yr/2TB
+ 175.00/yr/3.5TB

1 shoot = 25GB (stills only) or 50GB w a 30 sec TL (add 25GB)

~100 shoots /yr ==> 2.5TB/yr @ 25GB, 5TB/yr @ 50GB

[Aside, that's 5-12 mins to upload (25Mbp/s - 10Mbp/s, only 3 mins @ 50Mbp/s). So consider additional internet cost.]

Without frequently juggling current to cold, or doing yearly compounding calculations, I'd eyeball this at ~$1300/yr, with growth of $150/yr, each year.

One way to make this more attractive is to leverage the online storage to build other recurring-revenue generating services, but most photographers don't go for that type of thing. (In my experience, stock image sites, etc. are primarily the realm of hobbyists.)

You also have the trust/confidence problem. I suspect every photographer will want to maintain their own backup as well. So, they won't "save" money (even if online storage was less expensive, but I suspect it's not) because they still need to pay for local storage. Of course, for apples to apples, you need to factor in time to maintain those backups, either my hourly rate or their own; things like disk-testing, data juggling (downsizing 1TB -> 3TB drives, etc.). But again, it's still 'extra' cost, because they won't (IMO) switch to solely online storage.

A question:

Are you providing tools to allow photographers to leverage their online storage? E.g. Dropbox-like sharing with clients (even just contact sheets?), integration against online print services, store-fronts for image sales, etc.?

All that said, I'm interested in seeing your private beta though. I think this can work, one day. :)
Link won't load so I'm not sure what it is. I personally like HackerNode on my iPhone, though.

Maybe once it loads I will change my mind.
The worst designers I've worked with were the ones who knew how to write code and picked up illustrator by playing with CS...hey look I can draw! Really, the training and practice that goes into a good designer is huge, if they also learn writing code, something has to give. Visual designers are much more difficult in this regard than interaction designers, who are often just former programmers anyways (though the best ones I've worked with schooled as...architects).
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Which, I presume, is why to my knowledge they've never said that they'll "try".

Mark Shuttleworth said this in his AMA: "In future generations, it would be great to see if we can do an all-open device, for example." -- http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1j166z/hi_im_mark_shut...

"So in this first generation Edge, no, we didn't look for open hardware specifically. We can choose silicon with more open drivers as we finalise the spec"

If you assume that they're doing something that they haven't claimed to, then you can continue laughing at nothing, I suppose.
20-person online meeting that works
Or a great idea, depending on the person. Design by committee, however, is almost always wrong.
Because at some point in time mySQL was widely installed with all providers, and PostgreSQL wasn't. I guess it was just a bit sooner adoption-ready, and that counted.
Specifically: he realizes he has no time to work on it no matter how promising it is.
I agree. That's one of those places where being in a UX role is way outside of UI design, and I'm taking the apps on-site with customers (I am mostly b2b) and observing and testing them as they use it. Recording their responses, as well as the applications. When logging in to the system takes 40 seconds because of database performance (or lack of), that's a UX insight that needs to be observed and reported. That's not something I can control but it has a huge impact on the user's experience.

There's an element of user-advocacy that I'm doing where I take the experience they are having and translate it back into business, design, and development goals as when someone is trying to use an enterprise piece of software and the experience is terrible, that is going to fall on designers, developers, PM's, and all the other people involved in the creation of the "thing" which becomes the user's experience.

That's another ambiguous situation. I go spend 2 days with users out at a company HQ, and I come back with tons of data that now has to be consumed by devs, designers, pm, marketers, executives, QA, customer service etc etc. The experience of what we build is a collection of every role in the entire company as far as the user is concerned, and all those various business roles need that UX information brought back. So at this point I'm so far from UI and visual design I'm closer to a PM or product owner now, but soon will be jumping back into the design an development realm to start to fix those experience problems.. unless the problems result in bad business drivers or invalid use-cases, so then I'm back at the PM and management table,

I still can't find a clear distinction about what I'm supposed to say I do. I just know that there is a certain disservice to just tell people "UI design, look and feel."
"sporting events, music festivals, rodeos"

Maybe I'm missing something but this seems to deviate greatly from their "transportation" parameter of jurisdiction.

Music Festivals? Can you say "popping bubble?"
Thanks I didn't know about that. Of course I used a test suite. But checking that all functions actually exist (in my case some had been renamed) is something you should not have to manually write.
Japanese internment?
Actually in this instance I did not. I often times enjoy reading the comments more then the articles as the opinions here give better insight into the topic. So this time I was caught with my pants down so to speak, thanks for pointing it out lol ;)
Meh. My creds: I served a mission and am an active member of the LDS church, so I'm not some bitter exmormon. But the two worlds seem orthogonal to me. There's a very heavy focus on short-term numbers in most LDS mission organizations. If anything, an LDS mission probably prepares you for corporate life or the armed forces better than for a startup. Exception: yes, it does make for fantastic ticket scalpers, as the article relates.

Also, "accelerator?" An accelerator is something that speeds along an already existent entity. A mission might be a good person accelerator, but if you're bringing your company with you on the mission, you're a bad founder and a bad missionary.

I attribute Utah's startup culture to: the presence of BYU, a bunch of church-derived networks (I still talk to mission buddies, and did a startup with one of them), and high pressure on men to be providers.
Agreed. Jailing Pussy Riot was/is definitely a pursuit of political persecution.

Well, technically, Russia acted very lawfully in this case - they did not have an extradition treaty with the U.S., and Snowden sought political asylum.

I'd like to think that behind the scenes, Putin just enjoyed poking a stick in Obama's eye, but I'm sure he had more rational reasons for resisting the U.S. than just personal pleasure.
I agree with you, except the "without caching anything". Realistically, it's nearly impossible to generate a full 1080p screen of high resolution objects and textures without some amount of caching. Possible for some corner cases, yes, but not if you want a realistic world.

> Layer some octaves of simplex-noise to form a terrain, and then for any non-occluded map region, "grow" a building from the center of each noise feature. Might be possible to only tell the GPU about the terrain-texture, and create the buildings entirely in a shader, actually.

It's possible to generate the simplex multi-fractal texture itself on the GPU purely using GLSL via WebGL [1].

Growing buildings from a heightfield texture purely on the GPU though is a bit more tricky, because you don't want to scan the entire hightfield redundantly every frame to extract noise features. In other words, you'll want to cache this feature data, then "grow" the buildings, then cache that. It may be possible to hack OpenGL/WebGL into doing something similar to this on the GPU, but honestly OpenCL/WebCL will make this so much cleaner to implement I shudder to think how ugly this would look in GLSL.

So I would actually use the GPU to generate terrain heightfields (a good use of its massive parallelism), then a special shader to detect features (e.g. even something as simple as a few order derivatives at low resolution) and download them to the CPU. The CPU would then generate and compile a list of building coordinates, upload to the GPU, and use the GPU to perform instanced building rendering from them.

[1] https://github.com/judnich/Kosmos/blob/master/README.md
He couldn't afford to pay the credit card bills after 2 years what makes you think this guy has a lot of electronics in his house.

I would wager he probably has 1 crappy old computer a printer and a smartphone (just my guess as an eastern European).

He could care less if all that crap gets locked off.

As far as I can tell even that fact that he kept his end of the contract to the best of his abilities for 2 years can be used as proof that he isn't fraudster.

A fraudster would have done that a lot sooner.
At this point I have convinced myself that the goal won't be reached. But I know for certain every phone company is back to the drawing board, because we are looking right at the future.
Estimating project difficulty using t-shirt sizes
The architecture is also fundamentally flawed.

How many people want to be the SysAdmin for all 2.0 services for their entire extended family?
We need self-organizing systems, not federation.
Please note that the support both from Bloomberg and the industry (in terms of the price drop) are based on hindsight of how supporters and the press have been covering the case.

It's also hard to predict what having an initial perk of $500 would have meant to the campaign. The very strong reaction in the first day is also a result of supporters observing that there was a gap of $230 for the next price level. It's not easy to really tell what an entirely different price structure would have meant.
Because you can engage voters to change their minds in the USA, or indeed just engage politicians, whereas in Russia such activity can get you murdered, sent to prison (often a death sentence anyway) or exiled.

Look at things like SOPA where a large userbase was motivated to spread the word, tech companies got involved and the public were informed enough to convince politicians to change.
In Tough Times, Abandon Your Employees
> and a moral and political duty not to do so, especially in the circumstances surrounding the controversy over Snowden.

What? Moral duty not to do so? Howso?
> This article says nothing about the public perception of Snowden in Russia.

Except it does, paragraph eight:

> An opinion survey conducted by Russian news agency RIA Novosti shows 51% of Russians back Snowden's decision to leak the NSA information, and 43% were in favor of Russia granting him asylum, according to the Levada Center poll.

(edit: i appreciate the position you're defending here, re: reform vs. abolition, and how that is pretty tricky in this environment. the abolitionists here definitely have some tunnel vision issues going on).
I think this has some implication that learning works strictly in a "foundations support advancements" model. The reality seems far more feedback oriented. It isn't that you should build a solid foundation before you move on. It is that later learning should help shape the foundations that you have already passed. Learning is a very active feedback cycle.
Awesome job on this! My only complaint is there's a bit too much padding in the list to make browsing articles practical on an iPhone5 . The text size option helps a little bit with this, but really if you reduced the padding that would give it just the right balance between readability and practicality. Right now it is pretty, but presents too much of a pain to try to see an entire front page's worth of results.
Even more so that the bug may actually be in iOS 7 and not in the developers app, so they are powerless to fix it.
"Repeatability is great, but who doesn't have that already?"

Almost everyone. I think this is the heart of the misunderstanding right there.

99% of developers don't have access to a repeatable deployment system. When they do, it severy limits what they can deploy, and where.

You mention in your article that the "secret sauce" of docker is "not that clever". The point is not to be clever but to solve a problem. The fundamental technology for solving repeatable deployment has been available for years, and what do those in the know have to show for it? We're all still reinventing the wheel for every single damn project, wasting huge amounts of energy in the process.
I can see it. I've never talked to the Mormons (although I see them biking in pairs near my office most days), but I've had a number of pleasantly spirited debates with some Jehovah's Witnesses.

We don't see eye-to-eye on religion, but I admire their persistence and resilience in plugging away in the heat and cold, day after day, dealing with an almost certain high level of rejection and, often, hostility.

In my experience they've always remained respectful and polite, too, far beyond the low threshold most people seem to have. I could see that laying an excellent foundation for entrepreneurial gusto.
This was actually filmed for Newsnight last night, it was quite interesting. Mostly it was in the context of 'why is cycling so popular and great in the Netherlands and what can we do to get people cycling in the UK', but it felt like it ignored a whole host of social factors that'll make it difficult in the UK.

Potentially, we could have had a similar experience to the Dutch however during the 70s/80s the car was raised to be as important as house ownership (there's some specific quote from a member of the Conservative government to that effect, but I cannot for the life of me remember it). Cars are massively important in British life, the roads have been designed specifically for them, traffic lights (new ones) are designed more for drivers than pedestrians. The car lobby is huge, there was a guy from the Association of British Drivers who basically said 'why would anyone cycle, it's one of the most risky occupations you can undertake, you should have a car'.

It's nice to see how well organised the Netherlands is (despite what I'm sure are many flaws in the system), but it'll take another oil crisis to shake British love for cycling.

As a postscript, I've just started cycling part of my commute recently (9 mile round trip), and whilst cycling in Britain is definitely doable, it's scary how close some drivers get to you at times. I think it's a lack of respect of the distances, and a little blindness to anything outside of your bubble rather than malicious intent, but I can't imagine any parent being happy about sending their teenagers out on the roads.
We were promised refrigerators
OP is the author of "Smart Customers, Stupid Companies: Why Only Intelligent Firms Will Thrive, and How to Be One of Them" has some good free ebooks to download at http://kasanoff.com/free-stuff/
Making $15k-$20k "in an hour" is not the same as making it "an hour" (equivalent to per hour). This is a mistake often made in evaluating the profitability of a business ideas. For example, our business runs procurement events that culminate in a real-time reverse auction with a specified duration of around 15 minutes. It is not unusual for us to bill $40k for a large event. But what about all the work we do that leads up to that brief event? We can't rationally exclude that in the evaluation of our profitability

Likewise with this blackhat; how long did it take to build their botnet? How many $15k-$20k opportunities present themselves in a year? How much of that figure can be attributed to self-agrandisement; an attribute commonly associated with l33t hackers?