skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess you're right about what happened here. I'm shocked that someone at the bank physically signed and returned the modified offer.
I'm actually here for the comments more than the stories. More precisely the good comments. Even more precisely, select sentences inside the good comments.

There's a feature in medium.com that I think is good: commenting on selected portions of the text rather than the entire block.

Perhaps we can extend that to voting, i.e. voting on selected chunks of text?
http://blog.chron.com/frugalconfessions/2011/09/mined-consum...

and

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe...

Show that individual data can be and is accessed.
Say 'shit' or don't say 'shit'. Don't mask it - it's the worst of both worlds.
These were people around my age or a bit younger, pre-D.A.R.E (which was started in 1983), and Reefer Madness was considered camp at best by my time.

Never heard any outrageous things like that LSD stuff (can't say for sure about the people I talked to), but it was very well established by then, without any lies needed, that hard drugs are very bad news (by that time psychedelics weren't a big concern, they were long out of fashion).
https://www.couchsurfing.org seriously
I still get this - they call with an automated system, give vague descriptions of the transactions which I can't actually recognise them from, then I go online and actually check the transactions.
French breakfast: black coffee and a cigarette.
Massive website attack, 504 pages infected
> But capitalism works based not just on what you can produce, but what you can withhold. It's a "tragedy of the commons" problem: if anyone can hit a "clone chair" button for zero cost, few would pay to sustain enough professional chair makers.

You contradict yourself once here. You say capitalism is based on what can be withheld. Another word for that might be scarcity. In 1932 Lionel Robbins said "Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses." This is still the modern mainstram definition of capitalism.

Then you say:
> if anyone can hit a 'clone chair' button for zero cost, few would pay to sustain enough professional chair makers

The idea that value comes from the labor of chair makers is a Marxist idea. You are making a Marxist argument here. It also contradicts your first argument. You say value comes from scarcity (modern mainstream economists agree), then you say value comes from labor (which is what Marx said) which contradicts the first argument.

You're trying to make a Marxist argument for capitalism (Actually Marx did make an argument for capitalism - he said it was better than feudalism and slavery, but that's not what I mean here).

You should go on the web and read about the subjective theory of value, and then about the labor theory of value. You argue STV in the first sentence and then LTV in the second. They can not both be right, their definition of value is contradictory.

I should note you're not the first person I see making this error. As things become digital they lose their scarcity. I see all kinds of odd statements come out of this. You're not alone in this. But across the entire political spectrum, from far left to far right, all serious students of the economy agree only one side can be right, value comes from either subjective marginal/scarce/utility reasons or from a certain type of labor, but it is either one or the other. You flip back and forth between a capitalist-supporting argument and a Marxist argument. A Marxist argument for capitalism. I see this more and more, and I find it odd.
That's an awesome non-sequitur and I hope you use it at parties.
That's your current state. And my (admittedly uneducated) guess is you probably have very swinging blood sugar levels.

Depending on diet and training, you can get over this (not that you have to).
This is the story of too many startups in the edtech space. Slow growth, grateful users, but not enough traction to grow the company through revenue or outside funding.

Very few edtech companies have managed to avoid this fate, and often come down to one or two people keeping the product going as a labor of love. There are a number of reasons for this, including the fact that sales are inherently high-touch and expensive, and that the users (teachers/kids) and payers (administrators) have different perspectives and incentives.

Great article. Congrats on sticking it out so long.
Does this use lxc natively instead of docker? If so, why!?
I actually really enjoy the challenge and artistry of it. Surely I'm not alone?
Depends on what a contract is. In most law systems the contract is not the piece of paper it's written on.
Someone save this site. It's a pretty cool site that helps people learn languages.

Man, so much crap out there with new flash sales websites, new aggregators for media consumption, startup's that do home cleaning. But a website that tries to teach people something enriching without a business model, but just tries to do a good job gets tossed on the way side.

We need a foundation or grant program for non-profit and NGO websites. Most startups are crap-shoots anyways, VCs and developers should waste respectively their money and time on things that do good than the usual social media crap or new online marketing channels for conventional businesses.
1. The point was "there is a standard of rigor that you don't experience at every school". I could have used anything as an example. It doesn't matter that I picked community college. If you agree with that statement, then do you disagree with the conclusion: that once you go down that path, you the student, have a burden to explain to everyone how the quality of education compares with the best?

Technically, yeah, I made a generalization: cheaper schooling means shittier quality education (not bad, just worse). Of course, I haven't stepped into every community college classroom. But this is the psychology of the people looking at your application.

Technically technically, what actually matters is all the things that go along with going to a cheaper school, not really the fact that it's cheap.

2. "The rigor was pretty good" - does that mean you kept taking math classes (real analysis, etc)? If not, then how can you make that claim?
When we first began creating ShipBuilder several months ago, Docker was too unstable to develop against. We then looked at using bare LXC instead and realized it was very straightforward (basically as simple as: lxc-clone, lxc-start, lxc-stop, and lxc-destroy). In fact, most of the LXC functionality is encapsulated in this 50-line file: https://github.com/Sendhub/shipbuilder/blob/master/src/execu...

I am certainly open to the possibility of adding docker compatibility, especially in the form of a pull-request ;)
I think he means his friend hustled for the ones that on their own were not significant. Like I think my credit union gives out 5 $500 scholarships a semester. It wouldn't surprise me if the only people who apply are those who's parents work there. If you found a ton of programs like that it can make a pretty sizable dent.
Drew's post was very well explained, and relied heavily on concrete examples. This rebuttal was very much the opposite.
Bitly: Give Link a feeling.
great app. Did you use any framework to build the app (I mean frameworks like sencha, enyos, etc)?
This was an insightful comment. I will be declaring it as income in April.
Declaring Bitcoins as currency is one thing. The other thing is how do people prove to the court that they don't own Bitcoins anymore because they've sent them to BTCST (the famous pirateat40 hedge fund), and even if judge accepts a blockchain transaction as actual evidence - that the receiving address actually belonged to BTCST. That will be fun to watch.
Wow I didn't think MIT was that badly managed.
Why do people not understand that many people are poor not because they were born into something less than a utopia but because they are lazy or happy that way or they make bad decisions or are just plain ignorant?

Have you once stopped to consider that there may not be anything close to a perfect system for lifting people out of poverty?

Perhaps a system that provides possibility that requires loads of effort to take advantage of is the best that can be done.

A country simply cannot pay for the aggregation of "necessities" that the populace dreams up.
This article written to advocate current direction of Adobe, but fails on everywhere by evading single question on title.
Surface RT v/s iPad?
You know what, I kinda like it the way it is now anyway.
It's simple, straight-forward, doesn't have too many layers, etc.. I can read it, understand it, hack it, all this quite easily - rare enough to mention.

That's much closer to the kind of stuff I like to use than the pile of layers + apis docker-based solutions are.
As a college grad with a degree in Journalism working as an engineer in Silicon Valley, maybe my opinion on your situation can give you assurance:

So the fuck what. They just did you a favor.
This would be simpler, but doesn't work if you are running a non-standard clock. /proc/cpuinfo gives you the nominal frequency, but turbostat gives you the actual. In the example below, the 3.79 GHz reported by turbostat is the actual speed and the 2.527 reported by /proc/cpuinfo is not. I think thermal throttling is another case where turbostat is correct but the kernel info is not.

nate@centos:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -i mhz
cpu MHz	: 1596.000
cpu MHz	: 1596.000
cpu MHz	: 1596.000
cpu MHz	: 1596.000
cpu MHz	: 2527.000
cpu MHz	: 1596.000
cpu MHz	: 1596.000
cpu MHz	: 1596.000

cor CPU %c0 GHz TSC %c1 %c3 %c6 %pc3 %pc6
2.82 3.75 3.79 2.92 0.57 93.69 0.00 0.00
0 0 0.29 2.76 3.79 0.26 1.24 98.21 0.00 0.00
0 7 0.11 3.02 3.79 0.45
1 3 0.14 2.45 3.79 0.14 0.56 99.16
1 6 0.03 2.79 3.79 0.25
2 1 0.06 3.07 3.79 0.12 0.26 99.56
2 5 0.05 2.85 3.79 0.13
3 2 0.05 2.81 3.79 21.88 0.23 77.84
3 4 21.83 3.78 3.79 0.11
Relevant to the story earlier today, John Carmack has three jobs and two children. He tweets regularly, speaks at cons, and occasionally blogs on altdev. He also reportedly lifts weights regularly.

It's not impossible.
iirc QCOM chips are used in about 30% of Samsung smartphones (iirc the highest end ones?). The rest are Samsung chips.
An option to override this is a must, I frequently use VPNs and as a result appear in many different countries through-out the day - It's bad enough with google repeatedly blocking my accounts for suspicious logins, without having to worry about timezone differences too.

Also, it'd be nice to ALERT me when my timezone has changed and give me an option to keep the old one, or use what you think my current one is.
As someone who can't let anything go, I found this is touching and inspiring. Thanks for having the courage to give it a go, and to stop.
I have worked on below side projects in last 4 years and made $0 seriously

1. Intranet search engine - Shut down
2. Followyours.com - You can follow topics and you would get updates on the topic - It would get it from different sources and analyse based on social signals based of retweets, likes etc.. - Shut down
3. InstantExamResults (http://www.instantexamresults.com/) - to publish results of university students - Got interest from few universities but no one is willing to pay as there are sites which publish results for free.
4. ConceptsA2 (http://www.conceptsa2z.com/) - A site to teach math for school students in India - Going to shut down as there is no +ve response among students.

As they say, I think I have not worked on the problems that people are happy to pay to get it solved.

Now I am thinking of working in progress tracker application for online learners and teachers. Launched the landing page to verify the interest from online teachers. http://unbouncepages.com/online-teachers/

Sent mail to around Authors on Udemy(as Google adwords have become costly). Got interest from only 1 guy.
Will be sending mails to online teachers for another month.Based on the interest, I would decide whether to continue on this project or not.
To be fair, John Carmack is probably a vampire.
Does that mean that playing Satoshi dice if you're a US citizen under 21 is illegal?
In fairness, the word should be "slower". Performance is always relative and/or subjective.
(Except for the binary drivers that are specificaly being discussed here... like, no: that simply doesn't work, and that's exactly what JBQ is complaining about.)
As a 'serious' gamer who also loves casual gaming, I want one of these.

I hate playing casual games on my phone. The lack of physical buttons constantly shits me. I've tried all the various clip-on controllers and have used wireless controllers tethered to the phone, it's just not right.

I absolutely love my PS Vita, but wish it had better apps when I'm travelling, so something like the Shield, which has games for when i'm stuck on a plane or waiting for a bus/train, but also has full Android apps for when i'm travelling, is awesome.

The fact it can run Android emulators with physical buttons is also a bonus.
Honestly this is getting completely absurd so I'll try to be brief

1. You're article actually states how small this is so point taken I guess

2. 99% of screen readers today actually support javascript [1] and as I stated, if you want to talk hiccups effectively supporting the visually impaired is a veritable minefield of challenges and just supporting javascript being disabled isn't even the tip of the iceberg.

3. Finally just this: Also I don't recall seeing "never do this", though I did see this: "JavaScript isn't evil by any means, and it's really important for creating cool shit, but it should never be required". Just read it back slowly, you'll find the word "never" in there if you're more careful.

You are also choosing to presume incompetence of these issues on the part of the author where I see none demonstrated. Even he bothered to explain his, fairly common these days, use case (JSON response processed on the client with javascript). If you want to argue against this sort of thing be my guest, but you're not really going to reverse the trend. Either way it isn't a debate I'm very interested in.

Reductio ad absurdum as they say.

[1]: http://www.punkchip.com/2011/03/why-support-javascript-disab...
In US contract law governed by common law principles there is something called the mirror image rule. An offer must be wholly accepted or else rejected. If any terms are modified that is treated as a rejection and counter-offer.

The UCC, which in the relevent part only covers the sale of goods, abrogates this rule and allows and contract to be formed so long as the material terms are identical. The provisions of the resulting contract are governed by UCC 2-207 and the process of determine them is given the colorful name the "battle of the forms".
Activists Identify DC Cop Who Infiltrated Bangladesh Sweatshop Protests
your comparison is stupid

1 - he's a multimillionaire. He can afford to offload lots of cooking (restaurants), cleaning (cleaners), childcare (nannies), loss of income (stay at home partner), shorten his commute (purchase a house close to work, put a gym in the basement)

2 - even with all of the above, I still bet his wife does a big chunk of the household maintenance and childcare
I think it will take some time for the damage to become clear. We as a European company are using services like Google Apps, AWS, Dropbox, Skype and such.

We're not in any big hurry to incur the costs of migrating away from those, but it's definitely going to happen in the next 5 years. It partly depends on what alternatives pop up, and we're only at the start of that process.

Also, the policies that preclude ever using such U.S. services again in the future are already being put in place in many organizations.

The actual impact will be slow, but it feels very much irreversible. I introduced the use of AWS at our company. Today, I don't think I could sell that.
Possible, but you don't know what effect this has on his family.
just trying my hands with Django, jquery, Ajax etc and developing a clone to imdb site for learning purpose.
You Tube Space: A boon for creative minds in filmaking
Generally speaking, 3d printing doesn't smell that bad. In a well ventilated area many people can't even pick up on the smell at all.

It's certainly no worse than the an unfamiliar smell you may encounter in an automotive garage. To say it's awful is a tad much.

If you are talking about the most common types of 3d printers on the market today, polymer extrusion printers, the smell is entirely dependent on the polymer you are using. The two most commonly used are ABS and PLA.

ABS has a more potent and unpleasant odor, but it's really not that bad. PLA, derived from sugars, ranges from almost no smell to a neutral "cooking oil" smell.

I haven't had the pleasure of working with stereolithography or laser sintering printers (yet). But I'm willing to bet that stereolithography printers have no odor or at least less odor than polymer extrusion printers (they use UV light to heat up a resin, somewhat similar base material as extrusion printers but probably produces less of the "hot polymer smell").

On the other hand, I'd also be willing to bet that laser sintering printers produce a great deal of odor sometimes, as they heat up powdered base materials to produce metal and ceramic parts.

Of the three main types of 3d printing: polymer extrusion (aka full deposition), stereolithography, and laser sintering; only polymer extrusion has somewhat widespread consumer adoption (as of today), and it just doesn't smell that much.
To tell whether or not it's a poorly functioning marketplace we'd have to know how much more Google was willing to pay for more generous licensing terms. My guess is $0, because the benefit for Google is questionable.
Hopefully our representatives will pass laws preventing such things. Many systems in the US are flawed, but hopefully we are moving in the right direction and our privacy will be protected by consumer protection agencies. Yes, everyone who signs up for programs such as rewards cards are able to find out the stipulations and use of data, but it's unreasonable to assume that every participant can predict the full scope of their actions.

Same goes for every one of the thousands of products we purchase, isn't it a waste of time, money, and national health to put the responsibility of researching products and services in the hands of individuals? Why are companies allowed to sell me snake-oil, cigarettes, and other harmful products?

Why isn't there a law that prevents marketing data from being tied to personal identifiable information?
There is a similar case in the US dealing with acceptance that was later claimed to be a joke:
Lucy v. Zehmer, 196 Va. 493 (1954)

The test is objective manifestation of intent to be bound.
It’s not clear that that would necessarily lead to better allocation of resources; I’m sure there are some degrees that give people skills to create a lot of value, but right now people can already borrow money to get a degree if they think it’s going to pay off; on the other hand, there’s currently so much societal pressure to go to college, a lot of students spend a lot of time and money on worthless degrees that don’t really help them, or if they do help them, only as a (very slow and inefficient) signaling effect that they’re the type of person that can make it through college. I’m not really sure what problem having the government pay for college tuition would solve. It would probably just exacerbate the current problem of colleges having no incentive to keep costs down as long as people are dead-set on getting a degree regardless of the costs or lack of benefit.

I think a better solution than basically throwing fuel on the fire is to educate people about what their options are to help them make sound economic decisions, including different degree options and their value in the job market, and also about options if they choose not to go to college, since a lot of college graduates end up taking jobs they don’t need degrees for. There also needs to be a reversal in the trend of employers requiring college degrees as a form of signaling; I think evidence suggests that college admissions boards aren’t really any better at predicting student success than results from intelligence tests like the SAT. It’s going to be very politically controversial to convince people that a lot of the value associated with having a college degree is actually just in being a smart person, but I think it would make the economy hugely more efficient and save people from having to go to college just to signal their intelligence. Another big part of the solution, for those who do actually need to learn things and earn licenses, is going to be legitimizing and popularizing new forms of education made possible by technology, e.g. MOOCs, and somehow setting more efficient methods of credentialing to go with.
The Yahoo link says JavaScript was disabled on 1% of visitors as of 2010.

That percent should be even lower now instead of being higher.
I'm not sure about "cheaper schooling, lower quality". In engineering and computer science there are state schools that compete, IMO, pretty handily with "the best". you might snigger and scoff, but hiring managers at good companies don't.

also, if you start your degree at a CC and transfer to a 4 year to finish, what does it says on your diploma? exactly what it would say if you went there for four years. I wouldn't recommend keeping secrets about your life, but if no one asks...

I did keep taking math classes! I have a math minor.
You're still not sufficiently differentiating between "visual design" and "ephemeral fashion".

I don't need to, these things go together. Visual design is entwined with aesthetics that include trends.

Here's a fun fact: everyone talks about Slashdot in the past tense, specifically how it's become irrelevant. Malda even talks about how it's been replaced by other sites, but it didn't have to be. Want to be perceived as an old site? Look the same as you did a decade ago. Name a successful interface that is practically unchanged for a decade that is not in decline. I've seen database management programs that have made bigger changes than Slashdot.

Perhaps the reason why Slashdot hasn't changed its visual design significantly is because the current design is sufficiently successful at fulfilling this purpose.

It's in steady decline. It's not fulfilling it's purpose.

If we regard reference to trend and fashion as a subset of visual design, the function of which is to convey ideas, then it becomes clear that one of the ideas being conveyed is "we follow trends", from which we can reasonably extrapolate "we follow the lead of others" or "we care more about novelty than effectiveness in design". Perhaps the people who run Slashdot don't want to say these things?

Complete conjecture. Things become trends for a reason.
Woah woah woah - can we talk about what is really going on here and note that Firefox no longer supports <blink>
Awesome work! Thanks for creating such a great site, I've added it to my iphone home screen. The performance is great even on an older iphone4 which is quite the achievement.

This will definitely be the way I consume HN on the go from now on.
re Civilization, I'm in the Robert Wright "Non-zero" camp, where progress is made when non zero sum alternatives are found to win/lose (zero sum) situations.

As for Schneier, he's great, have a few of his books, read his blog. The distinction he doesn't make is between governance and civility. Or perhaps its a spectrum. If someone else has power over me, or delegated to them thru me (eg elections), I'm always going to be very skeptical.

To the best of my knowledge, no one has found a better answer to the conundrum of governance than balance of powers (mutual distrust).
Hypothetically if you were payed in shoes, how would you pay the IRS? Sell the shoes for enough money to pay taxes?