skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think America is pretty bad - certainly worse than where I happened to be born (Denmark).

An example: Like many other countries we have logging of telecommunications. The difference from the US is that it has been a transparent process. A bill was introduced into parlaiment, it was discussed both in the media and on the floor of parlaiment, then voted on and made into law. I know exactly what is logged, because the process is open. So does the media, and some of the major Danish tech-sites have criticised the way the logging works (it's basically useless for the police).

Personally I don't like the law, but it was an open process; I know exactly who voted yes and no, I know exactly what is being logged, I know from the media debates how the police uses this, etc.

Democracy at work.
Well, I don't know about that. A lot of that is based on the PG brand, which the other incubators don't have. PG and Buchheit's connections come in to play when selling shares at first round and after. Their handshakes count more than whether the startup's based in beijing, boston, or bangalore.
My argument was against "franchising" in the sense that the franchises would be top-level equivalents of YC, a demand on the time of YC partners and a dilution of the network.

I think YC does extend its' brand in a different way: by funding companies that create new avenues for startup funding/networking such as FundersClub.
I don't know, I used to go out of my way to buy those Jelly Belly brand Jellybeans, but I do agree that ice cream sandwichs and for that matter donuts are a cheap food, kinda realized that while I was thinking about the post.

Still, KitKats really stood out to me as just less wholesome compared to the other dessert items Google has chosen for android versions, if that makes any sense. I've had some fun experiences with trying out weird flavors of jelly beans, or eating ice cream sandwiches during the summer.

As for donuts, I got the wild idea a few years back to to be an organic farmer, to the point where I dropped out of school and actually worked as a sort of vegetable grower/manager for a while. If I was running behind and didn't have time to cook, I would visit any one of the locally-owned donut shops, occasionally run by some owner of Czech heritage (something about Czechs and really good pastries), and pick something up. So despite donuts being ridiculously unhealthy, they bring back interesting feelings.

KitKats, they don't quite have that emotional effect on me.
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Hello Negro - Bayou Fiyarajah(EDM from New Orleans )
Mindless: The new neuroskeptics
There exists no recourse any person alive can do to stand up against the TSA.

Civil disobedience is always an option. The protester at Tiananmen Square changed the world because he realized that there was recourse in doing the right thing.
This is great.

Suggestion – add Yelp ratings for destinations. I find myself taking long trips from point A to point B, and always feel like I'm missing out on things along the way. If I knew that the world's best coffee shop (according to Yelp) was just 4 minutes off my route, I'd love to stop.
It's likely because the landscape is not what it was years ago when design mattered less and people shied away from pursuing hardware startups. Design today is becoming as essential a competitive advantage as tech, and we're seeing a surge in hardware companies that require electrical/mechanical/etc engineering abilities (Oculus, MYO, Amulyte, to name a few).
I'm always interested in how someone like this would feel about the Global Entry program(1).

On one hand, you're getting out of the pat-downs and frisking every time you fly. On the other hand - you're arguably subjecting yourself to more permanent invasion of privacy by enrolling in their program.

(1) http://www.globalentry.gov/
Our Very Own Monsters
If you liked Journey's anonymous, transient multiplayer, try Dark Souls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Souls. Although it does it in a more "hardcore" style of game - an RPG, with fighting, and lots of dying - it accomplishes the same gripping, emotional experience that is so fleeting in modern games. It's memorable because of how it limits communication and forces you to use gesturing and the environment to explain your intentions to one another.
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Seems there is an easy solution. Just use Thunderbird.
...licensing the KitKat brand from Nestle. Moral quandary remains.
On the contrary, I think we're now in 'the age of the great underestimation'.
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I was not aware of that. I just saw the licence section of the github repo and decided that was good enough.

Not sure how you want to deal with the repo owner, but I can stop using the code if you want.
Windows 8 more widely used than OS X, IE still on the rise
I'm new to web development, so I haven't dealt with a truly hairy stylesheet yet (though I've had plenty of experience with overcoupled and hard to maintain code). Do you think tools like Sass can help alleviate some of these CSS problems? I've heard that some people who go crazy with Sass end up with a couple thousand selectors, yet the organization and logic helps them manage the complexity.
Southwest has internet that costs, I think $8-9, per day per device for internet, but TV is free. They also have on-demand, but that costs extra too. No outlets yet, though.

Edit: I should mention, it's been a while.
Of course. In reality 50% of all corner store robberies don't end with the shop owner beating the crooks ass with a broom. ;)
Well, Alexis Ohanian (a YC partner) lives here in Brooklyn. Maybe we can plead and twist his arm to help us put something similar together here? I'm not really impressed with the meetups we have here in NYC. NYTM (arguably the largest startup conference in NY) is underwhelming.
That statement seriously bears repeating. The best algorithms today can't beat an average human at Go; discussions like this tend to remind me of the flying car, Mars colony, hoverboard predictions of sixty years ago. We aren't there yet, people - to be honest, we're not even very close.
I think this is a wonderful class for someone starting out and a good outline for people who want to get into practice of doing systematic design. https://class.coursera.org/programdesign-001/class
Oh, I wasn't aware that guaranteed income was a tenable policy proposal. ;)

Get real.
>>If your child crashes his bike and gets a bloody knee on the playground, your relaxing afternoon at the park is most likely over and now you have a crying child, bloody clothes, a damaged bike wheel, and potentially another child who is now screaming because you have to leave the park to go find bandages.

Well, yes. This is called parenting: it is expected that, as a parent, you will have to endure a certain amount of inconvenience so that your kid can learn to ride a bike. Now, if he or she is endangering other kids while learning, then it's valid to step in. But thinking about your own convenience sounds a bit selfish.
That's pretty odd. I'm running Firefox for Mac and it works fine for me, and Mac graphics drivers have a reputation for dodginess. It flies through an untextured wireframe maze during loading, which might be what you're seeing in Chrome.
As a YC alum (and thus someone who's experienced the folks involved, though I'm not an expert on this), I think it's much more likely it's mostly used to gauge demographics or potentially to increase diversity rather than reduce it as seiji suggests below.

Edit: to clarify, I think you incorrectly assume they're asking for age to filter for candidates that are younger. I don't think they use to filter at all, but even if they do, I would consider it highly improbable that it is to target a specific range.
I had a similar experience, really. Do I want to use emacs to edit system files and such? Not really, I'll continue to use vim. But for programming projects and document writing I like emacs better. To be honest I think the thing that started it was messing with Sublime Text; after using it for a few weeks I started tinkering with emacs again and never looked back. I will say that I never fully bought into vim in terms of movement keys and in depth shortcuts; I pretty much used cursor keys and the mouse and didn't do anything too advanced.
They run something like openelec (IE XBMC based).
Geexbox is usually what supports these things.

I use a mini-pc (a little asus eeepc box with a "who cares" intel cpu in it and a nvidia gt620m running openelec). The reason is actually simple:
A lot of the embedded processors are much more finicky in terms of hardware decode.

I used to run geexbox on a TI OMAP4460, and it worked wonderfully, right until you hit a track with DTS or DTS-MA audio, and then because it was not hardware supported, it fell right down and couldn't even play at 3fps. Maybe with XBMC now having a new audio engine (This was in the XBMC 11 days) the world is different.

The hardware decoders were also not quite as resilient to restart and had occasionally random failures compared to the nvidia chipset , which were very annoying when watching movies. I have never had this happen on anything in the nvidia/amd/intel world, and anything that can't be hardware decoded, the intel can absolutely handle.

Given the very low idle state of the newer haswell chips, unless you had a strong desire to not be intel based, i'd see if i could find a mobile motherboard and run openelec on a 15w TDP mobile haswell (or at worst, an itx motherboard and core i3 haswell).

Basically, these boxes are fun if you want to futz, but just aren't really "living room ready" unless you have a very fixed set of source video/audio.
This comment is written like a helpful suggestion, but the subtext—"stop whining", "women helping women", "blame men"—reads as though you just don't want it to be your problem. You don't disagree that women are marginalized, but you still tell them to just go bootstrap themselves and accuse them of playing the victim.

There are plenty of women running programs designed to help other women in the tech sector, but you propose them as though you're unaware that they even exist, which speaks volumes about how easy it is for them to make an impact.

Can men just stop being dicks to women? That seems way simpler than starting schools and companies for teaching women how to overcome all the men who are being dicks to them. It's so obvious, I'm astonished you haven't thought of it.
https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/...

I dont know what ya'll are talking about. It's more than possible make your js app crawlable by Google. Just use HTML snapshots if you want to do it by hand, but I use this because I'm lazy, http://seo4ajax.com.

Actually, it's just incredibly bad technical advice to just dismiss js apps like this.
Financial tip for a college grad..

Do either option 1 or 2:
Option 1: Spend as much as you want during your college years, go party, and go get laid w/o caring about your grades or getting a job. You still are gonna have to work for the next 40 years anyway.

Option 2: Do a startup while you're in school, ignore everything else(girls, grades, getting a job, etc) so you can strike it rich. Even if you fail, you're still gonna have to work for the next 40 years anyway.
Wow that is the most beautiful application form I've ever seen /sarcasm
The idiotic modal window is bad enough, but the new Gmail Compose also breaks basic shortcut keys (such as Command+left or right arrow to skip to the end of a line), at least in Firefox on my Mac. And pasting text in "Plain text" mode often adds weird line breaks. Gmail used to be such a pleasure to use and I cringe to click Compose now.
At that rate, I can't see any good reason to use regexes for email ever.

If you know context-free language, recursive-descent parsers are fairly simple to write and maintain without any special tools.
Jason Cornwell is a stupendous example of the Peter Principle.
Wasn't this the same popular belief about rockets before someone tried to prove the people wrong?
> So, the premise here that making the drug illegal might be essential to make compulsory-as-an-alternative-to-prison rehab an available tool is simply false.

I accept that. I support whatever it takes as a minimum to get the person into rehab, even if the minimum bar for parenting is raised so that crack addiction doesn't reach it. If the majority of crack users could be model citizens while high then my mind could be changed.
Given the choice, I prefer outlets over internet on flights, largely because I can always code or play computer games on a laptop without the internet and not worry about my computer shutting down.
We are working as fast as possible to expand it to the other locales as soon as we can.
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> But then what if Google pulls the rug out from under apps that rely on it

As has been pointed out, it's open source (specifically, Apache 2.0)[1]. So, fork the code[2], if necessary find&replace any google trademarks, and republish as a dedicated authenticator for your own app. Or use one of the existing apps which have forked off gauthenticator, e.g. https://github.com/kaie/otp-authenticator-android .

[1] Except for some bits specific to gmail's 2-factor workflow added after v2.21

[2] git clone https://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/
I can only agree. Specifically, their job recommendations repeatedly insisted (until I finally got around to muting them) that because I'd had a job in a particular city some years ago, clearly that made me an ideal match for positions in entirely different fields.

Seriously, if your company's raison d'etre is employment, and you're giving equivilancy to a long-ago location as to someone's actual field of expertise.. I'm, generously, hoping things improve.

For many people, jobhunting can be a soul-crushingly tedious, utterly unrewarding experience, and LinkedIn's seemingly unaware and uninterested, preferring self promotion with all the inerrant accuracy of AdWords.
The main issue I've encountered is actually finding documentation for these various architecture-specific oddities.
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Intel processor microcode security update
I'm not a GE/PreCheck/Clear/Nexus member. It's not even the background check -- I simply will not pay a membership (extortion) fee to avoid being groped at the airport. The right not to be abused does not have a tax on it.
Surely not - P/E ratio is a guess at future profits factored in now. If a company is demonstrating real profits now and so has a viable business model, it will be easier to guess (project?) future profit and so P/E ratio will lower

I suspect this only works for P/E ratios above one order of magnitude - when dealing with companies that obey laws of gravity other factors come in to play (I mean seriously 900x earnings. That's insane).
it would also get one in trouble at many companies. Anyone's that's ever been through an acquisition will know that due diligence includes code scans - it's highly unprofessional to let cursing into a code base.
I have seen too many of the same thing to be supportive of this project. I see nothing here that hasn't been done, and still very little market, target application or vision.
Yup, government by its very nature is about opposites and double standards. Government is pretty much an exclusive place to carry out the worst parts of humanity legally. Steal, murder, lie, kidnap, coerce--it's all good under the State. It's like the movie 'The Purge' in a sense.
I agree. Guaranteed, mandatory declassification after a period of time is a must if the people are truly to control their government. One cannot be said to have the right to vote if they do not have the right to have the facts upon which to cast their ballots.

Five years seems great, but even if the period were 20 years, the fact that someday one's actions will be public will be enough to make them think twice.
Many professionals are compensated for being on LinkedIn - just not by LinkedIn direct !

Oh and I consider the spam I have to wade through to use it a nefarious purpose :-)
We should stop linking to Softpedia. It's a spammy site that mirrors tons of software projects (e.g., most if not all new releases on PyPI) unofficially in order to serve ads.
I've worked in an in an institution where cigarettes were prohibited for certain patients and not for others. Cigarette theft was very, very common.
Firefox 17 for Linux 64-bit:
NS_ERROR_XPC_BAD_CONVERT_JS: Could not convert JavaScript argument arg 0 [nsIDOMCanvasRenderingContext2D.fillStyle] @ http://hellorun.helloenjoy.com/js/hellorun.min.js:4

Update: I pass all the WebGL compliance tests at https://www.khronos.org/registry/webgl/sdk/tests/webgl-confo....
How will that prove that they bought it from Amazon? This promo will be probably tied with Amazon account and purchase history.
Because we have higher standards for achievement for a 30 year old than a 20 year old.
I'm beginning to wonder whether "support for 2FA" is a way for companies to get your telephone number into their database. Does using an authenticator application also provide the same information to the company?
not to be snarky but you know, this is 2013, not 1999. If the largest and best funded company can't get something as simple as email right, then they should just pack up and go home. Or at least fire their whole UX/UI department and start fresh.

By right, I mean a clean, simple interface that you don't need to judiciously learn over dozens of hours of frustrating trial and error or by googling in support forums.

The old gmail UX was fine. In fact, compared to the new compose it was the bees knees. It takes humility to be able to realize that. But Jason wants to leave his mark - unfortunately the mark is an ugly smear.
First-ever online legal marketplace for clients to select lawyers
Ask HN: Is there a service that provides quick hit technical help?
I am a single non-technical founder and -- while i'm learning a ton of frontend coding due to my startup -- I often wish there were a service I could go to when I'm in a pinch or when I know the thing it'd take me an hour to figure out could be done in a minute by someone who knows what they're doing.

Stackexchange is great, but sometimes I'd rather just pay someone $50 for the simple css/javascript fix.

Is there a marketplace for these types of small tasks composed of programmers looking to earn some extra cash in their downtime? Something cheaper and more democratic than tweaky, but more curated than odesk.
Design anti pattern: footer under infinite scroll
CEO Coaching - cause you don’t know what you don’t know
Bravo to Firefox for keeping Chrome at bay for another short while.

Boo to the folks still using IE 8. Also boo to the innovation-repressing homogenization of mobile.
How else do you pronounce portrait?
Solar panels do have some low-reserve raw-materials requirements. CSP (concentrated solar thermal power) rather less so, though it has higher costs and isn't as easily deployed widely (PV can be installed pretty much on any existing structure, CSP generally requires its own dedication installations).

Though really, all this says is that even under a renewables scheme, we're not going to be able to provide power at the level some have come to expect for the population we've now got (7 billion) or are projected to have (10 billion).

The bigger problem from my PoV is that the existing financial and economic systems discount the sustainability capabilities of even a partial capacity provided by renewables to the point that little if any of it gets built -- the biggest hazard I and some others (Gail Tverberg is a pretty notable leading voice, Richard Heinberg another) see is that the financial and economic systems collapse well before energy or other limits fully impose themselves.

And yes, others note that renewables as presently envisioned draw heavily on nonrenewables for fabrication and construction:

https://www.readability.com/articles/oqtyksza

http://www.countercurrents.org/adair301110.htm

The fact that providing energy needs under a renewables basis is going to be really hard doesn't make nonrenewables any better -- they're only going to work until they don't and we fall off a cliff.

What's your suggestion.
It could just be a really shabby frame-up job which the investigators would've felt justified in if they had some unusable secret evidence. Which just illustrates another problem with secret evidence. Once people know it is used, they are free to assume the worst about anyone who is charged, without knowing the details.
This is a good example of why everyone who has any sense dislikes the company: http://community.linkedin.com/questions/8947/how-do-i-preven...

Long story short: They're slimy.
I really hate the lack of ability to show street view and a map at the same time. How is that an improvement? It is now very hard to know where you are looking at.
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Is anybody here actually arguing that the War on Drugs is not extraordinarily problematic? As far as I can tell nobody is.

anigbrowl is being pedantic about the term "obvious" but does not seem to actually disagree (The thread you are responding to is about effective communication, on which anigbrowl and I disagree, but I do not think that he is an idiot for disagreeing with me on this point.)

mpyne doesn't seem to disagree that it is problematic (he brought up David Simon after all... in fact his response to me makes me think that we both agree that both situations are problematic), but thinks it is not practical to change the state of affairs. I, again, disagree with that, but I certainly do not think that he is an idiot for thinking that the realities of the situation preclude meaningful change.

mindsling takes exception to my caricature of privacy advocates who are frustrated with recent media attention to their cause, but I think I have explained myself there well enough. I do not think that mindsling is an idiot.

(If I've mischaracterized anybodies position here, please correct me, but as I have interpreted everyones' comments currently I don't think that anybody here is an idiot.)
At first I was excited, then I remembered that these kind of deals are not for non-US citizens :(
Holy cow. I'm starting to experience outrage outrage and this post may have been the straw that broke the camel's back.
Don't know if I entirely agree either that you're "born with it or not", but I think it is something largely unteachable, but most people do develop it over time (if they're going to develop it at all). Hence, teenagers often don't have much but they will get it eventually, or certain life experiences can open you to having more empathy.

There isn't much you can do to "teach" it.
They have been doing that with music for a while. I bought a cd from Amazon long time ago and last year got an email from them telling me it was available to download for free.
I'd just like to point out that this is another example of the failure of the overly-rigid submission title policy here. This title tells me almost nothing about the content I'm about to see or whether it's relevant to me. Expecting to see something about 2FA in general or maybe even a library that eases implementation (given the github domain), I was let down when I opened the link and realized I didn't care in the least about this content. I wasted my time browsing, and I wasted even more time writing this rant.
Why Silicon Valley’s Work Culture Is Killing Us
Toad is a fucking cheater. He's always cutting corners.
Funny, my surprise is in the opposite direction. Aviation moves at a glacial pace, and the speed with which in-flight internet access has been popping up is pretty shocking. Within the past couple of years, my experience has been that it's much more likely to have internet access on a US domestic flight than not.
Let's not get personal. There are lots of ways this kind of thing can happen.
"By definition of the length of a day, if you are sending any serious volume of emails then most of them are going to be short."

Or you could type fast.
we have amazon but its shipped from america which adds a lot to the price.

Book Depository is good, but i believe that Amazon bought them out?