skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How many people actually disable smoke detectors when they insult their cooking, and how many people just think that this is what other people commonly do? I suspect this is one of those "problems that everyone thinks that everyone else has, but few people actually do."

Every single person with sleeping babies? The people that need a working smoke alarm the most and are most likely to have sleep deprivation and most likely to forget to replace the batteries.
Ladar Levison was forced to give Lavabit's SSL private key to the feds, so it is no more secure. That's why he (or GaDaddy, the issuer) revoked the certificate.
Premiums vary based on region, age, and smoking status. It's not so much information that you couldn't handle it with static pages.

Subsidy is based on income, and it's simple enough that NPR and others have already build subsidy calculators. Put that in javascript and you've still got static pages, running calculations client-side.
Just because I think words can have different meanings by no means implies that I think any meaning of any word is valid. So my correct, formally acceptable use of "he" implies nothing about my opinions on the slang, informal derogatory use of "gay". That's nonsensical.

Again, you seem to be missing the point. I'm not using non-gender-neutral pronouns. "He" is gender neutral, and there is plenty of evidence supporting that. I agree: gender neutral pronouns are important. They're necessary for using the language. "He" is one gender-neutral option among others. That's why it's use by the OP was perfectly acceptable.

I'm not sure why you think that riddle even resembles relevancy, but it doesn't. There's no incorrect language here, all there is an oversensitive overreaction to a normal , unoffensive, formal, well-used idiom. I immediately grasp that the doctor is the patient's mother. Using "he" is not going to change that.

Just give it a rest. You're getting pretty desperate at this point.
Not surprised at all to see the concerts line going up in this chart. The amount of money my friends and I spend on live music is getting out of hand lately, largely because mid-sized acts can now charge big prices for tickets. I like the fact that 'indie' acts now sell out shows in decent venues and can get away with charging $60+ for tickets. I think the pirating of music is making things a lot easier for those mid-sized bands to push their way into getting a decent-sized world-wide audience. I think groups like Chvrches or The Naked and Famous (both of which coming to my city in the next month, selling tickets at $60+, and likely to sell out their venues) have probably benefited a lot from the pirating of their music. I've never paid for either of their music, nor has anyone I know (in fact, I know very few people who still regularly pay for music at all), but most of my social circle are likely to go to one or both of those shows.
Lil' bit of competition in the pan handling game in SF... personally, I'd rather see can collectors.
Funny how they include this line in their memo, along with all the platitudes about "we all need to work hard, together":

>In some major sites thereto [sic] large amount of underutilized workspace and we want to make the best use of our space.
Today the owner, Ladar Levison, had to hand over the SSL certificates by court order. It marks the ending of a long battle in court, with unfortunately it ending in the govenment's favor. I'm assuming the post is just a hacker way of acknowledging the event.

Related article:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/10/how-l...
There will always be money for the justin timberlakes, drakes, and britneys. But none for the Nirvanas , Pearl Jams or radioheads.
When energy prices were high in the late 1970s, my dad and I went out on evenings and weekends collecting cans. At the time it was profitable to do this without any deposit, and we made $200 (in less inflated dollars) on a good week. We made enough money to buy two aluminum bicycles, as well as many other things.
It's not a "widespread idea"... it's the legal reality. As a non-American, you do not share the rights of US citizens under the constitution. Period. They are the only people entitled to the protection of their rights from the American government, unless your country has signed some sort of treaty with the US government giving you extended rights from the US, which I doubt it has.

Without such an agreement, this is nothing more than international espionage, which is a natural (and arguably necessary) part of having different nations that don't always see eye-to-eye. Do you take issue with spying in all forms, or only the 21st century brand of spying?
I agree, no need for caution when it comes to liberty and due process. The "true" media has never steered us wrong.
> if it was Nest they would have "easily" dismissed it and probably died.

Did you read the description at all? You can only dismiss warnings not alarms. You cannot dismiss life threatening situations.
This article confuses me. Let's look at the list of complaints.

Chiclet keyboards

I was skeptical of the new island-style ThinkPad keyboards too, but most reviewers who have tried them found them as good as or slightly better than the old keyboards. Examples: http://blog.laptopmag.com/thinkpad-type-off-is-lenovos-new-i..., http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/1/3055686/lenovo-thinkpad-x23..., http://www.gottabemobile.com/2012/05/23/lenovo-thinkpad-x230..., http://www.slashgear.com/lenovo-thinkpad-x230-hands-on-21229...

Based on this feedback I bought a ThinkPad X1 Carbon recently, and I've found the keyboard to be excellent. Like the reviewers, I found my fears about the shift to be entirely unfounded.

Removing the buttons from the touchpad

I would think the first thing a real hard-core ThinkPad fan would do is deactivate the touchpad altogether and just use the TrackPoint nub.

Eliminating the removable battery

It's true that the particular model he's complaining about, the T431S, doesn't include a removable battery. But that's because "S"-model ThinkPads have always been pitched as slimmer and lighter versions of the standard model, and removable batteries add weight. You can get a removable battery with the non-slim-and-light version, the T430 (http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/t430/).

loading Windows 8 without the benefit of an IPS (In-Plane Switching technology) display, let alone a touchscreen

My X1 Carbon came with a touchscreen. It worked fine with Windows 8, and even works reasonably well with Ubuntu 13.04, which I happily replaced Windows 8 with shortly after the machine arrived.

They don't have a touchscreen model in the T series yet, but I have to think it's only a matter of time. (The lag may be due in part to the notoriously slow speed at which big enterprises adopt new tech -- the T series is supposed to be the basic workhorse ThinkPad, so I'd be amazed if sales to enterprise customers aren't a primary concern for Lenovo for that line.) Until then, if a touchscreen is a must-have, you can get one of the many other (http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/#/?facet-5=3&p...) ThinkPad models that do include one.
What about a three-laser system?
I was thinking more like people who logged in, created an account, then got sticker shock and decided not to sign up.

Well, now the government has a database of people who aren't enrolled and can now start fining them. Add in the fact that the IRS can simply take money from their bank accounts and you have some real issues with this law.
Apple Will Hold Fall iPad Event on Oct 22
I wonder whether this is actually possible for someone who didn't have a computer science background at all. I have spoken to Andy and I know he did coding when he was young (Note, this is Elli from HireArt). I guess I wonder if it's possible to make such a huge transition if you had no prior CS background at all
The missing piece to changing the university culture
Wow, after my experience with Nest thermostat, there's no way I'd risk having a Nest Smoke Detector. I had Nest Thermostat for 3 months. Initially I loved it, but then it kept "think" I was gone when sleeping on the 3rd floor wake to a freezing house. Ok, minor annoyance, disable that feature. Then after a long business trip I came home late to again find a freezing cool house, but this time the Nest had bricked itself. Rest didn't help, support didn't help. So since there is no manual override, I had to uninstall it and reinstall the 20 year old "programmable" thermostat that actually worked. Since I had to uninstall it I told Nest they could have their brick back and refund me.
Now they want me to take that risk with a smoke alarm bricking itself??? Crazy.
If the market isn't giving an answer to the recycling problem, these people are, and are making money for it.

This sounds like a job like any other to me.
> Making obnoxious sounds is a feature not a bug. The inconvenience of being kept awake by a smoke alarm battery tends to pale in comparison to the inconvenience of being kept dead.

So there are only two choices? Dead or obnoxious sounds in the middle of the night?
I want to be one of those people. I've "learned" JavaScript on CodeCademy, I've solved some TalentBuddy problems, but I've yet to create something...

Can you give me some pointers on a project I could contribute to?
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https://github.com/benweet/stackedit/issues/100#issuecomment...
Let's not forget about affiliate fraud and valid, legitimate refunds/returns/chargebacks. You really shouldn't get credit for your affiliate sales until Amazon is sure they're going to get to keep the money.

We have an affiliate program and had to switch to 60 days (our chargeback window) because of credit card fraud. If it were not for this, I'd just as soon push out instant payments...
Linux screensharing
It would be interesting to see it be re-instated at the behest of the FBI.
That makes sense; I'm not the target audience. It was just a little off-putting to see some code and think "Whoa! That reminds me of Perl golf!!".
It's probably worth bringing up a couple other famous Indian scientists such as Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman. These three folks have made major contributions to science and mathematics, in the same league as, say, Heisenberg, Bohr, or Riemann. And even though there are important phenomena or properties named after them (e.g. Raman spectroscopy, Chandrasekhar limit, etc.) as people they are far, far less well known than European scientists.
So you're twice as likely to get struck by lightening in a given year. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=.00006%25+probability
The Weekly Standard appears to have a very partisan tone in this article and others concerning the Affordable Care Act. Obviously, the ACA is politically divisive. Everyone should be able to debate and critique it, but those who do condemn the approach need to propose a viable, stronger alternative.

This isn't an academic debate in which we have the luxury of finding a perfect solution. As Howard Zinn said about politics, "We're on a moving train." I worked for a health care center in a city where 1/3 of residents were uninsured, unable to afford check-ups and essential services. A similar dynamic exists in hundreds of other U.S. regions.

So, if you shoot holes in a solution (in this case, the ACA), please add to the conversation by proposing alternatives to address the urgent, obvious problems in U.S. health care.
I don't have the problem (upgraded from DP to DP until I installed the GM.)

Have never seen it on another device.

LC set to US English
That's awesome that the certificate authority is being proactive.
I don't understand why, if he was making a principled stand, he would have bothered with the printout in 4-point type. That was sort of a juvenile move, one that could only serve to justify the government's attitude towards him. Weird.
Growing up in rural Oregon, collecting cans & bottles was my entire 8-year-old income. $0.05 per container went a long way.
I use to take recycling to that very spot (in banner image)! more than 20 years ago. Which I would never have remembered without seeing that picture. Human pattern recognition / memory recall is neat!
Facebook definitely sees it happening. Their account reps are constantly raving about mobile ads with Facebook, and in our limited tests, they haven't been over-promising. It probably wouldn't be a bad strategy to base a significant amount of predictions about the larger mobile market on decisions made by Facebook, since they have the best data on it.

As far as game developers, the SEM for SEO strategy is the TapJoy model and it sucks for people who play. One thing I think deep linking could start to do for developers is allow them to cannibalize each other (say Angry Birds started advertising in Candy Crush Saga to people who spent over $X/week and had Angry Birds installed, I know this probably isn't the best example, but it is descriptive at least). Does that push game devs away from allowing in app ads from other game companies?
The story, as far as I have read from this article and others, was they asked for data(probably with an NSL), he said no. They got a court order. He said no. At some-point he was willing to cooperate, but by that point, they didn't care because they thought he was jerking them around.They then requested the SSL keys. This article is more clear about the exact sequence of events[0], but the the posted one says so as well. The initial request was not for the SSL keys.

From the newyorker article :
"On June 10th, the government secured an order from the Eastern District of Virginia. The order, issued under the Stored Communications Act, required Lavabit to turn over to the F.B.I. retrospective information about one account, widely presumed to be that of Snowden. (The name of the target remains redacted, and Levison could not divulge it.) The order directed Lavabit to surrender names and addresses, Internet Protocol and Media Access Control addresses, the volume of each and every data transfer, the duration of every “session,” and the “source and destination” of all communications associated with the account. It also forbade Levison and Lavabit from discussing the matter with anyone.
"

Sometime after his initial refusal and then offer to comply with some caveats that the fed's interpreted as stalling:

"Prior to the hearing on July 16th, the U.S. Attorney filed a motion for civil contempt, requesting that Levison be fined a thousand dollars for every day that he refused to comply with the pen-register order. EARLIER IN THE DAY, Hilton issued a search-and-seizure warrant, authorizing law enforcement to seize from Lavabit “all information necessary to decrypt communications sent to or from [the account], including encryption keys and SSL keys,” and “all information necessary to decrypt data stored in or otherwise associated with [the account].” (emphasis mine)

[O]http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/10/lavabit_unsealed/
An improved Type I estimate
Unix: When pipes get names
Chartbeat Rising
On the other hand, callout arrows seem like a perfectly good case of something that doesn't necessarily need to be present for the site to function.

If your compatibility goals are pixel-perfect compatibility with IE8, this is an issue (and my thoughts and prayers are with you), but if your site simply needs to be functional, callout triangles wouldn't be on my top 10 things to worry about.
Someone with the goal "make Calc a better Excel than Excel" needs to take a serious interest involving lots of developers.

Basically, LO needs to be able to import the sort of monster power user spreadsheet that takes 16 hours to run in Excel, and run it fidelitously in 12. These guys sign the cheques.

What would that take?

1. Get a pile of example spreadsheets. (Code to real-world examples, like Wine does, rather than abstract specs that are often inaccurate.) This will be the hard part.

2. Every OOXML tag in the documents needs to be correctly imported and understood.

3. The VBA in the documents needs to run perfectly.

4. Optimise the hell out of it.

That gets LO good enough to seriously compete. Then you make the IDE as good for those users as Excel's is.
similarly, is there any question that correspondence with a public agency can potentially be entered into a public record?

As many HIPPA-related documents as I've had to sign as a consultant working in/around medical and as a patient, I'd have assumed HIPPA was in force here as well since we're talking (a) medical info that is (b) personally identifiable.
I would also happily believe that they just lost those engineers during 2010-2012; there was this massive deadzone during which improvements were not made to older products while new products were also not yet being released. The earliest documentation I can find for Amazon Payments Advanced (from a random S3 bucket that Google indexed for some reason) also has rather weird branding at the top, but that might just be their CMS solution?
Not really, I was under the impression CSS was for styling things not for creating them.
If we're going to start creating shapes out of CSS then its kinda going out of scope of what it was designed for.
We know who built Healthcare.gov; it was Development Seed. There were a bunch of stories about it earlier this year. Development Seed also built and runs MapBox, so they should have some idea how to run a high volume web service.
What's the additional cost to maintain something like this long-term?

I'm just thinking about articles that could be 10-15 years old (10-15 years from now mind you.), you could have a substantial database of links to maintain and keep updated, not a small task.
Robert Skidelsky on Work
This reminded me of an app I'd seen a few years ago, with an ice-cream sundae as its logo. Eventually I remembered it was Plainview (http://barbariangroup.com/2012/07/plainview/).

Being able to import slides, as well as showing web-pages, is a nice improvement.
FUD (Considering the source)
The worst part about being on the bleeding edge is that we are bored by the time something hits the mainstream.

The fact is that 3D printing is still in its incubation stage. The market hasn't seen any concept hit storefronts in which the average middle class consumer can decide whether or not they should buy a printer...it's still 'magic'

One of these companies is going to figure out how to source at a scale that gets them into Best Buy. Then you can expect this segment to truly explode.
I can't speak for anyone else, but the reasons we've chosen other providers over PayPal had nothing to do with their fees. I expect I'd pay 5% and shift all my existing business in a heartbeat, given a payment service that had:

1. a data model that wasn't oversimplified or awkwardly reported,

2. a decent API that also supported comprehensive automated integration tests, and

3. solid documentation and customer support.

No large, established company would pay 5%, obviously, but running small, on-line businesses without physical products, our priorities are different. A couple of percent of profit margin either way is nothing compared to the pain caused by accounting hassles and the lack of confidence if it's not possible to test an integration properly. In a small company, we're all doing everything, so any time we have to spend on accounting details or manual testing before we roll out an update is time we're not spending on things like marketing or feature development that actually make money.
SF's Startup Program Genesis
Upvote for linking the bug reports with test documents, by the way - so many compatibility complainants don't actually produce the bugs.
PHP does have array_reduce, however operators like '+' can't be used as callables so you'd have to make your own wrapper functions.

Edit: Screw it, haven't self promoted on a while. In Pharen (https://github.com/scriptor/pharen), which compiles to PHP, you could do:

(reduce (+) 0 [1 2 3 4 5])
Will Upcoming Ubuntu Phone Disrupt Mobile OS Landscape?
They couldn't contact him initially because he was away without a phone. If you want to be effective.... (He certainly isn't wasting part of his evening reading HN like me)
The point is that people are so passionate about music that they will make it, even for free, and the results can be outstanding.

The same can't be said about the type of jobs slaves used to get.
Hadn't thought of that, but yeah, that's pretty big.
No I wouldn't. My detectors are wired, and moving them means rewiring, which means tearing apart the entire ceiling. Not gonna happen, not by me and not by anybody I need to pay to do it. Luckily my builder wasn't a dumbass.
And this is exactly why perfect forward secrecy is so important.
I use both Amazon and PayPal but not Stripe or Balanced, mostly because I already have accounts set up with Amazon and PayPal. This is a huge barrier for new payment companies. To succeed, they need to both (1) be so much better than the competition that it's worth the hassle of making a new account and (2) communicate that to millions of people. These are not small problems.
Is it clear that's the case? Or is it possible that this was upon request from Levison?
The chances of winning in power ball with 10,000 tickets is around 0.000057 , (10000/175,223,510) . Who wants to pull in for that :)
The President himself, said he likes the term "Obamacare".
Yeah, I should have been a bit clearer on what I mean: VCs typically offer a lot more than just money. Things like their networks, advice, and positions on company boards for example. There could be quite a bit of value to companies that simply fill those roles, as an organization, similar to what individuals to as advisors.

I think that in many cases that might look quite similar to existing accelerators, except that accelerators generally target very early stage companies.

Sam discusses drops in the idea at the bottom of his post:

The best VCs are great, and they will probably continue to
do well. In fact, they’re so good that they could probably
get away with only selling advice—they understand how to
build big companies in a way that few other people in the
world do.
Luckily you can't silence alarms only warnings.
Well crap, I guess I just don't get it.

I suppose I'll understand once I realize what you mean by "fixing" is actually "replacing". Specifically with your preferred method of accomplishing the same thing.

You aren't one of those programmers that can't help themselves in "fixing" everybody else's code that comes across your desk because they didn't do it the way you would, regardless of whether it works or not? I mean, the attitude I'm sensing in your text suggests that, but I'm sure you're a better person than that in real life.
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MVP - super MVP
> This is not really calculable, nor is the number of people killed by coal calculable in any reasonable manner.

Of course it is. 161 people are killed for each THw of coal energy. And 0.04 people for each THw of nuclear power and this INCLUDES Chernobyl!

http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-so...

http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/dataset...

> However the impact of nuclear catastrophe is far far more insidious and lasting

Clearly you've never seen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Fossil_Plant_coal_fly... the radiation and heavy metals released from that can never be cleaned (just diluted).

> particularly when caused by a global calamity that causes meltdown in many plants.

A what?? And how do you manage that? If you have unreasonable fears then there is no point in talking to you. Reason will not remove an unreasonable fear.
There's a Massive US Salmonella Outbreak Amid the FDA Shutdown
I'm more comfortable with the path syntax, and polygons are pretty much the same as a path, except that you would prepend M and append z to the list of points (for certain buggy renderers it might be necessary to put an L inside, too). Paths have handy shorthands for horizontal, vertical and relative movement, though.
Senator Gets Mad About Shutdown, Names Names