skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My cofounder's residency is making it impossible for her to continue with our healthcare startup. Write me.
An online time tracking tool I wrote.
Lisp is a good choice for any team, as long as your team agrees with your choice.

It's all about attitude. With Ruby/Python/PHP people rarely express strong sentiments over the language choice. Typically, you can easily convince the team going this or that way, depending on the task. Everybody understands those are just tools.

However, when it comes to non-mainstream languages such as Lisp, people become more galvanized. Negative sentiments are likely to shift from 'meh, whatever' to 'you must be mad'.

That's why I say think twice. You might alienate some people -- if that's something you care about.
So they'll use one justification rather than another? That doesn't even seem worth noticing, much less protesting.
Right, I know of Udacity and Treehouse and those other services, but I don't believe (just from checking them out) that they go into the same kind of hands-on training that a 10 week, in-person 12 hour/day course would.
Conventional programming languages are not anything like knives coated in grease.
USB Device not recognized? Don't panic just kill the power.
>at least google has yet to betray my privacy settings

You don't have privacy settings. At best you have the appearance of control over how some of your information is used some of the time.
The Comical Irony That iOS 7 Users Are Suffering From Blue Screens Of Death
Can you point out at least one programming book which makes you a worse developer?

Doesn't it depend on what specifically you are trying to learn?
I never brought up the argument that males are smarter than females.

Why wouldn't you consider the possibility that most females don't want to sit in front of a screen all day with minimal social interaction often working 70 hour weeks?

Is it because you feel that the field of CS is so superior that no one could dislike it?
yes though American sports seems to run on socialist lines can you imagine Man U not being allowed to sign the next pele.

"sorry lad we love to sign you but rules is rules your going to be playing for Gillingham F.C in the second division of the Beezer homes League"
You guys never cease to amaze. AWESOME
Son is a daughter
In my experience vim is pretty good for JS/DOM development. Most IDEs out there targeting those stacks can't actually do much since JS is too difficult to do good code completion on. Aptana and WebStorm try their best to be good IDEs for this. I prefer LT over those. But really, I can't say you're missing out on much by using vim (and in fact are maybe on a better path). Compare this to Java where I'd think you're really cheating yourself by not using an IDE.
1. And there was a "buy my kid a laptop and send her to a summer camp" Kickstarter that made all sorts of headlines and, despite being blatantly against the TOS, they kept up. I'm sure the percentage of fees they kept had nothing to do with that decision (or the possibility of PR). Regardless, their TOS pretty clearly says "no business or social websites".

2. How many bike shops do you think you can cover in your tour? How many orders of magnitude more effective do you think your site would be if that money was instead invested in other promotional means, rather than visiting a dozen bike shops in a dozen cities, for example?

3. If police are so over-worked in a jurisdiction that that's how you have to contact them to file a report (versus the hundreds or thousands of municipalities that allow online report filing), what makes anyone think that giving them the ability to view a stolen bike report on your website is going to be more effective? I'm also relatively certain that a third party who encounters an /allegedly/ stolen bike has no real option to "repossess it".

4. You're right, I don't have to like it. And maybe if you get to $200,000 of funding, /that/ stretch goal can be "our team of eight will visit one bike store in every one of the 289 US cities with a population of over 100,000". It's quite close to the least effective possibly imaginable method of promoting such a service. You could take out full page ads in multiple bike magazines, sponsor events, and the like. But that might mean your team doesn't get to go on a road trip from San Francisco to New England.

5. If registration is $6.99 for me to do it myself, or go to a bike shop and do it for free (something I probably do regularly as a bicyclist), where is any incentive to do so? Or, as you mention POS integration, perhaps it's only free if you do it when you buy a bike. Or "if it's already stolen" (better hope you already wrote down the serial), somewhat edge cases.
Corporate hell wouldn't be slowly inching along if there weren't people that didn't think parts of it were that bad.
Code for DC Hackathon for Furloughed Feds & Friends
You'd need to know a lot more about data structures, memory management, hardware in general, and probably be at least passingly familiar with the concepts of verified software and the mathematics underpinning computer science to work on embedded systems.
> People use monads frequently because they are incredibly useful.

"People use conventional programming languages frequently because they are incredibly useful." How about that?
I'm not talking about the San Francisco Bay Area. I'm talking about a place so thickly populated by low-income Mexican migrant workers that there are actually more hispanic markets than normal American supermarkets. To characterize people who stand on street corners and wait to be picked up for construction projects as rich folk seems pretty odd to me.
Whoops, yes!
Looks like what I expected. When it comes to FPS games, it's difficult to know his skill level, but it's probably not something you'd use competitively. Many times better than an analog stick though, so I'd use it for casual gaming.
Check out the Writing Excuses podcast (http://www.writingexcuses.com/).

They're all published and commercially successful genre fiction authors, and the podcast is consistently high on quality and low on BS, unlike at many other sites offering writing tips, tricks, strategies and advice.

All the episodes are ~15 minutes long, and most have a writing prompt or exercise at the end that can be completed in roughly the same amount of time.

Block out 30-45 minutes of time in the morning to listen to an episode and write on the prompt.
How does LightTable work for Go? Anyone have any thoughts on it?
What infinitesimal proportion of bike shops do you think a team of eight can cover with less than $50,000 of funding, to achieve said 'critical mass'?

Versus, say, manufacturer outreach, Facebook and Google advertising, event sponsorship, magazine ads?
Awesome! Shared it on Facebook.

Not sure if the data exists, but it would be amazing to see the map change over time, kind of like this: http://hint.fm/wind/
I have some experience with stealing ideas.

1. Someone posted a project to Reddit. It gained a lot of up votes, and tons of comments about people liking the concept. I thought I could do it better, and so, I did, blowing this other site out of the water within weeks. My site became the best in that untapped market, and now it sits there for years making me a living through passive income. The original site from the Redditor closed years ago.

2. After an unexpected announcement in the entertainment industry, some doors opened for a new market. I worked day and night for 2 or 3 days to get a site together over a weekend, and be first to launch. I was... and gained 1,000 members in a matter of hours after opening. Others quickly followed suit, and took my concept, improved on it, and continued to develop it while I didn't have the time. My site faded to zero within a year, their site went on to be a success.

Lessons learned. Be quick to market. Only launch when you have enough lead over the competition, and leave no glaring holes in your project which they can use to overtake you.

As everyone says, it's all about execution. If someone posts an idea, or a project that is gaining traction, and I believe I can do it better, then I'll try. I don't feel bad for stealing an idea, if I make it a success. At the same time, I don't feel bad when others take my ideas. That's competition, I've had all sorts of companies try to develop knockoff sites to the one I mentioned in the first paragraph. None have reached a similar level of success. However, if one manages to take the crown, I wouldn't blame them for stealing the concept, I'd blame myself for running an inferior service.

In short, yes, I'll very much steal your idea.
Guardian's NSA revelations: spies to go under spotlight
Someone would have to own each Wikipedia page to approve pull requests. As it is now, anyone can do the edits directly even if there's not a person dedicated to curating a particular page.
Here's a video of just that[1]! Except in Emacs instead of LightTable. Emacs is like a somewhat crufty version of LightTable that's also a few decades older :D. "Some assembly required."

[1]: http://emacsrocks.com/e11.html
So Kickstarter is bad, and by all means getting worse, at enforcing their own TOS, as advertised. Does this make the point any less true? I understand that it's hard to derail a popular project that may violate your TOS when it's also generating you a commission on every dollar of backing.
In the last week I've read 1984 and Brave New World, and what struck me most about both was the strict segmentation of people groups.

I've heard people say, as you do, that "the masses" will never do such and such, and I agree. But in the past, I haven't really been willing to separate "the masses" into their own group. Instead, I've considered myself, and you, and others on HN, as part of "the masses".

Anyway, I wonder now if I'm wrong. Maybe we should think of the masses as if they are proles (85% of the population in 1984)? Are "the masses" actually just a large group of people who are—literally—no help whatsoever is securing and protecting a just and free society for themselves and others? And worse, completely unaware that they are no help?

Perhaps the masses should be ignored, since their opinions—when they have any—are politically powerless.
John McAfee: Addict, coder, runaway
I think GP was arguing that both employers and employees should be able end employment at will. Strikes are something completely different, they're essentially a way for employees to hold their companies hostage to get more money (have you noticed how few strikes are based around "give us more money or we quit"?)
I really like this but don't use it because, although it has a vim mode, it's not really vim - as far as I can tell, you can't use your .vimrc or plugins. If vim could be somehow plugged in to this, that would be awesome.
It's passive aggressive against the self. Fits the definition quite well.
What might be a good idea is allowing HD and disabling it by default, letting people choose if they want it or not.

I tried GitTogether and HD worked like a charm. The only problem is that resolution doesn't scale to the Internet speed, which means HD all the time but at low frame rate.
However, the service is awesome and has a bright future in my opinion.
Good luck!
That is exactly how safe deposit boxes work, and the bank never turns over the master key. The government specifies a box number in the search warrant, the bank officer goes and retrieves that box and hands it over to the official.
For Rubyists, there's the FFaker gem, which provides a library of HipsterIpsum text:

https://github.com/EmmanuelOga/ffaker

Faker::HipsterIpsum.paragraphs(1)

# => "Twee yr artisan Banksy freegan. Moon art Shoreditch synth locavore Marfa twee Wayfarers helvetica. Williamsburg scenester trust fund PBR viral."

There's also Faker::DizzleIpsum:

=> "Snoop and my money on my mind like every single day smokin' weed it's 1993 if you was me and I was you recognize rizzide bubbles in the tub. With my mind on my money eighty degrees smokin' weed the diggy. The dogg pound if the ride is more fly, then you must buy used to sell loot tha dizzle. Rizzoad drop it like it's hot why is you may I."
exploit: (noun) a striking or notable deed; feat; spirited or heroic act: the exploits of Alexander the Great.

exploit: (verb)

1. to utilize, especially for profit; turn to practical account: to exploit a business opportunity.

2. to use selfishly for one's own ends: employers who exploit their workers.

3. to advance or further through exploitation; promote: He exploited his new movie through a series of guest appearances.

You'll notice that only one of those four is distinctly negative in nature. Two of them are distinctly positive. The final one can be seen either way depending on context.

Therefore, I totally disagree that "exploiting" tax laws for personal benefit can always be seen as a immoral, unethical, and/or illegal act.

Your hacker is exploiting things for personal gain that is likely already considered illegal. Someone labeled as a hacker can exploit software for their own personal gain in a manner that is not illegal, but you don't seem to be using that context.

The two do not necessarily match in context because the "exploiting" of the tax laws you are complaining about has not been deemed illegal. This "exploiting" of tax law may have unintended consequences but that's the fault of the people who wrote the law, not the ones who willingly follow it.
> Do you have substantial reasons for suspecting that Assange is one?

Some people have asserted as much, including people who have known him personally. Others have said that those assertions are false.

Since I don't have evidence either way, it "might" be true. Might. Might! I'm not saying it's true. I'm saying I can't prove it's not true.

I'm also saying, if that upsets you, think about why that might be. Is it because you know Mr. Assange personally and know it to be a false allegation? Or is it because you like Wikileaks and interpret any attack on Assange as an attack on Wikileaks?

"L'etat, c'est moi"? I don't believe that's true. I think we should be wary of cults of personality. Even if we don't think the "personality" is themselves creating it.
Has it been confirmed that the Feds are in possession of the wallet(s)? In that case Ulbricht is well and truly boned. If they don't have this data, then this filing is just the first round in the very long game that will determine how much jail time Ulbricht or any other alleged SR operator will serve, and how much money they will have left over afterward. In any case, those SR customers who had BTC stored there are out of luck.
This guy does some nice clojure screencasts in light table and I think they show it if off pretty well, for people who are curious:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxE5wDbt964#t=3m00s

(I don't have my headphones on me so I don't know what I cut out, but he starts using light table at ~3 minutes in).

Edit: his intro to datomic is really good for anyone looking to get started with that
Honest question: how do you rationalize the influence of bid amount on AdWords ad positioning? In other words, if two companies buy ad space, and one of the ads has a slightly lower quality score but a much higher bid price, it will be placed above the higher quality ad. How does this benefit users? Isn't this detrimental to the quality of the information being presented?

If a recommendation service prioritizes a recommendation because it was paid more to do so, isn't that akin to bribery? Why have we normalized the morality of this kind of business practice?
Probably in every european country there is some extremist group with an agenda "let's kill all [ethnic] or at least drive them out of our country", and of course it shows up in internet comments, so some hate speech exists - but the regulation of it varies from country to country.
Is there any caching going on, server-side?

It is ridiculously fast.
A retro payphone project, specifically.

A modern payphone, I think, would be an iPod Touch (or other equivalent non-cellular mobile device), available at the counter at bars/restaurants/hotels/etc., locked into an app that lets you tap your credit card to place a call. I could see Skype getting into that market.

(The modern spiritual replacement for a payphone, though, is just asking random people on the street if you could borrow their cell to place a call. You pay in status and social capital.)
I just make sure there's whitespace before and after links (like this, http://example.com )
One good reason why it "shouldn't" do this? It's doing it and giving you a choice to either be a part of it or not. That is more than you can ask for from a free service. If you were able to be a part of a service, not pay a thing, feeding data to it and expecting it not to use it in anyway you wouldn't like- then you would also not see the constant innovation brought about by such companies; and this is justified as long as the user is not forced into it; the golden rule of software.
I believe that statute is the reason why Lavabit considered it legal to provide metadata information only. Numbers dialed is a form of metadata. The contents of the call (or email in this case) is another thing entirely. Thats really the basis of the appeal.
As a cultural note, PHP users don't claim that using other languages makes one's programs inherently dangerous. Or that using their language makes the programs bug-free. etc. (as we see in headlines of blog posts linked here.) One does not come in for scolding and condescension by PHP programmers merely for using other languages.

Whatever the faults of PHP might be, PHP programmers are distinctly more pleasant in this respect. And actually the same is largely true of Lisp, which emphasizes things like homoiconicity and expressiveness but doesn't make the actually absurd claim that it eliminates bugs or is the only way anyone should write code.

Really there aren't any other languages which can compare with Haskell in regard to the aggressiveness of their advocacy.
There is nothing magical about the 51% number. If 51% were to chose to give the BTC away (taking it from the FBI), first of all it would require these 51% to download and run new Bitcoin software that recognizes this BTC gift. Then you would end up with a network split, a chain fork, where 49% would not recognize the gift, and 51% would recognize it.

If some vendors or exchanges happen to be in the 49%, then whoever received the BTC gift would NOT be able to send the BTC to these vendors or exchanges.

You are confusing (1) a majority attack (mining blocks following the existing rules) that has a certainty of success with more than 50% of the mining power, with (2) a majority of users trying to change existing rules (in which case you need consensus = 100%).
I worked as mechanic for quite a few years - the whole reason that I built the service was because I wished that I could do this for customers. We've had shops in Chicago registering all the bikes they sell all summer long. I do agree though - things get hectic, and we want to make it easier - which is why we're working on integrating with point of sale systems, so bikes are automatically registered at checkout if a box is checked.

And while we started the Bike Index to fight theft, we really don't think that it's the only use of the system - and we are focusing on registering bikes before they are stolen. So a name that highlights theft isn't our goal.

Honestly, all the nice bikes I've sold had beautiful up-to-date manuals (Specialized even includes a DVD), but no one read them anyway, so I don't think that's the solution. Especially when shops already have the serial number and manufacturer in their checkout system.

We do want to partner with manufacturers, but we want to make sure it continues to be a service for the biking community rather than a trick to get more marketing information for manufacturers. And to achieve that we need to approach manufacturers after already having a base - hence our Kickstarter project.
>> It can sometimes make sense to sell yourself when you're small for a few million, rather than take more funding and roll the dice again.

If they sold hackermeter for "a few million" I'm giving up on capitalism. It was good while it lasted.

Snark aside, I assume they didn't get a few million because they didn't disclose the amount. It would have to be an amount that neither side wanted to brag about.
There is a strong selection effect given that people who are competitive bicyclists in general won't ride recumbents since you will then be restricted to HPV competitions.

The tradeoff is smaller frontal area vs higher weight. See http://www.recumbents.com/wisil/hein/Hpvpaper.htm

Re: handling, my Lightning recumbent is way more nimble than any bicycle I've ever ridden, precisely because the wheelbase is shorter and the CG is lower to the ground than a normal bicycle.
Mincome != Basic Income. Under Basic Income, everyone gets a fixed amount unconditionally. Any extra income you get on top of that is yours to keep. So you get the $2800 from the government, then get a job for that $1200 (from the grandparent's example), so now you have $4000 in total.

Mincome worked differently from this, but the OP talks about Basic Income, which just gives a fixed amount to everyone.
> I do recall an article being submitted to HN saying that the UK also has a law making site owners liable for user-generated comments unless they pro-actively moderate them. I don't understand there logic behind it, it's not possible to moderate any website with a decent amount of traffic.

The idea that publishers have a positive duty to assure that what they publish is not harmful (libelous, or otherwise) with limited defenses is pretty common globally; the US idea that the freedom of speech is so strong publishers have a fairly minimal duty in this regard so long as harms are not intentional (or reckless in some cases) is, AFAIK, less common.

So the fact that it is burdensome on publishers and creates costs that would make certain forms of interaction difficult isn't considered problematic from that perspective -- what's problematic is the unpoliceable publications.
Spying More On The Public With Cameras Will Likely Decrease Public Safety
Interesting you chose Scala. I have built and managed Jetty based adservers to talk to bidding exchanges and wondered how would the system perform if the adserver was written in Scala instead. Going with Jetty initially was the right choice as none on the team were experts in Scala, and the base assumption was that Jetty is battle tested, has good documentation and is already optimized to perform great from the get go. So, we simply chose Jetty. I didn't get a chance to build an equivalent system in Scala to compare performance. Will be great, if you can throw some light on how you went about building highly performant adservers in Scala, and scaled them. Does coding in Scala make it a lot more easy to deal with concurrency (for development and debugging), keeping a small codebase, help in rapid iteration, and in general make it fun to program and manage the servers? Do you have a blog post or a write up on this topic? I encourage you to make one, if you don't have one already. Good karma, and an opportunity to showcase your engineering chops to hire other great engineers.
In general the Feds "forfeiture" all the assets they ever get their grimy paws on. The armored vehicles, machine guns, and posh LEO facilities aren't going to buy themselves.

http://www.justice.gov/jmd/afp/

So, if the Feds have the wallet(s), the BTC will be back in circulation, eventually. If they don't, the BTC probably won't appear until the actual SR proprietor has access to a computer again.

What would be really hilarious, would be if whoever has the wallet(s) waits until the currently accused is sentenced before spending again.