skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Additionally, although many street dealers operate in areas you'd probably associate with being high-crime, the drug gangs are pretty aware that customers need some sense of safety when buying product and don't have any more reason to see their customers robbed or assaulted than any legit shop owner.

If you're interested in an observed account of a drug gang, there is a book called "Gang Leader for a Day" where the author spent a lot of time in a housing project, with the guy who ran that faction of the gang. It has its flaws but it was an interesting read:

http://www.amazon.com/Gang-Leader-Day-Sudhir-Venkatesh-ebook...
All these reasons for breaking network neutrality were discussed in congress and engineers spoke about how this undermines the foundation of the internet. So, a lot of good that does. There is no more regulation from the government unless it's protecting business. The government has failed time and time again, it's just another business at this point. This is why we can't have nuclear power, it would would be a boondoggle of lax safety and kickbacks.
bitcoins at the beginning were like worth nothing, and 18 months ago they were only at 3 dollars/BTC as far as I recall.
Before we jump to theories, has anyone eliminated the null hypothesis?

That is: assuming a totally random distribution of individuals into professions, purely by chance, some professions will have curious ratios. The first thing a statistician aims to do is to test the probability that the observed effect is due to chance.

A second thing to test is whether the ratios are stable across time.

This comment represents 20% of your RDA for nitpicky HN comments.
It should be relativly simple to generate such a list. Unfourtuantly, the best I could find (in 5 minutes of googleing) is [1], which shows the ballance of a single account as a function of time.

[1] http://blockchain.info/charts/balance?address=1DkyBEKt5S2GDt...
For my family it involved speech therapy, occupational therapy, and early classroom and social experiences.

Autism is a wide spectrum, but it often involves speech delays, trouble empathizing with others, repetitive behaviors, and a desire for ritual.

You can learn more about it here:

http://www.autismspeaks.org/what-autism
This is absolutely true. DPI was used by corporations first. NSA et. al. have to use it to stay in the game. Of course, you'll never hear this because the multinational media decides who you root for.
I don't think your clear statement means anything, legally. What matters is the name similarity. If a soda company was called Pepsee and then stated, "We are not Pepsi, a registered trademark of the Pepsicola Corporation", they would still get sued into oblivion.

IANAL, but it strikes me as at least arguable as "confusing similarity" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusing_similarity). Do you want to find out the answer in court, or could you just change the name of your app to something obviously different from "plenty of fish"? Like "The Gorton Fisherman of Love". No, don't do that.

(I'm curious if there is any additional concern about making a client for something without permission)
Instant node.js hosting
Google's not abandoning these people. Microsoft abandoned them long ago. When I hear from QA that something isn't working on IE8, it ruins my entire day. Even IE10 is dreadful to work with. Good riddance!
All 'yall need to be ashamed of yourselves if you don't own even a US penny's worth of Bitcoin. I'm not even kidding. If you've never witnessed a bitcoin transaction or held a bitcoin on an electronic device this far into the game, just hang your heads in shame.
http://www.sogo.nu/downloads/zeg.html sounds interesting too.
+1

Don't care about Bitcoin and absolutely sure I cannot predict what it will do in the future. It's outside of my focus.
And now employers would have to think twice before hiring him.
It is at least useful as savings. Isn't it a "practical application"? It's being very useful for me to store value in long term.
I asked God about racism. He said, "sports"

The world is just how God made it. It's nice.

God says...

C:\TAD\Text\SWIFT.TXT

permission to step over this wall; and, the space being so wide
between that and the palace, I could easily view it on every side.
The outward court is a square of forty feet, and includes two other
courts: in the inmost are the royal apartments, which I was very
desirous to see, but found it extremely difficult; for the great
gates, from one square into another, were but eighteen inches high,
and seven inches wide. Now the buildings of the outer court were
at least five feet high, and it was imp

----

LOL my brother is a millwright. He said turbines made by Japan have tiny passageways.
So, given that article about a guy that bought $17 in BTC in 2009 and found out recently that it was worth 5 figures, should I feel like an idiot for not getting in on this while BTC were cheap a few years ago? My logic at the time was "I don't really know that much about Bitcoin, so buying some would basically be speculating, which seems like a bad idea."
Yes! If you skip every other term you'll be going up by 2n.

I'm a bit rusty but going up by 2n (1n,2n,4n,6n...) gives you the even harmonics, the opposite (1n,3n,5n,7n...) gives you the odd harmonics. Old tube-amps are known for keeping the odd harmonics around, it's a "warmer" sound.

edit: fixed the series
About the Significant Objects Project
Interesting and well thought out. (I don't even know if it is a conspiracy theory or not. :-) )

Regarding Sabra and Shatila, afaik two separate courts said he couldn't be proven to be responsible? He should have considered the risk of a revenge. The wikipedia link supports this, too.

(I read up on this because I've seen SaS arguments so often. I've never seen an answer to the counter question of how to judge those who themselves did attacks on civilians in that civil war. Like PLO, unlike Sharon.)
I have an increible hard time to get started with bitcoin. Which website? How? Can someone pull through the right path for me? I want to start investing in mining and buying.
You don't need AdWords right now.

This comes from an AdWords guy. Seriously, work on marketing to the community and with content, not with paid ads. Paid ads come in when you've identified a market, medium to reach them and what your message is. Have that nailed before you spend a dime :)
So I stand somewhat corrected, I had a memory of Chowning describing it as additive in his book "FM Theory & Applications" which I got with my TX11 but as it turns out he felt calling it additive was too simplistic as modulating a frequency is multiplicative. Each 'Op' however is added together to give the resulting tone. Now contrast that to my Arrick where I'll feed a square wave into a VCLF and peel the push filter out the harmonics over time to get a nice 'gong' sound which is definitely subtractive.

I did get a chance though to re-read chapter Chapter 3 "What is FM" and marvel at the relatively simple way it composes into very complex waveforms.
At one point I owned about 150 bitcoins, but I sold the majority off at the $30-something peak a few years back. I also paid for my bitcoin miner back when bitcoins were $11, and my cost was 58 bitcoins. The miner that I finally received, has made me 5 bitcoins.

Sad times.
If you didn't bet on a roulette table and it came up black, would you say "God damnit I feel like an idiot, I should have bet on black"?
This whole poll just serves to illustrate the problems with bitcoin. Bitcoin is supposed to be a currency, but people are treating it like an investment. The more relevant statistic to bitcoin's popularity as a currency would be how many bitcoin transactions people have participated in over the past year.
Protip for rants: don't address the target of the rant as "You," since most readers here aren't Google, it reads overly aggressive.

Also, enunciate why using Google+ is not an option or degrades the experience. Think of it from Google's point of view, all the comments you can't find now will be easily visible if the people who made the comments link their Google+ account, and on the whole, more people using Google+ (as unlikely as it may seem to an end user), the higher the quality of the interactions might be (I am playing Google's advocate here).

So while the transition may be awkward or provoke a negative user experience, I think they are more focused on the end game, and unless you can make an argument against their likely end-game, this just sounds like you are an edge case who Google isn't trying to make happy anyways.
This has to be one of the most absurd things I've heard all day. And when you work where I do, you hear a lot of absurd things.

People have often lambasted those who scream and wince whenever an ounce of political correctness shows up in society/media.

Well, to those people: look at your work. Did you want to encourage censorship?

Of course, I'm overblowing this thing way too much. But 5, ten, maybe even 20 years ago, if this kind of thing happened, people would revolt. For some reason, censorship in the name of equality seems to be the norm in today's world.

Harrison Bergeron, indeed.
I own 1, but I lost it amidst some hard drive reformatting earlier in the year :-|

A couple of years ago, I was trying to get others to invest in my mining operation. Then it tanked, I shut down and sold the rigs, and eventually cashed out - I let the 15 or so coins I had climb back up to $7 or so before I sold. If only ....
No it is not a good indicator. The reason is simple: SatoshiDice represents maybe 30-60% of all transactions, but only ~5% of the volume of bitcoins. (Informal estimations based on block chain analysis, go here to get an idea: http://blockchain.info/popular-addresses)

There is no simple and reliable indicator of Bitcoin activity. The simplest indicators can be very variable (eg. spamming the network with transacitions). Indirect indicators, like the number of merchants using Bitcoin are better. And looking at these indicators, it is very clear that Bitcoin activity is dramatically increasing. For example BitPay recently announced 10,000 merchants using their bitcoin payment processing platform (it took them more time to go from 0 to 1,000 merchants than from 1,000 to 10,000!).

This Techcrunch article was written by someone who did bad research and can't even draw correct conclusions from the graph :-/
At the time when I posted the comment that was almost 2x the next highest category
A despicable and disgusting comment the likes of which I don't think I've ever seem on HN.

PLEASE DELETE IT.
Is anyone day trading bitcoin? i.e., buying and selling multiple times a day based on small-ish fluctuations of the market?
It's using 0x8000, which is half of 0x10000 (the size of the basic multilingual plane). It doesn't extend out of BMP
As a business owner not a lawyer my response to this kind of thing is always to consult my lawyer. The question isn't necessarily "does it infringe" but rather "how best to proceed," and it will take an actual conversation between you and your lawyer to figure that out together.

If'n you don't have a lawyer, asking others if they know somebody who does "startup stuff" is a good way to dig up recommendations for the kind of help you'll need, which you do need now and will likely need in the future.
a recent movie that's similar is Gravity. It doesn't even pass the reverse test since there are so few characters.
You wouldnt leave a $100 bill on the ground just because it doesn't come with a money tree. Even some non-sustainable businesses may be worth pursuing while they are viable if the benefit/payoff far outweighs the cost/effort.
IANAL.

Their letter isn't very good writing. Their only stated claim is that the word "ManyFish" infringes their trademarks on "PLENTYOFFISH", "PLENTY OF FISH" or "PLENTY OF". They say they can ask IANA to take your domain, but an app is not a domain. Also, if I understand correctly, your uses of "PlentyOfFish" in the app description are nominative.

However, if they don't like unofficial clients for their website, they can also block you by technical means, and doing so likely puts the law on their side even if it wasn't before (cf. Craigslist/Padmapper/3Taps). So fighting the C&D letter might be pointless, if they care enough about you to follow up on the letter.

Perhaps you could try to contact someone other than Legal at PlentyOfFish and see how they feel about it... sometimes legal departments are more aggressive than the company intends to be (I have no inside info about PlentyOfFish).
Hmm, since we're on the topic, and IIRC you have experience in these matters, could you take a quick look at this comment of mine, and let me know if my take on it is inaccurate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6540902

Essentially, I looked at B&N's reply to Microsoft's complaint and it looked really weak to me. I wanted to know if my evaluation is wrong.

As an aside, the whole thread above that comment is pretty similar to this subthread.
Is "Land Owners" less surprising?
Can someone summarize (in English) what's going on with Bitcoin in China? Why are people interested in it? Has something substantial changed recently or did a lot of new people in China just now discover Bitcoin?
Just because it's rocking at this moment doesn't mean it isn't a bubble.
Just started mining this week. It took 6 months for the dedicated machine to arrive.
> * A box for its use at every residence in the United States

Not even close. I've lived many places without a box. If you're too expensive to deliver to, you don't get a box and you have to drive to the nearest post office and pick up your mail yourself. That's what a PO Box is.
As a dual citizen (US, and French) am I protected by the 4th amendment, or not?
Redressing the balance: women in IT
Amazing Thailand smartphone app is the ultimate guide to Bangkok you need
Elitism is counterproductive. We need people to like Bitcoin.
If anyone knows some good iOS game marketing techniques/tips, please drop me a line--My email is in my profile. I'm trying to market: http://appstore.com/xo9
Have you performed a transfer recently? How long did it take?

The prevailing experience is that yes, you can transfer, but you may have a 4-6 week wait.
NM Traffic Stop Turns Into Forced Enemas, Colonoscopy
Would you sell the results?

That's basically my measure for real world vs academic.
$50?? Wow. This person needs to learn more than just marketing.
Quick example by the author http://codepen.io/iamjordanlittle/pen/AHdfn
There was Postini, which Google bought. You'd set your MX record to them, and they'd forward your non-spam email on to your SMTP server.
> 1. I am against illegal drugs. It is up to the society to have a consent whether x drug should be legal or not. For example, marijuana.

Is this only for drugs? If so, why only for drugs? If not, does that mean you want to be governed by popular opinion?

I'm actually astounded someone on HN would make this statement so I'm genuinely interested in the rationale.
Censorship? Did you read the same article I did?
> they are required to deliver first-class mail to every mailing address in the United States (including very remote areas)

Not even close. If you live out of town, you don't get a mailbox. You get a PO Box in the post office in the closest town.
Canada Post considers Canadian Postal Codes to be copyrighted information as well. A Canadian "geographic data" company (Geolytica Inc.) has been sued for copyright infringement[0].

[0] http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/canada-post-sues-over-post...
That link is from April 2012, not sure where the case went after that.
100 - 21,000,000 is a much, much larger range than 90-99.999.
I follow the Mid East because it is informative about my Swedish media. (The journalist profession was more or less taken over by the extreme left of the 1968 generation, it gives a hair raising insight to compare what doesn't get into Swedish news from the top news of NY Times/BBC.)

I must say thanks to you and to nl for having a reasoned discussion, you seldom see that on this subject. Made my day.
Yep. Some of my co-workers do algorithmic trading as a hobby.
I would think Steve clearly saw the onslaught coming up and probably had an early director part as well - By end 90s MS had become a benefactor to Apple and both were no longer threats to each other. The enemy now was Google and its plans of global domination - I suspect, Steve - the master mind that he was saw the merits in ganging together against a common enemy.

It was common knowledge from early days that Android infringed on several OS and mobile patents. Also note Andy Rubin sold Android predecessor - Danger OS to MS along with all IP. It was just a question of when and how the IP assertion happens.
CJK support is fixed now.
The State goes after unregulated monopolies which abuse their powers.
Try hitting up Reddit. The Reddit community is one of the most active and engaging communities out there. The only challenge is that they are brutally honest so only use Reddit if you're ready to hear the truth.

You could also try getting a promotion from apple in the App Store.

Another thing you should do is incorporate some sort of analytics in your app. Most users wont tell you ANYTHING about your app. I'm running Google Analaytics and I can tell that the average user spends ~7 minutes in my game which lets me know that each session is pretty engaging. That's also 7 minutes that they are getting hit with iAd's if they didn't upgrade. Metrics are key, so add something to track app usage.

Your application is niche so you need to target spaces where people that use your the services that your app integrates with hang out.
Very cool. I'm always happy to hear about someone sticking it to the publishers!

Most of the items I saw on the site seemed like fun activities you could go through in a day or two in class. I wonder if there is a market for curricula --- longer plans for teaching a whole grade level for example.

A lot of teachers tend to "follow the book" for the general organization and progression of the topics, and since books generally suck, students end up being led through a bad sequence of topics.

Education should be more like choose-your-own-adventure books and less like linear text...
Yeah I was thinking something like that, because as the article said 81% of all workers are white - simplified it means 8/10 are white - and these 33 jobs (out of how many?) have 9/10 ratio - does that really mean discrimination or is this story just a filler hit piece against perceived injustices that don't actually exist?
maybe people aren't revolting because they're more tolerant now? it isn't censorship.
Jq for csv
Java -_-
The point of the test isn't to be definitive (and it was recognised as so when it was created). Of course it's going to fail in extremely contrived films like Gravity or dialogueless films. It's not even about showing women in power - so the comment about The Hurt Locker empowering the producer is kind've irrelevant.

It's about movies in general not showing women and relationships between women as entities in their own right. It's about trying to move the needle back to the centre, not shoehorning women's dialogue into Koyaanisqatsi.
If you didn't shred the hard drive and haven't defragged it or anything, there's a good chance that the private keys are able to be recovered. There are scripts that will scan a drive for fragments that look like bitcoin-qt wallet files and dump the keys.
Oh man. Bitcoin mining just broke 4 Petahashes/sec, 9 days after 3 Ph/s, 10 days after 2 Ph/s. Check out the 6 month difficulty increase: http://mining.thegenesisblock.com/

Sorry to hear that.
That is not that much if you are dedicated to the idea of Bitcoin and make a point of investing a lot into them. I would not be surprised if a lot of Bitcoin die hards are also into StartUp culture and programming/building stuff.

I am actually surprised there are so few people who posted on the poll with 100+ Bitcoin.

I sometimes invest on Just-Dice and plenty of people have thousands of Bitcoin to throw around, a lot of these people are developers with a passion.
At 43/44 white, that gives us 97.7% white, putting it ahead of the veterinarians, number one in that article.

Though this pedantry is useless, since those statistics are for today, and the Presidency extends across centuries. Perhaps the closest proxy we can get is to look at Congress: http://thisnation.com/congress-facts.html
Ask HN: How do you excel in job interviews?
I have an internship interview at one of my dream companies in a few days and I wanted to ask other people on HN how they ace their job interviews.
I live about 10 miles from the post office whose zip code my house is attached to. I choose to get my mail delivered to a PO Box... at the post office a mile and a half from my house whose zip code I am not attached to. If I were to actually go from my house to my post office I would have to drive past two post offices. When delivery trucks or repairmen come to my house I always mentally add 15-20 minutes to when they say they will be there because they assume, based on my zip code, where I live. So yes, the results are utter crap.
Practise multiple times beforehand with someone(s).
Having seen both the Swedish and American versions of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo I have to say Sweden is a bit ahead when it comes to gender representation, so they're doing something right somewhere.

On the other hand, Harry Potter was written by a self-proclaimed feminist and has a very empowering female in Hermione Granger, if that series fails the Bechdel Test then I'm left wondering how many other false-positives the test throws. Even The Vagina Monologues fails the Bechdel Test (to be fair, because monologues).
I put in a fix for CJK and the result is: nearly everything that's not CJK now rotates into it and back out; CJK is an huge section of the Basic Multilingual Plane. The fix invalidates rotations done with rot8000 before the fix, unfortunately.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/153375.user.js
I'm not an expert on finance or anything, but when I look at the bitcoin price charts I see an earthquake. So I have to assume that a significant percentage of people are looking at that and thinking the same thing: I should just wait until it spikes down again, buy a little, and it will probably jump up later and I will make hundreds or thousands of dollars.

I know that its supposed to be an alternative form of currency and all and not just there for speculation or whatever, but realistically, I think there must be a lot of people just speculating.

Anyway in that case I don't care if it is a bubble, I just want it to go up one more time after I buy it.

But the idea is really supposed to be using bitcoin instead of dollars for normal transactions right?
Haven't seen that one, but the first thing that popped into my head was "What about a movie like Moon?" I mean there was really just the one main character, and I suppose he talked to his wife and daughter who were both named so it gets an A grade. But they were the only two female characters that I remember and I don't think they really added a lot to the gender equality context seeing as they were the stay-at-home family back on earth.

The formula is just so simplistic. If you wanted to build a comprehensive metric you'd probably want to take a few factors into consideration. Maybe a ratio of dialogue to on-screen time for female characters vs. male characters. Perhaps number of non-traditional female roles vs. traditional roles. I don't know. There should be something better than an eye-test some comic from the 80's threw out there.
I used to do this and eventually gave up because of the swings. Being a student (and from a very poor background) it was surreal, I would make or lose in 1 day more than I make in 3 months working at a cafe.

I am slightly ahead day trading but the gain was not worth the risk I took.
True.

It wouldn't surprise me if they were using the term "Farmer" loosely.

EDIT: Now that I look closer, they did say "Farmer/Rancher". So I guess that could be taken as a hint that this is not the low end manual guy they are talking about, so much as the landowner.