skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really felt some strong emotions while reading through this.

It's amazing.

The news spot just has to the the cherry on top. So happy for this kid that he had an awesome day.

It does restore some faith in humanity to see things like this.

...however...

I hate myself for being the contrarian in this case but as a South African and having worked with one or two NGOs that work with sick people in general, including kids with AIDS I can't help but wonder how far the budget and effort put into this could have been stretched.

Granted, there are plenty aid organizations and shit tons of money (much of it dollars) that are pushed into Africa but if you've seen what's happening here first hand it's very hard not to think about what could be done with every single cent and every ounce of human energy.

I remember coming home one day after seeing some particularly gut wrenching stuff and not even being able to look at myself. The food in my plate. The clothes on my back. My kids. A room full of useless fucking toys...

It's the wrong lens through which to view these things. I know that in my head but my heart is breaking all over again as I types this on several fucking thousand rands worth of smartphone.
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It's nice to help suffering people.

The recurring pattern I see, however, is: We single out 0.001% of all cases, do something extraordinary, and make a big fuss about it in the media. All this to make us feel good about ourselves. What we don't want to fix though, are the real causes of the problems, because that's way less pleasant to do.
As soon as a service becomes relatively popular, the carriers will know about it, and throttle it manually until they "pay up".
I love the idea. And this deserves more attention. But two gripes:

1.) "Hacker News Nation is Live" is a very ambiguous headline. A lot of people who would've found this interesting never clicked through because what is this? How about, "Here's an explanation of and some context on xyz story". Idk, my inner copywriter died about 3 shots ago, i'm sure you can do better.

2.) The appeal here is "we'll decipher stories you don't get." So why are the four stories you cover devoid of any technical content?

Stories from today I'd love to have someone explain to me:

Twitter bootstrap
Facebook and D
The Dnspwn attack

Stories that are obvious: FixYT, Github is not your resume,

I especially don't need elaborated on things that are obvious from the headline: "Amazon to Begin Sunday Deliveries, With Post Office's Help"
Sure, but privatized prisons would be just as happy to house rich white people as they would be to house poor immigrants. They want their prisons full, but that doesn't explain why people commit crimes, how people are caught, arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced.
I am working on an open resource for people who want to learn Python:

https://github.com/ehmatthes/intro_programming

There is a short list of specific ways to contribute here, but the project is young so jump in any way you'd like, if you are interested:

https://github.com/ehmatthes/intro_programming/issues/17
> You're being ridiculous.

Do we really need this? I downvoted you after reading this first sentence, although the rest of the comment is quite good.

Most of the times insulting doesn't help you in raising your point.
The goalposts were clearly moved in a big and sudden way. Parental wisdom became worthless at worst and uncertain at least because no one knew what the economy was going to do (least of all parents that weren't economically aware). They continued with the same advice while the landscape changed drastically. Even if high school graduates did their own research, they would've still needed to be able to predict the outcome of an world economy after a huge shake-up -- how is someone fresh out of high school supposed to do that?

I mean, I agree that a Sociology degree isn't known for 6 figures, but before things went tits up, it would've likely gotten you a decent office job somewhere -- certainly you're capable of more than bagging groceries and stocking shelves. A Master's used to convey a certain amount of willingness to work, learn, and accomplish something. It was a certain amount of mold-able competency that transformed depending on what position you were given.

Now it suddenly isn't worth as much. It would've been another thing entirely if this was a slow shift, which would give society, businesses, and students time to adjust. Now that general usefulness is trash and you're better off partying to network.

The next generation will be able to research what happened, and they'll get more cautious advice, but that wisdom came at a pretty high price.
I don't understand this. For what reason are first-time offenders sentenced to lifetime?
Assume an SDE/SE/NE costs $125,000 per year on average. Multiply that by 10,000 employees to reach $1.25B per year. A 3% raise costs you $37M dollars. Not an insubstantial amount of profit to give up.
Are you suggesting that there should be no prisons at all, and just mental hospitals?

what do we do with "You will certainly have an incurable segment of the population who, after actually being treated by professionals and educated, cannot integrate with society"?

Also, what do we do with those that are extremely violent and prone to escape? It seems reasonable that a tougher layer of security is warranted in some cases.

>"Putting someone in a concrete box where one's safety is utterly left up to chance is nothing but vengeful and retaliatory."

First, I'm not convinced that our prison system is quite as bad as that statement. It seems a bit of hyperbole to me. I'd agree that it certainly isn't great, but perhaps not quite that bad.

Also, it seems that we don't really have to disagree about anything, you are just reading too much into what I've said. I'm in favor of trying to rehabilitate people, and I'm also in favor of improving our prisons. I'd classify someone convicted of rape several times as "an incurable segment of the population who, after actually being treated by professionals and educated, cannot integrate with society."

I also think there are way too many people in prison in general, specifically in relation to the absurd war on drugs. I suspect we agree on that.

>It is designed to inflict misery and nothing else.

I think it is designed as punishment for crime. That mostly seems reasonable. I think while we're at it, we should work to try and rehabilitate them better than we do, but no need to put them in a penthouse suite. Part of it is deterrence. All crime is not mental illness. I promise you that. Much of it is committed by highly intelligent people who just didn't expect to get caught. Much of it is committed by not very intelligent people who just didn't expect to get caught.
And private prisons aren't going to help with this at all. Now we'll have people lobbying for even more prisoners and stricter laws, just to get their business growing.
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I like how the bottom of the list is so mixed. It seems to be extremely prosperous first world nations with so few social problems they get little crime, mixed with nations so poor, they can't afford police to catch criminals or prisons to keep them in.
Quit reading articles. Fuck it, quit reading. Fuck a Technical Co-founder. Hell, fuck anything that moves… <vomits twice then passes out>
This looks like the perfect tool for counterfeiting credit cards. Pay my bill at the restaurant, in about 20 seconds, the server can have my card ready for action on their coin.
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I don't think this is quite what I want to say, what I meant to say was that using @extend will increase the number of CSS selectors by the number of selector it extends to when compiled (including nested selectors.)

For example, .form-control in Bootstrap total of 9 selectors, the login example from the article extends from it twice, now the compiled CSS ended up with at least 18 selectors. Another example would be .btn the author used in the login example, which has another 9 more selectors for .btn alone, then 16 more selectors in each .btn-variant. The example extend from both .btn and .btn-variant twice, this result in 50 more selectors that will be added. From my very quick counting, the login form example alone will create about 71 more selectors for a simple login form.

This might not be a problem for a small site, but the number could become unmanageable very quickly once the site grow.
The title says "infographic", and the word "vacation" IS in the infographic. Specifically, it states "47% have worked when they were on vacation". Under the image with a colspan of 2. ;)
The icon needs some work
At what point does society get to tell people "you know what, knock it off"?

In other countries, much, much later. And they have less crime. Blanket laws with such severe penalties always have more downside than upside. The ability to dispense such severe sentences should be in the hands of a judge that can weigh each case individually.

If you believe someone deserves life in prison for two burglaries and a case of theft, you are being inhumane. You need to change the system or these people, such that they don't feel the need to steal. That takes time and several moments to check whether it worked. Hell, most countries don't even have true 'life in prison' sentences and they manage to be safer than the US.
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I competed in a couple of the early CAL seasons legitimately (main and then invite). Most of us never condoned cheating in league play or even in most public servers. That's the part where you're ruining games for other people. There were, at one point, quite a few servers dedicated to cheating, however, and even a competitive scene to see who could make the best cheats.

But leagues actually made things more interesting. They started creating their own anti-cheats and those were just new shiny toys to break as well. It's quite satisfying to defeat them, even if the goal isn't to cheat in a league.
I like your reasoning, but couldn't you also say:

in the ten years before 9/11 the number of civilian attacks on US airplanes has been less than the fingers on one hand.
After TSA 100% of these happened on non-flight targets.

Mind you, I still think the TSA is dumb.
Certain crimes are deemed inexcusable. Murder someone because they're black: Horrible. Steal a wallet because you have an addiction: forgivable. Rape someone after being convicted and released from two prior rapes: Inexcusable.

Not every "mentally ill" person is curable, nor can every mentally ill person be trusted at an attempt for re-integration with society.

Funny how you're defending the right of serial rapists to seek help and therapy while you "resign yourself" to the fact that people who don't "get it" are shitty humans.
Nobody ever means that, but some days I wonder what the hell I'm doing. I'm not a genius, by any standard, and I likely wouldn't be the one to come up with the cure for cancer, but why the hell am I not dedicating my life to that project and helping those people there might find a way to eradicate cancer? Or HIV/AIDS? Or child poverty? Some days I think that would not be a bad idea, to drop everything and dedicate my life to something greater than myself.

Nothing to see here. Just your usual existential crisis brought on by a comment about a kid dressed up as Batman.
perhaps you are right, but "stealing a wallet" is minimizing the severity of what happened. Breaking and entering is different than being a pickpocket. Grabbing a wallet off a table in a restaurant is different than someone breaking into your house. That seems obvious to me.

I'd also hope that after your "long time of 6 months in jail for stealing a wallet" you'd realize that it was a poor choice and not do it again. Certainly after the 2nd time you were convicted and sent to jail it should sink in right? If 3 times isn't enough, where do we draw the line?
You can find work as a young programmer, but the wages are way lower than before. $7/hour as a programmer with a BS is no fun. Before the crisis, a college grad would expect at least 3 times more in Spain, but I know a few experienced programmers who left Spain because they could not find any kind of job to pay more than €1500-2000/month.
Taking risks and shit is nice, but never under-estimate consequences (debts, family and friends).
Thanks for the motivation ;)
Here's a lens that might be helpful to view this through: seeing these kinds of personal, touching results encourages philanthropy--we're "spending money to make money," so to speak. We just need to channel that generated emotion and desire-to-help through the cold, calculating hands of organizations like GiveWell. :)
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Awesome set up.

Are there any open source solutions that allow me to do this for my city? Simple execution, mobile ready - add locations and reviews along with 'find places nearby' ?
"... such as the World Bank ..."

Just keep in mind the World Bank is considered by many as an instrumental part of a quasi-colonial system of institutions that is set up to exploit the third world through their advocacy for unfavorable debt and a certain economical bias.

I'm sure they also do some good, but they are at least a somewhat ambiguous organization.
If the article is to be believed, it was understood among the men that the truck was for everyone to use, and it was his intention to return the truck as they always did. If that was the case, I don't see how it meets the common definition of theft. (It may not be the case. The fact that he got convicted seems to fly in the face of the situation they describe.)
Ah yes, my mistake. I had assumed that was the case but I read too far into my FinCEN link.
I was. Unfortunately it seems like they're all dead or generally inactive these days. I do wonder where the new communities are, because surely there are kids going through the same things we all went through in learning by breaking things.
Somehow my sympathy for a bunch of people living in nice clean nations, free of war, decent health care options, fast free flow of internet etc for suddenly realizing that life is not a bed of roses is not a lot. No one is a fucking child for "literally twenty years". At some point, you need to grow the fuck up and acquire cynicism about how the world works.

Also before it is implied that I am more sympathetic to stupid people in say India or China; I am not. I know enough people there who believe in the group think idea that you can magically turn off your brain, cram and get an education and then get a fucking good job. Those people are stupid. These people are stupid. Stupid people deserve what they get, mediocrity.
It's because in the USA justice always prevails.
Actual number of prisoners and other details about each country: http://www.prisonstudies.org/info/worldbrief/wpb_stats.php?a...

Although I think it would be more interesting to look at re-incarceration rate.
By parental advice I didn't mean "do what I did/what was the proper thing to do when I was your age" but "do some research, check what is in demand now, what do other people do, how it will all affect the future".

I'm 26 now, when I entered high school 10 years ago the whole sociology/political science/economy etc. boom started (at least in the part of Europe I was living in). Call me special but the fact that it was too popular made me think twice before entering a high school class profiled for that kind of studies (yes, we have profiles in HS in my country).

Also the fact that more and more people got accepted to universities made me realise that I either have to go to a lousy uni and work really hard on my own to be able to land a decent job or go to a top uni in the country (after entering one I realised that even with such a degree I need to find something I'm good at and do something in that direction, no one else will help me and only the degree won't mean that much).

Yes the system isn't without blame for talking crap, but let's be honest. The people in charge always were full of BS and that won't change.

Ah also, again, I didn't notice which unis those people graduated from. I'm pretty sure that a sociology degree from a top uni still holds some value.
And the first country I'd even consider worth living in from this list is #42 Uruguay. Do you know what's the irony? I'm a US citizen. And I'm ashamed.
Why do companies still use backbone when angular and ember are available?
Seychelles has a small population and a piracy problem, which is probably why they are so high on the list. I don't know much about Saint Kitt's, other than those two no one comes close to the US.
Slightly off topic but I would like to recommend you to read Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman. In it, he posits that the advent of television is the primary driving force behind image-based politics. It's full of astute observations and generally relevant frameworks in which to discuss these types of effects in society. It was also written in 1985 but everything is even easier to observe now.

It's a good book, is what I'm saying.
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In case you're not joking: This is a bad idea.

Though I admit it might work out well. If you're lucky.
> how is someone fresh out of high school supposed to do that?

This is what confuses me about the American system. Unlike say the system in India, you lot have an option to choose a different major. I can understand a high schooler who has no exposure to the world making a stupid mistake. I did, doing a degree in something I had no interest in. However, I pivoted fairly early doing enough projects and whatever to show that I had an avid interest/inclination in what I wanted to get into. As a person going to school in America, there is an incredibly rich set of options to you. Hell, you can, if you work hard enough, have your cake (take as many liberal arts courses as can satisfy your soul) and still eat too (take hard science courses).

> I mean, I agree that a Sociology degree isn't known for 6 figures, but before things went tits up, it would've likely gotten you a decent office job somewhere -- certainly you're capable of more than bagging groceries and stocking shelves. A Master's used to convey a certain amount of willingness to work, learn, and accomplish something. It was a certain amount of mold-able competency that transformed depending on what position you were given.

LOL. Seriously, this is a case of closing your eyes to how the world works. If you can't be arsed to do your research and figure out the dollar value of getting a degree, talk to people who have got the degree like a year before you (instead of some old people who think that being personable and having useless bullshit like "mold-able competency" actually means anything), you have proven yourself incompetent to get any sort of a job.
Losing a job is traumatic. Enron though, wasn't about insider trading. Yes several of the guys at the top were charged with insider trading, but they were also charged with fraud, money laundering, conspiracy, bank fraud, making false statements to banks and auditors, securities fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, obstruction of justice, among other crimes. Insider trading, not the thing that caused trauma, and in fact I believe most of them were actually acquitted on the insider trading charges. And, fwiw, the guys found guilty of these things did end up with significant prison terms for the trauma they caused.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal
I say find a way to do it. I'm a single mother of 2 teen boys, and my co-founder and I have WORKED and not let any perceived walls stop us. We are single-mindedly determined. If you really want to do it, go for it! Man up or in my case WOMAN up!
You could say that, but it would be an intellectually dishonest framing of the facts. I feel confident that the line of reasoning I've used does not try to obscure anything. I believe it is as straightforward and honest an evaluation as anyone could make.
Why would people email credit card details?
At least they didn't make you drink your own breast milk.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-08-08-breast...
> I'd think about that next time I judged someone who decided not to follow the crowd towards a lucrative or middle-class values type of job.

Kind of ironical that you are inherently judging those who hold lucrative jobs as crowd followers or inherently having "middle-class values". One could argue that following the crowd can also be defined as being a poorly paid barista who is doing "art" on the side. There is nothing inherently different from say programming as a day job or working as a barista as a day job and spending your nights doing something creative. Not all who go into this shit are following the crowd or have "middle class" values.
This is an interesting, good 'up the ante' (or follow up) from MS to Mozilla.

Mozilla announced waay back at the end of 2010 that it will phase out support for certs using MD5 and 1024 bit keys:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:MD5and1024

We are at the end of the phase out (last deadline is end of 2013) Mozilla will still accept SHA-1, but recommends against it. I would not be surprised however if Moz supported MS in their effort.
Sigh. Since when did HN become Upworthy and the glurge that went with it.

A child life is probably worth less than $1000, rather than that new TV I can assure you the money to an average charity will save a childs life.

Yet throw in Batman and a whole lot of Redditors and we've saved the world.

Hey it's better than a normal street parade / pissing it up at a pub. But lets get a grip on reality.
Would a banker be able to replace your lost or stolen cash?

If you're worried you might lose your Electrum wallet, write down the 12 words on several sheets of paper. Inscribe them in metal. Put them in a document, and put the document in TrueCrypt. Upload it to Dropbox. It's as easy as managing your digital music collection.
FTFY People are good sometimes, and we don't give enough credit when that happens.
This is the only article I am going to share on social media in a long time.
> It's not as simple as being with us or against us though, surely?

Here in the US, we strive to bring partisan politics into every discussion.
This, plus they should count themselves lucky they live in Europe where they are free to move to places like Amsterdam, get a decent job with a decent salary, healthcare, social security, 20+ vacation days and everything. All of that a very affordable flight away from home.
I may be missing something as I've just skimmed this thread, but 13K has got to be referring to the per-prisoner cost. Unless the prison has no utility consumption, no services, no food, and has one employee who's a part-time janitor.
Why are there inherent assumptions in your statement that starting a company is a) what they want to do. (albeit the fact that beggars can't be choosers) b) a high risk activity that is the best choice for them in the situation?
Interesting note about North Korea.

>North Korea estimates 150,000 to 200,000 incarcerated, which roughly equals the US imprisonment rate at 600-800 people incarcerated per 100,000
You missed the part where they are working in Amsterdam?
Have you talked to Code for America at all? That's exactly the kind of thing they'd be interested in aiming for, I think.
Point being (I believe), it is expensive to take a moral position. It costs you money and thoughtful action. You could secure the South Korean border without landmines. It just would cost a lot more money.

You could do a lot of other things (or rather not do them), but it might cost you your political standing.

So point being - playing the moral high card, as the US do around the world, should not follow the line from a Genesis song:

"Do as I say, don't do as I do..."

At least in my humble opinion (the same goes for my Governement, the German one by the way.)
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