skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that all sounds about right. The reason I don't see Bend as a future Boulder is that it doesn't have much in the way of higher education. The big universities in Oregon are in Eugene, Corvallis, with some other stuff here and there. Corvallis might not actually be bad in some ways, although it's pretty small. Might not be a bad place to bootstrap a company.
Here's an IDE idea: create an industry standard plugin protocol. Most of the cool stuff an IDE does is code analysis and transformation e.g. refactoring, error analysis, and autofill. The other half is "makes coding pretty", "provides good shortcuts", and other UI considerations.

Now for the latter - that is great, and everyone has different strengths and weaknesses. And that is just a UX issue.

For the former however, I don't know why I need to use different IDEs for different languages, or even different IDEs for different transforms to the same codebase in the same language (again, for the automated bits).

It would be so much better for the world if there was some common protocol between user environment and code transformer. That way I could buy some of JetBrains awesome plugins and have my trusty Vim or Emacs environments use them. I could just keep using IntelliJ with MS' plugins for C# (and resharper of course). And so on.

For stuff that really needs a special UI, we are in the age of the web browser. Provide a localhost server in your tool and make the reports etc live in a browser window, big GUI IDEs can provide a webkit that can link back to their own editors, but text editor users could still get the useful output.

This "everyone does their own thing" without even pretending interoperability is getting old. We've been doing this coding thing for a little while now - we should be better at tooling that plays nice.
I didn't claim it was beneficial, just consistent.
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Anything is possible in brainfuck too. You can also do all your coding in just C++ templates.

Doesn't make it a good idea.
he was too incredible of a case for anyone but the highest-ranking therapist to handle

I was actually waiting for a reveal of something like, "And I discovered the reason I connected with the top therapist so well was because she was a closet psychopath!"
If you had them for a while, not necessarily likely... the squatting companies tend to do a grab of recently expired domains... most that I've let go over the years (tend to get 2-3 new ones, and let 2-3 go a year) are in that group.
IANAL. But stop and think.

If "the activity" or "act" takes place in the US, it would still be illegal.

If you have a pimping/pandering company based in Canada, offering services in the US, those on the US side could possibly face even higher charges of international human trafficking. (cf, the Mann Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Act )

The US can arrest its citizens for their behavior in foreign countries where their behavior violates US law, whether said activities are legal or illegal in said foreign countries. One could say US law follows the citizen. (cf, UNITED STATES v. PASSARO [extension of jurisdiction over US Gov. contractors], US PROTECT ACT [anti-child exploitation], etc)

The US can also deny visas to foreign nationals based upon what US law considers "moral turpitude", even though such may be legal in their home country. Relevant to this story, the US could deny a high visibility prostitute into the US, because most US states (and federal law, see MANN ACT) prohibit prostitution. (cf, INA 212(a)(2)(d): http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/ilink/docView/SLB/H... )

This would not be a great idea.
I know it would be difficult because of the amount. But you could start small by either picking a band you think most of your users have seen, or focusing on one of your favorite groups for your local area and friends, then manually building a db of all of their shows, locations and venues. This helps you figure out the process to replicate in the future, as well as demonstrates the simplicity to the users.

Once you have the process figured out, you could start auto suggesting venues and dates that have been entered by others, just as you currently auto-fill bands that have already been entered.

Also, if there were a way to allow people to add bands, dates and venues to the DB that they haven't seen just to help out, that would be a good way of gathering as well.

I'm sure you have already thought of hundreds of things you can do with it, including what I've suggested. I'm just focused on the search and collect aspect because it is such a large pain point begging to be cured.
Denver gets 300 days of sunshine and Forbes chooses a cloudy picture..
Marc Emery is Canadian, but imprisoned in the USA. So how could Canada free him?
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"If it was considered illegal i think the officers should be punished at least to some extent."

I think they should be, too. The judge had some harsh words for the APD, and the charges were reduced to misdemeanors and the sentence (which was originally looking like years in prison) to time served. Though, one of the protesters in this case ended up spending about 2 years in jail because he had a past warrant (he missed his court date for that old warrant in Dallas because he was in jail on a felony charge in Houston, so they punished him for missing that date). He was just released a few weeks ago.

It's also worth mentioning that APD did not reveal their officers had made the devices or suggested their use in the action, and fought to not reveal their involvement in court. The Houston police department, who were prosecuting the case, didn't even know APD was involved in the protest, until a few lucky breaks led to three of the six undercover officers being outed. It is, frankly, miraculous that those seven kids aren't still in jail and shackled with felony convictions. Dumb luck revealed that they'd been setup, and the prosecutors were forced to fold.

But, it's happening every day. This is standard operating procedure when dealing with protesters; and, not just at the national level. And, as far as we can tell, the chain of command on this particular operation went all the way up to the chief of police. It was not rogue cops going beyond their assigned duties to set kids up for felony charges.

Some references, so this doesn't end up being dismissed as a paranoid fantasy (I know it's pretty unbelievable stuff):

http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local/austin-police-infil...

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Undercover-A...

http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2012-09-07/apd-infiltrat...

More came out later based on open records requests, but my google fu is failing me at the moment. In short, it was actually worse than we knew during the early stages of the trial when these three articles were written.

"Why are Police officers encouraging crime to begin with?"

You tell me.

Why would police officers encourage crime, encourage violence, encourage escalation in tactics, etc.?
I don't get it. Why Unicef and other aid groups? I mean, foreign leaders I can somewhat understand. But what do we have to gain from spying on aid groups?
Apple's new Macbook Pro goes on sale
That would require more willpower than people who employ those services have.

Hell, I couldn't do without sex myself.

Edit: scratch that. It's not even about willpower at that point. I have no idea how an healthy adult could go without sex.
I feel like any one of those people on Hoarders when they must choose the first thing to let go of. Not pretty.
Just cloned your repo and launched a competitor. Thanks.
The transition from !signed_out? to signed_in? is entirely non-logical, so it's hard to see what it's doing in this post, which is supposedly illustrating logical laws (two of the most elementary logical laws, at that, that I'm surprised it would ever have occurred to someone to think needed introduction to an audience of professional programmers).
React vs Angular
I don't know if a MBA will be strong enough to run Solidworks okay or not (you will have to use bootcamp if you want to run it so make sure you have enough harddrive space win7 + solidworks probably means 40-50gb or more easy + files and other such thing fills up fast). I think I had modeling files take up 10GB flash drive easy.

13" is okay for matlab, you could probably get away with 11" but I think it would be painful.

If you want to run the CAD software like Solidworks a MBP 13" might be the better choice (256GB + 8GB RAM) comes out to cheaper than the MBA 13" equiv with upgraded proc. And could probably run it reasonably well-ish (better than MBA). You usually don't need to do a lot of model analysis in undergrad but sometimes those CAD programs can be a system hog. Especially if you get to complicated model assemblies.

If you don't want to run the CAD software the MBA 13" should be okay it just might take longer to boot up matlab but with the programs you do processing power shouldnt make that much of a difference. If you can hook up an external monitor an 11" might be fine as well.

Heres someones experience with an air and solidworks: http://solidworksonamac.com/using-solidworks-on-a-macbook-ai...
4. Masturbation

I wouldn't count rape as an alternative to sex. It's more about having power over someone in a disgusting way.
You know that the NSA doesn't have to give information to US companies for industrial espionage to have occurred. Any of the hundreds of thousands of Americans indirectly employed contractors providing services to the NSA could have committed industrial espionage. If you don't think people at Booz Allen, Stratfor and other companies largely staff by psychopaths are unlikely to engage in such unethical activities, I have a bridge to sell you.

Individuals are to be assumed innocent until proven guilty, but organizations being made up of many individuals, some of which are likely guilty to to statistical frequency of guilty people in a random population of people, are to be assumed guilty until proven innocent. If we know anything for certain from the last ~7 months, it's that "trust us, we're not doing anything wrong" is a bald-faced lie.
Well good luck with your witch hunt.
What do you do about sex workers that become infected? How much more desperate can they get?
Here is a link to get you up and running http://help.logicpull.com/portal/articles/installation-serve...
Second DJB! Would be the perfect choice, especially now that more and more cryptographers are looking to his curves and protocols, so he already knows what the vision for the future of IETF should be. I'm actually quite excited about the possibility of him being named chair at IETF.

As IETF chair he may be even bring us the elusive "secure by default Internet" with his CurveCP protocol or a future evolution of it. The secure by default Internet has actually been declared one of the main goals of IETF at their recent meeting:

http://www.ietf.org/live/

http://curvecp.org/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8EGA834Nok
has been flat since it debuted on Cryptsy yesterday

such hype. wow.
Another one I remember was Arcade Game Construction Kit that in hindsight blows me away with its power on the C64. A full dev-kit for platformer and top-view games including sprite editor/animator, level-editor, tile-editor, sound-editor, etc. All windowed.

I spent days in a beanbag chair with a comfy Epyx joystick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Epyx_500XJ.jpg oh my god that form-factor needs to come back) making games.
"But more importantly, nobody uses TLS-SRP. No browser implements it."

And it is sad, even if it would be an interesting UI challenge to make it usable. However, I've seen TLS-SRP used in a machine to machine context (specifically home automation), where e.g. it would be too difficult to provision certificates or because a x509 library is just too big.
Given the immense distress that most trans people seem to experience, I wonder if we (and they) wouldn't be better off if the culture were less supportive of those lifestyles.

I had some inclinations that way as a teenager, and I am SO glad I wasn't living in San Francisco or some other place that would encourage me to "be me".
Why purpose-built cities may not solve living problems
In terms of customer interaction it's obviously a terrible experience, even when you do meet helpful people. But have you actually gone through a process where the civil service was more expensive than the market alternative?

By and large, the empirical data does not support the public perception of government (and remember there are many layers of "government") being hugely wasteful, especially when looking at money wasted on administration compared to the market.

http://www.governmentisgood.com/articles.php?aid=20

Also, the government is under a market pressure of a sort: can I "sell" this budget to the people who have to vote for me as a politician?

EDIT: Of course, I'm not saying that civil service is good by definition - just that when done right there are places where it's a much better solution than a free market one. Also, corruption can be an issue of course - as I understand one of the big reasons Greece is in trouble is because of the corrupt civil service, which caused it to bloat as well.
If you want to get good at clarifying conditionals, take an electronics class and revel in the Karnaugh maps.
Backed By Steve Blank and More, Compass Launches Next-Gen Benchmarking Tool
You left out the option where the person has a good job yet still lives in the small town.

I'm not sure why, but some companies are willing to waste a lot of their revenues fighting an increased cost of living in some places, just for the prestige of the address.

Apple has enough money in the bank to make their own Celebration, Florida, like Disney did. Why buy expensive space in someone else's crummy old city, when you can buy land cheaply, build your own town, and sell off the pieces at much higher prices?
Sets are the most elemental way to abstract data. Not all data are graphs, but all data are sets. A graph is a set of vertices and a set of edges. So there's no loss of generality in using sets.
Uh, I mean that I'm MTF. Full transition, including FFS, SRS, HRT, and a bunch of other TLAs. So is/was my roommate. That was ironically part of her problem too: most johns who want a trans woman are actually after a so-called 'shemale' (a no-op transsexual; i.e. someone who gets everything done but keeps the original plumbing.)

Thanks for asking the question respectfully, I really do like explaining things to curious (although I caution you I'm almost alone in this; please don't make a habit of unsolicited questions to trans people! But for better or worse, I love to talk about myself, so let's use it to spread some understanding and peace for the holidays!)
Redefining FinTech
You might not be all that far off the mark. I'd imagine people who fall somewhere within the dark triad [1] would connect better with a psychopath, even if they are not one themselves.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad
Why We're So Materialistic, Even Though It Doesn't Make Us Happy
"cloact" is ... not a good name.
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You blame me for this fucked up system? Yeah, I'm not carrying that weight.

I worked for years for third party politics. I was a card-carrying member of the LP. Worked for ballot access for both LP and the Green Party. If that's how you want to activate, go do it. I'm done with it. I see the system for what it is: Corrupt.

As long as we have first-past-the-post voting, laws stacked against any third party or independent candidates, and a complicit media, third parties are a pit into which people throw their passions and their energy and their money, with no resulting change.

You do what you gotta do, and I'm gonna do what I gotta do. What I gotta do is help build communities of resistance, and make it as expensive and inconvenient as possible for this shit to keep happening.
No, a trans person is a person with a body that is one gender, but who identifies as the other gender (assuming binary genders, which is an issue the broader trans community would probably dispute with some vehemence).

Some trans people only think it, some take supplementary sex hormones (typically testosterone for FTM; and one or more of the female hormones, and possibly also anti-androgens for MTF), and some have surgery to give them parts that match their identities.

You're thinking of cross-dressers, which community has some overlap with the trans world, but is, in general, a different thing. Cross-dressing is generally also a kink, while being trans is an issue of identity.
Thoughts on"the global startup battle"?
Going back to plain C.
That wouldn't change the amount of DOM thrashing caused by jQuery, it would only improve rendering (and perhaps reflow) performance, but would not improve the cost of DOM manipulation.
How, exactly?
I'm trying to understand what is being claimed is happening here.

(Full disclosure: I've been directly involved in the antitrust efforts of at least one of these companies)
>There seems to be confusion about what constitutes 'strength' and what constitutes 'weakness' in regard to human personalities (or 'hard' vs 'soft')

This here is the crux of the matter, and we only stand to lose if we go on with all the hyperbole and analogies around psychopathy. The value and consistency of what constitutes "weak" and "strong" depends to a large extent on the feedback we (and "they") get in everyday interaction (whether they live in a city or grow up around Baloo the bear). Burying psychopathy down to some exclusive and immutable genetic level is to ignore this (I'm not talking about causes here, but about behavior reinforcement and motivation).
The most interesting part is how unlike a typical disorder it is. Your typical disorder removes capability; psychopathy removes empathy, which can be seen as a capability- but it could also be seen as a natural (well-intentioned) limiter.
Personal anecdote and tips:

I had my debit card skimmed at a local gas station in October. Within a couple hours, it was being used at stores in Los Angeles. I live a 3+ hour drive from LA so there's no way the skimmer/data was physically taken down there–the data had to have been transferred (cell?) to someone down there pretty quickly.

My card was used at a restaurant and a few different stores, but several times per store. Total amount charged was about $2K. All purchases were < $100 and most purchases were for very even amounts at drug stores. Based on research, this is because buying gift cards is a favorite use of stolen cards. Gift cards can be turned into cash online for about 75-85 cents on the dollar.

Chase was very good about freezing the card and crediting back all the fraudulent charges.

TIPS:

- Use cash or a gas card for gas OR at the very least, use a pump close to the cashier

- Debit cards have a reputation for having less protection than credit cards. At least at Chase, this is no longer true. Chase has zero-liability for unauthorized debit card purchases [1]

- Check your online banking often

- Don't rely on your bank's automated fraud detection. Most alerts I've received from Chase have been false positives (legitimate purchases while traveling).

[1] https://www.chase.com/checking/debit-cards
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This reads too much as a blatant advertisement, with little actual content.
Programmers being d**ks
Ditto. Send me money.
Nice, I earned 197 with:
^[a-m].{1,5}$

I must say Regex golf is a lot of fun.
Ask Yelp:  Can you stop spamming the NYC Craigslist, please?
So. Here's what happen when we search for Python jobs on the NYC Craigslist:

https://imgur.com/OjFt8XF

Yelp seems to keep reposting a whole slew of these every Friday, like clockwork. Ironically, some of these beckon us to join their so-called "Spam Prevention Team."

Yelp -- why are you doing this? Do you think that we NYC programmers hate living here, and are all desperate to move to SF? Don't you find it ironic that a company aiming to become synonymous with "local search" would find itself... ruining local search for the very people it's attempting to attract to become part of their operation?

Either way, Yelp: please get your act together. Whoever at your company sat down one day with their tall soy chai latte and decided that this was a nifty way to woo developers to drop everything and move out to SF was woefully misguided. And at a bare minimum, they need a very serious talking-to.
>"Tron: Legacy to me is some interesting ideas coupled with a movie length absolutely fantastic Daft Punk music video, while the original excited me for the computer graphics and the ideas it presented."

Spot on.

The key with Tron: Legacy is appreciating it for what it is rather than faulting it for lacking things which it never claimed to have.
Threads: https://boards.4chan.org/g/res/38927376 (Archive: https://rbt.asia/g/thread/38927376)

https://boards.4chan.org/o/res/9418075
The Genius Of Linux Is Community, Not Technology
> I can understand the reactions of people, it just looks weird;

It makes less open-minded people uncomfortable, to be around others who are not like them. This is what I mean by 'unfortunate': that not everyone is comfortable in the face of different.
tw226 don't generalize from your own experience to others, and I'll do the same, thanks.

I spent my first twenty-four years avoiding myself, and although the seven that have since passed have been riddled with hellfire, I can't explain to you how enormously worth it it was.

And guess what, I used to think and say the same things about myself that I now hear you say. But I'm not going to go there. I wish you peace and happiness and as much self-awareness as you can bear.
The Court's reasoning was that since prostitution itself is legal, it is unconstitutional to prevent prostitutes from taking reasonable measures to manage their business, protect their safety and so on. My prediction is that the federal government will react not by amending the law to eliminate the unconstitutional restrictions but rather making prostitution itself illegal.
I also ANAL. Hm. That came out wrong. Anyway...

"The US can arrest its citizens for their behavior in foreign countries where their behavior violates US law"

I believe that this is specific to federal law, and not state - and to my knowledge, state laws are the ones that specifically make prostitution illegal. There are federal laws that say I can't try to bring someone across the border for the purpose of prostitution in the US[1], but I think that's that extent of it.

[1] http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/8/12/II/II/1182
Fun idea Daniel. I'll throw something in.
Django - deploy a web app that demo's our web services - I already have a Java servlet but I want to add a couple of examples that use 21st Century frameworks :)

Grails - same as above - some of the guys in my shop are using this as a transitional technology since we're a Java shop. Looks pretty cool so far. Probably do one in Django/Python, then one in Grails.

Ruby - have done a tutorial but need to write some real apps

Android - have written about a dozen internal apps plus a library (abstract class derived from Activity). I want to write a couple of my own apps to put on the Market, unrelated to work stuff. With a million apps out there, it's hardly likely to even be noticed, but that's OK, just to have an app out there is kind of essential if you want to be taken seriously.

I'd like to understand more about full-stack javascript apps; it seems like a lot of people are using it to write pretty sophisticated apps these days.
Good points.

Here's something even more fascinating, and surely much more controversial - now re-read that letter, and try and count how many times you hear in it echoes from Ayn Rand's characters, or from the writer herself.
This is why I love HN. I learned something new from your comment, thank you.
Is cruelty to animals part of psychopathy? Or simply a behavior that can develop unchecked due to psychopathy?