skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hired someone in the UK who was obligated by law to divulge a crime that she has committed more than a decade before, because she would be interacting with my children.

It was grueling for her to discuss it -- she was trembling and wringing her hands, and it was suddenly obvious why she had been strangely nervous during the entire first part of the interview -- and difficult for us to sit and hear it; not because her crime was awful (her punishment did not involve jail time) but because she was clearly being put through the wringer.

Honestly, it was a factor in us choosing to hire her; otherwise she was fairly even with the other candidates we interviewed, but we were impressed that she was going into a line of work that would require her to make this same confession to strangers many, many more times in the future.

It felt really wrong, regardless. Especially after that experience, I think there should be an expiry date for mistakes like hers.
Pedantic, perhaps, but:

> For one, they're not taught a specific language -- they're given visual blocks to work with (and the ability to show the corresponding javascript).

"Visual blocks" that are used to program would seem to make up a particular language, even if its not a textual language.
I know. Was positively surprised actually, but that made the title even more puzzling.
It's not about people not having senses of humor. It's just that "successful impersonation of a dumb/annoying post" is still a dumb/annoying post.
If the value is good, sure. I'll be looking to buy what I determine is an under-performing website from Flippa (or elsewhere) with a portion of the money I made on my sale.
Let Us Speak
http://travisjeffery.com/b/2013/12/implementing-writer-pros-...

Here's how to implement the feature iA's saying is such an innovation in < 20 lines.
OOPS. Thanks
They clearly have a responsibility to return the most relevant links and in this case they've gone pretty far but in my opinion they also have a duty to do things like this as negative as it may seem.

What Rap Genius did is why SEO companies exist. I've never been able to tolerate them for the reason that, for a price, you can "game" the system and rank higher even if your content is no better. In the long run, this type of behaviour is dishonest and damaging. By making a great example out of Rap Genius I think they've put it out there very clearly that you will be punished if found doing this like this.
Does it support IPv6?
How about the site that advertises the mobile app, then when you say "no", it takes you to the front page instead of the link you were following anyway.
The college board killed the AB test the year I took APCS (which was 2011 iirc)
The author is "Peaker" on HN, Reddit, and maybe also SO.
Boardinghouses: where the city was born
Removed the reference to AB (the information I can find says it was discontinued in 2009.)
Admob refunded all my payments
Hate the man's business practices. Love the man for his philanthropical work. They don't need to cancel out, and you don't need to forgive one to appreciate the other.

Michael Vick was put in prison for dog fighting. I absolutely hate him for that. At the same time, I appreciate his talent on the field as a football player.

Orson Scott Card is a rampant homophobe. I absolutely hate him for that. Doesn't affect my opinion of his novels though, not in the least.

There's no logic in idolizing or demonizing anyone. Life's a lot better when you get out of casting a pall over everything a person does by some other things that they've done. People like making villains and heroes of people, whether or not they deserve it.

We see someone we don't like from afar, and it's easy to assume that they're bad at everything, that they're horrible people, that they're bad parents, that they're likely running around kicking puppies all day long. That's very rarely the truth.

With people we're nearer too, it's easier to accept that they have strengths and weaknesses, and I don't know why it's hard to imagine the same thing of famous people, but it is. There's very little to love about Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft. Similarly, there's very little to hate about Bill Gates of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Roll with it.
Is it a link from your email? It is still weird that a UID is encoded directly in the URL, though.
You missed the edit window. If you don't come back and edit your post within one hour, it's locked. Negative karma has nothing to do with it. That's the risk of fire-and-forget posting.
Part 2: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/houdinis-mystifying-magic-stu...

Part 3: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/houdinis-master-magic-tricks-...

Their site search is actually pretty good.
In general, you should do a competitive analysis before even thinking about problems or solutions. If you want to be an entrepreneur, pick an area that interests you and dig very deep in all the players and what they provide. Then learn about the problems (usually by using their solutions) and look for pain points that are missed and that you are well suited to solve.

At that point your brain will veer away from solutions that are already well covered and will naturally focus on the fuzzy areas that are being missed. But you know at least that you are dealing in an area that a) you enjoy (this is the most important) and b) your market is validated.

The key point you have to look out for at this phase, is your solution just a feature of some bigger product? In which case, you'll want channel partners / look for acquisition exits. Which, TBH, nowadays is often the easiest and fastest way to exit.
Of course not, but look: you manage the investment arm of a charity fund and your job is to provide more income for that fund in the future.

If you put money into stocks, and get a return on that, that return means very concrete things: more people who get polio vaccines, more people who get dewormed, etc, etc. Very concrete results.

If you don't put money into stocks, because they are unethical ... well, how exactly? As we have mentioned the stock has already been sold. So, you don't do it because by doing so you are helping support a market system that may provide a setting for future unethical corporations to arise in and go public? (Along with many ethical corporations?) Or because by providing demand for the stock now, you retrocausally made it possible for that company to have IPO'd years or decades ago?

These are very abstract and weird concerns when your job is very directly to help people.

You say "if unethical corporations faced divestiture", but even a large fund like this one has no say in that. If they don't invest in McDonald's or Walmart or whatever, it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.

So seriously, if you were running the fund, what would you do? For real. If you make less money, actual human beings die who would not have died, in volume.

(All of this said, I would feel pretty dirty about buying the stock of a prison company, anyway. But railing on them for stuff like McDonald's and Walmart just ... doesn't make sense.)
Especially when these kids are low income. Discrete mathematics to inner city kids is about as relatable as Biggie is to Wall Street bankers.

Is this something recent? I went to grade school (long time ago) with low-income and inner-city kids and quite a few were intellectually curious and interested in abstract ideas.
There does seem to be a lot of negativity about "math", but at the same time people do generally know how to do basic arithmetic, problem solving, and even some algebra – none of which comes naturally to humans. You could argue that in average schools, kids "learn dumb ideas from half-interested teachers" in all subjects. The question therefore, is whether computer programming/science will suffer the same fate as math and become cool to hate, or be more like english, history, or foreign languages, which while not universally beloved, are at least not typically reviled. Honestly, I think that learning programming is probably a lot more fun than any of the traditional subjects. The interactivity and immediate feedback could actually make it by far the least distasteful subject for many school kids. If anything, programming could indirectly get more kids interested in math.
Why it must be him? Why not me? Why not YOU?
You're confusing robbery and burglary. The common law definition of robbery is assault + larceny (theft) - that is, it's taking something that's not yours combined with making someone fear imminent harm.
Thanks Ian! That's really good feedback. I completely agree, I hope to record more design steps/decisions to have a better base for this type of article in the future.
I noticed a bunch of debits and credits to my credit card yesterday relating to admob. I never initiated these so I feared that my credit card was stolen.

I searched around and saw this link that described my issue. Apparently google has authorization to credit and debit our credit cards at will. They also do not bother to email you to let you know what is going on. And of course, no google customer service.

It also turns out that my debits and credits are not identical as the exchange rates vary and perhaps credit card fees occured. So I am either a bit up or down. Merry fucking christmas google.
These corporations and the prison guard unions also lobby hard to keep marijuana illegal, so users and dealers can go to prison.
British economy will be largest in Europe by 2030?
Q 1. The problem is, the DPI you are using is 82.6 which is already the lower than any modern display I know of. You could try to find a 21 inch CRT [~19.5inch viewable] (should be cheap or free). Another option might be to buy a second hand LCD 19inch LCD running at 1024x768. Another option would be to get a bigger LCD, run it at native resolution and use the font size/DPI settings in Windows to make the text bigger.

Q 2. I don't think the issues to do with non-1:1 scaling are that bad if you have poor eyesight anyway.

Q 3. I don't think there is enough information to answer this, though even graphics cards made 10 years ago should support more than 1280x960. Though often I find windows isn't very good at giving you those options. Most likely 1280x960 is the limit of the CRT you have already connected.
I was once arrested and in jail for 12 hours.

I saw a big machine opposite my cell. I asked the guards (standing opposite my cell) what that machine did. They light up with excitement that someone showed interested in and could have a coherent conversation. They spent all night explaining to me and showing to me all the cool technology in the system. That big machine -- apparently for electronic fingerprints to take them and transmit them to some national database but it never worked, they kept on mocking the NYC police dept for adding layers and layers of technology and bureaucratic forms and none of it worked, including that machine. We ended up having an all-night conversation, we got along great. I asked the guards all these things I always wanted to ask policemen but never had the chance to: have you ever bee in a chase (yes, once, on the BQE!). What is the pay like? (Horrible, so they all have second jobs; he also worked at Radio Shack! But they all want to get jobs on Long Island, where the police pay is awesome!). It was a very fascinating and enlightening conversation.

12 hours later, when I was released, the policemen I spent the night talking to, offered to drive me back to my apt. He did and when he dropped me off, he got out of the car and shook my hand. Bizarre experience.

Conclusion: I think the police treated me well because I treated them with respect, and I showed in them.

(And because I'm white and dress well. When I went to the court for the court date a few weeks later... I was the only white person in the entire courthouse, excluding the lawyers and judges. No exaggeration. The judge ended up throwing out my case before the trial even started.)
The next parts:

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/houdinis-mystifying-magic-stu...

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/houdinis-master-magic-tricks-...
Incredible, the website looks terrible on tablets and phones.
Yes, if we're talking about development time! :P
Opps, Forgot that: that's how irrelevant it's become.

Email is just for signing up for things and for 'professional' communication (e.g. job offers, work placements, to teachers etc.). I think I only have about 5 of my friends email addresses, mainly just because sometimes I'll need to CC them into something.
"Those facts will be interpreted through the lens of relationships."

This is the key point for everyone advising him to go to the board or quit and start anew with the employees. It's unlikely the board meeting will go well unless the other cofounder has done something seriously wrong. Trying to work out goals with him, as suggested, has a better chance of being productive compared to asking him to reduce his equity.
> Perhaps the best approach would be to not punish 'safe' jaywalking but to give out harsh tickets for those that cause cars to slam the brakes/similar.

Yes, this would be best, but sadly like so many root causes of problems, it will likely not get addressed.
> If you want to go beyond calculus, almost everything (in this and related areas) is about sequences, limits, limiting processes, functions, and transformations. There, non-standard analysis tends not to help ...

Why do you say this? I ask because I've found internal set theory, Edward Nelson's axiomatic version of nonstandard analysis, to be a lovely tool for doing typical sorts of things in analysis.

You have to learn to wield the "standard" predicate [0], which is too dark an art for some mathematicians, I suppose. But, in my opinion, nonstandard characterizations of notions like convergence and continuity are delightfully simple and direct.

It also turns out that when you have nonstandard numbers at hand, infinity is an over-powerful abstraction for some purposes. Nelson came up with a new formalism for probability theory [1], for example, that makes finite spaces powerful enough to capture what's interesting for most purposes. Similarly, finite but unlimited sequences often are "long enough" to incorporate all the interesting behavior of infinite sequences.

0. Alain Robert's Nonstandard Analysis is a good starting point.

1. See his short book Radically Elementary Probability Theory. I love this book, and didn't much like probability theory before reading it.
Yeah, that still sounds like exactly the same difficulties (the online work would likely involve a background check too, right?) plus a huge pile of new difficulties.

If you'd still be earning in dollars, especially, cost of living in much of Europe would be really rough. You might get work permission yourself after half a decade or so of residency (that's how it worked for me), but I still don't see that it would necessarily help. Wouldn't application forms still ask about your criminal history?

I guess you'd be freer to lie on those forms without being found out, but that's an incredibly weak reason to move to another country.
> For me, 1024 x 768 pixels are plenty, but on my screen with diagonal only 15.5", a lot of text is too small to read, even if I used a magnifying glass.

> So, I'd like a bigger screen, but still with only about 1024 x 768 pixels.

Why? You can have bigger text without having bigger pixels (and, at any given size, readability should be better with more pixels because the lines making up the characters will have better definition.)

Get a monitor the size you want, with as many pixels as you can (given your budget), use all of them, and use the text scaling setting in your OS to get text the size you want. Don't hobble yourself with a low-resolution device (or low-resolution setting on a high-resolution device) to get bigger text, that's the worst possible way to do that.
Ask HN: Why is Rap Genius Getting So Much Hacker News Attention?
That's not completely fair: the math department is world-class, and the computer science department is sort of an offshoot of it. It does have a very theoretical bent. That doesn't mean it's bad.
The problem with GMOs are the unknown long time risks and the fact that you may lose the ability to decide because you don't even know that it is an GMO or you don't have a choice at all.

You don't have to smoke pot, but you have to eat.
Risk aversion isn't bad. A founder is already taking significant risks in other parts of their lives, controlling the remaining risk is just smart.

Of the successful founders I know personally, each and every one is incredibly risk averse in anything ancillary to the startup itself.
"the 3 employees we have today respect him a lot"

This is a big red flag. Who hired those people? Why did you agree to hire them if you don't respect their judgement? Or is your co-founder also doing all the hiring as well as taking care of everything else?

Starting to sound like you should be asking yourself what you contribute.
How do you assault someone who isn't present at the scene of the crime?

According to the model penal code, "burglary" is the charge of attempting a felony by surreptitiously breaking into a building. The unique elements of burglary are all about gaining access to buildings. Like you said, robbery is about theft by force.

For what it's worth, I asked because Texas has three "aggravated" robbery statutes: robbery with concomitant physical harm to people, robbery using threat of deadly force, and robbery targeting the elderly.
Is this show available for streaming in the US anywhere?
I hope you expose the color coding as a config file, so folks with an eye for design can contribute.
Er, I drop in on #emacs regularly, and people there are generally very nice, nothing like you describe.

Maybe you tried at the wrong moment and happened to get the attention of the rare jerk or two, or maybe you were doing something that managed to annoy people (you sometimes see people asking questions in very overbearing and demanding manner ... "Give me the answer now!!" etc).

Indeed, I'd say #emacs is actually a lot better than typical tech channels / mailing lists etc, and the stereotypical techy "attitude" is largely absent there. If anything the biggest problem with it is not attitude, it's that 95% of the discussion on #emacs is not about Emacs (it's kinda ... laid back), and your question might get lost in the noise...
I think the article can best be summed up in two of its paragraphs, which highlight the Queen's gesture as incomplete and suggest a more complete gesture ...

> "We can’t change Turing’s experience with a pardon. But his legacy mandates that we emulate, create, and codify humane and humble bodies politic, whether with law or with software, to steward and respect bodies natural."

> "According to Buzzfeed’s Jim Waterson, 75,000 men were convicted under the same law as Turing, some 26,000 of whom are still alive. (The law was repealed in 1967.) We might start by pardoning, or apologizing to, all those other men."
GDC: Doom Post-Moretem
CBC bitflipping is in set #2. Incidentally, somewhere in the mists of time is a very weird blog post ("If You're Typing The Letters A-E-S Into Your Code, You're Doing It Wrong") I wrote describing how to implement this attack --- though not against LUKS.
Integrating sales transactions into accounting software 
How do startups get their sales transactions into their accounting software (Quickbooks, cloud based software, or whatever is used)?

I assume with your typical web app credit card processing is done with Stripe, Braintree, etc., how should each individual sales transaction make it into the accounting software.

Do they have each sale end up being recorded along in a PostgreSQL database? But then this needs to be exported to the accounting software that is used. It would make a lot of sense for the entire pipeline to be automated obviously.

Really what I'm asking is what is the common practice software architecture to handle a sales end to end?
Right. Although Austerity hasn't actually worked in the past 5 years for the UK (with GNI down by 15+ percent [1], compared to up 4% for Germany [2]), it will magically start working in the future. Wishful thinking at best.

[1] http://data.worldbank.org/country/united-kingdom

[2] http://data.worldbank.org/country/germany
Was he from Texas?
Georgia, actually.
This is interesting. When does your record disappear in the US?

In Sweden the record is removed 10 years after a prison sentence has been served. However, requesting ones criminal record is not usual besides applications to work at a kinder garten or school.

My opinion is basically that once a person has served the sentence no additional "social" sentence should be given. I feel that that would just be counterproductive and keep people in crime as they are prevented from joining the community.
No not at all! The poster I was replying to was suggesting using DM alone instead of basic scripting.

They are already planning on having AP CS which is a much more in depth class for those interested later on.
Because they are a YC company. There's really no other reason. YC companies always get disproportionate coverage at HN. If you're confused as to why, look at the URL in your browser's address bar.

Other than that, Rag Genius has a... polarizing... management team that engaged in blackhat SEO techniques (buying links to attempt to bost pagerank with payment in the form of Tweeting about the link provider's website from a high-follower Twitter account) to boost their Google ranking and has received an appropriate punishment (in line with what Google has been doing for years now).
Would be helpful to see this list be updated with a few others. A couple of that come to mind:

SQL: Tuple relational calculus is too low level?

Julia: Hadoop is a kludge for data science?

Clojure: We need Lisp for the JVM?

Dart: JavaScript is a kludge?

Go: C/C++ are kludges for systems programming?
Isn't this a just-so story? I don't see any reason to believe that more good companies do things this way than don't.
Not to distract from the core of your argument, but "simply tagging words" is still a hard AI problem in general, with all those pesky "time flies like an arrow" vs. "fruit flies like an apple" cases. Of course you are not doing anything innovative in that area if you just call an API provided by someone who did the hard work.
There is a good scene in Pixar's Ratatouille about keeping your station clean. Thomas Keller was a consultant for the film.

I once read that Japanese construction sites would sweep up, clean their tools and put all them away at the end of the day. I don't know if it is true or not. But it got me to shutdown all my apps at the end of the day.

My editor is never left open. I shutdown my VMs. Then in the morning I start fresh and clean.
My impression is that in California boards have large latitude to extremely dilute minority holders.
What are the implications of this? I'm not familiar with Snapchat, is 'adding' someone to your list purely done through phone numbers?
> Hate the man's business practices. Love the man for his philanthropical work

At the core of this is trust. Bill lost mine at Microsoft's helm - he has shown a borderline sociopath that will stop at nothing and will destroy anyone on his path.

To give this much credit to someone with such dark history is appallingly naive.