skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This is not true at all. In cases where fathers seek custody, they have a good chance of gaining custody or arriving at a shared custody arrangement.

~18% of fathers are the custodial parent. Shared custody favors the mothers in most circumstances.

>60% of of fathers (regardless of custodial status) are required to pay child support to the mother.

On average, women are awarded more child support than men -- Women also receive >85% of all child support paid every year.

>Are you serious? When someone points out that most rapes are committed by men they aren't saying all men are rapists. Also, there has been tremendous effort to expand definitions of rape, esp. from a legal standpoint, to be more inclusive of sexual assault as it happens, whether it be to men or women and whether committed by a man or woman.

Then why are we pushing campaigns to teach men not to rape but not women? Why are colleges around the US putting students through rape awareness education only telling men not to rape? As for redefinitions, feminists pushed for the recent FBI expansion that makes forced fallatio rape but not forced cunnilingus. They also pushed for the definition to be forced penetration by the accused, excluding cases where a man is forced to penetrate by the women.

>Please, tell me more about how someone venting about men oppresses you.

Please tell me more about derailing by insulting.

>You are so obsessed with straw feminists that this is ridiculous. Like anything, there are many different voices and opinions that use the label feminism, but you seem to rather want to ignore any social problems in favor of blaming women.

As usual, those voices (despite being some prolific and vocal, really being the face of feminism today) are No True Scotsman'ed out of being feminists.
Censorship is small problem in UK.

The SS forced c-section on pregnant woman and stole her baby. She was visitor, foreign citizen who stayed in UK just for a few days...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/social-servic...
Do projects like this ever get included into the mainstream? Would this be an appropriate candidate for inclusion into PHP's standard library?
The target was never bored, horny 14 year old kids -- it was the likes of WikiLeaks/Snowden sympathizers.

Currently, military personnel and other public servants are barred from viewing any and all 'classified' content (WikiLeaks/Snowden material). This restriction will now be applied on a national level resulting in a variety of news websites being rendered inaccessible.

It's not if but when the censorship will be applied across the world. It's coming to nations whom are regarded as shining beacons of democracy (especially all of whom are in the sphere of US influence), and such censorship policies will be as untouchable as our ever-growing war budgets.

No politician wants to be the one responsible for tragedies resulting from rolling back censorship in the same manner no-one wants fingers pointed at them for reducing the defence budget.
PyroCMS 2.3 Alpha release
Bookish is a failing company that could fundamentally change digital publishing
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Microsoft will introduce a phone with a keyboard and hardened security to grab some of Blackberry’s fading market share.
Used to work in retail, sold credit obo Barclays bank - we were told not to accept printed copies of bank statements but I heard stories of people asking customer to log into online banking live.
The latter doesn't appear to be implemented in any version of p6.
Well, as others have said, caching. Because the front page loads about 100 lines of CSS and Javascript files before any of the content actually starts.

Seems to do the same on the secondary pages as well.
We benefit from being pragmatic. thumbs up
This is an interesting idea, but it suffers from one maor problem: Github's language detection is rather inflexible, and sometimes misleading.

For example: I have a number of small Go projects that are incorrectly categorized as CSS or Javascript. One such example is a project explicitly designed to be a Go webserver that you can just "go get" (or git clone) and run immediately, with no extra setup, sort of like Twitter Bootstrap, but for the backend: https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/go-server-bootstrap

Because it self-hosts the Bootstrap files, and because the lines of Go code required are relatively small, less than 5% of this project is detected as being written in Go, even though I didn't write a single line of Javascript or CSS myself for the entire project.

(Yes, I know I could pull in the Bootstrap, etc. from a CDN, but this is just to illustrate the limitations of an automatic language detection model that the developer has zero control over).
At the risk of sounding Ad Hominem, "whatsupwiththat.com" is primarily a climate change denial website and scientific conspiracy theory blog. I'd take any claims with a grain of salt.
Here: http://hackershelf.com/topic/visualization/. I'm sure you can find more if you fish around the "topics" section.
Billion dollar climate-denial network exposed
$100/week. That's $2.50 an hour. An appropriate ratio of caregiver to babies is 3:1. So $7.50 an hour per caregiver. Assume overhead of 33%. That's being generous: I'm going to want to choose a location with a good sized yard so my kids can play outside a lot, and yards cost money. So by my math, that works out to $5 an hour for a caregiver. WTF?

Sure, the ratios can get quite a bit better as the babies get older, but you're still talking about rates that seem more appropriate for the 3rd world or the 19th century with a servant underclass than about rates that are appropriate for the professionals that many early childhood educators are.
Yeah we'll get right on that.
My experience has been that the plugin ecosystem looks a lot bigger from the outside.
Deductions are taxpayer-specific. Google doesn't get to deduct some aggregated average amount for engineer salaries: they get to deduct their actual engineer salaries. Workers should, similarly, be able to deduct the expenses that have no consumptive value to them other than enabling them to work. This should include both the salesman's suit and a family's daycare.

As a practical matter, the personal exemption and standard deduction are high enough to cover the salesman's custom suit or commuting expenses, etc. Where it really falls down is with daycare and similar expenses.
http://flowingdata.com/category/tutorials/

not web-centric but the best source I know of offhand

(edit to add ..)

http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000345/index.ht... is a viz book that uses d3. I haven't read it but the guy who wrote it does good work
It hs a lot to do with Mexican drug money laundering in this case, considering it is part of the same indictment, and HSBC is only a UK company in a very loose sense, much of it is in the US and it considers Hong-Kong to be as much of it's base as London, as well it might, given it is a London holding company established by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, hence the initials.
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This is a PR move, it has nothing to do with a trial.

This is a better coverage:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/justice-department-... (and shame on your ars, for not bothering to link to or quote the source material for your article)

That's what has happened. Someone ordered this material released to try to counter the massive pressure the NZ government is under locally not to do comply with US requests for extradition.

"This sounds like 191 pages of a meritless criminal theory,” Rothken said.
"The notion that they keep piling on more evidence to bolster civil claims of
secondary copyright infringement, to us look like they’re desperately trying
to mislead the public.”

Exactly.

I'm not arguing that he (.com) was (and almost certainly still is) a Bad Guy who deliberately built his business on selling other peoples work, but this... is just PR posturing to try to counter the thus-far terribly terribly botched efforts of the justice department.
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I have no idea where he's paying $100/week. We're paying $1,300 per month in Wilmington, DE, which is not exactly a high cost of living place.
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Being right or being happy: pilot study
Because you send people to jail for committing crimes, actually doing things that violate the law. Simply being employed by a company to manage some lawbreaker isn't a crime.

And if you'd like to propose making it a crime, I'd encourage you to first think about how exactly it could be twisted - how to separate the really-morally-responsible the scapegoats, in advance, with nothing but legal language.
We are _causing_ one of Earth's mass extinctions.
The ratio of meat to vegetables in the Western diet is high.
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>Rape perpetrators are overwhelmingly male. You do realise that, right?

No, they really aren't. The majority of "rapes" are institutional (meaning they happen in prisons and other custodial environments) and are perpetrated by women against women (See the Canadian prison systems 2011 report). Further, rape statistics are skewed by how rape is defined -- almost singularly as something committed by a man . In many jurisdictions, a women forcibly having sexual contact with a man is sexual assault and not rape. The '1 in 6' (or '1 in 5' depending on who says it) number of women raped is bullshit.
Does anyone have any examples of great analytics dashboards(of any kind)? I've always been a bit unimpressed with most of them. Making the base presentation simple and clean while still allowing powerful filtering can be tricky.
Big PC makers aim Android at the heart of Microsoft
Just to be clear, you mean Google Glass, right?
You really need to improve the design of that website.
This is a blogpost I have bookmarked and go back to read several times a year. It's the only blog post I have ever done that for.
>they've been widely adopted in the business world (and, controversially, by President Obama)

The link discussed President Obama's use of an Autopen to sign a bill. I'm not entirely sure how that is comparable to Digital Signatures.
Economic Growth vs. Income Inequality in Government Policy
I'm sure Somalia has a great time enforcing their maternity leave laws.
Nice article, I had went through a few phone calls with Evan early this year about coming on board as a developer. I really like what these guys are doing.

Good job Evan and Walker.
The Bank Secrecy act encapsulates hundreds of pages of law and regulations. Which part are you talking about?

You can't just link a law and say "it says somewhere here someone can go to prison for some reason, so I'm sure that bank executives should go to prison." The Wikipedia article's blurb about prison does not seem to cover HSBC's conduct, but it's also hopelessly vague.
I'm sorry you had to go through that bullshit.

That generally sucks when you're interviewed by assholes who have no idea that the specific platform that you might work on requires.

Consider most front-end engineers ALSO to be designers, and I'd suspect thats where I would drive the interview. I would wish the same treatment.

Also lol that the interview questions are basically EITHER memorizing formulas and remembering why something was that way or trying to cram down a solution on the whiteboard in the little time you have.

The latter is more admirable, but depends on the situation at hand. 5 minutes, white board, using your fingers as eraser.
Oy. Tesla has shown good faith in building up the infrastructure for fast charging and demonstrating battery swapping technology, even if the infrastructure for battery swap is not yet there. They have picked up the slack where the government has failed to provide infrastructure. Surely carbon credits were designed to incentivize this kind of innovation and manufacturing, and as far as I can see Tesla is the best example of a company that stands a chance of bringing fast charging electric vehicles with battery swap technology to the mass market . In short, the carbon credits system is working, it is incentivizing the kidn of innovation we need.

This person has a political axe to grind and a personal agenda....apparently because they are a climate change denier.
You don't need to wait for a text or push notification, and you don't have to be online.

Just use a time-based one-time password.

It's instant, secure, and simple. And already available free in Google Authenticator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_One-time_Password_A...

http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/
Was Megaupload registered in US, too? Otherwise I think they have a very bogus case of "jurisdiction".

Just having the data pass through US servers doesn't or shouldn't count, the way the Internet works, and how it's supposed to decentralize the data to keep it more localized. Otherwise you could argue that just by the nature of people using Megaupload from US would also give the US government the right to prosecute Megaupload. If that's the case, then Google could be prosecuted in countries where it doesn't have headquarters, too.
Computer Modern on the Web
Real backup is both offsite and offline. If your backup doesn't have both attributes then it isn't backup.
The war of privacy is coming
> We make more, on average, than $1 per visit.

that is VERY impressive.
How do you market the site?
Dotcloud/stack.io
I like the design. What do you see as problems?
> Lisp programmers tend to be ignorant of applied mathematics.

Please don't get your knowledge from some more or less useful bloggers.

Raymond a Lisp user? What had he done in Lisp? Yegge? Mostly an Emacs user with Emacs Lisp usage. Unfortunately his Lisp knowledge mostly ends with Emacs Lisp. Yegge would not recognize a Lisp, even if you hit him with Lisp Machine Manual over the head. Only Graham was and is a real Lisp user and hacker. OTOH there are too many Lisp and mathematics users.

Actually if there is a language with Mathematics background, then it is Lisp.

People like McCarthy, Minsky, Sussman are/were mathematicians.

The MIT Lisp hacker culture had lots of mathematicians from Joel Moses to Bill Gosper.

Lisp spawned symbolic mathematics which has been used in all kinds of areas with thousands of applications.

Macsyma, Axiom, Reduce, Derive and several other Lisp written maths applications have been used in many applications. The whole AI domain is based on all kinds of diverse mathematics written in Lisp: logic, statistics, probability theory, neural networks, signal processing, ...

Even students who are reading SICP are usually complaining that most of the examples are math related.

Let's see some actual Lisp applications:

* http://www.lispworks.com/success-stories/netfonds-primetrade...
Real Time Stock trading. Applied maths.

* http://www.lispworks.com/success-stories/inspiredata.html
Data visualization. Applied maths.

* http://www.lispworks.com/success-stories/brs-mle.html
Machine Learning. Applied Maths

* http://www.lispworks.com/success-stories/memetrics-xos.html
Marketing Analysis: Applied Maths.

* http://www.lispworks.com/success-stories/raytheon-siglab.htm...
Signal processing: Applied Maths.

* http://www.franz.com/success/customer_apps/mechanical_cad/mt...

Iseogeometric Analysis of aircraft engines. Applied Maths.

* http://www.franz.com/success/customer_apps/data_mining/pepit...

Predictive analysis: applied maths.

and many many others.

It's just that these Lisp users tend to publish their works not as blog posts, but in domain-specific journals and/or as applications.
Throwing away features until I made the app I really wanted
Well he has a RAID controller in his build, so I would assume you ignore the built-in SATA so you can use RAID. He's also using SAS connectors to convert four SATA cables into one SAS connector (to avoid having to have eight cables running from the drives to the board).
It provides steps to get from the junk to something relatively clean. Many people could benefit from following that, but software that doesn't spit out the junk in the first place would be better
We are working on it, any ideas on how to improve navigation? :-)
In 2014, Apple continues to sell overpriced hardware.
Objective-C. Overdue.
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Looking good. Love the new design.
Gennady
The main thing that keeps occurring to me is 'This is why you burn the evidence before you get arrested.' ^^;
It would make things better for the general public due to increased competition, better working conditions, and faster more agile innovation.

It would make things worse for the stockholders and politicians relying on political contributions from those individuals.

There is a natural lack of scalability of the number of competing firms because most line of business have an inherent minimal size; if it takes 20 people to run a 1000 foot long printing press, shrinking the firm below 20 or so suddenly starts making things worse not better. Another good example would be a mine.

It doesn't seem terribly controversial that there exists a maxima in total human happiness where average business size is a vaguely tribal number depending on individual line of business. The other extreme of infinity sized firms or 100% of the population is just re-imagined communism or feudalism and its not overly controversial to claim that historically those systems really sucked.
I should have also said that a great deal of thought went into making the default behaviors for "cmp" robust. But if (as in the article's example) you're producing numbers in the transformation code, "cmp" is guaranteed to do the right thing for you. Likewise if you produce strings in the transformation.
Man-in-the-Browser Session Stealing
Will 2014 be the year of the content marketing deluge?
Maybe I'll get lucky and there'll be some folks willing to teach me Danish. There are surprisingly few good options for learning it in the US.

I like Duolingo's approach, but they don't have the languages I want available (except German).

Edit: Bummer. No Danish. :(
Here is the article I believe you're referring to. Really enjoyed it as well. The slant of Rolling Stone's "journalism" makes me worry though. Any article where while reading you get progressively more angry is most likely heavily one-sided. That's why you come to the comments section, to bring yourself back down to earth and realize these issues are complex and multifaceted and the answers (prosecute all!) aren't always that cut and dry. Would love to see a more balanced account of this HSBC scandal.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/WHAT-THE-FLUCK
You can go to prison for being an accessory if it can be shown that you were consciously aware that the crime was going on but did not stop/report it, or that you not being consciously aware is due to gross negligence on your part.
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How to see all HN articles I've read?
In a list, preferably with active links...
True conservative think wants to keep the government out of things and let companies decide things, as companies can switch policies at a much faster pace than the government.

What is thought as "good parenting" keep switching. If you look at child birth and newborn care in the US over the last 100 years, you will find a lot of different things that have been done.

The current trends are pushing for moms and dads to get as much bonding as possible right from the start. I think this is a great idea and really should be a standard.

Also, the US does require employers to give employees 12 weeks of unpaid leave (without threat of firing) for large family events (from the FMLA law). It's not perfect, but at least it's something.
Corporations would just use robots to circumvent these restrictions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive

Speaking of banks, Goldman Sachs has around 32k employees.
The truth is, that pornography today is not the same as 10 years ago, today, porn is more about humilliation of women and really low depravation, psycological studies have found the high impact this is having on young citicens, the social future of the UK is in jeopardy, and this is what they are doing save it.
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I'm fairly sure that's exactly what would happen if they made this mandatory.

Obviously a lot of people do enjoy watching porn on-line, and personally I have no problem with that (with the usual caveats about consenting adults etc.). Some of those people will be shy about admitting it, but plenty won't care.

Moreover, even those who don't watch porn on-line have several good reasons to opt out: support of civil liberties, technical concerns over whether any filter will actually work properly, objections to the general "nanny state" trend and absolving parents of responsibility for properly supervising their own children, and the list goes on.

I think enforcing these kinds of measures will just make Cameron and Perry look even more out of touch than they already do.
The name and first sentence on your site made me think this was satire.
Gore-Tex gets made without managers
There were 10 million reasons. If you don't have any moral qualms, it was clearly a good business decision. People kept jobs, got raises, got bonuses, and it took one of the most important leaks in US (and world) history to cause the arrangement to be disclosed.

Now, after all of the individuals at the company claim to have had no knowledge or it, or to be against it after the fact, they will go on to new well-paying jobs.

This is why.
This is an excellent observation to make.

This.

Now, why is the US unique here?
Calling this a 'billion-dollar' network is misleading. Heritage and AEI are conservative policy think tanks with a variety of topics they write on, and counting their whole budgets is rather odd math.
Thanks for the tip. I'll check it out.
That's good. It's nice to be reminded sometimes that the real world is almost never as screwed up as the Internet makes it sound. :)
Ten years ago, 4:1 for infants and "just before kindergarden" ages it was something like 10:1. The local schools are about 20:1 so that's not terribly out of line. Also it is true it was about twice as expensive for infants compared to almost grade school kids. So near $200 for infants but was only about $100 for the last checks I wrote for the kids.

Also if you think early childhood educators make more than minimum wage, well, you must not know any.
So don't use the comparison operator that attempts to detects the correct type and use the operator made for the specific type you know you are comparing?
No one should be holding their breath in anticipation. Billions of dollars in research funds worldwide are wasted on "splashy findings" based on fraud and bad science[1]. In fact, most published research findings are likely false[2] :

[1] http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/27/business/la-fi-hiltz...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/
Whoop, awesome to see Trak.io in there! Cheers Marc, good roundup.

For the record, we did launch private Beta but we've had to start limiting again as we pretty much had enough, and found we weren't managing support tickets as well with more and more joining.

When we launch paid plans in the new year, we'll be opening up out of Beta. But yeah, there's a very real and very functioning product behind that signup page :-)
"I'm sure, however, that the US government can try to prosecute mid-level HSBC managers and maybe some random bank tellers in Jersey and Mexico and wherever."

They are not even doing that. And given your view that the executives should not get done because of mid level managers being responsible, what do you think of the fact that they are not being held to account either? Or do you honestly believe that this money was laundered through HSBC with nobody at HSBC helping?