skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get it. If the evidence is so overwhelming (emails, chat logs, skype logs) why in the world didn't the US use all this to take them down? Why the drama? The breaking of international rules and the violence?
Would've liked to see the exact code to better gauge what clarity involves specifically.
> in the vast majority of cases where the father contests custody, he wins

Can you show a citation for this?
Eight ways robots stole our jobs in 2013
They are very similar, yet very different at the same time ;) You can read more here: http://ivoras.net/blog/tree/2013-02-22.freenas-vs-nas4free.h... and here: http://forums.freenas.org/threads/freenas-vs-nas4free.16422/
Cools stuff, it seems like you guys made quite a jump from the previous version of the platform! Looks cooler now. How do you handle the video chat? Local plugin or external service?
Yeah, I would really love to get a device that embodies the keyboard-version of the original Android prototypes.
There is a difference between a tax break and recognizing something as an expense. The difference is, roughly, the difference between trying to incentivize certain behavior and trying to properly define income (as distinguished from revenue).

E.g. if you're in a business, you get to deduct the cost of employee salaries. The portion of your revenue that goes to employee salaries isn't a benefit to you in any way except as a necessary part of your business. If you didn't have the business, you wouldn't have that expense. Allowing the deduction isn't a "tax break" but is rather necessary in order to properly define "net income" as distinct from "revenue."

Day care is similar. It's a necessary expense of going to work. The portion of your salary spent on daycare isn't a benefit to you in anyway except as a necessary condition of going to work. If you didn't go to work, you wouldn't have that expense.
If you wish to interpret the personal exemption that way, then it also (in aggregate) pays for day care.

You might point out that some individuals pay more than the average, but I don't see a reason to single out the woman who needs daycare over the salesman who needs a custom suit.
I get the impression the debts will remain unpaid.
Anyone here notice something? Big Banks launder money and get with it. While Big Tech companies get to lose their right to privacy and seems powerless against the NSA.

And big tech companies actually have a much bigger market cap.
Entrepreneurship is not ideation
Merger of large .com and .gov ruining .gov for everyone, environmental damage for everyone not just stockholders, lack of economic agility / flexibility ruining economic conditions for everyone else, the previously mentioned Dilbertian damage to culture and lifestyle impacting to some extent everyone, obvious lifestyle problems like traffic jams and parking lots and general commuter lifestyle negatively impacting everyone... (also edited to add the larger one player is, the less of a free market exists for everyone else, so lack of competition ruins the marketplace for everyone)

Simply calculate the ratio of people claiming in public that they wanna work at a smaller company vs wanting to work at a larger company. HN is not representative in general, but in this specific example no one really wants to work at Innitech from the Office Space movie.

Or the total aggregate of whining about working conditions about dilbertian megacorp inc vs smaller more flexible companies.

So, you wanna run a zoo.. Well OK. Nothing wrong with keeping both giant Elephants and tiny little Meerkats, in fact some diversity is an excellent idea. They're each cool in their own way. But its ignoring reality to not accept that the giant elephant exhibit is going to produce somewhat more smelly biological solid waste than the tiny little Meerkat exhibit.
I have one simple question: why? For the children? For the fraction of performers involved in it involuntarily? Because you simply object to it yourself and want to force your morals on others? Because you're just trolling? Oh..
Still no HyperV support for directly attached disks/raw storage :(
The other method is to change the calling convention and use a different ABI. NetBSD syscalls have multiple return values in registers, although it is little used (pipe returns two args, plus functions that return 64 bits on 32 bit platforms. If you were inventing a new ABI this could be nice. Multiple return values are very idiomatic...
That seems to be a question better suited for empirical evidence than an ideological litmus test. I'll agree it's the conventional wisdom that more men than women commit rape, and it seems likely, but the whole point of feminism is to challenge conventional wisdom when it comes to gender and to avoid excluding people's valid experiences based on their gender. The question isn't whether statistically more men than women commit rape, the question is whether men who are raped and abused by women are marginalized and systemically denied justice by a system that asserts that such acts are impossible. Judging from the experiences of male victims of abuse and rape, unfortunately it seems that they are not only denied justice but systemically oppressed.
In America a company is considered an individual/has a social security number correct?

Then you should be able to seize that individuals assets and while you can't send a company to jail you can bankrupt it.

If we're going to consider all companies as people then all laws should be applied to said people.
Fun fact: the word "that" is an expletive and doesn't convey any information.
I'm planning on posting a repo with the benchmarks soon.
Work :) . The rules are a bit odd, I still haven't figured out why some sites are open and why some are blocked. I'm happy Hacker News is still open.
I think it's to be expected that governments that live off taxes force companies, that receive large cash deposits or whose business it is to receive, store or transfer money, to identify those individuals and businesses whose money they receive, store or transfer.

I don't receive any cash payments and I don't make any cash payments in my business. I am not a financial institution. This year, the value of the transactions that I participated in was probably around 100 million euro or so, and a fraction of a percent of this went through my account or ended up on my account, and all of it came from and went to banks. Not a cent was received in cash. Not a cent was paid out in cash. Now, HSBC and other banks probably have billions flowing through their system every second and in the order of millions received in cash or paid out in cash every second. I think it's natural to burden a few thousand banks with these rules, and not millions of small businesses.
Vodafone has had something similar for mobile for years, no? I bought a UK SIM a while back for when I'm in the UK, and discovered that they have some sort of filter enabled by default that blocks all 'adult' content.

The quality of that filter is so absurdly low, that it actually blocked a ton of irrelevant stuff (such as random PDF email attachments, word documents, a ton of FB and Twitter images, etc.). My smartphone was pretty much transformed into a brick, and became an annoyance to use. Also took them nearly 20 minutes to remove it, when I finally went to a shop to get it removed.

I hate filters, because they actually don't filter properly.
Wow, what a thing to wake up and see on HN. I never thought I would see something from my past on this site.

I officially worked for the GGL from '04 to '09 as one of their initial developers, then as pretty much their only guy to take care of their web infrastructure (Architecture to Ops and everything in between) and I gotta say I'm not surprised this happened this way. So, I can probably add and address a few things here...

@Stealth- & lazyjones: The server setup that ClanBase was residing on was well past its prime and was pretty much overwhelmed every day between 2pm and 7pm ET. I can't really speak for the CB founders (Tal, Wob, and Godsmurf), but I'm pretty sure their was that the site would be well taken care for and pushed into better success by the GGL (we had the money after all). At the time the GGL bought CB, the GGL were seen as a rising star organization in the gaming communities and there were no black spots on their name at that time (and no belief their would be as a lot of big names were associated with it)

Re: "ClanBase Crew":
The ClanBase crew were/are tops in my mind. I've been a gamer for a longtime now and have run or have helped run some highly visible tournaments and the CB Crew were the most organized group I ever saw. I'm still in awe with how they ran it. They had a full system from bringing in new people, training and growing them and ensuring they retain only the best talent. It was quite impressive and I still consider some of them as good friends. I hated resigning as I feared this could happen to their community. So to see a message from their side saying they are done is completely understandable and possibly overdue.

The GGL also had a few other "business incidents" (as I liked to call them) that occurred before RackSpace that I really didn't like seeing, as it affected good, gaming friendly companies and people (namely Speakeasy and Game-Hosting). From my point of view, the issues they had can all be traced back to their exec level and their lack of focus and understanding of what they were doing (especially with the competitive gaming community). This ultimately led to them giving themselves black eyes over and over and burning through VC money like crazy. (ie> GGL China and the olympics... did we really need to expand to China? ie2> Massive server infrastructure in US, but very little in Europe, really???)

I gained two big things from my experience at the GGL:
1. Understanding of how _not_ to run a Gaming Startup or possibly any startup (so if I do it, I know how I will do it... and it will look nothing like this disorganized mess)
2. A lot of great friends from the GGL employees, ClanBase crew, Speakeasy and Game-Hosting.

I can say the GGL was at least not like the CyberXGames was, but ultimately, I think the way the GGL went was just disappointing to everyone involved. So much potential just wasted. And worse, all that gaming history lost. (Although I do have most of the Quake related history archived away!)

-Joe aka Syn (from Darkside)
Best freelance tools of 2013
This is the lethal electronic kit that changed Colombia’s history
Interviewing as a Front-End Engineer in San Francisco
Try other fields of programming as well. If you've worked for product companies, try a service company, or vice versa

See a sleep doctor and get a sleep study if they agree to it to see if you're getting enough good sleep (depression is often confused for "burn out", and is pretty reliably caused by sleep deprivation, which is pretty reliably caused by small children).
Favelas in Rio Are New Lodging Hot Spots [4 min video]
Ha, not even close. Census data shows that of men who wished to have custody, only ~18% gained it.
How to Create Drop-Down Menus in Yahoo SiteBuilder
awesome, many thanks! There is a natural tendency for sort of adverse selection towards virality...
I was under the impression that being a director of a Ltd. company gave you limited liability from your company going bankrupt (i.e. they can't take your home if your company goes bankrupt) but that you were fully legally responsible for the actions of the company.

The article is perfectly correct in it's arguments, the world sadly is not.

I think that government have realised that constantly being corrupt and just telling people "Oh, don't be silly of course the system is good and fair! Our hand in the cookie jar is just us making sure the cookies are still there for you!" doesn't wash anymore.

So instead of fixing it they are cracking down on Internet freedom; certainly here in the UK.
Not true. I can't find the blog, but there was a guy who had a filter like this on his mobile device that blocked alternative news sources. You could not go to a webpage, you had to call. And the person that he called repeated asked "To confirm, you want to be able to access adult content".
He tried to reason with them that the news site wasn't a porn site, but still he had to say something to the effect of "Yes, I wish to access explicit content on my mobile".

I really wish I could find this blog. Been looking for it for months to be prepared to reply to a comment such as yours.

They were totally going for the squeamish factor. The only way was to call and request that you want pornography & other explicit content. Something the average person would at least hesitate to do.
What reasons are there for ignoring the onboard SATA ports?
If large companies were actually making things worse, then just getting rid of them would be sufficient to make things better. That's the definition of making something worse. So tell me: would getting rid of large companies make things better or not?
> No amount of logic or reasoned argument can override the amounts of money and political pressure at work here.

The gradual erosion of prohibition through popular referenda in the states argues against the truth of this claim.
As a non-US person who moved to the Bay area ~2 years ago, I have found found several difficulties with either method you have mentioned:

First, if you have just move there, and don't have a bank account, you don't have checkbook either (there are countries who has no checks at all) - no check by mail.

No utilities accepted credit or debit card, they always wanted to have a proper bank account number from me. Later on they have improved their system and now they offer online bill pay, with an extra "convenience fee" for credit cards. Hurray! (Although I am not sure if the bank account is still a requirement for opening.)

Btw. similar story applies for wireless service: I was required to provide my full employment contract to receive a simple phone number (at that point I had bank account, active employment...). How weird is that?
The existence of a skilled work force is the greatest resource that any country has.

Yes.

Companies exist to exploit this resource;

No. Companies exist to alleviate transaction costs. Companies also exist to exploit economies of scale. Your use of "exploit" is perjorative; companies don't exist to hold an advantage over the workforce, they exist to provide increased opportunities for the workforce.

are you saying that they should be able exploit this resource without being responsible for maintaining it?

Mandatory paid leave (for any reason) is not maintaining the workforce. The workforce does not need to be maintained. It is insulting and offensive to claim that the workforce is incapable of maintaining itself.

Maintaining the skilled workforce would be helping people keep their skills up. That is, sending them to educational seminars, providing tuition assistance, providing time to experiment with interesting new things. This is nice to have, but not necessary. All that is necessary is that people have sufficient non-work hours to have time to learn on their own. People are naturally curious, and most remain at least somewhat curious even after being sent thru formal schooling.

Employees do not (or should not) belong to specific employers. Employers are not (should not be) responsible for maintaining the education and well-being of their (current) employees. They are (should be) only responsible for not hindering said employees from looking after their own education and well-being. Any further responsibility (the "social safety net"; ensuring that personal disasters or sustained bad luck don't get people stuck at the bottom of the pile) belongs to society as a whole (either government or voluntary charities).
Many thanks, will keep in mind... certainly the latest indexes are not too hard.
On the off chance you aren't trolling, I know 100% it's from RS.
No, I don't think so.

Just because you've chosen silly numbers doesn't mean those are absurd. Moral thought experiments are useful for understanding what value people tend to place on human life.

See, even with your trolling questions, most people would have a queasy feeling in their stomach when considering sacrificing a human being.

But when I ask you to compare the value of ant life to human life, there's no comparison. You wouldn't hesitate. They aren't equal at all.
I wish there was a way to know what the actual condition of Fukushima is. News reports have been so conflicting, it seems the only way to know what's going on would be to go and measure things yourself.
Japanese Scientists Prove The Possibility of Teleportation
Contextual Signaling gets noticed, dESP common by 2018.
I'm a PHP/WordPress dev shipping product every single day, but I think I'd probably fail questions like these if I was asked in an interview setting.

I don't really worry about functions like these until a need arises, and when it does (and I don't know how to do it), I learn until I do.

This is an absurd way to recruit front-end talent and partially explains the so-called talent crunch.
I built mine on an HP Proliant N36L MicroServer. There are doubtless newer models now, but these can usually be found for less than $300, and it ran out of the box flawlessly (though I added 8GB of RAM). Depending on your needs, this is a great platform - low power, small case, built with installing multiple drives in mind.

This is the newest equivalent product: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16859107...
Does your definition of 'porn' include magazines like Cosmo?

Does your definition of 'porn' include medical materials?

Does your definition of 'porn' include religious texts?

The problem with banning 'porn' is you have to ban very very specific things (like photographs of coitus, or textual descriptions of intercourse) in order to enforce it - but what you're really attempting to control or prevent is perversion or pleasure other people take in something you don't approve of.

If you even glance over a list of fetishes you'd see there's no limit to the creativity of human sexuality. Pretty soon you're going to end up banning balloons, and a whole lot of other weird things that emerge. What about things like Bubbling (https://www.google.ca/search?q=mormon+bubbling) Is that 'porn' or not?
Many thanks, will keep in mind...

also thanks for the mention in that last thread!

Druce - (12 years of LFNY and the bac to prove it LOL)
Hey thanks! We are pouring a lot of efforts, we are improving day after day! The video chat is on a isolate instance of heroku. We used a nodejs app with webrtc stuff!
Human aging is reversed.
FreeBSD 10.0 should be out soon (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.0R/schedule.html) and there should be something there to make your day (http://vvm.blog.tut.by/2013/10/08/freebsd-10-on-hyper-v/).
Anybody has good resources (preferably free) on creating online visualizations. Not links to the d3.js documentation but good tutorials creating visualizations you often use on the internet. Like creating your own cool dashboard and stuff like that.
The unary sort is useful for two reasons. It simplifies the code AND it does key caching.

But sometimes you need BOTH a key extraction closure (to get key caching for performance) AND a comparison closure (to specify a custom sort). In P6 you just specify both closures (P6 figures out which is which because one has one arg and the other has two).

Here's the P6 equivalent of your last couple lines:

["A","b","C"].sort: { .lc } # A, b, C
["A","b","C"].sort: *.lc # same thing

Here's a custom sort:

["A","b","C"].sort: { $^b.lc leg $^a.lc } # C, b, A

Now combining them:

["A","b","C"].sort: *.lc, { $^b leg $^a } # C, b, A

The latter will run faster.
Breath Alcohol Monitor by Lapka
Google+ boss Vic Gundotra will be fired.
For the record: COMMAND_MODE=unix2003 is already default in Terminal(.app), but it should definitely be set for iTerm.
Startups of 2014
Photoshop’ta Detaylı Saç Temizleme
There is nothing absurd about any of those scenarios. Those are perfectly valid questions, and to answer them might be difficult - that's why it's not at all obvious that 40 year olds are more morally "important" than 80 year olds (for me they obviously aren't). However, to answer the original question is very easy: Human > Rat. Defending the opposite position is absurd, and although some people might feel Human=Rat - it's a fallacy to compare this to "Black human = White human", or to "Jew=Non-Jew".
Your interpretation doesn't bear any particular resemblance to the article. There's no mention in it of any prey shortages, nor anything about extinction.

They do mention several times that they don't know precise why this morbillivirus outbreak is occurring now, though. But that

"The Indian River Lagoon, a diverse estuary, has been tainted by huge algae blooms caused in part by too much nitrogen. Research on some of the dead dolphins in the estuary — 76 died this year, the third series of deaths since 2001 — has showed that some had high levels of mercury, fungal diseases, antibiotic-resistant bacteria and oral-genital tumors. The dolphins found were emaciated."

and in some other cases, they have a pretty decent idea, but it's unconfirmed:

"Gulf Coast states and the federal government are still investigating the impact of the oil spill in the region, and scientists cannot yet say why the dolphins are dying. So far, it appears that toxins or morbillivirus are not the primary cause.

“We can’t conclusively say what role oil played at this time,” Ms. Fougeres said. “But the event is pretty unprecedented in terms of how long the die-off has been occurring and how many have died as part of that event.”

A NOAA study released last week of 29 bottlenose dolphins that were examined in Barataria Bay in Louisiana — an area hit hard by the spill — found that they had lung disease, hormonal abnormalities and other illnesses that are consistent with exposure to oil."
This. The tangled, incestuous web of government contracts and bids is such a colossal failure that is destroying the US government from the inside, out. It's easy to point fingers a politicians and public figures, but in reality you have a much larger network of largely hidden corporations, who's entire industry thrives on overly complex process and success by failure. I really hope the startup disruption trend in the next decade involves completely reworking how government contracts are fulfilled. If you can figure out how to crack that, the market opportunity is vast.
Depends what you want.

Yes, 50bt will get you the naked SIM, but if you want to make calls, or connect to the Internet you need to charge it.

The 1000bt quoted includes 30 days of Internet access with a 1 - 2 GB traffic included and 200-300bt of additional phone credit for calls and sms.

From that perspective 1000bt don't look too bad anymore.