skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I also write long replies in Emacs, and use the "It's All Text" extension for Firefox to integrate Emacs more directly into that workflow. If you use Firefox but don't use It's All Text, you might want to give it a look; if you don't use Firefox, I'm sure other browsers have something similar.)

> How do we interrupt the violence if we don't try to change the cultures that the violence comes from?

Outlaw the violence, and make it stick, by passing laws which motivate those with the power to curtail such violence to act in a fashion which does so.

Consider, as a somewhat caricatured example, a state law under which school officials, specifically including principals, who are demonstrably aware of bullying among the students for whom they are responsible, but who do not act effectively to curtail it, can be considered accessory after the fact to assault and battery, or to some similar violent crime whose definition is more closely satisfied by the events over which they have so blithely presided. Consider the effect such a law is likely to have after the first two or three school principals are convicted of violating it, and imprisoned accordingly -- as Voltaire put it, pour encourager les autres, and encourager les autres it would! Sufficiently encouraged, they will find a way to solve the problem.

Consider further the effect on federal law it is likely to have when it's not just a single state which passes and enforces this sort of law, but five, or ten, or twenty -- it worked for marijuana legalization; why not for this purpose as well? And consider how well it might work if, in the fullness of time, parents of bullies are themselves implicated in similar fashion -- granted that schools stand in loco parentis, and no progressive is going to want to roll that back save a few homeschoolers who inhabit the wild-eyed radical leftward fringe of the movement, but a certain judicious revitalization of the concept that parents are responsible for their children's behavior seems like something which would have a salutary effect in this case.

Culture change is almost of necessity a generational process; legislation is not, especially when you can trivially tar opponents of legislation like this as enablers of bullies and bullies themselves -- tactics which, while perhaps slanderous and certainly unsavory, are well within the progressive playbook, and far from the only pages of that playbook which could be deployed in favor of an effort like the one I describe.

I'm a theorist and a (sloppy) rhetorician, not an activist. I wouldn't know where to begin putting together a campaign actually to enact such legislation. But I don't see where the idea is intrinsically flawed, and while it lacks the theoretical elegance of extirpating the problem from the roots on up, it most certainly offers the prospect of saving a lot of kids from a lot of beatings, and I think much more quickly and comprehensively, too.
That just depends on what functions you need.

I recently mounted a 3D printer, because I had a need for it. Now, some parts for my design are stopped at customs, so I still didn't use it (except for a small fixing at home), but I already have a new project that will need the printer.
Based on previous HN discussions it might be lumped under "Lisp" at #19. Considering that Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp, and Scheme are listed separately at 41, 46, and 49; Clojure and/or Racket are about the only candidates left for Lisp being in the top 20.

Not that I think any of it means anything, since it's hard to believe that there's more Objective-C code than C# and Visual Basic combined.
For those who want to go super radically transparent: create one single Group everyone in the org is a member of. CC it on every non-private email.

Org members create a filter that puts the email away if they are not a direct recipient.

To follow along, search by hashtag (or anything else).
Thanks, to be clear, I wasn't assuming I was right, but was making assumptions, thanks a lot for replying to my comments, you've been very helpful :)
I can't comment on the utility of Wordpress, but I can tell you it (or, more precisely, it's ecosystem) is a security cesspool. Check out http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-2337/.... And that's without dragging in the ocean of vulnerable 3rd party plugins. We see malware callbacks to new vulnerable WP sites every day. We had an internal group lobbying to roll out a WP-based, high-profile portal a few months back, and a 10 minute overview of security was enough for management to support us blocking it.
Not the only way. You can interleave fields in a ByteBuffer.
Market-fit, Network, Skill & Product
No. When you apply pressure to one pin, you're not applying pressure (well, on a macroscopic level to where it would in any way bind it) to any of the others.

The pins aren't in a perfect straight line, nor are the holes perfectly uniform, due to the machine tolerances. We're talking on the order of microns here, but that's enough.

Turning the slug will thus cause one pin to bind against the cylinder first, and as soon as it clear, the slug turns ever so slightly, keeping the top pin from being able to fall back down (while the lower one can drop back down).
Show HN: First app, Chill Timer
Once I come back from vacation I need another vacation. I've gone so hard and done so many things while exploring some new place that i'm exhausted. So maybe the type of vacation should depend on what you're using it for?

For me, a relaxing "vacation" is snugging up in bed for an entire weekend and doing nothing but eating, sleeping and watching fun shows with a loved one. If you find it difficult to get away from work in your own home, try to structure your day so you don't have time to check on work.
I live in Park Slope, NYC.
That's really neat. Thanks for posting the link. Regarding the parent post about Edith Macefield, that's a neat story, too. It doesn't always turn out that way ... in Asia, there are many homes which have been cut off from all services (water, electric, sewer) and then the actual land is removed such that the occupants can barely get in or out of the house. "Nail house" is what they call it in China.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nail_house

http://io9.com/unbelievable-nail-houses-around-the-world-892...
Hello HN! OP here.

I'm not an app developer by trade, but I've tried my hand at Android development to scratch one of my own itches. I know the HN crowd appreciates things that are a little more technically impressive, but I can't miss an opportunity to get feedback from a community with so much expertise.

What it is: Throw your beer or wine in the fridge or freezer, set the timer and you'll be notified when your beverages are cold. Chill drinks quickly, without worrying about freezing them.

I'd love to get your feedback on design/usability and and ideas you guys might have for new features.
I'd say we split middle class into groups, and the meat processor might be something like 'lower middle', while a professional would be 'upper middle'.
I draw the line on addictions which produce no withdrawal symptoms. They exist. As I mentioned in my previous post, Internet addiction can be like this for some people. They compulsively spend excessive time on the web due to inertia or some emotional issue. But if you take them away on a long-term vacation without regular access to the Internet, they will feel no withdrawal or overbearing need to do so.
I'm sure that that word refers to the banner ad underneath it, not the entire page.
NSA seeks to build quantum computer
What's so good about Rails?
Yeah, but why running Android apps is such a game changer? After all, most Android phones can run Android apps too...
Why would anyone want to have Jolla and not Android?
Only six-figure supercars can do 200+ miles per hour, and doing so can empty the gas tank in 15 minutes or less.
It's still fucked up that you'd even need to justify it, let alone that way.

Take a vacation to discover a new country. Learn to SCUBA dive. Go trek the Himalayas, bungee jumping or rock-climbing because they are FUN.

Not because they'll recharge you for work.
The problem is that I don't know where to go to network with people, or how to get people to actually find me and my work.

My GitHub is a lonely horse and I think that the only way to actually have an active portfolio on the internet is if you already have an amazing reputation.
I know someone who works at a startup with unlimited vacation, and for most employees there it apparently turns out to be about 3 weeks of actual vacations taken (he defined it as left your home city for at least 2 days). They do use more single days here and there than they would otherwise, and they don't have to lie about being sick to use sick days. If I started a company, I'd want to offer unlimited vacation.
It seems that the UK places a much greater emphasis on social factors when determining class. Class has as much to do with what accent you speak with, where you went to school and what your parents did for a living as it does your bank balance.
No! If my team can't write readable code, I'll get a better team!
Yeah, what is it?
Meetings Shouldn’t Be Free
I just saved a bunch of Trello/GTD articles to my Evernote for reading on the train in a desperate attempt to have a decent to-do list for both personal, but mainly collaborative business use in 2014. Any tips?
Well, how about that! It could be that I formed my opinion regarding xargs before it got that smart, or it could be the old Red Hat boxes on which I mostly learned my craft didn't bother compiling in that capability. Either way, I'm glad to know about it now, and thank you very kindly for pointing it out to me!
The Technium: Rules for Cyberwar
What will it matter what a US-based slaughterhouse worker is paid, when WalMart gets its way and is able to import Chinese-produced, Chinese-slaughtered, and Chinese-packaged meat?

Already much of the seafood is from Thailand and Chinese sources (check the label at your local supermarket).

(And how often is such food tested for antibiotics that are legal there, but banned here? Is a question I would like the answer to...)
In theory, yes.

In practice: I'm on an ACA plan, was formerly on COBRA coverage from my previous employer. Dollar for dollar, an ACA plan with the same monthly premium as my former insurance gets me both a significantly lower level of coverage AND a network that's at most 20% the size of my old PPO plan.

On the NY state exchange (I can't speak for other states), there's no way to pay more money for a larger network: every ACA provider in NY offers only an ultra-limited "EPO" network . I believe that 3 out of the 8 providers are even literally the same network, as two of them are licensing their network from the third.
In America, politicians and the media in general have a serious allergy to the phrase "working class".
How to Make Sure that the Project Manager and Developers Work Well Together?
And a resounding "no hire" for privileging snark over substance.
Care to explain? I thought that the Lucid guys made reasonable technical arguments (especially in light of, y'know, history, over the last twenty years) and that RMS was attempting to both grandstand and emotionally manipulate people into adopting his preferred position.
When your money is stored in "your" bank account, or "your" mutual fund ... do you really own it?

This is where contract law comes into play, to protect vulnerable citizens from large entities with good or bad intentions. You are correct that how / whether such contracts are honored and the legal system is fair is quite variable from country to country.
Show HN: snaprip.me - using snapchat for photo submissions
PillPack, Inc - Somerville, MA - http://pillpack.com
(both engineering and marketing)

PillPack is simplifying the process of managing medications for the 30M+ Americans that take 5 or more prescriptions a day. We have a full service pharmacy in NH (with robots) and a beautiful office in Davis Square (no robots, yet).
We are currently a small team (~10), and looking to grow both engineering (frontend, full stack, ios) and marketing.

We are backed by top tier VC's and are one of the few consumer startups in the area that take design seriously (we've been living in IDEO for the last 4 months and just moved into our own office a month ago).

https://www.pillpack.com/careers

Send an email to elliot at pillpack.com if you're interested or want to find out more about us / what we're looking for.
I believe someone already presented this analogy to you, but I'm curious what your response is. Imagine the jar has only two coins, one always heads and one always tails. Choose a coin randomly, then flip it ten times. If you get ten heads, what is the probability that the next flip is heads?

According to the methodology you are advocating, the probability would be 50%, because you are only considering the initial probability of selecting a coin from the jar. But using the methodology I suggested in another comment, you would list out every possible outcome and conclude that there is a 100% chance of getting another heads.
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>Stanley’s wages would be the equivalent of $17.17 today — more than the “Fight For 15” movement is demanding for fast-food workers. Stanley’s job was more difficult, more dangerous and more unpleasant than working the fryer at KFC (the blast furnace could heat up to 2,000 degrees). According to the laws of the free market, though, none of that is supposed to matter.

What "laws of the free market" are those?
Should/Would Square buy Coin?
Do you think that Square would buy Coin?

It would be a great compliment to the square wallet app at retailers that do not run their POS software.
Considering all of Finland is about the same population size as the metro area I live in (Metro Atlanta), I think this is irrelevant. Also considering Jolla's home is Finland I am sure they enjoy a pricing advantage or a sense of pride buying something made in Finland.

That being said I would really like to see an outsider come into the US and gain some marketshare.
I recently got back from a five day holiday vacation to the Puerto Rican island of Culebra

I highly recommend Culebra to anyone in the US who likes white sand beaches. One of my top 10 in the world, and top 3 in the Caribbean.
No problem :) They are really beautiful, complex systems, and as amazing as it is to understand and then manipulate them, I passionately believe that the real genius is holding them all together in your head before they've ever existed in the first place.

Lock engineers have incredibly sharp minds.
Who said anything about exploit? You made the API and it has open access. If it is private don't make it public. Absolutely no analogies are needed for that.

Slap on some authentication before calling the lawyers. Lawyers are needed for when such systems have been subverted.

Seems the reality distortion of blaming anyone that touches something a corporation doesn't want touched is catching on. Persons behind corporations that dispatch lawyers with great zeal are responsible for conflating their own mistakes for exploitation.

For those having a hard time, just think like the NSA: Public unencrypted data will be used, but not always in the way the persons who made it public contemplated.
A Zip Archive Walkthrough
So do I have to know more than someone who went to college and has been in the industry for a few years now in order to get taken seriously?

I find that very unfair. If it is the only solution, however, time to start reading Knuth's books.
I'm in the final year of my PhD, but yes I agree I should probably look into better ways of handling work. I'm thinking of changing things after finishing, this is not a good way to live life.
These are called VRADs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRAD.

The demarc for your DSL is the modem. If you provide your own modem you still are subject to AT&T's rules. You cannot legally connect to sensitive national infrastructure (like the phone network) without the provider being responsible for your access.

As far as connecting equipment, that significantly predates divestiture. Most people point to Carterfone as the salient decision that changed this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone

In reality, there was actually a prior decision which I can't seem to find right now where AT&T refused to allow people to put plastic privacy guards over the mouth piece on the grounds that it would damage the phone network. Ludicrous, but sensible from an economic standpoint.

EDIT: Found it, 1956 Hush-a-phone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush-A-Phone_v._United_States

In short, Telecom is complicated, the demarc is important and you don't own any part of the network from the modem on up.

Source: I am a telecom junkie and I work at 2600hz, the open source telecom company.
The US has an aristocracy. One of their achievements is convincing everyone else they're not.
Can already get it.

You buy it on jolla.com and stuff a SIM from one of the above in it.
Meanwhile, their client still can't separate my daughter's kid shows from mine. It took them several years to implement profiles on iOS and then another to do it on Android.

Now implemented, "My Top Picks" last night were still dominated by My Little Pony.

Also would like to choose which shows she can watch, but the client doesn't support that. </complaints-over> ;)
I've done ops consulting at about half of the major handset mfgrs.

What's missing from many of the mobile open source phone projects is ruthless project management. Without getting to what customers need working most , first instead of whatever I, dev, feel like can hold back any development timeline.

Firefox OS has hope because the folks at Mozilla are sharp. I'm sure others do, I just don't have first-hand knowledge of them to make any claims. Also, as far as NSA backdoors, Mozilla has the least likelihood of enabling dragnet surveillance. However it could be potentially leaned-on by Google, their largest revenue source, but a viable, popular handset maybe a way to negate that.
I think the problem here is as much poorly-trained sales people than the practice of not disclosing pricing on the website. Smart sales people should be trained to recognize different types of buyers. From the sound of it, you are a buyer who knows exactly what he wants and just needs the price. Sales at our company would recognize this very early on and get you the info that you need minus the typical sales pitch. We specifically train our reps spot out buyers like you and handle them differently.

For example, if a buyer sounds highly technical from the beginning(or if they use certain buzz words), the sales reps will transfer to me so I can have a more nuanced conversation.
Pricing advantage no. Pride advantage, of course.

I would argue success in a home market may be a necessary but insufficient precondition to "relevance" (however one defines that). They've cleared that first hurdle. And that is to be applauded, I feel.
Is there a reason you aren't using disposable feature branches?

I don't track my other developers' feature branches locally unless I need to view them.
No one is stealing TVs by reading data being firehosed out of an open API. Just like your Wifi network name being broadcast is not theft of televisions.
I'm curious if the Carlos mentioned in the More Info page (www.blacktie.co/info/) is the same Carlos mentioned in the bio of the Small theme. If so, I think we've discovered the bald, beer drinking designer behind the stock photo model.
How I Make Difficult Decisions
Ben, your site is so Goddamn frustrating on mobile.
That's a pretty reasonable line. I'm guessing this is a case-by-case basis then, though? Some internet-addiction-withdrawals can be severe (or specifically, sometimes cause rather severe depression), though of course that's cherry-picking.

edit: not to imply case-by-case is bad. People are weird and very varied, any hard-line is likely to have straddlers.
Not mine, but here: http://scienceblogs.com/denialism/2013/02/28/no-its-not-the-...

the more fundamental problem with the study was that (if you read carefulyl) they found the same effect with glucose as they did fructose. You have to carefully read the chart/figure labels to figure that part out though :-(
The video you shared gave me a much better idea of what's happening I'm sure it's still not close to what really is going on, but thanks for that.

Unrelated, are there any locks which use full length pins that are hollow and encapsulate the spring? It seems like a big source of the misalignment that allows setting is from the pin itself being able to move off its axis where it attaches to the spring.
What percent of the population has those jobs? And what's the average income of those jobs?

There are 317 million Americans, for example, and the average income is around $50,000. I think these jobs are a small percentage and pay well above average.
If I were to leave my current job, my employer would pay me for all my saved vacation at same rate as my salary.

Why should I expect the next employer to give me the three weeks of vacation that "are coming to me", if I've already taken cash for them?

Is your situation different ?
Blokify 3d printing and modeling launches on iOS
Easiest modeling software out there.
blokify.com/download
I tend to break "middle-class" from "upper-class" right around the $100,000 salary mark.

If you're making $100,000/year, you're very likely upper class in the U.S. Of course, this doesn't work well in big cities (where the cost of living raises the bar to upper class a bit,) but it's remarkably accurate for most places in the country.
Swipe? Why are these companies (Square included) so backwards in this area? Take a look at iZettle to see how it should be done.
I'll post in more length later, but Smith's Wealth includes a detailed passage on what determines wages.
The additional marginal cost/unit is pretty low, but the non-recurring engineering cost is pretty high, even without having to deal with suppliers and the FCC. Once you've chosen a wi-fi module, where do you put it on the board? How do you make sure the radio signals don't interfere with the rest of the circuit and vice-versa? It's much easier to just get a USB wi-fi adapter and install the Linux drivers for it.
>most people I know use most of their time off for family obligations and "work outside of work" like home repairs. This is a crap situation.

Some companies are changing this approach and allowing remote working. Many people on my team will work remote and a day they need to get the garage repaired and just work around their work requirements. Combine with flex time it works out pretty good.
Show HN: Fig - Fast, isolated development environments using Docker
Here's a good starting reference on the legality of owning lockpicks from state to state:

http://toool.us/laws.html

It doesn't cover sale / purchase, just ownership by state.
SNARK: No need to rewrite it in Javascript. Just call it "Sublime Text 5" and charge them seventy bucks a copy.
I wish he wasn't hellbanned. I enjoy the presence of his comments. They usually aren't very insightful, sometimes not PC, and usually a little frightening but he is without a doubt part of the character of this site. I always keep dead comments on.