skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really have a hard time understanding what you're trying to say. People are upset that Joyent called him an asshole on their company blog, and things really did get out of hand on github for a period of time (I suspect most of that has been "cleaned up" by now).

Not sure what you mean by "... of a platform known for being filled with users of a younger age." Is this really true, or is it some kind of attempt at an insult?
Well... isn't that the point of Rust? Preventing memory leaks without the need for GC?
the point of art (code) should not be for recognition. create for the sake of taking the journey of creation, its much more fulfilling, and let others enjoy or not the creation. many famous artists were dead long before they were recognized for their brilliance.
> * Breakup fee that penalizes them for walking away.

This is pretty standard, especially when there are regulatory concerns. AT&T ended up shelling out more than $1B when the T-Mobile deal fell apart.
No, the phone company has evidence that it communicated with tower within some period of time. The phone could still be powered up in a disconnected state, or communicating with the same tower before the driver got into the car, or.. (insert 20 other possible mitigating circumstances)

It's not that simple. Which is one of the reasons it's a good thing this was dismissed.
Still works for me. Try this link http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/stories/fu...

Or the PDF. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/stories/nu...

Looks like the same person Babak is behind both these projects.
It is the distraction to driving that illegal. All forms of distracted driving are illegal, at least that is my understanding of the law in Colorado and Texas USA. So purposely taking 2 second blinks, driving with one of two good eyes closed, driving with your knees, etc is a ticketable offense. Driving while holding a phone to your ear would fall into this category. Wearing google glass while off does not seem to.

Additional laws exist probably to increase the fine or the ease of enforcement of various distractions like using a phone.
As someone with a considerable amount of nodejs code in production, this kind of behavior makes me really worried about the project's long term health.
But what about the typical run-of-the-mill startup scenario where you're doing minimal to some small revenues and the potential acquirer is either a competitor or a larger company? Are breakup fees common in these single to low double digit $M acquisition scenarios?
If it's a sqlite database with a reasonable schema, you can probably get a surprising amount of mileage out of a few simple SQL queries and this command-line tool:

https://www.sqlite.org/sqlite.html

In particular, the CSV output mode could be handy for getting query results into other programs.
That's not what Babak said according to this pdf.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/stories/nu...

>Tan and Microsoft Research Connections have been great supporters of the project, Parviz said. Their willingness to explore and invest in the project was critical to advancing research and development of the functional lens. “A lot of people considered it science fiction,” Parviz says. “Desney and Microsoft Research were actually, very early on, convinced that this is perhaps a worthy cause. And they were willing to work with us, and support us. And I’m very grateful they did.”
Firing a gun constitutes lethal force. Even brandishing a gun might constitute lethal force. Lethal force is only acceptable to prevent death or grievous bodily harm.

If you believe you're safe enough to have time for a 'warning shot,' then shooting at all is wrong. If you shoot in self-defense, you must shoot to stop a threat, and shooting must be a proportionate response to that threat.

The implementation seems a little weird, when you're sentencing guys for warning shots and not for questionable self-defense shootings in which the attacker dies, but it's grounded in sensible reasoning.
Pretty typical, unfortunately..
JS is getting out of hand!
I'm going to say that it is entirely unreasonable for the police to be ignorant of the law.
Show HN: Redux of Le Tour Android
If it is a GNU utility, the man page usually contains a bug report link. AFAICT GNU is the upstream for all their documentation.
LinkedIn API and Error Codes
If you're running the pipes:

1) Charging more/less by VOLUME? = OK.

2) Charging more/less by CONTENT? = NOT OK.

The article misses that critical point.

And, yes, an even better solution is competition in ISP space.

But, we need to get money out of politics for that to happen, so we can't hold our breath!

(For example, big ISP's have bought senators to block cities from running their own free wifi networks, passing state laws prohibiting municipal ISP's!)
I just read this book a few months ago, It was fantastic. After No More Mr. Nice Guy I highly recommend Models http://www.amazon.com/Models-Attract-Women-Through-Honesty/d... and How to win friends and influence people is a great self help book too http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/06...

I've read these three books (Nice Guy then Friends and then Models) over the past few months and they have really taught me how to build up my confidence.
I think that quote is from President Bartlett when he secretly fixed social security.
> At what point does a company say enough is enough? How long can this party last for?

When they feel they're no longer getting value from it?
I totally agree with this. Leaving things working... partially, is the best way to forget tomorrow and ship half finished code with tomorrow's distractions.

I also find this is a good strategy to step away from something and renew your perspective on the solution after a good break. Especially at the end of the day. That's worst the 'I just want to get this working by poking around, not writing unit tests' leave here in a rush, trap time.
I agree entirely. I'm particularly disappointed with Isaac, whose response to a proposal for foundation was this https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nodejs/mqSf47HhmyY/m8QpZE9mJ... which he claims it would cost 1-2m a year for a node foundation. Either this is FUD, or he's missing something (or I am).
A few years ago, there was research into nano ink tattoos that can continuously monitor glucose, but I haven't heard any recent news.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/glucose-tattoo-0528.html
For display purposes, UTF-8 vs. UTF-16 is going to be such a miniscule difference that it's not worth the potential portability bugs to try to optimize for speed. You're talking about at most 30000 characters of text on screen at once. If that's entirely stored in UTF-8, and entirely rendered in UTF-16, and the conversion takes an insane 100 cycles per character on average, you're still using less than 0.1% of a single core of a modern desktop CPU.

If you got into the 1%+ range, I could see justifying some attention to speed, but otherwise...
This is correct. But your explanation is a little simplified. The people don't "give" power. In many cases, government takes it. The parliaments give the power to government -- but they are not the people. They are elected people and belong partly to the established system.

The problem that you describe can be better called: The people don't resist enough, that the system is taking the power and changing the rules so freedom is vanishing.

I see it in my country: Before election day it was clearly visible that the government is selling our freedom for good contacts to the US and they turned a blind eye to anything the US did. It was totally visible to all. But they where reelected even with a surplus. So most people just did not care enough. Some extra money or personal benefits where more important than democracy or freedom.

I am sure, that this notion in the western countries will retaliate heavily on us. I really fear, that now all the nightmares of Orwell and others could come true and humanity will sink into hell of its own devise.
Wrong license: http://www.mulesoft.org/licensing-mule-esb
I knew a guy who worked for a startup with no contract for over 2 years once. All in all, he received a single $1,000 check from the "founder" over the 2 years time, basically to shut him up. Then the company went ouf of business after not making the one and only sale they had been working towards the the last 2 years.

It was a fun 1.5 years of dreaming and scheming for him I suppose. Must have been disappointing when the big dirty didn't pull through.

tl;dr don't work for anybody for a significant amount of time without a contract.
Law is complicated. No one has full knowledge of it. Even lawyers and judges need to look stuff up.
Nope. I don't work directly with commissary.
CMD + F —> "Daniel"
I'd say half the population never question laws. If they even know the Constitution they still believe that every law is constitutional, and judges who strike down laws are "activist judges". This type of person would've jailed Rosa Parks and thought she was a bad person. Marijuana illegal? Then of course it should never be legal. Etc.
Intel expects no revenue growth in 2014
It does, but I don't think TeX counts as programming language.
First of all, get a lawyer. I went through the same thing, and talking with lawyers helped me get my head set correctly. There are various firms in SV and TX that focus on this sort of thing. I don't remember their names, but a web search will surely help you find them. Talk to the lawyers, tell them what you want, and what you got. Then have them take care of things. Otherwise, you might end up being liable for stuff you did not know about.

Also, a lot of companies do this to take away your focus. Don't treat the buyout as something real until the money clears. Otherwise, focus on the business.
Appreciate you trying to share info, but this does not come close to fully solving the problems listed above.
As I understand, you can use Textsecure as your default SMS app which means it will automatically send either a plain or encrypted message to a recipient depending on whether they have the app installed or not.

Of course if you use a non-stock messaging app, like Handcent for instance, you may not want to switch to Textsecure for other features/reasons.
Experiments?
When I go to the circus and watch a lion NOT eating the lion tamer, I can't conclude 100% of the lions won't eat people.
Huh, no Sun4/470? I wonder what happened to the one Theo got from me. Too slow I guess but it was a fun machine back in the day.
Note the comment at the end of the paper. The authors had not been able to do it successfully with their relatively simple methodology. Sure it is harder than DDR2 but this doesn't mean it is impossible. As pointed out by the authors, the failure can simply be due to the memory controller implementation (or DDR3 protocol itself) on their test setup. If this is the case, then all it takes is a custom memory controller that is optimized for this type of extraction.
It's supposed to. Marissa Alexander was in a similar situation, 20 years for a warning shot. She had the case that was compared to George Zimmerman.

She was released after an appeal granted her a new trial. The trial judge didn't instruct the jury correctly about her self defense argument.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-11-28/news/sns-rt-us...

There's the quality of the laws, but then also the quality of the judges and the quality of the defense attorneys... there are many points of failure for a justice system.
By no means did I mean financial contribution, but the design and implementation of the project which seems to have been established by Parviz since at least 2009: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/09/ar-contact-lens/
The existing taxi companies, of course. If you have to wait 15 minutes for a car to arrive when you use an app or place a call then you are vastly more likely to try to hail a cab on the street.
World's First Massive Online Degree Program Starts Today
Here is some more general advice: assume acquisitions are not going to happen, and that this whole conversation is probably a waste of time for you. Even if you tell them everything they want to know, they either won't make an offer or will lowball you. And meanwhile it will have been a huge and uniquely damaging distraction.

This model of the world doesn't imply any specific strategy you should follow, but you'll find that adopting it will change the way you think about the situation. You'll stop bending over backwards (why bother, since nothing is going to happen?) which will in turn make them take on the burden of figuring out how to make the deal happen, which they'll do if they're serious.
The New York Times Gets Its David Pogue Replacement from the WSJ
Hackies.
I hate hipster hackers as much as anyone, but what we have here is a case of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures

The arts and culture establishment, with their refined humanities backgrounds, and accustomed to being the social elite, are disturbed to see that not only are vulgar techies making lots of money, but that nerds are now being seen as cool. This is simply too much to bear.
Nasa reveal plans for the biggest rocket ever made to take us to Mars
this is a plugin because:

* what the hell is stylus? your favorite tool isn't necessarily ubiquitous.

* it can serve as a learning tool for others. open source, remember? learning, and stuff.

* it could serve as a starting point for a minimal/stripped down version someone hacks away from.

* not everyone cares about 40 vs. 500 lines. some just want a cool and clean effect for a small audience, perhaps a small gallery site for a pro wedding photographer doing her/his own site.

* sorry, not everyone is as awesome as you are at coding. please bear with us while this guy releases hard work for free.
The Economist has a longstanding policy of leaving bylines off of articles:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/09/ec...

<< Part of the answer is that The Economist is maintaining a historical tradition that other publications have abandoned. ... Historically, many publications printed articles without bylines or under pseudonyms—a subject worthy of a forthcoming explainer of its own—to give individual writers the freedom to assume different voices and to enable early newspapers to give the impression that their editorial teams were larger than they really were. The first few issues of The Economist were, in fact, written almost entirely by James Wilson, the founding editor, though he wrote in the first-person plural.

But having started off as a way for one person to give the impression of being many, anonymity has since come to serve the opposite function at The Economist: it allows many writers to speak with a collective voice. Leaders are discussed and debated each week in meetings that are open to all members of the editorial staff. Journalists often co-operate on articles. And some articles are heavily edited. Accordingly, articles are often the work of The Economist's hive mind, rather than of a single author. The main reason for anonymity, however, is a belief that what is written is more important than who writes it. >>
Uhm? There's plenty of people on HN that look down on people in tech who aren't "(real) programmers".
The only three events that could send bitcoin to $0 are, in my opinion, if people stop using it and decide that it's worthless, the encryption scheme or peer to peer network are some how compromised, or all nations simultaneously outlaw it. However the last one would only serve to send it near zero.

Consider if all governments outlaw it simultaneously. The market participants currently consist of free market type enthusiasts & hobbyists, rich celebrity speculators, drug dealers and cyber criminals. I think it is a fair assumption that most of the active traders are currently from the hobbyist & enthusiast category. Additionally when you consider that places like Silicon Valley and other hubs around the world have a large proportion tech savvy workers who make a lot more than subsistence wages, it's not too hard to see how some sort of speculative market could continue to lumber along without much reason for existence. Look at sports betting and horse racing.

If the government were to come out and drop the hammer, however, I think most of these people (myself included) would vanish. The volume would dry up and the only people left in the market would be criminals and people with a hard requirement for virtually untraceable digital currency, prison be damned. My opinion is that these people would continue to remain using it as a means of commerce and store of value provided that the underlying cryptography & p2p network remain sound and un-compromised. There are currently millions of bitcoin in existence so a price of near zero would probably satisfy the black market. How does $3 sound as a reasonable number that readers can use against me in the probable event that I turn out to be wrong 5 years from now?

Of course this all relies on the underlying cryptography and associated peer to peer network remaining sound and trustworthy. If a party is able to compromise the underlying encryption or execute a double spend by attacking the network then trust in bitcoin as a finite commodity would be irrevocably destroyed. No one would ever use it, thus a $0 price.

The utility of bitcoin is just too hard to ignore from a commerce perspective. It's taking away authority and power from banks to act as gate keepers to their countries finical & economic system and putting it in the hands of the people who engage in commerce themselves. I don't believe banks will cease to exist as some of bitcoin's most ardent supports hope it will, but the transaction costs for international business could drop substantially. Barring bad news on the legislative or technology front the only thing stopping bitcoin from gaining greater adoption is that too many people are psychologically fixated on an individual bitcoin. Bitcoin is sub divisible up to 8 decimal places, the vast majority of people who have heard about bitcoin that I have talked to do not realize this. Since the total number of bitcoins is fixed at 21 million this yields a total number of theoretical units of currency of 210 trillion. That's a pretty formidable island on which to create a base of trade on.
Some thoughts on LLVM vs. libjit
Go Package Management For 2014
He's earned it. He is however technically excellent.
Google Works on a Fitness API for Android
See a crime and videorecord it? Go to prison.
Good advice! But how do you respond to indications of interest? Just ignore them and say you are not interested until they are literally waving cash in front of you, begging to aquire you, or require that they follow specific steps to indicate real interest, such as a Contingent Offer with a due diligence deposit, breakup fee, and strict NDA?

How is this done with the lots of sub $10M acquisitions that happen? Clearly deals are being done here, so I'm sure it doesn't pay to ignore bona fide offers, but obviously there's a lot of time wasters out there too.

What do you advise your YC portfolio companies to do here? Just ignore all offers or refer them to their lawyers or investors?
A guy continually breaks tubes in a lab is enough.
Thanks so much for sharing that. I'm pretty liberal, but it was awesome to read his explanations. Concise and considered.
Stats, for one. And possibly getting re-elected.
These brothers will be successful in spite of Yale. A story like this definitely lends some cred when it comes to hiring time.
I was surprised to see a notification injected into the HTML of the page I was browsing when my parents' went over their limit in December. Never seen it before.

ISP = Rogers in Toronto.
Sacramento Kings to Accept Bitcoin
> some of the people here

Name them, link to the comments, and explain exactly what you mean by "by-the-watt power accounting", or you're just inventing strawmen.

> several racks of equipment

The extent of the evidence we have is that there are two racks: http://www.openbsd.org/images/rack2009.jpg

There are significant gaps in the racks, and ~16U are occupied by UPSs. The rest is a mix of fairly modern and legacy gear with a few external HDDs and a few 1U pieces of network gear. In a real datacenter, it would occupy perhaps 1.5 racks.

My arguments are backed by publicly-available evidence. Yours are backed by vague assertions by people who assuredly do not need you defending them. If they wish to convince anyone, they can release further evidence.

> My God, the audacity of OpenBSD developers, to ask for help powering this stuff!

Oh look, another strawman. Nobody believes requesting aid with an electric bill is unreasonable. It is the amount being requested that is shocking, and the extreme secrecy breeds suspicion.
Who would want to upload files via the HTML standard? Shouldn't you be using some sort of SOAP API with an ActiveX control? Or maybe the users should login to their local ActiveDirectory server and transfer the file to a shared folder via SMB/CIFS. /s
They're running on so many esoteric architectures it's not really viable.
Perhaps what the parent is saying is that if you implement an extension method to IList, you can't subsequently implement an extension method to Array and expect it to be called on an Array stored in an IList variable? Which is true for exactly the reason you state.
> I also guess, that we should internalize the thought, that the really mighty in this world are not on the cover pages of the newspapers and those on the cover pages are less mighty as we shall think.

This is the correct answer. The presidency is now almost entirely a figure head, a proxy for the people that really control the actions of the United States.
While i harbour no affection for the American Govt, but you seem to be targeting it a lot for having secrets. From what everyone understands from your comments is that there shouldn't be secrets. A secret = hidden crime. Well the irony here is that, this is EXACTLY how the NSA seems to be functioning. It doesn't want anyone to have any secrets from it. Because it assumes, like you, secret = (possibility of) hidden crime. In fact the NSA can argue, just like you, we uncovered secrets of people, it turned out they were criminals. Hence no one should be allowed to have any secrets. See what's wrong with the picture?

Now, I assume everyone here is mature enough to understand the distinction of things that should be kept secret and which not, and i shouldn't be wasting anyone's time (including mine) into giving an explanation of what matters require secrecy, and in what cases certain secret things should be made public
At first, I thought this could be quite intrusive. I mean, you're putting something in your eye! It's the same discussion as the biometry authentication systems (retina scanning, saliva, etc).

But then I realized: the alternative is to put a piece of hardware under your skin! It will be embeded in you "forever" and can only be removed via surgical procedures...

These contact lens, if ever available, will in fact revolutionize the diabetes scene and may open precedent to new "wearable" technologies targeting health.
Wrong communication direction. I want the phone to send key presses to the computer.

And of course it has been done, although it required a custom kernel: http://cs.gmu.edu/~astavrou/research/acsac10.pdf
From a quick read of the court filing, it appears Frere-Jones has the upper hand here. If everything in the filing is true, I hope he wins, big-time.
"but with only two days to do it all I had to cut corners." - I took one look at the code and would hazard a guess that getting rid of all the repetition would have saved you time. It's hard to look at all that repetition and not want to fix it! The dress is cool though, not so keen on the jacket.

not sure if there's much demographic overlap, but you should check out some of the rave gear if you enjoy lightshows.