skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure this legislation is terrible. Requiring GPS billing be certified, drivers be insured, drivers be licensed, and some of the other general consumer protections seem pretty sensible. I also did not see anything in the legislation that related to minimum rates as the article implied.

It actually does seem like a decent first draft.
I found the HTC One to be pretty solid, not as good as Apple but very nice and very well built. If I remember rightly the stats show a lot of the Android sales are low-to-mid range hardware, so there's possibly not as much reason for companies to build really high end phones if they don't think there's a market.
The basic tenant is know as 'conservatism'. You may be surprised to realize just how lacking in radicalism any sustainable political systems are. US style liberal democracy wasn't a large departure from UK style parliamentary democracy. The president is modeled on the King, the Senate on the House of Lords and the House of Representatives on the House of Commons. Slowly over time the Senate and the Presidency were made more directly democratic. Our system of common law has a continuous chain of statements going back to England for many hundreds of years. Capitalism was going on for hundreds of years before it was described by Adam Smith.

You know what always fails? When a group of nitwits gets together and decides they've got it all figured out and then submit the rest of society to their hair-brained ideas. In the last 100 years engineers have have played a large role in a number. See: Franco, Pinochet, Mussolini.

So yeah, expect a lot of vitriol from students of history when some engineers start getting really excited about playing the role of political radical.

The meritocracy the SV loves so much is basically a nightmare when applied to society st large. You'll have designed a system by and for computer engineers with the premise that all of the unwashed masses will either have to sink or swim in your newly founded utopia system. You're going to fuck it up and along with that you're going to fuck up millions of lives.

Are there any fucking adults on this forum any more? Do your parents know where you are? If not, you should probably call and let hem know, they are probably worried sick.
But the need to professionalize is way overdue:

http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/programmers-d...
One of those site that doesn't work if you block Google Analytics.
premiums rose by 4% for 2013, so that's the right direction, even sub 5%

edit: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/business/survey-finds-mode...
It's not advice at that point though - it's essentially brainstorming. I can't speak intelligently about if something is going to work for your startup or not because I have just heard about it 10 minutes ago. I can throw out random ideas and suggestions but in my experience that is much less valuable than sharing what has worked for Adzerk.
hubiC allows file sharing by link/email etc (they call it "Publication")
That's EXACTLY what he should have done.

He should have said, "The cost of our medical benefits package was higher than expected." FULL STOP.

I can't, for the life of me, see how anyone could possibly think what that man did was appropriate.
Source: http://gigaom.com/2014/02/06/rdio-teams-up-with-tesla-for-it...
"For employees leaving to go to other employers, not matching those programs was probably the last thing on the list for us in terms of employee benefits that we wanted to keep."

I can't imagine what must be at the top of the list if "no healthcare" is a the bottom.

Sounds like even the CEO agrees that AOL is a shitty, shitty place to work for.
Healthcare expenditure is not the same thing as price of insurance.
I agree, except for your comment about higher deductibles and premiums. I think we may see that as a brief and temporary phenomenon, but the trend will be toward lower cost care.
Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?
Not even just the early days - Microsoft's fairly recent attempt at providing software for the London Stock Exchange met with disaster and frequent downtime [1]. This from a major tech giant, not just a card game exchange. Running a real exchange is a very difficult thing to do once the scale starts to ramp up.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/markets/4676369/Seven-hou...
A) How did AOL end up paying "a million dollars each" if they have insurance?
B) Everyone close to those parents would know who they were. A baby in the hospital is something that people hear about. So now those parents get to feel singled out, guilty, blamed, etc. for "screwing things up" for the rest of the company.

What an ass
> I think part of the problem is that everyone heard that goto is harmful but noone ever reads the original letter

Same thing for the premature optimization quote from Knuth.
California Law to Require Antitheft Technology in Cellphones
and in the darkness ...
> Neither of these 2 posts say how long you've been doing this work for.

Good point. I've been working since 2007. I think the last real new code I wrote was in 2010. Before that, I did something in 2007-2008-ish.

Mostly C/C++. I want to do something else, that's true. maybe android development or ML stuff. I've been reading about that but I don't think I have what it takes
I'm no tinfoil theorist, so I wonder. If a city is plastered with HD Cams (solar power, etc), would it make sense to go places at night then if you don't want to be seen? Or is infared really easy to add and would defeat those efforts?

More importantly, wait until these HD cams and other video cameras are hacked so that someone else besides the consultants, government, and myriad other actors has complete control. Straight out of a dystopia trope.
...plus nowadays IBM only starts matching after a full year of employment. Worst-case scenario, you could work 1,99 yrs and get nothing.
Someone at work gave me her email address, and it was an AOL address. I felt like I had discovered a new living fossil, still in her thirties (guessing).

And that's how I know that AOL, somehow, is still kicking.
Taken to the extreme, you get Vallejo, California.

Great article by Michael Lewis on how healthcare and retirement costs grow to consume such a large share of a city's budget that very little is left for actual public services.

Eighty percent of the city’s budget—and the lion’s share of the claims that had
thrown it into bankruptcy—were wrapped up in the pay and benefits of public-safety
workers... The public-safety workers thought that the city was out to screw
them on their contracts; the citizenry thought that the public-safety
workers were using fear as a tool to extort money from them... the police and
fire departments have been cut in half; some number
of the citizens ... say they no longer felt safe in their own homes. All
other city services had been reduced effectively to zero. “Do you know
that some cities actually pave their streets? That’s not here.”

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/11/michael-...

(Starting on page 4)
1. You can scroll to flip through the book using SPACEBAR! Bubblin is iPad first though, that's where people read books/magazines.

2. Search is something we're still working on.

3. Resizing text will NOT have any effect on the book, we've taken care of that.
Again, one solution doesn't work for everyone.

For example, in one case I found that removing a demo link from the homepage led to 2.5x more visits to the sign-up page, and those were 10x more likely to sign up.

Stop following your intuition and start testing instead.
I spent way too long trying to figure out how the hell this CSS only bar knew the current page progress. Missed step 3 on this page:

add a data attribute data-progrecss defining the percent complete.
What right does Mr. Armstrong have revealing private medical details about policy-holders to the public?
It's not about whether the babies are having a bad time, it's about the breach in privacy involved in referring to the health issues that two of his employees underwent, and directly blaming them for the health premiums.
What about this?

Building Brains to Understand the World's Data (google tech talk):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y43qwS8fl4

The result is http://www.groksolutions.com/
So you would need to update

data-progrecss="X"

using JS or whatever at each "progress step" update.
No particular reason, I've just always associated .org with open projects. I know it's not a legal definition, you can have closed projects on .org sites.

I can't think of a single .net site that I visit on a regular basis.
Fuck you prick. Eat a dick you fucking shit faced republican. Your kind are the scum of this earth.
http://www.cringely.com/2013/09/30/doubts-bitcoin/

^ points out some nice parallels between the "Bitcoin rush" and the California gold rush. One of the points he makes is that it wasn't the miners, by and large, who ended up rich. It was the people who sold equipment and supplies to the miners. The namesake of Stanford University was one of them, interestingly.
I believe it.

I've talked to a backend developer at Coinbase, he said their codebase is a mess and that he wouldn't hold any in their system. Also I submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7169114 a couple of days ago based on what I found on Reddit. And this is Coinbase, the good guy. MtGox has always been a clusterfuck.

This feels like the internet used to feel like. Back when you just used to assume that a credit card transaction wouldn't go through. Why? "Because internet". Bitcoin is so young and immature.
Unless they are in the group that collected 401k monthly and left to another employer ;)
This. I don't get why everyone is harping that one private company being completely incompetent has any reflection on the technology it acted as an exchange for.

MtGox never had their shit in order, exploded overnight because Bitcoin is awesome, and hopefully we are finally seeing their inevitable collapse so that someone with more competency can take over.
Chicago issues bonds to pay off $100 mln in police misconduct cases
The bitcoin wallet apps are better on Android for one.
Slightly off topic, I have a very dear friend who calls me up all the time to talk about his constant life drama. It seemed to me for a long time he was framing the conversation as looking for advice, since when advice was given the conversation seemed to move along rather well.

The thing about advice is it almost requires you to invest yourself a little in the other person's problem and advice starts turning into involvement, which can be frustrating when the other party doesn't follow the advice, as my friend almost never does. Over the years I found that he'd typically ignore good advice, get himself into trouble, come back for more advice/a way out of his disaster and then repeat until I was getting way too involved in his business. Which left me in a foul mood and our friendship on the rocks.

It's tempting for the receiver to take that advice/involvement as most people are looking for a little bit of help through problem areas.

But I've learned from him that it's often better to not get involved at all in other people's business, even if it's just advice,...no matter how tempting it is. They have to make the mistakes and learn from the experience themselves. And if they can't learn from that experience, maybe they shouldn't be involved in doing whatever it is they're doing.

This is really hard to do though, especially for engineer types who view the world as a sequence of problems. There's a lot of pop-sociology that men like to fix things and women like to talk about things, which is used to explain the constant need for guys to give advice, and often results in relationship counseling like "just listen to your girlfriend/wife, that's all she wants, she's emotionally processing".

I think it's a bit too gender biased so I've taken that idea and reworked it to "most people just want to vent or verbally process their issues". Just listen to them, nod a bit, if you have a similar situation try and and talk about it too, but don't focus on how you solved it, just dialog. For many people, it's about ordering their thoughts so the solution presents itself to them.

For my friend, he's started to realize where lots of his life faults are, and is slowly coming to the realization that they aren't good long-term things to carry around. He's looking at lots of digging to get himself out of some bad problems he's gotten into, so he keeps looking for an easier alternative/other way out. But letting him talk things out helps him see that he's really only got one choice, and it's going to take a long time to do it.
The disallowing internet apps seems dumb. Seriously, if I could flag a regular cab with a general purpose app that would be about 95% of the value of Uber to me.

I'm sort of baffled why someone like Yellow Cab doesn't just put out an app.
On a group the size of AOL statistics would clearly imply at least two expensive cases per year. To single those cases out is inexcusable.

In 2000 I worked at a relatively small company of 50 employees. One person had a baby that cost millions sic. Being a small group we all knew who it was and anticipated our insurance rates increasing.

Our rates went up some but not much, and the company president decided to cover 100% of the increase. I greatly admired the company for doing that and now 14 years later I find myself working with the same team on a new startup. The company president has been able to get back most of the top talent from a decade ago because we all respect and admire his leadership.
This is a false dichotomy if there ever was one. I love my iOS devices, they just work, I can generally trust the software not to pwn my device, and really there's a lot of nice software to choose from. I also love hacking on the Linux kernel and gaming on Windows. I don't see such a threat of the walled gardens - it is one type of thing and it has its problems but it's not the only thing out there and I see no indication that it will be any time soon.
I've been looking for similar data. What I really could use is some way to export Yahoo stats (including positions). Bonus points if I can get historical projections out of Yahoo (I'm trying a method of projecting fantasy stats that I want to compare with Yahoo's over the course of a few years. If I am right, my projections should be more accurate than Yahoo's, and if I am wrong, I have some ideas on how to adjust it).
Win a trip to SXSW
I meant Office Space. How embarrassing.
NBC has a comment at the end of CNET's story about it: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57618533-83/sochi-hack-repo...
" NBC, for its part, defended its report.

'The claims made on the blog are completely without merit,' according to a representative from NBC News."
> "Latest stable version: 0.13.2"

Does that mean that they suggest I can use this in production (since it's "stable") or that I can't, since it's not at version 1 yet?
From what I've read, people who have to tell once.the dame story 100 times over two days are supposed to have a list of talking points that they memorize and refuse to deviate from the list, and/or hold a press conference to tell everyone at once.
It's actually been released, available for $11.99 DRM-free on GOG http://www.gog.com/news/release_jazzpunk
> I think Google is not fighting for its reputation, but if they pay now they will open the door to more fines from over countries.

that's more like it, if they cave now, there is a huge list of states that dream about taxing Google very hard. Google wont pay.
Brackets is cool. definitely great to have it as an option. Most important for me for new additions is the multi-line / cursor editing. I use Notepad++ for that but brackets could replace notepad++ if it had it for me.

That and the other day I had this xml file I needed to look at and brackets didn't open it on Mac. Right-click open with, Brackets. It failed. Not sure why it wasn't a bad or large file at all. Text-wrangler opened it fine.
So, I'd have to do something like this to update it:

$("#progress-bar").data("progrecss", 60);

Why should I use this lib when I can just roll my own and update it via:

$("#progress-bar").css("width", "60%");
By reading code, I also meant debugging. They don't really explain how things work and their response is usually 'just read the fucking code!' so I presumed that I just am terrible at reading code.
Proposed bill would require kill switch in California phones, tablets
Take this kind of shit back to reddit, please. There's no excuse for escalating a difference of opinions like this.
But what if I just want to be friends?
Yeah sorry if this piece is unclear, I could maybe add some more instruction if that would help??

I wanted to make the demo page as minimalist as possible. Maybe I will just add (using js) after step three.

But yes you can use js, something like

$('.myprogrecss').attr('data-progrecss', <PERCENT>); (if using jQuery)

Or I believe

Document.getElementById('myProgrecss').setAttribute('data-progrecss', <PERCENT>);

DISCLAIMER, this code just popped out of my head so it's probably not quite correct but near abouts.

EDIT: I've added that little piece to the demo page.
When you freeze billions of assets markets react. People can't move their Gox btc out, they can't cash out, so a double digit percentage of the market just froze.
And call it "reddit" ! :)
He didn't have to say what those events were. Now everyone in the office knows who is "responsible" for these cuts - two poor parents with sick babies. There was no reason for the CEO to create this kind of resentment for those parents.
I can attest that the ruby-build project is a huge lifesaver. If you need to build an experimental ruby, it's the way to go. You can install it completely out of the system path. I really appreciate the effort that was put into it because it probably saved me about a week of work.
The premise of these companies is essentially that one doesn't need licensing for drivers if the system keeps a reputation history. This bill makes that explicitly illegal. The companies will no longer be able to serve that jurisdiction.
The first one :)

The CSS makes use of `:after` to show the bar on whichever element you choose meaning that we don't have to create extra progress elements etc.
Startups are great, but we can learn a lot from “end-ups,” too
I said "except for trading". As "money/coins in", "buy/sell", "coins/money out". Still not understand why keeping it there.
As to "significant legal privileges", I think they should be extended, and offered to men as well. For example, 6 months of parental leave time, subsidized by the state, with 1 month which can only be taken by the mother and 1 month which can only be taken by the father.

The ACLU case when when an on-duty officer in plainclothes decided to attend a public meeting, which had no restrictions, and where there was no requirement to identify oneself or one's occupation, right? I think ACLU staff attorney Lloyd was clearly in the wrong for ejecting the officer. I don't see how the law is "extremely vague" in this case, and agree with the court's opinion that the ACLU's defense was "strained", and if the circumstances were changed slightly would be easily seen as "shocking."

Why do you conclude, based on it's ambiguous? I think the local ACLU chapter was being stupid, arrogant, and stubborn. It happens. We're all human.

Personally, as an ex-long-haired man, it's nice to know that there are laws (in California at least) which would forbid people from discriminating against me solely because they don't like long hair on a man, which is one of the other Unruh decisions.

I can't speak towards your issues that "most of the attempted solutions have largely served to dig the hole deeper." I can only speak about specific issues, like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which I assure you did not "largely serve to dig the hole deeper."

In general though, we have different enough view that I cannot have a good discussion on the 3 points that you raised. 1) What does "community" mean, and how is it different than "individuals"? 2) Land ownership is essential only when there are strong property rights. If there are weak ownership rights, such that renters can't easily be evicted and owners have strong obligations towards the renters, then ownership is not so important. 3) why is the specific term "business" elevated over "organizations"? Is it not also important that I be able to start a club or social movement, which members in the community can support?

Point 4) I have no problems with. ;)
I never knew about CheckInstall: a utility that tracks all the files modified during "make install" and creates a Debian package for them. That's just great! Bonus: you can then use the package it creates to install on other machines. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CheckInstall
Tell that to the very vast majority of Americans who work their entire lives without "employer matching" on their 401k's...

Or a smaller but not insignificant number for whom a 401k at all is something dreamt of.
It should definitely require the full hash. And to make it generic...

<script hash="sha-1/fa26be19de6bff93f70bc2308434e4a440bbad02" name="angular.js@1.2.10" src="xxx"></script>

The name attribute would be purely aesthetic, so no reason for a version attribute. SHA-1 is good enough for git content-addressed-storage, it's good enough for browsers.
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Thanks both of you for these, very interesting. I am looking at this problem on my own at the moment and didn't find either on my own.
I don't understand what you're suggesting. If insurance costs were rising at ~15% annually while total expenditures were rising at ~6% annually, you'd expect to see insurance administration/profits become the #1 expenditure in short order. But per the CMS data I linked, those were only 6% in 2012 ("Net Cost of Health Insurance").
What I got out of the article is that computers are good at doing what they are programmed to do. Problem is not bad computers, but rather the fact that we do not know how to program computer for general intelligence.
I think the biggest fault with bitcoin is the name, coin.

People like coins and cash to be liquid, stable, and ultimately not a ponzi scheme (by this I mean growing by an ever slowing amount, that gives added value to those who mined early and held, punishing any sizeable withdrawal, dividends paid only due to more outside money coming to the fund..).

Too many people have taken to investing in it with the attitude that it always rises, yet in a classic characteristic of a bubble backed entity it doesn't take much to crash the value of the asset.
Not the near-bankruptcy part, just the most-profitable part.
The use of Internet or cellular telephone software to calculate rates shall not be permitted unless such software complies with and conforms to the weights and measures standards.

Not disallowed just have to show your app is measuring properly.
Giving advice doesn't make OP an asshole. In fact, listening and making adjustments to a life strategy is one of the hardest things to do on a personal level, in my opinion.

Glad to see you are blogging again and quite effectively at that. This was at the top spot on HN this morning.
>many people on HN thought at the back of their mind that it might be big

I don't think it's even that for a lot of people. What makes me feel stupid is that I considered buying a few coins just to play with, and if I had they'd be worth thousands.
https://blockchain.info/
Of course. The entire company's "hit" from the ACA (I'm making myself a pact now to refuse to call it "Obamacare" again) could have been covered by half of his salary ($12MM before bonuses or stock options).
This feels like the crapware that gets bundled on some phones.
Poll's a little old, but most HN readers use OSX: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3786674
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Integrity of the cryptography. It is the backing value of the currency, after all.
Sorry I hurt your feelings. Did you lose money or something?