skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is disturbing. They arrest the guy and sentenced to ten years in jail with just a screenshot of a Facebook comment as a starting evidence. It's kinda puzzling to me why didn't they manage to check the whole thread? I think it's simple enough and contacting Facebook for it is not needed.

What's the topic of the thread? We don't know.

Edit: Let's also not disregard the fact that the screenshot can be all made up. They can't find the thread. Maybe it was edited, or created through Photoshop. I think it's fairly easy.
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I imagine if your marketing team can write an ERB template, you don't need this. My current flow - marketing guy sends me an email saying "what does the 1 week follow up email say right now?". I send back the email. He sends back edits. I commit them and deploy.
Exercise in a way that your muscles would hurt. It will at least lessen depression because of lactic acid that gets to the brain.
A bit off-topic, I would like to view the hype-trend of programming languages on Google Trends. The new Google Trends interface allows one to search for "Ruby" the programming language and not Ruby the mineral.

Google Trends - programming languages:

http://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-US&q=/m/060kv,+/m...

But I have troubles with Python, as the search suggestions show me Python molurus, Monty Python, Python reticulatus, Burmese python but sadly "Python" the language is missing. Maybe someone found a solution how to input Python (the language).
Yes, you have to commit the crime - but that can mean a lot of things, including planning or threatening some other crime. Conspiracy is still a crime, for example.
I think you could take this further. There are multiple components to happiness that could generally be viewed as on or off.

Are you feeling energized or tired?
Do you feel like you are doing something useful with your life?
Are you achieving your goals?
Do people appreciate you for who you are?
Do you have enough time in the day to do what you need?
Are you angry with anyone close to you?

etc...

The system could then total up your responses to come up with the final score for the day.

Taking things further, the system can then analyze your results over time. Say once a month or so you do a deeper analysis. If you rarely feel energized, it could perhaps drill down into this further with questions about your diet, sleep patterns etc... Once it has worked out that you are not getting enough sleep it could make recommendations to boost this area and then track it's effectiveness.

Now of course to do all this would require some experts to work out what components make up happiness and create the questions. Alternatively this could be crowd sourced. If everyone entered what they felt made them happy, this could then be kept in a database. The various components could be sent at random to each user to answer and the effectiveness tracked. Various machine learning algorithms could then be used to tailor each component to the individual to come up with their personalized happiness plan.

Those extra features might be enough to satisfy Apple..
I'm thinking about proposing something like "I'll run your bloody ads for 1 month. Then you tell me how much you earn off of me and I'll pay you twice that."

I'm all for Mozilla getting income from more sources (instead of search engine revenue), but I just don't like ads. There is a reason I donated in the past.

If I can't disable the ads this way, it's not that hard to install an add-on that does it, edit about:config or just recompile from sources. No problem if you want to play that game. But I'd much rather pay them.
Non-profits still have to pay salaries. Or would you prefer FF effectively no longer exist and have to use Chrome instead?

Honestly, explicit ads marked as ads in the UI are preferable to hidden advertisement/deals - like defaulting to Google search without communicating to users that money has changed hands for that preferential treatment.
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So your solution to defeating a monopoly is to form a monopoly?
> But if you are a programmer, you can't [demonstrate your skills to laymen].

I don't think it is exactly fair to say so. What a programmer can't do is show off whenever he wants (like “hey, look, I just refactored this whole project and now is does the exact same thing as it used to do”). This is more a problem of context: sometimes, people will be faced with problem, or won't be able to understand something; at this moment, you can demonstrate what you can have a computer do for you or how well you understand it.

But the point is that some people have less opportunities to show off, I have to agree with the fact that programmers are some of them. However, there are not alone (think mathematicians or accountant for instance).
>the latter has far too often been done right before a killing spree.

Basic Bayesian approach to probability tells us that this metric of predicting violent events is counter-productive due to a great number of false positives.
I don't know about others in the bitcoin foundation, but Peter Vessenes has left a trail of destruction behind him.

I'm based in Europe but personally know over 5 people who he has defrauded and he has cost me a lot of money and several days of headaches.
Non-profit does not mean free labor.
> Besides, threatening with an act of terrorism is never funny, and always a bad idea.

That's a little narrow-minded. I can easily imagine scenarios where it's funny and/or a fairly good idea.
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Sounds familiar.. I made a similar app last year, and had to add features - the ability to track a number of questions, curved thumb sliders, social media integration, etc. but it did get accepted, and has been doing pretty well.

Like this, it started as something I wanted to use, and grew from there. slidersapp.com if anyone is interested.

(I am wondering where to go with it next... online platform, android port, etc.)
Looks like you're right - http://i.imgur.com/SLpT55V.png
> Until that point, his only brush with the law was a temporary restraining order two years earlier.

> "He started threatening me, saying that he would kill me. ... I told the school officers, [and] they started watching him really closely. He would say that he would shoot up the school."

So I'll start by playing Devil's Advocate very briefly. It's interesting how facts can be shaped with different language ("his only brush with the law"): it appears the restraining order from two years prior related to similar threats to those alleged in the Facebook comments (although in a remarkably different context).

Now that notwithstanding, it seems there are many glaring issues, both ethical and legal, with the way this has been handled.

Based on a screenshot of a Facebook comment without context or verification from Facebook an 18 year-old was detained for months without trial, including his 19th birthday, and offered a plea bargain of 8 years jail (!). An unaffordable bail of $500k was set, and if not for media attention, pro bono counsel, and a generous anonymous donor he would still be detained. During his detention he was repeatedly sexually assaulted, withheld legal counsel, and coerced to confess with false promises of freedom. After media focus an offer of 10 years (!) probation was put forward.

On a technical note, the original warrant included false testimony (matching of the Facebook profile picture to a driver's licence when the accused did not have a licence) and the indictment misquoted the original Facebook comment.

How does anyone think this is reasonable?
What would the responsibilities of a COO be? What makes a good COO? Do we know any famous COOs ?
We should be taking these guy's monopolies away. Competition is the key to not only good value (i.e. low price/value) but also economic fairness.

Ever notice how many of the biggest fortunes were built on top of government granted monopolies of some form, such as exclusive licenses, highly regulated industries, copyrights, trademarks and/or patents? Just look at the list of the world richest people:

1. Carlos Slim - telecom monopolies

2. Bill Gates - software copyrights

3. Amancio Ortega - clothing trademarks (brands)

4. Warren Buffet - highly regulated businesses

5. Larry Ellison - software copyrights

6 and 7 - Kock Brothers - highly regulated businesses

...
You need minerals. You get minerals from food. Those minerals are in a bioavailable form. Eati g dirt or rust or chalk isn't useful because the minerals contained by those items are not so bioavailable and they contain far more minerals than are needed.

You're totally right about sugar being a problematic source of energy. A thin spread of honey on toast? Tasty and not so bad. A fistful of sugar in a drink twice a day every day? Obviously really bad.

One of the problems with the "sugar is toxic" mantra is that we risk making the same mistake as that "fat is evil" crowd. Selling a sack of sugar (sweets / candy) as "FAT FREE!" Is obviously really bad.

Alcohol isn't a nutrient, but the carbohydrates it provides are. But alcohol is actually toxic.
I implemented something similar at the company I work for. It started off with a dashboard that would allow us to send the Top 20 Hotels each week via email. Then we started templating a lot of emails. Now I just have a server setup which accepts all the data and sends you back the generated HTML. It's much simpler for us that way.
I just checked ebay and there were hardly any Google Glass(es) on offer. So it seems to me users are not abandoning it in droves. Or is it all offline, the next nerd is already qeueing behind you to take over your glasses?
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I agree with you. But I think we don't know the whole context of the thread. Let's give him a benefit of the doubt. The thread topic which we don't know is really important in this case.

My creative mind is thinking, what if the topic is like this... "What is the worst thing you imagine that you can't ever do?" And then he replied that way.

Also, I don't get it why didn't manage to see the whole thread? I guess it is sort of publicly available and can be accessed without even contacting the Facebook authorities.
I was caught thinking whether he committed suicide. It is a brave idea to discuss the intimate details of such a grave news, but transparency to the last mile will only help others a little more.
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A browser which shows me ads versus one which doesn't show me ads. Pretty easy choice. In both cases the funding is coming from ads, but one of these is waving them in my face all the time and the other one isn't.
The problem is that it's not a crime to be an idiot.

A lonely teenager who's already angsty gets into a flame war with an internet troll. That happens every day. And much worse things are said between people.

What happened here is a dumb kid was dumb, and either the troll or some busy-body made the call to the cops. And, more importantly, an over-achieving DA with aspirations of being a district court judge thought this case could make her career - "Stopped a terrorist threat" would be a great line in her website, and she will get a whole bunch of publicity down in not-shit-ever-really-happensville Texas. Meaning she will be able to use this to campaign on later if she prevails.

None of this is about the idiot kid. It's all about political ambition and cops doing what they do best - terrorize the weak and the innocent.
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Don't they have enough money from Google? They must make at least one dollar a year from each user through search. One would guess...

Or is Google finally cutting into that? Just another way to get rid of competing browsers? Sadly Bing isn't an alternative outside of US (and I'm not even sure about that).
I think a more important message is being buried here. Yes, the work itself should be rewarding, but there are so many programmers out there who bleed their heart into code, but as a profession they only work on soulless projects. There's no "canary in the mine" in regards to positive feedback: you got what you wanted, a job as a programmer, so enjoy it or suck it up. Even if it sucks.

Personally I consider taking up my hobby, programming/development/web, as my all-or-nothing full-time career to be one of my biggest mistakes.
I think "Programming" is just a word to decribe the representation of the consequence.

The real value of a programmer is in understanding things fully (in order to formally articulate them in a program).

The suits I work with don't understand things fully, they just understand it to some (I'd say superficial) degree. Then they decide something but they don't know what constraints apply to what element in the process and their estimates / decisions / ... are regularly completely off.

So I am not only a programmer, but I am the "understander" of the domain (and thereby of the production part of our business). This creates a lot of frustration because the suits decide, yet they don't know that they don't know.

Hence also the tendency for good programmers to become independent or depressive.
Important to point out, re the restraining order, that according to the article he wasn't given the opportunity to respond to the charges made against him. Restraining orders aren't convictions, I am surprised that it seems they can be used as evidence given that they apparently do not imply any finding of fact.
And there was me enjoying the switch I made just last week.
> 7/18/2013 12:30:00 am
Didn't work for me either, thanks for a working link!
Yeah, well, reject Apple yourself and put it into the Play Store.

I use a Macbook Air and multiple idevices. I don't develop mobile (yet). I'm sorry, but I find all these 'daddy Apple rejected my app' posts a bit tiring.
Does it cost anything to submit an app (apart from the initial dev account)? Otherwise you could just submit it again, and hope that it gets a different reviewer. Reviews seem to be a bit arbitrary sometimes.
Nonsense.

It's not clear from your comment whether you took the time to read the article, but Monbiot's point is that under the 2006 legislation anyone fighting for ANY "political, ideological, religious or racial motive" (which would apply for example to the US war of independence) is guilty of terrorism - so this law makes it illegal to fight if you are following your conscience, but has nothing to say about mercenaries. Strangely enough, at the same time the UK and US governments are providing material aid to the very people that some of these volunteers are fighting with.

Your comment completely ignores the complexities of the Syrian conflict (which has many more than two sides!), and seems to imply that terrorism is wrong by dint of the cause it supports, rather than by virtue of being an immoral strategy.
The original blog post was on HN front page yesterday and it got voted down to oblivion. Or hit some sort of threshold. Frankly, I find the original blog post to be unbelievably weasily - especially this:

"We believe that if you put the user front and center, you can make every experience for them richer and more meaningful. The Content Services team has embraced this, and today I wanted to share some of our thinking and explain our first steps for putting it into practice."

and then:

"While Mozilla hasn’t always seen eye-to-eye with all viewpoints in the digital content community, particularly the IAB, we think they’d agree that users’ interests should come first, and we want to help their members deliver compelling content to strengthen the Web ecosystem."

This:

* beats around the bush

* starts with spin

* says that advertisers have the best interest of users in mind - and I assure you, they do not.

I am very, very unimpressed.
Yep, that's the exact workflow we're replacing! Think of the experience for the marketing guy -- after those changes are committed, how can he measure what affect they had?
The app in this article is rubbish, and there are several others like it already in the app store. This was probably just an advertisement for the company, and since HN has knee-jerk reactions to anything containing the word Apple, it seems to be working.
I would be happy to see ads on the new tab page in Firefox if it means supporting Mozilla. They're doing so much stuff to protect freedom on the Internet, and I just don't see the big deal with helping talented people pay their bills.
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I don't get the anger at this. They're talking about pre-populating the tiles with some websites before you fill them up with your own most visited sites.
Try the original blog post:

https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2014/02/11/publish...
Because I'm scared.
What about if two main ISP in the world will ban porn?
All things which designed to be centralized will be totalitarized. Denying "immoral" apps, denying "too simple" apps, denying apps which prevents to profit - it's obvious consequence of centralization. Yes, we can hype isolated cases like Hueman and even reach to bring it back to the store, but it changes nothing, like ask dictators to pardon some prisioners.
I agree that every threat should be taken seriously, but there should be sane and quality judgement in the authorities to quickly dismiss false positives.

People will behave goofy. You cannot put the burden on them.
WIDELY MISREPORTED.

Austin resident here. There is very little right about this case.

He was joking, and his original post included indications of this. Prosecutors intentionally misrepresented and truncated his comments to mislead the Grand Jury.

The arrest warrant issued claimed they found him by driver's license records but he has never had a Texas driver's license.

They failed to protect him, an 18 year old kid, in jail. He has been sexually assaulted.

The state maintains their case against him at this point only to blunt his eventual lawsuit against them.
"But threatening to shoot up a school, in the light of recent events... really? "

Yes, absolutely, really. If you are in playground type ranting slanging match, you go of the most extreme things to say, which could cause shock in the recipient. Right now, things like school shootings are the current shock fodder, and well in peoples minds. So people will use that subject. Same with pedophiles and terrorists. And of course, many strands of comedy also use this.

There is nothing whatsoever strange about this.
I would actually gladly pay for the opposite - a wearable display without the camera.
That's pretty impressive! When you really look at it, every company needs this at some point. It's just a question of if you want to spend the resources/time building it internally, or if you want to focus on your core product :)
Out of curiosity: if someone hacked this kid's account and posted those comments, and if the legal system is considering the Facebook comments to be his words, what recourse does he have? How does he demonstrate that the speech wasn't his?
I'd assume it was an autocorrect error.
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What kind of code are you writing?
There's also a judge who deserves a heaping portion of blame for abject failure to hold the cops to any reasonable standard of 4th amendment rigor. What probably happened is they got a bunch of classified information from the FBI and hastily constructed a very poor "parallel construction" which they are now seeing fall apart.
Thanks! It's definitely been worth the time for us. A lot of the code on our API is from the original project, but setup to allow new templates to be created etc.
I don't mind Firefox earning money, but can't see how they will avoid the user tracking problem. At some point they will be under pressure to increase revenues, and the advertisers will want more information on who is viewing their ads.
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For the people who think that this kind of direct threat needs a punishment: what would be suitable?
> not smart enough

That's not what I said.

I was trying to point out a good side of a language that I do not particularly care for.

Think about it this way: there are plenty of smart people with good ideas who, however, are not programmers. Doctors, accountants, architects, physicists... whatever. A system that has a low barrier to entry so that these people can create something is a positive thing to have.

And if programming PHP floats your boat, that's fine too.
In a witch hunt, a lack of evidence implies a cover-up. A piece of non-evidence becomes a smoking gun. We've lost our heads.
Any state south of the Mason-Dixon line is portrayed as a cartoonish land of religious fanatics, racism, and overreaction.

In truth it is not exactly so, but I personally wouldn't want to live in any of those places. I probably wouldn't be happy living in the mid-west either though.

It generally holds true that these sorts of things can happen in any state now. If you 'threaten' to shoot up a school (no matter how jokingly) you're likely to get reamed for it.

Context no longer matters... There is a zero tolerance policy on certain words and ideas now it appears.
Who's that "We" you are operating with?
What about someone who creates an account, picks a name of a victim, uploads a picture, and then sends threats to others on their victim's behalf.
This is awesome. I have been half assed building an identical product for a while now, but I just can't stand dealing with html email templates. You will definitely have me as a customer for my next project. A couple thoughts:

1.
The "with" in your logo is the same color as your links. Since your links aren't underlined, it makes the "with" look like a link. You should change the color of one of them.

2.
The error message when I click 'execute command' without changing my email isn't obvious enough.

3.
I want to see the editor. What is the interface the marketing team will see? Maybe put the template you are going to send next to that curl box.

4.
Do you have decent html and responsive templates? If so, this is a selling point on its own.
Likewise if it's done wisely (no tracking, ads provided only from Mozilla servers and ideally only once in a while) I'm all for it.
I'm guessing this is just one more eeason that you don't say anything until you have a lawyer.
He doesn't. And proving hacking would be nearly impossible. A gifted hacker wouldn't leave evidence. Or at least no evidence that a normal investigator will find. And simply saying its a possibility doesn't matter without evidence. Thus, it's too expensive and time consuming to even consider.

Interesting point, though.
Actually it is often a crime to be an idiot, and it's quite appropriate. For example, in OP's case of the delayed El Al flight, yes it's a crime to declare to someone who might reasonably believe you that you're bringing a bomb on board. And so yeah, also, only months after Newtown and Aurora to declare that you're going to shoot up a school can be a crime -- although 8-10 years is beyond all proportion and reasonableness. But, especially if you have a history of expressing suicidal and other violent sentiments online, that's a quite reasonable thing for someone to think.
How often are bad writers following the rules?
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Depression isn't just /like/ physical pain. It can cause real, physical pain. Pain, for which you go to doctors who say "oh, you're fine." Pain for which you go to dentists only to hear "oh, you're fine."

In many (most? all?) people depression has a physical manifestation. It hurts. It aches. It's not a "hole in your heart," it's like having the flu. All the time. It's not like a toothache. It is a toothache. This distinction has to be made because it's important: the pain is real - even if it is just created by brain chemistry.
Would've made more sense for a POP email library.