skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The part that gets me about this story isn't the mistaken flagging -- any screening system is going to have its false positives. It's the "our lawyers were essentially flagged as an entity which we can never pay through online bill payment again" part. I could understand a temporary lock on electronic transactions between these two parties while the case is being investigated, but once it's determined that the case is a false positive, what's the logic of not lifting the ban and letting the two parties do business electronically again?

I fear that the answer is something stupid like "we put you on a list, and now that you're on the list you can never get off." Which seems like a policy designed to make life easier for Treasury (or whomever maintains The List) rather than for the wrongly identified parties who now have to suffer for the rest of their lives due to somebody else's mistake. At a minimum there ought to be a process for people who end up on The List by mistake to appeal their inclusion.
'Restriction of range'. When you look at the general population, from janitor to tenured professor, one of the single best predictors of job performance is IQ; but when you look at, say, 'MIT physicist grad students', well, they're all very smart, so when you look at the minor differences in intelligence between them, the scores barely correlate with their future success even though no one becomes a MIT grad student in physics without being terrifyingly smart. Because they have been selected on that trait already. Hence the apparent paradox.

(No surprise Friedman doesn't understand this; the NYT article on the Google findings did not explain this.)
> It's very likely they're just complying with their legal obligations.

Legal != !stupid
Much bigger than the direct costs of arresting/prosecuting/imprisoning people is the economic loss they represent -- assuming those people could do something productive, they'd be contributing a lot more to society than they cost to lock up today. On top of the costs of locking them up. And, the competent people currently working in law enforcement who could be doing other things. And the deadweight losses, etc. from people (rightly, in many communities) being distrustful of law enforcement and the government.

Ending the drug war would be a positive of around the same order of magnitude that the War on Terror has been a negative; hundreds of billions per year on an open-ended basis.
"I think it's time we just all acknowledge that the U.S. has the most onerous and insane financial laws in the world. The only reason other countries put up with them is because the U.S. is the sole remaining superpower."

I'm gonna guess you don't have a whole lot of stamps on your passport.
Text only. No images and still no gif support.
I would be totally happy to put a proper stylesheet and some better copy together if someone wants to send me that (put it in a gist maybe?)
"I've had enough Fords as rental cars to know that that software is utter garbage"

Same, except everything else about the car too.
Do you code for a living? If so, I think your experience ("no boring task ever") is pretty unique.
Why would they blowtorch it? Them there wouldn't be any evidence for the Federal indictment.
I use https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lastfm-scrobbler/h... which supports GM, Pandora, etc.
Image uploads not working and still no gif support.
Maybe when you are high. I assume there are people that use it that aren't high ALL the time...
The switching cost is virtually nil. You install another app in parallel, tell your friends you like it so much more, and if it's better they start using it. Eventually you pay less attention to the first app, spend longer before replying to messages on there or not at all, and so on.
Okay. That's a fair point. Maybe it is right that people have to leave their territory once and feel the difference in another community.
No. The switching cost is getting all of your contacts to install a different app and use it regularly.
Statistical evidence is always the best (assuming it's done right)
Quantum Computers, cover of Time magazine
Stazibook? Really?
> In what universe is addiction treatment and police wasteful

Well, I do actually know some of the details concerning what gets filed under those categories, and I see instances of significant waste. I've also traveled extensively in less predictable parts of the world, and have had experiences in the U.S. that I wish had been mitigated by a capable law enforcement effort. But on the measure, I am still in favor of a more focused and constrained police presence.

Also based on observation, I feel that the breadth of activities that may be referred to as 'addiction treatment' is disconcerting. I do support programs that can be shown to actually help people, of course.
nope, saying that there is a page to check for an upcoming solution. Stating that there is nothing to do for now anyways.
Indeed, but users can easily have multiple apps installed and use them simultaneously, so it's not particularly hard for a user base to migrate over time -- having some friends on app1 and other friends on app2 isn't a huge deal for the most part...

[Most of these apps have already done this, by luring users away from SMS]
as an allergy susceptible smoking asthmatic, i'm going to go out on a limb and guess pollen (or dust, or mold, or...) is a bigger trigger for allergies and asthma than second hand smoke. but i welcome any sources that support your claim.

when i was 12 i was sledding in a park and an overwhelming smell of cigar smoke came over me. i found the guy and asked him to stop smoking because it bothered me, he said "get out of here kid". when i was 12, it felt unjust. today, i consider myself audacious and inconsiderate for even asking.

>> And here I thought this wasn't /., reddit, or 4chan. Wrong.

likewise
Easy. Think of Sheldon from Big Bang Theory. He may have a high IQ, but he lacks the ability to be able to connect different ideas and/or come up with solutions which require more than just processing mathematical computations.
I can see this kind of technology being developed towards a method for controlling "vehicles" while in a liquid capable of absorbing hits.

Something like the LCL of Evangelion.
I'm pretty sure they're truncheons/cudgels/nightsticks.

...pretty sure...
Since your company is providing the information, can you share more on how you are deciding which 300-600 companies to track and care about?
The 2 really dumb IT mistakes that Scott Walker and staff made
Police batons, most likely.
Have any African countries ever applied or been accepted to YC?

Will people that plan to move back home or have home (non American) markets as their primary markets be considered?

It would be interesting to see how Sama's batch differs from PG's
http://news.thoracic.org/june-july-2013/annals-ats.php

"findings from a limited number of well-designed epidemiological studies do not suggest an increased risk for the development of either lung or upper airway cancer from light or moderate use, although evidence is mixed concerning possible carcinogenic risks of heavy, long-term use,"

"In summary, the accumulated weight of evidence implies far lower risks for pulmonary complications of even regular heavy use of marijuana compared to the grave pulmonary consequences of tobacco."

By greatly, I meant as bad as tobacco which dramatically increases the risk of lung cancer.

The previous poster was commenting on the health risks of tobacco being caused entirely by burning plant matter. However, the evidence suggests this isn't true.
iPad Applications definitely are. In the non-gaming world, Plangrid, drchrono, and Paper by Fiftythree have all been really successful, and that's just off the top of my head.
A recreation of the first level of Super Mario Bros. in Python
The (only/main) advantage of Telegram over Whatsapp is for me: They have an open API, such that I can get a desktop client. (There is already a commandline version for linux)

Also in principle there is end-to-end encryption, which is not a reason I switched. I'm not sure if this feature has been there when the 200k crypto contest went up with its criticism, but in principle it should be completely dependent on the client, which is opensource.

Too bad XMPP/Jabber did not get a breakthrough, what is the reason for that? No user friendly client? Noone putting enough advertising into it; you can't make money with it?

In germany there is currently a hype of Threema. Every magazine and newspaper writes about it being secure with end-to-end encryption. Even IT magazines just write naively about it, ignoring completely that it's closed source and noone can even see slightly behind the curtains.

I rather prefer to see/know the flaws (Telegram) than use a proprietary solution that makes the masses "feel" good. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7281338
Even that Threema costs some money makes people more confident of its security, with the reasoning that with a free solution you are not a customer but rather the product and you pay with your data.
Pathetic is the perfect way to describe me.

Especially when you factor in that as an immigrant I had to leave America 3 times, once because I was diagnosed with cancer, and haven't legally been able to take salary from my own company in 2 years.
Wil Chung holds the record at 7 last I checked. I actually have a huge amount of respect for him for being so persistent. If I were an investor that'd be the thing I look for first.
This will greatly diminish the attractiveness to the idea to investors.
They measure that over time. Coding skills they can measure quite well.
WARNING: TOM FRIEDMAN.

Why is that not on the link?
I'm still in favour of how Acorn's RiscOS did it: the main menu is under the middle mouse button[0]. It's always nearby, because it's always at your cursor location. And it can optionally be context-sensitive, like today's "right-click" context menus.

[0] which should be a real button, not a dinky scroll wheel.
More like a fictional form from "Breaking Bad."
Agreed, generally closing the window shouldn't terminate the app on OS X. So far that's the only negative I can find, otherwise I love the app!
It's the gen x vs gen y philosophy at work here.

Gen X is about putting the time in and reaping the rewards. Gen Y is about finding passion in the work itself and thus is more willing to "soul search" when it comes to doing work.

It's certainly an interesting dynamic and recruiters/HR/managers have needed to shift their mindset to accommodate the new school approach to finding work.
You can donate:
http://helpeuromaidan.info/donate
This page has multiple links. Depending on your opinions on Maidan, you can support logistical needs, paramedics, or media.
But they don't actually need to use it just have it installed and you can message them. If they respond with a different app or a text message nothing breaks.
My understanding of the situation (based on no inside knowledge, just reading car blogs) was that Sync was good until Ford decided to take development in-house and turned it into MyFord Touch. The reviews were universally positive til then, universally negative after.
In the United States, there is not a single legal Bitcoin exchange. That's all you need to know.
That article isn't "better", they serve completely different purposes.

If you master everything in Yegge's article, but yet fail to show you know how to learn, lead, show ownership and humility, you'll still probably not get the job. And I'm sure this fact baffles a lot of technical experts out there who don't pass their Google interview.

Of course Yegge's advice is indispensable on the technical side. But Lazlo's advice is intentionally more broad than that.
I believe YouTube's VP9 videos are all tiled, so its a shame to not see data for that type of file.

I was looking the other day and was pleasantly surprised by the amount of VP9 content (does it really take them a day to encode a minute of VP9?). The article's numbers also confirm my impression that the VP9 decodes where not much harder on the CPU than the H.264 ones.

I believe Chrome switched to ffvp8 for VP8 decode. I wonder if they'll do it again for ffvp9.
> I haven't the faintest idea what the meaning of "blue sky" is, and I can't find anything by searching.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/blue-sky+thinking and
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blue-sky_thinking
In a First for Spain, a Woman Is Convicted of Inciting Terror Over Twitter
> I suspect most of these kids want to be successful doctors, lawyers, scientists, (non-software-) engineers, or "traditional" business management rather than hackers, and credentials are still the way to do those things, and will be for the foreseeable future.

In the case of doctors and lawyers (and engineers in many cases), there is a legal requirement to have credentials in order to be involved in practice.

I believe it is different in the US, but in the UK, experience is valued most regarding hacking (IT work). A CS degree holds little water, since many of them are, well, inadequate.
I don't know where you are, but if you're in the U.S. (or even if you're not), feel free to drop me a line. Some of the best developers I know come from non-CS backgrounds and I know folks who are always looking. Email's in my profile.
"I think it's time we just all acknowledge that the U.S. has the most onerous and insane financial laws in the world."

You should really repeat this to an italian (italian born in Italy, speaking italian as his first language, not italian born in New York) entrepreneur.

But please record a video then share it. I'd really like to see their face :D
It's what they do with it. Storing hundreds of tons of weed plants isn't necessary if it's well documented.

http://reason.com/blog/2012/08/22/feds-destroy-1-billion-in-...

http://calcoastnews.com/2011/07/feds-raid-sanger-pot-farm-de...

Either way, you won't get it back and your investment is gone.
The stats at http://transferweb.com/stats/transfer-acceptance-rates suggest that top schools accept very few transfer students, and so I don't think it is an important part of the issue.
It's a terrific institution. I'm really glad St. Mary's exists.
The thing that bothers me is this - any service that we use and are happy with, can be bought by FB. Then FB would own all of that data - so it doesn't matter if we don't use FB - first instagram, now whatsapp (there are probably others that I can't remember). This is good for the founders of whatsapp - not sure about the users though. It is hard to say no to boatload of cash, I guess.
Not exactly.

http://laws.findlaw.com/us/401/424.html
I mean thank god we destroyed communism in Soviet Russia. Those rotten pieces of shit wanted to redistribute wealth to the people.

Fuck THAT shit.

Everyone knows is just corruption in disguise. Is always better to keep your corruption unpretentious and beligerent.
Dude, whatever you choose to do, please do yourself a favor and ignore the bullshit advice that starts with - "this is how the real world works..." That nonsense only comes from people who had settled for the average.

Life works in any way that you want it to work.

Look, if you don't want to do the shit work, don't do it, but don't bitch and moan and complain about it. Instead, find a way to still get shit done, while not doing the work you don't want to do.

You don't like doing homework? Nobody does. It's a waste of time and you will not use 90% of what you've learned.

Spend the bare minimum time you need to pass high-school on work that you have to get done, devote the rest of your time to the work you want to get done. If that means learning computer programming, do it. I had friends in high-school who managed hosting companies, while at high-school. Guess what, while the rest of us were solving stupid problems and learning history, those guys made money. It's not a bad skill to learn.

Anyways, this discussion could go back and forth...
Get off your ars, close HN and just f'ing do something!
The aerial view reminds me a bit of Larry Ellison's place:

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/zyalt/10761149/383367/383367_...

http://geary.smugmug.com/Flying/Airship-Ride/i-Tdmr4wn/A
How reliable are the anonymizers?
I think he means like http://guildwork.com/. Enjin is similar, but every feature was copied from Guildwork and significantly slower / worse.
I think there are features (which the ability to embed a vim engine may enable) that would make it easier to improve one's usage of vim.

Real time analysis of actions, with suggestions for better ways to do what you just did.
Long term analysis of actions, to see what are the biggest time wasters (ie, you often do a certain command that requires typing, maybe it might be better to make a function mapped to a leader based command. Or you tend to copy things with a range that you could have copied using a text object.

And that is what interests me about this. I really hope that separating GUI from the core and the exposure of streams will allow you to put an analysis engine between streams.
On the Timing of iOS’s SSL Vulnerability and Apple’s ‘Addition’ to NSA’s PRISM
> NeWS was a breakthrough in windowing, based on postscript rendering to screens (although not the same as Display Postscript), and was quite brilliant.

Although the idea of building apps in PostScript is the stuff nightmares are made of, I recognize it was indeed brilliant. It was partly the work of a young James Gosling.

I remember CDE was heavily, although indirectly, influenced by Microsoft through both HP and IBM. CDE windows and menus are just 3D-like versions of Windows 2 windows.
A Rare Look at the Tunnels Under San Francisco
Will this affect bitbucket as well?
I just want to encourage you to keep working on this project. I've been thinking for a few months about how best to increase mental health awareness with limited resources. I think it's a good idea to promote resources customized for niche communities that might not be targeted by existing mental health nonprofits. I don't really have any specific ideas at this time. But my next step is to get an understanding of everything that is currently available and figure out something from there (whether it be with something that already exists or start something new).
Wtf is pathetic about that.

Try out 1000 of things, do a pivot, pitch investors here and there, apply YC every now and then. Nothing pathetic about that.
Dude, you married a whore
The economist Peter Leeson did a whole book around that, called The Invisible Hook[1]. I haven't read it, but the Econtalk podcast with the author[2] was interesting.

That said, I don't think this measure will be nearly as successful as the pirates'. I'd rather see the executive body be elected by the workers, as in the Mondragon corporation[3].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisible_Hook

[2] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2009/05/leeson_on_pirat.htm...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Cooperative_Corporat...
No...Not as far as I can tell. Attempting to connect over the bare IP address to an SSL site results in a curl error[1]. Whereas under 10.9.1 its allowed

1: http://pastebin.com/AZ38WYaB
Pricing largely depends on location.

Certainly in the UK, and most of europe, receiving SMS is free. Sending them might be 10-12p per message, but in practice contracts allow "unlimited SMS(sending)".

That's one of the reasons why I'd be hard pressed to use an application on a phone for sending messages - I already have that with SMS, and I don't need to know usernames, etc, I just use the contact number I already have stored.
I'm not trying to be inflammatory:

Would you expect anything else from the US gov't?
> The unity sidebar is the biggest example. They refused to let users change the size of the icons for years. Even now, you're still limited by a small range they've decided on.

That's an example of so-called bullshit. The setting was added to the standard config util in Ubuntu 12.04, the first LTS with Unity. It was a setting in compiz config since 11.04, the very first release.

> I could go on and complain about Ubuntu all day (and not only about Unity - I'd like to talk about their tendency to patch everything downstream) but the message is "Canonical shot themself in the foot".

Of course, you can, but next when you'll want to complain, try to use it for more than 5 minutes. Don't speak for the whole userbase -- I'm a part of Ubuntu userbase, and I love Unity. I consider vanishing menus a great idea, because in practice it adds exactly zero problems with menu interaction, but saves space (less important) and reduces clutter on desktop (more important).
Games = Clans.
Yes, there is a ton of players that casually play your latest AAA games, but they would never use this, or any other service.

Me on the other hand would LOVE to have one place where i could have all my team mates on one place, right now when we need to train i send the email to one half of the team and FB messages to other.

Maybe you should try to fix that problem instead of creating FB like wall.
Or perhaps the average salary of non-administrative and non-exec workers.

And 10x seems like an arbitrary (and large) multiplier. What justifies it? What does the president of a University do that adds that much value to a University? I remember ours made over $300k and all he did was go to parties thrown by wealthy Alums, give public speeches, and otherwise be a politician at council meetings.

By comparison, entry level IT there was $30k, "programming" was $40-50k, and senior in either was capped at $55k essentially. And IIRC, the professor salaries were similarly pathetic. I never understood how a public University justifies paying an administrator (something like a glorified answering machine that can make Excel spreadsheets) double what it pays someone who builds and maintains the infrastructure the school needs to function. Especially when the latter often must wear 10+ hats and train themselves on their own time just so they can do the job adequately.
Has the author of the buggy code been identified?
MIDWEST USA BATTERED BY TORNADO'S
Apart from email, but yeah whatever.
Yeah, just discouraging to see so many successful people using shady tactics. I think it's a lot more rewarding to succeed without being shady, and maybe a lot of people agree and that's just not newsworthy?
http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/360 comes to mind.
Indeed, but I wonder if indenting would have helped here.

Two gotos immediately after one another at the same indentation level is obviously wrong by visual inspection.

Proper indentation might have led the casual viewer to think that the code was actually ok!
As a Computer ENGINEER, I can easily tell you that Computer SCIENCE is essentially a liberal arts degree. Seriously, they don't know st about technology, unless it comes safely wrapped in an API.

And by the way, studying Physics is orders of magnitude more difficult that learning CS. And for that alone, I would hire a Physicist over a CS guy any day of the week.

Ask any recruiter, and they'll tell you the same thing. Physics is a higher pecking order than CS.
According to this site[1], the salaries of their academic staff is already significantly higher than the average. Do you have information that says otherwise?

[1] http://faculty-salaries.findthebest.com/l/5282/St-Mary-s-Col...
Is it just me or does everyone has to do this: when you need to file more taxes (you need to pay more to the treasury), do you have to put your SSN in the memo field? My accountant said I have to which I dont't feel happy about it...
IQ is a dirty word now. But even apart from it's "racist" connotations, it is still bad PR to use that term. Compare "I got to where I am because I am really smart" with "I got to where I am because I was able to develop good learning skills".
Exactly. "Please, visit our country..."
Site creator here.. Always fun when you get off a plane to find out that someone has posted your site to HN and it's been on the front page for a couple hours. My phone had a bit of a twitter/support ticket/feedback email explosion when I turned it back on. Happy to answer any Qs about Dpadd, just reply to this comment.