skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point isn't paying off his debt (neither are fines, by the way). The points include justice, deterrence, and rehabilitation, depending on your moral viewpoint.

Also, what you describe is basically indentured servitude, which is a pretty old-fashioned form of punishment.
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> Surely you don't think that the age of majority/consent is 0-years-old?

Need I preface everything I say with "between consenting adults?"

> Taxation for Military defense falls under that same umbrella

No it doesn't because taxation isn't a la carte; it's a fictional scenario.
Gawker really should get he reporting credit for this, as they actually verified the details and Gothamist does a sloppy job of ripping off their work

http://gawker.com/man-unwittingly-rents-out-apartment-on-air...

According to Teman, he handed the keys over to David late Friday afternoon. Then, he left his suitcase with his doorman and went to dinner before planning to head out of New York. When Teman returned to his building to retrieve his bag, he saw David in the lobby and overheard him telling others that "they're shutting us down."

Teman asked what was being "shut down," which he said brought a look of mortified recognition over David's face. Concerned and suspicious, Teman went back upstairs to his apartment, where he attempted to figure out what was going on. He opened his computer and Googled the Gmail address and phone number David had provided him during their correspondence on Airbnb. The search of the phone number brought up this tweet from February that advertised a "BBW Panty Raid Party" in New York.

...

Really, this is (yet another) story about the power of social media in our everyday lives, just with a twist of BBW orgy. Had Teman Googled David's phone number before handing over the keys, he probably would have cancelled the agreement and saved everyone the trouble. If David's number wasn't plastered across Twitter, he and whomever wanted to pay $20 to enter his party could have fucked all over Teman's apartment in peace.

Instead, Teman ended up stuck in New York and displaced from his apartment. David did not get to throw his Freak Fest. They both have spent the past 48 hours entangled with lawyers and policemen. What a weekend it could have been.
> abusing your own health does have a victim: the taxpayer.

Both this and your gambling example lead us down a very scary path where the government is in charge of your health. I hate to use words republicans use when they don't apply, but that's a nanny state at best or a 1984-style dictatorship at worst. Perhaps we shouldn't be subsidizing poor choices in the first place. In any case, there are better solutions than the use of force and criminal penalties.

As for bigamy, I think you'll agree that a historical correlation doesn't imply an inseparable causality.
> Person rents out apartment to an individual who ended up lying to him. Is furious at AirBNB service for some reason.

While I'm actually with you in that I think the apartment owner shouldn't have rented his apartment out, you have to understand that AirBnB's business model would be completely destroyed if this kind of thing consistently happens.

The reason is that a random individual apartment owner has no way to independently vet someone trying to use AirBnB to sublet their apartment. AirBnB is the party with the aggregated information, not the apartment owner.

If apartment/house owners see this business turn into "you have a 999/1000 chance of making $XXX and a 1/1000 chance of sustaining $XX,XXX in damages you are personally liable for, plus eviction", what do you think is going to happen to AirBnB?
You react to what your burned with. Most places put in the control measures I mentioned. Some go the way of the poster particularly if they cannot afford an HR solution. The stats on disabled employment since the passage of the ADA are problematic.

Who did the company next hire for procurement?
A good office manager or PA is worth their weight in gold. Especially one that goes the distance to make sure that everything keeps running smoothly and the business moving forward despite any strange issues. After all I'm sure finding lost luggage or locating mandolin strings in the middle of Austin is a job you want to be troubling your engineers with.

Ask yourself this question. Do you really want to be the one that has to call the building manager every time the toilet gets blocked ?
infection and wound healing. Breaks in the skin are always a huge infection risk, compounded by the fact that implanted hardware is always an infection risk, especially ones that are exposed. The reason being that implants do not have convenient blood vessels coursing through them like us meat bags, and thus the white blood cells that fight infection can't really clear any bacteria that happens to stick onto the surface of these things. Keeping things under the skin solves a lot of these problems. The experimental Utah arrays with the Braingate consortium are in fact externalized, (mostly due to bandwidth limitations of the hardware) and managing those folks are pretty tricky.

A port would be nice - I think a more pressing need for "ports" would be the critical care and oncology (cancer) folks - patients who need to provide access to the bloodstream. Central lines, dialysis fistulas, chemotherapy ports are all notorious for getting infection.

We're not talking about a minor infection of a cut, say, but serious risks like abcesses and sepsis and meningitis here (especially re brain implants who cross the meninges and into brainspace...don't want bacteria happily munching away there...)

That being said, the next evolution of the brain-machine interfaces that use high-bandwith data and power transfer to get around the whole pesky skin issue.
Not only that, people consuming illegally acquired drugs are empowering drug cartels and here's the kind of situations it leads to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3nIfE0AUys

P.S The video contain very explicit images and commentary.

Here's a roughly translated quote to give you an idea: "During December there were 14 girls between 11-12 year old raped"
Sorry if this sounds dumb... but what's a bracket?
The inability for cryptocurrencies to do a transaction without an internet connection is a bug not a feature. Still, plenty of people go years without touching physical cash which makes up around 7% of the actual cash in the US. So it's not like Amazon.com or IBM have to use forklifts to move pallets of cash around. Better yet they can write a check for 100 million and the only transaction fee is the wait until the check clears.

PS: Sweden is down to 3% but we have a much larger underground economy which thrives on cash. Even more interesting MintChip is an example of a government backed anonymous digital currency system which supports USD. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintChip Which suggests cryptocurrencies may not actually make it.
Unfortunately, when it comes to the tech industry at large, it can also mean a constant battle to justify your intelligence, your value, and your very existence.

If your role isn’t technical, you don’t actually understand the product.

We should remember that some great founders like Steve Jobs were also not writing any code and still added lots of value. IMHO understanding the product mostly mean understanding how users interact with it, not understanding how to code it.
If you use git, there is a way to produce, in a single line, a permanent immutable citation to the current state of your code's master branch. Are you ready for this revolutionary command?

cat .git/refs/heads/master

Why are three large-ish organizations feel it necessary to combine their powers for something this trivial?
Hmm, I don't understand. This is a summary of briefs filed for this case, so you're going to get opinions all over the map.
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I didn't get ticked off, and religion and sex are relevant, children are not as I've been clear about "between consenting adults" for precisely this reason.
OK, thanks. I see that Teman is claiming damages for things not related to the party itself then, but for David allegedly damaging his apartment prior to the party.
"In a world where the government provides health care as a service"

No need to dwell on hypotheticals. We can revisit this when the government starts paying for our healthcare. Regardless, this is a financial issue where the logical punishment is a fine, not prison.
let me see...off the top of my head (incomplete since it's late in the afternoon and i need a coffee)

Sensors: most CS programs seem to have them. USC has an interactive division ("ISC"? they're over in Playa Vista). UCLA seems to have some programs. The CS people probably know who's doing what w/ the kinect and related hardware better than I.

Northwestern has a group that's doing myoelectric signals for prosthetics.

Caltech has a lot of people working on a lot of things

The brain-machine-interface folks have groups in Berkeley/stanford/mass general and Brown...

For DBS, Case Western, UMN, Duke, Emory have good research groups.

USCD has a huge amount of neuro/CS people - more basic stuff like computational modeling and theoretical projects, but I think they are getting very well known for this sort of thing.

OHSU has some collaboration with intel for health sensors/kinetics.
They did make it easier to get an H1B visa as an entrepreneur:
http://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/entrepreneur-visa-guide

I'm not sure if anyone's ever successfully received one, however.

More here: http://www.murthy.com/2012/12/17/entrepreneur-h1b-petitions-...
yes. why even bother to argue your point? while a lot of government spending might not benefit you directly, the odds are that someone out there is getting some kind of service from it. Also, a sizable fraction of government money is going to salaries of middle-class workers. They, in turn, are likely to spend that money on things you might consider useful or neat, thereby helping the overall economy. The process might be inefficient (or less efficient than a perfectly executed and fictitious counterpart) but that doesn't make it a parasite.
The crux of the author's argument is that the financial services provides neither a good nor a service.
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I've seen people do this with their phone home screens as well, so you just swipe to the colour of the icon you're looking for.
For another -- largely concurring -- perspective on this issue, Alexis Ohanian writes about being a proud nontechnical cofounder:

http://alexisohanian.com/on-being-a-proud-non-technical-foun...
The military? Ask Hawaiians over the age of 80 how useful the military is.
I mean, it's time. Right?! I am tempted to lock myself in a room for 3 months and just invent a half decent UI for them as a gift to humanity. Their interface says F off humanity. I'm not even good at UI design, not even a little... but I could still do them a service. Or they could just keep suing people?! Why don't they just provide an API and charge for it? They'd make billions and I wouldn't have to feel like my eyeballs got raped every time I need to post/view something.
> > E.g. who sets the "strategic direction" for the company?

> The circle whose focus is strategic direction.

Sweet. Now we know who's actually in charge, it's whoever is a member of that circle. That wasn't so hard.
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Well, 9/11 is a different story. Like they have found the passports of the hijackers but the black boxes were destroyed. And some hijackers were alive after the event http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1559151.stm and also not forget that there are too many problems with the official story which makes it suspicious.
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No I'm really not; taxes are perfectly constitutional. Call it theft if you like but you're just being ridiculous.
Premises are useful if your company makes stuff.
> Except that legally speaking bulk collection is even easier

Did you miss the "legally speaking" in my original sentence before you accused me of changing the subject?
A tapeworm will help you lose weight, right?
This works shockingly well on iOS.
Are these really commonly held beliefs?

--You only take a job in business operations if you aren’t smart enough to be an engineer (or designer, or product manager, or…)

--If your role isn’t technical, you don’t actually understand the product.

I don't think many people actually say or believe this. Maybe these were common thoughts in 1999, but as an SF-based ops guy, I've never heard this.

In fact, I would argue that good business operators have it just as good, if not better, than most engineers right now. Startups like Uber, Postmates, Airbnb, Dropbox, etc. are killing it, and they all have really talented (and highly paid) people in sales, ops, marketing, support, etc.

I think most of us are aware that it takes more than engineers to build a company:

http://blog.42floors.com/year-operations-startups/

http://www.cdixon.org/2014/03/15/full-stack-startups/

http://justinkan.com/exec-errands-post-mortem
LIGO has not failed. The second generation of LIGO detectors, called "advanced LIGO", is currently under construction. It will be around ten times more sensitive than the earlier configuration of LIGO, and is very much expected to yield astrophysical discoveries. More info at: http://ligo.org/

Furthermore, what LIGO seeks to do, and what the BICEP project has done, are quite different. LIGO is something like a "radio" that receives gravitational waves. We'll be able to listen to gravitational waves as they arrive at Earth. The discovery announced today is of the "fossilized" imprint of primordial gravitational waves on the cosmic microwave background radiation. Very important, but complementary to LIGO.
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Can you elaborate on this? I'm not seeing it.

If you have someone willing to provide a service, and someone else willing to buy the service that is offered, how is this a problem?

If the service provider doesn't provide the service that was agreed upon, the parties work to find a remedy, perhaps by going to court, or arbitration, etc.

Are you including more than the buyer and the seller in your analysis?
Hey jzone. Looks like I may have been too late to get him a ticket. Has the event really sold out? Will there be any other opportunities to get a ticket? I'd love for him to check this out. Looks like a really great hackathon.
"The Financial Sector" is too broad to make a statement like that.
Working at non-vaporware startups is hard. Very hard. Bootstrapping one is even harder.

Long hours, little time for family. After a big push I'll be entirely strung out and exhausted, staring at a wall mumbling random thoughts like someone who suffers from dementia. It's miserable.

And rewarding in so many ways. My personal favorite is that at the end of the day I get to say 'Look at what I built! Millions of people are using it!'.. Nothing beats that feeling.

I'm not young anymore. I've done more startups than most. I'll eventually be taken as a joke no matter how up to date my skill-set is. But for now.. This is what I love. Some people are just built for it.
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Maybe it's just me, but the maths seems strange.

I just quickly glanced at some figures, like "Have they earned it?", and it seemed wrong.

The author says the total return for say Barclay was 12.61%.

bc -l running in a terminal disagree

Taking 100 as the base value to ease our math:

100x1.112x1.0825x0.9452x1.1088=126.156497322240000

That's a 26% something cumulative return in 4 years. What is this 12.61% meant to represent?? The average per year was closer to 6.5% if that's what he meant.

(Edit- replaced the * by x and added an =)
I'm having trouble locating a (floppy?) image that old but I'd love to try - AFAICT VirtualBox was written with kernel 2.6+ in mind.

Edit:

Debian: http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian-0.93R6/disks/

RedHat: http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/1.0/en/o...
The old way they used to do DBS implants in France was to use for the pre-implantation mapping this horrific looking 5-electrode array, the "Ben-Gun", that they'd just jam through the frontal lobe. A lot of surgeons this side of the atlantic viewed it (with horror and disdain) as sort of boring a nice 5 cm wide tunnel through the brain...fortunately being used less often these days.
Any sort of condition that affects fine motor control would make it hard to type but not to speak.
I believe this is the battery I ordered from amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-ThinkPad-Ultrabay-Battery-0A363...

It's about $25 more expensive directly from Lenovo:

http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPo...
"The military has been worse historically surely?"

Ask Ukraine about the consequences of getting rid of your military.
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People are resistant to change. But change is in the air - self awareness of this issue is growing. The people who are aware, men and women, will rise in rank and create new cultures / new companies with friendlier atmospheres.

It's only a matter of time until the tech industry is a much more women-friendly place. And frankly I can't wait - there's a lot of pain in the world, and we need the brightest minds on them.
What is PaX?
It's not compatible with older exchange servers though. If you're stuck with that at work you're forced into imap mode.
That's horrifying!
It's crazy to me that countries like Chile are courting (read: begging) entrepreneurial talent and the US acts like we can throw a wall up around the country and pretend like that's still a good thing.

NOT allowing a few thousand talented, motivated, educated, english-speaking entrepreneurs seems foolish.
What if the officer is being filmed by a cellphone camera? There is an even greater chance of the incident being taken out of context. Especially if the police cameras are in a standard location for most officers (say pen pocket), then that fact can be used extensively and easily in video analysis.

Secondly, I very very rarely here of juries being "too hard" on police. The current culture is that most police can't be touch even if everyone knows they did it AND has evidence. In a lot of cases, they are untouchable unless their peers want to throw them under the bus or a separate, usually federal service looks into the matter.

There are people that, while wearing a camera in a dangerous situation, can remain calm, cool, and collected. If anything, that should be one of the first requirements of becoming a cop, not an argument against cameras.
That's a good perspective. It's not for everyone. I didn't touch on that in my post, but it's important. I maintain a pretty rigid schedule and it's not been a problem at this job.

A reason I'm well suited is perhaps many years of ops and on-call work. I am not necessarily at my desk banging out code all day and night but weekend and middle-of-the-night emergencies are nothing new.

I also have a spouse who very much believes in me being happy. She's been really great in this process too.

Thanks for your comments!
Does anyone know if there is a converter tool to go from Evernote to OneNote? I've seen a few for PC but none for Mac.
I paid about $900-$1000 altogether. I ordered the cheapest ram and hdd from lenovo. I ordered 8GB of ram from crucial, a 128GB ssd from crucial, and a bay battery from amazon.

I have not maxed this out at all. I think I will be happy with it for a couple more years.
Black boxes do have an ELT. If the plane had crashed it's likely they would have been found it already.
I'll tell you why this is AirBnB's problem and they are likely liable. It's because AirBnB will absolutely NOT let owners communicate with potential renters outside of their walled garden, or to independently verify a renter's credit or criminal history. That absolutely puts all of the liability onto AirBnB.
No, it isn't.

It's the whole point of FOSS. If it doesn't work for you, fix it.

This criticism is especially off-base given that the OP said he wanted something he could control. Use the source, Luke!
Approach web dev companies about doing freelance work. Most are always looking for good help.
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Give that clarry is a) posting on HN and b) apparently at least contemplating writing his/her own OS at some point, the assumption that he/she is a programmer is anything but "huge".
Taking aside the blatant sexism (kudos - we need more people raising this issue), there is a significant 'rolism' in the tech community. I have worked on the business/product side of tech for more than 10 years. What you say is inherently true of too many 'developers' and their views.

It harks back to a belief of "Build it and they will come" that pervades the industry (and yes, I do know the actual quote is "Build it, and HE will come"). There are many successful products that solve a problem or do something. If no-one ever knows about it or works out how to pay you for it, then the business will never be a success. You need all parts of a business (selling, marketing, ops, banking the cheques, making payroll, taking out the garbage) for it to work ... the naivety of some devs about the processes that go on to make that work and their lack of engagement in the wider business is a wake-up call many need to hear.
I like how you can run your own server. Have you considered integration with services like Dropbox? That's my go-to for syncing data between systems. I understand that would make monetizing the product more difficult though.
This is a terrible idea.

VCs have proposed the same solution in Canada; the government canned the old investor visa and allowed founders to get a startup when they receive investment from some of our VCs. (There were many more investor visa than VCs can even process. We'll end up with less total job creation. You have to be careful what you lobby for, and how it will be implemented!)

What was once a process over which government had visibility is now in the hands of the private sector, with firms that have historically discriminated on age, ethnicity, gender, etc.

I'm not saying I wouldn't trust Sam Altman. I just wouldn't trust most VCs with this task.
I think you are presenting a pristine idealization of a free market that doesn't exist in the world.
I recently wrote a piece about this issue: How I hacked my US startup visa
http://qz.com/151333/how-i-hacked-my-us-startup-visa/
Well, it does kind of lead to that situation. But as long as the hierarchies are clearly defined and orthogonal it need not be that bad.

In the military you often find people having to play different roles at different times (we call it "wearing different hats"), and there are various types of hierarchies that might exist simultaneously, and you could be involved in some of those with different roles in each. It can be taken to an extreme (and I want to say there was a Union General in the American Civil War who got famous for that), but it can also help very large organizations function properly in situations where a person has to fill multiple roles.
Well...depends. IF it's non-medically necessary, then yes.

DBS and other devices with medical indications, should bear the cost of a medical copay or deductible. (DBS itself is covered by most insurances for Parkinson's, tremor, dystonia, and OCD).