skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both 'libel' and 'liable' are real legal words.

Libel refers to written/printed/online defamatory statements [1] - as opposed to slander, which is spoken defamation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libel#Libel
We'll call a transaction with 0 confirmations a "Dorian".
That is the title of both the original time.com article and the book written by its author. The qualifier "as currently defined" is only on HN.
there was also rumor captain grow up around that airport. i suggest research his childhood schools if possible.
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A reasonable person can convert smallish amounts of gold to cash without undue risk, and gold can be easily worked and divided by basically anyone.

If you stole a ton of gold, you could sell it piecemeal for the rest of your life and live like a king.
Talk to people you know. Your social and work circles will be the biggest source of work. You may also try contacting companies that have job openings and offering your services instead. The trick is not getting clients. Its getting good clients. Good luck.
They have JS, IOS and Android sdks, they all do speech to text, then the text NPL processing.

https://wit.ai/docs
And it was linked to by one of Google's preparatory e-mails. :-)
I honestly think a lot of you have gone plainly insane from years of Internet arguing, and can now write verbose devil's advocate arguments for absolutely anything.
CFHipsterRef: Low-Level Programming on iOS and Mac OS X
This will be a very interesting thing to study. Our leaderboard rankings tend to be extremely fluid, and I wonder what the net effect tends to be in terms of impostor syndrome.
Thank you. Every time I set down my wallet, keys, phone, and pocket equipment and whenever it's time to pick everything up. I lose everything. I have lost my wallet + cash roughly 6-9 times this year so far and probably like 4k cash.

I always miss deadlines and forget everything, I was diagnosed with ADHD with a child, but went along with the narrative that I was just lazy, or didn't have discipline, or was just an underachiever(even though everyone would insist I was very smart), some of my friends when I graduated high school going to MIT/Princeton told me. "Dude, cmon you should be here with us, what's going on?".

So I resolved many times so far to try harder and that I was just lazy, and gained many times extreme inspiration, inspiration that almost all in my life say they've personally never experienced, but always I would lose my path. I would just, forget... then one day on the bottom of depression and people around me picking up on my anxiety issues, people around me kept picking up on observations of me and recommended I try to get professional help.

I know now I actually have this fucking thing, and that for me it's so bad that even if I know that some task is due that will cause me impending doom in a matter of a few days on even 3 hrs. I will always just get distracted, or forget some deadline. Over, and fucking over again, but if I actually remember to take this stupid fucking medication that i'm given. My life is normal again and I can actually achieve the performance my peers/teachers/community has always expected of me.

Through fucking countless suffering and being told i'm a lazy piece of shit, dumbass kid is always late to class even though I arrived to school early because I got distracted. I found that i'm not always like that. I have PLENTY of emotional baggage, and my personal life is 40x crazier than what i'm allowed to post here(Friends in prison in recent years).

But this DISORDER, however ill-specified it is or what everyone's fucking problem it is. Taking my medication daily or SOMETHING will help me achieve. So when I'm not distracted i don't crash into the fucking car in front of me or the side pavement of the freeway to check my phone impulsively over and over again.

Lol. You people have no fucking idea what you do to me with your armchair bullshit opinions, and you have NO idea how much it's hurt me over the years. I can't tell you how many times I haven't had the attention spamn to notice my tire is flat or THIS, OR THAT. Is happening. Some times, I just get distracted by whatever activity that I forget to eat for like 2-3 days straight, and thus at 5'7 am roughly 100~ish pounds.
The fine is a token amount ($20 - $50), although failure to pay results in the loss of your Drivers License. [1]

Considering the voting debacle in Western Australia (where a Senate result was declared with just a 14 vote margin, despite the Australian Electoral Commission admitting to losing 1375 ballot papers), I think there are some Australians debating whether they should participate in future elections.

[1] http://www.elections.wa.gov.au/vote/failure-vote
[2] http://delimiter.com.au/2013/11/18/wa-likely-vote-senate/
[3] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-29/court-of-disputed-retu...
Software development is a craft driven by heuristics. The conditions for every project are different. It's difficult to identify contributing conditions. These conditions include technologies, abstraction, business factors, trends, development talent, talent of peers, market position, maturity of the market, funding, knowledge of current requirements, mutation of requirements, complexity of the requirements, interacting agents, etc.

I can see why it would be so difficult to find correlations.
Not saying that this is likely, but one explanation is that they want to weaponize the plane first.
You're asking a lot of loaded questions. These drugs allow me to do what I want to do. Why isn't that good?

People who try to claim that ADHD symptoms are good are probably people who aren't diagnosed with ADHD (and let's not get started with OCD).
Yeah, assuming your software is reasonably modular and you haven't completely rewritten everything from scratch in the new version, retaining support for old file formats shouldn't be a very big deal.

At worst (like in the case of iWork 13 which probably is completely new code), you get one programmer to spend a few days writing a converter which reuses most of the old code.
95% of WhatApp's messages don't event hit a disk and are served from memory. It would take big architectural changes to be able to mine them. (info from the erlang factory slides)
Well, at least he's doing his best to prove the myth of all programmers being humorless autists who take everything literally to be true...

Yes, sure, we're talking about exactly 10x when we talk about 10x programmers. Etcetera, etcetera.

Even the most fanatical Agile evangelist gets both the tongue in cheek humor (with a serious undertone) of Zed's "programming, motherfucker", but not this guy.
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So I sought treatment... at the age of 32.

Hi John, I'm curious if you tried any of the following before trying medication:

1. No TV

2. No Video Games

3. No Internet aggregators (slashdot / digg / reddit/ hn / etc)

4. Meditation

I am a colossal procrastinator and frequently unfocused person that had a much less successful academic career than you due to that. So far I've been going through periods of trying the above, thinking that medication is an absolute last resort. So far I haven't had to go there but I'm curious as to what things you may have tried before going to medicine?
Their documentation has a pretty clear endpoint for sending raw audio: https://wit.ai/docs/api#toc_9
You got it right. I work with Holacracy and I can confirm... everything you read Holacracy being blamed for, as in Catherine Bracy's article, is actually not against Holacracy.

They think it's against Holacracy, because they mistakenly believe that Holacracy simply means "flat org". Then they build an entire argument around this error...

Since the Zappos story, people talk about "holacracy" here and there. In reality, there are few organizations actually using Holacracy® — the system defined in the constitution you link to. Github isn't part of them, Valve either. Zappos and Medium are.
And those reactions... I don't even see anyone telling him he's not correct, just that it will/could/should be used against him legally.

the best part about this article is how it will be used against him in court http://scripting.com/2014/03/17/royWildstein.html

https://twitter.com/codeslinger/status/445665523632984064

And if anyone needed any evidence to back up a discrimination lawsuit against @davewiner, they certainly have it now. http://scripting.com/2014/03/17/royWildstein.html

https://twitter.com/Mickipedia/status/445665545514668032

No, don’t worry everything is fine with startup culture http://scripting.com/2014/03/17/royWildstein.html (side note, pretty sure roy might want to sue over this too)

https://twitter.com/whatidoissecret/status/44566292849965056...
The only real time component of the software stack is the kernel. If you want another real time module your screwed because you need to run it in kernel space, but if you have a kernel you can't.

Or you run a real time OS which may have problems because they aren't developed with security but IO timing in mind.

It's a fundamental flaw of time shared OS's.

:.:.:

Second security works in a simple way.

Cost to secure vs money lost.

Lab equipment is expensive. The loss of an entire calibration bench could run into the $250,000 to $1million and beyond range.

But redeveloping and entire OS to do this? Your talking about spending 20 to 100x MORE on security then your losses. That's idiotic at best.
I setup a bank account in Germany in 2007 that issued me a hardware token generator (I forget the name of the bank). It was my first experience with 2 factor auth, and I'm a little surprised that I have yet to see it implemented with banks in the US.
I think you're reading too much into that, or have a chip on your shoulder, or both. "Patches welcome" is an invitation, a smiling, friendly, we-think-you're-good-enough-and-want-your-help, open-handed gesture that is meant to encourage cooperation and evoke the deeply human drive to help others.
Ask HN: What impacts will the new tld domains have for software?
When reading the news of a new tld's coming out, I was wondering if anyone knew of any impacts this might have for software.

For example, I know some legacy code for e-mail validation rejects if it doesn't meet the standard TLDs. Are there any other things people can bring to light?
Six years old when they start school are expected to focus for 10-15 minutes. Kindergartner loosing attention after 5-10 minutes sounds to be exactly where he is supposed to be.
1. Good points. I'm thinking in terms of giving, not trading, as in heirs. Currently leaving money for heirs is messy with probate and paperwork and taxes. There are solutions like living trusts and so forth but again that's paperwork and management. Not so much with bitcoin. It's like digital gold, and less like cash, which loses value even if demand remains constant.

2. Yep, bitcoin can be indirectly devalued by gov't. Or it could end up like beanie babies.
> "But every time a company hires someone who is not a young male, they run the risk that the new hire isn't there to work, rather is there to scam you."

Old white male, having accrued all the benefits of the privilege of his position, proceeds to use his power to make sure that only People Like Him can continue to succeed.

Rather than fix problems, he'd rather tell you all that Everything is OK, being Agist and Sexist isn't our problem, it's their problem.
The biggest problems is that no "law" or "rule of thumb" of software engineering is always right. So "debunking" by finding an exception isn't really useful. The best answer to most of these questions is: It Depends (tm). There are situations where the right person making the right calls makes a huge difference and there situations where anyone can make a call that would turn out reasonably OK. There are situations where buggy software has little impact on the business and there are situations where it can result in bankruptcy. This is partly why this is difficult to research in any sort of rigorous fashion and why we should definitely maintain some degree of scepticism to any broad claims.

x10. Anyone here do the TopCoder Algorithm SRMs? There's clear evidence of x10-ish performance difference between the "red" coders and the average coders in there. Does that always apply? No. In certain situations can certain developers blow the average away? Absolutely yes. This is true for things other than software development.

The author talks about "engineers of equal experience". No such thing. There are no two single developers with "equal" experience.

Bug fixes. It's a no-brainer to see the cost of fixing an issue by the same dev in reasonable proximity to when the code was written is a lot cheaper than someone else fixing that bug 6 months later. It's also a no-brainer to see that the cost of fixing a bug in nuclear reactor control software that can cause a core meltdown is cheaper before the core actually melts down. In between there is a lot of grey area but I think there's a lot that can be applied while still being safely in the no-brainer region, that is our intuition, that is our learning/pattern recognition over years of software development.
Dave's point was to avoid a lawsuit, not to attract one. The article is using a single incident to warn about a whole class of people. It's not just about one guy.
Don't awaken the PaaS giants
Seems like an interesting approach, but there is a lot to be said about how one communicates, not just codes.

Unless you just want a pure code monkey that never needs to talk to anyone or coordinate with anyone.. then this is a great way to find that monkey.
The only time you're happy to reboot a machine is when it has OpenFirmware Forth so you can play a bit with it.
How so? You could similarly beg or pay for Apple to fix the issue.

Consider OP's use case. Lets say hes a non-programmer and Keynote is open source, but similar in complexity to WebKit. Now he comes across the error - what can he do? Learning to program or finding someone with the time and knowhow of Keynotes (or WebKits) inner workings may take months.

On the time scale of months, he could also bitch enough at Apple that they may release a tool.

However in both cases, the most time efficient solution is to download Keynote 09.
But I have to ask an honest question: do you have a deficiency for which
you need treatment? Or do you have a personality type which might make
you unsuited for certain types of work? Or -- more likely -- do you have
a tendency for a type of personality attribute expression which varies
depending on various external stimuli?

I think it's perfectly fine that something like ADHD is a naturally-
occurring personality trait and/or state of mind for which we might need
medication to overcome. At the same time, I'm not too happy with
characterizing it as a disease or dysfunction. I think we are taking
people who are acting in a completely normal fashion and telling them
something is broken about them. That ain't right.

I love the way you put this, and I agree with a lot of what you said. BUT I also don't think what you say is incompatible with treating focus issues as a problem that can be helped by medication.

For me, learning about ADHD was very liberating!

It wasn't a diagnosis that told me I was fundamentally broken as a person; it was exactly the opposite.

I had a lot of love and support growing up in the 80s and early 90s, don't get me wrong. But I also got a lot of negative reinforcement and had come to think of myself (as a certain book title suggests) as "lazy, stupid, or crazy" (ok - maybe just lazy or crazy) when it came to focus and procrastination issues. I never even considered ADD/ADHD because as far as I knew, it was a label for hyperactive kids and I was never hyperactive.

Those are very broad terms, you know? I really felt like there was fundamental shit wrong with me. I grew up believing in hard work but had the hardest time doing homework and taxes and things I didn't want to do.

So learning about and eventually being diagnosed with ADHD really helped the way I feel about myself. Instead of feeling broken on some fundamental level, I came to feel like I had a pretty specific thing to deal with; one that could be helped by medication and proper sleep/diet/environment/exercise.

Edit: I also want to address this one specific thing you said:

Or do you have a personality type which might make you unsuited
for certain types of work?

I can't think of a single line of work that doesn't benefit from an increased ability to focus.

Even entrepreneurs, who are often famously ADHD (or ADHD-like, anyway) in their restlessness and curiosity, need to focus on the mundane stuff sometimes.

And it's not like medication erases those positive ADHD traits either. The fact is that stimulants leave your body pretty quickly, and with something like your Adderall dosage from day to day. If you're responsible and take a little bit less on the days you don't need it, you can take a little more on the days when you need it more. You can tailor the effects a bit depending on your needs on a particular day.

(Note: The medication is far from perfect; it's not for everybody and is not a cure-all. Biologically, stimulants are a very crude way to address one's focus. In my experience, proper sleep/diet/exercise/environment are more important than any medication I've tried.)
That's an interesting stat. How do you think FB will get an ROI on the 19B ?

EDIT: Also, do you think FB would/could man-in-the-middle the traffic a la NSA? No architectural changes to whatsapp are needed. FB could save and fwd the traffic. Crunch later.
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Fwiw, pull requests are merely branches im the repository (named pr-* if i'm not mistaken)
> "I don't even see anyone telling him he's not correct..."

If you've only got 140 characters, do you really need to spend any saying that he's wrong, because I certainly don't need that spelled out for me.
Use craigslist experience to become better at negotiating.

Problem with this app is there is a limited amount of users while cl has 90% of the market. So you will probably still get a better deal on cl.
> They are starting to look stale.

In comparison to what? You cannot say that without backing it up. If we are going to critique design, let's do it properly.
Spine size or cover font size?
I'll just throw that in here, as I always do, in case people want a nice historical overview (yet detailed) of stack machines : http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~laforest/Second-Generation_Stac...
I wouldn't trust France when it comes to pediatric statistics.
Not good enough to switch from craigslist.
Craigslist is better exposure and this app does not really solve any real problems. A perfect example of starting a business for the sake of starting a business.
Yup. Anything with a recent Broadcom chipset can be a pain.
How to design successful social products with 3 habit-forming feedback loops
Anyone else receiving an error from the App Store?

"Microsoft OneNote failed to download. Use the Purchases page to try again."
I'm after a similar job too. I work 9-6, Mon-Fri with a spot of overtime, however I'm looking for something to pay our debts off before we can save for a wedding.

I've started giving my business cards out a lot more recently and have picked up a bit of work, but that's all coming to an end now.

So, if anyone has any work going please contact me :) jbrooksuk@me.com
I think it's important to distinguish 10x "developers" and 10x moments that a given developer has.

It's like 1.000 game, a hat-trick or triple-double - sometimes any given player has the potential (though not all may be given the opportunity) to make their mark.
See, from what I took from the article, is that maybe it would make for a really solid client side web application language. On the other end of this, i feel like server side languages are moving more into the direction of multi-core support, i.e. Rust, Golang, Erlang... oCamel could fit nicely as a client-side web application language for DOM manipulation, like ClojureScript -- at least that's my take on it, but it really couldn't compete with the newer multi-core languages -- speedwise.
I'm not sure if the 'turnovers'/'turnovers_per_game' is a POSITIVE or a NEGATIVE. Is it that they turn it over that many times? Or they take it away?

I'm assuming it's a negative and it really means that turnovers is how many times they actually turn the ball over.
How about 22 years? Specifically, see Alan Cox's comment about running a version of rogue compiled in 1992:

https://plus.google.com/115250422803614415116/posts/hMT5kW8L...

As for MS, my experience has been different. All too often, when trying to pull up old (mid-90's) Word documents, MS Office chokes, where Libre/OpenOffice chugs along just fine.
The problem is you have multiple amplifiers: The researchers provide the loudest version they feel comfortable with in order to get published. The university PR department makes it a little louder to get a little more attention. Then the media makes it louder yet.

Of course, running a signal through that many amplifiers tends to introduce a lot of distortion.
Ah I see - thanks. But shouldn't this guy's real name be used? He is clearly a scam artist if he joins a company, produces nothing, then sues over a completely valid firing...regardless of his age.
I think games against top 25 teams (and their win percentage of those games) would be a good thing to add as well.
No .. the sign that they are rotting is them banning bitcoin apps. So I can have a bank app but not a bitcoin app on my phone.
This is probably a good time to piggyback an Ask HN: What are the best SSL providers these days with regards to price/hassle vs device/browser coverage?

I'm ashamed to say my company is still on VeriSign (ie. Network Solutions) simply out of inertia because by the time we realize the cert is near expiring there's no time to evaluate and switch providers.