skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act?

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1791

> "A person or gleaner shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability arising from the nature, age, packaging, or condition of apparently wholesome food or an apparently fit grocery product that the person or gleaner donates in good faith to a nonprofit organization for ultimate distribution to needy individuals."

This was passed by Bill Clinton to encourage food donation by protecting people from liabilities short of gross negligence.

From Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Emerson_Good_Samaritan_Act...
Ostensibly an article about medicine but really more about how to achieve true excellence at what you do ... definitely a long read but well worth the time
The Post-PC PC
I am not an investor nor a lawyer but if I was on the other end, I'd want open honesty regardless. I would explain the situation to them exactly as you did here. I would include the comment about how he was invaluable to getting the MVP done as you mentioned in the comment but you have confidence in doing this moving forward solo and why.

Discuss in advanced with your former cofounder about what he expects shares, if any, for his contribution this far so you have something to let the angels know. In reality if you guys did things right and was on a proper vesting schedule he wouldn't vest anything unless it was past the one year cliff period. Either way, know your numbers cold and a solid plan of action from here on out.

Any hard data you can get from now till the meeting is much better than what you project i.e. sign ups of interest, paying customers, launch trajectory, etc..

Best of luck
> I force myself to write for every movie I watch and do it as quick as possible

Ha ha I do exactly the same thing. I write about a movie that I have watched before moving on to the next one.
Watson in your pocket: Supercomputer gets own apps
Some things to think about:

1) Idiomatic speech is difficult to deviate from. So to be careful, you have to be constantly on guard for how you might be perceived. ("He" as the generic pronoun is also in this category.)

2) HN has a wide audience, including people from the US, UK, and many countries that don't speak English primarily. So understanding how others might perceive you is more important here than among a group of close friends.
http://cssdeck.com - lets see what kind of tempting offers you can come up with.
This is a cool idea. I've been experimenting with a similar model for design. Undesigned[1] will redesign or prototype a single page in one week for $1500.

In your case, the greatest struggle is going to be supplying the marketplace. It makes sense to offer the service at unsustainable margins for now while you seed the market, so I wouldn't worry too much about all the comments talking about how unsustainable it is, and instead focus on the ones talking about the difficulty of building a marketplace.

1: http://www.undesigned.io
Regarding incremental UI changes, I recall reading that Google staged Chrome's tab style and color redesigns over multiple releases, presumably to avoid upset users. I'm not sure whether to admire their concern for user confusion or to feel like the dupe of some magician's sleight of hand. :)

Unfortunately, I can find that page now.
Before I forget I love this post on writing by james la fond

http://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=210
One would hope so. "Command And Control" is worth a read; it reviews the history of nuclear weapons, focusing mostly on their safety record. (Spoiler alert: it's bad.)

http://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Illu...
A citation or reference would greatly strengthen your argument.
White House Details Thinking on Cybersecurity Flaws
DuinoCube: A Retro Game Console You Can Hack
Yes, we should ignore library code LOC as there's no associated cognitive/maintenance overhead, which is what we are really trying to count. I have happily used (C)Python for a decade without peaking at the source. Same goes for, say, math.h
I find a clean install of Firefox to be almost as fast as Chrome, and in some places more responsive - particularly when opening the browser. Chrome will get the basic UI up on the screen very fast but take a moment before you can interact with it, Firefox is usable the moment it is on screen, even though that time is slightly longer).

Chrome does have preloading of certain things which make loading some things faster although there are addons that can replicate that on Firefox.
The Seductive Trap of Black-Box Machine Learning
Not trying to argue with you. I'm only pointing out that if they felt they "needed" you they would have clarified that by now. They may think they are "helping" you out by giving you some real world experience.

My point is you should have a talk with them and find out what's in their head, before you go all "I think I deserve..." There is no better time then now if the project is at a critical junction.

Simply ask what expectations you should have from them employment/equity-wise. How do they see me folding you into the firm. Don't let them put it off and get an answer, within a reasonable time.

Don't make it combative. Find out what they are thinking... digest it... tell them what you are thinking... let them digest... and come to an agreement... or not
MUST SEE VIDEO:
Edit: Remove unnecessary snark.

It is still frustrating that a bunch of plug-ins appear to have been disrupted because of removing the add-on/status bar, though. Not everything has moved to the new location automatically, and it's not immediately obvious how to get some of them back.
>$3500

>20-30 hours of senior dev time

Someone should point the fact that senior devs are on average making $175/hr to Google's Greatest Asset, who recently wondered where to find contracts that yield $100/hr.
Music mixing app for the Mac - http://www.atomicdroplet.com/. Has excellent beat gridding, amongst other things.

Makes about $1k/month, have run some promos in the $1-4k territory. Would suit someone who is actually competent at marketing because my social numbers are appalling. Circa $60k.
I can't decide if this is a philosophical work of interactive art or an indirect request for help with depression.
First things first. What is a droplet and why do I need that?
It's true that GitHub has a great API, but when you run your own server and have access to the running software and file system you get the best API for working on git repos there is: git. Or perhaps libgit2 and your favourite language's bindings.

Subjectively, I haven't found GitHub's API to be great to work with, but this is because they use OAuth and OAuth is just needlessly complicated and inconvenient.
Many cars already have dynamic cruise controls, which is basically auto pilot for highway driving. The one which are installed on BMW, brakes when the car in front of you brakes and decreases speed on curves.
The same question came to my mind and I asked a doctor "Sir, what happens to the students in MBBS who just pass taking a border mark?" The doctor said you should still be ok because passing score itself is like 60% + lot of practice involved. I did not bother to check the pass mark required for the course but now-a-days I go to doctor who have at least 10+ years of experience.
Aww,

a = setInterval(function() { $("a:contains('Solve')").simulate("click"); }, 1000)

minutes later:

You are dead.

There's a lesson here somewhere.
Rust looks very exciting and promising. I see the hardest things for it to be not necessarily syntax and concurrency (which are very well done), but performance and getting to compete with C++11 (C++14), which actually seems to become fresh and interesting again.

Performance is tough. I feel most often C++ is not chosen for its inherent cleanliness, elegance and beauty, but because there are no viable competitors at the given performance point. C++ compilers have been honed and tweaked for more than a decade now, so it will be a hard battle ahead.
10,000 EUR + 2.5% equity (o_O);
Yeah, that's sorta stuck with me. I know a lot of people who say that the perfect is the enemy of the good.

Well, buddy, that just means that if you have a good solution, it's stopping you from getting a perfect solution.
Unless the creator of this marketplace is himself a provider, in which case he picks the best projects for himself at $3000 profit, and offloads the bad projects to others for $50 profit.
I just received the shipping confirmation for my 16-core kickstarter board.

Since they are relatively low volume, it seems to be pretty hard for them to get the necessary parts from suppliers reliably. I think they need a huge customer for just the chip (and hence plenty of working capital), or a large investment infusion to be able to deliver more boards in high volumes. They seem to be focused on finishing out what they have sold so far before committing to any new sales, which is probably a good thing since it's taken them so long to just fill the kickstarter orders.

I would expect to see them on HN again in the future if anything positive happens, it's how I found their kickstarter, after all.
Looks like Opera!
It's in the style of http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/
3D printer lets you print your own functioning game controllers
Define "work with"
>What does it mean to treat all packets equally?

The definition that google gives and I quoted does not not contain that phrase.

> If I have "equal" connectivity to content sources X and Y, but X sends 10 times the amount of traffic that can fit in its pipe, it's very "neutral" of me to do nothing about it. And then the experience sucks for everyone.

The ISP has the option to charge more per packet until it makes economical sense. The increased revenue would allow the ISP to increase infrastructure and incentivizes heavy users to reduce their use. That is one of at least a few options ISPs have while remaining net neutral.
I really don't see the point, given how ubiquitous data is, at least at EDGE speeds, and how expensive international long distance remains. I'd rather have something which degraded to half duplex voice messages (and IM) relaxing hard realtime on the slowest data links. I also want wideband audio whenever possible (which is frequent).

There were open source systems which used CSD/HSCSD on Windows CE ("cryptophone", in early incarnations), and systems which did used analog phone lines and then modems and slip/ppp (I think a plugin for speak freely), but neither analog lines nor HSCSD are particularly common these days.

Even the military stuff moved to ISDN, largely.
After Heartbleed, NSA reveals some flaws are kept secret
When you travel abroad, does it trouble you that it's not your plane? Eventually, the majority of people won't care. Some will pay a premium to have a dedicated car or service level, but I would happily be rid of mine.

The ability to book the type of car I need (van to move something large, ute to deliver dirt/gravel, tiny car to commute, 4WD for a family camping trip) as the default way of thinking can't come soon enough for me.
I can confirm they have made it to backer #3811 as of last Friday for shipping, hoping it arrives sometime this week.
Thanks lutusp, I see your point here, but I don't really care to be seen as advance python programmer, I want to be. By say "How to become" does not necessarily mean that "I want to be known to"..If so, looks like poor choice of words.
Considering how US government pensions are administered, I am not at all surprised other branches of government are using antediluvian tech.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2014/03/22/sinkhol...
I agree, the inactive tabs are not very distinguishable or readable and starkly contrast the active tab's light grey when using a darker color theme on Windows 8.1. Everything else seems great so far, though.
New York Goes to War Against Airbnb for Disrupting Hotel Business
Maybe offtopic but did you try to look golang[1]?

[1] http://golang.org
Well, I don't want to be spending money to learn when things are freely available.
I think the main difference is they are easy to interrupt and continue from the current real position, where doing that with CA is more difficult. That would let you do some nifty stuff with gestures, I guess.
I don't know that the two situations make for a good comparison.
Thanks. It helps ! I plan to write it often.
thank you and thank you. ok that really makes sense. my site is b2b and although transactions do not occur on the website every ounce of frustration I can save matters. we also get a ton of users from US/AU/EU/AS so even with that it would make sense.
I saw that talk! A bit slow at starting up, but really not any worse than a few seconds of high network latency, and then your web app basically worked like a champ.
Among other injustices: prosecutors have an incentive to go after those who cannot mount a strong defense (and many tools to further reduce the ability of individuals to defend themselves via asset seizures, gag orders, and similar mechanisms).

This means that there's a great deal of prosecution of petty and minor crimes, including a huge number of convictions for drug offenses and for what amounts to "being poor". I'll add child support payments to this list: if the state sees a benefit in raising a child, why make that a burden on one specific individual, to the point of incarceration, particularly where circumstances may be less than clear (family law is like that). It's another area where decriminalization could very well have better results for all involved: less acrimonious court cases, better welfare for the child, and a lack of oppression on the alleged father.

Meantime: large and complex cases against those with means, whether drug kingpins, organized crime lords, or Wall Street bankers and traders (but I repeat myself) go under-prosecuted. The cases are more complex, yes, but the social harm presented also, IMO, greatly outweighs that of most petty crime.

Add in the psychological aspects of much crime, violent, white-collar, or otherwise, and there's a lot found wanting in the present US criminal and penal system.

Many moons ago one of the more interesting college courses I took was, of all things, a breadth-requirement literature class covering concepts of penal law. The reading included Michel Foucault[1], his book I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered my Mother, my Sister and my Brother[3], and Panopticon by Jeremy Bentham[4]. It's proven to be one of the more serendipitously fascinating and relevant courses in my entire college career.

________________________________

Notes:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_foucault I don't recall the specific work, an his bibliography is sufficiently extensive that it has its own wikipedia page[2].

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault_bibliography

3. http://www.amazon.com/Pierre-Riviere-having-slaughtered-brot... Reading this casually in a cafe or other public setting can itself be an interesting anthropological study.

4. http://www.amazon.com/The-Panopticon-Writings-Radical-Thinke...
Microsoft rushes to fix browser after attacks; no fix for XP users
Grocer is the most stable APNS gem I've used https://github.com/grocer/grocer
Distribution is not several. Kinkos already ran into this.
This is consistently the most motivating 1 minute of video that I've found. "I don't worry about hope...I just get it done."
I feel pretty good about it. For one, we have significantly better aliasing information than C++, and we use most of the guts, including all the optimizations and code generation, of a C++ compiler (clang/LLVM). There are also some optimizations around move semantics that are open to us but not for C++ as standardized.

That said, there are definitely performance bugs that have yet to be fixed. But I would definitely say most Rust code, if well-written, can be competitive with C++ today.
We need a DIY Lidar or a cheap Lidar. Any ideas or existing projects?

(the 3D scanning device on top of the Google car, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar )

The Lidar that Google uses costs 80k dollars, more than most cars.
> People use REPLs for more than "toying around and learning."

In all those years of Scheme, Ruby, Python, Haskell, Scala I have never used REPLs for anything other than tutorials or trying out something quickly.

> that Go doesn't have a good REPL

What makes you think that the Go REPL is not a good REPL? Have you actually tried it? Probably not, because you do not care as much about REPLs as you think do.
"The authors explore several competing explanations to the joint declines in residential and labor market mobility, including changes within the housing market, the decline in higher paying manufacturing jobs, the polarization of the job market, and the rise of dual-career households, but find little empirical support for them."
They are errors of intent and bigotry. Intent on the part of over zealous prosecutors, and simple bigotry of human nature.
It's worth mentioning that prosecutorial immunity, a form of qualified immunity, is a relatively recent creation (20th century, possibly as recent as Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents[1], 1971), and not the eternal concept some portray it as.

More on this:
http://www.section1983blog.com/2009/09/brief-summary-of-pros...

________________________________

Notes:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bivens_v._Six_Unknown_Named_Age...
I develop a Firefox add-on. In our experience, the transition to Australis was pretty smooth. Our add-on bar icon was automatically moved to the toolbar without any changes on our part, although we ended up changing the icon to better match the Australis UI. The transition might not be perfect for all methods of overlaying the add-on bar, but I think the folks at Mozilla are doing the best they can.

I don't think Mozilla should be holding back functionality to avoid breaking extensions. If an add-on is actively maintained, then the developer will update it, and if the add-on is not actively maintained, then it's going to have to break someday.
I just installed JS Switch on Nightly and clicked the Menu(burger) icon, then Customize, and was able to drag the JS Switch button into my toolbar.

(This does not address that it's crappy that icons that were in the addon bar don't, say, automatically get put into the toolbar or trigger a message notifying you how to get them back or anything, but oh well. EDIT: According to another reply this may not be the case with all addons, seems like some automagically get moved.)
This is a repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7652018

Sorry for writing this comment, but I don't know how to flag it.
Why would an open-source project stop using GitHub?
I can't decide if we should just repost it every couple days to HN.
I regret not introducing you two. I didn't know either of you but I liked your webpages. His offered some ideas that helped with issues that had been impervious to doctors; yours didn't directly matter to me beyond the encouragement of seeing someone tackling their problems themselves, but that's something. Thanks for sharing them.
it's working fairy well -- continuously click on actions that take no cost

setInterval(function () {
[].forEach.call($('#problems').childNodes, function (p) {
if (p.children &&
p.children[1] &&
p.children[1].className === 'award') {
p.children[0].click();
}
})
}, 250);

// child out
setInterval(function() {
if (window.relax_solve) {
window.relax_solve.click()
}
}, 500)
>There's a lesson here somewhere.

Reincarnation is just pointer arithmetic.
Update #2: The CEO has called me and notified me that the first wire was held up at an intermediary bank in California, and has been resent. They have also refunded the $ 1,000.00 project fee back to the client so that he can pay that to me as well.

After numerous emails and support tickets and live chat conversations that didn't provide any answers, Matt Barrie finally gave me an explanation at 10:30 pm when he called me.

The explanation given for why my driver's license was rejected was because their manual states that potential counterfeit ID’s would have a brown background in the photo section of the driver's license instead of a white background. When I renewed my license a few months ago the DMV gave me the option of using my recent license photo or take a new one. I opted to use the old photo. It's a black and white photo as far as I can tell, but according to Matt Barrie the background of my driver's license photo appeared to be "brown." I think it's a rather ridiculous reason for why they rejected my ID, it clearly does not look like a brown background photo and is in fact my valid New York ID issued from the state. Regardless, they should have told me this immediately instead of giving me the runaround for days and holding up my payment. They also should have done this verification process before I began working on the project and before I waited for 2 weeks for the first wire. They also never requested that I do a keycode verification where I hold a sign using the unique keycode they give me and holding up my ID. I am displeased with their handling of this, but thankful that my client is dependable and professional and has opted to continue this project off of freelancer.com.

I regret that these are the actions I had to take in order to get freelancer.com to clarify why they were holding my payment and rejecting my ID. I am lucky enough to be working with an understanding and motivated client who has gone out of his way to help clear up this situation. He was gracious enough to advance me a payment this evening even though he is still awaiting his returned funds from freelancer.com

In the future, I hope that freelancer.com will be more direct with their customers when issues like this arise. I also hope that everyone who is having a similar issue gets it resolved ASAP without it having to come to this ugliness.

My wife and I cannot thank all of you enough for your support. When companies won't do the right thing, it's good to know that the power of social media can help keep them accountable.
Given that much of the Paper prototyping was done in Origami, this was my first thought when I saw this library. I haven't actually used Paper yet (it's still US-only) but I'm in love with these kinds of tactile, fun interfaces.
The best gossip happens offline.
Crédit : les taux du prêt dépendants de l’euro   
Souscrire un emprunt devient une option moins considérée par les Européens. Le crédit et le bas niveau d’inflation ne font pas bon ménage en Europe.
Wow, this storm in a teacup would be amusing if it wasn't so sad for a generally well-regarded outfit (Mozilla). They can't win - people with either your concerns or the opposite will dump Firefox.

Meanwhile both sides will continue to use Microsoft products, despite their history of extremely un-ethical business practises; and stand by while their country (pardon my assumption that they are USians) murders people in other countries with drones every day.

It would be nice to see outrage at outrageous things.
Why have reverse tabs won? Has anyone done any usability test on them?
On OS X, with a space left for the hit area of only 10px tall, it's really hard to drag a window that uses them. For context, 10px is about half the cursor's height.

I can see a reason for them on Win/Linux, but I find them completely unfit for the Mac. I guess people just maximize the window and leave it at that.

On the other hand, I'm glad there's still a distinction between the search box and the address bar. The annoyance of omnibar mistaking a url for a search query and vice-versa, even admitting it's a rare event, is not worth the trouble to me. Besides, educating the user on such difference seems important to me.
I had Alex Aiken as my professor for the class I took on compilers last Spring. I really enjoyed his teaching and I remember him discussing this project during the last lecture. Very cool stuff. The class is still probably my favorite class I've taken.
Then Github should have held off on that legalese post that incited anger. You can't put something like that out re: an issue that involves so much human emotion.