skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Slavery, indentures, and other conditions of involuntary servitude have been outlawed by constitutional amendment for a long time, now.

In the particular instance where a parent is obligated to labor for the benefit of a child (possibly even one that is a true genetic descendant) for a term of 18 years, however, the government has seen fit to ignore the legal niceties in order to reduce its own welfare burden for supporting single parents.

In other words, the state ignores its own rule because following it would be expensive, the victims are too poor to fight it, and no one likes deadbeat parents enough to fight it for them. Expedience!

Child support is a political beehive, vigorously defended by partisans on either side of the issue. Approach it with any intent, or even none at all, and you could get swarmed and stung just for being nearby. So I say, with a megaphone from a long way away, that whether it is right or wrong, child support laws do appear to be inconsistent with foundation law.

I consider it unlikely that is why Leo does not want his own bank account. It may be a contributing factor, but I think it far more likely that he does not believe banks to be any more trustworthy than the street thugs that steal anything even remotely of value from him and his cohort. Banking may have been a significant contributing factor in his exit from home-having society. In some ways, the bank simply allows different people to take your money.

As long as it is not attached to him directly, perhaps he feels like it is harder for anyone to steal the idea of him having $10000? If he takes possession, it will get spent or stolen, and then it would be gone, along with the idea of having it. But who could really know for sure from an article that features precious little commentary from its main subject? It may be worth more to him as a floor on his self-worth ("Well, I'm worth at least $10000.") than as cash in hand.
For something like software development this could be useful, but probably not for most technical majors. There aren't nuclear engineers or rocket scientists with only a high school education
This isn't 4chan. If you're running a site which allows unmoderated anonymous content, including images, a captcha is probably a good idea. Not necessarily an effective idea, but a good idea.
https://github.com/lrvick/hashbang.sh

Repo created yesterday, account creation doesn't work, good job piggy-backing on this for promo /s
Looks like it's either lying, or I mistake ads as real results often.
I somehow fear Firefox Accounts (and the whole relatively recent Mozilla cloud things) are tiny sway (not even a step, but) towards yet another vendor-centric approach to mobiles.

This is, obviously, much better than Google, but still a tiny bit worrying...
Do you really think Ubuntu will destabilize their current LTS release by switching to Python3 and removing Python2 ? I don't know what Canonical will do for the next LTS release, but for the near future (read like 4 years) Python3 will not be a first class citizen in the Ubuntu world.
FTA: "So, now I’ll just give my money to Verizon, since I can’t give it to T-Mobile."

This, in the USA, normally comes at the cost of getting a Verizon-compatible device.
I remember reading about Core Wars in the Scientific American article back in 84. To say it blew my mind was an understatement. I was 13, Tron had come out in 82, wow what time to start in computing. Anything seemed possible.
from http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2013/files/twitter_report_2013ja...

"Transfer of Data to the Library

In December, 2010, Twitter named a Colorado-based company, Gnip, as the delivery agent for moving data to the Library.
Shortly thereafter, the Library and Gnip began to agree on specifications and processes for the transfer of files - "current" tweets - on an ongoing basis.

In February 2011, transfer of "current" tweets was initiated and began with tweets from December 2010.

On February 28, 2012, the Library received the 2006-2010 archive through Gnip in three compressed files totaling 2.3 terabytes. When uncompressed the files total 20 terabytes. The files contained approximately 21 billion tweets, each with more than 50 accompanying metadata fields, such as place and description.

As of December 1, 2012,the Library has received more than 150 billion additional tweets and corresponding metadata, for a total including the 2006-2010 archive of approximately 170 billion tweets totaling 133.2 terabytes for two compressed copies."

I find the quantities hilarious.
But since they haven't been able to cope with providing access yet I get pessimistic about their prospects of doing so at all any time soon.

Can we do something to help them?

I've been thinking maybe GPU-accelerated databases like MapD, could mitigate the cost issue for them, but I'm pretty sure that doesn't go all the way to solving the problem...
In other words: "Hacker STILL gets prison time after helping US"

Something to remember for those in his position.
Apparently my decade old email address at a .org domain can't possibly be a valid email address. /uninstall
I have no idea. I would never use a capacitive stylus for writing and drawing (quick notes or not). Also, the price is ridiculous.
It's entirely possible that the phone representative is entering your password into their system, which then checks it against the stored hash.
Firefox OS will be dead on arrival. No apps, no OEMs on board, no innovation, HTML platform which is highly questionable and a typical developer-oriented ecosphere instead of beung user-centric.

It's nice they are trying but it's a desperate attempt to grow Mozilla beyond a company which is known for its browser. With Google Chrome becoming the de-facto web browser, Firefox hastily attempting to mirror it yet loosing market share by the day, Mozilla its future doesn't look bright. At all.
> Perl tends to be consistent.

Well, for a certain kind of consistency, yes.

From the perlfunc manpage, about the return values of Perl's operators and functions in scalar versus list context: In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
Probably due to rules and regulations on what mobile terminals are allowed to be sold in the country, the site mentions some certifications, but I have no idea what JATE or TELEC's certifications are.
HipChat removes user limits on free plan
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That evidence isn't conclusive. They could be entering the password into an application that verifies with a hashed value.
Startup Lucena taking on Wall Street
Apparently, the last time I clicked on an ad was December 2013.
I'm a vegetarian - while I wish everyone else was, it is just not possible. People love their meat too much.

Ethics aside, eating meat (at the current rate) is just not sustainable economically (unless the world's population suddenly shrinks, or the amount of resources available suddenly increases or both - significantly).

Those who care about the environment, sustainability etc should read this book
http://www.amazon.com/Meatonomics-Economics-Consume-Much--Sm...

Some crazy/scary numbers from the book:

More than half the land used to grow crops in the U.S, are used to raise crops for (meat) animals.

Animal food industry is a big contributor to global warming

We've already eaten away many of the fish, and are seriously messing with the well being of our oceans

Some of the drugs used in the animal food industry, are banned in other countries (Canada, Europe etc)

And so on.

All this to say that we should carefully look at our food choices. If people want to eat meat, that's fine - we just need to make sure it is sustainable, and not cause irreversible damage to the planet.
Ethics, animal suffering, cheeseburger laws...etc? That is a whole another discussion.
There have been lots of discussions on HN about San Francisco. Although the prices are less the same thing is beginning to happen in revitalized downtown Detroit which currently has 100% occupancy. So with demand outreaching supply landlords are raising rents driving current tenants out.
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What don't you like about Quickbooks? Why not switch to something else?
I don't think you're the one living in a bubble. Tech journalists of all kinds tend to surround themselves with other tech journalists, and generalize their tastes/experiences across the entire population.
Massimo Vignelli, 1931-2014
It would be really interesting to see degree vs non-degree numbers across professions. Doctors, lawyers, architects, aerospace engineers, etc.
People think that they can build a game-changer with some really great industrial design and packaging... what really matters is an equally beautiful software system

Are we missing an aspect here? I feel like we are missing something. I was pretty certain hardware had more aspects that make it compelling than design and packaging.
are you using TOR or any other IP masking solution?
The more reCaptchas get solved or requested by a particular IP the harder they become, so if you are behind a IP that has been used for solving/requesting a lot of reCaptchas it is close to impossible to get a readable one (took me about 80 tries till I got one right when I used TOR). I don't know what exactly determines this difficulty but it is definitely there and Google talks about it here: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.de/2013/10/recaptcha-ju...
I guarantee you that this feature will cause many people to get divorced.
European Elections 2014 in D3
The most overlooked element in interaction design.
Insightful comment from Thomas on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2582344

When we're talking about passwords stored "encrypted" on customer-exposed applications, I agree.

When we're talking about passwords "vaulted" in non-exposed systems used for customer support, I have a harder time getting upset about it. I don't like systems that work this way, but I see the support/security tradeoff and it's a valid one.

It is likely but not certain that the site in question here did not go through the trouble of setting up a non-exposed secure password vault system for customer support people to use under supervision. Probably they do just store passwords in a column somewhere. But you don't know for sure whether they do.
Let me get this straight. It is hard to review, test and maintain code in Excel workbooks, so we should instead write custom software for these tasks?!

Custom software is, to a non-hacker, the definition of "difficult to review, test, and maintain." You may as well suggest they input their data into a mystery box with some pixies inside who will crunch the numbers for them. :)

Remember, Excel (and spreadsheets in general) ARE custom software, written for this exact need, and with decades of polish and bug-fixing so that even non-wizards can use them.

I agree that we should not fly the space shuttle from an Excel macro. But I feel that suggesting economists should write software instead of use spreadsheets is not only throwing out the baby with the bathwater, but also throwing out the bathtub and the whole bathroom too. Specialty tools exist for this very use case. Let's discuss how to improve them instead of indulging our hacker instinct and reinventing a hammer every time we need to drive a nail.
My router is a Billion 7800DXL, but unfortunately the linked website has zero reviews for that brand. Based on the specs (plus reviews elsewhere and it's higher cost) I expect it will handle a gigabit connection. LAN transfers are crazy fast and torrents hit very high speeds. I'm just looking for something a little more scientific or standardised.
You picked a poor example.
ICC is not GWU

https://www.google.com/search?q=illinois+central+college+tui...

$7k/yr is a great price for a college education. And there is time in summer and after school to work or study additional trade work. The education might not be top-shelf, bit if the student doesn't know enough to skip the classes on the curriculum, they are quite valuable.
Insider view of Facebook as a tech company
Computer Languages Character Distribution
Does anyone know what ARM core is in the Snapdragon MSM8210? Is it the Cortex-A5 or the Cortex-A7? A7 would be interesting because it supports virtualization (although memory is a little tight for that).
It's not creepy if you're the one doing it, apparently?
I've previously submitted this link, but given the interest in the pattern with yesterday's article [0] I thought it appropriate to post again. Hopefully someone finds it useful. Happy to answer any and all questions

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7799687
I agree with the quoted segment, except that in this case they're sending back plaintext to users. As such, even if the passwords are being "vaulted", the plaintext passes back through the customer-exposed systems.
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So? This is not particularly uncommon if you run a large number of EC2 instances.
Specific and correct beats generally wrong.

Parent's proposal is for cohorts of thousands of students per year, of you bundle objectively similar schools.
The Verizon versions of iPad Air, iPad Retina Mini, iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C are identical to those sold for AT&T and T-Mobile, and will work on any of those three networks[1]. (It's different/more complicated for older devices.)

Also, an agreement Verizon signed when buying their LTE spectrum from the FCC says that all Verizon LTE devices must be carrier-unlocked out of the box[2].

However, Verizon will refuse to activate any device that was not originally sold for use on its network (they use a unique device hardware ID for this). AT&T and T-Mobile don't do this.

Therefore, for maximum flexibility, buy Verizon versions of recent Apple devices. You can then switch to AT&T or T-Mobile (not Sprint), or back again to Verizon, at any time, as many times as you wish. This is what the author did[3].

[1]: http://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_2008_wireless_sp...

[3]: http://www.caseyliss.com/2014/5/21/tmo-vs-vzw-plans
Not to sound like a complete troll but, uh, how should i send this gif to the client?
As a splitforce user this is pretty cool.. biggest issue is having to wait for conclusive results, whatever speeds this up and auto prunes away the losing options is welcome.
>Have Software Lead Your Hardware Team

Having worked in this sort of environment, this scares me a bit. Software creeps a LOT more easily than hardware. It's too easy for a software person to ask for "small" upgrades that end up being much more trouble than they're worth: upgrading to faster processors, more capacity memory, etc, it can be a real pain. There has to be a balance, and I'm not anxious to have a software person direct a hardware team again.
Being able to send passwords back over email and/or view them as an admin does not mean they are stored in the DB in the clear. It is a fairly common practice to strongly encrypt passwords in the DB and decrypt them when it is necessary for admin personnel to be able to use them.
I agree 100%, and see other problems for users as well. The worst web pages I encounter are the javascript-constructed DOM pages. And by far the worst offender is the odious Google Web Toolkit.

It may be that I encounter some of these "modern" pages without knowing it because some dev has put in the time to make it work well, it seems that the vast majority are absolutely terrible. It's a small decrease in developer effort for a huge decrease in user satisfaction. I remember the terrible terrible #! days of Twitter with sadness.

Some developers have a tendency to go for the internally sophisticated/beautiful in preference to the best experience for the user. I hope that blog posts like this one don't let loose these developers' worst tendencies.
Try reading your password to somebody else and getting them to enter it correctly. Unless your password is terrible, you should find that you can tell the difference between them verifying a text field vs. entering it into the system pretty easily.
More on Swarm and the future of Foursquare
It might not be possible to calculate "is it worth it for me", but it should be possible to calculate it on average.

I can look at the average income of a high school graduate ($29,950 according to http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=77) and then the average salary of a graduate from a particular university with a specific major and see what the difference is for the average person.

It's not a perfect comparison since I'm not perfectly average, but it gives a better guideline than comparing the average of a generic college graudate to a high school graduate.

It would be even more useful comparing salaries of specific jobs that don't require a college degree to specific salaries of jobs that do and the specific major required for those jobs.
> Would you want to return to that non-homeless life that you failed?

You're eating burgers from restaurants from "that life", you're sleeping on a park bench from "that life", you're wearing used tshirts from "that life", you're watching tv at the shelter and the news are about the politics from "that life", you're getting napkins from a shopping mall from "that life" ...

This is why I don't get the bank account thing. It's definitely one foot in "that life", but so are a ton of other things in a homeless person's life (as I picture it).
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For practical purposes, that counts as "in the clear". Password should not be encrypted, they should be irreversibly hashed. (Preferably with bcrypt or scrypt or something meant for this use case; in this case I mean "hash" just in the technical sense of "irreversible", not that any ol' hash function is fine.)
I think what benjaminpv is getting at is that a system like stacked ranking drives people within an organization to build fiefdoms of their own creation, where they are permanently on top. That way you don't get reorged into some group with established cliques and you end up on the bottom of the stack.
Boilerplate-free promises in Node
Does Anyone Ever Read PDFs?
Ant groups 'more efficient than Google' in processing data, new study finds
A lot of the misgivings most developers seem to have in this thread have to do with the physical hardware specs. Which I hate to use this term but this is a side effect of "1st world privilege". FireFoxOS/Phones were designed for emerging markets [1]. In the West dropping $500+ USD on a smartphone is not uncommon (Or to sell retail phones for this price). While in 'emerging markets' like China/India/Brazil/etc. 500 dollars can be 4-6 months worth of rent [2].

[1] FireFoxOS presentation at mobile conference circa 2013

[2] numbeo.com
It's somewhat ironic in that one of the Microsoft's aims has been to solve the problem of having some features that were only GUI-accessible, meaning they were difficult/impossible to automate.

So PSh gets treated as the first-class interface with the GUI being a frontend to underlying PSh functionality. I've gotten away from Windows sysadmin work, but from what you're describing it sounds like they've swung the pendulum a bit too far in the other direction and no some of the GUI stuff isn't easily accessible.

Having both would obviously be ideal, but if you were to put a gun to my head and make me choose, I'd take the current situation of a lacking GUI every time, personally. All the times I'd run into situations where the answer was essentially "nope, can't automate that" in the past were beyond infuriating.
You know how it goes.

Give a man to fish, and today is eating; teach him a fish, and he forevers.
Abstract: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/05/21/1407083111

Another recent ant-related story:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7658551
AngularJS Directive for OAuth 2.0
Thanks for posting it...I think we've reached a point where there are so many good libraries on Github that even a 1,000+ star repo may be unknown to many of the people who would find it useful. This is something I would've tried to build on my own...but after seeing a repo with not only 3,000+ stars, which is more than the number of the library's bytes (in development), but also fewer than 5 open issues out of 60+...I'm happy to just use your solution. Nice work!
Hackers Lock iPhones Remotely and Demand $100 To Unlock It
I think it is safe to assume that John Carmack is an exception and the vast majority of non college graduates shouldn't expect to recreate his results.
... who is in software development?
I don't know about you, but the companies I've worked with don't delete anything - no matter what.
https://github.com/visionmedia/node-thunkify
One page apps that aren't crawlable don't want to be crawled, don't make the necessary work, or are simply incompetent. Making an ajax site crawlable isn't exactly rocket science.

The gap this will really widen is the one between sites that do the necessary work themselves, and those who don't.
I have not, but that doesn't seem to be the point of the article, unfortunately.

The article says that this might be complicated because you might need an address, but then it goes on about how it is some kind of mental state of disconnection that prevents this guy from someone realizing the value of the $10k in the bank.
iOS UI Prototyping with Quartz Composer
Yeah, I don't get why people use the big-name providers unless they have a family plan. Prepaid services like Net10, Straight Talk, Cricket, Metro PCS, Boost, H2O, Jolt, Redpocket, etc are less than half the cost of the bigger ILECs/CLECs and most of them are or have GSM offerings. I like that Net10 and Straight Talk give you T-mobile or AT&T sims to bring over locked phones.

My personal favorite combo at the moment is Straight Talk's "Unlimited" 30 day service for $45, combined with an AT&T Radiant pre-paid phone ($70 cash). This phone is the same specs as a new Moto-E smartphone but for half the price. (I find it hilarious that I can lose or break my phone 7 times and still pay less than for one iPhone 5)
Go has pretty neat semantics for channels and goroutines, but it presumes you want threads and blocking IO. Or in other words, "hey kid here's some rope"

Your approach to concurrency matters even more than the tool you use, and python is a great tool for network services. It's my preferred tool actually.

Maybe it's time to start porting twisted to go.
Yeah. I always use random passwords for the answers to "security questions", and it's fascinating to read them off over the phone. It's obvious that they're stored in the clear, because they don't care about (for instance) case or spacing.
"90% of cells in our body are bacteria - organically, our bodies are only 10% human" That would be amazing, but of course those ~3 X 10^12 cells only weigh about a kilo, so yes, 'organically' (whatever that means in this context) bacterial cells outnumber ours by a large ratio, but in terms of mass or volume, they are only a few percent. Not to say they aren't extremely important.
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1. It also, many times, does not mean more fraud, waste, and abuse. And if the government is providing a set of services, and their revenue is reduced, they will struggle to continue providing those services.

2. It is naive to assume that every additional tax has equal impact on the economy, or an equal distortionary effect on a consumer's supply and demand.

A New York Hotel Tax of 15% may have less impact on the city's economy than raising the sales or income tax to cover the lost revenue.