skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you figure out how to crowdfund the next Avatar/Game of Thrones/Last of Us let me know. You might not care about them, but enough people did value them enough to pay 100s of millions for them after they were created. I'm eagerly awaiting anyone to put forward a plan on how to convince the masses to risk pre-paying 100s of millions for the creation of a new-but-equivalently-awesome IP. It would not be a sensible risk proposition by any measure.
For anyone who doesn't want to pull out their phone, reduce the width of your browser to about the size of a smartphone and then click the link.
> I find this frankly implausible. What percentage of people you know have been arrested?

The narrow-mindedness of this is breathtaking. An article about a peer-reviewed paper containing basic survey results asserts something about the entire US and your response is: "Well, that doesn't line up with my circle of friends so it must be bullshit?"

> Unless that class is much, much larger than your "real" class, then it would have to have an astronomical arrest rate (80%?) to compensate.

Assuming you're in a "high/squeaky-clean socio-economic", then, yes, that class is much larger than yours. If you live in the US and make $100k or more (which is likely true for many HN readers), there are four times as many people who make less than you.

> I wanna see the data.

The article links to the paper (behind a paywall). If you want to see the data, get off your butt and look at the data.
Does the EULA say they can cancel rides after you commit? If so, they aren't such a better choice than a taxi.
Happy to have patches to the various real-world virt-* tools written in OCaml here:

https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs
I remember seeing bleeding edge cannabis growers experimenting with LED lights several years ago. Now most growers I know use use supplemental LED lights in their operation.
The pairing idea isn't new although it does seem to be very successful - there's a company called Thinkful (http://www.thinkful.com) that does online learning by pairing a mentor who gets paid with every student who signs up and pays for a course. They apparently have a very good amount of traction with thousands of paying students. Should be interesting to see how askadev's free model compares.
Is there any research, any numbers, anything quantifiable to indicate that this is more than an opinion piece?
I know plenty who sat in the drunk tank in college, or were busted on minor drug or shoplifting offenses or other teenage nonsense. I feel that the number is plausible.
Not the most assuring name for an application I send nearly all my personal data through.
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Do you have a link or something?
Huh. I can't check it myself, but I'm surprised Apple doesn't route it through some Apple owned domain to mask their underlying service.
I have a dismissed DWI that's still part of the public record.
If I had to have an actual opinion on this, I'd say they shouldn't, and the ISPs should just eat the cost of the upgrades, like they do for all their other network upgrades.

But this just goes all the way back to the "up to" and "unlimited" bullshit verbiage ISPs have been using for years to sell their product.

I just don't think this is as much about net neutrality as people are making it out to be. It's more or less, "Who should pay for this?" and the choices are, "Customers of ISPs" or "Customers of CDNs".
That's exactly what we are after. Awesome!
i did initially interpret it as "of all youth arrests worldwide, 40% take place in the usa", but realised the number was probably a bit high for that.
Everything is brokan and it's YOUR fault, probably!
A ranting blog post about how the people in the business of tech need to get it together and build compelling stuff for everyone, that includes the developers that have to maintain their work!

http://jasonds.co.uk/Blog/the-world-is-broken
Kickstarter may not be a store, but it is not an investment either. VC knowingly take risks in pursuit of significant returns. I've always wondered just what people are getting when they back kickstarters. Basically just the vague hope that they might get a product some day.
Gee thanks for showing me that different areas of my crappy monitor display color differently.
Find a cat?
Cats find you.
The issue very much isn't about the "people at the top", as they live in Marin or Palo Alto anyway, or if they live in SF, they live in some multi-million dollar Pac Heights house, and aren't pushing out any baristas.

I just don't get the narrative here...

1. Young techie gentrifier to be graduates from college, applies to Google and Twitter.

2. Gets job offer. Accepts. Let's say Twitter. She's really stoked to work on high throughput Scala servers or something.

3. Needs a place to live in SF.

4. Moves in to start new job, is now a "problem" in someone's eyes.

So what is this theoretical person supposed to do to avoid being part of the problem?

Is the answer: Welcome to your new job/life in SF! I see you're a techie. Please be aware that you should base your housing spend on a local barista salary, not your own, so if you can't find a place, consider Daly City. Also, the locals have decided on a "tithing" figure for you at 8% of your salary. Pick local charities of your choice. You still should work at a local homeless shelter once a month. Additionally, please do not go to any bars in the Mission, Haight, etc...your kind is not wanted there. Thanks!
I would dispute that it's easy to pick up for beginners. It's easy to START doing then things, and then intricacies you don't understand will kill you. The prototype chain, function call context, closures, asynchronous code, etc.

Type class Dog extends Animal into js2coffee.org and you get this:

var Dog,
__hasProp = {}.hasOwnProperty,
__extends = function(child, parent) {
for (var key in parent) {
if (__hasProp.call(parent, key)) child[key] = parent[key];
}
function ctor() {
this.constructor = child;
}
ctor.prototype = parent.prototype;
child.prototype = new ctor();
child.__super__ = parent.prototype;
return child;
};

Dog = (function(_super) {
__extends(Dog, _super);

function Dog() {
return Dog.__super__.constructor.apply(this, arguments);
}

return Dog;

})(Animal);
Perhaps in addition to a trial period of removing the weight, you can try increasing the reply cooldown for deeply nested conversations (more-so than it currently is) that are in threads whose subject contain the triggered keywords. This way, you can slow down/stop flame wars in NSA articles without having to weigh it down.
Raise your hand if your elected representative has any idea what having ISPs become Common Carriers means or entails. Keep your hand up if 10% of your district also knows. Keep your hand up if you (and your district collectively) can out lobby Comcast, TWC, ATT, Verizon, etc.

I don't know that it's that people aren't pissed off, its probably more that the people who are pissed off are uninformed, will not become informed easily, and will not organize as easily as already well organized and very well funded corporations, lobbyists, and PACs.
I agree, the name sounds foreign and it also will be pronounced different ways.
Then clearly you don't understand how to use your framework, or you don't understand how to run a webserver. Saying "I would have made it.. but..." is certainly not something i'd let fly in my dev team.

I've taken a look at your code and you do not appear to be senior-level material. You managed to turn a relatively small game into 40+ files and 15+ directories of mostly useless framework fluff just to make what appears to be a mostly-javascript game.

- Trying to review your code, I have to navigate a nested tree of framework php and nodejs includes to actually discover what the heck is going on.
- Why do you need nodejs for development? That just introduces yet another framework to install and deal with packaging and deployment. Why not just stick to backbone or some other minimal framework tool in javascript? You're not even importing that much useful stuff to warrant using npm.
- You're doing a lot of manual dom manipulation which looks sloppy
- You've committed a minified css file

Maybe some of the code you wrote might be okay, but your choice of setup and prep for a project seems pretty junior. Get some experience working with veteran developers on more complex projects (i.e. not simple web dev).
I remember tons of people getting arrested for underage drinking in college - much more so than in high school where getting caught by parents was a bigger concern than cops.
Offhand I can't think of any of my friends who haven't been arrested.
I should have a right to make people forget that I have a bad attitude, never shower and am prone to cursing anyone in my vicinity?
You might also want to do something about those arrest rates. Treat the disease, not the symptoms.
for most consumers, if it looks like a store and acts like a store... they will think its a store.
Same here, if I follow your link I get redirected to http://artsy.github.io/scroll-frame/undefined which 404s, obviously...
Just to be clear, even if the charges are dropped, the arrest stays on your record. To get it expunged takes court motions: http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/expungement-of-crimin...
(Author here)

I think it's totally fair. The whole reason I wrote this post is to help people decide which resources to not use. I love LYAH but I don't care who it was written for. I wanted people to know, specifically, what they were missing with books like that, because it was not obvious to me when I started that I should not start with LYAH (or at least, that I should have kept in mind what it was missing).
It took me less than a minute to find the relevant code in their github repository by searching it for data.breach.cc. https://github.com/breach/breach_core/blob/master/package.js... & https://github.com/breach/breach_core/blob/master/lib/auto_u...
If they want to become a cable company maybe they should merge with Intel/Verizon OnCue to get better economy of fail.
> The biggest secret to Lisp is that it is actually the simplest programming language ever created—and that, coupled with its expressiveness and elegance, is why it is favored exclusively by the best programmers in the world.

But is it?
I believe it, most arrests would fall into:

- truancy (skipping school)
- petty theft
- underage drinking
- DUI
- drug possession (mostly marijuana)

Now think about how many people you know who have ever done one of those things.
Misplaced Weight
They're the extreme edge cases, but I'm sure George Zimmerman and Casey Anthony would agree 100%
I'm with a password "Quit smoking" for a second week now and nothing happens ( it's my screen saver password - just sayin' :D ). I enter it for 5-6 times a day. What's next?
This needs more attention. Can we even trust OpenBSD, much less Linux? There's so much code in there. How could we possibly know that they're safe? That packets aren't a little bigger than they need to be? We'll just have to live with it I guess.
Not implausible at all.

I'm probably in the squeaky clean category. On a day of a meteor shower, I went with some friends to take pictures of the sky. A park ranger arrested us, for being in a national park after dark. After arresting us, he spent 5 mins talking on the radio with some other ranger, then spent 5 mins writing a citation. Paid it in the mail a few weeks later, never heard of it again.

It doesn't take much to be arrested. 40% is a bit high, but then again my group of friends at the time was Harvard/Princeton/Stanford/Berkeley students. The socioeconomic status of the population really doesn't matter.
its not exactly comparable, but: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001MS7106/ref=oh_aui_detai...
A JavaScript Constructor Problem, and Three Solutions
Hi, I'm a long-time HN user, and I've been arrested.

(I also know lots of others who have.)
this was posted an hour ago, has 3 points, and I'm the first comment?

looks like meh.com is generating a...... meh response!
That also sounds 90% good enough to make the media useless. A politician doesn't like an article about his corrupt behavior? Well, he wasn't convicted for anything in the article, so away it goes!
Survey: CloudStack users go take this survey
Nice pictures, but these are highly constructed.

Have a look at William Christenberry's Box Brownie photographs [1] (and his subsequent models of the buildings).

Also Tartovksy's [2] and Evans' [3] Polaroid photos. Not Tartovsky's portraits but the building details.

I imagine it is a question of definitions.

Meta: trying to pass on a Google Image search string results in epic URLs.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=William+Christenberry&client...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=William+Christenberry&client...

[3] https://www.google.com/search?q=William+Christenberry&client...
I grew up in a mostly white, rural, middle class setting, and I would estimate that at least 25% of my male friends have been arrested. There are probably enough "other classes" (e.g. non-white, urban, or poor) that are sufficiently populous with sufficiently higher arrest rates that I don't have much difficulty believing the statistic.
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It wouldn't be that much more different then paper medical records. Sure it would enable some interesting attack vectors, but I don't see that to be a compelling reason to not do it. It also wouldn't have to be a mandatory thing. People that are comfortable with it can use it, and those that aren't don't have to. Much like banks, there were (are) lots of people that don't trust back and choose not to use them. The same would be true for something like this.
Nice, 168K gallons a month is 5600 a day (assuming 30 day months) or 295 barrels of oil per day [1]. You could supply the grid with the equivalent MW used by the entire super charging network with one solar thermal plant [2]

[1] http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=24&t=10

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility -- had a look at this over the 4th of July weekend, its a pretty neat facility.
I always felt Slava Pestov's (now abandoned) blog on Factor's development was a good view into language design: http://factor-language.blogspot.com/

He and Andy Wingo (http://wingolog.org) both write very well on language issues though they may skew towards implementation concerns over design concerns.
Building trust with a new review system
Yes, but there are vasts swaths of the country were arrest rates are much much higher than 10 out of 2000 people (not that they would all tell you anyway).

I understand living in a bubble.... but you are not at least aware of the vast scale of these areas? If not, you should drive around more in my opinion.
Ah, good to hear it wasn't intentional. =) I realized shortly after posting that comment that I'm a terrible hypocrite, cause we're actually guilty of the same thing in a couple places on our platform. Granted, we repeat the footer links in the sidebar, but still, it's something I'd like to fix.

Anyway, good work on the library, and thanks for open sourcing it!
The current title says "Over 40% of all young men have been arrested in the USA". This can easily be interpreted as 40% of all young men in the whole world have been arrested in the USA. Instead, it should say "Over 40% of all young men in the USA have been arrested".
I think this disconnect is a result of some drift from what Kickstarter's early examples envisioned. They had in mind rewards being more like tokens or thank-yous, taking up a smallish part of the actual funding budget: more like giving tshirts or little hand-made art things to backers to thank them for their support. The kind of thing you get at different membership tiers when you join EFF or another nonprofit. So by the terms, you had to deliver the tshirt regardless, but whether the project succeeded or not was separate and not guaranteed. But now many rewards are essentially preorders for a product, which cannot be delivered unless it's produced, so people are effectively making a binding legal promise up front that the project will succeed (which in many cases they cannot really keep).
No luck on Chrome 35.0.1916.153 on Windows 8.

edit: Actually, using the middle mouse button and arrows work once the focus is on the right element, but no scroll bar in sight.

edit edit: The scrollbar is actually at the bottom of the page, but it does behave a bit weird.
"Are we the Baddies?"
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKcmnrE5oY )

Probably not, but you may be working in a closer profession to them.
Those are interesting projects for sure, but for me neither of those really qualify. I'd want to see the core browser algorithms written in human-readable JavaScript - things like HTML parsing, CSS layout, and rendering.
well... given our vast population in jail I'm guessing it's much higher than other countries?
OCaml is a very nice language, and the compiler is pretty good but the only issue is that the implementation doesn't allow you to use more than one CPU core because of some issue with the GC design. F#, which is heavily OCaml inspired, has good parallel support.
On the other hand, if you have ever been arrested, even if not accused of anything, and you want to apply for citizenship or a green card in the US, then the burden is placed on you to get proof that you have never been accused of anything [1]. If you fail to provide such evidence (as can happen if you were arrested outside of the US and the police in that country aren't interested in cooperating), then the default presumption is one of guilt rather than innocence.

Edit: And in case it wasn't clear, failure to obtain a green card in the US can make it more difficult to find employment, as not all companies are eager to navigate immigration procedures on the behalf of their employees.

[1]: http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/form/i-485ins... (page 3)
>It is also possible to interpret the headline as saying that 40% of all youths worldwide have been in the US at some point

Is it really possible to reasonably interpret the title in this way? Really really?
In the popularity of programming languages list,
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

F# is number 13;
ML is number 26;
Haskell is number 38;
OCaml is ranked below 50.

So the ML family of languages is way more popular than Haskell, but is fragmented.

Below are my impressions/experiences.

In general, the languages themselves are excellent, but the standard libraries vary in quality, as do the tool chains.
ML is eager by default, Haskell lazy. Otherwise, it's the same mindset (although some people will think Haskell went overboard on monads, some people think OCaml's libs aren't monadic enough)

For example f# is excellent in all of the above, but is _challenged_ in the multi-platform aspect.

OCaml's standard library is limited, but this is compensated with Opam. Considering OCaml on windows is simply looking for trouble. The OCaml compiler is good, but other tools are limited or a bit primitive (heap profilers, debuggers, performance profilers). The community is rather reserved, but very helpful.

Haskell standard library is also limited (for example you ain't gonna jump far with the string implementation that's offered by Prelude, and Num is also warted). The toolchain is better than OCaml's. Also Cabal has libs for everything, but ymmv. The community is really gentle and eager to help.

ML, sorry no experience, most other flavours seem dead or quiet. MLton is a really interesting compiler.
Add update functionality to your software. It's free for Open Source
Do you have reason to believe that people born during that window are particularly jail-prone?
No, just stop. Listen to what the parent says here. You made it hard for anyone to review your code because of all the framework misdirection. He/she also reports on your liberal mixing of ui and game state code in javascript which points to lack of understanding of MVC, or separation-of-concerns in general.

If you want to respond, respond to those items, not excuses <- denotes junior-level mentality.
I've made something to track spending on a weekly basis. I've found that most budget apps are too heavy, and most run on a monthly cycle. I can easily calculate rough figures for fixed income and expenses, I just need something to track spending money. Doing a budget by week is much easier to track and plan, and makes it easier to answer the question "Can I afford this?". Anyway, here is the Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrewoven...

And the mobile app: https://budgetapp.azurewebsites.net/
If this is even close to correct (and I'm betting it is) we have a serious problem in the country.

The solution seems obvious. Stop arresting for minor drug offenses and victimless crimes like underage alcohol possession. Watch the number go back down to reasonable levels.
Can you let us know what company this is?
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Sounds bad, but assuming an arrest under 23 can happen any time between the ages of, say, 7 and 22, that's actually 2.7% in any given year, or roughly 1 in every 40 male children.

It almost certainly points to police officers arresting children en masse in order to discover the real perpetrator rather than any child criminality epidemic.
I aligns to previously known data and studies that >50% of all black men in the age group 18-60 were in US prisons.

I didn't know about the rates of young whites and hispanics.
But given the enormous prisoner numbers in the US it also sounds plausible.
I don't see it as a gray zone at all. There is a public record for a reason, as well as libel/slander laws in the U.S. The search engines and the Internet just think those don't matter. They are wrong, and the courts will continue to tweak the verbiage and hand down rulings until they adhere to them.

- If a local paper published the home address of a woman who was a private citizen in their paper, every single day, and her crazy ex-husband used that information to locate her and kill her, the newspaper would be liable. But the Internet does that all of the time and claims that it's free speech.

- If a person is convicted of a crime, does 10 years in prison, and serves their debt to society, that's still public record. An employer can find it even without doing a Google search, although that's what people are claiming is a 'grey area'. Is it 'fair' that the person's name immediately turns up their arrest record as the #1 result? Well, 'fair' and having done 10 years in prison don't really add up.

Here's the thing - in the U.S., people are up in arms over the 'right to be forgotten' and claiming it violates free speech. But that's not really true. Today, if there is inaccurate information about you - like, say, Google links to a website that says you were busted smoking crack in a nearby schoolyard, but it is completely untrue - you can go after the offending site and they will have to remove it under U.S. laws, and that means Google's links will evaporate. But this isn't the case in the E.U., where this law was passed.
But the problem here isn't that you can't fill your internet connection, period, but that you can't fill it with traffic from one particular endpoint. There is a bilateral aspect to the problem here that's totally ignored in your hypothetical.

Different example. Air Canada has an unlimited North America flight pass: http://www.aircanada.com/en/offers/air/wallet_na_faq/wallet_.... You can characterize this pass as buying you "unlimited travel to any destination in North America." Okay, so is it Air Canada's fault if you really want to go to Buffalo regularly, but you often have trouble booking a flight because of limited capacity at BUF? Does Air Canada have to pay for the airport upgrades? After all, it's their customers that want to go to Buffalo, and they're paying to travel to any destination in North America.