skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How so? See: http://www.fed-soc.org/publications/detail/forfeiture-is-rea...

I'm opposed to the scope of civil asset forfeiture as its applied in many cases. That said, the "parade of horribles" is overblown, and contraband has always been subject to forfeiture.
It's a class action lawsuit, so no need for each plaintiff to file their own case. The filing requests the return of license fees which were wrongfully collected due to the copyright being invalid. Presumably it will need to be shown that the invalid filing was deliberate, the issue being whether or not Warner believed they owned the rights in good faith.
So for a rather refreshing change, tech employers should be honest. There is zero engineering shortage; instead, they want to use h1bs to drive down the prevailing wages. There are also plenty of very skilled mid-career engineers who have left the valley for the midwest because of the better net financial situation when a starter home doesn't cost $1.1m. If valley employers paid better, or got their shit together and pushed the governments here to allow affordable housing, they'd have plenty of engineers available.
That’s why that is the message, not the actual implementation of the message …

This message was never supposed to be written anywhere, in any language. That message is the content. It’s the goal, it’s what is supposed to be delivered. It’s the payload and the panel came together to find a way to transport that payload across time.

The goal is not that someone in the future reads exactly that message, the goal is that someone in the future sees the markers and they convey (at least parts of) the message to them so that they honestly believe it.

As you can see, just describing the intended message right now, today, can be highly misleading and confusing, even when you are straightforward in describing it. People are quick in assuming fraud and deception, for example. That’s the challenge.

But no, no one wanted to put signs with that message up. That would not do. That was always clear. Even if people in 10,000 years would understand English.
This article is from a year ago and change. Have there been any recent developments? I've seen the link going around lately, but I can't tell whether it's because there's news or just because it happens to be going around again.
Let me go way out on a limb here </sarcasm> and predict that after the usual preliminary fencing by the lawyers -- which could take months longer -- this lawsuit will settle on terms that include a payment of generous attorneys' fees to the plaintiffs' lawyers by Warner/Chappell Music.

That's because this is a class-action lawsuit (filed a year ago). The complaint was signed by a lawyer whose Web site announces that he "concentrates his practice in entertainment and consumer litigation" [1]. The other signatory law firm bills itself as "one of the most prominent class action firms in the world." [2]

Last October the judge granted Warner/Chappell Music's motion to stay some of the peripheral aspects of the lawsuit. [3]

[1] http://www.randallnewman.net/lawsuit-seeks-declaration-that-...

[2] http://www.whafh.com/modules/practice_area/index.php?action=...

[3] http://www.law360.com/articles/481852/warner-wins-stay-of-so...
>by contrast most suburban homes have a ~40 year lifecycle

Do you have a source for this number? It seems quite a bit lower than I'd expect.
> If that is what is being proposed, that sounds like a massive conflict of interest, with potential for serious abuse, even if the intent is positive.

Let's say for a moment, for the sake of argument, that YC decided to be unethical and accept payment in exchange for "accepting" people to the program to get them a visa.

1) Would it be so terrible to have people who have enough money to afford such a bribe be in the US contributing to the economy?

2) Do you really think YC would stake their reputation on such an abuse?

3) O1A visas are often given to artists, actors and athletes. Do you think that there isn't at least a few theater and movie production houses (usually underfunded and desperate for cash) that are accepting the payments to list a rich foreigner as an "actor" in their show?

In other words, I don't think this is actually a huge concern.
Torments of a System Administrator : Do not ever assume
1.6 and 1.7 have made me really enjoy working with django again
When I was a junior I would have refused this offer, I don't know how you want to hire an intermediate-senior with that.
Would that nasty move be acceptable today for McDonalds? The Internet has changed some things.
What tool did the author use for tracking? this seems like an interesting metric everyone should track.

edit: batlog a cronjob the author wrote

https://github.com/jradavenport/batlog
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If you look at the French data, there is a lot of solar in the mix there.
To give some idea of speed...http://www.aerospike.com/blog/aerospike-doubles-in-memory-no...

It's got some impressive responses from people in industry too, check out this post about its use at eBay... http://www.aerospike.com/blog/ebay-helps-retailers-know-your...
Why would that be something you want of a base unit?! You make no sense. That would be a property of a unit without a benefit.

That would be intellectual masturbation, nothing actually useful, and certainly not a worthwhile criticism of the metric system …

People who say this about the metric system should get off their imperial addiction already. Or die of old age eventually and not teach their kids this bullshit so that we can live in peace.
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And yet millions of dollars of steady revenue derive from this copyright. It just goes to show you that Copyright Works! No, wait, it goes to show you that copyright protects incumbents, and probably doesn't really encourage innovation. It certainly doesn't increase the public domain, as currently constituted.
Yes, but that criticism was not the basis of the argument he responded to, which he perfectly addressed. Try to think of a way to define a unit of measurement that isn't either volatile or completely arbitrary.

Besides, I think that the really useful part of the metric system is that the metric prefixes intuitively make sense when expressed in decimal, and it's clearly expressed from, say, 100143.796 meters, how many millimeters, centimeters, decimeters, meters and kilometers it is. You could say the same thing about inches, feet, yards and miles, but usually I see a combination of those units of varying ratios rather than kiloyards or megainches.
I used Grunt for a little while until I discovered Gulp. Thought I'd post another option if anyone is interested. Much easier to get up and going. Although it doesn't have as large a community of tools. I'm confident it will get there.

Both are great work horses.
"The tomb of the first Chinese emperor has not been opened because they are concerned it's filled with mercury gas."

If that's really the only reason, it seems easy enough to circumvent.
What about the firefox built-in pdf reader or google docs?
Not true? What kind of threat did Iraq constitute? Did inspectors find anything? What intelligence about hostile plans did the US have? (And I don't mean the idiotic statements by Cheney et al, which proclaimed Iraq to be training terrorists.)

Absence of evidence is not evidence.

Weapons inspectors found nothing before the invasion, and nothing afterwards. Also, the CIA had very little inside intelligence about the regime (so called defectors turned out to have false information) on which to base decisions on.

If you can't know, don't invade.
Does anyone know what happened in Physics in the early 2000s? The number "Employed" spikes from ~30% to ~40% in a very short time span and then falls rapidly to ~20:

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/business/mon...
I wish they would just be more honest and state that killing cash would give them:
1. A payment processing oligoply that would persist forever because of regulatory capture and regulatory barriers to entry.
2. A privileged insider position when dealing with government, as all government control of payments would be implemented by them. Imagine the current revolving door between the fed, sec, treasury, and banks, but much worse. Think of all the political enemies that could be rendered financially dead.
3. The power to implement negative nominal interest rates in deflationary scenarios, which is the dream scenario of large banks and central banks everywhere, allowing them to steal from savers in ALL economic circumstances.

It's a fascist (I.e. corporate state) control freak's dream.

The Japanese have been smart enough to stick with cash in their decades of deflation. As it looks increasingly like a number of Western economies may 'turn Japanese', I hope those nations will follow Japan and stick with cash.

... and 1.5% of GDP (almost certainly overstated by an order of magnitude) is a low price to pay to prevent a demonstrably criminal and corrupt banking cartel from controlling all transactions.
Why is that a complication? Wouldn't it be up to the vendor if they want to lose the foreign business? Or are you saying that the government doesn't want it because they don't want to exclude foreigners?
Maybe I'm just missing it, but one statistic I would like to see is how long it takes your battery to fully recharge, and how that statistic has changed over time.
The submitted title ("YC's Startup Visa Plan B") was editorialized. That's against the HN guidelines.
Facebook's final, populated load page still loads faster than Gmail.
Hi Max,
I took a look at your jobs page and my heart sank at this:
https://jobs.lever.co/transcriptic/e1cfcb93-05d8-4026-8f70-3...

The first two bullet points there are like the two biggest red flags possible in an ops job post. It reads as a development team that has built a fragile and unreliable system and is looking for a superman to dump it on.

It will matter much more if your VP of Engineering position can capacity plan than it will matter if your operations position can code. No amount of ops rockstars can fight a (larger) dev team that won't design with real world workload capacity and reliability as not just a concern but a focus.
And whoever is downvoting these posts is a sick human being.
This just means "most" businesses are not fully ready yet to run critical functions primarily on mobile and tablets.

Seriously, even email sucks on mobile phone let alone anything else.
Yes, a higher court may issue an opinion reversing all prior decisions on the same subject. SCOTUS does this all the time.

However, such rulings only reverse the legal holdings of those prior rulings (generally meaning the "rules" developed by or applied in those prior rulings). Generally, the outcomes of the underlying cases are not automatically reversed. Defendants in criminal cases can usually appeal their outcomes even if their cases has been finalized (all appeals concluded), but defendants in civil cases usually cannot unless their cases are still proceeding through the court system (i.e., the case is still somewhere in the appeals process).
http://www.theenglishwoodworker.com/?p=1250
I've used it for some time and don't really like it much.
Though note that "fixing" this will remove your mac's ability to handle network requests when asleep, which is a pretty cool feature that I wish the phones/pads had (they sleep the network cards to save power)

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3774
The biggest you can afford. I have 3 27 inch monitors and it's awesome to have that much real estate.
Oh, will you elaborate on the pitfalls? :)

I have just started using C# with RX extensions to do some ui work, and so far I liked it. But I have never utilized RX directly on managing event-streams, mostly for binding changing data to various ways of displaying it.

Second thing, I don't think I have been "trapped in the monad", and as far as I can see, C# devs are quite fond of the pattern (i.e., isn't Task a monad, Observable as well?)

Thanks!
Wow, could you share what sort of price range is that? I never knew the debit cards transaction were free payment process.
Yes, this! I never have cash. After Thursday night date night I looked like a cheapskate because I couldn’t tip the valet. Whoops...
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8092864.
We definitely need to get more creative with visas. Gov. Snyder here in Michigan has proposed in a meeting with President Obama that he help create 50,000 visas over five years for immigrants willing to live in Detroit. They would either have advanced degrees or exceptional ability in certain fields.

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20140123/NEWS/140129933...

With 700,000 people living in a city that used to hold over two million there's plenty of room.
Doesn't that depends on countries? Last time i heard the US credit card payment system was some ridiculously expensive rate at 2 - 3%.
^ This is the exact debate that should be avoided for startups to be successful in driving through ANY change through DC.

I don't know enough to say what the correct position is on H-1Bs, but I know that many people believe strongly in both sides. We're too small a community to solve the problem here, so all we can do is be caught up in it and have our proposals die like flies on a spider's web.
This titles recent

http://read.humanjavascript.com/ch01-introduction.html
This is a repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5878417.
You're never a true tourist in any of the cities in the UK, you're still in your home country, so you're highly unlikely to be a target.
These crimes almost always target foreign tourists quite specifically, they're far easier (and usually also individually more profitable) marks for a multitude of reasons.
And this:

http://google.com/search?q=xml-rpc

Still being used some.
What was the average legal cost for filing for an O1? I think I could meet the criteria, but being in the US is only marginally useful for me.

I was under the impression O1 visas didn't require employment?
The big problem is that developers who care are most likely already storing password securely, except for those who for some reasons have to battle various corporate rules. And those who don't care, most of them will not start caring because they have more pressing matters at hand than their company's security.
> I can only imagine what the next dozen new categories will be invented in the next 15 years.

I don't think 15 years will make that much difference, the economics have changed and have been turned on the head. Today we have this handful of mega corporations with billions of cash in their coffers that are responsible for much of the services used by most of the world everyday and they also reap most of the revenue. Every new entrant even remotely successful it's either squashed or bought out, so I don't think there's there's the potential for a new company to reach the same heights. In fact, I think the market will be exactly the same, if there will be a bunch of new big companies out there, they will likely be started by the same entrepreneurs responsible for today's major ventures, they are the ones with the loads of cash, remember.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=readings+in+distributed+systems#!/...
2.7% of transaction!!! That is really an eye opener. What do Norwegian paid with? Debit Card? or NFC Credit based Cards?
Decided to stop/stuck too long (around 5 minutes) at Level 21, which is pretty disappointing for me.
The name of the book is "Crafting Selves" by Dorinne Kondo

http://www.amazon.com/Crafting-Selves-Discourses-Identity-Wo...
Is this a new thought? Seems like natural thinking to me... Not an expert so would love someone more knowledgeable to chime in.
I'm in Paris at the moment and I absolutely love it. I plan to stay. I was worried that this article would be about some sort of honeymoon period that I'm on - glad to see it's the opposite.

There's a lot to love, and I've very quickly found my feet here. There are lots of accessible co-working spaces, and finding accommodation has proven pretty easy so far. Compared to London, the quality of life at the same cost is far, far better. For me at least.

The biggest negative find is families of gypsies living on mattresses on the street, which I've never seen anywhere before on this scale. It's shocking to me to see toddlers playing in the gutter of an affluent western city.
How is that different from freezing someone's assets?
If you have the budget, IPS displays are much easier to look at all day compared to TN panels.
HTML is not WYSIWYG, and it's a pain in the butt to share an html document with specialty fonts, graphics, precise print layouts, etc in it.
Re: that last point, you're exactly right. See Nikki's piece (search: O-1) https://medium.com/@nikkidurkin99/my-startup-failed-and-this...

Unfortunately, that's a feature, not a bug. The anti-fraud people prefer it that way, and they have a lot of influence within DC to block these proposed changes.

Luckily, the O-1A, in contrast with the H-1B visa, is that it is an analog to a green card, the EB-1A, so if you are able to get an O-1A and wish to get the professional stability that a green card offers, you should be able to quickly progress from O-1A to EB-1A, which doesn't have the badly backlogged lines (especially for Indians or Chinese) of the EB-2 or EB-3 work-based, academic-qualifications green cards.
sorry, but 25 followers is nowhere close to "traction". I would say traction in this case is at least 1,000 followers.
It was sort of under the table, not done via regular, publicly visible means. It's prone to abuse. Asset freezing usually (always?) comes from a court order, which is generally done in public, with arguments from both sides.
Do you mostly travel around the East coast? Sprint seems to have pretty good coverage in the north east. Outside of that it looks like a few major market cities though.
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I have been under a mixed impression on the O-1 for a long time myself. Nikki seems to indicate that hers at least was a work-sponsorship. However, though I don't have a similar anecdote to point to, I understand you can do a self-sponsorship O-1 that isn't tied to an employer.

More research is needed here.
Since I'm rather arrogant it would be nice to be able to easily compare my clicks against the statistics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Bus does not work for IPC between computers, AFAIK, only for processes within one machine. CORBA works across machines.
Moral hazard you want people who pay bribes as immigrants?
Further more it is completely unusable on some touch devices, I tried iPad 4 and iPhone 5. They both scroll the page (better: bump to the top, as if you wanted to scroll past the end of a page) instead of moving the blocks. :-/
Manage What Matters, Not What's Measurable
Advice to author. Create iOS and Android versions of games ASAP. You are just hours away from getting cloned on app stores.
Isn't that the problem with conspiracy theories? There is no disconfirming evidence ever. All evidence is either neutral or somehow confirms the conspiracy theory.
The feeling I get from reading the article is the theory is highly speculative. Could be just this line: "‘loop quantum gravity’ — a theoretical attempt that has yet to find experimental support"
MasterCard's duopoly (with Visa) of all electronic payment systems in the world is so well-known it is often used as the first example of such a market in economics courses. "Legacy" payment systems such as cheques and cash are being slowly replaced by systems very much controlled by MasterCard or Visa.

This is troublesome for two reasons.

The first is political; both companies are American. This gives the American government way too much control over such critical infrastructure. Even if they do not overtly mess with the system, they most certainly are passing all this information on to their intelligence agencies. Even a single worthy competitor from somewhere else would be a huge improvement.

The second is that it stifles innovation. Because of the lack of a well-established competition, the only innovation these companies are interested in is new products that make use of their existing infrastructure. Contactless payments on mobile phones could have been reality five years ago, but MC and Visa have to jump through several hoops and require special SIMs to have it all run over the infrastructure they sell instead of the internet. And the banks are happy to wait instead of innovating themselves.

I'm all for killing cash by digital means. But not if these two companies are doing it.
In the USA, it's cheaper to process paper checks than it is to do credit and debit card processing. Why? Because the US government does check processing.

The USA, as a society, made a huge mistake in letting private interests make electronic money. The oligopoly issue is huge, as is the cost per transaction, and the security issues of such a patched together Rube Goldberg system.
Maintainable JavaScript - Zakas [0]

Testable JavaScript - Trostler [1]

Both fairly recent and for the most part, useful.

[0] - http://www.amazon.com/Maintainable-JavaScript-Nicholas-C-Zak...

[1] - http://www.amazon.com/Testable-JavaScript-Mark-Ethan-Trostle...
The MC CEO wants to instruct his people to never turn down a deal, because he wants to expand into the 85% of the market MC et al. do not have.

He's making the bet that as he grows the market, MC will be able to make the new parts profitable somehow, and that the thing holding him back is his dealmakers being too conservative.

Put another way, he's hit top safe speed, and he's just flipped up the molly-guard on the "untested go-faster button."
Nice job. I will love seeing this type of game over-run the play store compared to something like 100 falling balls.
re: streaming, the value is the instant access to the content. how did you fill up your hard drive? rip DVDs? Pirate it? Totally absurd to say streaming legal content instantly is not compelling vs. the file server/warez approach.

Web based e-mail is obviously superior to setting up your own mail server. Zero-install, access anywhere. I have memories of configuring sendmail and ripping my hair out. You really think this was a superior way of dealing with something as fundamental as e-mail? Nowadays it "just works." In the interim we had ISP hosted mail servers which were always broken, misconfigured, going down, and eating our e-mail. I remember walking on eggshells helping people set up their ISP e-mail knowing that I was one checkbox away ("Leave a copy of e-mail on server") from making it so their entire e-mail history was a hard drive crash from being destroyed permanently.

And don't get me started on OSS source control. Github has transformed the way open source works. CVS (and non DVCSes in general) sucked. The online tools sucked. I still cringe when I get redirected to source forge for a download. A lot of amazing work got done but I'd never want to go back there.

I'm with you that wikipedia "the software" could have been created in the 1990s, but it would have been a barren wasteland without the larger access the web has now. In fact, I'd be shocked if there weren't a handful of attempts to bild an open internet based encyclopedia during that time, and now we have selection bias making us think wikipedia was the first. So what you see there is an example of something that, imho, couldn't exist without wider access to the web. Ie, it's an example of not just better tooling but Internet applications that became enabled by wider access, which is what you seem to have been arguing against actually existing.
Technically, that already exists on the EB-5 investor green card, which requires an investment of either $500k or $1M and the creation of ten jobs within two years. Except that the investment is intended to be from the applicant's personal capital, which doesn't really work for sweat equity founders.

Exactly. More importantly in the incentive structure I foresee, do you think YC's LPs would allow YC to stake their reputation on such an abuse?

No, actually, this is incorrect. Those are O-1B visas, for the arts, not O-1A, which is business and science.
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