skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's another funny regulation effect from California:
http://www.newser.com/story/191142/couple-could-be-fined-500...

If you don't water you lawn, you're fined. If you do, you're fined.

And here's an example of a guy going to jail for having a rainwater pool on their property:

http://www.realfarmacy.com/oregon-man-sent-to-jail-for-catch...
Insultaneous – one-click sms insults
This looks cool, but I'm not a fan of this tagline: "Your current blogging platform is complicated, slow and badly designed. It makes blogging a chore."
If 1/10th is what the debt is 'worth', then who cares who buys it?
Right now, the laws of economics are a bigger problem than the laws of physics. Field effect transistors have been shown to work 5nm and even 3nm. However, the new lithography technologies needed to reach those resolutions cheaply are nowhere near ready.
> The bank is not going to care about your $400 unpaid comcast bill when writing you a mortgage.

[citation needed]

Sure, a single unpaid bill won't hurt you, but that's because it won't hurt your credit score much. If your credit score is low enough, your bank may still give you a loan to buy a house, but will demand a lot more money up front and charge you a much higher interest rate.

If you can buy a house for cash, it might not matter, but there are plenty of non-"poor people" who can't just drop a quarter million dollars off in a suitcase.
What he should have told him is: "Get to the US by any means possible--by hook or by crook. You don't have the luxury of waiting for a job. Once you're in, life will be very difficult at first but if you work hard, don't feel sorry for yourself and stay out of trouble, in a few years your life will be much better. If that sounds too scary or dangerous, stay here."
This is the worst possible advice a person could give. Collectors can and will go to court to get a Judgement (capital-J), which allows them to garnish wages (among other things) and in some cases is actually worse than declaring bankruptcy.

"If you have a lot of cash" speaks volumes about where you're coming from, though. Congratulations on being one of the very privileged few in this country who can afford to do what you suggest. The vast majority of the rest simply cannot.
There is a small difference in interest rates that you get based on your credit score.

When I bought a car from the dealer I told the loan guy that I had a 0.9% rate at my Credit Union so I didn't need financing. He was able to match the rate based on my credit score and take 300.00 off the car. I doubt he would have believed that I qualified for %0.9 if I had bad credit. So for me we are talking about a difference of at least $300 a year for having a good Rating.
They don't but they attach it to money they give to Police departments. If you want money for xyz, you must also do this. The Federal Government also does mandates of these sorts with school funding and all types of funding to get what they want done when otherwise it wouldn't be possible.
Show HN: “Twitter for video highlights”
I made this: http://dipperapp.com

Lets you trim YouTube videos to the good part, then share it in the app, FB/Twitter, Web. Made it in Objective C, back end in Python and Bottle. Whaddya think?

This is a beta. Please don't post the "share video" URLs to HN, it'll kill the server :)
It's either that, or the next Wes Anderson movie
The problem is they do things like take out the internet in all of Syria.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/13/5998237/nsa-responsible-fo...

They are targeting civilian networks, not military ones. That is a huge problem. Its one thing if they were trying to break into foreign, legitimate targets of interest [military, defense industry, foreign intelligence, foreign governments].

That isn't what they are doing. They are just trying to get access to everything they can get their hands on. Civilian and military alike.
Ingenious solution -- faced with contradicting evidence, and rather than debate the topic on its merits, just downvote the post and walk away.
The cops in my town wear cameras. I also happen to be a firefighter/paramedic in my town.

This has given me a reason to ponder these cameras quite a bit...

It's not uncommon for me to be in someone's house, while they are in some sort state that they would probably not want to have recorded (if someone is having a heart attack at 2 in the morning, they are not generally concerned about the fact that they sleep naked). Now you have a situation where a cop with a camera is walking into the room... Most folks don't even realize it's there (it's black, and blends in with their uniform pretty well).

Should the LEO disclose he's wearing a camera? "Hey, I notice you just fell in the shower and are naked, soaking wet, and in an awkward position. Just FYI... I'm wearing a camera."

This doesn't even begin to cover the HIPAA implications...

In general, I'm very much in favor of cameras on cops. I think it helps keep everyone on their best behavior in potentially confrontational situations. That being said... I have been in situations where the presence of the camera has made me very uncomfortable.
Learn a new domain every year
Isn't Elon Musk just the best? It's surprising that he was in charge at PayPal which has some of the least friendly customer policies. At least it's sale to eBay has enabled him to do other glorious things.
Aha integrated with FogBugz for visual product roadmaps
> I'm no constitutional expert, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how the federal government could possibly have the authority this sort of law would require.

Requirements to make and keep records which demonstrate compliance with legal restrictions are a routine and essential part of the enforceability of many laws, so, to the extent that the Constitution explicitly imposes restrictions on the States and explicitly authorizes Congress to enforce those restrictions through "appropriate legislation" (especially in light of the necessary and proper clause), Congressionally-imposed recordkeeping requirements to demonstrate compliance would seem to be within the scope of the Congressional power thus granted.

This is relevant because the 14th Amendment commands that "No State shall [...] deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws" and provides that "The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article".

Even with the way the Supreme Court has limited the authorization clause of the 14th Amendment to (unlike identical language elsewhere) only authorize corrective legislation, so that it might not be possible for Congress to impose a general and unconditional requirement, Congress could still impose a requirement on particular states as a consequences of past violation of Constitutional due process or equal protection occurring under the power of those states.

(It could also do it by making it a prerequisite for, say, federal law enforcement assistance funding, or access to federal law enforcement databases, etc. -- and it could do both in parallel, so it would be required both for states found to have past violations for which it serves as a remedy, and for states wishing to federal assistance for law enforcement.)
"microthreads", channels, and the select statement predate go at least by a couple of decades in Alef, Plan9's libthread, Limbo, Newsqueak, etc.
Seeking Young Entrepreneurs for Docu-Series
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The above referenced Joel On Software article is called "The Perils of JavaSchools" and does in fact make an explicit difference between references and C style pointers.
@christoph:

As the article's author pointed out, you don't need many of those addons in UE4 because the functionality is ALREADY built into the engine.

Want realistic car physics? Already built in! Want great shaders? Already built in! Want rigged faces or a cityscape background? As regular assets, buy them anywhere on the internet (including the Unity asset store), and then put them into UE4!

And this is why one of Unity's strengths is also one of its weaknesses. The reliance on so many third party libraries for basic functionality means that A) integration with the engine isn't always perfect, B) updates and fixes are dependent on the third party author, and C) the UT community is nickeled and dimed for many things which should be included already.
I was called by a collector once. Old medical bill, the clinic had sent it to an old address and the mail forwarding had expired. Why they never called or tracked me down I don't know, but they eventually sold it to a collector who had no trouble finding my phone number.

When they called I was confused at first, then remembered and realized it was legit, paid it, end of story. They were utterly professional and courteous about everything.
After years of hype, patent troll Vringo demolished on appeal
Because it incentivizes being difficult to collect from.
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38 minutes to log into your account seems excessive. Remember, this isn't just for password resets — it's to look up an account in the database by email address.
They pursue a judgement on sums up around thousands of dollars where the charges are clearly valid. There is no way that's going to happen on some piddly $400 amount that you have documented is substantially BS. What I'm talking about is people I've seen in recent threads freaked out about some comcast charge affecting their credit report. Don't waste a minute of your time dealing with them or the credit bureaus. Just don't pay.
for spaced repetition learning, I can recommend ankisrs.net
I can understand. On the other side, my career is still going strong after, well, a very long time.
I'm confused. Was the article changed in the last couple minutes (because that clearly says exactly that) or are you referring to the title/headline here?

I'd say that clicking through to a tiny and clear press statement should prevent any misunderstanding here.. People that just read the headline ... are misinformed most of the time anyway.
At least some victim states might very well be aware of what is going on but may feel that silently monitoring these attacks is in their best interest. Or that they can spread misinformation through these channels when deemed necessary.
Might want to wait until after any potential referendum where we might leave...
> This doesn't even begin to cover the HIPAA implications...

HIPAA doesn't generally apply to LEOs -- who are not covered entities (either health care providers nor payers) in the first place, so there probably aren't any HIPAA implications.
Then wouldn't these individuals not even care to pay f their debt at .10 to the 1.00?
The Supreme Court ruled that Congress may, under the Commerce Clause, prohibit growing marijuana for personal medical use in states where medical marijuana is legal, because it constitutes interstate commerce. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich

Before that, the Supreme Court ruled that growing wheat to feed your own chickens constitutes interstate commerce. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wickard_v._Filbur...

If enough politicians wanted the law, the constitutional argument would be of minimal concern.
I think Labcorp's valuation is perfectly reasonable.

I think Theranos is overvalued by a factor of ten fold.

The market eventually forces a sane valuation on companies based on revenue and earnings. It's extraordinarily unlikely a company charging vastly less for its products will produce a dramatically greater economic outcome than Labcorp which dominates the industry (Labcorp has the best of both worlds, high prices, and high market share, the only thing they could improve is volume).

Theranos investors have had all their future returns pulled forward. Even in a wildly successful outcome, Theranos is unlikely to be worth much more than 2x what they already are, 20 years from now. That assumes they can one day grow to have ten billion in sales and a billion in profit, based on much lower prices and higher volume. That day is so far off, there's zero chance of Theranos sustaining their crazy valuation between here and there as capital markets turn negative after this hyper bull market run.
It can be both successful and a terrible idea. Another example would be the single-user automobile becoming the dominant form of transit in the US.
You Can Get Hacked Just By Watching This Cat Video on YouTube
"Journalism is not a technology."

Depends; there's always the (no longer so quaint) Soviet usage of the term.
Yup it seems off by at least an order of magnitude --ie even for a theoretical maximum of 100 megatons.
Is collaborative consumption creating servants out of American workers?
A lender hopes the purchaser retrieves the rest, thus sending a signal to borrowers that they should expect to be on the hook for the full amount.
i believe he was an early investor in paypal, not a founder or employee. he most likely was fairly hands-off a lot of the operations.

EDIT: also, most underdog companies are "the best" in terms of customer service until they get huge. there's no doubt that he's one-of-a-kind, though.
Sometimes the debt is bullshit, but it might be easier to buy it for a small percentage than to pay it off. We get letters for a medical debt that's factually wrong, but by the time we convince Debt Agency N that we don't actually owe it, they've sold it off to Debt Agency N+1 for 1/10th of what they claim we owe them (which is already 1/10th of what was originally 'owed'.)

It would be well worth paying 1/100th of the original bill to not have to check the mail anymore, and throw that garbage away, but if we were to actually PAY the 1/10th settlement amount, it would open us to liability for the WHOLE amount.

tldr, I'm willing to be extorted, but not ludicrously so.
He'll be CEO of HP in no time.
No. No, they cannot.
I can put the word "science" in an article's text too, but real science requires more than a word.

The linked article contains the word science (more than once), but no science and none of the usual indicators of science -- like the statement of a hypothesis to be tested, a basis for falsification, and ... wait for it ... evidence in support of the hypothesis.

It's contentless pop psychology, a pastiche of words that primarily convey emotions and that have no clear definition.
That's the essence of loaning money; the central difference between medieval and modern economies.
I hope that's not a new trend in domain names... "No dude, there's three dashes between the r and t, you're gonna get the _other_ other North"
It's not like the police take the cameras, and immediately post them to youtube. If complaints are made, video can be reviewed by those who need to review it. If it needs to go to court, censoring can be added.

I do see your point. I would counter with: if we are to claim we're free to record the actions of the police while they work, surely they have the right to record what goes on as well.
interesting domain name n-o-r-t-h.com
i wonder if the hyphens could become a trend like "getX.com"
I had a visceral reaction to "global salt" (I've always heard this called: "pepper") because it's so insecure for passwords, but I guess it's not as bad for email addresses. In the case of passwords, we find that a global salt is fairly ineffective because too many people use common (stupid) passwords like "password." If 10% of the hashes are the same, you can probably figure out what that hash means pretty quickly. We don't have this overlap problem with emails so it's less scary.

Still, simply storing the create time or a randomly generated salt right on the user table is more secure than using a global salt.
What an absolutely terrible domain name: http://www.n-o-r-t-h.com/
> Journalism is not a technology.

It is a domain of technology, the same as computing is.

> It serves an important civic and moral purpose

Which is orthogonal to whether or not it is a (domain of) technology. Medicine, unquestionably, is a domain of technology, and it serves an important civic and moral purpose, too.

Journalism may be a largely social domain of technology, but social technology is just as real as digital technology, or any other kind.
Many thanks for answering my questions. Yes You addressed #5 in #3.

Looking forward to seeing your updates on the Blot framework. Rock on!!
Credit isn't just for poor people
This is one of the most unbelievable articles I've ever read.

If you didn't read it all the way through, do so over lunch or something; it's amazing.

The idea of "millions of dollars" worth of debt being traded for around on thumb drives, and that all those thumb drives really contain are excel spreadsheets is mind boggling. Those people in those spreadsheets are real people, and they're being completely duhumanized.

Also the fact that debt is being purchased for 1/12 of a penny is completely just...unbelievable.

Honestly this whole article reads like some dystopian nightmare. Shady former criminals trading peoples' lives around like it's nothing.

Horrifying.
Demystifying Conway's Law
> the standard notation is easier to read

Only because you're used to it. In fact, standard notation is much harder to read because it's ambiguous, often to the point of actively introducing errors. See:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/s...

> If you want I can give you examples

No, I don't dispute that blackboards are useful. What I dispute is that their utility is so high that we ought to design mathematical notation around their limitations.
Bill Gates takes the ice bucket challenge
Do you think its financially viable to run an ethical debt collection agency?
Fenix – Quick and Easy Local Web Server for Static File Testing
I think he was referring to the Oculus Rift part. Pro has one feature (is it deferred rendering?) which is requisite for OR development.
If you ever want to own a home, your credit score effects the rate at which you can borrow money which can make a mortgage much more expensive.
Ionic seems to be easy if you know some AngularJS, but I would really like to know how stable and quick these things are.
Reminds me of http://confluence.org/

I remember when it was relatively new and reading the tales of somebody reaching the confluences in southeast China for the first time ever, like going the middle of the jungle and obsessively chasing the all-decimal-zeros in the GPS.
Worst. Moral hazard. Ever.
Ah, you guys are no fun. Sheesh. HN is no place for lighthearted banter apparently. I wear my downvotes with pride.
I'm not familiar with the details of the tesla driveline but is the definition of "drive unit" well-defined? Is this the equivalent of the engine? Or the drivetrain (including transmission-equivalent and axles)?
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. A family member of mine is a regional sales manager and usually puts more than 100k miles on his car each year. A million miles in 8 years wouldn't be impossible for him, but so far no car has lasted that long.
I think this is them just getting ahead of some possible long-term drive-train issues.

http://www.mercurynews.com/60-second-business-break/ci_26323...

http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/oneyear/alternative/1404...

http://insideevs.com/real-imagined-tesla-model-s-drivetrain-...

Recently Edmunds sold their long-term Tesla Model S; but before they did so the car had four (yes, four) drivetrains replaced by Tesla Motors. Motor Trend’s long term car is working on its 2nd.

This does not make us ask the question “is drivetrain failure a common occurence in the Model S?”

Because it is.

If you check out the latest numbers on a Tesla Motors Club poll, you will find that 75 (supposed) Model S owners have had a least 1 drive unit replaced - 12 of which have had it replaced more than once.

(Fair disclaimer: There is always a couple jokers messing with the results of an uncontrolled poll like this. As a point of reference, TMC likely has somewhere around 5% of Model S owners as members)

To their credit, Tesla service has been doing a yeoman’s job taking care of its clients. Despite the many failure occurrences we have yet to hear of Tesla giving a Model S owner a difficult time in solving the problem (ie-replacing the drive unit entirely).

The problem for customers will arise however when Tesla’s 4 year/50,000 mile warranty on the unit expires; that is when repairs reportedly greater than $10,000 a pop really start to hurt.

Tesla has got to both get ahead of this issue for the upcoming models and instill consumer confidence in the vehicles while they're fixing it.
Oraculum – Enterprise JavaScript MVC Framework
There are still theoretical physicists who rely on empirical validation of the hypotheses we create. That's rather the whole point, and I'd venture (hope?) that only a small fraction of theoretical physicist think otherwise.
The moral hazard involved [wait 181 days for them to sell it on all debts] is huge.

Its a workable system if and only if you are willing to basically cut off credit for anyone who hits that 181 days on a debt milestone. Because no one will loan to them again for years.
SQL is always the query language, though. You still have to use it with pl/Python, pl/sh etc.
I am telling you that people with multiple bankruptcies are getting the same rates on mortgages. It just doesn't matter like you think it does if you have a solid income and the down payment. The credit score is this bizarre hollow threat that has middle class people terrified into submission in many situations where they shouldn't submit.
missed it the first time, but check out the link at the end article to play 'Bad Paper'

http://static.fusion.net/badpaper/
Of course, you could protect from the DDoS by maintaining a secondary application server which connects to a slave database. Then the requests for account recovery wouldn't impact the rest of the system. :)
Sixpack: A language-agnostic A/B testing framework
I can not agree more. I have started work on a system for my own house a few weeks ago. I would love the opportunity to finish and produce affordable devices for consumers.
Udacity Course Catalog API
Ask HN: How do you validate something you've made is something people want?
I've been through this countless times. I throw together an awesome side project. People tell me they like it. But it dies off. Sometimes I think "maybe this wasn't something they really wanted?", but other times I find competing products doing the exact same thing and think "man, people do want this".

How do you really validate what you've made is something people really want? I guess I would like to know what are methods/hacks of accurately determining this?
Well luckily everyone will soon start boycotting the US and the UK, and Canada and Australia etc. Any day now.