skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: I was curious to see what's happening around me, and I created an app
> The situation may not be perfect today, but communication to/from prisons are heavily guarded to prevent these situations and others.

That's pretty funny. Contraband cell phones are ridiculously common in prison. I had a buddy of mine in prison, was there for four years. At one point he started calling me from jail, from a contraband phone.

He called me often enough and we chatted long enough on these calls that I got the feeling that there wasn't any sort of real scarcity when it comes to communications in prison.

The phones had Internet access, he would update his Facebook page from prison. At one point he even asked me for money so that he could buy his own contraband cell phone. (I said no)
The article doesn't link directly to the list of changes which are as follows:

Improved quote auto pairing logic

Selected group is now stored in the session

Fixed a crash triggered by Goto Anything cloning views

Windows: Added command line helper, subl.exe

OSX: Added 'New Window' entry to dock menu

Posix: Using correct permissions for newly created files and folders
I'd say that this is explicitly meant as a punishment to disincentivize such actions. Completely canceling the transaction just undoes the damage, and only if it places zero burden on the consumer - no shipping costs nor effort, which is unlikely.

This may come out as a 'double refund', but in generally accepted practice, paying triple of the dishonestly earned amount is also often considered an reasonable measure just as a penalty.

Otherwise if half of the cheated consumers complain and get their money back, and half don't notice it, then it's still a net win for a shady company and an incentive to continue such activities, contrary to the explicit goal of this legislation.
They may be able to frame this as an additional service, not a processing fee, as there are alternatives to the (essentially free and clearly much more convenient) print-at-home option.
Of course, if you just enable it.
http://www.sami-lehtinen.net/blog/securing-email-transport-s...
Unfortunately even many large providers use invalid (non verifiable) certificates. Unless you of course install their public key locally and verify against it.
How Upping Your Startup's Language Game = Opportunity
Your comment is a bit confusing because you're basically explaining how Common Lisp was indeed a language designed by committee containing all sorts of compromises between competing vendors. That's what the OP was getting at.
How is maps affected?
ZipRecruiter job platform raises $63M in Series A round
From my relatively small experience I remember EasyJet trying to upsell random crap in a similar way to RyanAir. I might be misremembering though, I haven't flew with any of them since last year.

Anyway, I meant why there are no companies with marketing messages that would amount to "we're not going to fuck you over like the Other Company We Can't Name".
Ouch! You should finish the software and launch a competitor.
That seems to be only Federal rate - you have to pay corporate tax to the province as well. Tim's is based in Ontario, so they'll likely be paying closer to 25% once all is said & done.
Not a bad idea, though I don't know if the need outweighs the work of installing yet another background app...for starters, the menu bar really isn't that much "noise" (at least on the left side, I do agree that the background-app icons seem to proliferate on the right)...secondly, on an iMac screen, or even a 15-inch Retina, my eyes have more than enough real-estate to dwell on without even noticing the menu bar.
"Halve the offer and start negotiating under that number" is quite a common approach to transactions involving rarely traded items. Your counter party is signalling you that he never dealt with a software developer before. You are a rarely traded item to him and he's trying to twist your arm.

Working with people who don't know about software and appreciate the effort that goes into it is never a good idea.
I would dive in deeper as to why MP wants to give away equity so easily especially if he has made millions. If he really believes the business can sell for 9 figures in a few years the extra 100k that he would pay you would be a steal. Maybe he is not as confident as he says he is.

Also, if you are considering this treat it like an investment. You are essentially investing $100k into the business. You have a right to know the full details. Ask for the distribution numbers and ask hard questions about his motivation and get references. Look into what he says to see if he's reliable. How well does your friend know him?

Have the 7 partners worked together before? Team dynamics are hugely important.

You will be partners for the next few years. Treat it as if you were getting married. Don't let yourself be rushed into making a decision.
Sounds like you have been doing quite a lot of research.
"... during transport"

Who cares? I'm more interested in knowing the percentage encrypted _before_ transport.

"During transport" requires authentication; otherwise all bets are off.

"Before transport" at least minimizes the damage if the email is sent to the wrong recipient.

I have yet to see an authentication mechanism that looks "trustworthy" (decentralized and simple), other than a pre-sharing some identifier face-to-face.
Let me get this straight: North America has several for-profit companies that operate continental-wide networks, because building them is cheap, but they peer with each other less often than in Europe. The situation isn't ideal, but it makes the internet "backbone" market competitive, so it works out.

Side note: the situation is very different when talking about last mile ISPs in North America.
Hyperlapse, Instagram’s New App, Is Like a $15,000 Video Setup in Your Hand
Depends on the disciplines you want to put together since courses, projects, and activities will vary significantly based on the combination.

Also the level at which you want to develop this curriculum (e.g. Undergrad, Masters etc).

I would also consider what you want as the end goal coming out after the self-study is completed? a degree? certification? These can all be factors on how robust your program will / will not be.

Can you give more guidance on what you are looking to develop?
I'm sure other Canadians on HN might agree - it feels a little weird to see our darling Tim Horton's on the front page of US business sites (and HN of all places!) and to see words like "double-double" and "timbits" used.
> Prioritizing law enforcement before public safety is a revealing and meaningful sign of incompetence or even corruption.

Government is fundamentally better at policing and enforcing than it is at nurturing. It is not a sign of corruption, but merely a trait inherent to all government.
You're forgetting provincial taxes. They were talking about this last night on <strike>The Lang and O'Leary Exchange</strike> The Exchange. Evidently, after considering all levels of government taxation, Burger King is only going to save around 1% tax.
"Before transport" at least minimizes the damage if the email is sent to the wrong recipient.

Doesn't really help, because most of email clients do encryption automatically. Which means that then the message is encrypted to wrong recipient as well.
And https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Be_Blood
Really neat and +1 for the podcast / YT series
You Can Have Growth, or You Can Have Control
It's not strange that Wendy's and Tim Horton's share a lot of buildings. Wendy's bought Tim Horton's in 1995. They sold it off again in 2006.

Anecdotally, Tim Horton's is doing very well in Michigan. In my hometown there were 2 Tim Horton's years before there was even a Starbucks.
I really wouldn't say Tim Hortons' coffe is good... I guess it is a matter of taste.
Some thoughts on simplifying your business model
I'm more annoyed by telecom, internet and other utilities that add fees for "regulatory compliance" or for other costs that the provider had to pay.

If you want to pass your costs on to your customers that's fine, but then raise your prices. Don't advertise a fake, unobtainable low price and then add fees disguised as government mandates.
I find that SQL is the only language I use where reading a query written by someone else is easier than writing it.
This is why the "mod kit" is still a pending feature. And at this point would probably be too late considering the amount of community work put into creating their own environments.
Maven will not, by default, allow you to perform a release if there are any test failures. That seems like a better model, at least for a VM language - if something works on the release machine and not on the user's machine, you have bigger problems.
I guess if I had to boil the problem down to a thought, it would be this: the effort required to build a system capable of interpreting the nuance of language would be as much or more than building a system capable of generating and implementing its own ideas. Once you have a sufficiently powerful AI, you don't even need to tell it to do anything; it should just do it based off sensor data.

If, for security reasons, you wanted to shackle an AI from making and acting on its own choices, you would need to shackle its ability to interpret language as well because they are the same thing. You have to make choices about implied intent when interpreting language; and those choices. You can't just restrict a machine to making choices on linguistic interpretations if those interpretations then lead directly to action (in the case of natural language programming).

We can (and have) created sets of natural language interpreters for specific situations: Siri is a good example of that. But by and large these are hacks that flag specific situations (such as creating a reminder or opening an app) and pick out the relevant phrases and plug data into fields.
Doesn't explain the explosion beforehand.
What's the 60 EUR for? Printing your boarding pass?
Glad to see the project is still alive :)
The shipping container idea is pretty interesting. Food trucks kind of do this, but I like the idea of a just-in-time franchise.

Maybe look to the micro-house movement for ideas on plumbing issues and that sort of thing.

I have a friend that feels the same way about Tim's. Maybe if I ever have a chance to try it I'd understand. My wife says my taste buds are deaf, so I may not appreciate it. I drink folgers, mainly for the caffeine. I appreciate a good cup of coffee, but not enough to spend the money for it.
Very interesting read, and thanks for the link. Had no idea that the King had fallen on such hard times (or maybe that Tim was comparatively doing so well) Almost double the owned assets ($1.5 B vs $0.8 B) and nearly triple the total revenue ($3.0 B vs $1.1 B). The King may be valued higher for its IP, but it appears like Tim is running a significantly better core business. Admittedly, Tim is basically a monopoly in its home market. At best, this looks like a merger of equals, rather than an inversion; if not a big, but unknown, player buying a weak, but well known, competitor in a new market. Very similar tact as many foreign companies (UK, Japan, German, Chinese) have done in other sectors like tech (doubled from 1996-2005). [1]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/08/27/us-companies-owner...
I don't know what's wrong with Dunkin Donuts. They still have pre-starbucks prices for a cup coffee, and their coffee is pretty good, and the donuts are donuts: delicious sugary carbs. You go in there and you spend like $3 and get enough calories and coffee to survive until the next day.

Personally I don't like all the faux-luxury, "experience", "it's a latte not a coffee" places like Starbucks. Everything is priced way higher and the service and cleanliness is pretty much on par with a McDondalds, just with fancier marketing materials.

I'm not just griping about Starbucks, urban areas in particular are loaded with these little diners and shops that spent a lot of money on the wall paint, and menu selections, but then aren't half as good and honest as the little dingy deli/liquor store next door that sells way better sandwhiches at 1/4 the price.

And the local coffee shop with the grumpy guy doesn't put ammonia laced caramel flavor in his coffee neither.

Hey if the food is genuinely good, no problems. I'm just not a fan of marketing gimmicks that somehow justify a price increase when otherwise the value isn't there and you can get better for cheaper somewhere else only they didn't use helvetica on their store signage.
Financial services had quite a lot of such things regulated multiple years earlier under different EU directives, for example the Payment Services Directive that covers common payments, credit cards and direct debits; and introduced some nice rights for the consumers.

There are many specific things that don't make any sense for goods but rely on the particular nuances of specific financial products, so they are regulated separately, not within this directive.

Of course, that doesn't mean that the current financial services regulation is competely done and doesn't need further improvement for consumer rights, but it should be expected to be done separately, in domain-specific legislation.
This. Brazilian here, lived in Californa for a year, and could have stayed longer with relative ease at the time. There's really NOTHING stopping you from living somewhere else if you really wanted.

Well, apart from paperwork, study of the country/state/city you want to go to. If that's too boring and you want the "no questions asked, come work here" treatment, I guess there is something stopping you after all.
Seene – 3D photograph era is finally here
I'm just getting reports from some German ISP customers being also affected while customers of other providers in the same area are not seeing any issues.
Personally I can't even drink TH coffee, it's truly horrible. You will find better coffee at an airport vending machine, it's a 1/10.

The processed food is also garbage.

Their marketing sucked in so many people that associated TH with being a "real Canadian", whatever that means ( aka bullshit), but worked extremely well.
I suspects, it got its reputation of having good coffee when most coffees were burnt and undrinkable.
you pay for the ink and they charge you even more.
Since there are many ed-tech companies looking for ex-teachers to provide a pov on their product, you could consider educational consulting or even joining a team where you can code and provide product direction. I would start by joining a meetup in Seattle for Ed-Tech link:(http://www.meetup.com/EdTechSeattle/). This gives you the opportunity to network which you finish up your teaching contract and line up something you would love to do whether it is coding, teaching on a MOOCs platform, or consulting.

Good Luck!
Sure, 25 years ago there were good reasons for the design compromises of Common Lisp. But that doesn't mean they make sense today, where "Windows or Unix" is pretty much the world, and there are any number of consistent, elegant languages that work on both.

> All this said, Common Lisp (and Scheme, and it's implementations) have features that the general programming community is still rediscovering 30 years later.

A language is more than an accumulation of features. It doesn't matter how advanced an implementation is if it's not actually pleasant to program in.

> Dismissing it as something that sucks because the people involved didn't try hard enough is incredibly myopic.

I don't think anyone's saying they didn't try hard enough. But interop between CL and the rest of the world is undeniably poor - and this largely seems to be a deliberate choice by the CL community - and it's not much of a stretch to say that its unpopularity is a result of this.
Bringing CQRS and Event Sourcing to PHP. Open Sourcing Broadway
A similar project has been developped by Microsoft Research :
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hype...

And a link to the HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8160571
From my experience in Granada it's pretty relaxed. I recall going to a Granada football game(they're in the top division), with a policeman standing on the steps next to my seat there was some guys smoking some joints right in front of us. They may as well have been drinking a beer for all the attention he was giving them.
Someone is saying this code was stolen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8227225
Perhaps including the credit cart "dispute charges" process into this discussion would help?
Hungry to Happy in Under 10 Minutes
Tesco's One Stop, Epay, and Appflare Launch UK's Largest iBeacon Network
The bit needs work.
Hi all - glad to see the interview creating such a buzz!

Regarding all your questions, I've listed all the original source texts of the law and its implementing guidance here.
http://www.consumerrightsdirective.info/links-and-resources
The actual EU directive is from 2011, but it takes some time for it to get adopted in local legislation; more time for any transition periods to pass (as in, here's the law, change your process by yyyy/mm/dd), and even more time while the habits change.
Right, what's next? roll up the rim to win?
Yeah if they stole a semi finished product I'm sure OP could blow them out of the water with feature. Thought the alleged thief has a jumpstart on marketing.
Hm, Instagram a little quicker on the draw than Microsoft? http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hype...
So? -- Seems like a smart business move, if that is really the case.

I'm getting tired of people trying to name-n-shame companies that are leaving the US in favor of substantially better tax laws.

Instead of groaning and trying to patronize these companies with some sort of nationalist pride, how about we do something about the damn tax laws that are making companies want to leave in the first place.
Laura Deming: Making a business out of fighting the ills of aging
Of course nobody is "profiting." There are no shareholders getting dividends or execs getting bonuses. They use it fund the operations of the judiciary in the face of a shortage of funding from Congress.
Show HN: Roundio – Instant knowledge about everything nearby
(UK) This is basically what you get from John Lewis, and the Co-Operative; both are the last vestiges of the old mutual movement.

The building societies used to be a good option for non-aggressive finance, but almost all of them sold out.
Unfortunately?
I also use unverified certificates on my own mail server. I don't want to be requesting certificates or signing for every time I set up a mail server.

And why does it make encryption pointless? The traffic IS encrypted, server to server. Are you afraid someone hijacked a domain?
It's weird that they called it Hyperlapse two weeks after Microsoft Research published a paper on the exact same topic, with the exact same name:

PDF here: https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hyp...

Examples here: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hype...

It's even more weird that the WIRED writer didn't mention this. It was major news all over the place two weeks ago. Good PR folks at Instagram / FB.
Netcore, Netis routers have hardcoded password
There's "downworthy", which doesn't remove them, but turns them into "realistic" versions: http://downworthy.snipe.net/ ("Literally" -> "Figuratively", etc)
Small Sips of Gulp.js: 4 Steps to Reduce Complexity
Please note that this is a dev build of Sublime Text 3. You can only get it by manually downloading or checking for updates using a dev build. The most recent stable build of ST3 is from December of 2013.[1]

Dev builds are alpha-quality and generally unsuitable for everyday use. The current build will change permissions on any file you save.[2]

1. http://www.sublimetext.com/3

2. http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=16696&s...
There's images of car crashes and Kevin Durant all over google images, that's quite something if you ask me.
Management Tools We Use to Make Things Happen at Memeoirs
Don't forget SIZE. Norway is a tiny country, and so the distance between people and government is small.

Norway's success is a strong case for localism.
Microsoft did not coin the term.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlapse
Doesn't full screen mode solve the problem of menus?
They say as much in the article. This just plain wouldn't work for a society that cannot describe itself as homogeneous, as Norway can and does.
> Prisons are terrible but honestly does anyone believe the world would be better without them.

I completely agree that they're a necessary evil and that there's a need for a type of prison. I think rehabilitation is really what the focus should be since this is what will bring the biggest benefits to society.

There's also an argument to be made (and made by a lot of people) that there are too many people incarcerated in the US when it's not necessarily in the country's best interest for those people to go to prison (war on drug, ...).

It was interesting discussing with you and if you have any good references on "best practices" I'd be interested in reading them.
This could be very interesting if the 10 second timescale could be increased - as it stands 10 seconds is not enough time to do anything meaningful other than potentially crawl under your desk.

I know little of the science behind earthquakes and the movement of tectonic plates, however it would seem that if 10 seconds warning is possible today then further longer periods of time in the future could help people and or the technology surrounding building's and the infrastructure within the building to ready themselves/itself for the onset of an earthquake.
What's the advantage of using something like this over CoreData - which is built in?
Unless you're Andy Kaufman. Then you're dead.

The first step to writing something funny is trying to be funny when you write. The second step is analyze failures and learn something.
The article is from 2013, this is the latest: http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/april-2014/searching...

Holometer site: http://holometer.fnal.gov/
Hi eudox, I would love to use CL for my projects - I've read (most of) Norvig's and Graham's books, written small programs etc. I really like most of the language, especially the 'break into debugger on error'.

But, when I came to write CL for a project that needed gui, web scraping, using APIs etc (i.e. I wanted to connect it to the outside world) I was stumped. Unlike in e.g. python, there was no nice gui library that I could just use. Now maybe people will reply telling me that something exists, but compared to python, the difference in ecosystem is massive. (possibly some commercial CL environment has this, but I am unwilling to pay for something that is closed).

I really want to use CL for more than just toy programs, but I don't/can't.

So, when you are asking yourself "Is it worth it? Whose lives will it change?" - the answer is mine, but only if you think you are able to fix this.

Good luck.
As with every dispute that comes up on Ask HN that requires legal action - get a lawyer. (and a good one)
I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitress.
We probably should have clarified that this is an online and and offline law affecting all sales and purchases, not just e-commerce ones.

The law provides better protections to consumers, but it also provides some protections to retailers against some of the dodgy practices they've had to deal with from consumers. Returns and expenses are a HUGE part of the law.

My favourite bit is what I call the "anti-wardrobing provision". Under the new law, when you return an item, retailers can now deduct a fair percentage of its cash value from your refund if you have returned it clearly damaged or un-resellable. This is because of wardrobing - the practice of buying an item of clothing, deliberately keeping the tags on, wearing it once, and returning it for a refund stinking of your night out.