skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had exactly the same experience, except with the e-mail influx happening in high school because I went to a boarding school, and with the same end condition (50/50 e-mail vs Facebook).

EDIT: And of course after I submit the comment I realize I know you irl. Sup.
Correct: there are lots of ways to mess up. LegalZoom is just one new way.
I bought Kindle Paperwhite for my granny. She wants to lie down and read books. However she has fat fingers, and often she would
1) have the holding hand accidentally touch the screen.
2) have the other hand tapped for too long and initiate dictionary mode.
So she gave up using Kindle.
I like the earthquake analogy.

Also, most legal screwups won't cause a company to fail—but they will cause unnecessary expense, distraction, and stress. The point is that all of that's preventable if you are careful.
It seems like we have no idea whether soda is bad for you, since people who consume soda live long lives. As far as I know, their throats are also fine. It's not even necessarily a fact that sugar harms teeth as long as someone is brushing each day.
A rather good one, I like the ability to export text with its formatting options to my Wordpress and publish to my blog.
(I never said the phrases "fake win" nor "college naifs")

No, you didn't literally say those phrases, but those were the concepts you were communicating (if you really want to be pedantic, I didn't actually quote you on those; I was listing the concepts). This retreat into "nuh-uh, those weren't my literal words" is a particularly adolescent form of arguing, when you know damn well what you were actually saying.

I'm an old fart too, and I found your comment to be whiny and full of passive-aggression. It was the hypocrisy of that juxtaposed against your calling other people immature that led me to comment.

now I've learned my lesson about saying anything that doesn't mesh with the hive mind

And now for my own turn at immature comments: grow a pair. Comment as you want to. If you get downvoted from time to time, so what? Just don't get all sniffy and whine about 'hive mind' just because your opinion is unpopular. I've complained about the downmod system here for years - check my profile - and there's no need to resort to tired tropes like 'hive mind'. Besides, if you really don't give a shit, then why hand out the derision?
I find it amusing that people are being outraged at Apple, instead of being outraged at their government. From outside the US, it looks like it became generally accepted that the NSA will spy on US citizens all it wants, unchecked, and there is nothing anyone can do about it. Instead, all the rage is getting directed at companies that disclose the information to NSA.
How should a non-technical founder vet a developer quickly?
So I've been having some issues with this one. Some searching and advice I received said to start with a small project and see if they can do the job. Unfortunately, I've already tried this and it takes too much time in the event they don't pan out and I work in a cyclical business that runs on an annual time frame. I've also tried getting referrals through friends but my friends are not qualified to vet those they refer since these are mostly just people they know. Are there any efficient and accurate ways to vet a developer outside of hiring a tech guy to do this for me? As a follow on question, is there a way to vet the legitimacy of the quote and price tag I get for the work? Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
And yet, directors like Cameron, Nolan, Spielberg and their peers clearly don't think they are lying, or doing harm, or insulting the public or civilization or the dedicated professionals they depend upon. I doubt the thought even crosses their minds.

It's like they're...idiots!

Really, I don't think this criticism is well-founded. I'll give him Cameron, but most of Nolan's characters are self-consciously transgressive of society that seek some sort of re-integration with it, while Spielberg has numerous positive depictions of institutions or their representatives, from the benign scientists if Close Encounters to Sheriff Brody in Jaws (I picked two older movies but think they are good collective and individual examples).

Certainly the idiot plot is widespread, and I am as sick as Brin of people who have just discovered the imperfection of the world running around yelling 'wake up sheeple!' but he rather undermines his argument with shallow jabs such as this.

Did I allude to exceptions? In literature, you could look to the novels of Iain Banks, which depict our descendants having rollicking, dangerous adventures despite living in a near-utopia thanks to the hard work and genius of their ancestors. (You're welcome, kids.) Vernor Vinge, in Rainbows End, portrays near-future citizenship becoming tech-empowered art in a society that's getting better all the time... yet, drama is not killed.

Er...in most of Banks' Culture novels (which made up only about half his output, but which are obviously what Brin has in mind here), the mass of people are dissolute or self-absorbed to the point of naivete, with the protagonists usually being cynics of some sort who have found themselves blackmailed by one or other of the Culture's hyper-utilitarian espionage outfits, who (of course) never do things by the Kantian book that the general public subscribes to, insofar as they ever think about ethics when they briefly lurch out of a hedonistic haze. It's been a while since I read Rainbow's End (although I have read it a couple of times) but I seem to remember major plot elements including Bad Guy Administrators whose approach to library preservation is to feed all the books into a giant combination shredder/scanner/captcha processor, who are inadvertently thwarted by competing MMORPG players who are engaged in a virtual battle on the same university campus as the bibliocidal authorities while a 1337 hax0r5 save the world in the background. I'm having real trouble seeing how these examples are supposed to support his point; to my mind they epitomize the trope of 'burdensome knowledge borne by a few.'

There are some great ideas in this piece and as an occasional screenwriter I think these are quite Important Ideas, but it needs to back into the oven for a while.
Here is a bit more info on Ciavarella.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/books/review/kids-for-cash...

If I read the parent comment you seem to be saying that legal lobbying is the problem. However, the Ciavarella story concerns illegal corruption.

I'm not a fan of the American prison system, mainly because it promotes forced labour, or slavery. The 13tm amendment explicitly contains an exemption for prison labour, something which has historically been abused in America.

Quick general overview of prison labor:
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/04/04/prison-labor...

More detailed account of prison labor in Nevada regarding casinos and construction.
http://vltp.net/casinos-prison-labor-strange-bedfellows/

The slave market:
http://www.unicor.gov/

You can even get slave labor to operate your call center:
http://www.unicor.gov/services/contact_helpdesk/
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Yeah, I think a good future state would be experts with software augmenting their abilities, like helping flesh out the correct documents. There is precious little of that in the legal industry, though.
Ugh... I've watched that "Exit Statements" video before. Just want to warn everyone that it's pretty disturbing. It put me a in a weird mood for a few days.
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David Nolen is passionate, bright, and brilliant. I watch some of his talks every now and then when I want to get hyped up to get some coding done.
Law enforcement access is not the same as public access. I think it is extremely important to make that distinction. And there is one.
at first i thought:

in a language like javascript, this is could one use for objects;

o = {}

o[true, true, true] = function(){something}
... and so on

then do

o[[width, margin_left, margin_right]]()

on second thought:

the biggest strength i see in rust is the wild card, making the switch statement much more useful than in other languages
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You are going to think your boss is mistaken/wrong/lying in the first hour you meet her/him, during a job interview? Nah. You're not.
It is a different type of safety. Algol type safety, that C designers didn't care when creating the language rather leaving it out to lint.

You cannot directly compare Ada with Haskell just on safety as they use different paradigms.

Anyway, just from the top of my head:

- Bound checked arrays

- Real strings

- Reference parameters

- Real enumerations without implicit conversions to numeric data types

- Type definitions are real types, not synonyms like C's typedef. Just like Haskell's newtype.

- Ability to define type ranges for enumerations and numeric types

- Subtyping

- Generics

- Explicit type conversions required among numeric types.

- Contracts, Eiffel style

- Pointers by default are always valid, unless your are doing unsafe code.

In terms of performance, there are ways to enable unsafe code, if you really really need it, but like other memory safe systems programming languages you need to be explicit about it.

A plus feature over Haskell is that currently the Ada has primitives for hardware access. The guys doing HaLVM and Home had to add extensions to Haskell.
1. See his prior work (and get ask him for references if possible)
2. Post the job on elance/odesk and see what kind of bids you get by developers in similar income areas as yourself.
If you want to take external investors money, you need to incorporate in Delaware. If you are just bootstrapping then there's no need to do this and you may as well just incorporate in California as you suggest (ie it's not about tax optimization!)
Finally those numbers of iPhone activation and mac sold are useful.

#1 Mac unit sales

http://www.macworld.com/article/2062821/apple-by-the-numbers...

2010 @ 13662k

2011 @ 16735k

2012 @ 18158k

2013 @ 16341k

Total = 64,896,000

#2 iPhone unit sales

http://www.statista.com/statistics/232790/forecast-of-apple-...

I only take the number from 2013 & 2014 because Apple trend to upgrade fast.

2013 @ 53.6 Million,

2014 @ 63.2 Million,

Total = 116,800,000

Now, quote from "Government Information Requests"

"less than
0.00385%
of customers had data disclosed due to government information requests."

Only 699529.6 round to 699529 customers had data disclosed.
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I am still learning FP and originally I was only looking at server side languages as I felt Javascript already lets me write code in an FP manner. It was after I read SwannOdette's blogs posts on ClojureScript and CSP that I started getting really excited about it. Couple that with Om and Flux, I think I would love writing apps that way. Meaning I was already sold on the potential of ClojureScript/CSP before even watching this presentation.

My dissatisfaction wasn't with ClojureScript but with the presentation. Given that I saw the presentation out of context (I don't know who the audience at the goto; conference was supposed to be - experienced FP developers looking to move to web or existing js web developers looking for something better). Purely from the presentation, I (who belongs the latter) wasn't really sold on anything. Maybe I wasn't the group being targetted.

Finally, I didn't watch the presentation because it was presented by David (I didn't who he was), I watched it for the title. It wasn't till midway through the presentation I realized SwannOdette is actually David. And that surprised me a lot cuz his blog posts are really good, and as I said really sold me on considering ClojureScript. I didn't intend to pick on David, maybe he just had a sub-par day. Especially after knowing David=SwannOdette :)
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I bought DX years ago and it is still among the most used devices, second only to iPhone. I wish Amazon would make it bigger, but now they don't even produce it any more. Let's hope someone would come in and fill the void.
Open source client libraries providing end-to-end encryption and zero knowledge search, would enable a functional e-mail system that operates without any server held keys.

You could still NSL a backdoor, but if the service is open source at least there's a chance of the code being audited.
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I didn't mean to be pinning things on women so much as male lifestyle patterns.
> OS and Android supports are on their way in case you're not following recent developments.

Yes, but it remains to be seen how Go's view on data structures map Objective-C and Java APIs.

As for Android support, the Android team doesn't seem to care any little bit about it, given their statements on Google IO.

So you have developers of a Google language trying to target a Google platform, where the platform owners just want to support Java (NDK is a kind of stepchild).
Halliburton is an unfortunate name for a law firm. It's one of those names that has burned by a too-famous world-reknown criminal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halliburton
Great work. Having tacked something similar in my uni days (gosh, 6 years ago now) I know the pain that is the Blackboard interface and system.
Off topic: I recall talking about this last year and I believe we have met quite randomly over some beers when I was travelling in Istanbul in July 2013! Good luck for your business!
> You don't build error handling classes in Go.

That much is true, you compare strings!
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Often it seems like the people want businesses to take up the fight for privacy, rather than the people themselves.
It does, but only for comments that haven't been replied to
Mix primary colors to obtain secondary and tertiary, avoid the mouse labs and get to the last level.
Didn't know that many.
Looked it up:

Kindle 4: 169.5g, 165 x 114 x 8.6 mm

Kindle Voyage: 180g, 162 x 115 x 7.6 mm, so 6.2% heavier than the Kindle 4, but 12.6% lighter than the Kindle Paperwhite.

See here for a side-by-side screenshot of the same text on Kindle 4 and the Paperwhite: http://screech.rychter.com/files/kindle-4-vs-paperwhite-2014...

Notice how the left screen reads uniformly, like a book, while on the right screen spacings are slightly off, enough to give it a "computery" look.

I'm surprised more people haven't noticed this.
So, comparing US incarceration stats with other countries, would you then say the average US citizen is more likely to commit crime than other nationalities?
There's probably a big overlap between iPhone and Mac users, but yes, a big number is going to come out the other end.
Given that he later shows screenshots of "eren@lisa:~$ gdb ./CrackTheDoor"
that assumption is pretty shaky.
A related problem in society is the assumption of ignorance; if someone expresses a passionate opinion and you demur, it seems more and more common for your interlocutor to assume you don't know some key fact in their worldview rather than solicit the basis of your disagreement. Of course you can use this to your advantage, insofar as it's easier to get people to give you information by expressing disagreement than by asking questions.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham's_Law
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That's not quite right.

I've had an intensive use of CVS for years, followed by an intensive use of SVN for years.

During my CVS years, I never ran into an issue. ever. We can all agree it lacks many useful features but it's also as easy as it can get and it does not corrupt repositories. Calling it "broken" is far from truth.

During my SVN years, I can recall two repository corruptions which no matter how they occurred, just should not have. I think one was related to a bug in the db(3) backend, the other I dunno as I was not in charge of the repository. So... "superior" is debatable.

Nowadays I mostly use Git and CVS, both for different purposes and both making sense in their own purpose. I would not be so affirmative about technologies because you only know so much from your experience and use-cases ;-)
AnkiMobile developer here. Are you referring to the mobile app or the desktop app? Because the desktop has API endpoints you can hook into with extensions [0]. If you're talking about the mobile app, I believe we originally decided not to provide an extension API because Apple forbids it.

[0]: http://ankisrs.net/docs/addons.html
I've just updated my colour converter/picker/swiss army knife to include colour schemes! I find it's hugely useful little tool when designing sites or apps rather than waiting for Photoshop etc to load. Really hope you like it!
The second hand market for iPhones is quite large in Australia and I imagine its the same elsewhere.
Probably not fair to only include those two years iPhone sales.

I would think at least 50% of the older models are either on-sold or the user hasn't upgraded.

edit: UVB-76 has a good point, there is probably a very high percentage overlap.
Ionic is amazing. I started using it last night.

PhoneGap by itself is too much of a blank canvas. This framework is opinionated and you can get something sophisticated up and running fairly quickly.
Whoa, this bit is actually based on real prison culture:

Key & Peele - Fronthand Backhand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGAMbNKcN1U
What's wrong with waiting 'many weeks'? Your idea is not going anywhere, and if it is, it's a bad idea.

If you want to do business before the LLC, you can go ahead. Then, once the LLC is formalized, transfer any assets you've created or acquired to it. For example:

http://www.newyorksmallbusinesslaw.com/new_york_small_busine...

As far as making mistakes goes, the paperwork is simpler than filling out doctor's paperwork on a new office visit. For any gaps, it's not hard to read NOLO, and the experience will help you grow as a business person as you learn self-reliance

And, FWIW, Legal zoom has to push the paperwork through the exact same process. The processing time will be the same either way, but you'll likely pay legalzoom a premium on top of the expedited service fee the state charges them.

https://www.legalzoom.com/assets/modals/modal-priority-rush-...

https://legalarrow.com/LLC/ProcessTimes.htm
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C++11 and C++14 removed many of my complaints about the language (I use it on and off since 1993). Still waiting for modules though.

The biggest problem are the pre-C++98 codebases or the ones full with C idioms instead of modern C++.

Those aren't going away anytime soon.
Here's a recent Erlang type annoyance:

Given two tuples with 3 integers, {X, Y, Z}, without knowing it a priori, you can't tell which one is an erlang:now() and which is an erlang:date().
Yes, but the use of auto to auto-deduce the return type is new in C++14, as well as the use of auto as a return type for lambdas to produce generic lambdas - generic functions without having to use template syntax.
Recidivism is literally in the private prison companies' business plans, as pitched to investors.

https://www.google.com/webhp?#q=last+week+tonight+prison&tbm...
"Suspicion of Authority" and "Society never works" are not something arising from culture, they are consequences of the principal agent problem in Western states.

In my experience "the society never works" feeling is by no means uniformly distributed in Western societies, but mostly a phenomenon in the USA. When I started reading American political discussions on the net 10 to 15 years ago, I was really shocked how widespread this randian view on society is in the US. OTOH that could be a self selection of a certain mieleu of people...
They probably mean that you are solving problems, real world and other, but you don't really need features like generics to do the "real world" part. Their proof is in things they have done, projects they have completed. If more projects and developers tried to use Go they might also find that a lot of projects can work with Go.
Regarding the 20+ developers I am pretty shure Google has Go projects with many developers. I also think they were clearly targeting enterprise projects. Google is a huge enterprise with huge programming projects.
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IDEs are (or will be) smart enough to deduce and display the type of an auto declared variable[2] when you want it.

Not to detract from your other points, but personally I wouldn't want to live in a world where my IDE is decided for me. A person sometimes has decades of experience with their text editor. Forcing them to use a different one just to do programming isn't necessarily the best idea.

Interesting question: Will the world benefit from a language that requires an IDE to program in? I can imagine how the answer might be "yes," but also other scenarios where it might be "no."
End-to-end encryption will improve things but it is still only as secure as your key management. For email to be convenient you need an easy way to get you friend's public key and easy ways are hard to make secure.
If you have Ghostery enabled you have to switch back on the BrightCove js library.
Is this directed at me? I'm not outraged at Apple at all, I think they're trying to play the long game here. I'm just sick of the word games, deception, and legalese from anyone regarding privacy. It's hard enough fully understanding exactly how all the pieces fit together (technology, laws, politics, etc.) for people that are genuinely interested in this, let alone the average consumer. Pointing out loopholes in wording helps to start conversations about what is/isn't happening as well as what could happen/be-abused.