skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The regulation of this activity creates virtually zero new negative externalities and is therefore justified.

The problem with considering issues involved from the point of view of 'Externalities' is how you measure 'externalities'. Can you be sure that you have measured all the possible externalities?

The regulation of the behavior curtails the rights of a number of people. You don't seem to consider that a significant externality (probably because you aren't one of those people).

You also present a false dichotomy. The question is no 'to regulate or not regulate, which is worse?'.

The question is 'How do we solve this problem while protecting as the rights of the people involved as much as possible?'

There is a tendency to want to regulate away issues rather than trying to understand the needs of everyone involved and craft solutions that actauly work.
Honestly man, leave your religious hate at the doorstep.

It's like saying that, because Motorola was making lot's money on the electronics business back in the day, then ought to provide Six Sigma Black Belt Certifications for free.
Lead exposure and behavior: effects on antisocial behavior among adolescents [pdf]
I wonder if it would be possible to have them sign a contract when you sign up since customer is king.
Amazon announces $544M losses for Q3 2014
Solar Eclipse Live
More of a feature that a hack. If you click the share button there is a "start at" input.
Surface revenue includes all the other Surfaces like the 2 pro and non-pro/RT though right?
This kind of legislation works. I've seen it first hand, in action, and it works. I experienced the support environment for the homeless population in Orlando before the laws, and I experienced the same environment after. There is a difference, and it is beneficial. I saw it, I heard about it, I experienced it, and I witnessed others follow the same path. So I know exactly what I'm advocating. But don't take my word for it, read the article and listen to people who live this every day and are also advocates.

Second, you've developed one heck of a straw man. I don't know where people think this law says you "can't feed/help the homeless". It never says that. It makes it illegal to reward destructive behavior patterns. If you want to help or feed the homeless you may do so! Just donate a couple dollars to your local shelter, or spend a night doling out mac n' cheese. Of course, now you can no longer do these things on your own terms, but then again this isn't about you (as in the royal "you"). This is about helping the people that get no help otherwise.

We're trying to encourage the use of the existing community solutions here, not ban them. This "ad-hoc" method of random gift giving that you seem to approve of is actively harmful to both the community and those it aims to help.

And actually (insert meme here), this removes state action from the equation, believe it or not. Police everywhere spend ridiculous amounts of time dealing with unscrupulous panhandlers, jerks who want to mess with the homeless, etc. etc. Now this law is probably just as unenforceable as "don't feed homeless people poison on purpose", but hopefully it creates a culture shift where people are pre-disposed towards more beneficial methods of activism, and the police don't have to worry about ne'er do wells messing with defenseless people, or people taking advantage of other's generosity. Nobody is throwing money at the state, nobody is getting a "fix". In fact, this places more burden upon people to take it upon themselves to support their local organizations, and places a heavier burden on those organizations (because now they have more people to feed! which is an excellent problem to have, because now we have people seeking real help, instead of just trying to make it through the day!).

I appreciate your gracious hints, but I highly recommend you see the problem for yourself instead of relying on knee jerk reactions and the top google result.
I see this as well.
AT&T LTE with iPhone 5 (running 8.1).
Let's say $1000 each (though this skews low and makes the units moved a generous number)

$1000 x 1000 = $1M
900 x 1000 = 900,000 units moved

Since I'm going to guess they include SP3 accessories in this and that can increase average cost something like 20%, let's drop that sales number down a load and say 500k-700k, likely closer to 700k.

Apple moved >12M iPads last quarter for context.

I really like my SP3 as a main daily machine and think many people will slide into usage of such a device if they start acclimating to cloud storage and/or more enterprise orgs start doing private cloud.

If MS can ride the "private" cloud story into the enterprises where they already have servers, etc. they could provide the better end-to-end story in the next 2-4 years for power tablets that most people from admin staff to executives could use well within the sweet spot of existing infrastructure.

Even if they can't move hardware units, they are already firming up the enterprise software story by going more strongly into multi-platform support for Office, etc.
Source: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-new...
Hackathon Guide -- A step-by-step guide
>> c. are in fact paying themselves a salary (and hiding it from investors?)
Do you think all those founders don't pay themselves salaries until the company becomes profitable? I'd bet 99% seed stage startup founders do pay themselves a salary.
I can do some level of review, but I don't have stylistic preferences in a language I don't really write in, nor am I familiar with the nuances of the language / libraries to know what I don't know. For an MVP, I'm hoping that it serves the primary use case(s) without breaking too badly.

I'm sure this isn't a great way to do it, but I'm budget constrained and want to get something to market to start getting feedback.
> simply due to the fact that they have no relevant experience

The nerve!

Seriously though, I think there are two kinds of arguments - logical arguments from validated facts with statistical control, and opinion arguments from some amorphous expertise.

The former can always stand by itself. Ideally, that would be all we ever need, and we get by in hard sciences quite well with just that.

However in softer areas of human knowledge we don't have the luxury of repeatable experiments, so we have to rely on "expert" opinions. I propose we restrict this to the opinions of people with first-hand experience, because if we don't we're running risk of baseless arguments that will never converge. When two people argue from personal experience, there is always an opportunity for them to compare the direct experience of each other and resolve their differences. When people argue from someone else's experience that opportunity is gone, and all that is left is two people sticking to their believes no matter what.

You will note there aren't any facts mentioned in the GGP post (by trhway), only opinions. I think it's ok to do that, but only if it came from direct exposure to the subject matter.
If the Western Model is so broken, why are so many people from all over the world risking their lives trying to get into Western countries? There are economic reasons (probably for the majority), but there's also the powerful appeal of democracy, justice, freedom of speech, acceptance of so-called alternative lifestyles, freedom of religion and other human rights. It would be a mistake to reduce the Western model to hardcore profit driven capitalism.
Creativity Accelerators: Novelty, Unpredictability and Complexity
Standing desk under $500
if only CSS supported for loops and variables..
Dogfoodin' it to the extreme
Why Amazon Is Crashing: Jeff Bezos' Nightmare Quarters in Charts
From what I can tell it seems like room names are not unique. I think this is the reason for the "join by screenshot" feature.
I am married with a seven years old beautiful boy.

The hardest part for me during these years of entrepreneurship have been the hassle of not giving enough financial resources to my family and instead putting money blindly into the company and project. In an "early" stage is likely and inevitable waste and mislead of money without exception.

That, in my opinion is the hardest part of all aside from the time spent and the amount of love given mentioned. Personal elections and freedom of choice is cool but when the live style of your family is affected turns cumbersome and contradictory. I can tell a lot about that.

Furthermore if the project fails, most of the time do, that money is gone and gone for the family too. Of course we all know that the experience pays off and the longer term economy will be much better, but at last.

During the journey, your mind plays tricks that opposes completely to a family type of thinking of saving and caring about moving money to and for the family.

Thats life, and part of the freedom of being moved by dreams and vision.
Apparently Verizon has two patents on the process:

http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20130318346

http://www.google.com/patents/US20130318581
They may be from scottland, but I bet anyplace they distribute their driver can claim jurisdiction. After all, the crime (or tort or whatever it is) is not writing the offending driver, but distributing it to an unsuspecting public.
> Fast forward to that child as an adult; they have spent their whole life on behavioral modifying drugs and start to feel uncomfortable or dissatisfied with their lot in life. What are these "strange feelings", so off to the doctor they go where they can be diagnosed with depression and get put on some Paxil/Prozac/Zoloft so they can be content going back to that same hum drum existence they were starting to question.

Not to derail the conversation too much, but fuck you. That's not even close to what depression is or how it works. Depression isn't when your life sucks so you feel bad, it's when you feel bad for no reason, even when your life is objectively pretty good. It's a well documented medical phenomenon that can fortunately be managed rather well with, among other things, medication. Comments like this, though, serve only to stigmatize treatment and actively discourage people from seeking help.

I have a close family member with depression. They've been on Zoloft for a little over a year now and it has been a huge blessing. The single biggest obstacle to getting them help was helping them overcome the social anxiety and sense of failure caused by stigmatizing and belittling attitudes like yours.

Yes, many more people are on antidepressants than in generations past. Many more people also take antihistamines daily and get an annual flu shot and nobody thinks that signals some downfall of civilization. Modern medicine has provided effective treatments for countless conditions, ranging from minor annoyances to debilitating illnesses, that previous generations had no alternative but to endure quietly. In almost every area, save this one, this is rightly regarded as a triumph of science and a huge net good for humanity. Why is it about mental illness that causes otherwise smart, empathetic, and scientifically literate people to start clutching their pearls?
Show HN: Kaishi a script to setup you development environment
I completely agree that the invite process sucks.. theres no discovery/trending feed either - which would be handy for getting exposure for your room!
It is strange that the author stops short of making a recommendation for a CRC algorithm. He mentions he likes the one used in PKZIP and PNG, but out of the dozens of options in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_redundancy_check that is not the one I would recommend. Instead CRC-32C, named after its designer Castagnoli, is probably the best choice:

CRC-32C is the algorithm that Intel implemented in its processors ("CRC32" SSE4.2 instruction). CRC-32C is also used by both ext4 and btrfs for bit rot detection. The first and most prominent user of CRC-32C was iSCSI.

Its mathematical definition (at least one of the most "official" definitions) is found in http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3720#section-12.1 as a generator given in hex. The RFC gives 2 other references: an analysis where it was first published and discussed (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielx1/26/5993/00231911.pdf?tp=&ar...) and another RFC (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3385) that contains test vectors and implementations. However they are hardware implementations, not software. The number of documents you have to reference for a complete spec (definition + code + test vectors) is annoying... I share the author's frustration in regard to this.

If you need more than 32 bits for an integrity check, a CRC is probably not what you need (want to prevent intentional malicious data tampering? use a crypto hash function).
I am opted out of everything. The header is sent in mobile Chrome and Firefox, with incognito mode, and with DNT enabled.
Sorry, you're right - tant caps are irreplacable in some applications. I overcorrected on madaxe_again's assertation that tantalum used universally in electronics, when really the number of places that it's used, and couldn't be replaced if supply was cut off, isn't huge. That number certainly isn't zero though.
Elon Musk Favorite Books
Yes, in particular they are still selling the Surface 2 (RT). I've seen a fair few of them about in the last few weeks.
> Why is this at the top? It's obvious flame bait.

And then you took the bait!
You'd have to work a lot harder than that. Facebook knows a LOT about you.
Mono is a well designed, very portable codebase. The only platform I can imagine having trouble _is_ the browser, but I would bet that you could compile mono with emscripten quite easily. Also, there's http://www.jsil.org/
Lean startup? How about lean recruiting?
As-for the reference to Alex Gaynor's blog post, see:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Julia/comments/2jr0xo/the_fastest_bi...
'In retrospect, it might have been foolish to assume that every member of an anonymous crowd would act according to our best interests.'

In my experience with crowdsourcing, most people actually will complete your task honestly and genuinely. Some may not understand it, but they generally just give back noise and cancel each other out. You'll almost always get a few malicious people though, even if their motivations aren't as straightforward as this case.

If you forget to account for this adversarial subset of folks, eventually you're gonna get got. Very cool story/use-case though.
No. At some point it became a real place name. Whether it is still interesting to show it on a map is another question.
MOBILE ACTION ASO GUIDE – find the basic steps of app store optimization
My only disappointment is that Linux support isn't mentioned anywhere, not even in the roadmap.
From Ubuntu to NixOS [video]
His point is that he shouldn't have to report it. It's a major city. If they are going to make a product that competes at the highest level, they ought to have something in place that looks for, while rare, street changes in major cities.
Microsoft sales beat Street hopes, cloud profits up
Who is responsible to purchase 3rd party tools/licenses?
I have a question. I'm a contractor working for a sw development company (let's call it "ABC Dev"). They are outsourcing me to other companies to do .net development. One of these client projects require the purchase of a 3rd party control, which costs several hundred dollars. As a contractor, am I responsible for this cost? Or is the company I'm "working for", ABC Dev, responsible?
I just checked my AT&T iPhone and it includes a "X-Acr" HTTP header that has a long GUID? Is this a similar tracking ID?
> people probably said the same when the television became a staple in society

I personally witnessed people saying the same thing about TV after it had become a staple in society. I suspect that earlier that they said the same thing about radio.
Has anyone thought to maybe, I don't know... Ask them?
I think it's a question of how much salary. There seems to be a consensus "unwritten" understanding that founders pay themselves (well below) market rate, if they pay themselves anything. After all, they're in for some very big rewards if their company succeeds, and making it a success includes putting as much capital into the business as possible, at the expense (in part) of one's own salary.

I'm not convinced this is a fair arrangement for the founder(s), especially in the current environment, where the times to scale and the exit valuation requirements are such as they are. It seems to me, at least, in the current environment that if the success (from an investor's "big exit" point of view) of a company hinges in part on the founder(s) taking less than market salary, the company is already not necessarily a good candidate for the exit track required to justify investment.
Ask HN: Algorithms Resources for Beginners?
I am a beginning web developer with no CS background. I've had a year of experience with ruby and some haskell. I'm hungry to dig deep into this material to use in my own projects and just for learning and challenge, but every resource I've found requires a CS background. What are good resources for learning algorithms for total beginners? Thanks!
Apple ponders sapphire options, leaves door open for GT
Small clarification.

It is faster than the old Mono they ship.

Their Mono is at best Mono 2.10, about three years old, without any of our optimization work for three years, very notably, a lot of the LLVM support, or the new garbage collector.

That said, the il2cpp looks like a very promising an interesting project, so kudos for that!
Glances – The system monitoring tool to rule them all
Designers

A room to talk about design, tools and tricks of the trade, projects, etc.

http://i.imgur.com/c6qURmx.png
Many homeless shelters and aid groups are privately operated and privately funded.

The distinction is not between state-owned solutions vs. private solutions, the disctinction is between organized and structured solutions, vs. random hand-outs on the street.
I don't see how you get one from economic situation to another.

Would subsidised housing for the homeless destroy rental values? Would free food destroy the restaurant business?

Isn't it more likely that a relative small spend would increase property values and restaurant footfall?

Most people don't like having to deal with beggars and if beggars disappear from an area, isn't it at least worth considering that it could become more popular with potential customers and residents?
Newton, the Ultimate: One Weird Trick to Make You a Mathematical Superhero
Haha I don't know if I agree but I love your response. Over the last year, I've gone from loving JS to hating it and now I'm in between. I'm mainly a backend dev but dabble in front end.
With the addition of a few CSS transition rules these could be animated really easily.
They were tired of being hit on by nerds. :P
There is a slight difference between thousands of kms and 10s of KMs
That would require a lot of courage.
You guys are beating around the bush! Just get fucking spiritual. You know you want to.
Ask HN: Thought behind/implications of no down-vote and hidden score
Working on something for which I initially planned to us an up/down-vote system; considering nixing the down-vote part.
Sorry bad joke.
Thankyou, this is very useful.

It would be great to have a zine-length brief of this with urls and QR codes for the website to be able to distribute it in print. At 250 pages the whole thing is too long to hand out.
Snap tomato – type and see
Violating the “smart enum” pattern in C#
Borges was well-read and read English and international works extensively (in fact, English was his first language, not Spanish), so it's not completely unreasonable that he kept abreast of new developments. It's still a stretch that he would know about some random court case in New York.

It's odd to me that you characterize Boole as a philosopher--I've always heard of him as a mathematician. His work on an algebraic formalization of logic is foundational to the modern field of logic, which was the primary area of mathematic research (along with set theory) for the first three or so decades of the 1900's. For example, the first chunk of Russel's Principia Mathematica defines a new logical algebra to be used going forward.

It seems you think that the use of boolean algebra was popularized because of Shanon's application of it to circuitry? Symbolic systems were well-used and well-known before that. For example, Goedel's theorems (1929, 1931) deal explicitly with the symbolic representation of logical statements. And I daresay that the Incompleteness Theorem is something that Borges would have been intensely interested in, since it deals with the finite accessibility of knowledge.

In short, Borges would have chosen Boole because, at that time, it would have been perfectly acceptable to see his work on logic as being similarly foundational to the field of mathematics as that of Descartes (geometry) and Leibniz (calculus).
I don't know what automated process built that page, but Send to Kindle (for Chrome) just chokes and dies on it. All it can parse is the disclaimer.
GPU Programming in Haskell (video demo)
A few weeks ago, I bought a new Lumia 2520 for very cheap. It's a Windows RT tablet like the Surface 2, but with a Nokia design.

It's actually quite lovely. Windows RT is much better than I had assumed -- I've used x86 Windows 8 tablets before, but Internet talk had given me the impression that the ARM version is pretty bad. In reality it's fast and fluid on the Lumia hardware. Word runs great (and yes, I like using desktop Word on a 10" touch screen).

It's a bit of a shame that the Lumia 2520 will probably be the last Windows RT device ever. Nobody but Microsoft is making them any more, and they're clearly seeing more success from the x86-based Surface Pro line.
Patent filings show how Magic Leap's augmented reality system will work
Gamergate’s anti-woman agenda made clear: Felicia Day threatened for speaking up
iOS 8 SpringBoard class hierarchy graph
Maybe they didn't go anywhere? I honestly believe the rate has been a steady 15-20% for the past 30-40 years. It's possible women had degrees in computer science but then pursued careers as system analysts, data entry, QA, "web masters" or IT. None of these are pure software development positions, but maybe they were classified as that in the 80's.
After some thought, my Windows guys will rebel if I have them use Cygwin.

But I bet one can run Cygwin in a Windows Docker.
Ask HN: Co-founding with your significant other
Inspired by today's thread re: families/parenthood and work-life balance (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8499285), I was hoping that people could share stories about founding companies with their significant others. What went wrong? What went right? What things were easier or harder? Unforeseen pitfalls?

JL started YC with PG (and other two letter humans) and that seemed to work out ok.
One argument I hear is that colleges make money from football because football inspires donations to the college. I have heard various things as to whether this actually reflects reality and I haven't investigated the matter myself.
>I don't know where you get that from.

The titular "disappearing murder charges". If they had evidence, they would have pressed charges against him for murder.
I'm surprised about the number of judgemental posts and lack of real world approaches to help manage a classic resource allocation problem.

We are all balancing priorities where we want to spend our time (and high quality time) between work, friends, family, hobbies etc. We can choose to do fewer things and we can try to be more efficient in the things we choose to do. What are approaches that HN has found useful to help do either?

Personally I like some of Tad's approaches to set expectations and balance two things that are obviously very important to him. Shared google calendar and asana todo lists can certainly help communication with family and work but I haven't found anything that substitutes for spending 1:1 time with the toddler...
They apparently went to biology field http://archive.aacu.org/ocww/volume39_1/images/StRoseGraph1....