skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Credited is a strong word. AFAIK linguists agree it was copied largely from Khmer (Cambodian).
Arguments like this make me wonder whether we should pursue homeschooling. My kids are 2 and 4, and we've been going back and forth on the decision. We couldn't afford private school, and my wife is already staying home. Our county's educational system is one of the best in the state, but it still suffers from the bad practices that plague our national education system.
> Assuming you have signed an agreement for this knowingly (or at least they presented this agreement to you and it's fair to presume that you've read it before signing it)

In the EU, not all contracts that you read and sign are legal, e.g. if it's a contact you can't influence, and it significantly alters the balance of rights to your deteriment.
> ..you can use Android apps (not from Google Play), but: 1) There are no Google Play Services, 2) there will be problems with any non-trivial app. Besides, if you are buying this device convicted that you will use Android apps on it, why not buy Android phone?
teh cancer that is HN.
predicting next post someone shows off rageflipping text
This may be greater then just west Europe. I personally have servers in US East that are unreachable, and there are a few reports of others in US region reporting partial unavailability for the US based servers.

I wonder how many customers Azure just lost do to their unexpected 2 day fiasco
Operation Onymous Challenges Tor to Strengthen Its Security
(1) Many poor school districts are urban
(2) Many urban dwellers are not owners, they are renters
(3) Schools are funded by property taxes payed by owners
(4) Often, the owners are large corporations, that do not involve themselves in anything about how the schools are run.

Basically, poor, urban schools are largely funded by faceless corporations holding hundreds of apartments paying taxes, not random rich families with luxury condos in the city sending kids to private school.
How does that make the submission appropriate?
This fails to show up on my iPhone 5S Safari and I thought it supported Unicode.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8625420
As others said, clauses like these are already considered null & void and the charge fraudulent, so I don't see this as a particularly good example of why laws must be changed.

With regards to very long contracts, and without meaning to defending all instances of them (since some are clearly just meant to obfuscate), how do you separate a contract "designed to not be read" from one that honestly tries to cover all edge cases and explain exactly what the terms are?

Some products - like the iPhone - are very complex. It's not easy to describe what information is gathered, with whom it is shared and how you can withdraw your consent, for each feature (Location, Siri, messaging, calls, etc) without a very long document. What do you propose they should do?
For an enlightening read, buy a copy of the Unicode standard. An amazing book, containing what I think is the single greatest achievement in anthropology. And read about the history and the imperfect process that has produced a system with duplicates, inconsistencies, but a system nonetheless.
Business Boost: The Mailbird Contacts Manager
>John Greenbank, north trading standards area manager, said it was a "novel" way to prevent bad reviews.

Or a novel way to get a bad review splashed all over national media. Did the hotel really think this was going to end well?
You can use other App stores like the Amazon app store or Aptoid.
Chrome on iOS is giving me the character unavailable boxes. Normally I'd just change the font but I can't do that here.

This doesn't feel like the future.
It was a serious question tho..
This happened in UK. In Europe 100 miles is a long way. There is another country 80 miles away from where this happened, and a different country 111 miles away.
Ubuntu NEXT windowing system in QML (alpha)
QML code here https://code.launchpad.net/~mzanetti/unity8/desktop-stage/+merge/242140

Ubuntu NEXT 15.04 (MIR, Unity5) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-desktop-next/daily-live/current/
I don't see how is that direct debit system better for consumers than what we have here in Portugal, where the consumer is the one initiating the debit authorization (using a code provided by the merchant).
Really? I would love some case studies
Yeh I would, would you?
Literally it means: Greeting-Display-Control-Mechanism. In German you can jumble the words together to get a new, more precise German word. The most notorious being this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/100...
Why Star Wars?
Is there a technical reason why new devices don't support SDXC (high capacity sd cards)? Is it more expensive to implement, with licensing fees and whatnot? We have 64 and 128 gb cards nowadays, and 256 and higher are coming. Huge storage might be a compelling differentiater for a niche product like this one.
The Moon constitutes a fine colony for Her Majesty. My only hope is that the probe will be self-replicating and speaking plain English. The British are ridiculously good at drilling.
falling on the side of consumers (as we mostly do here in the EU) isn't the right solution either. I don't think this is about a contract being fair. Some laws about legal agreements are ok, but they aren't the tool for this job. At least not in my opinion.

I think before you can determine if a contract is fair, you need to determine if a contract is even a contract. If a standard contract is "agreed" between some company (Apple, this hotel, etc) and all of their consumers and some unacceptably high number of those customers don't now the content of this contract, I think it should be considered what it is: nonsense on a piece of paper.

These contracts are so blatant that it doesn't even matter what the thresholds are or how they are determined. The way these "contracts" are set up to be agreed to by people who haven't read them is so flagrant, it's unmistakably contemptuous of the whole idea of an agreement.
Haha, I'd like to know more about that Ginsberg thing, need an angry fix.
The unspoken assumption throughout the article that the essentially globally failed model of central-bank inflationary capitalism (on someone else's terms) is the de-facto result of de-facto desirable reunification is, I think, the elephant in the room.
You are thinking of reddit. HN has submission guidelines.
Driving for Uber also requires a significant capital investment and risk assumption, so wages could be expected to be significantly higher than the typical low-education job.
Looks like it can be involved with the way we process email. Maybe even in combination with http://inbox.google.com. Processing email has become a less pain in the ass thanks to Inbox for me.
𝕹𝖊𝖚𝖎𝖌𝖐𝖊𝖎𝖙𝖘𝖇𝖑𝖆𝖙𝖙 𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝖚𝖓𝖐𝖔𝖓𝖛𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖊𝖓 𝕽𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖓𝖒𝖆𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖊𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖎𝖊𝖚𝖗𝖊 is seriously epic.
BackupAllTheThings, Straightforward Backups for Files and Databases
I think contracts signed without some sort of comprehension test having been performed should be considered suspect. This would have the effect of preventing things from being hidden in the small print, and making for much shorter (and probably more standardized) contracts.
Because users expect an application used for sending audio snippets use the microphone.
> The minimal Ubuntu 12.02 image is 627MB. Add your own application layer, and your container will most likely weight more than 1GB.

I've read that using Debian (or if possible Busybox) helps in this area. See http://container-solutions.com/2014/11/6-dockerfile-tips-off... and http://jonathan.bergknoff.com/journal/building-good-docker-i... for tips.

> Every time your application is updated, check the Gemfile md5 and see if it’s different from the latest build

Wouldn't you need to check Gemfile.lock? With optimistic/pessimistic version constraints you could get newer gems without updating the Gemfile.
Russian government officials are obliged to put all their purchases on the online tender platform.

So they are using this trick (but in the opposite direction, latin `a` instead of cyrillic `а`) to avoid undesired competitors from entering those biddings and lowering the purchase prices (and not paying kickbacks, obviously).
https://navalny-en.livejournal.com/52565.html
On the conversion side: The video is too large for my screen, plus I'd rather have image+text explanation than having to watch a video, plus I can't fast forward the video (I have the attention span of a squirrel).
On the product side: I wouldn't want to be called automatically, as I might be doing something important that needs another 5 minutes.
Just my two cents though.
Sorry, not having read the book and with just this blog post as context I don't understand the problem. Why wouldn't an HFT company want to own a microwave tower that transmits stock prices? why is that unethical? seems perfectly reasonable and like it would be a useful to the business. Am I missing out on some piece of information.
Can we eat to starve cancer. (TED Talk)
The screenshots on github use the thin variant of San Francisco - the equivalent to the current Helvetica Neue would be regular San Francisco. I also suspect they use the "Display" instead of "Text" version, which makes the kerning look strange.

San Francisco seems to work best at (very) small sizes, where Helvetica breaks. It proves further that Apple thinks of each screen size as a distinct UI - clearly the biggest difference with Google's approach to UI. Off topic: the 2 screen sizes for Watch show they don't want accidental developers for this platform, only fully committed ones.

I do find Helvetica works better on my Mac screen than SF (I tested in Mail.app).
That's the basic principle Dart is founded on. (hardly surprising when the Dart authors are the same people who did V8)
Real Time Push Notifications for Your Website
But if the only 3rd party apps I have installed on my Google-less, CyanogenMod'd Nexus are Firefox and VLC, there's a good chance I might like it?
Can someone explain in simple words what is the problem that this would fix? I've never felt the need for this, why should I care?
Those are only checks, and don't make your code faster (in fact, slower, when checks are enabled). To get efficiency benefits you need a language/compiler designed around static typing. Cython offers a superset of Python that can be statically typed.
People are working on that and this is not really happening now if you're using sandboxes.
If you do make damn sure your kids socialise with other kids a significant amount (e.g. clubs, friends, etc). It is anecdotal but a lot of home school kids I've met are a bit "off" socially (e.g. young for their age, anti-social, don't do well in group settings, etc).
Wouldn't you agree that, in a society where kids are primarily parented by third parties in practice, teachers and educators ought to get their fair share of the blame for not being good role models and keeping kids protected from that mess?
This is why you prevent them from entering one that is longer than your limit. You don't let them enter it and then truncate it...
Big data witho understanding data-generating process
Apple Watch private headers
thanks. yeah, I'm a crazy Linux guy, so I always prefer terminal.
It's not. It's on par with the rest of the western world[1], maybe except Finland which is an outlier whether you include the US or not. At least as of 2009, I doubt it somehow collapsed since.

Not to mention higher education, where Americans lead. Although judging by tuitions perhaps a little too far in the diminishing returns region.

[1] http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/12/amazing-truth-abou...
GTD has some great side effects. I owe all my recent success to GTD. Apart from all the other goodies, The following things have been a game changer for me.

1. Next tasks: Helps me identify new opportunities to work on. And take next obvious steps to any task, where others aren't seeing. In fact one would be surprised how many great opportunities lurk in the next tasks.

2. Weekly reviews: Helps me take quick iterations of feed back on the week and immediately improve by applying the feedback to the next week. This at times over some months(When I'm working using GTD really well) has lead to runaway improvements in many areas of my work.

3. Writing it down and prioritizing: I use a normal pen and paper. Tracking, drawing doodles, other things is very easy. Writing down tasks and prioritizing helps me eliminate an entire tree of unimportant tasks and pick up the important ones. This combined with the weekly review can be a very powerful tool.

Lastly the efficiency of GTD depends entirely on our efficiency to take things seriously and work on them.

And GTD is a framework, nearly all GTD practitioners I know of ultimately build something over GTD that works for them.
Wearable Runtime and Connectivity Architectures
There's a really good O'Reilly book on this geared towards sysadmins (though I'm sure it applies to dev's etc).

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596007836.do

Just following it for a short time made my work & life a whole, whole lot better.
good point! my bad. just checked the source. it is 53.8% and 23.8% respectively. Would make the correction on the original post but seems that it's too late for me to make the correction now.
Click hello – my new startup
Why I’m finally breaking up with Flash for good
That is what this css is for:

overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
In the general case that is not possible. If there is a block vertically in between of two opponents you can not destroy both in one turn.
FYI We had to reboot some virtual machines via the portal due to the issues in East US yesterday but since then they all work.
[LWJGL] First 10 days
JSF in the Modern Age
Even heavily restricting the function to only use addition and multiplication doesn't solve the problem.
You are either igonorant or are being dishonest. Most states don't have county-level school districts; and definitely heavily populated ones do not. The district is either rich or poor. Example: mercer island is just across I90 from Seattle in king county, and is one of the richest districts in the nation (since mercer island is rich). The PTA BS is just made up libertarian propaganda (blame the poor people for being poor).

Bussing solves racial disparity within a district, not economic disparity. Course, these often correspond but not always.

Most first world countries fund educations out of the federal budget so it is more equitable; course, the libertarians would call that socialist, but you reap what you sow.
Who's pushing for immigration reform in Silicon Valley
Libertarianism really is the 'only child' of the political world. They really want to have their cake and not share it. And you really still want to paint yourself as a victim; as a slave from birth. The problem with libertarians reappropriating words like this is that they water them down and stop real discussion from happening.

only because I happened to be born in a state which has them

Such a victim! My guess is that like most libertarians (and your handle plus being on HN), you're white, male, skilled, and with a good income (for the record, I am). You may not be, but the chances are that you are. If so, you're in one of the best-off demographics that has existed in the history of the world, and still you want to claim systematic victimhood. And yet, you're trying to identify with slaves, basking in the reflected anti-glory of the word.

Here's the rub: you have a choice. Particularly if you're in the US. You can go off the grid easily. You can live on public lands, moving around. You can support yourself hunting. Or bartering. You can just not engage in things that connect you to the government. Plenty of people do - witness the huge amount of illegal aliens the US has. Hell, you can even emigrate, no-one's stopping you. Millions of people voluntarily migrate every year, including out of developed nations into developing ones. Move to Vanuatu. Good weather. Happy people. Tiny government. No income tax (unless you're a landlord). You can live the libertarian dream of few government services, choosing to hire your own garbage collectors and whatnot. Other places like that exist all over the world.

But no, you want the lifestyle that taxes provide, but without having to pay taxes. So you join a political movement that has no hope of ever gaining real traction with its ideals, all so you can paint yourself as a victim to make yourself feel better. If you want to live without taxes, you can. Bam, your 'slavery' is over.

Libertarianism has great rhetorics and its members are skilled rhetoricians, but it has no answers for people who don't have plenty of privilege - which is most people, and which is why it'll never gain traction. Take the simple case of someone born with a congenital disease or subject to an accident that wasn't their fault. Most other philosophies would say "hey everyone, chip into the pot and that person can be helped", at least as an ideal. Libertarianism takes the "only child" approach of "sucks to be you. making me share is violent, and therefore immoral!". For all its rhetoric, libertarianism is very short on practical answers.

So no, modern taxation is not slavery or anything like it, and you weaken the impact of the word by saying it is. And you can escape the slavery you see yourself in - you are tacitly choosing to remain within it. However oppressed you think you were as an infant (somehow by the tax you weren't paying), you are now an adult, and you are choosing to remain within the system you despise yet can so easily remove yourself from.
I think this just highlights a problem with app permissions. Why should the Kindle app ( http://privacygrade.org/apps/com.amazon.kindle.html ) require phone status and identity? (Also how is "not analyzed yet" helpful?)
The Irrelevance of the U.S. Congress in Stopping NSA Mass Surveillance
You can totally rent a hotel room without a credit card if you pay up front, they might require a deposit.
I concur that something needs to be done about these consumer Terms-of-Service type contracts.

There's a contract system in place, and it may work fine for people who have the incentive and the resources to look over them (mergers and acquisition deals, house purchases), but a lot of the time the document is very long and written in legalese.

How many people are really going to hire a lawyer to read their Apple Store or World of Warcraft terms? Writing a hugely lengthy contract is simply a way to discourage you from reading it, and then pretending that you've agreed to whatever the terms are. I guess there's some help from the legal system - ridiculous clauses are thrown out - but that doesn't address the fact that you are discouraged from reading about relevant information.

I think someone must have written a post about how long it would take to just read the everyday ToS type docs that we're presented with. And South Park did an excellent episode about this (The Human CentiPad).
I knew about small claims court, but didn't realise it was as simple as an online filing. That's really handy to know! I had a similar issue with some £50 concert tickets that I'd bought earlier this year; cancelled the night before the gig and the promoter was being difficult about refunds. I probably still wouldn't have filed, but at least the threat would've prompted them to cough up quicker.

These kind of petty fines really annoy me, far more than a lot of major crimes, because people know exactly what they're doing when they pick a low amount - and they expect to get away with it. You see them all over the place, eg. change your ISP and they'll fine you £50 for not returning a £10 junk router that you have to return, instead of them picking it up.

The money is in an annoying zone where you are put off filing a claim because of the potential cost, not just in money but in time as well. You might still need to go to court over your small claim, which will take up a day and a lot of hassle, etc.

It's one of the reasons that parking tickets are only £30. You could contest them, but it's costing more in terms of your time than you'll recover monetarily, even if you prove the ticket invalid. Likewise with automated speeding tickets from cameras - you could contest it, but it's just too difficult for most people to be worth the risk. Whereas in countries like Switzerland or Finland, where they can have huge fines, I imagine they have a lot more court cases...
Rust, Lifetimes, and Collections
Presumably, we are now in a situation where it is actually more difficult to learn computer programming if you happen to have had the misfortune to be born into a 'non-western' language and, to some extent, even non-english. That is an absurd situation and means that, as a collective species, we are wasting a huge amount of resources and potential. Definitely something we should look to resolve.

Having a drop-down for variables certainly isn't a solution, granted. Hopefully, there are some more sensible compromises - e.g. being able to specify a locale-dependent subset of unicode in your personal environment, appropriate use of metadata to describe the language of a file, etc.
I think the blog post is trying (and failing) to encourage a sense of moral outrage that the SEC, who is the watchdog agency for some HFT firms, is buying services from an HFT firm.

They are piggy backing on the press from the book (the blog post is from months ago when the book came out) to bring this back into the conversation as it has been clear for some time that the SEC is paying for technology from an HFT firm. The book doesn't point this out by the way, but it was public knowledge.

Personally, I'd like to know who is in a better position to provide the technologies to understand HFT than a HFT firm? I would be suspicious of any vendor that claimed they could provide a platform for this that wasn't in the industry.

Also, as a bit of context Themis Trading (the blog posters) is an execution trading house. That is, they make their money by making trades for large institutions with the express value add of being able to get the lowest execution prices. This is precisely the kind of thing HFT has made cheap/redundant. That is they are natural competitors to HFT firms.
"Everything is running great"
Clearly the experience has belatedly led to their discovery of
trip advisor.

Blackpool is a classic example of a seaside resort that's been badly hit by cheap package holidays to the sun.

As such you can expect it to be full of hotels hanging on by their fingernails.

Also it's known to have lots of social welfare bed and breakfast establishments.

You'd need to be living under a rock in England not to know that.

If you're just going from A to B and want a stopover you're better off going with one of the chains. I actually like premier Inns.

One of the travelodges I stayed in though was as depressing a dump as I've experienced.
Uber seeks changes to Wheelchair-Accessible Taxi bill
You're asking a whole lot of teachers.

And frankly, no. It is a classic case of treating the symptom rather than the disease. When what you need is stronger parenting and better social structure and safety nets, substituting that with additional responsibilities and workloads for teachers who are arguably often already burdened outside of what could reasonably be expected of them is not going to be a recipe for success.
Even worse, why can Skype ( http://privacygrade.org/apps/com.skype.raider.html ) read my text messages when I definitely never want to use the feature?
Those are lost on many people nowadays. And strike through imho looks better.
Finally a way to express myself on facebook properly ;) I wonder if bold text would lead to better conversion from ads using this trick. And I wonder when is facebook going to ban this because obviously it works :)