skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not like the prosecutor missed or misread an unambiguous statute. There was essentially a loophole in one of the statutes that if read narrowly suggested the trade secret had to be about a product put into commerce. The court found that the code was for an internal goldman sachs service, not a product.

And the other statute on which the prosecutor lost was because the court didn't believe code on a usb was a "good." But if it had printed on paper it would have counted. A sort of stupid distinction.

The prosecutors lost on two narrow statutory interpretations. It happens and it isn't some sort of negligence.

Had he stolen the code from Windows division of Microsoft or had he printed it on paper he'd be guilty.
Great tool. Location is one of the biggest factors for most devs as they decide where to apply.
Why? I want to deter and incapacitate people who steal cars.
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Staying above stall speed in a descent does not require any power. It is extremely common to perform a "power off" landing in a small plane, and these are often not in emergency cases.
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Not the person to whom you're replying, but there are two things I don't understand:

1. The statement of your (minority) opinion as an undeniable fact.
2. Your needlessly hostile tone to anyone who dares question or disagree with #1.
I have had fair success, but not the best experience with the competition. There are far more developers that are ready to work for cheap. Getting noticed and interviewed feels like winning a battle. It has helped me by working on niche projects, and not regular websites.
Chris Roberts is working on his magnum opus. I have very little faith in anyone claiming that this guy is going to tank the effort. Also, I have to wonder if this dude has paid any attention to the COPIOUS amount of world detail being dumped into the universe, or actually played in any of the released fighting sandbox, or paid a visit to CIG's offices (since you can, you know, drop by for a visit to see how development is going).

Disclosure: I have thrown a few thousand dollars into the Star-Citizen-shaped hole.
Thanks for sharing your story. While I dislike doing little bits of work (couple hours here and there), it's great when the work finds you, and you're on good working terms. A couple of times, I've had a M-W-F setup (on site with a client 3 days a week) - for me that is perfection.
It wasn't an argument, I was just trying to clarify the lack of prior attention.

You're right, I didn't realize that this was now part of the FAQ. Thanks for the clarification!
This is going to be a painful lesson for the Chinese to learn, but it will hopefully be for the better and a more stable future.
Start by posting a link.
It's their children who are forcing the issue - by having sex. Denying access to proper medical consultations and care is recognized as a human rights violation.

You don't have a right to forbid your child's access to the health care, justice, etc.
Maybe interchangeable is not the right word here

(defun edible.in.large.amounts? (plant)
(if (equal plant "CAM-plant")
(print "Not, unless you really know what are doing")))
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You might be younger than me ^_^, but in my lifetime two legally civilian owned automatic weapons were used in crimes, both murders as I remember, one by a policeman, though. I can't recall any illegal ones being used in murders, but maybe some escaped my notice. Legal or illegal, they are demonstrably not a problem; in fact, the NFA of 1934 used them as a wedge to try to severely restrict handgun ownership, but that failed in the Congress.
Likely British usage. We pluralize company names in many cases: Goldmans, Tescos, etc, and refer to them plurally (so, "Goldmans are seeking to ruin Sergey" vs. "Goldman is seeking..."). Apostrophe is probably wrong :)
Queue classical music

"Suidobashi, we have a giant robot, you have a giant robot. You know what needs to happen. We challenge you to a duel."
DanBC: how does what work? It's not about availability of services, it about engagement in it. There are programs in US too.

Something people here looks like don't understand: there are resources for homeless. May not be enough but it's not nothing. There multiple programs to help. How about places where you should be sober to stay? AND HOW ABOUT STREET PEOPLE WHO'RE SAYING FK THAT, I"LL BE DOING WHAT I WANT? how about all the free rides to all the hospitals and emergencies? do you think they turned down? People here on HN are sitting in warm chairs and projecting themself on others. NOT EVERYONE IS THE SAME. And plenty of people on streets are genuinely fked up. but you may keep thinking about throwing little money toward them and how it suppose to fix it all.
Just to save someone's time, they're basically bumping the previous 640x640px resolution to 1080x1080px, not the same as industry-standard 1080p as in 1920x1080px.
A comment elsewhere in the thread suggests that they put their own proprietary license header at the top. Which is legal if they never distribute the result.
Please don't give the pageview for this bottom feeder level of "journalism".
That would probably be a better use of human abilities.
Generally reasonable? You've gotta be kidding. The guy launches into Twitter rants daily, often blasting away with ad hominems.

On balance, I think he probably does more good than harm for our community. But it's a very close call.
I've been pretty happy with http://materializecss.com/

It doesn't use React out of the box, but wouldn't be hard to integrate.
Man that is one tortured definition. The mental gymnastics. Impressive!
Let me ask you, how does a person make a decision?

To me people use what they believe to be true to make that decision. To me all decisions demonstrate a persons actual beliefs, as why would they decide to do something if they did not honestly believe it would yield a desirable outcome. (that outcome does not have to be viewed as desirable to anyone but them, for instance suicide. Nor does it have to be the immediate outcome which is desirable, it could be part of a long con.)

>Consider the population of wives cheating on their husbands. Do you really believe that only an insignificant number of them think what they're doing is wrong?

Yes, I believe that all cheating spouses, people who commit crimes, and sociopaths have developed an internal belief structure which lets them justify actions that may come at a cost to themselves or others as being probable of a desirable outcome for them.

>First, you need to establish that we differ in our definitions.

Have I done so to your satisfaction? I thought it was common knowledge that people often echo views they do not actually adhere to so that they will appear to conform to societal norms, which represents the crux of my definition. Politicians frequently offer a very obvious example of such a tendency, but if you know anyone well enough you can see the inconsistencies in what they say and what they do. Their actions demonstrate how they actually make decisions and what they believe in my opinion, not what they say.

You will know which are which by being introspective about the decisions you have made in the past and are considering making currently, and try to understand what basis you are truly using for that decision, besides the surface 'Well this feels right' reason.
As much as I love racket/scheme/lisp, I truly believe that the 61A (sans-s) where python is taught, helped me much more for my career/future just because it was taught in python. For programming fundamentals, either works great, but I think working with python is more helpful for future environments.

One example of this is when a classmate of mine was taking an artificial intelligence class at Berkeley (Cog Sci 131) and was at a loss because she was taking 61as which was taught in strictly scheme, and the artificial intelligence class was taught in strictly python.

Both classes are wonderful and I can proudly say that it has made me a better computer scientist. http://cs61a.org/
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Also:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

https://github.com/sarabander/sicp
Don't forget the free-speech zones that look suspiciously like cages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone
I would imagine they do; neither of the robots are currently remote-controlled. I'd imagine they'll put a lot of safety precautions in place, of course.
This sounds like the currently fashionable argument to avoid comments because they can be inaccurate, go out of date, and after all the code itself should be self-explanatory - just shifted a bit further up the chain.
> 1. Certain people want Reddit to be a haven for free speech, including speech that coordinates abusive actions. The Reddit admins (current and past) don't think that's what Reddit should be.

The real problem is that the definition of "abusive" is hopelessly vague and the process for determining what constitutes "coordinating abusive action" is opaque and untrustworthy.

Not remotely fair to accuse people of trying to protect "coordinating abuse" without clarifying what that actually means.
> One last point. There is no market for stolen code. If I stole Google's search algorithm, who would I sell it to?

Microsoft would not buy it because that would be illegal on their part as well.

However, if I can reverse engineer Google's code, I can put myself at the top of the search rankings.

Sell that, rather than selling the code.
I think this most famously killed John Denver

Not exactly. John Denver NTSB report: http://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NTSB_Determine...
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Looks like the Login does not work, or only for me?
liberal values as not submitting someone to mental health institution against their will. we are not kgb or nazies, ain't we?
This sounds more like Lyft's "Line" service which connects driver and passengers going the same way on regular trips. I'm not familiar with Uber's offerings though so maybe they have a similar service?
I went freelance 5 years ago and that was one of the best choices of my life!
A lot of coding, a lot of client management, a lot of things, but i wouldn't go back! It gives me the freedom to usually work remotely and that is a great win!

A lot of people will share advices on how to get jobs and how to manage life as a freelance, so i will suggest a different thing: it may be hard to work remotely and alone, so try to know some other freelance so you can have at least a skype call with them daily!

One of my best friend is a freelance web designer and this helped a lot!

This is me: https://it.linkedin.com/in/albertoplebani
Check out the 'Lindy Effect.' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_Effect
Also read about 'Chesterton's Fence.'
http://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com/2012/03/chesterton-fe...
So would a Briton say "I used to work at Goldmans" if the company is called Goldman Sachs?
Bug Report #1:

1. Scroll to the bottom of the list on the right.

2. Click to expand the final item in the list.

3. There is no visual cue that you can now scroll down further to see the expansion. The first item in the list that I click on was the final list item, and I thought that nothing had happened (Note: This could just be an issue with OSX's hidden scrollbars. I can't see if you've disabled it on all platforms, but lots of devs are on OSX).

{edit} I guess I should mention my suggestion. If you're already scrolled to the bottom of the scroll area, and then you take an action that expands the scroll area further down, your position in the scroll area should move to the "new" bottom. There are obviously caveats to this though (e.g. if scrolling to the new bottom would scroll your old position off-screen, this may be disorienting to the user depending on the content and other visual cues). {/edit}

Bug Report #2:

I tried to click the "mail@whoishiring.it" at the bottom (as it's a clickable link), and was taken to a CloudFlare page about how it's hiding the email address for "protection." The issue here is that the link text itself is the email address, so nothing is really hidden (except maybe from poorly written bots crawling the web).

NOTE: This is not meant to be negative or down on your work. It's really great, I just like to take the time for some constructive criticism when there the authors' attention is on the threads (and it's not a e.g. Github project -- that I can see -- so I can't really just open an issue in the bug tracker).
Interesting. I guess we can experiment with how many bits can be compressed to a video frame. Is there a guarantee that YT doesn't change the frame rate?

Another idea is YT as code repo: essentially one makes a movie that shows code files. On retrieval, OCR can be applied to transform the movie back to code in text.
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Whereas I like the idea, large hedge funds will still exist and thrive on their fee structure.

These rely on a considerable sum of institutional investors, where tipping wouldn't be feasible.
Create Native Node.js modules falling back to Emscripten ones
Volkswagen is making its own Segway rival
Unfortunately "free to home school" their children is really a code-word for keeping their children inhumanely isolated for cult compliance reasons. Thought control.
Hey andres, noir_lord's explanation is probably what's going on with my machine.
First, nice work - this is the kind of user interface
and lookup tool that could serve as an great example.

Next, great job of taking the comments constructively.

Last, lest anyone think that the next Silicon Valley
is on the King River east of Fresno, I think that
cluster of 8 is centered in the location "California".
> I transitioned to product and project management 4 years ago, but the current company is not working out for me...

Have you considered creating a new role for yourself inside your current company? Assuming you have a good relationship with company leadership, there may be a way to continue both your professional growth and help the company move forward with its agenda.

Here's an overview of the idea> https://www.themuse.com/advice/how-to-create-a-new-job-at-yo...
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Is there any way get access to the homework auto-grader they are using?
Mozilla has been doing experiments in building browser UI in HTML for a long time. For instance, see Chromeless ( https://blog.mozilla.org/labs/2010/10/chromeless-build-your-... ).

Current HTML is capable enough. It's nice to see them talking about adopting that in mainline Firefox.
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Generically, sure. In this specific arena, food demand is at least modestly constant. And now that endless overpopulation is less of a concern than it used to be, I don't think we have much to worry about there.
Your post job page[0] states whoishiring posts every first day of the month. However the post actually happens every first weekday of the month. [1]

[0]http://whoishiring.it/#!/add/
[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring
Roomblocker (YC S15) is modernizing hotel booking for groups
But wouldn't that be an awesome work environment?
Congrats to Dave and Mike, who are solving a real pain point for groups organizing hotel bookings.
Claims that dental fillings are toxic, and that removing them will provide various health benefits, are a somewhat common medical scam. There is absolutely no evidence supporting these claims.

http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/mercury.ht...
I had no problem with Cobol back in the day, it was a fairly easy language to use once you got used to it. The main problem I have seen is the utter crap way its programmers were treated after the whole Y2K thing was over with. Why would anyone want to walk into a job like that when they can learn Rails and be a 'Rockstar' or any other web-based offering and at least be treated like a valuable commodity?
For your own web servers and your own clients, use your own CA and your own certs.
I got my degree in EE and applied for software jobs and got one. I worked on side programming projects and taught myself basic programming (C++ at the time). When I interviewed I was able to 1) show that I understood concepts like polymorphism and object-oriented development, and 2) cared enough to work on software projects in my own time.

I did get burned on a few interviews where I claimed to know C and then they asked some difficult pointer questions that were out of my depth. Truth was I had done C++ and a little bit of C in one class but not much. So you need to be able to pass a verbal interview and a coding interview.

If I were you I would also suggest not trying to get a job in one of those sub-fields right away, but instead look for any decent software job, get some experience, then look to move into a niche area.
I read the whole page twice, but having trouble understanding exactly what "personalization" or "optimization" it does, beyond scraping the referrer for the search terms. I can imagine adding some "Hello [Country]" or "Get the most of our [browser]" style find-replace, but don't most people do that already?

What, specifically, do you do?
Show HN: Hide petulant messages in any source code
They are trying to reframe the discussion around the idea that they failed in communicating. What they failed in, actually, was keeping an astounding and dedicated employee their users loved.
How the hell do you keep up calorically? I'm interested in IF but I am trying to reconcile it with my daily caloric needs. If I didn't eat anything M-F I would be 13,000 calories behind, and in really rough shape. I already struggle to keep on weight as it is.
Some context that might help people understand this email...

There are two high-level components which make up Firefox. The first is Gecko, the rendering engine. The second is Firefox, the application itself, which uses Gecko to render Web pages and itself.

Firefox, built on top of Gecko, is written primarily in XUL and XBL (and JS).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBL

What's going on here is that Mozilla is considering getting rid of XUL and XBL and building Firefox with the same technologies that people use to build Web content.

There are at least three big advantages to doing this:

1. Eliminate the need to support XUL and XBL in Gecko.

2. Contributing to Firefox gets easier because there is no need to learn what are essentially Mozilla-specific languages.

3. Mozilla learns more about what it takes to build complex applications like Firefox itself using Web technologies.

The only real downside is the amount of work involved.
https://www.privacyinternational.org/?q=node/147 :

> It has come to Privacy International’s attention that Hacking Team appears to have received €1.5 million from two venture capital funds originating from the Region of Lombardy in 2007. One of the funds, Finlombarda Gestioni SGR S.p.A (FGSGR) has only a single shareholder - Finlombarda S.p.A, a public financial services agency whose only shareholder is the Region of Lombardy. Finlombarda S.p.A. designs, builds and manages financial services on behalf of the Region of Lombardy, placing the profits of Hacking Team hand-in-hand with the public finances of Lombardy. FGSGR also lists the Head of Venture Capital as being a Board Member of Hacking Team itself.
Thank you! I certainly enjoyed this conversation, and I certainly appreciate your point of view. I can't disagree that people expect the big banks to get bailed out if anything bad happens again--big bank CDSs trade artificially low!
This is exactly why this product doesn't exist yet - I looked at building this exact app 18 months ago.

Yelp expressly forbids this, and without Yelp, you don't have a product. That said, I think it's stupid that Yelp disallows this and hope that OP succeeds.
I don't think of it as someone 'peddling' something. To me it seems like a creative solution to an actual problem.

Training is the best, but private pilots vary drastically in their training, skill, experience level (especially recent experience).

While I would love to see all pilots selected out of the population for their aptitude, then go through years of intense military like training followed by checkrides every 6 months, it's just not realistic in General Aviation. It's a group of people that differ wildly in their aptitude, age, skill level, that just happen to be healthy enough to pass a relatively low bar medical exam.

Training for Private Pilots in the US might not be perfect, but I don't think a "throw training at it" response is all that useful of an answer. Train what? For how many hours, and require recency of experience after how long?
Great, thanks for the info. If there's anything I can do on my end, let me know.
I just registered the infamous Amy’s Baking Company restaurant without any verification. Even though it is all public information I'm looking at and I can't do any harm, it feels as though I shouldn't have been allowed to do this. Can each business only be registered to a single account?
Depending on your locality you can use some simple keyword searches to find stuff. E.g. I can search for things like: "CA", "Canada", "Toronto", etc and get most of the relevant results. It might not work as well if you're in the Bay Area / Valley though.
Fix what you have, Google.

Every time you launch into something else, like this, I become a bit more convinced that commentators are right and you are slowly turning into Microsoft.

I get the sense that, internally, things are still significantly different than they are or ever were at Microsoft. But I become increasingly concerned about some encroaching "inevitable".

De-fuck Hangouts and your rats nest of "instant" products/services. Beat Verizon over the head until they actually update the Moto X that, at the time of purchase, you sold me. Stop launching the "next great thing" only to kill it 18 months later, over and over.

And as some have said, um, search? Give at least optional specific control back to the power users. And someone the other day raised the pertinent question of why it's not well-integrated into Hangouts.

I suppose RideWith is supposed to eventually overlap with your autonomous cars, or something. But I don't give a crap about the new, until the old and erstwhile reliable -- and so critical to so many -- starts working better, again.

Thanks.

P.S. Ok, that last paragraph is partially rhetoric. But, damnit, if I'm going to invest in your products -- in both dollars and time and effort -- I want some consistency, and an upward trend in features and usability. (See also Tim O'Reilly's recent comments about the -- cough -- "improved" interface in Contacts. (Pop-ups and clipped text -- really?))
Every time Mozilla makes a post - I feel salt in the wound. An elephant in the room. Please pardon me:

When are you going to get around that your organizations acts on the whims of professional agitators on twitter?

You think PA care about these liberal causes? They're bitter people who get a rise out using their iphone to wreck careers.

All you needed to do was come up with a generic phrase that what happens off work hours is no one's business.

Instead, now you have a reputation for being spineless and cowering to trolls. What will you do next?

As for caring about "LGBT" or whatever the newest political landmine on twitter is - no minority needs to be patronized. Adults can take care of themselves.
Uber should have filed for IPO.
This article is not entirely unlike a Dead show: it's quite rambling and unfocused, but there's stuff to get your teeth into if you invest the time in the right frame of mind.
Speaking of corruption, I found this[1] video a while back. On mobile the video shows up fine, but on desktop it's just a gray screen, although the thumbnails work.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOb8TNn7sDE