skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So basically the point is that it doesn't apply for cases where you need a complicated defense?

To me this sounds close to saying that there is the law of the common person - where you are sent to rot in jail if you break the rules, and the law of the people who are wealthy enough to pay for complicated defense strategies.

I'm not trying to build a straw man here, just trying to figure out where the difference in our (moral?) thinking lies.

Isn't it close to the idea that the state should provide a humane living standard for those who can't provide for themselves. Such as not starving, basic healthcare etc - but anything beyond that is something that every person has to earn themselves. This seems like something close to a moral conviction to liberal-minded people, sometimes. "If you can afford it, you deserve it."

I'm wondering if it's the same thinking that guides you here. A basic "throw them in jail if they did it" law that doesn't allow for complicated cases, and a deluxe version that takes into account other things than "straightforward factual events", for those who can afford it?

I'm not convinced, but maybe I'm just not getting your point.
Firefox has that as built-in function

view menu -> page style -> no style

alt+vyn/alt+vyb via keyboard.
For a split second I thought it was going to be about Nullsoft's Wasabi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasabi_%28software%29
A bitter clash at the FCC is gumming up one of the most important issues in tech
Hobby projects, usually solve a problem that I'm experiencing, the proverbial itch that needs scratching.

If I happen to be looking to try out a new library or programming language I give it ago, even if its not the best choice, because its just a hobby project.

I've done this with recently with: http://optionsworth.com/ and http://dailyriver.herokuapp.com/
The idea that you arrest someone to serve time in your prison because he broke your laws, and then you cannot send them back because of another law is just mind-blowing.
It's remarkable that this has so many points. Why would so many be keen to contribute to the defense of someone who violated his oath and betrayed his country? He wasn't a whistleblower: there are processes in place for whistleblowing, and there are inspectors general who would love to get a good case of misconduct to work on, and he never availed himself of them.

He pled guilty at trial, and received a fair sentence.
This is a really impressive video: there's a lot about the interface between VM and native code that I hadn't thought about.

Another small thing that jumped out at me: Click said that if he were to write another VM, he wouldn't use a memory-unsafe language. His throwaway comment was "Java is fast enough."
WxPython: Ensuring Only One Instance per Frame
Ask HN: How can I change from consultancy world to web development world?
I'm 33 years old, brazilian and since 2000 I have been working on corporate world.

From 2000 to 2006 I was working in Telecommunication industry as field technician and later as QA Analyst on Product development.

Then, in 2006 I move to IT world, where I started to work implementing Siebel CRM in almost all Telecom companies in Latin America.

But, I spend the last 3 years learning webdevelopment technologies, mainly Javascript (AngularJS, NodeJS) and Python. I did some freelas with that (not for money but for learning).

I want to make the move now. I want to work with those exciting "new" (at least for me) technologies.

But the problem is: I'm already a senior/expert level in my current career. So I already have a good salary and so on.

Should I look for junior careers on webdevelopment, or can I use my business analysis and Java knowledge and experience to find something in "mid-senior" level in web development world?

It is not being easy to found some fulltime position in Webdevelopment with my consultancy oriented CV.
Show HN: Manage your expenses through Slack
Hello all,

We have created a mobile app in France, called Birdly. The app allows people to manage their expenses and export them into an Excel recap easily. People just have to take a picture of their receipt through their phones and we automagically recognize the data. The startup was launched a few months ago and we have some traction in France, but we are thinking of extending our service to other channels such as Slack.

I would need your help to ensure the service we thought of has some kind of interest internationally and if so, how we could improve it.

Here is the URL that presents the project : http://slack.birdly.fr

We currently have an MVP that we want to test with you from today on ! We would like ideally, to try it with 5 international Slack teams.

If you want to try it out, just invite bill@getbirdly.com to your Slack team, or look for the instructions on the landing page.

Thanks in advance for your help !

Marwann
Will definitely take a look at vim so would appreciate the guidance.
If I had to guess, I would guess they won't backport it, at least not before the end of the free Windows 10 upgrade offer. And if that goes as well as they hope, probably never.
>Why would so many be keen to contribute to the defense of someone who violated his oath and betrayed his country?

He did? He exposed traitors. Funny how the narrative has been forcefed.
Yea, there's no point in accepting a salary cut. There's enough money, but different priorities. Like funding useless wars.
That's what you get when corporate heads pick the software vendor
Google Proposes Open Source Beacons
Meta question, do transpilers actually work well in practice? My intuition is that they would have all sorts of limitations, but I've never had to use one. Could anyone point me to a resource describing what those limitations might be? In what circumstances would they work best?
A legal defense? He admitted to breaking the law.

So people who confess don't deserve legal representation? Really?

Even if she is a traitor, even they have a right to a legal representation in any civilised place.

If you want to talk about people's rights - what about the rights of the identities he leaked? Where was there trial? I don't see much sympathy for them.

Well, maybe if you posted the stories of the tragedies that happened to them due to the leak there would be some sympathy. Where are they?
Ask HN: What stationary are you using?
Moleskine notebooks are a given.

But I'm struggling to find a good pen and pencil for every day use. Any suggestions?
> This could be done either through a fixed lower speed limit, through specifying a human-scale atomic time quanta

Presumably you mean quantum, and that wouldn't help - as long as there is maker-taker pricing and a huge fixed price increment ($0.01) there is value in being the first to submit your order.

> or adding a tax inversely proportional to the duration between consecutive trades from the same agent -- a tax on simplicity.

That won't help either. Agents are fungible - indeed as you say the whole reason this happened in the first place was that multiple agents were doing the same things.

> Increasing the time-scale of the market will increase the sophistication of the algorithms, as they no longer need to fight to be winner-take-all fast. Bigger-brained algorithms mean the strategy space is larger and convergence is less likely. Thus, no more flash crashes.

Very doubtful. If you have an algorithm that can make money on a longer timescale, you would be running it today. The only algorithms where the fact that faster ones exist matters are the simple market-making ones, and there simply aren't many of those - it's not a question of having time to use more parameters, there just aren't any more parameters out there
Fishflex FTW....for fish of course. It's even better than fishmox :P
It's self-correcting though - those who misprice stuff pay for their mistakes. Ultimately as Levine says it's just another bubble - something humans are already very good at making for themselves. The algorithms just do it faster.
Exposed traitors? Such as? The cabals are online so it should be easy to back up that statement.
> She :-)

Chelsea Manning is no more a woman than I am a cocker spaniel. He may believe, completely and truly, with ever last fibre of his being, that he's a woman—but that doesn't make it so. A woman is a homo sapiens sapiens possessing two X chromosomes, born with a uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes &c.; Manning doesn't fit that description any more than I fit the description 'a canis lupus familiaris specialised for hunting woodcock.'

(I understand he legally changed his name from Bradley to Chelsea, which is why I use the latter; that actually is his name now)
Show HN: A Free P2P Foreign Currency Exchange Platform
How about this extra-dirty version in 69b?

with(document.documentElement)innerHTML=innerHTML.replace(/yl|nk/g,0)
Yeah, you'd like to imagine that, but unfortunately it isn't the case. Here's a perfectly credible and very well-studied architecture for a Mars mission with 1/3rd the upmass and ~540 days on the surface. If your objective is time on the surface to inhabit and study Mars, then this would give a 64x better return on your investment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Direct

So why propose something much more expensive with much less return? Because scientists have learned that the NASA projects which get funded and stay funded aren't the projects which are most cost-efficient; they're the projects which spread the money around to as many NASA centers (and, more importantly, states which correspond to the senior members of the Senate Appropriations committee) as possible. That's pretty obviously the guiding light for this architecture; its innovation is that it proposes to do so within existing budgets rather than radically expanded budgets. But that doesn't make it minimal or cheap by any measure.
"Molly" is the US term for what should be (but usually isn't - very often some mixture of random RCs methylone, mdvp and other alphabet drugs) MDMA.

The UK term is "Mandy" "mud" or MD.

Ecstacy (which I have never ever heard used) refers to what should be MDMA in pill form along with some binders and is usually referred to in the UK as "pills" or "Es". I believe the US prefers the terms "rolls"

>the heroin in the Netherlands that was being sold as cocaine, and which lead to several deaths.
How on earth can you buy coke and get heroin? No one buys coke and then rakes up a monster line, everyone does a dab test (lick finger, stick it in the powder and taste it)

Heroin tastes nothing like coke. Heroin sells for more so why mix it in?
We've been developing client sites using Wagtail for a few months and are extremely impressed by both its versatility and user-friendliness. Very pleased to see it hit 1.0 and I hope momentum continues.
Mine are usually derived from my non-technical (non-computer) interests and scratching my own itch. For example, my need for a source for quick at-a-glance recap of NBA games (when I found myself with less time to follow sports) is what spawned Recapp'd (which was also my "learn Rails" project).

Shameless plug: http://recappd.com
Vulnerability in Windows Hyper-V could allow remote code execution
I kind of doubt the strategy will be to seek acquittal. They will probably try to build some sympathy and convince the court it was her intention to do good for America, not to help an enemy or earn money. They will probably also plead diminished capacity due to depression and gender dysphoria (if that sort of thing flies in military court). Hope for a lighter punishment and return to society before she's an old lady.
Russia opening “military Disneyland” where you can try guns instead of rides
Earlier in life I ported MUMPS to the ATARI ST. I remember the syntax as being a little weird compared to all other languages I knew at the time. The persistence was a nice touch though, it allowed you work with data in a very intuitive manner.
Charges Against Colorado Bitcoin Trader Dismissed
I do a bit of work with Epic as a 3rd party vendor, its interesting to say the least. The UX is pretty bad, but an internal human factors group seems to be gaining influence and decision making power in the organization. Its also odd because even as an older company, most of their workforce is in their mid 20's and early 30s, so change is coming eventually. That said, a bad Epic install will absolutely bankrupt a hospital.

And not to be a pedant, but Epic's big break was with Kaiser, Hopkins came a years or two later.
UBA did not review the security. however the security issues were so obvious that it seems strange that they say nothing
Self taught Greek software engineer here, professionally working on software. I know you want to focus on the front-end but I disagree. A student needs to see how and why things are connected. This is what I suggest:

### Section 1

#Theory

How do the computers communicate (aka how does the internet works). Explain how your ethernet port connects to a server's ethernet port.

- Basic TCP/IP (OSI Model, Internet Routing, IP)

- Internet Infrastructure (routers, server component, virtual machines, cloud)

- Basic HTTP ( request-response, GET, POST, headers, cookies etc)

#Workshop

-Based on Wireshark sniffing. Also tools like traceroute.

### Section 2

#Theory

Programming Languages and Infrastructure.

- Based on the request-response cycle explain the basic components of a server (HTTP, programming language, database)

- why we need a programming language.

- Differentiate back-end from front-end and explain its usage (Server, DOM)

#Workshop

- Setup a development stack using Ansible or Puppet (to save time or do a LAMP stack installation)

- Use requests.py or guzzle to send and receive some http (check it with wireshark)

### Section 3

Back-end and frameworks

# Theory

- Why we need back-end frameworks

- What are the most important components of a back-end framework

- Pick a simple framework and explain its architecture

- Show some examples

- Briefly talk about security

# Workshop

- Flask-SQL Alchemy or Silex-Doctrine based project. No js used, no Node.JS imho.

### Section 4

Basic front-end and frameworks (no asynchronous staff, no SPA frameworks)

# Theory

- Why javascript

- Explain what the DOM is and why we care

- HTML VS DOM

- CSS

# Workshop

- Basic styling HTML+CSS

- Manipulate the DOM using developer tolls

- Jquery changing the DOM (based on the Flask project)

### Section 5

REST and Asynchonous and beyond

# Theory

- What is REST and why we need it

- Why frameworks like angular.js exist
Did you keep the beard?
> He exposed traitors.

Words mean things. In the United States, 'treason' is 'levying war against [the United States], or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort' (Constitution, Article III, Section 3). Whom did Manning reveal to be levying war against the United States? Whom did he reveal to adhere to our enemies, giving them aid and comfort?

No-one. He didn't expose a single traitor.
ECommerce startup looking for CTO
I am currently working on an idea for an E-Commerce platform for emerging markets. I need a CTO however. I have built my previous projects myself, but feel that I need someone who is better at development than me to run with the tech on this one. I also have more experience in business related matters.

I have a few connections in markets that I would like to target initially and I think if the tech is right, we can start generating revenue quite quickly.

Comment here to get in touch.
Pilot G-2 0.38 (I like the thin line) + Pentel Twist-Erase 0.5 (I like unique combo of mechanical pencil and full-size eraser)
One of the people I went to university with had a little (very short) mental catalogue of "chromatic mathematical fruit jokes". There are exactly two famous ones. "What's purple and commutes?" "An abelian grape." And: "What's yellow and equivalent to the axiom of choice?" "Zorn's lemon." He invented another, which requires more esoteric knowledge: "What's green and determined up to isomorphism by its first Chern class?" "A lime bundle." I don't remember whether anyone found a credible fourth example.

(Oh, how we laughed.)

[In case anyone reading this thinks the above might be amusing if only they knew what mathematical objects were actually being referred to: (1) No, probably not. (2) Abelian group; Zorn's lemma; line bundle. For the last one, you need to make it the first Stiefel-Whitney class if you're working over the real numbers rather than the complex numbers.]
Keep in mind that MUMPS started around the same time as Unix (a little before, actually), so the same motivation for naming commands like cp, mv, and rm was likely at play in allowing abbreviations: interactive use on remote terminals.
Daniel Kahneman (from his autobiography, but he tells the same story in Thinking, Fast And Slow):

> I had the most satisfying Eureka experience of my career while attempting to teach flight instructors that praise is more effective than punishment for promoting skill-learning. When I had finished my enthusiastic speech, one of the most seasoned instructors in the audience raised his hand and made his own short speech, which began by conceding that positive reinforcement might be good for the birds, but went on to deny that it was optimal for flight cadets. He said, “On many occasions I have praised flight cadets for clean execution of some aerobatic maneuver, and in general when they try it again, they do worse. On the other hand, I have often screamed at cadets for bad execution, and in general they do better the next time. So please don’t tell us that reinforcement works and punishment does not, because the opposite is the case.” This was a joyous moment, in which I understood an important truth about the world: because we tend to reward others when they do well and punish them when they do badly, and because there is regression to the mean, it is part of the human condition that we are statistically punished for rewarding others and rewarded for punishing them. I immediately arranged a demonstration in which each participant tossed two coins at a target behind his back, without any feedback. We measured the distances from the target and could see that those who had done best the first time had mostly deteriorated on their second try, and vice versa. But I knew that this demonstration would not undo the effects of lifelong exposure to a perverse contingency.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean
5 Useful Docker Tip and Tricks on Windows
>It's quite usual for career criminals to have a detailed and complicated worked-out ethical system

Not even that complicated, pretty much summed up by "no women no children"

I think you will find, that apart from the paedophiles themselves, they are universally loathed. Probably more so by criminals.

The last place a paedophile wants to be is locked up in prison.
Echo chamber of outrage: Ars attends a climate skeptics’ summit
Why not work with your team to develop a well documented process? Having an actual human being as the source of information on naming conventions, etc. seems counter productive. Obviously the constant context-switching is also counter-productive and borderline unhealthy.

It sounds like most of the issues here come down to poor organization and management. If your company embraces the "yes man" culture of trying to keep every client happy all of the time and wouldn't dare tell them that it will be done tomorrow, you'll be in context-switching hell for the life of your job there.

It's interesting to me to see people martyr themselves over a poorly organized or nonexistent process.
GCC 5.2 released
Interesting question. The answer seems to be unclear. According to this article http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2014/08/28/tax-... miles given as "thank you points" can be taxable although there doesn't seem to be a definitive rule.

Previously the IRS more or less said that they weren't going to pursue any enforcement of frequent flyer miles obtained in the usual manner. http://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2012/aug/20125796...
I've tried 2c-b twice in my life. The first time I took it with mdma and had an amazing time. The second time I took it I broke out in hives, swelled up and was miserable for about 12 hours. That was 17 years ago and the last time I took any drug of that nature. I think things like this are why drugs should not be illegal. Getting a known quantity of a known entity is always safer than black market pills stuffed and cut with who knows what.
You're perhaps thinking of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time
You are misinformed, Belarus is not occupied by Russia.
The greatest musical flowchart battle in history
There is even no word "torture" in the document.
Teens don't speak anymore: 51% would rather communicate digitally than in-person
Are GMOs safe? Yes. The case against them is full of fraud, lies, and errors
1) This is a tragically short-sighted way to look at the cost of these tickets. You cannot look at the retail price of the service; you must look at its actual cost.

2) What is a better compensation for a one-million-dollar investor to whom you don't wish to give a share of the company?
You can't customize anything much OSX and Windows, though. The tweakability is not just there like what we had in AmigaOS.
If you need an attorney and cannot afford one, one is appointed. If you can afford one, you can't really say "I'd rather not pay that."

In this context "afford" typically means you can still keep your home/apartment and go grocery shopping.
Offering miles limits the community of bounty hunters to locations served by united.

Paying out with miles is a fun idea, but the strategy seems fatally flawed to me.
The fact that there's a ton of related websites shouldn't ever stop you from doing a simple side project, since it's for learning purposes anyway. And a "copy" of something can always shift into something original.
I don't agree about publishing the certs, but that's not the main issue.

The main issue was a security flaw that allowed somebody to directly download the SSL certs of the voting system from an URL.
Fast and slow are all relative - ChaCha is relatively fast but PGC is faster.
> "it doesn't apply for cases where you need a complicated defense?"

More like, it doesn't apply for cases where your defense is "I totally did it, but I'm not guilty because..."

in such a circumstance, you're essentially hoping to convince a judge or jury that your law-breaking was OK, which is significantly more difficult and requires significantly more research than if you merely needed to convince the jury that you hadn't broken the law.
Ask HN: How to reach out to hackers and CS students in India and Brazil?
Building a new product for hackers & CS students and need beta testers.

We got some US users. However, we also want to see how users from other large non-US hacker communities, such as India and Brazil, interact with the product.
Any idea or info about online communities, forums, Facebook groups etc will help.

Thank you!
I was under the impression that it was referencing the similarities with drug induced human hallucinations.
>there are processes in place for whistleblowing

...that have been shown to be inadequate several times.
Done. Awesome image! Thanks for sharing :)
That is pretty embarrassing too and even a bigger vulnerability, but Dropbox released a statement about it.

I believe that owning up to your mistake and being transparent about it can only make your customers trust you more. What worries me is that Mercado Pago is huge and they never released a statement about this issue. I hope that they change this policy soon.