skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess that most of these are a science journalism thing: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd051809s.gif

For example, there was news recently about a breakthrough discovery of a -70C superconductor. The media spun it as if loss-free electricity transport and maglev trains are just around the corner. But in reality, this material (Hydrogen Sulfide) required 2 million atmospheres of pressure for superconducting at this temperature.

No conspiracy or lack of funding is behind the lack of practical applications, in this case it is just utterly unfeasible outside of a laboratory. But even if the material will never make it to the market, it's still a scientific breakthrough that will give scientists new understanding of how the processes work, and perhaps lead to other discoveries with more practical applications in 2, 20 or 200 years.
You can't objectively label different cultures as not being advanced just because they're different.

When that culture normalizes things like throwing acid at rape victims and violent mass retribution for violation of religious laws, well, yes, I can and will label that culture as being backwards and primitive.
And now all the websites to check if your data is leaked or not. And that's when stealing infos comes on it place.
Isn't a treasury bond primarily funding social security, medicare, and defense spending (the three biggest US budget non-discretionary spending categories)?
There is no recourse for this because IT workers do not have to be (legally) paid overtime. Remove that legality and enforce overtime to be paid at 1.5x regular wage, and you should see a better workplace and higher employment. I think productivity numbers will also be realistic (lower).

The legality of uncompensated overtime drives me crazy. There is a lot that practitioners in our profession have yet to learn - valuing ourselves and what we do.
Can't read end of article: some black square keeps popping up and driving scroll to top. Damn ads.
The Notification Problem
I never claimed to know that anonymous business, but it doesn't take a genius to understand that good customer service doesn't include handing out a fine for 30K CHF, especially to world renowned, well respected research facility.

Part of running a good business is looking for opportunity wherever it exists. The company can see the opportunity to squeeze 30K from a client, but when that license expires, the chance the customer goes a different direction is higher. Instead if you accept that it was a mistake, use it as an opportunity to expand the license, not only have you increased the revenue from that company, but you've also shown you are easy to work with, forgiving and therefore the customer is more likely to renew.

I'll provide a very anecdotal story that happened to me. I once worked in a bar/kitchen and was paid under the table in cash each week. The owner would give me the cash in an envelope with the number of hours I worked. On a few occasions he would overpay me by $20 or so. Some may this as an opportunity to get an extra $20. Instead, I would go to my boss and say "Hey, you accidentally over paid me by $20" and hand him a $20. I can tell you that the respect and admiration I received for being honest, was worth way more than the $60 or so extra I would have received if I had just shut up and took the money. Moral of the story - look for the real opportunity, not the immediate payout (as the software vendor did with CERN).
This is very well done.
Totally agree. This would have killed my computer back in the mid or late 90's!

I was impressed how everything rendered without a glitch on Chrome on my Mac (I do have a new Mac...).

We've come a long way. :)
My macbook got CPU throttling at 100% when I stayed at that page for around a minute :)
You are aware the hackers could just inject a few innocent names into the list to smear targets [e.g. politicians, people they don't like] right?

You are assuming guilt when, frankly, there is no real evidence the list isn't peppered with targets selected by the hackers in addition to the people who actually used the site. It also the only way to make money off such a list if Ashley Madison didn't pay up [e.g. Give us $X and we'll add your political enemies to the list]

Tptacek is correct. This list is, literally, a weapon and could be employed by an actor to attack someone [although no violence would be required].

Honestly, I'm seriously concerned anyone be naive enough to take the list at face value when its clear the hackers had a financial motive to be dishonest. [e.g. Attempting to blackmail AshleyMadison for money.]
Just downloaded. Looks super cool
I turned down my Amazon offer saying you are stock vesting plan is unfair. The recruiter's comeback was "We are all leaders here!"

At least I tried.
And easier to use than Facebook.
Is ketamine the best hope for curing major depression?
And the people on the site who are not cheaters, and not willing to help someone else cheat?
> this is why you have managers that sometimes have to tell employees to go home.

Good managers can spot when this is needed. But if the employee is telling the manager that everything is fine and isn't showing signs of home stress, I don't blame the manager.

> Why should it keep you from becoming VP of engineering? That's messed up.

I think most companies are going to value and reward those who put in extra time consistently over those who don't.
Heh, I was comparing that to a "create stuff, do and learn new things, screw normal life, I'd never fit in" mentality, which surprisingly a lot of people don't have. I wouldn't call all of them stupid, though. Stagnated, maybe?
That's worse than click-bait. If you want me to use a product, don't deceive me with a more interesting-sounding product.
Try explaining to her about the case of some gay men in the middle east using the website discreetly who run the risk of death after this leak: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=10084651 (citing a reddit post).

And, if you are comfortable putting her in a precarious position, you should ask her if she honestly knows of any of her girlfriends who have cheated before. Or, more simply, if any of her girlfriends are not single and have a Tinder account. I've noticed the "shoe on the other foot" has silenced many of the Twitter camp.
Custom Watch Faces for Apple Watch
The point was very clearly "I would rather develop for Safari on iOS that for any browser on Android."
If I could only view this through my skinned IE 5... I never thought I'd be nostalgic for this, but I am.
Thanks for the comment. Those are all great ideas. The coding was completed in 8 weeks so I really was crunched for time especially simply getting all the hardware to interface. I am continuing some work on it in my free time and all of these are fantastic ideas. There is now HTTPS on the web now, I like the idea of 2 factor for admin login quite a bit. as to point 2 and 3, I recognize the fact that the UI is/was fairly lacking and is definitely something that is a high priority for the project.
This is actually perfect for shadow dom, because it allows composition.

You gotta remember, Shadow Dom is a double edged sword, - while it prevents styles from leaking in, it prevents styles from cascading too. And sometimes, cascading was a good thing. Without it, you need to reapply base styles, and that's annoying. With this approach, you can compose component styling by declaring what to inherit.
Made me think of this: http://www.arngren.net/

It's a Norwegian technology/gadget retailer that was basically the Norwegian equivalent of what Radioshack used to be. Then it was sold to some entrepreneur back in 2000, promptly went bankrupt, and was bought back by the original founder. The design stems from the design of their huge paper catalogue back in the 80's.
So great.
Yahoo should not have been allowed to shutdown Geocities.
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Shell-o world: Turtle graphics in Python
Ask HN : What side project are you working on?
Time flies! It's that time of the month again for HN'ers to share what they are working on. We've had some awesome projects shared in the previous threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9891487
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9696274
That is going a bit too far - the same thing could happen if somebody told him because they saw the wife having sex in a cheap motel, or found out for any other reason, would you still think they were guilty then?
I'm confused. If CERN has the licenses, and the student is covered under that usage case, why wouldn't their license rights apply to the software that the student was using (regardless of where they got the the binary installation or whether it had a crack). The software has still been paid for, so why wouldn't the software company allow it? It sounds like the software company is exploiting a technicality in their licensing terms, for no real reason other than greed?
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OMG! It is a great conspiracy theory! Everything is clear. Much time has elapsed since then, many people didn't read old articles about 64-bit. But these articles are useful and as we can see attract interest. Plus, the audience has changed. We would like to share with new one a good material. It is impossible to share old link that is why we decided republish some good articles in new places. This information will be interesting for recruits.
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Well, most of the projects are from years ago so maybe that's true.
So far as I am concerned: Facebook is a token economy broker where users pay each other in likes. Just like all the "major" social networks. That is the elegance of them: the users are providing the gratification.
Facebook IS paying us: through the free use of their service.
This is interesting. I'm a Canadian here on a temporary work visa in a similar situation: my expired passport has my visa. I carry my old and new passports whenever I leave the country. I'm going to be sponsoring my spouse (dependant visa) soon, so I'm reading about the BRP very carefully now...
I do agree with this assessment.

I hope that Safari eventually fixes some of the issues we've seen with delayed or buggy implementations of cutting-edge features. It would be nice to have consistency (although to honest, most of those features are not usable cross-browser in any case, due to Internet Explorer's incompatibility).

Performance, battery life, and UX are generally much better for me than with any other browser, so I really hope it doesn't fall behind too much.
Why would someone sign up and pay for a site that advertises like this[1] if not to utilize their services?

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=ashley+madison+advertising&b...
Did you ever notice that every item, human, and non-boss enemy in Zelda is made of one of exactly four palettes, each of which is made of only three colors (plus transparent)?

1. Link's tunic color, his skin tone, and his hair color
2. White, orange, red
3. White, light blue, dark blue
4. Black, dark teal, and red

For example, #1 is used for Link, Zelda, the merchants, and the raft, which is why when you get the blue ring or the red ring and your tunic color changes, it also changes the color of the other people's clothes and the binding on the raft.

Here's a graphic I made of every sprite in the ROM six times -- one with the three versions of palette #1 (no ring, blue ring, red ring) and one for each of the three other palettes: http://i.imgur.com/omBWovb.png

It allows you to see that, e.g., Wizzrobes are made of only three colors, and they're the exact same three colors as the red candle, heart containers, tektites, like-likes, octoroks, rupees, the boomerang, the map, fire, the life potion, fairies, and the master sword.
and everyone else. Seriously. No sympathetic human being would do this without a deep-rooted hatred to everyone involved.
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Is there any extra value at all?

Anyway, I doubt most users even check for the padlock and will gladly send their data trough HTTP. Even if they do chack, they'll have no idea what the green bar means.
You can achieve this with pseudo elements easy.
I think you have the right approach, but infidelity is not "strongly immoral" in the sense that it entitles you to publicly humiliate people you aren't in any way related to. It's a private matter between two (or actually, more) people. Your spouse has the right to tell you what you did is "strongly immoral", but Joe Public doesn't. I have zero respect for someone from the public who thinks their moral outrage entitles them to shame someone else for who they have sex with.

"Strongly immoral" which belongs in the public sphere is more like human trafficking, murder, corruption in public office, etc.
Apart from maybe Shoes, I've yet to see something that approaches Tk's whipupitude, which is a great benefit for adding some small dialog or report window to a script. And its Canvas was great for data visualisation. It was hard to get something really good-looking out of it, but if you want to draw a picture of the machines in your manufacturing plant with a item count and on/off switch next to each...

Dunno about Wx. Last time I looked at it, it was a horrible morass of classes and constants that actually made me long for Swing...
Which reminded me of http://www.lingscars.com/
We probably shouldn't forget that a lot of the old-school CSS stuff were hacks meant to get around limitations in the standards. In isolation, they were pretty cool, but in terms of composability, maintainability, and compatibility, they were a nightmare. Life pre-SASS sucked, and even pre-BEM it was pretty horrible once an app started to sprawl. There's still a place for all of the great little CSS techniques, but just factored into mixins, where the implementation can be encapsulated, and represented by something much smaller that represents the effect.

You're right that there's a bewildering number of technologies and approaches out there, but I think we're actually converging towards something sane. Certain waypoints are basically being agreed upon. Sure, we have SASS/LESS/Stylus/PostCSS, but ultimately people use them 95% identically, and that commonality was a huge win. BEM has similarly been a huge win, wand widely adopted. Reading the OP, I was nodding my head along as I read, and I think they're on to something really good. We're getting close to a point where we'll have easy to write, easy to employ, semantically meaningful styles with a more or less transparent build process.
It is beautiful. At least there wasn't any Flash and no corporate-jumbotroned-conventionnal-websites.
A note to the author: the line graph is pretty much indecipherable to people who are red/green colorblind, which for men is about 5% of the population (it's much more rare in women). I'm not sure if there are tools to help with picking colors for Kendo UI, but there are general tools to help pick colorblind-friendly schemes such as http://colorbrewer2.org/
It’s more typical to require the visa transfer; usually the fee is waived or nominal.
I found this video that compares doing some common operations in Angular 1, Angular 2 and Aurelia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLuuAlDXHU0

It's fairly recent too: August 3 2015.
I do a few.

Tech related:

http://www.freecodecamp.com/
Because I never felt that comfortable with web development. The interface is super easy to use and I can't wait to start helping non-profits.

Non tech related:
Write. I write and I write and I write. I have so much to say and I want to say it in the best way possible.

Also draw. I don't draw as much as I should because I am so bad at it. But sometimes things with terrible art can still take off so it keeps me going. example: https://twitter.com/KeLuKeLuGames/status/553404094958694400/...
The student made a bad choice and I agree that they should take responsibility for their actions. I described a way to do that. The software vendor has a right to make a living from selling licences.

But. Students are usually young, relatively inexperienced, and have limited resources. A $31k fine would probably end their academic career and have a long-term effect on their life. And to what end? Why do this to someone at the start of their adult life?

CERN and the university - without agreeing with the student's actions - should recognise the power imbalance between the student and the software vendor, and the absence of any real damage caused, and they should look after their people. That doesn't mean siding with the student, just using their position as respected institutions to bring about a just settlement. Their failure to do that makes them cowards.
Surely, if you value your privacy then don't bother using Facebook at all.

More precisely, she wants the company to offer a cash option (about twenty cents a month, she calculates) for people who value their privacy, but also want a rough idea of what their friends’ children look like.

They could just email with their friends. It's unclear to me, at least, that a 'feed' of data about people I know is an important service. Clearly, I must be an outlier given the number of people I see looking at Facebook every day.
Regardless of my potential issues with tptacek, I stopped reading at

>The cheaters deserve to be outed.
It should have a message that tells you to downgrade your browser for the best experience.
I can see eternity.

Nice work!
Using Lua and C++ in practice. Part 1. Intro to ECS and basic principles
That may be your experience, but I've been using TP-Link as my go to access points for myself and my clients (home and small business) for the past 6 or so years. I've deployed maybe 20 APs in that time and none have failed yet.
(author of the gist...) Anyone really thinks it's not a joke? This was all a few years ago, but IIRC the original thought behind it was something I saw on twitter, or perhaps just pondering how evil can C/C++ preprocessor could possibly be.
> Is it that simple?

Yes. The legal system is responsible for bringing criminals to justice. The system maybe imperfect but its better than vigilantes with a deeply held, righteous cause who honestly believe their targets to be evil. Fanatics of all stripes see themselves in that light and that kind of thinking is extremely dangerous. In truth, it should only be used in the event a blood revolution is the only option available to the citizenry.
Some want to define terms with clear broad strokes and become frustrated when their observations don't lie clearly along those partitions. A good experimentalist would then simply change how they define things in order to have partitions that match their observations more closely, but that is not the case for most, especially if ones living depends on it (observations tend to be highly skewed).

Something about infosec/def contractors arguing ethics I find quite comical, especially since governments and their contractors don't sit down with AT&T and the like and discuss the nuances surrounding the ethics of what they wanted done with customers of such over crips and tea (at best it was probably limited to lawyer speak with the providers in some secret court with secret rules),and then discuss how most of the work would be outsourced to private companies/individuals to "protect information" (information collected from providers who collected it from customers) from the "outsiders" (customers of such providers).
Reminds me of the one-man Wikipedia crusade against this misusage: http://www.npr.org/2015/03/12/392568604/dont-you-dare-use-co...
http://indeed.com/salary is a ok way to ballpark jobs based on keyword and city
How to succeed in a startup accelerator program
Show HN: Monthly Readers Club – A Book Subscription Service
People who have affairs arguably deserve to be punched in the face by their spouses (figuratively speaking; I don't advocate actual violence), not by Joe Public.
Hey HN. I built this to help people read more. Talking with friends and coworkers, I kept hearing about how they use to read all the time, but stopped. I definitely wasn't reading as much as I wanted either. Making time to read is hard after work, other commitments, and trying to have a social life.

To make things easier, I made Monthly Book Club. You sign up for either a monthly subscription or a "business course" and get delivered a book that fits your genre or topic each month. Spacing a book out over a month is pretty easy and knowing another book is coming next month motivates you to read the current one.

That's the idea anyway. The cool thing about subscription "boxes" is that they have low overhead. If you consider this my MVP, it probably cost me $200-300 and most of that was the LLC registration. My plan is to market to business schools and businesses because books are still one of the best ways to learn soft skills.

Any feedback would be appreciated!
Google loses data as lightning strikes
Thanks for taking the time to reply back, I really appreciate it.

Would you recommend working hard as hell and focus on getting my Master's cum laude, or get in some work experience on the side?

How long did your PhD take? I recently talked with an actuary PhD graduate and he did his in 3 yrs in The Netherlands, I also spoke to a graduate who did his at Cornell in 5 yrs.
Yeah there was some crowdsourcing via twitter back when I wrote the (initially short) gist.
I had joined Active Worlds back when it was called AlphaWorlds[1] and before that I enjoyed Worlds Chat[2]. It was an interesting universe to explore. I didn't build much since their library of pre-made objects didn't have enough variety and you saw the same objects everywhere. You could model your own objects but I had trouble finding free software I could use for that.
I hadn't logged in to Active/AlphaWorlds for a while and when I came back to see how things had changed they started charging for accounts. I had forgotten my login info and I wasn't willing to pay for a new account, so that was the end of that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Worlds#History

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_chat
and i read it just in time to have

"So basically just #include <windows.h>"

as the last comment, i think it was an interesting summary
"If it's free, you're the product."
> It was also the only country ever that grilled me on the border regarding the purpose of my trip.

I've been grilled several times when entering the US on journalist (I) visas in several decades of UK passports.

This is in spite of making dozens of short visits with an impeccable record, on scheduled flights, with hotels pre-booked, and more than sufficient funds. (Not to mention a UK family, job, house, pension fund and many other ties.)

I've seen enough journalists harassed on US entry to be extremely careful about doing everything correctly, and I'm always extremely polite. This usually works, but not every time. I appreciate that ultimately I have no rights and no way to defend myself.

Welcome to America records the experience of a journalist who neglected to get an I-visa. She was fingerprinted, body-searched, jailed and then deported. But, she says,

"I had travelled to the US on many occasions, both for work and pleasure, that I had, in fact, lived there as a permanent resident and that my husband was a US citizen, as was my New York-born daughter, all fell on deaf ears."

She notes that "As documented by Reporters Without Borders and by the American Society of Newspaper Editors (Asne) in letters to Colin Powell and Tom Ridge, cases such as mine are part of a systemic policy of harassing media representatives from 27 friendly countries whose citizens - not journalists! - can travel to the US without a visa, for 90 days."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jun/05/usa.weekend7
I've never understood the logic of giving up the things you enjoy in life to gain time in the future to enjoy life.

I'm all for frugal but life isn't a dress rehearsal.
Scrolling down teeechnically nsfw.
Ha my grandma had that when I was growing up too. We'd spray it on when we went camping. Can't say I've ever known it to work, when we went fishing we'd always lather ourselves in DEET instead.