skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try again? I had to try twice - google forms seems to be a bit overloaded.
These people will not be net contributors to the system.
Fake Steam game 'Dynostopia' distributing malware
Aha, a CV honeypot! You could harvest the names of all the recruiters that take an interest, then publish a blacklist for legitimate job seekers so they would know who not to talk to. :)
> If you want your library to popular don't use GPL.

Like GNU/Linux?
You really can't think of a single scenario in which someone you don't know goes to live with you and you want them to leave?
I've never had so much fun taking a survey.
And yet they all do it. T-Mobile blocks port 465 so you can't send outgoing email via SSL on your own email server. They want you to use their insecure outgoing mail server that anyone can use to send email as anyone else.
They Will Cry a Thousand Tears
I had not noticed that about Microsoft but it is a very good point! Thanks for mentioning it.

The tilted monochrome pane of glass is truly funny.
The Danger of Being Neighborly Without a Permit
Base.css: Not normalize nor reset but basic rules to make modern browsers behave
Your strange scrolling webpage makes it hard to read the actual content without scrolling past. Why do people insist on using this broken scrolling behaviour.
Not quite, but close
http://i.imgur.com/dt3hEYc.png
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I legally changed my name over a year ago, and I still get calls from recruiters once a week or so asking for my old name.

Why? Because they have an old copy of my resume from before my name change. This also leads to me explaining that I don't work at my previous employer anymore and that I've found a new job that I love. They just don't give a shit about having up-to-date records.

My entire name was changed: first, middle, and last, and my new name doesn't resemble my old one in the slightest. It's very awkward having to explain to them that the name they asked for isn't my legal name anymore (and I'm half-tempted to be glib and say "he's dead", but I won't because that could get me in big trouble if they believe it and it gets back to the authorities that I've been using my name change to fake my death).

It's especially awkward, because it forces me to out myself to them as transgender, since my old name was unmistakeably male, and my new name is unmistakeably female. Hell, I'm very much out and proud, but it's just plain awkward to have to tell a recruiter over the phone when they're not expecting it and when it's my very first communication with them.
Toronto != Downtown Toronto. Part of the reason everyone wants to live in the core is the horrible public transit system. I used to live uptown but near the TTC - almost every weekend in the summer, we had to use shuttle buses because of track maintenance.

When I look at the GTA, prices make no sense to me. Million dollar homes in Markham, 600K townhomes in Mississauga? What incomes justify this?

I do agree with you on the "low interest rates or else" theory. Even a few points increase will cause people at the fringes to exit the market. And that has potential to topple everything over.
Yea... it's really bad. I was hoping someone in the NH community had deeper knowledge of the problem. Curious if it was a DoS attack similar to those launched against GitHub a while back.
These people are naive. They have no knowledge of history.
Sorry, did you just complain that pictures of the refugees is properly representative of the real refugees in question? Should it be white? Japanese maybe? No pictures at all? Pretty sure you'd complain then too.
Why cares who's responsible? They're humans. Arn't we all responsible for all humans on the planet?
I don't think ad hominem is necessarily a bad thing in this case; we practice it as a society by not counting votes from 17-yr-olds based not on the merits of their ideas, but their persons.

And in this specific case: citizenship and residency ought to give one's voice more weight.
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It reminds me of what Ivan Illich (sp?) pointed out about over adoption of any specific technology. That we'll keep using it to such excess even if it harms us. I think if we use that truism as a guide on social norms with regard to economics then I think we've adopted the concept of private ownership to such excess that it harms the process of private ownership itself. I think it's time to go back towards a Lockean approach to the problem (if your actions harm others in their pursuits in common then it should be curtailed to ensure equal opportunity for all).
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It was funny to see the slang word "fleek" in there, very unexpected.
I love how the first question is presented so the answer is the completion of a string literal, which is then printed. Very interesting approach to getting people engaged right up front. Nice job.
I tried to use Discourse but the hardware and software requirements combined would have meant a $20+/month VM rather than a $10/month VM:

- Dual core CPU recommended

- 1 GB RAM minimum (with swap)

- 64 bit Linux compatible with Docker

- Postgres 9.3+ (2 GB RAM min?).

- Redis 2.6+

- Ruby 2.0+ (we recommend 2.0.0-p353 or higher)

Ultimately I wound up putting PHPBB with a different skin back on the server, since it just requires MySQL, PHP, and any web server.

Plus Discourse has a lot of strange features (e.g. auto-mod promotion) and it feels like it is still in beta based on the feedback they get on their own forums.

And don't get me started on the docker-based setup. If you want a local native install (no docker container) well, you cannot. Docker or nothing.

The whole product feels extremely convoluted and over-engineered.
That was a fun survey... would be great to see the visualizations that come out of this data set
Sadly, I am not amazed at all by your reaction.
Thanks!

EDIT: looks like the comparison is Derby only - racer is a bit more flexible IMO
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Cool library. Any thoughts on getting it to work with Visual C++ 2015. It now has pretty decent C++11 support, you already use CMake, and this library seems like something that is inherently OS neutral.

Even when I am ultimately deploying on Linux, I will often develop and debug my os-independent logic using Visual C++ on Windows and then when that is working well, recompile using g++ or clang++.
correlated.org: there are 1,500 of those?! Bang goes my afternoon ...
Now, go check your bindings, too. Often binding authors consider these incidental and unimportant and don't expose them.
right now I just use a simple markdown text file that I track in a private git repo, one per person. They get updated weekly, then I have a cron process that runs every monday and generated a weekly html report for the prior week. It makes it easy to view and you can print to pdf etc
Mozilla Relaunches Its Thimble Online Code Editor for Teaching HTML/CSS/JS
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I very much agree with this. The hardest part BY FAR is getting started on the task. Once I'm in the groove of say, doing Calc HW, I don't want to be interrupted by stuff like reddit, I want to finish solving the problem I'm on
I'm glad they include a passable gpu. My workstation is higher end (maxxed out memory, 6 storage devices, higher end i7, 3 monitors) and is mostly running developer tools, browsers, editors etc as well as some games (eg Civ V). The integrated GPU is all I need for that.

It has the advantage of being very quiet and lower power consumption. I did briefly try an Nvidia card while getting 3 monitors working which was far too noisy (whiny).
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Is it reasonably feasible for a company like AMD to decap a processor and count?
Do you have a reference to the jemalloc issue/tracking for this bug? Or maybe the Redis one at least? Thanks!

EDIT: NM, it's clear from the release notes:

> "Fix an OOM-related regression in arena_tcache_fill_small(), which could cause cache corruption on OOM. This regression was present in all releases from 2.2.0 through 3.6.0."

https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc/issues/98
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I don't think we can be. Sadly.
Cool idea, but is this a non profit?
As a former cognitive neuroscientist with a master's in psychology, I will just point out that psychology departments look at the massive amount of data demonstrating human irrationality, and conclude that economists are mistaken or wildly naive to extrapolate from "rational actors" human beings.

You don't have a "math problem", you have a "data/science problem". And saly, at least at the micro-level, economists could have disabused themselves of the accuracy of rationality decades ago (e.g., Kahneman and Tversky's work in the 70's).

Much modern economics is like the elaborate math of epicycles, close enough, but still missing key insights. And this won't change until data is valued more.
The larger issue is that you now have to push key management to the user, and the support problems that go with that. Key management is hard and painful. Telling a customer that they can't access their data on your service because they broke their laptop is going to make them very unhappy.

Otherwise, there'd be plenty of services competing with Drive, DropBox, etc, that did just that.
Can you back this up?
Actually it is quite bad for families to get their lives halted for such a long time. Problem is, they are not examined for a year. They are in queue for a year and then examined a week or something.
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Germany have already relaxed their restrictions and welcomed them.
Looks great, thanks! Will read through it after work.
Well, it's totally random alright.
So is the last question not a common thing? Because I do it every year or so, but my wife thinks I am crazy.
Whether we should be is up for debate, but no, I'm pretty sure we're not.
You missed the colon
This meme got old faster than I expected.

I am the only one that is aware of symbiosis?
Assume a cow is a uniform sphere of milk...

And sometimes that's how economics feels. Absolutely agree with your comment. Coincidentally, I was thinking about this yesterday as I watched one of many economists explain the market on TV. At some level I feel they grab onto one of N plausible ideas and go with it. They have to say something, right? After all, they are economists.

I haven't failed to notice that there are very few (not one?) massively wealthy economists. That has to say something. If you look at the people who have made fortunes they are all practitioners, not theorists. In other words, they "touch and feel" the economy every second of the day for years and understand how it moves, at least at the relevant micro level, to gain advantages.

This one thing has always bothered me about economics. Lots of economists publishing books and claiming all sorts of events and effects and none of them have significant financial success to show for their understanding of the economy. Fake Jedi's who talk about the force but can't use it.

I'd like to see an economist on TV who starts their opinion of the economy in a Trump-esque way with: "I am very rich. I understand the economy and because of that I make $400 million per year".

In terms of using models and simulations, well, we do a lot of FEA, mostly for thermal and fluid dynamics. I had a poster printed and hung in the lab. It reads: "The only person who believes the results of these simulations is the one who wrote the code". I stole that from my friends in aero who always talk about how careful you have to be with aero "codes", particularly at the extremes (low and high RN).

Of course, FEA has gotten better and better over the years, yet it is true that you have to be very careful with how you interpret results. That's why we verify expected results experimentally by building a prototype every N variants of a design based on various criteria. I remember thermal management design to cool over 1,000 Watts of high power LED's concentrated within a small surface area. It took eight months of FEA and dozens of prototypes to get it right. Some of the proto's didn't behave anything like the simulation. Some behaved better. It's an art.

And so my point is that we are likely to have a new crop of economists who will base their opinions on simulations without, perhaps, understanding just how imperfect they can be.
I should have added my "no credit for showing the existence of limits if your code doesn't use them" criterion in advance. Now it looks like I'm moving the goal posts. Oh well; you can see a similar point in my linked post from several months ago which at least adds credence to the idea that this isn't a new reaction of mine.

As you can see by reading that post as well, I'd also contend it really ought to be in the core API, not an optional thing that defaults to no limits. A sensible default could be imposed, too, though that turns out to be tricky to define the closer you look at it.
I feel like Nassim Taleb (Fooled By Randomness, Black Swan, Antifragile) has been making a similar point for years now.

Unfortunately I don't know enough about economics to comment any more than that.
Background investigations are done as well.

Again, I see no problem with it. I thought they were escaping a dangerous situation? It seems they are now in a safe third country, it's not a big deal they have to wait a year. I have many relatives who came to the US this way.
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We are a small group of engineers in a large privately owned corporation building autonomous outdoor power equipment. This means small-embedded ARM systems for now, and big-embedded systems someday soon. Corporate benefits and small team dynamics are pretty great. If you like to solve problems and see the solutions come to life on real hardware on the ground every day, we want to talk to you!

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Hint: civil liberties plays a part.
Second example was a little confusing for me "A variable can only remember one value at a time. If you want to change its value, simply use its name without the type."

The 'simply use its name without the type' might be better worded?
They also had some really bad security holes recently exposed too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10078967 so they really didn't have this covered with 20 people.
Microsoft aren't fighting for your rights here. They are fighting for market share. Not turning your data over to the FBI is now a product feature.
This is cool! Another interesting project I came across is workeer.de, which is a job board for refugees. It's interesting because refugees in Germany do not have a work permit. Great way to help people with technology.
Maybe if the great powers weren't so busy playing geo-political chess by proxy there wouldn't be so many refugees. Syria was fairly stable before the west decided Assad should go. Syria was fairly stable before the west destabilized Iraq. This is the problem.
> The source code of the syntax highlighting plugin is about 80 lines of code.

Which is not that big of an achievement considering it depends on pygments for syntax highlighting...
Tarsnap (a service that acts like your description) is quite nice, but the problem of "customer lost the keys" is a very real one. I love the idea, but someone really needs to come up with some decent key management (and offline backup and key migration) to make this consumer friendly.
forgot to mention this link I found the other day, using git hooks to keep track of your work in a timesheet http://mike-solomon.com/timesheet-githook
Yes, see http://www.refugees-welcome.net/#faq

'Does this project make money with putting refugees in touch with flats?'

'No, “Refugees Welcome“ is a non-profit organisation.
However, you can support our work with a donation to the association Mensch Mensch Mensch which carries this project. Our bank details are:
Mensch Mensch Mensch e.V.
IBAN: DE88430609671167120500
BIC: GENODEM1GLS
We can provide donation receipts.'
“In the future, people are going to be wearing more electronics..."

Are they though?
Sorry about that. We'll edit the job description. All the developers we have today are remote and outside of NY. Please don't hesitate to reach out to me with any questions! schoi@fubo.tv
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Wow, this is just wrong. The L originally did stand for Library but FSF/Stallman wanted to discourage its use, so it was renamed it to Lesser.

LGPL was created to appease authors that didn't want license terms to propagate like GPL, exceptionally common with library and embedded codes. Alas, ignorant authors were also choosing LGPL simply because they were creating a library and FSF didn't like that trend. It was a completely political move to fit their agenda.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_Lice...
The "rat is to human" (from a pharmaceutical perspective) as "rational actor is to human" (from an economic perspective) I think is a very fragile analogy. Rats and humans are very similar in their response to pharmaceuticals (and so serve as reasonable first model), but the difference between rational actor and human is so vast (at least in terms of how the real world works) that it calls into question the value of rational actor models for real-world policy.

In that case, the "theoretical argument is simply the best argument" is wrong; we should study economic history and human behavior rigorously and let that inform our policy. Theory can serve as a useful model when it is validated by some sort of observation and data -- but even when we cannot perform controlled studies there is not a knock-down argument that "theory" must be our best guess.

I agree that a person's interpretation of economics is very likely to be influenced by their idea of how the world should work; but this is more a problem of our characteristic lack of critical self-reflection. And of course, we should have cogent arguments for our interpretation of economics, ideally rooted in objective evidence.
I wrote "Felis catus"
I don't believe it was flippant, and as I said, didn't intend it to be. As someone with AD/HD, and who's studied it intently for many years trying to better understand how it may affect my autistic son (who is also showing signs of AD/HD) I can safely say that the kind of procrastination he describes is exactly the kind of procrastination that manifests in someone with AD/HD. Having that kind of insight lets me help my son learn coping strategies before it's too late to make those kinds of changes to his brain in any meaningful way.

Frankly, the description you have given is very similar to AD/HD, especially the "I'm that fucking good" part. Yes, I know you weren't bragging, but that sense of infallibility and the letdown that invariably follows when your abilities don't manifest ... I'm guessing it sours you to the project you're working on? Can't seem to direct yourself back to it to care again like you did when you were focused on it the first time? Anxious to find something else that's more interesting where you can prove what a rockstar you are? That rush when you pull that rabbit out of the hat, feels good, doesn't it? Dopamine is great, when you do something that creates enough of it that your brain feels rewarded. For many, it doesn't take much. For many people with AD/HD, the last minute YOLO cramming/programming/building/working session is what it takes to feel like we're doing anything worthwhile.
I'll look for the book. Thanks for the recommendation! I'm Polish btw. and my impression of my own society is that while we may not be bickering over who gets to lead, we like to complain about the decisions that the leader makes :).
Workeer – A Job Board for Refugees
Only 335 views-- Best Entr to MBAs (YC alum, long at 75min)
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I don't think any country has to be responsible for anything in order to accept refugees, do you? If you are fleeing from war, then you should be able to apply for asylum/refugee status everywhere. Doesn't mean that every country should accept them,but the implication that EU countries are not responsible for the conflict so they shouldn't help out is.....weird.

Maybe EU shouldn't be sending help to people affected by tsunamis, or earthquakes too? In the end, we are not responsible for it, so why should my tax money be going to some poor people in a country I've never been to or plan to go to?

"Luckily there are some leaders out there that are not afraid of this stupid political correctness"

I am pretty sure some people said the same thing about Hitler calling out Jews, not being afraid of political correctness, exposing them for what they were! Everyone knew what letting jews sprawl might lead to!

/s
Huh, I wouldn't have guessed that, but I suppose it makes sense- people usually follow patterns on keyboards.
I found that comment strange as well - I consider "put everything on the heap" to be more of the default attitude in dynamic languages (Python, Ruby) and in the statically typed managed languages (Java, C#). In C and C++, I default to the stack, and I don't think I'm alone.
You can be responsible, and it doesn't has to be in the way that allows 'refugees' into your country. People in each country ought to have a choice in that.
What's your point? There are companies with thousands of engineers with pretty bad security holes too. They did it with 20 people, get over it.
Thanks a ton! :)
How do you do a background investigation on someone from Syria?
How to generate recurring revenue:

Step one, buy his book

Step two, write your own book

Step three, list your book for sell on hacker news
Who says we're not?
Many once "low paid" positions now pay reasonable well in the area -- police officers, for instance, can easily make over $100K per year. Have both adults in the house working at those sorts of income levels, and a 600K house is entirely reasonable. Add the green belt encircling the city (the normal release valve of bidding up) and prices rise.

Housing is an interesting economic phenomena because people are often willing to pay whatever is possible to pay, so if you have 100 houses in an area and a single working adult in 100 households, prices will fit the ability of a single working adult. Now get rid of inequality and have the second adult working, and prices simply explode to fill the ability to pay of both adults. And so on. It's how we run to stand still.
Because those countries largely don't accept and accommodate refugees. There are no stigmas in countries like that against being racist or being against immigration like there are in Europe. Hell, those countries won't even take Palestinian refugees even though they will claim that Palestinians are suffering an oppressive occupation.
Nobody is lucky to have xenophobic and bigoted leaders.
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