skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, I dunno. I have friends who live on old boats tied to mooring buoys - free of charge! They fish for a lot of their meals. They do just fine. They work a little bit around the docks, but not that much. I know other folks who live in nice, clean trailer parks. They work a little bit more, but again, not that much. If you're willing to accept a lower standard of living, there are lots of options. I remember this article about a guy living in his van. Why not? All you need is a low crime area and a place to sleep. Didn't some guy at Google live in an RV at the parking lot?

When I was 19, I was paying around 50 bux a month in a shared accommodations situation. I did bartending/odd jobs about once a week and just bummed around the rest of the time.

When I was 20, I did a part time waiter gig. I ate all my meals for free! Boy, I ate well. I had my own apartment though. It was utterly unnecessary, of course, but I didn't know better.

Honestly, if you look around, these people exist. They are on the fringe but they do just fine. We generally call them 'bums', but you know, that's just envy talking.
The coddling of the American mind
>Unless every single employee actually follows this clause, just one bad apple can ruin every security procedure in the world.

the point of good security architecture is exactly that such thing can't happen. Security by compliance isn't good security.
It's so you can watch the screen better. When you sleep you can slide down.
You know you've pissed off your customers when people start building business models around cancelling your services so they don't have to deal with you.
That image is absolutely horrifying. And standing there motionless for 30 minutes? Nope.
Which is why we have laws. This seems to be pretty clearly illegal, at least if applied to housing loans.
How Bernie Sanders Tech Volunteers Code the Bern
Location: Washington State/WA, Everett Area/Seattle

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Depends on location.

Technologies: Python[0][1][2][3], Linux, Apache, Simple HTML/CSS[0], Jekyll[0], Backend Web Dev[0], SQL[1], TCP/IP Sockets[2]

Technologies dabbled in: GTK3[3], Qt[2], Common Lisp, Clojure, Rust, Haskell, Java and Android Development, LaTeX, VMWare/Virtualization.

Technologies and categories of interest:

Cognitive Prosthesis[4], Computer instruction and making difficult concepts easier to explain (eg. Computer Security instruction for 'normal people'), UX and making general purpose computing tools more accessible (eg. tools like Excel which give 'normal people' flexible access to computer programming-like constructs),

distributed networks and personal servers such as Urbit(http://urbit.org), IPFS(https://github.com/ipfs/), FreedomBox(http://freedomboxfoundation.org/), analytics/prediction and making sense from a firehose of signal (eg. Taking articles from 10,000 newspapers and extracting information from them for somebody interested in trends and current events).

Don't feel obligated to only send things in these genres, they're a bit niche and I'm open minded. :)

----

Resume: Available on request.

Email: 50134@mail.com (Mail.com, not gmail. Alias address which can be shut off if spammed. My real address is also included with the public key linked on my HN profile.)

Github: https://github.com/JD-P

Bibliography:

[0]: See github projects https://github.com/JD-P/library-project, https://github.com/JD-P/HTTPStickerChart/blob/master/chartbo... and my blog http://softholmsyndrome.com/.

[1]: See github projects https://github.com/JD-P/energymech-log-converter (Never finished, has no indexes.), this relational schema https://github.com/JD-P/auditbot/blob/master/auditbot-relati..., https://github.com/JD-P/library-project and https://github.com/JD-P/gtk-library-client.

[2]: See github project https://github.com/JD-P/mrc. (Warning, swear_word_list is possibly NSFW.)

[3]: https://github.com/JD-P/gtk-library-client

[4]: Very primitive entries. https://github.com/JD-P/HTTPStickerChart, https://github.com/JD-P/pomodorobot, https://github.com/JD-P/diplomacy-assistant, https://github.com/JD-P/Basilisk (not even a prototype, just conceptual), https://github.com/JD-P/genlog
This is perhaps the most glorious thing I've seen on here in a long time. I didn't find a Chinese visa all that difficult though so I'm surprised to see that on the list of next issues.
Maybe none? It's television, not sewerage.
Note that while China has one official time zone, in practice many people (particularly Uighurs in the west) use local time zones with less error.
Agree. What's interesting is the number of comments around here expecting the sky to fall.
A really tenacious sales person would try to convince you not to move... :)
I'm skeptical of a complaint like this from someone who voluntarily chose the handle "baldfat".
If the sales rep was arguing for you not to use auto pay he is the worst sales rep of all time.
WE ARE CURRENTLY NOT SUPPORTING YOUR BROWSER
(BUT WE WILL SOON)

That's the latest Firefox running on Ubuntu 14 LTS.
Email me if you want to discuss this further. My email's in my profile.

I came from using Rails to doing DDD-style C#/.NET development. It feels very "enterprise" but then, there are some very good lessons I've learned, one being how to write fast code-only unit tests.
I implemented a pin based system now. It prints a PIN on first usage in 8 hours to the terminal and you need to enter it to unlock the console. This is IP bound.

It's still only a way to prevent greater damage, you should still not run the debugger enabled in prod.
No, that's just The Beatles. Which kind of makes sense given how big/famous/world known they are.
It's a sad state when we have to lie to get out of a bad relationship.
http://www.bimeanalytics.com/
Which taxpayers voted for the blank check?
We're working on it. We didn't expect quite this response.
How come there are no George Costanza references ?
Prices for health plans on an ACA exchange can only vary based on age, family size, smoker status, and a geographical "community rating" that's designed to account for local cost of care. No other factors may affect pricing, and anyone who is willing to pay the price must be enrolled.
Uh oh! Should be fixed now. Thanks for letting us know :)
>And I'm not sure that's a bad thing.

You surely can find other cases in which you end up paying more than the average. In the end, what matters is information asymmetry in any negotiation. In those terms, the consumer seems to be in an increasingly weaker position with the recent technological changes, social media, etc.

As a consumer I don't think that allowing market micro-segmentation is a sensible strategy. It's more something that I don't know very well how to stop, and it worries me.
Userspace networking to dodge kernelspace ping pong RTT overhead? This looks like it has the potential to be awesome. At the very least, it's a great quick talk on how "kernelspace/userspace RTTs are not fast mkaaaay?" and it's exciting that some folks are trying to think outside the box on this.

So, questions: Am I correct in thinking this approach would be limited to advisory-only sorts of networking help, and cannot be used as a security boundary? It seems like anything running within a container's network namespace would still need a host interface exposed for its own virtualized packets, and obviously LD_PRELOAD hijinx remain freely ignorable by any program that decides not to go with the libc flow. Maybe it's possible to pick up the host interface, and then jump into the container's limited network namespace and thus be able to give no other options to the other contained processes?

Alternatively, I wonder if this approach could also be plugged in via seccomp filters, as well as LD_PRELOAD hooks? The docs at https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/5634347dee31373a8faf0... seem to suggest syscall capture and reroute might be capable of this. This would still be causing a kernel/userspace bounce, which we were trying to avoid, but it would still cut out the unnecessary trips through the host networking stack that we're going to ignore anyway... and more importantly, would actually be strong enough to be relied upon as a security constraint.

Good luck, ZeroTier folks! Looking forward to watching this continue to develop.
The (slightly cynical) argument could be made that the concessions made by capital to labor in the United States in the early 20th century were to prevent revolts (of the sort that happened in Europe and elsewhere) and especially to reduce the chance a Communist Revolution taking hold. I note that that era was marked by significant industrialist philanthropy as well.
Proterra, an electric bus that can travel farther than a typical city bus
That would be a nice 1 bedroom in Sacramento (pool, sauna, tennis courts) vs a run-down place in SF.
Happy to answer.

Information security; specifically web and mobile penetration testing, source code auditing and security tool development.

I clear close to $300k per year in cash salary, pre-tax.
What an amazing story. Thanks for checking out our site and sharing that.

Pretty crazy to imagine the incentives Comcast must put in place to get sales reps to act like that.
When I called to cancel my account I told them I was moving out of the country. Total lie, but it made the cancelation process really easy.
Swift Developer Code and Tools – Issue #9
Both, with Comcast and AT&T, you usually have to call back yearly and threaten to cancel to keep the same rate (or to get the current new-customer rate which is probably even lower, or faster).
more information => de facto more discrimination.

I don't like it, but i'm a responsible middle aged white male so I probably won't suffer.
I think a lot of it has to do with the rep you're talking to. The call center workers allegedly get comp gated on % of retentions, so sometimes the agents really seem to fight the cancellation.
Am I the only one who never had trouble canceling? The process was just this:

1. Call, specify your account info, and say you're canceling.

2. They confirm that it's canceled and tell you to return the cable box (and modem, if you're renting one) to the local office.

3. You either put them in a big box out front, or if you're paranoid like me, you wait in line so that you get a receipt.

4. In a couple weeks, you get a check in the mail refunding you for the rest of the current payment period.
I seriously don't understand the hate Comcast gets, I've cancelled service with them 4 times now, and it was always a simple 5 minute call. I think their service is on par, or better, with any other internet / phone / cable provider of that size, they always manage to find me some discount on my service whenever I call and complain about the price.
While I'm a big fan of the idea of paying a small fee to let others deal with such hassles, this is one of the tasks I vastly enjoy. "You suck, you've always sucked, you overcharge, underdeliver, and have terrible customer service". Repeat with more emphasis the more they argue.

Mostly I don't enjoy being a jerk, but most of the time they demand it. (Occasionally, when moving, it's been painless, and I have no need to be rude, but that's been the exception)
This is neat!

Has it been shared with any of the folks at the open container initiative?
opencontainers.org

I'm sure they'd love to collab.
Yup. That's how I cancelled Comcast.

Me: "I'm moving."

Clerk: "Oh, where to? We can set up your service ahead of time so it's ready when you---"

Me: "Ireland."

Clerk (disappointed): "Oh."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FusionCharts

EDIT: This seems to be heavily used in industry as well as in Federal IT dashboard...etc. So it appears to be a good choice.
Bald and Fat is what I am. 6" 1" 230 pounds and I am bald like Cpt Picard since I was 25.

Nerd has a negative connotation as opposed to Geek. I know seems weird but getting called nerd was very negative before Geek/Nerd was cool.

Definition:
1. a stupid, irritating, ineffectual, or unattractive person.
2. an intelligent but single-minded person obsessed with a nonsocial hobby or pursuit: a computer nerd.
[1] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nerd?r=75&src=ref&ch=...
How to Build a Great Culture
i'd like to try this without fearing it will actually cancel my account
I really don't get what you're trying to accomplish here, besides being repeatedly insulting. This is not productive, this is not appropriate, and nobody asked you to do it. You know what's arrogant and condescending? You, right now, with your comments. Please stop.
It's Internet and phone service too. Quite reasonable to think of that as an essential service.
I was thinking more become a key developer of solar panels and export the panels themselves (or wind turbine blades, geothermal pipes, etc (off the cuff examples, I don't know if they have use or desire for blades or pipes)).
Hygge: A heart-warming lesson from Denmark
Ask HN: How you get Ideas
It looks very stupid question.But I really got frustrated. I really want to do something. I want to spend my time in some productive work.But I am not able to find the ideas for my side project. I want to work on anything which will be worth to give time and if have consumer market that it is really good. I am app developer and have very good knowledge of mobile platform. There are so many thing and stupid apps which makes money. I really want to do something. I do not know how to start. I want to ask this question to you
How do you get ideas for your side projects or any thing intrested?
How do you know I really want to give time to it
?
If you know I really want to give time to it but that thing is really impossible(or great minds solving puzzle) than what you do?
How you get motivated to do things?
Please help I am getting burn out.
Any suggestion help appreciated.
Direct pricing negotiation with hospitals might be easier. From what I understand many hospitals will reduce your bill, or set up a limited- or no-interest payment plan, if you're uninsured or underinsured and can make a coherent case about your inability to pay the full amount.
Hey koenigdavidmj,

I think it really depends. Sometimes you get a call center rep who doesn't really fight you on it, sometimes it's incredibly frustrating.

Cheers!
Thanks for trying it out! At the moment you can only view issues by milestone. We're working on a 'power user' view where you'll be able to view all of your issues, perform batched actions and other global type actions.
Here's a recorded example of one person trying to cancel their service:

https://soundcloud.com/ryan-block-10/comcastic-service
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There is an online cancellation service in germany that will help you to cancel just about every contract: https://www.aboalarm.de/

They have ready-made templates for many compaines (esp. ensurance and telco ones) where you just fill in your details, sign it via your touchpad and let them send it in a conforming way.

I /think/ the business model is focused on post-cancellation: they'll show you other options for the canceled contract.

I'm stunned that this does not exist for the US. It seems to work in Germany.
Just more fuel for helping California residents feel smug
I doubt we will ever see the abandonment of spreadsheets LIKE WE SHOULD.

Look at Open Refine you might really like it.

http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2014/05/23/you-shouldnt-use-a...
And not just english, but they have to communicate well, be on the right time zone, and understand the culture as well. It's a very very rare find.
Anybody fascinated by these would probably enjoy reading The Golden Age by Michael Ajvaz. The first half is a (fictional) account of a researcher's stay on an island with a tribe of people who seemingly have no cultural or artistic expression outside of their Book. The entire tribe contributes to the Book, altering storylines, adding footnotes, and even expanding existing stories via small pouches glued to the pages containing additions to the stories.

It's pretty fascinating following the recursion of the stories as the author spends the back half of the story exploring the stories within the Book.
To be fair, that's not the same thing either. A thumbnail is resampled in a way to resemble the original at a smaller size. This will be resampled with (more or less) nearest neighbor, which means lots of aliasing and possibly looking nothing like the original, depending on the subject.
The potential for abuse seems high to me. I say that as someone what worked at a company where people kept sleeping bags near the their desk so they could stay all night to meet deadlines.

I've also worked at companies that had rooms full of cots for sleeping over night when on a deadline even though apparently the laws in that country, Japan, prohibit sleeping over night at the office. Japan is notorious for not actually enforcing their labor laws.
I have deep experience in the QlikView (QV) platform, so I can address some of the points in your experience:

> expensive

QV is not free, that's for sure. You'll be spending tens of thousands of dollars for the one-time license fee, as well 20% yearly maintenance. On the other hand, you'll be saving thousands of hours of engineering effort by not reinventing the hundreds of wheels already in the platform. Don't succumb to "not invented here" syndrome.

Check out a few dashboards I designed in just a day total [1], or the vendors demos of Twitter data [2], HealthData.gov data [3], or Salesforce.com data [4].

> ugly

If you are a first time user, the default visualizations are ugly, no doubt. But for someone with design skill, the visualizations can be made quite beautiful. For wanting more tools, just add your favorite JS library and HTML to make a custom visualization.

> completely lacking in statistical tools

Fortunately, QV can link with R, allowing you to all the advanced capabilities you need. Need something more specific? Throw a microservice REST API on top of your desired application, and load that in through a GET request. There are Hadoop connectors also built in.

One thing that people often don't realize when comparing Tableau and QV, is that QV is a platform, as opposed to Tableau being just a visualization tool. QV includes ETL, task scheduling, and an in-memory analytics database.

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/3Tzni

[2]: http://us-d.demo.qlik.com/detail.aspx?appName=Social%20Media...

[3]: http://us-d.demo.qlik.com/detail.aspx?appName=Epidemiology%2...

[4]: http://us-d.demo.qlik.com/detail.aspx?appName=Salesforce.qvw
I just wanted to throw another name into the pot of shit companies: Time Warner Cable.
You can make reproducible environments with tools like http://www.vagrantup.com or http://www.docker.com, you can create online workspaces using sites like https://www.c9.io and any other online IDE.

I've found vagrant to be particularly satisfying because it assigns a virtual machine to a directory and you can easily jump in to the vm to manually get it to the state you want.
I can only think the reason this application of technology hasn't happened yet is because of common human decency.
You would think so, right? I asked my rep and they still wanted to see if there was anyone else I wanted to transfer the account to, and then they asked if I wanted a discount for a service I couldn't possibly use.

Maybe I was an outlier, but it was really frustrating.
It probably depends on if you've got one of the reps who's worried about being fired because they've gotten too many "I want to cancel" calls. It's not unusual for call centers to 'motivate' their employees in that manner.
Well, we aren't talking about everything. Only insurance premiums.
Put the data files on a RAM disk?
I'm really glad that that excuse made the process so painless for you, but I do have a cautionary tale about that.

Two years ago, I called them and tried cancelling my service because, like you, I was moving and my new landlord was providing Comcast to me as a part of my lease agreement. Despite my insistence that my landlord already had an account setup for me at my new house, I was kept on the phone for 30 minutes and the representative insisted that it would be beneficial for me to have my own account/service at my new house in addition to the line that's already there, and that I should just transfer my service. You can imagine how frustrated and furious that conversation made me.

I don't mean to deter people from using that excuse, because it still honestly seems like that should be the easiest way to cancel your account, but I do want people to bear in mind that it all depends on the representative you speak with.
The US is a big market and, unfortunately, the kind of bank transaction I think you have in mind isn't a thing here. We still use checks.
German developer prohibit the use of his program in nations welcoming refugees
Why is it not surprising that this was invented in Greece?
That's probably the trick you are paying $5 for.
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~Earl
Well, this is what I wanted to avoid. I didn't mean it in any particular "way", especially an accusatory one. I've just done the opposite, basically living like there is no tomorrow. It was a lot of fun, but very dangerous, and it wouldn't be very good of me to advise anyone else to do it. But it was a lot of fun, a lot of the time. And regrets are easy to get over -- for me -- if I go into a situation telling myself "no regrets".
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right, that's the aspect they address, it's the same for sellers agents. The issue is that if the agent (recruiter) has the option to increase the salary by say, 2000$, they see a small percentage of that, maybe 100$ worth? If it takes them 4 hours to negotiate that, it's not worth it for them to spend that time for a small gain, so might forego the opportunity. They might focus instead on getting the next placement, effectively increasing the $/hr they earn.
This will have to be automated or it's going to be really annoying for development. To eliminate that, maybe the file format could incorporate some internal tags for good size thresholds, or even just a handful of coefficients at the beginning for a simple curve approximating the byte-to-resolution mapping.
:-)

Perhaps one of the many reasons my life just makes more sense in California (in spite of the high cost of living and other issues).

:-)
anti-minority crazy people with guns who kill people are terrorists.
Hmmm, there is the HDMI-CEC stuff (where you supposedly can control your CC from the TV remote -- my TV doesn't have it, so I can't try it). Given that, I wonder if you could make a pass-through dongle, HDMI male-to-female, and put some play/pause/rewind HDMI-CEC endpoints in it with some arbitrary wifi/bluetooth control api.
The difference, though, is there was no punishment. To make the cartoon match the article, instead of spraying the monkeys, there would just be a dead monkey near the bananas. Then the dead monkey is removed, and the others still know to fear the bananas.
Nah, people just need to go back to treating their adblocking software and their ruleset provider as separate things.

Either your adblocker blocks what you tell it to, or it doesn't. There's not a lot of room for fishy behavior.

The rulesets are where things are open to opinion and there are grey areas and they need a lot more maintenance and there's a lot of opportunity for abuse.

EasyList and AdBlock shouldn't be synonymous, and users should be aware that they can opt to use something other than EasyList, and that they can make their own rules.
Text fields that auto select are annoying, but all of the examples provided here only copy if you click a button.

When there is a long string it is so much easier to just click a button instead of manually selecting the string. Yes sometimes the string is in its own field so you can use Cmd-A but a lot of times it isn't. And overwhelmingly, when someone took the time to think about what would need to be copied, and made it easier, the whole site/tool/process is much better designed.