skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author just doesn't understand the history of these concepts. The months really used to coincide with the begging of the seasons for traditional western calendars such as the Julian calendar, when it was introduced (it later became incorrect because seasonal drifts were not readjusted). It was the introduction of the Gregorian calendar that shifted dates, resulting in the beginning of seasons at the "wrong" date (the Gregorian calendar skipped dates on purpose). Since the Gregorian calendar autocorrects, this drift is not going away and we are stuck with seasons that start at around the 21st of the month. Defining the seasons according to the equinoxes is not only logical, it is the definition used for thousands of years it just turns out that our modern calendars don't respect these dates.
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Being a casualty in room A must be devastating. I've been a survivor in room B 3 times and each time I resented the turmoil of being happy for me and sad for them.
I got hit by II, back in 2010. They hired an intern, asked me to train her... a month later, I was laid off.

Also, I knew a number of people who worked for a local video game company who got the axe after their paychecks had been late for a while. They were all complaining that they haven't been paid in about two months, and then one day the CEO calls people into his office one at a time... 11 people were let go that day. A bunch more got the axe about a month later. They weren't a big company. It took a while for them to get their final paychecks, and I think that was only because a couple of them threatened to sue.

(edit: just to make this clear, I didn't work at that video game company, but several friends of mine did, and I got to hear the stories)
You would need a meta-creative job, one job where you have to create your own job. Perhaps enterpreneur would be it.
"It's not you, it's us. We still want to be friends."
You can in my state, but we'd have to politick to do it, and the cost is more than private school. And the private school is a better investment (smaller class size, less common core) at that price.
yes, it would appear that's exactly what it's designed to do.
Honestly, I think that is what you heard down the grapevine. Sounds like a cover up for something much more heinous. Was this information public/private, how did you find out? (Not attacking your trust, just sounds a bit odd to me)
When the CTO stands up and says "there will be no layoffs" it's time to clean up your resume. Happened to me twice.
Supply and Demand. The same reason for everything else that goes up in price. Government subsidies created more students who have the means to go to college where previously they would have gone to a trade school or learned a craft on the job. While at the same time public schools have gotten more lax on grading so that students can get these grants and scholarships.
The US doesn't really have "gun control". Here in the UK, gun control is working very well, thanks for asking. That doesn't mean that guns are completely unavailable in the UK, but the murder rate here is a fraction of what it is in the US.
If it's such a good alternative then why are companies requiring it per terms of contracts rather than the company and the individual agreeing to it mutually once a dispute has arisen?

And are you just entirely ignoring that the company effectively holds all the cards in this poker game? What power does the individual have?
Looks like I'm going to be laid off soon :'(
I think I left a palm-print on my forehead when I saw that.
Here's the best explanation I've seen: http://h14s.p5r.org/2012/09/0x5f3759df.html
Wow that's brutal, especially the Github subject but from what I gathered he missed a call that went to voicemail.
Autocratic governments aren't exactly known for their forward seeking vision. Problems come up and half assed solutions come down. There's no democratic element to demand a higher level of service, say with how the US had its environment movement which led to many laws protecting the land, air, and water and ultimately culminated into several state agencies, federal guidelines, the EPA, etc. These are large holistic changes brought about by the democratic process in Western states. Autocratic states don't have this mechanism so its a lot of basic face saving moves because politically this issue isn't that important and/or interferes with the CCP's ability to grow its economy. This creates a real victimization of innocents who don't have a voice because they're governed without consent.

Birth defects have increased about 70 percent in China over the past two decades, now reaching about 900,000 per year, according to the country's Ministry of Health.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soot-and-smog-put-...

Study Links Polluted Air in China to 1.6 Million Deaths a Year

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/world/asia/study-links-pol...

Air pollution is killing about 4,000 people in China a day, accounting for 1 in 6 premature deaths in the world's most populous country, a new study finds.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/air-pollution-kill...

A "mist cannon" isn't helping with this.

edit: I have made fair cites and laid out my argument. Driveby downvotes just show how biased HN is towards China.
Show HN: React Native Duck Hunt
It was also super cool to see the employee reaction. There aren't that many situations in business that warrant such a reaction.

It's amazing to me how much power SpaceX has to both re-activate so (comparatively) soon after a failure and to delay the launch by a day solely for its own purposes (perhaps it's launch client gets a discount?).
here's another sign you're about to be laid off: none of this happens, and you haven't done any real work in months.
So are you saying we could fix the mandate and that would be good, or that specifying a minimum basic to which all teaching should be done is wrong in general? Or some third thing?
It's not up to the platform whether it gets marketshare or not. It's up to the market.

For Desktops and Phones the winners have already been chosen.
I should add: OCSP is the baseline requirements, ie. DV SSL certs will also need to support OCSP checking. See https://cabforum.org/wp-content/uploads/Baseline_Requirement...
Next super scary word:
"Holiday" which comes from, get this, Holy Day!

> "The word holiday comes from the Old English word hāligdæg (hālig "holy" + dæg "day")"
There's also a 'web' link on HN below the article title. That will link to a web search for the article, which will allow you to bypass the check.
Awesome! (Kalid from BetterExplained here.) This goes for everyone, all the articles are under a CC license.
I'm curious about the perceived (or not!) adverse effects of running cpu heavy computations on a MacBook or phone for years? This article doesn't discuss the downsides of running something like BOINC if there are any... But that may be a real issue that shouldn't be ignored...?
Why it’s harder to forge a SHA-1 certificate than to find a SHA-1 collision
Pretty easy for you to say that considering the U.S. economy was already developed/grown (as you say) when this environmental discussion came to the forefront. It's always easier to forfeit when your whole hand is not on the table..
Personally I just consider that uglier.

Also you can parse var i: Int = 1 unambiguously without backtracking, while you have to backtrack on var Int i = 1 (unless you enforce some constraint like type names must start with capitals, in which case you may as well just do Int i = 1).
Yes. Sometimes alleviating symptoms is necessary to give you breathing room (heh) to work on the actual solution.
Ask HN: Is ShowHN moderated?
Having submitted a link to Show HN, it seems like it doesn't appear straight away.

Is Show HM moderated, and if so, what is the criteria for acceptance?
Actually, I'm sure NASA managed that first a long time ago.

In fact, didn't they do it on the moon several times?

At any rate, John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace managed it long before Bezos did. But wait, he didn't get to space? Hair-splitting.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8eb_1318290493
You're totally underestimating the Chinese government but you don't fail to see the trade off they have decided to go for.

As you said China has decided that financial growth beats the consequences of pollution. You can discuss that direction as much as you want but that's the direction of overall Asia. It has nothing to do with forward vision or full-assed solution.
When somebody needs to say "let's get all outstanding code checked-in ASAP!"
How do you train dogs? How doglike are humans? At what point is explaination not enough to discipline a person? Repetition becomes ignored? The appearence of weakness gives room for rebellion?

You speak from a moral high ground but i really think these questions are worth exploring
Yeah, it does seem like an "out of the air, into the groundwater" solution. But sometimes you have to stop the bleeding before the injury can heal, and China is making progress [1] on the root cause also.

[1]: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china_anti-pollution_efforts__l...
The only possible answer is: the design agency killed the design agency. There is so much demand for design right now that if agencies can't figure out how to participate, it's definitely on them.
> The bad guys on the border have lots of money and what they are putting money into is into spoofing and jamming GPS systems

GPS jammer is under $50
This right here is the reason. It's fulfilling to get to the end of an RSS feed, but currently all solutions are just lists of articles. None of the technologies really do any significant filtering for you with the exception of possibly Facebook. And even then, it seems like the Newfeed degenerates into awful click bait.
I wonder if this attack merits deploying the holiday special forces - i.e. Elven boots on the ground??
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446192/
Woah, that's very useful. Might even be your killer feature, actually. Totally checking this out.
Thanks! Working on getting a fully static version of the site up. Argh, Wordpress with even caching plugins, still folds. (It's on reddit and getting 100x normal traffic). Eventually a postmortem will be in order.

Static links to some favorites:

• Imaginary numbers: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

• Understanding e: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

• Intuitive Trig: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

• Calculus intro: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

• Sine waves: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

• Euler's Formula: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

• Linear Algebra: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
1) In the next 2 years not much will change. Angular 2 will be released with TypeScript so as another comment said transpiling will become more popular.

2) Security will continue to be a popular topic. Privacy will be important and lots of apps (browsers/email/OSes) will push a privacy point of view.

4) By 2025 hopefully driving cars will become mainstream. With that I can see apps being built for these smart cars. Hopefully a viable alternative to Google will become more mainstream by then too.
India Is Not Enemy, but Friend [May 13, 1959]
I thought miners already try to mine zero block transactions first, then add in fee transactions? apparently you can chew through the nonce really fast..
> unsalted SHA-1 password hashes

Can we please get password storage built in to databases as a dedicated column type already? There are N-to-infinity crappy languages and CMS's out there, but only a handful of databases. It's becoming clear that widespread standard library support for decent password hashing just isn't enough to get people moved over.
How does this compare to, say OpenCV?
Why do you think? Because that's what's on offer by the military contractors who have manufacturing plants in those senator's districts -- so that's what they buy.

Or, if you prefer the faith-in-humanity answer: career politicians don't have an understanding of statistics.
A ginger haired man wanted to kill Prince Charles because he felt belittled
Sounds very similar to Crytek.
That's pretty much a 0.9% reduction on overall costs to the seller. Most credit cards offer 1% cashback and people love it, so I will dare to say that a 1% price reduction is very interesting.
You are focusing on a single scenario of an individual double-spender. Why don't you consider some other scenario, e.g. a hacker getting control of a major BitCoin mining facility to disrupt things just for a laugh? I've seen a lot of that happening.
There are tens of possible scenarios.
Mining capacity is highly centralized these days and that trend will likely develop further (see the subj). The mental model of "one malicious node against all the honest nodes" is totally bogus.

So far, my observation is that BitCoin can't run cheaply on the reasons already mentioned. I will only buy your argument if you'll show me a graph of power consumption vs turnover and it will happen to be sub-linear.
I have taught kids ranging from 6 years old to 2nd year University undergrads. The really young kids were in the setting of a coding bootcamp while the 2nd year undergrads were in a Tutorial. I'm just prefacing my comment by saying that I've experienced a large range of ages and abilities.

I always see this excuse as a failure of the teacher, rather than the students. I believe students want to learn, and the non-motivation is usually a result of something that isn't so hard that the teacher can't get around it. I used to feel that way before and only gear my lessons towards the motivated ones (why should I waste my time on kids who dont want to learn?), but I realized that it was I who was not motivated enough to get through to those kids. The movie "Stand and Deliver" portrays what I'm trying to say in a really fun and useful way.

I think teachers need to be held to a higher standard and blaming their lack of success on students should be the last resort, after everything has been tried. Sure you'll get some really pathological cases where the student is absolutely unreachable, but I think that's so rare that it's not worth talking about.
Stones can be found just lying around on the ground all over the world. I don't care how cheap oil is, it's not cheaper than "you can bend down and pick some up."

Cheaper than bottled water? No it's not. You can find some bottled water that's more expensive, sure, but you can find bottled water that's cheaper too. I'm sure you can find some oil somewhere that's more expensive than good champagne, too.

Bottled water is a terrible comparison anyway, because most of what you're paying for is the "bottled." Oil is not cheaper than water in most places. Can you imagine paying 65 cents/gallon for your shower?
>and 30 pages of news

That's unfair because those 30 pages of news also include Entertainment / Celebrity and Local and Sports sections full of the same low quality fluff we're complaining about.

More like 10 pages of news and 20 pages of lighter / fluff content.
Silicon Valley Killed the Design Agency
IRS programming glitch costs millions in errant tax refunds
When a consultant comes in and interviews you about "what exactly you do," nodding generously and saying, "oh wow, yeah" every few sentences.

When management seems to continually allow ridiculous overreaches in employee behavior, especially when such behavior is critical of management.
Did you look for a way out after that or just satisfied that you made it... This time?
Why America Is Moving Left
I don't see what the big deal is. If you've been a good little boy or girl, then you have nothing to hide, right?
Dart always seemed like it was better suited for Android development than for web applications. Snapshots work particularly well, since the OS could manage persistence basically for free.
There was this one time that I suggested cross-training to reduce the bus factor, and management went with it. I was being sincere, but I have to admit that it was amusing watching everyone think they were going to be laid off when we implemented it.
"It's real. All of it."
Integer overflow in glibc strncat
> "Japan’s traditional calendar also specifies a winter beginning in early November and ending in early February."

Actually like a lot of cultural things in Japan, this came from China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_term
I think it's a subset clone with closed-source optimisations for Qualcomm chips (Android)
There is a huge difference between eye witness memory or elaboration and recording audio or video.
Company wide meeting called. Survivors were warned beforehand and told to sneak off to lunch. While in the meeting they locked us out of our computers.

For bonus points, do it on the 31st of the month so nobody has health care the next day.
> If there's no direct harm

Again, that's a big assumption. Plausible problems:

1. developing language skills early stunts development of more visual skills

2. too much structured time has drawbacks

3. "it ought to be at worst a waste of time" ... and additional stress. Opportunity costs could also include relationship capital (pushing your kid to do unimportant things means you can't push as hard in other areas).
You can't just baldly assert that radians are just as easy to understand as degrees - clearly they require more effort to understand, from an intuitive point of view.
It seems obvious to me why degrees are easier to handle than radians: 180 is an easier number to understand than pi.

People don't instinctively understand why on earth they would use a measurement unit where '1' of the unit has no obvious purpose. What can you do with a 1 radian angle? It's a bit less than the angle in an equilateral triangle. It's too big for usefully measuring things - most angles you come across will be somewhere between 0 and 3 radians, which is just weird.

What's that, you don't use radians like that? You use 'fractions of pi' radians? But my calculator can only approximate pi to 9 decimal places, so how does that help me?

It's incredibly easy for people to intuit that a ninety degree angle is the same as a 30 degree angle plus a 60 degree angle. But it takes deeper intuition about fractions to figure out that a pi/2 radian angle is the same as a pi/6 radian angle plus a pi/3 radian angle. People are not used to units of measure that are typically denominated with rational fractions of irrational numbers.
Your manager wants to add an admin account to the laptop you have been using for over a year.
I had a similar experience in 2010.

At that company, the passes were only for use after hours and on weekends; the doors were unlocked during business hours on weekdays. About a month before I was laid off, there were a couple of high-profile firings (first the VP of Engineering, then the Director of QA/IT/the India office a week later), and the CEO put in a new policy that whenever someone is let go, the doors are to be locked for a week or two so we'll actually need to use our passes to get in. This was to prevent the fired employees from coming back in and stealing or vandalizing or what have you, especially since they knew where the bodies were buried.

Well, the day I got laid off, the doors were locked. I wasn't even a high-level employee! I kinda knew where some of the bodies were buried though... I was one of the few people outside IT with admin access to certain servers. I didn't even think anything of it until my boss called me into his office... where the CFO was waiting with a paper that had "CERTIFICATE OF TERMINATION" in big letters at the top.
More on the DHash: http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/?/archives/529-Kind-of-Like...
I have no idea, but Bing is indexing away! https://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3Abrashear.me
The article doesn't mention what I suspect is the biggest reason for the decline in popularity - improved power management. When these projects were new they really were using computing power that would otherwise have gone to waste. Idle power consumption was very similar to power under load, so it made sense to keep your CPU busy. But now idle power is much less wasteful, and everybody participating in these projects pays for it in higher electricity bills. This is unsurprisingly less popular than helping at no additional cost.
I wish there was a little more detail here.
- UX needs to differentiate with "higher level"
- it is a skillset, not a department

I feel he was getting at something but without giving specific examples, he never quite said it clearly.

You can't outsource UX design because it has to be an integral part of what people do? Or you can outsource it but it must still be an integral part of what people do?
That is a decent idea I've never heard of before. Have you tried submitting an issue to various database issue trackers?
The barrel is not included in the price, though, whereas it's included in the price of bottled water. The better comparison is tap water, which I get for $0.0089/gal.
Firefox Developer Edition 45 – Animations, Memory Tools and More
No doubt, the decision to go to college pays off, when taken on the individual level.

However, it's less clear if the higher incomes are caused by the increased productivity afforded by education, or it's merely a signaling effect: productive people go to college to signal to the employer that they are intelligent, hard working, and willing to commit to a career in the field by irreversibly burning years of their lives and future incomes on the hope of penetrating the respective professional field. It's most likely, a combination of both.

What critics of the education bubble point out is not that a degree is necessary to earn a good income; but that the onerous costs of modern education have to little to do with the actual productivity gain and useful skills students earn in return.

In support of this view we can see how the MOOC revolution failed to produce significant effects on the labor market: it's not that MOOC education is has low value (quite the contrary), it's that is cheap enough that too many people can afford it, negating the signal (or "sheepskin effect" of an expensive degree).
Show HN has its own "new" page -

https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew

If it is popular there it gets a position on the Show HN page, but you can see the time range of content there covers a couple days worth of submissions so it's not at all guaranteed -

https://news.ycombinator.com/show

If it is comparably popular to regular submissions it can also get a prominent position for a while on the front page of HN itself.
9 Things That Recommender Systems Should Do
You're confusing The Washington Times with the Washington Post.
U.S. Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified for First Time
I once got called at home the Monday after I'd left a company to hear that I'd been "laid off". The previous Friday had been my official last day (planned exit, I was going off to college), but I had banked a bunch of unused vacation days, and they were calling to let me know that they wouldn't be able to pay out the remainder of my vacation pay.

Much later, when I got into the workforce for real, I learned that I could've collected unemployment checks for this, and that if I'd played my cards right, I could've been drawing unemployment for my first year at college. Ah well - one of my coworkers told me "If you'd done that, I might have to hate you. Unemployment is for workers who need it, not college students who take a gap year at a dot-com."
You realize that the level of environmental protection that we currently have in the US is only possible at the current level of consumption because we exported most of our polluting industry to China, right?