skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Are the rest of us on variable incomes which we can scale up and down at will?

Are you on an income which is, by law, tied to changes in the Consumer Price Index? That's how Social Security works. From the 2016 benefit letters:

"The law does not permit an increase in benefits when there is no increase in the cost of living. So your benefit will stay the same in 2016. There was no increase in the cost of living during the past year based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) published by the Department of Labor."

So maybe "pegged", as in "pegged to an index", would have been a better idiom, but we're probably stuck with "fixed".
Visual C++ does not use the GCC naming for flags. The flag will likely be renamed to something shorter in the final release in Update 3.
Blimey, it was a decade or so ago. :p As they hit teen years just a normal PC+Internet was enough. From memory...

Mid spec, but old, games machine (mum or dad's old one after an upgrade).

Spent a bunch of time locking down what was in windows, what damage they could do (like deleting icons, menu items, random important things). Weekly restore from FreeBSD box. Uninstalled or removed visibility of pretty much anything that could do damage. :)

Mostly it was things that came up as they happened, and experience supporting non-tech friends and relatives - causing chaos uninstalling the wrong things, installing kazaa or whatever.

s/w wise I found a Logo (turtle graphics), Basic, couple of other languages, Amiga-like Music tracker, couple of graphics things to complement MSPaint, MAME with some classic games, a few infocom adventures and a couple of newer games for the Z interpreter (Infocom games not as popular as I thought they might be), a crossword puzzle and a few other logic/tile arrangement type puzzles.

Overall it was a great success - we didn't really need to teach anything.
Much noise for nothing. I fail to see where "copying code" happens here. The unfortunate developer copied standard key/value from the SO answer and forgot to change the value. It's like blaming somebody for "hello world" or fooBar.
Mind those goalposts, now. We're talking about no-smoking areas, not no-driving streets.
That;s not the issue. That's been around for a far longer time than Obama. What is so painful about the US system is that rather than have proper elections, say a party-wide vote for the nomination, they have this series of tiny mini-elections where every week is another battle royal. The net result is a paralysed political system where the real problems are totally ignored.

And I cannot be the only one here who's ears bleed every time I hear some pundit talk of the "black vote" or how evangelicals have this or that opinion. I see some of the CNN pundits, many of which are actually Canadian, flinch every time they are fed such lines. The American political obsession with racial and religious categories is just creepy.
TL;DR The pie is bigger but more unequally distributed.
Taxing capital gains on properties is fraught with difficulty, particularly when properties are owned by offshore entities, and even the Land Registry do not know the identity of beneficial owners.

Taxes on property transfers (capital gains, stamp duty, etc.) also create hysteresis in the market, which should be discouraged.

It's much easier to implement a council tax style system, with non-payment a criminal offence, and the ultimate (if extreme) threat of property confiscation quite practical to go through with.
London is quite crazy. I'm planning to live here for the next few years (working on a PhD), but I have no idea where to go afterwards. I don't think it's sustainable to live here in the long term unless I choose to pursue wealth over everything else -- and I don't think I'll be doing that.
All the downvotes notwithstanding, there is a direct correlation between the number of severe burns you've had and your chances of getting skin cancer[0], unless you have a genetic predisposition to skin cancer.

A moderate amount of sunlight on skin, without burning, is actually healthy for you, unless you 1) have various illnesses (lupus, for one), or 2) are genetically predisposed to skin cancer.

[0] http://www.webmd.com/melanoma-skin-cancer/news/20140530/5-or...
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Great idea. I really regret turfing out some of the older kit that weren't PCs. Some of the early games were much more creative (and of course some were terrible).

My kids proved frogger is just as addictive as 30 years ago! :)
Good question. It's probably not due to the loop being classed as expensive or not though.
Somehow I suspect they have run the numbers.
How can I earn from Blogger when I am under 18?
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I don't have an account yet so,should I try to sign up for it and keep earning to collect more money at the end?
Any help is appreciated.
:) man have you even met today's web developers? Turning off js is like asking them to work in assembly. Now that Google has gone and built everything the OS does, into the browser the mordern day web dev is programmed to think that they exist to rebuild desktop apps in the browser. Communicating information simply in plain text is the last thing on their minds.
Not always. The 25 year old may have to be stuck in a high priced city to get a job that pays off their massive student loans. A 90 year can live away from the jobs.
As someone who works here and doesn't join in the chants but works closely with and respects many of the people that do, I find your description of them as "douchebags" to be rather uncalled for.

You are certainly free to disagree with the chants or the overall tone that celebrations like this set within the company, but I don't think that resorting to personal insults is the best approach to having a nuanced discussion on the topic.
This is very difficult.

If you’re a great software designer, you probably want to work for a company that says, “Software is in our DNA.” A company where the CEO gets up on their hind legs at every all-hands meeting and announces “Our success depends upon shipping the world’s greatest software designs.”

Why would you want to go work for a company where at every such all-hands, you have to sit through executive after executive talking about their hardware logistics prowess, and their hardware design prowess, and their hardware margins numbers, and so on?

It would be the same thing going to work at Google. Here you are, the Jony Ive of software design, being told that the stock price depends upon the math that drives ad click-through.

I recall a softare designer few years back publicly rage-quitting Google because Google didn’t believe in design, they wanted to A/B test everything in the belief that you could hill-climb to a good-enough result. It was almost as if they believed that human designers subtracted from design rather than created it.

Whether you agree or disagree, why go to work at a company that thinks what you do is a distraction or even an outright harm to their main product?
You are using anecdotes to counter a general trend.

Who cares what you think. The point is that the majority don't consider it a pain in the ass.

If you want to debate this issue based on your personal preference it becomes pointless.
I feel sorry for the people who wrote this.

Which one of us would want a code review by people who did not understand the requirements given by "the client" done on the front page of HN?
Both companies are hemorrhaging cash by operating in China. Its a game of who can survive longer, capital infusions are a way to lengthen the runway. Seems like an ugly battle.
Yeah I do. Doing a lot of Meteor and React these days.
More likely it would have been forgotten about in 3 months. The internet is fickle. Remember snakes on a plane?
Far right != nazi
.gov websites are supposed to be ADA Section 508-compliant, so most of them do work in Lynx.
Technology and the Need to Up-Skill Regularly
>> What is still sadly active?

Adversity faced by the black community. Oppression, poverty and violence etc. We probably wouldn't have hip-hop if everyone had a trust-fund. Art needs something to say.

>> Gospel is white and European now?

Sure i.e. European Hymns as the principle influence of Southern Gospel music. I believe the original music called "Gospel" was in European Christian communities. I'm no expert and can be corrected.

I'm seeking to demonstrate that questions about cultural influences are better explained by events (diaspora, oppression) than to just see race and stop there as though its a sufficient explanation.
You go to a retreat center for a weekend (usually somewhere secluded, in the woods, on an island, a mountain, etc) with a bunch of other couple who are also getting married and you talk about faith and marriage. It usually involves faith and team building. Some churches will let you get away with night classes but the retreat is usually over in a weekend vs the class that takes longer.

Thing is, I'm not particularly religion and neither is my wife, but our family insisted we get married in a Catholic church so we had to go through with it. So I opted for the retreat because it got it over and done with in a weekend.
Can't say I'm opposed to Chevron's idea here. I'm sure headlines like "Chevron CEO hits reef, spilling millions of crude and killing thousands of seals" might make them take safety a (tiny) bit more seriously. Nothing good happens with oil tankers etc.
The author only answers with what amounts to "feeling it's time to move on". As much as I respect his courage to make the decision, you can never "know" which road is best - just ask Robert Frost. But I've always taken his poem to mean that you need to make the best of the road you choose - and if you're consistently unhappy, perhaps it's time to take the proverbial "other fork".
Computational history: countries that are gone
Frameworks, Libraries and Templates in Arachne
Wow. Thank you for the link. Interesting story with a happy ending, I suppose.

Then there is this: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/04/25/tru...
What numbers? Unsecured cargo is unsecured cargo. A metal object sitting on a flat metal deck gets tied/braced/chained.
> There is extensive and well written documentation for all aspects of systemd so I'm going to call BS on your post.

As long as you are prepared for the rest of the world to call BS on what you say here, as well. (-:

It's only "extensive and well written" if one sets the bar for those two quite low, and has very lax standards for doco. Unfortunately, people often do set the bar low in the Linux world. But to those from other worlds the words that come to mind are "acceptable" and "mediocre". As someone else has already mentioned here, and as people have pointed out passim over the years, the expected as the norm quality of doco for the BSD world is noticeably a higher standard than in the Linux world.

But it's not the BSD world alone where the norm is higher. The norm for the commercial Unices is and was higher, too. A case in point:

I wrote https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11629824 a little while ago. Checking my recollection, I referred to several manual pages for the rlogin command. The HP-UX and Solaris manual pages for rlogin actually had whole subsections about escape sequences, beginning with the general notion then proceeding to specifics of the various individual sequences. The HP-UX manual even proceeds to discuss how to send the escape character onwards, and how to send escape sequences across a daisy-chain of rlogin sessions -- something that still applies to SSH today.

The Linux rlogin manual has 1 paragraph, doesn't mention that there's actually a general concept behind the specifics that it lists, doesn't discuss how to escape the escape character, and doesn't discuss daisy-chaining.

If you're just about to point to your Linux ssh manual as a counterexample and observe the treatment that it gives escape characters, as good as that of the HP-UX doco, then scroll to the bottom of the page and enjoy the fact that you're reading BSD doco written by BSD people. (-:
What features do websockets offer over SSE/EventSource?

Ok, I know you can send data, but you can do that with HTTP/Ajax + SSE.
> I recall a softare designer few years back publicly rage-quitting Google because they didn’t believe in design, they wanted to A/B test everything. It was almost as if they believed that human designers subtracted from design.

I am convinced that an A/B testing algorithm error is responsible for Google Maps.

I know Google have scads of data about how people use maps. I can't understand how they get from all that data to the product which can be incredibly frustrating to use.
"US Military Introduce Childbomber McChildbombface" for a drone

http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2016/04/18/us-military-intr...
Send promotional messages to potential clients
When asthmatics start leaving thick, persistent clouds of inhaler mist behind them as they walk, you'll have a point there.
Both packages look pretty ugly. Hire a better designer...
They did select "relatively sedentary humans"; perhaps in that subset, women are heavier than men?

- Men tend to do more muscle-increasing sport than women; meaning a sedentary man isn't gaining that muscle weight.

- Women tend to do more cardio activities to burn fat; meaning an active women may be losing weight.

I suspect you're right about it being a misprint though.
In a way this time was a first as well, considering that they only recovered boosters for LEO missions so far. GTO is much less fuel to work with for landing and higher velocities.
Transfer 1% to their personal accounts in Bahamas and puf - disappeared.
But my totally scientific survey of the Head-Fi forums says you're wrong!
If you live in a country where you can't trust your ISP then there is a very real MITM risk.
A fun boat name and adults coloring means is indicative of a world headed towards 99% of people being intellectually retarded? Interesting.
Its all entertainment. I.e. meaningless bullshit. Its equivalent to the guys who review the latest episode of game of thrones for 3 hrs and have 10 hrs or random analysis lined up for the rest of the week till the next episode appears. When I see the time and effort Americans put into their pop culture its like watching aliens from another planet.
And they all have so much to say, with such eloquence and speed about essentially nothing just blows my mind.
> Recording browsing activity

Yes, let's protect users visiting public available information from all the malicious eavesdroppers, while still posting all page requests to Google analytics...
This is how I see it. I would also guess that a much larger portion of Sanders voters will not vote in the general vs everyone else who voted against Trump in the primary.
What's notable about this attempt (as opposed to the last) is that the first stage rocket was traveling twice as fast (4x the energy to overcome on landing), and didn't have enough propellant to do a 'boostback' burn.

Instead, coming in very hot, the rocket had to use three engines (instead of one) to slow for landing. The last time this was attempted, the first stage put a nice hole in the deck of the drone ship.

Seeing the rocket dead-center on the barge was quite a sight!
> But then two things happened. First, Kevin and Maciej had the good-faith conversation described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441978, and Kevin reluctantly concluded that Maciej doesn’t want to participate in the program as intended

How in the world do you come to that conclusion from THIS:

> Kevin: If you were seriously interested, I'd be delighted to work with you.

> Maciej: I feel like after seven years, I have a pretty good sense of what bookmarking/archiving needs people have, but am at the limits of what I can personally build. If the votes swing my way, I'd be happy to have a good-faith conversation with you.

And then how do you reconcile this statement from above:

> Kevin was excited by the prospect of working with [pinboard].

with this from below?

> tptacek: You weren't turning the knobs to see what would change. The outcome was clear, you didn't like it, and so you prevented it from happening.

> Kevin: Yes. I wasn't arguing against that.

if you wanted to work with Maceij, and he said he'd be happy to have a good faith conversation with you if he won, then why would you a) not like the outcome or b) prevent it from happening?

I don't really care who won, but these claims have no internal consistency and literally don't make any sense.
JavascriptS? Plural? Interesting.
Good point. Hadn't thought of that. The promotion / marketing side of things is definitely something I'm learning as I go along.
They didn't know the poll would leak out to the general public. Also they didn't say the winner necessarily will be chosen, they chose 4th place, and the name they thought was the most fitting, which is completely reasonable.
That does sound like something an oil company would do. It seems like horrible internal pr. Employees, the people who work on the ship, might not appreciate it being named after the boss. I'd have gone with the names of lifelong or heroic employees.
JS will be valuable for a long time. It's the core of the web and the web will be around for a long time, if not forever.
its like hurd I'm guessing, nearly no one using it, so no reason to stop experimenting and having fun
Generally SpaceX only employs "US Persons" due to ITAR restrictions. US Persons are either US Citizens, doesn't matter whether native born or naturalized, and US Permanent Residents, often referred to as Green Card holders.

There are ways to obtain ITAR exceptions for non US Persons but the process is long and very expensive so it is only utilized rarely. I will say that SpaceX does employ a fair amount of Permanent Residents as well as a few non US Persons.
Geo is insanely useful when you're after stuff within x miles of a known location - so a lot of mobile apps.

My problem with many existing geo implementations is they assume that a circular radius is the query type I care about, and longitude and latitude is sufficient to know where I actually am in terms of jurisdiction, etc.

Being able to add fine grained polygons to represent national, state, county or town boundaries and being able to identify the relationships between my co-ordinates and those entities is still far more complex than I would like.

Adding polygon support might be an interesting exercise, actually.
Hi @lothiraldan

At Serenytics our backend stack is based on:

- python 2.7
- gunicorn
- gevent
- flask
- sqlalchemy + postgres
- redis
- MRQ for asynchronous worker tasks (using redis+mongo)
- multiple python SQL drivers to query on every compatible SQL database ;-)
I know that "accredited investors" is a pretty common thing and not something the SEC cooked up but its really disheartening that you'd need 200-300k in income to somehow verify that you know what you're doing with your money.

Funny they don't seem to have the same requirements for lotto tickets...
When will they learn that holding an online poll to name stuff is never, ever a good idea. They should count themselves lucky the winning entry was work-safe.

Although I still feel that if you're going to go through with it you should stick with the results. Silly people.
One could argue it's more about the "thrills-per-minute" counts going up. I'm not saying I totally agree, but it is at least evident to me that movies from past decades spend a little more time between "thrills" than your average modern film.
Good work! I still think that they should have some grippers on the barge, or a net, ready to spring and grasp the rocket on landing, instead of carrying flimsy legs all the way to space and back.
Engagement Ring Shopping – Things you should know
No thats the US navy /marines when they go for a run ashore in portsmouth :-)

The USN being dry - the effect of the UK's stronger beers can have unfortunate consequences.
Yes, although they're "back office" and all the sexy high-paid trading, quant, actuarial stuff is stuck in London.
What I find truly comical and will be the biggest laugh of all other elections is when Ted Cruz and John Kasich declared their biggest qualifications were "Vote for me because I'm not Trump".
Here is the video

http://www.space.com/32811-spacex-rocket-landing-jcsat-14-la...

Hopefully we won't have the typical hacker news discussion about why the employees chant USA.
I found all those rants amusing considering how many times nodeJs news reached top places on hackerNews.
>Be quiet and accept capitalism in other words. Brilliant, out of touch response.

The problem in reality is that politicians are out of touch with capitalism. The solution is not rent control or land value tax. That only treats the symptoms.
You cannot fix a structural problem this way.

The real solution is to make other cities more attractive instead of forcing everyone to move into a handful of cities only to get kicked out 20 years later.
DuckRails – dev tool for APIs
Just my observation that adults are regressing into child like behaviour as each generation takes over. Less people taking responsibility for themselves, more people hiding from the world through escapism and a general irreverence for history and tradition. I might be wrong but it keeps bubbling up.
The thing is they're already able to bid lower than all their competitors.
Looking to start or join a support group of CTOs and engineering VPs in Chicago
I'm an engineering VP at a small tech (sort of) company in Chicago. I've been in my role for almost 2 years now and before then, I grew up writing software starting from the age of 7. I started my first programming job when I was 16 and for nearly 20 years I was a sole contributing developer. Just before my current role, I was a lead developer and although I had a few folks that I was managing, I was more of a sole contributor than a manager/director/etc.

Now that I've been in my role for 22 months I think I'm finally starting to get the hang of it. There's a lot that I've learned about being a good engineering VP and I finally feel like I'm getting comfortable in my role. Having said that, I'm now at a point where I really feel the need to be part of a larger (but not too large) group of CTOs and engineering VPs. It just dawned on me the other day that this is the very first job where my direct boss (who oversees the entire company) is completely non-technical. If I just spent my entire evening removing a whole bunch of duplicated logic in the code base, I have to explain to him why that wasn't a waste of time on my part. Or, if I just spent my weekend deleting a whole bunch of dead code, I have to explain to him why that was time well spent. This is the first time in my career where I have a significant say in how 10+ folks in the company spend their time and decide what they work on. I could go on and on with more "this is the first time..." comments, but you get the point.

I'm looking to talk to other CTOs & engineering VPs who I can learn from & even teach a few lessons I've learned. I'm looking for people who are still coding & love coding, but still have to devote most of their time at work on managing & directing.

If you can point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it. If you're in the Chicagoland area and would like to start/join this sort of a support group - please let me know.
> Recording browsing activity ("gee Mr. Smith, you sure do spend a lot of time looking up laws about X. Seems like a good thing to blackmail you about")

Are the URLs in an HTTPS request also encrypted? I was under the impression they weren't.
They are trying to nail it every time without those grippers because they won't be there on Mars.