skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you enjoyed this, definitely follow Maciej's recommendation and read Big Dead Place (http://www.powells.com/book/big-dead-place-9780922915996), which captures the "Office Space on Ice" bleakness quite vividly.

You can get a taste here: https://web.archive.org/web/20140108023919/http://www.bigdea...

Unfortunately the blog is now only on the Wayback Machine, as the author, Nicholas Johnson, sadly committed suicide a few years ago after a tour as a contractor in Afghanistan (http://feralhouse.com/nick-johnson-rip/ and http://www.alternet.org/media/world-forgets-antarcticas-firs...).
I love that Mr. Gates drives a Tesla :)
Except the new Macbook, which only has one USB-C port.
2012 for me. Also VB6 though...
Depends on the base rate (availability for hire "per race"). Please use Bayesian statistics.
For me, it had a touch of "Alas, Babylon" or "Earth Abides".
As an Australian, compulsory voting is widely accepted and touted here as a good thing, so even questioning the rhetoric surrounding it is likely going to get you mobbed, even if you try to preface with the statement that you don't necessarily think it's bad, you just aren't convinced it's necessarily or demonstrably good.

But I'm not certain that it's connected in any way to less "extreme" policies in any empirical way beyond such reasoning being a local culturally embedded myth.

Of course, there's no definition of what an extreme position is, because middle, left and right themselves have no objective meaning.

And for the non-Australians, just do a Google Search for "Pacific Solution" and judge for yourselves how full of shit we may/may not be...
How did you get that number?
We're getting past that. Look at TWTR stock for the last year.[1] Twitter tried to pull a Myspace - the number of users started dropping [2], so they increased ad density to try to get revenue up. It's not working.

Twitter is so highly visible in SF that when they tank, it will shake up the real estate market.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=TWT...
[2] http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/twitter-declining-month...
After having not used my computer for a few days, I look over today to see it running a Windows 10 installation on its own. Microsoft pulls sneaky, dishonest moves like that, then wants the world to trust them with all of our personal data.
Don't miss Hilbert's response to the Wired article:

Rogue FBI Agent Vindicated?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rogue-fbi-agent-vindicated-er...
When TC39 creates ES modules, it's re-inventing the wheel ("The node community has already made modules that work, why'd you make a new one??").

When the Babel community creates a module loading approach, it's guessing at the future ("The spec is the law! When the community makes something, it's guessing at the law!").
> In pilot-wave theory one must be..

Would this be the reference frame of the center of gravity of the universe? If so, and if some parts of the universe are unreachable due to inflation, would that be the center of gravity of everything within the light cone of a system? Sorry if I'm being imprecise, I only dabble in this stuff.
Yep, a month and a half after the bug was filed. Not too shabby for OSS!
Actually, there still is a town newspaper! I used to read it through every morning, which took very little time considering its size. I feel that this guy covers local politics much better than the local paper ever did. He also shares some interesting events, and does so quickly. Plus, with his updates, you really feel like there's stuff going on, despite it being a small, pretty sleepy town.

Here's the link: http://facebook.com/Waynesboro

I haven't contacted the guy, but I believe he does it on the side. I've been meaning to get in touch with him to learn about him and maybe coordinate with him. The town is looking very seriously at building a new high school on the outskirts of town, losing the current strong location and sending the town deep into debt in the process, which they justify because the current school has some leaks in the roof and, as a 1930s building, doesn't have any flashy new technology built into the classrooms. I've talked with some friends at length about this, and we all had pretty much the same feelings. The last thing you want to do is encourage teachers to spend less time at the board, and more showing PowerPoint; centuries-old buildings are perfectly good places for class, as each of us experienced in college; and they're desperately looking for a cure-all, when the reality is that you have a major demographics shift when you no longer have the huge DuPont plant keeping a herd of engineers in town.

On the other hand, it's a beautiful location, it's incredibly cheap to live and buy a home, and the town has been shifting its development patterns in the last ten or so years. The long lost downtown area is coming back to life, streets are being built with bike space, and narrower so cars are less encouraged to speed, and they're starting to emphasize the great parks, river, and proximity to the mountains.

Finally, when you go there, you're struck by how much a single person could really turn the whole place around and onto an incredible trajectory.
proctopoiesis: life is whatever crap gets thrown together
Aaannd.. I was incorrect, claim #1 does mention neural networks.
20 years gone, to get back to a $30,000 electric car (vastly more capable to be sure).
Like all Stephenson, this book is full of ideas that are just...huge. The frustrating thing is the feeling that it should be merely the first book in a long, rich series, like Niven's Known Space. But the guy has so many ideas he just has to crank out this giant book and move on to the next one...
Chromebook?
I haven't read Childhood's End. I really enjoyed Seveneves, though. But there's just a lot of cool stuff in the story that is worth the exposition. As others note, the book is written in sections; if you really don't want to go through the triumph and heartbreak of the outplaying story, it wouldn't be awful to jump to a later section. I may be a bit heretical saying so, but some ideas later in the book are just wonderful. You'll lose out fast forwarding, but I'd recommend that over skipping it :)
Or maybe drugs are doing that anyway. And the companies are trying to screen for the people who will be gone after the first few paychecks.

I've known a few Xanax addicts and meth heads. They're not exactly what I would call employable.
Here's a thing I don't understand - no control group.

Surely we've been trying to treat people with severe, long term depression by other means and not had success. This surely wasn't the first treatment that these people tried in trying to treat their long-term misery. How are both of those things taken together not as good as a control group that allows you to draw meaningful conclusions. It really sounds to me (although it would be better to see the quantification in the source docs) that this is a strong enough result to rule out noise.

If your results are strong enough, you don't need a control. If all 12 participants died while undertaking the trial would we say that it needs to be re-run with a control to be meaningful?

The results look strong. Go for pre-registered replication right away. Sod the control group. Everyone with severe long term depression outside the study is already suffering enough to be the control.
You did fine. I hugely appreciate what Aaron did. I wouldn't want to see what happened to him occur again in the name of Open Access, and I'm hoping it doesn't.

But yes, keeping his name and cause alive would be a Very Good Thing.
Just install Vox for iPhone. Much better music player.
Ask HN: What are some indicators that a company really wants to retain you?
I have an anecdote, which isn't mine but comes from someone I know personally. This guy was working as a service tech, and was called out to diagnose a problem with a computer that had been recently moved. It worked most of the time, but any attempt to use the tape drive failed within a certain number of seconds (this was long ago, when tape drives were still a thing). Everything had worked fine before the move, and diagnostics didn't show anything out of place. Then he happened to look out the window - this was a military installation, and there was a radar dish rotating nearby. The failures occurred exactly when the radar dish was pointed their direction. It turns out the computer had been moved up one floor, which strengthened the interference just enough to cause the failure.
Is it really a good idea, though? A guy can smoke a joint on the weekend and do a dangerous job on Tuesday.

At the same time, passing a drug test doesn't mean you won't be intoxicated on the job. They don't test everyday, and lots of drugs (alcohol, cocaine, etc) get out of your system very quickly.

I understand the desire (you don't want someone on drugs at work), but drug testing doesn't do a very good job of getting you that.
Why is raising investment seen as success? – //Startup News
Correct. The very best form of government is a good king with final say on all matters of importance to the state. The problem with that is that there have only been a handful of good kings over the last few millennia.
Near the end of that post, the commenter suggested a fix that includes the most qualified Useless Use of Cat entry[0] that I've ever seen!

cat | sed ... > $INPUT_TEMP

[0] http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html#cat
...almost exclusively whites not passing.

Anecdata, but a good friend of mine is Mexican and missed out on a good job because of the drug test...
I was at a company from 2000-2003, and wrote a lot of its software. That company is still around, and they also licensed their software to a spinoff. I was brought in for some consulting to the spinoff and was equal parts pleased and horrified to see that some of my software was still in use and pretty much untouched. Horrified because back in 2002 I was already agitating that it was time for a rewrite for one part of it.
The drug test is a screening method. It "weeds" out certain segments of people and makes it more likely you'll find a reliable employee.

Prospective professional employees are screened using college degrees or professional experience.
But the HN guidelines say "No editorializing". We aren't allowed to "fix" blatantly bad headlines, so it's pretty hypocritical of the powers that be to "sanitize" this one (if that's what happened).
I read this series right after I read Seveneves. The connections were impressive.
I feel like I have stockholm syndrome after using Notes from several years. I hated notes, but I really miss the 'Copy to New' function from creating new emails from already sent items.

Anyone know of a client that supports this other than Notes? (sorry for the hijack)
They don't drug test for alcohol, and even if they did, it is only in your system for a matter of hours. As long as the person wasn't drunk WHILE taking the test, they would pass.
how do they make it mandatory? Is there a voting police?
I am becoming ever more convinced that tabbed browsing is a horrible kludge.

The fact that tabbed browsing's inventor's said as much doesn't do much to dissuade me.

Vastly better bookmarking or state management seem needed.
Good read. Gives perspective of how the security scene has shifted from public hacking, to the private sector. So much is going on behind the scenes, little scoops like this are nice reminders.
Almost forgot: I left in 2003 to join a startup which was then acquired by a very large company. Not only is that software still around, but the changes I was agitating for in 2009, when I left, have been implemented! I'm much happier about this one.
It's been a couple yeas since I read it, but I recall it being a pretty interesting read that didn't trigger any of the above feelings (just as a counter experience, that I wouldn't suggest people avoid it).

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was it the guy's experience going to the alien planet that triggered you? I actually didn't realize that might have been the reason upon first reading your comment.
While I didn't personally work on the Cobol side, I worked at a company on the consuming side. The whole thing was rather fun. The Cobol code would literally enter data into screens. Sometimes the screen data input was slowed to mirror that of a human. The result from each screen were known to fit in character matrixes. They would scrape the matrix into some data structure and move to the next screen by tabs and enter key presses. After the proper screens were polled, the data was rolled up and returned.

The Cobol guys liked to mock the Java team. They said that Java was slow. They pointed to how our system interacted with theirs. So one day for UAT I got permission to make async calls to their services. BAM! Mainframe was hit hard. The Cobol guys were swearing. They couldn't understand what nearly took down their system. Turns out all it took was a thread pool of 100. We ended up using the async wrappers around time-sensitive sections with only 10 or so threads, if I recall properly.
This PSU site may be of interest to anyone who's made it this far into the thread: http://neighborhoodpulsepdx.org/. It has some charts and maps that explore some of the data relating to population growth in the Portland area.

Edit: This is probably a better direct link: http://neighborhoodpulsepdx.org/portland21/growing-portland/...
Yes. My software company got bought by a large corporation that drug tests new hires (because they do gov contracts, apparently), and it is WAY harder to find employees now.

I know lots of developers who don't do drugs at all who refuse to take the test out of principle.
You can use the Command + Shift + / shortcut to access the menu search box directly from OSX apps.
This seems remarkably similar to Philips:

"While the Philips Hue system is based on open technologies we are not able to ensure all products from other brands are tested and fully interoperable with all of our software updates. For guaranteed compatibility you need to use Philips Hue or certified Friends of Hue products."

After all, it'd just be downright unthinkable that any non-Philips lightbulb should be compatible with our light sockets, that any brand of plug should fit into our wall sockets, or that non-Google-branded plug-in should be able to use a web browser's APIs... I mean, goodness, next we'll be thinking that the term "plug-in API" suggests its supposed to allow things that other people created to interoperate...
The record is probably the Yamanote Line in Tokyo, with about 165,000 passengers per hour at peak. That's effectively a conveyor belt made out of trains; there's a loop in each direction with trains every 2 minutes in each direction during peak periods. Each train carries up to 1600 people, and there are 50 trains on the loops during peak periods.
>restricted affirmation of non-wrongness

I think this is a really good way to put it, and an important criteria given the timescale over which these theories develop.
Design of Experiments was probably the most important engineering course I took as an engineering undergrad.

And it's so important that it really should be taught at an even more basic 5th grade level for the general public. This is how you get people to be more analytical in life, to see through bullshit.
Sports Performance Training
Don't ruin our industry's good anecdotes with reality!!!
When diplomats get punished for doing their jobs
Oh, I know the history, I just dislike "because we've always done it this way" as a rule. Imagine having a code full of "moo x > 5", with "moo" instead of "if" because that was the sound made by the favorite pet of the initial programmer...
Compared to the cost of extra developer time, this seems like a reasonable cost solution.
Not actually true. When you install the software required for the addons to install, it says quite clearly:

> The software contained herein (the "Software") is made available to you ("You") solely pursuant to the terms of the agreement that You previously entered into with Bloomberg ("Bloomberg Agreement"). IF YOU HAVE NOT ENTERED INTO THE BLOOMBERG AGREEMENT, YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO INSTALL, RUN AND/OR OPERATE THE SOFTWARE OR ANY PORTION THEREOF IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER.

I think that's pretty darn clear if you ask me.

Besides that, in the agreement itself well ... actually it's kind of vague, because it's sooo dang long and in such small print that I fell asleep hunting for it: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/700565-bloomberg-ter...

I suppose in the long run, as long as you aren't redistributing it or making a profit off its use, Bloomberg considers its data more valuable than its terminal software or fonts. After all, they do make it publicly available for download without a license agreement. (Shakes fist at Oracle/Sun...)
I think you can run most distros of Linux from a Live CD or USB and never actually install it. I could be completely wrong, though.
Apparently people are (or at least were) using this perceptual hasher[0] I wrote in PHP a few years ago. I'm embarassed by it because I know I will never update it, and it's probably badly written. Luckily there are lots of forks.

I also have a lot of old javascript hacks that are running on various Adobe Business Catalyst sites for people. Sometimes I get reacquainted with code I wrote months ago and forgot about entirely. I have actually asked myself "who wrote this" only to realize... it was me.

[0]https://github.com/kennethrapp/phasher
I wish Stanley Kubrick was alive to direct an update to Dr Strangelove, where AI replaces nukes.

No fighting in the war room!

People more worried about losing their jobs to automation than being killed by same automatons. The material just writes itself.
Ask HN: How much do you make from Google AdSense per day?
I'll go first - $125 averaged over past 30 days. Also, would be helpful to know if you're concerned about ad blocking.
To address your first assertion, I am a citizen whether I vote or not. By not voting, I am consciously choosing not to be part of the political process, at least that part of the process where I vouch for a politician by giving them my vote.

And I can't name a single person I want to associate my name with by voting for them.
It's certainly fine for most drugs.

The situation with weed is certainly the troubling one. You can test positive for it for almost a month after moderate use. Add to that fact its increasing legality and acceptance in the US and you've got a widespread employment problem.
Car Hits Kangaroo, Kangaroo Hits Jogger, in Kangaroo Flat
Controlling my TV/TV guide/Netflix
> as the article suggests, its almost exclusively
> whites not passing.

Where does it suggest that? There is one specific reference to potential white employees but its from an employer in a state where it is unheard of to find painters and roofers of any race that can pass a drug test.
It's been a while since I bought a printer that connected via any means other than Ethernet or Wifi, so the printer already needs to manage its own queue regardless of what the client computers do.

For printer that attach directly, there could be a daemon that arbitrates access and handles accounting or the system could simply allocate the printer to the logged-in user. For directly connected printers on multi-user systems, you'd want a real daemon, of course.

For daemons that mediate access, IMO the arbitration and accounting should be split from formatting and rasterization (if needed). For accounting and arbitration, the right way to do it is to speak something like Printer Job Language. I actually wrote a daemon like this years ago. I wonder if I still have the code. It actually counted pages regardless of how they were submitted.

Anyway, for a normal desktop machine, I think that the system daemon is silly these days.
I just use "forward" for that in outlook/gmail and delete the first few lines that get injected. Is that what you mean?
Amazon Echo
A website demo using XML and XForms before they were standardized scripted into HTML that's still running at a site per an old friend. Well, at least a few years ago. It was one of about 30 examples in a set. What they couldn't figure out is my site was blank on every browser despite everything organized by a INDEX.HTML file they loaded. The trick: one of the letters in either the file's name or name a preprocessor gives it isn't the English letter it appears to be. ;)

And apparently they didn't delete the shit because (a) they're lazy and (b) people just skip over it assuming it's a browser error instead of typing "INDEX" in their address bar. So, they left it in there as a successful example in a demo set. I got a glowing recommendation, too, since I showed the original ("bleeding-edge, web tech!") to the person in charge who also thought the demo glitched. Funny all around lol.

Note: This was a bullshit project rather than paid or important work. Not what I'd do if someone paid me for quality work haha.
I up voted your comment because we think the same way on this but your comment was better and less snarky than mine (although also less entertaining).
The author notes at the outset it's embellished to be entertaining, but nothing in the actual big seemed outlandish. The only thing that struck me as unlikely was that someone would actually work out and notice the radius. But I also know people like that, so I'd give the story the benefit of the doubt.
2006 for me. It is a SaaS service. The front-end has been re-done a couple of times since then but some of the original back-end code is still in place. I cringe every time I have to look at it but it works well so there hasn't been a need to re-write it.
A great example of why we tell people to forget using a substandard approach and language for "quick and dirty code that will probably get thrown away." A lot of long-lasting code started out exactly that way. ;)
Yes, I do have a choice to not participate by not voting.

In Soviet Union, party crush people like me since hurts lie that all support them.
I believe I've read all of Stephenson's books (yes, even The Big U)

Seveneves is in the top 5, but only just -- the Baroque Cycle (though not sci-fi) takes up three of the first five spots.

In terms of can't-put-down-once-started, Reamde tops the list, but, again, not sci-fi.

People seem to want to compare the content to Anathem, even suggesting it may fit into the same universe - though I can't see it myself. For what it's worth, both his SF and non-SF works are enjoyed by my other half, who usually eschews anything SF - so despite the alleged 'science-heavy style', there's one data point that suggests it's not as problematic as some reviewers expect it would be.
Uh yeah, the US had tests. They were there to prevent black people from voting.
Cool. Thanks for the background. I'll take a look at the Infer code. :)
I wrote an in-MUD game for a Wheel of Time-themed MUD around 2005; I stopped in last year to see how things were going and was pleasantly surprised to see that not only were my game and helpfile still in the MUD, but that there was an ongoing game as I logged in. Satisfying to know that something I made over ten years ago is still being enjoyed.
If paying customers are losing data and you can't reproduce locally, yeah, it's worth a few plane tickets.
How many King Edwards has England had?
It got open-sourced...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOLserver

...with OpenACS probably being among the first, web frameworks. So, that's a legacy that goes back to one of the first, high-traffic sites in existence.
>with the goal of changing how research is distributed

Services like Arxiv, and now scihub have changed things up more than a bit. I have to wonder if they saw the writing on the wall and cashed out while they could (and I would not fault them if they said they did)
Kotlin meets Gradle
Oh I'm not knocking it for NR errors.