skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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"If you don’t actually enjoy what you are doing, leave the industry and go get a different job."

This is a statement I can stand behind. No enjoyment = no drive to get better (usually) = stagnation and eventual irrelevance/incompetence.

There's a difference between enjoying your job and becoming so obsessed with it or afraid of losing it that you become a doormat - in that sense I totally agree with you.
There is some evidence that extremely low radiation do not increase your cancer risk. However, if you realize that a pilot already receives increased radiation by flying several hours a day and could average 2+ of these scanning’s a day for 30+ years you are probably adding a significant risk (compared to getting a pat down).

As to passenger safety the annual dosage delivered in a short period of time is not safe. So take someone with say, a bad sun burn or a recent CAT scan and walking though those things is probably a bad idea.

Also due to poor training / incompetence some people are going to be sent through these things several times and or be required to stand there while someone get's distracted.

PS: The corresponding annual effective dose... and 500 mrem for the more exposed routes. (Bottollier-Depois JF et al. Assessing exposure to cosmic radiation during long-haul flights. Radiat Res 153(5 Pt. 1):526-32; 2000.)
Oracle’s Java SE Embedded for ARM Multicore at Techcon
I agree. There was a time when I looked down on the people who didn't take work home with them, or who didn't work ridiculous hours.

Shame on me, I should not have. I've met many brilliant developers who put in their time during the day, go home, and have a huge disconnect between work and personal life. They don't have side projects, they don't (usually) take their work home with them, and they are great developers. Why shame them for not working overtime for the sake of it?

If you leave at 5pm after breaking something that you left unfixed, thats poor job performance and you should be reprimanded for that. If you leave at 5pm because you've put in a good day of work and aren't going to be much more useful past them, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
Same here. I'm also not a US resident, so if you'd like to get started with Twillio, let me know.
I found the most interesting part of this to be the end when they list one of the concerns as Software. For those who want a point of reference of what could go wrong check out the Therac-25 story http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
Flexiscale isn't a VPS provider IMO. Although they've changed the pricing model a bit, you can purchase servers per hour like Amazon and scale up and down without problems.
Why, what are you hiding?
Nickname Tab Autocomplete
This might be incredibly useful in weeding out ill-designed websites from the search results. I can see myself using it to quickly determine the legitimacy of the site before clicking through. Plus, it's not distracting like those snap previews on Wordpress.
Very kind indeed, i would have stopped responding at his 2nd-3rd message...
The machines are capable of storing images. Straight from the mouth of Gale Rossides, the Deputy Administrator of the TSA [1]. The functionality is supposed to be disabled after an install, but such safeguards seem tenuous at best.

[1] http://www.infowars.com/media/tsadoc.pdf
Amazon's new layout shows more or fewer suhcategory/recommended products based on the width of the viewport (at least on the home page). Presumably it is more valuable/meaningful to show more products if possible and it isn't just for the sake of filling up space.
Usually my browser windows are about 700 pixels wide. That’s half of my horizontal pixels.

The vast majority of websites are no problem (text columns are usually no more than 700 pixels wide for readability reasons, I don’t care when I have to scroll horizontally to access other columns because my trackpad supports two-finger scrolling), some inherently need more pixels (The Big Picture wants to display big pictures and there is nothing wrong with that) and some just break (i.e. text becomes completely unreadable). I would be very happy if someone would fix those tiny minority of sometimes otherwise very fancy websites.
> Pharaos are big in a metaphorical sense.

Incidentally, I've heard that 'Pharaoh' comes from an ancient Egyptian word meaning 'big house' or 'big palace'.

Another speculation is that it's related to the Arabic word فارع, meaning 'very tall'. So it's might be nearer than expected to the intended meaning :)

If 'Enpharaoronate' were a real word it would fit very well in translating a famous Egyptian proverb from Arabic: "Said to the Pharaoh: what Enpharaoronated you? He said: I didn't find anyone to stop me."
Maybe it's intended as SEO spam, but the people who wrote it made a mistake?
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Do you have the problem with
a) polite?
b) Indian?
c) inappropriate questions?
2.5 years in jail for a DDoS attack seems disproportionately steep. He made a few websites temporarily inoperable, sounds more on the level of a bad prank than a felony with jail time on par with armed robbery.
Ask HN: Daily Subscription Billing Payment Providers
We are looking for advise on people who provide daily subscription billing services. Any ideas on who can provide this?

We are familiar with BrainTree, Authorize.net (ARB), Spreedly, Chargify, CheddarGetter.

Is there anybody else who can potentially use this data?
this movie had some facts - http://www.amazon.com/WALMART-HIGH-COST-PRICE-Format/dp/B000...
Take an example of irony--the story of Oedipus. Oedipus leaves his family specifically to avoid a prophecy that he would kill his father, and marry his mother. The action of leaving his home, by which he intends to stop the prophecy by removing himself from proximity to his parents, causes it to come true, because unknown to Oedipus he was adopted. Oedipus causes the prophecy to come true by accidentally returning to his biological parents.

So we have the action of a protagonist causing the opposite effect of what was intended--irony. The items Alanis lists are mainly really annoying.
This phenomenon is probably explained differently. I think this is SEO but not necessarily spam.

If they are using their real names, I think these are more likely ego-trips. People are probably trying to flood their names online. This may also be about portraying a clean online image whenever anyone searches about them.
Just stop. Really.
What's the Oracle trial against SAP really about?
Google added private API to Android to make contact data imported through Facebook sync adapter in-accessible/invisible to other applications!

Maybe Google should respond by removing that restriction.

This API was implemented specially for Facebook and only used by them.
Can you provide some horror stories?
Hey ivank. I work at Resolver, and just wanted to say, that's a fair comment. Getting the startup time of Resolver One down has been difficult for us. Our new web-app will fix that for some of our users, and we hope to provide a clear migration from Resolver One to projectdirigible.com for those of our users for whom it makes sense.

Best regards,

Jonathan
> If I want to apply for a position over the internet, I ABSOLUTELY must do things to stand out from the piles of emails

Agreed! Regardless of your background, taking the time to write a specific cover letter and tweak your resume to highlight experience you think a particular place would appreciate is well worth it.

Consider it this way: your application is one entry into a huge priority queue heap. You want it to be picked up by the comparison operator in every significant way you can. Don't be afraid to leave out work you did if it doesn't seem relevant; it will just dilute the signal.
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How much do you think DDG makes?
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zavulon is correct, that is literally what they wrote. There were several like this. I suppose the great-grandparent post is correct: they are using this to make sure their name comes up with clean results on Google.
These are just like the spams with a subject line of "[FIRST NAME], get Vi@gr@ here' - they are posted by scripts that are operated by people who can't even fill in the configuration fields of the software they use, or who write buggy code that doesn't do proper text substitution. It's quite funny sometimes.
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As usual, most people here are trying to "understand" Indians by looking at some comments.

I trust it was clear from my original post that I was trying to understand this group of people and not Indians in general.
Strange. You could still probably rig something with a jailshell that requires you to su.
reference updates are atomic, but without volatile (or more heavyweight synchronization) there may be an arbitrary delay before the change is visible to other threads.
I’m happy that the particular implementation they A/B tested on me for days and weeks didn’t make it. This is much more elegant.
> A little fud now and then is a good thing

This, my friend, is the problem with politics and science today.(And probably all of human history, but I was going for affect.)
This is a little misleading. It may be true that the Java specification doesn't require Java threads to map onto system threads but for all intents and purposes they're the same in all real implementations. The Executor framework doesn't change this, it gives you a flexible framework for task scheduling using thread pools.
The more alternatives the merrier. Good Luck!

Well, up to a certain point...
Interesting that this was downvoted - probably because someone was impressed by the importance of remembering that we all need to unite to solve problems. I was trying point out how many problems are solved because we have international borders. Absolute power corrupts absolutely? We at least can limit power at borders. Seeking asylum? Sure is great that there's more than one country. Your government taken over by Communists? At least there are other countries reminding your fellow citizens that Communism isn't the best idea. It's not like you actually need borders to create wars.

Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel argues that Western Europe became more advanced than China despite a head start in China because there were so many countries, so one country's government couldn't ruin things.
6 yrs ago. -8 myopia to 20/20 now. No astigmatism. Rs. 25K two eyes in India, that's 350GBP to you :).

Some 'glare' around bright lights at night. But otherwise, the best 25K I spent :)
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This wasn't the case at all, at least not on stock OS X (who knows what you could enable with haxies). You could certainly force quit the Finder, but it just relaunched immediately.
Rakckspace just launched something called Cloud Connect, which I believe does the same thing.
> however will be able to answer questions about C++ quirks

Turbo C++ quirks. :)

(edit: not sure why I was modded down. Anyone who's gone through the system in India knows that most colleges are still stuck in 1992 and use an ancient version of Turbo C++ for everything.)
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No offense, but if that's the full explanation, then why aren't the helpful Indians in the majority, too (there should be 2 or 3 times as much 'good' content from Indians than there is from Americans / Western Europeans)? Now there are plenty of Indians who do provide good content, on this site and elsewhere, but not in the per-capita rate one would expect from your theory (I feel, I don't have data on this). So IMO at best your theory only explains part of the phenomenon.
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Shameless plug: I wrote something similar for Clojure. https://github.com/gcv/dgraph
OT for attention of anateus: in relation to this, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1485331, could you perhaps look at http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/e341c/reddit_i_found_t... - there's an attempted transliteration in the comments.
I have to admit that I'm not an expert on reader macros, so I can't say for sure. Your example seems to map some already used characters, so it wouldn't be a pure extension of the reader. I guess you could make a readtable that recognizes that syntax and transforms it to the tree-like semantics. FWIW, I don't find it more readable than the standard notation. Maybe I have become too accustomed to the standard CL-notation.
One of the great ones is looking at the Trans-Siberian Railroad. It's like the man-made version of a river (that's not a canal). It's just this string of humanity reaching across Asian.

As for the sister comment, I believe China would be twice of bright, and the lights likely extending all the way to the edge of the deserts/mountains.
Wow, cool! I take it back, then :)

Would i be correct in thinking that this probably makes it less useful? Current thermal collectors use absorbent coatings that are "full-spectrum," with a minimum of IR emission, which i have to imagine contributes to their really high efficiencies.
The problem is that "agile" doesn't mean anything.

On my team we follow an agile approach, but we also have rough ideas on product direction for the next year or so and themed releases planned out for the next few months.

For us it all comes down to an understanding that if something else comes up then some of these features are going to have to slip to get other things in. It also means not building things that we ultimately aren't going to use.

If you just think that Agile means "don't plan, just do whatever you want" (i.e. Chaos) then of course you're going to hate it. No one can work like that.
My project manager is very fond of Agile - he doesn't have to interview, estimate nor understand the schedule any more - he abdicates it to a post-standup meeting where he quizzes everybody about their cards and edits them.

Result: So now I'm doing the manager's job too.

I find it a waste of time, at least when implemented this way. The single bright spot: at least no more 2-hour rambling staff meetings!
How exactly does the commonplace book differ from a journal or ubiquitous capture? Are they simply the most interesting journals of past centuries?
Kernel locking http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5833
There's diminishing returns on increasing column width; the human eye starts to get strained if reading columns wider than ~60 characters. If the increased page width is applied to design elements and increasing font size, sure. That's not so bad of an application.

However, the English language's z pattern is inherently vertical, meaning that a page should naturally have space on either side; forcing a window to fullscreen just to have a 33% column of text is asinine, and shows that the designer is a prick for thinking strictly for XP and Windows' maximize button.

You're right about Windows' "Maximize Everything" being weird, it seems more and more like it was a good stopgap for people switching over from DOS and needing all the pixels possible on a tiny screen. OS X's natural flow for page windows may get confused from time-to-time, but it's a much better solution for dealing with vertically-biased windows in a widescreen environment.
Agile is such a generalization. There are many practices below Agile such as Scrum, XP, Lean, Kanban, DSDM, FDD, etc.

Agile itself is just a set of principles. The actual implementation still require some processes.

I don't think people should attack Agile as a whole, but they should focus on which practices they chose. For example: Scrum is an agile practice for Project Management. But in order for a shop to use Scrum, they must implement certain practices from XP. XP more of an agile practice for Software Developers.

There are shops which implement only SCRUM but not the XP part. That is to say that they implement the whole Sprint, Retrospectives, Backlog, Stand-up meeting, but they did not refactor bad code, they did not try their best to have an automation in place. At the end of each sprint, they never test the whole app, they only test whatever the sprint accomplished. This is even worse than the previous practice.

I wholeheartedly agree with those who have been burned by management who thinks that SCRUM or XP will make things better in a short time. I hate to say this but it takes a very long time for a company to change their culture and mindset (depending on the size of the company and what the company does: product vs service).

If your company is switching to something new, make sure they know that methodology inside out. Make sure they met the pre-requisite. Make sure they are willing to sacrifice their time and money for a while.

Otherwise, get your resume ready cause the ship will sink faster than before.

On the other hand, some people might not agree with this but when you have one of these processes in place and everything in your engineering department runs well, that doesn't mean life is good. When the company is not doing well, your senior engineers who receive a big-fat check every month might be a good candidate to be let go. The reason is because your intermediate and junior engineers have already known everything inside out (cause one of the practice in Agile is to share knowledge, cross-functional team, or whatever).

Be aware that it could be a double-edged sword.
That would depend on how the costs of running servers scale with the number of users. If they scale faster, duck duck go would need to increase its income somehow.
Put this into context: are your experience from working at a big company? Do you even know any super-performer software engineers?
Great resource!

I'm a Boston guy and fairly plugged in, but this had several tidbits I wasn't aware of.

Thanks for putting it together and keeping it updated. As news.yc becomes more and more of a startup communications hub it would be great to have a curated resources link to pages like this.
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Source: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cookie-diet/AN02051

Question: The Cookie Diet: Can it help you lose weight? What is the Cookie Diet? How does it work?

Answer from Katherine Zeratsky, R.D., L.D.: "The original Cookie Diet was created in 1975 by Dr. Sanford Siegal to help his overweight patients lose weight. The Cookie Diet limits calories to no more than 1,000 a day, which come from six prepackaged cookies plus one meal, such as skinless chicken and steamed vegetables. The cookies are made and sold by Dr. Siegal's company and are said to contain a proprietary amino acid mixture that fights hunger.

If followed, a diet of less than 1,000 calories a day will likely lead to weight loss. But such a restricted diet can make it hard to meet all of your nutritional needs. In addition, it's difficult to stick with extreme diets such as the Cookie Diet. As a result, any lost pounds come right back once the diet stops.

The bottom line: To achieve and maintain a healthy weight, you need to make permanent and sustainable changes in your eating and exercise habits."
Gamification, Pointsification and Embarrassment (Effects of gamification)
I recently sold my huge apartment + furnitures, don't have a car anymore. I really felt owning these things were limiting my freedom and having a huge cost both economically as well as mentally. I'm really excited about embarking on a more minimalistic lifestyle, where I think twice about the cost of ownership. I now have more money and more freedom. Great article.
...and there you are! A free-thinker, posting on a public web forum, using (almost) their real name to suggest a view opposite to a common view.

Unthinkable in a fascist state.
When Twitter becomes a time sucking vampire
Netflix Dumps Akamai Because Of Poor Performance
It's good to have the goal so long as you work towards achieving it. So (in my family at least) we say "We'll do X when we have Y money and we're saving Z amount off the top of each paycheque towards it"
The trial itself may have had issues but the point remains that you are responsible for what you do. The only possible exception would be if your life or the life of your loved ones were on the line. Otherwise you are directly responsible for what you do.

It must be this way, otherwise "just doing my job" can be used to justify anything. How many bad things have happened because it was someone's job and it never occurred to the person to simply quit?
So, the protaganist must always make the action to be considered irony?
s/won/are currently winning/
I believe what's happening is the use of the radiation concerns is a proxy for the underlying problem: regularly taking naked pictures of the population in the name of security.

I don't think anybody can effectively argue that the whole enterprise is in dire need of grownups -- too easy to get screwed the next time there is an attack. But you could argue that radiation is a key factor, or just wave your arms around and yell a lot. With enough arm-waving, smoke, and mirrors you can make the case that the population is deeply concerned about radiation effects -- regardless of the science -- so "something must be done". "Something must be done" is what got us here in the first place, perhaps "something must be done" is what can get us out.
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I use KeePass (http://keepass.info).
Articles like this make me appreciate Go's approach to concurrency (http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#concurrency).
Actually, they ran similar shoe devices in the uk in the 80's and 90's - i know, as i used one. I don't know if they were high-dose fluroscopes though.
That's called dishonesty.
I signed up, how do I add my app?
While I've spent years reading this message in various places (most recently at http://mnmlist.com and http://farbeyondthestars.com), I'm always refreshed by it.

Perhaps it's not the author's main point, but living lightly means we have more time to invest in the things and experiences that interest us, and that is a good thing.
There are a lot of open issues with ssh keys, especially in an internal environment with a lot of end users. Is is difficult to control the distribution of keys or force a key password policy.

1) Users will copy their .ssh directories to every server they have access to so that they don't have to type in passwords. To deal with this:

a. You can limit where public keys are stored with the AuthorizedKeysFile directive in sshd_conf. Force all keys to be controlled by root and in a central location.

b. Implement kerberos so that users don't need to use keys for single sign-on.

c. only allow keys for functional ids (i.e. mysql), use IP filtering (from=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) on the public key to limit key access to a few administrative servers.

d. If NFS homedirs are exported to the world, any attacker can mount them and read off the keys from .ssh directories.

Other folks have mentioned brute-force attacks against your ssh daemons on the public internet. If possible, you should think about using a VPN/two-factor authentication to get access to your network or internal gateway servers.
Its called politics, and as much as I hate it, thats how most stuff gets done in the real world.