skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But there will always be hordes of new, excitable hackers who fail to appreciate the complexity of finishing real-world tasks (and I'm not talking only intelligent scraping). The "awareness" is ephemeral.

Of course, by the time they come around, they will have driven down market prices as well as hackers' image on the whole, with their "Easy! 2 days max, here's the expected cost", invariably followed by "Give me an extra week or two, I'm almost there".

Eventually they'll learn, then come and vent on HN. The circle of life.
What am I missing? It appears to work fine.
I love pixlr, it works wonderfully. I used to run contests for a team at work and I would make odd and funny custom wallpapers for the winner. My department doesn't have access to any fancy image editing software, so I would use pixlr.

That said, this is impressive, and different given it uses HTML5
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You're not arguing with Grellas so much as cherry picking sentences out of his comment and howling at them in isolation. If we extract the signal from your comment --- that partner-track law careers are problematic, that working unreasonably hard is a bad idea for employer and employee alike --- from the emotion, we find a series of arguments that Grellas himself likely agrees with.

In some cases I can guess that he agrees with your underlying argument because he's written comments to that effect in the past (for instance, you can use the search bar at the bottom of the page to find out some of what he thinks of partner-track law). In others, unfortunately, I can guess that he agrees because the very comment you're replying to says that he does.

I think I speak for a lot of people on HN when I ask that you not berate one of the more uniquely valuable contributors to HN for writing "walls of text". He writes differently than you and I; longer, yes, but also much more carefully and considerately. I have never, ever seen him address someone else on HN the way you just did him.
The problem I see with many of these lines of thought are that they grossly over simplify the effects of situation and environmental factors. Even if there exists a comparable job with better hours, its existence doesn't always make it a viable alternative. Is being stuck in a mortgage or with a sick spouse license for an employer to demand you work 70 hours a week?
> No employer has ever, ever given me free money, and I have never expected it. There for, I have never ever given an employer free time, and never ever will.

This is a top-notch comment to me, Alan! Printed and pinned to my wall!

> It's not really, no. It's an exchange of work for time.

I agree with Alan. When it comes to basics, you do exchange your time for whatever it is employer wants you to do. Other worlds: you wouldnt be able to do any job for an employee if you wouldnt be asked by him, wouldnt have tools, wouldnt represent the company, etc. Of course quality of work is important, so does work etiquette and preferably stable family status. But again, this all boils down to an exchange: time for money.

> If you're doing an exchange of time, you'll be punching in and out

I'm sure "productivity metrics" did not exist before first employee started working. Its was a byproduct of how to deal with lazy workers, just like seat belts are answers to the fact that people had car accidents.

He will not punch in out because then he is fired, regardless how much time or knowledge he has to "share".
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Even the most brilliant innovation cannot succeed when its value depends on other innovations that fail to arrive on time
BS or MS is mostly about learning and the desire to understand it all.

If you truly are talking about employment alone, your time would be much better spent programming (not in school). I am twice as likely to hire someone with 4 years experience as someone who is a fresh grad.

No one in Silicon Valley cares if you have a degree. They care what you can do.

Work for big corporations...they care about a MS, but they will mostly have you managing other software engineers (not coding).

Also consider moving to Europe. They really value the old school of thinking and MS is almost required.
Indeed, I've seen a talk from Bjarne recently where he said that by considering what is required to make RAII work in the presence of exceptions you can basically derive the entirety of C++..
Come on, really?

You're missing that there are 81 stanzas and Readability keeps exactly one.
Did the publisher release this to the public, or is there literally a pirated book climbing the front page on HN?
Drugs are like any industry I would guess, in that, economy of scale will eventually win the race by using industrial practices. Much like how cocaine went from high quality to low quality as demand skyrocketed and the scale of production was more important to producers than quality. But, as the industry scaled to the demand, the quality climbed due to better production practices.

I guess my point is that meth's growth is probably the leading cause of any drop in purity as opposed too any action by the government to limit small distributors. As the big players in the industry scale their production the trend "should" reverse?

Just opinion.
Intrusive data structures
Well, what you said is "qualified guys can quit and shop around".

You might not have meant that "thus average guys are ok to suffer unpaid overtime", but I didn't argue against what you "actually said" or "meant to say", I argued about what the above stance implies.

And, yes, for a lot of people, it implies "and screw the average guy".
IndexedDB is far from awesome unfortunately, but is our only viable solution at the moment. My point in the post is that we need someway to educate developers that localStorage is not the solution for offline and clientside storage (which it is being pushed as).

The actual inconsistency of the API's is not the issue, it is that the usage of the API and what it is being pushed as.
An alternative to C++ in this situation is to have a C core or set of C libraries, with bindings up to something like JavaScript or Lua. World of Warcraft, Emacs, Firefox are a few popular examples of that architecture. GNOME 3 works this way too.

It's pretty important to have good automation for the C-to-high-level conversion, for example GNOME has a gobject-introspection to do this, and Firefox has XPCOM. Otherwise it becomes too tedious and bug-prone to be gluing two languages together by hand all the time.

An old blog post http://blog.ometer.com/2008/08/25/embeddable-languages/

I suppose node.js could be considered another example of this approach, by writing the super-tiny-and-fast event loop and http parser in C and then putting all the application logic in JavaScript.
I think Amazon offers WaaS...?
I think the issue is people use the Watch button like bookmarks.
May I recommend that if you're looking for a more considered critique of the C++ programming language you look at the C++ FQA (Frequently Questioned Answers) instead?

http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/
1) I dont believe being a "consumer" can by itself have any value

How can you have a capitalist economy without consumers to signal prices? I think I just don't understand your point here. Consumers obviously create value to my mind, because the knowledge of what they're willing to consume is itself valuable. How do you understand differently?
What if you have a chronic illness that will never allow you to be "healthy" regardless of what lifestyle choices you make? Additionally COBRA allows you to pay the full unsubsidized cost of your insurance, not your normal subsidized premiums. As far as employer culture, that is something you really do not understand fully until you've been on the job for awhile. You could very well end up in a worse position than the one you left. You can't just say "I don't like it here, so I am going to go over there for awhile, if it doesn't work out then I'll come back'. No. It's a risk & the risk is your livelihood & possibly your health. All are reasons people don't just bail when the job starts going downhill.
IDEs Are Dangerous
Here you've used the word "imply" to suggest that any words you choose to put in my mouth must also have been in my head. But, of course, no.
So you're basically asking for something like jQuery for IndexedDB (which could probably be written on top in a few 10s of lines of JavaScript). Baking a barebones API into the browser when a more powerful one has already been implemented doesn't make sense.

Similarly for the WebSQL apologists, there's no reason <50kb of JavaScript couldn't provide a fully featured SQL engine on top of IndexedDB - IndexedDB implements most of the hard work (indexes, transactions, the container itself) already.
I don't think a DMCA takedown request is related to DNS removal. And I really don't think it's a good idea to punish people making good faith efforts to stop people pirating their content -- even if it turns out they're wrong about e.g. some gray area of fair use.
Isn't this the "all politicians are untrustworthy" problem. Politicians are not any more untrustworthy or criminal than the general populace, they are just more closely watched.

And the same is obviously true of those 'under observation' - psychiatric disorders or not.

I am not sure just how many of my strange habits would be diagnosed under the DSM - but enough to worry me :-)
Will Google+ be a "Ghost City"
"relying on an ORM (which the project forces on you)"

By the project, I presume you mean Rails. Because Rails doesn't force ORM on you. It assumes that by default, but if you don't want to use an RDBMS and ORM, you simply remove the inheritance from ActiveSupport::Base from your model class and write a class that talks to whatever you prefer.

Rails makes the reasonable assumption that most people will be talking to an RDBMS. It could omit that and instead you could "build it out and customize it like you need", but that way lurks 7,000 line XML config files and all the other crap lots of Rails folk were trying to escape from. The point of convention over configuration is that for some baseline assumption of normal, it comes ready to rock and roll.
Take a look at Rickshaw:

http://shutterstock.github.com/rickshaw/

It is built on top of D3.
Stratfor subscriptions do are _not_ $40k a year. The article was being very misleading on that point, saying that this was what the price was in 2001. Perhaps that was because the subscrition page on Startfor was still down, but when I subscribed, it was something like $200 or so a year --- it was less than the cost of WSJ.

What I get out of Stratfor, and why I read it, is not "secret intelligence information", but analysis. It may not be as good as what the CIA has, but that's because it truly doesn't have access to "secret intelligence information". But at least they are trying to make sense of facts! Unlike the New York Times, which acts as a stenographer for the White House (the White House has leaked information from the CIA saying their analysts are sure Iraq had weapons of mass distruction, therefore it must be true) or for politicians (where Arthur Brisbane was caught wondering whether it was OK to label statements form political candidates that were false as not being true in newspaper articles, or whether newspapers should just run the quote), or the Television Evening News, which trot out "retired generals" who are still on the consulting payroll of the Pentagon without disclosing that fact. If I want the party line from the politicos, I know where to get it.

Not that I take Stratfor's conclusions as gospel --- I don't take the Times, the Economist, or other sources as gospel either. But hopefully by reading all of that, I can have a more informed view of the world. Other than satisfying my own curiosity, I have the naive and old fashioned view that being well informed is the responsibility of each and every citizen of a democracy --- and that means getting information and analysis from multiple sources, and then coming to my own conclusions.
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D give you the same control that C, and same time you have a lot of funny things that have other high level languages at same time that is'nt a kraken like c++
I'd really like to buy this. I like the front end and based on the demo, it looks really great.

However, I haven't ponied up my money for two reasons:

1)
"The installer will take you through license validation, database connection and user setup"

This sounds like samarudge is right and that this software is locked down. For a web based password manager, this is an extremely bad idea. I need the software to be flexible and open to development to fit my own environment.

2)
I don't think that this software supports LDAP. In my perfect world, I'd like a fast, easy to use frontend (like simplesafe.net has) along with a foundation in mySQL (check) and exceptionally easy to use cross-functionality with LDAP. Nearly every authentication system works with LDAP.

Without these 2 issues solved, Simplesafe.net isn't any better than using keepass. If these two issues are solved, I'll pony up $45 right away and would be happy to pay upwards of $100 for easy-to-use LDAP.
The study/science behind the Tabata protocol is pretty fascinating: http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/research-review/effects-of-...
What happened to Apple's innovation?
As March approaches, start dates disappear from Coursera courses
Now if only I could upload a font... This is cool, keep up the good work :)
Will the cloud render much of today’s business software obsolete?
I remember seeing something like that on Frontline, but I can't find an actual chart, just a timeline:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meth/etc/cron.html
Mozilla Boot to Gecko hands-on
Yeah, of course, right... that's why we have Lisp programs on space probes [1], PS2 games written in Lisp [2], PG's Viaweb, Maxima [3] among others, ITA Software, Emacs, StumpWM, and a ton of other stuff I can't remember right now. Ah not to forget AutoCAD. I don't give a flying fart whether it's "consumer" software or not. A ton of useful software has been and is written in Lisp dialects and there are a lot of application domains that are really hard where you just cannot use C++ (or some other blub) because it's just not expressive enough. Often those are not consumer applications because most consumer applications are really mundane glorified reporting apps that could be coded in BASIC by a monkey (and if you read TDWTF you get the impression that happens more often than not).

tl;dr: Obvious troll is obvious.

[1] http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/lather-rinse-repeat-a-tour-o...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp

[3] http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
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I think it's the convenience.

I think its because employers for large companies get the only reasonable health care rates in the country. If you work for a large employer and you have a way as an individual to get comparative coverage for the same cost ignoring any pre-existing conditions, I'd love to hear it.
>I mean, take A/B testing. I have said "A/B testing prints money" so many times that some people are tired of hearing about it.

I for one would like to thank you for your perseverance, Patrick. I've read your posts here and your blog for years and it's only recently that I've really gotten value out of it. From the very beginning, I practically nodded in approval at the suggestion to prioritize testing. I was a huge fan of your blog, but that wasn't enough to push me over the edge and get me testing.

As you continued to write about it again and again, and I saw others using testing to great effect, it finally clicked in place for me. I've conducted a few A/B tests on my blog with fairly meager results due to low starting traffic, but I'm making adjustments and testing site-wide changes.

Even more significant is testing in life in general. I may, just may have found a way to control my tendency towards being a night owl! This is after more than a decade of regularly staying up until dawn at least 3 nights a week. I've also significantly improved my effectiveness at work due to a few other "n=1 studies" as I call them.
I don't think China, India, and the US have the same 'black Friday' so if you ship them at reasonable cost you can probably do some load balancing internationally.
Firefox has the most complete, there are certainly bugs though. For example I've had a lot of problems with multiEntry.
For anyone curious about exactly why the brush tool comes up short:

http://i.imgur.com/E0LdU.png

It relies on a stamp-like drawing method of copying the brush at time intervals, and simply can't do it fast enough for even moderately quick drawing.
I'm from in east Tennessee (in the mountains), and water supply for the neighborhood I grew up in is fed by a natural spring. I worked for the water utility in high school and quite often drank the water from the spring before it was treated. The treatment process was basically adding chlorine to meet government regulations.

I've also consumed quite a bit of water from rivers and creeks I've been kayaking on and haven't had an issue yet.

* Don't get me wrong, I'm not claiming all water is safe to drink; when I go backpacking, I take a filtration system with me. But I also don't want to get stuck somewhere with digestive tract issues.
For most problems, quantum computing is not faster. But when it is (theoretically) faster, it is much faster. Perhaps we may see quantum coprocessors one day.
This is one of the best books you can read if you're a C programmer trying to refine your chops. I have bought this book 4 times, and now keep my private PDF all to myself, because every time I loan it to a new C programmer I never get it back. :)

Seriously, if you want to know more about C than you do, I'm pretty sure this book will teach you something.

That said: I'm not sure it should be being posted as a scribd link to HN .. surely this is a violation of terms, unless the author has released it to the public domain?
If anyone stopped and looked at his 'simple' IndexDB version of the backbone local storage you will see the issue right there. There is nothing simple about that...
Yes, that dystopia (at least in the beginning of the novella) is becoming reality for a lot of people. And I don't think it's getting better soon. We should consider ourselves lucky that we are the ones that program computers instead of the ones programmed by them.
>I am not sure just how many of my strange habits would be diagnosed under the DSM - but enough to worry me

That is exactly why doctors don't diagnose just using the DSM checklists. Obviously if they did, we'd all be mad as hatters. There are a whole load of other criteria which must be met, for example, the behaviours have to be detrimental to your life or to the lives of others around you. They also must be abnormal within your culture, which is why religious people aren't all immediately locked up and sedated.

I really wish I could remember/find the name of this other set of assessments that doctors make but alas I cannot. Also my knowledge is based on the UK system, where incidentally they use the ICD-10, which is like the european version of the DSM. Things may very well be different in the states or elsewhere.
Ask HN: feedbacks on the 2600 magazine, aka "The Hacker Quarterly"?
Hello. Have anybody subscribed to the magazine?

I stumbled upon their webpaged a while ago. I was intrigued and tried to subscribe, but failed. Well, the form had a field like "tell us the reason for your interest" which I found weird. Anyway, I finished the subscription process.

I never heard back from them, I never received the magazine, my credit card never got charged.

Any experience to share? Is the magazine interesting enough to be worth a second try?
Exactly

localStorage wasnt build as a replacement for your dataStore, its just a convenient place to put some of your data, things like preferences, keep ui state across pages etc, its a perfect replacement for cookies without the HTTP overhead, turning it into a more sane localJSON api is like 10 lines of code.

I do agree that we should be making sure we move to more robust solutions that were designed for large amounts of data and queries etc when there is a requirement for them, but that doesnt mean localstorage is bad or evil
Looks pirated.

It's a great book, one of my favorites and everyone who works with C should buy it.
What's the best phone or tablet for a Google+ Hangout?
Big Data: knowledge in an information overload era
Look at it from a mechanically rational perspective. Your protagonist has a mortgage and a family and we're on a tech message board so let's stipulate that this is a technology worker making the average wage for, say, a programmer in Grand Rapids, MI. That's $73,000 (before benefits), or $35/hour for 40 hour weeks.

You ask, "is being stuck in a mortgage with a sick spouse license for an employer to demand 70 hours a week?". Well, at 70 hours a week, our protagonist is effectively being paid $19.78 per hour. That's almost $2 higher than the average income of employees in Grand Rapids, MI.

What you're effectively asking is, should it be lawful for employers to pay people less based on their situation?

On the one hand, there are plenty of circumstances where it clearly isn't lawful to do that. For instance, you can't pay people less because they're of Indian origin, or because they practice Judaism, or because they're female.

On the other hand, the circumstances of individual employees play into compensation decisions all the time in every job. You are effectively being paid less because of circumstances mostly out of your control any time you take a job outside of San Francisco or New York; the premium earned by technology workers in San Francisco exceeds cost-of-living adjustments significantly.

So where do you draw the line? Is the line "you can't be paid less because of illnesses in your immediate family?" I'd agree with that rule, but how often does it really come into play?

For what it's worth, speaking on behalf of an employer: we don't like 70 hour weeks. We work hard to keep them from happening and, for the most part, people get out the door here in time for dinner (it's hard to say, because some people stroll in the door just in time for lunch). Making people work overtime here, paid or not, is a bad idea because it makes it hard to retain talent. I'd like to think that if there was an economic rationale for overtaxing our team, we still wouldn't do that because it's immoral... but my morals haven't been tested on this issue, because it would be irrational of us to coerce people into working overtime.
Oh, how I wish it were mandatory for everyone to include a "view as single page" button, instead of planting a bunch of tiny clickable digits at the bottom.

These days it happens more and more often that I will not read an article if I can't get it into Instapaper.
One X has Tegra 3 and no LTE. You're thinking the One S.
Microsoft, others in Google+ complaint to EU
Lim Cheng Soon is a super great guy too. Friendly, down-to-earth, family values, massive work ethic, helpful, appreciation for beauty and aesthetics, good friend, just really stellar dude. Anyone passing through Malaysia should drop him a line to link up. One of the nicest people I've met in the last couple years.
My strategy is just-in-time learning. Anyone attempting to eager load all the knowledge is either crazy or exceptionally brilliant.
Hmm. Sorta like hypertext. We have a pretty popular implementation of that already, what's missing?