skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bravo for Rep. Zoe Lofgren!! It's about time someone in congress grew a brain and started actually asking constituents opinions on legislation!! I think this is a wonderful idea that will hopefully grow as more government officials begin to realize that WE are the smart ones and THEY represent US.
One telecom purchasing another is a completely different beast with a different kind of history than a hardware/operating system company purchasing a telecom.

It was difficult for AT&T to purchase Alltel because after the breakup of Ma Bell, the baby bells have been eating each other and consolidating into the current Big Three (ATT, Tmobile, Verizon). The AT&T purchase of Alltel was seen as a baby bell further consolidating the wireless marketplace.
Furthermore, if you believe he is actually insane/paranoid then of course he's going to believe they're out to get him and will try to avoid capture, whether or not he's guilty.
...which is available here: https://github.com/robashton/HoverBattles

I just downloaded it and am gonna see if I can get it to run...

Edit: to run the game, download the code, and open the folder in your terminal, and run:

> npm install
> npm install socket.io
> mv config/keys.json.example config/keys.json
> node server.js

Then open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:8000
Never Say Social Network
Being able to bridge the gap between understanding how people work and how it's possible to improve that work with technology is an incredibly rare and valuable skill right now.

Quite frankly, most people have no idea what's possible with programming. I once worked at a company where they spent dozens of hours each month manually updating monthly reports in Excel spreadsheets. If you watch the average person work, you'll see dozens of things that could easily be automated or simplified. Watch a little more, and you'll see the possibility to add new capabilities that simply weren't possible before.
Worst Case is calculated using a simulated "catastrophic illness" - a combination of surgery, expensive drugs, emergency care, and hospitalization.

The costs we calculated are yearly estimates - assuming you stay with the same plan, and they don't/can't raise your rates or cancel your plan - this estimate should hold for chronic illness.

We can estimate costs for specific chronic illnesses - click the "Personalize" button on the left side of the result page. You can select the specific chronic condition you're worried about, and it will provide a customized estimate.

My contact info is my profile - feel free to call/email if you have further questions.
... I darkened and browned my front teeth. I stuffed a shaved down tampon deep into my right nostril and died the tip dark brown – giving my nose an awkward, lopsided, disgusting appearance. I put on a pair of ragged brown pants with holes patched and darned. I wore an old, ragged long sleeve shirt. I donned an old Guatemalan style sarape and toted a bag containing a variety of Guatemalan woven goods. I adjusted my posture so that I appeared a good six inches shorter than my actual height and slowly walked up and down the beach with a pronounced limp, pushing an old single speed bicycle and peddling my wares to tourists and reporters using a broken English with a heavy Spanish accent. On my second day, while peddling small wooden carvings, I nearly sold a dolphin carving to an Associated Press reporter standing at the edge of my dock ...

This HAS TO BE A JOKE. This is an elaborate prank.
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The UI looks good - but its not even remotely intuitive.

I had to read your entire post to figure out what the right side bar is. Its very difficult to just focus on the main content (which is what the user should actually care about). Also the title seems disjointed and un-connect from the email, I had difficult determining if they were related, or if the title was some other kind of reminder.
And what about those who not even in US and belong to a "3rd world country" where one wish to give work only because it's Cheap?

Be good at what you do; your location shouldn't affect your consulting rates.

By way of example, I routinely bill in excess of $100/hour despite being located in Poland. And trust me, I'm working on increasing the value I deliver, and charging appropriately.
"Why would you share that information when you know people are looking for you?"

One possible reason (and I'm not claiming this is being done just giving perspective) is to spread disinformation with the intent of creating wild goose chases. Like planting your cell phone on a bus headed in a direction you are not going or giving your credit card to a person at a bus terminal that is traveling to another part of the country.
which copywriting book(s) or material do you recommend?
Black Pixel moves out from behind the curtains
That's one killer file system.
One possible advantage would be to touch the ecosystem outside of Apple.
How Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ Knocks Almost Every Incoming Missile Out Of The Sky
I think 'denounced' might be a useful change to this title since Hayek made this denouncement in 1944 and died in 1992. He hasn't changed his position.

That said, I appreciate the post and agree with Hayek in that patent law and corporate law should be very carefully governed so that advantage isn't given to the wealthy and the connected who can afford political and/or legal advantage (I may be injecting a lot into Hayek's rationale).
As of the latest Xcode linker, you also get a linker warning (which is more important in this context).
What you're describing sounds more like "C++ strikes a balance between features and implementation difficulty" not "C++ is written for compiler writers." And even that's charitable because it's not like we haven't gotten hard to implement features either. Templates (especially SFINAE), lambdas, and even concurrency and generalized attributes are all places where implementation difficulty was trumped by users. I do agree that compiler/library writers can slow down good features, but they have an important position that needs to be heard and weighed with every other voice too.
Daybreak: A Simple Key Value Store for Ruby
Doesn't really sound like the meth-head that everyone is trying to make him out to be.
You're presenting a false dilemma. As the linked article makes clear, it's not either/or, it's about avoiding an initial mis-step that poisons the initial pool of speakers.

The crucial part of the linked article is when he talk to Josh Susser, one of the initial tweeters who triggered the issue, and who organizes GoGaRuCo, which receives plaudits for diversity. GoGaRuCo very pointedly reaches out to evangelists in the community who will bring in a diverse selection of speakers, and then do a blind judging of submitted papers. The result is that, by making sure the pool of speakers is diverse to start with, they can pick the best papers blindly to gender and race, and still get diversity.
Kaizen. Small improvements. Start now and don't deviate.

You grow by constantly pushing yourself just barely outside of your comfort zone. No anxiety or panic needed, just a little tiny dose of discomfort.

Start now, with the smallest improvement you could possibly make. Then continue to make one small improvement every day.

Are you a complete shut in? Make it your goal to spend just 1 minute outside in public. If 1 minute is too much, then make it 10 seconds. Do it again tomorrow, and add just a little more time. Did you feel a bit uncomfortable? Good. If not, push yourself just a little more.

Are you good with being outside? Make eye contact with one person for 1 second. Tomorrow, make eye contact with two people. Or try to hold eye contact for 2 seconds.

Good with eye contact? Let's get talking.

Go to the grocery store and use the human checkout line instead of the self-checkout. Then the next day, make it your goal to say one sentence to the checkout person beyond the usual pleasantries. A comment about the weather will be just fine. Once you're good with talking about the weather, ask the checker if they have big exciting plans for this evening/the weekend/Christmas/whatever.

Just take action every day. ACTION. EVERY. DAY.

If you feel like you're not making process fast enough, or if you slip up one day and stay firmly within your comfort zone, don't beat yourself up about it. Just get out there tomorrow and make one small improvement. Small improvements will have a huge effect on your quality of life before you even realize it.

I've been there. It's possible. Start now and don't deviate.
I don't think it would extend to every website. Some of my favourites already don't advertise.

I do allow text ads through because they're not intrusive, and am quite happy that adblock added that option. So perhaps the internet and I would reach a compromise - I would go to sites for whom that is acceptable.

There is another factor though - it doesn't matter if you serve me ads or not, I am so put off by any and all advertising that I will never click through. Not ever. So I'm probably a net loss to any site owner regardless.

To me it seems a bit like the Do Not Call lists that so many advertisers seem so opposed to. Why is that? Surely the folks on those lists are the people most likely to yell obscenities at you and avoid your brand forever if you call them?
That is indeed true, but the part I left out for brevity is the part about client expectations, which must also be handled. I disagree however that it makes you appear needy. If you ARE needy, you're going to seem needy no matter what you do. I can assure you though the client would rather have you reply sooner than later... just set the expectation that you can drop them at any time (subtly obviously, you wouldn't say that to their face).

Consider the following scenario:

A) Email exchange which takes 2 days, for a fix to a site... you quote $800 and they hesitate

B) An email exchange where you take no more than 2 minutes to reply, even at 11pm. They are happy that you got back to them so quickly, and you quote $2000. They agree.

This happens quite a lot in my experience. To the point where it's extremely noticeable and can't be chalked up to coincidence.

I just mentioned what works. If your goal is to get a huge amount of work for $100-200 an hour, then replying right away will get you significantly there (skill aside). Everyone waits hours to respond, so it's the norm. If you want to stand out, you need to be outside the norm.

As far as being at the mercy of your email, in practice this genuinely doesn't really mean any difference than if I wait. You're still going to write the email, it's just a matter of when. My productivity remains the same. If I'm very deep in a project, chances are I need a break anyway (I'm bad with taking breaks when I need them). If I'm really busy with some other task common sense would be required, obviously there are exceptions.

Sidenote: I don't necessarily do this with well-established clients who I've worked with for years. They already know the scoop. I'm more talking about new people, new leads, new projects where they don't recognize your value yet.
How to get a (good) job developing apps
To me this blog seems consistent with the comments he's made to Wired etc. He told them details of his "disguises" as well.

I think it's likely a lot of this is disinformation (written by John) to throw the police off.
I think this is a waste of their time, especially since it needs those hardware requirements anyway. There are already starting to appear ARMv7 based low-end chips in the low-end phones, and their money would probably be better spent on optimizing Firefox for the upcoming ARMv8 architecture.
Yep, loved the ants challenge. We'll hopefully take the best of their concept and add it up on our site. This is our first contest (hackerrank.com/thanksgiving)
Sure, it's called Zazen Suite/Zazen Lite. I only serve ads on the free version, and while I haven't done a lot of experimenting with Android yet, iOS makes so much more that it's not a contest.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/zazen-suite-meditation-timer...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/zazen-lite-zen-meditation/id...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=zazen.activity...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=zazen.free
"This is an elaborate prank"

Not only that but anyone worth their salt in pranking would certainly take the time to construct something that at least made it to the level of national media attention. To be able to, eh, how you say "punk" the media.
Here's a number of ideas on how Apple could "win" in the way we're apparently talking about:

(1) slash margins and sell the phone cheaper to carriers

(2) subsidize phones at point of sale with spiffs

(3) produce low price phones.

(4) slash their ecosystem commission.

(5) subsidize loss leader app and content promotions.

Yeah they don't seem very interested in doing any of these and "winning" by this definition. Why do people care so much about Apple "winning" like this when they've clearly rejected this model?
2 fold problem: we see that replacing troops with drones could save US military lives, but it would make going to war an easier. This would increase the horrors of war for civilians on the ground (we've seen this from the disproportionate number of reported drone errors).
Thanks, I didn't catch that cap change. We debated going into FSAs versus HSAs in the article, but it was already getting long - I think it's worth looking at in more depth separately.

FSAs are only available to people choosing an insurance plan from their employer. So, they're not applicable to the situation we cover in this article where somebody is buying insurance individually.

It looks like FSA caps are reduced from a previously employer-determined limit (often e.g. $5000) to a federally mandated $2500, but HSA caps are increasing from $3100 to $3250 (for individuals).
I'd love to be able to use D. Should be a dead simple port from C/C++.
How about Command-Tab? Click on the icons in the dock.

Capture a screen? Grab.app

Eject secondary drive? Drag it to the trash can.

You got me on the zoom in/out. I don't know that one. But I could make an argument that this one is not a shortcut, but the only command, as it falls under accessibility.
smart, licensing is the hardest part.
Oh wow, ya it is a lot for a little and it is only $2 per user more if you go over 25 users. I didn't realize that you could just get online only.
Same here: 'to each according to his or her need' is the phrase that springs to mind.
You're saying people buy phones/tablet because of better apps/software. Although IOS is best in this respect, aren't people buying more android phones than iphones?
Show HN: I made a small Sublime Text plugin, ExpandSelectionByParagraph
This seems like a really easy way for iOS developers to build/prototype apps with a cloud backend.

Is there any security to this or is it just good for prototyping? What's to stop me from requesting user accounts with passwords?
> I think the fundamental problem with noisy people is (...) that they don't have any train of thought to interrupt

I must say that this choice of words rather took me aback as well. The problem is, it's difficult to call someone breathtakingly arrogant (which was my first reaction) when they have so much to be arrogant about!

I'd love to see some more insight on this from pg.

Edit: It's since occurred to me that pg may have meant at that particular moment rather than lacking a train of thought in a general sense. If that's the case, my comment is unjustified - apologies.
oh, i completely missed the link to the actual tool, sorry.

thanks for the reply - i was just curious from a "foreign spectator" viewpoint.

i was going to ask what protection there was against cancelling plans, but a little googling seems to show that was made illegal as part of obamacare!
NYC has some great options:
1. Freelancers Union
2. The City has sponsored plans as well: https://www.ehealthinsurance.com
Android being the "biggest mobile OS" is like QNX being the biggest embedded OS. If you have 80% market share but 90% of your users don't care about being a phonetechnoweeniegeek, then it's irrelevant.

The stat we should be tracking is: out of people who actually use their phones (a horrible name for these things now anyway) as computers, which percentage of those people are using which device? We constantly see stats of "Android has 80% market share! But--now keep this between just you and me--iOS makes up 80% of mobile web traffic."
When I hear "consulting," I think about escaping the grunt work that is actual programming. How much of your time as a "consultant" do you spend actually programming? What other tasks do you do on a day-to-day basis?
Tumbleon-utils - open source IOS utility code
One great way is to volunteer at the conference. Why?

1. You're forced to interact with at least some set of people regularly. Even if you find it difficult to 'cold call' a person or group of people and socialize at the event, you are guaranteed to have interacted with a minimum number of people.

2. There are set goals to accomplish, and it can be easier to work with people you don't know if you just focus on the work. It basically gives you an excuse to interact with people, because you don't have to worry about awkwardly fumbling around to find some common ground to chat about.

3. If you make yourself extremely useful (always looking to help out, asking what else you can do), people will recognize this.
P.S. No-one at the house, including the staff, know that I am nearby. If the police are reading this, do not randomly round up everyone for harboring a fugitive. Please.

John McAfee is such a master of disguise that even though the most elite police unit in Belize has more or less set up camp at his house solely to find him, he's able to wander around close enough to the house to watch their every move simply by dressing up as a German tourist in a Speedo while hollering "Leck mich um ausch!" at passers-by.

This has to be a hoax.
I look forward to hearing about the fortune you made shorting AAPL in 3 years.
I found a great sysadmin on Craigslist ... I now pay a $600/mo retainer to have him on call up to 10 hours/month. I usually don't use all the hours, but sometimes I go over and pay more.

The situation works great for both of us.

I don't think Patrick's model is ideal for sysadmin work (who needs a sysadmin for an entire week?) ... but I think the retainer/on call model could be just as good ... get 10-15 companies paying $500/mo ...
You know, no matter how much disposable income I get in Warsaw, Poland, I can't make it suddenly sprout Dutch or Swiss quality of public transportation, health care, food and entertainment. And commuting (by public transport) encourages cohesion within cities as well. So yeah, sorry, but I'd rather have the 120, lower disposable, and live in a nicer place. I also remember climate in SF was pretty nice.

Not that remoting is evil or anything, but if it became a monoculture just like working from office was just a few years ago, the side effects can be devastating to some finer points of life. Too many great food places live off office workers eating lunch in them, and if a regular 15-minute rhythm train service between nearby cities stops making sense for commuters, my ability to visit a friend in there on a whim disappears as well.
The Lotus brand is being retired
Oprah endorses the Microsoft Surface via tweet sent from her iPad
I was thinking about the same thing recently, and checked out their forums, only to learn that some kind of general organizational debacle has delayed the games indefinitely.

The core team of contest organizers is disbanded. Some of them cannot be contacted for a months and without them there can be no development (this is no about skills but about rights and ownership). - http://forums.aichallenge.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=3632#...
Designing the Haskell IDE
While that's all true, a Mars mission can't possibly funded by SpaceX itself, which means he's going to have to convince Congress or some international consortium that it's worth doing at probably $1T.

I don't see that happening. Space buffs are all excited over SpaceX (with good reason), but the general public has pretty much lost interest in manned space. Manned launches to the ISS don't even make the general news anymore despite NASA's rather formidable PR machine. The first manned Dragon launch will make the news, but only the first.

Politicians (particularly presidents) keep proposing Mars missions but always push funding decisions far enough into the future someone else is going to have to deal with paying for it. The public has caught on by now, so every new Mars mission proposal is greeted with a collective yawn.
point (well) taken. edits have been made.
thanks.
F.A. Hayek a prominent economist and political thinker... wrote the following in 1944

-- Title Mod (1944)
Are HSA's the kind of thing you need to opt-into during the enrollment window, or you've missed the opportunity till next year? Never used one before, but it might make sense this year.
> therefore anyone who is accused of a crime

He was not accused of a crime! The police wanted to question him as a "person of interest" - big difference!

Almost every news story I saw report on this when it broke last week reported it incorrectly in the headlines as him being "wanted" - it's a shame that journalism can get away with being so sloppy sometimes.
My experience with growth curves of social phenomena (blog, card game) is that they have an underlying real growth curve that's slow but steady, plus "impulses" that shoot up high (orders of magnitude) but decay exponentially. To avoid getting depressed, you have to focus on the underlying curve, not the decline that exists when one is getting farther away from a not-controllable (and often random) event impulse.
These premiums actually look pretty good. I was under the impression that non-employer based plans were much more expensive... Is there a catch? Do they have to cover pre-existing conditions in CA already? Are there coverage caps? Thanks for putting together the article, very helpful!
When airlines don't allow you to use a kindle during take-off, but you can use a read an actual book... it doesn't give much in terms of encouragement that they are going to start offering free wifi.
How does this look for motion, whether I'm in deep or light sleep ? Does it have some kind of camera, or an external accelerometer ?
This was not a high-profile case which is why the media did not catch it.
No, the "Quiet Car" is not as "intellectual" as Kreider makes it out to be. Some people in the Quiet Car are there to get into hypercivil discussions in the Quiet Car, and others are there to write New York Times colums about this experience. But there are other people there who are just sleeping.
I`d like an invite too, cannonstar on gmail.
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Twilio is pretty fun. I made a App.net client using it that allows you to Post/View updates over SMS.

https://github.com/Ell/appdotnet-sms

I also wrote a catfacts clone which is up on my github too.
Its a global game not a US one. The amount of money to buy global operators is large. Vodafone is 125bn dollars and as a global operator is just the first on the list. Apple and Google can't just buy global mobile.
I’m dyslexic and I program