skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how this compares to established Free Software mobile operating systems such as Cyanogenmod http://www.cyanogenmod.org/
Mental health is, unfortunately, not taken very seriously by many companies. I've never seen a benefits package that included therapy or coaching of any kind. We're put under a lot of stress at times (which can be exacerbated by existing mental conditions) and that can seriously affect our health. I suspect mental breakdowns happen more often than they are reported. It's not taken seriously and it's also something people prefer to sweep under the rug.

Bad managers don't care how much you work. A friend of mine works in tele-completions for the health insurance industry. He has the highest rate of completions per day than anyone else in his unit for nearly four years running. He has been overlooked for every promotion and opportunity to move to a better position. The managers don't want him to leave the unit because their numbers will go significantly down if he does.

I've worked an incredible amount of overtime for employers early on in my career. I wanted to show them that I could play the game, get things done, and save the day. I thought that it would pay off. It never did.

So I stopped doing it.

I knew that the calls would just keep coming. I knew that there was no incentive to let me have time off. I knew that I would never be compensated in any way for all that effort if someone higher up could help it. As long as I was convinced that was the way the world worked, they were getting cheap labour and profiting while I was being driven into the ground and made miserable.

You have to make the life that you want. Never let anyone else be in control of you. They have no authority to make you come into work in the middle of the night or stay at work for thirty-six hours straight. I think it's a terrible shame that some people think they have some sort of power to compel others to do this for them. And it often leads to tragedies like the one the OP described.
Thanks bdfh42, I hesitated to list the language and platform I used, you are right & I am open to whatever language is deemed best. I'd love to find a co-founder, but I am in Southwest Florida, not the hottest of hot spots for whip-smart techies. Any advice on where/how I find someone like that?
Yep! Islamic terrorism as always.
Alberta passes law allowing parents to pull kids out of class
Very fucking true. Also dangerous is the 2.5x who thinks he's a 10x, convinces management of this, and then drives out everyone better.

(For my part, I'm only a 6-8x. I'm fairly new to software and I also spend too much fucking time on activism.)
Keep Calm and Shut the Bleep Up
It's not just Bing. I'm always accidentally going to http://stackoverflow.com & getting an error.
Friday morning: looks like the spree is over, I'm going to compile them all into a single pdf and post that as well. Will be up in a few minutes

EDIT: nvm, someone else did already. no need to repeat!
What seems at issue -- besides whether an economist's work should be accepted at face value -- is under what conditions a country should borrow or impose austerity.

Here's an analogy --

When times are good, governments frequently raise taxes, because hey, we can afford it.

When times turn bad, governments frequently raise taxes, because hey, our tax base has eroded and we need it.

It's a "heads I win, tails you lose" game.
You're conflating two different things. Real property has intrinsic value, and being a limited commodity means that prices for it will rise by virtue of the fact that it is a limited commodity. Stock is limited as well, but because it has no intrinsic value its price doesn't increase imply by virtue of its being a limited commodity.

Forget about price for a second and look at intrinsic value. What is the underlying asset represented by ownership of property? It's the right to exclusively use some land and accompanying buildings. What is the underlying asset represented by stock? Leaving aside different kinds of stock, it's generally the right to receive a certain percentage of the profits of a company over time. Now, look at how price changes in the two assets are correlated with changes in the intrinsic value of the assets. A plot on the UES might appreciate 50% between 2000 and 2013, even though the neighborhood hasn't really changed in that time. The use and enjoyment a given person gets from that property is the same in 2000 and 2013. Now, compare to a stock. If the price of a stock appreciates 50% between 2000 and 2013, it's generally because the company has increased profits. Your enjoyment of the $150 in stock in 2013 is higher than your enjoyment of the $100 in stock in 2000 because it represents the same percentage of the right to receive a larger amount of profits.
It can if you have a balanced budget mechanism which allows tax cuts only if they are paid for, based on a broad-spectrum analysis of GDP growth rate. Not one study, but a Nate Silver like approach to measuring GDP.
What intrigues me is the Diagram Editor. Why else would someone use this over SQLAlchmey, Storm or even Django's ORM?
It might (this is conjecture) also just be because they're not wearing any makeup.

Absolutely everybody you see on TV is wearing tons of makeup, because cameras paired with artificial flourescent spotlight just seem to exaggerate this nasty shiny effect.
"evidence of some interesting new phenomenon"

Without a doubt this story qualifies as "on topic". The way digital media has been used, 'crowdsleuthing', social media, the unprecedented lockdown of a city....could go on and on.
The one time I looked at that reddit thread, it appeared that “they thought” it was about 25 different people. If you think everyone is guilty, you’re bound to be right eventually.
Why should we take Microsoft's Internet efforts seriously when they continue, perpetually, not to do so, themselves?

(Actions speak louder than words.)
A similar phenomenon makes it dangerous to sleep without proper ventilation:

>It is important that crew accommodations be well ventilated; otherwise, astronauts can wake up oxygen-deprived and gasping for air, because a bubble of their own exhaled carbon dioxide has formed around their heads.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station#Cre...
You have mis-described the status quo. Socially, a pub is not at all the same as the town square.

I don't know the last time I saw a security camera at a bar.
At any rate, security cameras are not at every table. And it would not be accepted to upload footage from the security cameras to Facebook and tag me in the footage.

The people running a bar have no interest in messing with their security system unless there is a major incident, and they have an active commercial interest in not exposing all their customers (or blackmailing them for making an off-color joke, etc.) as this would tend to inhibit repeat business.

I have no worries about the owner of a bar sharing surveillance footage of me with the FBI. The FBI is relatively restrained, under a certain amount of supervision and legal constraint, and not interested in my off-color jokes. These things really don't apply to private individuals.

You say you want to "highlight bad things" but maybe you are Adria Richards. I have no idea what you think are bad things. There is no upside for me in every second out of the bathroom being uploaded to Facebook.

Taking video of me at a bar against my consent is not a right. That's just something you want to do.
I'm still seeing it 9:50 EST
_why's site 404'd just now.

I hope he's okay.
Passed this on to relevant team to look into for you (I'm with PayPal myself, so not sure about eBay's SSL approach).
Could Life Be Older Than Earth Itself?
If you have the time, you might want to check out my blog. I've covered that topic in exacting detail.
I believe I've had this happen when using a VPN service (though I could be mistaken)
Strongly agree.

In fact, I'd go further. Almost all the threads about the bombs are pretty much content-free. There's very little of interest to hackers. Even the stuff that could have been interesting ("How do you examine very many photographs and video clips for clues?") was left ignored.

I flagged a lot of threads. There's been some suggestions that flagging a popular thread works against the person flagging. That's a shame if it's true, because some threads just don't belong here even if they are popular.
Parent was not talking about about legal issues. The fact that what you are saying is the law in your jurisdiction does not make it a moral imperative. Expectations of privacy vary from culture to culture. Nice example how ", period" rarely has a place in a civilzed discussion.
ColorHug - Sales this month have been well below normal levels
Caching wont work for _extremely_ dynamic content like flash news update threads like these where >1 comments being posted _every_ second.
He's not suggesting that we need internet censorship because of this, he's suggesting this is why ignorant octogenarian legislators think we need internet censorship. Everything is scarier when it happens on a black box you don't understand.
I suspect it isn't hard to find papers that show a link between high debt levels and weak economic growth. Or do you think the consensus among economists is that no such relationship exists?
The 10 Ouya games worth playing
Fun moments for me:

- The thematic element of wishing that the reader not follow the "references" in the work--the iPhone smackdown, and later more clearly with the SACRED CLOWNS--leading later namedrops to pass without question. (In a strange way, it almost feels like the urge to look them up was similar to an urge to vomit: it has passed, and now I feel better.)

- Slipping into Inform 7 to actually tell a story. I almost wanted to paste it into an interpreter--it's valid Inform code--but it's more powerful as narrative, and more powerful in the narrative because of its structure. In the moment where he lost momentum and looked around for a next step, the world "branched out" into a space composed of choices. This is the one more little attempt to show people what "code as art" can mean.

- The realization that (possible spoilers) the last third of the book is the story of how he found himself working at a start-up. His reactions in-narrative mirror his comment earlier in the work that he's "learning to get over his hatred of entrepreneurs."

---

On the whole, a very coherent story. If you're having trouble making sense of it, make sure to interpret all the "deaths" in the story as death of identity, rather than physical death. Losing a job is death; breaking the social contract of a character is death; etc.

And now, the site is down, and the _why identity is dead once more.

(And on a melancholic, perhaps overly-personal note: I do so wish that I could be friends with that man. Not the identity, just the man. Talking about The Happening would be fine.)
That would be nice to know, wouldn't it? We see things like this every now and then, Ubuntu TV comes to mind, where the idea looks great but at the end of the day it is targeted at OEMs, not the consumer.

I have been looking for a mobile OS that adheres to the principal of least astonishment for a while now, but have come up short. I would pay money.
Easy fix? What the hell?

I don't like or use Bing services but when you get as big and complex as Bing, nothing is easy, it's not like you can open your text editor, modify one line, commit and push.

There so many other variables to take into consideration, by hurrying to fix, you could face all sort of vulnerabilities / other issues.

I'm not saying this error is acceptable, I'm saying it's ridiculous to say it's and easy fix without actually knowing anything, it might or it might now.
of some reddit users. FTFY. Let's not smear everybody in your blanket statement.
I'm 32 or so years of programming, I've hardly ever done anything that needed, or used, floats. It may limit it's usefulness, but most of what people tend to want double precision for is incidentally also stuff that is easily vectorized, in which case a GPU will crush it anyway.

And a "decent NVidia card" doesn't allow me to combine arbitrary independent C programs to each individual core, and doesn't give me full low level guides for hardware access. It's a completely different beast.
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When does your baby become conscious?
I just mv the .app from the Cellar to /Applications so that spotlight can find it.
> Many places face hazards that have a delay before hitting

You ask yourself how people dealt with large-scale civil emergencies before cellphones became widespread. There were such things as warning sirens, and of course the police with loudspeaker vans. They are still doing that today - every time a hurricane is set to hit Miami the emergency services make the rounds of low-lying areas to get the word out to the homeless.

And a gunman or shooter on campus just cannot be hid - people shout warnings, someone will alert the police, who will then cordon off the area. The costs for the messaging system are obvious, high, and altogether the thing appears more like ass-covering for the administration than something that has tangible benefits.
If you want to hold assets as a store of value, go buy assets.

The desire for currency to have "intrinsic value" appears to be driven by the fear of a sudden collapse of currencies that exist only as a system of accounting (like the US dollar). Or the desire to have a store of value that never suffers deflation or inflation. We all want that, but most of us acknowledge that it is no more possible than a utopia.

You can't freeze the economic system. Whether you back your money with energy, cryptography, flowers, or seashells, you can never control all the other factors, and thus your currency will fluctate.
Well, he did say that he was "returning the character to the public" after the publication of the book, since he "does so enjoy seeing what we all do with it."
If you ever listen to Security Now, you'll know that Steve has real issues personally with the scammy SSL system. Hongkong Post is always used as the example, but check your root cert list sometime. You'll see all sorts of entities that your browser implicitly trusts and you will have absolutely no idea who they are.

Here's a current list of Moz's
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/included/
I worked at a company which sells document archiving to businesses, and they do not use a database. All data is stored on disk in files. They use indexing of archived data, similar to how google indexes everything (they don't use google). They also use indexed files to keep track of some data, but most of it is about users+permissions, not much to do with data.

I don't feel I can give further details, but the company is making money, nothing you'd read about, but it's doing OK. Solution scales up so that insurance and financial companies are their clients. Terabytes of data - no big deal, it's quite amazing to see how much faster it runs on customer's computers with terabytes of data, than in house with test-databases on developer's PC's with only 100 MB of test data. And it doesn't even require an admin (besides someone to make sure there's enough space on disk).

I think it really depends on your app. Databases aren't always the right answer, but no one has been fired for using databases. (maybe that's why people flock to them - that, plus if everyone's doing it, and you are worried about your resume ... well ... you better do it too)
I've looked at the reddit threads a bit and it looked to me like a place where discussion was going on and people were trying to help.

There is a big difference between sharing a photo and asking if it might contain a suspect and posting a "wanted poster" or having national media announce that someone is a suspect. The former is what I saw on reddit, if the later happened it wasn't on that site.

There should be a way to have an online discussion without people jumping to conclusions.
> What we do online is a reflection of what we do offline. To think that there aren't offline hunts and people who go around shouting those things without the internet is absurd. To suggest this is why we need internet censorship easily lends its self to the argument that people's every day offline lives need to be monitored and controlled.

When you stand on a street corner shouting ‘This guy did it’ with a picture of said guy, how many people do you reach as compared to a similar post on Reddit?

Conversely, what is the status of other mass-media (newspapers, radio, TV etc.) regarding the information they publish? Will a radio ever broadcast ‘This guy did it’ without some fact-checking? At least here (Germany), that is not/should not be the case.

The very easy way to solve this problem would obviously be to improve defamation/libel laws to such an extend that wrongfully accusing someone of X gets you the maximum penalty for X as a minimum. At least people posting Wanted posters on Facebook should be easy to catch, then.
I don't understand - that's never resulted in an error for me.
Shh, only MS bashing can go on in this thread
Well, I know neither Polish nor Russian, but here in Prague I know a lot of Russians that never learn to say the word dobrý. They say dobry(short y) instead, which exists in Russian. They never learn to say it long, even when you point it out to them.
The real question is, is bing.com even supposed to be served over https?
backward compatibility is not an issue. Otherwise why there are 3.x branch. This is just a lame excuse.
The voting majority of reddit users.
Ed, 110%. It's almost never about the effort involved -- at least, not on a short-term basis. It's about the context.

I think the circumstances and frustration go beyond the description in this Dilbert cartoon, but it has never left my mind since I saw it:

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1996-06-02/

Excerpt: "Wow! They're both better than my current job!"
I've gotten a certificate error for over a year with Bing on HTTPS. I always just assumed that they, somewhat surprisingly, just didn't support HTTPS yet.
Apparently, depends on how much sun you get. If you're in relative darkness, the water would disperse and then freeze into droplets. If you have some sun, the ice would vapourize.

http://www.space.com/7274-mystery-explained-glow-night-sky-a...
You've missed out the stuff about shallowly but intensely interesting which is shown in the welcome message to new users. I don't know how to re-read this if you lose the link.

(http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html)

> A crap link is one that's only superficially interesting. Stories on HN don't have to be about hacking, because good hackers aren't only interested in hacking, but they do have to be deeply interesting.

> What does "deeply interesting" mean? It means stuff that teaches you about the world. A story about a robbery, for example, would probably not be deeply interesting. But if this robbery was a sign of some bigger, underlying trend, then perhaps it could be.

> The worst thing to post or upvote is something that's intensely but shallowly interesting. Gossip about famous people, funny or cute pictures or videos, partisan political articles, etc. If you let that sort of thing onto a news site, it will push aside the deeply interesting stuff, which tends to be quieter.

EFF taking US Government to court could fit here, because it doesn't have to be partisan politics, and it could be a deeply interesting discussion of legal process. I've learnt a lot about US law from contributors here. "Vettel Wins" is sports, "Redbull use X to help Vettel win" is probably tech.

I agree about not wanting to see them on HN; while they could be discussed well and in conformance to the site guidelines they're usually not.
I use RES, not having any issues.
Ah ok, sorry for the confusion. I should have used the term Matsano Crypto Challenge instead of the term I thought described them.

In any case, I have received them now, so thanks for sharing them.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5576342
Akamai definitely supports custom SSL certs. You provide them a chain cert and they pass it on your behalf.

To me, this looks like they pushed the wrong cert to prod.
MacBook Wood Keyboard gives the Pro an organic touch
I'm sorry.. I don't understand the fanatical devotion and sacrifice(for example, having a nervous breakdown, or leaving a job for some startup when you've got wife and family because of devotion to the python community) for scripting languages that are all more-or-less the same +- curly braces as ruby/python/perl/php/C whatever. Look for something else to be interested in--OCaml and F#.
AndroidDev - Edit mode and why using the contextual actionbar is a bad idea.
The phase diagram[0] for water suggests that it will be frozen at 0 Pa and anything less than 200 K, so it will likely form small ice crystals on the cloth. Then trying to wring out the frozen cloth could prove interesting, though.

[0] http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/phase.html
Akamai isn't using the same certificate on its edge servers, unless you mean the same customer certificate being replicated (in which case you are correct). Basically, Akamai maps each ssl certificate to a slot on the cache server, which is assigned to a map similar to the standard edge CDN. Each edge machine thinks itself the site. Each time a new certificate is issued by an Akamai partner CA or the customer's CA of choice, it is pushed out by Akamai to the ssl edge network.

SAN certs are an entirely different ball of wax. Akamai does support them, but there are some challenges getting them deployed.

Unfortunately, the deployment for any type of certificate with Akamai is a very manual process.
The main ideas are good, but most specifics are unscientific at best.

Nutrition is one of those fields where knowing what to do is easy, but actually doing the right thing is hard, so people tend to fall prey to promises of superfoods and silver bullets (Acai are just berries, ghee is just butter, gluten doesnt harm you unless you're allergic,...).

Also, don't micro-optimize the details (e.g. which kind of fat to eat), but get the most important big things right (e.g. don't eat too much fat). There's little agreemnt of experts about the small details of nutrition anyway.

For me, the important points about nutrition are:

- Don't eat too much

- Avoid smoking, drugs, too much alcohol

- Drink enough, mostly water

- As much fruit and vegetable as possible, as little pure fat and sugar as possible.

- As fresh and unprocessed as possible.

- As much variety as possible.

I'm sure there's plenty of rules I could add - but I won't, since the small, simple set of rules above is easy enough to remember and follow, and will get you 90% of the health benefits compared to the diet of someone who obsesses over healthy nutrition.
If you went to my local bar , got your phone out and started going about filming/photographing everyone you would probably be asked to leave.

At least security camera tapes are usually for that purpose and footage isn't live streamed to social media websites.
In the US under Clinton, the budget had surplus and government debt was reduced. See eg.
http://www.factcheck.org/2008/02/the-budget-and-deficit-unde...

Same has routinely happened in many places in times of growth, eg. in northern Europe.
One of the reasons rates have remained so low is because the Federal Reserve has bought over 3 Trillion in debt including just shy of 2 Trillion dollars of the US Governments debt. If debt isn't a problem then why is the Federal Reserve continuing to buy US Treasuries which has the effect of suppressing interest rates.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/18/us-usa-fed-discoun...