skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well now I'm looking forward to the book.

I greatly appreciate Julian Assange's views, even if his approach runs afoul of the law.
Not to belittle petty theft, but "two officers down" is really not just "some crime".
> Take a dating site as an example - you click on the link to read the message, which causes you to browse more profiles, which causes you to message a few more users - improving your chances of success overall and creating more interactions for other users.

So you don't think users are capable of making that decision on their own? There's no other way to provide a fair exchange of value so that users want to visit the site, other than holding their message(s) hostage?
Several years ago one of the universities (University of Maryland College Park) had an almost official motto: "Act like you know". It does work, surprisingly, to a substantial degree.
:h starstar

roughly means the same thing as -r or -R.
I would imagine that MIT is particularly close to the hearts of many on this site.
They are advising all officers to power down their cell phones for fear of explosion. This is bad.

They're talking about robots on the scene with "devices". It sounds like there are some suspicious devices, potentially explosives. Yikes.
To expand, there was an armed carjacking in Cambridge by two men. The carjacking victim escaped after a half hour. Lojack on the car led officers to Watertown. When officers found the car, reports of shots fired, explosions / grenades and a running gun battle.

Update: one suspect reportedly in custody en route to hospital. Sounds like second suspect has been taken into custody as well. Later update: NOT clear that second suspect is in custody.

Edit: Rough location of the armed confrontation where the suspect(s) were taken into custody and the second officer was reported down. https://maps.google.com/maps?q=spruce+st,+Cambridge,+MA&...
The problem with libc is twofold: first, reexports don't show up in the docs (bug on file [1]), and secondly, that every module gets a separate page (filed as [2]). You can actually see the signatures for functions if you click through enough, e.g.

http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/0.6/core/libc_funcs_posix01_...

Having to click through is annoying, though. It would be better to be able to specify that a module and all its submodules should go on one page in the docs.

Thanks for the bug report!

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/3537

[2]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/5952
Your citations don't even remotely suggest your conclusion.
Many fellow hackers in the Boston/Cambridge area?
Police are being asked to power down their cellphones to avoid possibly detonating some explosive devices.

"multiple locations of devices"... Damn.
Capcom: "excessive outsourcing" has resulted in a "decline in quality"
> With the NBN, the government is just a wholesaler.

The Minister responsible for the NBN -- Senator Conroy -- is also the guy who wants ISP-level internet filtering based on a secret blacklist.
Shots fired often? San Jose, yes. Right next door in Santa Clara? No. The majority of SC "10-57" calls turn out to be fireworks. People around here sure love their illegal aerial (!) fireworks.

I know this from listening to the scanner regularly.

Like so many things, "it depends".
Can the current copper network handle 100Mbps? I think anything broken down into a per household cost is going to be large - health, transport, and Internet infrastructure.
Should be but frequently are not. Life insurance is frequently based on current income rather than current liabilities, and that is before we get into known cases of fraud involving murder for the insurance money.

Still I agree with you. Have a couple of upvotes. You can put a dollar value on a human life but it doesn't really cover it. Life is more than dollars and cents.
... or they're stupid. Not everyone who commits a crime is an experienced criminal.
Your question implies a separation of the being! As a Monophysite I find this highly offensive and presumptive.
Neojaponisme is a great site, it's too bad there hasn't been any new content since the new year started.
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The question you have to ask is why are big companies associated with decent work+life balance. Unlike start-ups, which typically worry about one product, big companies (Cisco and Google are among Valley's largest employers) have hundreds of them. Some reasons for this are:

1) Large companies typically dedicate more attention to code quality and review process to ensure all of the low-hanging gotchas are covered.

2) Larger companies, if not adherents of test-driven development, typically still rely on large suites of unit and integration tests, and continuous deployment, that follows from having all the tests in order.

3) Larger companies typically have processes to analyze failures in dev/staging/production, and resources to throw at mitigating those failures in the future.

With all that said, there's nothing to prevent small companies from instituting such practices as well, and it's typically the work of the first few senior engineers the startup hires.

When you interview with the companies, remember that interview is a 2-way street - you interview them as much as they interview you. After you're done with obligatory fizzbuzz and binary search questions, ask them about the deploy processes, code review processes, latest fires, and other reasons someone would be in the office at 1 am at night (other than by their own choice).
It all comes down to what makes you happy. Startup or big company you could have a bad experience regardless.

Honestly I enjoy the thrill of working in a startup, if I didn't have fun doing this I wouldn't be doing it.

But in all honesty, there are people who worked hard and got pricey non-engineering degrees that are jobless.

If this article speaks to how messed up the startup life is, it also speaks to how spoiled we all are.
> Why is the Japanese government so anachronistic and unreformed about Internet policy?

Take a step back. Why is the Japanese government so anachronistic and unreformed?
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Why do you think criminals are masterminds? The perpetrator of the truck bombing of the World Trade Center -- a plot far more complicated and would have been more destructive than 9/11 had they parked the truck differently -- was captured when he attempted to get the deposit back for the truck used in the bombing: http://gothamist.com/2013/02/26/today_is_the_20th_anniversar...

Just because someone's willing to be a indiscrimate murderer doesn't mean that they're geniuses or well put-together
I would suggest that in a situation like this, "the difficulty of reviewing Excel code" is even overstated. The direct dependencies of any cell are discoverable with trivial effort.
Being able to hear this happen in real time is surreal.
Did Mozart play the lire? Did Bach play the rackett?
The quote is from this article http://www.stephenfry.com/2008/12/11/gee-one-bold-storm-comi...
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I hate to be the guy who says that this looks like an election-year stunt to try and "save the furniture", but ... well, it does.

Edit 2: A mate of mine pointed out that they made the same announcement before the 2010 election:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/nbn-downloa...

Part of the problem with the NBN is the highly selective veil of secrecy. It's a public project and it's being backed by the Commonwealth. The lenders who are loaning the funds are not doing it because they think NBNCo would be allowed to go broke; everyone knows that these are really Australian Government bonds in a dress.

But the government still uses "Commercial-in-Confidence" to stymie all oversight. This would be more reasonable in dealing with a company at arm's length, but NBNCo is 100% government owned. They would be well within their rights to waive the requirement for confidence.

Consequently, nobody really knows how the rollout is going or what it costs. NBNCo claim they can't give Parliament information about particular streets because they don't track to that level of granularity, yet mysteriously they are able to claim in aggregate to be on track.

Leaving to the side of whether this is the right thing to
build, there's still the important question of building it the right way. And IMO that's not been happening, and it really bugs me.

edit: I know people don't like this point of view, but if you disagree, the done thing on HN is to reply, not downvote.
cambridge police on twitter. I live here. Its a somewhat automated system, but the sometime respond to questions.

https://twitter.com/CambridgePolice
I shoot pretty regularly, so gunshots aren't foreign to me at all. But I would be seriously, seriously disturbed if I heard them off-range.

Generally, Americans do the "Out of sight, out of mind" thing when they hear about violence. They only care when it's happening in situations where they could see themselves.

Kid gets shot walking on the sidewalk in inner-city Camden for wearing the wrong color shirt? Meh, he was probably a gangbanger anyway.

Kid gets shot in Cambridge? Oh no, the sky is falling.
And it gets worse.

At first, the Japanese police "interrogated" four of the people whose computers had been hijacked. THREE OF THEM CONFESSED. The only reason they're not behind bars now is because:

1. Even the Japanese police noticed that there was something wrong with the case. It didn't make sense that these four people were co-operating.

2. The fourth guy was savvy enough to figure out what had happened, and explain it to the police.

This kind of crap goes on all the time here. Japan is what is known as a "soft police state".

The flip-side is, the police are so dependent on the confession to secure a conviction that, and so inept at other forms of investigation, that if you have the means to resist the pressure to confess, you walk free. That's part of how the yakuza (criminal gangs) survive in this highly regulated society.
The feed is no longer working for me, maybe too much traffic? Does anyone know of a live transcript?
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A bulky framework, perhaps?
I don't know about SV, but there is a huge range of places to work here in the U.S. My first job out of college was at a small tech company where:

1) Compensation was very solid (this was pre-Bubble 2.0 in a very low cost of living city);
2) We got full benefits (zero employee contribution for either health insurance or dental);
3) We got off the entire time between Christmas and New Years independent of our vacation time;
4) Most people worked ~50 hours/week, except before a new release or an important demo (but this wasn't all the time)

The company never took VC money, wasn't looking to exit, but generated a good living for the founder (going on 13 years now).

If you're looking for a solid job without killing yourself, places like that exist. They usually work in specialized domains with stable sets of clients.
Thanks for adding more details. It's hard to keep the updates going.

Update (1:41am est): Does not seem like second suspect is currently in custody...
The article also says they hoped to remove more, but early android browsers became "the weakest link" instead. Presumably, support for them will be dropped without much fanfare as soon as their market share goes below X %.
http://webchat.freenode.net/ ##bostonscanner
I imagine there are startups like the one the OP is describing out there that are awful places to work and the OP is right to be annoyed at rookie recruiters trying to use ego to persuade naive engineers.

But the OP also seems to be a rather angry and bitter individual. That attitude is definitely going to keep any startup with a functional culture from hiring you. There is no way you'd want to take the risk of someone poisoning your culture by ranting about how bad everyone else is.
> This is also the reason why mainstream languages will likely remain popular forever in the enterprise world - no one wants to take a chance on a language that only 5% of devs know.

Unless they have a legacy system. Or what percentage of developers know Cobol these days?
The quite stable nightly builds of Aquamacs 3 are based upon emacs 24 and available here: http://aquamacs.org/nightlies.shtml
Live WHDH coverage

Streaming video:

http://www1.whdh.com/video/7newslive

Live WCVB coverage

Streaming video:

http://livewire.wcvb.com/Event/117th_Running_of_Boston_Marat...

UPDATE:
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[1] Image of Suspect #1 lying on the ground earlier suspected to have explosives underneath his clothing.

[2] Took into custody only after fully undressing.

[3] Was put in police vehicle naked.

https://twitter.com/bruce_arthur/status/325118401544605697/p...
"First they came ...."
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GDP is in $/yr, while debt is in $. Thus, debt/GDP has units of time. 90% really means 10.8 months.

One of the reasons the idea was sticky is that 90% seemed like a significant number, almost all the way to 100%. Where there's nothing so obviously magical about 10 or 12 months.
We get by without OOP in the widget library (creatively called Widget) we use for a Haskell-flavoured language at work.
I was half expecting the article to end with 'btw, Spotify is now hiring.' Well done.
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http://tunein.com/radio/Boston-Police-Fire-and-EMS-Scanner-s...
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Sounds like most of the Watertown stuff moved to a different channel to free up regular traffic. Do you know how to stream that?
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Thanks, i should have included paypal as an option from the beginning. I just added a link to it.
They're perfectly capable of making that decision on their own.

But they won't, because the amount of knowledge transfer required for them to make that decision is beyond what they're willing to invest.

Take the dating site example - for the user to act optimally (view many profiles and message many people), they'd have to understand not only the full mechanism of the website (pretty simple to do), but also usage trends, psychology and attitudes towards online dating, social attitudes towards dating in general, and a slew of other topics.

All in all, the "here's what you should do and here's how we know" conversation is several hours long. If there was a Matrix-like way to jack your users' brains in and explain the full scope of why they should be behaving a particular way in an understandable, absorbable way, I'm all for it.

But alas, we can't do brain-downloads. Yet.

But what about simply informing them without the messy explanations? Well, it turns out this is what we did in the infancy of consumer websites - and it never worked. "You should message more users" falls on deaf ears - even after many, many attempts to reframe the message in more compelling ways.

This occurs for many reasons, and differs depending on the exact message being conveyed. For dating sites one persistent trouble is getting your users to upload good photos of themselves. We know from an insane amount of data that people make online dating decisions in a highly visual way, and that anyone without a picture is basically shit out of luck - but yet you wouldn't believe how many users think that rule applies to everyone but themselves. Even explicitly throwing up big warnings about not uploading a photo only convinces a small chunk of users to do it - and in the end you'd resort to tactics like holding their search results hostage until a photo is uploaded. And it works. And it improves their experience dramatically because no one replies to someone who doesn't have a profile picture.

I can keep rambling and naming examples like these. There is no shortage here.

I don't think you'll find anyone who thinks that hiding your users' data behind a mouse click is the best thing in the world, but you will find many people who have actually been in the trenches, who have done it the "right" way, and in the end found that the "wrong" way is a necessary (and very minor) evil.

You've also made the assertion elsewhere in this thread that people who work on these products don't care about user satisfaction. This is pretty far off the mark - user satisfaction is one of those things that's pretty easy to measure... and the unfortunate truth is that, in most circumstances, the minor loss in satisfaction from having your message hidden behind a link is more than made up for by the overall improvement in experience.

It's a somewhat common stance from people who haven't worked in consumer web before to assume that these strategies are the result of arrogant people looking down and disrespecting their user base. The reality is that no one I know assigns any value judgment to any of these observations - but we will follow where the data leads us.
TV Coverage: http://livewire.wcvb.com/Event/117th_Running_of_Boston_Marat...
It's still working on the same link...

http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/6254/web

Some people are having trouble getting it to load. 50k listeners - that may be higher than when I was listening after the bombing - try a couple different windows and refreshing. Once connected it's very clear audio (I've been listening flawlessly for over 30 minutes).

Not sure about other mirrors but they must exist.
Edit: Here's a mirror - http://tunein.com/radio/Boston-Police-Fire-and-EMS-Scanner-s...
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Am I the only one that sees the author as just a little misdirected?

On one hand, he bitches about not wanting to make startup founders rich by working shitty hours in an unstable work environment. I get that, I really do. However, he hasn't indicated he wants to BE said founder (nothing wrong with that).

So go work for Google or Facebook. There's a lot of early employees there who are benefitting in ways that are only possible from being an early employee at a successful startup. Granted, these are rare, and you shouldn't count on them.

I do agree that a lot of startups can have shitty working environments compared to BigCo, but it sometimes it just comes with the territory. That's part of being a startup, always more work than people to do it. That's like getting a job in a coal mine and complaining that your hands are always dirty.
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"Impact" implies causation. Low growth, for any reason, would lead to a higher ratio of debt to GDP. The original (erroneous) results of this study suggested that there was a point at which the relationship between the two changed.
The biggest thing in this regard a language like Haskell has going for it is purity, and therefore the concept of "no global state" taken to an extreme. Add to that referential transparency (which is a highly related concept anyway) and you get pretty strong "equational reasoning" where it is quite easy to trace, accurately, what's happening in a chain of calls - it's all transformation of data structures passing through.

If by "functional language" you mean JavaScript, then that's a completely different matter... :-)
Same thing happens with whoever I give money to - taxes, paying off my wife's credit card, etc...
There is a very significant difference between 93% coverage and 22% coverage with this issue. The value goes well beyond the percentage difference because of network effects[1].

Being able to count on near-ubiquitous FTTP and speeds of 100Mb - 1Gb p/s for a whole country completely changes the tech startup landscape.

It's hard to estimate how valuable that is to Australia's social, economic, and technological future.

The Coalition are expected to romp it in, so it's pretty disappointing that Malcolm Turnbull was convinced or corralled into playing politics on this one instead of just neutralising the issue by committing to FTTP. They happily make baseless blowout claims around the current NBN project, so I don't see why they couldn't have instead made baseless "we'll do the same, but cheaper" claims.

Their system design around a broken and aging copper network has few tech industry commentators impressed. I can't see how maintaining the copper network and delaying the inevitable FTTP rollout makes any sense. Being a first-mover in Western society brings a significant number of benefits for Australia's tech environment.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
I should have mentioned this up front on the sales page. Buyers can be issued a full refund if they don't find it helpful at all. I just added a note right below the "Buy" button.
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Nice headline, but I can't see what this has to do with Excel.
Second suspect may be in custody: https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=SeanKellyTV
What's with the downvote? A claim was made and I'm honestly curious what these "poses" are.
When did you open those accounts? "Know Your Customer" (which basically translates to SSN, government-issued photo ID, and blacklist checks) has been required of all US banks since 2003 thanks to the 2001 PATRIOT Act.

When I was 15, I was able to open a checking account by mail with no ID. Today, every bank I use lists government-issued photo ID as a requirement right on the website before you can start applying.
I was planning to do mine in Go for this very reason.
I once lived in a part of Los Angeles that at one point I heard at least two gun shootings per week for about a year. Fortunately every year since about 7 years ago shootings in that area gradually declined.
Any advice on finding places like that? I'm going to be looking for jobs soon, and 50 hours per week is more or less my target. Anything more than that and I find my quality of work and life suffer pretty quickly.

When interviewing, I'm worried about
a)Seeming like a "slacker" for inquiring about expected hours. I want to convey that I don't mind working late for an urgent issue or close to release time, but that I can't sustain >50 hours
b)how do I know they're being honest with me about working conditions?
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As a game developer, I would welcome industry standards that force games to have labels indicating the maximum amount of money a player can spend in the game.

Saying a game is "free" and then charging for in-game goods is disingenuous. Saying it's $1.99 and then having $100s of shit to buy inside the game is also disingenuous. It should say the game is "free" with "no limit".

If you have a free game with a single expansion pack, then it should say "free", "up to $5" for the expansion pack.

This kind of information is magnitudes more important than the stupid ESRB ratings we have for console titles.

I would personally try many more games if they had these labels. I would also be more comfortable developing "real", one-time fee games, if the competitive landscape were straightened out like this. As it stands, freemium games make boatloads of money and the industry will continue to shift in that direction until something is done about it. The only thing I can think of is to make the consumer more aware in advance.
I don't understand the vitriol aimed at the recruiter. Any developer in the Bay Area with a LinkedIn account gets a dozen of these a week.

The author just isn't interested in working at a start-up, but god forbid he receive a recruiting email from one.

I'd take a different tack: your early twenties is a perfect fucking time to try working a start up. No mortgage, no kids; why not take the risk?

Instead you should what...take a 9-5 so you can have a life outside of work, so you can work on your side project instead of working at a start up.

Also, attending conferences isn't "professional development."
I have to wonder how much of this can be mitigated by founders giving up more equity to the employee stock option pool.

It's something I've been seriously thinking about for my own decisions in the future.