skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please don't take my comment the wrong way. I understand it can be considered somewhat snarky.

An advisor did not force any of your "friends" to do what they did. They made a conscious decision to act.

People screw each other all the time. It's part of life. The main thing is that you learn from this.
Call stack is provided in most debuggers these days. Are you honestly saying you saw something comparable to the linked article in some Smalltalk system? If so, I would be very interested in some kind of reference.
It is not well known. I'm guessing that what you are saying isn't really the reality, based on what little I know of the oil and gas industry.
I've read and others have read all these things about body language.

Sometimes I play around, in meeting when chatting about boring stuff. I do stuff on purpose. I assume different poses and notice how others react.

The funny thing is, I've caught one of the other guys at work he was doing the "on purpose assume a power pose" maneuver. It was the "extend the fingers and then touch the fingers of both hands together". What made if funny to me is that he was doing it so awkward, he didn't feel confident and it wasn't natural. Yes I thought to myself, I probably look the same when I do my power pose or cycle through the fake "lower power" poses.
... Well that and after thousands of hours of study by highly skilled experts combing thousands of sources he was one of two people deemed suspects. For all we know they have video of him dropping the bag, they only released a small portion of what they had to help gather tips from the public.
With the NBN, the government is just a wholesaler. They just provide a physical medium and end users will still get a retail service from a private company. Besides the government has the same responsibility to adhere to privacy laws as any private company, in fact government have their own privacy requirements with additional channels to resolve complaints. Ethnically I don't see why a government that you vote for would have any less reason to respect privacy than a private company (who you pay money to). Finally, the government could just pass legislation to monitor/censor within a private network, so it doesn't really matter whether it is public or private from this perspective. It's more a matter of voting for the right representatives.
I (and HN) didn't catch this had already been submitted (the URL has an additional GET parameter). Probably wanna go vote here instead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5574589
Along with full EXIF information (such as taken at Apr 15, 2013 2:50:15 PM).
Tangential note: if you noticed that this was quite well-written for a blog post, and if you've never heard of Maciej Cegłowskiv[1], then you should absolutely start reading his blog, Idle Words[2]. The essays are simply sublime. Even though he only occasionally writes about tech stuff (it's mostly about his extensive travels), this is hands down my favorite blog and I await every new post eagerly.

[1] http://idlewords.com/about.htm

[2] http://idlewords.com/
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Could not possibly agree more. Start here:

http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm
Saw this on reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/findbostonbombers/comments/1cn4wh/ne...) and posted a cropped/comparison version of it to my twitter...and immediately was told by people that it must be a fake. I guess people today are overly skeptical, but photoshop fakery of this quality is not trivial, especially just a couple hours after the official photos were released. The JPEG artifacting on the suspect is perfectly consistent with every other object on the same plane. More importantly, this is a new angle of the suspect's face not yet published, which means the faker would've had to find someone who looked like the suspect with the same clothes, or created a convincing composite even before placing it in the scene.

And perhaps most importantly...why? If it was a hoax it is surely one of the most boring hoaxes of all time, showing the suspect vaguely with no new interesting details except that he has no bag in the photo.

Edit: I just saw this Tweet from a digital manager at the New York Times. He's since admitted his mistake but this should be preserved for posterity as an example of how NOT to do digital forensics...it's as if he's never zoomed into a JPG before in his entire life https://mobile.twitter.com/jeremyzilar/status/32504129646716...
I won't give you a name - but I know of a very large international company (hundreds off offices, tens of thousands of employees, etc.) that runs older versions of IE across much of their network. Some of it is budgets for testing newer versions. Some of it has to do with specific applications that are business-critical, but only work on older IE versions and haven't been updated / upgraded to run on new versions of modern browsers. It's easy to say "just upgrade" but large organizations just don't operate that way unfortunately.
I think Symmetry and I might recall the same event, in April 2003; a shooting near Random Hall that resulted in death (not a student).

http://tech.mit.edu/V123/N17/17shooting.17n.html

The worst part is it happened during pre-frosh weekend, when admitted high school students were invited to visit and experience MIT for a few days.
Possibly related carjacking after the shooting: https://twitter.com/NewsBreaker/status/325105581968994306
You can't really tell your customer to use a cli tool to build the website and upload it with ftp. The whole point of dynamic website cms:es is that the customer easily can update the content themselves.
Oki doki...will do.

I don't even know if I can manage to take this on...but we'll see :)
Someone on Reddit has already recognized the two men, they stayed at a motel where the Redditor works
This is making me seriously reconsider my dream of moving to the US for a dev job in SV. Is it only in the big tech companies that engineers get a decent life and good pay?

It sounds like it's either you take part in the life-consuming startup-founder lottery or you go work in BigCo (possibly not even tech) for a good life until you see a worthy opportunity. Or you start doing freelancing/contract jobs till you have a steady stream of income, which is sort of in-between. Anyone have advice?
Y'know, I hadn't even considered that your browser might already have a cached copy of JQuery because of a previous visit to some other site. Like the friend you mentioned, the idea of third-party hosting for a critical piece of infrastructure is a non-starter for me. If my site depends on X, I prefer (the illusion of) control over X.
MIT's system has been alerting me with automated phone calls and text messages within minutes of emergency reports. I've been really pleased with the speed of the system.
The ABC program "Inside Business" gave a neat summary of the differences between the Labor and Liberal plans: http://imgur.com/OtmOBE7

It's worth noting that the Liberals plan has 'Fibre To The Premises' going to 22% of households, while Labour's plan goes to 93%.

So we're spending an extra $17 billion to give 71% of households a boost from 100Mb to 1Gb per second? That's about $2,500 per household. That doesn't seem like good value to me. Shouldn't we delay the massive cost of installing fibre to existing homes until most households need more than 100Mb per second?
How to Become Internet Famous for $68
The other 20% is asking for the sale. (:
They're not going to go away any time soon.
M.I.T Police officer dies after shooting
>underfunding
I'm going to agree with this. The shirt looks like it was thrown together in mere minutes. I'm sure it's a worthy cause but the rush that this was put together turns me off a bit.
I think this challenge is a brilliant piece of marketing - if it is indeed marketing.

Love it.
Why is the Squirrel language always in the shadow of Lua?
Squirrel seems to have better GC, including determinism, which is important for games. It's also more familiar with its C style syntax.

I realize it was inspired by Lua, but why has it never taken off?
Twice As Many Democrats Vote For Cybersecurity Bill And Defy Obama
Twitter #Music brings iTunes, Rdio and Spotify together
Twitter's new service is a win for Rdio and not so much for Spotify Premium.
Files are a case where the object metaphor makes sense-- there's a bunch of tightly-wound connected state, and I/O is inherently stateful.

And user interface widget libraries, which are all about I/O. Even Racket's widget toolkit leverages the superb racket/class encapsulation mechanism.
You can't just drop a bomb like that all innocent and matter-of-factly like that without further explanation. Smells like sour grapes.
Facebook Expands Developer Tools With Open Graph for Mobile
Thanks so much!

-Matt
There are a lot of MIT/Harvard folks who seem to have to have minimal knowledge of anything more than a couple of miles away from campus.
New app helps Icelanders avoid accidental dating between cousins
And in fact my girlfriend, who graduated more recently than I did, got a text message tonight about the situation.
I would like to add that the suspect made off with the officer's gun as well. That is according to what I heard on the police scanner.
On the police scanner, I'm hearing shots fired, grenades, and explosives. Wow. This is not going well.

EDIT: And officer down. That's been confirmed again.

EDIT 2: Two suspects down, one sent to hospital.
Why did this guy wear a distinct-looking hat backwards? It's really easy to pick him out of a crowd. Any witness will say, "Guy with backward white hat". Seems obviously stupid. Either they're innocent or they had a foolproof escape plan.
Would you agree though, that women, historically, have been the greater share of sexual harassment and assault victims between the two genders? If so, then to call these reforms the machinations of overbearing feminists would to, some degree, be stating the obvious...because, it is not a surprise that the group most concerned with women being disenfranchised as victims here would be women, and that those women would also be feminists.

Now to argue that this attempted reform has become corrupted by overbearing feminists, then I ask: to what end? The motive is not clear and I think the simpler explanation is that sexual harassment and assault is by its very nature hard to investigate and adjudicate, and that these difficulties alone can cause the school's disciplinary system to go awry. Or are you arguing that in cases of sexual harassment between males (such as a homophobic attack or male on male rape), that things go just fine for all parties involved because no feminists are there to exert undue forces on the proceedings?
I specifically will be devoting lots of time to Rust's documentation, but I've been waiting for the syntax changes to settle down. 0.6 fixed a lot of that.
Coincidently I got this same recruiters email today.
Formation 8 Raises Its First Fund Of $448M To Plug Into Asian Conglomerates
There are lots of good startups to work for; people like talking about the bad ones but rarely praise the good ones. Reading too much HN or Reddit would have you believe that all startups take advantage of talent and that it's not worth it.

We have a "no overtime" policy at my company (unless you really want to), and everyone's paid and treated well. We value emotional quality and mental health, and would rather stick to 40 hour weeks than have people burn out. And there are lots of others like us!

Edit: however we're neither in the valley nor have we taken VC funds.
Apparently the shooters carjacked a Mercedes and headed towards Watertown (~7mi away) and are throwing explosives

Update: One suspect in custody
I like using homebrew (http://mxcl.github.io/homebrew/) to install emacs.

To install a GUI version it's "brew install emacs --cocoa".
I've interpolated the image linked in the article (suspect-number-2.JPG) to twice its size, if that helps at all (only in grayscale for now):

http://www.eliteraspberries.com/images/suspect-number-2-749.... (17MB)
MOBILE ANTIVIRUS: FUD, FACT AND FICTION
Why is it 22.6MB?
Er, all that comes up on my browser is "No, Fuck Off." Is there an actual article here? I have tried at least three times. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Just an obnoxious one-liner.

Edit: It apparently does not scroll on Android. FYI and all that.
Dissecting a Malicious Word Document
Thanks. I just came from happy hour and had a couple of drinks. Will edit it. :)
While I'm sure the President doesn't research all laws he signs, Obama is somewhat tech savvy.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=k4RRi_ntQc8&desktop_uri=%...

I wouldn't be surprised if he made the threat based on his own personal moral ideology.
I am the publisher of the app. Did I do something wrong?
Dropbox is a very technically challenging product, so I don't know if that's the best example.
Intel's Dubious Plan to Take Over TV
Sounds about right. That's why I ain't moving.
I've seen these companies, i've gotten the same mails too and uhm.. i'm not going there :)
He also posted the photo to his Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200411483522036...) the day of the bombing, before the image of this suspect was released. It's definitely not a fake.
You have only two parties that matter. They have to take a stance in virtually every matter ever; abortion, gun control, unemployment... And they neet to take the opposite view, or it becomes a non-issue.

It is simply impossible to make a de-facto two-party system like the US make sense.

There are more than 2kinds of people, so uou need more than 2 parties to represent them.
Yep; I was immediately reminded of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo.com
Great discussion in there about Bitcoin, Namecoin, alternative CA system, anonymity, censorship, etc.
In the press conference earlier today, the chief investigator said they have footage of this suspect (suspect #2) dropping a bag near the bomb site and leaving it.
Photo (some gore):

http://static.dnaindia.com/images/cache/1824279.jpg

Brief video:

https://vine.co/v/bUigVwhlIhq
I've worked (or, more often, contracted) at probably 10 startups now between San Francisco and Mountain View. I've never regularly worked more than 50 hours / week at a single company. I've never worked at a startup where there expectation was that people were putting in 10+ hour days every day. That's not to say that they don't exist, because I do know people who have worked at the places like that.

People who works at normal places (and have worked at normal places) don't have any inclination to write blog posts about how not awful their employment is, only people who have bad experiences.
Too bad you're going to pass on the opportunity the recruiter was offering. You could have unlocked your "bragging rights" achievement badge.
Anyone else get the feeling we are we making HN become like every news/forum site now? Reporting every and any shot fired anywhere in the world?
Looks like the one of the best ways for an engineer to get his worth is to be solo or work with engineers only.

The moment someone else without a programming background comes in, it all goes black. I'm seriously amazed at how people tend to think that all programmers are equal and one guy can't give output equal to three or four.

I'm still in college but I've seen the difference and it is big. In a class of 90, 4/5 people are able to finish one program and when the fifth one finishes, half the class has already given up or is still busy including header files in C!
What exactly are you hoping to find? As always there are limitless awful positions with either poor pay and/or poor hours and/or no opportunity for learning, and very few positions that have all of above. Even if you stumble upon one, you'll have to potentially fight over it with a really capable group of applicants.

As a non-resident you are pretty much at the mercy of whoever is sponsoring your H1B. If you are from the lucky set of countries and have a graduate degree, you can sit in purgatory at a BigCo for 5 years and then finally have the right to quit and start your own gig.
Joining my start-up would be a great choice.
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The whole recruiting ecosystem is just awful. Plus in my personal experience, the best job offers and the best candidates have come through people I know and trust, not through recruiters.
It may or may not be connected, but police in Boston have surrounded two men who are exchanging automatic gunfire them and have thrown grenades, another officer down. The grenades have been mentioned repeatedly, it's not 'I think I heard.'

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

:-/
"definitely hand grenades and automatic gunfire, and a second officer down".

Holy shit... WTF is going on up there?!?
Did you just use drug abuse and vandalism to support your argument?
"Second officer down, hand grenades and automatic gunfire."

In Watertown, Spruce and Lincoln.

http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/6254/web
Chris Dixon To Speak At Disrupt NY, As A VC
Yea, I read that part. Unfortunately, great governments supported by a steady stream of good decisions is not an option on the table. We need to decide whether to begin government projects given that crappy and corrupt decisions will be made in the future.
Thanks for the clarification. Although the JQuery team didn't announce any end date for support of 1.x, I appreciate the ticking clock implicit in the major version bump.

I suspect that a comment made by user Zangrief is right on the money - enterprise users will increasingly take over maintenance of the 1.x branch out of necessity.
Things are not nearly as rosy as you're painting them: http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/15/3628376/japan-digital-con...

All I can say is that my experience living in Tokyo has been completely different from what you suggest. Like the Neojaponisme article suggests, there is a general "fear and loathing" of the internet among the Japanese.
Your continuing to call 20-30% "minuscule" is more egregious, IMO.
You're forgetting about digital media: http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/15/3628376/japan-digital-con...

There's a lot more to moving your life online than social networking. I'm not big on social networking either. But that doesn't mean I still rent my videos at the corner store or go to the local record store to buy albums on CD.
"All units retreat."

Sounds like there are explosives...

REMEMBER this is a chase that went from MIT to Watertown. This is NOT at MIT...far away now.
If you can save 1 life by spending $2.5M and instead you build 50 websites for $50k then it is reasonable to say that the site cost 1/50th of a human life.
Explosives detonated according to the MIT newspaper, The Tech: https://www.facebook.com/themittech
Life insurance payouts are actually an even worse measure of value here. Life insurance payouts should be set by the liabilities left over when someone dies (i.e. children that still need to be raised). A person with no dependents doesn't need life insurance (except for funeral expenses), but that doesn't mean orders of magnitude less should be spent to save their life.
You think that one is nice? Try the Thinkpad Helix. Game. Over. It has a superior display (IPS), it's a rip and flip convertible, with true Ultrabook performance. Includes a digital pen and thousands of levels of pressure sensitivity.
> "Is it only in the big tech companies that engineers get a decent life and good pay?"

No, author's case is severely overstated.

In my experience startup jobs in SF/SV/NYC pay as much as, if not more than most big tech company jobs. The notable exceptions are Google and Facebook, where the compensation and stock is extremely good and generally ahead of the rest of the pack.

Which isn't to say that author's complaints about crappy startup jobs are false, but rather that they're really not unique to startups at all - they're common across all tech jobs, regardless of company size.

In reality there are three classes of tech jobs:

1 - Near-perfection. Great opportunities for advancement, great pay, great benefits, great work/life balance.

2 - Somewhat a pack of lies. You'll either work too much, get paid too little, get to fight management all day, have little room to grow, or some combination thereof.

3 - Complete pack of lies. Deranged management, just complete rubbish.

Most tech companies, even big ones, fall into the second and third categories. I think author is extrapolating a bit from the presence of Google in his seeming belief that most big tech companies are great places to work. They are not.

Case in point:

> "You can learn more by being in a company that offers reasonable hours while you can have a side project. An open source project, a small app, something your parents can use, anything that you either enjoy, try to make it big, or just make the world a better place."

Most big companies aren't like this. In fact, I can count the number of such companies I know on a single hand and have a finger or two left over. Most startups aren't either, so more accurately most software jobs aren't like this.

The blog post seems to be a lament about the shitty quality of startup jobs, but really it's more accurately a lament about the shitty quality of software jobs in general.

He wants startups to have good compensation, good environments, and reasonable hours - but most big companies can't pull this off either. Big Corporate software jobs are infamous for low compensation, infamous for being middle-management-infested hellholes, and just as willing to bend hacker culture to its own ends.
That's my preference as well, but integrating it with your app launcher of choice (among other things) can be a little more challenging. The alias in /Applications is a particular pain if you try to use Alfred or Spotlight, but maybe Quicksilver works fine. You only need to open emacs on startup anyway. :-)
FWIW there have been other shootings in Boston since the marathon. They've just been in places like Dudley Square that the national media don't care about. At least five people were shot in Boston on Wednesday night.
http://www.universalhub.com/crime/20130417-night-bloodshed-t...

There is something a bit perverse about the disparity in the media attention given to violence that occurs north of the Mass Pike versus south of the Pike.
Yup, me too. I use it exclusively to manage all my ongoing projects, whether related to programming or not. The way it handles contexts (I do it via tags), ToDo keywords, numerous custom agenda views, is just plain awesome!

Just the other day I was thinking of a good web front, which can be made for org files which are in Dropbox or something. Then, when on a computer with emacs, those files can be edited via emacs and otherwise, via the web app. This would also help in bringing other non emacs people on the orgmode wagon.
An equal equity split does not mean you don't have vesting. Even founders should have to vest.
CISPA Cybersecurity Bill Passes the House
Similar information available at the Tech twitter stream:
https://twitter.com/thetech
Go for your dream. Experience it for yourself. Just don't get into the mindset that you have to stick around if it doesn't work. Have your Plan B and Plan C.

In terms of all startups being like this, its a big "it depends".

There are many companies doing software development that are across the full range of the spectrum. Don't be assuming that the BigCo or the startup represent the full range.

Since it looks like you can be somewhat free in deciding where you live, you have a big advantage. Making a good income doing software development means different quality of life depending where you are in the US. Perhaps your dream of moving to SV might be to overreaching. So break it into steps. Focus on getting some kind of software work in the US in a good place. Once you are here, you might just change your mind about what you want to do.
Something big definitely just happened. I have never seen so many police cars drive so fast in the same direction. They were all heading north on Mass Ave from me, which is consistent with that location.
Or don't care much whether they get caught. Another possibility is that they're not too bright.