skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From 2 seconds of Google I found:

http://www.hollywoodgrind.com/zach-braff-gets-big-pay-raise-...

> The actor has cut a one-year deal with "Scrubs" producer ABC TV Studio that will pay him about $350,000 per episode for the 2007-08 season of "Scrubs," sources said. Each season consists of about two dozen episodes.

Not to mention residuals from syndication. Come on, man.
She is a billionaire and needs to work for the government?
Using !important 9 times out of 10 means you're doing something wrong. Many developers rely on it as a lazy tool for various reasons (bloated unmanageable css files, lack of knowledge, etc.) The media query example and overriding third party code you can't edit are the 1 in 10 examples. I would even possibly debate the media query situation as it is being a bit lazy IMHO.
Behavior Design with Buster Benson, founder of 43Things, HealthMonth, Budge.
I don't think this list is what makes a good programmer. Maybe I've grown to look at programming as "problem solving" and "solution providing" to real world problems, and take the actual process of writing code for granted.
I wonder how much surveying you guys did?

As a sometime C++ dev, I fully recognize the utter inanity and burden of typing semicolons where the compiler should know perfectly my intent, and would rejoice in a language that did away with them. In fact, it's one of the features of Go that I really like. Rust's syntax, on the other hand, feels like a step backwards in some ways.

I wrote a bit more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5608157.
I wish the pay-what-you-want page earns ubuntu a decent sum. Go Canonical!
Ask HN: Freelance programming?
Are there people out there that hire programmers to write simple sets of code for set pay? If so, is there a good place to find them?
That's a great clarification, thank you!
I feel like I just read "Women just got the vote" or "Pennsylvania Turnpike will no longer admit horse-drawn carriages" in the newspaper.
Looks like it is time for me to make a data driven index of NYC startups. This is such fluff.
I'm (somewhat) surprised by the lashing out and negativity towards the service in many of the comments.

Any product or service can be used for evil by evil people.

I've used Myles' service. It works amazingly well. So well, in fact, we looked at using his API to integrate the functionality into Socialyzer. We ended up not coming to terms and we built some scripts to do this for ourselves internally.

We use this functionality to build a very targeted following of people who may find our service (http://www.rewardrkt.com) useful . Our conversation rates from favorite, to follow, to registration on our site are extremely high. The people we auto-favorite are finding value in what we offer.

Favoriting their tweets is an efficient way to "introduce" yourself to someone without being super pushy.

After Twitter shutting down Flattr I reached out to Myles again to see if he'd seen the news. Of course he had, and I see his blog post as a bold move. Why wait around for doomsday if you can either (1) make it go away or (2) bring it about faster and move on to the next thing afterward.
It makes sense if you're an average person with a great idea and you lack the funding to get your idea off the ground. The original purpose was inventors and stuff. Then indie game developers got on board and now celebrities are abusing it.

The celebrity thing has gotta be like crack cocaine to Kickstarter. It gets them so much attention and so much money, but ultimately I think it is eroding their brand and building resentment.
Nonsense! You're eyes adjust to very low light levels, far below what a 60W bulb outputs in lumens.
I have an opinion on this list!
I live in a new construction condo in the Pacific Northwest. A couple of times per year I have to turn on a single heater.

My $35 power bill is my desktop computer, refrigerator, hot water heater, and the 7 lights that end up turned on just to light up a 500 or so sqft living space. (Recessed lighting is evil.)
Yes, but not in the way you think it does.

It mostly tells me you haven't been around a wide variety of people. Live in any major US city and you'll meet thousands of citizens with heavy accents and atypical fashion sense (ever been to Brooklyn, or most of LA)? And there are lots of non-citizens that have lived in the US for years and blend in perfectly - many of the folks in my office are not US citizens, but as a natural-born American I'd be hard pressed to say which just by looking at them. If you could do better than 50% success - random guessing - in looking at my workplace or college class, I'd be surprised.
Isn't transmitting magnetic fields over a long distance trivial by converting it to an electric current, sending it down a wire, and then back to a magnetic field?
Why are people constantly writing silly stuff like this. We need to stop this relentless back patting.
Bacon is bad for you
Honest question, why? What do you think you gained? Why use short variable names in this day and age given text editor auto-completion, refactoring tools, etc.

The very plurality of `numbers` conveys so much more meaning than `a` in the method signature. Is that a Python idiom, to use `a` to mean array as a parameter? What happens if you don't use `a` until line 23 of the function, far from its original declaration?

Being someone who likes reading random code in random languages, I find single or 2 letter variable names a horrible curse to the uninitiated of a problem domain. It means you have an extra step figuring out a program, what the abbreviations even mean in that particular domain.

The only exception being when it's the standard way of using the syntax of a language (i in a for loop for example).

Obviously these code examples are trivial, but when you start getting a slightly longer function, it starts becoming hard to remember what's what half-way down a function or where they even came from if they're just virtually meaningless single or dual letters.
Or you're more interested in side projects that don't have a hardware or physical component. Or that require much more specialized equipment, like a CAVE system. Or don't use electronics at all, like 3D printing representations of mathematical functions, or building a cabin in the woods. Or restoring linotype machines.
Box announces HIPAA compliance
what is new?
I always stress about readability, but I've never thought about the end-to-end "experience" of using a class or API I've written before. I think framing it in this way is helpful.

Here's a related article that floats the idea of "code usability": http://www.crossbrowser.net/97/code-usability/
It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall b e rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account - Confucius
You make a bunch of really good points. However, there is a need for patients to learn the right questions to ask of doctors.

"How do you know this is the right treatment?" and "What happens if we do nothing?" are two good questions.

Doctors are overwhelmingly not con artists or stupid, but they do make mistakes and they do have to keep up with changing science.

This is especially important with doctors. They're science based, they're educated, the stuff they do has plausible mechanism of action. But this is exactly the time we need better science; double blinded studies etc. See, for example, knee arthroscopy which was found after controlled studies with sham operations to be no more effective than the sham for many people.
Honestly, I'm not so sure about that. There are plenty of great products that never got attention because the devs couldn't find a mass market story behind it or were unable/unwilling to add some spin.

Frankly, I don't mind the hoax. The media deserves it. I once did a press release in the form of an article (that I wrote) in which the "writer" interviewed me as an industry expert. You'd be amazed at how many places ran that press release as an article with NO alterations, none.
Reasons why these kinds of people put so much pressure on our welfare and health systems are partly because they have so much trouble integrating into our society. Part of the problem is, as I've explained, our own government that didn't spread immigrants around country but allowed them to live close to one another. Now we have closed badly integrated societies ("ghettos") in some of our bigger and even smaller cities. One city where this problem with especially the Marrocan population is very clear is Gouda, but the same kinds of problems exist in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, etc...

Criminality among (especially) boys of Moroccan descent is disproportionate with regards to the size of the population:

[0]: http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2624/moroccan-crime-nether...

We've imported a lot of berber people from Morocco. Within the berber culture a lot of marriages happen between closely related family members, resulting in a worse gene pool. This could be partly the cause for the berber immigrants health issues. The following articles might be of interest to you:

[1]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC449726/

[2]: http://books.google.nl/books?id=HDIa0tyllqgC&lpg=PA455&#...

In the end I don't think multicultural societies can really exist. There needs to be a leading culture and people should be encouraged to adopt (parts of) the leading culture or blend it with their own culture. Without a leading culture the social cohesion slowly erodes. And this is why I think Switzerland made a very wise decision in limiting immigration. Immigrants need time to integrate and the society should be able to deal with the strain of the immigrants until they're well integrated, otherwise it results in "dweilen met de kraan open."
Maybe he's anonymised his experience slightly by subbing Java for C#: C# has a string and a String, although string is just an alias to System.String, so they're really the same.

It's not terribly confusing, although syntax highlighters do treat them differently which I could see could confuse the uninitiated.
I've been using influads for 3 months now and haven't faced any of those problems. I can see my daily stats, and have a variety of ads served by them. And even though I didn't had a high traffic blog, still they accepted me, that means something to me.

Also, adsense may be a good chocie for you, but I'll perhaps never use it. I like to have a single tiny add on my website, which is atleast somewhat related to what I write. Besides, having larger ads, or too many ads, just spoils the reading experience. For me, providing a good reading experience to my readers is as important as making money from it.

Glad to know that adsense works great for you. It would never work for me. Just my 2 cents :)
JSON objects can have duplicate keys/names
> Electrical signals in a copper wire travel at approximately 2/3 the speed of light.

An interesting fact - in those copper wires (or any type of wires) the electron velocity itself is less than 1 centimeter / second (and often in the mm/s range). Whether it's DC or AC, it does not matter much.

Think of the wire as a tube with a bunch of ping-pong balls inside - filling it up tightly from start to end. If I stick my finger into one end of the tube, a ball will come out at the other end almost instantaneously (regardless of how long the tube is), but the balls themselves only moved a small distance - and only at the speed/velocity I pushed my finger at. But the "signal" "traveled" at a much higher velocity.

So in DC - electrons only travel a few centimeters / second (not anywhere near light speed), and in AC - you're pushing/pulling the same electron back and forth for eternity at about the same speed as it travels in DC.

Now it's of course a bit more complicated (the electrons rattle around at much greater speeds, and the mentioned velocity is a net average), and there are some edge cases, but for the most part the above is accurate.

I'm just not 100% sure of the speed of electrons in a superconducting loop (Cooper-pair electrons) - if they are truly relativistic or not.

And if this does not blow your mind, you should not be reading about electricity. PHDs in the electrical field don't even know this stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drift_velocity

TL;DR; If you raced a snail and an electron in a wire together, the snail would win - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbi7gJTPSXk
Did you see this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro ?
At that scale, yes P2P is simpler to "run" than a cable.

Not sure I could put one at my desk :-)
These are just rhetorical devices. An active Wikipedia account is just standing in for active participation in sharing knowledge online. S.O. obviously counts, and MDN probably does too (I know nothing about it).

Arduino is standing in for, knowledge of things that aren't directly applicable day-to-day. Hobbyist stuff.

I think it's acceptable to define a good programmer in terms of qualities that aren't beneficial to business. In the real world this is one reason why we have and need management. A big part of management's job is to convey to the rest of staff what the business goals are and how they are to be achieved. It would be nice if all programmers synthesized this without having to be told, but I don't see why that should be considered a necessary prerequisite for being a good programmer.

ThinkGeek toys, obscure stuff are just specific examples of a general pattern of curiosity and playfulness.
This graph helps.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting_diode#RGB_system...
The big problem with libre Lisp is Emacs. I love it to death - most of my time on the computer is spent in Emacs, but a great deal of people absolutely hate it.

One tool that got some love at one point was Cusp, a Lisp plugin for Emacs. Unfortunately, as I note here[1], it's been unloved for some time.

[1] http://articulate-lisp.com/env:cusp-setup.html
When was this article written? The last time I worked in an office with 10Base2 cabling (aka "thin ethernet", using RG-58 coax about 5mm thick with BNC connectors) was 1995. The last time I saw 10Base5 (aka "thick ethernet", using an extra-stiff variant of RG-8 coax about 10mm thick, in continuous runs with "vampire taps") was sometime in the late 1980s.

And if the maximum cable length were simply proportional to signal propagation speed / bit rate, then why does 10Base2 have a shorter maximum length than 10Base5? They're both carrying 1e6 bits per second. Do signals really travel 3 times faster through fat coax than through thin?
You have to wonder if there is any QA being done on SimCity. I haven't played it, but it sounds like the original release was buggy almost to the point of unplayable, and now it hasn't gotten any better. Is there no one there who's telling them the product sucks and they need to fix it? Or are they just getting so pressured to release that they don't care if it doesn't work?
Just as an FYI: Women can also have some loss of sexual function, either physically (due to ligation of the 4th intercostal nerve that supplies the nipple), psychologically or both.
Ah, the "if the victim is that dumb, they deserve it" school of thought.

No, the "take responsibility for the outcome of your own actions" school of thought. Or do you think one should be able to wander through life, doing and saying anything one pleases, completely oblivious to your environment, and not expect bad things to happen sometimes?
Is it Twitter, or everyone is "hackable"?
They should remove the captcha to view filtered reviews.
What about making it optional, like in Haskell?
>>I'm guessing you have not really looked into Rust. The idea is to also take a "do it right" approach rather then "à la carte". Keep in mind, the focus in in a different domain. Not really sure what basis you have for the "even more bloated" comment.

C++ is too complex of a language IMHO. Complexity is bad for new people as it takes a long time to know the entire language. And its bad for existing people as it provides too many ways to do the same thing. Rusts features look to be a superset of C++... You could substitute "too complex" with "too big".

>>Anyhow, no reason to have a flame war on the subject. Rust isn't a hammer and neither is Go. :)

I thought this was an interesting and friendly conversion, not a flame war. I do think everyone involved in this conversion probably agrees with each other in general, just maybe not particulars.

And yes everyone has their favorite hammer, that doesn't mean its not worth discussing which hammers are best for which tasks.
Problem is, the CFLs don't last. They usually don't last even a single year. My story:

I got the faith: I replaced every incandescent in our condominium association with CFL. After one year, most all the CFLs had failed, despite having 3- to 5-year warranties. Also noticed another peculiarity: CFLs are stolen more often! Apparently our condominium parking lot has become a CFL bank for individuals who want to lower their light bills.

So last week I bought a 4-pack of 40W incandescents for $4! That is down from the $12 I would have paid for four CFLs that wouldn't last any longer and that, when broken, are a mess/danger to clean up.

No more CFLs for me, thank you! The whole CFL thing is looking like a scam.
Ios dev center is down
User recognition without cookies or local storage
Questions and Admission: Reflections on 100,000 Admissions Decisions at Stanford
The good news is that Home Depot's price for this item is lower than anyone else's. (Amazon.com has the same item for $17.44.) The bad news is they can't actually deliver it.

This is a common practice -- attract shoppers with a killer low price on an item that, for one reason or another, isn't actually available. I'm not saying Home Depot intentionally did this -- maybe they innocently underestimated public interest.
> switches are dirt cheap so no reason for hubs

Hubs are nice to packet-capture from a small device without a managed switch in between, so it's a bit of a bummer that they're hard to find these days.
There is a lot of growing evidence that most autoimmune disorders from allergies on up are caused by living in an environment that is too clean. I'm starting to think we are seeing the same effect when it comes to safety. Most of us now come into so little violence in our daily lives, we can't stop thinking about violence happening thousands of miles away to people we've never met. We can somehow ignore all the real problems all the "protection" is causing us in order to protect ourselves from problems we don't have, that no one we know has.
The cute cat theory posits the resource doesn't provably work at scale until it hosts a lot of simple, vacuous content. While 200 TB exceeds the number of cute cats I have ever seen, I'm afraid it may not exceed the youtube bandwidth.

It has to work before it can work well. Thus, while PGP technically works great, I haven't heard a lot of Egyptions, Syrians, etc, lauding Phil Zimmerman. Instead, they seem happier with Facebook.
I absolutely agree with you about the importance and wonders of the internet. And you are undoubtedly right that the internet is making copyright, or at least the traditional view of copyright, obsolete. But we have some ability to create the future by influencing the direction of technology, law, and cultural attitudes. And to fail to replace copyright with something else that allows people to make a living through intellectual and creative work will be a grave mistake. Just ditching copyright and embracing unfettered copying while hoping that creative people will somehow figure out how to feed their families will mean that less, much less, gets created, and we will all be poorer for it. So far, no idea has been shown to be viable: voluntary payments do not and will not work, because enough people will not pay; taking your show on the road only works for able-bodied people with certain combinations of talents, and even then only while they are young and without children - when they need a steady income the least. We need new ideas, and new legal frameworks. Just saying that everything should be free leaves us endlessly recycling the creations of the past, created in the days when authors were still getting paid.
The most profound adage I've learned about programming recently is: "You will spend far more time reading your own code than writing it"...and this always kicks in everytime I decide whether I should properly indent, name variables according to their scope, and add properly formatted comments when needed.

With code-completion and relatively fast typing skills, you never regret or remember the extra few seconds it takes to properly type something out...but you'll always feel a slight blood pressure rise everytime you return to poorly written code.
You're missing the most obvious ones.

Empirically, copyright law is not effective. That is to say, copyright is massively violated for non-commercial use.

Enforcing laws which are empirically not obeyed is a bad idea, regardless of the philosophical merits of pro-copyright or anti-copyright arguments.

The most popular P2P protocols will advance to the point where enforcing copyright law means enforcing an absurd policy: if your computer shares copyrighted information even without your knowledge, you're guilty of infringement. The only way to avoid it is not to participate in such advanced P2P swarms (where nodes cache content for delivery to other nodes), since nobody knows the copyright status of a particular hash-addressable piece of content.

Enforcing laws in a way that bans a neutral computer technology (P2P sharing of arbitrary content) is untenable [1], regardless of the ethical, moral, and economic arguments surrounding copyright violation.

I see those arguments often. If you agree that those are not fallacies, I don't understand why you think copyright discussions degenerate into fallacies.

[1] What Colour are your bits? http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/lawpoli/colour/2004061001.php
Well that wasn't the point, but sure they can be ignorant just like anyone else. Reading your comment below I actually really appreciate your point on trusting your doctor, but it's ok to still be informed or to be skeptical of their recommendations.

I'm in medical school right now and we talk a lot about the differences between a paternalistic doctor-centered approach vs patient-centered approach, the latter focused on doctors and patients making decisions together and ensuring patients have an understanding of their diseases and risk. And while it requires specialized knowledge just like a mechanic, it's your body we're talking about, not your car. And it depends on the certainty of the doctor's suggestion. Screening is a more complex decision than, say, taking insulin for diabetes. And there are times when public skepticism really does become a public health threat (i.e. anti-vaccination folk).