skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Poll: How many reported exceptions are in your production environment?
We'd all love to run a "zero defect" culture but its impossible in a production environment. What is an acceptable number of defects to have in production?

Bring up Airbrake, Exceptional, or whatever tool you use to track this and report your count. How do you stack up against the rest? Vote below and we'll find out!
11-100
101-200
201-500
1001-2000
2001-5000
5000+
I have no idea, I don't track exceptions
And where do you find those "skilled local contractors"? And why should they work for you vs. a stable job?

You can take advantage of local labor sometimes, but its definitely not a given, and it never lasts very long.
Hey. I prototyped an automagic part remover for unattended continuous operation for a client who prints continuously. Contact me if you are interested (kliment@0xfb.com)
Come now, Japan is by some distance the most xenophobic first world country. If you look Asian, learn to speak Japanese very well, adopt a Japanese name and citizenship you can integrate but those are all necessary conditions.

On the overplaying the foreignness people on their first sojourn in a really foreign country do the tourist goggling all the time. One needs a lot of foreign travel experience to start treating it as just some more different shit.
I think the courts don't like it at all. (http://www.activistpost.com/2013/02/jury-nullification-activ...). Please do it but also please speak with an actual lawyer first.
>Hmm, who is in charge of Cyber Command? Why it's the Air Force!

Is that really the case, though? Their own verbiage makes it sound different.

"Who is assigned to USSTRATCOM?
The men and women of USSTRATCOM come from all four services —Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force— and include Guard and Reserve members, Department of Defense civilians and contractors. Thus, the command is a unified command. This concept allows USSTRATCOM to adapt to the changing international political and military landscape with all military branches providing key input and recommendations."[1]

and

"Organization
USCYBERCOM is a sub-unified command subordinate to U. S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM). Service Elements include Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER); 24 AF/ Air Force Cyber Command (AFCYBER); Fleet Cyber Command (FLTCYBERCOM); and Marine Forces Cyber Command (MARFORCYBER)"[2]

Cyber Command seems to be headquartered at an army base, Fort Meade.

[1]http://www.stratcom.mil/faq/#faq2
[2]http://www.stratcom.mil/factsheets/Cyber_Command/
The logic here seems to be that because the mass media can be used to manipulate public opinion, it is used exclusively to manipulate public opinion.
Yes. That is likely in my subconscious. Also, I think going above 4 figures makes it "large" (for me) so more difficult to swallow. My co-founder and I have already spent countless hours on the startup, I've spent money on the trademark and even minimal hosting costs. And I know we will have more costs once we launch and get things going (although hopefully we can be break even or cash flow positive as quickly as possible). What's $1.5k at the end of the day?

I think it's going to be worthwhile to buy.
Good point. Everyone needs to be taught about plea bargaining, too, but maybe we need some way to prevent the DA from piling on ridiculous charges.
That may have been the worst thing a manager could possibly do, in that situation.

nobody is ever going to trust that company enough to expose themselves and no improvement Ida going to happen.
Rule 34 existed for emacs well before it did for pr0n.

Rudel (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Rudel) is one example of collaborative editing in emacs.
Thanks, congrats!
One person's useless gimmicks are another person's stylish nick-knacks. I can't see myself buying a 3D printer just for stuff like that, but the ability to accent my home in an individual fashion is not unappealing to me.

Not everything is the world is purely functional.
"Assumption is the mother of all screwups"; and yet it is so natural to all of us.

Salute to Sarah for building an excellent open culture and Zach's courage to speak out. And yes, 'trust' is critical in organizations. Good story.
Funny. I think I just realized that Facebook has become AOL – keywords and all.
Because it is? There are some circumstances where the slow-down is minimal or at least inconsequential, but not always. JIT-delay is a real thing, and even though in some applications the impact can be minimized (e.g. services) in others it's not. There's a reason why it's still very rare for games to be written in java, for example, and it's not because of blind prejudice.
What purpose would that be? A quick visit to their site strongly suggests that a pretty important purpose of their business is to squat NISSAN.COM.
It's reasonable to assume that in the context of our discussion, the hypothetical young America would probably choose to locate himself in a metro, urban area where there's ample supply of good water.

But, I agree with you India probably isn't the best possible choice here (but still, as others have pointed out, if you have America money (say, 80k), you'll be living there like a king). There's still a lot of other countries besides America that might be a good fit for you.
You're using LISP, so code is data, right? And if all your functions are pure, the code should have a nice dependence-graph structure.

I can believe that the actual LISP data structure of a function may not be the most convenient to work with for what you're doing, but it seems like you ought to be able to translate from LISP code into whatever graph structure you want, as long as all the function calls are pure. Or are there reasons this isn't feasible?
That's not true. I've worked for a company that makes banking software and we did tons of migrations. The company itself changed its own software from RPG in as400 to windows forms and now it's all web with servers in Java and .Net (they use a middleware language which generates in every new platform). They even made a transitional install for one branch of one of the most important banks. The branch used my former company's solution for a few years until they could use their own software, which had to be adapted for the new market.

Banks used to work on paper an did fine, software migration, although can take some years, is no problem for them.
And here we are trying to replace the web with apps.
Sad that this was deck was leaked on ValleyWag on Monday, but because Gawker is blacklisted from HN, it didn't make the front page until a crappy re-blog from BusinessInsider came out.

I think HN is way too aggressive in banning domains (or at least not transparent enough about which are banned and why).

For instance, I submitted this really interesting piece today on Buzzfeed's FWD tech vertical: http://www.buzzfeed.com/joshmiller/fwdus-breaks-its-first-pr...

Because Buzzfeed is (apparently) banned, the link was autokilled as soon as I hit submit.

I really don't mind that HN is curated--that's part of what makes it so good. But the lack of transparency seems almost like they are saying "Don't worry, just trust us, we know what's best for you."
If you're a regular craft beer drinker, the rule of thumb I use for a 12oz is 30 calories per % abv (or 40 calories for a pint).
Aside from one of the most popular... Minecraft (played for days and never saw a GC pause). I think it actually is because of blind prejudice OR POSSIBLY expressiveness rather than "slowness" since most of the scripting languages within the game platforms also make use of GC systems that are much worse than the JVMs.
I'm still using firefox because of pentadactyl. It lets you switch to a tab by substring search of title/url.

If you have 100 tabs open (I often do too) how do you switch to a specific tab with mouse gestures?

(Genuinely curious; seems a shame to have to specify, but I don't want to be misunderstood)
i would wait for my organisation to buy one.. so that i may use it, whenever required :)
How much body fat do I have? BAM an array of pictures to compare to. Simply fucking brilliant UX.

I'm going to send everyone I know to this site.
A lower salary for a developer in low CoL area doesn't indicate that a company values that resource less than another dev in a higher CoL area. It just means that the company has to pay less in order to reward the developer in the low CoL as much as the employer rewards the high CoL dev. The equation looks like this:

salary - CoL/year = reward_dev
i just smoke once in 2-3 months.
Just out of curiosity, how did you get around Apple forcing you to include their payment system in everything? It looks like you need to enter your CC info through the app itself, which Apple usually gets pretty pissy about (the whole in-app purchases.)
People who compare zfs and btrfs and even put them on the same level, are usually people who have no idea about neither of them.
Nice. It would be great if it said the file size of the folder!
Runs wonderfully on Rackspace Cloud. Their default images are legit too.
Yea, and you're seeing less and less of those now, especially in bigger cities where prices are getting crazy high. Also most stores are really good about keeping things in even 0.5/1 increments, instead of having everything be X.99 or X.95 (for the most part).
I assume you are being sarcastic?

However, I wouldn't think bothering with anything but .com is worthwhile?
Once BitTorrent Sync releases their web API, I'll see what I can do
While that's true -- Jews live everywhere around the world -- it's not like lots of Jews live in places with low income. Realistically I'd probably meet someone in a city:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population_by_urban_area...
I agree with you on the difficulty of building your life in a foreign land and the happiness or lack thereof associated with that. I have been thinking a lot about this concept of global living/citizenship. It can open a lot of doors but also leave a lot of loose ends. It sounds sexy but then life becomes complicated as you have two (or more) lives.
coinlab.com does just that: they developed GPU code that does just that: game developers can integrate it in their games to get revenues from their players.
"Fast" is subjective. "Fast enough for X" is better, but still subjective unless you have benchmarks. That said, I agree Java is good enough for, say, long running web-services where you take the JVM start-up hit once.

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
At some point the assumption of sanity breaks down, in this lifestyle.
Conversions up 126%, revenue up 25% – Informly April stats report
Those meals are unreasonable, but it's because you're asking for an unreasonable amount of calories, apparently. The tool can help you calculate your calories (very intelligently, I might add).
Sounds good. You don't have email (well, there is tastylabs contact) in your profile, but any other preferred form of contact?
Git & Continuous Integration – Does that work?
Heroku says PostGIS support enables smarter mobile app development
>The "encoding method" is ASCII text.

An encoding method is ASCII text. You could use ASCII compressed with gzip, or bzip2, or lzma. You could use Unicode. You could use a previous block as the key and encrypt with AES, or Blowfish, or 3DES. You could store an IP address and port rather than a URL as the first six binary octets. Or encode the IP using base64, or hex.

No matter what you use, you have to convey that to the party you're trying to communicate the information with -- you at least have to convey the fact that you've encoded something in the blockchain so that the receiver knows to look for it there. How is it easier to convey "you should download the bitcoin blockchain and run strings against it and the URL is the 352nd one you find [out of the six thousand URLs various unrelated people will have encoded]" than to just send the damn URL directly to the person you're telling where to look for it?

>This may or may not be a problem for bitcoin, but I think it is legally problematic at the moment. This may move us toward a world where it's not illegal to store any particular data or even distribute it. The illegal act might be the viewing or "distribution with intent" or the data. I think that would be an interesting development.

I think it would be a welcome development. Right now people are too afraid to be distributors, which makes things difficult for whistle blowers and democracy advocates in oppressive regimes and others who have legitimate reasons to want anonymous censorship-resistant publication methods.
Because that is what someone/blog/article told them one time (or less commonly they remember 1998 Java performance). Java is one of the faster languages out there and has been since 1.4+: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?t...
You can control how much effort you put into the mining, and nothing says the mining has to impact game play. Every game has a lot of fluff screens that could be used to put a few cycles towards mining.
How old are those numbers? Lets take one listing for an Apartment (3 bedrooms) in City Centre: Houston, TX is listed as $2,050.00 while Bangalore	is $ 559.02. If you check out a property listing site: <http://www.magicbricks.com/propertyDetails/3-BHK-3000-Sq-ft-..., it says INR.60,000 which works out to approximately $1153.84 (around 52 rupees to a dollar). Obviously, numbeo.com has got the most important (housing) numbers wrong.
Banks can have availability over consistency because we have enough laws and protections in place to reverse any fraudulent transactions.

With BitCoin, such an architecture could be abused rather badly.
Charge $10/mo for it and shoo the investors away as your money comes pouring in.
That is the reason for existing of Fox news.
I think it's accurate in certain problem domains, and the causality runs both ways.

I think that for technical tasks, ones with a good deal of depth that need to be performed precisely, insecurity correlates highly with success. For two reasons. One is that insecurity is a very potent emotional driver: if you think that being good at X is going to give your life meaning, then you'll probably spend a lot of time getting good at X. Time spent mastering a subject is probably the best predictor of how good you get at it.

The other works in the other direction. The more skilled you get at something, the more you understand the complexities of the problem domain, in sort of a reverse Dunning-Kruger effect. And so as you become more successful, you start seeing that your knowledge, as a fraction of the total knowledge out there, is much less than you thought. The result is insecurity.

For people tasks, where a significant part of your success is convincing other people to go along with you, success is correlated with confidence. There's a game-theoretical explanation for that. When evaluating the credibility of a proposal, a random person has very little information to go on. They also know that the person proposing it has more information than they do. So a major information channel for them is how sure the proposer seems to be of their proposal, and they naturally follow subconscious signals that telegraph how the proposer really feels about himself.

Whether high confidence or low confidence is better for you depends on which stage of your career you're at, and also who you're talking to. In particular, you don't want to project high confidence when the listener has backchannels that can tell them unequivocally that you're wrong: you lose all credibility then, which makes you seem deathly insecure. When the listener has poor or no information, though, you want to project high confidence because that's the only information they have available to them. When evaluating yourself, you'd ideally want to have no confidence as that would give you the greatest drive to improve. Unfortunately, confidence doesn't work that way: it's very difficult to have no confidence and then suddenly "turn it on" for an important client. Instead, an optimum solution usually involves having supreme confidence in your ability to learn anything required for the job, no confidence that you actually know anything right now, and the ability to fudge the distinction between those when you talk to other people.

The scientific method actually enshrines this into a well-known process.
You can run FreeBSD in PV mode as well. Well, it will require installing in HVM mode, recompiling kernel (commands in terminal, commands not lines) and rebooting. FreeBSD 10.0 has better support of DomU and KVM Guest.
Ask HN: So I want to start a health insurance company
There are so many annoyances and problems w/ modern health insurance that surely someone can do better. After reading PG's crazy startup ideas I've been thinking more and more that its worth a shot. Something like:

Setting up a health insurance company for only SF or NYC and focus on making it data driven, and the pricing completely transparent to the customer. They can easily pull up an app in the doctors and see exactly how much things will cost, and why. Focus on simplicity and taking the pain out dealing with providers.

What do people think the biggest hurdle (and there are many). Is it:

- Negotiating rates w/ doctors and service providers.
- Getting round the legal red-tape.
- Having enough money to actually run an insurance company.
- Something else?
Umm.. Minecraft, while awesome, is certainly not one of the graphically intensive games out there, and yet the Java promise of hogging all resources available is always kept.
Yahoo is now giving eight weeks of paternity leave
The Air Force and defense industrial complex are using this as a budget point, but they are also facing legitimate threats to both government and private industry.

Just like during the cold war, there were legitimate threats from the Soviets, but it also became a self-perpetuating thing.

The irony is this time we're borrowing money to defend ourselves from the Chinese from...the Chinese. So at some point a marginal dollar spent on defense actually reduces our security!

But I think infosec is one of the more efficient means of spending defense dollars; tens or hundreds of billions of dollars of other stuff I'd cut first.
I wish it talked more about their DB hardware, I would believe MariaDB is more performant for scale out, whereas the MySQL improvement have been targeting scale up (something Oracle is very good at).
I'm an American who's lived in five countries and currently lives in Paris, France with my French wife and our French-American daughter (and if you're curious, I have a blog about how you can move abroad, too: http://www.overseas-exile.com/p/start-here.html). I note that the author says their aren't enough jobs in the US or Europe and I've got an issue with that.

Yes, Europe is also struggling with the world economic issues and part of this is the fiscal/monetary dichotomy of the Euro that they've not worked out, and clinging to austerity to save face (and because it sounds reasonable when the overspending straw man argument is pulled out). However, most of Europe (I tentatively exlude the UK) doesn't have the deep structural problems that the US has.

* The US has dropped from 1st to 12th place, internationally, in the number of people under 34 who've graduated from college (http://completionagenda.collegeboard.org/sites/default/files...)

* The US murder rate, while at it's lowest since 1995, is four to five times higher than any Western EU country (http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/...)

* The US the highest number of people in prison, per capita, than any other country on the planet (http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_pri_per_cap-crime-pris...)

* The US has gone from one of the developed world's lowest infant mortality rates to one of the highest (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/howard-steven-friedman/infant-...)

* US education levels are falling (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5juGFSx9Li...)

And I haven't even talked about health care or income inequality or the chipping away at the petrodollar, potentially ending the dollar's status as the default world reserve currency.

The US has deep, deep structural problems and these are long-term problems. Europe has some issues, too, but I don't believe the traditional US advantages of entrepreneurship and limited regulatory environment are enough to offset the EU problems.

The 21st century belongs to Europe and China unless the US stops its political crap, rolls up its sleeves and gets back to being the America we thought it was. There's still a huge potential in the US and it's a great place that I miss in many ways, but it's no longer the land of opportunity (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/why-us-eco...).
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We have a great contender on our hands. (It would have been a winner had the headline been a question like 'Are millions leaving facebook?')
I don't think you have to give DNA for a security clearance
The only thing as breathtaking as the amount of information the Chinese military has stolen is how dysfunctional their military is. Here [1] is an excellent article about corruption in the Chinese military. The Chinese government is a bizarre mix of authoritarianism, greed, patronage and nationalism, and it has no clear structure. The military is no different. It doesn't matter how much technology they have; as long as the military has no internal cohesion and accountability, they will never overtake the United States.

Here's a quote from the article, citing a 'princeling':

" "China no longer has a paramount leader who can hammer down authority at crucial junctures. "Gangs" of patronage and bribery are congealing together, he said, adding that "Corruption is the glue that keeps the whole system together, after the age of idealism." "

And another:

" A third princeling, whose father once ran China's security apparatus, blames Jiang for sabotaging the last leadership transition in 2002 by refusing to relinquish control of the military. He said Jiang promoted dozens of generals who are, as he put it, either "henchmen" or "morons." The result is that nobody is really in control, he said. "

[1] http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/04/16/rotting_fro...

Note: You don't have to sign up for foreignpolicy.com to read the article. Just disable JS or stop the page from loading before the popup shows up.
Seems to me that the only time I hear that Java is slow anymore is when I read someone asking "Why do people still say Java is slow," and the like.

Do people still say Java is slow?
Is there something wrong with Jackson that necessitated this?
If this will be a real legit business making money, 1500 isn't worth the risk of having to potentially pay 100x more when your business URL is known and thus may increase the value of the domain you are looking to buy.
Improve phrasing - define exceptions as either programming language "exception" conditions or exceptions to defect management policy, and clarify further (eg. only a subset of pl exceptions are defects or undersireable)
It would be great to display the prices in the local currency, especially when selecting the "What's around me" link. Otherwise just having a currency selection option would be good
Tesla may be a good candidate. My only reservation is I do think he may have tried or did invent weapons to sell to the military.
1. this could be done offline, or cached

2. unconvinced that they can't do better w/ the right hash table (which will be thousands of lines fewer of code). but since they're using a library, i'll give them a pass. not even a benchmark vs. a quick hash table version makes all the claims about "judy arrays are better for our purpose" suspect.