skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a load of nonsense. 'Freedom of the international seas' is not an actual thing -- there is still law in international waters; it is not the wild west you imagine it to be.

Pirates 'that they were the forerunners of the modern private enterprise and democratic shareholder rights'? What? This is a mountainous unsubstantiated statement you've pulled out of the air.

'They were often called "privateers"' -- No, Privateers were privateers, whose purpose was to specifically inflict economic harm (as defined in the Treaty of Westphalia, which incidentally also set precedent for international law -- the same international law that governs your 'free' seas).

I'm happy to look at Pirate parties as groups championing a new dialectic of content ownership (or lack thereof), but to confuse the history of Piracy with this nonsense is the same underhanded rhetoric used by those who argue for things like CISPA. Don't muddy the argument with utter nonsense.
I think that depends on the person. I used Chantix and it was very easy to stop smoking. The hard part was not picking it back up again.

For weeks I had to fight habits: I needed something in my hand, I felt 'hungry' no matter how full I was (after eating smoke), I was watching a movie, etc.

After a couple of months the majority of the triggers are gone but occasionally I still find one. When that happens it isn't as hard because I broke so many of the other habits I know it will pass.

OTOH I enjoyed smoking, but I had to quit because I can't afford it and my other half is an ex-smoker.
This does not look at all like a hash collision. Any hash table worth a damn does not rely solely on hash value for retrieval. There's a separate comparison for dealing with collisions on lookup.
I've gotten everything from business plans to divorce papers sent to my firstname.lastname@gmail.com address. In some cases I've tracked them down and called their cell phones, and they still mistakenly send me email. There are some people whose email automatically gets re-routed to the 'correct' account with a note, and they continue to use my email address. Some have even sent me nasty emails saying they're blocking my address, as if I am to blame somehow for their incompetence.

I understand that people make mistakes and typos happen. But when you're dealing with legal documents there's no excuse for this kind of oversight.
Adam Kingsmith makes no mention of Canada's far more threatening hate speech laws. This article should have been titled "The Slow and Selectively Outrageous Death of Journalism at the Huffington Post."
This article doesn't mention the fake terrorist busts we have from time to time in order to pass security legislation.
My side-project (http://www.quizme.se) got posted to a decent sized facebook-group and peaked at 400 active visitors. Then the postgres-server stalled at 100% CPU-usage and the site went down. I was at day-work and could not do much about it.

The hourly graph from Google analytics looks like this: https://www.diigo.com/item/p/podoedezbpdaaccrczbabdsacq/05eb...
Is tracking someone's car a crime? It comes off as a newer form of stalking, in the casual if not legal sense of the term.
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Your study only shows that ecigs are safer than cigarettes. That is probably true and nobody here is disputing that. However, this is not sufficient reason to exempt ecigs from smoking bans. Smoking bans are about protecting the health of non-smokers. And non-smokers do not want the harmful effects of ecigs even if those effects are significantly less than those of cigarettes.
I actually made a fork of redis (as opposed to a reimplementation), with the design challenge "smallest possible patch" (to make it easier to merge forward), that used LMDB as a graveyard of "old keys" for this very purpose.

git://git.saurik.com/redis.git

I do not quite remember if there were any outstanding "didn't quite finish this corner case" items, but I don't think there were. (If I looked at it I could tell, but I'm on my phone, and should be looking at other things right now anyway.)

(edit: To be clear, I mean in "normal usage". I almost certainly didn't think through issues involving, say, replication, to make certain the semantics were always sensible; my goal was "doesn't crash or break or corrupt".)

(I think the problem was mostly that the higher-level architecture I was putting this piece into underwent a slight change that made me think I might need something slightly different, and the result became "since I literally only use the APPEND command, I can probably come up with something more directly solves my problem.)

If you have any questions, I'm on IRC (various networks, including freenode and irc.saurik.com as "saurik").
Ask HN - what skillset pays the most in tech?
For example all things being equal, a PHP dev gets paid less than dot net or Java. Is there any specific skillset that pays more than the rest? Either because it is hard to learn, or there aren't enough people to do it etc
very nice work bro... thumbs up
I've seen most of them, here some recommendations of my own:

* Revolver (2005)

* Enter the void (2009)

* The fountain (2006)

* Jacob's ladder (1990)

* Lost highway (1997)

* Love and sex (2000)

* RocknRolla (2008)

* The road (2009)

* The shining (1980)
Another idea - an interviewing tool. If someone comes to me and says he knows regex, I sit him in front of your website and have him complete a test you will have created for that purpose. Your tool would grade the applicant, so as a hiring manager I won't have to know regex to understand if the applicant knows regex. $20-$50 per test sounds reasonable to me.
Meet The CEO Who Lived In A Taco Bell Parking Lot And Now Runs A Startup
Of course the FBI wanted to do the same thing without warrants.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/02/25/fbi-turns-off-thousan...
Can anyone verify this story?
CSS3 Traveling Through Space
"So the question is, without LinkedIn, how would a (good) recruiter even find your email address with which to contact you?"

That's a great question. You should ask a good recruiter. Because there were surely recruiters, and good ones, plying their trade before LinkedIn.

I'm willing to state, unequivocally, that if a recruiter's top talent discovery system is LinkedIn, that recruiter is not a good recruiter.

My relatively uninformed opinion is that to be a good recruiter you have to forge relationships. And I'm pretty sure a lot of us would agree that LinkedIn is not a good platform for forming relationships.
> Going back to the subject of the article, I wonder how much this visit program actually costs, and whether it could be direct-marketed to wealthy people with elderly parents. "For $10,000(e.g.) a year, we can reduce your parents' hospitalizations by 33% and help them live independently." Sort of like concierge medicine.

Better yet, maybe health insurance companies could offer lower rates to chronic patients who enroll in a visit-program. They are the organizations with the most financial incentive to implement these programs.
I'm sure that it is, and many people seem to do it. However, it's a lot easier to see smoking as it really is and be happy to walk away from it.
Please stop spreading baseless information.
It's a good example of how someone can look at an algorithm/software and not realise what bits are critically important. "Oh this bit I can change without anything bad happening". It shows there are unknown unknowns in security.
Eliminated? No, I think that's overstating it. But reduced? Likely.
Fun with Hilbert Curve: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik2CZqsAw28
Also, you can go to prison for thoughtcrimes. They don't mention that. Of course, that's also the case in the #1 "freest" country, Finland, so I guess they don't take that into account.
What are the actual figures regarding Medicare fraud? I've seen conservative groups quote numbers like $.20-$.50 of each medicare dollar while liberal groups quote numbers like $.01-$.05
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I was one of two developers on a social media network in Norway, at peak hours (from about 20:00 till 22:00) we had 60.000 unique users with activity within the last 10 minutes. This generated about 400 dynamic req/s and about 6000 static req/s. We managed this sustained traffic with a total of 12 webservers (apache + memcached), 4 databases (mysql) and 6 Varnishes.
With few other outlets, inmates review prisons on Yelp
"Piratpartiet" (The Pirate Party) mainly got it's name from "Piratbyrån" (The Pirate Bureau), which was a think tank for information, culture, and intellectual property (and started TPB). They in turn took their name, tongue-in-cheek, from the lobby group "Antipiratbyrån" (The Anti-Piracy Bureau), which is similar to the MPAA or BSA. Also the modern definition of pirate is basically "doing something without a permit", as in pirate radio, pirate recording, pirate copy etc. This differs from the old definition which is "to attack" something.
People who aren't socially disabled recognize that you don't always tell all the people all that is true. I'd never deny say surfing for porn, but that doesn't mean I want my mom to know my porn viewing tastes.
I dropped a pin and wound up in an art gallery. Cool project and a pleasant surprise.
I don't really know where you want to go with this project whether its a company or just an interesting side project but I work as a Data Analyst.

Would you like some help analysing the data further? I think it's an interesting project with potential.
Take your laptop in with you? Come on, I bet you have...
What is Adword? How does it work?
Don't forget to download your Posterous blog
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I take your "facts" with a heaping pile of salt, considering that Sweden has one of the highest tax rates in the Western world, Latvia's economy is smaller than most U.S. states and is smaller than the economies of NY, LA, Chicago, or Atlanta, and China's government has spent more in the past decade to rev up its economy and keep it going than the rest of the world combined. China spent billions on the Olympic facilities alone, not including the hundreds of billions they spent on other infrastructure projects of the past decade, or the subsidized loans to factories, farms, bio-tech companies, and real estate developers that would generally be considered illegal under various WTO pacts and accords if China was considered a 1st-world nation. (Most major Chinese corporations are government-owned; in some industries, all of the major Chinese corporations are government-owned.) China's recent (within the past 6 months) reduction in government spending has virtually killed it's construction and real estate sectors, and it has a huge debt bubble which is on the verge of collapsing.
I've been stopped for 3 years, I smoked 20 a day for 12 years prior to stopping.

Stopping was difficult to do but I'd been thinking about it for a while and my mother getting diagnosed with a heart problem (she's smoked since she was 16) was a good incentive so I picked my 30th birthday and just stopped.

I initially used gum to manage the cravings but after a month or so I kept forgetting to pick the gum up or simply ran out so I stopped buying it.

For the first year or so I used to get sporadic random cravings (but I just visualized my mother on a heart machine clearly in my mind each time, talk about negative re-enforcement) but they've gone now.

My GF continued to smoke throughout before and after I quit which in theory should have made it harder but in reality actually worked in my favour after a month of not smoking the smell was nauseating.

I put quite a bit of weight on while I was stopping which took a while to lose but other than that and not getting a chest infection the last 3 winters (where I'd usually had one or two a year in the previous decade) I've not noticed much difference in my health.
H'm, I have indulged in this as a thought experiment plenty of times, and actually think it might ease the pressure of immigration, specially on countries like the United States. Although I suppose the complications of things like benefits and medical care make it probably un-implementable in practice.

I'm reasonably well off, childless, and if I were given a free choice of any country to emigrate to, I'm fairly sure the U.S. wouldn't be the first on my list.
I just found out about this comment. There is a bunch of arrogant and condescending Googlers that continue mocking you in both the internal mailing lists and the memegen site. Thought you'd like to know that they're still obsessed with you.
For the upper 50%, sure, but the free market failed and generally fails to give the lower 50% of earners access to sufficient resources to do proper sanitation. Treating clean water as a commodity rather than a public utility is a public health disaster. Each household needing expertise and equipment for water purification does not scale.
just asking. What's th difference between this and npm install --save?
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I agree with what Isamu has pointed out I don't want to repeat those points. While this is indubitably slick and fits nicely with the whole super-sleek app-like web trend, but, the way I understand its purpose, the design of it goes totally against it. However, to add to the discussion I'd like to point to Timo Arnalls write-up on the misleading trend of invincible interfaces http://www.elasticspace.com/2013/03/no-to-no-ui
There clearly are some medical emergencies that need responses that fast, otherwise I wouldn't see so many ambulances flying by with lights and sirens. Now, maybe there aren't enough of those in the problem category to make a difference in costs. However, even 4-6 hours seems like a pretty short amount of time given that you're going to be trying to identify someone as on a blacklist when they most likely will be trying not to be identified, and measures like requiring ID before treatment will exclude a lot of people not on the blacklist.
If you cross paths with enough Googlers in your career, eventually you'll come across the lucky souls with first names as gmail accounts; then when they explain the deafening background radiation they get, you start thinking "hm, maybe lolhackerx0@gmail.com isn't such a bad address after all"...

Example: Grandma sending pictures to Larry! Oh, he must be larry@gmail.com, right?
... if they can get by with donations, that seems a tad simpler.

Also, I don't have to watch any ads! Hurray for Wikipedia!
Medicare spending in 2010 was $560 billion. The article says that conservative (i.e. lowball, not Republican) estimates are that $100 billion is fraud, and adventurous estimates have it at $300 billion in fraud, but no one is really sure.
I already use bitbucket for that. But if I felt compelled to use this feature on GitHub, without paying their monthly fee, there's not much preventing me from pretending to be female.
Salts are used to make rainbow tables useless.
I haven't been able to wrap my mind around the whole 'flat' concept. Could someone please explain what 'flat' really means. The only thing that I really notice about flat design that stands out is the color scheme and the don't-care-about-layers philosophy.
For example, modern liberals would take away guns from people who have done nothing to earn that distrust.

All while cheerfully reciting Ben Franklin's "Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither."
Probably Cobol and maintaining legacy banking mainframe systems because it would cost more to bring them up to date.
Just curious, how can you tell exactly which font it is?
Tell HN: All new iPhone apps and app updates submitted must support iPhone 5
From Apple:
"As of May 1, all new iPhone apps and app updates submitted must support the 4-inch display on iPhone 5."
Unique technical skills. For example when Google decided that they wanted to built V8 (JS JIT) they couldn't just entire anyone who's read some JIT book one time, they need someone with genuine expertise, publication history and leadership in the field. There are only like 50 people max in the world who could do that. They also needed a GC for that JIT, so they need another expert in that field. Those people get the big bucks.

The guy who runs the self-driving car project at Google earns tons, and he's not just someone who picked it up as he went along. He picked something, became and expert when few others did, so when Google wanted to hire him, he could argue that if you don't hire me there are only like five other people you could even ask to do this, so he could negotiate for a very high salary.

So you need to become a genuine expert in something, with a publication history to back it up.
I think we care about cost savings politically, but we don't care about evidence. If someone holds the political belief that cutting public services for the poor saves public money, it's unlikely that any number of studies will change their mind.

Politicians seem to have decent motives, but the system is almost inherently allergic to facts.
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My problem with that is that nobody has yet MADE a solid alternative to traditional movie distribution. His options are basically traditional or give it away for free/donations. Television has gained the fun alternative of getting published by Hulu or Netflix, but there simply isn't money in that for a movie people will only really view one time. Since he obviously doesn't want to go broke here, and is funneling a lot of his own money in, why should he give it away? The people donating KNOW they aren't getting advance tickets, so this is a case of it really not affecting the pissed off people.
I still think making a website for just 1 style is a bit, useless. What if I do just one website saying "Art Deco colors" featuring a miserable color palette of 12 colors. It's just crap utility for any good designer.

I love colors, I personally own 6 o 7 color books with thousands color patterns for working on specific designs. But this, this is just 1 color palette and not the only one you can use on "flat designs".

Sorry but the website fails, show me thousands, not 1.
I love it, puts things in great perspective.
Someone shoot me.
Microsoft is listening...
Numba vs Cython
You could have the healthiest country in the world by a huge margin if you just summarily executed anyone who got a serious illness!
That's awesome! How many people it take total to run the operation?
I Accidentally Built a Blogging Platform
what company has the time to just chat?
From 1 to 20 then down to about 3 on average now. I've had my project (https://writeapp.me) on HN a few times but it really went nowhere. Recently however its been featured on MakeUseOf at least twice, Web Appstorm, and a number of other tech/teacher blogs.

Before the MakeUseOf article I'd get 3 to 10 hits a day with 1 visitor at a time. After the first MakeUseOf article it went to about 20 at a time for about a day. After that the site has been picked up by other blogs (some of them review it multiple times on different days) so the traffic has increased about 100% from pre-review levels and has been holding steady at about 100-ish visitors a day and 3 users at a time normally. Note that there are obviously periods in the day where its 0 because you can't have 100 uniques and 3 visitors on site at the same time all day. The math doesn't add up. I'm just talking about what I see whenever I check my analytics which is pretty often during the weekdays.
The other restrictions aren't aimed at any particular group, and therefore harbor at least the potential to silence Our Sort. But by their very design, hate speech laws only target a bunch of misfit losers who most definitely are Not Our Sort.
Wow. I saw this and thought "that's what's wrong with flat UI."

From this, I now gather that flat UI is a reduction tool. That's effective when you want to show something simple, and make that simplicity clear. But when you have something more complex, like a map, the bandwidth lost to the reduction is substantial and painful.
What does HRF stand for?
GNU has been doing this for as long as I can remember. Why shocking?
Same question. What's the benefit of this vs. --save?
> Or is there something else that worries you about FTP?

You know what his objection likely is. Computing is a fashion industry now, so if you want to sound modern, you have to use something "new" solely because it is new, and stop using "old" stuff because it doesnt run on Rails and isnt agile or whatever.
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you're mobile phone has the exact same capabilities as glass. it just isn't mounted on your face.
your mobile phone has the exact same capabilities as glass. it just isn't mounted on your face.
What do you mean "see smoking as it really is"? Obviously we do see the negatives, otherwise we wouldn't quit at all. That doesn't change anything about the fact that smoking can be an extremely enjoyable activity.
Don't Googlers have mailboxes on the google.com domain directly? Gmail has only been around since April 1, 2004.
Something similar happened to a friend of mine 3 months ago, however I didn't have this much detail.

What I did know was that the person who took over his (my friend's) account didn't have his laptop or PC hacked but the hijacker used Skype support instead and involved, what I'm assuming, the same information that the OP's thread mentions.

Interestingly, there's no link to what the moderator was mentioning here :

"Dear All,

The post in question was deleted from this thread as the information was duplicate-posted elsewhere. The post did not directly contribute to the topic.

This thread has been escalated to those to whom I report.

Regards,

Elaine

Community Moderator"

I'm curious to find where that "elsewhere" is. I've never seen a legitimate case of posts being deleted because content was "duplicate-posted elsewhere." At the most, the thread will get locked with a link to wherever "elsewhere" resides.
> Anyone that isn't a professional chef is probably going to leave a little blood on a knife by cutting themselves with it.

That's a strong claim.

I'm not a professional chef but I like to use a chef's knife, and I cut rather fast. Yet I don't remember ever cutting myself to the point of bleeding. I only remember scraping off nails and skin.

> like some blood caught in the space between the handle and the blade

I reckon that if it gets stuck between the handle and the blade then we're talking about more than a little blood.
So what does this do? Signed up to try it up. Said yes to the permissions regarding position and what so ever and said no for the application to post on my friends wall. After that, I clicked "I want to watch this" on a movie and the button turned "I watched it!", nothing else happened on the website nor Facebook.

I don't understand what the website is supposed to do?
If I were in a position to land an interview for any job I was interested in, how would I be hurting myself by ignoring recruiters? Indeed, if I'm not even interested in a new position, how would what you say be true? Access to a recruiter's hidden list of jobs I don't know I want yet? Is a recruiter going to convince me, know my mind better? I find that doubtful. Anytime I went looking for a job I've tried to work out who the company were and route around the recruiter.

CTO's ignoring recruiters is one thing, developers I've met do not see recruiters as a source of value, rather an occasionally necessary evil.
You can choose to only go with friends on the site too.