skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The world is a big place, and while it includes people who spend quite a bit of money on phones, it also includes another billion or so people who don't have one yet, chiefly for economic reasons.
Thanks very much :-)

Yes, I helped another team in a similar fashion just a few weeks back, and it worked out well for everyone.
Solid beam is probably a bad idea, but many tunnels have chains dangling above the road at the tunnel's maximum height - if you hit them, you will hear it,but they will do little damage to the vehicle.
Could it be that they don't prefer the rat race we are in and choose to live carefree?
That makes sense. And I'm sure a ton of time was spent on things that never saw the light of day. I guess my view on it is that if you want to run a lean startup, X% time is going to work against you. Once you are the size of Google, Amazon, HP, or 3M, then go for it. Otherwise, your startup is your X% time.

This gets tricky with companies that are no longer startups, but are not the 800 lb gorilla in their space either. Do you derive more efficiency from fostering X% time, or by getting your team to focus on the problem at hand?

I suppose that in the end, if your team is unhappy with the overall direction of your company, throwing them an occasional carrot will not fix things. You need to actually fix the underlying problem.
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Those "precious few" will probably not come from unfit parents who already have six children.

Broken families and lack of family planning lie at the heart of crime and poverty.

(I can already see the "eugenictler" strawman being put up in the distance)
And the trucks are controlled, still drivers manage to trick the regulators: "I'll drive your shift now you'll get mine once" etc.
> There won't be a cholera outbreak. Food is available and nobody is going to starve to death.

None of these really reflect how poor communities in the US are. Food insecurity is a real thing that affects a good number of households and individuals. Access to adequate medical care, including vaccinations, is difficult. Health and water conditions can vary greatly and may be unsanitary.

I agree that saying the US is like a third world is overblown, but we aren't exactly a shining beacon of care for all of the people that exist in our society.
I would imagine the smartest way to implement such a thing would be to index the amount of money to a basket of goods, much like the way in which inflation is calculated.
"I know that my FICA taxes are funding today's retirees, and not being held for me until I retire...."

And this is not even completely true. From 1983 to 2009 the surplus in FICA taxes compared to expenses was just spent (there are filing cabinets with unmarketable IOUs from the government, what Al Gore's "lockbox" was all about); only in 2010 did the main Social Security fund start running a real deficit requiring money from the general fund.

I wonder about the retirement age climbing concept. Among other things, it's an even heavier burden on the young, e.g. your not retiring means 1 or 2 of them won't get a job in the first place. How long will they support a system that squeezes them so much? (There's lots more than this, of course, like non-recourse student loans.)

What makes people your age think you'll be able to keep your jobs? I said "1 or 2" since its quite common to replace more expensive older workers with a couple of young ones. Way too many programmers my age, a decade older, are finding it nearly impossible to stay employed in the field (another reason we don't care for the H-1B, L-1 etc. visa programs); I sincerely hope your optimism "that as a software engineer I'm likely to be able to earn a good income doing work that I enjoy for as long as I want to." is well founded. I found it more and more difficult to find work starting sometime after age 35 until I got a clue and hid my age (easy since fortunate genetics makes me look decades younger than I am ... well, until I slip up and e.g. mention PDP-11s, which once got an "How old are you?!?!!" exclamation in an interview :-).
I tried Mark Rippletoe's program, and it didn't work for me. IMO, it worked my legs way too much. Squats 3 times a week? I went up in the beginning, but plateaued in a couple of months and then got the flu (and I rarely get sick). After a couple of weeks off, my legs were still sore. I tried to get back into it, but the constant pain and lack of progress finally made me give up.

Also, I don't understand why his routine is so lopsided as to favor the lower body.

Right now I'm doing Mike Mentzer's Heavy Duty routine, which after 3 months has been fantastic. It uses HIT principles, where you are only doing the minimum work necessary to stimulate the muscle. This translates to 1 set per exercise twice a week or so.

Check out http://boiseexperiment.com/HeavyDuty/?page_id=308
for a very detailed account of the results of doing such a workout.
:-)

The value-prop on acquihire is purely the talent.
I don't know why people insist on making a much bigger deal out of the start screen than it actually is. "I tried it for x time and never got used to it", "it's not make for mouse and keyboard", "they're forcing their app store on you"; all these arguments I hear but never actually experience. I've never needed or wanted a touchscreen with my Windows 8 desktop.

A more pressing question is if these conspiracy theories are true, why does using Windows 8 on a desktop on a daily basis feel so much to me like I'm using a better Windows 7? Why does it feel like a straight-line evolution of the traditional desktop OS? If everyone else is only seeing the touch overlay and it's really such a big fucking deal, why am I not having this same issue? My mouse didn't break when I upgraded my OS; it still clicks on the same old desktop programs I've always ran.
The clever thing about iMessage is that no-one even knows they are using it. On iOS at least, that's going to make it very hard to beat.

On Android there is more scope, but if, as expected, Google launch their cross-platform messaging service at IO, it'll be in direct competition with BBM. It'll be interesting to see if either brings a killer feature- I have a horrible suspicion that Blackberry will deliberately hobble their featureset on Android and iOS in order to push people towards Blackberry devices. That would be a horrible, horrible mistake.
I didn't realize this was part of a standard. Could you link to the section you're referring to?
This is what people have told me when I inquired about this in person.

Thanks for confirming it. And, of course, all of us already know about MOOCs, but knowing someone has taken a course there and it was good, is a decent indication for a beginner like myself.

Your advice also seems to get to the nitty-gritty -- to the point! So this is good! Thanks!
Yes, unless your code is very I/O bound using threads won't speed up your Python application
It's also in the Feynman lectures (proved only for quantum mechanics) and Feynman's popularization The Character of Physical Law (proof sketch for classical mechanics). (I suppose the latter is also in the online videos for the lectures that book was made from -- IIRC the Messenger lectures. http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/)
Here are videos showing the 7 exercises, along with some tips for avoiding potential damage (don't slide down after the wall sit, for example, push up, so you don't damage your knees):

http://lifehacker.com/these-12-videos-show-the-proper-form-f...
See https://github.com/axw/llgo for a 3rd party implementation based on LLVM that's fairly far along.
If you have a printer attached they just sign the old fashioned way.
In a few decades maybe, certainly not a few years.
2013 Gopher protocol conference location
I propose holding a conference about Gopher. My question to HN is should it be in Seattle, WA or the Bay Area in CA?

If it is popular we can hold another one in the East!
I focused mostly on pull-ups. I was in the military at the time and we had a pull-up bar near the exit of our work area. I typically did several sets of 10-15 each day. It took several months to work up to this point. At my best, I could do a single set of 30.

In addition to the pull-ups, I would do the Army's regular work out. This would involve running 2-3 miles 2-3 times a week, and performing general calisthenics(similar to the 7 minute workout originally posted, just at a slower pace.) 2-3 times a week.
It was cracked because it depended on a super-increasing sequence, the knapsack problem is still NP-Hard. However, finding a given sequence of primes that sum to the number is not really the knapsack problem.
I've wrote a similar piece of the subject 10 days ago.

https://medium.com/this-happened-to-me/96a22e176b1

The problem with those non personalise lifecycle emails is that they works on the "commoners" but can easily pissed of the tech savy users. Lucky for Weebly, they don't really care about the HN Crowd.

Lifecycle emails works best when they are highly personalise based on some actions the user made in the app or on the website.

So please, if you are looking in setting up lifecycle emails, make yourself ( and the users ) a favor and use powerful tools like customer.io, getvero, etc to easily create to personalised campaigns.
>> "Maybe longer than a year ago. But all the same, I don't know anyone that uses BBM now.
If, as expected, Google launch their cross-platform messaging service at IO, it'll be in direct competition with BBM."

I know quite a lot of people that use Blackberry specifically because of BBM. I have however seen a lot of people (on all platforms) start migrating to Whats app and Viber so Blackberry might be too late. I'm excited to see what Google introduces but honestly I don't know 1 single person that uses any of their messaging platforms apart from Gmail. The two platforms used most in my experience are SMS and Facebook Messenger.
Honestly, who cares what it's called and how it falls into other categories? I think by fighting over what terms to use, we're missing the forest for the trees.

In living in the SV sandbox/bubble, it seems we forget about some of our global compassion. Nobody says we need to be 100% charitable in our actions, or follow some strict socialist regimen, but I think it's useful to acknowledge that we do overlook some of the problems at our doorstep. If we cared, we could definitely create solutions to some of them, and some of those solutions might even be profitable.
Seriously. Comments like that are the reason I try to frequent HN less often. I grew up in the mission in SF, but that was when it was still a 'ghetto' that nobody wanted to set foot in (I still have a lot of friends that are paranoid about it), and as you might assume from that, my family wasn't ever that financially well off either. So seeing things like this just makes me cringe at how disconnected and insensitive this newer wave of (for the lack of a better term) 'more fortunate' people are.

Being able to simultaneously look at the absurd rent prices in SF, and then interpret the homelessness problem as a 'choice' is some serious obliviousness, if not an all-out exercise in orwellian double-think. I know it's a bit of a popular 'thing' amongst a certain subculture in the Haight (hell some of my friends have done that), but that's been around for ages, and I'd hardly call that culture a majority...

The original article pretty much got it right: people here like living in bubbles.
... down by the river?
Really? "any vehicle size"?

Including trucks carrying around 40ft tall construction equipment (like cranes) on flatbeds? What about those huge wind-turbine pieces?

You can't plan for "any", especially with shrinking government budgets globally. You plan for "most", and work to ensure the remainder has some sort of possible route.
I still have nightmares about memory management in JavaScript following an unfortunate project involving a very media-rich application running on Vizio TVs with "Yahoo Widgets for Connected TVs" (a non-HTML JavaScript app framework that derives from the old Konfabulator).

Not only do you have all the usual issues with JavaScript and memory, but the amount of RAM available is tiny and the garbage collector is run on a set timer and if you blow your memory budget between these timed calls to the garbage collector, the program soft crashes (you'd think an emergency gc would be scheduled if memory pressure were that high -- you'd be wrong!). Even if you were very careful to set unused objects to undefined or explicitly delete them, the memory those objects took still counted against you because of the timed gc system. Object pooling was absolutely required but even then you had to be very careful not to blow your memory budget.

The 'soft crash' would result in a situation where the app and overall runtime is still running but the state of the software is no longer reliable until you reboot the TV. And none of this stuff (the timed gc, etc) was documented at all, and there's little to no active community for "Yahoo Widgets" so you basically had to figure this all out on your own.
I'd like to jump in and clarify a few things. First, we have recently been testing the frequency of our email sending, and the author seems to have been bucketed into the "more frequent" group. That being said, we were actually planning on reducing the frequency of what we emailed the author by roughly 25%, including eliminating the "Your website misses you" and the "It’s been 8 days, 2 hours, 30 minutes and 6 seconds…" emails, among others. I just fast-tracked this and it's now live, so our email volume when you sign up is now much lower.

Second, we put a lot of effort into trying to send personalized email communication that is specific to your use case, but it looks like we missed a very important group, contributors to others' sites. This was a mistake. These emails may make sense if you were starting your own site, but they certainly don't make sense if you were just contributing to someone else's. I'm going to make sure we revise that set of emails within 2 weeks to something more appropriate and even less frequent.

Last, as many here are correct to assume, we are constantly testing and refining our email communications. I think it's helpful to understand our customer's psychology when they are signing up for Weebly, it is instructive in understanding our thought process and why we send the emails we do.

Most of our customers (60%) consider themselves entrepreneurs. They are bringing a new idea to life, things like chairigami.com, themintspace.com, stealthelectricbikesusa.com or weeknightbite.com. They are quitting their full-time jobs to do this and it's a very frightening process.

Creating their site is especially daunting and difficult for them, even though it's so crucial to their success. Many of them start the process, want to finish, but give up. We've found that the first week is the most crucial. In our email communications, it's our goal to try to help them across the finish line to a high-quality site.

In this case, we were emailing too often, and we've stopped doing that. In general, most of our users do appreciate some help and encouragement along the way, and we will keep testing emails to try to make that as effective, helpful, and non-annoying as possible.
Worst app update ever. Seriously Twitch?
Okay off-by-one, greater than 7.

But more fun is 'every even number 10 and up is the sum of at most four primes, at least one of them being 3.
Here's a list of 20 ways to get traction for your site.

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/04/in-the-pursuit-o...
Social Engineering – naked neighbors
The fundamental problem is separating the cheaters from those who really deserve help.

In a system where the individual can decide where to put the money, everybody can decide who is deserving of help.

If you mandate wealth redistribution, you need to create a complex ruleset that decides who is eligible. The rules are established by the ineffective and opaque processes of politics and government.

The resulting system is more complex, more expensive and easier to game.
Is this some kind of competition (serious question)?
BBM is still fundamentally flawed by the fact that Rim controls it. Do I trust Rim? Not inherently. And with the recent post by Moxie regarding messaging interception I don't understand why anyone would favor giving a large corporation a single point of inspection that will, likely, not be understood if it's users are sharing I the clear or not. All of these apps blow from that perspective which is why I use none of them.
Poll: Where do you host your static website?
Curious to know where the HN community hosts their static websites. If there's an option missing, leave a comment and I'll add it.
Bitbucket Websites
Site44
Rackspace Cloudfiles
Paperplane.io
Harp.io
With the domain registrar
Manage my own Apache, Nginx, etc.
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No trivial feat? It seems to me that managers would be more willing to gamble than a typical programmer. But I still agree with you. I'd like to see a post about how someone switched to go from cobol.
Tesla's Profiable 1Q13 Only Because of Your Tax Dollars
The difference is it's a true compilation. Most lisps will save like a data image that still needs to launch the runtime.
proposal posted!
Testing this on various boxen I have immediate access to with kernel versions from 3.2, 3.5, 3.7 and 3.8, I get mixed results. On half of them it triggers a kernel bug, but gets killed before it can return a root shell, on the others it aborts without triggering a kernel bug. Either I'm rather lucky or this exploit is fragile. Perhaps both.
Starting Strength and only primarily targets the ability to lift heavy objects. On its own it does nothing to improve your cardio fitness and it doesn't directly help with postural problems or injury prevention. And if your
main interest is in gaining muscle and looking better, there are much better routines. In all the gyms I've been to, I've yet to see a big guy who was doing a stripped down strength focused routine... Finally, it also has to be noted that many people do not have good experiences with the big barbell exercises, especially if they have pre-existing issues with their knees/back/shoulders, even if they use good form.
Go puts the Go in Google.
248? In Helsinki I think I saw more than that passed out on a single tram ride. Helsinki had far more homeless than any big US city I've ever been to(at the very least they were far more visible). I also had more negative experiences with aggressive homeless there than I have had here. I forget the tram line, but it was the one that goes from University of Helsinki to Tooloo.
Chinese project probes the genetics of genius
I flag twitter and facebook We-haven't-seen-you-in-a-long-time messages as spam. Because those emails are also about selling a product. But as someone who runs a tiny niche forum, I am tempted to mail users to return. So I am in a dilemma of sorts morally.
What an absolutely brilliant & simple move by Square. POS register systems are a huge, costly market and this is an incredibly attractive option, esp at that price - talk about disruption! Nice job guys!
While I like the idea of a Basic Income, and have actually come to support it heartily, (if you don't, take a look at some of the economists who have, and why they do) you are being naive to think that "self-inflicted cases" are somehow anything other than a vast majority.

Almost all homeless have mental illness and/or substance abuse issues. That's why they are unable to act on one of the endless options that exist at the moment that can get them even the most basic of accommodations and employment. The people your solution truly helps are the non-homeless poor. To be honest this is a much easier issue to address given some willpower. Then again, as a Canadian, I find basic medical care to be a no brainier as well, which seems to be something the US struggles with quite a bit.

You can't simply suggest that addiction/mental illness is "self inflicted", give them $10K and say "You're on your own, bud." That isn't solving anything. Solving homeless is the same as solving mental illness and/or addiction, and those are massively hard problems to address.
Its great that you got in shape lifting heavy weights. Mark Rippetoe discusses why it is easier to regain old strength as opposed to building new strength in his starting strength series.

I don't really see your anecdote disproving the GP, rather, it seems it is further evidence of the GP's hypothesis that heavy lifting is required for strength gains.

Congratulations on your gains, though.
Try posting a link to a page on the Pirate Bay in Facebook comments and see what happens.
check out this link: http://www.coronalabs.com/products/corona-sdk/

cross platform check out some of the tutorials.
Because every damn computer manufacturer out there insists that the only thing that is worth a damn in Windows 8 is the touch interface, when it's the exact opposite.

The bean counters always love to do this, even though they haven't the slightest clue how an OS works.
This strategy will be much harder if you have to sign a non-compete agreement.
I once saw a research group leader talk his head off, why what his group was doing was innovative, even though the committee thought otherwise - even though most of the people in the room knew he was just trying to secure funds and the work they've done wasn't nearly as revolutionary as it was advertised. Not the most uplifting experience, but reality I guess.
I see no evidence that Square would make one although they could. Until they achieve a huge market percentage they are still in growth mode. That requires brand trust first.
Well, NoSQL databases is a pretty broad term. Not all NoSQL databases are created alike, for example, MongoDB is a "document orientated database" where as HBase is a "column-oriented store" based on the Google BigTable whitepaper.

As far as I know, key design is not an important aspect with MongoDB but I could be mistaken. HBase has a pretty awesome book (http://www.hbasebook.com/), which has an entire chapter dedicated to key design. Lars (the author) also has a pretty in depth 1 hour video on key design (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HLoH_PgrLk).

HBase is pretty widely used, I've seen 1200+ node clusters running production tables.
And still sucky software is a fact of life.
From Parsing to Compiling
Stop being so silly.

brew install maven

And use the text editor of your choice.

(Or you could just install IntelliJ and get a stellar development environment with nearly everything you'd ever need.)
A big part of gym time is getting there, changing (twice) and taking a shower. When I used to go to the gym, I did SS and it took between 50 and 60 minutes to complete the workout, but I left home at 5:30 AM and got to school at 8:00 AM. There was one hour to walk to/from the gym and about 30 minutes to change and wash up.

Since I started working out at home (same kind of deal as OP), I got less strong, but not by much, but I also have more time.
Kaptan, configuration manager for python projects
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In Canada, virtually all credit card transactions now take place via chip insertion, not swiping, and chip transactions require PIN entry, not signing. Unless they get an external numpad to handle such things, this is going to be a security nightmare.
I'd expect it's less brave for someone from an industry and social circles comfortable with implants, injections scalpels, etc, and with a bit more than a "livelihood" to ease the experience. The experience would surely be more foreign to the average woman, requiring more bravery. Angelina isn't dependent on the look of her breasts for her "livelihood". 87% risk is a no brainer.