skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the emergent 'Australian regulators are pain' meme, I actually emailed one of the bodies and requested documents regarding the decision not to adopt IIBAN, a useful and intelligent account identification scheme now used throughout Europe, Israel, and a growing list of other countries, within Australia. Their reply was essentially 'it happened in some meeting', followed by 'ignore' when I pushed for further information.

I suspect the real reason the status quo was protected was something to do with a brilliant track record of globally high fees and unending profits for Australian banks.

Hopefully the Wikileaks Party can put the fear of transparency in to these people!
so sad!
hrm, co-dementor. interesting choice of name ;)
You hit the nail on the head. It kills me how much technology we have yet working with a remote team isn't even something a lot of top design teams will even consider. We have video conferencing in our pockets, but nope, gotta drive 3 hours (or more) every day in order to produce good design. It's baffling.
So you believe what you read? This post gives exactly zero insights about his leaving reasons. The stuff about the nice team is just normal happyspeak, he could be completely pissed off he would have written the same exact words.
The proper gauge of a charity is not overhead but lives saved per unit money, whether you go for acturial lives saved or quality adjusted life years.

If the charity your webmaster friend worked at saved a life for $1,800 donated it would be a good place to donate money.

Jason Trigg probably saved 20 lives last year. Are you saying that what he did is bad?
That is great. I keep an Evernote notebook on inspiring business ideas and material, where I just stashed his values list.
This is actually pretty clever, simple, and seems pretty secure. I'm not sure about attack vectors if someone has many of your passwords, but this seems good enough for most people.
Saddened. RIP, sir.
Confirmation bias 101? This is probably the most "echo chamber" friendly statement of any I've seen here. An assertion with no evidence, seemingly rooted in a self satisfying sense of superiority, based on the bizarre proposition that the only way to stay ahead in the field is by reading HN. The idea that a popularity contest might tell you stuff that's actually ahead of its time is arguably naive. It's not like we have millenia of history to show that world changing ideas at unpopular or anything.
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I guess you could make an editor tool which could let you construct these from circles/rects etc.. then output css or svg.

Did you make a tool to construct these? ie to place elements by dragging with the mouse rather than trial and error.
RCMP generally don't chase vehicles here in Canada for this exact reason.
This article isn't available in full online (well, without paying), but it's all about why in the LA area there are so many police chases:

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/01/23/060123fa_fact_fr...

I haven't read it since it came out in 2006, but suffice it to say that the Los Angeles area has vastly more police chases per capita than the rest of the United States, and therefore if something like this was going to happen it's statistically unsurprising that it happened near LA.

From that article: "In 2004, California led the nation with 7,321 pursuits, and the majority of them-5,596-took place in L.A. County". Google cites approximately 10 million population for LA County and 38 million for California, so if my math is right that's roughly 56 car chases per 100,000 population in LA County versus 6 per 100,000 in the rest of the state. (Population figures are 2011 for LA County, 2012 for California, versus 2004 for the chase stats, but it should be pretty close.)

That doesn't answer why the police chase, because obviously it's done far less elsewhere, though it does happen. In Austin, Texas, my wife was overtaken on the highway by a car being chased by the police, and in order to avoid getting rear-ended by the chasee who was going very fast she side-swiped the vehicle next to her and substantial damage was done. Some day if that criminal strikes it rich she's theoretically got victim's compensation due to her. We're not holding our breath. They ended up catching the guy on foot after he exited the highway.
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This will be useful to all the people who buy useful items and do practical things with bitcoins. Thank you!
Because you can paint pictures of things that you cannot take photos of (things that don't exist for one). Likewise, I imagine with this you could make the twitter bird morph into a textarea when you click it, or other such shenannigans.
How to Make a 3D Printed Bearing. This is way cooler than you'd expect.
I'm from the midwest with the same amount of experience. 85k here with a 10% yearly bonus. There's plenty of opportunities for a competitive salary in the midwest.
The complication is vaccines have two benefits.
1. I am less likely to be infected
2. I am less likely to infect someone who can't be vaccinated.
If you want people to leave you alone then you have to convince them that point 2 is less important than something else.
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If you're a patrolman then a car chase is probably one of the more exciting things you'll do, and it's a scenario that comes to mind when you first think of "this is what police do". In reality, you probably spend a lot of time checking mundane things, pulling people over (perhaps to meet a quota), and lots of paperwork and bureaucracy.

Even if it is scary, I think it's possible that some officers won't back down from a chase. And this involved a chase of someone believed to be a public menace.

(Sorry, not justifying the actual chase. Just pointing out that it's not strange that it occurred, given the status quo there)
Write an automator script to download and play pR*n at random. Loud.
Note: the Hacker part in Hacker News refers to people who build stuff, not the other ones Hollywood and US courts portray as supervillains.
Or, they spend their time generating revenue and value instead of posting on 90 threads about golang, erlang, or conlang. (Yeah, I ran out of steam there.)
News of this kind makes me confused, scared and angry. Confused because of questions like 'Is Government directly responsible for jobs?', 'What is the skill set of the youth?' etc.
Scared because the youth have families to feed, they have ambitions and this leads to a rise in suicides among the youth.
Angry because the government, due to their poor economic choices, have ruined the dreams of the youth. The government is responsible for providing opportunities and freedom, if not employment. But they fail, for various reasons, including corruption, dirty politics, poor economic choices etc.
It's different from country to country, but in general lot's of them live with their parents and most of them receive some welfare.

In Southern Europe it's not unnormal to live with your parents way into your twenties or even early thirties. And it's not considered embarrassing either. In the cafés of Barcelona, Rome, Athens, you will meet the well dressed 31 year old guy with a smart phone in his pocket a laptop on his knees and a girlfriend by his side. He drives a nice little car, goes on vacations once or twice a year, has a master in something soft, which he got for free, and he is covered by free health care. He lives with his parents or - if he is lucky - in one of their spare apartments (lots of Southern European families have more than one home). He may have a low paid job or he may be unemployed living with a bit of government welfare and occational help from daddy.
Most cities do not allow cops to conduct high speed chases in populated areas. But it happens and innocent people die, because the cops are on a righteous mission and shall not be deterred.

I watched a 25 year old woman die on the pavement at 16th and Dolores in San Francisco, hit by a car running a red light, being chased by cops. Apparently the car had been reported stolen.

Not a worthy mission, in my opinion.

Note: of course it's the chasee's fault. But cops know exactly what happens in these situations, and cannot be excused.
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He is not a real Haskell beginner though :P
Yeah, but back then, you could read all the newsgroups. You'd finish and there'd only be a couple posts that propagated to your UUCP node while you were reading.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sce.21055/full Link to the research article. The link in the article is dead.
Move to Madison, WI. I'm at 105k and the market is pretty strong.
It's probably true of any forum where people hang out because they're passionate about their profession.
The statistics, it burnses, it burnses.

Can we leave any percentages and probability out of this conversation? Think of the children!
Do you mean that you believe austerity will help avoid collapse, or that austerity will bring it on? I think you mean the former. I'm too ignorant on the issue to have an opinion myself.
looks good, but it's actually harder to parse and more work for brain :(
Except, as far as I know, a functional language is one that doesn't violate referential transparency. But then again I may be waaaay off base.
Don't forget that HN users upvoted it.
This is potentially very nice for CSS. Thanks for sharing!
Starting rumors about someone's termination/resignation is never good for your professional reputation.
eh.. zxcvbn-async.js is returning content-type text/plain instead of application/javascript (chrome gives me an error about this, firefox doesn't) and sha.js is returning a 404.
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hello everybody, source code examples in ldd3 are based on 2.6.10, which won't compiled on kernel version using in most currently linux distributions.I've port them to all linux longterm stable branch after 3.0. see https://github.com/duxing2007/ldd3-examples-3.x.
Just terrible :( Why does it always seem like the worst and most insignificant wastes of human beings always take away great ones?
And then this is not a union either:
http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/labor/state-unemployment...
The difference between unemployment in North Dakota and Puerto Rico is 4 fold, not that different from Austria vs. Greece.

Also, the figures for Greece are the February figures.
The largest industry in Greece, tourism, takes off right about now, and last year on the beach in Greece there were plenty of young Greeks working the beaches, bars and hotels. But of course, many of these jobs are unofficial so they may continue to count as unemployed.
> the worst and most insignificant wastes of human beings always take away great ones?

Because you never cared about non-great ones. Observer bias.
you guys did notice that this account was created 1 hour ago, right?
It's a sad day. His many contributions to the open source and the gaming communities will live on, like his work on VBjin-OVR, a Virtual Boy Emulator.

http://code.google.com/p/vbjin-ovr/source/browse/oculus/Comm...
You can explicitly override multiple assignment in elixir by using a carat:

a = 1
^a = 1 - ok
^a = 2 - bad match
The Emacs Creed
Most cops are really dumb.
Unfortunately there is still debate about the benefit/drawbacks of austerity, but if Europe is any indication, it is just degrading the whole situation. What's keeping Europe away from the edge or from a turn to prosperity is the hard-nosed devotion to austerity.
1 million
Because worthwhile people generally don't go around killing others.
This is extremely sad, but it made me think of an important topic: contingency planning.

Pretty much every organization I've worked for was missing a "key developer got hit by bus" plan for at least one major project.
Neat, should be utilized more. Thought about something like that when working on a new version of my site, but I am not conversant enough with CSS to go for it at this point.

Nice job, though.
Why? What do you have to hide?

Backs away suspiciously
It annoys me how willing he is to push the externalities of his decisions onto other people. ("I won't carry a cell phone, but fortunately everyone else does and I can just mooch off of them"). It's like that friend who won't own a car but sure as hell will mooch a ride.

This reminds me of a story my friend told me. Back in the early 90's(?) my friend had his lunch eaten by RMS, several times. I don't think it was malicious--it was more like if RMS was hungry, would just be happy that someone was kind enough to leave him something to eat in the AI lab fridge.

It was kind of considered an honor--after all, what were you going to do, complain, get him angry, and delay the release of Hurd?
Increasingly, I'm scared this is the prospect faced by youth in the US. There is no doubt the US is in a relatively sounder position than Europe, but the past few years of recent grads not being able to find work has left a bleak prospect in our minds about future work even when the economy recovers.
Actually, they can keep writing cheques and cashing them, they have their own currency, it allows you to do that. The current problem is that the "core" of the EU thinks it is in their best interest to keep inflation down and let the other nations suffer. The best evidence we have so far indicates that this is a very bad idea.
oops... not sure what to do about the chrome error, but sha.js thing should be fixed, thanks!
Given the title, I was hoping this was narrated by Psy.
Also, you can still read those same newsgroups and those same messages. Might not seem as timely, but whatever.
Don't be unfair. There was much more to like in the 2600 than Asteroids and Space Invaders. My favorites included:

- Galaxian
- Enduro
- Megamania
- The Empire Strikes Back
- Defender
- Ms. Pac Man
- Berserk
- Battlezone and Robot Tank
- Q*Bert

River Raid was already mentined elsewhere. It also forced you to stop at 1 million points.

Of course, the NES was a much better machine than the 2600. That, however, doesn't doom all 2600 games.
I have been self-employed for many years now, and frankly, I only agree with 1/3 of your assessment. I don't get to be passionate about the work that I do, that's true; but, I am my own boss, and I do have a flexible schedule.

In a corporation, you have many bosses: your manager, his manager, etc. In order to succeed, you have to please all of them, and you don't get to choose who they are individually. The only choice you have is whether or not to work at a corporation - when you walk into a corporation, there's the structure above you, and either you accept all of it by staying, or none of it by leaving. You are not your own boss because you can't choose your bosses.

As a consultant with many clients, you can pick and choose your clients on an individual bases. Have a nightmare client? Fire him/her, find another nicer one. Have a nice client? Keep him. You are your own boss because you choose each of your clients individually, not all of them wholesale.

As for flexible hours - once again, same applies. Three months ago, I had three clients, and I was insanely busy. Right now I have fewer, and I have more free time. I could have more clients right now, but I am choosing not to because I want to have more rest right now. At a corporation, you don't choose when there's crunch time, and when there's periods of lull - those are determined by your manager. When you are self-employed, you get to choose when to take on more clients and thus be more busy, vs. when you want to continue working at a slower pace for just one client. At a corporation, you either choose to work, or go on vacation.

Anyway, you sound like you are happy to have a job again with managers above you. Maybe you weren't very good at being self-employed.
Yes, because I want to be anonymous. Does it mean I'm lying?

Even check glassdoor to verify:
http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Senior-Software-Engin...

146k base + 32k cash + 41k stock = $220k (everyone gets bonus and stock). And this averages data before the raise Google gave everyone.
Dude is so strange. I mean seriously, who knows that much about that many kinds of esoteric music? It's like he wants to be contrary to the rest of the population on purpose.
If you live in the future, your Amazoogle is composing new William Gibson novels on the topics of your choice.

If I live in the future, I enjoy reading William Gibson™ slashfic about the heroes of my favorite mimetic Hyuman Companions and orcas.
Welfare, free health care, free education... Free to him but it has to be paid for by someone. As more people rely on those benefits, the cost goes up for those who contribute to the system. The frightening question is what happens when the well runs dry?
What would be your guess for the average salary in the valley of someone with 6-8 years of experience?
Invest in 3d printers that extrude coffee!

Man, I am going to be SET!
Now with this salary statistics, if we can further get the technologies, the various participants are working in; it will be beneficial.
Pfft, that's so, like, ten minutes from now.
They checked your background and found your nickname on HN.
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I just wanted to say two things here. One, this is an incredibly damaging tragedy. I truly wish the best for the community, for the Reisse and Oculus VR family.

Secondly, my father has been an officer of the law for more than 25 years -- can we please not turn a thread which is being used to inform the community at large of a tragedy as a way to defame those who wish to do good in their community.

I ask out of respect of Reisse, and my good natured father that we keep at the very least this thread on topic.
Hey, leave the future perfect out of my perfect future.
I just realized that I only rarely vote, and that's only to help it stay in discussion for longer.
Blind Busters
Edit: Fuck you HN. RMS is an extremist. I should hope that most of you have the critical thinking skills to realize that his extremism is just as dangerous as Timothy McVeigh's.

Edit 2: Honest question, how can I delete my account on HN? I've come to realize (sadly) how many hours I've wasted on this bullshit. PG, please ban this account.
If you live in the future, patients screw corporations!
I can't agree enough (with the sentiment about savings, though I guess I also agree that you pay $0/year for sysadmins).

I think we must have a collective blind spot here - we're so excited to save money by renting virtual servers by the hour with AWS, but not so excited to save money by not having to hire sysadmins.
Thats tough viewpoint - I figured it was worth the post at least.
Love it. I'm a new, self-teaching programmer and have been thinking how great something like this would be, but assumed it couldn't possibly exist. And for me, I don't really need immediate response. First I'd love email access for moderately hot issues - say a couple hour turnaround. Second, I'd love code reviews - "look at this and tell me how I could have done it better". Finally would be one to one back and forths, but I could schedule that days in advance.
They open it once a year but you can see the site as you drive by. Very close to the outskirts Socorro, although WSMR is so large it covers both sides of the range if I'm not mistaken.
Yes, my net taxes are roughly in that range.
Isn't that a different argument than the one you started making?
I refuse to have a cell phone because they are tracking and
surveillance devices. They all enable the phone system to
record where the user goes, and many (perhaps all) can be
remotely converted into listening devices.

I find this hard to believe. Wouldn't the extra battery usage make it obvious, especially on Android devices that can track this as well as network usage at a very low level? Or is there some kind of hardware-level surveillance mechanism built in to cellphones?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrarian

Or a hipster, if you prefer.
Have you ever tried to talk to management about getting one of these plans together? They get mad at you for bringing it up and hexing the whole project!

My experience is you instead treat it like a computer backup problem and you add the contingency that top managers will know how to step in if information goes missing.

Also manage this with standards.
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37 / 511 (7.25%) are worth greater than $40MM, and that doesn't take into account that many are too young to be decided yet [1]. Not sure if that confirms or refutes your comment (were you being cheeky?), but at least it's a source rather than a statistic without evidence.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/26/paul-graham-37-y-combinator...
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I know, what I said is that multiple assignment should be explicit, when single assignment should be default. I.e. the reverse of what is in Elixr.
to throw out a few watery ideas based on your comments - it seems to fit with the 'retro' aesthetic; or at least the re-hashing of old ideas at a high frequency. This reminds me very much of the idea of post-modernism. Perhaps the downside is we loose some authenticity but make up for it in the wealth of the combinations.
You are also right of course. Intra-machine latency is quite important. Many problems can be decomposed in to smaller parallel parts that can be done per machine.
More likely, no one cared enough to make the effort to become fluent in the language.

I would say that if it can be categorized as a language, it can be learned, because categorization would require the observation of patterns of cause and effect.

(I know they're illusions, but they're useful illusions.)

Then it's just a matter of gathering data, developing hypotheses, and testing your interpretation of the data by asking someone if their hovercraft is full of eels.
both fixed now. i was hoping to not have to host those locally, oh well...
> That doesn't answer why the police chase, because obviously it's done far less elsewhere, though it does happen.

I'd suggest trying to correlate average vehicular speed with frequency of car chases. My guess is that certain cities are built for high-speed car transit and thus lend themselves towards this kind of thing.
Fine, then make XUL better on Mac. But for the love of god, don't (obviously) waste so much precious energy on a (obvious) dead end.
Terribly sad news, at least he got to experience the VR dream in his lifetime and see that Oculus is destined for the history books.
The punishments make sense to the people meting them out.

The prison authorities transparently use isolation in an SHU as punishment for making them look bad or for inconveniencing them. The two inmates mentioned in the article who acted as 'jailhouse lawyers' seem like good examples of this. Anyone in prison who offers any resistance to the power of the authorities is very likely to be treated this way, even if they are merely requesting legally-guaranteed rights or marginally better treatment, because doing so acts as an example to others.

Auernheimer was imprisoned, it seems to me, primarily for unrepentantly embarrassing those in positions of power, and later transferred to the SHU for the same reason.
Until he parks a truck full of explosives outside a federal building and kills 168 innocents (including 19 children under 6), I think not.

Now, pipe down and let the adults speak.
Really? Who has RMS blown up lately? For that matter, how many people has he even convinced to be like him?
I was about to lament how reckless the police were to be in a high-speed pursuit, but it's hard to fault them when this began with a fatal shooting of an officer at the beginning of the encounter.

Just a really sad turn of events.
> Some of this has to do with African-Americans

You could've stopped there. Black people as a race generally ruin every society they inhabit. If you haven't put your hands over your ears at this point and yelled "la la la!" you know it's true.