skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can I build a generator on top of this? Since it's a metal object, I just need to build some magnetic rings along the way, et voila!
you've opened my eyes to a method of getting quick downvotes when i need them, like for when i try to keep my karma at 666 and some ignorant do-gooder thinks he's doing me a favor by upvoting one of my comments
Ask HN: Where to find jobs with NGOs?
I can't be the only one who'd take a pay cut, move to a developing region in exchange for putting my programming skills towards a greater social good?

I'd hope it would be easy to find organizations leveraging the work they are doing and the experience they'd provide to attract talent, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Am I just looking at the wrong places? Do these jobs simply not exist? What's up?
I think he generalises far too much.

People wear ties for a lot of reasons. They can make you feel more confident, you might like the aesthetics, or you might want to impress (which is the reason RMS gave for not liking them), you might wear them out of respect (a funeral, for instance).
> That doesn't answer why the police chase, because obviously it's done far less elsewhere, though it does happen.

From the article:

> The L.A. freeways are its public stage, its Colosseum. Pursuits are L.A.'s ultimate reality show,

I'm not some scholar on Los Angeles, but it really seems to be part of the culture there to watch car chases, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if there is positive feedback encouraging criminals to get their 15 minutes of fame.

After all, if you've just held up a 7-11 or something and you didn't get away cleanly, why not have a little fun before you get thrown in jail, possibly for the rest of your life ?
That's great. Out of curiosity, are you a software engineer (SDE), if so which level? Or an engineering manager, or something else?
Brilliant! Let's /do/ have an argument about what "useful" or "production" mean.
> Honest question, how can I delete my account on HN?

You can't. You'll probably get hellbanned though. Personally, I don't think two wrongs make a right, and you should be able to delete your account if you want. Maybe just close the tab and never come back. That always works.
The situations are not analogous. My replying to him provides more information than a mere downvote would: it explains why I didn't like his comment.

His comment did not do that.
Bar graph of current data:
http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~andreer/salary_bar_graph.png
It's very easy to spot the difference for anyone, even the uninitiated.

Just launch your favorite first person shooter, and rotate the view very quickly. Of course the game needs to be running at framerates above 60 FPS, and with v-sync off. (Or at framerates above 120FPS, with vsync.) The difference between 120 Hz and 60 Hz will be immediately visible through the "smoothness" of the rotation.
Histogram so far:

http://quickhist.onloop.net/%3C80k=37,80-89k=17,90-99k=38,10...
> Obviously the thought of prison doesn't in fact stop people from breaking the rules

Speak for yourself. Articles like this one sure as fuck make me think twice about doing anything even remotely likely to get me into prison. Punishment as deterrence is a legitimate policy within reason.

That said, torturing someone with forced isolation until they are completely insane, especially if they are ever getting out, seems counterproductive.

[edit: re-read the post I'm replying to and I agree, random irrational punishment is a lousy deterrent. For deterrence to work the system has to be at least nominally fair, and punishment meted out needs to be proportional to the degree of misbehavior. That is clearly not the case with the US justice system, and as the article points out, inside the prison the rules are applied with astonishing caprice and unfairness.]
0.05% of $40MM is $20k, which is not "Lifechanging".
To be fair, he does say "If ties were simply a clothing option, I would decline to use them but there would be no reason to make a fuss about it." His complaints are about the situations in which there is an expectation to wear a tie.
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I was immediately struck by the similarity to how Picasso drew a cow (see: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yAdxTp2HDQM/S_P7lZz46-I/AAAAAAAAB1... ). It seems the professors have come to the point where they see the essence of "neuronness".
For everyone in the Bay Area and the rest of California, the minimum legal salary (with exceptions) for software developers is ~$81k. It is likely if you are being paid less for full time software development that you are not being paid enough.

I'm not a lawyer, but googlefu:
http://www.morganlewis.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/publication....
It looks like deadfall

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Has been rendered karmatose.
Some people like the fear...
Agreed. And given that my blog is not SSL, I wouldn't trust this particular implementation at all. But the point is that you can have your passwords without ever saving anything on disk. Even if you don't have 'net access, you could regenerate your passwords by having access to any SHA implementation, the code to do this is trivial.
Your diligence is commendable. Here, have some snapshot data:

http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/hacker-news/salary-poll/2013-05-...
It was not. A man got out of the vehicle, the police shot him, and then the chase began.

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/05/santa_ana_pede...

He died of his injuries. His name was Gerardo Diego Ayala.
You might be right. Or at least I'm not saying you're wrong. But do you have any cites that compare then-vs-now?

In reality the DC Circuit spends much of its time today striking down regulations enacted by the political branches, and actually takes some glee in doing so. In HNesque areas, the court tossed out the Net neutrality regulations and the broadcast flag regulations. There's a reason the president wants to tilt the makeup of that court.
From what I've heard in other places, Google only gives about 150k to their developers, so how does one make it to the 300k level?
The point was more that the US is a plausible sink for that excess labor. Yes, it would indeed be great for Belize or Angola to loosen immigration restrictions and make more six figure tech jobs available to young europeans. But...
Also:

- Pitfall
- Adventure
- Missile Command
Why? I hope the reason for this post was just to show off his CSS skills and not to suggest that Logos be made this way. It's the wrong tool for the job. Not to mention terrible browser interoperability. As many others have pointed out, these logos are all busted on IE <= 9 and most mobile browsers.
Honestly, I'm not surprised at all. Students need to be thorough to show they understand the material, so their drawings are detailed. Professionals just need to put an idea on paper quickly and easily, so they only draw the details that are relevant.
Stock grants are taxed as ordinary income, based on market price (or estimated value, for pre-IPO) on the day of vest.
However, sueing a farmer, because he grows plants shows how Monsanto sickens our society.

Overuse of Antibiotics, Pesticides, Herbicides and Fungicides are the stuff that create our allergies and poison bees too. Birds eat those poisoned bees, I really don't know how far this goes down the rabbit hole, but I'm worried.
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Right, I wasn't trying to be negative, but more expressing why people are being negative. I think that the ones that posted negative comments are out of line, but at the same time I can understand their resentment/frustration of this being the top story. Props to who made this, but in my opinion its not top story worthy here but a story that is a 'gem' lost in the 13 or 14 range.
This site is about hacking and startups, not political ranting. There are other sites for that.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/machine-learning-algorith...
yeah, why the police bothers trying arresting criminal...
can't they stay in their office eating donuts ?
...
They risk their lives to keep yours safe.
And on the other side you have criminals. And you ask why police chase them and not why they ran away ???
Seriously ?
If you read the NYTimes article linked here in the comments you'll see that they poured concrete over everything before burying it.
Datawatch: Global newspaper circulation in decline
I think I just explained how that is not in fact what Monsanto does.
Note that <C-CR> only works in GUI Vim because it is virtually indistinguishable from <CR> in (most?) terminal emulators. They actually send different signals but Vim doesn't care.

I've had many slightly dumber variations of that mapping in my ~/.vimrc for a while, using <leader><CR> instead of <C-CR> for the reason outlined above.

Edit

I borrowed you Closer() function and modified it to make it work simply on <CR>, based on my previous mapping:

" my previous mapping
inoremap <leader><CR> <CR><C-o>==<C-o>O

" your revised function
function! Closer()
let prevchar = getline(".")[col(".")-2]
if prevchar ==# "{"
return "\<CR>}\<C-o>==\<C-o>O"
elseif prevchar ==# "["
return "\<CR>]\<C-o>==\<C-o>O"
elseif prevchar ==# "("
return "\<CR>)\<C-o>==\<C-o>O"
else
return "\<CR>"
endif
endfunction

" your revised mapping
inoremap <expr> <CR> Closer()
Startups have a well-documented value based on financing they have raised. They have x% stake, and some investors have paid y% for a z% stake. The mystery is simply in the volatility of future value.

Second market tradable shares and public company shares are easily valued. Anything else has an average value of <$10K, based on a sampling of actual new-startup performance.
Stallman's honors and awards for just some of the great work he's done (like launching the GNU Project, founding the Free Software Foundation, developing the GNU Compiler Collection and GNU Emacs):

1986: Honorary lifetime membership of the Chalmers University of Technology Computer Society

1990: Exceptional merit award MacArthur Fellowship ("genius grant")

1990: The Association for Computing Machinery's Grace Murray Hopper Award "For pioneering work in the development of the extensible editor EMACS (Editing Macros)."

1996: Honorary doctorate from Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology

1998: Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award

1999: Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award

2001: The Takeda Techno-Entrepreneurship Award for Social/Economic Well-Being (武田研究奨励賞)

2001: Honorary doctorate, from the University of Glasgow

2002: United States National Academy of Engineering membership

2003: Honorary doctorate, from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel

2004: Honorary doctorate, from the Universidad Nacional de Salta.

2004: Honorary professorship, from the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería del Perú.

2007: Honorary professorship, from the Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.

2007: First Premio Internacional Extremadura al Conocimiento Libre

2007: Honorary doctorate, from the Universidad de Los Angeles de Chimbote.

2007: Honorary doctorate, from the University of Pavia

2008: Honorary doctorate from the Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, in Peru

2009: Honorary doctorate, from Lakehead University

2011: Honorary doctorate, from National University of Córdoba.

2012: Honorary professorship, from the Universidad César Vallejo de Trujillo, in Peru

2012: Honorary doctorate, from the Universidad Latinoamericana Cima de Tacna, in Peru

2012: Honorary doctorate, from the Universidad José Faustino Sanchez Carrió, in Peru.

Source: Wikipedia

But here on Hacker News (of all places), let's instead criticize his personal preferences on fucking ties.
Saddening news aside, this is terrible reporting. Reisse was killed in a car accident caused by gang members who were fleeing from the police.
They are successful in a sort of spot measurement sort of way. Most of us are happy to see what's become of Tesla. The problem with Tesla as a model for government intervention is that, if the government continued to involve itself in industry this way, it would inevitably lose money for the taxpayers. VCs mentally write off the majority of their portfolio and make their profits on the 1-2 smashing successes, which works because VCs purchase a large share of the upside of the whole portfolio. That model would not work at all if the best the VC got from those 1-2 successes was interest payments.
Hey! I wrote that article in 2006! :)

Nowadays if FedGov wanted to do it, it would implant malware.
RIP Andrew Scott Reisse, you wont be forgotten.
I've been using http://passwordmaker.org/ for years to do the same thing.
The "war on terror" is actually a war against a specific few radical so-called-Islamist groups. The intelligence services of Spain, the UK, and India (among many others) are working closely with the U.S. intelligence services to wage it effectively.
Related: 90% of people think they are smarter than average.

Inference: 90% of engineers probably think they are smarter than average engineers
Was the original DRM copy-protection put onto CDs, or the fact that the game required that CD to be inserted to play?
There is no free health care in Greece at the moment. Everyone pays to receive treatment from the public health care system even if you pay your health care insurance monthly fees.

Furthermore the free education is a hugely false fact. For almost 20 years now if a child is not getting education outside of the public school system he/she will not be getting anywhere close to getting onto the 3rd educational level (College or University). The funding and the personnel is inadequate to say the least.

Mind you the public sector is governed by the 5-out-1-in rule (5 people leave 1 gets assigned a position) in general but in the education sector this analogy is rounding up to 10-out-1-in.
The U.S. government dedicates many millions of dollars per year to monitoring Yellowstone, Rainier, the San Andreas Fault, and many other potential geologic threats.

Edit to add:

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/index.html
This is the first time seeing anyone recommend C++ Primer Plus with no mention of C++ Primer.
While that may play some role, I'd argue that LA being a massive sprawl has more to do with it. Simply identifying the car and "silently following it until it stops" may not be so easy, at least not without a helicopter.
115k
There was an article just recently, average SF house price just hit $1M
More photos: http://occupygezipics.tumblr.com/
It very rarely does make sense for police to endanger bystanders with high-speed chases, which is why most departments heavily restrict them. Friends of mine whose parents are officers have always told me their parents were more or less forbidden from ever initiating pursuit.

You can search for "[name of city] police general order pursuit", or some variant thereof, to get the policy for your local district.
If that key developer did get hit by a bus then:

1) A new key developer would be hired to maintain the project, and things would be a little rough for a couple months but the company would survive.

2) Every decent person would care more about the key developers life than the "major project".

This so called "bus factor" has always bugged me. Documentation is good, but talk of untimely death by bus is silly.
That's not quite what it means. That's the minimum salary to be an "exempt" software developer, which means that if you are paid less than that you have to get paid overtime.
Are you just guessing this is the reason, or do you have a link to an article you didn't include in your response?
So seeing as this polls the whole SF Bay software engineering community of HN, young and old, and the distribution is centered around 120k-129k, can we finally put to rest the ever-perpetuated claim that the average CS grad can expect $150k+ in the Bay?
Back around 2006 a man by the name of Adam Bailey did a pretty in-depth look into the Atari landfill. The site appears to be gone now, but the Wayback Machine looks like it has a full copy.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070307122420/http://atari.digit...

An excavation should be interesting. There are years of post-Atari dump trash and other material to get through.

In talking to the author back then he said that Atari poured cement on their material in the landfill in 1983, but the landfill was still in use until the until the 90's when the EPA marked the site for hazardous material and shut it down. The landfill was setup before rubber bladders were mandatory and it was leaking into the water table. The protocol for capping a landfill at the time was a thick layer of natural clay with methane vent pipes. After that, at least a foot of dirt is placed on top.

After capping it went on to be used for recreational purposes (ATVs, 4x4s, etc.).
It's always sad when someone brilliant loses life at such a young age. It's even worse that it was at the hands of a piece of shit criminal trying to save his own skin and is still alive.

Very sad. Rest in peace.
I'd just noticed someone created this on my web app http://picsho.com/HYFSbbl1/
Depending on the offense, there are reasons to do it. If there are not officers immediately behind the perps wherever they stop, they can quite easily disperse into the city or go into a building and take innocents hostage. I don't think the other hypotheses offered in this thread(15 minutes of fame, it's LA's reality show, etc) have quite so much to do with it, especially when you consider how vast LA is.
Cuts or inflation, it's the same end result. One is just more of a fraud than the other. Inflation is almost universally preferred by the political class because it does a better job of hiding the erosion of purchasing power and standard of living.
Who says all those immigrants are going to be high-end google-worthy engineers?

The chances are in favor that they would drive down the pay of the first quartile of programmers based on quality, not the savants making 100k+/y.
Okay, but that doesn't hold up at all when everyone is an exchange...
I have the opposite feeling, because I implemented authorship on my blog and for that authorship picture to happen the URLs have to have high ranking, otherwise they won't get shown. That's why I have come to associate authorship with popularity.

On my blog only the 6 most popular articles have authorship info in the search results, generating about 300 visits from organic search per day. And my blog is a highly technical blog that targets developers and I haven't seen any drops in traffic due to authorship.

Also, people here make the assumption that regular folks behave like us. They don't.
This is pretty cool. One improvement that would be nice to see is strength checking on weak "spatial" passwords: I was able to eventually get it to say my password was strong just by walking down the keyboard (e.g., "qwertyioup..." or "qazxswedc...").
Sorry, what?

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=aaron+swar...
A) You're cheating by using the tmpfs filesystem!
B) Your directory names are numeric, not alphanumeric and not randomly long
C) Your computer specs are missing

Now can you please explain why you think that this is faster?

mkdir ../.tmp${RANDOM} &&
mv ./* ../.tmp[0-9]* &&
rm -rf ../.tmp[0-9]* &

I believe that if I write a minimal tool in C it would be much faster than rsync.

I would have to read the fs index if existing, otherwise create a list of directories/files then unlink it in parallel in the inode order. Later optimize ops based on the fs.
The midwest is incredibly cheap, but you're still underpaid there. I was paid a fair bit more than that fresh out of college in Texas (Houston). You can find $100k-$150k homes here.
> Far more common is people who can't grasp the idea of usernames and passwords; and I mean really can't understand the difference.

Consider that these people may have never used a computer system where their "user name" is addressable in any way. To them, the user name and password are just two pieces of information that they need to give the computer.
Customer service will make a huge difference. So that could be their moat.
Being worth something and seeing cold hard cash are 2 different things.
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Rather than focusing on the power of languages, this exercise demonstrates creativity while constrained. Implementing CSS driven "art" requires attention to detail, but also a desire to learn all that can be learned about one specific language.

These are the same traits I would look for a great programmer to demonstrate.
If the item is small enough, the tacocopter could take it on its return journey.
>>defame those who wish to do good in their community.

This is an incredible cop-out. No pun intended.

Just because someone wishes to do good in their community does not mean they are immune to being criticized for their actions.

Furthermore, a lot of cops don't give a shit about doing good in their community. They are bullies who have joined the police force to legitimize their violent tendencies.

We need more "good cops" like your father, but let's face it: we will not get them if we do not draw people's attention to the bad stuff a lot of cops do.
The topic of prison rape is a joke that people as a whole feel comfortable laughing about in public.

It is undeniably normative.
Good synopsis, to be honest I'll probably go full-time freelance in one of those cities in the next year if life continues "as planned". Would love the flexibility to travel and be a dad first and also to work long hours when needed / excited about a project.

Currently, if I take on a side-job a month (and I currently do that a few months of the year), I can fairly easily match my monthly salary with considerably less effort and work.

Thanks everyone for the info/advice
Considering how, in the US at least, wealth and asset holdings has extremely concentrated itself in the top fraction of the population in the last 30 years, probably not soon.

I mean, most of these states aren't raising taxes, but are playing with monetary gears to keep money injection from spurring inflation (albeit they have had huge taxes for decades).
> The Yellowstone Calder on the other hand would easily kill 50+% of everyone in the US with a low end eruption.

This stat is crazy. A low-end eruption (by far the most typical kind) at Yellowstone would kill few people in the U.S. The eruptions aren't that big and the Yellowstone downwind area is one of the least populated areas of the country.
Ah yes, if the troubled European nations would just spend a lot more money they don't actually have while not paying off any of their debts, while pretending they could ever afford the vast welfare states they built, they would find themselves prosperous again. Keynesian faith based economics at its finest. Spend what you don't have, run up debts you can never pay back, and print your way deeper into destruction when all else fails, because inflation is easier to lie about than an equivalent austerity cut.

Keynesian economics, turning first world countries into second world countries since 1936.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean, since immigrants would tend to have a lower income level,

But I think my answer is yes, if you factor out middle-to-high income rioters, you would still see a disproportionate representation of immigrants to natives.

My theory is fairly simple: it's about incomplete integration. If natives fail to identify immigrants as accepted natives, there will be conflicts that regularly break out into anything from racial profiling to riots (such as the famous LA riots) to civil wars to secessions (such as South Sudan).

I could also be completely crazy in seeing this pattern, though; I'm not an expert in this area by any means.
I'm totally fine with not denigrating the cops that actually care about doing good in their communities. I'm just not convinced that all of them share that sentiment.