skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'll be the first to agree that political extremism is aggravating, but the solution to political extremism is not the avoidance of politics altogether.

On the contrary, avoidance of all politics is a wonderful individual solution to political extremism. Which is why so many "normal" people refuse to get involved at all, which is why all of us "normal" people end up so surprised every 2 years over a bunch of reactionary representatives being elected.

At least on HN you were able to have reasoned political discourse, which is far less aggravating. Even where I disagree with others I love being exposed to angles I hadn't considered, cultural nuances that might explain why something would work in the EU that wouldn't work in the U.S. (and vice versa), and all of that.

But from what I can tell even on HN we're shifting farther and farther away from that into the creationist mold of "I have decided what the answer must be, now I need only twist the facts to suit". Even where the answer that's decided on is actually right, that's no way to conduct a 'debate'.
Ignorant doesn't have to be an insult. It's a perfectly valid way of describing someone who lacks knowledge about a particular topic. In this context it really isn't an insult at all.
If you're taking seroquel that is probably a good reason to be on a statin given the current medical evidence as you have an increased risk of metabolic syndrome due to being on an antipsychotic.
I think of a 4 hour commute as (at least) a 33% pay cut. Unless you're getting paid to commute.
As Protests Erupt In Istanbul, FB & Twtr Appear Suddenly Throttled
If we don't have them this would be excellent. Great politicians make people abandon reason and throw themselves into crazy fantasies which cost millions of lives. One charismatic German being at the right place at the right time cost the world more than a decade of unimaginable suffering and hundred millions dead. And that's in Europe, considered most advanced and civilized part of the world. And that's not the only example.

Thank you very much, I'd rather deal with a hundred of regular politicians and their regular small-time stupidity and their regular small-time mistakes and evils than with one monumental charismatic figure like that.
Probably not, but since they bill "much higher" than that and get 80% utilization, they would probably be leaving loads of money on the table. I'd see 300% utilization for $10/hr as well.
Disclaimer: I created this account just to post this comment.

I'm a Google Software Engineer III (one level below lefthander and presumably two or three levels below lefthander2) and I haven't been at the company a long time (no stock refreshes or pay rises since joining).

My base salary is ~$130k but I conservatively expect that my salary+stock+bonuses for this year will total to be above $190k.

This makes me believe lefthander and lefthander2's numbers, taking into account their seniority.
I think people feel good when they donate, and that is what causes them to donate. How is that any less selfish?

(However I also know I am pretty selfish, so I could be simply reflecting)
I think it was the only browser that really gelled with the 'Aqua' UI style. IE for Mac did so too, to an extent, but Camino had more advanced features.
for some people, often = easy
Creating Your Own Zone of Influence
okay, that's being a bit nitpicky, i meant with respect to Earth. but maybe you're that guy who goes into detail about galactic rotation when someone asks you to stand still for a photo :)
Point taken, but in many cases the exact same information available to the government is available to all of my friends and every random Joe. Most of my web and email communications, like those of many people, are protected by RSA encryption and the last I knew no government has yet enough computational power to efficiently break RSA. They can subpoena Google to get my emails but they could do that 10 years ago, too. Whereas before there was total information asymmetry between the government and its people (the government knew far more about the people than the people knew about each other or the government) the Internet has more or less obliterated that asymmetry. The government can take measures like installing backdoors (and of course I agree that this shouldn't happen) but overwhelmingly the tide is pointing in one direction: towards informational equality. In those cases where there is a serious attempt by the government to regain its foothold over our information, it's not consumer technology that's the problem it is legislative overreach.
Epiphany Eyewear – A New Focus on Wearable Computers
I've seen one or two pedestrian crossings which included fast-reacting automatic bollards, similar to ones in [1].
They took maybe 4-5s to raise and lower, and afaik were highly effective at protecting the users. The initial capital costs, maintenance, and throughput disruption if they fail-up make them impractical as a general solution, at least for the time being.

[1] http://www.edsuk.com/item.php?id=260
Remedios caseros para la caspa
About to start a daily commute from Berkeley to Menlo Park. Am optimistic about 880-South in the morning, and driving seems far faster and more peaceful than the BART -> Shuttle method. But I do mourn the loss of productive time on a daily basis, but can't imagine a better place to live. Even on a wonderful developer salary, I cannot possibly afford a nice apartment for me and my partner in San Francisco or on the peninsula. Especially compared to East Bay's prices...
Does anyone know of advanced software development courses that are practical on a small mobile device screen? I love coursera but it only really works on a laptop or tablet and that's not always convenient when commuting.

BTW, in case you hadn't done the math, you are wasting 12% of your life commuting. At least get audible.com for when you're stuck in the car.
ok, so given the fact that a lot of the difficulty results from being different levels of flexible, and coming from different fitness level backgrounds, and having different levels of experience when it comes to gathering your thoughts.

Are you sure you want to imply that everyone starting a sport has the same physical fitness, stretchiness and mental attributes when starting out any sport/yoga?
Let's say some policies are changed in EU and pharmaceutical companies make as much or more profit in EU as in US - do you think they will reduce the cost of drugs in US? Perhaps not - remember they have shareholders. They probably aren't going to say, "oh! we have made enough money on this drug. Let's reduce the price now.".
I started getting up earlier and giving a couple of my very productive hours every morning to myself.
Oh yes. They lump levels together in "bands" and you're basically competing with your peers for slots. The ranking has forced buckets, so someone always gets screwed. It's about as fucked up as you're thinking right now.

Seriously, there are groups who actually hire people to fall into the seven percent "knucklehead" bucket, so that none of the (presumably) good employees need to be fired.

I don't miss that stuff at all.
Maybe they are old enough to remember the last time someone promised write once run everywhere.

It's a bit ironic that Java finally caught on as an interactive programming language once it was put into a runtime environment that is intimately joined to the design of the Android OS?

Operating systems have substantial differences, and they compete based on those differences. Apps that ignore the unique features of each OS they run on are impoverished and uncompetitive.
I recently saw Accenture advertising for a load of intermediate PHP developers in my region. They were being advertised through third party recruiters, so I got to see the salary, which was around 20K. On this occasion it was even lower than design agencies, who already struggle to find developers on their pay levels.
> Whenever I am a hiring manager, I am pretty openly biased against hiring PhDs. They definitely start at a disadvantage compared to a highschool dropout in a hiring interview with me.

I sincerely hope whatever fool placed you in charge of hiring learns of this fact, and soon.
We call them brownstones in australia - because they are all made of sandstone
Aha! When this gets popular and people treat it as the go-to bitcoin oracle, all I'll need to do is make some Twitter accounts with negative sentiment, and buy low, and then tweet some positive sentiments, and sell high!
Treehosue?
Curious what is your educational background?
It would also be a world of half finished projects. Most people who do things just for the sheer joy of learning, challenge, art etc would lose interest in a task when the challenge is conquered.
I think the "inane comments" one is a joke about /g/, they sent him a mail asking him to come and visit the site and he responded with something akin to "I did but there was only inane comments".
Summary: first interview the candidate to check for culture fit, then pay them to complete a 10-20 hour project. If the culture fit is good and project successful, hire.

As a developer I don't like the idea of having to do a 10-20 hour project as part of an interview, but at least they are compensated for it. I would love to hear thoughts from developers who have done a "project as an interview". Positive or negative experience?
The hardest part of making a nuclear weapon is acquiring weapons grade (highly enriched) uranium and/or plutonium. The actual designing/making of the bomb itself is relatively trivial compared to the materials enrichment process (you can easily find detailed diagrams of good bomb designs online).
Tron was mentioned, in addition to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy television series and Escape from New York.
heh, here's a hacky idea ;)
Take a PNG, base64 encode, compress and gzip your js template into it, let it create the same css3 code, but by using javascript. This works by putting the png into a canvas... here's a guide ;) http://creativejs.com/2012/06/jsexe-javascript-compressor/ and http://iamcal.github.io/PNGStore/

haha, you could save angular.js, your css,html and image sprites into two or three png's. :P

Hey are you still with me? We could theoretically go further, there are no guarantees though. We'll use "Multiphase Compression". Uncompression is slow, but we only care about space, let's hope we save more than we use.

Step 1: Store css/html/js into the png as mentioned above. Then look for a "minimal" fractal image compression library written in C. Run the png through the fractal compressor.

Step 2: Save the output into a Javascript ArrayBuffer

Step 3: Now convert the minimal fractal compression decoder to javascript using Emscripten. And store the output into a png again. Then decode the javascript from the png and let the fractal decoder create a png out of the ArrayBuffer. Then extract the js/html/css from the png that we just generated on the client-side. We now have the final data. We can let it remove all unnessary js after saving the extracted data into html5 localstorage.
Assuming those interviews with the team don't include these sorting coding problems that are so hyped this is the best process I've heard about.

I think any coder will be more comfortable doing real job instead of studying college stuff that you haven't done in years.
Tons of code review tools already exist out there, runnable on your CI machine. Sonar and Fortify are a few off the top of my head, but there are many, many more.

Nothing new here. Google code search a while back was similar. Also search for index.php~, a great way to see the source for an index page with a unix temp file that Apache will forward as plain text. Oops.
Using a Pebble watch and a RaspberryPi to control your home theater
Or, you know, someone with the same name.
>I believe the driver for day-to-day recording of work hours is that if they work beyond a certain limit (could even be 8 hours) on a given day, they get OT for that. Thus, you can't work 12 hours one day and 4 the next day without pay consequences.

Yeah, I knew that when I wrote the post. Seems to make sense to me as it is. So if this person gets promoted, they won't get more pay than otherwise when they're doing overtime a certain day? Or do you count it by hours in a week, month?
Glad he is gone just another rich 30 year old. Where are my millions?
I didn't actually cover this in the article but it's probably worth addressing here. To answer your first question about do we know how effective it is, the answer is kind of in the sense that everyone I know in the industry who has implemented this for themselves and for clients has seen positive results without any exceptions (that I know of).

I know that doesn't make it a FACT (though it's extremely compelling in my books) but no one outside of Google can actually provide you with the true numbers needed to answer the question unfortunately.

But to address the second point about why every SEO person is losing their mind about Authorship, it's to do with more of a long term play. The general consensus at the moment in the industry is that Google is desperately trying to move further and further away from signals that are more easily manipulated than things such as links.

As a result you have things like Google+ and Authorship coming into play, and even if they aren't officially ranking signals RIGHT NOW it's almost a certainty that that won't always be the case. The reason why this is so important though: it's fairly rare in SEO that you get many chances to get a massive head start on your competitors by becoming an early adopter of some technology, this however is looking like it is going to be one of those times.

So it all comes down to the fact of, when the day comes where they DO contribute to rankings and you decide that you need to do it anyways, do you want to be starting from scratch or do you want to know that you already put a year or two into building up what they consider to be an authoritative authorship profile?
Spider Oak?

Bittorrent Sync?
The server was only $600 on eBay, part of a prototype project for me to learn on since I'm working on deploying an OpenStack based dedicated server company on other, much faster hardware in the coming year.

There's no one else in the household- just me, and I considered using ProxmoxVE for the VM backend because the guys behind the distro offer single instance support tickets, but for now I'm sticking with OpenStack since it's feature rich & offers additional functionality I need.

The Compaq stays around because it was my Mom's before she died- just for sentimental value really. I'm looking forward to repurposing it as an rdp client station.

The laptop's going to be part of the OpenStack cluster, too. So I'll be able to migrate my Win7 VM to it when I go out & just reach it through a KDE4 desktop installed to the OpenStack running on it.

I have lofty plans, and alot to learn to implement it. I just got the server & it took me a week to figure out how to use the arcane RAID interface in its BIOS. I have an OpenStack install guide bookmarked, but haven't taken the time to go through & do it yet. I had been working on my website, which I just finished, and was sidetracking me. I'll get to it eventually.
From what I remember lawyers advised against O as he had no chance without publications.
What makes Edinburgh special in that regard? As far as I can gather the admissions standards and support levels aren't in the same league as Oxbridge. League table results are fairly high for most subjects, but not any more so than some other russell group members.
There's a book from the 70s, _The Curve of Binding Energy_, by John McPhee, which is about how easy it was at that time to acquire weapons-grade materials and design and build a device. I found it pretty interesting.

Of course, I read it in the 1980s, and here we are in the 2010s, and there's never been a private nuclear explosion of any kind, nor apparently any nuclear blackmail. That says something about either difficulty, or about how effective (covert?) non-proliferation efforts have been, or about how rare is the desire to use a nuclear weapon. Not sure which.
That dipshit from trust me I am lying talked about Detroit.
More Than Just a Social Butterfly
In case you missed it, this made it onto the front page a while ago: http://www.steamclock.com/blog/2013/05/apple-objective-c-jav...

So there are some signs that you might (eventually) get what you want.

It will be interesting to see if anything related gets announced next week at WWDC.
To be fair, corporations legally avoiding as much taxation as possible is a bit of a stretch for the evil claim. Corporate ethics wise it is more interesting why consumers want corporations to pay more tax as it effectively increases prices.

A better question would be posed to our governments on tax reform and simplification. But we all know the loopholes exist somewhat intentionally, otherwise they would have been closed already. The fact they're not getting closed indicates that our perception of what a company should pay and what they're legally obligated is basically wrong.
As I said in the description, they're both closed source, which isn't great. BT Sync looks great for syncing, but not backups...
What's so great about Clinton? Except giving endless material for comic shows and explicit jokes, I have hard time recalling something that would nominate him personally for greatness.
In the transcript of the June 2011 meeting between Schmidt and Assange, Schmidt also makes a reference to 'The Banality of Evil' (http://wikileaks.org/Transcript-Meeting-Assange-Schmidt.html)
Ask for a 2 month sabbatical, do not go and tell them you are quitting straight away.

They will most likely ask for some time to consider (perhaps a week)

If they give you the sabbatical - kudos.

If not (they turn it down), then state that you really appreciate them considering your request and respectfully resign with 2 weeks notice.
I recently quit my job due to having an eerily similar feeling. I saved enough money to take a break for even a year or two if I want. It is difficult to express how much more fulfilled I feel following my own academic pursuits rather than someone else's business plan.

So far my plan for the future is:

1. Enjoy as much time off as my heart desires, until I start feeling monetary pressure.
2. Suck it up and get a job that is boring and pays an inordinate amount of money.
3. Do that for 1-2 years, living frugally, fattening my savings.
4. Repeat.

Better suggestions welcome.
Even at the time of the Manhattan Project, the vast majority of the cost, facilities and workers on the project were involved in creating the fissionable materials rather than the better-known design work at Los Alamos. Remember that even then, they were confident enough in the gun-type Little Boy design that they didn't even need to test it.
Interestingly in this interview between Assange, Cohen and Schmidt, which was linked elsewhere in the comments, Schmidt was actually the first one to say the phrase "the banality of evil". [1]

[1]:http://wikileaks.org/Transcript-Meeting-Assange-Schmidt?noca...
Objects have a tendancy to syncronize their rotations. Additionally, what I understand to be, the leading theory on how the moon was made is that it was blown off the earth, in which case conservation of angular momentum should make it start not rotating relative to earth.
Well, you will kind of be tested on everything. I didn't even apply for the algorithmic/coding position of Software Engineering, but for Forward Deployed Engineering, for which you still have to be an engineer, code, and know your stuff very well, but you at least don't need the algorithmic knowledge of a TopCoder champion like you probably do for Software Engineering.

Whatever technical position you apply for, you definitely will be tested on systems, coding, and algorithms though.
I think there is a good case to be made that we would have much stronger privacy laws if evil actions were more aggressive and obvious. The judicial and legislative bodies of the country will not put up with blackmail or attacks for long.

One of the problems with advocating for stronger privacy protections now is that so much of the harm is hypothetical. It takes urgency and crisis to pass legislation, and Google (and Facebook, and others) have done a good job preventing crises.
Su Kaçağı Tespiti
Su kaçağı tespiti su kaçaklarında, kameralar, su kaçak tespit cihazları,akustik dinleme cihazları vb. bütün ekipmanlar yanında ustanın tecrübeli ve işinin ehli olması çok önemli bir ayrıntıdır. Bu ayrıntı gözden kaçırılıp sadece ekipman olması yeterlidir denilirse, doğru bilgi verilmemiş olacaktır. Su kaçağı tespiti sadece ekipmanlar yeterli denilirse o takdirde bu işe yıllarını veren ustalara gerek yok demektir. Ekipman sadece yeterli ise sıradan bu işle daha önce hiç bir şekilde iştigal etmemiş her insan, bu cihazları alıp rahatlıkla bu işi yapabilir anlamına gelmektedir.
Sorry, it was not meant to sound nitpicky. I was surprised that I actually had never stopped to think about Moon's rotation, and that maybe it did not spin to a stationary observer.

The more you know...
Mitchy - we are not talking about avoiding taxes. We are talking about evading taxes. The "Don't be evil" gets a little tarnished with that.
I am not Brian D Foy. Since you have worked with Booking, you should have known better that Brian D Foy never worked with Booking.com
Interesting work! But I'm unclear on the end-to-end performance comparison, which includes the cost of copying data to and from the device.

I know you guys are eyeballs deep in your data, so what's obvious to you may not be obvious to a reader. From what I can tell, your performance numbers are reported as an average per regex. But you're calculating that without including the string copying cost; you're only timing the cost of performing the computation on the GPU.

You show the overhead in absolute numbers. It seems small compared to the cost of processing the whole file, but I need to know the cost for grep to process that whole file as well. Basically, you show me a number, but you don't explain the significance of this number.

In my experience, the best way to deal with such issues is to always report entire-application performance. (This can be in addition to other numbers, of course.) That way I can say "Ah, calling grep took x seconds on average, calling their program took y seconds on average, and y < x, so they've improved performance." If you report entire-application performance, your reader doesn't need to understand the particulars to at least determine if your technique is a performance win.
IPython Notebook: Javascript/Python Bi-directional Communication
Ask HN: Who is hiring Java devs in London, UK?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5805033
What you just described is why there is an increasing need for a global government. When companies span continents, they can pick and choose which laws in what countries suit them best, and the citizens of every other country the company inhabits are powerless to stop it.
Yup we do.
This post resonates with me a lot. I have often considered writing something similar called "How I became a 9-5 programmer."
I got my current job straight out of university, about 2.5 years ago. Since I started working, I have noticed that I feel both more, and less capable. What I mean by this is that while I am certainly more skilled at writing software than when I started working, I feel much less optimistic and able to tackle hard problems.