skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A "Tell HN" is like the selfpost (if you're familiar with Reddit) of Hacker News. Instead of posting a link you post some text.

He was suggesting that your comment is good enough to be posted as a standalone entry on here, if you want to do that go to the top and click "Submit", the rest is pretty much self-explanatory.

I agree with you by the way.
VC-istan is dead, not “the technical interview”
Seems like a Ubuntu issue... uses 5% CPU on my 2630QM under Windows, which is a slower chip.
I believe the cables are dug underground as they approach land. It would be too easy to cut in shallow waters otherwise.
>It's important for people to include an email in their 'about' box on their profile, so that other HN users can get in contact.

The funny part is I didn't have contact info. I only added it to this account a few weeks ago. Some charitable person decided to google my username and found one of my accounts on another site.
In the summer, when plenty of people are on vacation, plenty without great or any Internet access....

Yeah, that occurred to me as well.

Each time such a service shuts down it puts another nail into this "put your stuff in the cloud" business model, as the absolute number of people who'd been screwed keeps growing, along with the people they influence.
Every girl expects to be married to the man who took her virginity.
Expectations...
Hmm, I guess I don't know what "understanding how the parse and lex steps work" would consist of that didn't involve being able to pseudocode at least some kind of parser, of which the recursive-descent type is the simplest. But maybe I'm blinded by having spent too much time writing parsers. Or maybe you mean "knowing how" in some kind of total back-of-the-hand mastery sense, as opposed to "you could eventually get it to work"?
Still, 50% capacity at 200% refuel cost with 400% automobile cost (although I would argue it easily performs/feels like a luxury vehicle so really 100% cost) is pretty good considering the auto industry is about an order of magnitude older than Tesla motors.
Thank you for this great response, but even more for your civic participation, and I agree with everything you've said here.

I think that these petitions are helpful for the otherwise apolitical, who get a mental cue, "I signed this petition, I am for this cause". Nobody starts out writing letters, and it's not helpful to condescend those who aren't as committed as us.
Progress • Personal API
Another gotcha with for loops: scoping is a little weird.

xs := []int{1,2,3}
for _, x := range xs {
go func() {
fmt.Println(x)
}()
}

That prints `3 3 3` not `1 2 3`. You can fix it like this:

for i := range xs {
x := xs[i]
go func() {
fmt.Println(x)
}()
}

Which seems like it ought to be the default behavior.
Forged?
I was including FCP users in the toaster market, maybe they don't call them toasters anymore :)
Do you have any cases in mind? I think it would be awesome if the world worked the way you say, but I don't think it does.
I browse with showdead on, and if there is a good [dead] post, I upvote it. I'm assuming that must do something, or is it just a placebo button[1]?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo_button
> Each unit will include 50 loaner battery packs that Tesla owners can borrow for the equivalent of what it costs to fill up a tank of gasoline. The units will cost the company about $500,000 each to install.

What does this mean?
I'm from Norway myself and I think only a small minority of people who took a third language in videregående actually got to a level where you could say that they spoke/knew it.

I was among those who chose an German as an optional class when I was 14 so that I wouldn't have to take it in my third year of high school. Now I can say where I'm from and that I'm hungry, but hardly much more than that.
While your point is valid, how often do you expect to have a battery swap? How often to you refill your car?

Battery swap is for long road trips, not everyday usage.
I think the only time I've been banned was when I refreshed the "new" page too quickly to see how something I'd submitted was being upvoted. I was banned for a few days. Frustrating - but lesson learned.
>the only difference I know is that references can be reassigned.

Uhh no. Neither the const pointer nor the reference can be reassigned. And you have it the wrong way around. References cannot be null, pointers can.

The other difference is that if you try and dynamic_cast a reference and it failed, it throws an exception where as a pointer just returns nullptr.

>That's not the case in Java and C#, which allow "null" to be a right-hand value for all types.

That's also wrong, primitives are not nullable.
Getting started configuring a NuoDB domain
Nope. Unmanned aircraft currently have to have a line of sight to the operator and stay below 400 feet unless they have an exemption from the FAA. NPR did a story on this a week ago [0], which also has a link to the FAA's status page for unmanned aircraft [1]

0: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/06/13/190369...

1: http://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/uas/
Of course the FBI has been doing this and I don't actually have a problem with it. Matching data between established government agency databases seems like a smart thing to do.

This is VERY different from what the NSA has been doing. No privacy has been compromised here.
so a consensus of the models predicted that warming was going to nearly plateau?
A reference looks like a value but is actually a point (de-references are automatic). Most high-level languages prefer references over pointers as they are harder to screw up. E.g.

myref = otherref + 10

is equivalent to

* myptr = * otherptr + 10

Now, most languages also have a notion of values that are neither pointers nor references, and primitives generally are expressed as values, but hopefully you get the point.
I also got some sort of partial "status reduction", less than a full ban: my ability to flag posts disappeared. I sent an e-mail and got it reinstated. But I still have no idea what I might have done wrong, and neither does the HN moderator who reinstated me.

I understand that the HN mods don't want to have to explain every action, and when someone really deserves a partial or full ban they don't want to announce it and cause the person to just evade it. I've been in the position of moderating several forums (none quite this big) and I know it's difficult to keep out the trolls and keep false positives low. But the false positive rate on HN seems very high to me. Some of these methods seem to be too widely used on too many good contributors with too little explanation, and as you say, that breaks down the trust the community needs.
Location to Timezone Conversion
Inherent in getting shadowbanned is not knowing or understanding why it occurred. My previous account had almost a thousand points, and though I made the occasional drunk rant, they were rightfully downvoted. To take away someone's voice, who clearly isn't a spammer, without them knowing, is a shitty thing to do.
Hong Kong doesn't have an equivalent to treason and so would not be able to extradite him on charges of it.
It's not a gas station, it's a block buster. You're not swapping, you're renting. And if don't re-swap back for your original battery, they charge you extra for it.
What the hell does this misogynist statement have to do with this article?
That's still the concept of "taking" from the other in a zero-sum sense.
Did you mean foraged? Forged would mean an imitation of data.
A Million Engineers in India Are Struggling to Find a Job
Because Obama can pass laws and is king of america? He can't do shit all if he can't get congress to agree on doing those things.

As others have said, it's a large group of people complicit in this machine, you can't put all of your focus on one figurehead and blame him like a scapegoat.
Rapiro Kit Robot For Raspberry Pi Gets Funded On Kickstarter In Two Days
Correa pardoned the defendants who were later brought back up on civil charges in the same matter.
So maybe he could have left a README.nfo in with the leaked documents? He wouldn't have needed to unveil himself that way and still been able to explain himself.
Here in NZ it is illegal to transfer a prisoner into the care of a country known to torture its prisoners.

Surely its not unreasonable, before surrendering, to request a promise that one will not be sent into a regime known for torturing its prisoners?
Supposedly it's about ability to punish. If someone can spy on you but can't do something horrendous to you and get away with it, then it's harm is far less. Loopholes such as you describe would be the same, since it still will be indirect surveillance.

Of course in practice it's not.
Most Audi A4s in the UK are probably the 2 litre inline 4 diesel. See the specs page here: http://www.audi.co.uk/new-cars/a4/a4-saloon/specifications.h.... Note that figures are in miles per Imperial gallon. The EU tests can produce unrealistic results, but the combined figure is usually actually attainable in practice under realistic conditions.

58.9 miles per imperial gallon in miles per 16.1 US gallons = 789.6 miles.

Diesel fuel is denser, but it comes out of the pump just as quickly. Add perhaps 20 seconds for donning and discarding your disposable gloves.

N.B., the Tesla probably accelerates better and with less noise than the 2L diesel. But that said, for the cost of a Tesla, you could probably buy an Audi A4 and run it for 25 years (in the rather unlikely event your car search has narrowed itself down to exactly these two types of car).
I thought this was public knowledge, iirc certain states (NJ And possibly others) ask you not is mile because it ostensibly makes recognition easier.

A Source:
rt.com/usa/license-jersey-recognition-face-956/
Ask HN: Where do I stand in the Seattle job market?
Some background: I started programming C when I was in middle school in the early 2000s. In high school I contributed to open source and did freelance while also taking Comp Sci classes at my local university. I went to college where I majored in CS and Economics. In college I worked on research projects, did an internship for a Fortune 100 company where I worked on flight control software, and I worked for several years in embedded software development. I eventually got involved with the entrepreneurship program, made a startup, dropped out and ran it for a few years (2010-2012). We got to the point where we needed money to scale, but we didn't find the terms from the investors here in the Midwest to be amenable. Without the resources to scale or even move the company to a better environment, we eventually closed it down.

Most of my personal and professional experience is in systems programming with C/C++, but I also have several years of professional experience with PHP/Python/CSS/JS/HTML. I have academic and personal experience with many other things as well, and I have an extensive portfolio of code to prove my abilities with all of these things.

Recently I have applied to several companies and gotten interviews. This includes some large tech firms in the Seattle area. So my main question is, supposing the interviews continue to go well, what sort of offers regarding salary/relocation/hiring bonus should I be expecting?

Also, I have no baggage or roadblocks for hiring. I don't have a house to sell or anything to tie me down, so I can relocate and be working in short order. I'm also in talks with several companies. How do I best utilize this leverage?

Finally, while I did not finish my college degree, I do have 10 years of programming experience. Should I be concerned about this? What level of developer will I be considered?

If you have any other advice or input, please feel free to share it. Thanks!
If I'm a top coder I'd do the 3 months evaluation contract in a heartbeat... why? Well because if I'm a top coder then chances are I know I'm pretty good, and by the end of three months I'll be able to better assess the value I can (maybe already do) bring to the company. That would in turn give me a ton more leverage for compensation negotiations than I would have had earlier. Also, if I'm hoping to find a place to park for a while, isn't it better for both sides to get a better feel for each other by actually experiencing that fit?

If it doesn't work out there's always the next 3 month interview...
The problem with that is the dead users will always be told they're dead, defeating the purpose. Unless... replies to dead users' comments are hidden from the dead user.
It's not because of a lack of demands that people don't listen, it's because of a lack of leverage.
That XKCD assumes the person actually got the message, in which case a month is fine.

Sending an email doesn't cut it on this short of a timeline.

The really weird thing is they had seven months to tell people about this deadline, and waited until six of them had passed.
It's already kind of happened informally. It acts like natural selection and you get really boring squares or people really good at hiding things.
RIP David Dreger :
You are overlooking the fact that posting "meaningless" news prompts the meaningful discussion around the issue that you claim you're perfectly fine with.

I welcome these posts because they are frequently accompanied by a quality of discussion that is unique to the HN community.
This seems to me to be the same class of error as those that aren't so much a go thing as a very comma gotcha for closures; you're placing x in the scope of the for loop and passing it into a series of anonymous functions, so it gets closed over and referenced as a common variable between each of those functions; thus before each goroutine has a chance to run the loop has completed and x == 3. You'll find this behaviour in any language with closures.

In the second example you're allocating a new local variable on each iteration, so each individual value gets closed over separately. That's probably not what you'd want usually, hence that not being default behaviour.
How can you tell if you are dead?
Ask HN: Would getting arrested at restorethefourth affect your hiring decision?
I'm interested in participating in #restorethefourth because I feel strongly about privacy, but as somebody relatively young in my career I'm afraid that it could become a longterm Career Limiting Move. In my city hundreds of peaceful protesters were arrested during Occupy. Honestly I don't think that protesting has much of a direct effect, but I would like to show solidarity with like-minded folks in demanding change.

Would getting arrested at a civil liberties rally weigh heavily on hiring decisions at your company? I'm worried that in the future having to answer "yes" on application screening questions about arrests and convictions would send me straight to the no-hire pile without further consideration.
Ad far as I know there is no browser which implements the 'enable-background' part of the SVG spec, so the problem of SVG filters applying to HTML content underneath them does not exist in practice.
Why isn't there an automatic migration path to Dropbox?
I have been expecting this to happen after the Dropbox acquisition. I'm a big fan of Snapjoy but not looking forward to downloading all the data only to re-upload it to Dropbox.
Yes. Perst for C# : http://www.mcobject.com/perst

It has a less liberal license (commercial or GPL)
If that happens here, we'll find another place, ad infinitum. That's just how it works.
Rift Store Guide for New Players - MMO Strategy Guides
I believe it's an attempt at humor.
I'm in that situation. Somewhere along the line I said something that annoyed a mod and now I can't even create a new account - it's instantly marked 'dead' automatically. Must be either a cookie or perhaps my IP is banned.
I'm not sure that "trigger happy and nonsensical" is restricted to "INTJ" communities. As far as I've read, the Myers-Briggs personality test is as predictive of behavior as is a fortune cookie.
Set your 'showdead' to on in your profile page and go back to look at your comments. They'll show [dead] next to them. Alternatively log out and see if your comments are still visible.
If online polls were reliable, that would be an interesting one to set up. I too always read the dead comments, and given the curious nature of hackers, I suspect many others are.
I've done this for single-use pipelines when built up because the nature of the data is unfamiliar. It usually starts with

cat file | less

and then

cat file | grep bar | less

and then

cat file | grep bar | awk '{ print $1 }' | less

and so on.

But if it's going to be used more than once then it does seem odd to have the unnecessary commands. Maybe "advanced" awk (beyond print $1) is unknown to people?
I had a similar idea a couple of months ago, but the issue I found with it is that a virtual "vote" for a product is borderline worthless. When an idea is funded on Kickstarter, people are putting real money on the project, something they do not want to part with unless they feel they are getting something of equal or greater value back.

Either way, all the best to you, and good luck.
Strangely, the thing I miss most is

for i in range(100):

except with 100 being, normally, not a constant.
This is more about productive than creative
Dead comments cannot receive replies.
Just having a 'showdead' option defeats the purpose already.
What is so bloody hard about just putting a laptop in front of someone, ask them to do a bunch of basic but real programming tasks, including internet access and see what happens? The overall jist I get out of people have been pretty accurate the months and years I have worked with them.

I dropped the ball on one employer because the audition project took too long.
Did you see the HN front page when Aaron Swartz killed himself? The NSA stories are a drop in the ocean compared to the endless Aaron Swartz posts. It looked like this[0].

[0] http://i.imgur.com/QgJo6CU.png
Often enough, just testing the things that everyone uses day in and day out is plenty enough to tell you about how a person can be as a programmer. Such as creating a table view that says 1 to 5 or animating things in iOS, and const pointers and references in C++
I used to keep a spreadsheet of dead accounts I saw, but I haven't looked at it in over a year. I had a column for whether they deserved to be banned - I'd check their history and try to figure out at which point they had been banned, attempting to discern the original reason. I was a bit disconcerted with how often it was a quite innocent comment, and how valuable many of contributions were in general.

I had intended to release this spreadsheet to the HN community, but it really was not at all comprehensive, and I forgot about it over time. Perhaps if members here would volunteer to maintain a list of such cases.. We don't need PG to implement anything then, every week he could just be sent a list of users that ought to be unbanned.
Sorry, somehow I managed to forget that primitives existed for that brief moment. I was reacting to the realization that "null" is a bizarre special case for the type system.

I was wrong on reinitializing references as well. Thanks for pointing that out. As far as const pointers, I meant that they were unlikely to be null, since they would have to be initialized to null. Of course, then I realized that you could easily assign them to another null pointer that you didn't realize was null.

Not a good day for me, but I don't think it warrants that kind of snarkiness.

To my credit, please reread the part where I said "there is actually no such thing as a null reference."
I think the US is overplaying their influence on HK. People in HK regularly protest (on the street, even) against Beijing's apparent interference in local politics or social matters such as education and elections. At the end of the day HK is part of China and this how they act towards Beijing. I don't think the US can waltz in to HK and apply their special brand of moral pressure for HK to 'do the right thing'...
I was hellbanned some months ago for using the words "fucking idiot" to describe some fucking idiot who comes to HN almost exclusively to grind the axe of feminism. This was around the time of the dongle joke heard around the world, and many people were hellbanned. She took issue with a rather archaic but totally innocent turn of phrase in an article about cold war tech (of all things!) and decided to derail the thread. So I called her a fucking idiot and now people can't read my posts.

In my case I knew I was hellbanned almost immediately because generally when I contributed to a discussion here I got responses and received upvotes. It didn't take long to figure out what had happened. I know, and knew, that I can appeal via email but I didn't for two reasons: 1. accusations of misogyny (which my banning effectively was) are a death sentence with no chance of appeal anyway, around here, and 2. I decided that HN was missing out nearly as much or more than I was by my hellbanning. I have lurked, though I do visit here less than before, and I have not registered another account. There's been a few threads I would have liked to participate in, especially recently with the USG spying, but for the most part I don't miss it.

Please do not reconsider my banning. I shall wear it as a badge of honor.

Edit: And for those who don't know, there is another thing mods can do to accounts here, which will make HN very slow to respond when logged in to that account. I got that too. Almost forgot until I logged in to post this :-)
My old account: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Devilboy

Not sure what happened.
Your i_am_dead account does not seem to be dead though.
Starting by congratulating Tesla in their system, which should win some converts, but there's something bothering me with it.

An automobile network that's also owning their "refueling" network concerns me with the usual lock in concerns. What'd append when other brands want to offer the same service? A multitude of recharge posts all accross the land space each under their car brand flag? Figuring that there's only tesla and ford on this city, instead of the Nissan charging station that I need?

This particular solution seems very specific to Tesla (or even only model S), is there any standard or independent initiative for battery-exchange stations?
I learned that I'd been ghostbanned for over a year when someone finally contacted me off-site and let me know. I figured out which comment it was, emailed info@ with an explanation (that it was actually complimentary and relevant to the thread in question), and asked to be restored. They did so within a couple of hours.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
I know a girl on twitter who is always tweeting about this guy. She claims to know him and take calls from him often (from jail). She is fucking crazy and kind of a druggie herself. If you want to be a technology / information activist, have your shit straight, kids. No crazy heroin shit.
No one forced you to click on this article. You can easily see his name and bypass this by simply not clicking. The use of common sense should clearly be used.
In case anyone wants to learn more:

Repo:

https://github.com/hylang/hy (star it, fork it)

Lightning Talk from PyCon:

http://blog.pault.ag/day/2013/04/02

Hour long Boston Python talk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulekCWvDFVI

Slides:

http://hy.slides.pault.ag/#/step-1

Docs (needs work, PRs welcome):

http://docs.hylang.org/en/latest/
If his self-promotion weren't necessary to produce results, we'd all be reading news stories about Cryptome and how John Young, Architect, was seeking asylum.
Well there is Nullable<T> for C#. But I haven't touched that language in ages.
Picoh - my take on yet another frontend JavaScript microframework
Manning was tortured. Sleep deprivation for many months is recognized as torture under international law, right?