skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should read the second half of his paste. Maybe disclose bias too.
Ahhh damn!

I mean... you've found the Easter Egg, congratulations!

[Fixed the link]
Picaca in spanish may sound really offensive, it's like saying pee-shit :S. You may get popular too like an older example of an app named in a rude brazilian word :)
Exactly! Couldn't agree more, humor is definitely one place we need strict guidelines, otherwise how we all know what's funny and acceptable and what isn't?
I understand your viewpoint, but I wholeheartedly disagree.

He said that he started the project with almost no experience. Cut the guy some slack! Learning on the job is difficult, especially working within the confines of another job.

Putting people down is not really what this site is for. It is for spreading interesting articles and engaging a positive community.

Quit being be a dick x
it was his first project plus he learned rails in his free time...
honestly i dont think saying he is a bad developer is fair.
Someone will not be happy with this one:

"Aaron Swartz (posthumous)
Co-authored version of RSS"
Interesting. Much more interesting than http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_lived_a...

But not at all a how to guide.
Kevin Kelly is a better manifesto writer than an economist.

He is expecting that a true fan "will purchase anything and everything you produce. They will drive 200 miles to see you sing. They will buy the super deluxe re-issued hi-res box set of your stuff even though they have the low-res version. They have a Google Alert set for your name. They bookmark the eBay page where your out-of-print editions show up. They come to your openings. They have you sign their copies. They buy the t-shirt, and the mug, and the hat. They can't wait till you issue your next work. They are true fans."

Later he posits that the true fan will spend 1/365 of their income exclusively on you (presumably not including the travel costs of driving 200 miles to your concert), nor does he account for how buying out-of-print copies of your material on eBay provides you with income ... unless you're selling it rather than other eBay sellers.

In his estimation, all costs and expenses you incur are modest, you will make a huge chunk of $100 off of each of those thousand fans ... well, if you're a solo artist and you personally nurture your True Fans.

okay ... so maybe it is possible, but he hand waves so much that it feels like he's not operating in the real world.

Reminds me of the Kids in the Hall's Money Momentum skit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uowLPuaDGhE
False, see Verizon order
Code to hook into Microsoft SQL Server and monitor queries
The fact that Assange let this guy into his inner circle doesn't give one a lot of confidence in WikiLeaks.
Real World OCaml Early Release Ebooks
Every time I heard the phrase "well-known workaround" I interpret it as "tribal knowledge."
You're reading too much into it, it looks like straightforward self-deprecation to me.
Financial advisers suggest that everyone 'should' save up 6-9 months of expenses in an emergency fund in case of job loss, etc. I don't know what percent of people actually do this, though.
Poor guy. You are supposed to learn in your off time while taking home a cushy corporate paycheck, then quit and take over the world!
But isn't it painfully simple to beat the system no matter how sophisticated the counter system is set up? We are always pretending like it is some super sophisticated process to plan an attack, but in fact it is painfully simple. If Mr Terrorist buys up some black powder or an automatic gun, ideally shaves his beard and dresses in a suit, he can pretty much get away with anything in a mayor city before getting flagged. Sure that would be just some lone wolf, but you can map out a sophisticated plan if you have guys willing to do this just over a napkin. I am much more surprised over how little "terror" we have than over how much. Plus the administrative stuff might be just made up. Most likely started from something like the "official" Taliban bureau in Qatar and got spun into "terrorists are a bunch of bureaucrats".
Funny, I read it as a entirely sincere account of his tribulations. I think the title of "Don't hire me!" has put people off, because it sounds absurd. But maybe the whole thing is absurd, and I completely missed the sarcasm.
Generally the NY Times Magazine does an excellent job, but this was a poor article. Lots of personal fluff about Wales and his high-powered friends and nothing new or interesting about his role in Wikipedia or the challenges that Wikipedia faces.
Yeah and private contractors discussing rendering or assassinating people?!

How do we take our country back? For starters it seems like private contractors need to be subject to the exact same rules as the government that pay them, including FOIA. I'd put money on it that the demographics of t top secret work force are heavily skewed, suggesting institutional racism and sexism.

We have to end this stuff
Actually you shouldn't totally dismiss fleeing. It modifies the environment and that is a major component in a mental change.
There seems to be a lot of chat about nothing in these comments...Let me put it simply for everyone:
"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things."

That is the core message and there is a lot of truth behind it...
If possible, I tend to look up words/terms I've not heard of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-irony

... are you saying in my effort in sounding all serious and sincere, that I, in fact, align myself with hipster philosophy and world views?
The Jimmy Wales Portrait Saga and Why Wikimedia Commons Hosts So Much Porn
Why is it NOT SAFE FOR WORK but it's safe to show up on SF's streets, with children and teenagers all around?
You're clearly using the bullshit redefinition of "collect" here, because you know damn well that's a lie.
Well, I don't know, there are an awful lot of badgers around these days.
Adam's "Learn X in Y minutes", where X currently in {Clojure, Lua}
That's why I still use vanilla PHP & Postgres for web projects. I don't use any hot new technologies, I don't use frameworks, I don't do unit testing. I try to use as little client side JS as possible. Whenever possible, I use static HTML.

The advantage is that I can create a working prototype in days. I can show something to the client very early, and I don't spend months to fulfill specifications the client didn't really understand in the first place.

When I leave the project, any PHP developer will be able to pick up and implement changes within hours. My code isn't elegant in any way, but it's simple.
The Bitcoin eternal choice for the dark side attack
Your question boils down to, "Is a 105 year sentence a better deterrent than a 25 year sentence?"

To answer that question, I'd direct you to a 2010 paper from The Sentencing Project. The thesis presented is that the certainty of being caught is a greater deterrent than the severity of the punishment. Further, increased severity does not appear to have a significant effect on deterrence.

http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/Deterrence%20Briefing%2...
Protip: Always store your Bitcoin private keys on multiple locations. I don't think the DEA has moved the bitcoins itself, they most like just took the harddrive with the wallet on it.
I'd say it would make Copenhagen Suborbitals the 4:th entry on the list. Much more impressive, since it isn't backed/funded by a government.
Exactly.

I moan about work sometimes but I like work - I like the social interaction, social interaction needs people, people are sometimes dicks, dicks are something I moan about BUT overall I'm happier because I work despite occasional downsides.
That's exactly what I thought. Complete and utter waste of time. Plus, the designer is charging the client to "convert" it as an additional fee. Just crazy.
Internet Explorer 11: The First Web Developer Review
Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, has a similar quote, "If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late." I don't know if one came before the other. Reguardless it's a good sentiment to have. The only thing that matters is launching. You can find the perfect shade of blue for that button after you launch.
It's actually become much more difficult to be informed. Print media's collapse in revenue has cut their investigative abilities. Network broadcast media has lost resources as the networks have been bought out by larger corporations. What's left is mostly the echo chamber of the web and it's aggregation sites.

There are very few organizations doing deep investigations these days. Anything deep is being done by individuals and sadly they are easily picked off by the police state.
I can testify that unless you get off on sleep deprivation and clearing up other people's bodily waste there's little short term gratification in a family.
The all-night Goldman Sachs scavenger hunt
Biological Clock
I don't know I've met my fair share of lazy "good enough" programmers that happily reuse code they wrote months, even years ago.
Ah yes true. I glossed over the CSS bit and just took in the javascript bit. I don't think TDD would fix a CSS workflow.
I think I'm in more or less the same, uh, boat. I made a very good living for about 15 years more because I was learning a lot from those I was working with than because I was climbing the ladder. A few months ago, my adventure changed. I'm bootstrapping now, and have a reasonable amount of runway. Even still I will occasionally have a night out, and I can afford business investments that make sense.

Currently reading Seth Godin's Icarus Deception, and to put it in his terms, I think the idea of having a job and spending >80% of your income on a rolling basis really plays into the industrial machine that wants to keep us as good little cogs.
High tech should be a case study for inclusiveness a post-DOMA U.S.
My parents watch the BBC news religiously, I asked them if they'd heard anything about the NSA story a couple of days after the story broke and they were completely unaware. When I brought their attention to some of the articles online their reaction was outrage. I wonder what the national reaction would have been had the coverage been more thorough. I find it difficult to believe there aren't plenty of journalists out there wishing they could get their teeth into a meaty story like this one, what's holding them back?
Ask HN: Crossroads for a programmer
I've been working for a company for a few years. It's not bad. I'm responsible for deciding what technology and platforms we use for projects. After working in the place for a year, I was pushed up to the lead developer role, running a team of 6 devs and 2 interns. I've enjoyed getting the opportunity to mentor young programmers and sharing new ideas with one another.

This year, we were divided in to client work and product development. I was made the technical lead for the product development team. No one was brought in to lead the client work, so I did that too.

Early 2013, a bunch of client work came in. Everyone was allocated to complete that. After we finished that, more arrived. We couldn't find any new hires so we were all kept on the client work.

In March, the boss was getting agitated that we haven't been able to get on with building the product, so, our project managers freed us up and we had a three hour chat which listed the basic requirements.

This week, our marketeing exec and I was brought into a meeting with the investor to discuss a marketing plan. The meeting was out of the blue and it was the first time our marketing exec had an opportunity to discuss such a strategy. Our boss and the investor could not agree on whether the product was B2B, B2C, etc. Then they had a heated discussion about what the product was actually trying to achieve.

Since February, I've been stuck on client work, or supporting existing projects, new hires and catching up on work that was left unfinished by aprubt leavers. We can't keep new staff for any more than six months.

The company is successful in client work but there is no consideration given for time needed to spec and build the product. The product has no direction or vision, everyone has their own idea about the aims of the product.I'm on the verge of leaving as all my concerns are ignored.

Any advice, tips, suggestions, would be much appreciated.
about half the people in my developer peer group fit this description, especially the 'rails to node' path (well, not all 50% did rails->node, but more than a couple did, precisely because of the reasoning in the article).
Anyone having children to patch up a dodgy relationship is an idiot.

"Things aren't great between us are they?"

"No, what should we do?"

"I know let's try something that will leave us exhausted, financially worse off and with no time to ourselves, that will DEFINITELY help."
> They got locked up and then sectioned indefinitely

To expand a bit for international audiences: They got a prison sentence. During that sentence they were sectioned. Even if the sentence finishes they can still be held in hospital against their will, because hospital is for treatment, and not for punishment.

In theory there are protections. People have the right to have advocates and mental health act tribunals and etc etc, but as we've seen from a number of scandals[1] the protections are not nearly as strong as they need to be, especially for the private providers. And, weirdly, providers of medium secure forensic units tend to be private sector providers.

[1] People with severe Asperger's being detained for very long times because staff cause stress and anxiety which shows as aggression; the Cornwall Report (people with learning disorders being chained to beds) and Winterborne View (people with learning disabilities being trapped under chairs or left out in the cold or punched in the face); the CQC faking reports. etc.
56 instances of the word "I". That's your problem. All the rest is fluff.

OP, try rewriting this, substituting "he", "she", "they", or "you" for "I".

Funny how quickly your perceived problems melt away as soon as you stop dwelling on yourself and start focusing on others.

Edit: I realize that OP is being slightly sarcastic, but I took this as an opportunity: This is a condensed version of pretty much the same feedback I've been giving people struggling with themselves for years: It's not about you! As soon as you get that, you can move on.

A recent instance:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5763484
> I might just be being cynical but this sounds like an intelligence led operation to remove people who were at a high risk of commiting public disorder.

You are being cynical. You cannot be preemptively arrested for having a "high risk of committing public disorder", which is what happened. Many people, who actually had no plans to demonstrate or do anything other than spend the day drinking and trying not to watch the ceremony, were subjected to dawn raids for no reason other than that they are on police watchlists (along with thousands and thousands of other peaceful protestors)

It's so incredibly easy to get on a police watchlist now - you merely have to turn up to a protest to get yourself on file. Pensioners have had files for merely walking along a protest route and then going home.
This code is not a "game engine", let alone a properly free one. It's an SDK specifically to make mods for the Source engine. It only has the code to build mod DLLs, not the main engine source code.
I'm just telling you what I've observed over the years here and dispelling the notion that it's frowned on entirely. If you want to start reddit-style memes, go ahead, have fun.
Jesus when i read this Article I see me...
I love to start new Projects but i never finish them(only when i must because i customer is kicking my ass)...
I always have a lot of motivation... but when i sit down and must read or do something i lose focus very often and maybe work on it for 30 minutes or 1 hour and then i start to watch some stupid youtube videos...

To this day i dont know how to focus...
I got depression last year because... i dont know everything was not going the way i wanted but i dont changed anything...
today i feel better but i still cant get things done...
i was reading books/blogs/etc about how to organize/focus/motivate but nothing every really worked for me...
not money/fame/etc helped to motivate...

maybe someone can help or share tips...
and if you want dick around you can but i want answer or comment you...
No. Unless your sincerity is merely the surface layer below which there is sarcasm, then another layer of sincerity, then a layer of irony, then more sincerity, and so on to the point where you have absolutely no idea of what your real opinion is, because you never had one in the first place.

Notice how 5-10 years ago, people were wearing ironically bad second hand clothes from the 80s, because it was fun, and it marked them out as "in on the joke." Then over time, that became so much the fashion that the definition of "good" clothes realigned itself to cover these things, so now people are walking around with handlebar moustaches, tie-dye hotpants and wolf moon shirts thinking its completely normal. The lines have been blurred, "good" and "bad" are slowly breaking down as concepts, replaced with "in" and "out."

The only way to escape it is to simply not think about any of it, and have absolute faith in your own objective internal preferences, whatever they are. Aesthetics is the only arena of thought in which fascism is not only acceptable, but morally right. Make full use of this fact.

EDIT - see also: the rapgenius blog currently on the frontpage: http://news.rapgenius.com/Lemon-how-rap-genius-raised-s18m-i...
Trust us, they said.
No New Friends? I'm Screaming ONLY New Friends.
Funny you mention styling, this is where a lot of my time gets consumed...CSS3 (love & hate)
Ok, last one for me. I think we just fundamentally disagree and that's that in the end.

I'm using the phrase 'safe word' very specifically here. When there is a consensual abridgment of rights or safety, there needs to be a way to distinguish between escape attempts which are part of the play, and a serious withdrawal of consent or change of circumstances. We don't actually know that the woman in the story really wanted out of the hole in the ground. Maybe she was just disappointed with the concert when she found out the full details and wanted to go see a movie instead. Maybe she was having a full blown panic attack from being underground and felt like she was going to die if she didn't get out. Maybe she just had to pee. Maybe she was just testing and wanted to be turned back, wanted to feel trapped because it added to the allure of the event. Mostly we don't know because the author of the article wasn't reporting on her, she was just a background character in the story of the concert to add ambiance. "Oooo, we were totally trapped down there, one woman tried to leave and they wouldn't let her."

In my opinion, striving for absolute pre-consent is wrong, dangerous, and stupid. What if the woman needed to leave because her baby-sitter had just called to say she was leaving and her children were now unattended? What if she was having a life-threatening medical problem (asthma, diabetes, heart condition...)? What if her brother had just been in a car accident, and was at the hospital dying? I assume there are conditions under which you would agree she should leave, even if she agreed not to beforehand. There are situations under which they will turn a plane around, and there are situations under which they will have a diver make a rapid ascent and deal with the consequences later.

In my opinion, a severe panic attack is fully horrible enough to warrant leaving. If it happened in a prison, I'd call it cruel and unusual. We can't know what someone is subjectively experiencing, and it's also very hard to know what someone is physically experiencing with respect to medical conditions, so it should always be within the rights of an individual to declare that the situation has changed and withdraw previously given consent.
I'm seeing a trend in the comments here and would just like to add my experience. It is quite similar to the author in that I worked fulltime for a year plus 3 months contracting for the same company.

I consider myself extremely fortunate to have had good health, no family obligations, and low student loan debt (payed off in within a few months of graduating). With that in mind, I can honestly say that there was a ton of pressure to spend money to "better my life". I would get strange looks and comments from friends and family because I drove a '93 Del Sol, and lived in the same apartment after graduating. The only big purchase I made recently was upgrading to a used car that is only 10 years old.

In the end I saved a lot of money. Enough to move back to California, in the Bay Area. I have been living off of savings for 7 months and honestly have about 7 more (conservative numbers). I live comfortably here and I get to work on my own projects on my own time until I make money or run out, in which case I will go find more contract work.

My point is that I decided early what I wanted to do and planned accordingly. I know that I'm in a very unique category with little responsibility. I have much respect for those who can't quite do what I do because of other obligations. This makes me happy and I wouldn't have it any other way. No need to feel sorry for me and think I'm not living life to the fullest, because in my mind I am.
Interesting, I had wondered if this was the case but don't know where to look in the Java/.NET community for current best-practices (or What's Currently Hot). Where should I look?

> Many in the Java community have moved on toward simpler frameworks and techniques

What have they moved onto?

> At some point, perhaps around 2016 or so, the PHP community will

Oh so true :D
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This idea of "growing up" and following that prescription is also embodied in the misuse of the word 'maturity'. The word is used as a weapon to keep people from doing anything but 'what you're supposed to do'... anything else is 'childish'.

This most upsets me when I hear people apply it to themselves. They are being fun, thoughtful, creative and then say something like 'I wish I was being more mature...' NO! Don't! 'Mature' in that context means 'like everyone else who's been scared into compliance'
I agree, the whole post sounded very ADHD
Minecon 2013 reveal.
As a newbie to web frameworks, I found Flask was much easier to deploy and I understood what was happening compared to Django. I also found the documentation and support better than that of Tornado and cherryPy.
Ask HN: Where do Makers talk about Selling?
Genetic algorithm with 2D cars in HTML5
Playpen: a secure sandbox using Linux namespaces, cgroups and seccomp
"Stateless" CSRF protection as described here is strictly inferior to other forms of protection. The reasons are somewhat laid out in this blog post's comments:

1. JavaScript in any subdomain allows a cookie to be set on unrelated subdomains. That means an attacker can set a token and override the CSRF protection entirely.

2. The "replay protection" means that you must continue to maintain state on the server (ostensibly to prevent duplicate requests)

The author has actually gone on to propose a "triple submit" system for CSRF protection (http://www.slideshare.net/johnwilander/stateless-anticsrf) which is still vulnerable to compromise if a related subdomain can be used to attack by setting many cookies.

For a more thorough discussion of CSRF mitigations, check out https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cross-Site_Request_Forgery_(...
They could try using a mixing service themselves. Once they do, they have know that where they sent money is part of the mixing service and can start from their. Not to mention the fact that mixing services likely have statistical properties different from other transactions.