skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> "Justin’s transition is required under Intel’s corporate bylaws which state that Intel employees may not serve as corporate officers past the age of 65."

Really? As a (relatively) young person, I can appreciate the opportunity this creates for someone lower in the food chain. However, this seems to unnecessarily hamstring the company, especially with average life expediencies as long as they are now.
I would be interested in seeing a comparison to lamina. I haven't had a chance yet to think about it properly but my first impression is that core.async is strictly more expressive but it couldn't implement something like lamina's flow diagrams.
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Until you get a can of cheap imported "air duster" air which contains propane propellant still and instantly results in a firey ball of death...

Only posting this because I've done that before :)
Correct. Not only is eval not a good idea in general, but it's a very weird beast in javascript. See http://perfectionkills.com/global-eval-what-are-the-options/ for a very complete exposition of its weirdness.
David Nolen: ClojureScript: Lisp's Revenge
Why is there an API for phone number that does not require user consent? Facebook and Google are both at fault here.
Yeah, I did too. I wanted to leave a comment along the lines of "Most smartest? I thought this was the Atlantic..."
It certainly was one of them on some phones. I have had a "Facebook for LG" in the past that wasn't removable via the factory phone image.
Well for one it will cause a lot of friction with the open source community as they are generally very anti proprietary/close code which in turn will cause fragmentation in the browsers. I don't really know why, but I would prefer HTML to be free from DRM and use plugins to implement such things.
No, I am implying that is the kid is maladjusted than the majority of people on xbox live are maladjusted. If that is the case, than the majority of hollywood is also maladjusted. If that is the case, the majority of those who enjoy the movies produced and directed by those who are maladjusted are also maladjusted. Follow that line of reasoning with most form of media e.g. books, tv shows, music and video games. At this point, most of America, not to mention the world, could be considered maladjusted. Now, it just depends on what your definition of maladjusted is.
I've had many experiences like this as well. Even some of our paid for software gets scared if you use a buggy MySQL version (TeamCity for example refuses to start on certain MySQL versions).

Switched to postgresql now - just works!
Well, I just took 10 minutes to write an ad-hoc parser that will probably fix the bug (it works around the tricky test cases in the thread)[1]. I don't really understand why they want to move stuff onto the server-side, there may be some other trickery I'm missing.

Please feel free to use as-is and integrate it into mysqldump. I can't be bothered to create an account on bugs.mysql.com.

--

[1] http://pastie.org/8092330 (EDIT: The parser wasn't fully correct, use [2])

[2] http://pastie.org/8092403
The clone/interact ratio should be very small, and this design encourages that. What you want is people to clone some repos and interact with them a lot, not clone a bunch of repos and never look at them again.

Emphasize the cloning/interaction interface at the same ratio that you want people to use the respective features.
Doesn't work in Firefox thanks to this amazing browser detection:

Utils.prototype.setPlatform = function() {
["Safari", "Chrome", "Android", "iPhone", "Blackberry"].forEach(function(browser) {
if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf(browser) > -1) {
browser = browser.toLowerCase();
if (browser === "safari" || browser === "chrome") {
platform = "desktop";
} else {
platform = browser.toLowerCase();
}
}
});

document.body.setAttribute("data-platform", platform);

return platform;
};
I just got my first customer doing consulting for a proprietary software product. $90/hour, not bad!

Looking forward to reading this when I get home, (work firewall) :(
May I als you why you choose golang, I am just interested im your opinion.
Ask HN: Can you help me speak on the People's Stage at the Web Summit please?
Hi guys,

I've been nominated to speak at the Web Summit in Dublin in October but I need votes to secure my place.

You can vote for me here:
http://www.websummit.net/competitions/peoples-stage/entries.html#1-226

You need a Facebook account but it’s straightforward to vote. You just like the link on the page above. Remember to confirm your vote. Otherwise your vote won’t count.

The details of my talk are below. I'm an electronic engineer. My talk is based on my experiences of working in Korea. I think that Ireland can learn a lot from South Korea about developing a tech based economy. This is my little bit to help Ireland get back on its feet after a difficult couple of years economically.

Title:
'An upbeat chat on what post Celtic Tiger Ireland can learn from the "Irish of the Orient"'.

Description:
I'm Irish, an engineer and an optimist. I believe that rumours of Ireland's demise are greatly exaggerated. Koreans are often known as the "Irish of the Orient". True to form, Ireland had its "Celtic Tiger", South Korea had its "Miracle on the Han". Both ended in economic woe. Let's take an upbeat, sometimes even humorous, look at what lessons Ireland can now learn from our Asian friends about creating a high-tech economic Phoenix from the ashes. We have more in common than you think!

The Web Summit is a great event and the People's Stage is a fantastic idea. If my talk doesn't float your boat, there are lots of other topics that you might like to vote for. Even if you don't vote for me, please think about supporting the talks that you would be interested in hearing if you were to attend.

Finally, if you're going to the Web Summit, I'd love to meet up and have a chat about my talk or anything else. It would be great to meet some other hackers.

Thanks very much. I appreciate it.

Kieran O' Leary
That's an idea I haven't thought of. For now though my concern is finding a way to stay in the area. I imagine companies will be more likely to interview me if they don't have to pay for a plane ticket haha
May I recommend ת ? Tau notation is pretty excellent stuff.

There's even a gloss: ת in mainstream Kabbalah corresponds to Saturn, the god of time.

Electrical engineers need i for something else, incidentally, and use j for imaginary numbers. Mathematical notation is intentionally flexible.
Google Graveyard, or more ideas for you startup
Incredible Image Manipulation Examples in the Browser
I'm having trouble telling whether you are serious here. You seem like you are, but you're saying you rebelled by playing Shadowrun, speeding, and not drinking or doing drugs?

I don't want to be condescending but I want you to consider that your perspective might need some calibration. Most professional working adults I know today still do far worse than that, and nobody really considers it rebellious.

Likewise, this act was not rebellious in the least. Watch any comedy central roast and they say worse things all night. Personally, I think people who are afraid of these statements need therapy.
http://www.cato.org/publications/white-paper/overkill-rise-p...
I'm curious where this fits in with my Vagrant/chef workflow where I load a virtual environment with vagrant and provision both development environments and production environments with chef.

Seems as though there's some overlap between how I provision environments and where this tool fits in. What would be the advantages moving this away from my provisioning tool and towards Packer?
Where are the secret prisons, anyway?
Actually there are some OS devs who bark quite rudely that can be as bad as getting bitten.
Indeed.

Facebook are a rotten company like this. They'll throw something out, then yank it if they get caught. It makes you wonder what we haven't noticed yet.
In order to install the app the user has to approve a long list of required permissions including "read phone status and identity".
That's still nicer than the thermal decomposition products of fluoroethanes.
It's not misleading. If the CIA agent believed that he had no limits, then there were no limits.
The speed at which they get regexps out is kind of frightening, I find...
"If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged." (attribution disputed per wiki)

As I read it, it was not a threat. It was sarcasm. Maybe you need sarcasm tags, but it was trash talk.

Observe. "I’m going to go shoot up a school full of kids and eat their still, beating hearts".

Look I just said the same thing that kid did, but now it's a quote of someone else's speech. Did I just make a terrorist threat? No, because the context clearly shows that it's not a threat. Just as his context showed that it was not serious.
Rather mathematical response to a question requesting an answer for non mathematicians ;-)

Since Moore's Law is giving us one more bit of decryption per unit time every 1.5 years, 4096 * 1.5 years is probably going to precede the heat death of the universe handily. But 6000-or-so years of Moore's Law does tax credulity.
While I agree it has potential to be annoying in some environments, it's also trivially simple to work around.

for tbl in $(mysql -BNe "SELECT DISTINCT TABLE_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE EXTRA = 'auto_increment' AND TABLE_SCHEMA = 'mydb'"); do
mysql -e "ALTER TABLE ${tbl} AUTO_INCREMENT=1" mydb
done

Run that just after importing your new schema.

Note: That code will require a bit of modification if you make the mistake of having spaces in your table name.
I would guess it's a bit of both elections and CYA.

If you lock the kid up, then a) he can't shoot up a school and b) you get to look "tough on school shooters". Some people are mad, some people feel safer, most people will end up forgetting about it.

If you don't lock the kid up then you're a) soft on crime (people are scared, gotta do something) and b) there is a chance he'll shoot up the school and your career is dead and you'll get a billion dollar lawsuit against you.

Unfortunately locking this kid up is a very sensible decision for the DA. Whatever happens they can say "we were just trying to stop another Columbine" and nothing bad will happen. Basically, there is no almost no upside to understanding this is a joke, but there are potential life-runing downsides.
Very affordable awesome toy, frameworks out there already for flash and unity.
The article title is kind of misleading. When I see "Silicon Valley" in a headline, I interpret it as metonymy. So I thought the article was predicting the doom of the internet startup industry, not the valley as a hot location for startups. Such a "so what?" article.
Hello Patrick, always wanted to ask you - when you'll have a time, could you please describe some [hypothetical] case of your consulting with all the exact details of what you get paid for? I mean, while your posts on relevant subject are interesting, they are rather generic.
I'm all for Oauth integration in principal, albeit the "standard" has its (reasonable and well-criticized) issues, but I think there's more of a case to be made here for what's important to highlight to avoid user error on the part of the web browsers / clients themselves.

Maybe incognito mode should be the default state of any new browser install and non-incognito is a preference or toggle? This would avoid mass consumer public consumption auth issues.
You could probably fire up a Gopher server :)
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Wait! Read "Drive" first. Open Source is a textbook example of people working for intrinsic motivation. While offering money might make that bug get fixed sooner, it very often reduces their drive to work on the open source project in the long run.
Good Teams Succeed. Great Teams Fail.
Ecuador Spikes Halts Snowden's Asylum Because Julian Assange Is a Fame Hog
Doesn't this just reinforce the fact that using a third-party service for authentication is a bad idea? Most users don't understand it. You app is, generally, forced to ask for more permissions than desired. And you are at the mercy of the third party. I don't see any way in which a third party authentication service is a win.
Ruby script to create DOSBox game wrappers for Win/OSX
This looks very similar to the notes I was taking on my own when going through "learning python the hardway". Yours are much better and easier to read though, and make more sense in terms of going from very easy to more complicated in staggered steps.

Great stuff!

As a sidenote, how does everyone take note (if you even do) when learning something new like a language or some kind of skill?
Sadly true. Not only the Kentucky case, but in New Jersey a few months ago a 4 year old playing outside went into the house, picked up a gun, and shot & killed a 6 year old. The father of the 4yo has been charged over it since.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/dad-charged-new-jersey...

Toy guns in the US are now required to have bright orange flashing on them to ID them as toys. Of course a criminal could put bright orange paint on a real gun to make it look like a toy, and some do (http://publicintelligence.net/baltimore-police-department-gu...) but since most criminals want to intimidate people with their guns it doesn't happen that often. It's more common, I suspect, for people to modify toy guns to make them look more real. Some people do so to threaten people, sometimes there's a case of 'suicide by cop' where the person calls the police or brandishes the painted-to-look-real toy weapon in public and then points it at police when they show up to investigate, who unsurprisingly tend to shoot rather than waiting to see if they'll get shot.
on my phone I can disable it
Sure, but that's the only exception, right? If there's no eval call in the function that requires the closure it's easily determined what variables don't need to be included, right?
It's a win because users aren't forced to go through the typical create username/password --> email verification --> sign in flow. Is it worth it to the end user? Maybe, maybe not. But it saves them time, and there's lots of empirical evidence that sign-up rates are drastically higher with social login.
Please add the ability to sort the websites by recency and by (weighted) hits when browsing through http://neocities.org/browse.
Mouse Cloned from Drop of Blood
what if you don't have your gps on?
I'm having trouble telling whether you are serious here. You seem like you are, but you're saying you rebelled by playing Shadowrun, speeding, and not drinking or doing drugs?

Canada is a different kind of place, I guess.
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Short version: The author knew "real" martyrs. Snowden is no martyr, thus Snowden is a clown.

There, I saved you 10 minutes and a lot of scrolling.
Usually nothing to worry about, see https://github.com/mihaip/readerisdead/commit/19d3159c985b6e...
I didn't think about that, I'll write that down in my checklist of things to do when testing/benchmarking my projects... like another dimension to take care of when testing. Aside from domain-range, good data, bad data, edge cases... and other parameters - now add to that concurrency scenarios.
oh well, I think it is common to clone quiet a few repositories per user. I know its one of the most frequent things I use github for at least. Copy url, git clone url to local.
It's in the \base folder. Set the main folder to be the Python root, as in the grandfather post, and it should be able to find it.
44 reports got delayed, including the one for moreutils. It should be in your mailbox now.
Wow good call don't know how I forgot that! Added it in now. That was one of my favorite simplifications :) I seriously love finding abstractions like that.

Regarding the "seeing the status/overview of a repo" I completely understand, and I think it's a genius way forward for GitHub. I touched on that towards the end with the user-uploaded backgrounds. But basically, I left my version of the refactor at the stage right before adding in the repository's identity. After refactoring away all of the distracting elements, there's much more room to play with creating a really solid identity concept for repositories, instead of the hacked together one we see today.
haha, best comment
I also found that to be hilariously depressing. It's like they couldn't consider the other viewpoint until they tested out one of their cars and got chummy with Musk.
I haven't checked the first two samples but:

* Safari 5.1 exhibits no significant heap growth, as far as the timeline shows anyway

* Using top to observe private memory, Firefox does seem experience significant heap growth on the provided program
I believe it has even been proved that for most computational problems quantum computers cannot give an exponential speedup.
Why not? You'd have to pass laws in every state, which would be extremely difficult. Why not just pass one federal law instead?
U.S. Government Surveillance: Bad for Silicon Valley, Bad for World Democracy
buildroot links to uClibc, not sure if that is a well tested environment for Postgres; it is not entirely complete and standards compliant.
Android's take-it-or-leaveit install-time permission model sucks. I just counted 32 permissions for the Facebook app. When the user goes to install the app they are supposed to review that long list and decide if they are going to take it or leave it. The reality is most users have no idea what they're being asked and just hit Accept. Which means for most practical purposes there is no permission security.

Much better is the iOS model where there are a select few extra-sensitive permissions that cause a popup when the app requests it and lets the user decide if they're going to grant it at runtime, not install time. That lets the user know what triggered the request and decide if it's legitimate. It also allows them to continue using an app even if they don't want to share their location or whatever.
Doesn't even have to be violent. Just as easy to roll an informant to claim drugs dealings at a residence. Drugs seem to be easiest way to get a no-knock raid, even if your mayor.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayo...
This comparison only makes sense if Paula Deen was charged with a hate crime and thrown in jail.

If Tiger Woods made the same joke as this kid, and his sponsors dropped him, nobody would claim that rights are being violated.
> better concentration, and better impulse control.

I have not done a 10 day sit as described in TFA, but I've had a passably regular Vipassana-style meditation practice for a few years now, and concentration and impulse control have been two major benefits in my life.

One thing that comes with impulse control, but I find valuable enough to merit mentioning on its own, is that I am now much better at letting go of thoughts. I used to have difficulty with intrusive thoughts--fantasies of violence or humiliation that would play on loop in my mind. Now, they appear, drift once through my mind, and are gone. This also applies to getting songs stuck in my head.

For context, I grew up in the Christian church, identify as atheist, and have only a mild intellectual interest in the spiritual trappings of the tradition from which meditation comes to me.
I just purchased a Motorola Defy XT from Republic Wireless and it came with the Facebook app pre-installed. I immediately checked for a system update (which there was one waiting), installed it and the FB app went away. Usually it doesn't work out that nicely though. My last Android was the HTC EVO and you couldn't get rid of FB unless you rooted it your phone.
It's interesting that you mention a feeling of "tackiness" with respect to directly funding something via a bounty system. Although my personal project [1] isn't necessarily about providing incentives to open source software development, I did recently launch a new subsection focused on motivating businesses to act out of a motive other than the profit motive alone.

The motivational approach I took was slightly different than crowdfunding. Instead of directly funding the tasks you want to see completed, the bounties are donations to charity made on behalf of the tasks. They can be either made immediately to establish your level of seriousness or made when the task completes, to provide ongoing motivation.

Since I am focused primarily on motivating city governments and businesses, I felt the same way as you: direct funding is not the right thing to do. These governments and businesses already have funds. If I want to sway their decision-making processes in some unusual way, my experiment is using public charitable donations.

Just as a demonstration, I just created a task for this (admittedly, not really what I have in mind for my site, but I'll take whatever eyeballs I can get) [2].

[1] https://www.brianstaskforce.com/

[2] https://business.brianstaskforce.com/task/385/oracle-address...
The petition is quite awful too. The law should allow any manufacturer to sell directly. The petition won't do anything, but at least it gives this issue publicity.
eval already triggers a number of deoptimizations and specific behaviors because eval. It's not used in the example and thus entirely irrelevant.
Yeah, that looks like the right thing.
on windows?
>and there's lots of empirical evidence that sign-up rates are drastically higher with social login.

Where? I've never seen any evidence at all, just claims from social marketing weasels. The only empirical evidence I've seen shows it doesn't help at all, and that the majority of users don't like it.
Someone who has been accused of something really heinous (or threatening to commit a heinous crime) shouldn't get bail, they should be locked up until it is determined that they are not a danger to society.

The problem is that the courts are so busy with other cases that it has taken at least three months so far to do that (and probably more) for the trial to start. Have they even had a bail hearing? It wouldn't surprise me if bail was denied.

The fact that some people get charged with serious crimes and then they have to be in prison for months/years before their trial could start (even if the lawyers were ready) seems like a miscarriage of justice.

This is also why plea bargains are supposed to be so common, to avoid clogging the courts.
I'm not convinced Oracle (ORCL), listed on both the S&P-500 and the NASDAQ-100, needs or will accept bug fixing donations, especially since MySQL is a competitor to their flagship Oracle DB and there was quite a lot of disgruntlement around the acquisition. Maybe if you gave money to MariaDB it would work.
This is what you are looking for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Identification_System Many of these do not transmit particularly far (especially horizontally). Class B's, like you might expect on a personal ship, only broadcast at two watts.

You have to keep in mind though that for all of our advancements, the ocean is still a fundamentally hostile environment. One rogue wave takes your ship out and by the time that search and rescue people can be in the area any survivors could potentially be hundreds of miles away. They had a satellite phone with them, so I am inclined to think that they also had a AIS transponder, but these sorts of situations are difficult regardless.