skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought you were referring to the layout, which has been true for some time now...
The more reasonable explanation is cherry picking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking_(fallacy)
Or selection bias: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias
Or some blogger looking for ad revenue from clicks. Take your pick.
This is totally different than what OSX does. The OS is restricted to specific hardware; what the author is describing is hardware tied to specific software.
Depends. Should minimum wage be what it takes a single parent with two kids to live on or should it be what a college student looking for beer money needs to live on?
This comment caught my eye: "because after transaction costs it did not show enough of a gain"

I've always wondered why assumptions about transaction costs and execution speed never show up in these kinds of "studies". Anyone who has participated in markets understands they have a significant impact on results.

Also, doesn't it seem obvious that you would analyze the results based on multiple random entry & exit points rather than cherry-picked (or arbitrary) time periods?
Take a look at OwnCloud http://owncloud.org/ and BitTorrent Sync: http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html
Is it possible to create/delete/move directories yet? I found myself wanting to do that just yesterday.
Ask HN: client offers to pay with income, should I take it?
I have been working with a client for 9 months now on a saas project.
we did a fixed price project and I delivered a product that is almost ready for sale.
The client has 3 big leads and is finalising the sale with them (I attended the meetings)
He ran out of money and suggested a 3 year contract where I will be paid x per customer in return of 3 months of work
if those 3 leads close, I can get almost double on my investment (lost time and revenue).

How should I evaluate this deal?
Umm … so it's a USB version of DropBox?
oh, it's horrible. When I lived in the DC area, I used to volunteer for this organization: http://www.foodforalldc.org/wp/ - and I delivered food to the worst parts of the city, where people are very much unemployed and living off of far less of an income than the minimum wage. This law does nothing to help them, whatsoever.

I have no particular love for walmart besides their knack for being good at delivering things efficiently (their aggressive use of eminent domain makes me angry). But laws should be fair and applied equitably. What this law is - is nothing but political posturing, demagoguery masked in the language of helping the less well off. I wonder, do the DC council members actually lift a hand to help out the people they say they care about, when a camera's not rolling?
Given that the vast majority of wealth in this country in held in liquid assets or in real estate which is already taxed based on value, why do you suppose that a scheme to tax it would be more complex than the corporate tax system which employs on the order of ten thousand people and generates returns that are often thousands or even tens of thousands of pages and has been shown to be amenable to a wide variety of gaming through manipulating the timing and geographic incidence of profit?

There will be some complicated edge cases but there will be relatively few and the ability to game them is less because wealth is a simpler concept than income.
Nice. Just a little fixing and polishing:

def top_ten(s):
words = s.split()
return sorted(set(words), key=words.count, reverse=True)[:10]

(to get the most common words instead of the least).
No matter where you are in life, there's always something a lot worse and something a lot better. I can imagine jobs much worse than washing dishes and much better than making 6 figures sitting in an office chair.
In my experience that is the common case, work for a defense contractor not on, but near a military base. I very well could be wrong though.
I recently returned back to the UK from a 2 week long US road trip, covering 2000 miles. We downloaded the Nokia Drive data for the states we were visiting in advance onto my girlfriend's cheap Lumia 710, as we wouldn't have any data connection (not wanting to incur roaming charges). We were utterly dependent on the Nokia Drive app, and it performed exceptionally. Definitely recommended in place of a dedicated satnav.
One of the proposed advantages of BI is its simplicity (which among other things means few loopholes and lower enforcement overhead). The point the poster you quote is making is that no tax code will remain simple for very long.

In fact you support that point. Many of the complexities we have now come from adding "just one more feature" to the tax code, until we end up with something so complex that there is an entire industry built up around paying taxes.

If he said "In exchange for supporting inner-city teachers, we will be indirectly subsidizing H&R Block to the tune of $2B" you might ponder whether or not it's worth it.
Past a point, more megapixels does not mean more quality. I'd like to see better optics before we pour R&D into sensors.
Yep. Also, I understand what other people are saying about already having aliases, I do too. But, as a visual list of servers I can ssh into it is a nice reminder. Plus there are some files that I edit only from time to time (php.ini, apache config, etc). I made shortcuts that throw those files into my editor. Call me an amateur, but when I have to edit some of those my first question is usually, where the hell is that file again? Anyway, I find this tool useful.
We have some marketing people who want to make trivial updates to our site, but we don't want to give them write access to the entire repo.

We've given them read-only access so they can fork the repo, make edits and send us (engineering) pull requests. But the missing piece that keeps this from being useful is that they can't keep their fork up to date using github.com. The best they can do is delete the fork and fork again, which stinks.

Is the ability to pull new commits from the original repo into your fork actually missing from github.com, or are we missing it?
I work at MSFT and while not involved with kernel stuff directly I interact with them from time to time. The sentiment among kernel people is they'd put the NT kernel up against Linux in efficiency any day of the week.

The challenge is that it's difficult to get just the NT kernel and minimal support libraries. There was an internal project called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinWin#cite_ref-zheng2007_10-0 Without watching the entire video, Wikipedia mentions something like a 25MB footprint for a usable NT kernel.

Windows installed OS features are a lot more a' la carte these days. It annoys me that there's not a ntsd.exe or telnet.exe on every box by default, but I suppose it's worth it for the greater goal. There's a lot of focus on Windows Server Core, Hyper-V, and Azure. Cloud is bringing everybody back to thinking about OS footprint again.

I think the Windows-sans-(stuff not everyone needs) approach is only going to become more normal.
Latest Shipment of Avalon ASICs Could Increase Network Hashrate By 500%
I recently skimmed a giant manuscript about the creation of a language for defining cryptographic requirements and primitives (120ish pages). I seem to recall that the author was either from Stanford and/or had a name that begins with a "P". I wish I had saved the citation. Hopefully someone else will be able to recognize what I am referring to with my shoddy reference.
Why A Hacker Conference’s Fed Ban Is Bad News For U.S. Cybersecurity
Facts and Mythons About Python Names
> it adds a financial incentive to reinvest profits into the company to avoid taxation.

Couldn't that cause corporations to become bloated monsters?
Hidden Gems in Cocoa - Do you know all of them?
I don't work on the kernel, but I'd note that you can very comfortably run Windows Server headless on 512 MB of RAM--just like you can with Linux. (MySQL will experience hellishly Pavlovian pain on either OS with that little RAM, though.)
The OP blog-post doesn't really represent it succinctly in C#. This is the most succinct way I could think of:

var top = (from w in text.Split(' ')
group w by w into g
orderby g.Count() descending
select g.Key).Take(10);
It doesn't matter if the dog is lying still or not. They will just shoot it because they've got combat high. It happens to everyone, even seasoned veterans.
Maybelline NY Launches 1st Interactive Video Series
I don't understand why you have to buy hardware at all. Surely everything Plug does can be done with some software that sits on any of your existing desktop machines.

Obviously keeping a desktop computer turned on all day just to run your Plug app isn't ideal but it would be good to have an option to buy the software instead of the $150 black box. Many people have an always-on machine sitting at home running as a media server anyway.
that's how we reinvented Zoom

It's called cropping, and it's been around forever.

Does it save RAW? If not, it's useless to me.
I think we're well past the "omg spoilers!" timeframe on Game fo Thrones' first book/season.
I've got to echo these sentiments, I've got a 900 and am "upgrading" today to a 920. It's a killer phone, I've really enjoyed it, though I came from the BB Torch so...
It's a good thing we don't make policy based on ideological literature. That rarely ends well.
It's more reasonable in that it's more palatable to you, but let's be clear: you're speculating.
Wow, utterly fascinating! Thanks for this wonderful comment.
How Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages
Generally we see about a two to four week rollover time between DotA 2 Test and the main DotA 2.
It was said in jest.
That is, in fact, the point :)
Using cards with your phone is a serious pain in the neck still, either way.
You could always get an alternate token/card, so you have two you can use.
Agreed, but the GoT references were really freakin unnecessary.
Looking at apple.com's list of features for mountain lion

Lets see what was added in mountain lion that I would use:

* Improved preference pane (OK, this might be good)

* Accessibility pane available from anywhere (No)

* New braille display support (No)

* Voice Over stuff (no)

* AirPlay Mirroring (Don't have anything that can use that)

* Auto Save (Don't really want this, I use vim for most things anyway)

* Built-in Sharing (Might be cool, but meh)

* Calendar (I use google calendar, so no)

* Contacts (I don't use this)

* Dashboard (I don't use that)

* Dictation (Cool, but no)

* Dictionary (Not really using this either)

* Facebook (Nope, not using any of that)

* Features for China (I don't need these)

* Finder (lets take a closer look)

* Inline progress for downloads and file copies (Ok, not bad, but I don't normally mount any servers or stuff. I can just scp stuff that I need, or git pull)

* Easy encryption (Yay, this is neat)

* Share button (Nope)

* Customizable sidebar (Huh, wasn't it customizable before?)

* Tap for Quick Look (This is neat, I'll use it a few times)

* Game Center (Dont' care)

* Gatekeeper (Don't want)

* iCloud (Not going to use)

* Launchpad Search (Don't use launchpad)

* Mac App Store (Nothing really great in here)

* Mail (I use gmail, so don't care)

* Messages (Don't use)

* Notes (Might be cool, but I don't think I'll use.)

* Notification (I already use Growl, don't really need this, it's just going to be another thing to configure. Maybe I'll like it, I don't know)

* Photo Booth (Now you can add pictures to Twitter! Don't need that)

* Power Nap (Might be cool)

* Preview (I use Skim.app, so don't care)

* QuickTime X (Don't really care)

* Reminders (Don't really care)

* Safari (I'm using Chrome)

* Security (Some stuff might be good, nothing super important)

* System (Nothing too great in this section)

* TextEdit (I use vim)

* Time Machine (I only need one place to backup, so the multiple places to backup isn't that important right now (might be in the future), but the encrypted back ups are nice)

* Twitter (Don't care)

So I get:

* Improved preference pane

* Power Nap

* Easy encryption

* Tap for Quick Look

* Time Machine

Not really worth the price of updating.

I guess I'll update once the next one comes out, since they fix multiple monitors with Mission Control to work more the way I like it.
On a purely logical level, for sovereign nations issuing their own currency, taxation is completely decoupled from spending. You can increase taxes if there's an economic reason for doing so, but it is not a prior constraint on spending.
Let consumers face those issues and watch as the market responds to consumers who are paying cash.
...worms.
I am working on a CMS for Meteor.js called Azimuth: http://azimuthc.ms

Its pretty beta so looking for developer feedback/bug reports/pull requests.
The World Without Mobile
Thanks for building this. We need more stuff like this.

Out of curiousity, how do you prevent the case of some random malicious user impersonating your chrome extension and just issueing a bunch of "dwells" to your server. I.e. can I just curl what this javascript file (https://github.com/blippex/blippex_plugin_chrome/blob/master...) is requesting to boost my own pages ranking?
What a dumb comment; as if "security contractors" had anything to do with the quality of books, or didn't work in a field that overwhelmingly rewarded publishing vulnerability information.
We use client-side PKI and certs, not just with employees, but with customers, at OpenDNS.

Works well, is a very strong added factor, and is easy to manage and deploy these days.
So it's a USB backed NAS with some custom software to manage sync on computers and devices? Okay that actually sounds pretty good since NAS devices are usually pretty expensive. When multiple disks are installed in the USB chain does it manage the data so that a failure on a disk doesn't lose data? Will it alert me if one of the disks went bad?

The Kickstarter mentions online backup solutions, but does it have any integration with them?
I like hacker ish approach to extending (abusing) a much loved language to bring in new ideas.

But I am wary, despite being a python bigot myself, of usin one language for all these things. At a very early point down this road it is simply better to pay the cost of adding a new platform and using clojure to make my DSL

In the end, for production, there is a fine line between bending and breaking.
Odeo Releases Twttr [2006]
sudo chmod -R 777 /

Unobtrusiveness FTW!
This article almost willfully leaves out a pretty crucial detail: the living wage only applies to businesses that have non-union employees. So let's be clear what this is: it's an effort to give union-run stores a labor advantage and protect them from non-union competition. Safeway and Giant foods don't have to worry about competing with WalMart or Target's rock-bottom prices[1]

[1] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732439940457858...
Renegades: The Hacker’s Ethics
Is it RAID configurable? Is the data encrypted at rest, and, if so, how? Will it support two factor authentication? Will Plug ever "phone home" for any reason or report any data (meta or otherwise) to anybody except the purchaser? Will the software be open source, and if not how do we trust this device from a security standpoint? Can Plug be used effectively as a NAS without the syncing software?

I know it's difficult to tell, but I'm very excited about this.
Yes, I think his information about Mac hardware is very outdated. Sure years ago only MacOS would run on Apple hardware but after the move to Intel chips it has been wide open.
the owner of that company, pete ashdown, is an outright great guy. he even tried to run for a senate seat last election[1] -- without PAC $ and a focus on passing a constitutional amendment to overturn citizen's united. But instead utah got stuck with good ol' Orrin Hatch, which was one of the chief proponents of building the NSA datacenter in bluffdale that is going to store all the stuff collected by PRISIM et. al. [2]

the world needs more Pete Ashdowns and more Xmissions.

1. http://peteashdown.org/archive/2012/
2. http://www.nextgov.com/big-data/2013/06/utah-senator-who-pus...
Yeah, like something by Thomas More or Carl Marx..
Import sass/scss/css files from a zip file without needing to unpack it
For all of its critique, Atlas Shrugged surprisingly seems to predict where our government is headed.
Glass rain may give planet blue hue
Are better optics at smartphone sizes feasible without adding too much in way of cost? You can only accomplish so much in about 13mm of depth.

People are already groaning about the $299 w/contract price of this phone.
That doesn't mean those living exclusively on BI mightn't wind up ghettoized. I don't see why this would be any more true than in any other situation, though. (and as I've said elsewhere, I don't think BI should presently be enough to live comfortably on without draining savings).
Is there a way to give collaborators read-only access to a private GitHub repo?

I have some projects I'd love for others to see, but I don't want the code to be in public at this point.
I don't disagree that human-readable doesn't mean "verbose", but in answer to:

> Why would I not save resources whenever I can, even though I don't need to do it?

It's a cost-benefit. You don't spend your evenings clipping coupons all the coupons you can (which would save you some pennies). Or if you do, you don't stay up late to do it. The benefit to you of some free time is greater than the benefit of saving the pennies.

Similarly, the cost of mild verbosity is balanced against the benefit.

Basically, I don't buy an absolutist position of "save wherever you can". There are costs to saving, make a judgement whether it is worth it.
Living on the dole is indeed terrible for people -- but it's terrible because it's a poverty trap. A poverty trap isn't created by supporting people who don't earn a wage: it's created by withdrawing support for people who do earn a wage (or engage in other forms of value-creation which the dole administrators disapprove of). Because a person on the dole is micro-managed in their activities, they are unable to volunteer or work part-time without risking losing their one reliable source of income. This is exactly what traps them in a life of unrewarding idleness.

Your proposal would create a poverty trap in exactly the same way as the dole (in fact this is how the dole currently works in Britain -- you've just described something quite akin to the Workfare program, aka slavery for the wageless). Unconditional basic income is not like this at all. It isn't paying people to be idle: it's paying people no matter how much they earn. Because you can never lose your basic income, you are never disincentivised from working. Thus people can volunteer, raise children, care for elderly parents -- or work part-time, or full-time, or in whatever situation they prefer -- without ever losing their safety net. This allows for nire diverse forms of value-creation to be created than in the kind of micro-managed nanny-state that you describe.
We should welcome this. For those left in the job market:

- remuneration would likely improve

- only motivated people would be left, so "pretending" to enjoy a job and all other kinds of fakery diminishes

- artificial competition for jobs would decrease drastically

- the ability to change jobs becomes extremely fluid on both sides of the table(with liberalized hire/fire policies [employer-side] plus a lack of worry about winding up in the street [worker-side])

This is a very large net benefit to the motivated. The sooner those who don't want to be there get to stop working, the better for the rest. An "arts, sports, and leisure (which may take the form of beer or video games)" is going to happen, and we should be happy to allow it for those who want nothing more.
Show HN: Emulos records how people use your app
That assumes its a trust, what if you just created an s-corp with a few other people and used that as an investment vehicle?

Plus, is there any consequence to saying "yes I am an accredited investor" even if you aren't? I would assume you lose all the "protections" and ability to say "I was duped" but otherwise does anyone care?
The Rise of Julie Larson-Green, the Heir Apparent at Microsoft
Git doesn't track directories directly, but you can create files in subdirectories. Go to <user>/<repo>/new/<branch> (or click the little "+" box where the path is displayed), and type "foo/bar" in the filename box.
At the right price someone would do it. If BI covers my food, small but comfortable housing and general expenses but not an iPad and you offer me $50 to mow your yard each time. I'll mow your yard all summer for an iPad.

The incentive-based, consumer system still works and people will still do mediocre jobs - but they will do them at fair, negotiable wages because they aren't dependent on them.
its called instance [1], and yeah, its pretty damn good.

third-party devs really are the lifeblood of the wp ecosystem and continue to amaze me with the quality of the apps many of them put-out. coupled with an increasing capable mobile web, its made the app gap virtually non-existent for me.

[1] http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/instance/ef18d20...
I don't necessarily agree, but couldn't this same rationale be used to argue against any minimum wage whatsoever?
FUSE wouldn't do what they claim to do. FUSE would let them create a Dropbox-alike, i.e. a separate partition whose contents are synced to the Plug. Using FUSE to intercept all I/O on all files would require you to migrate your entire directory structure to their FUSE filesystem; probably a rather unfriendly setup procedure.

If their description is to be believed, they're presumably installing a kernel module which hooks in above or below the filesystem layer, so it doesn't require you to modify your existing filesystems.
This is smart and it's just DC protecting itself. When the full-time (actually 39 hour/week, so they don't get health insurance) Wal-Mart employee making $8.25/hour still needs food stamps to live, who do you think gets stuck with the bill for that? The DC government does.
I had no idea union stores were exempt. And unless Safeway and Giant have upped their wages recently they pay quite a bit less than 12.50 an hour for new employees.
High Performance at Massive Scale: Lessons Learned at Facebook
Actually the Internet Archive does not spider content on Facebook:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://facebook.com
https://www.facebook.com/robots.txt
What's the problem with Windows Phone?
This is common and incorrect view of the legal system in the US. The law as it is written is only half of the picture. You need to understand the relevant case law to have any idea how a judge might actually rule on a given case. This is one reason why attorneys make so much money.
I think this is one of the best addresses to this issue that I've seen so far. He gives a concise history lesson and then a point on how to fix the issue. I really hope this message reaches more people. I think that many people worry too much about Snowden and not enough about the core issue.
Without reading the headline, I knew it was Xmission.com.

The founder/owner, Pete Ashdown, was the sole Democrat running against Orin Hatch in 2006. He failed to get the democratic nomination in 2012.

Pete has long been an advocate of digital privacy and is a true Internet pioneer.
They should really make another branch before making any changes and then offer that branch up for the merge, once it gets merged they can delete the branch and fast-forward the master branch. The other options would simply be using a form of "git reset" or "git rebase" to clean up their branch.
Safeway and Giant (and Kroger and Supervalu etc) are forced by the UFCW to pay high wages ($18/hour in Seattle), and fully fund medical insurance for every employee working more than 20 hours per month.

As a system admin, it's taken me 6 years after college to get back to the wage I made as a grocery store checker.