skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Git tip: Show your branch name on the Linux prompt 
It is important to know which branch you are working on, when committing code to the repository. This post explains how you can add the branch name in red to the prompt.
A 40 liter petrol tank can't discharge 85kWh of potential energy in seconds without ideal conditions (good vaporization or atomization combined with sufficient oxygen)
In essence, that was David Simon's argument in favor of things like PRISM, (paraphrasing) 'Finally an equal-opportunity way for the Iron Boot of Law to be applied!'.
This. It's crazy, but criminal record can make or break us white collar workers. It's sad that people and corporations don't have a forgive and forget mentality towards convicts. I think that the only way out is to be your own boss. When people buy a product (software or better yet hardware) they are much more removed from the people producing it.
I'd be interested in how you are handling all this. And how common you think this situation is among white collars. Good luck in your future.
One point I'd raise about this is that I think it's fine to be able to indicate progress, be it just to keep the user looking at something while the page is loading, but I don't like how it seems to duplicate the function of the other progress indicators the browser has. Seeing the rise of client-side web apps, a browser API to show progress directly through the browser's chrome rather than custom UI patters would probably be great and prevent a lot of the fragmentation that things like this might cause. Plus, the less-savvy users might come to expect to see this bar everywhere just because they see it on YouTube, which I think is not a healthy thing for the web in general.
Clojure running on SBCL seems like a no-brainer. I do not know why this does not exist. SBCL is super high-performance and the underlying lisp semantics should be a perfect fit.
pessimizer's point is that he believes the very institution of property requires something he calls a state. I would disagree, and point to the fact that territorialism in the animal kingdom is an institution of private property without anything most people would call a state.
Just an observation from me: You make it hard to find a link back to your main blog.
True. It is highly unlikely that sleep deprivation alone killed him.

However, there were a few studies performed on animals where the test subjects died after 5-20 days of (complete) sleep deprivation. There does not seem to be a study about the long term effects on humans.

So it might be possible to kill someone from sleep deprivation - it might just take a while.

src: http://sleepjunkies.com/features/sleep-deprivation-and-tortu...
A decade ago I would go weeks working 18-20 hour days, 7 days a week. It wasn't good for my health, cost me my marriage, and started a dependency on alcohol. However, it certainly didn't kill me. I'd like to know the cause of death here, because working 100 hours a week isn't entirely uncommon in our line of work.
I like the Nexus approach. They are working with a phone manufacture on a device to show what CAN be done with time and love. Anyone can take Android and put it on a phone so the best thing you can do is set an example of excellence. If companies don't want to follow and people don't want to vote with their wallet so be it.

My main point is I really don't think this Google's problem and I think they are already doing more then I would have expected.
BAML interns in London are paid about twice the UK median wage pro rata.
It happens in some highly stressful situations. In Japan, they have a word (and a statistic) for death through overwork:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kar%C5%8Dshi
While I hate that Apple hides the scrollbar when not in use for the main page, the new iOS-inspired scrollbar looks much nicer when designing scrolling divs inside the page.

[Note: never said anything about custom scrollbars; just that websites with scrolling divs tend to look better on OSX]
Just don't pretend it actually applies. You replied to a comment talking about whether such a service would actually be capable of backing up people's data, not in the slightest a discussion of price.
Can your smartphone really replace your point-and-shoot camera?
Don't worry, there's nothing else there yet.
people can survive a week with no sleep, while performing physical labor 24/7...all without dying

Sure, most people can survive like that. Others probably can't. I would like to think that being a banking intern is less physically taxing and dangerous than being a Navy Seal.
preexisting condition

I appreciate what you're saying, and of course we don't really know what happened here, but outliers are people too. Humans vary in a number of different traits. If 1% of interns will suffer an injury from working 100 hrs/wk, (hopefully a larger percentage will "suffer" from fuck-you-i-quit-itis) that is an argument for interns not working 100 hrs/wk. It might also be an argument for not hiring "weak" interns, if it's possible to weed them out in an interview.
As a programmer, I once thought there should be best GUI elements that people discover and then leave alone.

But then I realized that book and magazine publishers have been "reinventing the page number" since before there was a web.

Of course information designer will be reinventing the elements of the UI. The process of design is making form and content a unified whole.
Congress has voted 40 times this year to overturn Obamacare. The article mentions that some deadlines were excluded because Congress refused to allocate funds for them.

One might suspect that, if the law had gone into the world in an orderly fashion rather than having its very existence threatened until the 2012 presidential election concluded, more deadlines would be kept.
That cursor makes me think that the browser has crashed/hung/is not responding.
I think you underestimate the number of investors reading HN. They may not post. They're definitely reading.
I m not sure if this will work.

The cost per app goes down with each additional app. After about 10 apps the company typically has figured out and streamlined the entire process. The documentation requirements for the H1B applicant are pretty well known. (previous status, transcripts, degree certificates,...). These are not overly complicated documents (unless you are a special case).

Also 5k fee sounds kinds of high (I am assuming these are in addition to the government fees). A lawyer for h1b application should not cost more than 2 to 3k. So, why would a company pay more NOT to work directly with a lawyer?

On the other hand, if the fees include government fees then this is a very good deal.

H1b applicant feels secure in the knowledge that his application is handled by a lawyer. Its like buying an insurance, they are indirectly buying "peace of mind". If they find out that company is not directly using a lawyer, I am not sure how they will react.

Am I missing something?
Callbacks all the way down. I blame 42% of my recent gray hair on callbacks.
> “But how do you implement this” you ask? Easy. (Be warned though, this code is untested!)

Scrollbar within a scrollbar!

<div style="height: 100%; overflow-y: auto">
Content
</div>
<div id="comments">...</div>
Sensationalism aside, this kind of work culture makes for pretty grim reading.

"One intern, who worked at one of the American “bulge-bracket” firms, memorably described the experience of working all night only to start the new day an hour later: “Every intern’s worst nightmare is what’s called ‘the magic roundabout’,” he told the Standard, “which is when you get a taxi to drive you home at 7am and then it waits for you while you shower and change and then takes you back to the office.”"

http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/inside-the-w...

There's a certain machismo attached to pulling all-nighters. I think many developers can relate to that.
I was nodding along, when suddenly...

> One alternative is to ignore iOS and OS X users. But that’s not very nice. There are many scrolling libraries available that you can use, such as NiceScroll.

> Or you can just make your own indicator like the one seen at the very start of the article. Just don’t use a horizontal indicator for vertical progression :)

No! Do not do this. Just stop. Stop reinventing and reimplementing the scrollbar.
Thank you! As my first blog post, this is quite encouraging haha
Omg, some people have strange problems ... If you want to know how far you are you just look where the scroll bar is now, scroll down until the end (or comments) sections and then you can estimate how far that is.

I do it that way and I have seen many people who do it the same. However I agree, that pages are bullshit in a web context.
I didn't sign an NDA for my Google interviews.
Careful not to read this too fast: I thought it was criticizing http://ricostacruz.com/nprogress/ but it's not.
This title is about as meaningful as saying, "Intern dies after taking shower" or "Intern dies after moving to United States."

Correlation does not imply causation; 100 hours of work is something parents in their 30s and 40s frequently do. For a 20 year old, this alone would just be tiring. He died from something else.

Flagged for sensationalism and linkbait.
That's a little disingenuous...

A hand tweaked car is something that you can't get unless you're a GM exec, or have work done (at your own expense) after buying the car.

It may be true that nexus devices aren't leading the pack in popularity for various reasons, but they are at least available.
> Clojure has a much stronger polymorphism story than Scheme

Many Schemes have their own OO implementations and they all support polymorphism.
Most mobile friendly articles are split across multiple pages to reduce the page size.
Sleep deprivation can and does make you more susceptible to epilepsy episodes.

Source: my wife is epileptic.
You know what is not feasible in the long run? Finding out what obscure corner case in which component was not properly covered, using tests only. Components interact with each other in non-trivial ways, which more often than not cannot be captured in tests. When an error is found in a sufficiently large program, the poor programmer typically ends up applying a patch where the error manifests itself, rather than actually tracking and fixing the source of error. I know this from experience.

On the other hand, if the program (or any of is constituent subunits) is designed right from the beginning keeping in mind that it is fundamentally a transformation from a precondition to a postcondition, from a logical predicate to another, then not only does locating errors become much easier, also testing becomes superfluous.

But it takes education to accept this point of view.
I'm not sure i agree. I'm used to reading horizontally and usually i scroll enough so the content i'm reading is always at the top of the page. So it was much faster, and looked more natural, for me to check my progress on the reading on the page that had the horizontal progress than it is on the vertical scrollbar.
I get that App.net is supposed about owning your own data, and sure there's a brief mention of PRISM at the top. But why I would want to write an app for it in the era of PRISM? How can I trust this notion of a "private cloud?"

What I'm looking for now is more decentralization and encryption than a walled garden.
As I understand it, the field of political science deals almost exclusively with the state. The fact that political scientists can often provide useful insights to other organizations like companies is obvious, but I would call that an inevitable extension of the field rather than a primary concern.
Compare the subjective wait for the spinner and progress ar in this demo: http://jsfiddle.net/gUkgX/1/embedded/result/

Notice how much longer you seem to wait with the spinner? Watching a progress bar fill up with a definite end feels way faster. I have often used progress bars that have no connection whatsoever with the process they're "measuring".

Here's the technique I've found works well:

1. Estimate the time the operation will usually take. Call that W (it can be a constant, or you can use a heuristic to guess it specifically for the user).

2. Pick a function that asymptotically approaches 1, e.g. the error function. Transform it it so that f(0.75*W) = 0.75.

3. Now for elapsed time t, fill your progress bar to f(t).

The upshot is that the bar will start fast, and never completely fill. And for the first 75% of the estimated time, it will be accurate (as long as your estimate is). After that, it matters less, since it will take a while for the user's brain to adjust to the slower speed.
Not to mention that the SEALs that make it to hell week have been sifted quite a bit already. The "weakest" are already gone by then
I can confirm this, even my 65 year old mom, who can barely use her iPad to Facebook started talking about this and was worried. And among the people aged Gen-Y, this is a huge and important topic.

Understandably, my worldview is totally skewed: I consume HN, Guardian, and German media.. In my little world, literally every site I visit and person I know talks about NSA/Prism/UK. It is weird feeling, then, visiting other media
> I asked Jones about someone else continuing Groklaw and she told me, she'd be happy "If anyone wants to do it, if it was someone like that, but no one will. It's so much work. It's too big to be a part-time thing."

> Sadly, she's right. I'm a workaholic myself and I'm known for producing many stories in a short amount of time. I couldn't maintain her level of quality journalism for a month much less the more than ten years Jones kept Groklaw going.

zdnet or TheGuardian could hire her, and make that her beat.
"Bank of America Merrill Lynch"
Stripe used to do these and I always thought it was cool but there might be a good reason they stopped.
When I posted, there was no thread to speak of. Now that I've seen it, I can't disagree.
My one issue with the latest Apple scrollbar is that I've yet to figure out a convenient way to scroll horizontally. The horizontal scrollbar is almost always hidden, I can't use my mouse wheel to bring it up, and using arrow keys doesn't always work either.

If anyone has a suggestion, shoot. I went so far as looking for a hotkey for toggling scrollbar display (which I still think would be a good idea), but couldn't find anything. For the record, I'm using Synergy to control mouse/keyboard from a Ubuntu box with a MBP slave machine.
I hate Google News's custom scrollbar so, so much. I love how OS X hides the scrollbar when I don't need it, but Google thinks it knows better.
Hopefully using methods that didn't kill them, no less.
You also failed to share your worldview as I had requested. I'd be certainly interested in hearing it articulated in a comment as opposed to the way you're just refuting mine.
Also releveant

1.A network of automated lockers is being built around the world: amazon, google, few british companies , german mail, and a polish company offering global lockers, which recently got $200 million investment. Highly useful for amazon.

2.Amazon is "secretly" building robots, and ordered a place at an important logistics trade show in 2015. They might launch a global 3rd party logistics , based on robotics then.

3.Amazon offers a financing services for some sellers. By having access to their business internals, it can offer low rate loans efficiently. Could be a killer feature for sellers.
exactly. The solution is, tell you and your friends to buy nexus phones. They're not even all that expensive, I got mine for $99, (yes, it was a special deal, yes it was to close out prior to the next model, yes I had to sign a 2 year contract - but it's still working phenomenally).
Which is a terrible way of doing it. Unless the page is heavy on images loading all the text at once will be far faster and easier than splitting it up.

Plus there's really no reason split them up. It's not a book, there's no limit on page length.
Certain agencies within the military run very well (JSOC and Army Corps of Engineers come to mind.) On the civilian side, NRC, OMB, NSF, Department of State. NSA under Alexander is also very well run after the post 9/11 binge abated.

The recovery efforts for Snowden are probably coming out of White House, DoD CSS, CIA, and FBI. Not wild about their performance here.
Lame. My last job had showers on site.
If you hate that your scrollbar is hidden when not in use, you can go to System Preferences / General and change the "Show scroll bars" setting to "Always".

If you hate that my scrollbar is hidden when not in use, well, tough luck. I like it this way.

If you force yet another custom, badly-implemented, weirdly-behaving, not-entirely-thought-through scrollbar on me, I will hate you and never visit your website again.
What do you mean by modern content encapsulation?
The Model X shares 60% of its parts with the Model S. I believe that, critically, the "sled" (battery tray and motors) are shared between the two.
I'm not implying that their expression data structure is in anyway deficient, but given that Julia is so lispy in the first place, why was a design decision made to abandon (the more readable/familiar ?) S-expressions ? Can one of the devels give us an insight ?

Edit: Can someone also comment on how Julia compares to Dylan in the semantic sense ?
If you want to have privacy, don't let anything get onto the internet. That's been true from day one.

The NSA hasn't changed that.
Yes it can. For most point-and-soot use it's more important to have the camera always with you than small differences in image quality.
I think for me, it creates a unified experience for the user. Instead of coding up a slew of different spots for loading animations for different parts of the app, I can now have a loader on the top to indicate progress. It creates less code bloat for me and the user knows something is loading regardless of what action they took in the site. My two cents.
A Chemist Explains Why Gold Beat Out Lithium, Osmium, Einsteinium
You're claiming that having different politics (left-wing, right-wing, etc.) isn't a viable solution, only non-politics is a solution. And everyone else is saying that non-politics is still politics. But in order to be consistent with your claim that all politics are bad whereas anarchy is good, you have to claim that anarchy is not politics.

At any rate, with non-politics everyone still governs their own body, so it's not unreasonable to view absolute anarchy as 7 billion different totalitarian nations.
yes, probably not the best example. however, i'll put my money on 99.99% of participants not dying from 2-3 hours of daily sleep for 3 days.

i dont remember myself dying while pulling this off more times than i care to count.
CouchDB API for Delphi XE2
Delphi-CouchDB is a library that implements the CouchDB HTTP Document API and adds a couple of useful features.
Games rule both app stores. People will try out tons of new games, but don't know they need or don't want a new note/utility.
It's a bit of a pain, the only way I found to do it is using a Magic Mouse or a trackpad. I'll be back here in case someone has a suggestion :)
I'd love a scrollbar that displays which part is the actual article, and which part is the comments following it. Often the comments are much longer than the article, so it's difficult to gauge how much of the article is left.
I'd love to chat about the platform. I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for pimping it. I just don's to turn this comment area into a discussion of the platform. Hit us up on twitter @OnModulus or send an email to feedback@modulus.io.
When I move my mouse wheel, both scrollbars show up, if the window is horizontally scrollable at the moment.

Horizontal scrolling with the mouse wheel is done by moving the mouse wheel with the shift key down.

Note that just touching the trackpad with two fingers, as if you're about to scroll, also brings up both scrollbars.
Shitty article. It's not Google's fault that some OEMs suck, or offer a different experience. Also, I would bet that Google engineers are eating their own dog food, it's not as if Nexus devices aren't available on the market.

My wife has a Nexus 7, and it's great. I have an HTC phone, it's also great.

This whole article seems like a bad attempt at discrediting Google and Android....
I think the worst was Windows movie maker, which used to seem to just randomly choose a time it might take and do a bad job of self correcting on the way. Oh, and of course there's a relevant xkcd, http://xkcd.com/612/
Most of what I do is a side project to my central tasks of eating, shitting and attempting to reproduce (or at least tricking my body into believing I'm making the attempt). I really feel like these side projects of reading, thinking and exploring are very important to my reason for existing. I could have finished with the real imperatives when I was 13.
Crossfire Media CEO Carl Ford On WebRTC And What’s Next
Also starting with consultancies is smart. Once you get Deloitte and McKinsey they're going to be recommending that to clients since it's what they know.
There are several examples of startups taking a blog-first approach. While I was writing this, I found it surprising no one else was talking about this.
> I'm still not convinced batteries have come that far since then.

Then you're suffering from evidence immunity:

http://www.akbars.net/images/battery%20energy%20density.png

The above graph shows that batteries have improved enormously in the past 30 years -- they now have more than twice the energy density they had then. There are few products that have improved so dramatically. And more improvements are in the pipeline:

http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/new-lithium-ion-b...

Quote: "Breakthrough lithium-ion battery can recharge 1,000x faster than current tech"

> Agree to disagree eh ...

This is not a matter of opinion. It's a matter of fact.
Thanks for all the suggestions. I'm also looking for someplace better, as I'm not very fond of forums.

That said, here are a bunch of forum links:

electro-music.com
http://www.electro-music.com/forum/

Muff's Modules & More
http://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/

GuitarPCB.com
http://www.guitarpcb.com/apps/forums/
BTW a question regarding HN ranking.

This story has now 26 points after 41 minutes and is placed 83th (was 30th when I entered) whereas a story posted 4hrs ago ("Mattermark Index: Y Combinator Summer 2013 Companies") has 27 points and is on the front page.

Can someone explain that? I though that new stories with similar score should be much higher.

Are there negative votes on submissions possible (and I don't see them due to karma thresholds)?
So without "your masters", who's going to actually enforce the worth of money? Who's going to enforce property titles?

Why do you believe the entire society you know and like will run with government cut out?
> The supply of electricity however, is apparently limitless!!!

Using solar, wind, hydroelectric and future fusion reactors, yes, it is.
The main application runs in a single thread and then I/O activities happen in an event loop running with a small thread pool.

Once one of those activities completes the event loop will give a signal to the main thread of the Node app and the callback will be executed.

Not sure if that helped or just confused everyone.
Amazon and Facebook couldn't really afford to. The dev center being down was largely more inconvenience than disaster. Now, if it had been iTunes Connect, that might have been different.
Amen. Reminds me of Rabindranath Tagore's essay on Nationalism. Its really sad how the political interests (and madness) of the minority, governs the lives of common people for centuries afterwards.