skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can be easy to pick up side gigs building brochure ware websites for companies. Just approach a business that doesn't have a website that should (coffee shop, CPA, doctor, etc, etc) and tell them you can build them one. You'll need to be persistent, though.

If you are ambitious, you can turn those into recurring revenue by reselling hosting--I haven't done that because I don't want to be on the hook for down websites.

Make sure you check with your employer and get written confirmation that this is OK.
As far as I have understood, the default way to upgrade the distro in Mint is to reinstall the whole OS? Feels a bit primitive to me.

You're fine for a year or so, but when a new version of Mint comes, if you want to upgrade, you'd need to reinstall everything.
font shadowing is for the dark backgrounds, sky blue text we can do something about, dogpile is 2974 in Alexa, not far after DDG. Just wanted to give as many options as I could.
See? Now you're going back to "engineer is a dumb machine who translates other peoples' thoughts into code" land. Reality is more like this:

"The sales side figures out what customers claim they can't live without. The product side figures out how to turn those perceived needs into a product. Development figures out how to make it meet with reality."
Not sure why you want an Origin client. On Windows it's terrible...
Huge canyon discovered under Greenland ice
Oh. I Thought You Were a Guy.
Anybody here know, off the cuff, if the GHC packaged in Homebrew is compiled correctly to utilize the wrapper scripts out of the box, or if I'd need to build the cross-compiler myself as described in the linked documentation?
Cliff Young, Farmer - Ultramarathoner at 61 (1983)
Show HN: HUM - Simply redefining the inbox one chat at a time.
I think that's one of my favourite things about Django - even though it might not be the literally best thing out there, it's pretty damn good, and the developers understand the concept of maturity.

Shame about WSGI (despite it's benfits) being so inflexible though. It'd be good if there was some sort of "socket gateway interface" for pythonn spec that allowed Python apps to do stuff like websockets. IIRC WSGI cannot do that as it's all about single request/responses.

Might look into what can be done with async stuff (gevent) and uWSGI 1.9.
PayPal needs to learn how to save images for web
Logged into my PayPal and it showed me a preview message before my account overview.

I was appalled at the image quality:

http://bit.ly/193IJt1

Original image file on PayPal's servers:

https://www.paypalobjects.com/webstatic/mktg/clickthru/ct_seller_buyer_988x383.jpg

Looks like PayPal should stop saving images in MS paint....
Clickable

http://bit.ly/193IJt1

Original image file on PayPal's servers:

https://www.paypalobjects.com/webstatic/mktg/clickthru/ct_se...
You can only make your results so relevant if you limit yourself to returning the same results for everyone for a given query. Google uses its data on you to (among other things) tweak your search results based on what it thinks you specifically are likely to be looking for, which DDG will never be able to do.

DDG has (rather successfully) spun that as a critical feature rather than the tradeoff between privacy and utility that it is.
I'd say it's improving for different categories of searches. Because for a long time users were largely technical, it's search for tech stuff has been pretty good for a long time (in general, there are a few sub-categories in that that have lagged[1]). Where, searching for an author or book might have terrible results. So, when these people say it has improved, they mean it has improved for the kind of searches that that person does. As more people use it, and suggest improvements[2], it will approach being good for all kinds of searches.

[1] It still isn't very good at searching for specific error messages. It definitely used to show obscure projects on GitHub way too often. You'd do a search for 'getty' and some 3-commit project with a name containing getty would be the first hit. Also, I think it's actually gotten worse at finding Rails API stuff.

[2] It's been a while since I tried, but if you tweet at them with a search term with a poor result, they will try to figure out how to tweak the algorithm to make it better. It's really cool to see them act so directly on your suggestions.
How App Store grifters clone an overnight success to make a quick buck
The writing is on the wall right now for science outside the top dozen or so universities in the country.
I would love to also run the interpreter inside iOS to learn Haskell from a tablet.

I will support a crowdfunding campaign.
This is just a special case of people not living within their means. If you can't afford a kid, don't have one.

The catch to this line of reasoning is that you might have a perfectly well-paying job when the kid is born, but several years later endure a drastic shift in your professional life that's out of your control.

So I don't know. "Must pay enough to support family of 4" is incredibly arbitrary, and EITCs for low-income families (as another poster mentioned) sounds icky to me, since now everyone else is just subsidizing low-wage employers. Not sure what a good solution might look like.
I think it's reasonable...

Starting salaries in Raligh-Durham, NC are around 60k for a college graduate in Computer Science. According to CNN, this is equal to 104k in SFO with cost of living adjustments. (Source: http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/cost-of-living/ )

Although, I think the numbers are a little suspect.
SPDY requires that you run it inside TLS. Within the already existing TLS handshake the client and server can advertise that they support SPDY instead of HTTP.

The way you describe it comes of as more complicated?!

Of the things to note is that nothing of SPDY describes encryption, which is why a lot of people have thought about using it without TLS via some other negotiation strategy (but nobody have really implemented this, since the value is only minor/non-existent outside internal networks).
Those presumably hand soldered enamel wires cleanly laid out? I'm melting like leaded solder on a hot plate.
Of course Moore's Law will end eventually, but that doesn't mean that improvements in processor technology won't come from somewhere other than transistor density. Most likely, we'll see 2x+ improvements from one or more of graphene transistors, 3D chips, optical circuits, quantum computing...
That's a domain I'd really rather not travel lightly, as in recent years the government (courts, Justice department) have decided that Some Things are just fine which I felt were not so cool. I'd really rather not get them to decide on a states-rights issue, if we can instead find a way to make it legal federally, as the penalty (to states) of losing sounds high.
Large companies that tend to be PM driven come to mind in this particular scenario. It is not universal, but I've met multiple PMs from a couple of companies that referred to engineers as "the devs" and felt their meetings and schmoozing across teams was the most important thing.
Explore and contextualize data in the rails console
A series of basic lessons in sanitizing user inputs
Ah I see, it's missed possible returns, like RIAA 'losses' because of piracy ;). In investing you learn not to kick yourself about that kind of stuff. A guy a met at a conference told a story how he could of been a millionaire with GPU BTC mining if he kept the BTC vs selling. Instead he just got about the equivalent of $30k because he was justifiably paranoid. He is definitely kicking himself there. Told him he should of done the %25 speculation / %75 cash out ratio to ease his fears but still get a potential upside.
I've had a similar experience in financial services but from the other direction, and particularly as an architect.

I can't tell you how many times I have heard the phrase "I'm a banker, I don't need to understand the technology" from people in very senior positions with very high salaries.

The thing that they fail to understand - apart from routinely missing fundamental banking concepts like "on behalf of" or "product as sold" - is that banking is technology.

Banks don't store cash any more, they store bits.
Don't know if you've already thought of / planned this, but please please implement a side-by-side diff view.

Code is easy enough to read in a unified diff because lines are usually short (unless java). Prose flows a lot more fluidly, and there is no formal grammar for human language. I have had the displeasure of having to read "redlines" (prose with inline diffs marked in red strikeout) and I find them completely impenetrable.
Is there a reason why the groundbreaking crypto-cracking could not be a quantum computer that tries all possible passwords/keys simultaneously? (I'm no expert on this subject.)
Not mutually exclusive statements ;-)
Note that DDG is small enough that they're not even doing their search crawling/aggregation. They have to rely on garbage data they get from Yahoo and other crawlers. Their quality, I think, is much less from the lack of smart machine learning algos, as it is their lack of funds in not being able to afford to crawl the web.
It's on a free tier amazon ec2. I'm actually amazed at how fast websockets are, I can get a good connection even on my smartphone.
What might be the down side of having roughly as available as tobacco, with similarly harsh levels of taxation?
In fact, he preferred the manufacture of weapons of war to the production of works of art; Da Vinci considered himself an engineer over an artist (and damn, was he an artist!).
You're right that many doctorates in the U.S. are foreign born. And that makes this article even more alarming.

The problem is that since WWII, the vast majority of these foreign born scientists in the US tended to stay and become naturalized U.S. citizens. It was uncommon, if not rare, for them to leave. In fact, there were waitlists for scientists trying to immigrate _into_ the U.S.

The reason for this was very much economic. The U.S., the leader in scientific spending over many decades after WWII, could pay scientists more than how much their home countries could pay. I should also note that in the past, the U.S. was also much more accomodating toward foreign born scientists in regard to naturalization, as well as popular attitude.

Now on every other bulletin board in my building, there're flyers in Chinese advertising very well-paid positions in China, and I get to read about the growing percentage of climate change deniers and creationists in the U.S almost every other week in the NY Times.
I'm not sure if they are still as responsive on Twitter as they used to be, but if you tweeted at them with a specific search term that gave poor results, they would act directly on that. It was cool to see your own input make a difference.
Why Have Tech Companies Stopped Trying to Solve Big Problems?
When Ctrl-A makes the text more readable it's an indictment upon the designer.
This pretty much captures it. Google knows a lot about you, and it knows a lot about the people you hang out with and the kinds of things you read and the kinds of things you don't read. In knowing all of that stuff they can ascertain that you are part of a community (well a cohort at least) with certain preferences and proclivities, and as soon as a new user identifies as also part of that cohort they can tweak the user experience to "improve" it.

And don't get me wrong, it does improve. I'm glad that I'm not bombarded with ads for TJMax on Google properties but think Digikey could back off a bit.

From a feedback perspective though it gets weird. And you can see that when you search without any identifying information enabled. I found the whole 'Don't Bubble Me' campaign quite creative.

The challenge for search engines though is that being the reference librarian's favorite tool for objectiveness doesn't woo the mass market. And search is a game of numbers if nothing else.
Never heard of it before, here are the results of my google search for anyone interested:

The Trusted Foundry Program (TFP) was established as a joint effort between Department of Defense and National Security Agency ... in response to Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz’s 2003 Defense Trusted IC Strategy memo

- Program is administered by NSA’s Trusted Access Program Office (TAPO)

- DoD component resides in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, ASD R&E and is managed by Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA)

By the end of the program in FY2013, DoD will have invested >$700M to ensure access to microelectronics services and manufacturing for a wide array of devices with feature sizes down to 32nm on 300 mm wafers Program Provides National Security And Defense Programs With Access To Semiconductor Integrated Circuits From Secure Sources

[1] http://www.ndia.org/Divisions/Divisions/SystemsEngineering/D...
You need to build it yourself at the moment since this just went into GHC HEAD. Feel free to ask me on Twitter if you need any help (@lukexi), it's pretty easy.

This will be part of the upcoming GHC 7.8 release spectacular, at which point we'll release binaries and brew formulas!

(we'll also likely release some test binaries sooner than that if you're impatient :), stay tuned)
Attracting the best, keeping the best, and giving them what they need is economics.

If we don't have a sputnik moment and reverse this trend in the next decade or two, I suspect that in 50 years we'll find ourselves wondering why the next (multi)-trillion-dollar-a-year industry and its silicon valley weren't located in the USA. By then it will be too late.
These are user nodes, not relays. They see no traffic other than their own.
In times of rapid economic change, the risk of doing nothing is often far worse than a grand project that is merely less than fully successful. Chicago feared it would become a big flat toilet, for many good reasons.

When things work pretty well, it can be more difficult to allocated resources for bigger projects, I suppose.
That may very well be. I wonder if there will be any way for existing medical growers to "convert" plants to recreational production, which would speed things up at the outset given that I'm sure a lot of current medical growers are applying for these licenses.
No, some is gravitational: tidal, arguably hydroelectric, though that's a combination of solar (feeding the water cycle) and gravitational (capturing gravitational potential of lifted water).

Geothermal is in part latent residual heat of formation, which is arguably either kinetic or gravitational energy again. Some is _also_ the result of radioactive decay, though I don't have the precise breakdown.

I suppose there might be some ways of tapping planetary or stellar magnetic fields, which aren't directly caused by nuclear power.

Similarly energy systems based on collapsed stars (white dwarves, neutron stars, black holes) would not be directly driven by nuclear processes.

But yes, your point generally stands: most available energy on Earth is largely ultimately derived from nuclear reactions.
He wasn't declaring that he loved the women. He was declaring that you, as a group of (single, male) software engineers, will love the women. Why should HN be "required" to fall in line with his preferences?
In college I flailed around for funding for an idea for a bit. I accepted the first offer I found. Said "investor" jacked half of his money back out of the account (he needed a card because he was supposed to do some work on the financial end) and spent it on parties and shit. Very similar tendencies to what was described in the article and lots of the same red flags. He then threatened to sue me if I talked about the whole thing. Thinking about posting the whole story somewhere.

But the broader point is: if you need investment and can't find anyone else, it's very easy to convince yourself that it won't be as bad as it will.
I think if you're going to include the Last Supper as a caveat to not producing much in Milan, you should also include the two Madonna of the Rocks paintings, which have been regarded as some of Da Vinci's most technically proficient paintings.
Why word sizes are powers of 2
oh good to know that as a Gnome user, I'm at least minimally "in the clear". Thanks!

(I thought the malware component might be in a lower level of the OS than the DE)
Did you read my other responses? You are here at this company and are being paid exorbitant amounts for the 7 hours you are here every day. That time is not to goof off and take two hour lunches, then complain about missing deadlines that I didn't set.

If you want to say something, then say something instead of spouting bullshit. I'm dealing with a tough fucking situation and I didn't come here to get shitted on by a 1 upping random (really, you were younger than 19 working at a fortune 500 managing 40 people, okay kid).

Really, if you want to offer proper advice other than "you're a piece of shit" (to summarize) then fuck off. I came to ask HN because it's a professional community with people that have a diverse range of skills in these very environments I'm struggling with.

Stop replying, you are stressing me the fuck out, thank you.
I agree, have been noticing this for a while now. Bush league.
It could be worse:

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?joel.3.219431.12
Sounds like a natural fit for quantum.
Hey, you know, I hear that <10% NIH success rate number all the time, and am definitely hearing a lot about the effect of the recent sequester, etc. and I completely believe it. But I'm actually somewhat surprised at the published percentage: 20.3% for fiscal year 2012. [0, 1] If I have some time, it would be very interesting to plot the historical success rate trend (if someone hasn't already done that).

[0] http://report.nih.gov/success_rates/
[1] http://report.nih.gov/DisplayRePORT.aspx?rid=601
Why is this information useful? I get the whistleblowing about the NSA spying on US citizens. I don't understand the purpose of exposing the US's intelligence budget. What is Snowden whistleblowing on by publishing this information? What does it add to the discussion about the government abusing its power or infringing upon civil liberties?
AFAIU, the length is negative but it is then treated as an unsigned integer by vDSP_sveD. So the function iterates over the given vector until there is a memory exception (As the length is very close to to UINT_MAX). It doesn't look very exploitable to me but it is surely annoying. I've found it a bit odd that neither TStorageRange::SetStorageSubRange nor vDSP_sveD do any kind of sanity checks for the values they calculate or which are passed to them.
Besides Forte Meade, the NSA recently purchased the Sony chip fabrication plant in San Antonio (94,000-square-foot) and has business connections with many manufacturers including National Semiconductor/Texas Instruments.

Info on Fort meade: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=110&dat=19890417&id=Ye...

San Antonia former Sony plant: http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/NSA-...
Researchers start out as grad-students, and even American-born grad-students now despair of ever finding real research jobs in the USA.
The reason behind that error message is how generic numbers are in Haskell by default. 1 + "1" will actually be working code if you make an instance for Num [Char].
The reason the native population was wiped out was primarily because of the diseases brought by Europeans, not because Europeans were particularly brutal. In fact, Indians were as brutal to the colonists as colonists were to Indians. The first colonists themselves died in large numbers, mostly due to hunger and malaria. Also, Indians were technologically behind Europeans. Modern western countries, to which immigration is desirable, are more technologically advanced and we certainly don't have a problem with immunity to diseases - at least you can't call it an equally serious problem.

So, comparing colonists and indians to the current immigration problems is simply unfounded.
Productivity by any volume measure seems meaningless in the software context. That's like measuring writing productivity by word count. Nobody really likes high-volume communication, unless the goal is to write a lot of trash.

Even if you deliver a system with a lot of features and no known bugs, if they aren't the right features, it's not valuable software.
I'm not disagreeing with the fundamental point you're making: obviously a skilled professional is not just going to throw their hands up and bail for no reason.

But I think that highly skilled professionals of all stripes grapple with frustration and consider changing locales, industries, etc. - and not that many actually do.

I work in the tech industry in NY, and the number of times people I know (myself included) have said, "Man, the tech market here is (boring/too adtech based/too corporate/not worth the cost of living), we should move to (the bay area/austin/the middle of nowhere/the caribbean)" is huge. Very few of us have actually moved, because you become invested in a particular place, you like your lifestyle, you fear change, etc.

Again, not that scientists can't leave - but the article (and the HN headline) throws up the statistic of 18% considering leaving like it means something tangible.
Honestly, I think writers could benefit more from the collaborative editing model than the git branching model.

When do writers need to branch their stories/articles into two forks? If they do that, why not just copy the document and work on it there? The large bodies of text don't have the filesystem dependence that programs do; it doesn't matter what the manuscript is called if nothing #include s it or require()s it.

Instead, it can be quite valuable to have a collaborative text editor: your colleagues' changes are shown in real time as they make them. If you go on a plane ride, they're synced when you get more internet access, with conflicts clearly shown and deliminated so you can resolve them simply.
>> It more feels like the MD wanted to keep schmoozing and acting important ignoring the reality of the situation.

I wouldn't be surprised if "she" demanded something if she even knew of an investor OP's company ended up taking on.
Having thought about it a little bit more, I remember there are actually a few things being done about it.

Certificate Pinning[1] (bundle your cert with Chrome/$browser)

HSTS[2] (cache the cert you receive on this connection for $num days, bitch vocally if it changes)

Convergence (Dead?) / TACK[3] (add an independent site-specific key to cross-sign the CA-provided certs, like pinning but more flexible)

And the more passive detection approach I mentioned like the SSL Observatory[4] which looks for "unexpected" changes in certs.

To finally answer your question, no, I don't think there is any sort of list. Doing essentially that without any centralised bookkeeping (I mean, why trust those guys any more than the CAs? Not to mention it'd be hard to scale) is the plan.

DNSSec might have some sort of role in there, but I'm sufficiently hazy on how it works, and you're back to trusting your registrars/registries again anyway (see recent excitement at the NYTimes for why that's not such a great idea)

[1] https://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/05/04/pinning.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security

[3] http://tack.io/

[4] https://www.eff.org/observatory (built into HTTPS Everywhere[5] but disabled by default, IIRC)

[5] https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Interesting how only eleven hours ago they were in favor of a "political solution".

Source:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/29/us-syria-crisis-ho...
It is mostly a twitter joke that idiots said, along the lines with the (fairly small as an actual percentage of the american populace) who said, "Keep government out of my medicare!" (medicare is a government healthcare program).

I was being more tongue in cheek than anything.
There was an article that goes more in depth than this infographic, but I haven't found it. I think it's originally from Wired print.