skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last year at Heathrow, I got selected for a "random screening" where they take everything out of your luggage and scan every piece individually through the x-ray machine again. It takes me half an hour to pack my luggage, so the process took a while. I was not pleased that morning.

(Amusing side anecdote: There was a group of mexican school kids passing through security at the same time. Some were also selected for random screening. The random screening lady was from Spain, but she told them the policy (law?) dictated she only speak to them in English even though everybody involved in the transaction spoke Spanish better than English.)
Yes, that's consistent with my top-most comment in this thread, where I describe a different, gentler and constitutional war on drugs.

I wouldn't stop at using the taxes from the sale of hard drugs to reduce their usage. If spending $X against drug usage lead to $2X in net benefits, I'd support spending $X no matter how much higher it was than those taxes.

A key component would be rehab, in which case it might be tough to make the drug legal. Suppose crack is legal and so there's some parent high on crack all day, providing only the most basic of care for the kids. If it takes keeping crack illegal to legally force that parent into rehab, then I'd want crack to stay illegal, but change the consequence to rehab.
Maybe, but that devalues the work of everyone else who helps on a book. The editors, illustrators, layout/book designer all are skilled professionals, and deserve to be paid for their work as well. See John Scalzi's posts on why publishers are needed:
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/02/03/why-in-fact-publishing...
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2013/01/23/the-ebook-path-to-rich...
You've summed up my feelings toward the game better than I ever could, even the part about only playing it once which I could never really explain before.

I don't want to get off topic, but there are only two other games I've played that have had that sort of emotional impact on me, To the Moon[1] and Gone Home[2]. In the case of Gone Home in particular, the impact was such that I actually felt a good deal of sadness at knowing that most of the people I know will never experience the story and message of that game, and I wound up buying it for two of my friends.

[1] http://freebirdgames.com/to_the_moon/

[2] http://thefullbrightcompany.com/gonehome/
Had to check the whois first, nice parody!
To sum it up, they can now deny instead of "neither confirm nor deny."
The New Android map app is bad too. Rip the menu button, no way to get other routes suggestions anymore, I didn't find a quick way to switch from navigate view to route view.

All that is still the move toward less and less control for the user, initiated by Apple. I hope Google can revert soon, now that it is actually Apple which is coping with Google.
Every other country has these problems, the bureaucratic machinery is all powerful, even more powerful than politicians whom you can vote out.
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A lot of the financial world runs on Excel spreadsheets and VB macros. Its scary, but I wouldn't say they have failed horribly at the spreadsheet market.
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Conveniently missing from that list are those with strong accents [0].

Anyway, thanks for hosting these. Really loved the first one I went to years ago. The atmosphere is awesome. Really energetic and inspiring. I encourage everyone to apply. Plus, you might get to see me.

[0] A joke.
Wow.

Still wondering how this convicted him. I'm still trying to figure out how a Google map search THE DAY BEFORE his wife died is relevant. If she ran in the same place every day, not sure how this would alone would convict him.

No word in the article on whether he was let out on bail pending this second trial.
Was it a life's ambition to find a Kit-Kat finger made of only chocolate, rendering it merely a small thin bar of chocolate?

I found a half all solid chocolate finger once. Made my day!!!
I was looking for something like this the other day, I am glad someone has been making one!

Reminds me of robocode

robocode.sourceforge.net
If they haven't "made it" by middle age, hopefully they have found a stable life situation and aren't playing startup roulette anymore.

Nobody is saying you can't start new things. I'm saying the game is creating new experiences on hardware that didn't exist a year ago for, usually, a demographic of people under 30. Trying to break into that world as a nobody outside of that demographic and life experience is a long shot. Not impossible, but energies are better spent fueling people who have an actual chance at changing the world (and an entire lifetime ahead of them to do it).
>If only someone had invented a windowing GUI.

At work I have to use a mac, it's a PITA to manage multiple non fullscreen windows on it. There is also a fair amount of screen estate lost per window.
Even the page itself comes around with 4.4 MB of data to load. And the mobile version still weighs 2.2 MB ...
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Nobody is accountable though.

We are. We're not allowed to lie to them, only the reverse. Isn't government awesome?
I'm surprised that getting internet widely on planes has taken as long as it has. Air Canada still has nothing.
I'm curious about this as well. I don't use the site, but I see a lot of hate toward it (much of it seemingly unexplained).
I'll have to make a page showing the available languages.

Are you a Quechua speaker? I'd love to add it.
Heh, I had the same idea and lost a bit (if I had a proper account I woulda made enough on the volatility but that's another issue). A year ago I'd have though that by late 2013 LNKD'd would have fallen.

Look what happened last month. P/E insane, stock at $200. LNKD releases decent numbers ("as expected, LNKD exceeded expectations"), and the market decides "yeah let's just keep that P/E at the same spot".

As someone else wrote, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. Maybe if LNKD releases a "met expectations" or "missed by 1%" people will realise a 900+ PE is ridiculous and it'll tank.

Meanwhile, LNKD would be idiotic to not sell off some more shares.
Another game that has had similar impact on me is Coma, by Thomas Brush:

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/541124

Note: I tried to post this to HN, but apparently Newgrounds links are DOA
I try to eliminate these cases. If you notice one, email me with the language it was and I'll fix it.
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Oh come on! Be fair. This is the greenpeace website, not "corporate propaganda": http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/features/Swe...

If you want a news report, you could read http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/05/nestle-greenpeace-sourci... instead.
Just read about: http://bugchecker.net/about - apparently only x86-64 Linux executives. Which is still pretty awesome.
Thanks for this -- I was (embarassingly) running in debug mode due to a bad code snippet in my runserver script. Your report helped me fix both the KeyError and the debug mode.
Well, it's a reference to Werner Heisenberg's principle, which is what is (I believe) referred to by Breaking Bad's Heisenberg, so they're sort of reference siblings!
As someone that does dynamic binary translation for kernel modules (to find bugs) and eventually wants to get into symbolic/concolic execution (to find bugs), this is cool. I would be really pleased if they're able to make a successful business out of this!
They made $3.7M last quarter. That's not "lots of money" for a $32B market cap.
If you are following the "common" advice (e.g. you should be grateful), then you should also consider that part of that advice particularly "in this economic climate" is that it is easier to get another job when/while you are already employed. Some companies (although I'm not arguing that they are necessarily the ones you want to work for) are actively screening out applications from unemployed persons.

If you want another job, find it if you can while you are still employed.

If you are looking to make a larger change, save up. Your living expenses may well increase while you are unemployed, for example due to paying for your own health insurance (in the U.S., you will likely be eligible for limited duration continuation under COBRA, but you will have to pay the entire cost of that insurance out of pocket).

As for the staying in unhappy circumstances: Trust your intuition as to whether the "balance" is acceptable. If not, don't stay too long -- take it from someone who did. It becomes self-destructive (passively, if not actively), even with the best of intentions.

There's difficult, and then there's pointlessly, going nowhere difficult. The two are different.

You want some upside, whether it's in the job itself, and/or in your personal life. And even if the job's good, don't forgo a personal life (in my opinion).
Anyone who hasn't seen Jiro Deams of Sushi yet, I can highly recommend it:

[Netflix] https://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Jiro_Dreams_of_Sushi/7018...

[Amazon Prime] http://www.amazon.com/Jiro-Dreams-Sushi-Ono/dp/B007UW9WOQ/re...
Build the next Amazon. Instacart is looking for senior iOS and Android devs
Instacart is building the first ever virtual grocery store that offers customers an unimaginable level of convenience by allowing them to order from multiple local stores and have items delivered to their door on the same day. We have raised more than $11 M in financing from Sequoia, Khosla, Canaan & YC but we are still a very small and focused team of 15 people.
Here is what PG has to say about us:

"Incidentally, of all the startups we've funded, Instacart is one of the ones we ourselves use most. Jessica can't stop talking about how great it is. You don't realize how useful grocery delivery is till you have small children (like we do). And Instacart is by far the best option for this. Instacart is one of those rare products that's surprisingly great. I.e. you don't realize how good such a thing could be till you try it. A lot of the best startups have this quality. I wish we could figure out a way to identify them when they apply to YC, but at the moment I admit we can't."

Why you should join us?

- We are growing exponentially.

- We are solving some super challenging problems involving machine learning, routing, fraud detection and recommendations

- We have a very high bar, so you will be working with some really smart people.

- We ship code hourly (heroku permitting) and have a blast working together.

- We pay really well, cover health/dental and make life convenient for you in every way we can.

- We are well funded by some of the best investors in the world.

- PERK - you get to choose your own user_id (1-9 still up for grabs)

About you:

We only bring on people who take full ownership of entire products & features.

As such, the following roles are only suitable if you would like to own Instacart's customer and shopper facing mobile apps in their entirety.

Lead iOS Engineer

Demonstrated proficiency in obj c, memory management, threading, core data as well as working knowledge of javascript and other web technologies.

Lead Android Engineer

Demonstrated proficiency in java, Android SDK as well as working knowledge of javascript and other web technologies.

To apply, email your Github, LinkedIn or resume to jobs@instacart.com
Canada survived Nortel's flameout, although Nokia seems even a bigger part of the economy, or at least was.
Download my fucking android app
Social security, Medicare/Medicaid, Pensions/retirement, veterans pensions, etc. That will get you very close to $2T as a starting point.
>Are Ikea desks that can be made at 1/5th the cost but last 1/10th as long representative of the forefront of technology?

I refuted the example of technological progress being use of pneumatic tools, just look at car manufacturing, they're are an essential tool.

>Your entire arguments are based on the unstated assumption that electricity and computers are required to make anything that is on the forefront of technology.

No, my basic assumption is that education and freedom of thought are required for progress. The Amish have neither.
True, but people posting them to the front page 3e200 times is also absurd.
I just shifted my behaviours to different tools that Compose is no longer suitable for. It was a bit of an annoying shift, though in the end felt more helpful with forcing me to organize.
It makes me incredibly anxious. Can't really explain much.
One thing we're learning is that Snowden/Greenwald merely revealed symptoms of a metastatic disease spreading through our government and society. The American State no longer exists to protect its founding ideals but rather to enlarge itself at any cost to its host, the American People.

The USA was unique in that it held itself up to a standard that could never quite be reached. Our founders asked a very difficult question: given that societies exist and are prone to factionalism, how do we minimize oppression by the state against even the most obnoxious individuals ( http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa10.htm ).

Their answer to Tyranny wasn't Anarchy .. Anarchy is simply a nation of many Tyrants. It was a state that controlled itself through separation of powers. Not just (as kids are taught) between the Legislature, Executive and Judicial branches, but also between the Federal and State governments, the State and Local governments etc. It was division of power by definition.

Today, much like cancer cells I don't think the perpetrators are consciously doing anything wrong, it's simply in their DNA. This is a peculiar problem: past statist diseases like Fascism, Theocracy or Communism were easy to diagnose: they said what they meant and meant what they said.

At this point, surgery or chemotherapy won't do. If the USA is to survive in any recognizable form, we are going to need to invent the analog of gene therapy. We are going to need to spread ideas and change the human DNA of our populace. I think it's happening, but could be quickly reversed if those who care for Liberty don't seriously involve themselves at some level.
Depending on the drug, are you sure you'd even want them completely gotten rid of? Ban psychedelics and you'd have a lot less good music and art.
> There were once a great many programmers who did custom website development. That market doesn't exist anymore.

This is not true; just try doing a search for "web developer" in any major city. There will be dozens, if not hundreds of jobs listed on almost any day of the year.
>I've never bought a Kindle because paying almost the same price for the Kindle version of a book vs. the paperback cost is ridiculous.

You don't understand the economics of publishing. The paperback, and the hardcover for that matter cost almost nothing to produce. You are paying for the information. Perhaps the ebook should be a dollar cheaper.
I was thinking similar. It would take a LOT of earnings to come up with the cash that selling that equity would provide. (3-4 years of forward earnings, 30-40 of trailing, unclear on cash)
Only if you think the money they're getting for selling the stock is worthless...
Not really. Think about Facebook's stock IPO or Cisco during the .com boom. Also think about 1929. Excellent companies that make lots of money doesn't mean that they're under- or overvalued. A P/E (price/earnings) ratio of 900 means that the market is expecting Linkedin to be much, much more profitable than it is currently. For comparison, a normal-ish P/E is around 20. Linkedin doesn't have to simply sustain its level of profits, it has to grow, and grow extremely rapidly, just to justify the current price of the stock. So people buying the stock now think that Linkedin will eventually do even better than THAT. I disagree with those people.

It's not that Linkedin isn't an excellent company or isn't making lots of money, it's that it is overvalued in the market unless its profits somehow balloon. It's the same problem Facebook had with its stock IPO.

LNKD will eventually crash if it doesn't wildly exceed expectations. It's most likely a bubble.
It may not be worth the investment yet. Most people can go a few hours without internet, but that is quickly changing. Usually if I'm on the plane, I prepare myself with offline documentation and code to write or movies.
Thank you. I got annoyed by the mouse sensitivity and just wanted to hear the song. =pp
Absolutely correct. On a longboard at speed, you have to keep your weight forward. This is partly to keep the front truck under control, and partly because flex in the board means that the end of the board with most of the weight steers more.

If you panic and lean back, you're effectively only steering with the rear truck, which is not a dynamically-stable situation. Things go wrong very quickly at that point.
The site was quite degraded -- try it again now.
Agreed! That's why I say concurrently, decoupled but ideally in parallel.

> The harmful policies only serve to give the illusion of addressing the problem...

Politicians currently have the incentive to give such illusions rather than true solutions. That's another problem, close to the root cause, that I support fixing.
True. I'm actually staying in some rental apartments -- no staff.

The secondary card is inert until I contact the provider to activate it.

Bigger hotels also have secure boxes or lockers for customers.
It takes a few weeks to get a merchant account for a local provider. For an international provider like Braintree it takes a lot more documentation. AFAIK this is quicker with Stripe. Most local payment gateways here in Norway have a shitty API (many with SOAP. One with versioning like this: chargev1(), chargev2() ). But hard to implement? No, but annoying and takes more time than Stripe. Stripe is clearly a better technical solution for developers. And pricing. There might be cheaper options (particularly with higher volumes). But most options I have looked at have many different price plans and have a monthly cost. Stripe is pay as you go.
It can be very hard to time, and you have to pay dividends/interest while shorting. Lots of pain for people who shorted tech in 1998. Or financials in 2005. No limit to your downside.
My understanding is that overall consumption of alcohol did decline slightly under prohibition, so "drunk fathers kept on beating their children during the 1920s" needs a citation - and, in particular, that they kept doing so at the same rate. The problem with prohibition wasn't that it did no good in any way ever - the problem was that the harm overwhelmingly outweighed the good. Likewise with the current war on drugs.
Updates on the status of Arduino Yun
I think it's a great product. I check it before every business meeting.
Is it just me or does "People who don't need money" seem like it should be in the 'winners' list? If you don't need much money, won't you do well come what may?
great marketing campaign.
> Suppose crack is legal and so there's some parent high on crack all day, providing only the most basic of care for the kids.

If the "most basic care" is adequately meeting the society's minimums, this obviously doesn't justify criminalization.

If it doesn't, then child neglect can be made illegal (hint: it already is), independently of whether it results from drug abuse.

> If it takes keeping crack illegal to legally force that parent into rehab

Compulsory-as-an-alternative-to-prison rehab obviously requires that something be illegal, but it doesn't require that the illegal thing be the drug of abuse. Rehab as a condition of a suspended sentence could conceptually be tied to any crime for which drug abuse was a contributing factor even if the drug was legal (IIRC, this is sometimes done with alcohol in, e.g., the context of DUI, even though alcohol is legal.)

So, the premise here that making the drug illegal might be essential to make compulsory-as-an-alternative-to-prison rehab an available tool is simply false.
Thanks for reporting this, looking into it. The Windows support is fairly unstable right now. About page updated.
There is simply no reason why any state secrets should be secret for more than 5 years. It's utterly absurd that something like the Kennedy assassination files are still kept secret. Much of what was in the Iraqi War Logs was simply to help the pro-war propaganda campaign.

If Wikileaks has taught us anything, it's that we cannot trust our leaders to appropriately classify information.
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Pushing Mobile Design Possibilites
Ah, I tend to keep my weight fairly centered at speed so I'm stable if I have to break tuck. Also, I don't ride a deck with any flex, and I ride split angle trucks so I inherently have more turn in the front. But yeah, for beginners, weight on the front.
The point is what you experience while playing. Watching a video is missing the point by a wide mark.
On the flipside, a lot of Air Canada planes have free individual media entertainment systems and power outlets while most of the American flights I've taken don't have outlets or entertainment that doesn't require a credit card.
Now that we know its name variable, we can have no idea when it will be released.
Ah, is that what's happening? All I know is I go back to proof my email before sending and I keep randomly ending up at the bottom and cursing as I scroll back.
Someone should look into providing head mounted display (think Oculus Rift) devices for passengers on Aircraft - for a fee of course. I'd love to play a flight sim while flying :P
Which presumably means it's covered with the same disgusting fake chocolate that the rest of Hershey products are made with, which means it's not really a KitKat...
It's disappointing that you think the game is only about software for people under 30. There's so much more to entrepreneurship, but you're blinded by media attention and low hanging fruit.
Finland is a lot smaller than Canada, 1/6th the population, 1/7th the GDP (per Wikipedia).
In Australia they don't have Amazon. I guess there are other places like this too. So its not a world monopoly. I miss Amazon :)
Thanks! If you have any advice, we are all ears.
Whoa, buddy. I'm taking that as disrespect! How can you compare a soggy breaded ice cream "sandwich" to a chocolaty coated; ice cream loaded, big and thick; no room for a stick Klondike!? :-D
I quite like the idea. I'd like to support them. Unfortunately, they only accept bitcoin.

Best of luck though!
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Android Token app doesn't require any permissions and is free open source Software. The current version of Google Authenticator isn't open source.
Actually the title is "The Traditional RDBMS Wisdom is All Wrong".

He's arguing against multithreaded systems in favour of a partitioned OLTP platform like H-Store (VoltDB). I didn't see anything about the relational model being "all wrong". It works well for lots of scenarios, and turning it into a KV store is also straightforward.

As far as SQL, I think people agree it's not the best query language. QUEL may have won, but Stonebraker says[1]: "The only reason SQL won in the marketplace was because IBM released DB2 in 1984 without changing the System R query language."

1: http://iggyfernandez.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/nocoug-journal...
Agreed, unfortunately posting this with just "check out this basic OS I wrote" would yield a ton of flamey comments like "WTF, why would I use this instead of Ubuntu?! Lame."
People greatly exaggerate the progress and inevitability of AI.
I wish there was one in NY too. I'm sure there are some enterprising enough among us that can make it happen.
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