skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would also suggest you get your money out for the 5%. If their Japanese branch starts giving them trouble (they don't have licensing in Japan), there's the risk your money will be seized.
As always:

1. Look at the URL

2. Read the headline; surprise: it's a question.

3. Sigh heavily, mouth "no!", and move on.
Ohrlly? Your comment is literally an paragraph of inflamatory statements with nothing to back them up.

Globals? Have you used it since the new version? It's all namespaced now.

"It's decision to implement solutions in the slowest ways possible. It's a complete mess."

What does that even mean?

I can whip up a really excellent CRUD app in TEN minutes.

What is your 'better' alternative? Are you a Ruby 'rockstar'?
Contact the team: http://stackoverflow.com/contact

We'll get you sorted out.
That's not how it works. You pay last-dollar taxes on the money that would otherwise go into the 401k. You pay first-dollar taxes it when you withdraw at retirement. The first-dollar taxes are lower up to the tax bracket you'd otherwise be in if you didn't contribute to the 401k, unless you have additional sources of retirement income.
Do you need a full year of income liquid? I would think 3-6 months liquid and the rest could be liquidated when needed (for the remaining 6-9 months).
> A lot more mental energy went to grant writing than teaching or research.

As a PhD student, I can tell you firsthand that that is not true for all professors.

I was naturally very skeptical of the academic-governmental complex, but it turns out that academia can come fairly close to the idealized image people have of it. The professor I work for spend around 10% of his time on grant funding, and gets plenty.
Repeating misinformation is acting on it, and harms attempts to get at the truth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_proof
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_cascade

You may also want to reconsider your statement, substituting "intelligence agents" for redditors. If they collate photos or other information is it harmless?
GooG was not losing a $1 as they are NOT into these creepy ads. It in fact helps them because advertisers who are using these creepy ads will move to more standard ad formats used by admob and others.

These ad formats were destroying android ecosystem because new breed of developers are coming to android with sole aim of making quick money before they get banned.

Glad finally Google took the right step.
Sports video games have been doing this for years.

e.g. http://www.ign.com/games/nba-2k8/xbox-360-866314
Wouldn't that be 2.8k?

The way people seem to reckon it is 2k8 = 2 * 1000 + 8 = 2008

On the other hand, if it were 2k8h then it would be 2800 (2 kilo, 8 hecto).
Pulp Entrepreneurship
Yeah, I've got a few friends in Astrophys and they talk about doing work in IDL all the time.
There are a couple of good parts about this post. The first is the HN comments, which are an unintentional fountain of hilarity. But the second is the assumptions.

50% of the US population can't afford to put even a dollar into any sort of investment security. Of the 50% of the public that does own some sort of security, most of them are in the three-figures range. This index card, without realizing it at all, has targeted itself towards the top 10% of the population: people who have jobs with 401Ks, people for whom Roth IRAs will be useful.

In other words, if you are well into being one of the richest people in the richest country in the world, here you go - save 20% of your income, and so on. And you'll be fine!

So I'm just curious: suppose you aren't?
Buttercoin is hiring hackers: front end, back end, test
An FPGA fab doesn't know what the eventual configuration will be, but that doesn't stop them (or the foundry) from inserting hardware backdoors. One example is the Actel ProASIC¹.

Vulnerabilities like this make it difficult, if not impossible, to trust commercial hardware. The DoD started the Trusted Foundry Program² precisely for this reason.

[1] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/Silicon_scan_draft.pdf
[2] http://www.dmea.osd.mil/trustedic.html
Even if you're a "rich" software engineer, the advice is overstated. You need to make a lot of money (or be really lucky in the stock market) to have a 66% savings rate lead to any sort of real retirement in 10 years.

Say I make $100k gross per year. That's a very nice salary for a new grad engineer -- the kind of person who might take this ten-year-retirement advice to heart. Roughly 1/3 of that income goes to taxes, so I'm actually taking home $66k per year. If I save 66% of that, I'm saving ~$44k per year. These numbers can shift a little depending on where you live, how you save, etc., but they're not going to change by a huge amount.

Multiply that $44k by 10 years, and you're not even at half a million dollars. That's not retirement money (unless perhaps your "retirement" is to continue to live off of $20k/year indefinitely and die young from eating too much ramen).

The other half of the equation is finding investments that return a reasonable yield without betting the farm on timeframes <= 10 years. In this market, that's nearly impossible. Your choices are stocks and bonds (which are fine, but are risky on anything less than a ten-year window), or investments that don't yield anything.
which are from green cards. no keys from red/pink cards have been broken (yet). http://smartfacts.cr.yp.to/faq.html
>Can't wait for Google to replace ext4 with F2FS by default in Android. It offers significant speed improvement (~50 percent faster, or even 2x faster in some cases I think).

And why can't you wait? What will that buy you? Do you have a read/write heavy workflow with Android?
Very cool. As a suggestion, increase the link size under the main title, wasn't clear to me what the next step was at first after reading the introduction text.
Truth be told, the last thing someone needs is an army of highly emotional armchair sleuths who are ready to take the law into the their own hands.

Not a popular position on HN.
Scientists Discover Cosmic Factory for Making Building Blocks of Life
I love the simplicity of the site and the C code. I will definitely use it, thank you.
> Didn't see any scary spiders, but will keep an eye out next time I'm up there!

One of the nice things about here in NS is that there are no native spiders or snakes that are dangerous to humans.

The trees can kill you though. My father was almost killed by one back in his short lived forestry career.
Paul Krugman is a leftist operative - nothing more.
So? He was the intended user when a younger version of himself played it on the actual console. Many players thought that their timing alone controlled the value. The author has simply used an emulator to show that that is false.
Wouldn't an infestation of wild tigers make it more worth buying? =)
I'd say the bandwidth is easily there for Blu-Ray. I can download a 40-80gb file on BitTorrent pretty easily if its well-seeded. What I can't do is legally buy a Blu-Ray, and have it downloaded at Blu-Ray quality to me from any vendor.

Which is absurd because the first thing I do with all my Blu-Rays is rip them losslessly to MKV files on my server.
That's the part that stood out for me. O'Reilly Media has highly profitable conferences and every new book adds to a backlist. It should not have cash flow problems, and, properly run, it doesn't.

That must have kept Tim from taking on the HR challenge and other lesser problems on his list.

I only get advances on delivery of milestones. I sure that was a key reform, based on what he wrote regarding late and un-delivered books.
Apple Co-Founder Reveals How Ruthless Steve Jobs Was
The promote social insurance programs line comes in maybe.
Sean Ellis of Qualaroo Talks Growth Hacking: Slow and Steady Wins the Race
C&En 90th Anniversary Edition : How Chemistry Changed the World
You know there's something better? What is it?
Making the people building a travel app actually travel, what a concept.
Agreed. If the penalty were cheaper, then you'd have people (such as OP) breaking parking laws more often.
Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, has a similarly good set of advice:

- Make a will.

- Pay off your credit cards.

- Get term life insurance if you have a family to support.

- Fund your 401(k) to the maximum.

- Fund your IRA to the maximum.

- Buy a house if you want to live in a house and you can afford it.

- Put six months’ expenses in a money market fund.

- Take whatever money is left over and invest 70% in a stock index fund and 30% in a bond fund through any discount broker and never touch it until retirement.

- If any of this confuses you, or you have something special going on (retirement, college planning, tax issues) ( hire a fee-based financial planner, not one who charges a percentage of your portfolio.

(source: https://retirementplans.vanguard.com/VGApp/pe/PubVgiNews?Art...)
All of these are factors in our choice for printf here.

Another fun one: FILE on Solaris can only be used with file descriptors whose value fits in 8 bits due to an astonishing degree of backwards ABI compatibility. Also on Solaris, printf("%s", NULL) -> crash but on other systems will print "(null)".

In our implementation we couldn't solve the frustrating size_t uint64_t stuff without disabling the compile time parameter checking that gcc provides; I value that more than the slight annoyance of PRIu64.
Samsung to take Tizen OS beyond smartphones
Linus Torvalds says “f–k you” to Nvidia [2012]
Currently I can't play Steam on Linux because I'm stuck with with the OSS Radeon driver, which works fine for a desktop but doesn't have the performance for TF2. Whereas the ATI driver would, except it doesn't support compositing and DRI so I can't use my desktop with it.

I want gaming on Linux if only because it would light a fire under the manufacturers to fix their god damn drivers.
That might be part of the issue. My typing isn't particularly fast, but it is mindless. I spend virtually no mental effort on typing while I'm actually doing it, so I'm free to think about exactly what I'm trying to do and what the best way to do it is.
You're assuming the signing process is reversible?
I'm not saying you're "wrong," but that attitude will certainly cut out much of the fun in life.
Typography is hard to read.
The idea that your retirement years are a better time to live than your 20s and 30s is a serious mindset problem.
a 4% rate of return, on average from the S&P 500 index is reasonable.

With 1 million, you could live off of $25000/yr, which is more than enough to live like a king if you do not have other debt payments.

You could rent a $1000/month apartment, pay for a $400/month car, eat $300/month in groceries, and still have thousands and thousands left over.
WiFi insecurity part 1 – Pineapple
Beyond Black and Yellow: The Stunning Colors of America’s Native Bees
If you don't look for bees, you probably don't see them. At least not many of them. Sure, you might notice a honeybee, or a bumblebee, the generic names we use for the most well-known species -- but there are more than 4,000 bee species in North America alone.
This advice seems to completely gloss over one key fact:

You have to live somewhere.

Seriously- if you didn't, buying a house would be a terrible investment! But you do, so the cost of owning a house needs to be compared to the cost of renting, instead of being discussed as a normal investment.
The usual acronym for International Atomic Time is TAI (Temps Atomique International)
I've always been passionate about education and hope to one day be in a place where I can get my PHD. Unfortunately I've opted to relocate and travel for a couple years which has showed me that online PHDs virtually don't exist. Has anyone done an online PHD in CS or something similar?
That's _a_ solution, though it's arguable whether it's a good one. Obviously the current implementation of patents has numerous downsides. The costs are high. But what are the benefits? If they even slightly outweigh the costs, then having patents is better than not having them. And regardless of the cost/benefit ratio, is there a better implementation of the idea?

The intention behind patents is clearly a good idea. Who can argue with fostering innovation in a way that requires open publication? (Open source your idea, receive profits!) If anything, software patents are even more important than other kinds, in this age of the cloud and web services where there are no physical artifacts that can be taken apart and studied. We can take apart a cotton gin, but we can't see Google's source code. At least we get the PageRank patent.

There is less need in software for the monopoly benefit, and more need for open publication requirement. That's what makes software patents different than other kinds.
I know it seems superficial but beautiful docs are one of my most trusted heuristics when I'm considering using a library. If the author cares about the aesthetics of the docs, it often means they care about the aesthetics of the code, which really does matter a lot. We can make ugly things or we can make beautiful things. I really respect people who take the time to make beautiful tools.
Seconded: that font at that size strains the eyes a fair bit.
In a word: yep!

In no way is restricting spammy and annoying tactics a bad thing, if your product is good you do not need to resort to such tactics.
Rich Hickey is a genius. I love how he connected music to software engineering [1]. He should write a book on some of these topics. He has a lot more than 45 mins talks to offer to the world.

[1] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Design-Composition-Perfor...
"The PIC works from 5V down to 1.8V..."

You might want to double-check the datasheet (and double-check with Microchip support as I've found bugs in their datasheets).

I looked closely at the PIC16(L)F1455 and PIC16(L)F1459 from the same family, and those chips have separate SKUs for 3.3V-ish and 5V-ish. For example, the PIC16LF1455 can operate at 3.3V, but you need the PIC16F1455 to operate at 5V; i.e. the "L" in the part name is significant, signifying lower voltage.

Even if the L part works at 5V, you may be running it out of spec.
Fault-tolerant quantum computing: High temperature superconductivity
Very informative video. Thanks for sharing!
Drew Houston’s Y Combinator Pitch for Dropbox
"a 4% rate of return, on average from the S&P 500 index is reasonable."

Not if you're depending on using that money in the next ten years. Or if you believe in inflation.

A 4% rate of return from an index fund is long-term average behavior, not instantaneous yield. Historically, depending on when you entered the market, a ten-year outlook could have led to anything from a huge gain to a huge loss. If you're the unlucky investor who started saving 66% of your income in the stock market in 1999, you'd still be putting off your retirement today.

Also, your definition of "king" is pretty context-dependent. I can assure you that 25k will not allow you to live like royalty in San Francisco. Or, say, if you have children. It's a difficult concept to grasp when you're in your 20s, but most people do tend to reproducing by the time they're in their 30s. Oops. There goes that 25k retirement...
Ironic "Never borrow money" shows up here considering the start-up orientation of this site... Small business owners are a cornerstone of capitalism and our economy so we should incentivize people to take risks when they can.
If it is anything like in the US, old stuff is grandfathered when things tighten up. This is why it is often advisable to look for property that already has a dock or other permanent structures on or near the shoreline. It is quite likely that none of that janky stuff could be built today.
more pictures here:
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/sets/7215763046878...
I just ordered parts for a gaming machine the other day, and it'll be running Linux. A surprising number of games run on it directly now, and Wine works for the ones I care about that don't. There's now absolutely nothing I want to do that requires Windows - even two years ago that wasn't at all the case.
For starters: when we talk about "the market" here originally we're talking about mutual funds + etfs.

Now back to the point. When I say average Joe I was probably understating things - I'm talking about your rational, generally college educated, sentient being. When I say basic knowledge of economics, I mean knowledge or intuition of how unemployment, interest rates set by the fed, and global events can effect the economy (mostly for getting out when things are tanking and jumping in when they are on the up and up). When I say general knowledge of finance I mean more specifically trading savy - types of trading (trend, value...etc), ways to trade (short, long, margin, leverage), ..etc. And when I say domain knowledge I mean generally the domain the person works in and can pick a winner from a loser.

Now with that knowledge, the fact that a small investor can make small moves and not effect the security itself, and subtracting management fees, you mean to tell me just because a finance company puts their stamp on a mutual fund that means they'll do better than me?

My returns and the returns of folks I know that fit that characterization disagree with you.
I live on 4.1 acres. I can't imagine splitting it 10 ways in a manner that would allow for free space on an island with rugged terrain. It's big but not get away from 10 people you may or may not like big.
My opinion is that this will only hurt those devs who would rather push ads to people in shady ways than pull people into their app with a design and functionality worth opening more than once. If I ever happen upon an app that does either of the things Google is killing off I immediately get rid of it anyway. I don't see how this is a negative thing at all.
DataTables – Table plug-in for jQuery
PDX Web and Design: A Bunch of Glassholes
Last Thursday in Portland, Ore., a bunch of Glassholes got together to talk about the specs involving Google Glass, Google's updated ToS, and what they're currently working on.
Looks nice, but note this doesn't appear to support consistent reads (unlike LevelDB snapshots)
Well, currently Photo Pea has much better support for PSD than Pixlr (e.g. more layer effects, folders of layers, vector masks ...) Pixlr also uses Adobe Flash, wich is not available on some devices.
How IPO Pricing Works
Don't even get me started on the mediocre books. It's a shame, because there are still some very good books being produced with the O'Reilly name on them, but no longer can I trust them to be good because there's an animal on the cover.

The worst book I have bought in the past two years was O'Reilly's Building Node Applications with MongoDB and Backbone.

My quick, capsule review of that book: Piece of Shit. Bad example code, horrific continuity, next to no editing, it had everything needed to be lumped in with the crappy tech books. Ironically, the "Sam's Teach Yourself" Node.js book (which I had already gone through and was hoping to expand upon with the O'Reilly purchase) was vastly superior.

I wish I could get my money back, but I don't think Amazon does refunds for ebooks.
Don't forget to account for inflation. You're more likely to end up with a 1-2% return in real dollars.
IBM Vows to Spend $1 Billion to Promote Linux
It's OK. OpenOffice/LibreOffice don't either and they just yell at people that notice MS Office's outliner functionality is missing in OOo.
You're not too wrong; you can borrow against a 401(k) (<50% of the balance, no more than $50k total). Most financial advice says to stay away, though.
If Tim reads this:

Tim, you didn't fail. The industry has failed. For the past few-to-several years, books on technology have been obsolete by the time they are written- not just published, so you can't make money off of selling even digital copies of books. Developers read about the latest technology in project readme's (markdown formatted in GitHub), a wiki, one or more blogs, StackOverflow, and so on.

What else could your company do to stay relevant? I really have no idea. Posts on your site that come up in Google are often outdated, so O'Reilly to me is at most a place where developers that want to give talks and lectures can publish a book, which probably won't sell much. Maybe it will boost their resume or help them get more contract work? I really have no idea why people give talks and write books anymore. It seems like a waste of time that could be spent developing. Developing good code makes you relevant now.

I just feel sorry for the whole situation. I would have hoped will all of the publishing money from the 1990's and early 2000's, you'd own your own island, where you'd be on the beach drinking Coronas. But instead, the company has apparently tanked. That sucks. I liked the animal-covered books.
Perhaps the game is even preloading and decompressing resources for the move ahead since it know what the outcome will be?
that's a pretty racist statement backed up by no facts or causality. Detroit used to be rich even \w all these "African" as you call them.
Open source constraint programming models
For now*. Don't forget the artillery for imperializing neighboring islands.
Yes: it was owners' efforty, not a community effort.
>Repeating misinformation is acting on it, and harms attempts to get at the truth.

Well sure it is when you deliberately spread disinformation, as opposed to being mistaken.

>You may also want to reconsider your statement, substituting "intelligence agents" for redditors. If they collate photos or other information is it harmless?

Nope, I don't see much reason to think that the average law enforcement agent is much better or worse than the average redditor. The incentives for the law enforcement agency are often worse from the perspective of potential for abuse.
CDC: Hospitals major source of antibiotic-resistant infections
This was so long ago.
Not sure why this is being downvoted. If you don't get mortgage, the presumption is that you aren't going to buy a house outright, either. You're going to rent, which isn't exactly an ideal situation in the long term.
So, in just a few comments the discussion has gone from looking at a problem to supporting teams.

Other posters say Krugman is largely an opinion writer now and you reject the economists others mention as they hold political beliefs you don't like.

This is pretty much why most political and economic discussions are a waste of time, particularly on the internet.
> Say what you will about government programs, they're going to be more consistent than what you get pushing the problem out to millions of individual actors.

What I'll say is that I think this is a ludicrous assumption to make, for the same reason that it would be ludicrous to assume that government food distribution or automobile production would be more consistent than pushing the problem out to millions of individual actors.
It's not true that if you pass a pointer to a 'struct timezone' to gettimeofday() it just gets filled with zeroes - the tz_minuteswest field is filled with the current local timezone offset (based either on the TZ environment variable or on /etc/localtime).
It would have to be net. Your tax situation determines the conversion from gross to net, and can vary wildly from person to person making percentage rates based on gross too variable.

While you should of course do what you can to reduce taxes, that's so complicated it warrants completely independent dialogue.
It does happen - I've seen it multiple times, from people far more disciplined than myself.

As to this (my) response, I was pushing a bit more towards "greenfield projects always tend to feel better", but I'm not sure they'll be much better over the long haul if the same person with the same skill level has the same constraints (time, features, etc).
Seriously, OP needs to put [2012] in the title.