skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who actually practice as corporate lawyers make a good living in the US. That's a tiny fraction of people who actually go to law school.
Blame the contractors?

Instead of the ridiculous way the gov't handled it, with constantly changing requirements and a "change the car tire while we are driving" attitude?

Sounds like the WashPost is trying to do some damage control.
Yes, Piston is an absolute PITA.

However, Class-Based Views nowadays solve the same problem domain much better, and I would think that it's easier to write a CBV that's support some of Piston's idioms and refactor a bit than try to take Piston the latest Django version.
Does it write to disk ever? I could just assume that it does because it's a DB, and would be nearly worthless if it didn't, but it keeps talking about being only in memory.
They should securely erase the private keys and sell the seized equipment at auction.
Basic car maintenance falls under responsible ownership.

I'm a cyclist, but I know how to fix the common things on my vehicle.

I'm sure there are people that own bikes that are clueless in fixing them, much the same as there are people that own cars that haven't a clue. That doesn't mean there aren't people out there that could strip and rebuild either on their own.
(an alternative way to address a "citation needed" concern is to presume that the editor is correct, and go looking for the citation)

You mean, "hey, I wrote it, you go look it up if you don't believe me?" Down that path lies madness. And Fox News.

Academics aren't supposed to have "trade secrets" by definition, because that impedes the teacher and researcher's motivation. Historically, anyway, by my understanding.
I don't use Pages everyday, but I can't see what the fuss is all about. Besides missing AppleScript compatibility (which is a shame, it's one of the coolest things about OSX) every feature I have ever used seems to be there, and I much prefer toolbars contained within the application window instead of floating around.
Funny how it still shows the link to the below story that got buried by the flamewar detector.

"I lost years’ worth of Google Docs files because of a poor user interface"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6612854
The dramatic hyperbole drives it from being "surfacing an issue" to negative bashing.

"Did anybody else spend half a minute trying to interact with the "app", then give up and close the tab, thinking it was broken before coming back here to discover that it was just a full-page screenshot of a desktop app?"

xauronx, and the majority of the other folks explaining the issue, took a much more reasonable approach—"it was a .5 second instinct to interact with it and then I figured it out. Not sure if that constitutes a negative UI experience or not, but it IS an issue. "

It's just unbelievable to think that anyone familiar with a web interface would get so confused by the screenshot that their only recourse would be to abandon ship.
25 Years Since Women Needed a Male Co-Signer
"In Europe, pads of paper are outselling iPads"
The parent commenter was mostly asking about C# to Scala, so for comparison, here's you snippet in C# with LINQ. It's a little more verbose -- C# generics need to be a little more explicit -- but I think you'd agree it's pretty close. It's equally typesafe, but it is not immutable.

var list = new List<int>() { 9, 7, 5, 10, 11 };
list.Sum();
list.OrderBy(i => i); // list.Sort() is in-place, so using functional OrderBy instead

var stringList = new List<string>() { "a", "b", "c" };
stringList.Sum(); // C# signals a typing error

var bitSet = new HashSet<int>() { 1, 2, 3, 4 }; // not sure what a Scala BitSet is, but it looks a collection of ints?
bitSet.Select(b => b + 1);
bitSet.Select(b => b.ToString());

// map wasn't defined in the snippet. Assuming it's like a Dictionary<int, int>?
var map = new Dictionary<int, int>() { { 1, 2 }, { 3, 4 } };
map.ToDictionary(kv => kv.Key + 1, kv => kv.Value + 1);
map.Select(kv => kv.Key);
What are the downsides of a small TTL? Why wouldn't a low TTL be default?
I don't think you can... I don't see an "empty trash" button anywhere though. You can't permanent-delete a file just by removing it from a folder on your computer. You have to log in to the website, right-click it, select "delete", click the trash icon at the top of the screen, right-click the file again and select "permanent delete". That's not even close to what happened to OP.
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One very big reason is that this intelligence has been used for industrial espionage. Our allies now know that when they bid against US companies, they will only get the contracts that are considered unprofitable by US companies.

That's not a good way to keep allies.
I welcome this, but the UI confuses immediately: what's top 10 and top 20? and top 50%? No obvious explanations as to what the referent of "top" is! No scales, no FAQ.

Also, I want to know what the settings are compared with the "official" HN frontpage ordering.

"about" is broken, where I had hoped to find a FAQ
Nice to see some good discussion about PouchDB, cheers for all the thanks as well but just wanted to make sure the credit goes where its due, PouchDB is a fairly small project that I do in my (rare) spare time, but it has 55 contributors who very much make it the project it is

https://github.com/daleharvey/pouchdb/graphs/contributors
I wrote a followup Medium post on the implications of Google's interface design: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6608719
If you don't enable Java/Flash/etc. by default (which you definitely should not enable!) you're probably safe. If you do, well, it's sucky. I guess running a rootkit detection tool and monitoring your outgoing traffic for a while would be a good idea (and also a good food for paranoia - you'd discover how much outgoing traffic legit apps that you'd never expect talking to outside generate - version checks, usage updates, cloud syncs, etc.).
Snapchat Is Mulling Another Huge Round at a $3.5 Billion Valuation
The end of Big Software
It "the" factor as in: the most important out of other factors. One you will often get automatically disqualified for. One for which you will be automatically taken less seriously in dating, in other social situations in workplace in politics. One you can do absolutely nothing about.
Other things may make significant difference but most things are possible to work on. With height you are out of luck and have to listen to condescending "short guys should put more effort to deserve the same" talk your whole life or my favorite: "maybe you should lower your ambitions" (often disguised and said in more pc way) - why ? Because you were born that way.

Now, being the most important still doesn't mean it's 80% or even 50% if you try to measure those things as there many other factors (and sucking on many fronts will reduce the biggest of inherent advantages) but its huge.

You said it's not the most important factor but then when challenged you offered logical fallacy as an argument which makes probability that you never really thought about it or experienced it quite high.
It's difficult to assess from within the bubble so what about reading posts of people who experienced it here, at other places on the Internet or looking at the studies which were done ?

/rant
What do you guys use on your phone (if you use an app on the phone)? I have been using an app called "Hacker News 2" in the play store. I generally like it, but the comments are flaky, sometimes it lets me see them and other times it doesn't.
Or, instead of telling me that it's a free country, you could be productive, correct me and (ideally) provide a source. I'm happy to learn something new or have a mistaken belief corrected.
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If the task is read-heavy (example: shared cache), it's mostly harmless.
I think you're right. It would take time and effort (and cash) on their part to anonymize these bitcoins, so I suspect they'll sell them at a slightly discount. I'm sure plenty of people would buy 10%-off FBI bitcoins.
> Furthermore, in construction, those codes exist and are easily incorporated into contracts by reference

FIPS actually exist and are easily incorporated into contracts by reference.
This reminds me of an argument given by my friend proposing that a person has a higher tendency to do bad to the people who we know are bad. Even your good-guy-Greg has an inclination (of sorts) to bring down/harass/make money off your scumbag-Steve, even when Steve's actions were inconsequential to Greg; which I thought was an apt observation from someone who thinks a lot in absolutes.
Maybe its the 'easy to get away with factor' or maybe its the karma kicking in.

My point is, torrent usage is synonymous to piracy, infringement and other illegal activities. So, perhaps it is this tendency that makes people at uTorrent think that it is not totally wrong to rip off people who are ripping off content & software makers. In my experience, I never fully trusted uTorrent. It is simply difficult to trust something that allows advertisement of malware, porn, fraudulent sites. It started off quite well, but then it has been on my watch list since quite some time now.
Very nice project. Here are some ideas for premium features:

-Change monitor. If images stop matching, issue an alert.

-More locations in general. Obvious additional server costs.

-Screenshots by user agent; iOS, Android, IE, Firefox, Chrome.

-Screenshots by other variables. Is a particular ISP injecting ads? etc.

Change monitor/alerts would be useful for detecting problems traditional monitor tools may miss. Additionally may be useful in contractual situations where another party is employing cloaking. E.g. I bought a static button banner and the seller is switching it out on me.
I live and work in Burbank. I just don't like the risk of a soft human body on a bicycle colliding with a multi-ton car.
Understanding gen_server with Elixir and Ruby
Please come back and make suggestions on Talk pages, rather than directly edit. There, you can actively discuss, cite sources (your own and hopefully others), and make real contributions which will last. Experts have a special kind of conflict of interest: their possible bias when directly editing. Discussing will moderate and ameliorate that bias, before it gets into the article. This approach will help as science advances and understanding deepens and changes: recent advances in physics prove this. We need your help; just not in direct editing. Your contributions in Talk will be real and welcomed (and maybe disputed, but never deleted) by our more experienced, sane, editors.
(typo corrected)
Agree with this. It takes gonads and a willingness to embrace rejection in order to 'get results'. Many fellas can't/won't improve themselves on their own. My advice: group therapy. Hang-out/go-out with other men that have game. Be a wingman ( alcohol helps) . That is how it happened for me.

This may have been like 15 years ago, but I had a friend that was so bold that he once walked up to a stranger(girl) waiting in line to enter a bar and started making-out with her. Couldn't believe she didn't slap him!

Also, take advice from woman about how to dress metro and such but not on how to pick up woman. In fact do the opposite of what they say.
> Not "would do" but "could do;" you can't build, honest and competent or not, without local code-compliance.

You can, and people do, and they are cited for it when caught.

Likewise, there are mandatory standards for Federal IT systems, particularly in the area of security.
> But when an article is wrong and doesn't already have thorough citations for every claim, should we demand citations for every new contribution?

Ideally, you'd go through the article. You'd remove anything that is "wrong"[1], and find citations for everything else. Then, when someone wants to add anything, you can find a cite for it, or ask them to find a cite for it, and remove it if there is no cite.

This demonstrates why WP can be horrible - anyone doing this to any article would soon find themselves skewered in horrible WP processes. Good cites are mocked as POV pushing, hopeless cites are forced in by people with more time than you.

> I come to Wikipedia, and dump a ton of graph theory on some page. An editor says "look, this isn't quite how it works, but it looks like you're trying to improve the page. Is this stuff you have citations for? Do you know what textbooks would cover it?

Sometimes that's how it works. There are people on WP who are great at helping that style of new editor; finding them mentors or whatnot to help them with the process. it's hit and miss, sometimes it fails badly.

> where they just get reverted by some guy spouting WP:STQ!

WP has made some effort to prevent the over active 14 year old using tools to auto-revert hundreds (thousands) of edits per day.
The SEC proposed rules for crowd investing Are they good for startups?
The suppression of NSA stories on HN is an act of monumental stupidity. If we find 10-15 years from now that US technology, infrastructure, and services are shunned around the world it will come down to them cooperating with the NSA.
because of stopping. It takes more force to stop. Plus you would throw everyone and their stuff on the train around the process (they have no breaks for their forward acceleration).

You already feel a mild version of this in rush-hour on NYC subways. Your body will move slightly as the train breaks, often causing people to lose balance (particularly if they never experienced this previously)
Concerning #3, I've only done one small project with Knockout and I used jQuery for ajax calls, what would you suggest in lieu of it. I'm trying to decide between KO and Angular for a larger project.
An SUV is not necessary in the winter. There are winters in Europe. It isn't like they are all driving around in Dodge Durangos.
Toastmasters will help with that. If you need any help finding a toastmasters or anything else fee free to contact me. chrisc@quakermedia.com
It says it's a Linux malware, but the server in question run FreeBSD. Of course, FreeBSD version might as well be out there too.
If your TTL is very low, you end up creating/handling a lot more DNS traffic, because your records are flushed from the cache more often and have to be re-retrieved. Also, many public DNS servers (e.g. your ISP's, or Google's) set a minimum TTL on all records (overwriting any lower value) to minimize DNS traffic/requests. Setting your TTL to an hour is fairly standard, but some DNS hosts (especially old ones) will leave the defaults set to something like 48 hours for no real reason.
Thanks for the insight.

Your comment will probably lead me to write a book solely targeting programmers, instead of trying to target beginners and graphic designers as well.

What is it about creating a HTML/CSS web app that is hard to grasp?
the topicsin my field are pretty well fleshed out. and accurate
Seems like the server was not expecting that load...
Firefox was the last thing I remembered installing before this happened; I'd forgotten about uTorrent.
japan still denies the atrocities of ww2 against american POWs, china, phillipines, etc, etc. in fact they kind of just gloss over the whole war. compare them to germany and the contrast is stark.

japan is not a cute fuzzy pet culture limited to anime and sushi. it's an insular island culture that's just as bad as anyone else in history. it's too bad it takes a full-blown nuclear disaster for people to realize this.
I don't know how it differs by field, but in the field I know best (philosophy), it's pretty hit or miss. Consider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_realism. That's a pretty fundamental topic, and it has cleanup tags that are four years old.
And for anyone planning on going up in version, you can start getting ready with {% load url from future %} to get the new syntax (URL names have to be quoted strings).
A lot of people do, but not a lot of professional writers do.
Because an SSL certificate is linked to a specific domain. It has nothing at all to do with user accounts. Creating a custom domain for each and every user is totally nonsensical from both a business and technical standpoint.
Wow, I'm amazed by the number of comments written by people who apparently use Google Drive without having researched backup solutions. Interesting. Here are my notes on the subject:

https://github.com/josh2/google_drive_backups
Cars and bikes aren't entirely complementary goods.
That is once again a straw man. Showing that women are more likely to file for divorce doesn't mean they didn't get married in the first place. I am talking about the period after people have been going out for a while, and before the marriage, where many women are saying, "where do you see all this going" or hoping he'd propose. This article also talks about people BEFORE they are getting married, not talking about how they get divorced. That is the subject.

Women have a lot more invested in sex and children than men do. And therefore, they are looking to have a stable situation to have a family more than men are.
Buenos Aires is switching around 100,000 street lamps to LED technology
Lot's of good stuff here, could use some editing to cut down the wordiness and emphasize the conclusions. Obvious affiliate links were obvious.
...oh, and let's not leave out the fact that these are private companies. This is not Socialism. This is not INGSOC.

Even without the totalitarianism, the very same oppression crops up. Instead of the single Big Brother brand name, it's a cottage industry private security firms acting as thought police.

Invisible hand of The Market, indeed.
One of the authors here. A few answers quickly. It does write to disk: you can either dump memory or write all changes to log (turn it on/off yourself). Sure it has a global read/write lock, with several locking strategies to select from (task-fair atomic spinlock queue or a reader-preference or a writer-preference spinlock). It is definitely meant to be a simple library. We strived to document it carefully to make usage as easy as possible. Yes, you can very easily form lists, trees or any other pointer structures. Happy to see it on the Hacker News, we never really expected that :)
Your parent cleverly made an insightful point that is cutting without offensively stereotyping, and you respond with a piece of jerky snark that is not clever, insightful, or cutting, and which is offensive. In fact, your comment plays almost as well as satire of mindless anti-Apple crusaders as the parent's does as satire of the opposite. If that's how you meant it, then bravo, otherwise, lame.
They are using old likes of users for pages, to any new story that the page creates and pays for.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2267575/Is-Fa...
> USSR as bad as it was it took responsibility for the Charnobyl catastrophe. There was Army and the Government involvement on all levels to clear it up from day 0. In Japan years after the incident the Government is still finger pointing some CEO trying to operate that facility.

To expand on this point, if Fukushima were Chernobyl and Japan the USSR, the Sarcophagus would have been completed on October 27th, of 2011. Two years ago.

(By no means is that structure a fine piece of engineering, but considering the constraints I find it hard to fault them for that.)
I've really appreciated the last few posts at that blog. Last week I learned about Parkinson's Law.

"Work expands to fill the time available for its completion."

Now I can recognize when I might be slacking off due to a large deadline and correct myself.

On the same blog I learned how to recognize and appreciate entrepreneurial wisdom in unlikely places.

I like the message in this particular article. What I took away from it is this: Hustle can be good, but it pays to slow down and see the bigger picture.
I can't seem to find it - may be a bit longer than they want to post. I'll dig around some more.
Lots of 324BTC transactions. 324 is how you dial FBI.
324 dials FBI.
> If that's the case then shouldn't lawmakers, being lawmakers, pass laws so that future government projects include a clause in the contractual arrangement?

They already passed a law creating mandatory security requirements for Federal IT systems, whether contracted out or built in house or any combination. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Information_Security_Ma...
From my own personal experience I can say there's a lot of truth to this article. I live in NYC and in my early twenties attractive girls my age were hard to come by. Most were taken by older men, muscle guys or rich kids. I'm approaching thirty and all of sudden I'm getting a lot more attention from women of all ages. The younger girls either want a stable guy "who can help them grow" or a guy with money who knows how to have sex, while the older women are looking for a chair to sit on before the music stops. I'm married now so it doesn't mean much, but the thought is still there: "where were you girls nine years ago?"
Microsoft's Astonishing Ambition
Looking at the benchmarks, I'm trying to rack my brain about how it outperforms redis consistently on every single benchmark for a simple associative map.

I don't know if this is likely, but it looks like redis doesn't lock memory [1], which means that the benchmarks could be explained by swapping. Depending on the type of shared memory used by whitedb, it could be that its pages are locked and immune to swapping.

[1] https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/1177
for those who want to form their own opinion, the hearing can be viewed at: http://energycommerce.house.gov/hearing/ppaca-implementation...

I believe the part about end-to-end testing and HIPA were something that needed to be asked and was not answered in an acceptable manner. There are some technical folks on that committee and they even showed source code.
Another issue with online sources is the impermanence of URLs. Unlike the original concept, things change over time. Domain names are bought and sold or allowed to expire, site maintainers stop (other work or health), maintainers change and decide on a new schema. Even if there were a valid URL for every citation today (that is, every book, magazine, newspaper, etc was made available online), in a year half of them could be 404'd or simply contain different content.
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FWIW, I think he fully realizes this and has chosen not to care:

> Obviously, some women won’t step into that “frame”. It doesn’t matter: the thing you have to realize is that men display, and women select. The key to catching women is approaching more women. Depending on your perceived status, a certain fraction of women will ‘select’ you. Don’t waste time with women who don’t ‘select’ you. Focus on the ones who do.
[An Angular dev] Taking Ember for a spin
How do some sites (like this one) get more accurate and up-to-date data than others (one in OP)?
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If I had the money I'd fork WP. I'd take the 100,000 most important articles and get those vetted, corrected, written nicely, with better (and more consistent) open source graphics, and with multiple good quality cites.

It'd go on the line, and people would be able to suggest edits and that page would ask them to provide a citation.

This version would be suitable for children to use.

The ledes would be re-written to give an ELI5 intro to the topic for people with little to no knowledge of it.

There'd be torrent downloads of it, so people could run it locally offline.
It takes a cool head to continue sometimes when discussions head toward the sewer. But we strive to stay exactly so cool, and lots of us even take a bit of guidance from Paul Graham's "How to Disagree" http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html and the pyramid diagram based on it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Graham%27s_Hierarchy_of_Di...
Sign up for a local gym and use their shower.
Maybe they don't outsource their sysadmin roles to the private sector.