skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fail to see how a few beers in the office one Friday night is a culture of beer...?

Did you have conversations about this with anyone other than the PM?
Providing citations for the coordinates of Bin Laden's death ... really?
When we're talking about movements like Anonymous, we are talking about a group of people who are quite vocal about their stances. These guys definitely carry considerable clout. That's how the Million Mask March came about, for example. The "personal change" that Derrick Jensen's article talks about just not relevant here.
> He lays out an interesting model for democracy, but it depends critically on permanent war.

That's not true in the fiction, and I can't understand how you would claim that it would "really work that way" or any other claim.

In the book, this model of government has existed for a long time, and there has been no war for a long time. So, Heinlein claims that it works without war. But, you know, maybe he's full of shit. (that's devil's advocacy; I'm generally a big fan of RAH.)

But on top of that, why would it depend on war? You're born without a franchise, like in modern democracy. But in modern democracy, you get your franchise simply by waiting 19 years (or some other number). In the book, you get your franchise by agreeing to do Federal Service. You apply, you choose a preferred form of service, you do aptitude testing, and you give up control over your own life for N years. When each term is up, you can either re-enlist, or retire. When you retire, you gain full citizenship! There's no requirement that Federal Service be military (Heinlein has claimed in other writing that he intended for "95%" of service to be non-military, but others have noted that this is less-than-clear in the book-as-written). But even if it was all military... Switzerland has a military, with mandatory civil service, but no war.
I'm surprised that this seems like an unpopular view.
The object of the film's satire became front page all around the world in 2001. Until then it was easier to take it at face value. For example, in the 80s it was common to portray torture as a suitable, non controversial means of war in films with well known action stars, without satire or criticism.

Think of it now as Starship Troopers, the George W Bush's cut, without any actual edits having taken place.
Now how to get PHBs and customers read that when they ask whynit's not finished yet?
It's pretty normal or at least was. It wasn't uncommon for a pile of Debian/FreeaBSD CDRs to appear on my doorstep or even have to go to London to purchase them once. I still purchase OpenBSD CD sets: one for every machine we provision.
> A subset of the fans of the book get mad because the violence and fascism seemed so much cooler in their heads.

A film that does a great job of exploring this discrepancy (how we think violence is really cool... right up to the point where the director portrays it to us in a blunt and unflattering way) is Funny Games (either the original, or the shot-for-shot American remake. whichever is your preference.)

Funny Games pulled a bait and switch, selling itself "torture-porn" to draw in that sort of audience, then refusing to give that sort of audience satisfaction. Brutal violence, but almost entirely offscreen. Broke the 4th wall on several occasions to openly mock the viewers.
Genius! Very impressive hack!
it may be a solution that can't be offered at that scale.
The code isn't much, i added something to github which was like v1 (now it's more integrated and more extensive) and should make it clear to you.

https://github.com/NicoJuicy/GetPageRankWinForms/blob/master...

You get the PageRank by this:

int Result = GetThePageRank.DLL.GooglePR.MyPageRank(URL);

PS. First github published project :-)
Looked at Heruko once, but all the custom lingo really put me off it.. But, of course your point about them being successful stands
I'm amazed this is the only link about this major change on HN with any comments that I can see.

Everything about this update is a mess. Requiring linked G+ account without properly informing users (causing mass confusion), the visual clutter that is bolded hashtags and G+ usernames, and removal of 'In reply to x user' link (resulting in having to guess what it's a reply to in long threads)... Ugh.

PS: nice to see a Gopher fan ;)
This is especially strange if you consider that dutch children are among the happiest [1].

Maybe their adulthood is comparatively worse because of their great childhood.

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6360517.stm
Like the idea and would love to use your service in the future. Don't worry about the server problems. You are in Beta, so that's okay.

Keep up the good work!
Hoping you have success!
Rocket making MongoDB available on System Z
Yes, stickers are certainly a $3.5B business!
Isn't the point that it's satirizing its own source material?
CIL is a publicly listed company though govt is the biggest shareholder. You are right about the private part.
With current reelection rates over 80% in congress for the last fifty years [1], one wonders if they have any need to represent their districts at all.
http://www.opensecrets.org/bigpicture/reelect.php
We (PyPy developers) tried this and it's unusably slow. I don't know how they got that slow, but it takes a bit forever to execute 10mln instructions. We ended up using UndoDB gdb wrapper, which runs slower than they advertise (+- the same speed as valgrind so say 30x give or take), but is a lot more usable. They had stability problems in the past, but with the recent versions, we're able to run stuff like complex python programs on top of pypy on top of UndoDB, which is very impressive. Very useful for hard GC bugs.
Good one. Should do this also...
Anti-depressants should be limited to people with moderate to severe depression, not used by people with mild depression. So anti-depressant use would be a sign that the person needs to be included.

I agree with you - I don't understand how they got such a low rate for their map.

NHS data for 2010-2011 gives 4.7 million people.

For a population of about 60 million that's 7.8%.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19967037
Israel just released 26 terrorists from jail about a week ago to appease Palestinian government. Does it mean the government of Israel is now an agent and mouthpiece of Hamas and PLO?
Defending the Press is almost universally unpopular. However, I think there's a important distinction to be made here. Namely that Martha Gill's piece is comment and not news. Hence it's filed under 'blogs'. Opinion is free to be responsible or irresponsible, informed or misinformed, constructive or destructive but, by definition, it cannot be true or false. I don't see anything wrong with someone expressing an honestly held view based on photographs. It seems hundreds of Anonymous supporters have done exactly that beneath the column.
Looks a lot like my PowerShell script integrated with my Visual Studio IDE.

I have an XML which contains the different servers (testing, dev and production).

I'd just type UpdateDatabases -T in package manager console :)=> so testing servers are updated with the latest migration
In the broad sense, it is satirizing a sort of militaristic/jingoistic mentality. Specifically it does this by satirizing one particular manifestation of this mentality, its source material.
Hilarious though this still is, I also find myself wondering why this journey didn't start with the more sensible approach of taking the nearest road to the coast. Coasts are, after all, boundaries between the known an fairly familiar (land) and the unknown and chaotic (ocean). They're inherently tricky to navigate. That's why hikers and explorers make use of trails, rivers and so on. Even animals use trails; they're practical that way.

As it turns out, people manage to walk or cycle between distant points while staying more or less on schedule all the time. You don't have to take what is by definition the least developed route for the whole journey.
"wah wah wah corporations are bad, growth is bad"

Corporations and economic growth are directly responsible for the possibility that this discussion is happening: the internet, cheap and powerful computers, etc

Or even better: https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/391943773963304960
Well, "Anonymous" didn't write that letter. Some specific activist wrote it, and has posted it under the Anonymous "brand". If the wider movement likes it (and they should because it's well written and spot on target) then they will promote it and adopt it as theirs.

We don't know who wrote the piece. The author is anonymous, but their words will probably reach a far, far wider audience than if they had published under their own name.

That's the way the movement works. It is decentralised. I'm sorry that you think it's pathetic.
> risk of theft

There are key distinctions between cash and Bitcoin theft: Physically robbing large amounts of cash is really hard. Most people don't carry suitcases full of money, and bank robbers usually end up in jail or worse.

Electronic theft is difficult as well. If a bank believes a wire transaction was fraudulent, it can reverse it. And because bank accounts are generally not anonymous, fraud detection is a lot easier. By contrast, Bitcoin nodes can't undo a cryptographically valid transaction if evidence later shows it was fraudulent.

In addition, most bank deposits are insured up to a point by the government. Granted, you could privately insure Bitcoin deposits, but it's difficult to get the same scale of insurance that the Fed offers. Maybe at some point, but I'm not sure there's enough data points yet for an actuary to comfortable estimate the risks here. In addition, because insurance requires scale, the market for bitcoin insurance would probably consolidate into a small number of players very quickly, which raises the question of what happens if one of them collapses AIG-style.
The article in The Verge and Andrew's post[0] do a good job of explaining that

With the amount of money they had raised, the expectation from investors was that their flywheel would already be setup and working and new funding would accelerate it (Series A being the new Series B).

Media coverage of startups is all at the pointy end - companies that have raised money and are successful, most startups don't raise continuing rounds and the "Series A crunch" is real. The question should be inverted, why should Everpix get funded.

Despite having a product that was loved, was free, had good word of mouth and coverage etc. they still didn't get funded. Not a unique or unusual situation, and only covered in this case (as opposed to the startups that die out quietly) since the founder was willing to speak to a journalist about it.

Could it have worked with no funding, a leaner startup and as a paid product? Who knows, but I wouldn't use their freemium numbers to make that case.

[0] http://andrewchen.co/2013/11/05/when-a-great-product-hits-th...
The author Ingo Wechsung outlines the ideas and concepts of Frege in the German blog 'Funktionale Programmierung':
http://funktionale-programmierung.de/2013/10/10/frege.html
CORS in Action: Creating and consuming cross-origin APIs
Depends what you mean by insufficient.

You could argue that unit tests are workarounds for type systems that are not sufficient to encode all of the acceptance criteria, but then again, encoding all the acceptance criteria into the type system is massively difficult even in languages that allow it, and most practical languages don't even try.

So yes, theoretically you could put all of the information you would otherwise have put in prefixes (or unit tests!) into a 'sufficient' type system and have it checked for you and that would be excellent, but then again, the difficulties of creating a type system expressive enough to allow you to do that, plus the difficulties of actually allowing you to specify all that information in a sensible fashion would put some serious constraints on your language, and many language designers don't feel that it's worth the effort.

Expressiveness and ease of use of the type system are just a small part of programming language choice, and if other factors cause you to choose something with an 'insufficient' type system, then Hungarian notation can definitely help you avoid bugs.
Some superficial and not-so superficial thoughts:

Superficial things (not that big of a deal, but still things I noticed):

1. Post a pdf so we can check whether you might have a problem with the format of your resume (because I hope your resume isn't formatted like in the Google doc)

2. Some of those courses you list are ones that nobody is going to care about (Econ, for example)

3. Move your Honors section to the bottom, either before or after Leadership Activities. Your education is most important, followed by experience. You should move Technical Skills above Leadership Activities, and below Projects. This isn't a set-in-stone rule - it's just that in this case, your leadership activities aren't that impressive, so the Technical Skills section is more important. The guidelines is that the most impressive and important things go first.

4. Shorten the summary for your NSF Researcher position. 5 bullets is too much IMO. Also, 99% of people will have no idea what the first two bullets are even talking about - find better ways of phrasing what you are saying. When I read about " the Chung-Ross conjecture on a Clos network by simulating different possibilities of data sizes," my brain just glosses over that. Ignore this advice if you're confident that people at the firm you're applying to will know what you're talking about.

5. You use a lot of vague action words like "Worked on," "Collaborated," and "Participated." Find better ways of saying exactly what you did.

6. There are some minor grammar mistakes you need to fix.

7. Ideally you should have your projects on something like Github, and then have a link to your Github profile at the top of your resume, under your contact info

8. Your resume should be 1 page maximum. (One page, one side).

Some not-so-superficial things to consider:

1. Have you thought about getting a personal website? You can put a blog on there (with technical blog posts), and you can put a portfolio there too. The blog posts don't even have to be that impressive - a well-written tutorial of a technology you just learned can get passed around over the Internet. I had an engineer at a really hot startup reach out to me because of my website and blog. I've had engineers at a big tech firm (rhymes with Godzilla) follow me on Twitter because of a blog post I wrote. This can be time consuming, though, so I think it's more important to have projects than it is to have a personal blog (see #2).

2. Also, it's hard for us to suggest things for you to learn because we don't know what you're looking for. When I look at your resume it looks like you have mostly a systems development background; is that what you're looking for? For example, I know I want to work in application development - so I focus mostly on web and mobile (iOS) development. What do you want to focus on?
I definitely agree with you. I've made attempts on 2 separate days to speak with the PM about his petty excuses to label me as "not committed". Of course, that includes pointing out that the 3 points he brought up are completely irrelevant in terms of measuring my commitment, but in the end, it was impossible to reason with him, and I just didn't want to put up with that anymore.
Google barge revealed: Artistic structure with 'fish fins'
Cool! Does `lldb` have similar functionality?
It has to be taken with a very large pinch of salt since there is no documentation and no named sources, but in July Jack Murphy reported that his sources in the CIA told him that the "seventh floor" at CIA wanted Petraeus out and used his affair to do it. And that Clapper and Petraeus had a heated meeting where Petraeus was informed that he would be resigning.

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/7/1/was_deadly_benghazi_kil...

The fact that we can't be sure that he wasn't being blackmailed with something even more scandalous demonstrates the problem perfectly. There is no reason to believe that he was, but you can't say it is impossible now that we have documentation proving their capabilities. That is why this sort of dragnet mass surveillance is so dangerous to a democracy. It undermines the legitimacy of the political process.
Exactly what I was thinking about reading the article: you've got a huge, fixed energy storage system to set up, why not use a flywheel? That's pretty much a best-case situation for them even if you don't need the transient load ability of a flywheel.
Didn't know of WatIn, thanks!
A hacker's journey: from cook to chef (3)
How to set up a vanilla WordPress environment (Part I)

Using WordPress can help a lot of people to get onto the website building bandwagon quickly and easily. However, how much time and cost you want to spend on making it up and running? The contingencies for using WordPress are:

- You are tied to the hosting site
- You may be trapped by the support expense
- You spend more time on learning new skills which may not be a must-have
- You cannot access configuration files php.ini, httpd.conf
- You can only access the database via control panel
- You may face additional security issues and cross-site contamination issues
- You lose the control when you need to upgrade to build more dynamic content

There are lots of videos about how to make a website in a few hours. They are for business users and meanwhile create the job for the affiliates. It's similar to the SEO market campaign for business. While businesses feel like they can save money on the PPC (Pay-Per-Click) ads, they actually spend more money on hiring SEO marketers to fine tune the keyword combination for them and keep tracking the result, day in and day out.

If you don't have enough time to apply the HTML5/CSS3 in your website completely, at least a vanilla WordPress development environment and production deployment environment can help you to keep the control in your hands. And you can handle all the security and version control issues by your self. Don't you agree?
Thanks, this gave me a smile

People think "oh let's build a startup for 3d-printing model this on the cloud, blah blah blah"

Where anyone with modest skills can build this using scissors, some cardboard, or Papier-Maché or some other technique.
70 hours a week is just crazy. Working 14 hour days for even a week sprint is a really awful week, and represents serious bad planning, bad management, or a massive resource shortage. Expecting that kind of workload on a sustained basis is not just a bad organizational culture, it's borderline unethical.

On our team, if these kinds of workloads start popping up before a product launch, there is a serious discussion about it. It means that someone over promised, and that person needs to be taken to task.
Did Instagram sell too early?
Monty: And where did VP8/9 go wrong?
Not having had a need for this kind of secure email I didn't hear much of Lavabit until it went under. That being said, didn't it raise alarm bells with any of its users when the security model is essentially a black box (as Moxie points out) and the message in transit is only secured using SSL (turned out to be suboptimal there too).

What's the demographic for people who actually needed this service, and why didn't they spot those glaring errors earlier? Is it for lack of other services?

Just seems strange to me it took someone experienced like Moxie to be the first to finger this (and that's in hindsight).
There is a great documentary available on Netflix called 'Client 9' that talks about the circumstances surrounding his downfall. As they tell it in the film there were several very wealthy people actively paying PR firms and private investigators to dig up dirt on Spitzer.

http://www.client9themovie.com/
Happy Ninth Birthday Firefox
You are forgetting dilution.

It's pretty common for A-round investors to be diluted by 50%. http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/10/14/understanding-... shows it pretty well.
The first non-windows system I installed was FreeBSD and later on moved to slackware and then other linux distros. I would really recommend FreeBSD to a novice who'd like to install an un*x and really understand how it works.

It's mostly the same steps as slackware but 1/ FreeBSD docs are godly (I didn't have internet at the time and managed to do all I wanted with just the FBSD user manual, I hope it hasn't changed since then) and 2/ Slackware is sometimes hard to get to work for the wrong reasons. Lack of proper dependency tracking in the package manager for instance is just insane unless you only plan to install a couple packages or you plan to spend your life manually installing and updating your packages (or never update which seems to be how most slackware users deal with that in my limited experience).

In the end I don't think it requires more skill to properly set up a slackware install versus some BSD or even Gentoo or Arch. And if you don't really care about having a maintainable OS and just want to know how everything fits together in a modern linux system you might as well try Linux From Scratch, it's meant for that.
JS Library for formatting HTML input to match a pattern
Wealth is not fixed like energy. It can be created. Money can be used to create wealth when it is used to create new products for example. In this case you could argue there were no products in the traditional sense. But it got people's attention.

So a writer could write a sci-fi novel about mars and sell that to a ready audience.

An entrepreneur could create models of the planets and sell those to schools.

A movie maker could make a new movie with a space theme.

Not to mention actual technical innovations that could come out of new knowledge gained. Moreover, kids could be motivated to take up science and engineering for future jobs in 'STEM' fields. If this unlocks the imagination of even a few creative people, they could put back more than $100m of wealth into the economy.
Fair enough. It's easy to armchair quarterback and talk about what we would have done in your shoes. Good for you for getting out of there.
"Why Everyone Gets Robocop But Nobody Gets Starship Troopers"

http://www.overthinkingit.com/2009/11/26/starship-troopers-f...
Thank you for this sobering reminder about the lethal reality of "ostentatious feel-good meets cold Capitalism!" Sadly, what you say is not surprising and I have no reason to doubt it.

But while in the second paragraph I was reminded of something completely different, and briefly thought that this is what you were going to tell us about:

A recent Internet news item claimed that living out one's days on a cruise ship was a cheaper alternative to living in a retirement home. No really, this is not just some fluff, apparently there was a study in 2004 by geriatricists Lindquist and Golub where they speculated on this, which people can Google at their convenience. Cecil from _The Straight Dope_ takes a more skeptical view in this article: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3056/is-a-cruise-sh... .

But, well, I think it's a fun idea to consider.
Happened to me, total clustered fuck from the start... But I knew half way I was going to get shafted. So I ask tons of questions and try to learn as much as I can from my senior peers.
s/const std::string* resource_hash/const std::string& resource_hash/
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