skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes, tabs are broken in many places (e.g. Objective-C methods can get so verbose that they need to wrap; convention is to wrap and align the colons; tabbing as far as possible and then spacing to fill breaks things when Ralph formats his tabs to three spaces; in this case, there is indeed a solution: tab to the start of the original line of code, and space to format from there ... but then the IDE has ideas of its own about what should be spaces and what should be tabs...)

Which is the problem. If you think it's possible to make a tool to solve this, great - do it, I'll happily adopt your tool as a precommit hook and use tabs to indent everything (or go on using spaces - your tool would turn them into tabs, right?) But given that this problem has existed since the '70s and no-one has solved it, I'm inclined to think it's impossible. So I'll use spaces in the VCS, which means agreeing an indent width so that our diffs make sense (and I don't really care whether that's two or four, but it does need to be defined and adhered to across the team).
Very objective title...
(That's his name.)
This argument is called 'ad hominem'. Does not matter who posted it -- it definitely happened.
I can't find the source but they revised the number of thwarted attacks down to 54 to 1 when pressed iirc.
Schoenfinkel was my second choice for a name my compiler project. Not a fan, huh? :)
What blogging platform is he using?
It changes the ABI of std::list, which is a serious concern.
> 7 years after Google Docs. What am I missing?

Your right, and don't get me started on Google staring a search engine 4 years after Lycos and Go.com. I mean what's the point.

What am I missing?

Even though I think your trolling I'll bite and give you an honest answer.

There are a few reasons:

1) Google Docs isn't that good.
2) clients want a desktop office suite with the option for a web based office suite to do light work when not at their main machine.
3) people who use the online apps are a click away from downloading and buying the desktop version of office
4) its training non paying customers to use office for when they need a more powerful office suite.
We don't make things "easy" for law enforcement on purpose. Search warrants, constitutional rights, due process, and even the adversarial system more broadly are all designed to make things more difficult for them at a fundamental level. Empowering a bunch of Judge Dredd wannabes would make things far easier than the status quo. Oddly enough, we don't pursue such options.

As for the assertions about terrorists moving to other communication methods, that horse already bolted years ago. Osama Bin Laden's reliance on a hand courier made that crystal clear. They've known that their communications were at risk for years now. In that sense, the Snowden leaks revealed nothing new to terrorists.
and Android apps...
If your government is daily committing crimes against humanity, you shouldn't be trusting it. You should be replacing it.
>Take a Tesla to an empty field, pour gasoline all over it, apply flame...

You forgot step 1 - Short TSLA
bread will be made by robots (well actually already is.) and it will be delivered by automated drones, and your car is going to be electric and it's going to be charged just by parking it over a wireless charger.
A capability they just appear to have exercised. As one of the agency heads went into details on their Syria strategy, the audio suddenly fell out for ~20 seconds. Strictly speaking, I can't rule out network issues as the cause, but video was still 100% smooth.
Go look up the energy density of gasoline as compared to Lithium Ion batteries.

I'd much rather deal with a battery fire in a Model S than any kind of gasoline-fueled fire in a "normal" car. Battery fires are much simpler to contain, as batteries don't tend to vaporize into massive fireballs.
Being an aspiring entrepreneur, I'd love to see Brazil there.
Twitpics, all pictures of Twitter accounts like ClassicPics
As someone who's worked about 50% remote in the past year, this is not true. I've worked for companies in the US, Mexico, the UK, while based in the Netherlands. One common factor though is they were mostly people already in my network, so there is definitely a trust element - but not a "face to face" trust element necessarily.
simplified one here too - https://github.com/lwm/functional-java/blob/master/src/test/...
"Head count: Node.js. Typically they are seeing anywhere from ⅓ to 1/10 the number of developers needed on the new stack vs the old stack."

That's ridiculously implausible. I know node is more concise, but 300-1000% productivity increase doesn't come from less typing. Even if we assume they had a lengthy build/restart cycle on some J2EE web container, that could only plausibly increase output by 10-20%. Sounds like they had an absolutely shitty application architecture and he convinced them to do something both reasonable and modern with the former being the biggest improvement.
Even ignoring those two chumps on the radio, the socioeconomic status of auto body repair (90.7% white) is not very high.
We personally screen the publicists.

You can create a specific list, or just categories / a more broad intention. Publicists can make suggestions for approval.

We have everything from National TV to New York Times to Trade Publications. We have a wide range of freelancers who have impressive portfolios. Also - if you want a publication and we don't have a specific freelancer for it, we will go recruit someone who does (especially at this stage of our growth).
Yeah. Like 12 times less than rides around in flammable liquid form in grandmas Buick. That much energy.
Your website is all broken.

I get a "503 Service Unavailable: Back-end server is at capacity" for this:

https://goshippo.com/wp-content/themes/wpbootstrap/images/lo...
A lot of them "catch fire" when people can't make their lease payments or want to liquidate an over-priced asset.
Hey canistr, thanks for the feedback? Where are you based? I'd love to offer everybody here on HN the service without taking commission for a trial period in exchange for occasional feedback. Why don't you message me at laura(at)goshippo.com and we can talk
Do you guys have contracts with the carriers to have access to their API?
Bloomberg out and de Blasio in: NYC's tech scene just lost its cheerleader
It's not just google finance. I think quotes are having trouble getting out of NYSE.
Every windows system I've seen boots more and more slowly over time. It's not 'uninformed hokum', it's a consequence of installing programs that add startup items and registry entries. There is much lousy software for Windows (besides all the spyware with which the average consumer PC is ridden) which fails to cleanup after uninstallation, and also many programs which add startup items unnecessarily.
I've seen many people install a new version of windows and marvel at its amazing boot time. Then they actually install antivirus, etc and a few months go by... And the measurable fact is that soon it takes as long to boot as their old computer.

You, unlike most people who maintain windows machines, probably know what you're doing. You're probably not installing and uninstalling a tom of shoddy consumer software. From your description, you're not - so your use is one anecdote regarding an atypical case and not particularly convincing.

The article is interesting, but I'm referring to my personal experience with windows 98-7. Microsoft also wrote articles about the amazing work they were doing to make each of those faster, etc while in real world results, each version performed almost exactly the same as the previous version. I believe that no matter what they do, the challenge is to prevent a legion of developers of poor windows software from screwing it up.
It's fun to watch a crowd of nominally intelligent people so thoroughly mix up arguments with the conclusions.

If you make a bad argument in favor of wearing helmets, then it's a bad argument regardless of whether helmets are effective. But the moment you call it out, you get nothing but people talking about how irresponsible you are for recommending people not wear helmets.

The exact same thing is going on over in the Arafat discussion. People make crazy arguments about how Arafat (or other people) was killed and then, when called out on it, act like it's the conclusion being attacked, not the reasoning.
The parent didn't draw a comparison between iOS and Android, neither did I.

In fact, nobody was even talking about iOS here.

Your comparison makes about as much sense as the parents comparison between IE and Android since both are absolutely irrelevant and unrelated to the topic.
Fedora, Red Hat's community Linux, turns 10
It is rare, but it does happen. Over the last 4 years I've help to build up a 10 person development team (from 3) having never met any of the candidates before hiring them.

I didn't meet anyone else from the company until a year after I had already been working here.

The interview process is just needs to be fairly rigorous.
Our preference is to hire within Canada because of:

* Timezones
* Government incentives
* Payment/Tax/Accounting hassles have already been sorted

But that doesn't mean we'll pass up great candidates in other locations.

We're hiring Modern Perl developers right now :

http://jobs.perl.org/job/18026
They are asking for donations to recover:
https://blog.archive.org/2013/11/06/scanning-center-fire-ple...
This is a really nice demo, but note that it's not the full Fourier series. This is only the 'sine' contribution. I'm not sure how you could expand the animation to include cosine as well.
Which is not surprising, as this is 'real' database. I read review of MongoDB internals and it sounded not very positive. While you can create NoSQL quickly, to do it well with any db, it takes time which PostgreSQL definitely has.

Just to be clear, MongoDB is fine db for certain scenarios and I am using it in production.
Which law? Out law or their law because they aren't the same apparently....
The point isn't so much demographics in America, but aspirations of white people vs. non-white people.
If there was an automated tool that could apply that I would agree with you.
I don't know what you are smoking but given your comment history, I am sure you would be fine if the police came knocking at your door at night and randomly wanted to search your place, without a warrant. Right? Since you did nothing wrong, it should be OK for the police to randomly search people's places and arrest them. We should trust the police also and let's remove the judicial oversight they have. Correct?

You should ask yourself why the police should not be allowed to do this. And then if you do understand, you may perhaps realize why the GCHQ should not be allowed to carry out mass surveillance.
I'm sorry, Ye. I really am super sorry about the server problems and I apologise to everybody who can't access the site. We simply did not expect such an overwhelming response from the HN community and we weren't prepared for it. Again, I apologise for the inconvenience and hope for your patience and understanding
Exactly, and on top of that most people actually do have something to hide, whether they realize it or not.[1]

Even setting aside crimes, there's plenty of things that happen in peoples' day-to-day lives that the government has absolutely no business even being aware of. It's not hard to imagine that they could collect vast troves of information on a person and then that information can get misused in any number of ways by rogue employees or by the government itself.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/...
Our quality yields from the factory were more like 90%:10% but we did basic testing before shipping to reach the 100% target. First customer defects were covered but we quickly discovered these were user error which led to our current policy.

I feel Kickstarter backers of hardware projects should have a certain sense of tolerance. If they are expecting "commercial grade" products they should stick to buying retail as we're angling to test a concept and knock out the kinks with early backers.
Yes, I'm not being clear. To elucidate, I'm not saying they chose the correct responses, I'm saying most respondents chose the answers that were quantitatively closest to the correct responses, without actually choosing the correct responses.

So if:

a = 5

b = 10

c = 15

d = 20

And the correct answer is d, I'm saying most respondents chose c, for most of the questions. We could calculate the odds of them doing this for 9 out of 10 questions if they were choosing at random: the binomial distribution shows us that it's a very small probability (I calculate 0.0000286102294921875, but that may be off a little).

It's a little more complicated here we're dealing with the average probabilities of many individual events, and to be honest I'm not sure how to account for that (if it even makes any difference, perhaps a statistician can chip in?). But they're almost certainly doing much better than chimpanzees.
Model S fires could be compared to Nissan Leaf fires, as they're both electric cars. Although Leaf is sold massively more than the Model S (Leaf is the most produced electric car in history).
I suspect this because, every time there is competition between innovative features that are nice for users, and ensuring security/limiting exposure and attack surface, the latter concern wins with little discussion.

What I mean is, if they implement a new whiz-bang feature, the best case is that people complain a bit less. But if their new feature opens up an attack vector or social engineering opportunity, they may suffer serious financial loss and very bad press.
At least some of the members of Parliament are asking them some decent questions here, unlike in US where the NSA hearings are complete circlejerks for praising the NSA. I don't think they were near as aggressive as they should've been though, and I didn't really get the impression that the Parliament intends to severely limits their powers or anything like that.

I see the spy chiefs still using the "haystack" argument, which is BS. "Haystack" surveillance is only necessary if you want a Minority Report type of society, and keep expanding it in the future to cover a whole range of crimes (don't worry, they'll have plenty of arguments for why that would be a good thing).

US is already in the early stages of doing that, by giving the NSA info to pretty much all local agencies to help them in all sorts of local cases, and then lying to the judges about how they got the info. And when they get caught with the pants down, they'll just say how "necessary" this is to catch all sorts of criminals, and of course politicians like Dianne Feinstein will try to legalize it and give them retro-immunity, like she's already doing now with the FISA Improvements Act.

P.S. Why is HN crashing so often lately?
Elsewhere in the thread you say "If you disagree with those laws, apply pressure to change the law."

So which is it. Do you expect people to stay and fight perceived injustices, or leave? You can't have it both ways.
"Three fires in six weeks and all three related to accidents."

This fire is related to an accident? Can you help me out, and tell me which of the 21 pages I can skip to to read that part.

I've clicked on most of the pages, and I just see speculation that goes back in forth about whether there was an accident or not, based on a handful of pics someone posted.
Is it better to be in a car that is more likely to save your life and burst into flames in an accident or or one that has lower safety ratings and lower likelihood of catching fire?
The Story Behind Why AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Fired An Employee
What is the price of the Galileo board?
Ask HN: Linking bitcoin payments to the rest of your software
I would like to set up a webshop that accepts bitcoin payments, but as far as I know there is no automatized way to check whether an amount has been received.<p>The thing I came up with is letting users enter the address they sent the payment from, but then someone else could also use that address and get their products for free if they time it carefully. How would you guys make this a smart-guy-proof system?
I still don't think we can draw any conclusions from this. Unless all 3 cars caught fire in the exact same way I still think we need a few more incidents to be even close to finding the facts (as horrible as that sounds).
I agree, but...

Things like this matter in the long run. Remember how, before the war in Iraq, over 1 million people marched in London against the war? We still went to war, but Tony Blair never recovered from it, and when the issue of Syria came up recently, MPs opposed intervention - that is the legacy of the opposition to the war in Iraq.

In Britian at least, policy trends seem to be set over periods of 10-15 years. (The battle with the miners is another example). Things rarely get sort out in one big showdown. When it comes to government surveillance and privacy, the important thing is that we keep the story going, that we keep the pressure on, that we keep explaining to people why this is an issue and keep building the argument. And making intelligence chiefs squirm is all part of that.
He mentioned that the huge economic gulf has turned into a gentle slope, but there's certainly still a cultural definition of "the west".
That's naive, we've already seen them abuse their powers in the name of terrorism.
Internet commenting is a cesspool of idiocy.
I would love to see such things rewritten to JS. And it does not sounds strange, as there are some applications based on Falstad's code, e.g. http://icircuitapp.com/.
Hi piptastic, thanks for the feedback. It's on our to do list now! Sorry about the MVP... :)
Can't you just... like... not read them? On every visit to HN I click 3-4 links tops, but you don't see me complaining in the comments section of the other 26 :)
What's valuable to disaster recovery?
In Defense of the 99.82%
Although this is a bit of a whitewash, it's good to see these issues discussed, and spies questioned to some extent, and forced to justify their activities in public for the first time.

Asked about complicity in torture. Sir John of MI6: "I don't accept the allegations that have been made against us"

There have been several court cases about M16 involvement in torture, including that of Abdel Hakim Belhaj, which exposes our cynical backing for terrorists when it suits our agenda after sending them to be tortured just a few years before.

GCHQ denies listening into telephone calls or reading emails of the majority. "That would not be proportionate, that would not be legal, and we would not do it."

Like Obama, they're denying something they haven't been accused of. Tempora is storing and sharing with the NSA as much data as they can manage, even though it's not legal or proportionate. This non-denial is very misleading if you don't know that background. They don't need to read emails or listen to phone calls for this to be incredibly dangerous - it's enough that everything is recorded and stored for potential future or current use by any partners with access.

34 terrorist plots have been thwarted in the UK since the 7/7 London bombings. One or two were major plots aimed at mass casualties.

What's most interesting is the focus on terrorism as a way to deflect criticism - they've learned that talking about terror switches off the brain quite effectively and stops people doing a risk benefit analysis. This is incredibly useful, as along with having broad laws passed which restrict rights as part of the war on terror, they can tar anyone with that brush, and immediately turn the public against them. According to Kovats QC for the gov. in the Miranda case, we have a new definition of terrorism: "simply having this data is terrorism".

Terrorism is not a great threat to either the US or the UK - a tiny number of people have been killed by it, and yet it is painted as an existential threat which must be fought at all costs. Many of their activities have nothing to do with terrorism, but we've heard nothing about the Belgacom hack (Operation Socialist), tapping cables crossing the Atlantic, subverting encryption protocols, tapping internal traffic at providers like Google for the NSA, tapping G20 attendees, Mastering the Internet™ with Tempora, or tapping Merkel's phone. Very little of that is useful for combatting terrorism (most terrorism is not organised on the internet but face to face, terrorists like Bin Laden are not stupid), but it's very useful for economic and political espionage.

That none of that has been mentioned, let alone questioned, betrays just how little proper supervision this committee provides.
UTA flight 772 satellite memorial in the middle of the sahara
context: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/textsearch-indexes... (GIN and GiST are index types)
Ironic that this fire took place in Smyrna, TN, where Nissan North America manufactures Nissan Leafs.
I wouldn't call surveilling internet connections and phone calls a 'crime against humanity', those are reserved for mass murders and genocides. It's bad, but not ethnic cleansing bad.
Yet, as mentioned above, not technically insightful enough to pose some important challenging questions.
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I have experience in .NET, Java, PHP and Python. I'm also experienced in the Joomla! CMS and the web2py framework.

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Hi, welcome to living in America.
For people that are interested, there was a good [podcast] interview with the head of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal - "a judicial body, independent of the government, which considers complaints brought against the intelligence services, the police, military and local authorities."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03gbs6n
I should probably read this book but also, I wonder if I could have written it. We've fully embraced remote working and it's fantastic. It has allowed us to hire above our weight class as a small startup, finding and keeping some truly fantastic developers.

I agree completely that communication is key. You really have to over communicate, to the point almost of being annoying to avoid very simple but costly mistakes. I also find that teams can suffer from the low fidelity of text communication with regard to sentiment and emotional content. It's just too easy to assume someone has a voice they do not and to harbor resentment or whatever silently -- especially among introverted developers.

We host occasional Skype lunches with no agenda except to catch up and chat on peoples lives.
Yep. Ping me if you need more information about the contracts.
The beauty of the iPhone is that the keyboard goes away when you don't need it. That's why qwerty sliders are obsolete - they're there whether or not you want them.
"The majority of people prefer it this way" seems like the perfect justification for a coding standard. Consistency is way more important to me than perfectly matching up with some specific ideal.
The indicative $45-47 opening price finally convinced me of getting out of (tech) stocks in general. We're talking about $20B valuation for a company which has never made money. I know "this is different", and it has a lot of users, and so on.

Still, I'd be cautious.
I would think most gasoline cars catch on fire because there is severe damage to the front-end, the fuel lines are ruptured, and gasoline ends up on the hot engine and ignites. I would think a major advantage of an electric car is that it doesn't have that mode of failure. So replacing it with another mode of failure that also results in front-end fires is... not great.
U.S. Elections Face a Crossroads on Rights and Technology