skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That is not true. Here's a case of a car catching fire after being hit by cardboard boxes.
> http://www.ksl.com/?sid=25850334

To be fair, that was more of case of a cardboard box catching on fire after being hit by a car...
hell...Birmingham is better than Tuscaloosa. (To be honest, Birmingham isn't bad at all any more)
there is an expenditure.

That is a trivially vacuous statement. Everything has an expenditure. It is the net benefit that counts. Even breathing takes energy.
There is no logical reason why you "should" be more productive, especially if you will survive regardless. I agree on that point.

However, imagine you were watching a replay of your life, like it's a movie. Would you rather watch a replay of a boring person who sleeps all day, or a more interesting one where stuff happens?
That seems to be more the result of the overzealous flame-war detector rather than the effect of flagging. Only PG can truly tell, though.

The flamewar detector brings the story down if it has a lot of comments, and if not paired with lot of upvotes, takes it quickly off the front page. So, while you're right about the HN bias(lack of upvotes), you're wrong about the reason(flamewar detector rather than flagging).

It also tends to happen to Gruber articles, articles positive or neutral about Microsoft, and anti-Samsung or anti-Google articles.

Here's a couple of examples.

http://hnweird.tumblr.com
That was true early on in Python 3, but it's not true now.
So, under this theory universal healthcare is impossible if it relies on the internet for adoption? Hmmm...
I'm surprised that a single English word can even be trademarked, even in a non-English speaking country. If the word is in Webster's dictionary, it should be off limit. Imagine other companies rushing to do the same.
+1

I never log in in such circumstances, I just hit the 'spam' button and that's that. I trust the email service to categorize the further emails accordingly and that's what usually happens.
You can tell they take the issue seriously by their rhetoric.
You know what? This generalization of what is good and bad for you - is just a generalization to find a common food product which is easily mass producible and consumable by the entire planetary populace. However, just as shirts are tailored, I believe we may be entering an age of tailored foods for 7 billion + individuals. MSG can depend on who you are, how old, what else do you eat, are you on a plane. We will get there. Quick! Somebody make an app and Hadoop it.
Which means there's an open dialogue.

We like dialogue, as socially conscious beings.
You're already charging money for the service. If your issue is too many users then charge more money, if the issue is not enough users find more or charge more. Targetting only Pebble users is a really small niche.

The only way to be fair to your customers is to make enough money to keep the service they love alive.
Assuming you actually do work for GCHQ, would you mind elaborating (briefly, and without violating official secrets) why you've chosen to work for GCHQ, and how you feel about the Snowden leaks?

Does the level of spying targeted at the population bother you, or do you feel it's justified? If you're not able to answer this question -- e.g. it may implicitly confirm official secrets -- then would you mind briefly summing up how happy you are working for GCHQ post-Snowden?
Are those books, books that came out this year?
I was responding to a guy who said that no wealth was destroyed, which is another way of saying that there was no expenditure.
> Here's what future career paths very roughly look like for new grads (based on my own perceptions, not glassdoor)

This sounds reasonable to me. Most people never have the experience of tripling or quadrupling their salary in a single career pivot, but that's what happens when you decide to bail on your sci/tech graduate research program and start working in the software industry. It takes a pretty crazy level of passion for your research domain to accept such insane opportunity costs. When I realized that by staying in science/academia long term I might never be able to afford to buy a house in a decent neighborhood or have kids it made it really easy for me to quit.
Setting Up the Terminal for Development in OS X
The problem with teespring and the likes are that they have an MOQ that most people don't want to commit to.

As for hashtags and being irrelevant in a few minutes/days/weeks, I'd argue that a shirt that says "#GoBlue" will always be somewhat relevant. But hey, we'll see! More a fun project than anything else.
Thanks for your input! I realize it's a very small market, which is why I was curious how other HN users had dealt with the problem before.
I'd be interested if you have details on handling single-click login as securely as possible.
If you are a salaried rather than hourly employee, what does "on the clock" mean? You're paid to get work done, and the degree of independence you have in how you do the job is a major part of what justifies your employers claim that you are FLSA exempt -- outside of government service, almost all employers claim this about all employees engaged in analytical or development positions related to software.
The vast majority of cars on the road would still be drive-able after striking something like that (though many of them would miss it entirely dues to increased ground clearance). Even the vehicle in the blog post was drive-able, until it burst into flames...

Striking road debris is _incredibly_ unlikely to cause a fire in a 'normal' vehicle. The placement and design of the fuel tank makes a puncture incredibly unlikely in the first place, and even in the event of a puncture, the most common outcome (by a wide margin) is that you run out of gas... There are obviously exceptions to this, but it's rare enough than it's a big deal (recall worthy) when a vehicle design lends itself to this sort of event.
I'd like to throw in another vote for Madison. I was able to fail with several bootstrapped companies and still grow my savings because of things like cheap rent ($350/mon + utilities) cheap transportation (very bike-able when it's not snowing and good bus system when it is) and cheap food (lots of tasty and inexpensive restaurants).
This doesn't really work. My searches are very unrelated.
If you're trying to remove or drastically limit the human element, that is a sign that you need to freelance.
Experience is a prerequisite to being the best at something. If you've never actually tried it, how can you claim to be the best? I think the idea is that you try it, reflect on how you can do better or on what other skills you need, and try again (i.e. lots of iteration.)
I think it's more that Brits have been subject to massive (CCTV) surveillance for so long that these new revelations doesn't seem as shocking.

Additionally, all of us from Europe have assumed the US have been spying on us ever since the first Carnivore/Echelon rumours -- I mean what did we think all those NSA listening stations in the UK and Germany were for, if not monitoring communications?

We don't have any protection from spying by the US constitution (or against being killed by drones, for that matter) -- the favourite trite semantic straw man of US "libertarians"[1] (We the people, but not, you know foreign people - they we can assassinate and spy on even if they're our allies -- and that's certainly not a legal or moral issue -- it's only an issue when the private-government military-industrial terrorcomplex are actually turned on US citizens it's a problem...)).

After the intelligence agencies got away with incompetence/malfeasance regarding Iraq, contributing to hundred thousands of civilian deaths in an illegal war (arguably for the benefit of Big Oil and military contractors), without anyone being prosecuted or even fired -- why would we assume they didn't play fast and loose with moral grey areas that fall within their legal charter (spying on foreign nationals, ie: us) ?

Anyway, the title of the story brought to mind this story from 2008:

The Get Out Clause, Manchester stars of CCTV"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/1938...

[1] Note the quotes, there are of course many individuals and groups in the US that do good and important work for privacy and other rights-issues.
Interesting, I didn't know that there was research that showed people in those groups, when having the same socio-economic background as the majority, scored lower. Do you have any links to that?
I don't know about this class in particular, but the speed
of a course does matter. I guess programming is one of the
harder courses to teach?
There is no abridgment of the freedom of speech, or the press.

Freedom of speech does NOT involve the freedom to send individually addressed messages to anyone. There is no freedom to spam.
Not having alternatives is python's greatest strength. The language is easy to read because as much as possible there is only one way to write a given concept.
As someone who learned Python when 3.2 came out, I completely agree with you. I have only really used Python 2.7!

Because too much shit is broken (NumPy, hello). Because Python 3 has been the default on basically no system ever (OK, maybe this is changing right now, slowly).

As Guido says, it's been five years and it will take another five. This whole experiment has been a huge misstep for Python, an absolutely massive gaffe. Some of Python's peers did it too, roughly around the same time (Perl, and to a lesser extent Ruby).

Python (Guido?) noticed its own maturity a bit too late. The damage is incredible; along with the performance stuff (which is in a way easier to overcome) this may be a key factor leading to the fall of a great language.
your friend went to work in alaska, and had their passport held by an employer?
Startup - Your House Is on Fire. Get to Profits or Die.
This is a really helpful and pertinent insight IMO.

A few solutions:

Turn off dynamic highway suspension feature

Use RADAR to detect debris and cause suspension to lift to avoid as much damage (could cause vehicle instability)

>To avoid instability, slowly lift suspension, slow down lift towards apex, lift front suspension first and then rear suspension, and/or slow the vehicle slightly before raising suspension. (Could use rear-facing RADAR to inform decision process about slowing down.)

Of course, with more automation and sensors, the car could possibly change lanes autonomously to avoid road debris all together. (and message the highway patrol and other automated or semi-automated vehicles of the location of the debris as warning)

One last solution I can think of is to somehow either strengthen the undercarriage or add deflectors or crumple zones of some kind.

Personally, I'm thinking that better accident avoidance automation will be the most reliable...including raising the clearance. And making the batteries more puncture-resistant would be great.

On a tangent, would it reduce the likelihood of combustion of the batteries if each compartment could recognize a puncture event and quit drawing power from the batteries in that compartment?
Hah, I guess I bought into their marketing, then!
It's a big, ambitious update. The biggest difference is forcing users to distinguish between strings and byte sequences; essentially programs now have to be encoding-aware (at least if they use any of the standard library functions). Which is a Good Thing, but can require a ton of work for existing codebases.
mercedes has something sorta similar... it adjust the suspension to adjust for pot holes.
This site also summarizes what I hate in the current webdesign trends: broken back button and spurious event handlers attached to the not-quite-linky-links.
You know what's funny? All of those things could have been done in Python 2.8, apart from the int division change. And the division change does as much harm as good, because lots of people use Python and also use another language where int division works the "old fashioned way"; for them (me) this change is counter-productive because it adds a pointless distinction. It is a great change for programming novices, for sure, but that's only part of Python's audience, and probably won't be the longest-lived part.
Similar kind of accident happened in India, only difference is the passengers there did not get enough time as escape from fires. Here is the link http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/45-killed-as-b...
Is volume the right way to measure this? To provide equivalent flavor you use equal volume of salt or MSG?
Ask HN: anyone have an old github account they are willing to part with?
I was wondering, but does anyone have an "early" (e.g. 2008, 2009) github account they are willing to part with?

Back then, I was not on github, but was using other places for my code.
IMHO: mostly the problem is splitting the bytes/unicode types that were lumped in Python2

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2013/5/21/porting-to-python-3-redux/
They did, you have to give a palm scan and only allowed to exchange up to $3000 per day.
Did we kill it? Not working for me in Firefox.
I think I might agree with what you're getting at, but I'm not sure "watching" is the correct metaphor. Watching a programmer program is likely to be nearly as boring as watching someone sleeping even though it's interesting from the programmer's perspective and productive.
On the other hand, my experience has been very different: I learned Python when 3.2 was current as well, using Lutz' "Learning Python", which takes the approach of "teach Python 3, and explain how 2 is different whenever necessary". I've followed suit and taken the approach of writing Python 3 code first, and to make it work on 2.7 only when I need to, which I found fairly easy to do, though it can make the code a bit uglier sadly (writing cross-version-compatible metaclass code is the one that annoys me, since it adds some verbosity).

I'm looking forward to 2.x dying out to eliminate that retrofitting step (and it's happening: the improving dependency landscape means I find I have to do it less and less often), but I've not experienced any major pain overall. From where I'm sitting, Python 3 is a better, cleaner language, and as someone new to Python, I'm happier for it.
Another important point is that the telecom infrastructure is pretty good. These days getting a 100down/10up Mb/s fiber link will cost you 20-40€ a month, you can get a TV+Internet+Mobile bundle for ~80€ and the urban areas have good coverage of both fiber and 3G/LTE.
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The Kingdom of Hanover was not named after the family.

Rather, both the Kingdom and the House of Hanover were named after the capital city of Hanover.

This is quite common for Western European royalty. Because they didn't have actual surnames, they used the location of the family seat. For example, the House of Windsor was named after Windsor Castle. The House of Habsburg-Lorraine was named after Habsburg Castle and the region of Lorraine. The House of Hohenzollern was named after Hohenzollern Castle.
Sure!

Basically, reuse a lot of signing functions that you might find in a library (IE: Django's https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/signing/), don't roll your own. Then, keep track of last login IP address and block auto-logins when they mismatch. Then, set a max age for the login links to work (for example, 24 hours). There are a few other things we do as well, but those are the major ones.

Those three combined are fairly secure.
HEADLINE: Tesla Fire Sets off Flamewar.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA. HN headquarters was forced to shut down earlier today when a Tesla Model S (discussion) spontaneously caught fire. Responding the the event, the mountain view polic chief was on the scene within minutes. According to source, PG tried to put out the fire using water (in line with TSLA protocol), but the stubborn flames kept re-igniting. Finally, he had to revert to "flipping the server over" and drilling a hole in the bottom to finally douse the flames. No injuries were reported in the incident, and PG will be writing an essay later this week on the subejct. Extolling the cirtues of the Flamewar detector, as well as the excellent design of the electronically powered server at the heart of the matter.
dashes in function names! I'm in love.
I don't think that is a strong argument. You wouldn't call a car fast/strong/large/etc if it was fast/strong/large/etc relative to a soldier or a ship fast/strong/large/etc if it was fast/strong/large/etc relative to an armored vehicle.
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Which is almost more arrogant, since it translates to "The country in the center". It's a little easier to understand why there's a strain of "we are the center of the world, outside our borders are barbarians" when you look at pre-modern borders: China is bordered by oceans, the russian steppes, the xinjian desert, and the tibetan plateau.
People have been saying this for three years, but it's not true now.
> it also reminds me of people who complain about CPS, but that's just me

I give up; what does CPS stand for in this context?
Yeah. OP has never worked near any of these companies. Writing some basic linear algebra routines in python doesn't mean you're doing the same work that Google has to.
For a lot of us outside USA, that sentence would describe several cities in America.
A huge number of vehicle fires are electrical in nature.

I've been a firefighter for ~10 years. Nearly every vehicle fire I've seen falls into one of three categories:

1) Deliberately set
2) Faulty/old/corroded wiring (by far the most common)
3) Some flammable material coming into contact with something really hot (commonly after an accident where a car has gone off the road into tall dry grass)

Fires due to the fuel tank failing are _extremely_ rare (I've never seen one, or even heard of one in neighboring areas).

It may be related to the fact that I'm in an area that uses lots of nasty stuff to deice roads, but corrosion is a major issue with vehicle electric system, and the older a vehicle is, the more likely it is to experience a 'spontaneous' fire.
Exactly this. This is really the way patents were intended to be used. I think the patent trolls have turned the word "patent" into a dirty word.

But, they have a legitimate role in protecting ideas and thereby incentivizing innovation for inventors/actual creators. It's when trolls go off buying patents in order to charge a toll and/or threaten actual producers that it becomes a form of extortion and gets out of whack.
In this story, it doesn't say he's missing a passport, it days he does not have permission to leave the country. I'd be surprised if his embassy could do anything about it legally.
If you need guideposts, use an editor with paredit support and rainbow delimiters. This makes Lisp feel far more intuitive and tree-like than normal.
That's why senders should use the List-Unsubscribe header. GMail will prompt you to unsubscribe rather than blindly classify the message as SPAM.

http://www.list-unsubscribe.com

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126?hl=en
Does anyone know if a modern version of the "dizzyingly complex" world history infographic exists?
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Searching for the legislation?

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/s1631
Celebrity IPOs Could Make Us All Rich
I have a strong feeling she knew it was coming. Some people will do anything for a chance for TV time/infamy. Remember the hot air balloon kid's family? Also, her license AND her close-to-naked selfies posted unknowing online? Suspicious. I think she was shooting for Kardashian fame.
Some people love to hate Walmart (and poor labor practices give good reason). However, providing a space to sleep and not get arrested is an example of something that is probably good for the nation's poor (as well as RV enthusiasts). Apparently Walmart is also one of the first places that half-way house parolees can get a pass to go. If Walmart is acting a portal for transitional people to rejoin or create there own (harmless) society, that is a tangible social good.
This will quickly become a nationwide trend -- Washington and Colorado are going to have this massive revenue stream, and other states are going to want the same thing.

Or the federal government will squash it all.

I give it 10 years; one or the other, Utah being an exception
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What does $1k/mo actually get you and in what part of town?

I've visited Dubai before, and actually really really liked it. The fact that there was so much diversity was interesting. Seems to be a lot of cool things happening as well - Startup Weekends, Make hub, etc. Food was great as well.

I also looked into getting a visa. The $5-7k for the freelance visa - is that with the Dubai Internet City free zone? Technically you can't work from home with those, or do business with non free zone companies right?
Corporations are there to make money, not to make beautiful code.

If you want to create code with love and care, do it at home. Or we'll have to do without money (= debt), and without corporations (= economic entites based on the money). Instead let's have a resource based economy, and realize that you don't need a lot of resources to code, as long as you don't have to get money to pay taxes to pay for being spied upon. http://thevenusproject.org
If you think MSG is fine, try eating a tablespoon of it with nothing else.

Then another time try eating a bunch of mushrooms or similar by themselves with a similar quantity.

Likely not the same feeling. Digestion and absorption of food changes with how you consume it. Eating a sweet potato or a bunch of sugar doesn't hit the bloodstream the same way.

In my teens and twenties I found I got migraine headaches after eating certain foods; with a little experimentation I found foods (all kinds, not just Chinese) containing added MSG gave me a headache within 2-4 hours. Eliminating those foods eliminated the headaches. Later in life I found I was less effected though with sufficient quantities I could still get one. It was pretty clear the only food that affected me this way had MSG in it. Most people seem not to be affected.

Personally I don't mind if people add it to foods as long as it's labeled honestly so I can choose to avoid it. No different than with peanut allergies or sodium content or trans-fats. Adding yeast extract or hydrolyzed vegetable protein (proteins broken down into amino salts including the glutamate) to foods to avoid mentioning you did it for the MSG is the only thing that bugs me. It's like saying a food is low-salt because you added Natural Ocean Water instead of salt.
not bad for a weekend project!
As an American living abroad, I've discovered that many American cities are actually quite nice to the synthetic alternatives. Ya, consumerism is worshiped, but as long as you are in a real city core (not the suburbs), its actually mostly quite nice compared to Dubai.
Child Protective Services, i.e. the thing that discourages people from beating their children. Some see it as "liberal values" being imposed on them or w/e rather than a legitimate attempt to curb violence
I totally agree with this. I personally do not use unit tests at all.

Why? Because I do assert-driven testing. My test code is integrated into the actual business logic. So no need to contrive scenarios.
I don't understand how it can help if it is just a facade on top the healthcare.gov. Creating alternative sites like this can only create confusion for average users.
I don't know their motivation, but the reporting definitely as an undertone of "look, all these professionals couldn't do it for millions of dollars, and 3 kids did it in a week for free".
I'm curious why it would matter if the account was old? What are you trying to achieve? You can always put your old code onto a new account.
May I ask why you would want to do that?