skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Point of reference. A chipotle burrito is about 2000 mg of sodium as well.
Yeah, agreed. Its all relative, thats why I used "affordable" instead of "cheap".

In my head I compare Vienna with London and the US (SF/NYC/etc) which are 2-3x as expensive, plus healthcare is worse.
I would just like to point out that many British people find the word Brit pejorative and that you shouldn't use it unless you want to offend.
That law is plainly unconstitutional. Besides which, anyone who trusts the privacy or authenticity of email is a fucking retard.
> What could possibly take 30 business days to unsubscribe email? This is evil.

Companies can, and do, take out lists of subscribers and pass them to agencies to run campaigns for them, with potentially long lead times. Still stupid, but that's usually the reason.

Regarding standard, the List-Unsubscribe: header is sort-of that. It's not used much because there's little reason to - most clients don't do anything with them.
I find it unlikely that Tesla PR would attribute their cars' safety to a supernatural being.
I am also having this problem.
Another perhaps surprising aspect, to me at least, is the apparent uniformity of the density of prime numbers in the plane. It's my understanding that the density of the prime numbers decreases as you go higher [1], so why does the plane look so uniformly covered?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number_theorem
The article states that the next planned ATM will be in Toronto. Are these planned for Canada only as of now or will other parts of the world be deploying these as well?
A History of Political Correctness
Unfortunate to hear - although there is (less violent) xenophobic behaviour in Austria that I'm worried about as well.
What constitutional right is being violated here?
IIRC, there was one using Github already, specializing in rating programmers. I wouldn't be surprised in the least either if there were ones drawing on Twitter and Facebook.
Nope, Psychology with a focus on complex systems, statistical physics, dynamical systems, that sort of thing. Everything from time series analyses that require hundreds of thousands of data points to plain old factorial ANOVAs.

Psychology is probably one of the worst sciences for the attitude described in the article. Being in the most "mathy" corner of the field doesn't really help.
We tried very hard to do without an ending delimiter. But it boils down to a simple matter: either make whitespace significant or make the grammar hugely (and perhaps irredeemably) ambiguous. Our position on whitespace is:

- it's very important for readability

- it should not be semantic

- it should be possible for a program to reindent your code

That is, if I copy-and-paste code from email or a Web page, my environment should be able to "move it into place". Significant whitespace means that that's no longer possible.

Therefore, we want whitespace to be a context-sensitive check that is layered atop the language. You could even see turning this off for code that is machine-generated, sent over a wire, etc. We are looking at actual usage patterns before we decide on the precise rules of indentation.

To this end, we needed some way of indicating that a block had ended. Ergo "end" and its alias, preferred for one-liners, ";".

Let me add one more argument in favor of an ending keyword: quality error messages. The more complex the grammar and hence the parsing job, the much more likely parse errors will be very complex. What we've learned over a few years of doing user-study research into error messages is that ultimately there is a complex algorithm running underneath and the more we can minimize surprise the better, because the user (especially the beginning programmer) simply has no mental model for what that algorithm is doing.
Bitcoin Is Making A Serious Point
Uh... no. A New Kind of Science is its own special kind of nonsense. For the most part, Wolfram argues that cellular automata are a transformative paradigm for science. It's not about the power of "big data" at all.
Yes, campgrounds and also backwoods camping. Many of these are government run (state and national parks) and many others are privately run. If you want to live in the backwoods, most parks have rules you need to follow, such as moving your tent every so often, disposing properly of waste, restrictions on lighting fires, and obtaining hunting/fishing licenses (meaning: do not carry fishing rod without a license).

Also, on every highway there are rest-stops and trucker rest areas. Some of these have pay-per-use showers and most have a parking lot you can park overnight in and free toilets.

The national/state parks are beautiful and are very welcoming to visitors.
True that! Okay, you've convinced me to make it a long-term goal.
It'd be savory/savoryness
Then you're punishing the good guys.
Meh. This is legalization of use. I mean, yeah, it's a nice step, specially for the US -- a country which still has in its legislation, though void by the constitutional court, the death penalty for possession of fairly big amounts. Shows that the mentality has changed, and that's great.

The world should still move towards full legalization: use and trade.
I'm seeing a range from snappy to several seconds (favoring snappy), so I'm going to guess "better caching."

Taking several seconds to load was common enough before that I would load the index & queue up all the articles I was interested in at once in new tabs, then grab my coffee. I may be able to just browse now, if this keeps up.
Dropbox's powerpoint viewer isn't perfect. I had to download the pptx. Works fine in Keynote.
This may be true some places, but it's certainly not true that this is the case regardless of where you live.
Nitpick, but the person(s) who wrote the code are probably not the one(s) who make these sorts of decisions about how the product or service will handle un/subscription. More likely its the product manager(s) or other business person types.
Tests run on behalf of the NHTSA show novelty helmets being useless in a crash. http://www.fairwarning.org/2013/04/booming-sales-of-novelty-...
Indeed, the last time I saw it was so long ago I can't remember when it was.

The phrase "I can't remember the last time..." is idiomatic usage in my dialect of English for: "This has occurred to me in the very distant past."
It's funny you flag that, because that was the part I spent the most time pondering how to word. 'Japanese'? No, because it's more Chinese restaurants I think of as being the problem. 'Chinese'? Except, well, the food served there isn't a whole lot like actual Chinese food, I am given to understand, and this problem applies to anyone who uses a lot of rice, so Korean or Thai food seem like they might have problems. 'East Asian'? But is Thailand really 'East Asian'? And again, none of this stuff is particularly authentic... Ah, fuck it: 'oriental'. It even conveys correctly that this is all food as warped by Western consumers' preferences and demands and not necessarily reflective of the original countries.
Politics and sports...arenas for the latter are created so that no one pays attention to the arena of the former.
Now that I get to use Go, I have no desire to go back to python. I think I'm not alone, and that python will soon enough become the new perl.
Which genetic groups? Any links that reference that?
My brother works for a three-letter tech company. They require a certain amount of "reading" per week (and testing).
The cyclist should pull over and wait until the road is clear or ride in roads with lower speed limits and less traffic. The cyclist is the one impending traffic and therefore should be the one to be inconvenienced.
Also the cyclist is the one who endangered their own life by deciding to ride in the street with cars. Even though cyclists have the right to be on the road they are still expected to fallow the traffic laws including signaling turns, stopping at stop signs and lights, and not impeding traffic flow. If they fallowed the laws they wouldn't be in danger. The vast majority of bicycle/vehicle accidents happen at intersections where surprise surprise cyclists very rarely fallow the law.
June 22, 2012.
I wonder if the Teslas should have explosive bolts to drop the battery pack if they detect a fire, then move the car away from it.
You're welcome. I think the melatonin suggestion is particularly valuable for HNers as we all tend to spend so many hours staring at bright white/blue lightbulbs called screens...

(I think my recently finished Redshift self-experiment will show this effect dramatically.)
How odd. When I use that phrase, I mean it literally.
I don't think any Lords Spiritual (whom one would be hard-pressed to qualify as extremists in any case), or other Lords for that matter, could be construed as having significant influence on Parliament.
This claim has rarely been formally studied, and what data we do have does not entirely bear this out. I have taught Lisp syntax for 24 years, and it was my experience with doing so that led me to design Pyret.
Hi, I upvoted you and here is why:

Your post is a fantastic breakdown on why such comments are unhelpful and shortsighted and in a very helpful tone.

Keep up the good work!
why that word?
May be worth noting that the Chinese didn't name their country China, they named it Zhong guo.
That same regularity also means there are few guideposts as a student programs, and this makes it much harder to recover from mistakes. We've looked at a lot data on this (and have taught Racket at every level for decades).
The "us" in your comment shows the genius behind Zuckerberg's exclusivity as a growth model and it's seeming irony.
Could someone create/convert the PDF version? I don't think my computer good enough to open PPT* format

Edit: not really needed, just loaded the dropbox preview, it is still readable
I'm inclined to think requiring the login is an intentional choice in most cases rather than an oversight; it raises a barrier to unsubscribing, and can even make it impossible, if you never set up an account in the first place. It's sort of like saying you can unsubscribe if you like, without actually providing the option; it offers plausible deniability.

I just click on "Spam" and, if it continues, set up a filter to /dev/null.
Re: children we don't have any so we haven't had to make a choice about names yet.

Thank you for your kind words.
My server is also a public-facing development server. I think they might be trying to find pages that aren't linked to directly in a hope to find more unlined pages... just a theory
Ask HN: Not enjoying working at my 1st large company, are there any good ones?
I was working at a startup before that had to fold. Luckily in the Bay Area you have many companies that need engineers. I had multiple offers from big corporations. I took up one of them. The code here sucks. There are some talented people but barring them most are "Java developers".

Do all big companies suck? By suck I mean any two out of three of the following are true:

1. Shitty code and a lot of tech debt
2. Lack of hacker types
3. No design work or challenges as everything has already been done
and you just service these parts or reuse them

Sometimes I don't get why do we need so many employees to being with.

Some more things to rant about:

1. How the whole systems works is a mystery
2. May people use Git as the new SVN
3. Code review is a thing that's done at a later point or sprint end
while it may have gone live and broken things in between that
4. There's layers on top of layers on top of layers built

Thanks,

Mr. Heart Borken
You must speak some mythical human language that makes sense :P
:D I said Puppet, not Prolog. Though I did learn Prolog for a programming languages class in the time between the end of my internship and today. The connection didn't appear to me until reading calpaterson's post.
Python was never the right answer for the cases Go solves (OCaml was a better choice 5-10 years ago, and nowadays there are plenty of options). But it's still the best language around for where you just need to write a one-off script as quickly as possible (in that sense it's always been the new perl).
Montreal has a very low cost of living, but taxes are high.
Making it difficult to unsubscribe will also make it difficult for your mail to continue to deliver to inbox. It encourages people to report your mail as spam.
Very unlikely as it's a development server (I should've mentioned) I doubt anyone linked back.
These cars can raise and lower the suspension, right?

Might be useful to have it use scanning LiDAR and detect debris in the road, raise the vehicle when appropriate. They're working on a self-driving model, why not build that in.
FAS policy, on the other hand reiterates the predicate: “Free speech is uniquely important to the <University>... (emphasis added). FAS is part of 'The University', and so is the law school. The actions of the latter thus implicate the umbrella organization.
I'd be interested in seeing some more explicit examples of the differences, because I get a very scala-like vibe from all the examples in the article (I accept that dynamic vs static is a fundamental difference that doesn't really show up in syntax).
“Invisibility Cloak” Actually Just a Box
I think the point of that blog post is that the owner is a very rich man who can afford buying a new Tesla every time a hitch strikes the bottom of the car and causes fire.
Stupid? You were the one who said that most interviews should only be a one-way street. That you will only let yourself get asked the questions in the article if the job applicant is a top-talent AND your company specifically wanted to recruit that person.

If I remember correctly, you also quoted the question "What's the coolest thing you've built here, personally?" and your response was "Who's getting interviewed here?".

You should've let your posts be. Own up to what you wrote.
[citation desired] I'd love to know who dislikes "oriental". And do they like or dislike "occidental"?
I agree with you in that managing real code in a place that gets less frequently executed is a bear, but I wanted to emphasize the value of having tests very near to the primary documentation for a function. That's a complete win, I feel.
About 20 percent of women in their 60s have different names from their husbands for what it's worth.

I know people like lawyers celebrities and real estate agents have a vested interest in keeping the name they built a reputation around.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3287883
It's easy to stay within the bounds of acceptable college discourse by following two simple rules: be progressive, and don't be not progressive. Education colleges explicitly filter out people with non-progressive views[1]:

"Someone who provided essential support during my troubles told me a funny story. He was posting information about me on Facebook, and up popped an ad for USC's online Masters of Arts in Teaching program. On impulse, he called the recruiter to see if they had any sort of ideological requirements and (quoting from his note) "asked him if USC enforces belief in specific values like 'equity' or that 'everyone can learn,' and [the recruiter] assured me that one of the admission essays is precisely on this point and that people with unsuitable views are weeded out!" "

And Harvard has made it clear that they do not permit questioning certain progressive ideas for which the evidence is not persuasive[2]. In the popular consciousness, you may see these sentiments expressed as "you have the right to speech, but not the right to hate speech" or "you don't have the right to be offensive" or "if you say offensive things, expect consequences".

[1] http://www.nas.org/articles/Achievement_Gap_Politics

[2] http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2013/11/the_slow_d...
I've never seen a car fire until last week, when I passed by this: http://i.imgur.com/k0xylRe.png. I was really surprised at how large the fire was (it looked worse in person)
Dubai.

- Zero taxes. You nearly double your income!

- Low cost of living for a city of its caliber. Rent: <$1k/mo. Food: if you cook, less than $0.5k/mo. Cheap gas/petrol. Lots of fun stuff (indoor ski, etc.) You can live comfortably on <$2k/month.

- Easy to get a freelancer visa. You get freelancer visa by setting up a company in a free zone, and issuing a work visa to yourself. This can cost about $5-$7k yearly. Unlike most countries, there are no nonsensical visa rules, or caps (ahem, H1-Bs) -- you're pretty much guaranteed to get one if you apply, no questions asked.

[The classic straw man argument against Dubai is that it's in a restrictive non-free country with ultra-orthodox Islamic and what not. This is not really true. It's one of the nicest places in the Middle East, and has a very diverse populace with the vast majority being foreign-born.]
I would never think of asking this question since I have always just assumed that if you are building software, you are using version control. Apparently I was wrong...
That is not an explicit design goal, because we feel that would be too restrictive -- we may even diverge semantically. We are in fact working on compilers for the language that don't involve going through Racket (though Racket is so awesome, it's not a given that this will be any better -- these are all just experiments in progress). But without Racket's #lang, which is absolutely a rock star language creation mechanism, Pyret probably wouldn't exist.

In short, though, sorry, we can't commit to helping you interop with your existing Racket code. But you're already in Racket, so life is probably as good as it's ever going to get. (-:
If you're looking to go be a bit away from the city (~1hr by metro), there's two cities called Povoa de Varzim (where I am) / Vila do Conde that have just about everything and are even cheaper.
> The US was never attacked in WWII.

Pearl Harbor comes to mind.
Django supported out of the box in the new Celery 3.1
The one thing I wish they could change in the future is forcing list and dictionary iterable same syntax:

instead of writing

for index, element in enumerate(some_list)

for key, value in my_dict.items()

they should unify and make items and enumerate default behavior. i.e.

for index, element in my_list:

for key, value in my_dict:

I really don't see the benefit of not doing this as default behavior. I always find if I need to loop a list there is a good chance the index can help, and even if I don't need it it doesn't hurt to have one either. Simple is better. And the whole looping dict and get back the key only sucks too because you often need the value as well so you essentially do dict["key"] but why not just default return both key and value?
Would probably cause instability and loss of traction (at apex) right before a defensive swerve.
If cheap is really what matters then Belarus. It's not a nice place to live though.
This is not entirely true. There are laws in many EU countries to prevent tax evasion which make you pay tax income on the country you have citizenship in, specially if you claim to be working from a known tax haven. Yes there is a list for that.
Okay, there's a Ruby example on the home page now, and probably one more on the way.
Did you get dinged, or did you avoid a company that would have been a bad fit?
Accepting cash only seems like the right way to go.

Here's an article explaining what it's like to purchase a bitcoin:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/04/i-bought-a-bitc...

Relevant quote:

> "Shouldn't my Bitcoin have arrived by now?
My issue points to a larger problem for the Bitcoin economy. If Bitcoin wants to become a global currency used by the masses, CVS cash-drops won't work. It needs simple, intuitive methods to convert major world currencies into BTC and back."
Because we're craven.
I can't find the original announcement of Startup News right now, but one of the reasons this site was set up was to gather intel on potential applicants. Your comments tell them a lot about your character, which they use in decisions about whether to accept applicants or not. HN is "social media," so that's an example of the effect we were talking about.
That implicit vs explicit ordering becomes very important in bigger teams (or even when sharing deployment between multiple teams). Everything is fine when you're writing your bit - it works as you wanted. But then someone else takes over, or bugfixes something - and they can do one of two mistakes: silly one - assume some dependency where there is none and write some more-complicated-than-necessary workaround; or a very critical one - fail to spot a dependency and assume they can reorder some steps, or split them into separate modules.

I've seen this a lot of times when working with chef already. Someone moves a very trivial thing to a different place, or adds/moves a notification - current system works, clean deployment works, ... but current system will fail on the next reboot or package update that cascades in an unpredictable series of events. Unless you explicitly list all existing dependencies, the system is very fragile and sensitive to modifications. I agree that most people deploying a single-server webapp will never run into this, notice the problem, or even care about it. When deploying a multi-host, minimal-downtime infrastructure it becomes a problem though.

I can appreciate the simple chef/ansible way of provisioning things, but starting with some size I think that explicit dependencies are the only way to go. Puppet/salt allow me to do things that are quite hard to do in chef.
I always simply mark it as spam repeatedly until gmail auto-generated a filter to auto-spam it. It is spam and should be treated as such.
The typical reason is that there's a whole host of systems that might be sending e-mail on behalf of the company, so there might be some delay (generally far less than 30 days) for it to flow through whatever integrations are set up, and hey - since there's going to be a delay anyway, why potentially shoot yourself in the foot by giving yourself less than what you're entitled to by law?
There is No Spoon
How to Choose the Right Topic to Build your blog on.
Show HN: Javascript brainfuck IDE fully in AngularJS
Have some fun writing/debugging brainfuck codes. It visualizes the memory, etc.

it's mainly about having fun with coding but also might be very useful as a teaching tool for beginner programmers.
Mark them as Spam and you will help the whole email ecosystem.
Brit here, since when do we find that offensive?

Being 'offended' is bollocks.
> This is tied to the idea that efficiency increases provided by globalization are always a plus. Inequality may have deepened, but the argument is that that is irrelevant if the lowest standard of living rises.

I have to wonder that even if this is true, whether that means it's true for all conditions. That is, the cost of inequality may at some point equal, then surpass the cost of poverty, either from poverty decreasing or inequality increasing. That could either be a gradual change, or a fairly abrupt one, as people that have amassed massive wealth and power make use of it to change the system to their benefit (and would most people recognize this until it was long done?).
In a way it's glaringly true. Most Americans will die from eating too much domesticated meat which is known to cause heart disease. If you're already overweight or have high cholesterol/etc then any undetected possible effect from additives/GM is irrelevant.
Why are healthcare prices so hard to find?
I think it is OK to ask 'where would I be working? I find I'm most productive in quieter settings?'

Any interviewer that is offended by this seems like they work for a company worth avoiding.
It seems putting the onus on every fire department to learn new tesla procedures may be the wrong approach.
facilitate != drive/deliver
Maybe related to this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6702816
For a one-off script I still prefer Perl. But where I run into Python more is scientific computing. It seems to be making inroads into areas that previously would've only used Matlab. Haven't seen any Go in that area yet. Of the new entrants, Julia seems to be building buzz.