skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is cool and in my opinion has nothing to do with the workaholic culture.

I never did a deliberate 120 week, but I can attest that when I constantly do >12 hour days for a limited(!!) period my focus was much better. While there may be a cognitive decline because of the hours I believe there is a positive counterbalance when you do not need to worry about food, emails, laundry or any mundane tasks and basically you never unload the problem from your head. For certain type of coding tasks that gives much more than what is removed because of the tiredness.

This is something like an ironman. You can do it a few times, it puts you into a zen state, but obviously you don't run an ironman every day or every week of your life.
Oh dear. This is going to be used as a stick to beat developers who work their contracted hours.
haha this is awesome :)
I have two passports, two different countries (being a dual citizen has it's uses). Countries that I want to visit that other countries dont go in one of them, everything else in the other. Makes life easier in general if you travel a lot.
CRYPTOLOCKER EMAIL ATTACHMENTS SENT TO TENS OF MILLIONS IN UK
Me too but more about the BBC B and the Amstrad CPC 464!

BBC Basic was amazing in hindsight.

Bugs Boni !
I have been running this for a few months and it was worked well. For the curious I did use BTRFS as my default file system, and KDE4 desktop. A few things I do after installing:
* Install proprietary nvidia driver
* Install steam (this is a 1 click install from the Suse Wiki)
* Install namtrac:subpixel for good looking fonts (zipper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/namtrac:/sub...)
* Install ksuperkey to use the windows key to open the menu

Great release and nice to see the progress Linux is making!
patent issues ended in 2010. yast is more than creating symlinks.
Under US law, any person may change their name to anything at any time for any reason. So if your name is really your biggest enemy, the fix is not so hard.
America didn't invent fascism. It's recycling a playbook that various parts of Europe mastered nearly a century ago. Interestingly, the most dangerous and powerful aspect of American fascism in fact was born from what it took to fight Europe's WW2 mess (and the NSA is a direct descendant of that as well). History is often rich with irony.

The playbook Australia is taking a page out of is a very old one indeed.
Visualization of the Naive, KMP, and Boyer-Moore string matching algorithms
The Assassination Market
'Catch An Illegal Immigrant' Game Is Actually Happening At Texas School
That's impressive to me, don't like JavaScript but doing that is impressive. It's also interesting to see how useful a canvas element is.
Good point. If someone's life depended on it, I probably would read the Street Fighter manual, just in case
I would appreciate if you wouldn't cite the 'world socialist website - Published by the International Committee of the Fourth International' as a reputable source. Some of their articles are surprisingly good, but it's still the publication of an obscure trotzkyist sect.
Why don't border control want to hear the details of a person's travel history? It would seem naive to me to try to hide details that could help you.
Lawmakers And Regulators Take A Closer Look At Bitcoin
First off, I appreciate the points this post highlights and it's encouraged me to check my own site which has two items blocked by Ghostery - google analytics and typekit. Fair enough on the former, the latter is less understandable, although I guess that any third-party javascript requests can expose the user to tracking, so I still don't have a problem with that. That leads me onto my main point:

As soon as you outsource functionality, you give up layers of control. The relevant website is outsourcing not only to Disqus for comments, but blogger; the author then complains that they don't have as much control over their content - go figure. I've never really considered that the benefits of disqus outweigh the disadvantages - why not just own your own comments, have more control over them, deliver a faster experience, etc.?
How were you able to keep the toolbar at the bottom of the window (with the status and add-ons) with the new nightly? I lost mine when I tried the nightly and see no way to add a toolbar at the bottom of the window.
The media have been driven by the stock price, for the most part. It shot up to 180 and then dropped into 120's. It seems much of the odd behaviour around any discussion is attributable to that. Its not clear why people seem so 'invested' in the story, on either side.

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=TSLA+Interactive#symbol=T...
You are being pedantic here. Yes, I am aware of the fact that Jewish people vary and have a wide spectrum of physical appearances. Going by their definition that they are a race, the fact that people who either by virtue of having the wrong name, or wrong religion or potential links to the Arab world are flagged off and scrutinized more carefully is profiling.
Why? Because they can get it at a favorable valuation?
Simply the risk that the time and money you spent on the visit may be wasted, is likely to deter a lot of potential visitors that have other options open to them.
Then they'll ask you to expand on arbitrary details of your short boring story, and unless you're a very good liar you'll be in trouble.

People are always reporting odd conversations with border agents. When those conversations result in further scrutiny or being denied admittance, they can appear sinister or arbitrary in retrospect. But it's a basic behavioral profiling technique: Take a random walk down a conversation tree and look for the inconsistencies and delays that occur when the subject has to start making things up.
Most of the less-technical people I know who use it use it as a backup. The free tier can restore deleted files within a certain time period (30 days?). If you put your default file locations (My Documents or similar) inside dropbox, it works pretty well as a set-and-forget backup.
Breaking Down ASP.NET MVC 5 Authentication To Be Simpler
ASP.NET MVC 5 comes with a default template with a default authentication code. This code is bloated and confusing to say the least. This example breaks it down and shows you what you need to get authentication working without the fluff.
IDE and Editor survey
There were no such riots , citations please !
That's a lot of money! Do they seek it because they can or because they need it?
I know I do, but that's not a solution for everyone.

Even if you don't have multiple citizenship, it should probably be standard practice to get a fresh, stamp-less passport if you're planning on travelling to the US or any such hostile country.
I've been, twice. I'm not going back either :(
I use it so my laptop and desktop share the same files. I can code on my laptop and once I get home I have my desktop ready to continue.
They haven't. It's been removed, and as far as I can tell, there's now no way to add a bar to the bottom of the window.
I wonder what the names/IP addresses of those servers are that this TV is contacting? Has anyone sniffed the data and figured out a way to spam their servers with bogus data? Feels to me like they're inviting something like this.
How to Sell a Blog for $36,200
Investors Do Not Fund Research And Development
It was exceptionally useful as a student when I was frequently using lots of computers. As a sort of USB stick in the cloud (with added shared-folders) it was brilliant. The sync, versioning and useful web interface "just work".

I can completely see that if you're a small team and are faced with the problem of shared folders, dropbox would be a good solution. It's not too expensive and a lot easier than setting up reliable and secure self-hosted file storage.
Yes, typical Apple really, one of those ideas that seem bloody obvious in hindsight, yet they are the only ones doing it.

Prob got a patent of some sort on it.

Looking forward to trying to get this running on my mid 2011 MBA, its currently running Ubuntu and works very well.
U.S. Safety Agency Launches Investigation Into Tesla Fires
Does anyone know what the graph is at the bottom right?
Marching band pays tribute to Nintendo
Well then the question is does he look jewish? It's not like he'll talk about his ancestry to everyone around, or give everyone his passport.
With all due respect; the description of that book sounds almost pathological to me. But hey, most people aren't Nick Winter.
Language as a service
I read that as "to have my canyon manually inspected", which would have been a very different experience.
You could carry a billion dollars worth of bitcoins around on a USB drive though. Easier than carrying a billion dollars worth of cash around. Take your wallet offline and you can do physical transactions that have no record. You just need to find a willing party to take the bitcoins offline.
Whatever you think of the blog post and Musk's spin - he puts his money where his mouth is. He's put into writing that if a 3rd party investigation into the fires finds anything they can do to improve safety - everyone gets a free retrofit. And short of an owner actively trying to destroy their car, Tesla's warranty will cover fire damage.

How many CEO's have that level of confidence in their product? Can you imagine Honda, Audi, BMW or any of the others reacting that way to something like this? And they've been around for much longer.
By that extension, lack of democracy in Saudi Arabia, and Egypt was the root cause of all Islamic terrorism. Saudi's actively promote a version of Islam that promotes religious discord in Muslim populations across the world.

I disagree with this statement. Saudi Arabia (& Egypt for that matter) can't be held directly responsible as one of the root causes of the current Islamic terror situation. Their idea to spread Islam by funding Islamic madrassas (schools that are usually near an Islamic mosque that typically teach the Quran in Classical Arabic) in places such as Afghanistan and Indonesia with their petro-dollars in the 70's up to the 90's was just a bit too idealistic. Of course, the fact that these schools (especially once Bin Laden was kicked out of Saudi Arabia and fled to Afghanistan) became ground zero for recruiting and training simple village kids into today's suicide bombers was something I doubt they could envision.
As a white foreigner who has considered travelling to the US for a holiday or working in the Valley, these types of reports have a long-term chain reaction on my willingness to start thinking about packing my bags for the States. I wonder if the powers that be understand how far-reaching bad treatments of foreign travellers can be. Or maybe I'm just one developer and my sentiment has no effect in the long run. Do other developers feel the same?
Anything meaningful I do on my mobile devices - photos, files, etc. - gets backed up to Dropbox. It's 100% automatic, and has been a real life saver. I also use it as basically a virtual thumb drive to "move" files between work/home. I'm the exact opposite of you: I'm flabbergasted that people don't use it. That said, I wouldn't pay for it. There are much cheaper backup solutions (Crashplan).
I have a few friends who work at Box, that company seems much better at extracting revenue from its product via concentrating on the business rather than consumer space.
Warning: The Team That Maintains Your Public PaaS Matters
What's your problem with Trotskyite news sources?

I assume most folks here are smart enough to evaluate any given news site on the basis of its accuracy and to differentiate between editorial bias and factual incorrectness.

If you really can't bear to see news and opinions from sources you personally disagree with, how are you ever going to test your opinions?
This. He had likely abandoned his well-paying job because of burn-out caused by the long hours and lack of appreciation at home where he was treated as an ATM.

I am talking from personal experience and many stories of my peers. In the modern Western society many men are isolated and do not talk to each other about their family problems. If they did they'd found out how similar their stories are - overworked, unappreciated by their wives with their kids brought up to despise them, quietly carrying the entire financial burden of the family on their backs.

Whilst the author had to pick up the pieces of spending gone out of control his entire "family" moved on. As soon as he became a liability instead of an asset his wife discarded him.
>>I had a green card on the way when I quit my job so why wouldn't I just stay if I wanted to immigrate so badly?

This phrase caught my eye. Based on this, you probably thought that you could leave and enter the US at will. Ironically, during this phase of the green card process (i.e. right after the I-485 is filed and awaiting final processing for denial or a GC in the mail), my understanding is that you'll have more difficulty entering and leaving the country without special dispensation (called Advance Parole).

Assuming that your company lawyers handled your green card application, I'm surprised they didn't apply for Advance Parole for you at the same time as filing the I-485. That would have saved you a bunch of hassle, regardless of whether you quit the company or not.

IANAL and all that, but I think this explains why they were so hostile. You didn't follow their strict procedures for these types of things. Of course, they're not going to tell you this during an interrogation, but this may have helped.
> I was born in Canada as it clearly states on my US passport

Just wondering why you didn't enter Canada with your Canadian passport then?
And if you like that (spheres only), you might also like this (general triangles-based), in 444 lines of Scala (and OCaml, Python, Ruby, Lua, Scheme, C++, and C):

http://www.hxa.name/minilight/
"drastically" — ugh.
I didn't know I needed this but it's great!

Some feature requests:

- Ability to resize by grabbing corners

- Option to quit after all snaps are closed
This deserves a better explaining.

Depending on the details, yes, it's better, like, "oh, I transited through Malaysia when leaving Singapore"

But remember "anything you say can and will be used against you", so don't go into details unless needed.

And to be honest, someone saying they traveled there because of the Botany, they're either a plant expert or this can be felt as they're hiding something.
> Problem there is that the US loudly and fundamentally claims to be a democracy. If we are to accept that, then we have to accept that the government embodies the will of its people. Or, seriously consider that the US is genuinely no longer a real democracy.

North Korea also claims to be a democratic. Self entitlement is meaningless.
Err, I think that's sort of the authors point...so we all agree.

And look, I have friends/colleagues who do that (NoScript etc.). And it's probably terrible of me, but I can't deny it isn't a bit amusing watching them fight with every second site, and their need to maintain massive whitelists of every site they need to browse.

It's like people who turn off images in their browser. Sure, it's your prerogative, but the web's sort of moved on from the Mosaic days.

It's like people who think cameras steal their soul, or that wifi radiation will give you cancer. As long as it's just them and the don't inconvenience other people, or complain that stuff "doesn't work" for them, it's cool.

If this was an accessibility issue, I could absolutely understand - I myself have a hearing impairment and it's not something you can help, so I get taht. So yes, whether it's making sure it works for colour blind people, or making sure things have captions, I support.

But this isn't a case of some disability a person can't help - this is people having tinfoil hat conspiracies about what Google might do when they find out they browse lolcats, or that they're buying My Little Pony toys.
Snapchat Sees More Daily Photos Than Facebook
Sure, no problem
1) Yes, I was on track for a green card within a year or two, but when I resigned I it was abandoned
2) I had some very nice friends who brought me some bags before I left Canada
3) The Canadian side of the border was immensely nicer. They tried to give advice, and let me back in after I explained what happened. The biggest difference is their demeanor. While the US people were extremely hostile from the start, the Canadian counterparts were nice and courteous. Talking to US officials was like being in a real interrogation, after this I'm much more sympathetic and get very uncomfortable watching people get interrogated on TV cop dramas etc...
3) Many reasons. Let me just also mention that we don't have children yet. Firstly, we felt our life would be better in Sweden in terms of work-life balance and family life. Especially having a family is much easier with longer vacations, maternity/paternity leave, heavily subsidized child care, socialized healthcare and a general safety net if anything goes wrong. Secondly, we're both immigrants, her being Chinese, so immigration would keep being a problem for many years, more so for her I think. Third, just like you, I have family and friends back home, which also adds a safety net, and of course I've missed them a great deal. Fourth, we're looking forward to doing traveling in Europe, there's just more to see in a smaller area, but that's not a major reason :).

All that said, we both had great jobs, earning probably 50% more than for the same job back home, while cost of living is lower in the US, and we don't have jobs lined up. The US is just great for having a career, and there are more numerous and interesting jobs in our fields, so it's not easy leaving that behind.
now this was an epic post. couldn't imagine this. i am not sure that somebody can cope this that.
To me their the same exact thing when people drag-n-drop code in visual studio. oohhh ahhhh everyone says, except it has nothing to do with real world coding. i.e. it's proof of concept code at best.
I am from India and lot of my friends find this one moving.
The market is not $6 billion!

The notional value of all bitcoin is/was $6 billion. The actual market is some smaller value that you would have to estimate from transaction volume.
IMO the underlying assumption of Dropbox's competitiveness is that it is not a commodity. 1GB with the right user experience is worth more than more with a worse UX. Commodity would imply that it's all about price per gb.

So far, I think that assumption has been right.
Only if your certificate is going to expire before those 21 do.
It might be mild OCD but it'd be great if the list of supported languages is ordered in some logical way.
Both parties in the US benefit from illegal immigration from Mexico. Democrats have a huge Hispanic base which has interests in immigration reform. Republicans play both sides, one hand is bashing immigrants, while many of their supporters hire them for jobs to reduce costs.
I use it as

- a backup. All important files, pictures go there. My phone automatically copies all my pictures to Dropbox. (although I occassionally move them over to Skydrive to keep within my limit)

- a git repository

- a way to share files between home / work / phone. (I rarely bother copying files over usb to my phone anymore. Memory sticks are gathering dust)

- a way to share files/photos with friends.

- a web server.. well more like a way to share html files with friends.

- an easy way to copy documents to Evernote (using Wappwolf)

Dropbox probably knows more about me than Google.
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not in my experience. i put id3 tags from ~32K songs in it and a query for an artist was around 700ms. same query in ES was like 10ms, same qry to sqlite db (select * from track where artist=...) was about the same as ES. the docs for whoosh make these claims that it's fast, but I haven't seen anything to backup the claims in unit tests or otherwise. I'm sure it's still useful for some purposes but ES is so easy to setup that I don't bother.
his other stuff is also really amazing: http://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/
My, What a Busy NYC DataWeek
> The author was rejected from entering the USA on arguably questionable, but still legal terms.

And no one was questioning the legality of this. Legal does not mean good.

>My advice remains. Custom officials in airports are much better equipped to handle foreigners. So, to hedge your safest bets for next time you go to the US, make the airport your first port of entry.

How is that not broken? Why should it matter if you enter via airport or train.

There was no reason to turn him away, other than misperceptions and bigocy by the border agents. That's what should be fixed.
That has been optimised further by this guy here:
http://mmmovania.blogspot.in/2011/11/snapshot-from-my-latest...
Is it Free to use for one month, or free to download and use forever, offer expiring after one month?
Anyone have a link to LG's Terms and Conditions that reveal they will be collecting data?

Furthermore, there's an issue of going further down the rabbit hole with smart TVs. What about the terms and conditions of use of software that you may never even use that is still collecting data?

I have a LG dumb TV with DLNA and wired connectivity only. LAN only setup does not work. It has to have a full Internet connection.
Big Data Camp
I'm more super interesting in diving into EFI!

In highschool, I wrote a tiny toy kernel, running solely in 16bit real mode. Quite fun, but I wanted to go further and my knowledge was lacking, although the project did help me learn a lot of ASM.

The OP has shown that I could do all sorts of cool stuff going straight into x64 without all the incantations! That's actually super exciting, and makes me hate EFI a little less ;)

I'm going to go play, I think! I wonder what Lisp would be the best candidate here...
Err, actually, the Google crawler has supported JS (in some form) for a number of years:

https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/...
Like kill a journalist investigating military officials.
I liked the box that pops immediately saying how the problem was promptly resolved by Google's representatives.
Exactly - I think the sweetspot here is 'disabling disqus via Ghostery should block disqus, but not anything else' - the author of the original article appears to be arguing against the use of Ghostery altogether as a result of being burned by choosing disqus in the first place.
On the other hand, one may contest the premise that a country has a right to refuse entrance to any individual.

I, for one, would rather live in a world where individuals are free to travel at will (protected by international agreements) than in one where only goods and money benefit from this kind of protection.

As someone who lives in a Schengen area country, I experience both, so maybe that influences my opinions : it seems quite retrograde and unbearable to forbid people to just travel as they wish.
I am due for a new passport soon, which is a shame because I will loose a few interesting stamps. But it is probably a good thing as my travel seems to be gravitating towards the US soon. I have avoided the US for >10 years now, but work might bring me there again for some visits next year.
The last week was pretty obviously a market gone nuts, but you're right, calling the moment it will burst (if it ever does) would not be easy.
Your country is constantly under attack? It's as varied in culture and population as Europe? You can go from poor to billionaire?

Dude, I surely want to smoke what you're smoking.
Modded up, but I really hope most frontend folk on HN already know about border-box.

Short ver: float two 50% widths beside each other. Change padding as you like later and not have stuff break.

I have been doing this for a year now, it's godlike especially for in-browser design.
After getting deeply involved in politics for about five years, I'll pick "no longer a real democracy," at least at the federal level, and my state's pretty shaky. Local's still good.