skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I the only one who actually agrees with this law? In fact I'd go even lower to a 1:5 or 1:3 salary ratio. This way all employees become independent contractors who can set their own hours, they become emancipated from the corporate ladder, they're forced to develop entrepreneurial experience, network, form micro-companies that can work for multiple companies and develop enhanced specialities, have low level workers become CEOs by virtue of necessity, have less job security leading to increased competition and quality among all levels of workers preventing the big company style slide into mediocrity etc, etc.

Sounds like a much better system to me.

Edit: The analogy I see is like changing from owning your own servers to moving to a cloud/aws-like pay for use model. This sort of change reduces risk and unlocks innovation.
We're talking about the same government that hands out death-by-protracted-torture penalties in the War on Drugs. "Are you insane?" is a logical, rational counterargument to the question of whether that government should be inferring a person's death wish. It is not even a slippery slope for an American assisted suicide law to kill someone with a heroin overdose for having a hopeless life owing to them being trapped in permanent solitary confinement owing to conviction on heroin possession.
Bay Trail atom is already competitive with tablet-focused ARM. I've got a Samsung 500T that runs "real" windows. It weighs as much as an iPad and has ~10 hour run time, same as the iPad. The whole microarchitecture thing is less of an issue for power consumption and performance than most people think.
I looked for that also and there was no mention. There's no doubt that if that was actually his father's expressed wish he would have featured that prominently in his article.

What he does state is:

> I'd like to proactively end his suffering and let him go out with some dignity. But my government says I can't make that decision. Neither can his doctors.

He also points out early in the article that there are financial considerations:

> His smallish estate pays about $8,000 per month to keep him in this state of perpetual suffering.
I just checked a random server: OS and all process images are using 119MB, *48 = 5.5GB. I think I'll do just fine with the remaining 378G.
Been using GitLab since (I think) 4.0 and have yet to experience any problems upgrading on a fairly standard LAMP-like web server setup on a VPS. To anyone having troubles, what exactly are the errors/problems?

(Late) Edit: any problems I've ever had with upgrades have been related to not properly adjusting settings when moving new config files around. For example, in upgrading to 6.3 I failed to copy over my custom listen lines in unicorn for a non-standard port.
Are the Knicks courting Calipari back to NBA?
we need unspoken nod and furtive protocols.

That pretty much guarantees the twisted version where the kids kill off grandma for the house.
What would happen next year?
Came here to say that and to add. Long list of commands with no explanation or details is minimally useful.

I challenge you to read a man page a week. Use that command every day that week. Find away to use it with two or three other commands you know. Breakdown tasks into units the size of commands you know. Fill in missing pieces with bash or scripting language of choice.
Perl has stagnated, it's as simple as that. There are so many alternatives out there that have picked up where Perl left off or gone in new directions and covered some of the same ground that the competitive value of Perl has diminished over time.

I consider Ruby, for example, a more evolved Perl in a lot of ways.

Perl used to be the go to language for scripting and automation (practically what it was designed for) but now that niche is also filled with Python, Ruby, node, power shell, and improved automation tools like puppet, chef, or ansible.

Perl also used to be the go to language for dynamic web applications but it fell behind as other languages gained ground and especially as sophisticated frameworks like rails put Perl development to more and more of a comparative disadvantage.
Also, the more extreme it is, the more you need a lawyer to verify it will hold up. For example, denial of food and water is considered "extreme", if you want that in your paperwork... have a lawyer do a double check.
XCom: Enemy Unknown is $20 on iOS, only sightly cheaper than the PC version at the time of launch, and is a more-or-less straight port of the PC game. Despite the (comparatively) high price it was in the Top Grossing list for a while.

Square-Enix have also been successfully selling $15 iOS ports of their Final Fantasy series.
The US. Drones and the death penalty are what I have in mind. And neither of those are going away soon. Not that many countries are any better, we just don't have the money to keep up.
Yes, because slippery slopes doesn't exist.

Or because we should not discuss the implications of a possible slippery slope?

Note I'm not telling you what is right or wrong but I insist on the right to discuss relevant issues, in ethnic as well as in technical questions.
how do you make it so it doesn't show html at the end of the url?
pre-commit would be a bad idea. You would have to ask all of your developers to install the hook, instead of just installing it on your 'official' repos and it would quickly become a nuisance to developers who liked to create temporary commits with no intention of ever giving them out to the rest of the world. These developers would quickly become annoyed at the pre-commit hook, turn it off, then you would be back where you started (except now you would have a false sense of security).

I do agree that pre-commit isn't the best choice though. I prefer update hooks; I find they are simpler to write and easier to read.
Of course it's a wonderful idea, and it would be even better if it applied to contractors. I don't get the HN mindset of "He totally deserves billions of dollars, he threw together a few photo filters and created Instagram! Those poor kids can rot!"
That makes sense, but teachers unions have similar power and people actually do want good education for their children. I guess that the teachers unions fool people into thinking they want good education as well, but their real interest is the private interests of their members.
If there are ten people who are talented and qualified for the position and willing to work at the low wage, why would the company choose someone for the position where they would have to pay a lot more money?

It doesn't compute. Obviously the company believes the higher paid individual brings more value to the company.
You can probably do a simple Twitter-like application, it's simple CRUD and shouldn't be difficult (It's used both in Rails for Zombies and the Rails Book as example iirc)

A simple blog engine isn't complicated either.
>>Most folk would choose everything medically possible to be performed to keep them going for another 24 hours

And by "most" you mean people who would have a _quality_ 24 hours. Because the person of subject in this article certainly wouldn't have made that choice. He couldn't; his mind was gone.
I bought "Beginning Linux Programming" and I think it's a great book for beginner and intermediate C programmers looking to get a deeper knowledge of Linux. A bit basic if you've been working with C for some time tho.

After buying it I found The Linux Programming Interface... and I certainly regretted having bought the former rather than the later. But for beginners I recommend the first.
I wouldn't recommend httpc to anyone... It's really slow and doesn't scale at all. There's plenty of better alternatives: lhttpc, ibrowse, hackney.
It's something else if the state requires doctors to assist you, or the state requires insurance companies to require doctors to assist you.

I think you're arguing against an argument nobody made. People who advocate for the legalization of assisted-suicide just want the person who does the assistance to not be persecuted.
This is a reasonable preliminary study but the conclusions drawn by it are not justified. Some students were told they were special, and then got to leave their (possibly poorly performing and depressing) schools and spend considerable time being personally mentored by experts in their field while spending the day in a nice environment.

Perhaps we replace museum with "biology lab", "baseball camp", "robotics research", "skateboarding lessons", or any of a number of other things where students are specially selected to be taken to an interesting new location and tutored by experts in small groups. Would we get similar results, or is exposure to art in particular what is responsible for these results? That is not determined by this study and would need to be before making such dramatic claims.

Also, the way they assessed critical thinking skills here is questionable. Students went to the museum and art was discussed in a particular way, talking about symbols and analysis of paintings and so forth. Then the students who went to the museum and heard this, and those who didn't, were asked to write an essay about a painting. The ones who had been to the museum and heard people talking about paintings in the way the "good" essays were scored did better than those who had not been given exposure to an example of how people are expected to talk about art in an academic context. This is not a measure of critical thinking skills at all! It is a measure of who went to the museum and listened. To measure improvements in critical thinking skills, the content of the essay should not have been directly specifically linked to the type of content they were exposed to during the field trips, because as such the test is also measuring their exposure to that content (art criticism and analysis) and its style. To compare to baseball again, it would be like sending kids to baseball camp and then testing those who went to camp against those who didn't in a test where they were asked to write an essay about promising 2014 rookie players, and then claiming that good results in essays about baseball from the baseball camp goers was evidence the baseball camp created gains in general critical thinking skills. Maybe it did but such a test tightly connected to the particular subject matter that one group was exposed to and the other was not is not a reasonable way to assess general critical thinking skills.
Ideally anything that you reject for should also be conveniently baked into the build system so that you can do things like `make validate` before pushing to save yourself the embarrassment.
This is just a personal opinion, but I also wrote Perl (back in the 90s), and I think that TIMTOWTDI was the reason that it fell out of favor.

TIMTOWTDI makes it hard to share code, even between masters. I believe it's the source of the "Perl is unreadable" meme. Because everyone is capable of defining their own personal dialect of Perl, no solid, common subset emerged.

Compare with the Zen of Python: "There should be one – and preferably only one – obvious way to do it." In Python, it's generally very easy for two similarly-skilled Python hackers to share code.

It looks like a Wikipedia editor shares this view: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_more_than_one_way_to_...
In War for Same-Day Delivery, Racing Madly to Go Last Mile
I tend to see much clearer indicators in JavaScript code. Global variables? Lots of functions outside any closure? Old skool js coder ahead.

You can also tell javascript only programmers a mile off. Anonymous functions everywhere? Functions have multiple concerns? Use 'var aFunction = function()'? Mono linguist and spaghetti code ahead.
It's pretty easy to search for these arguments?

"in particular why having the execs paid by a different company wouldn't work"
this would work. you could just launch a new company with only the ones earning the top salaries. Some say even a holding would suffice. But it looks like this was covered.

Btw: my favourite poster during the campaign.. always got hungry :D
http://www.handelsblatt.com/images/1-12-initiatve-in-der-sch...
What makes you think that the authorities had no motivation to leave him in play for a while before busting him?
I love how the text just turns into Lorem Ipsum half way down.
I saw a good example of this at the LA Car Show yesterday. The new Honda Odyssey minivan has a vacuum cleaner built in to the cargo area, with an extendable hose that can reach all the way to the driver seat. Such a simple idea, I can't imagine how no other manufacturer ever thought of it before.
This. Purchasers of the highest-end and/or costly experimental architectures tend to be research institutions or national labs that are using grant money.
Thank you for posting the ISG Museum info. I have been looking for something like this.

http://www.gardnermuseum.org/music/listen/music_library
The Oxo measuring cup is indeed very clever and solves a real problem.

Here's a picture for those (like me) that couldn't quite picture it from nate's description: http://www.amazon.com/OXO-Grips-2-Cup-Angled-Measuring/dp/B0...
From my dim and probably exaggerated memory of a visit, his cubicle was pimped out witch-doctor style. (They had a jungle theme around the office floor in general.)
I also recommend http://explainshell.com/. It does its best to break down what a shell command like tar vxf file.gz does.
It didn't fall out of favour, Perl usage is growing every year. The "market" expanded as a whole, admitting newer languages. http://blog.timbunce.org/2008/03/08/perl-myths/
I have a mirror of this site. wooledge.org runs off of greycat's (#bash on freenode) home DSL connection:

http://bash.cumulonim.biz/BashPitfalls.html
And there's the rub.. you can't be certain.
I just don't understand why anyone developing a language would think dynamic scope would be a good idea.
Mmm. Good point -- maintaining a separate mapping is harder to implement and can lead to preformance issues. I think I see why they did it the way they did now.
On really?

Christians back change in assisted suicide law, poll finds:
http://www.jacquelinejencquel.com/post/christians-back-chang...

By the way, it's great that you generalize an entire group because of your preconceived biases against them. Imagine if you changed the word "Christians" to "Muslims" or "blacks". Do you realize how bigoted you sound?
Note that both the top answers are from the same person.
Well, the default Linux shell is /bin/bash on most systems.

I'd say more about the article itself and what it should and/or does say on this, but at present, I suspect the author is looking up "Webserver and Database Scalability and Availability Tips & Tricks":

"Error establishing a database connection"
I've used Sugru for one thing, applying a thin layer around the fraying part of my Macbook Air power cable. Wrapping it in white electrical tape never worked long-term, as the tape would eventually slide and get nasty. But the white Sugru has worked perfectly for more than a year now, without any disintegration, loss of flexibility, discoloration, or additional fraying. So at least for protecting thin cables, it works great.

PS: I wore rubber dishwashing gloves to apply it and smooth it, so it wouldn't wind up with fingerprints embedded in the texture along the whole way.
Enjoyable Javascript
My old G4 PowerBook still serves me well for many things. Most people need a lot less hardware power than they think they do.
Thanks. I don't understand why people submit links with content that can't be accessed by more than a few users simultaneously.
I'm sorry for your loss, that's terrible, but at least you can find some peace in it. :(
The bitcoin mining algorithm from a programmer's viewpoint
Stop poking things into the ISS International Space Station
Well, of course you can excuse it away (at the cost of adding complicating details and raising the question of why, if they used one of your suggestions, they later switched to the 21x more expensive Anonymousspeech hosting).

The point of the test is to quickly asses whether the person trying to dox Satoshi has done even their basic homework and realized that it's an issue for their theory? If they haven't even looked at the Bitcoin.org WHOIS history, that says something important about the depth of their research into the question.
They could just encrypt the facebook ids in a way that allows the server to map the encrypted client id back to the canonical facebook id.
Libgit2 - a portable, pure C implementation of the Git core methods
Try this method (for mobile apps): http://mobileappchat.com/mylyrics-giacomo-balli/
Re edit: No, I never asked who the authors were and frankly it's not relevant. Anyway, it's sunday, and I'm waiting for the publication. It was also pretty obvious from my other replies that I started this thread..
Thermite is amazing stuff. There's some thought that part of the reason the Hindenburg burned so much so fast was a thermite reaction in the stuff it was painted with:

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/hindenb...
The incapacity of natural selection to explain human behavior
Good post. Though my experience with this one was slightly different:

Someone will always tell you you’re doing it wrong

In my case, it wasn't that people were telling me I was doing it wrong, it's that I saw all these people asserting the Right Way to do things and I was so worried about doing it wrong that I would get bogged down worrying about tiny irrelevant problems. But in the end what people cared about most was getting things done, and usually didn't care as much about the methods as one would believe reading the web.

The most common traits of all the best code I've worked with is consistency and thoroughness.
That's true.

I think it could be interesting if people on HN actively tried to flip their negative comments into a point of discussion.

For example, if we instead said "You sound like you have stories to tell, do you have any experience with bad therapists? What could they have done better?" then the conversation could continue down a more interesting path.
Chronos vs Kairos: Find out how you think about time when working on a project
You're not really giving any reasons why you oppose it. I am for it because it would greatly reduce suffering.
> no solid, common subset emerged

That's wrong. This common subset converged through consensus and finds expression in e.g. the Modern Perl movement, the module collection Task::Kensho and the updated motto "There is more than one way to do it, but sometimes consistency is not a bad thing either".
Google censors search results; the US gov pays $1+ million to prevent censorship
What do you mean by "Lack of pointers in C++"? C++ has most of the pointer stuff from C (except for some unsafe casts).
“But also we pioneered the usage of what is called true Single Molecular Sequencing that basically reads through molecules as they stand, without further manipulation,” Orlando added. By tracking a full, single DNA molecule, the team was able to avoid having to “amplify” fragments, which can often introduce errors.

This is utterly silly because the technique they used (illumina) amplifies fragments anyways, and the error introduced by PCR (1 in 40,000 if you use good polymerases) would pale in comparison to the molecular degradation; it should be simple to run control experiments and "back out" the amount of error caused by the manipulation.

It's also worth noting that this is not a full genome, they just sequenced PARTS of the genome.
And to vote against this measure is even more ignorant since it's repercussions are utterly negative to a society. I can't spot a single positive thing out of this and please greed is NOT good.

In Switzerland the avg net income[1] is about 4.000 EUR (~ 6.000 USD) which is sky-high compared to other European countries. Probably the possibility to become rich some day is what drives most of these voters to say 'no'.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_in_Europe_by_...
You really can't claim that anything is mathematically assured without providing formal proofs. Care to share them?
If you just set MaxRequestsPerChild to something pretty low that will cause them to restart on their own pretty frequently.
The typical workaround is for their contract to "end" after nine months.
Ah yes, the ultimate reference from Freenode #bash, after you learn from Greycat's wiki you won't simply Google/DDG "bash tutorial" again and just head straight here.
For Safer Food, Just Add Viruses
> The religion is notably fascinated with martyrdom

Martyrdom and suicide are nothing alike. To a Christian at least.

About the same time I read a solemn flippancy by some free thinker: he said that a suicide was only the same as a martyr. The open fallacy of this helped to clear the question. Obviously a suicide is the opposite of a martyr. A martyr is a man who cares so much for something outside him, that he forgets his own personal life. A suicide is a man who cares so little for anything outside him, that he wants to see the last of everything. One wants something to begin: the other wants everything to end. In other words, the martyr is noble, exactly because (however he renounces the world or execrates all humanity) he confesses this ultimate link with life; he sets his heart outside himself: he dies that something may live. The suicide is ignoble because he has not this link with being: he is a mere destroyer; spiritually, he destroys the universe. And then I remembered the stake and the cross-roads, and the queer fact that Christianity had shown this weird harshness to the suicide. For Christianity had shown a wild encouragement of the martyr. Historic Christianity was accused, not entirely without reason, of carrying martyrdom and asceticism to a point, desolate and pessimistic. The early Christian martyrs talked of death with a horrible happiness. They blasphemed the beautiful duties of the body: they smelt the grave afar off like a field of flowers. All this has seemed to many the very poetry of pessimism. Yet there is the stake at the crossroads to show what Christianity thought of the pessimist.

http://www.leaderu.com/cyber/books/orthodoxy/ch5.html
A modern processor has a lot in it, but you can understand it as a finite automaton. Just this realisation made computer architecture and processor design far less intimidating to me. It also shows that, in practice, if you structure and manipulate your states carefully, you can get very far with finite automata.

I don't understand this one. Surely a modern processor is like a Turing machine and not a finite state automata. For example, a DFA/NFA can't express simple algorithms like matching parentheses, while obviously a modern processor can.
This type of processor implements nondeterministic finite state machines². Effectively it allows you to perform regular expression matching, very fast and on large data sets. They implemented this in a very clever way exploiting the fact that DRAM access is extremely parallel by nature. It is useful to solve data mining problems, such as those arising in bioinformatics.

It is quite likely that there are also certain government agencies among the early customers...

²http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondeterministic_finite_automat...
I disagree entirely with you. That comes from an emotional place though as I had to watch my amazing grandmother die a slow painful death of suffocation for nearly three years. She begged to die, but we could do nothing. My grandfather (who was with her for over 50 years) confided to me that he considered quite heavily granting her wish, but the threat of legal persecution meant he couldn't. At least she got to be at home for those years, and when she finally passed, it was over quickly.
Here is the cached version of this page http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5z9gUWv...
So the deletionist movement has jumped hosts from wikipedia to SE ?

How sad. How sad and lame.
Fascinating. Can we add a stack?
I think it should have failed. There are too many ways to get around this law by just outsourcing labor, creating subsidiaries, issuing dividends, etc. I think the better approach is marginal tax rates.