skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoa, unless I'm completely reading this the wrong way, this sounds like a classic Jerry Seinfeld anecdote:
a guy eating at a restaurant notices Jerry Seinfeld sitting at a table across the way with a woman and some children. Being a fan of the show, the guy feels compelled to say hello and meet one of his favorite TV stars. He's nearly done with his own meal and after Seinfeld's table's orders have been taken, he makes his approach:

"Mr. Seinfeld! Hi, I'm ____. I'm a huge fan of your work...", the guy says with eyes gleaming.

Seinfeld briefly glances at the man and then turns towards the woman he's seated next to and smiles.

"Would it be a bother to ask you for a picture?", the guy continues.

Without missing a beat, Jerry blurts out, "_____, can you believe it? A person would walk up to me, ME, while I'm taking my family out to a nice family dinner, interrupt us, and then have the nerve to ask me for a picture. A picture? Can you believe it? Some people!"

Jerry never breaks eye-contact with the woman and never again acknowledges the guy standing by his table and family. The guy eventually slumps away back to his table, pays for his meal, and leaves.
How gamification and neuroscience help boost productivity by 50%
I don't know what to tell you. If the accident happened at work, you've got worker's comp so you're fine. If it happened outside of work, well, does society need to subsidize your mistakes?
Just like the recent degenerative and borderline retarded phrase ("Didn't get any work done today because Internet!") rearing its shit-covered head into modern casual diction, I loathe how people as a whole have ascribed warped connotations to seemingly innocuous behaviors. Scrolling down your Facebook page past the fold to see your previous posts? You're a creeper. No way out of it. It's no longer just looking at someone's profile.
A Prediction: Bitcoin Is Doomed to Fail
Homeland Security's Latest Nuclear Defense System Could Be All of Us
Node.js support in Visual Studio? You bet your IDE
Cool! I worked on something similar before: https://github.com/Miserlou/CitizenMediaNotary

I've also got an idea related to this which involves a global array of satellites in order to add a geo component to this kind of verification..
If there's no cost to storing a good, then the price today is the best predictor of the price in six months. There is no difference between a market and prediction market in this case.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6810555
Basically to prove that something existed before a specific date. For instance, grab a random piece of paper on your desk with writings and then try and prove to me that the contents of that paper existed before last year, you can't really do it (easily). Before this, the only (easy) way to achieve this would be to send this document to a third party to store into a database that it did infact exist when sent to the database, but how can you prove that database wasn't manipulated? Another common way to prove something existed before a certain time would be to make a copy and send the copy through the mail to yourself. One you have received this copy from the mail, leave it unopened and now you have proof (through the mail service's date on the stamp) but this isn't too easy, some what of a hassle, and I think you could debate that you could fake it. (Faking the stamp, finding a way to get an opened document through the mail and than replacing the content later, etc.)

What this does is it stores a document's signature into the actual "history" of bitcoins which is public. ANYONE and EVERYONE can access this history of all transactions and by them storing the actual signature of the document into this public "log" you are now able to say that this document DID exist before the specific bitcoin transaction. This removes the hassle of all current methods of proving for existence and now no longer rely on a single third party (which could manipulate it themselves).
Actually not the same person.

http://www.nicolascollins.com/texts/nicvsnick666.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6806056

I do; and I do it because I'm not completely cynical about the general public. I actually think most people are telling the truth. I could be very wrong, but nothing in my life has indicated as such. I have no idea what that indication would look like, but my default is to believe people unless I have a reason not to.
Just wanted to share our experience of translating scientific discoveries into the software with user experiences that help people teams achieve their goals in a more happy manner. I would highly appreciate any comments!
This would help to certify that a contract was signed at a particular time by both sides, and then included in the blockchain.

It would also help certify that a particular person created a document, once again because it was signed by their personal key and included in the blockchain.

It basically functions as a certain timestamp.
FYI: those who wonder about the technology, check out these sites:

* https://sailfishos.org

* http://merproject.org

* https://wiki.merproject.org

* http://mer-project.blogspot.com/2013/04/wayland-utilizing-an...

* http://mer-project.blogspot.com/2013/05/wayland-utilizing-an...

Jolla.com is more consumer oriented, so that can puzzle some who look for technical details. It's probably good to provide some links to the above from the Jolla.com. You can give them feedback, they are even present on Diaspora*: https://joindiaspora.com/u/jolla
All I learned from the video is that this is a phone for people with very messy desks.
True, but most people don't have bitcoins.
Considering the choice of images on their front page, their current target seems to be more niche. Number of open source, Nokia, Maemo/Meego enthusiasts is probably big enough to give their sales a decent start.

Best wishes to Jolla. We truly deserve to have free-as-in-free-speech phones.
37 hours is the common thing in Denmark :-)
Think about use cases for example where a person or company owns a TLD and assigns sub-domains to products. That is tremendously powerful.

I don't think I agree. People don't care about URLs after they have entered the first one into their browser, and for that, the shorter the better. Nobody likes typing long URLs with subdomains, that's why almost everyone uses Google to find any website that's not shortword.com.
Android Developers Can Seize the Day in Wearable Devices
> If by random access you mean constant time access then those developers would be very disappointed to learn that they cannot do that in Java, C#, C++, JavaScript or Python, unless they happen to know that their string cannot possibly contain any characters outside the ASCII or BMP range.

Actually, you can in Python... and obviously most developers ignore such issues [citation needed]

My point is that most developers don't know these details, a lot of idioms are ingrained... get them to work with string types properly won't be easy (but a good stdlib would obviously help immensely in this regard)

> I would leave indexing/slicing operators in place and make sure everyone knows that it works with bytes not codepoints. In addition to that I would provide an O(n) function to access the nth codepoint as part of the standard library.

Ok, so with your proposal an hypothetical slicing method on a String class in a java-like language would have this signature?

byte[] slice(int start, int end);

I've been fancying the idea of writing a custom String type/protocol for clojure that deals with the shortcoming of Java's strings... I'll probably have a try with your idea as well :)
First Steam Machine will be $499
The original owner has less of a legal claim to the harddrive than the landfill owner, so if the landfill owner were to find it why would he return it for 1/4th the value?
While i feel for her, having had a father myself who had trouble expressing emotions, though for other reasons; i balk at the title "Longest-Held Hostage in U.S. History".

What about other countries? Are there people from other countries who've been held hostage for longer? Do they matter less? Or are these two men the longest-held hostages in world history? If so, why not say so? Does the world matter less than the USA?
And Then There Were Two: Microsoft Prepares to Kill Windows RT
No... I'm saying that while we on the HN community like to believe that everyone makes honest effort to do great things with their careers most people work to make a living, and if given the option of not having to work and still make a living that they would choose not to work. I myself might consider from time to time not working if I could do so with a decent livable income and I think the majority of people would be OK with the basics if it meant they had all of their time to themselves.
If the point of gift giving is to [...]

And if it isn't? I'm sure many people don't ascribe to this particular theory of gifts as a universal truth. Also, gift giving often happens in an important, larger context, which is always different; gift giving at Christmas, for example, is hugely loaded depending on your background, your attitude toward the holiday, what significance you do or don't attach to it, this same set of attributes for every person you may want to give a gift to, and many other things.

Wish lists can be considered impersonal, I can see that. Many people grew up with them, though, and in that case they may not alter a person's perspective of the gift at all. For Christmas in particular, when a whole lot of busy people are expected to give gifts to a whole lot of other busy people, finding the time and insight to get meaningful gifts for everyone involved can add to an already often stressful time.
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The supply of first edition Charizards (a pokemon card) is also fixed. Any future printings will be a later edition. By your logic, is there a reason we shouldn't use first edition Charizards as currency, since the supply is fixed? (Counterfeiting is the only good argument I see.)
Eventually over time, once all the bitcoins are mined and out and about in the world. They'll get lost for various reasons. Is there a way to recover these lost bitcoins and return them to circulation or is the artificial scarcity of bitcoins going to turn into real scarcity and drive up prices even more?
It's not sending a message - that would defeat the purpose. It's constructing a frozen string, reusing an existing one when possible.

Prior to 2.1:

def foo
"bar".freeze
end

does these things every time `foo` is called:

1. copies the characters 'b', 'a', and 'r' into a mutable string

2. sends the message `freeze` to the new string, which...

3. marks the string as frozen.

In 2.1 `"bar".freeze` is equivalent to `"bar"f`, which will not make a copy every time `foo` is called. See https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8579 for more discussion.
It has fewer characters (don't need one for each accent, possibly exceeding 8 bits otherwise) and/or no variable width characters. Also capitalization rules are trivial.

Not that I'm claiming English is unique here, just convenient, and many languages can't claim that.
This is tricky. If I'm working full-time, depending on the compensation, specifically in terms of stock and salary, I'll optimize for 40 hours a week.

As a freelance developer, I don't care how many hours you want me to work. I get compensated for it. Though, I'll still optimize for 40 since, I don't know, I want to live my life, and I want to do a great job.

If I'm starting my own business, I'll work more.

All that said, I strongly believe in working sustainably. I'd rather have a steady rate of work, than some erratic graph with lots of spikes (followed by crashes).

Eat right, exercise, spend time with loved ones, and work hard.
yeah it's an example of how you could implement higher-level language features much easier if def returns a symbol rather than nil
Self Employment Issues And Ideas For The Digital Domain
I feel bad for you son, I've got 99 problems but a non backed up HDD ain't one.
I find this kind of comments very funny. If Microsoft had the ability to install their moles as CEOs, why don't they do the same thing to Samsung, Apple, Google, HTC, etc. etc.?

How exactly does one company go about installing their moles as CEOs of other companies? Bribe and blackmail the board members? You're ascribing Microsoft the powers of a comic book supervillain while they cannot even sell a few million Surface RT tablets.

For reference, this is the profile of the chairman of the board. Do you think a bribe from Microsoft is likely to influence this person's decisions?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorma_Ollila

>Jorma Jaakko Ollila (born 15 August 1950) is a Finnish businessman, since 1 June 2006, Non-Executive Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell. He was Chairman (1999–2012) and CEO (1992–2006) of Nokia Corporation. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Ford Motor Company (2000– ), UPM-Kymmene (1997– ), and Otava Books and Magazines Group Ltd. (1996–).
>For Nokia, he was credited with turning the company into the then world's largest handset maker.[1]

>As CEO of Nokia he has led the strategy that restructured the former industrial conglomerate into one of the major companies in the mobile phone and telecommunications infrastructure markets.

So you're telling me that Microsoft somehow bribed that guy, who no doubt would've made tens of millions from turning Nokia into a $100+ bilion dollar company, made him risk everything including national shame and prison time if exposed and seeing the company he built destroyed and hand over the reins to a Microsoft mole?

Or perhaps the Nokia board evaluated their options and wanted Nokia to have the bags of cash from Microsoft which Google reportedly was not willing to supply and save Nokia jobs instead of turning it into another slowly dying RIM and wanted to go Windows Phone, and hired Elop to do the transition. Now, the merits of the decision itself is subject to analysis, doubt and discussion, but the accusations of Elop being a mole derail the discussion that can be had about the Symbian and Blackberry burning platforms.

My conclusion is that a number of people who so strongly seem believe in this idea on tech forums either a) Don't know how CEOs are hired or what a Board of Directors of a company does b) Listen to the conspirational ideas on Slashdot, Groklaw, /r/Android and /r/linux and take it as gospel without thinking it through because the story fits the "Evil M$ kills a Linux OS" victim mentality narrative they want to believe in and they want a 41MP Nokia Android phone real bad c) Jump on the popular anti-MS bandwagon without any rational thought, oh hey, free and easy karma points! d) Believe in the NASA moon hoax too.

That comment says more about the writer than what it says about Elop, how can otherwise smart people succumb to such group thinking?. I haven't found one remotely plausible explanation about how Microsoft installed Elop as the CEO of Nokia. Maybe someone can help me and explain it here, but I am not holding my breath.

Edit: Why the downvotes?
I worked till 3am last night.....and no one knew about it. Most of my late nights come not from some requirement or deadline but from a PERSONAL desire to complete something. (I was working on a local configuration issue ie: it has no impact on any deliverable)
Perhaps 40 and 45 hours choices are not distinguishable in the real world. 9-5 or 9-6? 8.30 to 6.30? All of these can be equalized with some decompression time during the day. The real problems start when these windows are non-viable and 50 hours+ is numerically when that starts happening.
What about sites like amazon that serve both type of content? Reviews for research and an option to buy?
I don't think I can really answer without checking all the boxes. Spending time working for a company is like investing. The amount I'm willing to invest is related to my expected return.

1 - When I was working for a large company (10,000+ employees) I typically was out the door at 40 hours. The company was established, my equity was nonexistent and I gain nothing for supporting their inability to plan.

2 - If I'm working for a startup I believe in and have significant equity then I'm working day and night on it.

3 - If I don't have tangible equity and I'm working for a startup or small company then I'm willing to wear multiple hats and put in additional hours. However this isn't something that I'll do for an extended period.

4 - If I'm a contractor being paid at market rate then it's however many hours you want me there. 40, 80, 120... doesn't bother me.
This. I work roughly 55 hours a week. I love my work, but I wish I didn't have to work so hard. We're constantly hiring, but always a couple hires behind the workload. Of course, it's my responsibility to oversee this process, so it's all my fault. Anyway...the ambiguity is obvious.
I work 40 hours a week, and believe the best job is the one that pays the most for the least amount of time involved.
I don't know, that was partially a joke :) 2-Click listing would be fine if you don't want to lie.
> Huge sections could have been skipped without affecting the plot or anything else.

The same could be said of Dostoyevsky. Those long, drawn out passages are often there to make a psychological impression upon the reader rather than adding anything to the plot line per se.
it is not sending a message any more than 0b100 is sending a message. this is syntax for a type.
Too context specific to give a single answer here.

Presumably this has to do with the Penny Arcade story... I can tell you for sure I wouldn't work 80 hours a week for below market rate with seemingly no equity in the company. That shit is bananas.
You are perfectly able to own an automatic rifle manufactured before 1986. The only thing preventing such ownership is simply that the number of rifles that fit this criteria is becoming less and less by the day, which means that the price for a weapon like this is high. Granted, this means that a member of the US armed forces cannot keep his M4.

> A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

The key point here is "well regulated." Do you believe that any person, simply because they live in the United States, should be allowed to own a hand grenade? I personally think not. Is there really a difference between hand grenades and automatic rifles? Again, I personally think not.
> A tax rate that is perfectly progressive

No, its flat. A flat tax is not progressive. The point of a progressive tax system is that the marginal impact is greater at higher income levels.

> Increased income has no tax disincentives (your tax rate doesn't change because you move into a higher income.)

In a progressive income tax system where the top marginal rate is <100%, there is always a positive incentive to higher income (well, so long as the marginal utility of additional income is non-zero; there's considerable evidence that for most people, there is some level where this assumption doesn't hold, but that isn't a tax disincentive, and tax rates don't really have any effect on it, since they are a multiplicative rather than additive effect on utility, they never take a nonzero utility to zero.)

> Simplifies that tax code dramatically (which would also increase revenue.)

Only if the flat rate is set very high compared to the existing rates paid by most of the population.

> 4) Doesn't artificially encourage capital gains manipulation by large income holders.

If this includes taxing capital gains as income, then this is true, though many flat tax proposals I've seen haven't taken that step. I'd agree that that choice is desirable independently any other changes (and it really has nothing to do with flat vs. progressive taxes or basic income.)

> 5) Removes government manipulation of social policy by giving them ONLY two number to play with... MBI and tax rate!

To do this, government has to alter the definition of taxable income (as well as many other things.) This does not eliminate their ability to make similar decisions in the future, so it doesn't remove any levers. (And, of course, government intervenes in social policy through things other than direct benefit programs and tax policy, so even fixing those wouldn't have the effect described here.)

Generally, I find "autopilot" arguments of the form "once we get government to decide X, government won't be able to decide other things incompatible with X in the future" to be ludicrous.

> 6) Finally, it provides a real mechanism for everybody to feel the effects of tax rate changes.

I'm not sure this makes any sense. Everybody feels the effect of rate changes now, but the utility effect of rate changes is different depending on circumstances. In a flat tax system with MBI, the same thing is true.

> ALL of these effects without negatively affecting market freedom.

Define "market freedom".
The thing is... I don't actually believe that electrical equipment is really recycled

I had something similar happen when I went to my local recycling center a year after moving into a new town. I had carefully squirreled away a pile of batteries (AA, AAA, D-cells, etc), old smoke detectors (which contain trace amounts of radioactive elements), and some unused cans of latex paint. Saved it all for the big trip to the recycling center.

The guy told me that they'd accept it all, but next time I might as well toss everything but the paint into the trash, as that's what they were going to do with it. Pretty disappointing.
It fluctuates. At my current job, I've had 35-37 hours weeks and 50+ hours week. I voted for the second option, at the time of this writing:

"I work 40-45 hours, and have no problem working a little extra when needed."

Even though it's not always a "little" extra.

I love what I do (to be more honest, I love the people I'm doing it with) so I don't count the hours (this is literally the first time in 8 months I counted).

I don't think it's an easy solution. You want employees who are willing to work extra when needed, but you want them to achieve a good work-life balance so that the rhythm is sustainable.

To be more specific about the Penny Arcade post, I don't find it as repulsive as most (vocal) people here did. Full disclaimer, I'm 26 with no kids. I enjoyed the honest tone of the offer, and I think there's a subset (a niche?) of engineers today that would be interested in working in these conditions.

Is it a place to make a career? probably not. But I wouldn't mind spending a year or two in that environment, as long as I know exactly what I'm stepping into since day 1. Being given this much work load implies a lot of responsibilities, and, in turn, lots and lots of opportunities to get better.

How would you feel about a martial artist or a musician deciding to spend a couple of years practicing their art for 12-15 hours a day?
Ah. I had a feeling that would be the case! It's never that simple in The Real Life(TM) :)

Postgres could do this though if they detect broken kernel version and the right workload and many users might auto benefit from that.
I'm really glad I got a family before I got this job (a really great job), because if it weren't for them I would certainly spend way too much time working. As it stands the demands (good demands) of family life keep my demanding work schedule in check.
So I read through the D3 thing...and I still don't understand...what is considered "anomalous" here?

http://bl.ocks.org/jeroenjanssens/7608890
I know :-/ It's ridiculous, sigh.
Thanks a lot for your tip. I know that the comma is some form of tick for me. Will try to better myself.

Greetings from Germany.
First, yes, this is really cool.

However, it's even worse than you think. It's making a lot of references to minified/obfuscated names. Things like $('.nH.hx'). When I was working on a gmail script[1] a year or two ago, many of those were changing every few hours.

It's solvable, but not easy.

1. http://qwerjk.com/revert-gmail/