skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The highest paid lawyer that I have ever met bills $1600/hr. Ted Olson is a famous former Solicitor General. He argued Bush v. Gore and the recent Proposition 8 case. He now works for a major national law firm in their DC office.

Kind of funny to think when he looks at a clock for 2 seconds, that's $1 right there. But he's highly experienced and a very good appellate litigator. You wouldn't hire him unless it was high stakes litigation and the legal fees were little compared to what you might lose in a judgment against you.
If some business did this and it was reliable, I guess we'd need third-party certification that this was real…

As someone else mentioned, the real solution is a Basic Income Guarantee. Otherwise, these ideas start becoming bizarro bureaucratic regulatory wasteful things, even though it sounds nice.
What does this provides me over Ubuntu?
Well they are currently fixing that part about not knowing your medical information. People are far too willing to give up their privacy if they can save a buck
Evidently you're not familiar with moral philosophy, but there is a difference between taking an action that you know will kill random people vs. not taking the action and leaving things to accident.

Also, there is a problem with the hypothetical, since there are other means of reducing disease than vaccination, e.g. aggressive quarantine and disinfection, trending toward telecommuting or smaller school classroom size, etc.
This is really interesting, I look forward to seeing how this is used.
Exactly. De facto defined is usually just as important to consider as de jure.
Still not...
Thinking is expensive...
The problem is an economy one...
You are basically consuming instead of creating...
So the term "Zombie" I think is accurate, this is the new religion, the way of getting people think away of your first and main problem in life... life it's finite, what should you do to make it worth it.
There are several things here, according to [1] getting people from just fit to society to have a character, and this is mine: to have an idea of life requires a process of evaluating and suffer, this is both expensive and not pleasant, and we are machines of pleasure.
Just think about twitter... how many totally articulated ideas you can get on the tipical facebook post size? now shrink it to 140 chars... substract the space for hashes and you get vomited something someone else said....
No discussion, no food for your brain.
Of course you may agree with this with inversely proportional occurrence to this statement to how much you like to analyze things...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_Disintegration
If you're interested in interactive education please check out Quill.

http://www.quill.org
https://github.com/empirical-org/quill

Quill provides personalized grammar lessons. Students using Quill proofread passages and write sentences. Quill is a free tool and features 42 CCSS lessons. We are a nonprofit organization, and 1,000 students have completed a lesson in Quill.
It is 'de facto' defined.

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

:)
There's a good chance "internal politics" was a made up excuse when they decided that the acquisition simply wasn't worth the $$$. Then your corpdev or VP contacts don't look like assholes for backing out, because, you see, it was someone else's fault.
Is it worth mentioning that on top of the $1,100 hourly rate for Bromwich, and the $1,025 hourly rate for the assisting law firm, Fried Frank, he's also demanding a 15% "service charge"? From page 23:

"And Mr. Bromwich’s rates in this matter dramatically exceed what he has quoted in the past. For instance, in a proposal to monitor the New Orleans Police Department five months ago, he suggested a $495 hourly rate, without an administrative fee, which the Department of Justice termed 'relatively expensive.'"
tl;dr: Psychoanalysis is not good at anything, so it is unfair to compare Marxism to that since Marxism has at least some merit.
Yes, I accept your point for when the system was originally provided. But now it strikes me that the older systems could be run from a power cabinet with a step up transformer and a rectifier running off AC mains given a supply with sufficient current capacity.
I think alternating and writing sporadic genderfication into our Documentation is a bad idea. It will only further promote undisciplined writing.

Using "it/they/them" decreases findability and grep-ability of the Documentation.

Generally pronouns increase the signal-to-noise ratio. "The User" or less noise increases the visibility and viability of search hooks.

We should find a way to (a) drop pronouns all together, which ultimately involves (b) rewriting the sentence, or (c) writing with explicitness.
Is that in the readme?
Why would some these varied groups of people need a grammar book specifically for them?

I can sort of see why, say, a visually-oriented person may do better with a tailored book over a standard textbook, but programmers, designers, and bloggers seems like a wide set of people.
In before the flagging squad. Keep calm and remember: your job as a hacker is to eliminate as many jobs as possible and enjoy your cut of the productivity gains while you can :)

Edit: And sure enough, the story is getting penalized and is at the bottom of the front page :)
I don't think you understand what you're saying. It's not about centralized salaries or any other such nonsense. It's a simple matter of market forces at work.

To touch upon your example: If you want Mark Cuban to do consulting work for you, you pay him what he wants to be paid to do that work. He wants $25,000/hour. If you don't want to pay the rate--you don't have to and he doesn't have to do any work for you. If you just want consulting work done for $500/hour, you could probably hire anyone--but you're not getting Mark Cuban. You're also not going to get anywhere close to the best consultants--they usually charge $1000/hour or more. They can get away with this because the markets, or specifically, other people looking for consultants, are willing to pay them that much for their time. Consequently, they have a choice--$500/hour consulting for you, or $1000+/hour working for others. Most likely, they'll choose to work for the higher rate unless they have a compelling non-financial reason to work for the lower rate. You may not think they deserve that much (and on an equitable basis, they probably don't), but such concerns are not relevant to determining what the market rates for their services are.
It sounds like this business isn't making any money and will go bust shortly. I'd say not buying it would be a good idea.
GPG, as I understand it, is a fork of PGP and still part of the OpenPGP Alliance
I didn't know Leo posted on another site. I've been a reader of ZenHabits for a while now.
The earlier mass unemployment comes the better. Only that will necessitate some major rethinking of classical employment and welfare ideas, and very likely, finally have us implement basic income.
Practically every new version of gcc adds a new optimization that recognizes some new form of undefined behavior and then rewrites your function to do whatever it wants.

Classic example: signed integer overflow. It worked for decades. Then one day it didn't.

If you want to know about this particular example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6824514 (not personally confirmed)
First Bitcoin Debit Machine in the Wild?
I've seen a trend in HN where the comments from a previous story are cherry picked by a third party and turned into a blog post, which is then submitted to HN. It could be coincidence, but it looks like that's what happened here. The counter-argument is that great minds think alike.
Absence of Unity.
That is precisely the problem with grammar: some people like to be grammar police and they don't know the proper rules because they were taught incorrectly, or they simply disagree because of their interpretation. I am guessing you simply have a different interpretation of the rules.

I don't see the grammatical mistakes you are referring to.
Yep.

Clang says:

zsh% clang -o sequencepoints sequencepoints.c
sequencepoints.c:7:18: warning: multiple unsequenced modifications to 'i' [-Wunsequenced]
int r = 1 * a[i++] + 2 * a[i++] + 3 * a[i++];
^ ~~
1 warning generated.

And prints:

zsh% ./sequencepoints
140
Hilarious Joke ML Papers, including "Kardashian Kernel"
"most-respected grammar authorities"

Super awkward there.
Wedding proposal from both POV (via 2x Google Glass)
btw, as much as I hate to think this, HN is our FB.
I'm not answering or working on the answer to the question, what great thing should I do with my life here...
just the small immediate gratification...

it's not just about the cell facebookers
Is this supposed to be in response to the other guy who thinks $1,000/hr is too much? I understand remedial economics.
Avoiding pronouns decreases readability of documentation. And readability is more fundamental to the purpose of documentation that "findability" and "grepability".

And, given the need for explicit referents preceding uses of pronouns (other than "one"/"many", which aren't the kind of pronouns at issue here), using them properly doesn't negatively impact searching.
Could there be an encryption mechanism that outputs valid sentences? If anyone tries to ban encryption they'd have to argue your text is encrypted because it doesn't make much sense to them.
Falsehoods programmers believe about DNA:

1. A person has only one genetic code in their body.
2. A person's genetic code never changes.

etc. In the spirit of "falsehoods programmers believe about names" and "... about addresses".
apt-get install lubuntu-desktop
Buzzfeed will buy this.
Free and open source Dynamic DNS
It's an interesting point. Maybe it was easier to reuse the existing cable topology.
Edit: or perhaps the rectifiers are an off-the-shelf variety with a capacity far beyond the requirement of a single motor so sharing cut the costs.
Google Now has me locked in with all Google services
This article was written by Steven Sinofsky, former president of the Windows Division at Microsoft.

http://blog.learningbyshipping.com/stevesi/
Jolla have said themselves that they might not attempt to grow quickly as a monolith, but more slowly, and be the centre of many smaller organizations. The original owners have maintained control in order to do that. Bear in mind that the company was born out of the chaos of high finance maneouvring at Nokia.
I think a lot has to do with the people doing the up/down voting. I'm guessing HN members who have been here longer and/or has more comment karma, carry significantly more weight when up/down voting.

This would explains why such a low score would result in a post staying in the front page for so long. So even though the points maybe 4 from a cosmetic point of view, I'm guessing its actual score would be much higher due to the 4 HN members that voted up this post.
It's undefined behaviour, so you won't get a consistent answer.
Take a look at the authors names again.
> Citation please.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World
WTF, is this for real? Bitcoin debit card machine is epic
You're right, sorry! Yes, tens of millions of dollars worth of BTC.
shorting only works when there Is still a belief that the company being shorted is still desirable.

In other words, shorting requires a buyer. If a company goes tits up, you still lose.
> An NSA supporter once asked me if I would have given up the metadata on my phone if it would have prevented 9/11 and saved ~3000 lives. I wouldn't, for reasons that have been discussed on HN repeatedly, but I think it's still a fair question.

Did someone seriously say that to you? Did you rebut with "would you give $1 to end poverty globally?"
Off-topic, not.
Spam, okay, not, but close.
Troll, after the flamewar we've had on two topics and two github issues, giving it more fuel is close.

This is not even "news" and the "I-am-picky-about-my-comments" bit prevents it from being discussion, escalation of discussion or anything else that could be relevant in this place. Also, the appeal to "the node community" when the issue at hands is just tangentially linked to it makes it linkbait.
At a first glance: very cool plugin, I think the core idea of representing forms as JSON is a good one. Two gentle criticisms:

1. From a 'prospective developer' standpoint, I'm worried about the dependencies and general heft of the thing. Does it require jQuery UI? Is there a stripped-down version I can use? As far as I can tell, the landing page doesn't answer these questions.

2. More broadly, I'd argue that there are two types of <form> implementations: barebones forms that use 'value' and 'type' and very little else, and hyper-customized ones that are generated bespoke. This plugin seems to address the middle of that spectrum: people who need a little -- but not too much -- customization. It's hard to tell exactly what options I'm given just from poking through the first few pages.
Git, history modification, and libuv
Python's Role in the Future of Data Analysis(Video)
What wasn't mentioned explicitly in the video, but was clear from the graphics, is that the top 1% owns more total money than the bottom 80% put together.

Not the top 1% versus the bottom 20 or 40%, not the top 20% versus the bottom 80%; no, the top 1% versus the bottom 80%, almost the entire population.

The US is clearly not owned by the American people anymore. It's owned by a tiny elite that's completely separate from normal society.
But it actually is.

Hell yeah. Get off your lazy ass, and go spend tens of thousands of dollars getting an education that makes you employable (just put aside for the moment the fact that your years of compulsory education left you good for nothing better than packing boxes). It's that easy, everyone. Economy down? Well maybe you should invest massively in industry and spark a boom so there are more jobs. If you aren't doing that, you're just not trying.
It's undefined in the spec. So GCC and clang are both correct.
Iain Duncan Smiths Realistic Unemployment Simulator
Does this mean it includes Canonical spyware?
Well, if you read closely, this is what they said:

> Many grammar books contradict one another, and some even recommend absurd and irrelevant usage and rules from bygone days.

Well, one can say their rules contradict one another.

I actually took a grammar class last spring and it was really good. I still have grammatical errors but hey - no one is perfect.
How do you know that dropping these improved your life?
For a valid contract Picasso should have stated his rates upfront.

Also, it's not exactly the free market hiring thia compliance firm. Where is the competition for his services ready to pay $1k an hour? And demanding to intervieq all the famous bigshots? I think the complaint is valid whether or not they win.
To some people, it means that they probably don't feel a Hep vaccine is necessary on the date of birth or perhaps even for longer, because the parents will control the infant's environment. If you are taking your baby home, controlling who will touch the baby, what it eats, etc, Hep shouldn't be an issue, and the vaccine at day 1 seems like an unnecessary risk (even at 1000000:1 odds of an adverse reaction, the risk of infection may lower due to a newborn's lifestyle).

That is just one example, but vaccine schedules are impacted by exposure risk, but also by some level of convenience (based on the fact that we don't go to doctors every day, so "let's vaccinate you as much as we can in the few times we'll see you"). If you show up for a well visit and your child is not 100%, do you let the child get the vaccine or do you come back next week/month?

Vaccine safety is easier to test under very strict conditions and single vaccinations, but the topic is complicated by varying levels of child health as well as offering vaccines in combination.
Hockney's book is great, but for a quick and entertaining look at the theory, there was a (BBC I think) documentary with the same title. Probably on iPlayer and YouTube by now, covers more than just Vermeer (no links since I'm not sure about the copyright status.)
Why not just use Multipath TCP?
As far as I'm aware, GPG is an implementation of OpenPGP.
It's not directly. But bit coin would fit well within that prediction. I am no editor - I'll concede my title could have been better.
Google Nexus phone vulnerable to SMS-based DOS attack
Limiting to the bare minimum of just folding, not allowing things that would make it easier like glue or cutting, doing it without practical purpose but just to make impressive creations?

My first experience with functional programming was being quizzed to solve certain maths problems with Haskell, and not being allowed to save intermediate results in a variable like an integer was really frustrating due to existing habits. Yes, yes, accumulators and recursion - point is our instructor gave us zero hints about how to think differently, and just kept saying "no, Haskell has no variables."

It might say more about how poorly guided my first encounter with functional programming was, but still, I'd say that is a lot like what you just described.
I wished if I can find something better. I get confused when I use it, especially that it feels like it's stuck in 2001 till now. and I hate the auto-friending thing.
Show HN: Fuzzbeed, A Buzzfeed Article with GIFs
>"But no one understood exactly how such a device might actually have been used to paint masterpieces." //

Seems a stretch.

I vaguely recall seeing a documentary - perhaps many years ago, probably on the BBC - on Vermeer's "The Music Room" and how it was understood to be created using an optical system [camera obscura?]. They showed a replica being used to trace an image.

Related http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/projects/MC-CL-Vermeer-a... uses the assumption of the accuracy of the dimensions to establish two of Vermeer's painting were likely done in the same room.
Mea culpa. Google fails me, please elaborate.
Are you describing yourself in that last sentence?

"The current flu shot is only 9% effective for the elderly and only 56% effective in general, according to CDC figures. CDC officials are baffled why the vaccine is so ineffective in the elderly." NYT

And from the Lancet:

"Background: No published meta-analyses have assessed efficacy and effectiveness of licensed influenza vaccines in the USA with sensitive and highly specific diagnostic tests to confirm influenza.

Findings (Interpretation): Influenza vaccines can provide moderate protection against virologically confirmed influenza, but such protection is greatly reduced or absent in some seasons. Evidence for protection in adults aged 65 years or older is lacking. LAIVs consistently show highest efficacy in young children (aged 6 months to 7 years)."

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-30...

Heck, if the flu vaccine is so good for you why is it that health-care workers and doctors can't be bothered to get it?

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...
So you are saying that a good lawyer can produce a Picasso in less than 5 hours.
A lot of places are switching to this; see NYC for an example. Instead of getting DC from the power company they get AC and convert it to DC on-site. ConEd shut down it's DC grid in '09 I think?
It's always nice to be informed you're wrong in a constructive way. Thank you too!
I'll admit I cherry picked a little.

But the numbers I used are largely borne out on the link you provided. Look at page 52 and 53.

I think however larger rack/frame mounted DC/DC converters would likely be even more efficient than per chassis DC/DC converters, but would require almost totally custom hardware.
You state that you are surprised that a school with good graduates has incompetent students, which implies that you wouldn't be surprised if a "bad school" had incompetent students.

However, that logic implies that San Jose State has a lot of selectivity in admissions, which it does not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose_State_University

It accepts over 60% of applicants. And frankly, a mark of a most useful school is one that isn't too selective in admissions and can churn out good graduates.
Inspired by the recent spate of markov generated headlines. What if we took it one step further and tried to automatically generate the content of a Buzzfeed article? It's harder than it seems. I gave it a shot using the giphy API. Check out the code here: https://github.com/aditkumar/fuzzbeed
The delay is a concern. There would need to be some significant benefit for me to enforce that on users.
New social network where all your data is encrypted
If you think Capitalism is bad, just try Socialism. Instead of making X amount of people miserable, it makes almost everyone miserable.

The world is not perfect, there is no utopia, and whatever you might think, Capitalism is about as good of product/market fit (human-nature/society-type fit) as you can get in a world that's not based on small hunter/gatherer groups.

It's also keeps us in a state of competition, which is the driving force for innovation and progress like nothing else is.

But don't believe me, just check how all the previous Marxsist and Socialist societies in history turned out.
Automated LTC mining on EC2 GPU instances using Ansible
I think I meant to say side-effects.
My enthusiasm is greatly lessened. The IDE doesn't compile on Mac OS X. Even worse, the developers don't care, and keep closing the issue.

https://github.com/nimrod-code/Aporia/issues/37#ref-issue-17...

As a rule, I avoid any project where the developers have too much of the it-doesn't-work-and-I-don't-care attitude, mainly because you can't build on top of a foundation that isn't maintained fastidiously--you'll waste all your time fixing the foundation and won't get productive work done. Culture matters.
What is "unschoolery"? Couldn't figure that out from the site. Is it home schooling or just learn-hacking?
Agree 100%. Look at some of the rabid and downright insulting responses to what I wrote elsewhere in this discussion.

Even if you're pro-vaccine but question the schedule and efficacy and necessity of some of the shots given exposure risk, you're called a crank.
Take a peek at the world's most exquisite libraries
And I assume all of this has been inspired by the "What Would I Say?"[1] app which has gone viral in since it emerged from HackPrinceton a few weeks ago?

Your website is extremely amusing and well done btw, kudos :)

[1] http://what-would-i-say.com

EDIT: Headline Smasher and WWIS both appear to use the same exact button color scheme, too!
Why don't they just move into the tech industry, an industry filled with those that proclaim the worthlessness of a degree and a low barrier to entry?

Or are they not fit for tech? Is there something that sets them apart and makes them lesser than your typical dot commer?
The Sun on Sunday lied about me last week. Have they learned nothing?
it's hard to tell if we don't know how you gonna spend the money. $20k can be good for a company, but not enough for another. make a detailed plan about your expected expenses and another one for how and when you gonna get money. then try to raise double that amount.
You call it "eliminating jobs", I call it "freeing up humans from doing pointless work"

The point of life isn't employment. There are so many incredible problems to solve in this universe. Humans are very smart and creative, and having them do any task that doesn't fully leverage their intelligence and creativity is a waste. That's why we automate.
In your example, you especially want Mark Cuban and only Mark Cuban. He is saying that, at today's market rates, no person needs $1000 an hour to live on anywhere. Those that make that much are only making it because, for one reason or another, they are providing a very scarce or indispensable service. In this case the scarcity may be artificial.