skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel safer riding in automobile traffic than cycle traffic. There are too many competitive or clueless riders. I'd be more inclined to wear a helmet if I were riding in a separated bike lane because there's less room to negotiate a hazard there.
The best explanation I've seen of the Monty Hall problem is still Oscar Bonilla's: http://oscarbonilla.com/2009/05/the-monty-hall-problem/
Or the other option is that the market does lie.
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When Ryan Carson's post made the rounds here not too long ago, I was really surprised by what got them thinking about removing their managers. http://ryancarson.com/post/61562761297/no-managers-why-we-re...

By 2013 we had grown to 60 people with seven managers and four
executives. As we added more people to the team, we noticed
something disconcerting: rumors, politics and complaints started
appearing.

If you have more than two people in an organization of any kind (company, sports team, high school, PTA), you're going to have all of those things, and it has nothing to do with good or bad management. They seem pretty happy with their decision to have changed their structure, but if they think that the rumors, back channeling, and quiet lobbying are gone, I think they're going to be disappointed.
What is a leader key? How much typing class did I miss?!
Yeah, this is perfectly reasonable and chances are you can make more than this. If you're struggling with this amount, you either need to tell a better story that justifies your value or find better prospective clients. Remember, people aren't hiring a coder, they're hiring someone that can make their business better/make them money/put out a fire/something else that's valuable to them emotionally.

Also, is there a reason you don't move to London if your earning potential would increase there?

Btw, as an aside: PythonDeveloper if you see this, you're hellbanned.
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Holy unorganized giant wall of infographics, Batman! Somebody desperately needs to organize this page into a table of contents.
And the justification for that is the same; these people bring in tons of money.

First link I could find to support that: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/07/03/report-finds-a...
No I'm not claiming it's a feature. It's a result of private enterprises lobbying for contracts, and the end result is legally mandated inefficiency.
If you are an American taxpayer, you can withdraw your support by giving away to charity all of your income above your personal tax allowance.
Businesses--well, big businesses anyway; sole proprietors and small partnerships are more like consumers or will just use whatever their accountant recommends i.e. Quickbooks--are not going to just buy an app for HR or Payroll. They will have a committee and a long checklist of requirements and you'll need to go on-site probably several times to make sales presentations and give demos to various constituencies.
Also if you get a decent helmet and you ride at a decent clip, 35km+, it actually can be cooler. Your coiffed hair however may suffer.
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Very cool way of illustrating it. It looks like you just used iframes for the animations so they were in separate pages with distinct stylesheets, JS resources, etc., why did you do that rather than having the Jquery animations happen in the main document? Was it just to keep things nicely modular?
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That's only if he spends more than 2% of his income on mining hardware, right?
How do you manage On-Call over Christmas?
Hey all.

I made BlogMask over the last week because I really wanted to make a blog post (to post on HN) but didn't want to put it on my personal WordPress. I hope it scratches an itch for other hackers as well. Would love to get some feedback or questions, I'll be here in the comments!
That's pretty much it. A great example of people wanting to do something and think of the children all rolled into one.
Character matters tremendously for quality or impact of information they leak. It affects the degree to which you might suspect that there is even more information being hidden, who stands to benefit or suffer from leaks, and who the power players are. This calculus doesn't change whether you're a cyber-libertarian, damage control for the govt, foreign govts, whatever. You want to ascertain the degree to which this is going to continue to be a problem for different parties.

Furthermore to assume that studying someone's character as part of investigation (both public and NSA-internal) is just mere propaganda and media smoke and mirrors seems to dismiss more mundane notions as a) curiosity about the leaker and the story, b) routine counter-intel procedure, and c) journalists having stuff to write about.

In short, you are giving far too much credit to the idea that the public is stupid and easily distracted. Come on, we all know the score here.
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In many cases how is it different from visiting each page and printing/saving the html?
It's useful to create a backup of the site[1].

I'm not saying it's good or bad. It could be used for both. I know at my previous job we used it (a bit shady I think) to scrape and compare competitor prices to ours.

[1] Though I can't understand why you'd want to backup your own site but I am pretty sure I've heard of it being done.
Was just providing an example. Didn't find it necessary to enumerate all of their products.
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I see. I'm very sorry to hear that you are so frustrated with the licensing scheme. We should also offer "floating" licenses which are not tied to a particular machine. Would that be OK for your needs?
Congrats to Slava, Mike and the RethinkDB team.
>For how many years were people dismissed as nutjobs and "conspiracy theorists" when they talked about NSA spying? Now we know it was all true.

Just because it is true, doesn't mean those people aren't nutjobs or conspiracy theorists.
Better work conditions would mean higher costs to Amazon.
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Yes, because bicyclists don’t have accidents, other than cars hitting them.

Funnily, it seems that there is a distinct correlation between those that fight for their freedom to not wear a helmet, who also rail against “socialized medicine” and mandatory insurance, despite the fact that they will receive such care.

— a paramedic who has seen more than his fair share of non-helmet-wearing, non-vehicular-involvement bike accidents.
So the workers took on these low wage jobs instead of staying at home and living on welfare. They are using their legal right to strike as a way to increase their compensation and thereby improving the lives of their families.

They applied for these jobs and Amazon hired them. No one forced Amazon to take on these unskilled workers.

Please, remind me why these workers should be blamed for this and not praised?
None of my non technical friends use it. I'm yet to meet anyone who does. If anything, many of them use Skype (which I don't use either, and which isn't any better than Whatsapp).
Sure. Lots of money to be made. The reason I got out of enterprise though is that the feedback loop is flawed. Your users are rarely your decision makers, large capital investments and stickiness that comes with adopting an organization-wide solution means the best product is less likely to win than the best sales force. I want to build the best products, so I chose to go find a company who's business model was better aligned with that value.
This is the main issue between left and right minded anarchists IMO. I've felt like both sides have been right at different times in my life.

That said, you are right. Taxes of any kind, if forced, is theft. If liberal minded individuals can't offer me a voluntary way to function from within society, than they'll be considered authoritarians to me. The only solution I can think of is a type of confederacy of anarchist collectives, where all collectives agree on basic freedoms (freedom to travel, freedom to leave, completely fair representation, etc) where some are bastions of socialism, and the other bastions of individualism.

The only problem I have as a right leaning anarchist with anarcho-capitalism, is wage labour. While I agree that the contract may be voluntary, the conditions leading to it may not have been, and we see exploitation in our current system regarding this, with some people becoming indentured servants.
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must have been a fun capital call to make
I have fallen and hit my head after slipping on some ice.
In my experience SMBs are a much bigger cash cow than enterprises.
Cool, I lead a software dev course and am always looking for good resources to send along to students and this looks great!
This really resonates with me: "Mozilla is dedicated to offering users privacy and transparency and we are honored to be an organization that users trust."

Thank god for Mozilla, they are one of the few tech companies I still trust in these troubled times.

I like to think if the NSA asked for direct access to their servers (such as Google were revealed to have granted), Mozilla would have no shortage of whistle-blowers.
That first sentence is difficult for me to parse. Do you mean we should ignore unjust drug incarceration because women and children? Do you mean that the scandalous racial disparity in incarceration is due to a similar disparity in domestic violence rates? Do you mean that the historically- and globally-exceptional incarceration rate in the USA is due to similarly exceptional rates of incidence or punishment of domestic violence? Actually it's not easy to check the "domestic violence" category against the "drug crime" category, since BJS is committed to keeping drug crime statistics separate from other crime statistics.

The fact that young people don't vote is not a contingent circumstance, it is part of the system. However it's pretty far down the list of embarrassing injustices in the USA.
Banks don’t exist to serve personal customers, they exist for business (the overwhelming majority of their profit comes from business accounts). To that end, they have no reason to be open outside of normal business hours.
I'm a little confused. How does blind commenting work? That is, how can I comment on a legal document without seeing the text of said document?
I believe it was mentioned that the NSA still doesn't quite know how much Edward Snowden made off with. (Who knows if that statement is truthful or not). So it doesn't necessarily mean that the remaining documents he has are worse. But it would definitely imply they are in possession of secrets worse than the ones already revealed!
Ask HN: What should I do before releasing a project as OSS?
I've seen a few interesting tools transition from being private internal tools at some company, to useful open source software and libraries (such as Flanker)

I'd love to learn some more on best practices on how to clean things up, and get them ready for the world.

For example:

Should you open up your internal tickets, with all the history and cruft, or create a new clean issue tracker. (Maybe Github Issues?)

What about the git history? Intuitively it seems useful, but is anyone really going to find value in branches to work around issues that since went away?

If the install is complicated, is it worthwhile to create specific to install on Ubuntu/Fedora/OSX, or is it better to try to script it to run automatically?

Should one provide a Vagrant box? Vmware image?

I'd love any advice, guides, or thoughts on best practices for releasing an formerly closed project to a larger world.
Force feedback joysticks are so 2008
So, what stopped Whatsapp from make a standard federated XMPP service? Selfishness or stupidity? Nothing seems to technically have prevented that.
How is this different than politics or nepotism within a private corporation or charity?

What about postsecondary education will keep larger market forces (i.e., attendance rates and donation levels) from solving this problem?
Been trying RethinkDB on and off and really like the query language. Does anybody know if there are any RethinkDB hosting/DBaaS services out there? Sysadmin/devops is not my forte, and with LTS coming, I hope companies like MongoHQ/MongoLab/IrisCouch for RethinkDB start to prop up.
Would the joking intent of the usage of men-centric idiom be more clear if I append "now get off my lawn" to the comment?
I'm very much with you on the cost-benefit of space. I think with every dollar, we have to ask, "Why not invest this in education?" and "Why not have the public fund this?"

For the former, I don't have great answers, and I struggle with it a lot. With the latter, there is an answer - neither public nor private equity markets have a long enough time horizon to sustain high risk investments for such a long time frame. (Especially if it's, "How do save the species in 200 years?" types of questions rather than space tourism) If it's important enough, we can't count on benevolent philanthropists.
It would be a rung up the ladder from "wordpress plugin builder and PHP monkey for hire"
Well, they're funding on the belief that one of them isn't going to remain niche.
With all due respect, I wonder if you answered a question that wasn't asked? I think the author's want to increase ridership, not improve safety. To take it a step further they're arguing that a measure taken to improve safety (wearing helmets) has in fact decreased ridership.
That's absolutely true.

Which means the options for getting a product into their hands would be either to work with them, wait for them to change, or create something they don't know how to categorize and hope it captures the interest of their executives/board?
> four million packets per second (well, one million until I parallelize), which is about 85 megabytes per second

Why is this more than 4 million bytes per second (4 MB/s)? A packet can contain a single byte.
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I've stopped buying products from Amazon due to them previously hiring nazi security guards and Richard Stallmans stand on them. It's simply not worth saving a few cents for workers not having proper rights.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/amazon-ends-c...
http://stallman.org/amazon.html
> Who is the target?

Every other nation. But there are no clear opponents. The struggle is to keep the US economy alive and growing. Industrial espionage. Trade agreements. Deregulation of markets if it is beneficial strong regulation otherwise. Enforcement of policies that are beneficial to US based industries.

The war is an economic one.
Well, I would say the unions try to do their Job as effectively as possible. It has nothing to do with holding somebody hostage, it just makes sense to protest at a time where your employer is forced to pay attention if it was not possible to get a consensual solution. If it's moral for Amazon to pay as low wages as they can why should it not be moral for unions to be as annoying to their employer as the can?
Have you tried www.rethinkdbcloud.com ?
> I thought all web scraping violated CFAA... not to mention copyright...

I hope this doesn't apply to meta tags and outbound links otherwise one of my projects just got a lot more awkward.
I think he means instead of using a colon to begin Vim commands, he begins by typing a space.

I started using Caps Lock as an extra Ctrl a couple months ago. It's great, except now I can't use other people's computers because I end up in caps-lock shout mode.

E.g. instead of "ctrl+l" in my browser to visit a site, it ends up:

CTRL+SHOUT+L BROWSER TAKE ME TO FACEBOOK I COMMAND THEE
We don't live in a disconnected society; if someone falls on the side of the road and cracks their head open, we don't leave them in the ditch to die, rot, and disappear. We pick them up, take them to a hospital, provide acute medical care, and potentially provide life-long care in the case of a disability. So society has a strong interest in preventing injuries.

(Two asides: this doesn't address the efficacy issue, but if helmets prevent injuries, then it is reasonable by the above argument to mandate their use. Secondly, it is arguable that motorcycle riders who don't wear helmets provide more to society through organ donation than they take in life-long medical treatment.)
A crack in the helmet is much cheaper to fix than a crack in the cranium for tax-payers that live in a country with a first-world healthcare system.
In vim, you can use the leader key to set up shortcuts, e.g.:

:map <Leader>W :w [some things you want to tack onto w]

The leader key is by default '\', so that's effectively mapping \W to :w [some things ...]

He's replacing his leader key with space.
Sorry, I guess I didn't describe that in the article. I've updated the article to include this link:

http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/chapters/06.ht...

I also fixed the display of the .vimrc file so you can see the "<Leader>" entries.
People comment on their own documents. If your doc has the same text as someone else's, we share their comments with you.
Bone dry and dangerous to breathe describes my mouth some mornings.
> before the repne scasb. Did I screw that up?

Ah, it's possible repne scasb halts when ecx drops to zero (that would explain some of the string length asm code I found when I googled it). I'm not very familiar with x86 mneumonics apart from the basics ('mov').
thank you man!
I don't do that, either.
First, a comparison to Groupon is inappropriate since the markets served are significantly different (CrowdTilt is more like Kickstarter).

Second, that a concept supposedly failed (not clear that the concept was ThePoint's main problem) does not weigh heavily on if the concept works with a different team in a different way, etc.
One approach that really helped me out was to extend the problem from three doors to a million doors.

You're allowed to pick one door, out of a million. Then, the host opens 999,998 of the other doors which he knows have a goat. This leaves the closed door you picked and one remaining closed door.

So, there's now two possibilities. Out of one million doors you somehow just happened to have guessed right and picked the right one. Or, you're wrong. If you're wrong then the correct door would be the other closed one.
Education always will be, and currently is, the tip of the spear. If you can deem to educate someone, you can deem to educate another. Once you gain a mass, education becomes lesser than the whole. This is why: we humans constantly need new means by which we can enlighten ourselves. Within a generation, todays enlightenment becomes de rigeur, de jour, de jure. This is the nature of the trap we find ourselves; escaping it requires one abandon the dialectic of our masters, and embrace the constant new.

For as long as we have hackers, we are safe.
> running on self-manufactured hardware

FTFY. Open sourced hardware by itself is of no practical use because the guy who manufactured it for you might have altered it in production.
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Sabotage and civil disobedience don't really overlap.

Sabotage: I will secretly undermine your operations and try not to get caught. My sabotage is operational- it is most effective when undiscovered.

Civil disobedience: I will publicly defy your rules with every intention of being apprehended. My defiance is political- it achieves nothing by itself, and must be public.

Yes, both involve breaking rules, but that is where the similarities end.
It's not about the risk of death, it's about the risk of neurological damage.

Death is not suffering. Being made stupid would be.
Have we finally found the database holy grail?
The author explains that this statement is by the plaintiff. The argument is news because it would be surprising to much of the public.
This is very shortsighted. What is "interesting"? With all the knowledge Alexander Flemming had about bacteria in the 1920's, it was an accident that he discovered penicillin (by contamination from a neighboring lab, while on vacation). Assuming you know the absolute value, or even the best case scenario when it comes to biology is one way to only rely on accidents for important discoveries. Probably not the smartest thing to do.
Yes - absolutely. One of the frustrations we often hear when talking to recruiters is that it's difficult to place confidence in anything written in a resume without sitting the candidate down for an interview. We are thinking that by allowing you to attach evidence of each of the claims you make it'll be harder to lie using something like Accredible and at the same time making it easier to add credibility to things that traditionally would be hard to include on a resume such as online courses, self-education and personal projects. With an approach like this, you can actually demonstrate all the work, learning and knowledge you have gained.
More healthy than the typical American lifestyle, certainly, but how does it compare against other lifestyles with similar levels of physical activity? For instance, running, walking, or swimming?
To elaborate a little more, because there seems to be tons of discussion about this when there really shouldn't be.

Here is a probabilistic solution to the problem.

1) Each General sends n messages to all the other generals.
2) After a time period y all the generals count their messages and decide how to act.

3) This is not a "solution" to the original problem. If we lose sufficient messages we may "attack" at the wrong time. However it is a probabilistic solution because as n & y increase we are less likely to make the wrong decision.

There are lots of known probabilistic solutions and while I'm a fan of the Bitcoin Protocol the existence of another doesn't change anything for computer scientists.
>Correct me if I'm wrong

You are and it would take a lot to correct that statement. I'd start at the timeline:
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/multimedia/timeline-ed...

Most of what Snowden revealed did not relate to domestic spying overreach. Hell, he wasn't even in China for a week before he revealed NSA programs that spy on the Chinese. Snowden has done more damage to his cause than the government ever could, and it's not for lack of trying.

His credibility as a whistleblower has been fatally harmed by choosing to leave the country: not only did he leave, but he went to China and then to Russia, taking an encrypted hardrive with him! You'd have to be really stupid to think the Chinese and Russians have not copied every single piece of information he had, even the information that The Guardian has decided not publish yet because of the damage it could cause.

At this point, he is a spy from every angle you look at it. Between revealing foreign collection activities, giving China and Russia loads of classified information, and fleeing from the U.S. to China and then Russia, there's no case to be made for him being a whistleblower.

He blew the whistle on a few domestic programs and that's a very good thing. But that is such a small part of everything that Snowden did. Still, in total disregard of the facts, some will consider him a whistleblower and a hero.

He is every bit as much of a hero as Edward Lee Howard and I have little doubt he will meet the same fate.
That's really interesting! Thanks!
I bought fake job references on the Internet - and it worked
Yes, but his point was that the pensions which will be payed out to those workers are so small that they are essentially working their way into poverty.
I moved away from a place where everyone drives all of the time for this and other reasons. I avoid traveling by car when possible. Driving or riding in an automobile is quite possibly the most risky thing that most people I know do day to day.
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It it your perspective that intentionally violating user privacy causes no harm?
Not really. I just used IndieGoGo to help a brick and mortar expand.