skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can lead to a very dangerous fatalism. If you think it's in God's hands whether you survive a crash, why wear a seatbelt?

More generally I get annoyed when someone says something false, even if I can't immediately see what mistakes it's going to lead them to make. My experience is that even the most benign-seeming of errors can cause problems sooner or later.
Just changed the title based on everyone's feedback. Thanks for reading anyways!
That may be the most efficient and logical way to treat them, but it doesn't mean they're "normal" in any sense of the word.
The glaring public failures of this though will be either fixed or fade from the media. The system will remain imperfect but nobody will care 6 months down the line.
This is directly related to a professor's controversial tweet after the navy yard shooting:

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2013/nov/25/after-discord-cause...

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/12/19/kansas-regents...
This. A billion times this.
Maybe they've bumped into the last tunnel boring machine left behind by ancient space travellers :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i4DSvRoKQc
Ferocious Fedora 20 review: Cutting edge Linux still as sharp as ever
Ouya's bootloader is locked. You cannot install whatever OS you want.
Does he have any hard examples of this?

I've never seen this on any startup site I've looked at. Typically they're labeled "jobs" or "work with/for us."
Yeah, I could buy "reneges on tenure" here but not "restricts free speech."
"Lets have a tinybrowser like thing to target that will run inside the browser and output to it as if it was a GPU" is truly one of those its-so-crazy-it-just-might-work ideas.

I'm a tad miffed about the size (70KB), but then again it is smaller than Angular.

I took a wait-and-see attitude with Angular/Ember/Meteor/Yet-another-Express, they are all neat in a way but never completely shoo away the feeling that the whole Javascript MVC thing is some sort of programming Vietnam.

The OP is totally different and alien and actually gives me hope! Hurrah! Exciting times.
Maybe because it appears to be an official response so is relevant, regardless of whether people think it's entirely correct. That can be a good reason to upvote, IMO.
For anything that requires some minimal level of robustness, the best option is not to make the program crash when a string is too long to fit in a buffer. This is not a buffer overflow condition. This is not at all like Division By Zero.

EDIT: In your world the kernel could panic because someone tried to open() too long a filename. Or should the application trying to open the file crash instead? And an IRC server would crash because my client sent a message with 513 characters.

I would rather detect these conditions and do the right thing.
robert sapolsky has some very interesting things to say, regarding the societal benefits of conditions like schizophrenia and ocd.
this video of one of his lectures is quite fascinating:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEnklxGAmak
ah you're right :) I was being slow, what I thought I wrote was 'words consisting only of letters that arent g-z'
BlackBerry reports staggering loss
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> I've lived in South Bay myself for 18 years and honestly haven't seen this.

Right, this might just be a matter of personal opinion. I spent a few months in Mountain View, I found it oppressively close to being similar to living in India. It was personally a negative thing because I felt like I (being ethnically of Indian origin but not really culturally one) was expected to behave similar to norms in India. Hell, I had a co-worker accuse (tease?) me of being gay because I was wearing fucking Happy Socks [1]. Now, I must emphasize that I am not saying that everyone who is culturally Indian is conservative or homophobic or whatever. However, the norms in that society of what is acceptable behavior are distinctly different from the norms in this society. A huge cluster of people living together just makes it easier for them to bring their societal norms.

[1] http://www.happysocks.com/us/

> but on a second read, I don't think this qualifies) and reactionary ("clans"?).

The word "clan" was used in the sense of people of a certain kinship living together. This may not be immediately apparent to an outsider but I have lived in India and people from different states are drastically different. This self congregation is apparent in neighborhoods there. At least to me.

2)

> The delta in material situation between India and US is far higher than the delta between US and and Singapore. Westerners moving to Singapore aren't escaping grinding poverty.

Sorry. Most of the new Indians that you see are not escaping grinding poverty. If you have enough money to pay for a Master's degree and then work on an H1B, you are clearly not part of the teeming masses of the poor people, you are ultimately an expat.

3)

> There's a large Indian community in Singapore (indeed the very name of the country is in an Indian language) and if you're going to compare Indians moving to the US to another group moving to Singapore (well, perhaps not moving -- they've been there for a long time), this is probably the right comparison to make. I don't see a problem with multi-ethnic states, as long as everyone lives by the same basic laws.

Actually, I think Singapore is a drastically different case when it comes to Indian immigration. For one, immigration laws are diverse enough that you get both classes of Indians, the white collar professionals and the people escaping soul crushing poverty.
It will almost certainly be a combination of layer 2 (IP filtering) and HTTP header scanning via proxies or TCP reset injection
Use the yellow box, not the name box that gets your focus when you land on the page.

This confused me for a few minutes.
The only thing I know to be unlawful about the site is that you have no contact details - your whois says it's a "non-UK corporation", is it really? It sounds like it's just you?

Anyway, commercial operations in the EU must have contact details listed to comply with the EU E-Commerce Regulations (2000), you also need to say if prices include VAT. Many, many websites fail on this but as you're sticking your neck out it seems it's something you could immediately be charged with.

It's complex though - http://www.out-law.com/page-431 gives good details.

Note the regulations are written so as to apply to commercial activities on the net, this includes personal websites, for example.

You can probably avoid that one by being wholly based outside the EEA and having no controlling staff within the EEA.

This isn't legal advice.
Seems like a startup should have much more important things to worry about than what to label their jobs page.
Not "been" - I was born and raised, and lived the first 30 years of my life there.

For my first-hand experience, and why I left, read my comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6886261 , especially my second one.
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Exactly the same here (NL too). Don't think I need this kind of speed, but it was included in the package...
Note that this costs you about EUR 55 per month, including landline phone AND cable TV. Not too bad compared to other countries!
Powers:

^((((((((((x)\10?)\9?)\8?)\7?)\6?)\5?)\4?)\3?)\2?)\1?$

I feel like there's gotta be a sneakier way of doing this.
I don't see how language has anything to do with you criticism.
You can, in theory, choose your exit node.
The scary part is that they were storing the cvv code at all, which is a glaring violation of PCI compliance.

https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/pdfs/pci_fs_data_storag...
Regex explained:

(...) # Match exactly 3 (the dots) characters and save them as a group (the parenthesis)
.* # Match any character (the dot) 0 or more times (the asterisk)
\1 # Reuse the first group
+1. He can read these comments. I don't care what your mental state is, seeing it discussed on Hacker News is never going to help.
I've noticed it, laughed to myself, and moved on. I didn't think it was that big a deal. Just wishful thinking on the company's part. No big deal.
Therefore, the score it provides should be a running tally of how many characters you've used to make it match the scoring system of golf; which is the lowest number of strokes wins.

The scoring system for this is incremental which is the opposite of golf.

A proper scoring system with this would provide a character limit (par) for each section and the goal would be to write a shorter regex formula to complete the task. Final score would be how many characters under or over the total character limits (course par) you scored.

Seems this is more like Regex Darts or something like that.

But it's fun nonetheless.
The best online tool I've seen is http://www.debuggex.com/
Licenses apply to locations. You bought a license for your previous dwelling - you can get a refund for the unused part but other than that I don't know of any legal method to access BBC's domestic offerings from outside the appropriate geographic area.

Don't take this as gospel, I've read the laws that apply to TV licensing a couple of times but I'm not an authority on it.
I'm a Haskell newbie, and when I test a program and it shows a laziness-related space leak, I just put strictness annotations on the parameters I suspect of generating large unevaluated thunks. This has always made the issue go away so far.
It makes a lot of sense in the context of programming when you look at the big picture. I think Rich Hickey articulates it best: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Identity-State-Rich...
> Without fail, every single person said they wish they went to work less, and spent more time with their loved ones.

I always wonder how much truth there is to that though? I mean, if you actually loved your job and preferred working to spending time with your family, wouldn't you still feel obliged to give that answer?
For sure there are other things to worry about... but it's not a label, it's a first impression.

We didn't originally spend a lot of time thinking about our jobs pages at http://www.thinkful.com/ until candidates started asking about them. Then we realized the number of people who were turned off from talking to us because we explained the company so poorly.

There's still a lot of work to do, but that's always the case!
I think you're wrong on two counts: one practical, one theoretical.

The practical one is that state schools are arms of the state. Given that their governor sits on the Board of Regents, I'm not sure they're effectively distinguishable in the way you suggest.

The theoretical one is that universities are not like "every job". The whole point of universities is to encourage bold intellectual inquiry. Academic freedom is at the heart of what universities do. Whether or not they can legally get away with trying to treat professors like serfs seems less important to me.
Hi Joel -- quick search in response to your comment:

http://www.knewton.com/careers/
http://www.shopify.com/careers
http://www.quirky.com/about/careers
Wow, people get so worked up over such minutiae these days.
It's easy to switch from pixel-doubled to full-resolution.

http://www.quickresapp.com/
You probably all know about the mainstream users of these functions, like the Linux kernel, or MacOS, or the other BSD's, and Solaris.

In fact the Linux kernel uses both strcpy and strlcpy -- strcpy is used more often. Sometimes strlcpy makes more sense than strcpy, other times not. It's not a popularity contest.
While the TypeScript + Knockout combo looks pretty good, it doesn't look that much more expressive to my eyes. Certainly hasn't been my experience that Clojure or ClojureScript are hard to test and maintain.

Still thanks for the comparison!
https://coinbase.com/careers - which seems particularly "uncareerlike" given the volatility of what they deal with.
> "Clan" to describe South Bay residing Indians is ..mm.. weird..

The word clan was not used in a pejorative way. I merely meant a group of people.

> A South Bay residing Indian is more likely to be a college-educated, white collar worker. There is no need for them to "ghetto" themselves.

Not sure how this relates to my point at all. The OP had an issue with westerners moving and settling in a country "without regards to their culture and ways of living -- out of purely material and practical concerns." I asked him/her what their thoughts were on other minorities doing that? My only intention is to figure out if there is some sort of differing racial standard being applied here.
Order for 170.

^([ab][c-gio][^d]|c[ehlo]|d|f[il]|gh|mo)

Not as clever as you guys though!
Lets assume, just for the sake of argument, that your encryption system and trust model are fine. Good. Great even.

So, you have a great system and cryptographers are giving you free advice on how to make it even better, why aren't you taking it? Are they wrong?
This article (and the comments here on HN) are cringe inducing. The author of the post has no idea how financial markets work. None.

So what if 45% of all trades were odd lots? What was the value of those trades relative to the trades that were on the tape? It's a simple and obvious (and important) question that they don't address in the article because the article is all about pushing some BS agenda that AAPL was somehow being manipulated. Are we really supposed to expect that a bunch of one lot trades were pushing AAPL "to extraordinary highs and confidence-shattering lows"? Are we really supposed to believe that the mom and pop investing public makes trading decisions based on the tiniest orders on the tape?

This article is complete joke and if this is the kind of financial markets reporting you're reading you are grossly misinformed about how the markets actually work.
How to raise your investors' eyebrows
I agree, its why I voted up the post.
Target used for credit card breach
I haven't quite formed an opinion on the authors point yet, but to answer your question I wen't over to angel.co[0] and checked the websites for the first three featured jobs and out of those two call it a career.

[0] https://angel.co/
[1] http://www.nimble.com/company/careers/
[2] https://poptip.com/careers/
I don't think it's the name so much as the attitude that matters. I've definitely seen startup founders that expected a longer term commitment from employees than they did from themselves. The founders wanted employees to believe 100% that they would be at the company for years to come, even though the founders fully expected to guide the company from inception to acquisition as quickly as possible and then split. I think the reality is that startup industry people, regardless of whether they're in a founding or hired role, are in it to create businesses and learn how to do so. Once those opportunities evaporate, they're not going to see value in sticking around to turn the gears. Startups that try to hire for long-haulers are bringing in the asylum-seekers, not the risk-takers.

Full disclosure: I worked with the author for six months.
Gap between asm.js and native gets narrower with float32 optimizations
Web Domain White Elephant Exchange
At a certain point, the rules become a subjective judgment call on the question of "is this person being a trollish dick?"
The /dev/null of academia?
Kurt Vonnegut explains drama
We're not planning an exit any time soon, and are in growth mode, and we, the founders, take salaries slightly below the company average.

Why? Fairness. Our employees produce value, and we pay them justly for it. Excess value is retained in the company, and used for growth. The company, whether or not we choose to exit, is an asset owned by us, the founders. It's not a liquid asset, no, but it can be used for secured debt (i.e. borrowing against the value in the company), should we choose (we haven't).

We've been cashflow positive since day one and have revenues somewhat higher than yours. We've never taken investment.

For the first three years, my salary was £6k. Just enough to afford to eat and live in a squat. For the next three years, it was £22k. For the last two, it's been £30k. Our highest paid engineer is at about £60k basic - and we're not in London or a big city.

I guess at the end of the day it's a cultural call, and a personal one, but from my corner, I wouldn't be comfortable earning more than the folks who're doing the on-the-ground production, as we're not here to earn salaries, we're here to grow value.
The developer, sysadmin, or analytics guru who understands privacy laws and regulations.

There has been a sea change in regulations over the past 5 years and the pace of change is accelerating (thank you Snowden), but few individuals responsible for the collection, storage or processing of sensitive data have any clue about privacy. Most companies rely on their legal counsel but only a small handful of lawyers have a deep enough understanding of technology to properly mitigate risks from misusing data.

People who can fill the gap between the technology and legal issues are truly a rare breed.
What exactly does race or gender have to do with anything in this comment thread?
Ok, show of hands: Having read this, who here suddenly feels really insufficient?
It is true for me. I got out of school (where I had to work my way through, no loans from the Gov due to my parent's income level) and I was finished scrimping and scraping. $55k a year back then was a dream and where I lived was the most important thing to me.
Pics.io rolls out online RAW converter, collaborative photo sharing
At the TBM face, there is a pressure chamber that uses bentonite slurry as the working fluid. The slurry pressure in this chamber is adjusted carefully to equal the local hydrostatic head. This seals against the axial forces on the machine's face.
Also, the TBM's tail shield (armored cover for the ring building arm+trailing gear, aka the TBM's skin) is completely surrounded by a set of stiff steel brushes that are impregnated with heavy grease. These brushes are called "tail seal grease brushes" and have dimensions ~1ft x 1 inch x 1 ft. They protrude radially from the surface of the machine to bear against the walls of the tunnel (perpendicular to tunnel wall at every point). This is probably the seal implementation that you're wondering about.

These things are only true for slurry-face TBM's. There are other sorts of TBM's out there, but the Seattle one is a SFTBM.
This should fix the innerHTMLstuff - https://github.com/vijaykiran/react-tutorial-om/commit/15281...

Also, why clojurescript 2127 ? I thought 2120 is the latest stable version.
I was thinking the same thing, and was really struggling to figure out how this, in any way, was secure enough to work with Tor over a standard browser.
Reminds me of Vim Golf.

http://vimgolf.com/
I've used the previously mentioned regexpal quite often. http://www.rubular.com is another one for Ruby only.
I know very little about React, so this might be a dumb question. I looked at the source for the example and it looks very nice, but I noticed the DOM is built using constructs like (dom/div ...). Is it also possible to use something akin to hiccup's syntax like [:div ...]?
I think they are talking about a junction table.

I also think they're talking about a class table inheritance pattern, where you have a base table that stores the data for the base/abstract class, then more tables to store the data for classes that extend the base class. You could use junction tables to model that relationship.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junction_table
A Rant on Redis
Santa Goes Stratospheric In Viral Video
>This UK filter is explicitly not about blocking illegal material, but to block legal website which are deemed by the government as inappropriate for watching. //

It's not about blocking legal websites it's about filtering content for general users and allowing continued unfiltered access for those who wish to have it. It's like putting plastic wrap on pornography magazines in Newsagents - it doesn't stop you getting it it just stops it being seen by those who don't want to [or can't] purchase it.

You may say that's semantics but if you can still access the material legally I don't think you can call it blocked.

There are blocked sites too but they've been legally judged to be contributing to illegal/unlawful activity in the UK - eg ThePirateBay.
I had a similar conversation with a friend recently. Turns out everyone with such opinions, most with good intentions I assume, seem to evaluate the merit of any such legislation based on its best case scenario of utilization; that is where no law makers or enforcer is corrupt and everyone is very responsible. But, no one seems to ever think about how the same legislation can be misused and abused. If you allow someone to setup infrastructure to censor, perhaps with good intentions now, but perhaps a successor might misuse it.

On somewhat related note, a probable idea of how such infrastructure could be misused is [1], I couldn't believe it when I saw that history was changed quite simply.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/16/north-korea-era...
To give you some background: I am 22 years old. I graduated from college about a year ago and I now make a living as a software engineer.

I agree that the only one who can save me is myself, and to all those who have said that I should seek professional help: I have and am currently working with someone to address these feelings I have towards my life.

I'm not sure what other details you were looking for, but that should be a start, at least.
If You Want A Job At Twitter, Answer This Question About Rainfall Puddles
That's easy to answer: Intelligent robots.

Humanoids have fascinated me since childhood. I went to school to get an EE because I wanted to work on robots. Life took me in a different direction. And that's OK.
A tale of two rushes: There’s gold in them there wells
I'm not. I am blaming you for presenting a statistic in a misleading way. You are suggesting that courts are fair because fathers get custody when they seek it. But you are leaving out the part where they only seek it in cases of abuse. Fair would be default joint custody, which feminist organizations like NOW actively campaign against.
Substantial discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6927905 (tau.ac.il) (92 comments)

Other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6940827 (theregister.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6938536 (dailymail.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6935289 (tau.ac.il)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6933255 (slashdot.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6932445 (slideshare.net)
I think it has more to do with the fact that if you're young, unmarried, with no dependents, you don't need much more than a studio or 1br apartment. You don't need to be zoned to decent schools or pay for private school and day care. You don't need a vehicle suitable for family trips (or, in some cases, you may not need a vehicle at all). Consequently, if you have a high-paying job, you have a lot more breathing room to pay more on rent.
Why would you want to bundle styles with your components? There is already a nice separation there, maybe you could give an example use case?
The college I went to had an online job posting board, I would check it weekly. Often there would be some startup on the careers page with the Title: "Rock Star Code Monkey Ninja wanted - Start your Career"

Guess which ones didnt receive my resume?
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