skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Supersize My Wage
Microsoft expects early 2014 CEO choice
> someone else was getting away with a purse snatching, or beating up an ex-girlfriend, or playing the knock-out game, or emptying a cash register.

It doesn't work this way, unless it he tried his experiment at the busiest time of the day, and even then it is not 100% sure.

> The police are set upon from all sides.

We all are, we can all take the easy route by bending the rules, and risk getting in trouble.
"so I'd guess it's not easy to bribe them with tax breaks."

Especially when they are already paying so little tax to begin with on those profits...
Galveston is an hour away and has plenty of beaches (Gulf beaches, but still...).
There's no biodiversity in bananas. All Cavendish plants are sterile genetic clones.

It was the same for Gros Michel.

Edit: what more, GMO are not inherently bad.

Monsanto gave them a bad name, because of their commercial practice (terminator gene), and the catastrophic environmental consequences of glyphosate-resistant crops.

They can be used wisely. For example, did you know that the insulin diabetics use is produced by GM yeast?
well I can think of a reason you might do that. It's dead simple, and you can easily predict the distribution, so you can choose names that have a relatively good distribution. Sure your first few buckets go empty, but at that point, you're overthinking it, NEXT SECTION!
"good data"
Totally, that's the idea :) — and yeah you should absolutely be able to post-process LESS output and have everything work fine.
there is, you just need more karma.
At that price range I would buy one for each of my kids, hands down. It works for reading, internet, and some videos. Sure you might be able to play every game out there, but it's fantastic for common usage!

Specs:

$38
7" screen at 800x400
Android 4.0 ICS
1GHz single core processor
4GB storage with microSD for expansion
and I'm guessing 512MB ram
The $38 UbiSlate 7Ci tablet, running on Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, features a 1-gigahertz , single-core processor (the sort of CPU found in the first-generation iPad introduced in 2010). Just 4 gigabytes of storage is built in, although microSD card slots are included for those looking for more space to store apps and media. The 7-inch display offers a resolution of 800×480 pixels,
Why yes, yes it should :) fixing now.
Or, failure could show that the candidate has an understanding that how he handled "previous successes" and "previous failures" is almost certainly irrelevant to the job being applied for. Unless the new company's line of business is substantially similar to the previous company's, a candidate's experiences, success, failures, and how he handled them are at best useful as an aggregate measure of "stuff he's done." When the line of business is substantially similar, the candidate's prior experience at the similar company is only marginally more applicable, because actual differences in the internal operations figure more prominently. It doesn't indicate, necessarily, any thing at all about his personality, how he will do his job with the new company, or really anything else other than that "candidate has worked places."

Human interactions are complicated, stochastic things and I can't help but think that interview processes that include "describe a success/describe a failure" in order to "get a feel" for the person are a hackneyed attempt to distill these complicated things into overly simplistic checklists and scores.
I imagine a CSS where the outer divs submit to the inners (but only when I want to).
there's nothing about "true css" that makes it intrinsically superior to the "pseudo-languages" that have to be preprocessed to generate css. the spec merely determines the features browsers have to support, not the manner in which people have to use them.
Please provide a better drop-in alternative or shut up seriously.

SQL is single master and is pain in the ass for many applications.
Cassandra didn't happen to work for us.
CouchWhatever failed to ever get off ground.
Redis - can't say anything about it.
That leaves us with what?

Yes, mongodb fails but only after it delivers. Other nosql databases don't get into the delivery phase.

What's there to choose?
No because society doesn't treat them that way.
Those numbers might not match up to other frameworks, but they are by no means slow. ~29k requests per second (standard ASP.net) equals 2,505,427,200 requests per day.

That's far more capacity than anyone needs and if your site does ever reach the point where 2.5 billion people visit it per day then you can just put another box up and double your capacity to 5 billion requests per day.
Well, I liked your comment, and didn't get what you were talking about with the rankban until I read your username. That "rankban" you mention, that's a pretty shitty thing to have in a forum that is supposed to be about ideas.
Maybe so, but there's still great value in a normative, comprehensive, practically implementable written specification, whether you choose to call it a "standard" or not. Taking your example, imagine how painful it'd be to write a C# compiler from scratch with the language defined by one of the existing implementations. As just one example of the madness this would entail, see Eric Lippert's "magic zero" "definition" from one version of Microsoft's C# compiler in

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2006/03/29/the-r...

where the compile-time literal (8 * (0+(7-7))) implicitly converts to an enumeration type, but (8 * ((7-7)+0)) does not.
It's because people don't know this.
This is true of the startup universe, but businesses at large will- for the foreseeable future- want software that just works. In the rest of the world, businesses that don't want to be technical are developing their own solutions because the solutions they're using now suck.
I feel like, if that were provably true, then Steve Wynn would have put an ocean into a casino in Vegas already.
Data Visualization and D3.js Newsletter - Issue 57
So they're closing up shop? No more Stackmob?
I don't get it. If you are using less or sass anyway.... why would you use myth as a post-processor, since myth doesn't do anything you couldn't do already in sass or less?
I don't think this will happen. Large tech companies have offices in the rest of the country, but getting the best projects and the promotions usually requires being at HQ. If you're serious about Google, you'll work in MTV. If you're serious about working for Goldman, you want New York. Sure, you can work in Madison or Austin and be employed by a Silicon Valley company, but you'll be getting the projects that the mother ship passed on. If you want to live in Austin, then you're best off working in an Austin company if you want a career there.

Nor are VCs going to move just to "spread the wealth" geographically. They're rich enough that this rent shit isn't their problem and they're settled. Whatever is to reverse this condensation of tech in the Bay Area is going to be post-VC; someone will have to figure out how to target and structure the mid-risk/mid-growth (15-40%/year growth) businesses that VCs hate. I have ideas on structure: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/gervais-macle...

It is a nice idea, and if technology comes through with a post-VC wave (a return to maker culture) we will see that geographical shift. It won't be "a new hub". It'll probably be 20 or so microhubs, of which San Francisco and New York will be included.

I could see a strong forecast for: Austin, Boulder, Durham, Baltimore, Portland. Boston is well-poised to make a comeback, and Chicago could show some strength.
> "According to your logic, in this case, everyone wearing a Lonsdale bomberjack would have to be arrested, and they would have to be banned by law? Isn't that outlawing the symptom, instead of outlawing the actual problem?"

What? No. Just no.

It may be different in the Netherlands, but in the US riding dirtbikes on public streets is illegal. The bikes themselves are not street legal. The bikes don't have plates, turn signals, mirrors or horns. They are not registered with the DMV. In Pennsylvania they are wildly in violation of noise laws for motorcycles (they drown out conversations indoors when they pass on the streets). Totally unlicensed and almost certainly therefore uninsured (which is again illegal). Riding bikes of any sort in gangs is further illegal, breaking all sorts of traffic laws.

This going after dirt-bike riders is not about going after a symptom or superficial attribute of some other crime. It is the crime. It is the actual problem.

If I were saying "go after cars with spinney wheels" (which are perfectly legal) or "go after people wearing only red or blue" (which is perfectly legal) then your comparison would be apt, but that is not what is going on here.
"The German chancellor also told the US president that America's National Security Agency cannot be trusted because of the volume of material it had allowed to leak to the whistleblower Edward Snowden, according to the New York Times."
Potential criminal liability is not an issue you can pick up when you get bigger. It's an issue you have to deal with before you get started. Willful ignorance is not a defense to a charge of transporting drugs or other contraband.
All the money I win for anything goes back into my research, for what it's worth. Perhaps because I'm on the poor end for an academic mathematician.

However, it's grant money, not prize money, that I get. I have no idea how on earth I could ever win a prize for math since I'm not in line for the Fields, Abel, or Alfried Krupp prize.
I don't disagree with you in any way, but I wonder if there's any other real option. I often see cases where mandatory sentencing causes miscarriages of justice too.

I guess the solution is more mandatory sentencing, but make the mandates better?
I first read it as - allowing you to use tools such as less/sass in 'conjunction'. I see now that was not really stated like that. But that seems the case anyway. It's compatible with a pipeline using both legacy css and less/sass.
CSS3 3D splikes example (some JavaScript, no WebGL or canvas)
Sea stars are melting in West Coast waters [video]
> Not only that, but people forget that most of the people police come into professional contact with are, in fact, criminals.

Really? You think that most of the people police come into contact with are criminals? How many arrests does a police officer make on an average night (X) and how many people does the officer contact (Y)? I'm guessing Y >> X.
This only polyfills some of these features in the most superficial way. To polyfill some of these features according to spec., you need to do it in the browser.

For example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<title>CSS Variable Test</title>
<style>

head {
display: block;
var-mycolor: blue;
}

:root {
var-mycolor: red;
}

title {
display: block;
color: var(mycolor);
}

</style>

If I load that document in a browser that supports CSS variables, the title will be blue. But if I run it through Myth, it drops the blue rule and makes the title red. This is because CSS variables are inherited throughout the document and can be overridden at any time. The calculated value of the CSS property that uses the variable depends on the document structure.

Likewise with calc() - if you multiply values like in their example, it works, but if you try to add two values of different units (e.g. 2em + 30%), it silently falls back to requiring browser support for calc().

This might be useful in narrow circumstances, but it should have big warning signs because it doesn't come close to being a proper polyfill.
Law school enrollment falls to 1977 levels
BitHub = Bitcoin + GitHub. An experiment in funding privacy OSS.
A PIP is a stitch up. It's a legal way to do constructive dismissal. Remember the HR department's job is the same as the tax accountant's job: to enable the company's management to sail as close as they can to the legal wind.
No. The reason sass or less require compiling is to support features that aren't actually a part of the CSS standard, so they need to be compiled down to things that are a part of the css standard.

In his world, the best of those features would be part of the CSS standard and supported by browsers, so you could just give them right to browsers without compiling anything.
Do you have many employees outside of the US?
Come on down to San Diego, we'd love to have you.
The economic dark side of the West’s oil and gas boom
I'm a contractor, but I don't feel free. Still stuck working in someone else's environment. I could push farther into freelancing I suppose, but it's not the same.

Part of my motivation is that I'd like to build the biggest thing I could possibly build. I'm not going to accomplish that in the straitjacket of someone else's big enterprise project.
Mt Gox is acting like a futures market.

Many people invest dollars into Bitcoin because they believe it will increase in dollar value.

If they exchange their Bitcoins for dollars at Mt Gox, they know they will have to wait to get the dollars. They believe that, while they are waiting, the value of Bitcoin will probably rise. So they demand the expected future value of their Bitcoins, not the present value.
SQL is a language, not a database...
#cphftw is born
thanks, that is much appreciated.
Oh, we'd have killed for Fosters. All we got was half a cup of brake fluid, and if we said anything the engine driver would stop the train "until everyone was quiet". Then we took a wrong turn at Crewe and ended up in Archangelsk twelve days later with beriberi.
Matters of jurisdiction in international law are a pretty hot topic at the moment -- have been for a few years, and will probably continue to be for the next decade or two.
> It's a shame because bananas are very cheap

Why they are cheap is interesting: http://freakonomics.com/2008/06/19/the-economics-of-bananas/
Qt 5.2 - Foundation for KDE Frameworks 5
I'm confused, the article gives Cassandra as an example of better data handling, but according to http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArchitectureOverview and http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/webhelp/... you have eventual consistency and you get to tune consistency level... which setting is the same, but behaves better than mongo's?

PS: I'm not a fan, but I like mongo for what it gives... + I'm hoping it will get just better.
I understand it as buying on Mt Gox is a premium over the other exchanges because of safety. BTC-e is based in Bulgaria, won't release their company information, and could close doors at any time and disappear with everyones BTC- so it trades at a lower price there because of the extra risk.

Mt Gox is based in Japan, and very public about operations.

I'm going a bit off topic here, but one of the major weaknesses I see of Bitcoin are the exchanges. For the currency to survive, in the way it was intended, I think there needs to exist a decentralized exchange as secure as Bitcoin itself. If someone wants to work on this, shoot me an email.
> Please provide a better drop-in alternative or shut up seriously.

He mentioned several. He talked about why he prefers them.
If someone can see this screen, they have access to your email. Did you disable email too?
They look much more like passionfruit, but with more solid fleshy material. I think the seeds are hard and inedible, but haven't ever seen them in real life...

Also the cultivated ones have been developed specifically for their transportability and shelf life, with the taste as a lower priority. Hmmm... wonder what those Gros Michel taste like?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana
A cappella "Say Something" cover
I don't think I'd have a problem with GMO that inserted genes from one Musa cultivar into another. You could find a natural strain with resistance, isolate the resistance genes, and insert them into the production monoculture strain in a manner that is impossible for traditional techniques to accomplish, because the production cultivars are seedless and triploid.

I am much less accomodating for inserting genes from a completely different kingdom, like the Bt gene and associated promoters. Also, since the triploid bananas are sterile, there is a smaller likelihood that the alterations will escape into the wild and ruin fertile diploid bananas.
Wait, which "progressive taxation schema" is this? The expiration of the top 1% of the Bush tax cuts?
Another interesting property is that unlike a regular pair of meshed gears, this can only transfer power in one direction. Swapping the input and output shafts won't work.
So, law-breaking should be profitable. Got it.
Allowing people to discriminate based on cultural markers like baggy jeans instead of skin color is creating a loophole. It's analogous to the voter disenfranchisement laws after the civil war. You can say that you're not barring black people from voting, that you're only barring people who fail a literacy test. But if the effect is that you mostly ban black people, then it's a de facto racial discrimination.
Exactly, API are definitely the future. Many companies want to integrate products into their own software or solutions. API are easily allowing people to do that. Lob.com sounds awesome, and the prices are really good!
The apple guys (the fruit not the tech) have been able to market a variety of cultivars quite successfully. Even the tomato guys are doing good work with the whole "heirloom" thing. I don't get why the banana guys don't try the same thing.

Edit: There are already a bunch of cultivars out there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banana_cultivars

And according to this poster, bananas mutate quite easily, so there are actually a huge number of variants out there: http://www.fruitlovers.com/BananaPoster.jpg

Yeah, most of these bananas aren't great for eatin' but surely we made a good banana once, we can do it again.

And if you think hipsters wouldn't pay more for a unique "artisanal heirloom banana" then you don't shop at the Whole Foods down the street from me because those dudes would be all over it like fungus on a Cavendish.

C'mon banana hackers. We need you now more than ever.
Ask HN: Feedback on a startup idea
What do you all think of this startup idea?

I want to build a LiveChat type widget -- but with video chat instead of text chat. So, basically, when you go to a website that has this widget installed, you click on a "Live_Chat_Via_Video" link. A little pop-up asks you permission to access the built-in camera/microphone on your laptop. After you give permission, you start a video chat with someone from the website you are on.

Do you think this would be useful for websites? Obviously I am biased, but I can totally see this as a great way to provide Product information, may be provide some instant-coupons to the visitor and provide Customer Service too. It seems so much easier to provide targeted information to someone when you are talking to them face to face -- instead of having the customer go through several webpages before they find what they need.

Would like to test drive such a widget? Please let me know in your response and I will add you to the beta email list.
The types of changes that the Snowden documents will prompt other countries' governments and corporations to make do not happen overnight. This is a game of strategy, not tactics.
Ex-Microsoft Executive to Take Over Health Site Repairs
Poisoned burger? Luxury. We were served dingy water reclaimed from the train radiator and a pigeon what had flown against a window and died, and told to fend for ourselves. At night a drunken conductor would thrash us all to sleep with a broken bottle of Glenfiddich, shouting various slurs.
I never really understood what StockMob does/did? Will the service continue?
This is his original claim to fame, from 2003: http://www.shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/group_enem...

Shirky was one of the original thought leaders of the social Internet. The value of his talk isn't that it's on TED. It's that it's Clay Shirky.
Note that using custom audiences to target people that you found in Facebook is against the TOS and could get your ad account suspended.

It's supposed to be first-party data that you have obtained yourself, the terms are a bit vague on it but according to Facebook employees data obtained from FB or the FB API does not qualify (including the data of people who like your page)

(I used to work in a Facebook SPMD)
This is interesting and novel but, if everyone did this it obviously wouldn't continue to work. Also, "For about $30, 50 Google employees were willing to consider me as a candidate." That's pretty fluffy. For $30 50 Google employees clicked on your website; I doubt many of them were in a position to or would want to recommend a stranger to be hired because of that.
You might want to just clarify since I could imagine it being a regional language issue- a "Dirt bike" is a type of off-road motorcycle, not a human-powered bicycle.
Please, if you do performance benchmarks, always run them with an opcode cache (PHP 5.5 + opcache would be the obvious choice). Without it your benchmark becomes completely meaningless. I also feel like HHVM devs should be aware of this, so likely the numbers are deliberately misleading.

Apart from that, having FastCGI support is of course nice.
I don't see why that is so unreasonable.

If people who drink beer also need disproportionate amounts of expensive attention from say the police service or hospitals or courts, it seems fair enough that beer drinkers should make some sort of contribution accordingly. However, even that is a shaky argument unless it applies to most/all beer drinkers and not just a minority who don't drink responsibly.

Beyond that, as long as drinking beer is legal, I see little ethical basis for taxing someone who drinks beer more than someone who does not. Why should you contribute more to the cost of something completely unrelated like running schools or buying aircraft carriers than I do, just because your preferred evening drink comes in a pint glass and mine does not?
You never accidentally or "in the heat of the moment" graffiti a building. It's always premeditated. Even with that in mind, he was punished well above and beyond the usual amount for that particular crime.
But it's a market. How could it possibly go wrong? /s
This is how a scout leader ran drugs through an airport.

Surely terrorists/drug dealers would dress up like grandmothers if we think like this.
Does Your Mom Pay Your Phone Bill?
For those like me who did not understand the rather vague explanation, this is simply a bit-based trie. Not as exciting as the page makes it sound.
The language is called "Go", not "GoLang". Just pointing this out, not because I'm trying to be smart or anything -- it just irks me to read "GoLang".
add all the cities
Just because a state enforces non-compete contracts doesn't mean that companies have to use them.

If a company in Ohio or Texas is trying to convince people to move there from California, and these people refuse to agree to non-compete contracts, the companies will have to stop that nonsense since it will prevent them from hiring the people they need.
Snowden: 'I Would Rather Be without a State than without a Voice'
Thanks for the heads up... very interesting. I can't believe this is the first I'm hearing of this strange behaviour!
Nice, good quote!

The history keeps repeating, for sure.
That's why I like to think of JS as a new C.

How will it repeat this time?
How is this argument any different than the absurd Affluenza argument that gained popularity this week? Successful/great people rise above all kinds of adversity and come from all sorts of backgrounds. Criminals likewise span every demographic in the U.S. The "poor" in our country live an order of magnitude better than many in the world and some of our most affluent groups have some of the highest suicide rates.

I don't even know what my point was anymore... I just get so tired of hearing everyone blame everyone else except themselves for the directions of their lives.
I had the same issues as well. After several hours of hacking away, I noticed that projects (like Discourse) wrote their own data layer instead of relying on Ember Data.