skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is wrong, this goes against DVCS philosophy.

You should be able to commit all you want all night long, but should not be able to push.
The obvious (and wrong) counterpoint to this is that you're clearly sandbagging your estimates. If you can get X amount of work done and consistently only work 30 hours a week, we'll just up the amount of work for your milestone by 1.2x.
>> Everyone's family wants a rich dad/husband/brother/wife/sister/mom, but no one really has a clue of what it takes to get there- Until they've done it themselves

are you really willing to bet everything on that very debatable claim? Money makes little difference after the basics are covered, and the basics are not what the soap operas would have you think.

Please, spend time with your children. Take the hit, spend the next 10-15 years in a dead-end job if you absolutely must, but come home after that and spend time with them.

Not judging, just urging you to rethink the position that your kids need your money more than they need you. Peace!
The issue here is that Norway adds vat (value added tax) on assets when sold to private citizens. Vat is added to most assets, including gold.

This makes bartering more expensive when bartering with foreigners. For example if a Norwegian where to trade 1000 USD worth of gold for a new pc with someone in the us, the Norwegian would have to pay 1250 USD for the same gold (1000 USD in gold, 250 USD in vat). Same for BitCoin. One will need to pay vat when buying them.

However one can buy 1000 USD in gold coins for 1000 USD because the coins are considered a currency, and thus not subject to vat.
The first sentence looks weird, is it google translate? (russian here)
He's referring to St. Petersburg's (and Russia's in general) horrendous treatment of it's non-heterosexual inhabitants:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/01/russia-rise-hom...
'Homeland' Season Three Has a Leak Problem
Product flops have real consequences. They scare investors off of similar projects, and set the industry back.
You don't really understand how popular websites work do you ?

Their users don't want innovation. They want a stable platform with moderate and infrequent changes.
I think Rap Genius offers this.
The Dragon was basically a CoCo clone. Don't recognise those Acorn computers (assuming this is the UK Acorn, those were all named "BBC Micro Computer" and had model names like "A", "B", "Master" etc), I'm pretty sure the Acorn used 6502, but it did have the option to interface to other processors (e.g. Z80) so 6809 would not surprise me.
What a misleading name for a compiler flag.
Someone should write a transport for XMPP servers with this, like what exist for MSN et all. (transports are services that interface XMPP networks with others, they run server side, see http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0100.html You would have instantly access to the WA network from any Xmpp client (with concurrent sessions). maybe I should look into this myself :)
Best I recollect, FB is quite innovative in the data center.

Also, it would be nice of you to step in and contribute to an open source database engine if your expertise is such that you can dismiss what FB did with them as lacking innovation. I'd wager they'll be all ears open for your explanation how to do multimaster replication and distributed joins efficiently while remaining ACID compliant.
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Reddit Cofounder Alexis Ohanian To Speak In London [Kickstart Project]
Loved the story! Mostly because I lived this stuff, and I'm 25 years old :p. In my Electronic Engineering graduation we had three professors crazy about assembly and slow PCs (in fact, FPGAs and microcontrollers). I remember the nights I spent awake trying to make a Viterbi Encoder/Decoder fit into a tiny FPGA, cramming a complex temperature controller (while reading sensors, commanding motors, and handling the input/output) in an 8051, or programming a 128khz sound recorder in assembly on an (old as hell) ARM, while communicating to a PC, showing info on a LCD and doing all the filtering digitally (the only analog stuff we were allowed to use were an anti-aliasing filter and the input/output conforming circuits). Ah, the crazy filters we devised to use all the old ARM's juice.

I lost myself there, but my main point is: in electronics (embedded systems, mainly) all this beautiful joy of crazy optimizations is still alive :D
You need to make sure you have selected a compatible (cluster something, and green perhaps) AMI first.

Then the GPU instances will be available in the list.
Ran into the same thing myself ;)
GCC isn't the only compiler on the planet :-). Other compilers either started doing it more recently, or not at all. The construct it most often warns about is fairly idiomatic on Unix platforms, but not everywhere, so a lot of vendors were not quite as bothered about it.
Today, workers are putting in increasingly more hours(!)—so much so that the 40-hour week has become a relic of the past.

(!) - in the US/UK, I guess, and some other countries ...

I moved to Denmark recently, there are goods and bads, but the 37-hour work week is almost a religion. And there are 6 weeks holidays per year. Creativity and innovation should be safe in this country.
Obamacare website failed because of bad capacity planning.

And from reports coming out it was the Oracle Identity system that was causing many of the headaches.
If you were to oversimplify the creation of the PC industry down to a single company, you'd probably land on Apple with the Apple II.

I'm also not sure which industry Google is supposed to have created?
It's Сплин.
This is something that bothers me:

Email that isn’t related to intelligence is rarely viewed,
and it’s even less often viewed if it’s from a US citizen.
Every Agency employee goes through orientation, in which we
are taught about the federal laws that govern NSA/US Cyber
Command: Title 10 and Title 50. We all know that it's illegal
to look at a US citizen's data without a court order.

I can rewrite this to:

We are indoctrinated to believe that we shouldn't really
invade the privacy of US citizens, and it is highly unlikely
that we might mistakenly or otherwise read your private emails,
however, if you aren't a US citizen then fuck you, you are our
enemy, you have no right to privacy because you weren't born
in the land of the free. Oh yeah, fuck you twice, cos we can.

Ha ha

You know what, fuck you too.
Love that idea. Ok if I steal it?
What Programming Languages Are Most Mentioned in the Who Is Hiring Posts?
That comparison as stated is a bit too extreme. However, I once had an Amiga programming wizard refuse a job because he didn't want to write C/C++ code for Windows PCs. He went on to do his magic on PSX and GBAs. In more recent times, there's plenty of hardcore programmers who have had a blast as PS3 SPU specialists.
For a start, aptitudes command line options are less confusing and more powerful.

Furthermore:

http://superuser.com/questions/93437/aptitude-vs-apt-get-whi...
Huh? I've been using apt-get on Debian since it was first released (in 1998).
Shame on me :)
Didn't send ab HEAD requests?

I know it does this by a given flag, but in some tests I have seen some HEADs between my GETs. I haven't used ab for long time, so don't quote me on that. Have u tried httpress[1] as a benchmark tool?

How about a simple check against the first byte equals G (DEC 71) if it is a GET? Shouldn't be that expensive, I think.

Thanks for creating it.

[1] https://bitbucket.org/yarosla/httpress/wiki/Home
You saved my day.
> You invest in a new machine that lets everyone be twice as productive. If you don't have demand for the extra output, then do you cut everyone's hours in half or let two people go?

You let two people go, and they go work at another factory that has higher demands for its products. Then that factory invests in a machine and the process repeats. The output of products increased with the same number of workers. This process is known as "The industrial revolution" and is generally considered a pretty neat thing, not "capitalism getting in the way".

> I think best bet to achieve that reality is to be your own boss.

You're absolutely right. I don't think it's coincidental that experiments with different styles of working (remote, flexible hours etc) is coming out of the businesses more associate with low-cost entrepreneurship (ie. the industries where the barrier to entry is a good brain and a laptop). Ironically, this is capitalism at its absolute best.
The answer to this problem is to offer discount to your employer when you want to work 30 hours.
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What are the security implications of using hash(#) in a password?
My profile:

noprocrast: yes
maxvisit: 60
minaway: 1440

That is, one hour per day. This helped tremendously. I'm thinking of increasing it to one hour per week.
Dustin Curtis is seriously overrated. Everything Dustin asks for in this post makes no real change, it's all entitled things that forgo other more important things. Essentially it appears Dustin wants a future with even further less human interaction

I want fresh food to last ten times longer than it does now, with no reduction in taste or nutrition — I want a future where countries without access to fresh food or where food is virtually non-existent no longer starve to death while us gluttonous obese humans stuff our faces and waste.

I want mass-produced products to be locally manufactured just-in-time in dark, human-less warehouses by robots, and not made in far-away lands — This is called insourcing and it is an approach many companies are taking nowadays, but you know who loses out here? The people in those "far-away lands" are people living below the poverty line and once those jobs are taken away, they have nothing.

I want doctors to be way less involved with practical medicine, and for computers to diagnose and treat disease — because a computer wouldn't make mistakes, right? Computers will never truly understand humans nor feel compassion, nor will they be a cure-all for everything.

I want nuclear reactors or some other clean technology to power the entire world’s electrical grid, safely. — Dustin successfully used clean and safely in the same sentence as "nuclear reactors" did he not hear about what happened in Japan and what is very much an ongoing thing? Who said nuclear reactors were clean or safe? The waste products of nuclear fission are far more damaging to the environment if they get out than coal is...

Every single idea presented is merely a toy and serves to only please those who have the luxury of being able to afford half the things listed in this article; food, electricity, shelter and basic medical services. Where are the ideas for bettering the lives of the entitled and untitled? Where are the ideas that don't require you to have hundreds or thousands of dollars to fork out on expensive gadgets you need to upgrade yearly?
Slightly drunk is fine, for me it helps for not overengineering things and i just write code that works.

When completely sober, i think to much and i overengineer (overthink) stuff... Programming is just slower...

(Think DDD-like programming)

1 beer is enough to get very concentrated... Just don't overdue it (and don't make a habbit of it).

I only do it when i need to get things done, when time is limited... Never had serious bugs (Windows ME like) though :-P

It happens once in the 2 months and mostly it's for 2-3 days in the weekend (non-stop), with some light kind of music (Enya or concentration like mp3's) and headphones.

Yeah, i'm a nerd then :P
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Why would we riot? Encroachments on our perceived inalienable right to privacy and fair taxation are subtle things that do not affect our ability to eat or live.
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Falsification and Incompleteness are two different things. Since we reason about physicals system using the language of mathematics/logic; it has be based on certain axiom which cannot be proved or disproved ( Godel's incompleteness theorem ). Though this renders certain statements inside physical theorem non-provable ; it certainly does translate to every claim made by a proposed theory. Further many aspects of physicals systems can be disproven experimentally. ( It is still in active debate if Mathematics should treated as science per se : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics#Mathematics_as_scie... )

While the pen falling from a desk do point out to the incompleteness ( non-Godel sense) of the standard model, which is widely accepted ( http://home.web.cern.ch/about/physics/standard-model : last paragraph ), it does not falsify it. Science is full of open holes, and no one knows ( my bet is against) that it will be completely patched up; but it is the best form of reasoning we have in understanding things, and its ongoing goal is to seek explanations that with the least amount of uncertainty possible.
Government in tax maximizing shocker, film at 11.
Additionally, the 'Spying on the Homefront' [1] episode in 2007 brought up FISA, domestic wiretaps, AT&T's 'Room 641A' [2], etc.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/

[2] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/interviews...
Yeah, no, Prague is no better. When it comes to LGBT rights, it's the same story all across the Soviet Union.
I am in a reeducation camp, but God talks. I need to reverse captor/victim so I am ruler and they are slaves.

God says...
these_cans_are_defective just_lovely wife biggot it's_hopeless
tiffanies as_a_matter_of_fact dude_such_a_scoffer surprise_surprise
unsung_hero taxes economy huh I'm_tired_of_this mission_from_God
well_I_never nasty you'll_see economy look_out I'm_done
meek fun you_do_it vice
Ugh. I work in china where English is the working language. Many of my Chinese colleagues are very confident in speaking English, to the point that my advantage is limited to helping with paper editing when submission deadlines approach.
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why not just use a plain .json file?
As I understand it bitcoin will be treated like a stock. Which means that you can use the loses you made on bitcoin and balance then agains your wins=) Make sense since the bitcoin fluxiate so mush right now.
> Does anyone know why JetBrains, which seems to very much be a Russian company, has their head office in Prague?

I've long assumed it was for marketing and business reasons. So many of us in the west automatically are suspicious of dealing with a Russian company, especially when it comes to handing over credit card information. A prejudice for sure.

The Czech Republic, however, is close enough to Russia, with a closely related language, with good travel connections to Russia, is more integrated with the west, especially since 2004 when it joined the EU, suffers less from the prejudice we often hold towards Russia, but still has a low cost of living relative to, say, Germany, UK, or - God forbid - Silicon Valley.

Oh, and when you tell staff, "Hey, we need you to make a trip to Prague to visit the Czech office", very few of them are disappointed...
This article is just one guys opinion. Why does it need backing data? He's not making policy recommendations.
It looks like TextSecure encrypts your actual texts, for which you still pay, while Telegram also takes care of delivery, for free, and does it faster and better than SMS (which should be pretty darn easy, what with SMS doing such a very bad job indeed).
I am tempted to say 'nice try cookingrobot' ;-)

Good point.

However, part of the 'personal shopper' wish beholds capitalism if it is too biased rather than user-specific and understanding of the individual and the variety of ways that humans have preferences - based on aesthetic, ease-of-use, etc. Shouldn't the toaster selection have a bit more intelligence than a straight communist 1-toaster-for-all choice?
Preventing weak passwords by reading your mind
Its known that postpending to a linked list is slow. It's just a property of the data type.
An "encrypted communications app" that is not using secure encryption is worse than an unencrypted one - the users get a fake feeling of security, and might reveal sensitive information to whoever is listening.

Regarding real security, have a look at ChatSecure, which is available for iOS and Android, uses standard encryption protocols (XMPP with TLS, OTR), is open source, and was developed by the Guardian Project (who have a track record of developing security software):

https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/id464200063

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.guardianp...
How about desktop clients? Being restricted to mobile devices is not very practical.
Technically it is an elegant and neat solution. But I hesitate about the social impact.

My first reaction is that I don't want to publish this kind of information about my self. It can be really dangerous when things like religion comes into the wrong hands.
I must have been doing something very wrong then. I was using Device and Omniauth in a Rails 3 project, and sure enough, it was very straightforward to get it working. Then I upgraded to Rails 4, and all hell broke loose.

I'm sure that, given enough time and patience, I could have figured out which methods, controllers and models I needed to write, and what to put in the config files, but it felt like a major regression convention-over-configuration. Compared to meteor (type 'meteor add accounts-github' and add {{loginButtons}}) it was really painful.
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did you fall through a crack in time from the 1920's?
But isn't this article saying the exact opposite of this? It may be counter-intuitive, but every serious study I've seen regarding the amount that people work consistently says that 40 hours (or less) is ideal, and exceeding that for an extended duration (where "extended" is a very small amount of time like a few weeks) leads to negative productivity.

It seems like there's often a lot of cognitive dissonance going on in these threads - when we're talking about managers or people other than us telling us to work > 40 hours a week, it's widely accepted as counterproductive, but when we do it ourselves, we ignore the data and revert back to platitudes about pushing yourself harder and not being complacent.
if you think etymology is more important than the historical tradition, then anarchism might as well be anarcho-capitalism, Stirnerism, Zen Buddhism or whatever else you can imagine. If you want to define anarchism as a political tradition, than it cannot be anything other than a libertarian current within the greater workers' movement that reached its peak together with syndicalism in the early part of the 20th century. http://www.revolutionbythebook.akpress.org/black-flame-the-r...
Windows Phone 8.1 Update to Feature on-screen Buttons
It's not that messaging can't use TLS, of course, it can. I'm objecting to the absolute (if we don't trust TLS for messaging, we shouldn't trust it one-time download), e.g. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threat_model
By the way, as long as we're speaking about DB future, did anyone try foundationdb? Does it live up to expectations?
http://www.slideshare.net/PostgresOpen/postgres-is-different...
yeah and thats excellent. I want the devs to feel comfortable when working so their products can get even better :) Besides i think their pricing is very competitive and that office probably cost a fraction of what hip spaces in SF cost.
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Where are all the people?
Dope interface, I would use that
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Being a front-end web dev sucks. You need to know browser quirks, know about design, know UX, know JS in depth, jquery of course and even backbone and/or angular are now expected (with any other framework being a plus). And the back-end guys learn mostly one language and stack, e.g. .NET and maybe SQL (if there isn't already someone dedicated as a DB guy). Then they still wonder why you are bitching about vertical centring, "isn't that just stupid CSS, here I'll help you, type in vertical-align:middle." The worst part is when you are working with a graphical designer (who knows nothing about the web) and sends you impossible designs, and a client who bitches if any pixel on that magnificent masterpiece is missing in IE6/7/8, because that's the browser he is using on his old PC, when his iPad is charging.
in these places, even when the rent is sky-high, the burger joints pay a pretty penny, too.

however, they're typically enormously unfavorable to live in.
+1 this. And the same for answering customer support issues. There's no limit to how creative customers can be at breaking everything they touch. Prey tell the focus you need to even begin to imagine what is wrong when they vaguely describe some convoluted behavior.
Being sensible about asset valuation. Libertarian scorn at dawn.
Your brain knows you might gain something from HN, so let it off the hook with a link that finds the good stuff for you. Then you can check in once a week:

http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/
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Depends if you just fished out for TC, 3 build agents and 50 copies of R# (again).
you make $27 per hour good for you! I make up to $85 per hour working from home. My story is that I quit working at shoprite to work online and with a little effort I easily bring in around $45 per hour to $85 per hour heres a good example of what I'm doing,.. http://7.ly/cshU
Can you provide some more details for this claim? I'm interested.
I think that might be the wrong way of asking that question. I don't know many people who are forced to work from 9 AM to 5 PM specifically, but I do know plenty of places where there's an expectation that you're putting in more than 40 hours a week regardless of how much work you're getting done, and a manager not seeing anyone in the development team's area at 6:30 is in and of itself a problem, regardless of whether the sprint is finished.

In fact, one place where I don't see this attitude at all is a place that does enforce a strict 9-6 schedule. It's more than 40 hours a week, but they're extremely rigid about it - no laptops go home, and working outside of those hours is more or less prohibited.
If this is closed source (and the source seems to be only implementing API calls to a closed system) then it's fair to assume that this application is probably insecure or has backdoors.

Also if the private key is stored in the cloud then it's likely to be subject to requisitions.
This might help. http://visitsteve.com/made/selfcontrol/
The reason for designing something new was this: in order for really secure messaging to catch on among the masses today — it needs not only be secure. When you want to compete with the likes of WA, you also need be fast and reliable on weak mobile connections.

TLS/HTTPS is slow and takes a lot of time to restore connection on fragile networks.

MTProto was born as a result of an experiment: whether it would be possible to create something that is both secure and fast.

Disclaimer:
Unfortunately, I'm not Nikolay.
But I do work for Telegram.
Look, we all agree that Malcolm Gladwell is an idiot, so the fact that he cites bogus data contributes nothing to the discussion. Happily, we don't need to rely on Gladwell's data. Korean air lines have had so many incidents and accidents that there's a whole wikipedia page about them:

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

"Korean Air had many fatal accidents between 1970 and 1999, during which time it wrote off 16 aircraft in serious incidents and accidents with the loss of 700 lives. The last fatal accident, Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 in December 1999 led to a review of how Korean cultural attitudes had contributed to its poor crash history."

So for 30 years, KAL was crashing planes at the rate of about one every other year. The situation did improve after the review, but there was still an unintended off-runway landing in 2007, and of course the SFO crash (which is not mentioned in the article at all -- someone needs to go update it).