skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Enlightenment of a Lazy Mockist
That is not true at all about Promises/A+.

The requirement is to always calls handlers with an empty stack and in a certain order. In practice only naivest implementations would call platform scheduler for every `.then()`. Implementations can in all cases call the handlers synchronously when it would matter.
It doesn't take decades to become a general Surgeon at least not in the US. You have to get your undergraduate studies done (4 years) and then go to medical school (4 years ). After that you have to do your residency in general surgery which is about five years. So it adds up to be about 13 years give or take.
"but frankly for politics it works. Why? Because for 95% of campaign employees it's not work quality that matters, it's talking to a ton of other people, repeating simple messages, engaging them and asking them to get involved with the campaign."

As the original author and many pointed out, working tons of hours doesn't work for knowledge workers. I think what you're pointing out here (and I agree with it) is that political campaigns aren't really knowledge work. It seems like it would be, but it sounds like a lot of the work is quite mindless.
> I think the crux of the issue is the doctrine that, if a
> company is a party to handling my data, whether
> privately or as part of delivery to another person,
> that company may voluntarily share information with the
> government. I think it's a failing of our
> constitutional law against unreasonable search and
> seizure that this precedent was set.

Voluntarily supplying information to the government is not a violation of the constitution. There are many reasonable cases where private companies should share information with the government (e.g. for handling illegal content); if I hear gunshots and screaming coming from the house next door, I am allowed to call the police. Such voluntary sharing is typically limited by the privacy policies of the companies involved.

But the whole NSA debate isn't about voluntary data sharing at all, it's about the government demanding access (or simply breaking in) without a warrant. The NSA's tapping of fiber lines is equivalent to the local SWAT team walking into my bank and rifling through everyone's deposit boxes. There's not much the bank can do about that except lobby against warrantless searches.

> Would it be reasonable to change the laws of our
> society such that no person may share another person's
> digital information with the government [1], except as
> required by law

What do you do when the law says "NSA gets to demand whatever it wants for any reason?"
Ah thanks, under Cowboy and Elli.
What s successful Linux server exploit looks like
Exactly -- "breaking into a song" doesn't seem to convey anything other than a palpable lack of confidence.
When I really like an article / post, I will try to "share the love" with the social media vehicle that website recommends. Having just one button for one network / aggregator tells a lot.
Meteor 0.7.0: Scaling realtime MongoDB queries using oplog
If the policy was that single-level outdoor carparks were denied while underground and multistorey car parking was allowed (or less discouraged) I'd agree with you. But it's my understanding that is not the case.
SQRES: Get Things Done with the Web Based Task Management App
SQRES is a web-based task management app that uses a work order system to create, assign and keep track of tasks. It keeps you, your team and your customers up to date and even integrates with your Google Apps Account so that you can access tasks from your computer, smartphone or tablet.
Why is business just like minesweeper
First ecommerce site in Go?
> If I have two devices (phone and laptop) on the same wifi network (e.g. home or work) and I want to send something between them

Then you do a Bluetooth transfer, or CIFS/SMB file share, or FTP, or HTTP, or IrDA, or USB, etc. Why would you use a cloud service?

Everyone involved has to do more work to support decentralized services. Users, developers, admins, etc. The only thing you may not need more of is infrastructure. Just because you've made it easier to build a service does not mean the service is easier to use.

No, these products are still centralized. They are merely made more redundant, fault-tolerant and highly-available. They may also be distributed, which is different than decentralized.

I never said there aren't benefits to decentralized systems. As I said, they can be useful. Centralized systems are just easier to create/use/maintain, are more reliable, and are faster. Depending on the application.
CopyrightX: the MOOC the New Yorker actually liked
0NL9, Inc.- Google Cloud Computing Services
0NL9, Inc. (pronounced "online") is one of only eleven Google Apps Premier Partners in the world. We deliver Google cloud computing services for medium-to-large educational institutions, providing setup, migration, training and app development services for email, calendar, documents, sites and 71 other Google Products that are made available free of charge specifically for qualifying education customers.
it'd be awfully tough for them to just go to the Contacts app, pull up your card and see your address :(

Use a passcode for goodness sake! Actively protect your data!
Scala is incredible, but after learning it for a few weeks i realized that it is just too much. I just can't explain it better. Additinally the last time i toyed around with Scala, SBT was a joke compared to RubyGems/CPAN/NPM. Not the language matters, but the library-ecosystem around it.
McLaren to replace windshield wipers with a force field of sound waves
Good candidates should prepare for interviews. Interviews typically require that a candidates are able to reflect on previous successes and failures and provide insights so a hiring team can review their candidacy. Failure to do show shows either:

1. lack of understanding of professional working environments (ie. interview structure)

2. lack of preparation for the interview

3. lack of ability for self-reflection

4. actual lack of any experience with which to construct even a lame story.
It's kind of humiliating that we the great sentient race can't protect our bananas from some lowly fungus. I think we should get our act together. We've already lost a few rounds.
So, in the 5% of cases where you get caught, you just have to give back what you stole?
That isn't "Anti-Americanism." Have some perspective.
Spain does have slightly enhanced security for long-distance train journeys. At Malaga, for example, there are "security" checks and closing times. Advice by RailEurope is to arrive 30 mins prior to departure...
"Patches Welcome"
ha, my experience was being charged for adult prices trying to go Milan-Paris because the agent insisted they couldn't take a french student card, despite it working for train trips from Rome through Florence and Venice on the way there. She told me that I could get the difference refunded once I arrived in Paris...as if.
New c3.* Instance Types on Amazon EC2 - Nice
You seem to think that they care about that. A police state is a great place to live in, if you're a cop.
That is principally thanks to TorqBox, the codename for Torquebox 3, which is built on Undertow. Undertow is the web server that is scrapping with Netty and Vert.x on the plaintext tests.

Also note that the particular Rack test that performs very well is running a very small amount of Ruby code. Thanks to these improvements, however, rails-jruby now consistently tops rails-ruby, if only by a small amount.

See more on TorqBox: http://torquebox.org/news/2013/12/04/torquebox-next-generati...
I believe that with dedicated, focused employees, a democratic management system could work.

Thanks for experimenting with management styles.
About the version number:
https://github.com/meteor/meteor/commit/8bd400e56065b0f2d61e...

I would have expected Meteor UI to be in 0.7, but that not a big deal and that will probably be in the next version.
Is there anywhere on the planet with a functioning criminal justice system? Where should I live if I don't want to live in fear?
I don't think there is any argument that crime is a major factor that's driving people, predominantly blacks, out of the city. The neighborhoods with the highest population losses include some of the neighborhoods with the highest crime rates: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-10-27/news/ct-edit-x.... In some of these neighborhoods, crime is up in the last 20 years!

Moreover, the public school situation is intertwined by the security situation. There is never going to be an improvement in the quality of Chicago's schools until gang influence is removed from the school grounds. Kids can't learn in an environment where the gangs are bigger authority figures than the teachers and parents.
I doubt it. It's not like IE8 is dropped by Angular. If you want to use Angular with IE8, use v1.2.
how does one pay for 8 years of school? Loans?
Ask HN: How to effectively shadow a job
I'm shadowing a job tomorrow and I was curious as to how I should approach the day.

How does a hacker shadow a job? What kind of questions should be asked (or should one just observe)? What things should be looked out for?

Thanks!
Is there a citation for this? I'm aware if I use Google (I don't) then Google will have my search history, my location and some other details (like access to my emails if I use Gmail). I understand Google uses this data when selling ads via AdSense and other Google ads networks. But I never read Google sold this data, as is, to other companies.
In the interest of making this easier:

git branch branchname-backup
#do dangerous stuff ...
# whoops I just broke the branch really bad I'll start over
git reset branchname-backup
The reality is that for some types of crimes, African Americans, especially 18-39 year-old-males, are over represented. For example, roughly half the 32,000 gun homicides annually are committed by black males (see bjs.gov for the numbers). (Most of their victims are also black.) Most white gun deaths are from suicides. Latinos are also high up on this unfortunate list.

These numbers aren't made-up or based on biased arrest patterns; they're pretty much reality, sad but true.
> A project might easily have 50 different ".title" classes, but you know you don't have to worry about collisions.

Not if your UI is of sufficient complexity that you're composing components of other components. Then not only do you have lots of collisions, you have a huge specificity war too. That's why prefixing and single-class-name selectors are generally preferred.
> American companies dominate the internet space even more now than they did before Snowden

I am sure that is true in many countries, but it is not true in all of them, e.g. China. China has its own tech giants and market leaders.

> US firms lose contracts and relationships sour.

It will be difficult to find hard data on the topic. Perhaps we could look at the market as a whole: overall international sales across a set of US tech companies over time.

Personal anecdotes (from people doing business internationally) lead me to believe there is a chilling effect or loss of trust for US firms - of what magnitude I am not sure. Perhaps the real business impact is not that significant, and it's just getting a lot of press.

I hope my comments do not come across as Anti-American. That is certainly not the tone I'm looking to set. I am solely looking to have a constructive discussion.
I agree with what you have to say about the police. Not only that, but people forget that most of the people police come into professional contact with are, in fact, criminals. Quite a lot of informal but institutionalized racism results from taking people out of middle class neighborhoods and plunking them into the middle of very poor, broken, homogeneously black or hispanic neighborhoods, and then making them a magnet for every bad thing that happens in those neighborhoods. It should surprise nobody that people placed in that situation act the way they do.

To me, that suggests that we need sweeping and creative reforms not merely to make the police more effective or impartial, but to actively combat the psychological effect that policing has on veteran officers. Instead, we seem to be pulling them off foot patrols and sticking them into cars to create rapid response forces. That may work as an emergency triage against violent crime outbreaks, but it exacerbates the damage the job does to the professionals who have to do it.

On the other hand: 90% of what was upsetting about this article was the result of judges and the probation system. I have much less sympathy for a judge than I do for a police.

Urban criminal judges are almost completely unaccountable. Chicago judges are elected, and each election cycle, papers and blogs run horror stories about incompetent judges who no rational elector could vote for. And every election cycle, the exact same slate of horrible judges gets reelected. A civic-minded hacker that wanted to improve the criminal justice process in the US could make a large dent in the problem by coming up with something that would help the electorate handle judicial elections. For virtually everyone living in a big city, judicial elections are entirely opaque; city papers don't even cover them.
There are rumors that there will be a 3rd movie. Not sure if they'll be able to find another Rufus - Carlin is irreplaceable.
The Go To
These kids are the next One Direction
Have to also understand that what is regulated is currency to BTC, not BTC to BTC.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137692
had the same thought.

when I saw "post-processor" I was expecting this to be some kind of browser extension or plugin that post-processes (on the client side) CSS received over the network.

it seems that they have basically just done a pre-processor that accepts css as input and returns css as output. its exactly like every other css pre-processor except that its DSL for pre-processing is a subset of CSS rather than a superset.
Mapping Place Pins
Thanks, however it wasn't my design...
It a design from Kreative, I just took their page and modify to my needs, they made a WONDERFUL css, it was very easy to modify what needed to be changed.
On the footer of the page you will find their link.
:)
Is there any equivalent of AppArmor on Windows? You can lock down the capabilities of an app pretty hardcore on Linux.
Nearly a year old, submitted four times already. Here's the one that actually had some interesting comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5159723
Well if we create a big enough niche by growing a very specific cultivar, something's going to fill it.
Ricardo Semler's book "Maverick!" is a great read to see the long term impact of this approach on a company, it's culture, and it's success.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Semler
Anywhere in western Europe is a lot better than the US.
Ask HN: Does anyone have ideas on setting up DIY home Gym?
I have a nice big finished basement where I would love to setup a small gym for myself and wifey. Any tips ? Other than the usual treadmills etc, any tips on setting up weight machines ? What kind ? I like free weights a lot. What about benches ?

I will probably use about 350-400 sq. ft of area for this.
If you look at the Go standard library, it doesn't generate too much garbage. It is avoidable often, don't use .String, use .WriteTo -- the GC cost is not across all used memory, just memory with live pointers.
It may be the case that developer offerings are easier to sell into bigcos than other services. For my part, I have (a) had no luck selling products into enterprises using passive sales techniques (blogging "developer evangelist"-type strategies being an example of passive sales), and (b) talked to a bunch of other people who report similar results.

Regarding consulting: yes, 3 full-time consultants as staff aug is hard to sell. But most consulting projects aren't like that. Our typical project is 2 people, 2 weeks; we scale down to 1 person/week easily. A 1 p/w project isn't hard to sell at all.
This is from January and some of the issues have already been fixed.

What is the point in submitting this ?
i used to think that a lot of talk about composition is over analyzed. I put in a lot of work the last few years to learn painting and drawing, and I am now at a (very amateurish) level where what I actually focus on and consciously work on is at that "triangular composition", "color palette", "contrast" level of thinking. The rest really just pales. It's the job of so many people on an animated movie production to figure these out just right:
storyboard, then set design, light design, color design, camera animation. Each of these is an individual job (often filled with multiple artists).
Scientists create candy that's good for teeth
We've known this could happen for decades, just due to the way bananas are propagated. The same thing happened to the Gros Michel cultivar in the 1950s. Plantations will have to scramble to get up to speed on a new cultivar, and some people will go bankrupt.

It's even the same species of fungus. Back then they called it Panama Disease.

But now we have genetic technology. This fungal disease may spell the end of non-GMO bananas in supermarkets. If there were another natural cultivar resistant to the latest strain of the fungus, it would already be in use. It was a stroke of luck that they even found the Cavendish before bananas disappeared entirely from the food supply.
Lots of places that have low violence, low social instability, high social homogeneity, high socioeconomic equality, etc, to begin with have correspondingly docile criminal justice systems.
> The Germans have received assurances that the chancellor's phone was not being monitored and that the US spy agency is not conducting industrial espionage.

Seriously? After admitting they spied on Petrobas and EU telecoms, "for their own safety"? They still can't get their story straight.

Also, the extent of Stasi spying vs NSA spying:

http://falkvinge.net/2013/07/05/stasi-vs-the-u-s-nsa-back-to...
Never fear! "git rebase" isn't nearly as dangerous as many have been led to believe... unless you start rebasing things you've already published/pushed elsewhere. In that case you need to be very proactive about notifying everyone who could possibly have checked out your branch, etc. Otherwise: it certainly takes a little getting used to, but I find a little one-on-one "mini-mentoring" others with the first few rebases helps them immensely, so if you have someone who can help you in person it might be a lot easier to get comfortable with the process that way.
This looks extremely similar to the SQRES website just posted by you a couple minutes ago.
I'm assuming this only works with Chicago?
Monster and other job listing sites are mostly just recruitment agency spam trying to get someone to bite. Well at least in the IT industry anyway.

Actually that's probably the symptom of what you're describing, companies no longer manage recruitment internally anymore, instead throwing the responsibility to the hyenas snapping below and hoping they can buffer out most of the shit
I agree that he sucked up resources, including what could have been my tax dollars if this happened near me. Still, I'm finding myself entertained by the story. If he'd asked to subsidize the cost of his whacky experiment, I'd have chipped in a few bucks.
Stonehenge Transformed
Humble Bundle: PC and Android 8
I agree that advertising single file Merkle tree roots on the DHT is a good thing, and that one could nicely build git-like directory structures, but why force the leaves of the tree to be singleton torrent files?

Why not instead advertise individual files on the DHT by their Merkle tree roots, and put the Merkle tree roots in each entry of the "files" section of the torrent file? This doesn't force re-packaging of existing torrents into singleton torrents. Seeders can advertise single files from old torrents and clients with new torrents can take advantage of this advertising.

I disagree with the munged-key darknet idea. If you want a darknet, run it on a non-public DHT, with cryptographic handshakes and encrypted traffic. Cryptographically munging the DHT keys on a public DHT only creates a "light grey net" that's trivially circumvented and provides a false sense of privacy.
It's hip to flame on MongoDB. Gets you instant upvotes.
You read them though right? The point of these wild and zany applications is they stand out from the crowd. Visually anyway, the actual content and truth behind it often leaves a lot to be desired, but if you're going in for a marketing job...
I find it hilarious that the Obama White House doesn't seem to be taking the tech companies' position seriously.

They're lobbying because the government surveillance revelations hurt their business model, not on principle. Even I'm having a hard time taking their positions seriously. I mean, they're right, I'm fine with the means they're lobby for change and I share their desired ends. But in light of their motivations I don't take them seriously.
Technology is everywhere, and soon you won't be able to hide from it
Yes sir loans.
Napwell - The World's First Napping Mask
The impact of robots on the household corporation
Definitely going to give this a try. I really appreciate the apparent simplicity and creativity of this tool. It avoids the need to learn the odd syntax of LESS/Sass for those of us who need reliable cross-browser support while providing many (though not all) of the benefits of precompilers.

Seriously great work.
How come the United States has never seen a planned metropolis, built on the principles of maximum security and maximum density? I know many people who would give up their "freedom" for the ability to live affordably in an environment like that. Where is our Silicon Arcology?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcology
Obama Taps Ex-Microsoft Exec to Fix Site That’s Ruining His Presidency
I was shocked when I visited NYC and saw hundreds of police in the subway carrying very large weapons in their hands, and wearing what looked like some kind of combat gear.

I've never seen an assault rifle in my life, but that's what I assume they were, and I still find it very bizarre that's an every day occurrence for tens of millions of Americans
Leak a rumor that there has been a fundamental vulnerability in it's crypto implementation and/or a fundamental problem in it's protocol that allows anyone to steal anyone else's funds and/or trivially mine bitcoins.

It'd have to look like a legitimate rumor, but this would work because speculators tend to easily spook (at least in other markets) and no one wants some anonymous internet person stealing all of their money.
Anybody could explain what gemini is ? I've been on the eclipse project home, and i really don't see the link with a web framework benchmark.
Haha. I'm about to move from Cleveland to the Valley in a couple months for the scene.
You're conflating leadership with management. While leaders will usually end up managing, and vice versa, these are all too often treated as one and the same role. Management is more about driving day to day goals and ensuring everyone is 'productive' and working towards a specific set of objectives set down by the leadership. In this case, it sounds to me like everyone is more or less self-managing and leadership is painting broad strokes about where the company is headed.