skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Better chart is this:

http://hnrankings.info/6950932,6950735/

No idea. I saw it, followed the link, and thought that while the item has some really, really bad points, it actually has some elements of truth, so I submitted it, and it survived.

It may well have been deleted by the submitter, or flagged to death - I don't know the circumstances of the demise of the previous submission. It's not clear why you talk about it being "allowed" on the front page.
I suppose it's not that hard [1] to write a logging filter to display SQL just like devserver does but without all that monkeypatching ?

[1] http://blog.ionelmc.ro/2013/12/10/adding-stacktraces-to-log-...
I haven't found one that isn't blocked yet. Even o2.co.uk is blocked as "Technology and Telecommunication" u12 service. "http://www.bbc.co.uk/" is blocked under two categories, so the poor u12s can't even watch Cbeebies online.
What is 'unGoogleable'?
I just watched Gilad Bracha talk 'deconstructing functional programming' and it felt like a 'smalltalk did this better since forever'. I can understand the frustration of seeing the world slowly evolving towards idea you were trying to pitch in a void.
Er, the opinions expressed by the "nuclear apologists" generally line up with those of experts in the field.

It's the fools who talk about "400 tons of radiation" who are committing the sin of hubris in thinking that they know more than the experts.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/188316/English-wat...
Big UK Internet Provider O2 censors 'Wikileaks' in parental control filter
I wish they'd just hand over more money, or at least let us choose -- get the coffee, the massages, etc., which the company buys at a discount, or else get the money.
If it is web scale and helps me pivot faster, I'm all for it.
Thank you for the new kind of graph! That's neat. :D
> I don't have the will or time to wast in such ... naivety.

Too busy making the world go round?

Joking aside, many programmers are part of an industry that really is changing the world. Mobile and web applications have had an amazing impact on the global economy and our day-to-day lives. These impacts may not be ghandi-sized, but in a time where mainstream computing and the internet is still relatively young, the average programmer probably has a more sizable impact on the world than most other professionals.
"From what little details are given, it sounds like the crew of the Reagan suffered from some kind of gut infection, not radiation poisoning."

Do gut infections cause thyroid problems, cancers and uncontrolled gynecological bleeding?
I'm outside the SF startup bubble, and I interview a lot of mostly recent college grads. I like to ask theoretical questions, especially of college grads. It's not because I expect that they'll need hard CS skills, but it's because I want to know the following things:

Can they effectively break down a hard problem into sub-problems?
Can they compare the difficulty of sub-problems and prioritize?
Can they, while working on one sub-problem, think about the effects that their solution will have on the other parts of the problem?
Can they keep track of the big picture of what they're trying to solve while working on a small part of it?
Can they translate their ideas into code fluently?
Can they adapt to change and fix their system cleanly?
Are they interested in computing? Have they spent their own time on learning?

These are not theoretical results - these are the qualities that make or break an entry-level engineer. I ask formal CS questions because formal CS is a context that the candidates should be comfortable in, and thus I can ask a hard question quickly. However, I'm far more interested in the meta-questions than if they can get through the solution to Problem X.

I try to avoid measuring a candidate with a single question: if I'm doing a phone interview, I'll try to hit many areas (I'm sure you're familiar with Steve Yegge's post on phone screens), so the formal CS part is rarely more than 20 minutes. On the other hand, for an on-site interview, we tend to each focus on specific areas, so I can happily spend an entire hour on one or two hard theoretical questions (if I get to cover the algorithms/data structures section).

So - your mileage may vary, and given that you have a significant track record, I don't think that hard theoretical questions would be the best way to measure your ability. But for some categories of candidate (mostly recent college grads), I think that formal CS questions are a good meterstick.

(Edited for formatting)
There should be a prize for taking things out of context. You'd win it.
Here's some more relevant quotes from that citation, to show how you twisted it:

> For the first time in the fifty-five years of my life I found out what it was like to feel racist, from the inside.

> I was able to notice that, when paying attention with the top of my brain, I could not notice any rational reason for me to even dislike these people, let alone feel disgusted and revolted by them. I began to analyze my revulsion as though it were a specimen on a laboratory slide

> The most important point is that black people in particular have never made me feel repelled in the way minority X does. I’ve had black girlfriends and might not implausibly have ended up married to one of them,

> my hindbrain thought it was surrounded by alien shit zombies. My forebrain, meanwhile, was all like “What is up with you, hindbrain?” Apparently my human-recognition template needed some updating.

> The pressure on me eased a bit when I realized that what I was experiencing was a really severe case of Uncanny Valley reaction, and that more exposure to minority X might well stretch my template to the point where they didn’t seem so creepily repulsive any more.

So basically, you took him out of context, and selected choice quotes from your citation in order to make ESR look as bad as possible. You're an excellent propagandist. I'll be adding your nickname to the list of known trolls on HN. thanks.
I don't think you understood my concern. The problem is if a signature stored in a legacy DNS record is used to verify a "registration" of a Namecoin domain, every Namecoin client needs to see the exact same "view" of that record, otherwise some Namecoin clients will consider it valid and some will consider it invalid, forking the Namecoin blockchain.
This has the potential to be awesome. Looks like a Windows RT-ready stripped-down MS Access. Something that allows e.g. sales people to create fancy presentations slash catalogues.

I'm not on the Windows platform and have no need to move there, but it's good to see some innovation coming from them.
Yeah, probably "whinux" users.... ;)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/o6n3ad
So it's closing time at the bar, everyone who's left at 2 AM is probably drunk, they're all closing out at the same time, and you want them to have to fish out their phones and correctly respond to a challenge/response SMS before they're ushered out the door? Sorry, this sounds like a nightmare to implement.
Marx would say -- this is taking us back to the old pre-capitalist days. Capitalism reduced the employer/worker relation to money alone. Now, in the leading edge, it's not just a lotta money, it's ski days, free lunch, and beeeeer!

Is that a step forward or a step backwards?
I remember spending so many happy hours customizing bash back in my early years with unix. Now I'm older and wiser, and I just use fish.

http://fishshell.com

I think that it should be especially appreciated by those who use OSX for its "it just works" approach. A couple of pro tips:

* Instead of running chsh to change your default login shell just change the shell command for Terminal.app it iTerm. This means that scripts in cron etc will still run under bash and you won't break anything accidentally.

* Just like with zsh if you want to get customized there is something called oh-my-fish that helps a bit, but seriously you're 90% there with the defaults.
The Boyer-Moore Theorem Prover
The low on the 13th was 33 around Fukushima. If the humidity was low enough it would not be impossible to have ground level or especially 250ft off the water snow.

EDIT: misread your question. If the steam was radiated it "could" carry that downwind but the nature of decay would greatly reduce the possibility for anything at the size of snow to stay frozen at sea level.
Nothing offensive about it. Everybody hates governments and companies when things go wrong.
I have unlimited data with Verizon. Jailbreak = wifi hotspot on phone.
There is, of course, the better option. Invade less people and spy on less people and then the number of people needed and the danger they face is decreased. Additionally, using the military as a social welfare system may not be the great system some think it is. My perspective is skewed however, as being a New Zealander the threat level is zero (except from our so-called allies, who have bombed us in the past - thanks France).
Their forays into original programming are pretty amazing (House of Cards, et al).
That's inaccurate, just tried it on my iPad with iOS7
There should be a prize for taking things out of context. You'd win it. Here's some more relevant quotes from that citation [1], to show how you twisted it:

> For the first time in the fifty-five years of my life I found out what it was like to feel racist, from the inside.

> I was able to notice that, when paying attention with the top of my brain, I could not notice any rational reason for me to even dislike these people, let alone feel disgusted and revolted by them. I began to analyze my revulsion as though it were a specimen on a laboratory slide

> The most important point is that black people in particular have never made me feel repelled in the way minority X does. I’ve had black girlfriends and might not implausibly have ended up married to one of them,

> my hindbrain thought it was surrounded by alien shit zombies. My forebrain, meanwhile, was all like “What is up with you, hindbrain?” Apparently my human-recognition template needed some updating.

> The pressure on me eased a bit when I realized that what I was experiencing was a really severe case of Uncanny Valley reaction, and that more exposure to minority X might well stretch my template to the point where they didn’t seem so creepily repulsive any more.

So basically, you took him out of context, and selected choice quotes from your citation in order to make ESR look as bad as possible. You're an excellent propagandist. I'll be adding your nickname to the list of known trolls on HN. thanks.

[1] http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5001 "Preventing Visceral Racism"
Housing First: Good news for the homeless this Christmas
Right, but to my understanding water can't become radioactive. It can contain radioactive things, but H2O doesn't turn radioactive. So I'm wondering why the snow was radioactive.
I read somewhere that moxie is planning that feature for TextSecure.
> WinForms, Silverlight, and...,

XNA, WinRT, ...
How to build Less pathways with browser detection
Sadly no.

With a super capacitor charge is stored as charge, and in a battery charge is stored by a reversible chemical reaction. The challenge of running the chemistry back and forth in a battery is what causes them to wear out eventually, and limits charge and discharge rates.

When we put solar on our house we looked at putting in a whole house "ups" as it were (the typical off grid setup was not unlike a data center, batteries that carried you until you could get on to generator power) The maintenance and replacement of those batteries is a pain.

But in terms of kWh stored and power delivery ability, the packs we were sizing were not unlike that of a Tesla Model S (65 - 75kWh) and Tesla has already got a replacement and refurbishment plan in place, and the packs themselves need no maintenance under normal use. So it seems like an interesting pre-packaged solution, except you'd need a high efficiency house inverter as well but progress there has come from the solar investments.
Your analogy says 'adapt yourself' which is the parents point.

Technology unfortunately cannot keep up with our desire to use it to the detriment of our own health.
It started blasting music right away, didn't read because annoyed.
Good question. I have some pretty significant projects I wrote in PHP, but as soon as my knowledge was advanced enough and I had a fresh project that called for a framework... I skipped out on PHP and chose Django.

My relationship with Python hasn't worked out like I expected, though. Due to the ongoing PHP project, and use of a mixture of Python and PHP, my Python/Django skills still lag behind my PHP proficiency years later. I've written significant projects in Django, and started writing maintenance and utility scripts in Python... I can't figure out whether it's the languages or me, but I find it a lot easier to sit down and write a simple script in PHP vs Python.

I've considered selecting a PHP framework to learn, but am somewhat perplexed by the profusion of choices and inadequacies I perceive in the language and each framework (such as clumsy syntax, over-complexity, lack of support for newer php features...). Overall I'm still searching for a language/web framework combination to call home.

I feel like Wordpress has basically become a framework and should be included as a valid option. You can do just about anything with wordpress these days. It's the only PHP codeglob I've used significantly other than my home brewed non-framework framework.
> I change carriers every month

Is this because of travel and being in a different country?
There is no hard data in the original article.

Useful information that could have been included: Actual radiation measurements, with units. Specific location of the ship over the timeline. What radiation the Navy and the ship in question knew about, and when (news reports indicate the USS Reagan nearby knew very early on when radiation exceeded background radiation since as a nuclear vessel it had good radiation sensors). And, since some of the claimants are claiming thyroid problems, whether the navy issued iodine tablets to sailors in the area, since that's a well known and practically risk-free preventative measure against radioactive iodine uptake. Hell, the standard navy rations probably have supplemental iodine. Table salt often does.

You might also be interested in researching how much radiation is released into the atmosphere from coal plants, and how many health problems are caused by all sorts of conventional energy sources, coal, burning fuel, pollution from batteries, etc.

Disclaimer: not to say that 60's-era nuclear reactor designs are good, even with more precautions being taken since Fukushima; they absolutely should be phased out in favor of new designs that provide passive safety (for several days without power).
I bet someone will reverse engineer this jailbreak to figure out what what hole it uses and write one that is more open and/or installs Cydia by default.

Apple also will study it to find their security hole and close it in an OS update.
Love the logo & name.

Whatever the downsides are, I'm guessing memory leaks aren't among them :-)

(given that the DATA DIVISION is fixed size, unless there are significant GNU extensions)
The hardware is just better. The software that Apple has designed works really well, and makes the hardware shine way better than any other device. I've used Droid 1 2009-2011, Galaxy Nexus 2011-2013. The hardware/software synergy is just much better on the iPhone.
Make a CRUD app with CRAP!
That code is crazy verbose; that's why you don't see people using it. Even JQuery-like wrappers would still be more verbose than templating. Stuff like E4X and XQuery is more concise but I think it came out after XML's reputation had already been destroyed.
"... and I thought that's strange."

Why? I believe the leader of their core group works for Netflix.
>I think this is a simple case of you having an axe to grind, and my post being a rough surface.

Probably so.
It's not a good idea to use a laptop in your lap for extended periods of time... expecially if it's running at 106C... especially if you're a male.
Why people hate new ideas
It appears that chip-and-pin probably uses a challenge-response type of authentication, which would make the card nigh-impossible to duplicate.

Chip-and-pin won't help you with online sales, but for any card-present sale (brick-and-mortar) it should ensure counterfeits cannot be used, and the PIN of course is the second factor to ensure only you can use the card.
I'll add guest signup to the site.
man, auto play music is instaclose tab.
You're welcome. I note that the chart now clearly shows that the submission has been flagged off the front page, and it's currently languishing around 160 or so.

<fx: shrug />

The foibles of HN - sometimes people don't join a discussion and find underlying truths, but prefer to flag it out-of-sight, out-of-mind.
The SV kegerator the equivalent of the old mahogany desk -- a new status symbol. But at least it's for everyone in the company, not just the boss with the corner office.
Gates can reasonably claim credit for taking computing away from the high priesthood and giving it to the masses. Sure it might have happened without him, but he's the one who actually did it. You're right about the other two.
Hint: disable Flash ... For security reasons as well as these annoyances.
Using DOM implementations like that quickly gets bloated and hard to debug, not to mention performance overhead from the DOM itself (e.g. PHP).

Personally, I tried working with HTML like that in PHP with a class that parsed HTML files into a hierarchical array which could be manipulated like:

$var['html']['body']['p']['strong'] = 'etc';

With support for attributes and CDATA and everything but no matter how seductive it may be from a programmer's point of view, it's always just more trouble than it's worth to work like that.

(I ended up just using that xml2array/array2xml crap to create XML trees for XSLT)
Isn't religion awesome?

I know that as enlightened individuals we're supposed to respect all creeds, beliefs, and faiths, but frankly, I doubt there is anything that anyone can say to me that will make me respect the people who have (apparently successfully) blocked alternative energy production efforts because it will drain the power of their lava god. If it's true that I share more DNA with these people than I do with a chimpanzee, it's strictly a fluke of evolution.

(Edit: To be fair, some Googling suggests there are some more tangible environmental concerns with geothermal energy in Hawaii, but propitiating Pele appears to be a very real part of their argument as well. If we laugh at and ignore their legitimate concerns because of the 'Pele' argument, that's just as unfortunate an outcome as one in which religious nutters stop a worthwhile project in its tracks.)
The meaning behind the story is far more sinister than the sad case of some people getting cancer...

it is that TEPCO, which is the organization best suited to know and measure what was/is going on, has been shown to lie, even to its own government, about the situation.

(mentioned in more detail here: http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/28/world/asia/japan-fukushima-law... )

If it truly the case that TEPCO has been lying about things from the start, then nothing that they have said in the interim, or things that they say in the future, can be taken at face value, and whatever claims they make require independant third party confirmation.
Was quite curious when I clicked on your link. Got to distracted by the scroll path stuff unfortunately. (everything between about and companies)

The only thing I noted was you may have interest in "Big Data solutions using Hadoop", the rest was too general.

Though I'm curious about what the scope of your "security consulting" work was?
Curious that they allow Google -- my experiences with primary aged children lead me to the conclusion that the easiest way for them to get at stuff they don't want to see is a (possibly seemingly innocuous) Google images search. It's not like O2 can sniff my SSL connection to block specific searches either.

I resolve my issues with proper supervision. I hope no-one assumes that the u12 blocking means that "The Internet", even in such a reduced form, is safe (whatever that might mean).
http://thrift.apache.org/
So, I did some more detailed calculations on a $500,000 home with closing costs included. I left out property taxes because I assumed anybody renting would recoup property taxes through increased rent. So, assuming rent + taxes == mortgage + taxes on a $500,000 property with $100,000 down payment where the value of the property stays the same over the life of the mortgage:

$500,000 30yrs at 4.25%

20% down $100,000

$1967.76 monthly payment

$22,644 closing costs

By year four you are in the black compared to renting by $6132 You'd need an investment on your $100,000 that returns 1.49% compounded annually to make up the difference if you rented and invested the $100K that would have been spent on the down payment.

By year five you are in the black by 14,122 You'd need 2.645%

By year six you are in the black by 22459 You'd need 3.382%

7 31157 3.881%

8 40233 4.234%

9 49701 4.5%

10 4.683%

30 5.222%

Here is the amortization chart: http://www.myamortizationchart.com/30-year/400000-dollars/4_...

Here is the closing costs calculator I used: http://michaelbluejay.com/house/closingcosts.html

In short, you have a pretty good shot at breaking even between renting and buying if you invest the down payment. If you have less than a 20% down payment (3% I think is what you need for a FHA loan) then you reach covering the closing costs faster with accumulated principal payments but your monthly payment can be significantly more (up to 20% more a month).

IOW a huge amount depends on what you can rent the same house for. If rent == mortgage + tax these calculations hold. If rent is less than it is almost always going to be better to rent. If rent is more you are looking at a better situation buying if you are staying more than a few years. Also, interest rates would play a huge part.
If I were losing 60 or 70 pounds a month due to hyperthyroidism, I'd request that my thyroid be removed and I'd probably then be prescribed levothyroxine. I'd say it's a safe bet the thyroid isn't the root cause here. Thyroid removal is pretty common.
Where No Google Buses Go
RIP headphone users
Watch This Freaky Gyro Cube Balance Perfectly, Defying Gravity
I disagree. The recent local calamity was the Christchurch earthquake. By and large companies and the government acted well. A few big problems cropped up (dodgy insurance companies, regional government dealing with unsafe land, overwhelmed fire service etc), and things are far from sorted, however I am deeply impressed by what systems were in place. Funds existed to rebuild despite massive devastation, the emergency response was incredible and mostly well organized. There has been little corruption, mostly transparent processes and despite the most obnoxious bunch of cabinet ministers I can remember, the process has gone far better than I could have imagined.
"Sure, better let somebody else's kids take care of the shitty work."

Bullshit. That was never implied, let alone said, you simply made it up.