skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, wait. You're an awesome person. Why are you doing this? Is it just excessive pride, or what? There's nothing wrong with accidentally breaking rules. And there's nothing wrong with thinking the rules are stupid. But why not spend the 3 minutes to make it right? I'm just trying to understand your reasoning.

I'll miss your submissions.

You should consider getting a Pinboard account for bookmarking. It's really a great, top-notch and no-nonsense service. Been using it for like two years now.
I was hoping there would be something "more to it" than just Linux boxes from tons of manufactorers that will be sold in small volume and changed often. I hoped Valve had a "secret weapon" like universal compariable ratings, or... something. But, right now it looks like they made a Linux disto and a controller... which is cool, but isn't going to rock the industry without some incredible marketing (read: exclusives, which they said they won't do).

RE: 1000+1 Steps, depends on the brand. A computer sold at Best Buy will likely still come with a good bit of crapware, but even there execptions happen.

But, a decent group of manufactors now offer "Microsoft Signature"... which is no crapware and higher standard on drivers... very much feels "Apple Inspired".
Click to freeze / unfreeze should not jump like it does (looks like it takes the delta of cursor position at the freeze click, should be at the unfreeze click)
Geeky Business Card doubles as a functioning keyboard
> Time spent participating online is time not spent honing your craft, and so there should be a strong inverse correlation between posting frequency and expertise.

I disagree. Many people (including myself) have observed that qui docet discit, and there is little better way to teach yourself than to discuss and debate and work with other people. This eliminates your claimed strong inverse correlation, and the rest of your suggestions simply become ways of finding additional information and not corrections for any systematic bias in available experts.
I don't think github gives users access to the logs. Also, Google Analytics provides a more convenient way of looking through the data, more information, and alerts. It also lets you view the data for multiple sites at once.
Sure! This is what we are trying first: http://blog.codecombat.com/beat-this-level-get-a-programming...

Now we know we can definitely have enough skilled candidates, and though it's only been a week, it is looking really good on the employer end as well.
Operates a drill press.
A questionable name for a company. Even this article can't keep straight whether it's CO3 or C03.
I don't think a numpad is necessary, developers normally don't type that many numbers (except maybe 0 and 1).
I hacked together a little Ruby script to do something similar a few months back, might be useful to somebody:

https://github.com/space150/gifvine/blob/master/gifvine.rb

It runs server-side however, and requires several dependencies (ffmpeg, imagemagick) unlike JVine which runs client-side as a Java applet.
It's a free country, and you're in a public place. The right to make other people feel uncomfortable is far more important than the right to not feel uncomfortable.
Dear Americans,

160 years isn't old in the slightest, who cares.
We can - it's called bootstrap.
That's not necessarily true, I live in a college town and many students have loads of money. Most of the new off-campus housing targeted at students is out of my price range, and I'm single, work full time, and payed very well for the area.
Have you not seen the paperwork that come with high end computer equipment - I helped by some Pr1me gear back in the day and along with the kit came a sheaf of paperwork explaining just how much shit you would be in if you reexported it to one of the country's on the naughty list.
Autodesk acquires open hardware maker community Circuits.io
It's funny to read about peoples' experience with the WRT54GL in the past-tense.

I bought mine for $65 in 2006, and it's still running great in 2014!
awesome looking deals!
Feeling Studious? A List of Fully Funded PhD Programs in Computer Science
> weren't they pretty much indentured servants to their "Masters"?

I guess it's somewhat like the massive student loans modern students have. You couldn't pay the master what he was worth, so you paid in other ways.
After dealing with Steam support I have lost any enthusiasm for Valve and Steam.

I recently purchased a game from them that has been out for over a year, they ran out of CD Keys so Steam gave me the "could not connect to key server" message. After going back and forth with Steam support they refused to issue me a refund or even give me an ETA for when I would be able to play the game that I've already payed for. Horrible customer support and I doubt I'm the first customer they've done this to.

Several weeks later, no game, no refund, no cd key, and no update from their support staff (which is accessible via email only, no chat, no phone). Screw you Valve and Steam, I'll stick to my PC.
You're assuming I broke the rules by accident. I broke that rule on purpose and I'm more than happy to accept my 'punishment'. That said I think the arbitrary moderation borders on the ridiculous and reduces the participants of this board to the level of toddlers that are only allowed to discuss that which is permitted by the elders that know best.
I think there has been a few Native American tribes that have received basic incomes from casino revenues. It would be interesting to know the effects. Saudi royalty gets guaranteed income and there is wide range of payments from as little as $1000/month up to $50,000+/month. Those payments have been going on long enough to measure the effects.
In North America your GPS probably connects to between five and twelve satellites.
Yes thats why they have QA/Test departments where do you think the ISO9000 and BS5750 quality standards came from?
I'm currently an intern with USDA and make ~$13.50/hr, with a "salary cap" of $14.50 for any intern. All internships in my area (Colorado) that I see are between $10-$20/hr depending on the position.
No need to buy anything, it's an MIT-licensed project, and a trivial implementation under the hood to boot. If I wasn't learning Go while writing it, I think it would take all of 5-10 minutes to replicate (including deploying to prod)... :-)

What I wish GitHub would do is allow us to specify our own GA profile in project settings and just add an extra two lines of JavaScript in their pages to beacon the right metrics directly to GA. They're already using GA on their pages, so adding an additional profile is trivial. [1]

A proper GA integration would eliminate the need to proxy requests, and give us (repo owners) more metrics: I'm most interested in referral information - aka, how are people finding my repo. Also, it would enable analytics on all pages (e.g. source files, etc).

If anyone from GH is reading this... Please? :-)

[1] https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
T-Mobile CEO Thrown Out of AT&T’s Party: “I Just Wanted to Hear Macklemore”
Agreed about the screen - it's annoying. But pretty much everything has those stupid HD style screens these days.

I thought the glossy screen would bother me. It doesn't.

Numpad? Never used one.

Trackpoint? Not my style - I mostly navigate with the keyboard and the trackpad just launches the pointer into the window I need active, and then focus follows it!
You can. That doesn't make it right.
Why we must apply big data analytics to human-generated data
All a bit petty and grubby isn't it? I don't think the claims of libel or defamation really hold much water given the evidence presented (I am not a lawyer), but it seems to me DOs clause of avoiding embarrassment could cover pretty much anything.

That said the tone and approach of the original poster's blog posts leave an unpleasant taste in my mouth in that way that something can be technically correct, whilst simultaneously feeling morally repugnant; more self aggrandising than injustice fighting, and it's interesting how keen the original poster is to explicitly name and shame the random dude from Google, while remaining conveniently anonymous himself.

Bah, I feel grubby just from having commented on this.
Here's How Ridiculous This Year's CES Will Look in 2034
Omicia raises $6.8M for service that lets doctors analyze genomes for free
Show HN: Falcon open source FIX engine for Java with ~20 μs latency
Thunderbolt is way too expensive for most hardware (and tightly controlled, which bothers some manufactorers), and USB3 is damn near free. Thunderbolt is expensive for the manufactorer and expensive for the user (read: complex cable requirements). With USB3.1 "doubling" the speed of USB3.0 in a backwards compatible way -- I suspect it will continue to dominate.
You can use https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack to get a newer X server and kernel while otherwise staying on 12.04 LTS.
Pypix | The Python Hub | Tutorials for Advanced Python Developers.
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The operative word is "Linux", not "Developer".
"Modern methods of production have given us the possibility of ease and security for all; we have chosen, instead, to have overwork for some and starvation for others. Hitherto we have continued to be as energetic as we were before there were machines; in this we have been foolish, but there is no reason to go on being foolish forever."

— Bertrand Russell, "In Praise of Idleness"﻿

If you agree, sign the EU unconditional basic income petition:

http://basicincome2013.eu

http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/our_chance_to_end_poverty
AeroFS is hiring Software Engineers
I see this sort of non-argument on HN a lot. Why do you believe that just because someone has the right to do something, that changes its nature? I have the right in the US to walk down the street shouting racist slogans. If I did so, should I be immune from criticism because it's within my rights? Is one magically not-racist just because the law says racist behavior is legal?
This is a myth. Please refer to Deirdre N. McCloskey's work for a thorough debunking. The first two volumes of the proposed six volume set are available from amazon, the one you'll be interested in is 'Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World'.
It's actually Co3. Given that, I don't know why that name (and I spent way too much time looking.)
Show HN: Firesafe, a prophylactic for firebase
How do I get our accelerator added to this list? http://brandery.org/
upvoted for the dream reference
The Secret Burglary that Exposed J Edgar Hoover's FBI
On the development side, consoles makes things both easier and harder at the same time. Easier in the sense that you have one target hardware set that doesn't change, so you can do all sorts of things to make your game run better. However, that makes things also harder since the hardware isn't upgradeable so you have your limitations set in stone.

So while I like the idea of Steam box, there isn't any benefit, in my opinion, to buying one over building one.
There is one button that does anything on that website and that button replies to the one and only email in your temporary inbox. So ... How am I supposed to use this for anything?
HiFive for Bootstrap 3
8 weeks to become a software dev in Vancouver...? Sure.
8 weeks! Also, Vancouver salaries suck.
This risks giving them some sort of glorified martyr position that people might subsequently aspire to.
Silicon Valley's New Spy Satellites
Someone that works in a factory machining stuff, but doesn't have the skills/intelligence to do more complicated work. His job is becoming obsolete with the popularity of CNC.
The facts of some of those high profile cases were... not exactly as the press portrayed them. For example, there was one high profile case where a murderer couldn't be deported to, I think, Italy because of the Human Rights Act. What the press didn't mention is that he was pretty solidly English - he'd lived in the country since the age of 5, and didn't speak Italian or know anyone there - but even though morally he was firmly our responsibility and not Italy's, the Government tried to foist him on Italy through a legal technicality. The human rights laws just provided a way for the courts to ignore their legal weaseling and come to the only reasonable conclusion.
"It never did very well in the ratings and was on cancellation watch for most of its existence."

I did some research and "Fringe" pulled 3 million viewers. Awful.

"xfiles" pulled 10-30 million viewers. Not 1.0 to 3.0, 10 to 30. Never quite hit 30 but got close, like 27 million.

"Survivor" used to pull nearly as many as xfiles but now only pulls about ten million viewers in the USA (out of 314 million total population, according to google, so about 30 out of every 31 people do not watch Survivor)

The premise of the article is normalization of torture is a great way to become a blinding success like the x-files, because it mentioned the xfiles and that was a highly successful show. However, comparison of the numbers shows normalization of torture is a great way to repel around 97% of the viewers of a successful show, not to become successful.
Found this sneaky advertorial for CodeCore Bootcamp, which promises to make you a software developer in only 8 weeks! 8 weeks! Sos that you can access fabulous jobs in Vancouver for the exceptionally high average salary of $50k a year! FIFTY K, PEOPLE.

Amusing rebuttal here (more about Vancouver than the 8 weeks aspect): http://blog.deliciousjuice.com/2014/01/07/12-reasons/

So. 8 weeks? To make a software dev? A Hootsuite intern, perhaps...

I'd argue that it takes several years to develop a problem-solving toolkit, best-practices, and just enough fundamental theory to be a half-decent developer with both breadth and depth enough to write non-embarrassing, maintainable code without needing tonnes of support, feedback (which is always helpful, but particularly essential in early days), and nights spent falling asleep with K&R on your face. Whether that's in school or out, getting employable takes time: time spent doing code, and thinking about it, and talking about it. I feel like these CodeGuru guys are being misleading at best, and that article reads to me almost like satire.
Github could provide their users access to those logs.

And if convenient log analyzers do not exist in 2014, that sounds like a great project to put on.... Github.
Is there a way to test if a string is an MD5 hash? - regex
If it was a stressful job, you could start to get nervous and sweat. Then you wouldn't be able to press the button on the drill correct and it would be a bad cycle....stressful just thinking about it.
> First boot: Ubuntu animation, Dell User Agreement, then the standard Ubuntu installer.

Seriously?
The star:

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

is much further away than stated, and the effect on Earth is thought to be less than a "global irradiation causing mass extinctions."
I read the headline and skimmed the article. I only realised at the end, when he's trying to sell you something, that the 'we' is inclusive-marketing-speak.

Before that I thought that it was 'we (my organisation) don't write tests, and here's a defence of why', followed by a list of excuses (in which I thought 'I wouldn't touch this guy with a bargepole'). I only realised he wasn't making excuses for himself after reading the homepage.

tl;dr misleading title and confessional writing style YMMV
A lot of manufacturing jobs are beyond monotonous.

In college one year, I worked 10 hours a week in a semiconductor testing facility. I plugged a chip into the tester, pushed the button, took the part out and penciled the two-letter code returned by the tester. Then I took the next chip, plugged it into the tester, ....

It did pay $13.xy/hr in the 80s, which was why I put up with it.
Logged in to upvote you. I would also add that a proper keyboard which doesn't resemble typing on mashed potatoes would also be my requirement. Even Thinkpads have degraded to a calculator-quality cheap uniform keyboard without oversized keys copied from Sony/Apple... Ugh...
I think it should be cheaper compared to a MBA with Linux.. anyway the competition is good
[IANAL]

They are two separate legal issues: responsibility for a criminal offense and rightful title to a particular piece of real property.

One way of thinking about the difference is that one can be inherited and the other can't [currently]. In legal parlance, criminal v civil tort.
You would be much better off just generating the DFA of the straightforward regex and minimizing that DFA. This is simpler and faster to generate and faster to execute. Furthermore, in a parser for a programming language you do not want to match some things in one list but not in this other list, you want to match some things in this list and nothing else.
Someone who gets it! I'm doomed to stay with a 2010 vintage Lenovo T-series by the looks.
I think its more likely the documents were the original street plans and guides which, when viewed from sufficient distance above, spell out the name of the last remaining descendant of Jesus and was designed by Da Vinci himself.

Prove me wrong. You can’t. They destroyed the records.
Replace DO with AWS and the Googler with Jeff Bezos, and the blog format with the NYTimes.
The main problem I have with this article is that it doesn't give specific examples of when torture is used, especially by the show's protagonists. I love both Fringe and the X-Files, but I've actually more recently seen the X-Files (I'm on Season 7) so Fringe isn't exactly fresh in my mind.

The main scene I remember where one of the protagonists resorts to torture is in the final season where Peter tortures a captured Observer to figure out how to put together a time portal stabilizer the Observers are using for transport. But if I remember the scene correctly, Peter doesn't even want information - he's just really pissed off at the Observers for killing his daughter. Even though this scene shows one of the protagonists doing something wrong, I question whether it was really trying to get the watcher's approval for the his actions. If anything, it was trying to show disapproval for his actions by depicting him as mentally unstable. I'm not saying that there aren't more scenes where the protagonists resort to torture, just that I can't remember them.

A further question that I have is what exactly torture is in a sci-fi show. There are at least two episodes where the Fringe gang uses a device that reanimates a recently deceased enemy so they can get the necessary information to stop an impending attack. Is a scenario like this torture? And what about when one of the Observers attempts to read Walter's mind causing him a great deal of pain? This seems to be torture, but would the shows viewers think that governments should torture because Fringe depicted a character reading another character's mind?

Finally, Ntrails makes a fantastic point. Typically, torture is not depicted as a critical story piece in Fringe. Torture occasionally makes appearances, but many of the shows fans can't even remember when and how often they were used. What does that say about the "legitimizing" force of depiction of torture in Fringe?
There is just as much evidence of extra-terrestrials as there is that this was to protect the reputation of 'someone' from something someone who is long dead and buried once did.

No one cares if your great-great-great-great grandfather was a slave owner. If they did, it would come up far more often.

I can also counter your adage with another:

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

The simplest answer is actually stupidity. Someone(s) didn't know what they had and just freed up space that was taken up by records that were long past their retention period.
Betashop Quarterly. Volume 1. January 2014.
In general, it is basic human nature to be active and productive, and interact with and contribute to a society. The poor have that nature as well, and in most cases they are poor due to a lifetime of adverse family circumstances or perhaps one bad decision ( http://priceonomics.com/what-its-like-to-fail/ ). They can then be trapped as poor simply from having no time to plan an exit and no runway to execute it.

My observation is that the 13 homeless persons in London found that having the cash gave them time away from the full-time activity of surviving so they could think, reflect and plan, and, it gave them the runway to execute their plan.

This concept of basic income has been occupying my thoughts quite a bit lately, particularly when I venture in to San Francisco. Each time I think about it, as a thought experiment before reading this article, I can see far more good coming from it than harm.

What I think, and seems to be supported by the article, is that giving (for example) $1,000/month to every adult in America would play out like this: A family of 4 would have $24,000 per year guaranteed income. If both parents worked minimum wage jobs earning another $16k each, and I do believe they would, they'd have a household income of $56k on minimum wage jobs. They could situate in a reasonable school district, afford to pay more rent for a safe neighborhood, afford reasonable health care and focus on raising their kids. The kids will do better in school, the family can feed themselves less unhealthy food, there will be less anxiety about the basics and less domestic conflict.

The studies in the article -seem- to support that outcome.

$12,000/year per adult not already on welfare or social security would cost about $2 Trillion per year. To put that into perspective, Social Security costs $1.3 Trillion in 2013. Cost of all social welfare programs was $529 Billion. The GDP came in at around 17 Trillion.

The US could afford it if we really wanted to. So what I'd like to hear are the counter-arguments. Is it inflationary? I'd say it has to be. Is it fair? If every American receives it, regardless of their wealth, then I don't see how it would be unfair. Is it realistic? It seems that the US was pretty close to something along these lines in the 60's and Obama finally got universal health care through. Perhaps it is realistic enough to at least put a true, modern pilot program in place and convince ourselves one way or the other. It really seems better than the alternative: Status quo for the homeless and the poor.
Show HN: mixtape. An unintrusive collaborative playlist webapp
Made it in Meteor over the last semester and winter break. I use YouTube to listen to music, and found native YouTube playlists to be nearly unuseable - so I made mixtape. A simple, no-bs webapp that does exactly what you want.

You also have the ability to collaborate on your playlist, by sharing it using the link generated for you below!
Well we currently have welfare, and we know that there are cases where that prevents someone from taking a job because it will be mean a net loss. Basic income will be an improvement in this regard at least because there is much less disincentive to work if it doesn't mean losing something.
> When I studied law I learnt that different things, even when they lead to identical outcomes, are different, and should be dealt with independently.

That may be true in a court of law. This is not a court of law. Insistence on treating it like one is a great example of why people hate lawyers.
To be honest, I'm not comfortable with the 'torture is bad because it is ineffective' argument, because it sidesteps the larger moral issue.

For the sake of argument: if it turns out that slicing off a man's left hand will always yield 100% verifiable information, should we still be doing it? My answer to that is still going to be no. The effectiveness of torture is besides the point.
It's not particularly thin. It's about the same thickness at its thickest point at the MBA. In terms of size and weight, it's about in the middle for an ultrabook. It's battery is a little smaller than the MBA's, but not that much smaller (47 watt-hours versus 54 watt-hours). Dell's own XPS 12, which has a very marginally larger battery (50 watt-hours), gets almost 9 hours of Wi-Fi surfing at about 50% brightness.