skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it's true that we'll continue to feel the hurt of job shirts, people have thought that technology would kill the economy for hundreds of years.

Keynes thought people would be working 15 hours per week in 2030.[1] If anything we'll be working 55 hours per week.

Education needs to change, certainly. The economy will move forward, certainly. But there's no reason to freak out. Society has moved through economic change before and we'll find a way through the internet-induced havoc as well.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/sep/01/economics
[WARNING] This post contains a number of pictures of a very large woman dancing that may cause nightmares for potential readers.
As a buyer, first: I saw way more than 10 homes. Way more. Buying a home is a process that usually takes months. You see a lot of homes in that time (if you want to).

Second, there is just no substitute for the real thing IMO. The best you could do with a virtual tour is disqualify homes.
Although the priority at this point is certainly paying the electric bill, you might also consider taking a look at the "Hardware Wanted" page [0] and seeing if you have anything laying around that one of the developers can use. It's typically not brand new top-of-the-line gear they're looking for so you might be surprised.

[0]: http://openbsd.org/want.html
The Printer That Can Print A 2,500 Square Foot House In 20 Hours
Congress Just Started Caring About the Sharing Economy
All in a 50KB js file.

1. Why?

2. How is this humanly possible?
Does anyone else find it odd that the majority of links in his articles are to his own articles?
What To Do When You Don't Know What To Do | IMPOSSIBLE
I'll just start assuming everything people say on HN is sarcasm.
If you ask your current company for higher salary/responsibility/etc and don't get it until you quit to take another offer, you have learned that your current company is reactive and only responds to threats. In other words, your current company is not a good place to work.
IT is so Anglophile that programs can become slower if you deviate from ASCII...

But of course being so incredibly anglocentric is not an issue, at least that seems to be the consensus of the participants when I read discussions on the Web where all the people who are discussing it write English with such a proficiency that I can't tell who are and aren't native speakers of the language.
I admire and appreciate your concern for something that is missunderstood and ignored. However this webpage took way to long to say what is so great about utf 8.
We are in a constant state of commerce.
Yeah, it's the Dirty Jobs of tech, fuck what's cool, do what pays the bills.

The best part about doing what pays is that the next generation of college kids are trying to disrupt Facebook (Snapchat/IG, God I'm getting old), rather than fuck with your massively profitable app doing lead gen for mortgage origination, that no one outside of your outside sales team has ever heard of, nor do you have to deal with whether VCs like your biz plan, and you don't have to give up equity because you can actually pay your fucking employees and they don't even cost that much because what you're doing isn't exactly rocket science.

The future is not evenly distributed, drive 100 miles from the coast and it's 1979. Go inside any office park and it's 1985.

Btw, this is why I LOVE the idea of FarmLogs, those guys are going to make a killing IMHO.
Ah, I see, thanks for that. So it's not running Hindley Milner (or at least, not unless it's quite heavily modified). That's not surprising, I guess, since it takes no small amount of effort to get HM to work in an OO/imperative setting.
NuoDB CEO Barry Morris on Present and Future Trends in Data
Yeah. Maybe Safari?
Indeed. Offering for free something that gets cheaper as time passes, I don't if can be considered as clever marketing or not.
I wrote a JS port of JavaScriptCore:

eval
Glsl-transition: Make Transitions Effects with the power of WebGL Shaders (GLSL)
There is adderall
https://github.com/algernon/adderall

and paultag wrote snitch
https://github.com/paultag/snitch

There are people using Hy in production, but that code isn't out. A good way to see Hy in action is looking at our tests/native_tests section.
http://github.com/hylang/hy
Ask HN: How do you keep a client from stealing your excel spreadsheet?
We have developed a financial model in excel worth in the neighborhood of $75-100k and many people in our industry have similar financial models.

How would you keep it from being stolen if you wanted a client/employee to use it without taking it with them or using a copy on their own PC? Is there a way to allow use of an excel model without ownership?
Have you checked out http://breach.cc/ and http://breach.github.io/exo_browser/ ?

> The ExoBrowser is a scriptable platform designed to ease the experimentation with new concepts for the Web Browser.

> The ExoBrowser exposes its API (parts of the Chromium Content API + a Simple View Model) in Javascript and enables the implementation of a fully functional browser entirely out of it (as a Javascript/HTML/CSS app)
After reading this article I have a pretty good hunch about why the man punched him.
As an example of openness working at Balanced, I was fielding a question from a customer on IRC yesterday[1] about our support for JCB and Diner's Club cards: we support them, but balanced.js said we didn't. While I was talking with some other engineers about this, they just fixed the bug themselves! [2] We both win: we didn't have to drop everything and write the code, and our customer got their fix even faster.

Or when I saw that /r/dogecoin was trying to get Reddit Gifts (a customer of ours) to support Dogecoin. Since we do all feature discussion on GitHub, I was able to get them involved[3]. That one.... wasn't as productive as the bugfix. :)

1: https://botbot.me/freenode/balanced/msg/9808050/

2: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-js/pull/68

3: http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/1t3obk/petition_fo...
I think that an important step is to pre-empt the counter-offer.

When you even start to consider another opportunity, think about why you actually want to move to the new opportunity. Is it that you need more money? Is it that you want to work on a different kind of project? Is it that you need more stimulation?

Then go to your employer, and without bringing up the other opportunity, see if they are willing to make the change that you want. Don't be angry that they haven't already done it for you, until this point you didn't even necessarily know you wanted it, you can't expect them to.

If they accept, then you are in an environment where you're happy, and your employer is probably happy that you are motivated and taking steps to make things happen. If they reject your offer, then pursue the better opportunity.

In that case, if they do give you a counter-offer, it's either going to be less than you need, which makes it easy enough to say no to. Or they will be offering you the same thing you've already asked for and declined to provide, which means they are doing it out of desperation and you can expect they will to an extent resent it if they feel it's something they can't afford, or they will have been actively trying to take advantage of you by denying you fair treatment when you asked for it directly.

I think first decide what it is you need, then give your employer the opportunity to provide what it is you need of their own accord, then accept an offer with another employer who can provide what it is you need. Then you don't have to worry about the counter-offer. You've already gone through it once on your terms.

If you don't make your employer aware that you want a change prior to your resignation, and they would have been willing to offer it to you all along if they knew, you're both in an awkward position. If the counter offer is exactly what you want and you take it, there will be some soreness and a passive-aggressive attitude that will persist. If you ask for what you want and get it prior to saying "Or else I quit" it's much smoother sailing for everyone.
Same here. Would totally love a tour of their offices.
Yes, of course, you could bring your computer but it is not at all the same to carry an heavy computer or to have a smart phone in your pocket. For instance, you can use your phone or your tablet all along the site during a handover to take notes and pictures. It is a lot more difficult to do that with a computer
Does This Ruling Mean The End of the Internet? Maybe.
This is definitely a reach, but the reason why I like learning math more than CS is because it's been around long enough to inspire confidence that it will continue to be around.

Likewise, this is why I would study something like HoTT--reasonable certainty that the things I'm learning there will form the basis of the final programming language.

I don't mind change, but I dislike putting weight in fashion.
They shouldn't need to be fired.

Witness tampering is a Federal felony offense. They should be stripped of their position and thrown bodily into prison, both for witness tampering and high treason.
From my experience, an employer should only counter-offer if they're truly desparate. Just like this article says, the employee has already decided to leave once, it's not going to take alot to get them to decided to leave again. In addition, though, counter-offering one employee signals to others that they can route around the usual process for promotions and raises by coming in with an offer of their own.

I worked at a place where they counter-offered two above average (but not great) developers who were working on an important client project. The two accepted the counter-offers, but still left for good in a few months. Everyone else in the office that wanted a raise or promotion now knew what they had to do to get raises: find another job and bluff. It put a big dent in the company culture.
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=138973312304511&w=2

"I really love how we keep getting advice. Anyone want to suggest we hold a bake sale?"
From Theo de Raadt, on-thread:

On a regular basis, we find real and serious bugs which affect all
platforms, but they are incidentally made visible on one of the
platforms we run, following that they are fixed. It is a harsh
reality which static and dynamic analysis tools have not yet resolved.
A hardware/software solution that improves the current notary journal by adding location data, biometric identification & backups. Right now, title company notaries go through multiple journals a year and journals have been lost.
It's good to know that we do have some legislators on (essentially) our side, even if their hands are, presently, tied.
Doesn't pass JSLint, moving on...
The article mentions that AH was "hoping to keep the investment under wraps indefinitely". Why would this be? We all see investment press releases constantly.
DissidentX is a censorship resistance tool.
It's 50MB. That probably revises #2. As for #1, isn't this a good thing in itself?
Super fucking useful, especially with a chronological qualifier. I would pay $1000 to listen to "90s dance" versus "Contemporary Country", and I don't even love "90s dance".
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/

Promises kept: 45%
Compromised: 25%
Broken: 22%
Stalled: 1%
In the works: 6%
not rated: 1%

Your comment resonated with me, then I decided to check the facts.
1) "Carwoo for mortgages" I like it. LendingTree is analogous to TrueCar in this situation.
Depending on the level, they often have TEMPEST shielding aka faraday cages to prevent leakage of electromagnetic signals from computers and whatnot. (google Van Eck Phreaking for some ideas on why heh)
One of my first bosses told me a story of how he responded to the CTO asking him if he were looking for a new job. He said,

"Yeah! Always. How do either of us know what my market value is if I don't? It's only fair."

I thought that was brilliant. No he was never fired and he stayed there quite some time after that. :)
IE JS API would still be outdated.
Currently, the Intelligence Committees have special access to top secret information. Every member of Congress should have this.
You should go. Accepting a counteroffer is a no-win situation.

If the counteroffer is amazing, it will poison your relationships with everybody in the company: colleagues will resent you for getting what they will see as a golden ticket when they didn't, and managers will resent you for what they will interpret as mercenary tendencies -- i.e. you're just waiting for someone to come along with an even better offer before you sell them out. So you'll have to work with a bunch of people whose opinion of you has just dropped through the floor.

And if the counteroffer isn't amazing, why would you consider taking it in the first place?
Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but if I'm not, go screw yourself.
Part of the "charm" of real estate is deceptive photos. Everyone knows they're deceptive and a halfway decent photographer with a wide-angle lens can make a 1-bd hovel look like a mansion.

When have you heard someone say "The place was so much better than the photos!"? Not often. That's a problem for a 3D experience in a few ways:

1) if the 3D experience is pitched as "more true to life", then no buyers will think that the house could be better than the experience presents.

2) if the 3D experience doesn't capture the greatness of a property, the buyer/viewer would be underwhelmed vs. seeing the place in person. Properties with spectacular views for example would take a hit because that emotional experience of "I could wake up to this every day" is replaced with a 1-dimentional texture.

3) If the 3D experience is too good, buyers will be disappointed when seeing the property in real life.

IMO sales like this -- houses, cars -- are a visceral experience that require in-person shopping. That's why internet car sales haven't really taken off. You really have to take the house for a "test drive", see how you think your furniture would fit, imagine your kids playing in the yard, all that stuff.

Now if you were making some kind of holodeck... ;)
Google Releases Dart SDK 1.1, Promises Up To 25% Faster JavaScript
NSA collects millions of text messages daily in 'untargeted' global sweep
not to mention you got 50g for referring a friend, or just registering a second account, so almost everyone already is at 50g
> there is nothing special about these people that makes them assholes.

Yes there is: They've committed a crime. One of the worst offenses you can commit. Witness tampering. The Judge here has every right to root out who is responsible and have them thrown in prison.

There is absolutely no justification here for what the TSA did, and they deserve to be punished accordingly.

So whether or not you view calling them assholes is appropriate, the fact of the matter is that they are, in fact, assholes guilty of one of the worst criminal offenses in US law.
5 steps to growing an email list: the journey to 10,000 subscribers
I don't think a lack of an understanding of biology is the problem; the problem is a disregard for empirical evidence.

Whenever the evolution vs. creationism debate comes up in the context of a presidential election, some people argue that it doesn't matter whether the POTUS understands biology. But as I wrote, a lack of an understanding of biology isn't the problem; the problem is a disregard for empirical evidence. If a presidential candidate has no regard for empirical evidence in the context of biology, they likely have no regard for empirical evidence in the context of other subjects, including important subjects such as health economics. That's the problem.

So while you're correct that a person can lack an understanding of biology and still be successful, a successful person who has little regard for empirical evidence is a threat to civilization.
From Data Silos to Data Lakes: Realizing the Accessible Dream
The first 3 steps of b are mostly due to the legacy banking infrastructure. Once some Bitcoin banks are opened then those three steps will turn into:

- Send Bitcoin from bank to recipients' wallet

The last point won't be an issue once Bitcoin stabilizes after its growth phase.
Thanks. I wonder how that one compares to this one which will cost an order of magnitude less?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/occipital/structure-sens...
This may shock you, but some don't live/work/study just for money.
10 Misconceptions about startup marketing- inbound marketing pre sales
Yes, AC is required. Machines need to be shut down whenever it fails.
Thanks Julien for sharing Breach. If anybody interested feel free to contact me (@spolu)!
"It's certainly pretty tasteless."

While debatable (depends on execution) whether it is tasteless to make money you sometimes have to get over that.

"I wouldn't consider doing business with someone who applied that tactic."

The person doing the sending isn't looking to close 100% of the people he mails to. Nor does he care what the recipient thinks. If you worry about that you will potentially miss a business opportunity.

Look think of it like using a cheezy line in a bar. Something that I've never done but I recognize that it works for some people and gets them dates. In the end approaching 100 women with a line will work better than staying home and doing nothing (assumes you can take the rejection of course).
I believe that it was clever marketing when google first did it when gmail was first released. I feel like the storage is only part of the service, it's access to your files everywhere that they are really trying to sell.
Honestly, I think it is platform politics. *nix systems seem to prefer UTF-8, while UTF-16 is the default on Windows. Space and memory are cheap, so either encoding seems fine.

The bottom line is that UTF-8 is awkward to use on Windows, while UTF-16/wchar_t is awkward to use on Linux, simply because the core APIs make them so (there is no _wfopen function in glibc).
> IT is so Anglophile that programs can become slower if you deviate from ASCII...

Well, switching from a simple, 7-bit character set where all you need to do is parse and display byte by byte to a potentially multi-byte processing and a display lookup table that's several orders of magnitude larger... it's pretty easy to see why things can become slower.
Payments startup WePay raises $15M, kills direct-to-consumer offering
Faster I18n Backend for Ruby Written in C
By the way: it's Tcl, not TCL.
Catching up with Jon Contino
I love shiny new things and will keep on collecting them.

Thanks to this article, I may have found some more. It pointed to the 2007 article, well here's the latest Scott Hanselmans Ultimate Dev Tools:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmans2014UltimateDev...
from the First or Second one?

Sorry, couldn't resist.
And so you end up with the same machine being compromised again and again.
which other BSD would that be?

If the answer is "NetBSD", let's consider that the expenses in 2012 for the NetBSD foundation were $6k [0].

Either they don't support the architectures the same way or they are spending the money in a smarter way.

[0] http://www.netbsd.org/foundation/reports/financial/2012.html
I wish we could compare the old Haskell version to the C++ and Rust versions as well.
You could probably reduce the browser to just WebGL + BSD Sockets JS APIs. Far less surface area for vendors to screw up.
Talk to your current employer before seeking, if that's an option. You shouldn't have to seek another job to get a raise/promotion/change from your current employer. In my opinion, seeking or accepting a counter-offer is unprofessional.

Companies should be proactive about keeping their employees engaged, challenged, and relatively happy.

Whatever you do, keep the connections you've made--don't burn bridges. The new opportunity may not be all it's cracked up to be, and it will be nice to have some people to call when you're on the hunt again.
Why are we pigeonholing companies into financial contributions? Money is not the only way nor is it usually the best way to actually help. It is a tool that is sometimes needed to support an actual solution, but why aren't these companies getting really creative with how they help? Why isn't Google or Microsoft or Oracle or any huge company with billions in R&D trying to figuring out more efficient civil government processes? They could have 10 different programs (not necessarily software, but maybe software) going in 10 different communities to help figure out the most efficient ways to administer services in lots of different scenarios based on that community's needs. Why not have a research program run for efficient education delivery, or helping governments design and distribute public information or, or, or... think of all the numerous ways you bitch about government and then figure out a way to do it better. One small piece at a time. And that is how these companies, big and small, can help make their communities better. They need to walk alongside. Sometimes money is the needed resource, but usually its not.
They let you donate with Bitcoin, which for me is about two mouse clicks.
You know what's great? The Craigslist map search for housing.
As someone who has done time as a salaryman in a traditional, very large Japanese company, in Japan, as a Japanese person (even though I'm American, I was expected to behave as a Japanese, since I look and speak like one), I fully back everything Patrick said above. The post is really astoundingly astute, despite its sounding quixotic.
Creationism is a NON-scientific belief, not an ANTI-scientific belief. It's not anti-intellectual or stupid or backward either. It's a choice to believe in the supernatural

Choosing to believe in the supernatural IS fundamentally anti-science. That's what the word "supernatural" means.
Companies Can Have New Year’s Resolutions Too
Not to mention the examples given for some old genres I used to know are horribly misrepresented here... genres are totally useless - then hindered a bit more by the newest wave of genre name factory music critics/writers.

Clownstep! DoA geezer!
I found it interesting that they having "Video Game Music" listed as a genre. I'm not sure you can classify video game music under a single genre.

I listen to video game music quite a bit (some sub-genres more than others), but you can find pretty much every genre listed here in at least one video game.

Sure, there may be a few video games that feature music that doesn't fall into any other "genre", but if somebody told me to describe what video game music sounded like, I couldn't do it, like I could with most other genres.

I don't really care, I know this is just someone's interpretation of a genre. I just found it interesting and thought it was worth mentioning.
Web Standards Search Engine
implement a DRM mechanism. One way is to build an authentication server, log against a license, and rotate licenses as needed if you find curious activity. This is not a new problem and has been done previously. You may need to get creative with the code. I'm assuming that your model is quite visible for someone to reverse engineer by looking at VB project in Excel. You need to find a way to hide it as well.
I ran into that issue with MySQL's utf-8 handling. It was 𝒜wesome: http://geoff.greer.fm/2012/08/12/character-encoding-bugs-are...
That is because innovation happens within the bounds of the preexisting industries and constructs.
I remember when Google forked Webkit and started Blink. They had a video explaining why and how. I remember they said they might port DOM to JavaScript if it makes sense. Apparently it doesn't make sense.
heh.. sounds like Go
Mediafire also seems to be doing 50gb as well as Mega.

Now they just all need desktop syncing programs with easily accessible public sharing urls and decent traffic bandwidth.