skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not the time spent working which is the issue.

If you were accidentally put on the no fly list tomorrow would it be okay that you were not allowed to board an airplane anywhere in or bound for the us for 7 years?

I understand mistakes. That's no problem. The problem is refusal to admit a mistake except when ordered to by a court. All the government had to do was say, "Woops, misfiled that, you're off the list."
I was expecting to open this article and read the word "MONEY" in big bold font.
A bit offtopic but the recent "Russian anti-gay law" media coverage is as credible as this hacking story: http://www.blacklistednews.com/The_Olympics_of_Hate_in_a_Nat...
Floats also parallelize badly, unless you clear them. It may be the case that using floats for layout will perform badly as well.
Did Oracle pay for this?
To Google. And the DNS traffic is most likely from the ping or tcpdump itself.

But actually, one of his closing remarks is unintentionally helpful: "The best way to protect yourself ... if you don't really need a device, don't bring it" [lest it get stolen by US customs as you're returning home].
The story wasn't 100% fraudulent:

"Personal Privacy Note: Travelers should be aware that Russian Federal law permits the monitoring, retention and analysis of all data that traverses Russian communication networks, including internet browsing, e-mail messages, telephone calls, and fax transmissions." [1]

"Additionally, cyber criminals may use the games as a lure in spam, phishing or drive-by-download campaigns to gain personally identifiable information or harvest credentials for financial gain. Lastly, those physically attending the games should be cognizant that their communications will likely be monitored." [2]

Basically, while at Sochi, you will have very little digital privacy and if you visit Olympic game related websites, they may attempt to (broadly speaking) "hack" your computer.

[1] http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/go/Sochi.h...

[2] https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/tips/ST14-001
Note that this is not about GitHub's recruiting process, but a company called NextBigSound
The sum() example does not work as the article says it does. Under Visual Studio 2013 compiling for x86 (C++ compiler, but C++ also has integer promotion rules), the function returns zero. The reason is: 65535 = 2^16-1. uint16_t is signed, therefore it has 15 bits to represent the value. When executing "int16_t a = 65535;" under a debugger, "a" is set to -1.
There is no data like that to look up. Clicking on a link to an external site does not generate any HTTP requests to HN that could be recorded. There are no scripts on this page that could be logging anything either. They can't tell if you've clicked a link before or after upvoting it.
Here's a different perspective which is far more unfavorable to US in comparison: http://www.blacklistednews.com/The_Olympics_of_Hate_in_a_Nat...
Then they can keep it and they won't get my money, and everyone will just end up pirating it anyway.

You don't combat piracy by locking it down and making a pain to access your content, you compete/combat piracy by making sure its always easier and more convenient to obtain your content legitimately, not punish those that are legit for the few that will go pirate it anyway. As long as I can purchase a song for $1 DRM free and have it in 5 seconds at a high quality from iTunes or Amazon, I won't ever be tempted to find a torrent for it, even if its free.

DRM creates artificial scarcity, and scarcity breeds a black market. Those black markets may always exist, but if you make it hard enough to access your product on the device they want at the time they want, they will have more incentive to go to the black markets.
Russia allows these things too except for the part of getting minors involved.

EDIT: The Wikipedia article is full of hedging on this topic, e.g.

- "According to _some commentators_..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Russia#Bans_on_....

- "Under the statute it is _effectively illegal_",
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Russia#National_...

Since when did journalists become legal scholars? Shouldn't we evaluate laws based on legal outcomes, not on a journalist's speculation?
ustr [1] is another library to consider. It uses a variable sized header to avoid having large (percentage wise) overhead for short strings.

1: http://www.and.org/ustr/
Absolutely I am. I don't need to share the evidence with you because, as a thinking and contributing member to these forums, I am sure you have accessed it yourself. Is there any reason I wouldn't discard an argument in favor of institutionalized racism? Or, more mildly, that institutionalized racism is a topic that is capable of being overblown?

The commenter called it "The LGBT Russia thing" and if that does not aptly sum up how trivial s/he perceives the topic to be, I don't know what does. "That human rights violation thing". Sorry, it doesn't fly with me.

I am not saying Russian laws are not a part of the topic. What I am saying is that characterizing the topic as being "overblown" by citing that paper is absolutely ludicrous.

EDIT: Wanted to add in this: How do you have 'rational discourse' when one side of the discussion is demonstrably pursuing nothing less than a human rights violation? It is like saying the Catholic church's sex scandal was 'overblown', or slavery, or any other human rights topic you can imagine. Where is the rational discourse there? How can "human rights violations" ever be an "overblown" topic?
The Most Valuable Lesson I've Learned As A CEO
If anyone develops apps on closed platforms (iOS, Windows, OSX, etc) you will always be at the whim of said company's right to cull their platform.

The solution? Stop sharecropping. Build on platforms that are open.
Why does my dog urinate when I call her?
Thank you for sharing this, I didn't even know firefox have this feature
It is now anyway, even with DRM.

Actually Netflix is easier then pirating, which is now why Netflix consumes more traffic than torrents.
I clicked, read, nodded in approval and upvoted.. There's nothing really to discuss. There are a few new features in 1.7 that people are looking forward to but nothing really controversial.

Start a discussion about Python 3, on the other hand, and you'll get multi-page comments.
I'm probably missing something obvious, but what use cases are possible with BTC but not, say, PayPal?

With PayPal you can pay for goods, receive payments for goods, transfer to an individual, receive payments from an individual, do it all in different currencies and transfer in and out of bank accounts etc.

Aside from the fact that the model itself is rather different, I can't think of any practical uses that can be done with one but not the other?

Edit: for clarification, I mean in the context of the parent's scenario of Apple taking their 30% cut of a transaction. Obviously there are plenty of reasons to use BTC over other payment methods.
That's mostly wrong. Instead of speculating, how about skimming the ruling? It's just a summary but it was clearly way more complicated than that:

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2014/02/ibraru...
Can you add Dojo to the list? It's not MVC, but it's somewhat popular in enterprises.
Is that much different to how Google's competitors in this space store data?
ThoughtSpot brings enterprise BI into users' hands
The most typical use is for me to abuse the heck out of command-d. This will select the current word (if none selected) and then each subsequent press of this command adds the next occurrence of the selected text to the selection. I also like the ability to use option-drag down a column for block selection when I have text from some source that needs a bit of munging on each line.

Thanks much for that link. I'll check it out.
I just started working at a place where size_t is being cast to "int" all over the code, with similar reasoning. Thanks for the ammunition.
Wi-Fi patent troll will only get 3.2 cents per router from Cisco
Referrals and working for past co-workers seem to account for a good amount of hires at most of the small companies I've represented (independent recruiter), particularly over the past five years. It's not unusual to see teams reform again and again at new firms. But when a company grows significantly or needs to grow fast, it's difficult for that hiring model to scale.
Additionally, there are fewer excuses they can use for blocking Square.
You did a great job of creating a style and ambience for the game. The colorful graphics make it stand out among similar apps.
Did you know that in Russia you can't get fired for being gay? At the same time it is perfectly legal to do so in United States. When did it become legal in United States for gays to have sex? Kinda like in 2003...except 13 states have not repealed sodomy laws. By the way, sodomy is perfectly legal in Russia since 1993.
You should be able to charge $100/hr for your services as a software consultant.

My advice would be to plan to spend 15 hours a month (5 hours of research on consulting practices, 5 hours of actively pursuing leads, and 5 hours of billable work) on this. Over time you should be able to ratchet down everything but the billable work.

Patio11, in particular, has written quite a bit about this sort of thing. I highly recommend checking these articles out:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro...
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/17/ramit-sethi-and-patrick-...
I don't have the same understanding. Quite the opposite. GNU texinfo was designed (in 1986) to both generate manuals and be used as a hypertext system.

I know of nothing in its history to suggest that it was a stop-gap system.
How I generated over $2.5M on Kickstarter and Indiegogo in one year.
I tried Django for the first time last year. I had previously used Drupal/Joomla, but hated PHP.
Plus Django was much lighter weight - it was easy to build a
CMS with it, but also really easy to create something much more minimal.
Thanks! I learned pixel art just by watching and doing. Sites like eBoy [1] are a big inspiration. In this case though it's procedural pixel art. :)

And sound as in sound effects. I wrote more about that process here [2].

[1] http://hello.eboy.com/eboy/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7192558
Thanks for making the plugin! How do I add it in WordPress? I went to https://github.com/darkness/thedaywefightback, downloaded it as a .zip, and tried to install it via http://www.my-site-name.com/wp-admin/plugin-install.php?tab=..., but got the error
"The package could not be installed. No valid plugins were found.
Plugin install failed."
I had never thought about using the git push/pull model for anything but code and data. Could git, tunneled over ssh, build the decentralized web that we're all bandying about?
Dispatches, a show on Channel 4 in the UK did a show on it last night called 'Hunted'. There's a lot of chat on Twitter and FB about it because it was pretty harrowing television. You can probably find it on YouTube if you search 'Hunted Channel 4' or similar.

Trailer: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/videos/all/hun...
Assume that each of the categories you have described exists for legitimate reasons and that each individual person has good reasons for optimizing on one of those paths and that their reasons are not yours and that there is nothing broken in them that needs fixing.

The most likely problem is that you're in a place that does not require everyone to be a rock star ninja 1%er. Maybe it's time for you to find a bigger pond. The Harvard of Arkansas ain't Harvard.
Check out the Supremacy Clause http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacy_Clause

"The supremacy of federal law over state law only applies if Congress is acting in pursuance of its constitutionally authorized powers."

Congress does not have an authority to govern sexual conduct. Just because enforcement of sodomy laws has been unpopular long before 2003, doesn't mean they don't exist.
The U.S. blocks the spontaneous import of goods which haven't been certified for the U.S. market all the time, yet when russia applies the same criteria, they're somehow differently evil and/or unsporting?

Sounds like freedom hating.
People like Susan give me hope for the future of the tech community.
Reminds me of VB GUI IP tracking[1] and double keyboarding[2].

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU

[2]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ
Absolutely wonderful article.
> If this was true for media use on tablets in general, Amazon would not be pouring as much effort as they are into tablets.

Amazon, unlike Netflix, is worried about being kicked out of the iOS ecosystem. Kindle (and all the other major eBook apps) already came close at least once. Unless Amazon was convinced that media use on tablets was going to collapse (not just plateau), they desperately need the deterrent and the insurance policy.
It's quite obvious that old habits die hard when it comes to North America vs. Russia. We can't seem to manage to utter a single decent word about them via public media.

I wasn't even aware that sports competition begins today, until today.
That's a pretty cool idea actually.
I agree that the conclusions are odd, however the material presented is what I am interested in. You can draw your own conclusions from there rather then from what the media is telling us.

One sentence?

"The law in its current form is an improvement over what existed before."

BTW I shouldn't have used the phrase "both sides". What I mean is we should not get caught up in the media's interpretation of the law. My mistake there and sorry for the confusion.

My referring to the "not that bad" is to way its being presented by the media.

I can see how advocating for equality can be listed as a crime based on what's listed in the law. It's interesting that the word "propaganda" is used which leaves a fair amount of room for interpretation. Point 3 is the sore point it seems, although I can see why its in there as you would not want to equate "child-adult" relationships which this would prevent. It all hangs on the word "nontraditional".
I'm sorry, this paper is bizarre and somewhat incoherent. magicalist goes into some of the problems with it, but the even larger problem that I see is that it seems to completely ignore the larger climate of intimidation and erasure by public officials, and look at "are specific people being harmed by this specific law", and I'm disinclined to trust its analysis even on that.

It's written by somebody who claims to be a journalist and managing editor yet has basically zero online presence in bylines or anything that I can find. Nor does he provide any contact information (apart from being from Chicago, which, good for him, I guess?). That makes very little sense.

In the US at large, LGBT rights and support for them has been growing, imperfectly and inconsistently, but growing. In Russia, it seems that there's been a backlash, and Putin and company are stirring up public sentiment against LGBT people. I'll take the word of Russians that things are actively getting worse:

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201402/being-gay-...
I'm not really sure how good the money is, but I have a friend who recently became an 'expert' on airpair. He said he likes it so far

www.airpair.com
When I read it out loud to my wife, it made sense. But when I read it in my head, I couldn't figure it out.
The real scandal is the way that jackass opened that MacBook Air. What the hell!

Also I'd really like to know exactly how they hacked Mac OS X. Because if he downloaded something and then gave it his administrator password, that doesn't count as being hacked.
The paper also talks about statistics on how often gay people are beaten in Russia. United States is far worse in this respect. Further United States has a greater incarceration rate for gays than Russia.
It might run counter to your goals but wouldn't it accomplish more or less the same thing to require an approved pull request for any open source project? A similar amount of overhead would still be required, but you would wind up with a much more diverse population. You could even showcase the repos being worked on.
Personally I ignored the conclusion's. I am more interested in the facts/citations which appear to be correct.
Free software; the term is free software. In other words, software that respects your freedom.

Refer to this:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.htm...
I adored Eliss when it released. I still use it at one of the single best examples of how a touch UX radically changes the computing experience by aligning software behavior with physical intuitions.

Consider multitouch. Conventional mouse-desktop thinking orients us to one pointer and a one-point interaction mode. "Normal Users" (aka, the Your Mom archetype) new to the touch experience and to Eliss almost always use a single finger to drag around the screen objects, switching to two only to pinch. But around level 3, the game ramps up in difficulty, and this is when the magic happens. The user starts falling behind. Without asking or thinking about it, nearly every single one of them suddenly starts using their other hand. Nobody told them it would work! These are users terrified of clicking the File menu, because it once ate their Word document. Experimentation has a huge mental inhibition, and yet touch is so intuitive it bypasses the block. I've asked all these users whether they noticed -- and while this isn't rigorous by any degree -- nearly all of them reported they did not. This is magic.

Thank you Steph Thirion, for hours of enjoyment in Eliss as well as a lovely natural experiment in UX.
Leave Pricing OFF your homepage
If homepages are intended to convert users to sign up or get started on a trial, why do so many SaaS companies/products continue to put pricing on the homepage readily available to see when all pricing ever does is either confuse the visitor or even go as far as deter them from signing up or trying out your service.

*Yes if you and another service are literally EXACTLY the same and your only differentiator is price, then fine. Pricing then gets your visitor to convert but I'd be worried about your long term sustainability.

Discuss! :)
Because NLP is more interesting?
We suck at community building?
Not enough content?
No HN Luck?
Perhaps it's neither interesting or good enough yet :)
A [...] method for automated topic classification
TL;DR

The city must completely disappear from the surface of the earth and serve only as a transport station for the Wehrmacht. No stone can remain standing. Every building must be razed to its foundation.

—SS chief Heinrich Himmler, October 17, SS officers' conference

Warsaw has to be pacified, that is, razed to the ground.

—Adolf Hitler, 1944[2]
Candy and honey are not the same thing.

Nowhere in the article do I claim that we "can't handle" any of those things.
MaidSafe: Platform for decentralized Internet
Recalculate that in Satoshis :)
4 actions to feel happy with my work
New Relic claims revenue more than doubled in 2013 on its road to IPO
Lots of states have already given up this control, for a variety of reasons.
I agree with you - they fully deserve what happened to them.

However, I have to say that I think their little trick is quite cool. I wonder how many apps on the apps store do a similar thing but went unnoticed by the powers that be because of a lack of popularity.
There is no such thing as a developer shortage; there is a shortage of wildly, identifiably competent developers willing to work for the salaries you're offering. Offer more money (and especially, advertise it), and perhaps offer remote work to expand your search pool if you'd rather pay "Cincinnati well-off" than "Mountain View well-off" salary, find yourself with no shortage. The sense of entitlement is astounding.

Or, as this article states, you can offer interesting work in a good environment - that's worth something (have you tried offering a 4-day week?), but really, your core problem is probably building something very boring with very high maintainability and reliability.

So just offer more money, and advertise as such. It's really really simple.
> If you gave me a pile of resumes, and told me I had to hire one of the developers in the pile, the first thing I would do is schedule a party and invite all the developers on that list.

Because programmers are very social creatures that would jump on the opportunity to go to a party thrown by some random recruiter. Especially the ones that already work 8-10 hours a day. But you're not looking for programmers, you're looking for brogrammers, aren't you? Carry on then.
I would expect us to ship code folding, but we just haven't gotten to it yet. Same for themes (for which there are also extensions that fill in the gaps).

It would be a great contribution to the project for people to pick up a feature like folding that ideally belongs in core and helps get it to "core quality" (unit tests, comments, etc.) It's possible that some extensions are already that good and we just don't know it.
It has been my experience that doctors make horrible businessmen. I think it is the medical school training that encourages over confidence in their abilities, even outside their domain, and a dangerous reluctance or inability to listen to outsiders or experts of lower social status. Perhaps this guy is the exception but I don't think it was the doctor training so much but the fact that high intelligence is general can quickly be applied to any area.
> And how well did that turn out for the people who invested in it?

Pretty damn well... no?
Ask HN: Large File Hosting?
We have a large file (a 1GB Raspberry Pi image) that we want to users to download. Sourceforge files keep getting corrupted for some customers. Is there a more reliable site for hosting large downloads?
Not quite. You have to offer a good work environment as the article suggests. I suppose you could theoretically pay large salaries that make up for really bad ones, but unless you're a running high volume 95% margin type of business, you probably won't find them affordable...
This has been studied and documented in detail, about a year ago - five minutes on google will find it. Basically, someone tracked the two prices for a single title rising in lock step - just the thing you say makes no sense.

My own book, which is available new from Amazon for around $12, has listed for several hundred thousand dollars from a reseller.
I just did so. Your link supports my conclusions 100%.

It was mostly waiting time (95% of it from the looks of it), everyone trying to figure out jurisdiction and law issues, and the fact they were suing for lots and lots of money from the start - that made the government "fight" it by mostly conceding on the issues.

This whole story attempts to spin 1 human error event against the system.
This advice may have been based off a long time best selling book that the author fails to mention, either because he doesn't know about the book (ignorance) or because he knows about the book, but he forgot to mention it (forgetfulness).

The name of the book is: Go For No
http://www.amazon.com/Yes-Destination-How-You-There/dp/09663...

It's a great book.
This is absolutely false. From Wikipedia (with many, many, detailed citations and sources):

"Under the statute it is effectively illegal to hold any gay pride events, speak in defense of gay rights, or say that gay relationships are equal to heterosexual relationships."

You cannot hold a pride parade (a minor might see it); you cannot distribute brochures (a minor might read it); you cannot have a website (a minor might see it). The freedoms we take for granted in the West, limited though they may be, simply do not exist in Russia. Every single item that mentioned as something you can do in Utah is something you cannot do in Russia, by law. And that's not even touching on the more restrictive laws in many regions and cities, nor on the surge in hate crimes and other unofficial repression.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Russia#Bans_on_g... (Although really, just google it; there's tons of info.)