skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Foreigners interact really quirkily with many Japanese societal norms. My company proposed hiring me as a salaryman (正社員) at our interview. I was flabbergasted, having assumed that they would naturally only consider me for contract employee status (契約社員). You don't want to be a salaryman but you really don't want to be a contract employee.

My future boss made it clear (for the first of many times) that he intended on dealing with me squarely, in a fashion which is not universal among all Japanese employers, and that I had skills and educational attainment closest to his salarymen and thus I should be a salaryman. He asked if I understood what he was asking for me. I said that I did, that I was honored, and that owing to my age and situation I didn't think I could promise him that I would reside in Japan continuously until my retirement. He said that he understood I had particular circumstances and would accept the possibility of me leaving at some indefinite point in the future as long as it was, say, 4 years off, seeing as he was sticking his neck out for me. I told him that 4 years was a long time for an unmarried 25 year old and asked if 3 was acceptable. We shook on it, so to speak.

To my bosses' enduring credit, they were scrupulously fair in dealing with me as a Japanese salaryman, despite that being almost shockingly abnormal at many Japanese firms, and they made it quite clear that everyone else was to deal with me in the same fashion or they'd find out what a Japanese multinational will do on behalf of a wronged employee.

[Edit to add: If people detect notes of conflicting opinions from me regarding salarymanhood, it's largely because that one specific bit of Japanese corporate culture -- loyalty -- really resonated with me.

Feudalism is a pretty effed up system, too, but aside from all the Game of Thrones Except In Real Life bits it had its own peculiar beauty to it. I sort of feel like that about salarymandom.]

How I got hired there is a long story. I think I've told it on HN and elsewhere before.
It looks like one implies an outside source, the other originates with the officer at the scene.

In the case of a traffic stop, the officer stops me 'because I am speeding' and searches me until he finds something.

In another case, s/he stops me because of a 'tip.'

The cover story of the officer differs.

If they won't stop this they should at least keep stats on how many of these things pan out.
It's actually much like the hunger games ... a bunch of candidates go into an arena, and the new CEO emerges from the carnage.
The disparity between the U.S. and Belgium is huge:

I have a nice GitHub public profile. I am a capable and experienced Python and Haskell developer. I am building Reesd (https://reesd.com), a redundant storage service made of:

- Several Docker containers, linked through Open vSwitch,
- Web frontend,
- SCP reimplementation with account permissions
and bucket plan limits, and on-the-fly SHA1 check,
- Redundant backend store,
- Background jobs to check files SHA1 to detect early corruption,
- Payment done through Stripe (almost done),
- HAProxy,
- Email through mandrill,
- I'm working on adding PostgreSQL synchronous replication.

I think I have largely proved myself to possible employers. Still it is excessively difficult to find a job without moving abroad: the belgian market for non-Java/.Net/C# developers is small. Search for a Python developer position, you'll find 1 or 2 public postings. And they will offer you a ridiculously small salary since the market is on their side.

When I see the perks you are offered in the SV this is crazy. And then you have posts like these to move you forward. A chance HN is accessible abroad :)

B.t.w. it's maybe the third time that I post Reesd as part of a comment on HN. I think it made sense to include the link in my comment; but still, is it ok to do so regularly even if the subject makes sense ?

Edit: hey, thanks for the replies!
There are things that you would regularly expect to operate while driving that can only be operated by touch screen in a Model S.

What things are there? I don't own a Model S, but am considering buying one, so I'm genuinely curious.

I agree that you probably don't want to have to use the touchscreen while you're driving, but I was under the impression that most things could also be controlled via steering wheel buttons, so I assumed this wouldn't be a major issue.

Obviously there's some stuff you can't do via steering wheel controls, like web browsing, but then again I wouldn't want to browse the web while driving anyway. I've also been told that web browsing is disabled while the car is moving, but I'm not 100% sure if this is correct or not.
SolarCooler keeps drinks cool with Sun power
So, I'm doing 7 engineers worth of work. It feels about accurate.
It must be comforting to view the world so simply. All it takes is some stereotyping to knock your world-view right back to how you like it.
Developer Evangelism: the whole story
I am rather bored by the specifics of Asusgate, but I do think the story has one very interesting conundrum. If change has to be driven by impassioned masses. And the masses only become impassioned when directly affected. Does it become OK for the good guys to accelerate exposure of the masses to the risks in order to prevent harm happening at a larger scale in the future?
yes you are right.
Looking forward to see how he leads M$.
Z,

> As with everything, the issue is twofold. In the case of Heroku and your user-base it is reasonable to expect your users are closer-to-wire than an iOS guy hacking in Cocoa Touch.

Certainly! Regarding the overall question of "SDK vs. custom HTTP wrapper" there isn't a right answer; different parties have different requirements and should use the right option for them. I'm not even saying that users of Heroku shouldn't have an SDK here -- they should absolutely have one if it will help them, and Heroku ships SDKs for just that reason. I was trying to make the point that me, as a maintainer of a Heroku backend service that talks to other services, would like the option of not having an SDK; like you said, I want to be as close to the wire as possible.

Thanks for the feedback and reading!
Your point about reducing the hero image is a very good one. I hadn't thought of that. And even if it's a poor quality image, the content is mostly static and distracts from the entire purpose of the navigation: getting you reading stories.
Is there any technology at work here? How is this not a bad faith scam?
Clojure has a built-in hash which (I believe) returns the value of <your_obj>.hashCode() [the one java provides].
Isn't the 'quantum' in "quantum mechanics" an adjective?
Whee, looks like fun!

Adanaxis[1] is a 4 dimensional space shooter- only sort of playable but still fun.

http://www.mushware.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Comparison_satellite_navig...
I understand why marketing shots of products like Facebook Paper or Facebook Home use beautiful, crisp photos to promote the product.

But I don't understand why these apps seem to be designed on the assumption that real-world Facebook users' feeds are actually filled with such photos. The same applies to the giant contact photos in Android 4.1+. This is great if all of your contacts have beautiful high-res headshots. In real life, most don't and it's an ugly pixelated mess.
Drug enforcement agencies are the Western version of religious police.

Their only purpose is to enforce fundamentalist lifestyle values upon the general population. It has nothing to do with maintaining safety, order or justice. These agencies do not belong in a free society. I'm not a libertarian, far from it, but for some government activities there is absolutely no justification.
Even for governments that are bigger than large private industries in scale, they often make IT purchasing decisions at a lower level of the organization which makes the effective scale as a purchasing entity smaller; so, there may well be a sensible business reason for this ordering.
I'm hoping Satya can break through Microsoft's notorious cycle of be strongly competitive, but then neglecting a product when it has achieved dominance. Also, continue and expand the embracing of open technologies. Do all that and avoid monpoly tactics and you should be good to go.

Microsoft has always been its best as the underdog and that's where they're at now.
I tend to lean the other way, I hate the trend for shorter articles.

Usually, there isn't enough room in a short article, unless it is about something really simple and minor, to actually look at something properly, so you just end up with a woolly impression of the subject, that has often been rendered totally inaccurate by the requirements of brevity.
Why would one use Q promises in Node in 2014? They're very very very slow. Especially when there are alternatives like Bluebird promises that are almost as fast as callbacks.
While I agree in principle I would be remiss if I didn't say that the ATF is much worse. I mean the DEA doesn't go around sniping kids and all. For those who are curious or unaware read up on Ruby Ridge. Don't forget their handy work in Waco either...
Time flies, doesn't it? 3.5.3 was from September 2009. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/3.5.3/releasenotes/
This is Hacker News. If you can't post a relevant link in a comment to something you built yourself, then I just don't know anymore.
GOP Data initiative
Earlier in my career, I was warned IT was hated by management because it's seen as a black hole of budget. My advise is stay away from IT as a career. Go with a career where you can create something that's marketable.
As magnet falls, it is slowed down, this drag is created because magnetic forces are resisting gravity. So after some time, magnet loses that force, I just wonder how long does it take. It can't fall slowly like that forever.
You're probably trying to think about it in spatial terms. But it's impossible to understand a 4D object with 3D spatial reasoning. I would say ALL humans are too "dumb" to grasp this concept. Of course the math is fairly simple, but there's a difference between understanding the math and truly understanding what a world with 4 spatial dimensions would be like.
That's pretty cool; judging by the 'crappy demo' it has potential but would need some important features to be useful, such as: labels, improvements regarding the visual appearance & clarity, and node selection to isolate connections.
I think you are blaming the wrong branch of government. The DEA and the policy of "War on Drugs" are both responsibilities of the executive.
Bluebird is definitely the way to go, we recently introduced it to an existing 100K LoC code base and we couldn't be happier.

The stack traces and error management is amazing and everything is very fast.
Hmmm... I wonder if everyone followed this advice, would it have the side effect of decreasing pay for the high profile jobs (like API evangelist, someone working on Android, etc) relative to the less public jobs (Build Guy, adwords engineer)?

I'm guessing so. That'd be an interesting outcome.
Modification of promotion and pricing seem to make sense to me.

Education is important but for many people in the developed world their exposure to liquor ads on TV is a lot more prevalent than their exposure to education. You're fighting a losing battle if you're competing directly with the messages of liquor companies (same thing in tobacco industry).

As for pricing, in many countries including the US with their new insurance system the cost of healthcare is being shared across large groups. In Canada we tax liquor at a rate of about 130% and feed much of that revenue directly into our healthcare system. This way the more you drink the more you contribute to your future expense to the healthcare system.
I think Bing is a lost battle. The real question is what can they do on Azure, and can they move people to a cloud-based Office suite.

Bing is actually doing surprisingly well, considering the team competes with probably the most successful department and the foundation of GOOG. IMHO it's likely one of very few successful strategic moves of MSFT in competitive markets. Without Bing, GOOG would pretty much print money and pour money on whatever futuristic projects they feel like. Oh, well, they're already doing these stunts, it would only get worse without Bing. Azure and Office-in-the-cloud alone cannot compete with freebies backed by big pockets.

Creating another browser that everyone needs to optimize their websites for separately - not so great.

I agree on the pains caused by browser fragmentation, but I do think it's still a good thing to have IE especially the new versions around. The recent move of GOOG pushing for Dart is a dangerous sign that GOOG is starting to flex its muscle and do whatever they want. Mozilla alone stands no chance in such a challenge, in a same sense they couldn't in a battle against MSFT about 2 decades ago.
Researchers Just Solved One of Quantum Computing's Biggest Problems
I've been fascinated with phone placement in hands for product shots.

It always seemed like a little bit of a cheat - especially when the elongated 5 came out - just to show one handed use of a device is possible.

For me at least, the way the phone is positioned is hardly comfortable. The bottom right corner at the base of the thumb exacerbates the problem the author's talking about. When I hold the phone higher in my hand with the bottom closer to the base of the index, all thumb-hook problems tend to go away.

Obviously this is anecdotal, but I'd love to see some studies about how people hold their phones. In some respects, I've always felt one-handed device usage was neglected by manufacturers, but I probably didn't fully understand how many users simply use two hands. I imagine data around grips (similar to [this](http://www.razerzone.com/mouseguide/ergonomic)) and hands used for phones will be somewhat surprising.
Is there a discipline that starts footnotes at 0?
Redux, redo in go
Yahoo mail DNS down
I'm referring to the article. The Clojure inspired OS would, I suspect. If no one has referred to the unrefined parts, what would be the problem?
That's interesting. Congrats on the launch and best of luck!
I don't entirely buy that argument.

The "decreased importance" you cite is only relative; I for one don't see the desktop becoming unimportant any time soon.

For one thing, my aging parents need 24 inch or bigger screens to adequately see what they're doing. As a programmer and watcher of digital video I need a minimum of 24 inches of 1080p screen.

Then there's the enterprise, where biggish screens are needed for basic IT.
My hope is that IT is now seen as a partner in making the business better (not sure how long ago you were warned).

But, I agree, it is always better to be on the revenue side than the cost side of the equation.
It's the 0.5%

Investment Manager Explains Why 99.5% Of Americans Can Never Win
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/an-investment-managers-view-2...
http://www.businessinsider.com/an-investment-managers-view-2...

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/class_domination....

Median Income and GDP per Capita Chart
http://itstheeconomystupid.us/EconomicCharts/tabid/1997/Arti...
ok now. a satirical comment. :)

very good. now take this and create a company that improves your health while washing your clothes. Affluent people will buy. In my earlier days, we used to use something called as "hands" to wash clothes.
Steps to being a consultant:

1. Decide to call yourself a consultant.

2. Make it stick by doing the job.

The "something" can be quite a lot of things, while "good enough" is more or less driven by "it would take one of our senior staff at least few weeks to get up to speed with it."

(For a more in-depth walkthrough, go read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4247615)
Indeed. I was at a commencement several years ago, where I noticed a heartening number of hoods in a color indicating an engineering or science degree. Somebody then told me that two thirds of the wearers were going into finance.
What I learned sitting next to Jacob Thornton
Facebook Paper is a great example of ignoring ergonomic design to achieve a more aesthetically pleasing view, a trend all too common in app design these days.
The Non-Existent Software Crisis: Debunking the Chaos Report
I live in the UK. I work for US clients. You can too. (You can also work for UK clients, which will be even easier!)
Author here.

- Multiple file/table support is coming.
- I like the -tab setting. Will add. I also want to support -dlm=xFF format for arbitrary delimiters, which makes working with Hive text file formats easier.
I think the point he's trying to make is that there is a skill gap, not a labor gap. We have plenty of people with degrees, but not enough with the skills they need to fill the jobs at hand.
Furthermore, either desktop is no longer relevant as the New Guard (Apple, Google) want us to believe, in which case Microsoft's past and current dominance on desktop is a fairly moot point as far as today's technology is concerned OR desktop remains relevant and we should be pressuring the New Guard to prioritize innovation in that space.

I personally strongly prefer modern "desktop" computing (that is, working with a computer with large displays while at a desk; I don't care what form factor the actual box takes) to computing on small devices.

Separately, I tend to like Microsoft's products more than Apple's and Google's even though I'm not a .NET developer. I'm weird, I suppose.

But all that said, Apple and Google are right that desktop is not hot—even a fan of desktop computing like myself must admit it's fallen out of favor. I've had my share of rants about why that is and what could be done to address it if firms are interested. But putting that tangent aside, I find those who bemoan Microsoft's dominance on desktop are using the wrong angle. If you like desktop computing like I do, but you don't like Microsoft, don't attack Microsoft. Instead, ask your favored firm (Apple, Google, whatever) why they don't offer you something you'd like in the desktop space.

I for one never agreed with past depictions of Microsoft as a monopolist on the desktop even through my experiments with oddball alternatives like OS/2. Their tricky business being what it is, they were not a monopoly. There were other options, but I eventually realized that I didn't like the alternatives.

Finally, I'm not sure I precisely agree with the implied shift from "desktop" and "the Internet." I figure I understand what you mean, but I can't help but envision the popular Homer Simpson quote: "Wait, they have the Internet on computers now?" Being a desktop aficionado, my desktop computing environment is all about network-enabled consumption and creation.

I see the chief battlefronts as:

* Small-screen versus large-screen (where I favor large screen and want small screen devices to be subservient views on applications running on my application server).

* Federated or self-control with sharing via documented protocols versus the plain cloud (where I favor federated or self-control because I feel the plain cloud we have today has brought us tremendous lock-in and multi-device/multi-cloud chaos).

All of these involve "the Internet," being the common communication medium.
Good idea! That'd be one layer of protection for sure.
Hmmm. That makes this ironic: http://www.theagitator.com/2008/11/21/new-report-cia-lied-ab...
Yahoo, Yahoo Mail, And Flickr Hit With Temporary Service Interruption
I am right handed but I seem to split it for phone usage, and I also use both hands a lot of the time. I don't wish to diminish the point that this may be and for people who use the app as pictured it may be painful, but insinuating that 90% of people will do so just because nearly 90% are right handed is not correct.
I don't see why not. Your using your project to illustrate a point that is relevant to the original post and your comments (at least to me) sound like you are proud of the project you are working on, rather than some kind of in your face marketing which might not be as acceptable.
https://github.com/dinedal/textql/issues/7
> and none of those can be interacted with via traditional physical buttons.

Was with you until this point. Yes, the UI is trickier, but if YouTube and Netflix and Twitch et al can be hammered into supporting the Roku and other non-touch-enabled set-top boxen, then the various audio-streamers need to get support for non-touchscreen-interfaces as well. Stick a D-pad and a "select/back" button on the steering wheel and do good old-fashioned arrow-key menu-nav.
This is the study I used as the basis of the Thumb Zone, etc.: http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2013/02/how-do-users-re...?
Not true in the context of dynamic languages. The constant factor for persistent maps in that context is quite small.
It's Clojure with a "j".

Clojure provides Persistent Hash Tries (look them up) as well as several other immutable map implementations. Mutable maps are provided by the Java base class libraries.
It's time for this nonsense to stop.

The courts need to get their heads out of the sand and restore the rights Americans used to have:

-No more wiretaps

-Drug dogs can't provide cause for a search

-No law enforcement tips originating from DoD/CIA, never

-Law enforcement can't data mine

-No more undercover agents of any kind

-No more entrapment

-No plainclothes officers (extremely unprofessional)

-Paid and compensated informants must be banned

Almost exclusively, all of these nonsense "tactics" have been permitted due to the war on drugs. The rights of the public have been trampled, and it's disgusting.
Lets change the way we give
yes! I recently switched from Q to bluebird and it's been great, and really is exceptionally fast. Also the source code is a work of art - extremely highly optimised.
Author here.

XML/HTML support, via XPATH selectors, is coming. I would love to be able to pipe the output of curl through this!
It's because of CRIME vulnerability.
Goodwill manager finds $43,000 in donated clothing, returns it
Fay Vincent – Ten Tips for New Executives
I really love paper, but totally agree here. I've also noticed that while I scroll through on the bottom usually my thumb is covering up the content I want to see.

Maybe I just have big thumbs.
From where I'm sitting, forcing those that enrich themselves from publicly-funded stadiums to shoulder the costs (if not all of them, than substantially more of them) is better than extorting communities to pay excessive amounts for dubious returns. Which one of those is wasting taxpayer money, again?

You could tweak the idea however you like. Whatever portion of the stadium is publicly funded could entitle the community to a matching portion of revenue generated from stadium events, for example.

At any rate, the idea (from both Easterbrook and myself) is more philosophical and humorous commentary.
Aka "What Color Is Your Parachute" turned into a website. Could be interesting.
That is just awesome. :D
Doesn't that require a US credit card?
Cloud gaming is when a server renders your content for you, then streams the video to you. So you could play a very resource intensive game on e.g. a cheap tablet.
Full profile of the new CEO: How Satya Nadella will transform the company
Don't blame the Supreme Court for this. The root problem is that the law allows for impounding of a vehicle.

We like to put the Supreme Court into the position of "fixing things to make them correct", but realistically that isn't their role.

All the Supreme Court said is that your right to unreasonable search and seizure does not stop a cop from using a legal method of search and seizure that would not normally be used.

Put another way, if the law gives cops the ability to do inappropriate things and the cops use this to do inappropriate things, that does not make the action illegal.
For those trying to wrap their heads around this ... I find this segment by Carl Sagan from the original Cosmos to be pretty well presented on the topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnURElCzGc0
Parsing JSON from command line using Python