skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was hiring a junior webdev in Boulder, CO and got some good candidates from SO. About 300 bucks for one month lowest tier ad. It was useful because I felt I had tapped out my network and the free sites.

Their UI is great, and the times (not many) I had to deal with sales they were helpful.

Ended up making the hire from CL, though.
With the median housing price being ~$825k and a mortgage qualification of $400k (that's pushing it) for an engineer with $150k yearly salary, that's still a gigantic gap. There's little difference in the coveted spots on the rest of the peninsula.

Where does the obviously wrong conclusion that tech workers themselves (engineers, scientists, etc.) en masse are the cause of such rising prices come from? What tech worker has ~$825k in cash that they can drop on a house (more like a one bedroom in SF)? It seems to me, people are simply ignoring the math because it's convenient and the idiots attacking google busses and such because they never learned it.
Isn't this pretty much how your country works? Why do you expect to be treated different in a specific situation (IT industry and your job) when that is the overall attitude anyways?
Drummer that likes odd time signatures? Here's some Zappa for you! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6uXANvaK1I
Fuck L0ck. Seriously fuck those guys.
My wife had her computer blink out for a couple weeks and while the problem was getting fixed she hooked up her ~10 year old netbook she bought back then for ~$300 to a monitor/kb/mouse and after windows updated the ancient XP and office installs, was back to work pretty quick. It was absolutely fine for office work and basic web surfing, full screen videos were a little rough but they worked...she even got some dev work done on it.

Tbh, if the video performance was a little faster and it had an extra GB of RAM, she'd be perfectly fine with it as her day to day...and it fits okay in one of her larger purses.

It's absolutely amazing how overpowered our machines are these days, there's almost no sense to it.
I don't see how it could be surprising that iOS devices are not used for the same purposes OSX devices are. Surface tablets are just Windows machines with a different keyboard. It's not surprising they can run all the software you are used to run on your Windows PC whereas it's expected software built for OSX does not run on iOS devices.
Elementary OS, cool one.
Imagine... – John Lennon
I thought he was being ironic.

"I want x to be subtle in the way that a shotgun to the face is subtle" i.e. not subtle at all.
Assuming you meant "conspicuous", the problem with this idea is that when such officers want to participate in less than stellar behavior, they will obscure the numbers (by putting on a jacket, etc.). This could be justified to their superiors for any number of "tactical" reasons. After all, many cops regularly go on duty in unmarked cars or in plainclothes.

Cops are supposed to cite drivers for license plate covers and I see them out in NY the time--how can we expect them to enforce the display of their own numbers?

The only part of the uniform that police can't easily modify is the badge, which is also the part that unambiguously proves that they are police when necessary. (Not that most citizens would know how to authenticate the badge of their local police, much less those of all the federal LEAs [1]).

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Federal_law_enforcemen...
Mathematicians are chronically lost and confused. It's our natural state of being, and it's okay to keep going and take what insights you can.

I suggest you don't worry too much about verifying every claim and doing every exercise before moving on. If it takes you more than 5 or 10 minutes to verify a "trivial" claim in the text, then you can accept it and move on. It's healthy, if you get stuck on such a problem, to think about other problems or come back to them later. It's not uncommon to find that by the time you revisit them you've literally grown so much (mathematically) that they're trivial.
I have lived in nyc for 23 years. The police used to be much cooler. The would chat with parade goers, joke around and compared to the harness bulls in Chicago they were great. After 9/11 the department changed. Meaner more suspicious and unfriendly. 10 citations a month is pretty low. One every three days. You could write that in ten minutes in the intersection outside my window. My dad was a cop. It's a hard fucking job. Keep that in mind.
That is one idiot, not idiots.
That's unfortunate. Linear algebra is one of the few mathematical fields that one can really benefit from knowing the theory.
Oculus Rift production halted due to materials shortage
kubuntu. I came from Windows and love the ui. Ubuntu under the hood means noob and advanced support. Also, IMHO Konsole is one of the best terminal emulators around.
He's right here...site is still being updated...still making suggestions...

http://inflation.us/

https://www.youtube.com/user/InflationUS
I posted it because it's Sunday and there wasn't much going on. I wouldn't put it up as one of the finest HN submissions ever, but I think there's some value in "this could happen to you" and "this is what you should do if".

The piece itself was well written and relatively apolitical and non-threatening.

The "tech" aspect is the "fsck the police" part -- I think Nick is going to go into some ways to use technology to 1) help the police do what they should be doing, better 2) help the police not do what they shouldn't be doing 3) help users/clients/customers/victims of the police. And so should other HN people. Video recording seems like the lowest hanging fruit -- figuring out how to do that both safely and reliably is a good problem to solve. If I were GoPro, I'd donate $25mm or so to developing best practices for this, and then make another $5b selling GoPro-Police cameras over the next decade.
Sharing files without the permission of the distributor is piracy, plain and simple. Just because GitHub is primarily an open-source distribution company does NOT mean it is OK to assist in the piracy of their products, beta or not.

Do you want nice things? Do you want better things? Do you want companies to take an idea and expand upon it, and ultimately try to make something that could make YOUR life / job / hobby easier? Then STOP with this ridiculous notion that you deserve to try out this beta of Atom. You'll wait in line for your invite like the rest of us. Until then, mind your damn manners.
I hear 7/8 all the way through.

Because I can't remember how to phrase an up beat in an */8 time signature, think in terms of 7/4 for a moment. You can clearly hear the repeating percussion pattern on these notes throughout the entire track:

1 & [rest on 2] & 3 4 & [rest on 5] 6 7

I distinctly hear 7 downbeats each bar.
Tutorial on how to rip Blu ray 3D to MKV 3D
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This is wonderful, especially comparing the kind of experience you get here http://openxcplatform.com/vehicle-interface/hardware.html vs the soul-crushing experience of finding anything useful here: http://www.toyota-4runner.org/3rd-gen-t4rs/78245-android-obd... (these car forums are sort of like what searches for programming-related terms would devolve to before StackOverflow, and are second only to phone-related forums in uselessness).

As a selfish aside, do any car nerds know how I would begin finding out if a 2004 4Runner has a CAN bus? http://www.auterraweb.com/aboutcan.html sort of implies no, but seems far from definitive.
Drummer here..

Edited to rephrase this as a question as I'm not so sure any more :p

If it were 13/8, wouldn't each bar would comprise two 'patterns' (forgot the correct term) with the second beginning halfway between beats 6 and 7? IMO makes less sense than it beginning at the start of a bar of 13/16.
> Mathematicians are chronically lost and confused. It's our natural state of being, and it's okay to keep going and take what insights you can.

This needs to be emphasized more in learning maths. Once I got over this fact and was guided by my interest rather than wanting to grok everything, I actually started understanding a lot more.
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IMO, raid jackets should have the police ID number written in the same font as POLICE (or other agency) on the back, and on the front in 2-3" high numbers.

The headband of a uniform cap would also work well in addition to a name tape.

There should also be a requirement that police identify themselves by name/number verbally in interactions when it is practicable to do so; e.g. "You are under arrest, I'm Officer Johnson badge #3898390 of the NYPD, ..." Coupled with audio and video recording devices, it helps create a record.
Check out Ben Monder's "Rooms of Light" for a really brain-bending bit of counting.
Go 1.2.1 is released
Are you implying that "non-developers" should be discouraged from doing so? Would you agree if CSS was replaced with HTML?

Consider that many people learned how to write their own webpages with nothing more than a browser and a text editor, and the simplicity and soft error recovery characteristics of HTML is what I think was responsible for a large part of the Internet's growth. The barrier to entry was low, so it was easy to participate. Many people I know learned how to create webpages this way, largely by example (i.e. view source). Many of them also learned a bit of CSS too. These users produced and consumed content. But now, all I see is a growing divide between "users" and "developers", with these changes in browsers both reflecting and encouraging it, and I can't see that as being at all a good thing.
I started reading it for a class but I wasn't assigned all the problems. Later, I managed to propel myself through it by building confidence with the problems of the first few chapters (which were easy by that point) and then embracing the sunk-cost fallacy to get through the rest.

One problem stood out. I forget the chapter, but I'll never forget the problem: prove that normed vector spaces are inner product spaces IFF the parallelogram law holds. It took about half a day to crack that problem and I was completely lost for about 90% of it. (That's not a strategy. The first paragraph was my strategy. My only point here is that you aren't alone in getting stuck.)
NYU Law Profs Say NSA's Compliance is Illegal
I read it, but I still don't understand why you plead not guilty.
I don't like the way I do business but I don't really have a choice in the company I am in. It all boils down to the business model of the recruitment companies and who owns them. Most recruitment company owners are people who have excelled at sales in recruitment and have risen up through the ranks to get enough money to fund their own ventures. They then want to rip people off to make as much money as possible, they see candidates as cattle and think there is enough companies out there to rip them off and still have a viable business model. I love all these start ups that are trying to disrupt the industry but your gonna have to lift you game to beat these people, they are quick and ruthless and the phone is their weapon, its the cheapest and most effective way to make money
Is Hacker News a warez site now?
This is exactly what Col. Chris Hadfield, former commander of the ISS and general type-A++ person, describes in his book "An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything".

It's insane how prepared they are. In fact, it was hard for me to learn many lessons from the book, because the astronaut experience is so different from every day life. I just don't get to try things 1000 different ways and debrief with fellow geniuses every time. Real life seems to involve quite a bit of muddling through with barely adequate experience.

A good read if you want a glimpse into the mind of the ultra-high-achiever, crazy work ethic, moustachioed Canadian hero.
Berry White Strain Review – New Water Pipe – Inline to UFO Percolator
> they see candidates as cattle

I think most candidates sense this and this is why they shy away from and react negatively to recruiters.

My last comment wasn't necessarily directed at you personally -- more wondering if the recruiting industry has locked itself into its own paradigm and whether anyone has done testing to see whether or not that actually is a valid paradigm.
designer-centric app-ification of the web

Great phrase. I'm probably not the only one who desires a more user-centric web, and also web browser...
Introducing Bitcoin JS Bench
Tip: Wikipedia has experimental support for MathJax, making most equations look way better. (it's in user preferences)
Outsourceability as a Measure of your Software Development Process
Pretty sure they do all states now. I don't work for them, but I'm definitely a fan.
Ellen DeGeneres and the Oscars take down Twitter
You are making a reductio ad absurdum.

I'm not proposing that private schools all close their doors tomorrow - of course there would be chaos - but that in long term planning of the education system, we should consider that that privatization of education perhaps leads to a greater socioeconomic gap.

Likewise, I'm not saying that the problem magically fixes itself. It's a long, hard road to undo all of the damage. But if the most influential people aren't on board, it becomes significantly harder. I don't think there's any hard and fast reason that we can't have a public education system that serves the needs of everyone.

As a means of affecting change, I think it's important that the wealthiest, most influential people are involved. Consider - I think it's not a stretch to say that a congressman with no kids in the public system would be more willing to vote to cut funding or vote for a counterproductive measure. And we do rely on the wealthy more to contribute to society. Someone making $500k/year is required to contribute at least $200k of that labor to the government - while someone making $30k might be barely required to contribute anything. And so one might say that it's not without precedent.
No, sorry, this is a terrible idea,

Every broke idiot with a pen would write up every idea under the sun.

Companies, with resources to actually bring those ideas to life, would have to pay way more to be able to do so, driving up the cost of innovation in markets.

Also, presumably, a company would just pay a broke guy to submit the patent on their behalf, and pay them a small fee. Leading to a horrific industry of 'broke guy recruiters'.

Lone inventors are actually the primary group harming innovation here, not large companies (contrary to what your politics and gut might wish for). They patent some broad thing they have no intention of making, and sell those 'inventions' on for a quick buck to holding companies who make their money from suing people.

Patents need to not exist any more. For all the noise companies make about patents being important, if you took them away tomorrow, the world would be exactly the same. Nothing would change.
Is Twitter down now?
Thank Ellen for that :)
Btw, wouldn't it be easy to track down the mauled transactions and look who initiated them? After all, no one can use MtGox anonymously. Obviously, 'the hacker' could have used hacked accounts (this would have been noticed) or false identities.
Planes? A bit of quick searching backs up what I thought -- ships are way less carbon-intensive than planes, though, to my surprise, less efficient than rail: http://carbonfund.org/how-we-calculate

And while I'm all for regulation, I'm basically pessimistic. Then again, overpopulation and nuclear escalation turned out less bad than I expected, so what do I know?
http://hoplon.io/ is a lot closer to the Hickey/Norvig/Anderson paper.
Screenshot ...

http://snipek.com/web-a/93e846a2-ca5d-4217-a8db-299b64091576
Booking.com has an unfortunate reputation in the perl community

http://blogs.perl.org/users/booking_employee/2014/01/booking...
How we built a text message service to tell people when MTGOX.com changes
We just wrote up a summary of the past few days. It's been a wild ride. Also, here's a Gist of how we're getting through MTGOX's cookie authentication so we can scrape their front page.

https://gist.github.com/rjsteinert/9317452

https://jerrytherobot.com/blog/index.html
I'm assuming this is due to the Oscars and not due to something meaningful like the (potential?) war in Ukraine?
It's funny to see someone rushing to the defense of the idea of customer engagement, as if it really needs additional promotion or protection. I mean, we only hear about how much companies need to be creating deep emotional connections with their customers and making sweet, sweet love to them 24/7.

As a customer, I want great service too. As a business owner, I understand that their are economics behind delivering such service, especially when customers also want low prices. There has to be a balance, and avoiding unnecessary interaction (or engagement) is an absolute key to providing better service overall.
that piece is pretty awesome. rather more difficult to figure out than the terminator theme with all the syncopation and what not.

I've always loved odd time sigs. I recently got turned on to Indian classical tabla music, which is utterly ridiculous.. I'd say the gap in complexity vs the above is comparable to 22/8 vs 4/4.
i'm inclined to agree with the first comment on the article. if the author was not a privileged, professional-looking white guy, his outcome could have quite likely been much worse. i disagree with his naive conclusion (based on a sample size of one instance of getting arrested for an extremely minor infraction) that the NYPD are largely "good people charged with bad policing tactics". the treatment of minority groups such as chicanos, african-americans, and muslims by the NYPD is well documented and does not reflect a police force full of good people. :-/
Surprised HN hasn't taken this down - in the time i've browsed through this site anything that goes against monetizing a user is blasphemy. Given that most of HN are developers of some sort I gave the benefit of the doubt, this is how they make their money blah blah blah. More to the point, this article organizes all my complaints and then some. Agree with it or not, whenever I see a new start-up or app or whatever I immediately think, "I don't want to give you $1.99, even if I pay more for chips that go stale." Too much competition makes me very untrustworthy to buy anything.
I suspect this was ironic understatement. E.g., "As subtle as a roundhouse kick to the head."
Using Tcl/Tk, one did layout interactively at the command line. It was fast and very intuitive, especially in the way it used layout guides with easily understandable local "laws of physics." However, it usually resulted in very staid looking UIs. Also, such a scheme would have to be modified to be able to deal gracefully with things like device rotation.
It's strange that Adobe Brackets is open-source but GitHub Atom is closed. I would have guessed the opposite, based on the companies that made them.
The article mentions that the Royal Navy banned cats on the grounds of hygiene in the 1970's, does anyone know if the US followed suit?
Just Called Mt. Gox
> The number 1 rule when interacting with police should be you have no rights.

As a former Los Angeles sheriff's deputy who agrees with the majority of sentiments in this thread, I can confidently say that your broad statement is nonsense. Everyone, not just upper middle class whites, should know and assert their rights in police encounters.
I can't compile the [1] Twelve Days of Christmas with 10.9.2 clang.

[1]: http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~manuel/obfuscate/xmas.c
It's one time per search. But I can definitely build in a function where it would run in the background. That's something i'll keep in mind for the second iteration.
and its back.
This website is hideous, two modal popups over each other and a broken link to the source of this article - http://reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/1yee6i/official_oculus_s...

Also, "There is a materials shortage" vs "components used are EOL" - big difference!

I hate tech journalism sometimes.
I want to say this is their first major outage since going public (someone please correct me if that is incorrect). I wonder if the markets will care about this in the morning?
This one starts off in 17/16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFoYsqVqDcU
Hells Bells by Bill Bruford
That's pretty cheap, but the question is, what can you offer that something like https://freedns.afraid.org doesn't? (One other point in their favor is that they're included by default in the DNS service listing for my router and NAS. Not even sure you could add custom ones.)
You're not one of those RoHS deniers are you? I hate to break it to you, but EVERYTHING made in the last ten years is made with lead-free solder and ta-da: it all works perfectly well.
The tweet that broke Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheEllenShow/status/440322224407314432

1M+ retweets in the first hour.
The tweet that is the culprit, on track to beat Obama's for number of retweets.

https://twitter.com/TheEllenShow/status/440322224407314432
http://status.twitter.com/

No official comment (yet).

Edit: Here we go -

Brief service issue 14 minutes ago

Between 19:05 and 19:29 PST today, some users may have experienced issues viewing and sending Tweets on twitter.com and Twitter’s mobile apps.

Traffic was redirected away from the components that were experiencing problems, and the issue has now been resolved.

We apologize for any inconvenience.
It's usually pretty easy to find out the company by simply Googling a line or two of the description as well.
I agree this submission is somewhat odd for HN, but as it's here I'm going to take the opportunity to recommend the novel Blitzcat to anyone with kids. As the reviews point out it's unique in literature to have an animal main character in a non-Disney or cute style, especially exploring parts of WWII. I haven't read it for two decades but the article immediately brought it to mind as something I enjoyed.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blitzcat-Robert-Westall/dp/033039861...
Perhaps you don't realize this, but many parents choose not to use the public school system for religious reasons. Are you willing to trample all over their religious liberty and lock them up in pursuit of your utopia?

You probably just didn't think about them. So thank you for posting this, as it demonstrates a growing problem in America: ignorance of religion. I don't care if you're religious or not, this is a country with a lot of people who are.

People these days love words like "tolerance" and "diversity" but then they suggest the most intolerant policies you can imagine.
Can't you power it briefly via a large enough capacitor/antenna pair?
The biggest issue for me is that there's no visual cue with the charms gesture, which is pretty necessary if there's going to be any kind of delay in my mouse being there and the charms appearing.
Actually if you look at the US office of government accountability study, you'd see a completely different view.
Considering that the two cited articles are from 1993 and 1999 respectively, it might be worth it to attach more weight to a wide ranging government study from 2009.

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09279.pdf