skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, create a mutual fund that operates as a blind trust, and allow
transfers free of capital gains tax into the fund when an employee
is hired.

For extra points, require everyone who gets a Federal salary
to participate, including Congress-folk and their staff.

Operate the fund so that when the US economy is doing well, and
unemployment is low, and other reasonable and measurable national
economic goals are met, all the participants benefit.

An incentive like that might attract to Washington more cluefull and
qualified people who are willing to cooperate so that the people of
the country benefit.
Everyone and their grandma recommends me Scheme, but i am more willing to try a lisp that i can actually use in production like Clojure, i don't know.
Gitlab HTML injection vulnerability fix
I judge the quality of documentation by having interactive examples. Words are great, and also important, but interactive demos that exist within the documentation go a long way to assisting people in learning your project.

Here's a couple of examples:
http://distri.github.io/pixie-canvas/docs/
http://www.danielx.net/interactive/docs/ <- The meta one
"there's not much difference between it and PHP in terms of features"

Are the Perl internals as pathological as PHP?
I wouldn't be surprised if you're killbanned for disagreeing with one of HN's many insane libertarian nut jobs. This place is packed to the rafters with people who really believe the government is full of cackling evil villains and nothing more.

And if you dare to insult their religion, those nut jobs will killban you. And then only people who have showdead turned on will see what you write.

Not that any of it matters in the end.
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That would be "all companies."
I do both of these things though.
Factoring numbers quickly and why it doesn't work.
Not features, languages. We must be nearing the end of the game... C++ may be picking up whole countries soon.
Nope (well, yes, as distance -> infinity)

Imagine three boats making waves such that the ripples constructively interfere in some spots and destructively at others.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamforming
Security is as strong as the weakest link. If there is a weak link there's no security. So, it is boolean.
Confirmed that I'm still unable to access it. Its still returns the "DDoS protection" message followed by the "Website is offline" page.
Science confirms: Internet trolls are terrible people
'Godfather' of Helvetica font, Mike Parker, dies at 84
man, i wish i had come across this offer a few months ago.
Oh, yeah, maybe that. :)

Language is hard. :( I read it as "Wow, Atom is really extensible-friendly, even though they've only been making it a short while."
if there is enough good people doing the stuff already, therefore we don't need you even if you like the job

How can we determine whether there are enough people doing the stuff already? Going back to my comedian example, should I get to be a comedian just because I started doing it at some minimum acceptable quality, before there were 'enough' comedians, whilst the next Louis CK has to do something else?

I think you're missing:

- we don't need to measure productivity in aggregate (and I agree GDP has problems in doing this) but for each individual, and probably only in a relative sense

- competence in a field and motivation to do it are not necessarily correlated, as evidenced by the popularity of career-change guides

- A democratic process for deciding whether your work is useful for society would require a lot of information on each person's work. I don't see how you could summarise that information without coming up with a metric which means something like 'productivity'

Anyway, we've veered far off topic and I don't think we'll convince each other. Have a great weekend!
Adding /en/ to the URL creates an expectation that there are translations in other languages.
No. It's not that simple.

Of course, money can solve a lot of problems, but if she openly defies and (in their eyes) dishonours her family, she can expect retaliation. And they will use the people she loves and cares about the most to get at her.
It's on the way https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7316893
U of T medical school has a similar set of class composites which do a great job of showing gender and race changes over the years.
It's really hard to write unreadable crap in Java. Even if you do, there's automated refactoring to fix it. That's the thing about Java. It makes it really hard for clever bad programmers to do a lot of damage to a project. With Perl the sky's the limit.
"Think of a gas station attendant sitting around watching TV most of the day, the night audit at the hotel, or the guy flipping burgers when it's not lunch time."

I've been thinking about this a bit lately... What can we build to help people make the most of these spare cycles? Duolingo is perfect for this. What else could people produce/learn in spare time on their phone?
If the OS is Windows, as it often is in these environments, C# seems to strike the best balance between safety, ease of recruitment, and flexibility. I have not used it in several years, but I still look back and miss awesome elements of the language like linq, the selection of super polished UI frameworks, Visual Studio, the ability to use dynamics when you needed to, the lack of drama in the community, and the ease of finding answers to obscure questions on SO. Of course, I left the platform for a lot of the same reasons, but in the context of being increasingly involved with OSS. That said, the positives still hold true for the enterprise space you are describing.
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"a smart yet inexpensive piece of technology can take some of life’s burdensome weight off our shoulders"... of, you know, things like talking to your loved ones.
It is premined and thinly traded.

http://signalvnoise.com/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-v...
and I'm saying: if THAT is what you call "works just fine", then the whole concept of a hybrid document is broken and it's great that we've abandoned it.
The Future of Tech, According to Mark Cuban
If Obama's only legacies are preventing (or at least not causing) a second Great Depression and Obamacare (assuming Obamacare works worth a damn) that's not too shabby.

And by my calculations, since we're several months out from the mid-terms, Obama has well over two years left. Not that I'm expecting much from them.
With elective surgery, you can plan for almost everything except the price
I would stay away from 1and1 in the future, but their customer service seems alright. The main thing to watch out for is they don't notify you when a contract is about to expire and instead send you the bill after it auto-renews. My fault for getting used to other registrar/hosting services' conventions. They waived and cancelled my account after I called though. I'd say they're a bit more upstanding than EIG's[1] brands.

[1] http://www.digitalfaq.com/editorials/websites-blogs/hostgato...
I worked as a dish washer and then line cook for several years. It is true, that is way 'harder' work than programming. It was actually money (or, lack of money) and a work related injury that made me make myself a hirable coder.
It's hard to say if my world view changed or if it's normal for people who do this work to become this way, but that first year was so hard that it fucked with me. Brain is different.
I guess the trade off is ok though so it's cool ( not poor, homeless, in prison, or hungry :D ).

Oh and by the way, if you think working 8 hours a day as a cook or dishwasher is a lot LOL don't move anywhere where there is any job competition at all you will be instantly fired.
Meet Oppia
unless you are MtGox
Yes because chemo is the first thing we give to people with malignant cancers.
Designers: please stop it with infinite scroll. They are painful to work with and work around.

When a service switches to infinitely scrolling lists, I stop using it.
I'm scratching my head a bit that anyone would balk at an hour long train ride. I did it for years. You can read, work on a some project, or just relax.

I guess it's a Chicago thing.
Assuming pCell works as advertised it's a huge deal.

It allows you to cover a city in cells for insanely cheaper than current cell technology and provide far, far better reception and bandwidth to far larger numbers of customers AND it works with existing LTE gear while also affording simpler, cheaper, and lighter-weight new gear and reducing power consumption across the board. What's not to like?

I don't think anyone who has heard about pCell thinks it isn't a huge deal, if it works.

One example of a major potential problem: how well does it track erratically moving objects (e.g. most cell phones?), in built-up areas with lots of signal reflection?
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I think the point of giving a small gift that isn't tied to a holiday or event is to show that:

a) You were listening to her when she mentioned last week how much she loved $thingX, and

b) You took the time out of your busy day to get her something nice.

Using an automated service doesn't meet either of these, which is why I think it takes all the charm out of it. Maybe I'm wrong and they spoke with 50 customers who love this, but that's just my feeling.
For what it's worth, here is the Bank of Canada's explanation for why they target a 2% inflation rate as part of a broader goal of promoting price stability:

http://www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/why_ca...
Show DN: Robots Playing Motorhead's Ace of Spades
> Moore's Law is dead.

What makes you say that? Intel would certainly disagree...
No, put the stocks in a blind trust.
The idea of deliberately burning out devices is interesting, and probably feasible, given a dense enough array of powerful enough transmitters (bear in mind that one of the key benefits of pCell is that it uses far lower-powered transmitters). But it seems to me the inverse square law is going to make it a very inefficient weapon.
ICloudHacker: Arduino code to brute force Apple's 4-digit iCloud PINs
Very nice work. Bret Victor also has demos showing "dynamic" manipulation of math.

http://worrydream.com/#!/KillMath

There's also the Lucas gallery but they are straight animations and not manipulated by user.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LucasVB/Gallery
Won't use, make is declarative (sh is not a part of make) this is what 99999999 other projects don't understand, you can serialize it such as what gulpjs does (so side effects are somewhat controlled) but its just a band aid. A general purpose programming language is not a good idea for a build system.
And they usually go the extra mile. Have you got examples where someone else 'went the extra mile' where Apple didn't? Most other companies just like to talk big, like Google with their fantasy projects, but most of their actual released products are mediocre.
The Ubiquity of the Rainbow
There are a million things they could do. Gamify things and help science - http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23635094

Or set up a course and learn math etc.

Sadly, many bosses don't want this. They want a body at work and to look like they're working even if there's nothing to do.
> What you pointed out doesn't even diminish an ounce of what Brandon and his teammates are doing.

Right. It sounds like you're implying that was his intent, and he failed. I really think it was an noble effort to get to the heart of what might be a misleading soundbite. Very much in the spirit of HN.
This would make joining SEC a very expensive career move for a lot of people, especially if they only planned to be there for a year or two, and were heavily into former employers or other specific stocks based on their experience in the stock market.
I do it for a simple reason, layout clean up with auto-indent. I've found HTML layout cleanup to be unreliable in most editors. Where as XML layout works 99% of the time.
I never understood the fascination with Helvetica. It looks nice, sure, but there has to be more to it than that.
That's what the piece of opaque tape is for.
Very interesting, even with a big investment to try to scale their tooling that doesn't happen overnight. At the very least it could be a difficult/fun challenge for someone to take on.
The Mobile Startup That Almost Shutdown Is Now On Nearly 1 Billion Devices
it could take them that long to sign a contract anyway.
What's a circle if not all the right triangles (up to a choice of units)?
A lot of the world still uses shared devices, and disabling this setting smacks a bit of arrogance, to me.
Must be nice. For over eight months, we had no response of any kind, nor any indication that they had any interest in looking into possible technical issues on their network. In their final denial letter to us, they stated that based on the coverage map on their website, we could "expect excellent voice and data service" (at the location where we'd had constant drops for months).
> The claims in a JWT are encoded as a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) object

BRB going to the atm machine and putting in my pin number
hey anant! i was your intern at mozilla 3 years ago... great to see you popping up again :) this plugin looks awesome
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Despite the name, "middle class" does not mean "around median income." This is more apparent in countries like India and Brazil, but it's increasingly true in the US. "Upper class" definitely does not mean "top third by income."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_class
As long as function and variable names are arbitrary, you can write code that appears to do one thing and does something else. Far more damage can be done that way than by straight obfuscation.
"catastrophically restrict the pool of applicants"

This is amusing, but false. This is similar reasoning to why CEO's should make 10-20million dollars a year, rather than say...$10MM/yr. There is actually no shortage of people to be the CEO of any company (or the top rank in any hierarchy) and truth be told, Boards of Directors could not tell the difference for 9/10 candidates. As the saying goes, "graveyards are filled with the people thought previously indispensible". And empirical examples abound. Just imagine Apple without Steve Jobs, or Yahoo without whoever the guy was before Marissa Mayer. The only thing keeping quality applicants out of the SEC is power, presitige, and respect. There are many jobs that people work for low pay (eg Academia) provided that their social status is secure.
CALEA can't compel you to hand over anything you do not have access to. If cleartext in your chat system can't be accessed because you don't have access to customer private keys, that's not illegal.
Without having lots of data about your current system, business resources, business health, runway, expected growth, technical challenges, income, expenses, and other constraints it's very difficult for an outsider to come up with an informed decision on how best you can proceed given your unique set of circumstances.
Linux +1
Designers: Please continue to use infinite scroll where it's appropriate, it is much better than pagination much of the time, especially on mobile devices.

When a service sticks with pagination (like Amazon's movie service) I stop using it.
What is defined as work? I code for fun. I code at work. Where do we draw the line?
Functor is something that has a map function.

A monad is any generic class that has a flatMap function and a factory function that together satisfy 3 laws (explained below)

flatMap is like map, except the function passed to flatMap must return a monad (of the same kind).

The factory can make a monad of a regular value (it wraps it)

For example, an array's flatMap function takes a function that takes an element and returns an array. You can return an empty array if you wish, or an array of two elements (of the same type). flatMap "flattens" the result - it returns an array of elements of that same type.

The factory function and flatMap must satisfy 3 laws: left identity, right identity and associativity. That is, flatMapping with the factory function should result with the same thing as what you started with; wrapping a value with a factory then flatMapping it should result with that same value being passed to the function you passed to flatMap; and it shouldn't matter whether multiple flatMap calls are chained, or nested.

Like design patterns in OO languages, it isn't immediately clear why its useful to give a name (or a type) to all generic classes that satisfy this "interface" called monad, but it turns out that the concept pops up everywhere, from arrays to futures to Maybe (to replace null values) to Either to Observable and so on.

Not sure if I managed to be correct, understandable, concise or neither :P
That doesn't solve the problem. Employees will still have a conflict of interest because they will still want their stock's value to remain.
I'm not a fan of infinite scroll in the main, but there are use cases for it. I've often thought search results would be a good candidate. The don't suffer from the need to provide user feedback on progress of completion. I also think it provides Google with more ad opportunites including placing them within the infinite scroll at some interval, and, of course, the highly prized sticky ad ;) [edit - wanted to add that it would also lessen the blow of being on p2 ... in fact I would expect search users to frequently get deeper into the results yielding an improved feedback loop]
Note that "best functioning" can be worlds different from "well functioning."
Why? And use what instead?
They have to assign their holdings to a 3rd party financial manager/fund/401k/IRA/etc and recuse themselves from any active management of their own portfolio. Not sure if this is an industry-wide requirement, but I had to do this when I worked for a small bond fund some years ago. Zero trading my own account allowed, and required to disclose all personal holdings and activity to the compliance officer who reported to General Counsel.
A better way would be to publically list all investigations for which SEC employees have been required to sell shares.

But then that might pose due process issues for the companies.

Maybe all SEC employees should be required to have stocks in blind trusts while working there?
Because the Fed is not bound to 2% by its mandate, like the ECB is, they're free to alter that number as they see fit. Typically, during recession, you'll target a bit lower of inflation so as to stay the purchasing power of the unemployed's savings. The last thing you want to do is to have inflation take off on somebody who's living off of savings. Even to get to 1.5, they needed to do some QE, so it's not all rainbows and sparkles. Inflation's a difficult beast to tame, but they at least have more influence over that than, say, GDP.
> we should consider modestly affluent lifestyles to be the norm

That is a very interesting statement. I wish I could agree with you, but neither history nor the current state of the world support the idea that affluence is "normal."
These things are popping up because of the availability of 9-axis SoCs,

http://www.invensense.com/mems/gyro/mpu9150.html

https://www.bosch-sensortec.com/en/homepage/products_3/9_axi...
So long as the journalist puts adds information on how to volunteer and help, press can be useful.
How I Lost Weight by Eating like a Caveman on Paleo Diet
Seems like a pretty small sample size. Shouldn't we expect it to be less like the overall market?
Google Glass-wearing woman posts video of alleged S.F. bar attack
Intel's 730 Series solid-state drive reviewed
When it comes to mybizcard.co LinkedIn has no backbone
This will not magically be overcome by constructive interference - each beam will still lose a significant amount of power as function of distance.

Higher frequency RF signals are fairly easy (especially V/UHF) to beamform into a tight area, which can compensate for the loss, by focusing your power in one direction instead of radially. You still lose power over distance as the beam's energy spreads.

I don't believe they will just be able to blob a "networked" 60Hz transmission into a 1cm area - I did not read the patent, but you may be able to do such a thing by varying the phase to induce a 60Hz wave via beat frequencies between transmitting signals, at ONLY the specified area.

Having the necessary +-1Hz resolution on a 2.4GHz carrier (especially one that is not using a hardware connected, phase locked oscillator) may prove very difficult if not impossible. I suspect they may try to use one of the lower scientific bands around 900 or less MHz. HF is also a fairly unregulated option, though tight beamforming may still be difficult. Perhaps a smart application of null steering could create the necessary oscillation - I am still working this out in a simulation.

If this method is correct, keeping everything tight enough to be within US electrical standards will be difficult - there are specific regulations related to in-band power, harmonics, frequency tolerances, etc. Regardless of all that, this technology is pretty incredible and I look forward to investigating it further!
as part of the local bitcoin meetup here in Iceland, almost universally we believe it's a scam. The name does not exist in Iceland (we have a national directory, only 320,000 ppl). Premined 50% doesn't help either as well as the lack of awareness here Iceland about bitcoin and currency controls. This thing is preying on most foreigners false narrative of Iceland.
> You can trust strong enough crypto, at least to some reasonable extent.

Only crypto where only you and the one you're communicating with have the keys; in other words, not the centralised CA model of SSL, nor "secure" boot, nor any other implementation that relies on trusting some central faceless entity that will say lots about "protecting your security and privacy" while doing the exact opposite.
why does current society worship sick, losers, victims, disabled to the point of tears of joy?
Of course the Fed is a branch of the government, and one of the more powerful ones. Next you'll be telling me that the Supreme Court doesn't legislate civil rights because someone painted a word saying "judiciary" above it. I go by what things are, not by what they're called.
How about... just not holding any stocks?
Kinda offtopic: I have three Atom invites in case anyone wants one just send me an email (in profile).

Or if you want just ask one from http://twitter.com/mdo
What about the Lost finale did you not like? There were a few loose ends in the show, but they are all pretty minor in terms of the overall story.
ok i'm going on a limb here and suggest that you're probably "correct". but you need to use more terms selected from the following list (random usage is encouraged but idempotent):
closure, adjoint, operator, endofunctor, universal algebra, maybe, iteratee, continuation, surjective, type constructor, simonpeytonjonesing
Shouldn't this package be called "covalent"?
Freelancing Tips, Other Than "Networking"?
Online Shopping is Big. It’s Also Tiny.
I am looking forward to a wider release of google glass for reasons like this. I can't easily jump into my pocket and pull out my phone to film a cop without, probably, getting shot but to be able to have it ready to go with some sort of motion/voice activation... will be so great.
Were James Bond’s drinks shaken because of alcohol induced tremor?
Everybody gets 30-some coins (which most probably won't happen). Then what? Who wants to trade them?

No pre-mine would have been the way to go. That would have made money change hands: people buy hardware, consume more electricity, pay the kid next door to take care of the mining rig, etc.

EDIT: I might have been too harsh. Good luck. I'm going bull on this, as might many others.