skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But then people might come interrupt you during your desk lunch; if the issue is interruptions you can always grab a meeting room for yourself and go work in there for an hour or two.

Break areas work fine for that too if your office has them. If your boss asks just say you wanted to grab some quiet coding time.

I've never had any problems doing this, I think we're lucky that programmers are mostly judged on the output of their work and their ability to solve stuff; yet few people exploit this.
I don't know. There are plenty of software positions that are flexible so long as you get your work done.

I'm a consultant so I need to bill a certain number of hours per day. Sometimes I can snack and bill and that helps me meet the requirements.
It absolutely does encrypt the URL aside from the IP you're connecting to.
White House-MIT Big Data Workshop
My team counterpart, who I recommended for the team, eats lunch at his desk, because he is an anti-social wanker. It was a complete failure as a recommendation. He does shitty work because he does not discuss it or open it up to criticism, and my work is shittier because I don't have somebody to criticise it and bounce ideas off.
Btw, I use sleepyti.me all the time. Great work!
And then there's Common Core, which seems to teach children insanity.
Does your boss give you a 5 week paid vacation because you eat lunch at your desk? If not, you can't claim you're saving 5 weeks. Assuming you don't leave early, you're actually working an extra hour each day.
I'd like to see Android's response.
it may well come back to refrigerators once the "internet of things" takes hold, except this time it would be your smartphone talking to your refrigerator and vice-verse :)
3 things every programmer must learn (and no one teaches you)
I eat lunch at my desk as well. Unfortunately its because I trade and even though most of what I do is computer automated, I've got to be watching things and reacting all the time.

Hell I even try to time bathroom breaks for just before 9:30 and after 4.

As for cleanliness, just use a wet wipe once in a while. I've never understood how people let their keyboards get dirty.

I use a pretty expensive keyboard so maybe that's the key to keeping a clean desk. Only use expensive keyboards and then you'll be more likely to keep it clean?

I kind of miss being able to get up and walk around the block to hash out an idea. The upside is that someone brings lunch to our desks so its not all bad:)
Offer HN: Get the CV every hiring manager will notice
My wife is looking to start a career consultancy service aimed at tech people.

One of the areas covered will be to help you create a better CV to increase chances to land a job. These are:
- Emphasising the good parts
- Leaving out more irrelevant parts
- CV writing in general
- Feedback on layout
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A bit of her background, she has worked a technical in-house (only) recruiter for Oracle and some online gaming companies, with over 5 years experience in total.

Another area is helping people with job interviews, so if someone is in the process of applying for a job, you can also always ask her what you would like to know!

If you feel uncomfortable exposing your name or companies where you've worked at, you can blank them out.

You can send your CV to cv.review.hn@gmail.com and depending on the success, expect an answer in the next 2-3 days.
Dashes and Underscores in Variables – SASS
If you actually want to make things you'll still can't avoid learning C, C++, Java and/or Objective-C. Other languages just don't offer a broad enough ecosystem.
The first time I saw an emoji in a commit message I cried a little.
I'm not arguing against stored procedures, but for input sanitation and separation of SQL and PHP-code. Pseudo-code above was just an example of better code than OP's.
But it was a government contractor who uploaded and queried the data (PA), they just used Google's platform.

Frankly, this seems as related to Google as Nokia would be if someone used one of their cellphones to detonate an explosive. They're just the database provider.
Can you explain this line to me? I somehow don't get it.
That's quite interesting. I'd love to have a look at the source! I don't think I'm going to deploy it to production anytime soon though, as I have no idea how secure this is.

Here is where you can download the executable if you want to try it (I found it weird that no link was given in the post): http://jxcore.com/downloads/
Will this be the new
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Also the reports of the cracks in the containment structure would allow coolant water to leak out.
My point was that the arguments presented were not the reasons that using floats to handle finance was a bad idea. Since, as I showed, they also applied to integers.
EasyEclipse for Java
When crap hits the fan in our production environment, people go to my manager. When my manager isn't there, they go to the technical lead on the team. When the technical lead isn't there, they go to me. And do you know when the manager and technical lead are both gone?

That's a very positive attitude to take about production support.

But I think if you are looking to take on more responsibility then ask for it. If they won't give it then leave.

"Working" through lunch and then leaving early is almost certainly detrimental to your career prospects at that place.
It's kind of interesting how that G5 ad on the front page has a testimonial about freeing you from the chains of Intel and MS. Apple was was probably right in the middle of getting 10.4 ready to run on Intel at this point
I fairly the Data Protection act says it's ok to move data outside the UK, as long the country your moving to has similar data protection laws.
You're wasting time by not taking the shower and getting changed simultaneously.
BUT IT ISN'T SEXY ENOUGH!
one man's garbage is anothers

Well I hope you get the point, once you assign the power to the government to censor someone else then you give them the right to censor you.

Sorry, that is not one step most of us want to take.
The Google relevance is server location, if outside of UK and if outside EU various data protection laws at each level would appear to have been breached.
Detroit-based start-up (funded, stable, paying competitive salaries) looking for experienced Magento developers.

We are looking for an amazing, experienced, OO PHP developer with deep Magento experience to join our fast-growing, first-rate development team. As a software developer, you would responsible for end-to-end product development, from architecture, to development, to rollout. You must be comfortable participating in design and code reviews, as well as delivering accurate estimates, providing regular development progress feedback and consistently meeting project deadlines. Our developers are effective at explaining complex ideas and concepts to non-technical team members.

This is a full time position that would work out of our downtown Detroit office. Occasional telecommuting (like one day a week) is on the table, but we really need people who can be in the office most of the time.

Here's our stats:

Company size: 17

Current dev team size: 3 with a 4th starting soon

Stack: LAMP

Version Control: Git

Bug Tracking: Github Issues

Mac or PC: Dealer's choice. We currently have 2 devs on mac and 1 on PC.

Office style: Open floor plan, collaborative working environment, very casual.

Dev methodologies: We borrow elements of various frameworks, but in general we work in monthly sprint cycles, daily stand-ups, weekly overview meetings.

If you are interested, please send me an email at evan@chalkfly.com and let's chat.
Ask HN: What billing services are you using at your saas startup?
And what CRM? As far as I know some include billing, some not. So I'm curious about your experience for saas products (monthly billing, individual pricing, 2-3 different products, discounts for dozens of reasons etc.)
I don't think Apple minds being in a niche position.

Remember their original goal for the iPhone? Capture one percent of the market. Their products have always catered to a niche, only with the iPod did they ever start seeing mainstream popularity.

I don't think it would hurt Apple to fall back to being a niche in the current computing landscape — they are just amassing money otherwise — their company does not seem designed to actually grow with the money they earn.
tl;dr

Author loves javascript.
Because 1) he typed a lot and 2) cited some sources 3) early on when the link was submitted. That's instant upvote criteria.
I do maths every day and I do nothing but approximations and fudges to roughly model real situations. It's like recreating a waterfall in lego.
Why not add some spice to one of the most tedious, thankless and tense (bug reports sometimes get accusatory and turn into finger-pointing) parts of the development process?

Going with your tongue-in cheek oldschoolness joke, I guess it's a relatively modern concept that serious work doesn't necessarily require a fake-serious demeanor. And yet clients would probably trust a lawyer wearing jeans less. Oh well, one step at a time, I guess.

edit: s/thanksless/thankless/
Ugh, I really detest blog posts that only acknowledge in passing (at the end of the article) that someone else has done all of the work. This is literally just copy+pasted from entries in the newsletters.
RFC 2550 – Y10K and Beyond
First time that i ever heard that Scheme compile to c and js.
When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade.
Don Draper does not approve.
My reasons are selfish.

1) I do not care to look like some of my heavier colleagues, who get this way by where they eat every day.
2) I do not care to spend the money they do each week on eating out, meals are from a very low of five bucks a day to more than ten.
3) I already spend enough time with many of them at work, some of them I care not to spend another minute with, doubly so when its my time and my lunch is my time
4) surfing at lunch is relaxing, that and reading on my kindle
Ask HN: Would you accept patches from the NSA?
Suppose you run an open-source project, and you receive a patch from a known employee of the NSA. Should it be accepted?

On the one hand, the patch should be evaluated as any other and accepted or rejected on its merits.

One the other hand, the NSA has been involved in activities to which many of us object, and rejecting the patch may be a part of a larger "tech community freeze-out" of the NSA.

What would you do?
Gentlemen, let the goalpost moving begin.

edit already two replies providing nice examples.
I wouldn't go that far. If people are comparing Bitcoin to ye old Dollar, then the lack of regulation that can lead to a disaster like this is something people need to be aware of.
Couldn't help noticing this is a significant foray into responsive screen layout for Apple.

A good responsive/adaptive layout will give Apple options for more diverse screen sizes and proportions from cars to watches to other phone and tablet aspect ratios.

Can't wait.
I don't agree with that. She was in the movie. Obviously she agreed to that part. She relinquishes everything at that point written agreement or not.
Same here. I'm interested in figuring out q/kdb, but it seems a bit opaque.
Sure, but lunch away from the desk is a guaranteed break away for around an hour. A small interuption might take 5 minutes to fix, which is easier to get back to the flow of what you were doing.
The biggest red flag for me was Mt.Gox not declaring itself as money transmitter and being fined by the U.S Government as a result.

Knowing it would have a great deal of American users and that it would have to abide to rules, Mt.Gox overlooked this. Everything that followed only validated my decision to stay away.
GoPro – Yamaha yz 125 and Honda cr 125
Navbars are a great way to get a sense of the company's priorities, generally influenced by the biggest money makers.

Amazon's navbar in 2004: https://web.archive.org/web/20041102060756/http://www.amazon.... Books, clothing, electronics, toys/games, music, phones. Today, it's streaming video, streaming music, ["streamed"] ebooks, Kindles, apps ... and then (separated by a horizontal bar) Books / Audible (still plugging digital goods!), music/movies/games, electronics, home, etc.
Kid eats a bogey
im so smart I can learn math just by thinking about it
Walrus pictures, to me, feel like fake-fun, not a crack in the facade of fake-seriousness.
How to become RICH?
> Yay, more touch screen in cars.

It's odd though that the number of auto accidents in the US has not increased with the increased use of in-dash touch screens and SmartPhones. Deaths from auto accidents have also been on the decline. It seems like people are doing a pretty good job adapting.

2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009

13.4	12.5	18.3	11.8	10.9	10.7	10.4	10.6	10.2	10.8
The devices without cell equipment are certainly NOT included in the phones comparisons. Aka, iPod Touches and Samsung 5" non-Phone tablets

Why would you assume they're also excluded by tablets?

None of the sites are showing any real breakdowns to verify this, but the Apple tablet numbers are iPad numbers, not iPad + iPod Touch which it should be if small form factor, non cell tablets are considered in this.
Confirmed working on Firefox 27.
More on this here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7199692

http://hackaday.com/2014/02/14/call-for-hams-and-hackers-wel...
The biggest problem in education isn't the curriculum or method of teaching or the teachers, it's how motivated the student is (which is usually a product of their home environment). Trying to solve this social issue with "technical" fixes is not going to succeed.
> MP3 players were already pretty mainstream when the iPod came around and it didn't really add much.

In the world of techies, perhaps, but it hadn't made much of a dent per-iPad in the mainstream consumer market. http://www.clickz.com/clickz/news/1695501/ipod-mp3-player-ad...
The Aesthetics of Computers (1988)
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There is another loophole that is admittedly unlikely (and the post doesn't go into any details on what the actual records contain). If these records were somehow scrubbed of HIPAA identifiers, then it would in fact not be a HIPAA violation in the US. For example: a dataset of randomly assigned ID's tied to diagnosis codes. You could uniquely ID an individual within the dataset but not know who they were in the real world.

I hear all the privacy folks lighting their torches and sharpening the pitchforks. So, for the record, yes, there are all sorts of methods and studies that show you can potentially re-identify people from all sorts of data that seems at first blush to be not that identifiable [1] and isn't part of the list of HIPAA identifiers. However, in the US, in actual practice, when you talk to compliance people, they often take a very narrow view of what "identifiable" is. The standard is often that it has to be more or less trivial to do. For example, matching on easily accessible public records.

I encounter this all the time in my capacity as a biomedical researcher and have discovered that my "geek intuition" on what is identifiable does me no good in this space. The most crazy one is your DNA sequence. I'm having trouble finding the original document now, but Health and Human Services went out of their way to not make this a formal HIPAA identifier (except in very narrow cases relating to insurance companies) when they had the opportunity to do so during some recent rule-making. Which you would think it would clearly be because HIPAA allows for "other biometric identifiers" and what could be a better biometric than your DNA? But I digress...

One of the problems with HIPAA is that it leaves a lot to the eye of the beholder, and many beholders have wildly differing vision. This, as you state, is why you need a lawyer who can make sure your vision doesn't lead to decisions with a high probability of business-ending bankruptcy and going to jail.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/09/your-secrets-live...
In Clojure you can use schema (https://github.com/Prismatic/schema) which does the same thing without needing a separate language.
Where's the simple non-feature phone?
> If you want to address which is the best JVM language, you've got to at least mention Groovy

You could make that argument for all of the many ecosystems mentioned in the article, e.g. because for Unix/Linux scripting only bash is mentioned, you could have opined "If you want to address which is the best Unix shell, you've got to at least mention zsh".

Groovy's just a dialect of Ruby anyway, except being specific for one platform and having a different syntax. All the functionality underneath the syntax is based off Ruby, and even its two applications with any traction are based off Ruby versions. The MOP was put in in 2005 specifically for Grails, which started off as a launder of Rails.
Because in general, you don't write tablet vs. phone apps for Android. Google is finding a better way that's not consumer unfriendly with adaptable layout engines that operate differently on a tablet vs. on a phone.

Specific distributions for various sized screens is an artifact of iOS, not a design idiom on Android.

https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/tablets-and-ha...
There are a lot of great responses (and counter responses) here already as to why PHP is a surprising choice, but primarily my objection is one of misapplication. PHP is a scripting language for fast creation of web sites. It grew organically and consequently has a lot of weird gotchas that make it easy to write in bugs. Its floating point is poor, which you would think would be a detriment in financial use.

Want to get a web site up like right now, get some PHP. Want to run the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, maybe not so much.
As the article clearly says, the piece was never explicitly composed for any specific time signature; the signature it ended up with was almost an accident.
Government privacy breaches are one of the things I despise most about current Western society. I am - day in, day out - one of those guys calling for ministerial blood.

However I have long thought that proper open access to health data could be as revolutionary as, say, antibiotics. The government can do whatever the hell they like with my data - on the condition that anyone else can too.

Can you imagine what insights could be gained with canonical graph schemas for individual (but (pseudo|a)nonymised) health records and a bit of statistics/ML? I think it would change the world, but it will never happen unless people like us get our hands on it. No amount of management consultants will innovate on the same scale as the tech community; saving lives through Github and AWS sounds like the only thing I'd do with my weekend.

On a side note, I think the same argument could be applied to a great many public services. I recently emailed my doctor a letter from one of my private doctors in PDF format for addition to my records. Can you guess what happened next? Yep, he printed it out and gave it to a secretary to scan it back in, because the Java app that manages this stuff has very tightly controlled boundaries. Shortly after that I overstayed on a trip to a different part of the UK and desperately needed a top-up of my meds. The solution? Print a prescription and mail it to the pharmacy by next-day post, because Scottish NHS and English NHS computers are incapable of communicating with each other. How long would it be after going open source before all this BS is obliterated? I'm thinking months.
I thought some if not most of CC in regards to Math was to follow the Singapore model? Is there something inherently wrong with that approach?
Rant apart, this seriously raise the question of do we not need to have an alternative (maybe a pan European subsidized, not for profit organization) to Skynet (sorry I meant Google)?

The UK already has a program for accrediting and validating cloud providers (called G-Cloud[1]), that classifies services according to their suitability for storing confidential information, and of which Google is already excluded.

If this company used Google anyway, what makes you think they wouldn't have even if there was such organization in place?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Government_G-Cloud
The ICANN uses physical keys
While I agree with the overall thrust of the article, I have to take issue with the author's ostensibly-BigData-access-enabled disaster scenarios.

Because let's be honest... From which source would the data be more likely to be stolen to enable the author's scenarios? Google's infrastructure (post-hardening against intrusion by---among other entities---GCHQ)? Or the NHS's system (which has been proven to---among other things---hand data on every NHS patient in England and Wales out to contractors on 27 unauditable, non-remotely-deletable DVDs)?
Haha! My mom was a Sun reseller who sold them a bunch of Sparc stations for the movies and I think even wrote some shell scripts to launch some spinning 3D dino-skull scripts on startup, etc. Around this time we were a pretty rare family home with one of those boxes and an ISDN line at home as the family computer.
To get a preliminary injunction, you have to show (among other things) a substantial likelihood of success on the merits as well as irreparable harm. I tend to agree with 'shalmanese above, which is that it would be a peculiar situation in which this precedent would allow you to suppress without there having been some bad conduct on the part of the speaker as is the case here.
Probably a correct assessment. Plenty of people in Europe really do care strongly about human rights and justice and all that, but when push comes to shove, too often money wins. Especially when it comes to Russia. Too many countries are all too eager to please Russia, to take and hide the money of its corrupt elite, to do whatever Moscow wants in order to get Russian gas, etc.

We need to realize that Russia is unbelievably corrupt. And Putin doesn't care; the only thing that matters to him is that Russia becomes a superpower again, with him at the helm.

We should be cutting ties with Russia, but we want their gas and their business.
>What specifically are people actually afraid of with regard to this data set? I just don't get the regular public outcry about NHS data.

Well specifically it would be all the sensitive medial information which for some reason you omitted to mention in your comment. People are only talking about DOB and post codes because that information can be used to identify an individual and associate them with the medical records.
Doesn't work for me on Chrome 32.0.1700.107 on Ubuntu either.
Evaluating javascript from the web is what your browser does when loading a page.
LiteScript is Literate. A highly-readable language that compiles to JavaScript.
It's a disaster that affects all of Bitcoin really. The most recent compromise left a bunch of Russians with the passports, home addresses and full names of basically every large player in the Bitcoin community. Anonymity broken and locations disclosed means a lot of people could be in very real physical danger.

A lot of bitcointalk users make mention of their wealth in general conversation, believing that their pseudonym protects them physically. It's not unreasonable to think that somebody who has lost a large amount of funds might act irrationally and decide that stealing from or threatening a prominent Bitcoin community member is a solution.

I'm speculating of course, but I would be very scared if my more of my information than my email address had been in that leak.
The story I heard is that Mossorgsky wrote it that way because he walked with a limp. He wrote his limp into the time signature. This is probably an urban myth, as I can't seem to find any verification of it on line in a quick search.