skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternatively - use the OS X 'Fred' voice (or even 'Zarvox'). It's been around since 1990, and it sounds like a robot should, not like a robot trying to sound like a human.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlainTalk
App Search and Deep Linking
I switched my Garmin to Australian as well. Now it calls onramps 'sliproads'. Does know what the abbreviation HWY means. A few others as well. Not sure why that's encoded in the accent and not the location.
Probably not on a massive scale, given scans, pinning, and pin violation reports.

Real-world MITM attacks involving certificate misissuance have already been caught by these means (mostly by Google, which is putting the most effort into it).
Murder is a somewhat vague term in common speech. But, yea people are getting 7 years or less for 'Murder'. Not that I really think someone's behavior really changes based on a 5 year prison sentence vs a 20 year one.

http://www.madd.org/laws/law-overview/Vehicular_Homicide_Ove...

This document covers statutes providing for penalties to be brought against a drunk driver who
kills another person through the operation of a motor vehicle, either intentionally or negligently.

Delaware:
First degree: death caused by criminally negligent driving while DWI is a Class E
felony. Not less than 2 years or more than 5 years.
Second degree: death caused by criminally negligent driving or negligent driving
while DWI is a Class F felony. Not less than 1 year or more than 3 years.

However I was really more comparing it to Kansas: Death caused by operation of a vehicle in a manner that causes
unreasonable risk and which constitutes a material deviation from the standard of
care which a reasonable person would observe under the same circumstances
Class A Personal Misdemeanor. Not more than 1 year and not more than $2,500
Or an expansion on that. Keep track of how many 128s, 256s etc you've ever formed. Show them as big counters directly under the game with an animation when you create any of them.
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You could probably do something like that, but it'd be a huge waste of time. The time to brew a batch is pretty much the same no matter the volume. I.E. Brewing a 5 gallon batch takes about the same amount of time as brewing 20 gallons, assuming you have the equipment capable of doing that volume.
It's good to have it at least in dev, but many bugs only show up in production, and performance work can only usefully be done on the shipping, optimized code.
$6 maybe?
Welcome to pageview journalism. There is no etiquette, accuracy doesn't matter. Pageviews do.

In the past if you published crap you lost the high quality advertisers. Now advertisers just go where the audience is, like the Huffington Post and Business Insider. In other words, all journalists are gossip columnists now. Even better if they wrote for free.
I would call Java hardcore class-based/design pattern programming more than hardcore OOP. If you want hardcore OOP try smalltalk or Common Lisp's CLOS.

However I agree that going from Python to Java can seem like hardcore OOP. It's tempting to argue that hardcore OOP is relative, but I like to go by Alan Kay's definition which is pretty easy to prove/disprove.
I'm surprised we couldn't have proven this analytically.
The token is invalidated, as with any identity system. That's how it should work. Think certificate revocation lists, for example. The identity provider has to be able to revoke certs, or the entire trust model would fall apart.
> Would like to disagree. An American passport allows you to work from, pretty much most other OECD countries in the world. So, if Singapore has a better job market for techies than the US, nothing prevents one from relocating.

Even if a US passport allowed you to work from "pretty much most other OECD countries" (which I'm pretty sure is itself false by any reasonable standard for "pretty much most"), Singapore is not a member state of the OECD.
Sorry to be the one posting a tangent looks like a nice patch! But please rewrite "for the modern developer" to something more career neutral.

I'm a systems architect. I feel like I am not invited to use the tool.
I guess the difference is that in some games, you are pitted against other players at the same "experience" level - to level the playing field. So that very experienced players aren't able to just kill all the new players immediately. However, if you have a player that has bought their way in, they will have a low experience level, but resources that are better matched against higher levels. So, if you don't buy in, you will be at a severe disadvantage.
Most important thing that comes to my mind is space. I have no idea about the size occupied by a single "batch" but I can say that two small ones require more space. One more thing is, maintaining one large "reactor" is easy when compared to 10 small ones.
I wonder if "lasing," people's cars as they drive would cause the same types of ramifications. Seems very likely, and even more dangerous than "lasing," a pilot (a highly trained individual). I consider most drivers easily distracted and careless (myself included).

Food for thought, while lasers can focus a beam at a pilot, at air shows and in the air force, pilots usually have spotters that use a mirror and line of sight....so while I understand his sentence to be a deterrent by example, I DON'T agree with harsh sentences for non-violent crimes.
I don't buy it. I got monotonically increasing scores, with my last play around 10k.
Do you still have an invite?
Anyone with a link to a live demo?
The way to reduce the complexity of the hardware is mostly by using good libraries like arduino or mbed(or maybe goot rtos's with plenty of drivers, if there's such a thing). Do you use them ?

And as my example vs the OP's article with arduino, it seems that micro python offers a much better interface to said libraries. Not sure it's only the language, could be also the library implementation.

With regards to performance penalty : micro python has some unique compile mode which brings the speed to maybe 8x of c.

Assuming you're willing to waste some memory and speed(say a first version kickstarter product, or a low/mid volume commercial product) , you also get rid of pointers(which are the source of great complexity and bugs in c) and gets access to much better testing tools via python.
Maximum penalty under the statute is 5 years, http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/39A, so what else was going on?

Looks like he was convicted both for pointing a laser at an aircraft and attempting to interfere with the safe operation of an aircraft. There is a good chance this gets overturned on appeal. Under the sentencing guidelines, the two offenses are similar offenses arising out of the same conduct and should have been grouped. You don't get to impose an above maximum sentence just because the guy has gang affiliations.
I was just thinking about this earlier today. I realized that most desktop websites were plenty readable on my early smart phones and tablets. Now, the tablet and mobile designed sites are barely usable. Some just crash the browser. The touch buttons are out of place. Mobile install rollovers block basic UI spots.

The number of sites I don't read on mobile anymore is increasing.
Agreed. I would still click it if it said "skates above the water." But "levitates" is completely inaccurate linkbait.

Bad submitter, no upvote.
quit the twitter login.
This is a violent crime.
"I just wanted to tell you good luck--we're all counting on you."
I'm in my mid 40's, still programming away but basically have been building and leading teams for a while. As it turns out I really like working on improving process. I've watched friends my age burn out and leave the industry. A lot of the guys that dropped out were people that weren't really obsessed with computers, but rather just chose that as their major - possibly for financial reasons. I can see how all of the minutia could get annoying, but I just see it as part of the business.

For me it's not just about building things anymore. It's more about what I consider - building things and doing it with style. Give me the time to plan an app, put together a team, predict our finish date and then build our system. My goal is to do it with the team feeling happy and proud of their work the whole way. No horrible crunch mode or last-minute heroics. At this point in my career that's what I aim for more so than just getting an app built.

I also like helping young people become proficient, reliable developers who know how to plan and maintain large systems. Young developers tend to have a lot of clever ideas and know the latest tools - but I have various skills that they lack or find uninteresting. So I don't see them as competition. I think young and old developers can really compliment each other.

As for salary, it's hard for me to say since I'm in year 5 of a startup venture that just hit the black last year and is looking towards being a profitable company. So whether or not I will ever be looking for another job is something that I'm unsure about. I've pretty much decided that I would like to manage larger teams - not because I have to but because I enjoy it.
Ran your strategy 162 times with autoit of which the following blocks came by: [128]: 150 times, [256]: 36 times, [512]: 13 times, [1024]: 0 times. Anyone else a good suggestion for an optimal "blind" strategy?
No it isn't. It's a distracting annoyance at best.
A bit unrelated, but this reminded me of when I did a full install (as opposed to a partial install and running the rest from the CD-ROM) of SC as a kid, which made my father extremely angry. "You used a whole 95 megabytes!"

I say this fully aware that the cycle will continue one day when I get angry at my future child for installing Flight Sim 27, taking up 1.5 terabytes of precious HD space. And of course, they will remember it one day and laugh because a 100PB SSD will be a $10 purchase at the gas station.
US Plans to Monitor 5 Million Security Clearance Holders
I really don't get all the hate directed towards OVH.

I've got two Kimsufi dedicated servers at OVH since years and years and, to me, it's an amazing service (at a price which apparently nobody can beat).

One of my Kimsufi on which I installed Debian reached an uptime of four years. Four years of uptime. The smallest of the Kimsufi, which is already the cheaper of the dedicated servers OVH provides. Four years.

A pretty stock Debian, with only SSH and Tomcat and not a single (known) root exploit forcing me to install a patch that would have required me to reboot the box. Meanwhile I had two very serious DoS Java bugs requiring me to patch the JVM / JRE (IIRC the Tomcat version I had could do with just the JRE, no need for the JDK). One Java exploit was the infinite floating-point parsing bug and the other the hashmap not being O(1) anymore (the attack consisted in submitting very long URL with carefully query paramaters).

Now the real funny thing: one day I got an email from OVH saying my server was down and that it "would not reboot". What happened is that the motherboard died and they moved my stuff to a new system. But the Debian version on my Kimsufi was so old that it wouldn't recognize the new motherboard...

That's basically how stable Kimsufi are: they can happily crank up for years and years and years and years.

Now I'll have to look into it: because I pay 20 EUR / month for mine (VAT not included) and apparently the new ones at 17 EUR / month are already more powerful than the ones I have, so I may want to switch to a beefier machine for a cheaper price.

Also note that during summer time (month of august IIRC), they launched a Kimsufi at 2.99 or 3.99 EUR / month (don't remember, but several people here point the number of 2.99). But it got so successful that they had issue and were forced to remove the offer. And "Octave" tweeted that OVH would come up with an entirely new offer. I'm glad to see they're now offering Kimsufi at 8 EUR / month.

That's 8 EUR for your own dedicated server. Seems quite a good deal to me.
I'm 36+ so I consider myself old. I am a tech lead in a "startup that gone enterprise" and write Java, Scala, and web.

Most of my friends are between 35-45, all fully employed with good salaries (mostly Java / Enterprise shops though, but also some cool startups / Googlers / Twitter / Amazon)

My take on this, both as an older guy, and also as a hiring manager is that for me merit and skill matter more than anything else, I'm completely age, race, color and gender blind. (I recently hired a 50+ years old dev who didn't work for 5 years, he was simply that good)

Good developers of any age will always find job, at least this is my theory.

Yes, there are 10X 1 year of experience people, yes there are people who as they grow older they have less desire to work long hours / cut salary (due to having a Family, this is legitimate) but I don't really believe that anyone out there will say no to a 40 years old developer if she is an ace. If someone does, then they are missing the talent and hurting their own companies.

I'm 100% unforgiving to skill issues, but in my experience, usually the older the candidate, the better they do, merely due to more experience.

They might not all know the latest vagrant / docker / hadoop / scala / Haskell / scss / node.js trends, but they know how to write code.

I'm shocked how many people with BSc or even MSc in CS, years of experience, simply don't know how to code. I mean some can't code their way out of a paper bag. But this has nothing to do with age, the last thing I care about is someone's manufacturing date. really. it just doesn't make any sense to do so.
Lasers in eyes are more than just a distraction. Certainly not a 'non-violent crime'.

c.f. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Juan_de_Fuca_laser_in...
If you guys want to try it. I'll give it to ya for $3. Just send the email/note. Then I reply to request payment.
Same here, running on a 4S since release and haven't had any crashes or stability issues. The only thing I had to change was the "bold text" option since I found some of the text too light for my liking and that got fixed in 7.1.
It is literally impossible.
In no way is this a violent crime.
You've cherrypicked one.

Most of the others allow for at least ten years, and some as much as 30.

Also, "negligent" isn't the same thing as "intentional".
The impact can be catastrophic.
Jobs for Older Developers
After the vigorous discussion "Ask HN: What happens to older developers?" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7372997), this is an experiment to see if there are companies that are willing and interested in hiring older developers.

(This is not intended to be a discussion about age discrimination.)

If your company is will to hire techies of any age, please post the information below (ala "Ask HN: Who is Hiring").
Like putting your hands over the eyes of someone driving a car.
Can you tell me where and how did you host your site?

I really want to host one but cannot find any cheap way
Just throwing this out there: if there's a problem with developer salaries being capped at $300K, think of how hard it is for all the families who are making the U.S. median household income of $53K/year, or hell, the Santa Clara County median income of $45K/year.

I understand that everybody wants more money - hell, I want more money too. But a lot of that is because everybody wants to be in the top 1% of nice neighborhoods, nice homes in nice neighborhoods, nice colleges, etc. You can have a life that is just fine on far, far less than $300K/year.
Jail? For what? Currently I have access to personal information for thousands of customers for the company I work for. I've never signed an employment contract regarding this data.

There's nothing legally stopping me from publishing all of that data, or selling it on the side. At least not to my knowledge.

Just think... there's at least one of someone like me at every service you use on the Internet.
And on a related note, I wonder if buying a pair of IR-filtering safety glasses for every pilot in America would be cheaper on the system than jailing people as criminals for over a decade...

http://www.lasersafetyindustries.com/100_20_120_UV_and_IR_La...
Brewpubs can skirt around the regulatory insanity that some states impose on breweries. I'm not sure how close South Carolina is to the norm but you cannot sell more than 48oz of beer to the public per day and only after a tour (and only 16oz can be over 8% abv). You have to sell to an independent distributor who sells to independent (of both distributor and brewery) stores. If you operate a brewpub you can sell "freely" but only up to 2,000 (IIRC) barrels a year.

I know several states have tough regulatory environment but I don't know if they go as far.
Is attempted blinding really the intention? They should be locked up for overestimating the power of laser pointers if nothing more.

I keep reading 'attempted murder' too. Hyperbolic nonsense. Shooting at a plane maybe but shining a light - give me a break!
Basically this... slightly differently - but this:
http://loganrandolph.com/blog/2014/2/4/want-an-internship-in...
I just wish the forest that is Settings was searchable. One example being to find all the similar "Use Mobile Data" toggles.

It's odd that it isn't searchable since OS X's analogous System Preferences has had its cool search with the fading light graphic for many years.
Agreed. I don't have Twitter nor Facebook. Stop making those the only way to log in.
What if your significant other was in a life flight helicopter, and someone lased it?
I don't know if this is practical or not. Have two or more compartments on a plane filled with dozens of small highly reflective buoys. Each with some sort of radar reflector, either passive or active, that searchers could light up with radar and it would emit back a strong signal. In event of a breakup their container is designed to scatter them everywhere or in a more controlled situation the planes systems could release them. Ofcourse they will drift in the air and in the ocean currents but you could analyse then statistically along with knowledge of wind and ocean currents to at least narrow the search area in a situation like this one.
Project Ara for smartwatches
What would you think would be acceptable for maliciously attempting to down an aircraft?
Setup a complete local development environment on your ARM Chromebook
Pointing a laser at an aircraft is just plain stupid. However, I have a problem with the justice system making "examples" out of people, 14 Years is more then some people get after being convicted of rape or murder. Seems more like a 2-5 year offense, and unless you can point me to even one incident of a person that's been killed by this behavior the argument about it being potential murder etc.. is moot. Driving badly is can also kill people (and does, every day) however when was the last time someone was sentenced to 14 years for (just) driving like an ass?
Snark for any interested sentient entity.

Don't want to exclude luddites, transhumans, or extraterrestrials. I will settle for excluding moss and whatnot, though. Seriously, fuck moss.
If American courts want to put a precedent to an ordinary crime such as this, they may follow India's example and do this instead:

http://www.deeshaa.org/2013/12/06/lets-weep-for-a-morally-ad...
I think huherto is suggesting beer concurrency. That is, instead of having a 20 gallon setup, having four 5 gallon setups. It will take longer because you will have to do whatever mixing,testing, etc four times but if the longest part of the process is waiting- you win in that aspect.

The question is- would this make it easier to be more consistent?
I am an Australian. Seems they got it wrong. I am familiar with onramps, but haven't heard of sliproads until now. We use the Hwy abbreviation in Australia, too.
Lasing a car driver would seem to be even more likely to cause injury, given that the amount of time between vision impairment and actually hitting something is likely to be much shorter.

Airplanes have been known to fly for hours with sleeping or otherwise incapacitated pilot(s).
Disappointingly, the judge cited the perpetrator's past as a justification of the sentence.
I like the Twitter login. Just a data point.
They said they use it on their own production servers so of course I couldn't resist... http://scoutapp.com:5555/

Really nice looking monitoring, though. I think it's fun to see the stats scrolling by.
Quick and dirty 'dumb' solver (might require manual intervention sometimes):

var manager = new GameManager(4, KeyboardInputManager, HTMLActuator);

// Pattern definition (0: Up, 1: Right, 2: Down, 3: Left)
var pattern = [1, 2, 3, 2];

// Pattern Repeater
var i = 0;

// Interval
var solverInterval = window.setInterval(function() {

// Check if game is over
if (manager.over)
clearInterval(solverInterval);

// Repeat pattern
if (i % pattern.length == 0)
i = 0;

// Execute the move
manager.move(pattern[i]);

i++;

}, 200);

Best pattern found so far is "var pattern = [1, 0, 3, 0];" I reached 1024 with it. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21387598/1024-Best.png
I wish there was a way to hobby distill without it being super illegal.
I've wondered if foreign humans sometimes fall into uncanny valley in their vocalising and behaviours, and then seem extra alien and 'wrong'.
gcc's -Wstrict-aliasing is extremely inaccurate. It doesn't run inside the aliasing machinery; it's just a cheap heuristic inside the C parser. I'd call it a good example of why you shouldn't strive to fix a warning just because it happens to exist.

I thought there was a better tool, but can't find the name, hmm.
I can't wait for drones to replace helicopters. Helicopters are too loud and expensive and more dangerous than they should be.
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The overhopped style drives me nuts because there is so much variety out there that offer more flavors than stereotypical hop and bitterness. Then you have crazy yeasts like they use at Bells that give beers like Oberon the flavor of a spiced or fruited beer without any spice or fruit.

There are good west coast breweries but the culture created a style and has stuck to it like gospel. Variety is what makes beer fun.
Great, you’re good at writing tests, but how about deleting them?
http://scoutapp.com:5555/
I don't think cherry picking really apply's when there is a full state where everyone get's less. My point was more that large numbers of people get less than 14 years for actually killing people.

As to the murder angle the minim sentience for second degree murder in Illinois is 4 years. Mitigated Deliberate Homicide in Montana goes as low as 2! years. So, while I have no problem saying this might be as bad as drunk driving even though the actual risks are lower I really do see a problem comparing negligible potential risks vs actual harm.
In my experience, US-English text-to-speech mangles those street names too (my favorite is "El Monte" as "Ell Monty"), though I haven't used Siri in particular.
I'm really pleased that I knew exactly what this was before clicking. I send this to people anytime I see them fighting a speech-to-text engine.
More like shining your brights to oncoming traffic: people do this all the time. No one gets 14 years for that.
I kick ass. Where do I sign?
Another YC intern here. I want to know this too.
This. If he had used a surface-to-air missile to down that helicopter, he would have received life in prison, perhaps the death penalty. A laser to incapacitate the pilot would be just as effective.