skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're probably legally required to, if they have a nexus of business in the state you're buying from.
All it takes is a miswired socket, earth fault or short
in a power supply and you've got 110-240v going up your
arm and you're dead. Either that or the meter explodes,
removing your fingers or spraying bits of plastic and
metal into your eyes.

If these are a serious danger I think people should be better informed. I'd like to make a youtube video demonstrating the problem. I have a £15 multimeter [1] and 240v residential mains electricity. How would I go about demonstrating the problem?

[1] http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Hand+Tools/Electricians+Tool...
Analog technology evolves very slowly relative to what you're thinking of.
> A good solution might be to introduce a new 'mid-tier' class between economy and business. I would happily pay an extra 10-20% for an extra bit of space.

United's Economy Plus is huge for me for this reason. An extra 3-6" of legroom (depends on the plane and the flight leg) makes a big difference at that height. It doesn't help at all with seat width though, unfortunately.
> glib fakers, and corporate drones.

Truly PG's lack of self-awareness (or cynical dishonesty) is mind-boggling.
Do you have any sort of agreement that they will serve these files bit for bit unmodified?

I had a problem with cloudflare inserting some tracking cookies into my static HTML files. They claimed it was ddos protection. To me (and the EU cookie directive) it looked no different from the garbage other analytics sites use.

If jsdelivr providers are allowed to modify the files they serve, I won't use it. Got any sort of guarantees?

Thanks.
You are arguing against something I didn't write.

First, I explicitly mentioned that I'm not familiar with Norway, but it is similar to Sweden/Finland, where I have lived.

Second, I argue that lots of cases, but hardly a majority, fall between chairs in Sweden/Finland. Diagnosis (access to doctors etc) is bad in Sweden, according to international benchmarking.

No one knows how large these problems are since this is not researched, which is typical for Sweden with the big Ol' Boys networks where media, politicians and big corporations have understandings.

>>However, do you have any study comparing health care systems that supports your claim that a single-payer system can never work?

You are reacting by reflexes on internal US discussions here. See my other comments.

I am arguing something else: Centrally planned systems, like the Swedish/Finnish health care, are inefficient with lots of problems. This is not controversial. And have nothing to do with all possible "single payer systems".

See my other comments for a link to the Economist, re British health care.
That would be an interesting research project. Track eye movement and focus. I could see how it would greatly enhancement the experience as well as introduce some fun & new rendering performance problems needing to solve.
Great idea. +1
Keybase GitHub Issue: Uploading Private Keys Puts Users At Risk
"closest thing there is to a generic high-contrast colour scheme for multimeters"

Lets imagine the outcome of two theoretically unrelated possibilities:

1) For safety reasons someone (who?) has purchased an OSHA regulation which now requires that all electricians use high contrast yellow multimeters, yellow indicating their, uh, safety-ness or something.

2) Fluke has paid the .gov to be the only legal yellow multimeter supplier.

I know #2 is true. I suspect but have no evidence #1 is true.
Some companies cover sales tax for their customers or they do some trick to avoid sales tax, some don't. Some states require sales tax over online order. See http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=4...
I don't think you are correct about that. There may be some total-fuzzing going on, but the current vote total is greater than the current upvote total.

4 points by 3rd3 7 minutes ago | flag | 1 comment

Please choose only one option.
Traitor 0 points
Neutral 1 point
Hero 6 points
Once comment support is added, this could be used by tptacek for doing vanity searches that no longer work with the hn search engine.
From the screenshots the emails look like they have dynamic elements in them ie buttons that do stuff. I imagine that they aren't links that just point to your site, but that you have figured out a way around no-JS in emails. How? Gmail/gapps plugin? Or...?
Nitpick: In addition to the savings of $688 for the SATA card, you also have to include a savings of about $1400 for the five 4TB drives that won't be included. That bumps the savings on the pod to just over 22%.

Still, at least 12% extra rack and floor space to get the same storage capacity would probably cost them more in the long run.
If you like this kind of stuff you might also like this:

http://obadger.com/turtle/

Then paste/run this program:

var triangle = (function(){
function frag(len, depth, left){
if (left === undefined) left = !(depth % 2);
if (depth > 1) {
frag(len/2, depth-1, !left);
t[left?'lt':'rt'](60);
frag(len/2, depth-1, left);
t[left?'lt':'rt'](60);
frag(len/2, depth-1, !left);
} else {
t.fd(len);
}
}
return frag;
})();

/* position the turtle */
t.pu().bk(250).rt(90).bk(350).pd().color('#0f0');

/* build the triangle */
triangle(700, 8);
To forestall inevitable misunderstandings, this is an optional feature--they are not doing something this unsafe as a default. It just strikes some of us as a really bad idea.
For some perspective... I'm 49. Last time I looked for a job (six months ago), I had two offers in less than two weeks. In general, I can get a job in no more than three weeks, just by answering the calls. And I don't think I'm all that special.

What I do have is a relevant resume, both buzzword compliant and impressive to humans who actually know their ass from a hole in the ground. It's carefully honed not to present me as a "generalist" (or some other self-perception), but to get me to the top of that pile for interviews.

Look at your resume as a piece of software. No matter how aesthetically pleasing and warmfuzzy your resume feels to you, if it isn't working, then it's buggy and needs fixed.
Yep, and it seems the more experienced they are, the more likely they are to experience this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
Indeed that would be assume. Solves the how many monitor's do you need debate, no longer restricts you by either available space or location. Would save money on power, etc. Seems like it could be a win for both the developer and budget.
If I recall correctly, a devkit comes with a limited license key (1 year?) for Unity 3D. That was the case for DK1.
Not a software engineer here. I've still tackled O(n) in real work, while writing ancillary scripts. I'm glad I learned it.

(think parsing and searching monster flat text databases from disk)
Is this hard to do correctly? How did you start?
> Living in an European country and having some experience with unions by hearing stories and watching the news - first of all, unions are highly political and aren't really meant for the protection of the employees.

That's a bit like saying "I read the news, and I've come to the conclusion that all corporations are plagued by internecine war and exist to steal money." Unions were formed to protect employees. Yes, some unions have become corrupt and greedy, but that does not mean all unions are corrupt and greedy.

> Or maybe I'll be fucked. But one thing I did learn in my 10 years of experience is that successful people in general find time to market themselves, to do networking, etc... even if they don't need to do it.

The disgusting "anti-poaching" hiring scandal in Silicon Valley that involved almost all of the big companies, e.g. Google, Apple, Adobe, etc. mulcting around 100,000 employees for billions of dollars of wages for several years is good evidence that self-marketing skills are valueless when companies illegally discriminate against you and refuse to hire you because of your employment history. Thousands of talented engineers could not negotiate, switch companies and adapt because the disgusting avarice of the former CEO of Apple prevented them from doing so.
Totally! For those who missed it, in the movie there's a story about how a civilization used to bury their people and they'd plant a seed in the deceased's body/chest so it could grow from the inside and take the persons' soul, or whatever there was in it, to the sky, to ascend it. And that's somehow part of the plot of the movie too. Something like that, IIRC.
Docker launches private repos, starting at $7/month
I think your figures are a bit off - iirc latency for direct access to RAM is generally in the 300 cycle range.
You have the first part right. You try to get them to be the first to name a number, but obviously if both sides are following that advice, something is going to have to give; sometimes you have to name a number.

The key is, you should want to aim too high! They're not going to say 'no, and never darken our door again' (or if they do, then you had a lucky escape - if they're that nasty and irrational at negotiation time, what would they be like to work for after they had you in the door??)

They'll say some variant of no - 'that's a little higher than we were thinking of' or 'ha ha, very funny' or 'well we were looking at something closer to typical market salary' or 'I'm afraid there's no way our budget would cover that' or however they want to put it, the point is, they're not willing to go as high as the number you named, which is good - if they were, that would probably have meant you were leaving money on the table.

Then you say 'okay, what sort of figure were you thinking of?' Now you're negotiating.
"Need" in the sense of "a poll vote is not an upvote, so if you want this to get lots of answers, vote it up as well as participating so it stays on the front page."
Hopefully, this is constructive criticism...

"What port does ping work over?"

Seriously, don't ask trick questions in interviews. You put the candidate in the impossible position of having to correct the interviewer, and the reaction to that tells you absolutely nothing about what the candidate knows or will do in a real-world situation.

"at least access to one, even if it's not at home."

And yet, this candidate will often simply answer "None" because you didn't ask about access to a network, even if the candidate maintains multiple complex networks at family members' homes.

"Are open-source projects more or less secure than proprietary ones?"

Don't ask yes/no questions if what you really want are pros and cons. Ask for pros and cons instead. Interviewing shouldn't involve mindreading. A lot of people will respond to a question like this by stating a thesis and then defending that thesis.

A lot of your questions have that problem. You're asking specific things, hoping that the interviewee will catch on and give you general answers. That seems to be testing interview skills more than anything else.
You misunderstand: he was saying that if you're voting, you /should/ upvote, to help the poll be meaningful. You should do this because upvoting is not automatic - as you can see, some people have voted in the poll but not upvoted the post itself.
Sexism is a problem in the tech world, but I think some people also just love to be offended. Bill Burr calls it being 'professionally outraged'.
Then you could cremate the tree and use it's ashes to grow another
Hello silence my old friend, you've come to make me money again.
It's actually O(1). It's (N * (N+1))/2
I suspect you are a space pirate.

What a pointless thing to enter into your widely connected information appliance. If you think it is true and has some merit as an idea, spend the couple minutes to actually inform us, alternatively just don't bother telling us what you think might be true.
Would like to hear opinions of people who voted neutral or traitor (not so I can jump on them, just am curious as to the reasoning).
Minsk-based Startup Approaches Time Tracking from a Fresh Perspective
Static site generators are the new Fibonacci generator. When you learn a language it's a fun little exercise, and possibly even useful.

Also, everyone has slightly different requirements, so everyone likes to build their own.

I will most likely soon build my own static site generator, because none of the ones out there do exactly what I want. I will most likely borrow from at least a few of the examples out there and then post it on my github so there is yet another one.

I think we're seeing a proliferation simply because it is so easy to share code these days. Imagine how many Fibonacci generators would have been out there if it were as easy to share code when those were popular (I want to say 10 years ago but maybe it was longer).
It's one of my favourite films for its depth and its amazing soundtrack.
One of the most revealing lessons to me, as a young programmer, was when my uncle (worked on the Java project when it was Oak, published his own network architecture, distributed systems professor, etc. etc.) asked me which content management system he should use for an important project, and I was able to help him out with that. You'll always know something that the "Greats" don't.
And you are on a NSA watch list in 3, 2, 1
The story of Motorola's smartwatch from the man who designed it
"A plugin is needed to display this content"
Tencent and Alibaba battle for Internet dominance in China
During the iTunes heyday, artists like Billy Corgan complained that selling individual songs for a dollar would be the death of the album. Eight years later, the optimal model for streaming services appear to be churning out as many small songs as possible. Perhaps more concept albums like this one will follow?
Posting a poll about Edward Snowden on Hacker News is like posting a poll about Sarah Palin on Fox News.
Shockingly, a scientific poll says HN readers overwhelmingly support Snowden. This wildly conflicts with everything everyone thought they knew until now.
From the FAQ: https://support.oculusvr.com/hc/en-us/articles/201835987

Q: I received a Unity Pro Trial code with my purchase of the original Oculus Rift Development Kit. Will I receive another code after my purchase of Oculus Rift Development Kit 2?

A: There are no plans to offer a Unity Pro Trial code with Oculus Rift Development Kit 2 purchases at this time.
Some companies have explicit "no fraternization" policies which forbid sexual relations between employees. Also some allow it, but it has be publicly disclosed and the two can't be, for example, in the same department or one can't be a supervisor of the other. If he was high up in the chain (depending on the organization), it can be assumed/argued having an affair would be unwanted because he becomes a target for blackmail and becomes a reason for termination. You also generally are disallowed to have sexual relations with a customer.

Also certain organizations forbid higher ranking and lower ranking people to even hang out outside of work, develop close personal relationships, or even have about personal/non-work conversations. Many militaries operate this way. My sister also worked for an organization that had this policy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternization
What are we trying to accomplish, here? It's obvious that different people will see him in different lights. On a technically oriented site like this, I expect the "hero" option to tally higher, substantially so, but is there any point to this other than a bit of good ol' circular fun?
> How would you guys answer this one?

I've had it twice. The first time, with Google, they were genuinely interested to know how deep I could go, so I talked about DNS, TCP, SSL, HTTP etc, but I also talked about application event loops and keyboard drivers and interrupt handlers.

The second time, with Rackspace, I presumed they want the same, but they were a bit bewildered and wanted to keep it higher level (protocols only).
I've been looking at some of the options on that website, and this one seems to be less complex than many of the tools there. This isn't meant to be a blogging tool, but rather a simple way of emulating server-side includes or basic PHP includes in static HTML. I'm sure a few of those exist in that list, but when has "somebody built that already" become a gate for writing code?
This was my quick conclusion too. The app they have built is is very portlet-like, anyway. Nothing wrong with that, but I don't think it suits every need.
Ask HN: Art and Science in Programming
I've been looking for books and resources that focus on the domains of art (for example, generative music) and science (for example, scientific data analysis) in programming. Do you have any recommendations and favorites?
The server doesnt need to have Python installed. Just your local machine. That is a simple one liner if it isnt already installed.
New free book launched: Programming Amazin Web Services with Python 3
This is a loaded question. There are two problems at hand: 1) Is Snowden a traitor/hero? 2) Is Snowden a criminal?

People often equate these two, but they are, in fact, different, and I worry your poll doesn't account for the second question.
This actually sounds like a great product.

I can find no pricing information on their website. Is it all free right now? Or does it not even exist yet? What's the deal?
An American hero does not end up fleeing to a country like Russia under a leader like Putin. If Snowden had spilled the beans and then turned himself in, I'd respect him much more.
Eclipse announces Flux, a project to integrate Eclipse and Orion
You sure you wouldn't prefer someone who's really good at implementing binary search trees ...
This toaster was in my old workplace, The Trampery, just off Old Street.
> are somehow more honorable than adults running businesses.

Gotta admit, I thought the same thing. Then I'm reminded of patent and trademark law...
Can I work for mozilla? I feel like they're only one of the few organizations that are doing cool things for the common good. Keep it up!
I think this is a response to the recent TED talk where the same question was asked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVwAodrjZMY

The host provides the theory that the vote is not biased based on left or right wing beliefs.
I think it's more about being able to distinguish skills from products. Products become obsolete, skills do not.

You have dBase II experience? Not relevant.

You have experience building database-backed interactive applications in resource-constrained environments? Could be quite relevant, with the rise of mobile.

So: go through the list of products and cull the old ones, but as you do so, ask yourself what you learned from using each.
This can be patched in 2 minutes with a "Are you still here?" prompt. Can't believe this is a news article, wow.
Fair point. Python was chosen because it's an accessible language for new programmers. As for template languages, most are very complex. We wanted something minimal.

As for that case, it won't work and we'll try to help you reorganize your content so it does. :)
Serious question: does that put you in the traitor or neutral camp?
Bitcoin sucks?

^ YES!!!

^ NO!!

^ sometimes, depends on who you ask

What have we learned here? As usual, nothing.
4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,
shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable
cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly
describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to
be seized.[1]"

NSA Oath:

"NSA/CSS employees are Americans first, last, and always.
We treasure the U.S. Constitution and the rights it secures for all
the people. Each employee takes a solemn oath to support and
defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies,
foreign and domestic."

I took this same oath during my 8 year stint in the US ARMY. The man is a hero.

"I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and
defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies,
foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance
to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President
of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed
over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military
Justice. So help me God."

A Traitor is defined as such in the US Constitution:

"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in war, or
in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No
Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of
two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in closed court.
The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but
no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture
except during the Life of the Person attainted."
In that case your computer is a death trap certain to cause fatal electrical shock the next time you connect your printer, flash drive, or USB nerf missile launcher. Your expensive multimeter probably won't save you in time (seriously though, do you test the grounding of your computer case every time you use it?)
> "you now connect the headset to your computer using a single cable that includes an HDMI and USB connection"

My computer only has a mini-displayport port. Does anybody know if a minidp->hdmi adapter would be suitable for this HDMI/USB pairing?
It's great that so many people are able to boil down a complex topic to one of 3 convenient 1-word labels.
Google paints Vancouver sky with giant web browser
It depends on what type you are; someone who thinks a single country could rule all or someone who thinks everyone are equal
You need to pay the subscription, then they add you to their private repository.
I voted in the poll, because it was there, but I will not upvote the post because I don't think it's a good poll. I don't see what there is to be accomplished by this poll.

Why do I /need/ to upvote the post?
I need this for my two monitor setup. When I look left the app on the left should take focus. That it doesn't has led to much confusion.
You really don't need to be telling people what they should upvote :|

Maybe one answers the poll, but doesn't see it as useful so they don't upvote the post.
What if none of these choices accurately depicts what you think of him?
If you read that link, you would realize that the author disagrees with you.
I don't know if I agree with this. The author might be incorrectly projecting his feelings onto other people. There are a fair number of people in the world who know exactly what they're doing.
I would have probably voted Neutral if I hadn't seen this http://reason.com/reasontv/2014/01/10/this-is-a-secret-gover... about the original whistleblowers and how ineffective internal channels were.
I am totally confused by your comment. A "hacker" in the context of the Full Disclosure list is a completely different thing than what "hacker" means in the context of Hacker News.

It's at best trying to compare a painter that does portraits to a painter that paints automobiles. Both require skills, but in completely different areas.
Announcing the Oculus Rift Development Kit 2
Any reason you went with the Bescor over just a servo motor?
SmartGit: My favorite GUI interface for Git
Coffee: A New App Where LinkedIn Meets Tinder
Pretty cool idea. They're launching soon. Figure it's worth checking out.
Metal Machine Music is a great album, and relatively quite tame by modern noise music standards.
World's healthiest hackathon is coming to SF this weekend