skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gaming and Bitcoin
Video games are the perfect education tool to bring bitcoin to the masses. Gaming invented crypto currency. Since mario brothers folks have been mining bitcoin with each bump of mario's head against a block.

It's a simple transition now for gaming mom's and young people to spend, share these in game points.

In a way, gaming will become the laymans way of mining bitcoin. Like how it's done on https://gamerholic.com Set the high score, win bitcoins when others fail to beat your score.
Imagine a meeting with a psychologist who gives a blatantly illegal reason for keeping my spouse detained under secrion of the mental health act.

Without a recording my options are to write a nearest relative's letter of order to discharge, and face the wrarh of the psychologist who could then cause considerable trouble for me and my spouse.

With the recording all the backlash from the psych is damped down when I let people know what actually happened.

Recording that meeting has some ethical and moral problems and the other people in the meeting would be strongly against me recording it. And while there might be laws against it they tend not to be strictly enforced over here.

There are a bunch of other "he said she said" situations where a recording might be useful.
Live sports is another one. If I could buy ESPN, NBC Universal, and the Big Ten Network a-la carte, I wouldn't need any other cable stations. Netflix-style access for sitcoms and movies would be fine for the rest; currency is much less critical for those.
Got it, not animals... property
On the stock android browser (4.2.2), holding a link opens a context menu, within which you can choose to open it in a background tab. There's a settings options to not switch to that tab yet (under Advanced).

Also, a setting to preload links in the background (very appropriately under Bandwidth Management).
What was that quote again? Let me google that for you.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

Trading long term independence for temporary efficiency never looked so good!
I'm running 4.1 (API level 16) - it should work I guess. Although, I can't download it.
Might be location restricted?
I genuinely don't know what the UK laws are.

I should have been clearer though. For my purposes the video / audio would have very limited use. "Hey! They did this thing that they must not do! That's why I did what I did".

NHS (uk health service) complaints system is a bit broken and recording appointments would be useful for me.
You will cause entrepreneurs and job-creaters to leave the country. The U.S. isn't in a bubble. Why would someone making 6 or more figures want to be taxed 60%+ for their work?
Former US president Carter uses snail mail to evade NSA
Far enough underground (a few meters) and I think the risk is acceptable. The one in the article made an 18m-diameter crater, so maybe 5-9m deep, but this kind of impact is relatively rare and very unlikely to be in the location of the base.

It's the shrapnel we are worrying about most, not the direct impacts.
Yep. I'm also a DO customer - very satisfied. You can't get that great customer support from Google (unless you pay more than 10k/month and you have your own tech account manager!)
OVH is mainly known in Europe/french speaking countries.
What we need is a movement of `experienced` devs to get out there and form some companies that employ mainly older devs. I'm sure the quality from such a company would be incredible.
I'm pretty sure Steve wasn't bargaining. He was simply so certain of his own opinion that mainframes and microcomputers were totally unlike each other, that it was inconceivable that someone who was an expert at one could ever bridge the gap to the other.

There was some evidence for his position if you knew anything about the computing culture in the Cupertino area in those days, especially at Tymshare where I was working at the time.

Tymshare had a profitable business going, selling dial-up access to their mainframes for $30/hour. They knew about these newfangled microcomputers, but one thing they definitely knew was that they didn't want to get involved in them. Because if they did, the microcomputers could turn into a threat to their mainframe business.

And you know, it turned out they were right! The microcomputers were a threat to their business, but they didn't get in on it.

Tymshare wasn't the only company like this. There were several little timesharing companies in the Bay Area, and they all must have looked like dinosaurs to anyone who was playing around with microprocessors.

I had told Steve in our first conversation that I was working at Tymshare, so really the most straightforward explanation is not that he was negotiating, but that he thought I was just one of those dinosaurs.
At some point, IBM decided catering to wall street was more important than doing real work. Take a look at Cringely's articles on IBM. I've known people that worked as contractors at IBM Almaden and as the transition was occurring, they went out of their way to not end up on the radar -- the impression I got was that management being aware of your project was a risk for being cut. This was even worse for the rank and file full timers.

IBM used to invest in it's employees. My advisor was of a generation where if you saved IBM X dollars in terms of research patents, etc, you were well supported as time went on. Additionally, they had a culture of investing in their employees. I don't know when the change happened... I want to say sometime in the mid/late 90s things shifted and have since.
Firstly, heartbeat is out of date. Secondly, stonith is not super simple. You need redundant network paths on each node to achieve it. Similarly, you need loads of testing.
No you are getting downvoted because you are as wrong as you can possibly get. And by the looks of it CSS focused... which I wouldn't even call engineering.

Things rarely go obsolete for one thing. Try explaining why COBAL, FORTRAN, VB6, ColdFusion, or hell more modern stuff like J2EE are still around and in good usage. Things become unpopular, often for good reason, but they don't go obsolete for well over a decade. When something costs over a million dollars to construct and its working OK then theres no reason to get rid of it. Most places can't afford multi million rebuilds because its become unfashionable.

What you also learn as you get older is most modern advances are just rehashes (often poorly as they where written over a month instead of years in a research lab) of existing ideas. Or they are nothing more than a load of premade scripts which are nice (and I'm very thankful for the ones I've used) but if you work with clients or existing stacks those often become problematic.

The new ideas that stick often take 5 years to get rolling, and another 5-10 before they sunset. I wouldn't call that quick by any stretch of the imagination. The hype moves fast... but the technology doesn't.

So separate yourself from the hype and you'll see a world moving a lot slower than you think, the given time the overwhelming torrent of new ideas starts to become a same old shit, different day scenario.
I agree underground would be the way, just to curtail radiation, which for a moon base, long-term would be a consideration.
While it is indeed a risk, it's something NASA, and other agencies, have been working and designing suits around for years. Micrometeorites and the like about the size of the objects this article talks about are also prevalent in low earth orbit where the ISS is, and we've not had anyone seriously injured in that environment. In fact, one of the pages on NASA's educational site talks about issues very similar to this [1]. Plus, every space mission has gone with a pretty extensive medical kit [2], and suit repair kit [3], and I'm certain that anyone going to the moon would receive training as to how to clean and dress a wound should someone get peppered from meteorite shrapnel.

[1] http://quest.nasa.gov/space/teachers/suited/9d2micro.html

[2] http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/Apollo_18-42_Apollo_Medical_...

[3] http://airandspace.si.edu/events/apollo11/objects/apolloarti...
This generalization is so impossible to make its laughable.

I know 20 year olds making brain wave analysis breakthroughs and 50 year olds making poker apps. And the reverse.

Great work knows no age.
It doesn't matter if they're the same. The point of the Scroogled campaign is to say "the other companies read your emails, while we don't". Like every other MS marketing campaign, it doesn't take long to unravel.
Another benefit (I might be selling myself here, watch out) is that older programmers have lived through more issues. Be it management, technical, HR, etc. We have seen more. And some of us know how to steer clear of such issues, and when to interject.
Take your pick. "To take without permission", or "to catch by trespassing on private property", is that better?

Feel free to be outraged by the practice of collusion, but is it worth getting upset about a vague slang industry terminology?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/poach
I'm probably old by Valley standards (32), but I took a lot of crap for this view in my twenties. I worked for a consultancy that made money by billing my time out. They'd never tell me I had to work more, but it was heavily implied on multiple occasions that working beyond 40 hours was preferable. I asked why, as I had a series of successful deliveries, and stayed ahead of my workload. They would always terminate the conversation there.

You have to play close attention to the incentive structure of the business. The situation is arguably worse for startups if you're salaried: you're 'changing the world' so it becomes OK for the occasional 50/60 hour week.
I'm a 40+ engineer in the NYC metro area and I've never felt more in-demand in my life! I think it boils down to a simple idea: computer-science is a dynamic field and THE FUN PART is that you need to always be learning.

There are still some colleagues my age who still wax about the days of writing JCL for their mainframe jobs and never evolved past the 80's and perhaps they gave a bad name for others who built on their of years of experience with evolving knowledge.

I decided in 2009 to specialize in mobile, when I realized how impossible it was for the startup I was working for to find any high throughput engineers, let alone high throughput engineers with niche expertise in mobile. I think it is an advantage in some ways during interviews that I can talk about decades of awesome projects I worked on while also being among the first to ship an iPhone app or a top ranking iPad app.

As they say, luck is when preparation meets opportunity. It's my job to make myself lucky.
Plenty of people make a decent living off of such companies and so do their employees. Why would anyone call Josh Hannah though, unless they no longer wanted to run their company? Let him buy and sell his overvalued, short-lived bubbles (to other people like him who do likewise) and run your own, solid $40m companies for as long as you enjoy it...
I don't know how anyone couldn't think of this before. Is so simple and needed.
It was more than a couple of top tech companies:

http://pando.com/2014/03/22/revealed-apple-and-googles-wage-...
The difference is that you have to pay for Fastmail, so you're a customer and not the product; which is a good tradeoff.
Why are you linking me to an article where I have to sign in?
> Great work knows no age.

And there's not enough of it to go around.
> The readmission penalties make it so hospitals are not paid at all for the readmission.

That's the goal, but that's not how it actually works out in practice - look at the details of how the penalties are levied, and you'll see why.

If they were implemented perfectly, that would be true. Or if all payers used a bundled payment system, that would be true. But neither of those are the case (at least not now).

(An easy way to see this is to see that there is a cap for the maximum penalty - so if the total amount made on readmissions is larger than this cap, the hospital would still make money overall[0].)

[0] Of course, nothing can be simple (that would be too easy!), so the actual way that these are calculated is even more convoluted - take a look if you're interested, but don't say I didn't warn you. :)
Unfortunately, there isn't a person asking those questions. More often than not, officers watch out for each other (read: The Blue Code of Silence) and internal investigations are notoriously a joke. I'd love to see someone not affiliated with police officers ask one of them why they generate so many complaints, without also becoming a complaint.
Do you mean you were able to do the internship while studying full-time?
Probably because Lua is horrible and JavaScript is awesome. Also npmjs.
Along those lines, I found it was far cheaper to go to a sports bar and eat and drink beers every Sunday instead of getting Sunday Ticket.
Maybe the business they're validating is an HN-specific PR firm :)
They exist, but they don't emit quite as much noise as SV companies do. :)
Yes, it's closed source. I can't see a realistic alternative to this given I'm trying to make a living selling the app.

But FWIW, I can promise you I don't transfer your browsing history. My policy on such data is I simply don't want to ever have a copy of it. If that means I can't sync your history between Link Bubble installs, so be it.
Banks Urge Young Analysts to Do the Unthinkable: Take Weekends Off
Is this in the US or do people in many other Western countries share that suspicion? I'm in Australia and whenever I've dealt with police, they've always been very professional and reasonable. Firm when necessary, but accommodating and flexible when someone was trying to explain their actions, for example.

Got pulled over and warned for (barely) speeding in Texas once. Based on US cop horror stories I'd read, I was so nervous I was almost shaking but the guy was perfectly polite and friendly.
So awesome, thank you! Would love to be able to use something similar to search for and/or give some meta-label-tag to emails that have embedded images too. Will look into it and give it a shot. Thanks again!
Is it really not possible to trace gold? I was under the impression that for much of the gold out there you could use the "footprint" of contaminations in the gold to infer the age (since mining) and procedence to a certain degree.

Of course, if you melt it in a top-notch facility, they'd probably be able to heat out the contaminants (or remove them chemically?), but people trading in stolen or otherwise "hot" gold probably don't have access to such facilities.
I have one humble proposal, to make a FEDERAL law about this. Requiring law enforcement officers to record and store video of their activities on duty would improve the experience for both cops and the people they are dealing with. One study showed a staggering decrease of 88% in complaints against officers. We need federal laws to enable timely and straightforward access to this video in court cases all around the country where people are facing assault charges and years in prison. There is currently a White House Petition to that effect.

Please sign it: http://wh.gov/lEb2V
Someone much more experienced than I am once said to me that experience doesn't teach you more answers, it teaches you more questions.

The answers change as the landscape evolves, but know which questions to ask...
Definitely shouldn't be. DM me on Twitter (@chrismlacy) if you like and I can take a look at what might be going on.
You should see the movie Final Cut :)
Why does the readme say "liberal license" when the license file is in fact "MIT license" Why hide the fact that it is under the MIT license? Why is there a folder called licenses and why does it contain an unfilled in license (Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>)?
Sure, but look at which category the companies complaining about shortages are in.
Only in programming do we have the gall to actually cast aspersions about experience.

This sentiment will bite you in the ass.
A Beginner's guide to HTML and CSS
In the UK at least I think its only a matter of time before either google or apple but in a huge bid for the premier league TV rights. It would give them huge penetration for there TV offerings almost over night.
This is a pdf for a camera that has the same sensor as is used in mail sorting equipment. http://fairchildimaging.com/files/2kand4klvcameramanualrevc_... Here is the equipment in action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ynZ4klX2BE

I never built mail sorting equipment, but I did work with that camera quite a bit. It has very good sensitivity. For a lark one day, I decided to see if I could read mail through the envelope. So, I fed some junk mail in front of it and found that for non-privacy type envelopes, it was almost as easy to read what's inside (top page) as what was on the outside of the envelope. Multiple pages stacked and folded made it impossible to read everything, but you could have read the outer page portion of a tri-folded letter on each side. Keep in mind that I implemented this for fun on a slow afternoon (and it required no special wizardry). Given time and resources, maybe a second camera or different lighting, a lot more might be achieved. Even a naive approach of scanning a letter multiple times under different lighting conditions might be enough to read a large fraction of letter mail. It would take less than a minute. It would not require opening or touching the letter more than an ordinary mail sorter.

Now I am not alleging that I think that all mail is stored/read, but I am saying that the tech needed to do that to some degree exists and is at least partially in place.
"We, as programmers, are ridiculously overpaid already."

This must not have been true, if collusion was necessary to keep wages down.
I feel your pain. I have been maintaining a probably larger cluster with a similar stack for a few years. Right now I am working on a simulation system that will enable testing arbtrary failure scenarios for arbitrary services across corosync/pacemaker in a virtualized environment. Things like pulling cables, machine death, random upticks in latency, that sort of thing. This will also help to test new designs for new data centers, and corosync/pacemaker's performance over (potentially) high latency links such as the internet when physical site / legal jurisdiction redundancy is also required. What I've done, since it's unrealistic to expect average service authors to grok n-layers of complexity in the networking/storage/service setup fabric and related security processes, is to reduce the problem to one of rigid developer workflow neatly segregating 'platforms', 'services' and 'cloud providers'. The latter, which are either external commercial black boxes or your own infrastructure, includes one that implements corosync/pacemaker, writes your cluster rules for you, segments things neatly in to VLANs, dynamically reconfigures routers, disklessly provisions physical nodes, maintains a detailed hardware inventory including all serial numbers, etc. While it's impossible to replicate real hardware precisely in simulation, I came to the conclusion that I basically needed this degree of automation to have any confidence that things are working and will continue to work.
> It's unfortunate that people no longer dive into original system/program documentation, but google/ask for quick answer.

>Similarly you may noticed how you can no longer write code comfortably when being offline, because you cannot google "how to make dict() return default value for non existing key" etc.

A large reason for this is the change that has occurred over time from old-school Unix type tools to newer tools. In many cases, the newer languages simply have no documentation available locally.

I.e., in my Slackware system, I have ():

1,596 man pages for glibc functions
896 man pages for Perl
155 man pages for Tcl functions
88 man pages for Tk functions
1 man page for Python

One can "code disconnected" reasonably well in C/C++, Perl, or Tcl/Tk because the tools also installed documentation for all the functions contained therein. But, with Python, without a separate set of docs, or internet access, one is lost if one needs to "look something up". Plus, jumping out of one's editor (or switching to another xterm) to run "man 3 printf" to look-up a particular obscure percent escape is loads faster than googling for the same. There is an advantage to having full local documentation installed. But it seems that the advantage has been lost on some tools.

() count obtained by grep and wc -l on Slackware's packages files
WOW, "A security auditor for our servers has demanded the following within two weeks:
•A list of current usernames and plain-text passwords for all user accounts on all servers
•A list of all password changes for the past six months, again in plain-text"

That right there would be a security breach/issue and for it to be created as part of an audit is unbelievable.

I have never met any security auditor who has done that or ever would and having done audits myself for FTSE 100 companies, well if I did that I'd be out of a job. Certainly audit the passwords, though there should be rules to prevent silly passwords and that is what should be audited.

In such a situation I would not panda to such a auditor and would approach a director about the security risk the auditor was and good night veanna for them. Such people should not be doing audits, ever and clearly not qualified in the role/task they have been given.

It would be a security issue too carry on supporting or allowing such a person to carry on auditing as they are clearly a security risk without a doubt.
This is real theft. I applaud my free market overlords for such setting fine examples of Machiavellin psychopathy and systematic duplicity, where they on the one hand lament the "shortage" of engineers and the failure of the education system, whilst simultaneously depressing the wages that should have been demanded from the fruits of that self same system.

Fuck. These. Assholes.
Even crazier is that the government Often creates these situations by requiring that bidders bid the same number of positions, and then picks the one with the lowest rates. Lowering cost with fewer, better people just does not compute to them at all, because they have tried that strategy and been stuck with fewer just as bad people in the past. They then just use these people as staffing resources and attempt to manage the delivery themselves.

The major companies in the space (including many you listed) are trying to push incremental, iterative delivery, but the customers won't get out of their own way long enough to let it work.
Lawyers and financial traders, maybe. Doctors, not so much (at least in the US). The NRMP is a far more effective wage-fixing cabal than anything anyone in silicon valley could ever dream up, and it's 100% legal.
In addition to what others have said, there's some amount of ego for the respective inventors and colleagues of inventors of sorting algorithms. So some professors harp on certain algos only because their former grad student invented it.

And, yeah, it all depends on the context for your sort. Bubble sort (!) can be good if you know only one element is out of order.
I am in Indonesia at present but if nothing else can help with ideas and experience.

The businesses I own are currently all on a coop model. I think subject matter is likely to be a larger limitation though than location.