skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You could hire someone to clean an entire apartment for $50.

Obviously the point is to not lose my $50.
What makes you think someone will do this for free for you?

You're asking for a custom site with custom data that is searchable in many different ways. You're asking someone to come up with an entire implementation to your idea.

I can't give you an accurate quote with such little info but what you're looking at is likely going to be north of free. I'd expect somewhere in the few thousand dollar range.
>Install was a breeze (I'd have been surprised if it wasn't these days), everything worked out the box

It depends, I guess.

I installed xubuntu 14.04 the day it came out, and I was surprised that I encountered 3-4 bugs within the first hour that affected my work and about a dozen smaller bugs that, while noticeable, aren't that serious.

After few years without running (x/k)ubuntu, I was surprised that stuff like language selection is broken upon release, that network manager about 20% of the time just doesn't work after booting etc etc.

I always had this experience with ubuntu, and its derivatives - it looks great, and 90% of time it works great, but nothing seems to be really polished/stable. But YMMW.
Or are you suggesting every browser will contact many of its personal web-of-trust sources on every secure-connection?

For Hacker News? No.

For my bank? Yes, absolutely.

The implementation of a fast and scalable lookup is not exactly rocket science (cf. DNSBLs). It's a political problem, not a technology problem.
This looks far more readable. I'll add this URL to my comment in the other post.
> You don't strictly need it. Human brain is pretty ok with learning all kind of weird stuff.

Sure brains are plastic, but learning takes time so if you can map nerve outputs to hand in a way that generalizes across people, they could start using it faster.
According to many Glassdoor reviews their culture is fucked up I guess.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Airbnb-Reviews-E391850.htm
Related to @mden's Idea: Tree of knowledge.

Chrono: chronological inventions and academic breakthroughs of mankind as a dependency graph. This is a lingering idea that has been coming back to me a couple times a year over the last decade or so.

What if there's a kind of semantic wikipedia that is built upon a dependency graph of inventions and academic breakthroughs. What led to the invention of the internet, to nano-tubes, etc? How cool would it be from an education standpoint to be able to jump back in time and see invention upon invention replayed (with backgrounds on how these breakthroughs came to be) up to today.

Check out what led to invention X (the galaxy S you're reading this on), played back . Or reversely, lookup which inventions were build (transitively) upon the discovery of Y. You'd also finally be able to answer definitively who was more important: Tesla or Edison ;)

Socio-economic backgrounds, anecdotes, etc. what led to invention X, and how X was important for Y, etc. An interactive "Short history of nearly everything"
The enemy of any crypto is naïve assumption. That's not unique to PHP, but I agree, the type system can make it worse.
Because Windows doesn't have cryptic regedit paths.
The money doesn't go to the accountability partner. So if they place any value at all on your friendship, why would they do that? There's nothing to gain.

Also:

>I'm not going to put up $250 if I think there's even a 0.0000001% chance the accountability partner will improperly log that I didn't do it.

Really? An expected loss of $0.00000025 bothers you?
I have this pet theory that the best companies in the future will be those that act more like cults (putting the "cult" in culture) than companies. As the jobs that actually need doing become more and more ambiguous (how specific is the job description of a "growth hacker" compared to the median job in the 50's?), companies will have more and more trouble hiring for specific skills(reading anything about hiring developers will evidence this). So the differentiating factor will be culture fit rather than specific skills.

Does this sound like it will have problems? Yeah, I think so. But does the current system have problems? (Left as an exercise for the reader)

There's one more tidbit that comes to mind: what happens when the "core values" indicate that it's time for the company to close up shop? I'm not sure there's a catch-all answer, but this is a question for anyone who pays lip service to the idea of culture to ponder.
I'm wondering why we don't make the vesting of the grant variable as well. Why four years?

Why not allow an employee to negotiate for double the chunk for double the length of the grant? That's far more desirable than getting 4 years worth, arriving at year 4 realizing you've succeeded in building a company of true value only to discover that the amount you are re-upped is now at a strike price far greater (that you are responsible for achieving). i.e. you are punished for succeeding if you stay long enough to get re-upped.
EDT: To me, this post comes across as vacuous and pompous because it does not explain at all what ‘culture’ means in this context. An IMHO great reply has already been written before this post appeared:

‘What Your Culture Really Says’:
https://medium.com/about-work/e8ab06c3b75f

> Let’s examine popular startup trends that are being called “culture” and look beneath the surface to find the real culture that may be playing out beneath it. This is not a critique of the practices themselves, which often contribute value to an organization. This is to show a contrast between the much deeper, systemic cultural problems that are rampant in our startups and the materialistic trappings that can disguise them.
After evaluating all the desktop html frameworks I could find, I settled on "node-webkit".
The thread has some links to slightly different versions.

This claims to have copy and pastable text.

https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/forum/index.php?threads/dn...
Only sites which have error reporting enabled are vulnerable, so no need to panic unless you're displaying errors in production.
In my experience, this is the first sign that a company culture is about to be fucked up.

The reason is that a company culture is organic and highly dependent on the people that make it. When a company is very small, it's easy to have only the best people who also happen to fit in to the same culture, because those people naturally gravitate together. In the beginning, the company is small enough that they are not hiring for very specialised and disparate skills so much as "a bunch of smart people that work well together".

As teams get bigger, inevitably things get more structured and by trying to hold on to that initial culture, you inevitably kill it.

Personally I believe the best thing is to have small autonomous units within the business that have a set remit and are allowed to have their own culture, with the company as a whole acting to promote cross-pollination between units. There really doesn't have to be one single "culture" guided by the "core company values" because those are two different things that invariably do not mesh once you get past about 30 people. So when companies hit that awkward "teenage" size and try, they usually fail.

I also find that the claims about company culture made by most mid to large sized company are inevitably false. There might be a particular culture within individual teams (the IT team in the basement, for instance), but usually it does not permeate the entire business to the extent the HR team wishes it did.
What is the best course of action for people that have been using 12.04? Upgrade straight way? Or wait (how long?) for this LTS to smooth out any potential edges? Other than the outdated packages (which seems to be a Debian thing, but that I've been able to work around by finding ppa's and building from source), I am decently happy with 12.04.
True, it is planned though. Feel free to vote for that feature: http://querytree.uservoice.com
It would require making "expression" and "pattern" into the same nonterminal in the grammar, and then deciding afterwards whether something that was parsed was an expression or a pattern. This is sometimes called a "cover grammar" because it "covers" two distinct nonterminals. It is possible--ECMAScript 6 does it--but it's definitely a complex way to parse. It doesn't seem compatible with Rust's design goal of being easy to parse and regular, e.g. for tooling.
> Ever notice how families or tribes don’t require much process? That is because there is such a strong trust and culture that it supersedes any process. In organizations (or even in a society) where culture is weak, you need an abundance of heavy, precise rules and processes.

I think it's disingenuous to say tribes and families don't "require much process." The processes are just more implicit than explicit. When you ask your parents for a new toy and they evaluate whether to say 'yes', that's a process - just an informal one. The only reason that's really possible is because the relationships are much more intimate and fewer.

When you start to scale into numbers where it's just infeasible for "everyone to know everyone" then formal processes have to take the place of those informal ones. I can't evaluate Jim's request for 10 additional storage disks informally because I don't know the first thing about Jim.

Coordinating lots of people is really hard. I would guess Airbnb is getting about the size where keeping the culture intact will require a sizable time commitment from the top level. Airbnb keeping that same culture at 20,000 employees would probably be a sociological feat all on its own.
This is almost normal course of practice for everyone I know who works for themselves.
Hire someone to do it in wordpress or any decent PHP framework for you. If you expect to make money on it you should expect to pay for the labor of making it, after all. What you're proposing is a complex implementation. Just because you consider it a side project, doesn't mean it would take any less work to pull off.
I don't know what you've been observing, but the DC area is pretty much legacy programmer heaven. Nobody there thinks that they'll be out of work by their late thirties. Whoever told you that programmer careers end at the same age in the Bay Area misinformed you also. The issue of slow/absent career growth beyond the first decade working is definitely not market-specific (it has more to do with the current state of software engineering and the business of software), but that is a world apart from unemployment.
> Ever notice how families or tribes don’t require much process?

Interesting, I've observed the opposite. As someone single, I've been surprised at how much process there is among many married or cohabiting couples. Lots of discussion and planning around everyday routine chores, such as going to the grocery store.

These couples have assured me with confidence that this is very important to the health of their relationships.
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It doesn't matter where the money goes to in the end, the only thing that matters is the risk taker loses the money.

There's a very big difference between "internet friend I've known for 4 years and I would consider him a decently close friend" and "I'm willing to hold this guy accountable for $1,000".

I think you guys under estimate at how hard it will be to find an accountability partner who is actually worthy. Your family members will have a bias to not let you lose the money. Really close friends (the people you can trust) might too but the questionably close friends aren't quite trustworthy enough to let them decide on your $500, etc..
When I last looked at it, and this was long ago, '80s I think, radon appeared to only be a serious danger to smokers; the original studies were of uranium miners, who of course smoked a lot back then.

Which, given that "X and smoking is very bad" is true for a host of things, suggests to me the focus on radon might be misplaced.

As for your general starting point, I sure wish more would use the toxicologist's maxim "The dose makes the poison" vs. the clearly bogus linear no-threshold model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model

Heck, even the banana equivalent dose (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose) would be more fruitful, you might say ^_^. Most of that is from potassium-40 in it, and Edward Teller had a favorite statistic based on sleeping with two other people based on the dosage you'd get from that isotope in them.

And that also addresses to an extent your inhalation/injection concern. We live in a sea of radioactivity, from isotopes inside us to cosmic rays which also flip DRAM bits. Anyone petrified of radioactive threats should never be told about the consequences of normal altitude commercial jet flying, unless they're planning on making a career of it.
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Even so, that total is about two orders of magnitude over what I've ever seen in my 15+ year career in the tech industry. A MILLION dollars (over 4 years) for employee number 53,862? This can't be real. If so, I suppose this is why I can no longer afford to live in the South Bay. Join Google, buy a house. Not even trying to hide my jealousy!
In my opinion, discussions were handled better in the old Usenet days. How about running a private NNTP server and use one of the programs that forwards the mailing list to the NNTP server? There are still lots of good NNTP clients out there like XNews
As for the last item, it's not as daunting as it seems. Range safety is actually fairly comparable in either direction. The trajectory of the booster won't naturally head over populated areas and it will have to be adjusted until it reaches back to land. If, for whatever reason, the trajectory adjustment goes to far and the booster would end up landing farther back on land then the stage can be signaled to be destructed, which will screw up its drag coefficient enough so that the debris will just fall safely into the water. And that's a worst case scenario.
Similar? https://www.taskrabbit.com/
These accounts will just switch to Russian social media or blogs.mail.ru which have Turkish language support and would be happy to host corruption docs of the Erdogan regime. Then use twitter to spread links to it.

Nothing twitter can do if thousands of Turkish twitter users are linking to pastebin entries and other moving targets hosting links where to get these docs.
>you may not know that they will boil water in mere seconds

What are you talking about? Even the link you shared had comments saying that even the minimum boiling time was over 2 minutes.
Aren't we all amassing a collection boxes? Some which will go untouched from the moment they are organized. We just do it with folders on a hard drive today. Just yesterday I started to organize my media archive (http://pastebin.com/ZhtNgiBK). Some things I've only collected on the prospect that maybe a friend or relative would like to watch it one day, I have no intention of viewing it myself.

On a note related to Kubrick, here's a link to the analysis of The Shining referenced in Room 237 by mstrmnd: http://www.mstrmnd.com/log/802

It's a cool read if you're into his films, and you've approached a point in your own personal analysis when you thought, the deeper I go, the closer to madness I am.
This bug was publicly disclosed and fixed over a year ago.
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I found it easier to handle Analysis by following the sequence:Spivak ->Apostol->Rudin.
Is 12.04 the previous LTS release? I think I'm using the same one. To be honest, I'm sticking with it. I still have a few more years of support so I might as well just wait until kinks (if any) are ironed out.
well yes, but generally people don't learn to control the expansionist tendencies.

Further, Culture is the achievement of various people pre-globalization. By discarding that, we are not becoming better, the results are positive in short term, but wait till it takes the nosedive, just like the real estate crisis of 2007-08.
>It doesn't matter where the money goes to in the end, the only thing that matters is the risk taker loses the money.

Sure it does. It's the difference between expecting people to behave morally and expecting them to behave in their own rational self-interest. The latter isn't completely reliable, but it's a much, much safer bet than the former.
I'm glad to hear this. Several jobs ago I worked with some of these submariners and -- between work and banter -- would hear of the [current//olde] sleep schedule and its influences on them and their lives. I'd get in to work, down the hatch at some late evening hour [I was on civilian shift work time], and the person on duty would be having a call to his significant other about Life Issues [rent, kids, whatever]; conversations usually had by civilians at more normal hours and places. Nevermind that he'd be 3 hours into his second 4-hour shift out of the past 12 hours, and he'd be that tired.
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Sure, I'm not discounting that. I live in NYC, and the cost of living is certainly an adjustment to your wealth. That said, I think it would still be disingenuous to consider anyone making $120K a year middle class.
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One of the indications that I was going to have to quit a company (that I co-founded) was when a new person was brought on to "maintain company culture."
Ironically one of the main forces keeping VCs relevant is the cost of living in the regions where the most capital is available.

However, it would possibly be in the VC industry's interest to invest a team willing to create a startup that begins as a town (but owns enough surrounding land to grow into a city) that puts engineers first. Google effectively does this, but it bounded by geography and therefore can't control the cost of living for its employees. It engages with the rest of the world through capitalism while practicing some degree of socialism within the company.

This would allow the VC industry to risk far less while still affording the founders and employees a very high quality of life.

Honestly, I'm surprised we haven't seen Peter Thiel and Co actually bankroll a project like this himself since he is such a proponent of ideas like this.
Interesting! I didn't know there were different distinctions.

Still, I think your source really just proves my point: by no means is anyone earning 120K a year "solidly middle class". By pretty much all of the definitions you listed, 120K a year would either be "upper middle class", or "the rich" (e.g. find me a homeowner in SF who doesn't have >1 million in home equity).
Not that unfriendly for the time. I'll remind you that Napster itself would be considered a UX nightmare by today's standard but for the time it was used by ever high school and college student in the country. Standards change.
You'd be surprised how many routers have shipped with WPS on by default, and without rate limiting. Your 25 character, randomly generated password isn't much help when you can simply try about 11000 WPS PINs and have it spit out the plaintext key to you :)
Radon is a serious issue everywhere, not just Germany, and not just near mountains. Testing and mitigating radon in homes is one of the easiest and least expensive ways to reduce cancer risks.

The EPA has a good guide on radon and homes [1]. Even if you do not have a radon detector, it's very inexpensive to get periodic tests done (you can do them at home with a test kit). IIRC they are around $15-20 retail, although some fire departments or cities may provide them for free.

The only way to be sure your home does not have a radon issue is to test it yourself.

[1] http://www.epa.gov/radon/pubs/citguide.html
Well, two good reasons (at least to me) are the newer kernel and an up-to-date version of openssh.

I've upgraded 2 VMs so far from 12.04. One broke (not a big deal) and the other worked just fine.

Mind you, you will have to do some fiddling to get ed25519 host and user keys working. But it's not too hard to get working.
i think 'fn' is too much minimalism..
better 'fun' or even 'func' .. but maybe they wanted to distinguish the sintax from Go's 'func'

int -> int (ok)

str -> string

but anyway.. nothing that can prevent someone to enjoy the language.. but the 'fn' for me is the most odd.. getting used to it
Safe isn't immune, also people are really strange around money.

What if I set a goal for 2 years from now. Suddenly I'm forced into maintaining a friendship with my accountability partner because if I don't then I run the risk of being blackmailed.
That depends on the types of devices you use for creating it. You can get a km out of an ordinary router with a directional can antennae. What distance do you think is required for it to be viable?
I second the need for something like this. This kind of tool can be used for clearly communicating scope and even aid estimation of timelines because it shows all the complexity.
Food Golf.

(Code golf - for recipes). A community where members submit recipes. Score is a function of ingredient count and cooking time. The lower the better. Recipes are also rated for taste/quality by the community.
We do have data that says PC sales have been declining for the past several years and are being replaced by tablets. I'd wager that if movies are not being watched on television as much then they're being watched on iPads and other tablets, not laptops. Popcorn Time doesn't run on tablets.
There are plenty of people on HN who are good programmers / coders [1] and who will never have seen BASIC before.

I am really curious to know what they think of this source code. Is it readable and understandable without access to any kind of BASIC manual? Or are you making use of as much online documentation as you can to grok it?
"The stronger the culture, the less process a company needs."

This sentence finally made it click for me. Culture is not about making people happy. It is the set of principles on which you convince people to base their decisions and actions that affect the company. If those principles can be made uniform without hierarchy and approval processes, that makes a company unequivocally more efficient.
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo do-release-upgrade

You might have to pass the -d flag to do-release-upgrade but it was fairly straightforward.
This was an observation I made in the late '90s, most especially when I realized I should scrub my resume of all evidence of my age. Thanks to some fortunate genetics, I was able to pass myself off as a 20 something back then (in fact, past age 50), I just had to be careful to not talk about e.g. using PDP-11s.

The difference in responses was like night and day; it would be very nice if it's different now, a decade and a half later. If so I'm happy to hear that, it's good for some programmer friends still there (although they have serious clearances, so that puts them in a different marketplace).
This sounded good until you said "insurance companies". If insurance companies in the US had the opportunity, they're likely to do what they did to health care.
All sites were vulnerable to authenticating as other users or tampering with ciphertexts. Error reporting enables the RCE. However, I still hope that nobody is vulnerable or panicking since this was reported and fixed last year.
They also decided on a 3.13 franken-kernel instead of a 3.14 kernel which is kind of a bummer.

I still feel that distributions should start thinking about moving to update their kernels and security packages much more frequently. Specifically, I would like to use a LTS release with up to date kernels, openssl and openssh.
anyone tried it native on a macbook pro retina yet?

and/or : best laptop for running it? I'm guessing a thinkpad or maybe one of the dell xps13 developer edition?