skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"procedural reasons" actually means respecting human rights.
He's pleaded guilty for misdemeanor. If you have some complaint about that, fix the police who shat on the procedure, denying a victim a probably well-deserved day in court.

I can't believe everybody is pounding on the company board, when the real scandal is that the police destroyed such an important procedure. With a felony he would have automatically been removed, and nobody would be mobbing on someone who's legally only a petty criminal.

Moreover, there is still this issue that justice is not about taking revenge on someone, but protecting society.
There is, for example, the trouble that he twitted that he's innocent after pleading guilty, and that's a real problem for someone in a position of power, he's got a reality perception problem, combined with a tendency for violent domination I guess there is a big risk and he should probably be removed. But not in a mob attack and not based on illegal evidence.
Very cool. Are you able to compute the shortest paths on fly?
Organizations that simply use open source need to receive more respect.

Could you explain? While there are other ways of contributing than just supplying code, to gain my respect organizations must contribute something back. I don't see how the world as a whole benefits when a company uses "open source" instead buying something commercial or developing their own solution. It may be a smart choice, but not one that should garner additional respect.
Really like the idea, my uni is currently investigating use of domjudge to mark assignments, but couple that with face to face feedback while reviewing the code.
he's got a misdemeanor.
Ask HN: How do you manage your time working from home?
I freelance and work on own projects from home and my daily routine is in a complete disarray. Last day (before I slept the last time), I was awake for 30 hours working and because of that, today I felt exhausted even after a good sleep. So it seems that there wasn't any net gain by working for long, rather a loss due to the messed up circadian rhythm, other possible repercussions on health in the long run, etc. Yet I cannot control myself when I get some good idea and feel like completing it before the enthusiasm dries out (sometimes, rightly so). I think I could more than double my productivity just by sticking to a routine and consistently working. But whenever I try to get into a schedule, I always end up slipping away after few days. All it takes is some interesting content on HN/reddit or an addictive TV_show/movie/game at night to spoil it. All of it is easily accessible, just a couple of clicks away from your IDE/browser that you use for work. I've even developed the muscle memory to hit "ctrl+t, re (for reddit), enter" and caught myself doing that without a conscious decision of browsing reddit whenever I hit a roadblock while programming.

"And why the hell not? Who do you have to answer to at 8'o clock in the morning?", the brain rationalizes.

Also, I've non-24-hour sleep–wake disorder [0]. My normal day consists of 25.5 hours on average and I have to end up resetting my the cycle every 9-10 days which entirely wastes the next couple of days. I suspect it has developed after years of being out of a permanent schedule.

I'd like to hear if you face similar challenges and how you manage/maintain your daily schedule or your attempts at it. I'm sorry if this post came out like a rant.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-24-hour_sleep%E2%80%93wake_disorder
For early stage it looks pretty good! Would move to see it completed. It suit Civ style play particularly well if it could be set up to notify everyone when it was their turn (similar to how some online chess apps function).
I was at that game jam! Glad to see this released :)
Obviously your condition that the answer to your question be a project that is used by as many people as Hadoop is ridiculous given the different language maturity levels you're comparing. But ignoring that requirement, servo is a big project, written mostly in Rust, that (in my opinion) demonstrates that 'you can achieve type safety and "business value in a shorter amount of time" WITHOUT the overweight JIT'd runtimes'.
I'm not sure I understand.

The implication seems to be that martha is the leader here. However, consider a situation where all four members behaved exactly as Martha, staring at the printout for an hour in silence, looking for the solution. In this hypothetical, Martha still gets the answer first.

In that example, it seems pretty clear that Martha was not the leader, since they all behaved exactly the same; she was merely the strongest individual contributor. It seems like that's probably the case in the blog post example as well, since Martha's behavior is the same.

This post seems to be pushing the idea that the loudest and most social person in the room is not necessarily the best leader, which I can agree to. However, it also seems to be saying that the person who contributes most directly to the solution may be the leader, which I'm not sure is accurate. In a situation like the one described, it seems like the best leader would be the one who best facilitates the performance of the individual contributors- that is, leaves Martha alone.
If you were an American, having no degree would not bar you from AmaGooBookSoft. There exists some variation between them to my understanding, but you can find many people at all of them who have no formal degree, or no degree relevant to the thing they are doing right now.

If you can convince AmaGooBookSoft to hire you, then getting around the visa requirements is just a matter of them throwing fairly small amounts of money at the problem. They're pretty experienced with doing it. In brief, they hire expensive immigration lawyers who know the legal requirements cold, identify which visa category you most closely fit into, then produce exactly the documentation showing that proper application of US immigration law compels issuing you a visa. The going rate is less than your first month's salary.

Optimize for the job offer, rather than worrying about the visa, in the short run.

(And yeah, this situation certainly sucks for folks who aspire to e.g. work at startups for whom writing a $10,000 check is not below the care floor.)
It confuses me as well. Either many more HNers than I'd expect have subscriptions to these sites, or they're being wrongly bumped to the front page by HN's algorithms.
Ask HN: Cheap Physical servers? 
Trying to find a cheap physical server for a project, any ideas? Here's what I want:

- (EDIT) $700-1000 price
-1-2 U rackmount or desktop form factor
- No nodes or anything fancy like 2 PSU's
-Reliable, fairly powerful components
-Able to run linux

EDIT: I'm trying to start a hosting startup, and want my own servers.

EDIT: Thanks everyone so far, still have not found anything perfect yet, though.
good name, but isn't this craigslist? If it is, then you should be clear why it's better/faster/easier, if it's not, then you should be clear what it solves that craigslist doesn't.
Des Moines, IA tech firms want slaves as employees
The idea of "stats" is a gamer thing, but Jake is talking about "stats" as applying to real-life scenarios.

Then there's the idea that a robot is "doing a thumbs up" in some sense or another that doesn't get across through the physical realm. That's how I perceived it, aynyway.
It crashed Firefox for me almost immediately.

I would have thought we'd gotten past the need for browser-specific code and the days of having to decide between ignoring the Netscape people or ignoring the IE people. It's bad enough that sites which simply don't work in a certain browser are becoming more commonplace again, now apparently some code is essentially hostile in the wrong browser.
Do you mean dedicated servers? Hetzner, which is based in Germany, has some very inexpensive dedicated server plans:

http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver
I don't understand your last sentence, or rather the last part of it.

It seems to be suggesting (incincerely, of course) that looking to hire people without tattoos would help to hire people who identify as hackers (but who would not be considered to be hackers by some standard or definition not including self-identity).

But I don't see the connection between tattoos and hackerishness or self identifying.

Is it a thing, and just not one I had noticed/heard of?

I get (somewhat anyway) the "feminist:self-identity" connection, And some of the other connections,

But I don't understand what meaning is being expressed by the last part of the last sentence.
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Currently I like the idea of Screenshot Saturday. If I'm not mistaken Hacker News wants more user created content. Screenshot Saturday allows the community to know what each other is working on, and can even help people build traction for their projects. I wouldn't be surprised if in the future people have their weekly Saturday posts prepared in advance with links to their email list sign up and Twitter handles. I do still think though that it should be named "Side Project Saturday"[0].

I'm indifferent about Idea Sunday, so if you were to remove one to keep the automated submissions to a minimum I would ask that it be that.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7580150
Elon Musk's SpaceX will sue Air Force over launch monopoly
That was a karma 4 acccount and this is much later, but...

The main problem imho is that the last time destabilization and military [threat] was used to steal land areas around Europe, it was by guys in mustasches... And the motivation was similar -- "protect" Russi... German speaking populations.

And right now the same methods are used in another area. Just like the 1930s, too.

That second area will hardly be the last, if it works again. "Peace in our time" failed last time...

As an European, this is just scary and everything really needs to be done to stop this before there is another big war.
I have no clue and I personally do not really care :P

It's way easier to just fix the issue than to sue me, as long as I don't noticeably disturb their infrastructure (i.e. don't bother other users).
Of course, if one uses things right then stuff works fine... It's relying on people to do things right that's tricky (which is why we have Rust).

My point was mainly that you lose much of the compiler's assistance by moving from singly- to multiply-owned data.
I mean real physical hardware, like an HP server you buy and setup yourself.
That's Colin Powell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell).
Things can be both incompatible and related. For any given thing, the set of things related to that thing will typically be bigger than and encompassing of the set of things compatible with that thing.
Ask HN: What is your favorite Airbnd story? 
I'm in Denver for Gophercon and used Airbnb. I have a funny story about attending the first part of day 2 in my pajamas. I'll post it somewhere after I get back home and have time to get a site up. The story is so good it needs its own website.
New Bitcoin Movie Introduces You To The Many White Dudes Working On Bitcoin
>By imposing your own extrajudical punishments you are undermining the court system as a whole.

Hardly. The justice system does not have a monopoly on punishment. There are punishments reserved for the justice system, including suspending freedom or even ending life. Because of the harshness of these punishments, there are safeguards to abuse, such as the 4th amendment. But there are other punishments for social deviants, not subject to the same safeguards. This guy is not protected from people calling him an abusive piece of shit on Twitter, nor should he be protected from being fired if his reputation is doing serious harm to his company.
To anyone who has ever failed in a tech startup, I'm with you
Us developers with the hunger to become a startup success know the feeling. It's that burning feeling we get every so often, or for me now every day. That feeling that we want to be more than just developers and designers. That we're here for more than just to get paid to accomplish someone else's dream.
I'm telling you how corporations with extremely large codebases and a SOA do things. The problem that you described has been solved as I describe.

SOA is beneficial over monolithic development for many other reasons unrelated to versioning. It just happens to enable saner versioning as one of it's benefits.
Really nice work. It runs fine on my browser (Chrome 34 on Mavericks.)
The first thing I did after figuring out how the game works was typing this:

setInterval(function({[].slice.call(document.querySelectorAll("a")).forEach(function(a){a.click()})},100)

It feels great to know there are some more people who think of automating first, a better life second =)
I'm using a Dell C6100, on recommendation from http://www.servethehome.com/ :

http://blog.printf.net/articles/2014/02/10/dell-c6100-xs23-s...

Serve The Home forums are going to be the right place to look for specific deals. http://forums.servethehome.com/index.php
That would be the great Bill Burr:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vJty38k7n4
Just doing a little Saturday afternoon verilog. http://i.imgur.com/gkB6FMh.png
Amazing concept! :) Good luck with the game.
That stands to reason, however, do I decide to read a given book because it is a 'find' of a given agent or published by a given publisher? Or do I read something because it is heavily promoted? More importantly, do women - as in those people that actually read a lot of books and keep the publishing industry afloat - do they care about those behind the scenes that have marketed a given book?

If a book comes from a word-of-mouth recommendation or if it is by a favourite author then that will be sufficient to make the purchasing decision. Reviews on Amazon are sufficient to make the purchasing decision. To a large extent a book sells on merit and someone taking the self-publishing route with something that people really do want to read and tell the world about can make a success of it. They were not able to do so before the e-book revolution came along, they were beholden to agents and publishers. Yes, people in the publishing trade secretly fear 'they don't need us...!'

Here is something:

http://www.literaryrejections.com/best-sellers-initially-rej...

A good reading list (Da Vinci Code and a few others excepted).
Not surprising, considering that, recently, Putin has implied, half-jokingly, that the Internet is a CIA plot (Yandex stock fell almost instantly as that happened).
One of the reasons Adventure Time is so interesting is that it manages a delicate balance - it is both your typical "kids cartoon" but also manages to appeal to an older audience. Most cartoons try to do this by slipping in pop culture references/jokes that will just go over children's heads - and AT does this too, there's a lot of literary and pop culture references; for example there's a great episode with Jonathan Frakes guest starring that heavily references the ST:TNG episode "inner light".

However, AT also goes beyond that.

It deals with themes like love, rejection, death, identity, and morality in very real and mature ways...but also in a way that children can relate to and laugh at it. There are quite a lot of episodes that deal with the main characters struggle with an unrequited love and heartache. An incarnate Death and "the cosmic owl" are reoccurring characters. One major arc is one of the characters struggle with (magic induced) mental illness. The show itself takes place after a nuclear holocaust has ripped apart the planet and mutated the inhabitants (referred to in the show as "the mushroom war").

One episode for example, the main character finds a bag full of miniature figurines in the form of all his friends. When he takes them out of the bag, they come to life. He becomes fixated on them. Obsessively pairing them up and taking them apart to observe their reactions. He takes the miniature version of his best friends girlfriend and pairs her up with another man. He stops sleeping, he just sits surveilling this tiny world he has become god of. It's depicted very much as a descent into madness.

There are quite a lot of episodes like this, and while they often get heavy and dark they never lose their young audience or fail to maintain an overall uplifting and optimistic tone.

I wish I had a show like this when I was young.
Thats actually pretty amusing, though I can't help but wonder whether it will only be convenient if actually integrated into DOTA/Facebook etc. At the moment, isn't it just DOTA: Stalker?
Jquery.body.js – map-like grid for tiled images.
No reason to be top on HN.
The blockchain story (part 2)
You parsed the last sentence wrong. Read it as

>It will help the government to hire more talented security experts who don't (have tattoos, or self-identify as hackers).

Not

>It will help the government to hire more talented security experts who (don't have tattoos), or (self-identify as hackers).

The article itself, implied that experts in information security often come from a subculture that self-identifies as hackers, and whose members often have tattoos. I didn't make this up myself. Neither did I make up the feminist critique of geek culture, which also states that geek culture in general is associated with certain hobbies, lifestyles and appearances, all of which may serve to exclude women and minorities.
People really like supporting and perpetuating statements about stereotypes eh?
Sounds great... eventually. But in the short term, there absolutely needs to be a community response to this policy. It will begin to affect everyone far sooner than a complete overhaul of last-mile net infrastructure.
http://i.imgur.com/quhpXWi.png

NodeJS module to convert maps (shapefiles, geojson, topojson, or KML) into 3D models that are suitable for 3D printing. I've done a lot of 3D printing of map data before, but mostly using a pretty manual process to create the models. This auomates the whole thing.

The posted image is population by census block group in the bay area. The raw data is shown on the left and my converted 3D model for the 3D printer is on the right.
Medium vs Readium vs Ghostium
Very nice work. Definitely something we'll be using.
I'm not sure that I feel good about people named "shitlord" on HN are the types of people working at the DHS with clearance.
Yeah, that would be nice, i.e. Java assignments may need larger RAM
I think it matters, try developing ruby on rails on windows and you will have bad time. For me only php and java are the two platforms that i have been able to develop with, no matter what os i am currently using.
Part of the job description of a CEO is "don't fuck up in public in a way that embarrasses the company". On this alone, he should be tossed.
https://github.com/davidchambers/dotfiles/pull/1

Fix for ugly `npm` output.
Basically it would be analgous to everyone opening their router and daisy chaining them all together. That would be "last mile". It would be like connect to Linksys.LosAngeles and then backbones connect you up to San Fran. That way either content providers could locate in cities and push locally, or ISPs would have to come to the table.
After 30 years of writing both professionally and privately while I learned to code and then train teams, I finally came to the conclusion about what I am: a writer. I'm not a celebrity writer, a best-selling writer, or a major-league writer. Just a writer.

So I wrote a book. Because I have a passion for technology teams, my book was about how to create, prioritize, and manage those to-do lists of work we all have: backlogs. Because I'm a science fiction junkie, it had robots. And because I'm a Douglas Adams fan, they were robotic chickens. Plug: http://www.amazon.com/Backlogs-1-Daniel-Markham-ebook/dp/B00...

I'm also a startup and business junkie, so even though I was writing the book no matter what the business model, I spent some considerable time learning the economics of book publishing. There are a hell of a lot of blog articles out there titled something like "How I made Seven-Hundred Thousand Dollars publishing an E-book. And you can too!"

Meh. Not so much.

I think it's clear that self-publishing is the future. Except for the big-league authors, publishers have too much overhead to be very useful to us small fry. However the author's conclusion is correct: "Without question, we can say that authors have extraordinary opportunities in the 21st century publishing world. It’s just that making a living from book sales is rarely one of them." There just isn't that much money for most authors no matter what the publishing route.

The good news is that ebooks can be part of a larger conversation a writer has with his audience. In this case, the process isn't to create a "business book proposal" and then execute it; it's more like creating a community of people with similar interests, then having a conversation with them. Ebooks can be a useful part of that conversation.

Self-publishing rocks, but it's not just the old way of publishing where you do it all yourself online. Wish it were that simple.
NgPlant: Open Source plant modeling suite
While you're right that people pretty much always have to keep up and refresh their memories, the keeping up searches look very different than the learning ones do. Developers already well-versed in a language are more likely to search for specific APIs or go directly to documentation they have already bookmarked.
Ask HN: How can a non-technical co-founder add value?
Hello all,

I am exploring the idea of developing a software product with a few technical friends of mine based around an idea I have. Outside of the idea and some initial seed money, I worry about how much value I can add to a development team as a potential non-technical co-founder with limited business experience (I am a bioengineering grad student).

As a non-technical co-founder, what sorts of duties will I generally find myself performing at a budding company, and what are the general avenues by which I can add value?
Roll back further in history though and the notion of "owning things" was an invention - it wasn't that people wanted to "own a horse" - it's that the entire notion of ownership was invented to determine who got to "ride a horse when they wanted it".

For me, I don't want "to own a house with a lawn". I want "a convenient piece of grass to throw a football around, sit outside and eat lunch, and walk my dog". I don't want "to own a car" - rather, I want "A few times a month, access to a vehicle within a few blocks of my apartment for a few hours".

I think we're saying the same thing here, but the "sharing economy", is, more than anything else, about using communication technology to create finer grained matching between supply and demand - about matching access to goods with people who want to use them, about providing an opportunity to turn time into money and money into time to the extent that one needs and desires.
I don't think it was ever in doubt, or really an urban legend. It was an openly reported fact at the time, in multiple newspapers, and confirmed by an Atari spokesperson. The Alamogordo Daily News ran a series of articles, and the main controversy at the time was local indignation that Atari might be dumping electronic waste in New Mexico without permits, which led to some changes in dumping laws. That a bunch of unsold E.T. cartridges were among the waste was reported matter-of-factly, and only seems to have gained mythical status sometime later, as a kind of symbol of the '83 crash. And then that mythical status morphed into people doubting that it happened at all! But now they dug it up and found exactly what the 1983 newspapers said.

It's being reported as having confirmed something that was previously mere rumor or legend, but it wasn't actually very mysterious or hidden at the time.
They have a long history of failing to concur other areas which is not the same as keeping there shit to themselves.
Extrange, I can read it directly.