skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like a side effect of the magnetic north movement. It has drifted east (in relation to the US) about 6° in the last 30 or so years, so if Chicago hasn't re-named them since laying them down, a compass alignment of ~100° becoming 93° makes sense.
Well, Central Park West maybe. You can get a nice small (Manhattan small -- a near-minimal studio) apartment for about $0.5M
It's a great point about their leaders choosing their mission and their risking their lives for country--I agree completely.

However, there are situations where even a soldier must use their conscience. I mean I hate to pull the "Nazi card" but in reality, those people could be tacitly called heroes under the same nationalist banner. This is the danger with Israel. Israel is a great country with a lot of good people, but I personally disagree with their mandatory draft, status as a religious state and their disrespect of the sovereignty of other nations. No country has clean hands, but we cannot compare 'bad actions' side-by-side... we should consider them on a case-by-case basis based on the facts we know. In the case of Vanunu, he is a conscientious objector in a sense and none of the information he divulged materially endanged Israelis more than Private Manning's information. The difference of course is that he was residing outside the country when he committed his crime and he was not a soldier, which entitles him to civilian justice. However, Israel bypassed these considerations and literally kidnapped him in another country's territory. And we haven't even begun to discuss the implications of their nuclear proliferation in spite of the worldwide ban on such activities... they are literally the only country in the world who are getting a free pass on this issue because US foreign aid would be have to be statutorily denied.

Don't misunderstand, I am not arguing the merits of their case... I see the principle issue as the kidnapping of a person in a foreign government's territory. I know the US likes to take liberties with this (such as the case of Bin Laden), but that is something they could be judged on as well... I am speaking of Israel's case specifically.
"I'm not sure if I'm more productive (though I suppose we could all find ways to be more productive), but I'm certainly as productive."

This is one of the reasons I am desperate to get a remote job. The chance to work on code uninterrupted. I enjoy coding, but the longer I stay in my current job, the less of it I seem to do.
Missing your password 3 times does not release your domain. Period.
MDN is the usual academic freakshow that is official documentation. W3Schools is a genuinely useful resource for people just getting going. I appreciate correct use; I am a fan of the MDN site. But those who lambast W3Schools are grossly out of touch with the needs of new developers.

As I feel this strongly, I love that the W3Fools site is so awful looking. It's what you get from a bunch of people who are more eager to say what they don't like than ponder why, in fact, W3Schools is so popular. The W3Fools site speaks for them.
The soil is heavy, much more heavy when it rains. It's an accident waiting to happen. I used to have a construction company in Norway where these grass roofs are popular, worked on several of them.
So there's this feature, and you don't like it. You don't want to write it. So your brain starts backing away from it like it's a burning ship. You begin to give yourself excuses. You subconsciously imagine it will take a long time or that it will be tedious. You are basically subconsciously convincing yourself that you will hate it, for any reason. And the less you want to do it, the harder it will be to make yourself do it.

But it's in your head. Using simple tricks you can change how your mind interprets the thing, and put yourself ina more receptive state to be able to accomplish the task without it seeming like a battle of wills.

First, put yourself in a good mood. Listen to your favorite music, eat or drink something pleasant, think about the fun things you'll be doing soon. But whatever you do, don't villify the work or think "I can't wait for this to be over!"; that's just more avoidance.

Once you're in a better mood, walk through the work in your head so you understand everything you need to do, and estimate the time it will take, but shorter. Try to find something positive about it to work towards, or something good or interesting you want to see come out of it. It could be something as simple as timing how long it takes for you to write five methods. To prevent further avoidance behavior, remove your watch and hide your clock. If you can, move to a quiet place where you can focus with the least distractions possible.

At the end of the day, if you really don't enjoy your job, you probably need a different one. But it's a mistake to confuse a bad job with an unwillingness to do work you don't agree with. Consider yourself their savior, and do it in the best way possible so that it minimizes their crappy decisions and emphasizes your skills. Imagine you are a woodworker; maybe you didn't want to build a cabinet today, but you're going to build the best god damn cabinet those jerks have ever seen.

(Also: consider if you will be with this BF in five years and whether wasting this part of your life will have been worth it. Kind of a crappy thing to imagine, but you can't spend your life doing things you don't like just because it makes someone else happy)
> I burned myself out once and it took at least 12 years to regain full productivity.

Ouch. Took me two years. Six months completely out of work and then the rest slowly building up to full time. My workplace bent over backwards to take care of me, which was fantastic. I don't know where you are based, but you may not be in a country where the employee has this level of protection.

I would agree 100% - don't let it go that far.
I don't see your email, but see a link. Does your username@domain suffice? Thanks so much!

edit: I see it. Wow I am so stressed that I fail basic reading right now.
> If a modern democracy manages to have 80% voter turnout you will be surprise how many safe seats will be not so safe.

I really want to believe that's true, but I'm skeptical. Do you have any sort of research backing that up?
Apparently it's pretty natural for these small animals to run such long distances. My wife has a hamster and they are known to run at least 9km a night. We had to find it a different room to live in because it will be up ALL night running, and running, and running.
Yes, it's called front-running. There have been accusations against some registrars in the tech news.

I just go to register as soon as I'm sure I would like the domain name. That way, worst case it's already registered, best case there's minimal opportunity for front runners.

Even trying it in a browser might alert someone monitoring DNS for interesting NXDOMAIN replies. (Yes, this may be paranoid, but it's hard to keep up with the nefarious tricks that actually go on)
It's "its" not "it's". (sorry, just had to do this)
Do It Yourself NoSql
> After all, the Pentagon is currently working to hire thousands of digital warriors to fill out its ranks, and many of them may not be familiar with using a command line, let alone writing code. “The genre of people that Cyber Command are working to recruit are fresh out of high school and college,” says Pound.

Why are they recruiting people with no technical skill for a highly technical field?

edit: added bit from the article
This analysis always misses the most important by far for non-yuppies: the housing mix for renting vs owning is very different. In my neighborhood, you can't rent a house, because everything is owner occupied.

Rent vs Own is a boring question. Rent This vs Own That is nearly impossible to quantify.
How to build a mobile app, through hell and high water.
A very short mantra that has helped me: "Own what you own".

That is, if I see a project as someone else's, and my job is to help them do their best, I am happier than if I see a project as "mine" and other people are just screwing it up.

Like many important life lessons, I learned this one a day too late.
How are you then able to get a mortgage if the house is already collateral on another loan?
Robot Launch winners announced
Before visiting the link I thought the guy had his daughter line up in front of a white wall every single day so he could do a dramatic time-lapse sort of thing. Maybe that would have been a bit obsessive. All he did was a regular snapshot wherever it was convenient. This is no more obsessive than brushing your teeth every morning.
HN username works on ... The Google's email service.
Very true. At $DAY_JOB, I maintain the MWS integration and we do high 7 figures a year.

The problem is if your niche is profitable enough Amazon has a habit of moving in and knocking you off their site. So we only sell stuff we control the manufacturing for via Amazon because they've gone after our suppliers for anything else and then undercut us by $0.01.
For one thing, stop feeling guilty.

Whatever the reason you are feeling depressed with your current situation (already lots of good suggestions in this thread), feeling guilty about wasting time or cheating your managers is basically a form of inflicting self-harm on top of everything else.

You're getting paid for whatever you do, and apparently the people that pay you are happy with the results even if you aren't, so just put that aside and focus on what makes you happy.
Or in a fully developed country where you don't have insurance, or if it doesn't cover it.
In my country(Poland) it's fully covered by the national insurance,which is not very expensive,and if you are poor you don't have to pay anyway - and are still fully covered.
This one was even better... really awesome in fact.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN_jcom8TR4

Edit: This version has a better soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH1x5aRtjSQ
The Curious Case of JavaScript NaN
The more I read into specifications and standardization stuff, the more amazed I am at how political we geeks can get.
A Different View for Django
My understanding is that cats do this because the relatively short length of their digestive tract requires them to lie dormant for a long period to digest their food.
Comcast Employing 40 Lobbying Firms To Get Merger Approved
This is why I love the HN community. HN can be a harsh bunch, but I'm in awe how whenever a member needs help someone always step up to the plate.
They are incredibly cool, but they all lack thorough documentation.

WebGL is still voodoo to me.
What's scary is that in the age of worldwide information databases and machine learning, we rely on a Doctor's 20-year old intuition for choosing therapies. Patients should insist "Citation needed" for their doctor's advice, and doctor should gladly give it.
Google's Panda 4.0 Update is Live – are You?
This discussion is not why I come to HN, and I expect better commentary and dialog.

Perhaps you could take this discussion offline.
I'm always amused by the attitude that "politics is what other people do."

And it isn't just politics. Some of the sleeziest, "salesman" tricks I have ever seen came from fellow developers pushing something.
The thing about privacy is that it's not a fundamental belief written into our genes, it's a derived believe arising from our social experiences and written into tradition. Our social inclination towards privacy developed because lack of privacy causes problems; social gossip, problems with getting jobs in small towns because everybody "knows" whatever it is, busybodies being able to stick their nose in things, etc.

We're in a weird time right now where there's massive info gathering, but not all that many concrete manifestations going on in our real lives, so of course the young'uns are all like "What's the big deal? So I get some ads for the types of movies I like, so what?" And in a big city, the small-town social pressures don't exist, and the internet brings the "big city" to smaller and smaller locales. But rest assured that once the digital busybodies catch up and we live through some sort of technocratic totalitarian nightmare where grimacing when the picture of $BIG_BROTHER comes on in your private home is grounds for losing your job, once that regime is overthrown, privacy rights will come back with a vengeance.

In the meantime I'm not sure how to avoid some variant on that outcome without simply living through it. I can't tell you how excited I am. I can only hope that we learn our lessons before the full flowering of the words I use actually manifests.
Regarding eBay using Product Listing Ads, they already do this heavily, often to the point of being unfair (listing the same product say 5 times for 5 separate sellers on ebay)

I think it will just hurt incremental sales, rather than them being able to make up the shortfall on Google via paid means.
Agreed, that is an important distinction to make.
EBay to face formal investigations over data breach
I have a great accountant. He has helped a lot of people and fought the IRS. I am sure he can help http://www.manta.com/c/mt17npq/patrick-frawley-associates

I promise you I am not the accountant himself :) and this is not a spam comment. He can help!
lol @ handling big repositories
It's definitely random.

I remember having to fill a Canadian form (govt.) that had three date formats(in the same form), i.e.:

dd-mm-yy

mm-dd-yy

yy-mm-dd
I have plenty of principles. However I am not a for-profit corporation. It is not cynicism on my part to assume that Newegg is motivated by economics. That is the very definition of a corporation. Maximizing return to shareholders.
Consumer digital cameras have been around for 20 years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_QuickTake

A friend of mine had a QuickTake 100 very early on. I got a digital Kodak camera not long after when I went travelling. I seem to remember they took off pretty quickly (amongst nerds at least).
I live in a CIA compound isolated from the world. They made me impotant and sterile and tortured me with mock executions and worse.

I don't give a fuck because God is perfectly just. They get punished.

All my jobs were fake CIA jobs.

I own radio stations and shit.
This is an excellent answer. I've been in a similar situation myself: I eventually left. That was the best thing I ever did. It took me about a year to recover. Just as jblow, I'm a totally different person now (extremely confident, and I don't suffer fools).

Since then I've met some amazing developers who (unbeknown to them) helped me get past the mental block that the OP has described; people who could actually challenge me on a technical level, and who weren't jerks.

Take JBlow's advice, and I strongly advise you to take a month off of work if you can. You need that time to recover, recharge, and take a break.
Before Google started charging for its "Shopping" results you could use Google to effectively search ebay. Now, not so much.
I wonder whether it is also a bad practice to set the contact email to an address on one of the domains that that registrar controls. I.e., register example.com with DomainCo, and your contact is whatever@example.com?

I actually do this and am considering changing the contact email for registrar 'A' to something independent of 'A'.

It does seem hard to have enough confidence in the reliability of any email address.
No, it's the effect of having more than 3 east-west runways. 9L, 9R, 10L, and 10C.

The sub-names (left, center, right) only go up to 3.

Detroit Metro has the same issue with their SW/NE runways (21L, 21R, 22L, and 22R are all mutually parallel.)
http://airnav.com/airport/dtw

Atlanta Hartsfield has 5 runways, all aligned on 94.4*, named 8L, 8R, 9L, 9R, and 10: http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1405/00026AD.PDF
I used to take photos, a lot, and uploading quite a bit to Flickr and other. But then, I started thinking if my daughter won't want when she grows up. She is an individual and may want something else entirely different. She is not an extension of me. I have reduced my photo/video of her. I do upload for families, relatives but have reduced the frequency and quantity drastically, have completed deleted her Flickr Account too. I want her to be her and let her define her life when she know what's happening around her.

Perhaps, just my thought and way of looking at life and the people around.
I grasp the concept perfectly well. But this is theater. Look at the title ("When Will Patent Trolls Learn Not to Mess with Newegg?") and the ridiculous picture of the lawyer!
I really can't remember, but we were all in shock at the time. My vague recollection is that he was trying to protect his brother. People react strangely in situations like that.
In other words, make RFC 3339 mandatory for everyone internationally. And everyone has to add time zone info to dates, or just use UTC (marked as such).
Checking My Privilege: Character as the Basis of Privilege
I wouldn't mind writing unclean code if I weren't the one who's going to have to maintain it and add new features to it in the near future or the years to come.
In fairness, I stand in front of a white wall every day to brush my teeth. I could easily imagine connected a mounted camera wirelessly to the button on my electric tooth brush and not having to think about it.

Of course, this comes from a person who already has his phone record its gps posistion every 5 minutes.
Amazon will never have more of the ecommerce market than Google does and Google isn't going to be broken up either.

The Internet creates the illusion of choice and non-technical people don't understand the gravity of the network effects involved. If Amazon had 67% of the ecommerce market, they'd be virtually impossible to dislodge as they'd just squeeze their suppliers like Walmart does, etc.
It is fairly common, even necessary, for justice to go after the key figures of businesses that engage in criminal behavior (e.g. Maffia, money laundering companies). Otherwise it would be a type of behavior for which no-one can be held (individually) accountable.
Was probably Remicade, it blocks Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha which is a main component to the inflamation response. If you are currently experiencing a cytokine storm (which is basically run away inflamation) it will do the trick quite quickly. It is basically an artifical antibody that binds to free TNF alpha and doesn't let it interact with cells to cause its normal immune response. Very effective, and it is an IV delivered drug so it immediately starts binding to the factors that are causing the inflamation. I took it before for Ankylosing Spondylitis and you can feel better quite quickly.

If its not Remicade it is probably something in that family of therapies and would have similar quick effects against a cytokine storm.
Negative - about as white as it gets (mostly German, some Netherlander / Irish ancestry, with a small touch of Native American). It undoubtedly has a genetic component, but I have to wonder how much of this is due to not regularly using antibacterial soaps everywhere like many people do.
This job is not directly for the startup. I have been contracted out by the startup to this job and the money it brings is important for the startup atm.
This is basically the BloomReach approach to SEO and Google seems to be going after it in a serious way lately. The big issue is quality control. I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing to create these sorts of landing pages if they surface highly relevant results. Google's product search is not comprehensive or sophisticated enough yet to be useful for the common shopper so it's a mistake to penalize highly refined results with no good replacement.
eBay should have shut down these affiliates years ago; they're not adding marginal value and they hurt the brand, because it lets any moron associate a crappy ad message with eBay's name.
Researchers Plug Google’s Project Tango Into a Drone
I'm in a state that you've described pretty much every day. This is reality I'm afraid. Only the best of the best of us get to choose what they want to do, the rest are having a hard time surviving most of the time. I work in a software company and absolute majority of my coleagues are not interested in technology at all. Some of them sit on the same chairs for 15 years turning some ridiculous specs into useless code. As soon as the clock strikes 5 they get up from their chairs and proceed to the exit with unchanged zombie faces. I can swear I saw cows doing that somewhere in the countryside. I spend all the spare time I have to get as good as I can so that I could eventually not be ignored anymore and find a job that I would really like.
Most rental agreements strictly forbid this. I can't compare irregular activities to irregular activities because you can always escalate it to some nonsense money making action favoring one side over another.

But supposing your agreement explicitly allows sub let's without landlord arbitrary approval, the owner is still coming out on top because the activity is simply reducing their monthly outlay while still building equity, the renter is only reducing outlay, but still has zero equity at the end of the day.

More importantly, my mortgage payment will stay the same, fixed in dollars at the year I borrowed the money (in my case 2006 dollars). While rents will continue to increase. For example, at some point in the future, I'll theoretically even be able to rent a single bedroom out that will cover my entire mortgage payment simply because of this simple truth. I'll live "for free". But your base rent price will continue increasing such that you're monthly burden will stay a significant part of your monthly income. Even if you pass along as much as you can to a subletter, that percentage won't change much while mine will continuously reduce.
Gitlab seems to be another one of those "half-open" source projects where an arbitrary set of features is only available in the "Enterprise" edition. - https://www.gitlab.com/gitlab-ee/
Really, you can downvote on HN? How does that work? I never found out but it looks like it must be possible somehow.
I've just used it for the UK. I ignored the currency and just used exact numbers (so what I paid for my house in £ is the number I put into the site as $). Under taxes, I adjusted property tax until the dollar amount was roughly equivalent to my annual council tax, and adjusted the deductible to 0. Under closing costs, I included stamp duty as a buying cost. Insurance, maintenance, etc are all direct conversions.

Leaving most of the expected growth sliders in place, and taking into account that I've shortened my mortgage with additional payments, it estimated I'd only be better renting if I could get an equivalent property for about £565. In reality, the smaller house a few doors up rents for about £1500, and Zoopla estimates the rental value of my house at £1600. So, either I live in a really good buying area, or the US calculations don't translate well.
I'll throw my hat in with the folks who are saying to get out early before you find yourself in the midst of a truly debilitating burn-out.

That being said, I've worked a couple jobs in the past where I felt similarly to you--one of which I objected to much of what I was working on not only from a utility standpoint, but from a moral/ethical one as well. The only thing that kept me going was the social network I built of similar-minded coworkers. The ability to vent, joke, and commiserate with people who felt the same way I did at the company was extremely cathartic and served as my therapy. I don't think that's a good substitute for getting out and finding something else that you actually enjoy, however, which I eventually did when I realized how it was affecting my mood even outside of work.
Radioactive kitty litter may have ruined our best hope to store nuclear waste
Geeks are humans too you know ;-)
> innovation might require a very large organization,

Like, you know, nations?