skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well tbh he has a fair point, and I tend to be true on what I write. I get a lot of down-votes cause I guess I am speaking my mind and I ain't try to write some scientific report for someone to read...

In the other hand am tired of NSA posts and posts against Google... it has become a cliche. Yes I want to learn if NSA is spying on me etc etc but not every time there is a post about it I'd like it to be 1st thing I see.

I guess my opinion is different than others... I hope my comment gets a lot of Down-Votes cause I tend to keep my karma on - for Hackernews, cause I have a + karma in real life and I need some balance.
So you're saying you earn the exact same net amount working 32 vs 40 hours?

brb talking to the boss.
It's been a long standing point on the MP party program, although perhaps an often neglected one.
How many 'points' you have is mostly a function of how much time you spent here.

If you really crave downvoting that much you have to wonder why, it's the least positive element of a HN presence. Think about it: you want the power to take points away from others in the same sentence that you want to get points enough to have that power!
All of the UK national papers have had their hands on this for some time. The papers have obeyed the government into not publishing the story. The Register deemed that there is no harm that can be done to the state. As diodesign repeats in another comment (edited):

"The [UK] government have made it plain that in their view not only foreign powers (ie probably Russia and others) have full access to the Snowden leaks, but quite possibly 'non state actors' also. ..it seemed to us that the public should know - as there's no further intelligence hit for UK.gov to take, by its own analysis."
It shouldn't really be a tough choice. The "suburbia" dream is flawed on so many levels that it isn't even funny. Yet people are clinging on to it like leeches because they've been told it will make them happy.
I’m really interested to know if that would stand up in court
Thoughts:

* Domains popping in when your mouse scrolls over something is annoying. Really annoying. My mouse is not my eyes - just because my eyes are on something does not mean my mouse is, and vice versa. And the popin ends up being movement, which is distracting. The same issue I have with the DDG redesign.

* Said domains popping in do not have a fallback without JS.

* Random icons (and in an icon font, none the less, which again, does not exactly fallback gracefully without JS). I much prefer "1 hour ago" than an icon of a clock. (And said icon of a clock doesn't even change given how old an article is! You have to mouse over it for that. And again, see above for things only showing on mouseover.)

* No way (that I can see) to sort/filter. For example, only seeing articles that were heavily penalized on HN.

* Bug: if you mouseover the photo icon to open the image, and put your mouse over the image and out of that submission, the domain never goes away.

* The feedback links... Don't actually allow you to submit feedback. And "I don't believe you" for negative feedback is condescending.

* Popover on first visit is extremely annoying, to the point where I won't visit it again until it is removed. (My browser clears most things on exit, so I'm assuming that it will pop up every time I restart my browser)
Once, some time ago, I was tasked with travelling to a Boeing lab in Seattle. Our new shiny piece of aircraft equipment was failing to start a dataload (a mechanism by which the software loaded on aircraft equipment can be updated, without having to take the kit off the aircraft).

We had spent some time previously on this part of the software, and were fairly certain that we were following the protocol correctly.

This protocol (as had been given to us) had quite strict timing for our equipment to respond with; just a few milliseconds (ok, so this was some time ago).

We had to use an expensive (5 figure $) protocol analyser to show that, yes, our equipment was following the protocol correctly.

It turned out that the aircraft wide, large corporation, provided kit that was the control system for dataload had failed to meet their side of the protocol. Our equipment responses were being ignored, so our system just assumed the process had timed out.

Score 1 (one) for byte-level checking of message data.

There followed the amusing telephone conference call with their technical team, of the form:
Q: so, are you meeting the timing requirements for this protocol?
A: well, I thought we were, but, err, um, we'll have to go and check..

<sound of silence as they mute their side of the call>
...

A: um, yeah, um, we'll have to call you back..
Excellent article. I think distance and relationships can also be modeled in this fashion to show the differences between Eastern and Western philosophies. I'm definitely going to read this book named "When cultures collide''. It's important to be able to understand everyone's perspectives.
> A -> C-v1 and A -> B -> C-v1.1 is a problem in any language.

That is inaccurate in two ways. First, it isn't a problem in node.js. Second, it isn't a language problem, it is an algorithm problem. dpkg has the same issue, but nix is immune to it.

I'd also like to point out how bad those things were in C (and C-style languages). Go is definitely an improvement, but it isn't the end of the road.
I fit the multi-active category and living in Northern Europe and working with Americans makes it sometimes difficult.

Now that I read the article, it put the words in my mouth. I value encounters, discussions, meeting someone and time has not much to say in there. If someone has to leave because of his/her schedules, it does leave me with the feeling of business unfinished.

I don't have a calendar and I try to avoid meetings, just because something more important usually turns up at the same time and also because the meeting will typically run short and discussion is left unfinished, which makes me think of it as time wasted. I'd rather skip the next meeting if I can connect with the people in the first meeting, and drive things to a closure or properly finish the discussion.

I als o don't mind if someone's late because I consider it more much valuable if s/he turns up anyway and is ready for an in-depth discussion. Conversely, if I didn't really pay attention, I'd be late to everything, thinking that no matter what time, let's discuss the things once we're here now.
I am really intrigued by the obj-c interop capability of swift, namely interactions between blocks and closures / anonymous functions.

I can see my AFNetworking code becoming much, much more readable now, without the need to @weakify/@strongify self on both sides of the block, but just add a blanket
'[unowned self] in' inside the closure.
Why would you spend an hour a day in a traffic jam? Is there something wrong with your public transport system?
As a single parent, in a country where you get subsidies for things like rent, child care, health insurance and so on, yes, it can work out like that. So what works for my employee would not work for me (because our social situation is different).
I think the only way to discourage people from doing that is adding something like +/- in addition. Won't prevent it, but might improve the situation.
That's a bafflingly unfounded and useless "suggestion!" Enormous amounts of people have been working 8 hour shifts for decades -- instead of just guessing that the status quo is probably optimal, why not ask a variety of people if they think two hours more of family/leisure/commute/exercise/learning time would be of any benefit?
Is there any place better? Twitter maybe? I lurk here occassionally because the comments are more intelligent than reddit. But I'm not in IT, so most of the posts are not relevant for me. I like that you can post anonymously.
^this; In part it's a culture thing that one buys a house when one gets married and the like, but the tax rules (deductible mortgage interest) and whatnot give people an incentive to never finish paying off their mortgages.

Another factor (IIRC) is that before the crisis, housing prices just went steadily upwards, doubling or even tripling their values during a lifetime (probably less if you take inflation into consideration). This caused a lot of people to extend their mortgage or take a second or even third mortgage on the gained value of their house, which was used to add to the house or buy a car or things like that.
Perhaps we could use a similar law for software that says you have to opt-in for that. If you try to install Adobe Reader on a Windows PC, for instance, you have to untick to install the Ask! toolbar. I don’t like that
>> "Maybe it's my Western bias speaking..."

Unfortunately, it is...
This is one of those things you never knew you needed. I've watched movies and read a lot of books in bed. This would have helped a lot with the strain.
Panera to give all food additives the heave-ho
A like 'mere' in 'a mere matter of programming' :)

Now I get it. Sorry for the misunderstanding, appreciate the expansion.
World's most sensitive thermometer made from light
Firefox 11.0 on Ubuntu 12. I finally found that by maneouvering carefully I could find somewhere outside the huge slab and click there. Not easy on my setup. And did I mention that it was annoying?

Personally, I also found the interface too sparse, and rather unclear as to what it was showing me and why. I was not engaged, and after thinking about why for a few minutes, I have no idea. I just don't feel any level of interest for it. My only reason might be that it's an aggregation of other sites, and I can't be bothered to learn more about how to turn off the source sites I know I don't care about.

</braindump >
If you quit Hacker News, where do you go instead? Is there some magical fairyland place on the Internet better than here for discussion?
And, err, how is a “pre-populated opt-in box” not exactly the same as opt-out? In order not to receive spam, the user has to take an action (i.e. opt out) by unticking the box.
It was in fact to a large extent socialist unions, or unions with a large contingent of socialist and anarchist memembers.

Even the traditionally a-political AFL sent representatives to the socialist Second International.

And crediting Ford for the 40 hour work week is just pure, unadulterated bullshit. By the time Ford cut the work week for his staff, large segments of the work force already had achieved it, and provided the evidence needed that a shift to the 8 hour work week was economically feasible.
Florence (Italy), Remote, Full Time

Stack: Python, Django, Flask, Redis, Elasticsearch, MySQL, GNU/Linux

Resume: http://it.linkedin.com/in/giorgiosalluzzo/ / https://github.com/mindflayer

Contact: Linkedin for the first one

I'm looking for a company using only fresh ingredients (no proprietary software), with a "slow food" mindset (software is ready when is well-cooked).
I disagree. "The Metal framework supports GPU-accelerated advanced 3D graphics rendering and data-parallel computation workloads".
''The important thing here isn't that any one country is 'wrong'''

...yet the article concludes with a remark that "we are confident (in North America and Northern Europe) that we have approached the optimum management of time". This amounts to a good deal of circular reasoning - this is can only be considered "efficient" if, as explained at the beginning, your goal is to fulfill as many tasks as possible.

But that view dismisses the cost that such detailed planning brings with it: it doesn't consider the increased wear from stress, and doesn't account for those achievements gained by following opportunities at happenstances that couldn't be planned for. It also misses the inherent efficiency of going with the flow by following tradition and customs, where you know what will happen without the need to build a detailed analysis for each step.

You can think of those costs as "externalities", goods that were lost because no one had them in mind when building the plan.
You've got a coach at home you use as an office?? Amazing.
Irrelevant: free encoders were popular, and the early days of Napster meant most MP3s are CD-rips being uploaded by users.

Apple made out like a bandit from that ecosystem since it was the original reason to own an iPod.
If you're not in IT you will likely get less mileage out of HN, but if you are in IT there is simply no other place like it.
Instagram API added the /media/shortcode endpoint
Guess that's a hazzard of balloons all over the place. Hope one does not take out a jet.
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Better to petition them to use the term "malicious hacker".
There should be a corollary about Internet trolling, and why analog trolling never really scaled in the same way.
And the nature of the deals between UK IT companies and these shadowy organisations that many Hacker News readers use and are employed by.
I'm a Brit and I'd rather not know what our government does to maintain our national security. At least not in situations like this when knowing about it means that it undermines the ability of that asset.

It's one thing for this American Snowden to assault his own country's practices, since they have a constitution that is arguably being violated. But it's entirely another for him to assault the UK and for which does not have a constitution that's being violated and even if it did he is not a British citizen anyway so it should not concern him.
The point was that your supposedly amazing free market was not what led to the 8-hour day. It took bloodshed and illegal strikes; demonstrations and decades of fighting for legislation.
There are Apple fanboys, there are Google fanboys, there are Microsoft fanboys, there are Linux fanboys, there are Haskell fanboys...etc etc.

Sometimes it can be annoying, especially when they band together to kill an otherwise interesting story (for example almost any story about Microsoft stopping support for XP was flagged to oblivion very quickly). However they also add to the community and on balance we are probably better off with them than without them.
A review and screenshots of OS X Yosemite
Value is in the eye of the beholder. Determining how much value one creates is inherently a value judgement.
I think the points he made is really valid for any kind of forum type thing, and he should be using Quora to get the experience he wants. They have the downvoting abilities and blogging features, and he can definitely gain more distribution there. Whether he is back or not is never the point, the problems he said seems to be fairly good.
Well, on the other hand it's very hard to make the whole large urban core interesting and alive. Urban core is always smaller to fit everybody, hence unrealistic prices (think SF).

And urban city outskirts aren't so much fun (still small apartments but not much life; crime is sometimes a problem too). Not much better than suburbia.
Thanks for putting your finger on that niggling feeling I've always had that command-tilde isn't quite right. The really obvious difference, of course, is that command-tab gives you a nice preview of what you're about to switch to, helping you make the decision in the first place. command-tilde just dumps you somewhere else and hopes you're not too upset with where you end up.
Not OP. The difference between the American and South African situations is that no one thinks there's a good chance of the majority non-white population expelling the white population of America or making life so unpleasant all that stays is a tiny merchant minority.

If South Africa does not do that it will be yhe first African country not to do so. Kill the Boer, Kill the Boer and all that.

Also, if this does happen the white South Africans should expect all the sympathy and aid the white Zimbabweans who didn't leave got, none. If you do not fit the narrative sorry, should have packed for Perth.
First of all, household debt is household debt, it is not disingenuous, it's exactly what it sounds like. And it obviously does not only include mortgage debt.

Second, who said anything about the United States? Why is that always the knee-jerk reaction? Mortgage debt is included in the US calculation anyway, so what's the point exactly? The US doesn't get a special calculation for household debt that is different from the Netherlands. Non-the-less I wasn't comparing the two. Let's compare the Netherlands to the rest of Europe who they are in theory most similar to: their individual debt is drastically higher than basically all of Europe.

Third, having eg 100% of your home consumed by debt, means you do not own equity in your home. That's household debt, and it should count just as much as credit card debt should: you have to pay for it, it's going to come out of your future earnings one way or another, and if you do not pay for it there will be serious financial consequences. And when the number is 250%+, you can bet that is coming home to roost sooner rather than later.

My point stands: to deal with that extreme level of household debt (and that's assuming there isn't another crisis any time soon that tips a dangerous situation into an untenable situation) will require a dramatic change to how the people of the Netherlands live. Most likely part of that equation will have to be working more. My argument is that a social trade-off has been made between work, leisure and debt, and to the extent that compromise has been made, in the future it will have to be reversed.
However not the case in Göteborg.
Imagine trying to teach philology, while also teaching them their first language! This is exactly the problem that CS program directors face.

I work as a researcher in the computer science department at the University of Alabama, and I can tell you this is an ongoing conversation/debate not only here, but at many schools across the southeast. Unlike the valley, we have a tremendous shortage of developers, and that pressure ends up being felt at the university level.

To combat this, classes have been opened that expose the students to software engineering principles while not losing the theory that differentiates computer science from programming. This is largely helping, but is still, in many respects, an experiment.

Also at play is the notion that there are people in computer science that fall more into the design disciplines (i.e. HCI, UI, UX people). Right now, we have nothing for these people except double majoring with art/phycology and the occasional HCI class, but this may change soon. There are certainly frontiers in this area yet to be explored!

Either way, it's a big problem worth discussing, so I am happy I see it here.

*Edited for clarity
Firstly, burying your head in the sand will not make it go away.

Secondly, the article explains that by their own admission the UK government have said that "knowing about it" today means no undermining of anything at all. It's important to remember that the news story has been buried for some time by our newspapers though. The only people who don't know about it are the public.

Thirdly, in response to your last paragraph, I have no words...

Edits - I am a brit
Ugh, the 'NSA sysadmin'. Snowden himself addressed this point that this is a framing move on the part of the US government to downplay his knowledge of what the NSA was really up to. He actually did participate in spying activities! Such a shame that this framing even persists in news of his leaks. (Yes I am aware of The Register's reputation.)
>>> "Using pre-populated opt-in boxes now means breaking
>>> the law?"

>> Yes. It does mean exactly that. You need my permission
>> to send me unsolicited marketing emails.

> ... how is a "pre-populated opt-in box" not exactly
> the same as opt-out? In order not to receive spam,
> the user has to take an action (i.e. opt out) by
> unticking the box.

A "pre-populated opt-in box" is exactly the same as opt-out.

EU law requires opt-in. Having opt-out is not lawful.

Thus having a pre-populated opt-in box is breaking the law.

Added in edit: I didn't down-vote you. I have little doubt that others share your confusion, and hence your question adds value. In fact, I've now up-voted you.
yes. IANAL but... copyright law in the US is such that, in essence, everything is copyrighted (to some degree) the moment it is created unless you explicitly state otherwise.

When dealing with anything legally distributed / created in the US there are many questions, but "is it copywritten" should be one of the last ones, because the answer is always YES.
Bringing F5 (or Command+R) to Hybrid Mobile Apps
Web APIs and the n+1 Problem
An n+1 problem on the server has many manifestations. Slow responses, thread starvation, and inconsistent performance are some of the symptoms. This article looks into the background to the problem and propose several patterns and solutions.
I always wonder why I find things I don't understand so fascinating. It's the same reason I read in depth articles on cryptography and play the 'wikipedia rabbit hole' game.

Because it describes most primes, the ignorant part of me can't help but wonder if it does have anything to do with the magic that is crypto.. but I digress. Wikipedia might tell me more, brb losing eight hours!

Thanks for the share.
there is a big space between powerful and powerless, which is the point i am making. in your trolling you are grossly oversimplifying things, i can only presume in order to further some personal goals of yours, but reality is that life in these situations is not such a walk in the park as your condescending tone would have us believe. organizing strikes, negotiating some form of collective bargain, these are hard battles, which in the past have known even to cost people lives. this is, i suspect, exactly why the new right-wing, corporate-funded flavor of libertarianism advocates this approach.
that's nothing, I saw that running on a ICL2966 at the National Computer Museum the other week.
Is there any importance of the number 24.

Surely there are infinite such cases for square primes.

prime^2 = ( n * m ) + c

Where n and c are constants.
How is JIRA pronounced?
Do you have one you prefer?
It's possible to be both laid-back and punctual

I'm sure it is, but I have ever met anyone who I would describe using both of those words.
I definitely agree that the best customers are the ones that leave and tell you why. I also think most, if not all, of the "I quit HN and here's why" posts are from precisely the type of people that makes HN worth reading, and the complaints they have are generally real problems that HN would be better off if it could solve.

With that said, I think there's a difference between quitting HN and unsubscribing from say, a online service. When you unsubscribe from a service there's a clear demarcation. Quitting HN is usually a decision of the form "from now on I won't go to HN", a decision which is very easily reversed. Because it is so easy to reverse one's quitting, it doesn't carry as much weight.

On the other hand, let's say pg stays off HN for a year. Eventually people will ask why he quit HN. If he writes an essay about how he came to quit HN and why (past tense) as a response to that question, it's more likely that he has quit for real, as well as being true reasons for why he actually did quit.

Another example: This is my last cigarette, because smoking is bad for my health vs. I quit smoking 10 years ago when I had kids and realized I wanted to be there for them when they got older. It's true smoking is bad for your health, but that might not be the true reason people actually do quit.