skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MAJOR MAJOR is my very own invention and me being overly snarky. What I meant by that is that changing the CLI is a huge breaking change, and incrementing just the MAJOR component will not reflect the hugeness of what has happened.
"Turns out that most of the time, we don't need hospitals the size of college campuses (incidentally another thing that is completely unaffordable)."

However people are not willing to accept the consequences of hospitals that can't surge in catastrophes. When an EF-5 tornado hit my city 3 years ago, it took out one of our two hospital complexes. Things got ... rather intense at the other (http://stormdoctor.blogspot.com/2011/06/first-response-mode-...) but it being big, and stocked with otherwise excess inventory of all sorts of things, kept the death toll at ~160 instead of a likely 1,000 or so.
Although the combination of strong sunlight and your typical peely-wally Scot is often not a happy one.
I had a bad experience with Freelancer a few years ago. I deposited $250 for a small freelance work. As I found no interesting or potential candidates, I cancelled the project.

They asked me for my ID, and other details so they can refund the money. It took months of back and forth with their support team and then they decided that they are going to hold this indefinitely as unresolved.

Never got my money back. They are indeed a SCAM.
There's already an effort underway. LO has a fundamental classes when it comes to implementing the VCL: OutputDevice, SalGraphics, SalFrame and SalInstance. Mainly SalGraphics and OutputDevice though. The problem is it is so intertwined, the biggest issue being that classes don't follow the Single Responsibility Principle.

It's getting there, but I've only really done any real coding in anger in the last 5 months and this is a 25 year code base...
I wish they would keep it, since I really don't want another account to log into just to use the site, but I admit they handle it a lot better than Hacker News did with this transition page. With Hacker News the Google login and whatnot just disappeared one day and I lost my account and had to start over.
True, I've seen a few writer jobs (projects) where the buyers expect to pay as low as $2 per article ... Looks worse than the coders situation were, if you have a good reputation, you can at least be paid a decent wage.
You mean Schwa was, right? :)

I had a great meal at Schwa, and my reservation wasn't that hard to get, except that they cancelled it on me 3 times in a row.
This kind of article is so much more realistic than any glamorized startup story. As the article says:

"Here’s what people never tell you about startup life. A lot of it is mundane, boring, grunt work. Imagine being stuck in an MMO game where you’re grinding levels without knowing whether you’ll ever make it beyond that 2 by 4 patch of 8bit forest waiting and slaying the same stupid monsters over and over again and then going back in for respawn."
They've put it all on github so I guess you can try locally:

https://github.com/pokelondon/pintsinthesun
The docs are pretty good and have been for a while:

http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/

Admittedly they were pretty poor early on, but they've matured with the product.
Never. To upgrade to Mavericks I just created a USB installer using unibeast, booted from USB and followed the usual OSX install process. All my files and apps were left untouched.
Ask HN: Review my networking startup (WireBig)
Hi Everyone!

I have been reading posts on HN and had very beneficial experiences from the crowd so far. Today I would like to get your thoughts on our startup.

WireBig is a networking venue for online events and launched public beta 2 weeks ago. We came up with the idea networking upon their interests after an online-option class at Harvard. We pivoted the idea from live streaming to uploading 60-seconds pitch videos due to many obstacles of live streaming

www.wirebig.com

WireBig is a platform for online networking events, matching participants with 60-seconds pitch videos. It does not only allow you to upload your video and network but also offers you a variety of analysis after the events which you cannot get in in-person events.

Platform takes away the awkwardness of in-person networking events such as wasting time with someone who you have no intentions to connect with, repeating yourself at least 20 times in a speed networking event, cannot be at the event because of time/location, cannot be able to hear yourself speaking because of the noise of the crowd and introvert issues.

Focus groups have shown that WireBig helps parties remember 63% more details of recent contacts than regular profiles or even resumes after 2 weeks. Moreover, 100% of participants revealed that they would remember people they have met through WireBig if they were to meet again, compared with only 17% through regular profiles.

We are currently working on private events and priced events will be the upcoming features. You will be able to create an exclusive event for your community with access code, email extension or location based restrictions which will give big communities a chance to strengthen their communities and subgroups.

We would love to hear your thoughts and feedbacks.

Please feel free to attend Hello World Event to try and experience. (Date can be changed)

www.wirebig.com/events/hello-world

Fatih
We get three days a year to get our annual Vitamin D allowance, it's good sense!
Here is a serious question, I wonder if DCC (the phone's company) makes any money from this wonder of electronic enigneering?
Shoreditch yo!
Yeh, it mostly guesses as there isn't that much height data ;)
ZenExpense is changing personal finance for ever
I've been using Dash for more than a year now. I love it. It is great for quickly looking up things, and best of all it works for multiple languages. I regularly write code in Clojure, Perl, Java and C, I also use Redis and PostgreSQL, and Dash helps with all of that.

My only wish is that someday I could get Intel's x86 manuals and ARM Cortex M0 and M4 instruction set documentation in Dash.
Ughh, what browser?
Co-founder of Transatomic here.

I'm not sure what you mean with your first point, but your concern with corrosion was solved in the 1970s at Oak Ridge National Lab, where they operated a molten salt reactor for four years. That reactor demonstrated that extremely low corrosion with a high-nickel alloy called Hastelloy-N, which is similar to the metals widely used to handle other high-temperature molten salts in industries like aluminum refining.

You can find more information on corrosion and material compatibility in section 2.5 of our technical white paper:

http://transatomicpower.com/white_papers/TAP_White_Paper.pdf
It is not as simple as creating a website. If you want to create a good environment for both coders and buyers you will need lawyers and a good support team. What I'm saying is that you will need to invest a lot of money in something that can be easily crushed (or bought) by the competition.
I've had my flickr account since before they were acquired by yahoo. That, combined with yahoo's crappy user sign-in experience, means that my flickr account, yahoo account, and some other junk account I accidentally created while trying to log in once 5 years ago, are now all conflated. To this day it's still not completely worked out.
Certainly. But command line consistency is not foolish.
That brings up a very good point. You can't know what the IP holders are doing with their IP, or what they are planning. Just because you think some IP has been "abandoned" doesn't actually make it so.
Help Websites Improve with This “Bad Experience” Email
Why do I have to sign up to see anything? Please refer to the earlier "stop punishing your users" post
Would be great to use in APIs, but some networks truncate 4xx status codes.
You didn't use Norton Commander, did you?

No, shells are not the answer. Don't get me wrong: I love my tcsh and wouldn't give it up for the world. But certain tasks are so much better done in a commander-type tool.

And I disagree: it is quite complex to write something like that. It's easy to write a dual-pane file manager wannabe. It's very difficult to write a great tool that works fast and does exactly what is needed.
What Ethan Swan Learned From Tracking Every Tattoo in the NBA
It's not a always the case that people incur massive debt. A lot of students have scholarships that cover their fugitive fees and include a small stipend.
freelancer are ruling the domain, because they had early days of advantage, i think all the freelancers should dump that moronic sites and move on to something betters. odesk or elance or some other.
Modern Farmer's Guide to Guard Donkeys
Coding bootcamps launching pad for entrepreneurs?
The code is a joy to read.

This is not how I remember CL.
So it has had water and presumably some atmosphere was exchanged when it was watered in 1972, 40 years ago. The title is somewhat misleading but 40 years is still a long time.

The stopper doesn't look like its particularly well fastened and could potentially pop up and allow leaks. Impressive but without closer inspection it looks like a slightly flawed execution to me. Maybe I'm just being pedantic. A picture of the starting point would be nice.
I kinda dig oDesk. I got many decent clients off it. I was shooting for small, very short term projects - the kind that can be done within a day - so YMMV.

This very site's monthly freelancer thread is also worth checking out. I got a few decent leads out of it.
That would be even worse than the current system. At least now the system is equal to everyone, from starving artists and foss hackers to billion dollar corporations like Disney and MS.
Web browsing is copyright infringement, publishers argue
> If you're really lucky and you're top of your field you can hit assistant professor by 30-35 in the UK.

This role doesn't really exist on the UK, the equivalent is that of Lecturer/Senior Lecturer. I think you're overstating the barrier to entry -- it's not that high unless you're fixed on a top university. In CS,I know lots of people younger than 35 with SL jobs. Getting to the level or prof after that is another matter but on the whole I think that should be hard.
D-Day landings remembered [live]
Chrome 35.0.1916.114 m
on windows 7 64 bit
Security has always been mostly illusions to help us overcome our fears to get through the day rather than real defense. So what if we all have our security blankets to chase away the monsters?

The real security is using a credit card where you can undo the transactions after the fact, which is amazing if you stopped and thought about it.
The project page makes claims that it doesn't fall into common ORM traps such as recreating SQL syntax, locking you into a limited subset of it, yet... just a few sections below it shows exactly that. I'm sorry, but building SQL out of s-expressions doesn't count as "functional SQL". It's just crippled declarative normal SQL, made from s-expressions.

There's also the usual for ORMs display of superficial understanding of transactions with a "with-transactions" global switch, as if transactions are something you can just sprinkle on top of your finished product like an exotic condiment, and get greater goodness. This is not how SQL works.

Even the "fine-grained" transactions interface doesn't expose common-place and crucial features such as transaction isolation levels, store points, selecting for update and lock in share mode. If you're reading this and thinking "this guy's just listing arbitrary niche features no one uses", then you have no business using or, god forbid, writing ORMs, because the first time you get serious traffic hitting your database you'll end up with inconsistent data state, and have no clue how it happened (blame MySQL? Sure, blame MySQL).

SQL ORMs feel oddly anachronistic in 2014. People have largely moved to persisting objects with databases built for persisting objects, leaving SQL databases to be used where they work best - for relational data queries, without quirky layers in between caller, query and results.

Plus... and I realize maybe it's just my bias against ORMs, but "an ORM for Common Lisp" reads a bit like "we ported AIDS to heaven". Just because you could do it, didn't mean you should've.
I don't intend to defend the human rights record of China, but I do question the outright opposition to the use of labour as a means of punishment and/or rehabilitation.

Here in the UK, we have a criminal justice system that isn't without fault, but is one of the best in the world. We make extensive use of "forced labour", both in the community and in prison. British prisoners are required to participate in work or training activities, or face the withdrawal of privileges - fewer visits and phone calls, less free association time and so on. There is no significant history of corruption or malpractice in the use of prison labour here and there is broad consensus that requiring prisoners to engage in productive activity improves prison discipline and aids rehabilitation.

From my perspective, it seems that the issue is clearly of degree rather than of type. The issue is of broader prison welfare, not the specific issue of prison labour. To castigate the Chinese penal system as "modern day slavery" us fundamentally unhelpful. The article has a tone that borders on hysteria, with no real global context or reference to the use of prison labour outside China.

There are clearly major human rights issues in the Chinese penal system, but I think we should specifically address those issues directly. The use of torture and capital punishment is considered unambiguously wrong in the developed world, and the abolition of these practices in China, the US and the Middle East is of utmost priority. Frankly, I think that the article is a covertly ideological attack on China, part of a broader trend of commentary that seeks to dismiss Chinese industrial growth as merely the result of the oppression of labour rather than of good governance and well-managed economic development.
The "ask HN" section is usually very informative and useful, ie. dealing with problems, finding work, recommending products etc.

I'm not sure a "show HN" section would have the same overall value for the community.
I think modern testing culture and source repositories can help avoid this kind of negligence in software projects today. I'm hardly Panglossian enough to suggest that it's common, but if you have an engineering culture where specifications and especially regressions are encoded in tests, it starts becoming clear when your software project is or is not satisfying the requirements. Decisions like removing a test because it fails intermittently are documented by source control, and can be reviewed by peers and management.
Vodafone reveals direct government wiretaps
Law Enforcement Disclosure Report: http://www.vodafone.com/content/sustainabilityreport/2014/index/operating_responsibly/privacy_and_security/law_enforcement.html
It's a fairly sad and ironic the way Socrata and some others in the open gov space are building proprietary/closed source products. Socrata has of course talked up their "Open Data Server, Community Edition" which they announced over 18 months ago and still has essentially zero documentation of how to even run or deploy the thing:

http://open-source.socrata.com/the-code/
:-(

This makes me sad,especially since some of my friends decided to stay at uni to do their PhDs, and their stipends are higher than what I am earning,and they also don't have to pay tax on it. So I think I have chosen the worst paying career a programmer can choose.
Why is this so bad?
Six governments tap Vodafone calls
Evidently not-so-faint-of-heart people don't use noScript, which makes sense, I guess ;)
How can an average joe publish a scientific breakthrough? 
Say I am an average joe and I made a breakthrough scientific discovery. How do I publish the work so that I am taken seriously, and ensure I get proper credit for it?
Yes, if you included this data then you could add notification alerts to your mobile as well:

"It is now sunny in the beer garden of your favourite pub."

"Clear your schedule, there is an 80% chance of it being sunny in your favourite pub between 1pm and 3pm this coming Saturday."
Everyone knows that you don't get sun in Glasgow.
You are right. Apple is also bad.

The whole favicon retrieval seems to be a mess. I wish the W3C draft about manifests for web apps gets wide support and can be used on normal sites, too. (wishful thinking...?)

http://w3c.github.io/manifest/
This is exactly what I've used the 402 code for. Some API routes are available to all users, but others require paid access. If a freemium user attempts to access API routes behind the "paywall" I return the 402 code.
For ppl living in emacs, there's a plugin that use dash docsets but don't require dash and it's quite integrated with emacs (helm).

They work in linux and windows.

BIAS ALERT: I'm coauthor of the plugin.

https://github.com/areina/helm-dash
Could be a good Go-alternative of Xamarin in ~5 years or so.
Why is Junk Food so Addictive?
My experience is at the opposite end of the spectrum. I installed it roughly one year ago, played with it and admired its functionality, then never used it since. It might be just that I'm way too connected to my Chrome tabs.
Really? Can you give a concrete example of the behaviour observed? (I care as I’m writing the HTTP libraries for Rust.)
Google blunder over D-Day doodle
How could you test for something like that? Maybe, teach an array of skills, and for each skill with subjects of varying degrees of sleep deprivation and for varying time intervals between education and performance, measure response times and skill level in the tasks?
I used to love making those things with pickle jars:

https://www.google.com/search?q=pickle+jar+terrarium&es_sm=1...

I don't suppose my parents have any of them left though... they tended to get kind of crusty with something growing on the glass and blotting out the light.
This code is used a lot in SIP as a call disconnect reason when the caller doesn't have enough credit (SIP disconnect codes maps with http codes).
Heart Rate Training
Do you / would you use a heart rate monitor for training (running or cycling)? Do you think it would be a cool idea to 'power' your music or video - while you're working out - with your heart beat?
I agree, especially that the "Ask HN" section is more valuable. However, the people who post "Show HN" posts will appear in Ask HN, making it cluttered. I'm essentially asking for a bit more organization.
For outlook users there's gpgOL and Outlook Privacy Plugin.

Both have massive problems and are unstable though :(
> In contrast to the problem you've stated, if I were to exclusively use my Google account to log into websites, it becomes a single point of failure if the service was down, and if it were to be compromised.

Very true. Sadly there's no real right or wrong answer here; a single point of failure but a better secured portal, or a decentralised network with arguably less secured portals.

Personally I try to use a balance of both: Twitter passports for sites I don't trust and passwords for sites I do trust. But that's just my personal preference.
If the line of code has many narrow characters (like i, l, t, f, parens, comma, and dot) and few wide characters (like uppercase or Chinese characters in your identifiers) then you can have much more than 80 characters on a line IMO.

Or were you advocating breaking the 80 chars per line restriction, but not the fixed-width font restriction?
The PSK is used to derive pairwise keys between each station and the AP. However, if the attacker knows the PSK, it's theoretically impossible sufficiently advanced attacks. That's why enterprise networks use RADIUS for enhanced security.
Can you get a web-based offline app to be invoked by a global keyboard shortcut and appear instantly?
Assuming that user contrbutors, commenters and silent visitors ratios are typical 1:9:90, we may guesstimate 2M daily commenters and 20-30M daily visitors.

I suppose that most Facebook users on Flickr contribute few images and logged in with Facebook to leave an occasional comment or two. So this will likerly affect only 5% of commenters.
Have an Aeron at home and a Knoll Life @ work.
Wow, this is probably the most incredibly useful app for the Mac I've come across in a long time! The UI is seamless and well-made. I'm gonna love using this. :-)

Kudos HN, for bringing this app into the limelight!
Allofmp3.com used 402 when you batch-downloaded music and your credit ran out.

When it still was all rage :)
Wired Down?
Hot Girl Kissing Stranger In Public Prank
> games will never again cease to be available

At least as long as the title in question does not invoke the wrath of Gaben, and steam stays up and running. Which is not really that strong of a guarantee.

I'm personally relatively happy with steam, but I fully acknowledge that it is not a long-term solution. I consider it more of a rental, which is fine considering the prices (I buy almost everything at -75%).
"Could not determine interests. (Pssst, If you did not get any red squares, try visiting without being in Private or Incognito mode)"

Indeed I am unhackable.
We're Crowdfunding for Hamilton's $230K Welcome Sign
Ahhhh, list.com! Used to use that all the time! When it became list.exe I thought "well there goes the neighborhood."
Distance to pub, and possibly link to beerintheevening so it's possible to see reviews could be good.
Uh, before we all start getting our payment APIs to return 402s in a million different and incompatible scenarios, I'd urge everyone to remember what "reserved" means". It means "don't use this until we've defined it properly".
It's also not statically typed - that's one of the things that generics can really help with.
The seven digital deadly sins.
UI consistency is probably one of the big reasons to use Mercurial.
What is a good Flickr alternative?
I think that's where their office is
It's true that Kivy's widgets are not native and Qt's are. Would that be a sufficient reason for you to not use the app?
I also got to know well P J (Peter) Hilton
and A N (Alan) Turing. With Turing I spent
uncountable hours playing Go, as also with
David Rees.

Source: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Extras/Preston_s...

Earlier in that:

There, I was with a small group of about twenty
mathematicians, assisted by about 250 WRENS, in
what was called the Newmanry. M H A Newman, the
MHAN, was the head of this group, and the assistant
head was Shaun Wylie.

Apropos of nothing in particular, Shaun Wylie supervised Frank Adams, who supervised Béla Bollobás[1], who supervised me.

[1] http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/gallery/bollobas.html
DRE=Design Responsible Engineer
Truly gamer-friendly, DRM-free,  online gaming platform.
You stand correct. From toptal FAQ[1]:

Where are your developers located?

While we don’t have any geographic preference, most of our engineers are physically located in North/Central/South America and Europe.

1. http://www.toptal.com/faq#where_are_your_developers_located
Over half of people say they’d abandon their cable company, if only they could
The Ukraine Crisis Is Entering A Dangerous New Phase
Honest question: Why are so many sites overwriting the scrolling behaviour with JS, do you need that to trigger animations or is there another reason I'm not aware of yet?
When I was a kid in the 80's, my parents once grounded me from my computers and radio. I wired a diode and earphone to the TV antenna lead in my room, and could listen to the town's radio station again. No resistor and completely the wrong sort of antenna, but I guess radio can be very forgiving when there's a single strong nearby signal. Good times. :)
Show HN: Potato Camera – a simple photo filter app I made
OAuth Tutorial – 3 reasons why developers struggle
Not to mention the constant flow of emails they send you everyday. I had to add a rule just to keep them from taking over my inbox! Some may consider that spam!
As a Sassenach, I often forget that Scotland gets longer days in the Summer.