skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no #1 relating to employment is "I don't need to worry there is a law against that isn't there"
Using Python to organize a music directory.
...and believe me, it's not difficult...

This is why I feel the productivity argument is really very weak. There are many people who seem to be quite productive even working 40-50 hours per week.

I think a much, much better argument is that working 40 hours a week is a waste of my life. I value my time quite highly because I have numerous and varied interests. So even if my productivity (and therefore, at least theoretically, my income) was maximized at 40 hours per week, I still wouldn't want to work that much.

No employer is going to index my salary to the marginal value of my time, they use the marginal value of my output (just as they should). So in a world where my choices are to work full-time or to work part-time at a greatly reduced hourly rate, it is impossible for me to optimize the amount that I work relative to the marginal value of my time. I, and I suspect many others, always end up at a sub-optimal equilibrium.
> Oh, your markdown-editor looks really shiny... have you since given up working with ometa?

That's not me, its somebody else's blog. I only discovered ometa a couple months ago. I'm looking forward to trying it for a project soon, but the documentation I've found is pretty scattered. Here's a decent tutorial though: https://github.com/rulemotion/ometa-tuts/blob/master/tut1.md
The reliable anesthesia you are talking about more or less exists. It's called Ketamine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine
Because they are being used? (In turn because they tend to be the best ones around, most of the newer email software tends to be crap if you go by productivity rather than shininess.)

Also, this is not just about compatibility with old clients, but also about compatibility with old emails. If you redefine the meaning of previously used email syntax, that changes how old emails get displayed, which sucks if you have an email archive that goes back more than a decade.
Most of the things I see in the comments from the supporters of the law are selfish arguments, what if Joe couldn't delete his ugly story from the past, everyone wants this tool, maybe they want to remove something in the future about themselves, it might come in handy, they want it so badly that they are willing to sacrifice freedom of speech, maybe Joe should be more careful instead of trying to bury what he did to get away because Joe might become someone important and we should know things that otherwise will get buried.
I think if you're trying to use the shell for something other than some basic program launch glue, you are doing it wrong.

In C, readdir returns a perfectly usable struct dirent * with no parsing issues to worry about.

Python also provides a usable Unix layer for automation.
"You have defeated: microbug. It dropped: piano."

(From the now-defunct webcomic "rpgworld")
Google Orkut to Shutdown on September 30th 2014
You had me at "coffee."
CVE-2014-4699: Linux ptrace bug
40 EUR/kg nothing unusual for "specialty coffee" as understood by the SCAA. Specialty means the best possible quality, without any defects in smell or taste.
My fucking point is a very simple point about risk. There are no rewards to drinking raw milk, but there is high risk of significant harm.

The ratio of people drinking raw milk to suffering severe harm from it is much worse than for cars, alcohol, or freedom.

> control freaks who need to dictate what people put in their bodies.

Do you agree that parents should not feed their children a dangerous product that has no benefit? Or is that a bit of control freakery that you don't care about because bias?
That becomes tricky when you acknowledge that the primary reason Google search is fantastic is because they have zero respect for your privacy. You absolutely have a search profile formed with your browsing history which has a massive impact on the results you see when searching whatever query.
Ask HN: Where should I save all the great links I find on the web?
I was recently put on to http://www.pulpmags.org/ from reading HN. I found this page so interesting that I wanted to save it for later/ever. There are also a good amount of songs and/or artist that I stumble across, and want to save their stuff as well. There are definitely other links too (ex. Pictures, articles, videos, etc.).

What is a very nice web application where I can save these links? Ideally, I want something that is very efficient and graphically pleasant (like a bookshelf).

These are links that I could learn to love, or just mean a lot to me, so I am tired of losing them, or saving some here and there, or having a list of just titles (that's just kind of blah when you're looking through media related content).

Sorry if everybody already knows about this obvious place. Thank you in advance for taking the time to help!
As an enrepreneur, having to now hire developers for my startup, I don't see how this could work practically. As a company, there are objectives you need to meet by a certain time frame. If there's a task that needs to be done in 3 weeks, and there are 2 weeks of full time work estimated in order to do it, you're not going to hire someone and let it take 4-6 weeks just because they don't feel like working a full week.

For programming projects especially, its much simpler to have one person work on a given task, than splitting out an assignment over 2+ people - it lowers complexity, and keeps the process coherent.

So 1 person, needs to get the work done in the time frame. I personally don't care how much time the person spends doing the task, as long as its done properly, and on time. And its not always possible to see so far in advance what needs to be done that you can afford to let people take twice as long to do it (also taking into account the difficulties with estimating software project durations when work is done full time).

So working 16-20 hrs a week sounds GREAT in principle. But in practice, as an employer, I don't see a practical interest from my perspective

EDIT: I'm not a pointy-haired manager either.. Prior to starting my own company, I was full-time lead developer (and very well paid) for several years in a startup environment. My work pushed the envelope forward at the company, so I have a deep understanding of software development projects, and how development teams function as a whole, all first-hand experience
The site lists all known applications of the right to be forgotten ruling, without any further comment. The list maintainer does not exercise any editorial judgement at all, so I don't think there is a narrow focus on disadvantages.

If I understand you correctly, your argument is "this site claims to be about internet censorship, but it only talks about the right to be forgotten ruling. But the right to be forgotten is unusually bad, and there are other forms of more beneficial censorship. So listing just the right to be forgotten cases gives censorship in general an undeservedly bad name".

However, the page is specifically about the right to be forgotten. Even the portion you quoted specifically calls out "the recent rulings by the EU". You are acting as if the page was calling for the abolition of all forms of censorship, but I think the text actually makes quite clear that it isn't.
The way OP was using 4/4 was to mean 4 days per week, 4 hours per day. So 4/5 would be 50% of the hours for 80% of the pay.
Indeed, xargs (often combined with 'find') has a -0 option indicating that the input is null-terminated. So you often see:

find ./ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ...
Hmmm, interesting. I'm a very verbal learning, so for me, I often need to watch tutorial videos. The first videos I ever watched about web development were from http://thenewboston.com. They seem kinda hokey but they were perfect for me at the time. Since then, I've really liked the railscasts from ryan bates and stackoverflow is super useful. And I use Pinterest a lot for saving links. That's why I put the "Collections" feature in sososwift. What do you use?
All the covers seem to be low-res unfortunately

See also: http://comicbookplus.com/ for many comics that have gone into public domain. Recently used some cartoon images from there for a presentation in lieu of standard clip-art.
I can't stand these laundry list lists that, as you say, seem to always include dead projects and are littered with incomplete, unusable or otherwise poor inclusions.

This is an area where quality defeats quantity by a particularly large margin.
We weren't trying to get marketing, I promise. But we were trying to agitate some of the brightest brains in tech into giving us extremely valid and honest feedback, and we succeeded at that.
As I understand it, in the USA you can only attract public investment either by gong fully public and being regulated as a public corporation, or by attracting individuals of high net worth. From what I understand this is considered a consumer protection mechanism, such that you can't lose the farm (literally) by investing in private equity schemes.

So far as I know, this restriction does not exist in the UK. So yes, if SWARM operated in the UK with UK investors it might have an easier time.

Personally I don't really see the need for the crypto aspect, and AFAICT investment regulations are usually a good thing, but whatever floats your boat.
FiveThirtyEight plot styles in Python
It's good to be aware of these pitfalls, but in practice they often don't arise. If you're parsing log files, or any other system-generated files with sane filenames (no spaces, or other odd characters) you won't have an issue. Still, I normally would never attempt to parse 'ls' for this sort of thing. The preferred approach in a shell script is to use the shell's globbing capabilities (as in the example given):

for f in *; do
[[ -e $f ]] || continue
...
done
Only 22% of the top 200 apps use deeplinking
Attacking Bivium Using SAT Solvers [pdf]
I agree. It's on our roadmap to build the appropriate tie-ins to the existing legal system to provide benefits that are not only pledged but also enforceable.

Among other things we are actively attempting to hire a lawyer (ideally a brilliant younger one) to help figure out how to integrate these cryptoassets with the existing legal system.
Looks interesting. I tried to find an RSS feed for the site to add it to my newsreader, but didn't see anything. Is there an RSS feed link somewhere that I can use?
Not at all! I and other comment authors on this thread have mentioned that because of the nature of both the law and the internet, abuse is highly unlikely.

This means that the 100% certain probability that people are currently marginally hurt by search-engine-magnified sleazy journalism far outweighs the almost-negligible probability of high-magnitude abuse of the law.

Other threads on this story have also dealt with other mitigating factors which decrease the probability of abuse, such as the fact that public figures are excluded.

I'm not trivializing censorship; I'm entering a cost-benefit analysis where the importance of an impact is a function of both its probability and the magnitude of the impact, instead of attributing certainty to every outcome and reasoning on impact alone.

Incidentally even the US Supreme Court -- a country where free speech and anti-censorship are (constitutionally) paramount -- does this sort of analysis. Libel, inciting violence, and a slew of other exceptions to free speech have been upheld by that court.

What I'm doing is considering the overall welfare of society, instead of picking and choosing individual issues that always much come first no matter what. In this case, there's a clear and present good done by the law and the chances of bad things happening are minimized by safeguards.

edit: my comments are sometimes living documents. Mostly tweaking of the last 2 paragraphs.
You can use a similar mechanic for types of enemies, in order to get a varied but area-appropriate mix:

(goblin) 5, (goblin soldier) 2, (wolf) 1, (hobgoblin) 1

Over the whole area, you should get 5/9 goblins, but any given room can be an interesting mix -- 3 hobgoblins and one soldier, 2 wolves and 2 goblins, one of each, etc.
Hey, no, I didn't see it! I'll get in touch via email, exciting :)
In case anyone from nyt is here, a bug report: on the mobile version of the page (iPhone 5 / Chrome), most of the "show full article" button happens to be directly on top of a link, and the JS seems to allow the tap action to pass through to the link. So unless I tap on the right or left sides of the "show full article" button (under which there is no occluded link), I keep getting sent off to the cited paper.
Of course bash is not the only shell, nor is it the only approach for scripting on Linux/Unix. See e.g. perl, python, etc.
I had some relatively steady long-term clients. Sometimes they were slow to pay, but they always paid eventually.

I had enough cushion from the previous job not to worry too much about short term cashflow. Otherwise it can be a problem.
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But the original question was about whether these jobs exist. Given that there are significant coordination and communication costs as the number of people on a team increases, it's in the employer's best interest to get more (productive) hours from a smaller number of people. If someone working a 16-hr work week incurs more communication overhead than useful product, employers won't hire someone who only wants that arrangement.
Bingo.

Also, if you're creating filenames with newline and escape chars - well, good luck with that.
Unfortunately, no :( But we'll be shipping outside of Germany soon, so stay tuned! For updates, you can follow us on Twitter @KaffeeBitteNews.
We're working on it, yeah! You can follow us on Twitter for updates: @KaffeeBitteNews
Sorry but this all sounds lazy to me. If there are any real customers using the software they are going be rather unforgiving of your desired work ethic. Perhaps in a large org with a staggering of staff this could work... But would be challenging to keep the continuity throughout the work week. Certainly an interesting idea for the larger orgs.
I used to have error 403 on a game I made. I fixed the problem using this tutorial: http://www.androidpit.com/forum/590684/google-play-store-how...
I'm curious if this would be performant enough to use in something like Heroku. For example a big challenge to running Wordpress on Heroku is that some plugins write out some files, etc
Generally speaking, if you thought of something obvious, search the internet, somebody is already doing it. For example - http://www.htd.com/ - and godzillion other.
Kay's concept survives if you substitute "function call" for "message". Sending a message to an object and receiving a reply is closely analogous to invoking a function and obtaining a return value. Unfortunately, his overall model implies single dispatch. Sure, "everything is an object", but only one thing is the leftmost argument: the thing that receives the message; and the other things are just arguments.
It's a bit of an odd list.

It mentions Imgur, but not which bits of Imgur are being filtered.

I'm not going to try to visit some of those sites but I have no idea if the entire site is filtered, or if very narrow parts are being filtered.
There is a good discussion about it here: http://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/djangos-cbvs-were-a-mistak...
Under the hood, mixing in modules actually is inheritance. An anonymous class is created that has all the module's methods, and this class is added to the inheritance hierarchy.

They are quite literally identical, even if Ruby tries it's best to hide that fact.
One possible solution to the abreviations that I have seen some TVs do is that at the start of the game and every once in a while they show an expanded score with the full names and than after a couple of seconds it goes back to the 3-letter names.

Writing the full team name all the time wastes some space and is sort of redundant. Not only are most people watching the game already aware of who the teams are (they wouldnt be watching otherwise) but the commentators are constantly saying the team names anyway.
Complete DIY guide: legal basics for startups (Part 2)
And how do you beat google on search when google is the one with a tracker on almost every important website out there? The search engine which gets the most traffic and can analyze and optimize it? Not to mention the cost to crawl the web 24/7/365 which is the same no matter how many people use your search engine.
Vagrant being awesome
You are telling me that you don't recognize that it's about keeping the meaning of emails constant and not about reproducing the exact pattern of photons? Or are you telling me that there are emails out there that only make sense/are readable when displayed in green on black?

(Also, BTW, your assumption is wrong - the original "display" certainly also included teletype terminals, and CRTs in amber and white, and all the monochrome display variants with inverted colors. What they all had in common, though, was a monospace font.)
That looks cool! How about letting them in and gather the 1st ~10 commands issued :D (i done something similar for a college project)
Hey, what page is this? I'm trying to reproduce the issue, but I can't? (I even installed a slow-loading plugin for Chrome, to mimic a slow browser to see if it was a CSS issue) :)

Also, what is a "SOE list"?
Oh I see.

I wish PHP had visibility for classes, oh well.

Do you know what I do, I put everything that's not meant to be used by "the public" in sub-namespace "Internal". So, say "Vendor\Project\..." for public classes and "Vendor\Project\Internal\..." for volatile internal matters.

This means there's no confusion about what people should use, and what's just the guts of the system they shouldn't mess with.
No, that's almost diametrically opposed to the intent of #5. I'm not even sure object programmers know what a data structure is. Likewise, using a minheap because you sometimes need to find the minimum value of an array is the opposite of #4.
I hadn't even thought about that! I'll go work on it. I'm reading that making an atom feed is "better" now? I've never really used RSS, so I'm not sure. If I generated an atom feed, would that also be usable by RSS readers?
Dark Matter Might Be Hiding In Microscopic Black Holes, Astrophysicists Say
yeah, this is what I was talking about. Once for a college project we had VMs acting as honeypots, to try to get the big bears (not just bots) so we changed OpenSSH source code, let them in at the 3rd try and then the idea was to send back through ICMP payloads the session keys to decrypt the communication, based on a nettables module hack published at phrack!
Thank you very much for your comments :) A lot of people mention Buzzfeed like it's a bad thing, but I think it should be remembered that we're talking about one of the biggest sites in the world. But, as you say, there are plenty of sites where you can find that kind of content. We might target a niché more specifically from this point on, perhaps doing more gaming-related lists and focusing on that target audience.
For my part, because I need continuous access to all my mail/contacts/calendar from several mobile devices (phone+tablet) plus several computers.

Before gmail and good mobile devices I used mutt on a shell account to get access constant access but that was only mail + contacts.
I don't see why not. It only loads a few objects into memory so the footprint would be tiny, especially when you compare it to running WP.

If you can configure the paths these plugins write to, then you can use VFS. Unless the plugin explicitly uses `file://` or they strip the scheme, but I doubt they would.
To some extent, I agree with you. At the same time, there are a lot of smart people on here, who might be able to give solid advice anyway. And I've gotten lots of really good stuff already, we really have our work cut out for us now.
Getting Accepted to Hogwarts at the Age of 33
The good news is yes, these do exist!

They’re called “part-time jobs.”
I am in my early 60s and I am retired now except for a little consulting and writing a book or two a year.

That said, starting in the early 1970s working at a large defense contractor, I got in the habit of only working 32 hours a week (took Mondays off). I continued this process with several other companies until about 15 years ago when I converted to having a lifestyle 1-man consulting business.

The deal is however, it is really important to realize that it is not in a company's interest to have a part time employee in many cases so I really tried hard to add value when I was at work.

I have never regretted getting 20% less salary when I only worked four days per week.
Really ought to be "The Abolition of Labor," for work is something we do outside the basic human necessities in order to find fulfillment. Labor is the unfortunate realities of being an organism that needs energy to survive.
I always thought this "rule" sounded like something pulled completely out of thin air.

Of course practice is necessary to become proficient, and lots of practice is necessary to achieve mastery.
But, the amount needed has to vary depending on the person, and some people will never achieve mastery in some areas. There is such a thing as native skill. And the inverse.
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> But in practice, as an employer, I don't see a practical interest from my perspective

I'd venture that may be because you view programmers as interchangeable cogs. Rather, for one developer, a project may take two 16-hour weeks, and for a less talented developer, it may take three 40-hour weeks. If you need it done in 2 weeks but the price tag is the more talented developer only works 16-hour weeks, and you accept, everyone wins.

[P.S.: I'm not sure this is a valid thread for the "10x programmers" debate, and I would hate to derail a very interesting topic. But I would say that if your goal is to only work 16-hour weeks, it's in your interest to attempt to demonstrate you can provide at least as much value as an average 40-hour-per-week-developer.]
The practical interest for you, as the employer, is the quality of your team and of the work produced -- something you should be optimizing for regardless.

Say you find a dev who nails all of your interviews, is passionate about the kind of work your team does, and intuitively gets your company's mission. And then you find out he or she is only available for 16-20 hours a week. You must decide whether hiring them for their time is still a net gain for your business.

In some cases, it may not be, and as you said it certainly makes sense to have more full-timers available to do the day-to-day dirty work. But I'd argue that, in many cases, the quality of output and, yes, even the timeframe in which it gets done, will be higher for some developers given 16-hour weeks than many developers will do in a 40- or 50-hour week.
Scientists Blow The Lid on Cancer & Sunscreen Myth
Clickhole also does sites like this gloriously.

http://www.clickhole.com/
It's too bad The Master has departed, I'm going to miss his words being quoted to "settle any possible HN argument" in the words of this great comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1716028. Also going to miss all the pearl clutching about "this comment/thread is horrible", okay maybe not. I assume work was never finished on the Lisp AI that would block comments he disagrees with, any of the mods still working on that?
CLOS is completely, thoroughly, dyed-in-the-wool object oriented. It gives you generic functions which dispatch methods, by considering the class type of every (specializable) parameter. CLOS also avoids the silly problems by not putting methods into a class scope and dealing with symbol-table conflicts upon inheritance: like when inheriting from "graphical" and "lottery", working out whether the "draw" method renders pixels, or performs a lottery pick.

The CLOS design absolutely nails OO, and that's even before we look at the meta-object protocol.