skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you kidding? With this, I can more easily skip over those applicants with tons of Java and C++ development experience when I'm looking for a C# developer. No more wasting time on reading resumes with completely unrelated experience!
Here's the wordlist. https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/blob/develop/se...
To boil it down more simply, the USA had sanctions on Iran long before other parts of the world did. Thus someone wishing to send money from the UK to Iran, for example, could do so through HSBC in London. Those transactions might well end up interfacing with US controlled infrastructure in some way and the US parts of HSBC were then routinely interfering with those payments, because America doesn't believe in sovereign independence. So now these local HSBC affiliates or divisions have a problem: their customers want to make perfectly legal transactions (legal in those areas) and the American computer systems are getting in the way. Simple solution: don't use any keywords that the USA doesn't like.

Years later this practice would be described as "money laundering" and "sanctions evasion". However it was in reality just a reasonable way to tackle an unreasonable problem.
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> Just because I don't believe what you claim, doesn't mean I believe the opposite.

Do you still not believe most email is formatted at 78 characters? Really? I've stated my reasoning, you haven't refuted that or explained any alternative.

> it might just be that 78 character plain text mails are actually inherently superior to all the alternatives

No, we've already discussed why they're worse and you haven't even attempted to rebut it.

> Maybe you want to read the LKML's actual FAQ?

Yes, I have, and I'm aware that Linux kernel developers have other ideas about email workflows, eg, not 'top posting', again, they not representative of common email use cases, for the same reasons I have mentioned earlier, which you have not refuted in any way.

> Email clients have more qualities than their ability to parse emails with lines longer than 78 chars

They do, but displaying email is a critical part of email clients.

> Other than that, your thinking seems to be pretty one-dimensional.

Another part of email list etiquette: read the rules or go somewhere else: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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This has to be some sort of a mistake and internal miscommunication on HP's part. The question is (as I'm sure there are a lot of smart and honest people working in the ranks of HP), did no one raise objections/questions? Or did the management ignore it?
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> autogenous pressurization (whatever they mean by that)

From their Vehicle page:

"Firely's engines are actually self-pressurized (AKA autogenously pressurized), so that the fuel itself is used to provide the working pressure for the engine. This simplifies the design and saves weight."
This appears to be an advertorial. Yuck.
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I made a javascript implementation of one of the wang tile papers for exactly this sort of thing:

https://github.com/josephg/wangjs

Unfortunately, when you render out a large square of them the results look very repetitive. Herringbone wang tiles work much better.
> This isn't a dealbreaker, but it is pretty annoying especially since debugging these kinds of problems are of precisely the kind that I don't want to debug.

It's understandable that you don't want to (or don't have time to) debug them. But filing bug reports in Mono's bugzilla is appreciated, at least (maybe the Mono team can debug the problems for you).
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If you are on a windows machine it might be worth looking at PowerCLI [1] as well, it has a very active community and they just started added some basic cmdlets to access to the SRM public API [2].

[1] http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/
[2] http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2014/03/new-release-vsphere...
Thanks for clarifying. I can see why you'd go this route when presenting it to students, but it seemed odd to show off in this venue.
Transferwise (http://transferwise.com) is sort of based on this - it matches up parties to massively reduce the cost of transferring money. I've used it a couple of times, and it worked very well, and saved me a significant amount of money.
Yext can't manage Google listings though which is important to note. No 3rd party is able to directly manage Google listings.
That was an eye-opening video. I'm not convinced that amphetamines improve attention by decreasing cognition, though. Is there research on that?
no they want 16 hours of billable time :-) that fact that for those 12 hours you put down as reading case notes you spent 1 of them arranging your holiday and 1 gossiping is neither hear nor there
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The vast majority of businesses being started aren't organized to go public or get acquired for $1 billion in 7 - 10 years. It's much more realistic to go from making $100-200k in salary, to owning your own business and making $200-500k per year, net. If you were 40+ with a family, what option would you rather choose? A pretty realistic shot at making $300-500k or a crapshoot at creating the next Google, compressed into less than 10 years of course because your VC wants his short term result to impress the next round of LPs.
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Is this mirrored anywhere? I'm having a hard time connecting to this site
Hey dignati,

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I thought the Daily Mail mostly wrote sensationalized articles. Shouldn't we on HN be aware of that by now? Is there a Brit around who can confirm?
The Architecture of Open Source Applications series is a great read. It is mostly written by project creators and contributers and freely available on-line: http://aosabook.org/
Your prediction fails to account for the fact that Wikipedia can manage the problem, and they are probably the most important information source there is while still being by far the easiest to edit. What makes you think it is impossible for OSM to do it?

(Also, a bit dishonest to call OSM irrelevant when it is the canonical data source for a number of famous application, including Apple, even if it's not directly applicable to the situation here.)
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This is a new way to view the world, in a totally illegal way.
They can lock down the listing so that only you can edit them with their partner sites. But it wouldn't work in this case since they are not partnered with Google. We just had a presentation from them at my work a few weeks ago.
Now this is something that I have been doing is looking at tasks I can accomplish from PowerCLI and I do like it well enough. It may be that this is more the direction I should be looking instead of client (web/C#) based solutions...
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Mostly unrelated, but I wanted to say that I really enjoyed Kaptur's analysis of Python's import statement during this year's Pycon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS5kXzbsLLQ
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> As for as employee relocation is concerned don't they already have to relocate to SF and the surrounding suburbs to work there?

Yes, and they choose to live in San Francisco, with bars, members of both sexes, restaurants, museums, parks, baseball, etc...

How fun do you think this theoretical company town is going to be for someone in their 20s?
Hmmm, cool! Indeed my experience is 3-ish years old. I'll give it another chance next time I need something like it! Thanks for pointing this out.
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> Mono has not implemented some .NET standard encryption libraries.

Good find! Did you file a bug report?
What's the difference between a "well, actually" and correcting someone's misunderstanding -- or rather, when is it not welcome? My understanding is that it's when someone parachutes into a conversation uninvited to correct someone, but if I was in a learning setting like Hacker School, I feel like I would welcome that from fellow students or instructors.
Exactly why it's tough to tease apart.
They were in business for 40 years... and Google maps just recently started incorrectly listing their hours.

I highly doubt that the google maps error caused or even contributed to the downfall of their apparently well established business.
text-only version:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NotzT67...

the image:

https://blog.httpwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/chart....
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> I know Mono and I don't have a good opinion on it

Can you add the URL of the bugs you found, to backup your statement? Thanks
Officially "taking ownership" of a record with Google doesn't prevent community edits?
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This has been discussed already, three days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7989307
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> However mono runs dog-slow compared to C# and is practically unusable

Did you file a bug about this? What version of Mono were you using?
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Jumping on this thread a little late, but a lot of the points raised here and in the comments resonate quite strongly with me.

It sounds like many of the comments here from people who have achieved a shortened work week are from consultants/freelancers. So I have a few general questions towards that end, for anyone that would be willing to answer them:

1) How did you get into consulting/freelancing?

2) Have you always managed to work at a reduced work week(< 40 hrs/wk), or were there times in the beginning where you were working more, and if so, why?

3) It sounds like much of this depends on finding good clients to work for. How did you go about finding those clients? How long did it take? How did you know they were good clients?

4) What resources did you find most helpful when you were first starting out consulting/freelancing?

I'm really interested in achieving this goal, I'm just not sure how to get started or where to look for information. Any help/discussion would be greatly appreciated!
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"When I moved to San Francisco in 2003, I found a place to live in one weekend."

But from what I recall after moving to San Francisco in 2005, you would not have been able to.

And from what I've been told, if you moved to San Francisco in 2000, you also would have had a difficult time.

boomcalifornia seems to be an appropriate name.
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As a business owner, it's your job to make sure those listings are accurate, just as it would be you would want to make sure the yellow pages had your right phone number. There's no excuse for technological illiteracy or ignorance, and if you don't want to bother to be in charge of your online presence, you had better hire someone for the job.
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It's quite sad, in my opinion, that this is halfway down the page while yet another beating of the dead horse that is the systemd flam^H^H^H^H discussion is the most visible comment thread. Thank you for posting this.
Yesterday I noticed that DDG was no longer taking me to the https version of youtube and I'm fairly sure it did before. It looks like Google search results don't take you to https youtube either.
Well today's my day to be the not-so-subtle-ist asshole at Hacker News.

It's one thing to recognise that systemic forms of bias and discrimination can be subtle and invisible to those trying to fix them, but all this sort of thing does is hand more keys over to a small subset of people who are less interested in making the world more equal and more interested in grabbing, holding and exercising social power.

Shaming rituals, however light in touch they are, rarely improve things. They're just another small-p political tool to be used by politically minded people to exert social control.
I'm always reminded there's a long-tail to research. It's sad that so much focus goes to the peak of that distribution, though. I think the tension between useless and useful is really important!
Well, we basically knew where the problems were, but Niko helped us come up with a way to fix them that was usable (the borrow check).
With Facebook, no. My guess is that if you've verified with a phone number, they make it difficult to reset by an unverified email (they favor the fake user and assume that the email was entered incorrectly). Moreover, I don't want to take over someone's account if they've been ignorant about entering the email incorrectly. They still own the data. However I do report that I didn't create this account. Services like FB blacklist the email address in that case. As a result, I can't use that email in future without giving a photo ID (never gonna happen).
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Except Wikipedia doesn't work "very well". It works OK for most subjects, but there are some areas and points of view that are no-go areas because of the prevailing values of the major editors, and even turf wars. Mentioned not to long ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7700546
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I can offer anecdotal evidence to the contrary. I am proficient in both C++ and Python and I am able to whip up something in Python much faster than in C++. Boost and C++11 closed the gap somewhat but the difference is:

* Python's approach of "batteries included", ruch standard library. Sure you can find a library in C++ for almost everything, but it is never as easy as "pip install" and subsequent import.
* I do not have to declare types. It works well for small programs where I can maintain implicit typing in my head but becomes an impediment for larger programs.
* Compilation time for any moderately sized C++ program and the lack of REPL quickly become a problem in fast iteration cycle. No IPython for C++.
* Small syntactic sugar things always help. As an example, In Python I can assign array, set, or dict literal to any variable. In C++11 even though I should supposedly be able to do some of that, it is not universally across platforms.
I will definitely look into this more when I'm back from holiday. Has anyone else found that getting good coffee in Germany is quite difficult? Or is it just that my city (Leipzig) is a bit of a coffee desert?

Anyways. Best wishes, and you will probably find a customer in me!
Thanks for reminding me of this one. I had a brief skim of this years ago when I was short on money and time. Now with a bit more of both I have ordered a paperback copy.
I haven't seen heavy technical details on what the seizure involved, but if in theory they got a hold of some control domains they could have sent out kill commands to stop the malware from working or alternatively sent them to a static "do nothing" host.
Denmark, on the other hand, moved from a 40-hour to a 37-hour week in 1992 and it has been a success. It had no measurable effect on output, and does not seem to have impacted wage or employment growth. Maybe the length of the workweek is not the main problem with France's labor market?
If you have ever used mapmaker, and attempted to update/modify POI and roads, then you will be aware of the strange and unvalidated process of accepting and denying changes to Gmaps.

There are more than a couple bad actors that are Approved Google map moderators. I am not sure if their collective actions for denying and modifying changes are a net good or net positive. It has always seemed strange that someone from Washington state can deny a detailed and documented road/POI change in Florida.

I really enjoy editing/contributing to Gmaps, but the seemingly random/poisonous moderation process in that ecosystem is a huge turn off.

Sorry if this is a tad off topic.
> I think the real problem is that people don't really want consciousness defined. They want to keep it as this magical, special thing.

I disagree, what makes you think so? Hard problem of consciousness is the real problem. Consciousness isn't a physical thing, that's why physics can't define it.
Edit: To clarify, this "auto-pressurized engines" is just another form of pressure fed operation. The tank has to be at (least at) chamber pressure.

Yes, the pressure must be low because otherwise the tanks would be too heavy. Especially with such fluffy fuel. (Or then they have some new supermaterials. In theory just the engine pressurization type does not limit pressure. If you could make a rocket tank out of pure graphene, then why not pressurize it very high?)

Saturn V's F-1 or Falcon 9's Merlin are moderate gas generator turbopump designs pressures around 7 MPa. This is probably closer to 3 MPa, I'm just guessing here though.
I wonder about their suspiciously high sea level specific impulse, 305 s. They probably have some aerospike extra there.

That said, I don't know what they have really built. I see their California office is a few hundred meters down the street from SpaceX.
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I think you're definitely right that under the right motivation and for certain bursts of time you can work for 12-14 hours of time, but there has been a good amount of research and studies showing long term damage from overworking and undersleeping:

http://devopsangle.com/2012/04/18/what-research-says-about-w...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2012/09/12/why-work...
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/12/why-the-...
Writers rarely get to choose their own headlines. That's why it's quite common to find completely reasonable articles with extremely sensational headlines.
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Is there a reason the author's name is in the title. Seems to violate the HN's guidelines.

Is the author so important that we should know of him/her?

Having said that, the article is awesome and if the author keeps writing pieces like this I'll be reading more!
I'm fairly simple. I grew up 15 miles from a town of 3k in Arkansas. I came to the bay area in 2000 with $350 in my pocket.

The parts of those places you listed that I can (could) afford, I wouldn't live due to various problems like crime, neglect, etc. They aren't really a good choice for normal, simple people like me.

I think most people aren't there by choice, but by necessity. I'd much rather have the people watching my kids in a spot by choice than necessity. You may ask why that would matter, but given a little thought it'll matter you as well.
You can run an access point with all the benefits of WPA2/AES, but make the password really simple. Setting your SSID to "PasswordIsBacon" or just using the same SSID and password is a fairly easy way to share access, without running a completely insecure, unencrypted network.
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The ban on debates is particularly jarring. I get the idea, a debate could easily turn into a heated argument, but if someone told me I am being sexist or homophobic when I am not then I'm certainly not going to apologize for it.

If they want to maintain a civil environment that's able to call out subtle -isms, then they should simply accept "no, it wasn't" just as freely as "oops, sorry".
The difference between a court of law and a court of force.
Looking forward to the Carmack and Abrash talks.
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Tangent: You can still view Flash on most phones sold, no? I think as long as you're using something other than Chrome (like FF).
I thought Twitter's API only gave you access to a small percentage of real-time tweets. Did Twilert obtain full firehose access or is another method being used?
I used to be a copy editor, back in the day when newspapers had copy editors. One of the jobs of a copy editor back then was to write the headline, and write an accurate one. My chief editor was tough on me, too, and it was hard to come up with a good headline that fit the space and was accurate. She often changed just one word or tense and cleared things up, but now and then she'd can my headline entirely and rewrite it.

Today? Online news sites don't care about headline accuracy, just SEO and linkbait rating. They don't even really have to care about length, to an extent. "Subject That Will Blow Your Mind and Change the Way You See the World. Top All-time. You Won’t Believe Your Eyes. Watch."

So yes, headlines have gotten useless.
> "What is the end game?"

It appears to be: force the industry to move somewhere else.

Whether that's a good plan or not is moot. Decades of votes have underscored it repeatedly. That the situation is unsustainable seems to be the entire point.

I'm increasingly surprised people still insist on the region. I'd have thought more companies would have moved on by now.
Sounds like a cult-ism.
A well-actually occurs when someone's understanding is 90% correct, and someone comes along and says, heroically, "you're entirely wrong, because of this missing 10%". When iterated this kind of grandstanding erodes the confidence of someone who's working with a partial understanding, which in truth is all of us.
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