skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem is that this method disproportionately hurts people who don't have the time or energy to effectively hold two jobs (one full-time position at their day job and one as an independent developer or open-source contributor by night)

No, not at all.

You're assuming that "will you please tell me about the best project that you’ve ever created?" has the words "Outside your previous jobs" - which it clearly doesn't.

If you've made or contributed to something great at a previous job - talk about that!

As soon as I read that question I paused and thought about how I would answer it - of the 10 possibles I came up with, about 5 are "personal projects" and about 5 are "from previous paid jobs" - the thing about the paid jobs ones is that I get to talk about all the awesome people I got to work with, all the stuff they taught me, all the conflicts I had with that Project manager (!!), all the trade-offs we had to make so the project actually shipped, some of me reservations about so much technical debt being created, etc. etc.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with answering this question about something you were involved in at a previous job. The point is to find people that are passionate.
I never thought that about alcohol and it's advertised like crazy.

There is no possible way a 12 year old is going to take from five sentences that drugs are safe for 24-7 consumption. In fact, I'd argue that stigma and prohibition are more likely to cause a 12 or 14 year old to try pot than anyone asking if substance abuse might have other underlying causes.
I would just say here people have very different expectations for what a nice dress shirt should cost.

There's everything from $13 ones at Walmart to $70 - $90 ones at J. Crew and Brooks Brothers (MTailor price point) to $300 Armani shirts (and above).

Having spent a lot of time in in-person custom shirt shops, our $69 shirts are comparable in quality to shirts you would buy there for $125 and above.
The public health approach is likely the only one which will work.

And ebola isn't the only disease for which this is true. An even more terrifying prospect is of TDR-TB: totally drug resistant tuberculosis.

Ebola infects, incapacitates, and kills within a matter of days. For TB the period can be years, and a large number of carriers are asymptomatic.

"Treatment" requires total population isolation for the remainder of the patient's natural life.

http://redd.it/2bti96
Many retrospective studies of crash incidents have not found an increased risk with marijuana use. In my personal experience, it's effects are slight but drivers appear to compensate for their impairment by driving slower and being more careful in other ways, hence the findings of the recent survey study below (the lead researcher is quoted in the NY Times article).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24411797
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/18/health/driving-under-the-i...

The study’s lead author, Eduardo Romano, a senior research scientist at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, said that once he adjusted for demographics and the presence of alcohol, marijuana did not statistically increase the risk of a crash.
I think the argument made in retort would go along the lines of - What happens if you don't pay the tax, or don't turn up to school?

All over a governments abilities boil down in their extreme to their monopoly on violence.
He made a very reasonable request to add a simple safety measure to a system he was in part responsible for, and he was ignored by the very people who taught him to take that system seriously.
How would you expect anyone to react?
"This thing causes problems. So, let's make it illegal."

That isn't the obviously good idea you seem to think it is. Outlawing things that people like also causes problems: it criminalizes responsible use as well as irresponsible use; it creates a black market which feeds organized crime; it has been a major factor in the militarization of our police departments, so that now there are lots of little towns with SWAT teams, which do get misused.

There are costs to making these things illegal, and so the question you have to ask is whether the benefit outweighs them. In the case of marijuana, it is increasingly clear that it does not.
Really?? That's how you interact with people? Couldn't you have just assumed he made a mistake?
I guess you're in the UK so you're unfamiliar with the American experiment with alcohol prohibition. Here's a good starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_State...
This looks really cool and promising! I was thinking of a shell along these lines, props to you for writing it.

I do take issue with one of the things you wrote though:

> a more complex program is formed by concatenating simpler programs, hence the term "concatenative programming". Compare this to the functional approach, where constructs are nested instead of connected one after another.

There's nothing about the functional approach that necessitates writing "nested" functions, as you describe. With higher-order functions, you can structure your code in almost any arbitrary way. In particular, haskell's >>= operator has this behavior, and you can easily write an operator like

x |> f = f x

to facilitate something like

2 |> addOne |> timesTwo |> show |> reverse |> putStrLn

Or whatever one desires :)
This is uninformed speculation, but I imagine two reasons:

1. You can skim an aggregated list of headlines and get a quick glance of current events without ever clicking through to the actual sites, thus causing them to lose out on ad revenue.

2. Newspapers like being linked to but don't want their competitors linked to, and think they'd be better off overall in a world where people directly visited the web site of their preferred news outlet.
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> Any life form advanced enough to be bothered by the effects of nuclear waste will presumably be capable of learning.

Lol what? Pick any mammal, they'll get destroyed by radiation poisoning but that doesn't mean they have the mental capacity to know why they're dying painful.
Many people go into "self-destruction mode" without needing any drug at all. Usually triggered by tragedies or just some phases of life, like middle life crisis and puberty. Plus many times drug addiction is a reaction, not a cause.
Well, doesn't that mean that big websites will just filter out all links to those websites? It sounds very counterproductive. If they insist I think they would eradicate Spanish news agencies completely.
https://flippa.com/ too
At 4:20? Holy crap, I thought the NYT was way too stuffy to do such a stunt. I've been a reader for many years, and the only things I can count on in life are life, death, and the sleepy character of the NYT editorial page. I think I'd better pay closer attention.
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Only our hosting service is in closed alpha. The source code is all open (https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm) and there's an easy installer script (though it requires a Linux machine), so you can start hacking any time. :)
I think you're right, given this do you suppose the assessment process is backwards?
1. I've seen the problems it can cause. I'm from the UK and there are many things our government can do to vastly improve the situation without banning alcohol. One simple one is extending opening times. Having relatively early closing times leads to everybody leaving bars and clubs drunk at the same time. Not a good situation but an easily solvable one.

America showed the hell that can come from alcohol prohibition. Only an idiot would look at that and consider it a solution to some anti-social behavior on the weekends.

2. I'm not sure it will make it socially acceptable. From what I've seen in the Netherlands a lot of young people think it's 'uncool' to smoke marijuana. And regarding the health impact if it is legal the government will be able to put out advice on minimizing the health consequences (e.g. using edibles, not mixing with tobacco, vaporizing instead of smoking etc.).

As for sources - Google it. I did and found several sources in seconds. The sources vary on specificity but the general message is people can become dependent but that it isn't very addictive.
That's the point, we have a crisis and we need to stick up for great engineers no matter what race, religion, gender they might be.
I think you're nitpicking to avoid addressing my point.

s/you're the type of person who/you would say/
If you feel a post is not HN material, you can always flag it. It's in the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Also luckily there are not that many people out there who sustainably only do coding every hour of the day. Eventually real life catches up to you and you can't do that any longer.

Also, there are only so many gold medalists every four years. In the IT industry, there's no theoretical upper bound, so it's not nearly as dire, you don't really "run out of slots" as fast.
That is a good idea, too, but different from what I was thinking. If I, or someone else gets this working, it may have other applications.
For those who think this is "self-serving" you are right. My job is to recruit and hire the best engineers. I don't care what their background is, we need great people to keep up with our competition.
There is a big, big difference between despising a group of people because you hate and fear anyone different from yourself, and despising a group of people because every one of them you've ever met has been directly or indirectly complicit in the oppression of you and everyone you love.

Both viewpoints are wrong, of course. But one of them is rooted in selfishness and evil, and the other is rooted in compassion and justice, perverted by that same evil. One of these can be understood and, perhaps, redirected in a more healthy direction--as it seems Malcolm X may have been in the process of doing. In the real world, you can't just slot everyone into convenient "good" and "evil" cubbyholes.
I hate to disappoint, but it really works quite well. Not quite perfectly, but quite well (and most of the trouble I encounter comes from my use of ControlMaster on the SSH side). No, you don't any sort of weird heroics to use it.
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Well, I wanna hear about it, but I don't know if I can contribute with something right now (maybe I can, after I hear about it, but I don't think so), so I'm not going to ask, I don't wanna bother you, I just look forward for reading more about it someday somewhere.

(In fact, I really miss a place where we can post drafts of ideas we're working on, or just thinking about, to get others' feedback on them.)
It should be pointed out that he later left the NOI and became an adherent to mainstream Islam. That was another step in his transformation.
Yep, this has the potential to become one of those phase-change situations where there is movement from "it will never happen because it's always been this way" and "why is this still broken?" Like gay marriage.

In these kinds of issues, the NYT is typically a lagging indicator, so it's nice to see them leading for a change.
and they're all anti-Google, something smells.
Though I support legalization of marijuana, I agree with you: smoking of any substance should be prohibited where other people have to smell the smoke.
Do you believe this person was literally unable to reason? Or acting from fraudulent intent? Is this perhaps a mistake that no other person has ever made?

If you're not saying yes to one of those, then I'm not seeing what category applies other than "reasonable mistake". I agree it's a noob mistake, but a lot of businesses are started by noobs.
Very educational, thanks!
Please consider a female version!
I recently went through an interview where they asked me somewhat similar questions, where I was able to talk about my personal projects and let them see how much I love doing that.

Before the interview, they told me they went through my Github and looked at my projects, and actually called me for an interview partly because of that. My Github served me as a portfolio. Artists have to hand in example of their work, and I believe programmers should do as well.

That should be enough to see most of those who don't comment enough, don't follow rules and standards, etc. It still comes back to the issue of having time to work on personal projects and having it displayed somewhere, but the same could be said for Artists.
I'm truly curious: which problems related to marijuana use (intoxicated drivers, access by children, etc.) do people think might worsen in a state where marijuana is legalized?

It seems obvious to me that marijuana legalization would alleviate the two aforementioned issues by raising awareness of marijuana-related DUIs and eliminating distribution networks that sell to children, but I probably haven't considered other problems associated with widespread marijuana use.
I read a different news article along these lines a few years ago, and ran a game based on the premise of a dump like this being cracked open thousands of years in the future by a massive earthquake and contaminating the water supply to a town, which they, in a "standard" medieval-ish technology culture, had to investigate.

Was fun trying to figure out who'd get sick first (shrimp fishermen, I figured, as their catch would concentrate the contaminants the fastest) and the timescale for water to start leaching out of the site and cause an effect (a few months, so I had to put in a bunch of other stuff for them to do between the earthquake happening and the "real" plot beginning), having clues that the players wouldn't immediately recognise on-sight when they got down there (like a non-standard periodic table[0] - I used the Janet Left Step), figuring out which elements they'd be able to translate with "speak any language" spells, and which they couldn't because they didn't have the words to translate into (basically, they got any element known before we started recording discoveries[1], and I threw in bonus partial tranlations for Hydrogen (water-ish), Oxygen (fire-ish), Nitrogen (air-ish) and Silicon (sand-ish)), and a whole bunch of other details too.

It was fun watching the players' "eureka" moments occur, and then even more fun watching them try really hard not to use their player knowledge in-character!

Edit: Just remembered, I also put a Rosetta Disc[2] into the chamber, as I didn't know when I designed the game that they'd have a magic user capable of translating anything. Even though they didn't need it, it was a nice touch to leave in.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_periodic_tables

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discoveries_of_the_chemical_ele...

[2] http://rosettaproject.org/disk/concept/
I'm sorry, to those accusing me of non sequitur because I'm making too large of jumps in logical reasoning. I'll try to remember, "baby steps, baby steps."
Interesting idea, but a few decades late to market. There was a 'literary edition' of the Bible published years ago that went much further than this. Dramatic monologues were printed in a blank verse style; poems were printed like poems; there were no cumbersome and intrusive notes; each book had an introduction and historical discussion. A can't imagine it being bettered.
Please continue conversation here:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321490
>>You seem to have a very very bad experience with cops.

I don't know of anyone who would describe their experiences with cops as "pleasant."
Even decades ago, people as influential as Milton Friedman were arguing this and explaining the costs at length:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLsCC0LZxkY&feature=youtu.be...
Same here -- fortunately I have discovered ODOO project management, formerly OpenERP.
Ask HN: Home library / digital asset management
Hi all,

I'm hoping for suggestions from HNers that might have the same problem I have.

I've been googling and reading reviews, but can't quite find something that will solve my problem completely:

My home 'library' has increased in size substantially over the last few years (comfortably into the thousands). It includes:
- Books (fiction and non-fiction)
- Reference manuals (hardware, software, programming, etc)
- CDs/DVDs (video, audio, software, backups)
- Hard drives (media, data backup)
- Digital media (ebooks, photos, videos, audio)
- Various other digital content (saved websites, links, etc)

I'm hoping to do just the basic things:
- Catalogue everything (ideally with help from ISBN numbers)
- Search the library
- Track location (physical and electronic)
- Track lending to friends
- Ideally have it self hosted as a web service
- Ideally open source

There seems to be solutions that cover the above functionality for physical media, and solutions that cover the above for digital assets (DAM), but nothing (so far) that does all this for both types of media.

Do people have any suggestions or ideas?

Thanks!
I'll check it out - I didn't know they did domains as well as websites.
No, this is theregister link for: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8056070 . So it's more likely repost fatigue.

This time the source of the problem is poorly written PHP code. It's still in my list of tabs to finish reading.
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A couple thoughts:

- +1 to minimaxir's comment; this whole thing sounds creepy. Are you offering a supportive tweet? 1-on-1 mentorship? An inside track at hiring at your respective companies? (is that last one even legal in your jurisdiction?) The vagueness here leads me to assume the worst. I'm sorry for being a cynic and for pre-judging, but not much in this industry has encouraged idealism when it comes to women in tech.

- I read "Uber" and thought of the sexual assault from March. Arguably unfair since that was one of your drivers, but that was my knee jerk reaction. You make no effort to explain why you're on the list (not that anyone bothers to explain why this list exists, see previous point), and I'm left to think whatever pops into my head. Again, cynicism reigns.

- Delete "harping". In fact, delete the whole line. The word connotes the tediousness of women complaining about all the sexist shit they deal with in Silicon Valley; it sounds like you don't really get where women are coming from (which begs the question again: why are you doing this?).

Please try to make this more substantive. I would like to support anything that supports gender equality and inclusiveness, but this is so vague that I don't know what you stand for, what you offer, or what my own support would entail.
Yeah, take a look at the trend in the graph in one of their other columns [0]. The balance of opinion is changing very fast.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/opinion/sunday/high-time-t...
"I know people that prefer original versions, but you can not exclude your friends when social watching."

Why not original versions with subtitles?
Really more of a sunken city than a sunken civilization. Still pretty cool though.
It was absolutely wonderful for me, but mostly for meeting all these wonderful people. I came to London early and got together with some other attendees the day before.

I can't say it was productive, but atleast we got to simulate a Silicon Valley -type of social environment for a day.
Censorshop by Google : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google

In addition to "Right to be forgotten" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google
the down-votes won't change my mind since this is their business model
We already have those problems -- how will legalizing pot make them worse?
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Shows up to the interview and then spends 5-10 minutes quietly reading the candidate's resume and making notes. Not very courteous and makes for an awful first impression.
> Being a trouble maker always looked bad on your
> calibration scores and that translates into real money.

Based on the successful career progressions of several well-known troublemakers at Google, I believe this statement is not currently accurate (if it ever was).
It may be helpful to list the point solutions that you have found, so people could suggest methods of integration.
Alright - here's the position of the National Review's editors:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/367618/sensible-weed-e...

Supporting marijuana legalization isn't solely a left-wing stance, and the NYT isn't particularly early to the position. William F. Buckley Jr., the founder of the National Review, was in favor of legalization as far back as the mid-1960s.
We already have this situation with prescription drugs. I agree it should be worked out, but failure to do so is not in itself a problem; same with prescription drugs, while there's a lot of ambiguity around when a person is under the influence, as it were, it just makes it so arrests have to be for actual occurrences. Reckless driving, or an accident caused by it. As you mention yourself, the driver ran a stop sign; all the marijuana does is add an additional offense, it's not like the driver walks scot free because the system is unable to respond to his drug usage.
I am completely in favor of legalization. That said, I feel obligated to point out that "the majority of stoners will tell you it's very safe" and "most stoners generally agree on this" does not a convincing argument make.

My own anecdote: sitting passenger in a car with someone stoned and thinking traffic was going too fast, racing by him. On I-95 in the middle lane, going approximately 25 mph. And he insisted he was actually safer when driving stoned due to that slight paranoia you'd mentioned. I mention this here only to underscore the reliability (or lack thereof) of the source you're using.
In your `webpack.config.js`:

module: {
loaders: [
{ test: /\.json$/, loader: 'json' },
]
}

Elsewhere:

var version = require('./package.json').version;

Loaders are common.js packages that export a single function and expect `this` to have the loader API. You can put them as dependencies in your `package.json`. You can wire them up in your config. It's not any less flexible than browserify.
(I'm currently toying with the editor able (ql:quickload "able") (able:start), so at this moment, I'm not in a good position to figth at those thumb wars... but, as long time and happy emacs user, I need to tell the world that "little pinky" is alive and tipping, thanks)

You can have it all, emacs, and vi... so, what is the bigg fuss?
"Bug: this repo is a trite, self-serving, empty platitude. Please remove it."

https://github.com/jdorfman/wgyb/issues/2
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12/24 hours?? Have you ever smoked? I'd say the effects mostly wear off within 2 hours...
"We need to stick up for great engineers no matter what race, religion, gender they might be."

Repo description: "Are you a female that is scared to join the Tech Industry? Don't be, we got your back"

"No matter what gender they might be." As long as they're female.
or throwing a [look a like of] high security key (strategic command communication in another country with big nukes) used punch card (which supposedly was just burned following strict procedure in the presence of 3 witnesses - birth of a king is witnessed less strictly :) into a toilet bowl of the commander - by his reaction he would prefer real bomb or even crocodile there than the card.
- Anybody in the black market is going to be against legalization

- How to deal with driving under the influence is not a question with a perfect answer yet