skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your job is a soul-crushing vise, take your soul out of it and put it somewhere else. There are a lot of people out there that do something they hate to pay the bills. They get their enjoyment out of life by doing something else after clocking out. People at your work have no interest in doing things better because they already emotionally divested themselves from the job. Just pretend that instead of writing awful code, you're just serving customers at the restaurant until your agent calls about an audition.

Reserve your passion, creativity, and imagination for the people who care, even if that's just you. Don't learn anything based on what you think other people might want to know. Learn what you need to know to do what you love. If you can't somehow telegraph to a prospective employer that you can invest your passion into something, it won't matter what you know. Bitter, jaded, burnt-out people don't get nice jobs.
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RHEL senior developer wearing NSA T-Shirt :_(
One of the most gratifying things about pondering the future is that I can easily foresee the day -- say 15-20 years down the road -- when utilities stop accepting local currency, and patio11 is forced to pay his electricity bill in Bitcoin.

It's a long time, but I won't mind waiting for it.
Sounds awesome! Sadly, I'm android.
I wish it had more about the legality of this beyond: "Some states may also have legal restrictions regarding where accessories may be mounted on the dashboard"
The guy in the video is the same guy from the Coin concept videos...
NASA Confirms “Impossible” Propellant-free Microwave Thruster Works
"Your brevity almost sounds like gloating"

Well yes I was bragging. I was pretty proud that I got it cut in half after an attorney told me to just pay the full amount that (he was a labor lawyer) he didn't think they would budge. So yes I was proud that I did that but more importantly wanted to point out that it was possible, at least then in that particular office. In business sometimes just knowing something is possible can enable you to try.

"except that the money that you managed to owe them less than half of what the DOL originally figured"

Well as a business person of course I'm going to try and minimize the dollars owed. But further to the employees it was essentially found money they didn't have an issue (other than the one employee who did apparently) in the first place.

The company was about 20 employees. This happened over the course of a few years. It involved the fact (from memory) that you didn't have to give employees (of this type) any breaks but if you did give them breaks they had to be 15 or 20 minutes (don't remember).

So here is the scenario (for this type of employee).

You work and you don't get any breaks. - Ok says the DOL

You work and you get, say, 20 minutes break. - Ok says the DOL.

You work and you get, say, 15 minutes break. - No says the DOL must be
20 minutes you owe them pay for the 15 minutes they weren't working.

Only thing I don't remember is if it was 15 minutes needed or 20 minutes. The point
is we were off by 5 minutes so we owed back pay for that.

So once again breaks weren't required but if you give them they
have to be of a certain length. And it had nothing to do with
a job description that generally referenced breaks either. No mention was
made of breaks when hiring. And they didn't have to take breaks either.
Awesome! Congrats Heroku team!
I'll take this as a joke until i see some data. Absolute numbers please, not trends.
I'm usually among the more skeptical in Show HNs and this is great. Absolutely dead simple, manages itself, no login etc, easy to see the benefit and all I do is save the email in case I ever feel like I want to start.

Only thing I can think of is perhaps the option to not receive an email every time I update the stat? Like perhaps I only receive an email with CSV etc when I send statname and no numbers? I realize adding features only subtracts from the merits I mentioned earlier but this might be one worth considering (along with SMS as someone else mentioned, though that can be a chore). Thanks for posting.
Minor question - Stellar wants access to the user's Facebook account as part of the verification process. Why does the Stellar FB app need to see the users' photos as well as their name and friend's list? Are you accessing these to do some kind of bot prevention, because I can't think of any other reason & spelunking through a users' photos seems like a somewhat invasive thing to do.
Most important aspect, "Some data is too granular, so an aggregation, or a representative sample, captures the essence of the behavior that one needs to understand." I think we're getting too much data to make sense of now so key signatures in the data to represent the underlying data is so important.
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How an empty crisp packet can be used to eavesdrop on conversations
Or you can also have click(expand) on headline instead of the "READ" button?
yes, that is my point. they're entitled to it precisely because they're not in a position to demand it. (according to this possible logic.)
When reading about bitcoins, I can never tell when people are being sarcastic or not.
In France they're illegal around (and visible from) express roads (roads with central separators and at least 2 lanes each ways, generally limited to 110km/h) and highways (same but with more stringent sizing specs, extensive shoulders and usually speed-limited to 130km/h), within 40 meters in cities and 200 meters outside.
Th original link is to a US company operating in the US being investigated for breaking US laws by the US government. This forum is hosted by a US company on US soil and the large majority of readers and commenters work in the US. It's safe to assume that allsystemsgo is talking about US law unless otherwise stated.
Thanks for the response. The USCIS website actually now says that being in an accelerator is fine with a B1, and in fact if the accelerator has fixed start and end date that can act as a proof that I will return home after the accelerator ends. Look at http://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/b-1-business-visitor/und... under "How do I show that I intend to remain for a limited time?", it's the 3rd point.

Silly me, I didn't see that before the interview. Anyways, my interviewer was new and had no idea what an accelerator was.

What I am doing now is interviewing in another city, with the same application, albeit with added true information that would support why I want to come back, which I honestly do in the short term as my parents are unwell. The city I interviewed in first has almost no startups, so they have never encountered a situation like this before. This time I am interviewing in a city that has a history of sending startups to US accelerators including YC and Techstars.

Let's see, I am interviewing this week. Taking all documents including my parents medical documents and a printout of the page above. Fingers crossed!
That's more than enough! I really don't see myself using combined charts.

BTW, should I get a reply after sending the first email of a stat?
As someone who used to exclusively write software for the visually impaired at Ai Squared (I wrote a huge portion of http://sitecues.com during my time there), I wanna thank Shalin for building this. There are VERY few developers (in fact, non-developers, too) out there who understand the needs of that audience. We all take that stuff for granted, but to a blind person, this type of software means so much to them. I remember going to the CSUN Conference last year and meeting a bunch of amazing folks who were blind and seeing them use our software ... I was in a happy mood for weeks after that experience. Please continue building software like this. Please. Much respect, Shalin. You're awesome, man.

- Jonathan
Bitcoin does precisely one thing (a big ledger), on top of which people are trying to bootstrap many things (currency, asset exchange, smart contracts, notary, other things).

Bitcoin is a distributed trustless ledger tracking inputs and outputs of transactions. It stores it in a blockchain, and determines transaction values using a script that takes some inputs and produces some outputs.

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As far as I can tell,

Stellar does many things (gateways, trust/debt graph, asset mapping, quality conversion between assets, stellar currency), on top of which people are trying to bootstrap one thing (a big exchange).

Stellar is a centralized trust-based debt graph of arbitrarily-defined assets hopefully backed by trusted gateways. It uses consumer-defined trust and quality (exchange rate) values per asset to other nodes which creates a debit cap for the peer.

The roles between the technology vs ecosystem of Bitcoin vs Stellar are inverted. Clearly Stellar's approach has some benefits (fast transactions, regulation-compatible gateway infrastructure) at some costs (trusted/centralized, bootstrapping risks).

This is about as good of an oversimplification as I can come up with right now.
The Day Obama's Facebook Page Went Down, and Other Campaign Security Lessons
Without going into too much details, just randomly mixing the first ten result in the first page will totally destroy Google's results: anyone will notice in a matter of days, if not hours. And everyone will find Bing so much objectively better that it wouldn't even be funny.

For example,

"rosetta spacecraft": the first two results are from ESA's homepage, the tenth is an article from The Guardian.

"mauna kea weather": after a gigantic weather box, the first result is from Mauna Kea Weather Center, the tenth is a page from some generic website that deals with all mountains.

And on and on.
Other than for navigation, Glass while driving is insanely distracting.
I have found a few handy tools that openSUSE had packaged long before Fedora. I think the credit for that goes to openSUSE's much more accessible build service :) Haven't had any issues with the repositories, myself, though - been using Fedora on and off since F11.
"The nucleus is now known to be only about 700 meters in diameter"

Wikipedia has a comprehensive writeup.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2013_A1
Oh right, I had only thought about proofing that an image hasn't been tampered with after a certain date, but of course it could have been tampered with before that.
75 dead, 186 injured, and the first world's concern: My iPhone 6 will be late.

You need help, Mr Perez.
But this isn't watching them going in and out of a crack house. This is watching all their movements after going in and out of a crack house. Still debatable, but I think your analogy didn't show how broad the scope of this would be.
This is very impressive, but were the fingers behind the paper crane drawn in by hand? I don't see how any algorithm could create that kind of content.

I'd really like to see a video of someone starting with an image and using these algorithms and tools to create one of these effects from start to finish.
Very nice! Would love a rest api for this.. Thanks,
>Edit: Reason for downvotes?

Because you're bragging about screwing workers out of paid rest time.

http://www.dol.gov/elaws/esa/flsa/hoursworked/screenEE5.asp

How obscure!
>Look at how much code Jackson uses for their core serialization

Is the problem complexity or bandwidth? You already have "dart:convert" in the browser, and has JSON, ASCII and you can even add your own formats to it, and it runs in the browser, now, what I can undertands is that you'll need to add mirrors as a requirement and mirros can be big, but again, don't you already need reflection for polymer?

It is really that a problem to instead of mapping JSON to a map have the chance to map to an Object<T>? I don't think it is a problem of complexity, but a problem of apathy, or "you don't really need that anyway" issue, and I hate when some one tries to tell me what I need and what I don't.
Creating a second Gmail account and setting it up to forward to your primary account is already a pretty straightforward procedure, so that probably won't be much of a problem. (There would presumably be a need for some user education on how to do that, though. And I agree that it might be nice to have a built-in "aliases" feature in Gmail, regardless of internationalization.)
The deflationary fixed amount of BTC is certainly enough of a "fundamental flaw" for me. I don't think you need to be an economist to recognize the problems inherent in that.

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21599053...
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Yes many of them do discriminate against those that are unemployed whether it be forced or on purpose. I took a 11 month sabbatical a few years ago and there were many interviewers that just wouldn't believe that I purposefully stopped working. I kept my college habits after gaining my first 'career' position which allowed me to save up a bunch of money. Working in horrible environments and extremely stressful jobs caused a bad personal situation (where questions way beyond burnout such as "why am I even bothering at all" started to be common every day) that I just had to get away. I spent a small portion of the saved up money to do "nothing." Looking back I should have done more things with my time but, as always, I can't go back and change it.

Sometimes certain people just need a real break. I think 2 weeks of vacation is complete bullshit and the main reason why so many Americans are miserable, and misery loves company. So many people live day-to-day, week-to-week that they just can't even imagine those of us that are responsible with our money and savings. In the end, I honestly believe they were just jealous they would never be in a position where they could just walk away from everything. It sucks, but I found a job after it and I was 100% honest with everyone when asked why I took the time off. I had nothing to hide. It took a week and a day of full time searching/interviewing to find a position with a decent company on the way up even during the recent recession. I'm glad those interviewers "cut" me from their list of potential hires because I wouldn't want to work with people like that anyway. I still want to be my own boss, but I'm not there yet.
Congrats Sol, it's been a pleasure watching Examine.com go from an idea to becoming the destination for supplement knowledge. Especially seeing your posts on schwarzenegger.com!
It's maddening to hear stories like this. I'm a UI/UX Developer, and really I just end up doing most of the front end development for our team. One of the big things I focus on is making sure our conventions are clear and documented. Style guides are verbose and have code examples.

Part of being a good at frontend is bringing the biggest lift to the team overall and making their jobs as easy as possible. So many people will be touching your code at some point, so I go out of my way to make their interactions as painless as possible.

I think with frontend development in particular, it's really easy to get some people that are really unqualified. Hopefully this is changing, but I feel like a decent amount of people sell some serious snake oil because some of it bleeds into soft skills.
Why would someone be forced to pay for a service in anything other than the legal tender of the country they're in?

For that matter, why would any business necessarily refuse to accept it?

That said - if Bitcoin or something like it makes it less expensive for me to take on international clients then i'm all for it. But nobody's going to just ignore fiat like it isn't there.
One of my biggest fears about technology is how quickly and tirelessly machines can do things that, until now, we've expected limitations on.

For example, if I exceed the speed limit on a highway for just 5 seconds, I doubt anyone would notice. In fact, the law enforcement is pretty vague about speed limits at the moment.

If I leave my car in a parking lot for a minute without paying, I rely on the fact that a human watching isn't going to be that super efficient as to give me a ticket right away.

But that's only the beginning. There is so much information that a computer network can cross correlate about everyone, including probabilistic assessments about their identity, etc. This can of course be used by businesses (http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml) or governments to try to do pre-crime (http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/19/5419854/the-minority-repor...).

But again, this is just the beginning. Right now we have a certain threshold for the quality of evidence against someone in a courtroom. With computers being able to come up with dozens of plausible "stories that will stick", anyone can be threatened as the jury (at least in the first few years) won't be able to tell the difference. We already have http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction providing admissible evidence in court. With big-data software more sophisticated than https://www.palantir.com/ , those with the machines on their side will have powerful legal weapons that they can wield against anyone.

But even this is just the beginning. We expect a certain quality of output from humans in all areas of life. Being able to match and surpass human output is one thing (http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/algorithm-recognize...) ... but the relentless ability to continually search through a space towards a goal, and instantaneously leverage gains to produce more gains, may begin to overcome any strategic human systems, whether by individuals or entire countries. A computer network could figure out how to infiltrate a social network, topple a regime, completely dilute everyone's trust even in one another, and so forth. The smarter computers get, the more they will be able to overcome the systems we've set up including the biological systems of morality and trust from hundreds of thousands of years of evolution.

In fact if you think this is fantasy, consider that the NSA and other agencies already have rudimentary versions of this, that can only be made more powerful with big data crunching and bots: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140224/17054826340/new-s...

So what's next for us as a species?
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Is there any money in twitch except through acquisition?
Conquering time – 6 steps to a predictable day for a developer
does it really matter when they did the thing in the first place?

It's like congratulating a car thief for being an upstanding citizen because they admitted to the thievery and promised never to do it again after paying a fine.
Jarema you live!

Wow it's been like ... 4 years since we had lunch?

And speaking of The Oak ... http://www.schwarzenegger.com/fitness/advisory-board scroll down :)
I worked for a University that classified some maintenance workers (among others) as exempt using the excuse that they had "supervisory" duties. The reality was that these people were on-call 24/7 and would have to come in whenever there was a problem, in addition to working a 40 hour week. Overtime was becoming expensive, so upper management decided that their duties weren't really fixing things, but rather supervising fixing things. Problem solved. They're now exempt and have to come in whenever their phone rings or they're fired.
Redundant with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8137914.

Additionally, this submission is receiving a suspicious amount of votes very quickly.
Yeah, but it's getting better now even if informally. See this link http://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/b-1-business-visitor/und... under "How do I show that I intend to remain for a limited time?" It explicitly mentions accelerators. As long as you are not "employed" by the company, or more specifically the US incorporated entity, it's okay.

The problem is that there's no "directive" as such, so a lot depends on the interviewer one has, because it's so subjective. Mine was new and had never heard of what an accelerator was. He thought it was an MBA!

But there's no scope for an appeal, one has to reapply and pay the hefty application fee again!
It's easy to make choices like this when you have enough saved up that you don't even have to work another day for as long as you live.
I don't understand Python exceptions that well. But it's great to have the pattern of maintaining the stack trace when re-raising an exception. Thanks OP!

(In case anyone missed it)

except foo.FooException as e:
raise BarException, BarException(e), sys.exc_info()[2]
Why not do some coding on the job? It doesn't have to be a portfolio, but you can invest your time in learning up to date stuff and justify it as necessary research for your craft.
What about misspelled domains? DNS Hijacking or Bit Errors? Hostile redirects from innocuous hacked domains? I'm not against using access as evidence, but there needs to be more context than a single attempt to access a domain.
They do, every day.
Yeah, I do. I have my parents here, but we don't have any property that we own, which is the biggest problem. I honestly, do want to return in the short term because I am the only child and need to take care of my parents while I grow the company.
Firefox is moving in that direction at least: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis
This is a good point.

I don't think this statement is necessarily a good and logically sound axiom, and I think it applies to social networks more than search engines. I view it as a sort of a zen koan, in the vein of "It can't be all that avant garde if you're using a french word to describe it."

At the same time, I think this bears more scrutiny. Intent is important here. Your assumption is that Google organizes information, and that companies are organizing their information in a similar vein in order to facilitate better indexing. If this perfect world is the case, than your argument holds.

Unfortunately, I think the reality is frequently different. I think the vast majority of SEO use cases are not the organization of information, but rather the promotion of profitable information and damage control of potentially harmful informaion.

You may say to this that analyzing the motives of SEO is a deeply flawed venture, and you'd probably be right. But it is the difference between a system for organizing information and a beaurocracy which only a select few have the resources to navigate.
The Guardian shuts down 2/3 of servers because of single commit
Our first world problems are such a drag.

I think you can make most any coding job fun if you do it right. Are you interested in making things better? Adding CRUD? Bake in a better object layer to the data store. Front end developer a n00b? Just out do him with some nice Angular or jQuery on the next project. "Oh, I already added the UI stuff."

If you can't learn something just for the purpose of learning (and why are you putting that limitation on yourself - buck up) do it on your own time and then bring it to work. Make everyone else look bad. Make your employer happy. Then get good at the new shiznit so you can quit and get a better job.
California law makes it a lot harder to exempt programmers via this route - roughly speaking if you're a salaried programmer in CA making less than $85k a year you are actually NOT exempt from overtime. I know of a lot of startups that run afoul of this but thankfully for them their employees are unaware.

Edit - IANAL of course, but all research I've been able to find on the subject indicates this is likely true. The statute of limitations is 4 years I think, so there's a lot of back-pay that can accumulate in this sort of situation. Keep in mind that in CA overtime is defined as 1.5x for hours that exceed 40 in a week or 8 in a day, and 2x for hours that exceed 12 in day. Even if you only work 40 hours a week if you occasionally pull a long day or all-nighter you are supposed to be receiving overtime.
Let's just stop using the word terrorist and start calling it what is really is: enemy of the state.
> "even with good reason?"

Some do, but even the ones that do not have no way of knowing if your reasons are "good". "I traveled the world to discover myself" can mean "I actually traveled the world" or "I'm unhireable and trying to plug gaps in my resume in hard-to-verify ways".