skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a fan of Badger [1] now as they have the lowest price I've seen that also includes whois privacy ($10).

If you want to use my referral link [2] you can register or transfer a domain for $5.

I'm also a big fan of Hover [3] and Namecheap [4] too. I generally want a no nonsense, no annoying upsells, simple domain registrar. You also should think about what TLD you want as different registrars will have different TLDs especially now that the new GTLDs have arrived.

[1]: http://badger.com
[2]: http://badger.com/derek
[3]: http://hover.com
[4]: http://namecheap.com
I agree with the parents. The shooter should have faced murder charges.

That said, under some circumstances it'd be entirely appropriate to shoot a 13 year old in a war zone; some 13 year olds are active combatants. The headline is a bit click-baity.

But in this case, it looks (usual disclaimers) like an open-and-shut case of murder.
Some definitely have with three year olds. It depends on the kid.
So, if your PHP programs don't embed HTML in ?><?, and you use a framework with its own URL routing instead of multiple files, and your framework has plugin autoloading and initialization on every page request… why are you using PHP?
What's wrong with selling rotten food to people that want it? What's wrong with selling unsafe cars?

"The market" will offer the good stuff and people can choose, right?
Any chance you could quiet the headline a bit? I recognize you have a good project but that title's awfully loud.
I wonder how many times that import has to happen? Don't spend an hour optimizing a second.
Yes, the girl was walking away from the soldiers towards a refugee camp. He shot her and then unloaded his magazine in her dead body.

I feel ashamed to be human sometimes.
Slightly related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7789014
1. Appreciate the reliable paycheck and stability you're bringing to yourself or your family.

2. Enjoy side projects.

3. Learn new techniques/tools/languages/skills along the way.

4. Seek more direct interaction with beneficiaries of your work.

5. Take pride in getting shit done for any value of shit.

6. Introduce new, advantageous tech to project.

7. Request employer sponsored training.

8. Represent employer in standards efforts.

9. Request different assignment.

10. Shift entirely or partially to management/sales/marketing/support/operations/research or another tech group.

11. Mentor junior developers.

12. Begin to plan to leave (for new a corporate job / consulting gig / startup).
Yes, that's something I planned but haven't gotten around to yet. (Not very clever to leave it after the big announcement, I suppose.)
Sorry, forgot the link:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/failsafe/
It is accepted as a signal that can influence ranking because generally a spammer would only register for a year...
It seems I misunderstood the vastness of this study. Thank you for making me read it again, closer this time!
It's not unprecedented. GNU projects require contributors to sign over the copyright for their code. Facebook's requirement of copyright and patent license is relatively restrained.
Do you have a reasonable expectation of privacy for your bedroom or can the government freely search that too? Does your answer change after you hire a housekeeper (or housekeeping company) to dust your furniture and put away your socks?
So how do you feel about internet privacy as a whole? I see a post like this and my reaction is, "I don't want everything I do to be public, intended or not" and in that case, I do want privacy. I know if I post a comment on a site, it doesn't go away. But at the same time, I don't want every single page, time, location, and overall history of my life accessible to large corporations. How do you remedy that with the current technical entrenchment in the economy and how it relates to eroding the choice of privacy from individuals? Pure anonymity and pure open-data for all will never work, so where is the balance?
Shooting Hoax Texas more evidence of photoshop
The theft part is massive, if you had a truckload full of computer parts travelling down the motorway at 3am when it's dead. What's to stop some gang with tire traps. Bam! vehicle is over and they have 30 mins to loot before an error is realised.
Maybe, but another important reason for overkill is that you couldn't be sure that all payloads would actually reach their destination. In the nuclear-bomber era this was especially the case - IIRC the last book I read on LeMay suggested that planners assumed around 90% of the planes would be shot down far away from their intended targets. The missile era obliterated that particular dynamic, but replaced it with a threat against second-strike capability from your enemy's ICBMs.
I was in a similar position many years ago. I just translated algorithms from CSLR into real code and toyed with project euler problems.

Leaving is the best option. Never looked back.
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Let's make Google just a dumb index.
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> Obviously this is not true for "mental" issues.

It's simplistic, sure. But just because we know less about fixing neurons than we do knitting bones doesn't mean we shouldn't visit a doctor.

> The idea that all "mental" issues are a result of something "broken" in the brain is something very much up for debate.

Sort of, but only really because we don't fully understand what's going on in there. Antidepressants work, we know that, but good luck finding out exactly why they work.

Is depression caused by faulty mood regulation? Genetics? Environment? We're not sure. But we do know that we can treat it -- and usually pretty successfully -- with some chemicals and some talk therapy.

On the science side, yes, it's an interesting problem that we have a lot to learn about. On the patient side, we can do a LOT to make a depressed person's life livable.
Suppose I want to get rid of a few barrels of carcinogens. And suppose your neighbor would happily store them in his shed for $50 and a carton of Marlboros. How dare anybody stop us free adults from transacting morally uplifting business! After all, he has plenty of room right next to his fine collection of dangerously decayed explosives.

But yet we do prevent that. Regulation is about optimizing a large basket of outcomes. Focus purely on a single case and of course you won't be able to understand why that case suffers.
I'm italian ;)
"Becomes Argentina Taxi King" is very misleading...

He only owns 30 licenses... there are players owning several thousands, through shell companies or straw men, but the legal limit is 200... And more importantly, the mayor owners are the managers of the Taxi Driver Union... and the unions have a LOT of political power inside the main political party of the country. So, it's impossible that this man would be able to become "a King"... Just a minor player, perhaps...

But I bet that he will leave in just a few years, after realizing that he won't be able to work here without "associating" (that is, handing over) a large part of his company to a powerful local sponsor (probably a powerful politician or Union leader)...
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I read your comment as following:

> ... it has yet to happen ...

Ridiculous. To cite only one counterexample, it will happen.
BSOD code comes from here http://www.rowsdower.org/javascript/bsod.html

By the way, the restart procedure copied version is broken, because the DOM is lacking the restart div.
We lost that battle, a long time ago. The answer, imo, is to be able to instantly and freely discover everything for the sociopathic ceo TOO.
>The issue here isn't that Google has some information on you that leaks and if Google doesn't have this information then it won't leak.

That's quite a stretch to suggest it won't leak. How about other search engines? How about websites that cache Google's own results and caching?
Not sure why I'm getting downvoted into oblivion that's the sentiment that I have as well.
The amount of N+1 issues, loops, database connections, and lazy loaded properties in the LINQ code I deal with everyday repels the mind. The little bits I fix are just spit in the ocean.
So what happens with outlinks? My friends post tons of links to FB and twitter, seems like thats really where I derive most of the value from these services...
The equivalent of a high quality graphing calculator (something akin to the NSpire CX Cas or at the last the old TI-89 Plus)
Poisson Image Editing in Python
"I feel ashamed to be human sometimes."

Don't be. Feel proud to be one of the people who understands that this is wrong, & why.
You can download GUI program (from release notes in the repository) and try Poisson Image Editing in your own machine on your own.
I noticed that if you click/drag the titlebar of the spyware popup to the top-right corner, you can bring your mouse over the close button; if you then release the mouse and quickly click again, it'll close.
If I were in your situation, I'd simply quit. It's not worth it for me to do something I'm not interested in. That's just me though.

For other kinds of jobs where boredom is frequent but where I at least have some free reign to do side projects and develop things for myself, I'll often spend a lot of time writing tools and scripts to automate tasks for myself and my team. That helps get rid of some of the dreariness.
That's just volume, not liquidity.
I'm pretty sure Xen on ARM has been a thing longer than KVM on ARM.

But in general, why Xen over KVM? the primary reason is that I understand xen better.

I have a secondary reason, and it's a long-term bet against KVM.

KVM has a lot of features that while they are interesting in the corporate space, make oversubscription too easy in the hosting space. Set up a KVM host with a bunch of ram and a bunch of swap, and start handing out "memory" to your kvm guests? By default it will get ram or swap as availability and usage dictate, just like any other process.

To be absolutely clear, as far as I can tell, none of the current KVM VPS providers are using these over-subscription methods right now. I'm not accusing anyone of anything.

However, the primary reason why Xen beat OpenVZ and the other containerization systems was that it is really quite difficult to oversubscribe ram on a Xen host, and your pagecache was in your ram. It was not shared with others.

Sure, if the manager of an OpenVZ host allocates resources responsibly, it can be more efficient than Xen. And some hosts did that. But, because some hosts did not do that, Xen developed a reputation. Buy a xen host, and you are getting honest ram. Buy an OpenVZ host and you are relying on the reputation of the host.

KVM, now, can be configured to run in the same way Xen is, with no sharing of memory, pagecache or otherwise.

However, it is simple to give KVM guests memory that is ram /or/ swap, and other than performance, it would be impossible to tell, from the guest, what I gave you.

Now, of course, right now KVM enjoys the same reputation as Xen, because all the current KVM providers seem to be doing the responsible thing and only handing out ram, not ram/swap mix, but at some point? someone is going to change that.

The irritating thing is that the xen developers seem to be running as hard as they can to put in kvm-stlye features to share more memory. Isolation, when you are in a multi-tenant environment, is often more important than overall efficiency.
In my experience thermal underwear (long johns) should be considered a must during winter. You don't have to live in a place like Canada or Minnesota to make them a standard part of your wardrobe.
I think that the tree analogy and "the untroubled ease of programming beneath its sheltering branches" is not applicable in his case. Having been in a similar situation, my best guess is that his company's "tree" is called Java EE and in its shadow there is no trace of any academic or industrial advance from the past 10 years.
1) That is what you said originally. You can change the argument if you like, that's cool.

2) Smaller companies are able to provider better service in rural areas or towns than VZN/ATT. It is the effects of capex on their stock price, not the fundamental economics.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/a-city...

Ya, they may not run it to single residential homes. That doesn't change the fact they can do it to something like an apartment complex or buisness park cheaper than VZN or ATT just fine.

And it isn't just them, there are dozens of these companies that are profitable and do this.

You are fundamentally wrong.
Hey there! Very nice piece of work. Escaping spyware alert box and drive format hidden under Notepad Format menu made me laugh a lot :).

So, if you're Italian, how come you name your variables in German? ;).
Scientists use tree rings to date 1700s ship found in World Trade Center hole
Yes, which is why I took his comment to be slightly facetious.
If I rent my house to you, you have unregulated and unrestricted access to it. That does not mean that the government can, without either of us giving permission, search that house.
I'm sure you are aware in many cases they are indeed called persistent data structures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure
I've seen that argument made many times, to be frank it's not actually as well founded as it seems.

This is because it confuses two very different things: ease of production of natural resources and cost effectiveness of production of natural resources. In the early stages of industrialization ease of production is paramount, but in later stages quality, production volume, and per unit cost is paramount. Early resources can be very much more expensive to produce and very much lower quality (as they were historically) and yet still be viable. Take coal for example. A small coal mine near the surface can be a quite viable source of coal in early industry, but such coal mines would not be economical in the modern era. Because modern coal is higher quality, much higher volume production, and mined out of areas where it is generally most amenable to industrialized production. There is an old abandoned coal mine within walking distance of me right now, I've been there and picked up coal off the surface of the ground. There's still literally tons of coal there that could be mined quite easily by hand. But compared to other sources of coal in the 21st century it's simply not economical to bother worrying about trying to extract it to depletion.

And the same exact principles apply to essentially every other natural resource. For example, we no longer mine bog iron because it's a very manual labor intensive work compared to, say, shoveling hematite sand into rail cars.

Additionally, this argument ignores the fact that vast amounts of resources will exist in the form of remnants of our present civilization (only the tiniest fraction of which will be vaporized by nuclear explosions). Huge amounts of iron, aluminum, glass, etc. will be left over, short-cutting the normal production process as for pre-industrial processes.

Re-industrialization after a collapse will be different than past industrialization but I see no indications that it will be very much more difficult and certainly not impossible.
> Facebook first needs to bring HHVM up to full compatibility before they try altering the spec.

Defining a spec (there isn't a pre-existing spec that is being "altered") is an important part of moving to acheive compatibility, since its how you know what the target is.

HHVM spawning a spec effort for PHP is a lot like Rubinius spawning RubySpec.
"... do you have any tricks to motivate yourself in this type of situation?"

If you're looking for tricks, make sure you find tricks that work for long-term. Otherwise after a few meetings/projects/days/weeks, you'll start wondering again.

"... because I don't care about the product enough to put in the effort."

Here is an alternate thought (call it a trick if you have to): What if you forced yourself to care? Unconditionally. Emotionally. With passion. Like you'd care for your kids or pets or dear ones? Fake it at first if you have to, and then slide into it. Do a mental hack.

Caring for real will make you vulnerable (which is a sign that you actually care). But if the company culture is decent (which it sounds like it is), you will soon start to stand out, more opportunities will come your way and it will be a virtuous cycle.

If after trying for a few months, this doesn't get you anywhere, you know it's very clearly time to leave. And this time, go do something you are sure you will care for.
You have spammed HN by posting the same page ten times, altering the URL slightly to get around the duplicate post detector. Apparently nobody is interested. Please stop.

http://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/prefix/0/deranged%20c...
Yes this group is really fond of travelling and there is a lot of tech guy in it :) but it can also be used for the fire street artist underground (in paris it's complicated because a lot of burner are now burner :) ).
I had same reasons that you mentioned so I recently ordered kindle paper white. I am not sure if it will fit the bill otherwise I will return it.

Big plus that kindle have over others is e-ink that will make it easy on eyes. It is hard to read (and not good for eyes) on other devices for long.
I don't have the link but it already exists and has been posted on HN a few times.
In case that was not a rhetorical question: I'm not using PHP.
I would love to see an example if you have one.
This American G.I. Was Buried in His Enemy’s Grave
Generalized: Friends don't let friends closely intermix their general purpose programming language code with a DSL or query language of another system they're interfacing with. This also closely applies to engines like Elasticsearch, or passing off some work to another executable.
However, Ruby didn't see the uptake of usage that PHP did. It was popular -- one of the first languages that you could use as an alternative to CGI!

However, age isn't why it's got so many sharp edges. That's Rasmus' fault, and the core team's.
Seconded. I've been happy with them after I migrated from GoDaddy.
Did you read what I wrote?

I'm not blaming them for availability, but discoverability, because availability w/o discoverability is, for most people, the same as information not existing. I'm blaming them for massively increasing discoverability, pretending that somehow this is the natural and correct state of affairs (and further, that this is so obvious it doesn't require debate), then pitching a tantrum when a government uses it's ability to control commercial behavior in their country to interfere with what google wants to be the "natural" state of affairs.
It's because they are made by people who don't fully understand the internet. On the other hand most of the people who do understand it are against any regulation of it and would not help in the creation of sane laws.
Accepted by whom? Is there any actual proof?
Comcast customer pulled gun on technician after objecting to bill, police say
With HHVM + nginx you can really fly! Seriously, it's amazing how fast it is (and the Techempower benchmarks put it at #1 for anything with multiple requests and data handling!)
This is unquestionably true. Indians succeed by innovating around an oppressive and obscenely slow and dysfunctional government.

However the question I raised was whether Flipkart has come up with a financially profitable and scalable innovation. They might have; because clearly I do not have access to the kind of information that the investors must have had but looking at the public domain it appears that flipkart does not have that innovation. Their CEO is also admitting it in public:

"We have 22 million registered users, and almost similar number of customers. The way we look at it, when this figure reaches 100 million, we'll be in a position to think of profitability. When we have delivered products to one in three homes in India, we'll get to that point." - S Bansal
Curious about the hate. As far as languages go Ruby is as coherent as it gets.
It takes more than practice to excel
It's a huge company. I imagine the devs who made Go and the devs who work on search quality are different people with different backgrounds.
Yes

Most people want "summer inside the house" which is absurdly wasteful

Of course, it sucks when changing clothes or taking a shower, but there are ways of heating locally.
This is where I really prefer the European model[1] - you heat the whole house with hot water. You make hot water with cheap natural gas. If you're lucky enough, you can even use geothermal.

Then you use insulation. This especially is something that feels nobody in the US has heard of. At least in California.

As a result, your radiators are turned down to 2 out of 10 all day (heating turns off automatically overnight), and you have to sometimes open a window when it's -13C outside so you don't sweat.

Now I don't know how much people spend on heating when they live in a house house, but my apartment's heating bill this winter was about 30 euro a month[2] and I had to keep all my radiators turned off because the one in the bathroom couldn't be regulated. So that alone was enough to heat everything to extremely comfortable levels.

tl;dr don't heat with air, insulate your fucking house, and install modern windows

[1] Could just be where I'm from, but it seems fairly common in Europe and not at all something I've seen in the US

[2] I think my gramps spends about 2k euro in October to pay for natural gas that heats his house until some time in April. So about 300/month for a ~10 bedroom house because he's got a house that's way too big.
They are planning on making their money thru their Business and Enterprise plans

https://bitpay.com/pricing
Is this more of a reactive approach? Meaning you're hiring a security engineer after a major incident has occurred, instead of proactively ensuring you have the proper infrastructure and process in place first.
>In June of 2010 I moved to a place in Montana with only electric heat.

Living that far north and depending on one heat source is crazy! Think about the power going out when its -30 out... or if you used gas, running out or having your furnace break down.

(Not to mention electric is usually the most expensive way to heat). Most houses where I live have 2 or 3 heat sources. I have wood, LP and electric...
Read their interviews in the newspaper they have accepted that they are not profitable.
Those hundreds of billions numbers are total bullshit. They calculate it by counting all the telecoms profits over X percent and including tax deductions.

As far as I can tell, there is approaching zero dollars of actual transfers of cash.

The only thing I can even find that subsidizes them is faster depreciation allowances.

There is also the USF, but that is paid for by taxes on telecoms and is used to build rural networks.
You don't want to, but if someone strong enough gets interested in you, they can. You want privacy. I want privacy. But we don't and won't have any. Only very few and strong can afford that. "Protect privacy" has come to actually mean, protect the strong. We should abolish privacy for all. Not just the de facto, for us.
A similar approach works in hot climates. A friend of mine saved a substantial amount of money by getting an efficient portable AC unit for his bedroom, and shutting off the main air conditioner for the house at night. In a southern summer, the savings add up quick.
Don't make the job just about the code in front of you.

Use the opportunity you have right now to learn about working in a team (and possibly taking the lead/managing), managing customer requests and expectations, implementing business processes, etc.

All of this will be valuable whether you keep working at this company, another one or decide to work on your own ideas/dreams.