skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most teams I have worked with deliberatly introduced new members to their code base by:

A) Making sure they can compile it, and showing them where the various locations for documentation are.

B) Giving them simple bugs to work on while they get familiar with the codebase. 8 hours is more than enough time for a competent developer to fix many simple bugs.

You also have situations where the nature of the problem dictates that you fairly often need to make changes in unfamiliar code-bases. For example, at my previous job I was developing an Android fork. Android has a fair amount of its own code, but also includes a large number of external projects. It was a fairly common occurrence where I would have to fix a bug in one of those projects that I have never seen before (and will likely never see again).
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I really hope they do drop the limits.

I've had no trouble downloading at around 3.5Mbytes/sec+ from Dropbox in the UK. I would have definitely went with hubiC otherwise.
I almost sent an email at work in all caps rejoicing this. Redid the casing, then sent it. Very pleased to see this.

I had implemented my own git fetch pr -> emacs ediff -> commints in org file -> add comments to github flow due to how horrible the unified view was for long/large code reviews.

If they can unfuck the "so-and-so has commented on an old commit" thing hiding valuable conversation, we start to get into a real code review tool.
Lofting stuff up into space 'just because' rather than because it meets some technological or economic need is a waste of time. I am very much in favor of becoming a spacefaring civilization and will cheerfully argue for the necessity of manned missions despite the availability of robots and so on. But wasting money on putting things into space is counter productive to that end.

This has nothing to do with our economic system. It's basic economics, in the sense that it's resource-intensive to put stuff into space and some resources are scarce. Regardless of how your domestic economy is organized or what sort of monetary policy you favor, the physical resources required for space projects are steep.
>That Arianespace, a French rival of SpaceX

Well... almost as much as the NASA being a rival of SpaceX, Arianespace being the French/European initiative for space access. Arianespace was founded in 1980 to commercialize the Ariane launcher (planned in 1973 after the europa launcher failure).
If a network of these aircraft becomes a viable alternative to satellites, this could be a partial solution to the imminent problem of growing space debris, whose quantity and danger posed are decidedly super-linear to the number of objects launched into space:

> As the chance of collision is influenced by the number of objects in space, there is a critical density where the creation of new debris is theorized to occur faster than the various natural forces remove them. Beyond this point, a runaway chain reaction may occur that would rapidly increase the number of debris objects in orbit, and therefore greatly increase the risk to operational satellites. Called the "Kessler syndrome", there is debate if the critical density has already been reached in certain orbital bands. A runaway Kessler syndrome would render a portion of the useful polar-orbiting bands difficult to use, and greatly increase cost of space launches and missions. Measurement, growth mitigation and active removal of space debris are activities within the space industry today. [1]

(Anyone remember that scene from WALL-E where they need to punch through the debris to get out of Earth's orbit? It's not too far from the truth, and it would definitely make space travel a lot more difficult for future generations!)

On the other hand, an alternative to satellites for private industry means that there will be a lower demand curve for commercial launches, which may limit the amount of research and innovation that private space companies can support.

But of course Earthlings, in their infinite wisdom, have found a solution to low demand curves: government regulation! So the real question is: can our governments find a good balance between debris-proliferation and innovation? Only time and politics will tell!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris
WebOS just can't catch a break, can it?
Thx, have been out of ui for quiet sometime.
How Target and Coffee Collided
My experience is anecdotal at best, but it does seem that speeding is less common on roads where there are frequent speed traps.
git != "the cloud"
> Quinn’s client, for example, was the victim in a domestic abuse incident. But when the police arrived, they checked her occupancy permit, which only allowed for one person to reside at the apartment. The officers then cited the woman and her boyfriend $74 each for violating the permit. When Quinn protested that the law makes no effort to distinguish visitors from unlawful residents, the municipal prosecutor stated that “nothing good happens after 10pm” when single men and women are alone together — a sentiment later echoed by the judge.

In a different case, a Tennessee judge ruled that a child had to be renamed by its parents because

(1) "Messiah" is a title, not a name,

(2) that title is held by only one person,

and (3) that person is Jesus Christ.

Obviously, that ruling was grossly unconstitutional. But local courts often have only a hazy, at best, grasp of the law. I suspect it wouldn't be hard to have the principle that a single woman is prohibited by law from entertaining male visitors after 10 pm overturned in very strong terms... if anyone who could work within the court system were ever affected by this.

It would be nice if our legal system didn't deteriorate so badly at the bottom tiers. My guess is that the staffing levels necessary to provide our current levels of "oversight" preclude the obvious approach of only hiring people who can be expected to know what they're doing.
Context! Context! Context!

This is about game programming, and how to optimize your data to be cache- and prefetch-friendly.

If your data doesn't look like game data, or isn't accessed like game data, it won't help and the "pitfalls" aren't.
The page width awkwardly jumps when toggling between unified and split diff. Is this a glitch, or intentional?
Because Ritalin exists to medicate children into submission so they can sit at a desk for 8 hours a day like good little workers, and it's less important to comply with this constraint on weekends and holidays, when the parents, not the school system, have to deal with the child's desire to not sit at a desk for 8 hours a day like a good little worker.
Found ASrock mb+soc for $280, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157...

Or Lenovo TS140 home server with i3 cpu for $290, http://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2014-Ma...
Do these things have enough RAM to need a 64-bit processor?
They might need better train scheduling software, but the existing tracks could handle significantly more trains.
> Most companies do give software engineers weekends and at least 2 weeks paid vacation a year.

I would certainly hope so!
He starts his own small businesses and employs a set of ex-cons while mentoring them. He then turns management over to the most talented over the year, and finally hands the entire company over to the most senior person in the program. Meanwhile ownership is retained by the parent non-profit. He has done it three times and the key to low recidivism is his hands on approach. He spends time with every worker, has a magnetic personality, and is able to speak and inspire people who are at the very bottom.
> If you’re really creative, really imaginative, you don’t have to make things. You just have to live, observe, think, and feel.

I call bullshit. Observe-think-feel is a navel-gazing dead-end compared to observe-think-act (akin to the liberal arts of grammar-logic-rhetoric as described by the trivium method). I whole-heartedly agree that "the unobserved life is not worth living" but thought without action is meaningless, and I think Socrates would agree with me.

The author also contradicts himself, saying:

> This watchful, inner kind of creativity is not about making things but about experiencing life in a creative way; it’s a way of asserting your own presence amidst the much larger world of nature, and of finding significance in that wider world.

How does one "assert their presence" by simply observing, thinking, and feeling? Slavmoral. Granted, one does not have to profit from or "pay off" from one's product to be creative, but one does have to produce, to act, to communicate -- to "make things" -- to be creative.
While it is true that lock free data structures provide much better throughput in highly contended environments people forget that in the many reads/few writers situations they often are slower the Read/Write mutexes. Maybe some of the upcoming transactional memory instructions will improve this, but for the time being, and probably always- benchmark your code!
The dingus could do with a mini reference so that new markdown users can trial "standard markdown" without having to bring up a separate reference source alongside it.

Default text would be good to, perhaps with a button for clearing the box.
Actually, that may not be a frequently asked question, given that vim tells you how to quit on the starting page, as well as when you press control-C.
A lot of people don't understand why we still work so hard, and a reason wasn't suggested. Let's try breaking it down:

The author made an interesting point about choosing between the following:

- work 11 hours for 1950-level productivity

- work 23 hours for 1975-level productivity

- work 29 hours for 1990-level productivity

But the following option isn't discussed:

- work 40 hours for 2014 (or current) level productivity

The first 3 options representing increased productivity over the past means that we can "cash out" at any time, i.e. pick a defined level of wellness, and work at that pace. This means we can stop trying to push the boundary and enjoy the fruits of our labor.

Now, viewed this way, is it any surprise that we still work 40+ hours? We don't collectively agree that we should cash out. If we cash out, we won't be curing diseases; going to Mars; making the next Snapchat. Don't get me wrong, resources are definitely (in an idealized sense) misallocated; I don't think so many people should be engaging in digital marketing and social media business pursuits. But it is what it is, and we'll keep going.

Regarding working >40 hours/week, this is simply because as technology creates scale of productivity, the middle class finds it harder and harder to keep up with increasing costs of living and commodities. People think America got something wrong after that golden period of the 50s - 70s. Yeah, after that we decreased taxes on the wealthy (Mitt Romney paid 13% in 2011 or something), but the capacity for people to do useful stuff has just gone down due to technology and automation; unions disappeared; globalization happened.

tl;dr - productivity will continually increase, but we'll never get out of the rat race.
Any bets on how much money is being lost? Posts all over the interwebs of people missing auctions.

Official response is that the issue is limited to "a portion" of users.

http://www2.ebay.com/aw/announce.shtml
Well, we can certainly agree on that. The only things I see that seem to get close to maxing out the hand's sensitivity and precision are high-end mice and gaming controllers. Capacitive touchscreens are no comparison. I was interested in Amazon's use of gestures on the Fire Phone - they're handy (oops!) and natural. I think we'll see more of that.
That sounds sort of dismissive to people who have ADHD. It is a real condition with real effects on people's lives, who get very real benefits from medication. It is not like prescribing 6" shoes to everyone. Of course the type of medication and dosage is adjusted to the patient.
Money quote, no pun intended:

LG had a policy in place to reward managers with
bonuses or even promotions if their features were
part of the final product. The result was a constant
feature bloat, as everyone tried to add on one more
thing.

Incentivizing the right behaviors is incredibly challenging.
This is really great, but I don’t understand why everything has been made privately. Following the first post [1], people were waiting for a move, and as far as I know, it was a complete silence during two years, not even a “we are working on it”.

A Markdown Community Group [2] has been created on w3.org, and people have started to push some effort in it [3][4][5], but it has been totally ignored since the beginning, despite the communication attempts.

Maybe I don’t have all the informations, but it looks like a waste to me, and I find it disrespectful for the people who worked on the project. All of this could have easily been avoided with a simple communication about the status of the project.

[1] http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-future-of-markdown/

[2] http://www.w3.org/community/markdown/

[3] http://www.w3.org/community/markdown/wiki/Main_Page

[4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-markdown/2014Mar/...

[5] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-markdown/2014Jul/...
It's intentional. There's no way they can fit it side-by-side at the regular width (or it would be unreadable).
Hey Thu,

I'm currently testing it and found a few minor issues but I kinda like the service and I think it is a very practical tool to have.

Wish you good luck with this project.
Downtown Launches Mobile Payment App In Palo Alto
Facebook is starting to kick ass. They have the coolest platform. Again.
Oh, I didn't notice the tagline. HN favours the original article's title in most cases, so I suppose a tagline is about as close to a title as we have in this case.
In that case you can add signals and send threads to sleep if there is not enough elements on the stack, and wake them up if the stack starts growing faster.
The Delaware law provisions in question exist because the officers and directors of a corporation are often sued for the alleged misconduct of the corporation itself, and it's reasonable in those circumstances for the corporation to pay for their defense.

A VP at Goldman is, I think, the third lowest ranking front-office position. Not only is it not the sort of "officer" that Delaware law contemplates, but it's also not the sort of context Delaware law contemplates. Aleynikov wasn't accused of wrongdoing in his official capacity as an officer of the corporation. That might be something like a CEO being accused of funneling contracts to his brother's company. Aleynikov was accused of wrongdoing that was incidental to his employment.
Have a quick view-source at http://portal.mj.gov.br/EstrangeiroWEB/destaques.asp for those who can't imagine what VBScript dystopia looks like.
Rackspace has already figured this out.

It's really not that hard to understand: you choose Rackspace if you want someone to call when you have a question or problem. That's true whether you buy a dinky cloud server or a dedicated network segment with 30 leased boxes. Everything comes with full phone and ticket support now.

If you don't care about that--if you just want some VMs to run your shit--you'll go with DO or Linode on the low end, AWS, Google, or Azure on the high end. Or maybe PaaS like Heroku.

Rackspace has only "lost their mojo" in that they are not a utility cloud provider, which is what Wall Street is hot on right now. But they're a profitable company with good customer loyalty and good technology.
I've certainly struggled with the layout of exact stuff in Markdown ... but there's something about this name, the writing on the index.html, and the constant use of the unofficial file icon (which i'm really not a fan) that kind of irks me. Maybe it's the spirit of the naming? Maybe it's because of the effort to _brand_ this? And perhaps the developer-centric tone of the writing versus the writer-centric tone of the
original spec? I'm not sure.
Very scary that such buses are multi-master to begin with, that's simply asking for trouble. It makes every device on the bus a potential target for exploits, after all, once you have gained a beach-head on the baseband processor you can use that to attempt to exploit the other devices (in so far as that is still a requirement, but possibly there are other buses not directly visible from the baseband processor) at will.

Back in the days there was a HF hack that allowed a remote operator to listen in on conversations in the room by using the fact that such signals would totally ignore the 'on hook' disconnect of old style 'wired' phones ('POTS'), these baseband processors are a much worse instance of the same phenomenon. Not that it matters much, after all, if you have access to the cell phone towers you can listen in on whatever you want, making pictures is of a lower threat level (to me) than listening in on random conversations in the vicinity of the phone.
This is great!

There is a small issue. When I resize my browser I get an unnecessary horizontal scroll bar. Im in latest stable Chrome on Mac
@dham, at the scale we're at we're okay with largely default Heroku rails configuration. Pointers are welcome!
Learning lessons from Andreas Gurksky photography
I always saw the unified diff view as a bit of a holdover from the terminal.
Sure, diff works great if all you have is a VT220 ...
VP is common across the 'Murican banks. I am one, albeit in a different continent.

VPs don't need to manage a team, but they do often shoulder some responsibility for a project, or maybe, even run the project. Usually, it is the level of pay that bumps them into the VP bracket. Not much else.
Bukkit DMCA notification
Logical does not imply good or even decent. It is logical to steal if you know you can get away with it.
Introducing ODataHQ
Bitbucket has had a(n honestly better) version of this functionality for a while. One of the few areas where they beat Github.

As for which is better... depends. That's why it's good to have both on a toggle like so.
Brand names are Concerta, Methylin, Ritalin, Equasym XL. I believe Adderall and other ADHD medications are similar in. I thought it was even in the title, but possibly the mods changed it. Watch it lose traction because no one knows what "Methylphenidate" means.
Security Trade-Offs
Yeah, GS has something like 12,000 "Vice Presidents", or ~40% of their employees.

https://www.quora.com/How-come-Goldman-Sachs-has-12-000-VPs
You call tell how much the H-1B system is being gamed by the Indian in-source companies. They basically never hire software engineers but only "computer programmers" and the ubiquitous "analyst."

Look at this (Salaries in New Jersey? $45,000 for systems analysts?)
http://www.h1bme.com/?employer=COGNIZANT+TECHNOLOGY+SOLUTION...

Systems Architects $73k and "programmers" $63k. Not a single software engineer or developer!
http://www.h1bme.com/?employer=TATA+CONSULTANCY+SERVICES+LIM...
Stack Overflow does syntax highlight Ruby its just a different syntax instead of ``` its like <-- language --> or something. At least thats what I remember.
Very nice dashboard for searching through the collection.

Though, on a side note. It's a tad depressing watching images/photos of normal settings and people, knowing that they're probably all long-gone by now. But at least they are semi-immortalized in this collection.
You also need to consider the tax implications of bonuses vs salary. At least where I live, bonuses are heavily taxed (~40%)
Missed opportunity at "pseudollite"
All you need is l***
I think he means the rats they did the study on.
Don't get me wrong, I understand where you're coming from and at a glance it looks like you're in the right, but their lawyers probably saw an opportunity when you provided a compromise.
How can it be Turing-complete with only two colors and one state? I thought you needed at least two colors and three states to be Turing-complete. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram%27s_2-state_3-symbol_T...
Vice President is a mid ranking title in an investment bank for anyone with about 5 to 6 years experience.
Tumblr is Down
Space Invaders and Website Security
What's a Mathematician to do?
I like that the example screenshot is apparently showing the pull request that adds the feature.
As someone who's taken (and continues to take) various stimulants to manage ADD:

Because you build up a tolerance over time, which requires larger doses, and because untreated ADD/ADHD is also linked to increased creativity and some degree of impulsiveness (which can be a good thing, vs. indecisiveness).

If I were doing more creative work, I would probably go without during creative phases and with while producing (for example, as a journalist, go without to come up with ideas for stories, then back on to burn through the associated research, production, refining, etc.).

At higher doses, I'm able to fixate on one task to the exclusion of all else (e.g. distractions, music, hunger, illness); at moderate doses, I tend to flit between interesting topics until I find something I can easily focus on (or perhaps until the medication kicks in at full strength).
But you're still burning more cycles, this isn't just about spinning read threads without input.
I think I actually bought a book on the topic at one point but never ended up doing a lot with it. Unfortunately my HP41 is pretty much dead at this point (battery leak and a flaky key) and it's one of those things I can't really justify replacing. (And, like assembly language, I think I'll probably keep HP calculator programming in the "it was cool at the time" bucket :-))
Interesting.

What's the model in terms of vehicle ownership and driver salary? Will you be paying the driver a set rate for a set shift driving a company vehicle, as the likes of UPS do, of will you be paying the drivers per collection with them supplying maintaining and insuring their own vehicle, like Uber and Yodel?

At the point you become profitable, how many pickups/packages will each driver do per hour, and how much pay will each driver make per hour/pickup/package?

How much of the market do you aspire to cover - will your model extend to most of the country, or just dense urban areas with high levels of demand?
NASA Ames 75th Anniversary Open House (After Almost 2 Decades)
Here is the thread about creating a formal grammar: http://talk.standardmarkdown.com/t/standard-markdown-formal-...
Vogue sends 3D printed Karlie Kloss dolls around the world
That's how Bear Stearns was when I was there, 26, and a VP. The title is pegged to the salary, not responsibilities.
The illegal drug market is dramatically constrained by government interference.
I was about to replace my home router, and I looked a Ubiquity AP. Unfortunately I did not see on their web site that any of their products will act as a "broadband router" i.e. switching + routing + NAT + SPF. It seemed the idea is you would pair some of these with a separate firewall (e.g Juniper SRX). I bought a Mikrotik instead. Did I miss something?
The article quotes this part of the Apache license, which may meet your needs: "5. Submission of Contributions. Unless You explicitly state otherwise, any Contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the Work by You to the Licensor shall be under the terms and conditions of this License, without any additional terms or conditions."
How Game Theory and Statistics Can Help You Get Laid
> If they can unfuck the "so-and-so has commented on an old commit" thing hiding valuable conversation, we start to get into a real code review tool.

We'll get there ;).
Silicon Valleys great be-in