skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.salon.com/2014/04/15/america_on_lockdown_why_the_...

"Arizona is one of four states (along with Virginia, Oklahoma and Louisiana) in which state governments are bound to contracts guaranteeing a 95%-100% occupancy in facilities leased by private prisons."
(116800000+64896000)*0.00385/100 == 6995

Source: http://verizonmath.blogspot.com
It's about Ubuntu, but using this I was able to create a bootable USB drive with rEFIt, and then booting a FreeBSD live CD image on another stick for installing.

http://www.michaelevans.org/blog/2013/01/15/boot-ubuntu-from...
It's not 699529, but 6995 since it is 0.00385% (*0.0000385)
We really need front-light displays for laptops/monitors. Is any company making those ?
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That would be a hilarious reversal of how PR is usually approached: the goal of everything you do is to make it easy for reporters to write about you, in the best case by giving them a text they can just copy, paste and publish with as few changes as possible.

To this end press releases are specifically written and structured like news articles. They are (supposed to be) published in a format that’s easy to copy.

It’s a favorite PR tactic because it works, even without any bribes or coercion. Newsrooms have been shrinking, money has been tight, reporters have less and less time, so if they get something they could as well publish it’s very easy to sway them, especially if it’s just boring news.

However, this is also a weird way to treat respectable journalists who would take the time to write about this. One common sense PR approach is to treat the press nicely, so annoying them by not allowing them to copy something (which might be perfectly legitimate, even when writing your own in-depth article about something) is just weird.

Also, look at this press release:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-ne...

All perfectly copyable. So I’m really not sure whether what you heard is actually true.
Confirm the same - both my parents (avid readers) use iPads with Kindle app or iBooks to read, despite having access to my Kindle3.

From a elderly reader's standpoint, the iPad is like a Kindle DX but a) heavier, b) with color, and c) with tons of other apps. For whatever reason, eyestrain of an LCD doesn't bother them in the least.
This is good insight, thanks for sharing.

> Using these networks in such a way removes the anxiety of posting to a large audience

What I've noticed about Twitter and Instagram is that because they're semi-private it means people get WAY more upvotes on their content. Thus, for a younger generation, they'll flock to the networks where their voice is heard the highest. Kids get sick of "Sally Cheerleader" getting 135 likes and "SOOO BEAUTIFUL" comments from everyone else in their school. As this group ages they'll see the value in LinkedIn/FB when non-anonymity can potentially means real cold hard cash in their pockets and the cycle will repeat itself.

> Monetization in apps of the future will rely on creative new ways of associating non-identifying data.

I disagree. For the last 15 years we've been asking publishers to "get more creative" with advertising. All that means is that Forbes now gives you a 15 second ad before clicking through to it's content. There's nothing creative about that. I do however think many app vendors will start charging for their apps as opposed to relying on advertising in the future.
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Can i buy mobi version somewhere?
0.00385% of 181,696,000 is 6995, not 699529.

Even if we take the total number of iTunes customers (~800 millions), it comes down to 30,800.
That's kind of what I was looking for. Thanks.
Have you tried k2pdfopt? I've found it does a fantastic job.
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It's gets a bit complicated when your job candidates may find your test interesting enough that they post a complete walk-through of the solution online.

The candidate was kind enough to avoid posting the name of the company (to hopefully hide the walk-through from Google queries for "crack me hiring test company name", but an HN discussion might then arise around the walk-through, in which the company would be named, and well, there goes your test.

It's hard to accurately run "take home" tests when hiring because of just this.
One serious question. How many have bought a 3D printer, played with it for a bit, and then it stayed gathering dust in the corner of the room?
I remember a website providing failing VMs for this purpose. I'm not even sure it wasn't just a suggestion .. but if someone knows such a site, feel free to leave the url.
Good point. While the family Corvidae (Corvids, which includes Jays) is found in South America, the genus Corvus ("Crows") is absent there. So for PBS to be correct you have to read "Crows" as "the Crow family".
You can't.

If you are non-technical you really have almost no tools to make an effective decision.

Best advice is to get people on for short periods of time on trial and fire em quick if they aren't showing you good work.
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PDFs are nice. I print 'em out, read them on the crapper and pretend I'm at the googleplex. <3 Testing on the Toilet
I mean as extra points that help the candidate look interesting. It's like the "other interests" section on a CV: you should treat it as an opportunity to market yourself and add a hook to catch the interviewer's interest.
Yeah my example for copy elision sucked, but that doesn't mean it cannot play in favor when you work by value.

Sharing is only multithreading unfriendly if there's modification happening, modification of textual (i.e. Unicode) data is bad practice and hard to get right

Read-only access to data indeed scales "infinitely" on modern architectures.

No, a string_view points into memory that already exists,

Yes. Right. How do you store that? You need at least one pointer and and an int or two pointers. That 16 bytes. Memcpy for a couple of bytes is very quick when it's stack to stack thanks to page locality.

Also, if you are using pointers you will have aliasing issues which will have an impact on performance. If you work by values you allow the compiler to optimize things better.

For small strings string view are just dumb and "most of the time" strings are very small.

To give a better example of why working a string view is both a bad idea and dangerous, it's as if you said "I don't want to copy this vector, therefore I will work on iterators". That's obviously a bad idea.
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It's a bit less than 4 in 100,000, which I think is an easier number to relate to.
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It's a little more nuanced than that. There are two basic orthogonal aspects which scare the traditional network vendors.

1)The architectural separation of control and data planes, with the control plane having a unified and global view over the entire network, allows network functionality, currently primarily operational enhancements, that weren't possible before. One example would be segmenting your network into many logical networks, say one for each tier in your web application, and then being able to arbitrarily place and move around VMs to different hosts with the network automatically being reconfigured to make sure traffic goes where it needs to but not anywhere else.

2) By removing most of the smarts from the data plane elements like switches and routers, and with the rise of good merchant switching silicon, there is little reason to pay a "Cisco tax," even if one weren't using the SDN architectural model to do anything different from your legacy network. Whitebox switches from OEMs like Quanta are really cheap compared to Cisco switches. What's more, the majority of all Cisco revenue comes from switches and related products like SFPs; Cisco is very exposed here. Whitebox products have been available for some time, but the software side of these was very weak. The SDN ecosystem that now exists has given rise to good alternatives on the software side so that one can have a turnkey whitebox switching solution, even if running a full SDN data center is not the plan.

If you look at what has happened architecturally in the most advanced data centers (Google, facebook, amazon, etc), both of these advancements have the norm for some time. The promise of SDN products made available to the general public is that one can reap some of the benefits that Google, et al. have realized, without having to hire an army of developers to reinvent the wheel.

It is not just Cisco that must respond to SDN, but Cisco, as the dominant switch provider, has the most to lose.
Hope they don't buy it but at least donate! :)
No gnashing of teeth, just a deep empathy (I was homeless/street-sleeping when young) with people who feel that they are (for whatever reason: geographical, socioeconomical, gender, racial, etc) lacking in privilege and locked out.
Random sub-second pauses on Nexus 7 2013.
#3 iTunes users

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2014/04/24/itunes8....

800 Million,

#4 ipod users

http://www.statista.com/statistics/276307/global-apple-ipod-....

2010 @ 50.31 Million

2011 @ 42.62 Million

2012 @ 35.17 Million

2013 @ 26.38 Million

Total = 154,480,000

#5 Apple Laser Printer user

#6 Apple magic mouse user

#7 Apple Newton user

#8 Apple PowerBook user

#9 Apple MacBook user

#9 Apple Xserve user

Yes I made a mistake, however this is just a word game from Apple overall.
You're saying that as if there were no bedside lamps in Finland.
Project fear surprisinly seems to have worked.

Have you noticed much stability and certainty in the financial system over the last few years?
You might be interested in:

https://github.com/dsnopek/anki-sync-server
It's one of the strongest marketing moves nowdays. Imagine the amount of "secure" messengers out there in which you only have a "word" from the company saying that it's secure. But they deliver a full closed source service in which there is no way to believe or not. So marketing works.
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Whoops, yeah that's all I'm thinking of.
Thank you for posting this. IMHO this is how _real_ rootbeer is made. My family always makes rootbeer at home, and it seems that the key ingredient is "yeast." I have never tasted any rootbeer that comes close to the amazing flavour and _kick_ that home made rootbeer has. Rootbeer that is so carbonated it burns your throat before even tasting it. Mmmmmm…

I have actually found a comparable Rootbeer in some common grocery stores that tastes almost exactly like my home made rootbeer, but not quite as strong. If any of you love _real_ rootbeer as much as I do, I urge you to try this!

http://www.amazon.com/Bundaberg-Root-Beer-4-pack/dp/B00HGGW6...

If you find it in a grocery store, STOCK UP! They are imported from Germany, and when they are out of stock, it seems to take about a month to re-stock.

Edit: Okay, I think the store clerk was either misinformed or lying to me, because "Bundaberg" is in Australia. Perhaps it is imported from Germany… and that is why it takes 1 month. But every store I find it at, seems to have only a couple left, and seems to take a long time before they "re-up."
I miss her. :(
The market for 2d printers are also several magnitudes bigger, presently.
I think people are outraged at both.

With the companies in question, it's not hard to vote with your feet and complain. With the government, it's very difficult.
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Crime rates are about the same. Sentences in US are way higher then elsewhere.
> The biggest problem are the pre-C++98 codebases or the ones full with C idioms instead of modern C++.

Thanks for pointing that out. THIS is the real problem of C++. Not the language spec (though it can and has to be improved with time), but those codebases, which incidentally make perfectly sane people go nuts about C++... :)
When its been demostrated that your arguments has dismissed in 17th century, you start to lash out agressively.

If you had proof of "the truth", you would have written it. Like a ideologically driven and uncritical thinker, You Know The Truth! You are the modern thought of today. Not that you have to mention what that modern thought is, since obviously, you already possess it.

I could sit here and explain to you how none of the above post says GPL is a non-coercive agent. Liberty can never be non-coercive, and despite claims of otherwhise in this discussion, none has provided an example of a liberty that can be enforced non-coercivly. Liberty has to employ coercion, or liberty is just empty word with no meaning.
I had one of the earlier white Kindles with full keyboard, and the buttons is what I miss the most on the Paperwhite. It just feels awkward to move your thumb to the screen and touch, as your fingers get in the way of the screen. On the Keyboard Kindle you can keep staring at the screen while turning pages, with nothing getting into your focused field of vision and achieve a higher flow.

Still, the Paperwhite is good enough that it has been a good upgrade. Touching to define a word or to find out who this character in GoT really is, is very useful.

Alas, the new Kindle does not ship internationally just yet (or at all, until October 21st).
It must be about some ideal world, where people become managers to do better good (as opposed to e.g. maximizing bonus or doing more talking than working).
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When invasive body cavity searches aren't feasible,

When you're minimizing travel anxiety and humiliation,

Remember Rapey-scan(tm). Ask for it by name!
The ad is an idea that someone knows what you need better than yourself. I prefer need-based research.
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I like the idea, but I would like to know a bit more about what kind of services do you offer.
Thank you!
The first paragraph kind of ignores the homeless and the poor and even Mr Average Joe, who's got a list of medical conditions, which he can't afford to fix, so getting himself locked up for a while, just to get access to healthcare, doesn't sound insane.

Can you imagine that? Remain free and barely be able to put food on the table for your family or go to prison, just to solve a medical problem?
Although it appears there's a diverse ecosystem of competing systems. The worst scenario would have be a total domination by a single player.
I don't think it's necessarily about mistrust of other programmers. It's more that we all have tendencies to over-engineer the small stuff, so with Go giving you fewer ways to do things you spend more time thinking about the job you're getting paid to solve.
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Generics are not a problem to be solved, they're a tool to solve problems.
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Ask HN: How do you hire people?
We're a small company looking for a killer JS dev, to build a node-webkit app for us. As we're a small team and we're on kind of a budget we're focusing on the slightly lower end of the 'top' candidates and trying to focus on people who have killer aptitude.

The position is paying up to 50k, it's just outside of London (UK) so we think its a fair price, however, the CV's we've been getting though they read well when we get the candidates in the room they are beyond useless, can't even answer simple JS questions!

So I want to know, How do you guys hire? What's your process?

Also, where do you look? Agencies have sent us these guys and I'd surprised if any of them can tie their shoes let along code a mapping application :(
The rough shape the Go<->Java mapping has already been formed:

https://godoc.org/code.google.com/p/go.mobile/cmd/gobind
Isn't that part of the process? (and the most difficult/uncomfortable one I might add).
Or do type assertions.
Agreed.

Without a trust the only thing that comes close is an in person P2P pairing ceremony.

Key management might work in an enterprise setting with a central authority, but making sure your friend's public key isn't swapped with the government's is pretty hard if you don't trust the cloud provider, telecom, or intermediate infrastructure.
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Lack of generics seems to always be the argument against Go. I have been coding in Go for over a year now nearly every day and it really became an annoyance only once: CRUD operations in a web-service expecting JSON-objects.
That's literally the only time where the code-duplication was a problem for me.

Now, not everything else has been all good (mostly minor issues with community libs), but the one thing that never ceases to amaze me with go is that: You hammer out a few hundred lines of code, compile, fix those few syntax errors, compile again and 9 out of 10 times your code just works.
The simplicity of the language is the key. It's a tool that feels right and gets the damn job done.
well played, sir
In case of just booleans, in C it's possible to use a "trick"/workaround with flags/bit operators. Although certainly more cumbersome and limited. E.g.:

#define WIDTH 4
#define MARGIN_LEFT 2
#define MARGIN_RIGHT 1
...
unsigned int flags =
(width ? WIDTH : 0) |
(margin_left ? MARGIN_LEFT : 0) |
(margin_right ? MARGIN_RIGHT : 0);
switch (flags) {
case 0: //...
case MARGIN_RIGHT: //...
case MARGIN_LEFT: //...
case WIDTH: // fallthrough
case WIDTH | MARGIN_RIGHT: // fallthrough
case WIDTH | MARGIN_LEFT: // fallthrough
case WIDTH | MARGIN_RIGHT | MARGIN_LEFT:
//...
case MARGIN_LEFT | MARGIN_RIGHT: //...
}

Although you probably already knew it, and I totally admit it's much uglier and "workaround-ish". It's just that after reading "isn't powerful enough [...]" I felt a compulsory urge to show that It Can Be Done, and couldn't resist, sorry :)
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go to rhodecode.com and contact them. You will get a free enterprise license if you are an EDU.
Soda is not in contact with your teeth for long enough to cause any damage, the acidity in basically all fruit would be just as bad by any meaningful measure of harm.

Carbohydrate snacks like crisps etc are much worse.
That's bunkum. Flogging is a specific punishment. "Prison" has a wide range of meanings. The idea seems to be that the US prison system is barbaric, so why not swap that form of barbarism for something which is cheaper.

Rather than, you know, fixing the prison system and the laws which make the US have the highest, or nearly highest, incarceration rate in the world.

Remember though that the author's reference comparison is: "Our rate of incarceration is roughly seven times that of Canada or any Western European country." The incarceration rate in Singapore is 233/100K. The US has 707/100K (but see the note at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcerat... ).

By comparison, Canada: 118, France: 103, England&Wales: 148, Ireland: 89, Germany: 87, Sweden: 64.

Setting the barbarity aside, if the best that flogging could do is to get the incarceration rate down to 200/100K while prison and law reforms can bring the incarceration rate down to 100/100K - I'll assume that Singapore and Canada are equally lovely places to live - then flogging isn't the way to go.
So anybody that knows anything must already know and love Bundaberg rootbeer; thus the shorthand for its name. I feel a bit sheepish now having mentioned Bundaberg earlier as some sort of unknown miracle. :)
I can't quite figure out their UX team - you can use TouchID to secure your vault except not as a replacement for the PIN screen. But sometimes it'll offer TouchID when you resume. Sometimes it won't and you'll get the PIN. Which you still have to have despite setting up TouchID. Whuh.

(And the browser integration might be "more streamlined" but only in the sense that a brick is "more streamlined" than a donkey. It's still clunky as hell.)
The Kindle Voyage looks really nice but at £169 (a £60 increase over the Paperwhite) there is no way I will be getting one. That is a lot of money for just an ereader to me.
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I believe that probably the assumptions that everybody is stupid is totally right.

This does not mean that every individual person is stupid. They could be very very smart, but when they join a macro organism they could behave very very stupid following emotions like nationalism, pride, being part of the group, fear and hatred, power or sex.

The advertisement industry operate under the assumption that human beings operate under irrational forces that are stronger than anything else and they are right because people buy things that they advertise.

It probably does not make rational sense that because people see a tennis player like Federer using a specific razor, people are going to buy this razor, but it just happens.

There was a politician called Hitler that used this hiphotesis: "masses are stupid", and he got to control Germany entirely(probably the better educated country in the world, with the smarter people like Einstein, Von Braun, and so on), and kill millions of Germans in the process.

It was Freud who wrote the "Mass Psychology" because it became obvious for him that intelligent individuals could become totally irrational when they take part on masses after the experience of Nazism that made this highly intelligent individual to lose his job because he was jew.

Not so hard to understand, we know that very smart individuals could become totally irrational in their personal lives. For example a beautiful women or man could seduce them and they knowing rationally that they are being manipulated not being able to escape.

Look at the economy today: we are following a path of printing money and increasing our debt that won't make sense for any person with half a brain.

The same happens with Ukraine, Europe(their leaders) are following US in trying to make war with Russia, what makes zero economic interest for Europe. Less sense makes a military confrontation with Russia or China, but we are following this path.
I have those memories too, on Windows 95 or 98? I remember IE4 being released and it could do a lot more than IE3, plus it was more "forgiving" with sloppy HTML compared to Netscape.

I remember those myriads of mouseover buttons.
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Why is the US taxing expats 39.6% who are living abroad?
Why are the US and Eritrea the only countries in the world taxing expats living abroad? Although 39.6% is the top federal tax rate that expat Americans have to pay, I am still genuinely curious.

I knew about this from an American friend who has been living abroad for many years. But while reading http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-17/appalling-practice-used-only-two-nations-which-us-one I started getting seriously curious of why the US (and Eritrea) has this policy and the rest of the world does not.
Very nice education game! I'd a bit of difficulty to figure out which tube to fill!
The music is amazing! but after a while get too repetitive!

Congrats ;)
That's interesting. I know we have some mild interest in the industry, but some people's slavish devotion to it (with associated euphoria/disgust at features) seems really weird to me. How do they keep up the excitement?!