skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Instead of having a set of rules to map the human-readable names, we generate unique ids for everything at edit time and tag them with the human-readable name. So when you type "foo", you get an intelligently sorted auto-complete box asking you which foo you mean.

> This is one of the advantages of not directly editing the program text - we can insert all kinds of useful metadata directly into the AST.

I suppose I'll have to see how it works when there is something available to poke on, but that description doesn't allay my concern about it making a programming environment that makes writing easy, but reviewing, understanding, and maintaining previously-written programs hard in much the way that spreadsheets do.

If the information needed to disambiguate references is buried behind the scenes and not readily apparent in the primary interfaced used for editing, that seems problematic.
"As part of that, the company has reiterated its commitment to creating a single app Store across all of its devices.

Windows 10 will work across all form-factors and as such, developers will only need to code once but they’ll be able to target any device."

http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-one-app-store-across-a...
The whole thing was ginned up. Same shit, different year
> I'm not convinced Sister Ray and her extravagantly dressed friends who actually use their identities are really in danger of bringing the system to its knees.

Sister Ray and her ilk are not bad actors, so of course they are not going to bring the system to its knees. The concern is that facebook will not be able to distinguish between bad actors and people like Sister Ray.
I couldn't agree more. The myth that addiction always needs some sort of intervention or treatment is quite false, yet it is constantly perpetuated by the media, doctors, and groups like AA/NA. There is a huge interest (and sometimes profits) on behalf of these groups to perpetuate this myth, of course, to the detriment of the people who suffer from addiction. I'm glad to see that the conclusions based on data differ from the uninformed propaganda that typically dominates this topic.
Successful Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and VC's talk about failure like it's a good thing. It teaches us lessons etc. That's an easy outlook to have from within the walls of multi-million dollar homes and offices. The effect of failure, to them, is that their ridiculous net worth will be slightly less ridiculous. It has exactly zero impact on their daily lives.

The reality is that most entrepreneurs - those that do not have the pedigree to be handed huge checks from VC's - have everything on the line. To most, failure means that they and their families will suffer severely. People often start businesses because they have needs or responsibilities that are above their earning power at a regular job. When you combine those pressures with the high failure rate of startups, you get a high suicide rate. It's sad, but it's not a problem that is unique to the Downtown Project.
Trying to create a project on iOS gave me no love. Possibly this is related to the existing safari issue someone already mentioned.
What do you mean "actually"?

This whole article is about how a controlled explosion was the best strategy against a big fire, and then you rock up and chime in with "actually controlled explosions are the best strategy against big fires".

Duh! That's what the article was talking about!

It's like everyone was talking about how the sky is blue, and you come along as say "actually the sky is blue".
Parallel construction is one huge disrespect for the law; it hides the real accusation and necessarily requires hiding evidence from the defendant. It is a blatant attempt to bypass the "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine and the 4th amendment. There are probably other legal problems too, depending on the specifics of the case.

I'm not really suggesting that an amendment is (or should be) necessary, because the surveillance that is going on (and being passed down[1] from the NSA to the FBI, DEA, and local departments). These activities should not be necessary at all for law enforcement, as the warrant system is easily sufficient to allow any necessary searches. Even if a specific device such as cell phone is inaccessible (despite having a valid warrant), that doesn't stop any policeman from conducting traditional (in person) surveillance or upstream wiretaps.

Yet police insist they need far broader access and we have numerous examples of the 4th Amendment warrant requirements being ignored[2]. IFF their claims have merit, the proper way to get exceptions to needing warrants would be an amendment, which has not been suggested. There could be some edge cases where "merely" a circuit court or SCOTUS ruling could "find" additional powers for police, but it doesn't matter - I don't see the the various TLAs trying to setup a test case on this matter, either. Instead we see many cases where law enforcement (and/or people in Obama's administration) have tried to prevent lawsuits from going forward.

[1] [pdf] https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1011...
Some of the training slides and request forms. Especially interesting is how often they repeat the need to keep the practice secret, including having a 24-hour hotline local police can use to get advice on how to hide the source even if they have to immediately give testimony in court. I believe (and a friend of mine who is a lawyer agrees) that these repeated statements like "To use it, we must protect it, or lose it." easily counts as mens rea.

[2] Riley v. California being a notable exception, though I know at least two friends that had their phones searched (in their presence) just a couple weeks ago in Oakland, CA; some departments haven't gotten the message yet, unfortunately.
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Correct link is http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/jdk/file/d1f592073a0e/s...

In any case, nobody's arguing that os.name in Java is set incorrectly. The argument is that Java programs are using os.name incorrectly to make decisions. If this version of Windows was to be called Windows 9, that function would be (correctly) updated to return "Windows 9" and every Java program that did startsWith("Windows 9") would start misbehaving.
They talk about having a document, presumably by a respectable third party, with that name. I guess for 1337 names, having a conference invite under that name would count. Concert or stand-up flyers for a persona would make sense. I'm less sure about how to have street names written.

In middle school, a student's nickname was “Simpson”; it's hard to explain, but he genuinely looked like he had yellow skin, expression-less face and spiky hair. In a court yard of a hundred student, everyone knew instantly which kid was ‘Simpson’. No one knew his actual name. When he was part of a group of kids who attacked me, it felt really odd to make a report listing his name, even after the headmaster had shown me on the photobook that that was his civil name. I don't remember if his nickname appeared on the report, but I guess any documented evidence like that would work.
Personally, I'd want an opt-out too...I don't mind a default of charitable, but for me to be on board, it'd be essential to be able to disable my contribution should I find the organization uncharitable.

More than that though, I think it'd be neat if this group hooked up with giv2giv.org and each day/dollar would create a new, well-funded endowment. And maybe give users a way to vote for their favorite reruns or something so there'd be a bit of a feedback loop.

Anyway, congrats to them for a basically good idea. I agree that there are some refinements that would make it a bit more palatable for me personally, but I dig it. I love innovation in this space.
To make it on-topic:

Will Matasano continue its objective work-sample method of evaluating candidates?
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I'm potentially going to start work on my first independent consultant job, but I was hoping to hear from others experienced in this area about what to expect in terms of standard agreements.

Do most pay all at the end or can I ask for half upfront? What is a standard rate per hour? Finally, should I agree to this: http://pastebin.com/7m2xBjLg
how open is opendns to a .NET dev that does js/node on the side wanting to jump ship?

I really want to get out of the .net stack but haven't had a good chance to do it. and most of my ex-colleges are in .net shops too so all of my referrals are for other .net shop.
You might be thinking of the natural gas stimulation experiments performed by the US in the 70s[1]. From that article, "it was found that the three blast cavities had not connected as hoped, and the resulting gas still contained unacceptable levels of radionuclides" so it never went past the experimentation phase.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plowshare#Natural_ga...
..which has nothing to do of the physical location of the workers. If there's downtime, that's because the CTO is a fucking idiot and doesn't know how to run a team or manage his stuff. Location has ZERO to do with it.
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I think it's far more interesting to just see what the top cited papers are every year (after the fact) than to compare with the best paper. Best paper awards are given for a lot of reasons that aren't consistent across conferences or even across years of the same conference.
More people in real life know me by Epoch Wolf than by my real name. It's the name I've chosen for myself. It's also unique. No one else in the world had that name when I first used it 8 years ago.

It's my primary identity among my friends.

But, I don't want to change my legal name. It's easier to deal with my fellow americans having have a good, strong, and above all normal first name and a properly romanized last name with a european flavor. Being normal, white male with a normal, white male name is a Good Thing™ in most of America.

Also, my family would probably have their own objections.
Please stop moving your entire team to my city to satisfy your investors. You are destroying its social fabric and distorting its rental market just to relocate people who would happily live and work somewhere else.
I (respectfully) disagree -- I think modern society's obsession with pursuing _material wealth & riches_ is not healthy, but I think the pursuit of happiness is a worthy goal. The two, of course, are often confused, but happiness can be found in many socioeconomic forms, and, frankly, I think it should be the goal. If you're happy - regardless of the size of your home or your bank account - what else do you really need?
The OS can force libraries to behave in different ways when used by different applications.
Personally I am shocked that they still do a print edition that should have gone the way of vinyl records by now. Instead they should have a weekly print edition that is glossy and great for people that like to read actual paper at the weekends - we all have parents like that, don't we?

Paywall hasn't delivered the results for Mr Murdoch or anyone else in the UK that have gone that route. The highly invested in The Guardian and the Daily Mail are doing very nicely in the UK and around the world. Which is interesting because the UK is a smaller country than the US and the newspapers-of-old converged on London and gave up on the regions a long time ago. (The Guardian used the be The Manchester Guardian). The problem with U.S. titles is the brands are too geographic - NY Times is New York which is not a global thing and New York really is not the centre of the universe.

The Guardian do not make money. However charging people to read the news is not possible in the UK when the BBC do it all for free. Hence The Guardian run the ads, charge for the dating/car-buying/employment options.

These news organisations that complain need to go away. It is easier than ever to put together 'news', the extra bits they need beyond the standard newswire feed - Associated Press et al. - can be grabbed off of the internets. Journalists haven't been getting out and about for a while, they just cut and paste. What disappoints me more is this:

http://www.schnews.org.uk/stories/AND-FINALLY/

A 'zine shutting down.
Eric Schlosser's _Command and Control_ is an eye-opening read on this subject. It's hard to fathom how seemingly cavalier the US and USSR were about nuclear explosions in the decades after their invention. Nuclear landmines! Nuclear rifles!
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Google is working on it:

http://www.tarborotimes.com/2014/04/26/weird-news-google-buy...

Current experiments are putting the performance at the 3G level, but it seems likely only a matter of time before these have LTE or better.
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Anytime you are dealing with newer architectures, constructs or languages it gets a little tougher to weed through the noise as many agencies will make it appear they have the experience but you wind up paying for their learning process. We have seen this with node, GO and other relatively younger tech. But sometimes with node.js I think it is tougher because so many people think to themselves, oh I know javascript so I can write node.js. While technically true to a point, what I have seen is they fail to take the time to learn the ins and outs of node to understand their choices well enough to call their code good. Which usually leads to a nightmare of a project to fix later, ask me how I know.

Also, aside from raw skills you need to find an agency that you mesh with and feel comfortable with. Get a real contract with them holding both parties accountable, don't work off a verbal agreement etc. I am not sure about any sites in specific to help you with reviews.

I run a product consultancy where we help people build and get their product to market, digital marketing etc. Our core competency is node.js and we have spent the past couple of years building our own products and products for many clients almost exclusively in node. We have been in business for 8 years now and if you have any interest or just want to ask me questions you can find my email in my profile. Shoot me an email and if nothing else I'll answer questions for you. We also do code reviews and can provide you with an outside opinion about where you really sit, if you are unsure. We are proficient in a number of technologies, but like I said node is our core.

I wish you the best finding a good fit for your project/product, and if I can answer anything or help let me know.
They used to be able to support their main business with the print revenues, and the online subscribers were all (as you note) marginal money on top of that. With print revenues declining, that may not be possible anymore, and if it still is possible it probably isn't for much longer. They need to find some way to transition to a model where digital-only revenue pays the bills.
> I want a reasonable rate and unlimited access to all of what the publication has to offer but I'm not going to pay $455/year for it.

Would it help if you thought of the New York Times not as that disposable paper publication available for roughly $3 at every airport and newsstand, but as a hip new digital news service that sources original journalism from trained professionals, and curates that content by an (ideally) independent cadre of other professionals?

How much would you pay for that hot new subscription service, to fund the level of baseline quality you get from the NYT? I don't know about you, but even $5/week doesn't sound completely unreasonable, to have something a little more sober than Buzzfeed and Vice.
I smoked a lot of marijuana since I was 23 till about 26.

I experimented with cocaine, heroin, MDMA, crystal meth for about a month when I was 25.

Heroin was scarily addictive. I remember smoking from tinfoil turned black and mixing other drugs.

I stopped because I got asthma and started coughing up blood. It was opiod withdrawl is the worst but I never touched drugs again.

Anytime I think about my experience, it sends cold sweat, thinking how I could've done it. This is also good because I know the cold sweats keep me away from every repeating this. Its bad because I constantly think about the health implications of smoking heroin, crystal meth for about one month, and the rest of year smoking marijuana that smelled like febreeze.

I hope I'm okay I haven't gone to check with a doctor tho.
Screw Reddit. Same crap Yahoo thought was a good idea. Taking a $120K salary remote and then moving to SF. They better be providing a $80K COA or else it's robbery. This whole "remote can't work" meme started by Ms. "I have a private, in-office babysitter Melissa What's-Her-Name at Yahoo" is just 7 kinds of stupid. I've been working remotely for almost 3 years and it works just fine. If I had to waste 2 hours a day on a commute, then that's 10 hours per week I better be compensated for. There is absolutely ZERO reason a software engineer ever needs to work on site. None. F-ck Reddit.
HN doesn't tolerate jokes well because they are usually a disruption to the conversation. If you want to make a joke here you can, but you have to ask yourself whether the joke is lame and a distraction or original and funny enough to derail the conversation momentarily. If your joke gets downvoted into oblivion that's a sign that people feel it's the former.
It would be helpful to know what area you will be consulting in. That will help us to give pointers, suggest rates, and determine if that agreement makes sense for what you will be doing.

For example, that agreement may be ground for a company to claim rights to software you develop on your free time while you are in their pay.
Even if it were 50,000 devices, it would be .5% of what they sold.

However, 50,000 faulty iPhone users with access to Twitter, Facebook, and every other social platform can make the issue seem larger than it really is
That's why you should think like Florian Weimer. I bet his "unofficial" patch is effective against all of them.
Exactly. If the investors aren't happy, then why the f'ing heck did they invest? The Reddit execs are cowards and idiots.
I can't find any reliable sources, so treat this as my own speculation. I heard that there were programs for a while in two big countries with acronyms starting with US that aimed into exploration of causing earthquakes/tsunamis that would hit across the word by using multiple underground nukes and constructive interference.
> Are there any real-world examples that we can point at of people who actually did spend 10,000 hours at something and did not become superb at it?

Are there any real-world examples that we can point at of people who actually completed 10,000 hours of deliberative practice that weren't already far ahead of the of their equally-practicing peers in terms of skill with, say, 2,000 hours of practice? Even if we assume that Malcolm Gladwell's inability to find people in one domain that had done 10,000 hours of deliberate practice but not become superb is accurate and generalizable [1], what evidence is there to suggest that the relation involved isn't "People who don't excel in a domain before long before 10,000 hours of deliberate practice tend to stop pushing themselves before reaching 10,000 hours of deliberate practice"?

[1] And there is at least some reason to believe that the impact of deliberate practice on performance is strongly domain dependent, not general, e.g., http://www.businessinsider.com/new-study-destroys-malcolm-gl...
$19 an hour, you could probably improve this by shifting to something like Udemy and actually selling them.

Someone more qualified might have more information on how those video course websites work, I've always been interested and considered making videos and selling them, but was never sure about the return. Udemy in particular seems to have a significant amount of coupon codes making videos 1/10 of their cost.
Search for "consulting agreement" on Docracy, that will get you started https://www.docracy.com/
Interesting, what is the addon and how do you distribute it?
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An example with made-up names: You have an application a.exe that loads b.dll and c.dll. Both b.dll and c.dll contain a call to getOSName(). getOSName normally returns "OS Foo", but c.dll is known to use the result of getOSName() incorrectly and it is decided that all calls to getOSName() from c.dll should return "OS Bar" for :reasons:.

How do you get the OS to do this without returning "OS Bar" to b.dll as well?

Remember that function pointers can cross DLL boundaries.
Hmm.... cutting taxes on the super-wealthy while raising regressive taxes such as sales tax and payroll tax results in a massive income divergence. Big surprise.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Share_of_...

I doubt this is the only factor, but it's certainly one of them. Others include letting the financial industry run completely wild, and asymmetrical neoliberal trade policies that seem almost designed to export jobs and depress wages. We open our markets to foreign competitors while at the same time permitting them to manipulate their currencies, engage in borderline slave labor practices, and erect their own barriers to trade. It's basically economic unilateral disarmament.

I'm actually concerned that if this trend doesn't reverse we're going to see a massive shift to the economic left in the near to mid term future. I'm leaning that way myself more now, but I'm afraid the reaction could go too far. I would not want to see an American Hugo Chavez, but I can easily imagine it in the next 10-20 years if things do not change. I can also imagine populist crypto-fascist types having wider appeal, which would be even worse.
Congrats as well -- looks fantastic. A non-technical question: How did the idea for this come about? Are/were you in the wholesale business? Did you work for folks who were? Just curious how ideas become seeds become launches...

Good luck and have a blast with it.
Might not be a problem, if they are in it for the long run.
> The biggest reasons that companies buy expensive appliances is (a) data sovereignty and (b) ongoing support

Don't underestimate reason (c): because some C-levels went golfing together.
I wonder if it's a good idea to list comcast as one of you clients...