skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i've been rooting for hailo, but in new york, the experience i've had the last 3 times i've tried to use it has been that despite an initial promise with a time estimate, they were unable to actually get me a car. sadly, no redesign is really going to address that.
>Including pension schemes and other benefits, it's common for mid-career CA cops to make upwards of $500k.

Could you provide a source for this? I checked the salary database for the city and county of San Francisco and, while there were 2099 people in the police department with total pay over $100,000, nobody had total pay of $500,000 - and the maximum was $345,000.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/databases/?appSession=45847910566...
Etherpad : real-time collaborative text editor. Readable URLs so great for instantly getting people together on a doc. http://etherpad.org/ is the project site but a commonly used hosted one is at https://etherpad.mozilla.org/
You know, when people start developing elaborate theses about how Everything Has Changed and There Are New Rules and This Time, Seriously, No Really, This Time Is Different ... it's time to start worrying.
Beautiful website, I love the look and feel. One suggestion, I wish I could navigate between movies with the arrow keys in the close-up view.
That's why Hailo is stopping in North America, if you try the app in Dublin or London you should have a much better experience.
> So how did someone from West Berlin travel to, say, Frankfurt by car?

There were few approved transit routes from West Berlin to West Germany. So you could get a transit visa (which you had to pay for in west german currency) upon getting on one of those routes and present it to exit the GDR again (you weren't allowed to leave the transit route midway, and if you took to long to pass through, you'd be questioned). Note that transit between West Berlin and West Germany is different from simply crossing between the two Germanies[0], which was relatively easy for est german citizens, but particularly difficult to do for east german citizens.

> What was to stop someone from East Germany doing the same thing? The wall only went through the city, right?

The wall may have only gone through the city, but there still were border checkpoints[1] outside of Berlin.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_inner_German_borde...
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_German_border
You can also get the rust and cargo nightlies using homebrew-cask[0], which I find a bit easier (though I'm not exactly sure why).

[0]: http://caskroom.io/
I'm using a Thinkpad (T440) at work and whenever I have to undock from my desk I have to bring my mouse because I find myself always clicking the wrong things.

Now I use an rMBP at home, and more often than not I actually play Diablo 3 using just the trackpad, maybe I'm just used to it, but I haven't used a non-Apple laptop that has a usable trackpad.
The diaspora* Project
Difficult but possible. There are some easier possible ways of getting the data. We'll be looking into those first.
Awesome! Will check it out back in a week then :)
The Tor version of Openbazaar is available as of a few days ago. You can download it here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenBazaar/comments/2ko33b/help_nee...

At this point it is stable and can be used to run a store via Tor. The last of the core system (arbitration and notary) will be completed by the end of the year.
I think you should see a different psychiatrist.
The network effect I'm talking about is the N-squared growth in value of a network of N nodes where each of the N nodes derives most of its value from the number (N-1) of other nodes. The phone system overall has this property, so does Skype, so does Facebook, but no carrier, handset maker, or OS does, because their users aren't limited to interacting with the other users of the same carrier/handset/OS.

Instead, the existing players have a benefit resulting from their size that is more of a scale advantage, in that the N users tend to have access to more things if N is larger, but those "things" are not primarily the N-1 other users. There are more iPhone apps than Android, for example, yet Android sells more units and is growing faster. Scale matters, number of apps matters, but other factors are very significant, too.

Apple, therefore, does not have to be the #1 phone maker to make the most money, nor would a new entrant have to have huge scale to have a profitable business. Unlike a network effect business, a new entrant would not have to appeal primarily on the basis of how many other users it already had but, instead, on what value it offered.

And you mention that Amazon couldn't get you to switch from iOS because of the number of iOS apps as if the 2 billion phone users out there all care primarily about the number of apps they'll probably never use. Yet Android phones outsell iOS with fewer available apps, and the average Android user buys far fewer apps than the average iPhone user. A significant fraction seem to be satisfied with just the apps that come with the phone and never buy another.

It's not unreasonable to assume that there may be many market segments that would be fine with a few thousand apps covering 99%+ of usage PLUS something else they value more highly than the long-tail iPhone apps. Phones and phone plans that specialize in offering something more valuable than Yet More Apps might appeal to many people. Shoppers might care more about Amazon Prime than than the one game app they have to give up if they switch. Parents might care more about a managed kid phone with kid features and a kid rate plan than about Apple's app store.

Since the value of phones is not primarily the number of your maker's installed base squared but is based on so many possible things, I think there is room for new entrants as long as they offer something more significant to a market than the extra apps.
Ritalin.

Also trialled dextroamphetamine (worked badly for me) and straterra (did nothing). Ritalin helps a lot.

It's not magic. Exercise and quality sleep are important too, but were not enough by themselves.
Bozos owns Washington Post, a natural competitor to the NY Times.

I agree with your remarks regarding Amazon btw.
The Steve Jobs Guide to Manipulating People and Getting What You Want
3) unwanted / rejected / opted-out donations will be returned to the 'project pool' instead of the donor, it's unclear what happens in cases when a project has no participating developers (default), is itself opted out, or has all opted-out developers

4) donors are not informed that the projects they're supporting may not receive or accept donations this way

5) donors are actively lied to, see:

https://tip4commit.com/github/django/django

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8545377

has a django rep trying to opt them out of the program, there is no ambiguity whether they like, let alone want to or will receive donations this way
Picturelife has an option to connect to your Dropbox account but I don't think there is an option to use Dropbox as a storage medium.
All I know is that I have native IPv6 at home now thanks—and I can't believe I'm saying this—to Comcast. Progress perhaps?

Also, cute: Facebook's IPv6 address is 2a03:2880:f00d:401:face:b00c:0:1
Tom Stagliano's makes the point. It doesn't matter. Coding is a tool to use at the university level, not the goal of education. In addition, coding can be learned at the university and is not necessary for admission.
Will be adding that feature tommorow!
How to go from $0 to $75k/mo. with no investor or hiring a single employee
Ask HN: Is this book lying about taking only 20 hours to learn programming?
A book by Josh Kaufman

Am I missing something?

I get his point that we don't need to spend 10,000 hours to master something.

But , 20 hours? A marketing point to sell a book may be? (cynicism overspill here).

I have read chapter 5 of his book "The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything . . . Fast! by Josh Kaufman (Jun 6, 2013)"

In it he described the process of how he went about breaking down and defining a programming problem and researching solutions and deciding which tools {out of a myriad of choices} to use for the job and downloading and installing tools and coding a Wordpress replacement solution using Sinatra and Jekyll etc.

For the scope of his programming project, see "Deconstructing the End Result" at :
http://tinyurl.com/ocm4kua

Along the way in his 20 hours journey a coder wannabe like me is introduced to new programming tools and concepts such as:

git, Sinatra, Heroku, Jekyll, DataMapper, Rake , framework , state etc.

He described how he researched and decided to reject using Ruby on Rails in favor of Sinatra;
rejected Postgres in favor of DataMapper ;
rejected Python in favor of using Ruby ;
choosing Heroku instead of alternatives ;
making complicated choices along the way.

All these in 20 hours.

Granted, he went into the project already knowing how to deal with html and css and maintaining server issues that host his website http://personalmba.com --- none of these skills I possess.

In case you don't know who Josh Kaufman is, take a look at this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MgBikgcWnY

..........Another question :

If you were to study computer programming again, how would you go about shortening your learning curve?

..........tl;dr:
Is it really possible for a newbie to learn programming in 20 hours or less to solve a programming issue?

What resources or advice would you use or what pitfalls would you avoid to get to the end goal of learning programming faster?

Thanks a million.
Often buying a used CD on amazon is cheaper than buying the album on itunes or amazon download. Sad but true. I admit I also enjoy the packaging for music I care about.
Now I really need to finish building my Z80 machine!
You'll be fine. Most of the time, especially if you get a MS in CS, you'll be hired directly by the employer (Apple, MS, Yahoo et al). You'll probably get a higher salary than a contractor at your level (because the staffing company doesn't eat into it). You have all the problems that comes with a H1B (like a short grace period in case you're laid off, etc), but that will be all.

SOME of these people willingly get into these situations because living in the US for a while improves their social standing (for marriage, dowry, etc) a lot. Others believe in the American dream and come here at any cost and fall into that trap. There is a large group that just cares about getting to the US, and then thinks the salary plus Amway will make them rich.

I did a MS in CS, and got a few jobs (mostly big corps, one of them Cisco, all of which offered to sponsor H1B). I now hate the bay area and its really low quality of life and am tied here only because I love my job. Just keep aiming for excellence, instead of hook or crook, that will mostly help you. The US visa situation is screwed up though, you'll find a lot of articles about it here on HN.
No, "I was a foodie before it was cool, and now everyone else is, so it's not cool anymore and I'm out."

Useless.
Even if you are logged into your Gmail account, Google still requires you to enter your password to disable 2-step auth.
Grandparent mentions "greater fool theory", which is perhaps a clearer counterpoint to your (quite correct) point.

It's also worth saying that upside risk is typically coupled with downside risk (which is something you're hinting at) -- the wider market has the probability of failure built into its current pricing. So, somewhat perversely, even if you don't think it'll have a billion dollar valuation with probability exceeding that of the market, it can become a better investment simply by increasing the probability of > $0 outcomes (by reducing that downside risk). Demonstrating that with a pivot seems like actually good evidence.

I wouldn't make the same investment, but there are a couple angles to discuss here.
Your meat addiction is destroying the planet
It seems like a day doesn't go by when I don't read an article like this one and think of NWA's succinct summary of police in America.
That ain't a whole lot better.

But if you are only doing very simple stuff that you could do quite simply in XSLT anyway then it is probably fine.

Although XSLT may be preferable anyway due to tooling support.
This article gets it hugely wrong. Food is one of the highest forms of art; one that's vital and human and social all at once.

You don't have to like it, but you do have to eat, and it's such a large part of life and culture that yes, it does matter.

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain."

-- John Adams

The seemingly trivial becomes the pinnacle of importance when it stands on a solid foundation.
The Ampelmann is no longer a differentiator between East an West Berlin, nowadays it's "east Ampelmann" everywhere in Berlin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampelm%C3%A4nnchen#History_afte...
One thing that I never understood is that in order to make this happen, planes had to fly above the USSR controlled East Germany, what prevented the soviets from just shooting down every plane since it was their airspace at the time?
You can learn a lot in 20 hours, you can't learn all you need in 20 hours. The key is maintaining a fine balance between learning(READING) and doing(LEARNING). With google/stackoverflow, one can do a lot without understanding much, kinda bruteforce your way to the solution.

Just start doing, there was a post where someone learned to program by building a small project everyday for about 180days, that's more like it. Take that approach, start building everyday, non stop. Don't worry about the amount of time, just finish whatever you start.
Only a child could read "unlimited data" and think it meant unlimited data. Your network speed is finite; multiply it by time and you get the maximum amount of data you can possibly download. This is a hard limit that cannot be exceeded, and it is well short of "unlimited".

What grown ups understand "unlimited" to mean is that there is no bandwidth cap. There is no hard limit on number of bytes downloaded, beyond which the connection stops working until the next rebilling period.

But this doesn't get rid of the underlying problem. Thinking that it does, that it's just an advertising lie, is magical thinking unfit for adults.

Without a bandwidth cap, other mechanisms need to be used to deal with the fact that consumer internet is sold via contended lines. Some packets will need to be dropped; available bandwidth must shrink when there is more contention. What decides which packets get dropped and which ones get priority - complete randomness, or should your phone call be less important than the difference between a 1.9M/sec video stream and a 2M/sec stream? This is exactly where network neutrality comes in. It's a different way of dealing with the scarce resource, the contended lines.

So it is not a completely different discussion. It is in fact the same discussion, from a different angle.
For anyone who thinks this is a joke, or that the Z80 can't do anything useful: http://www.symbos.de/
The way I read it, the GP mocks the idea that a self-regulated system would be unregulated. AFAICT It's at least regulated by convention with regards to the pay out for mining.
http://wondermark.com/1k62/

You may have good intentions, but continually asking questions like "What specific law means you cannot do it?" (even politely) is still kind of rude. Who cares why he doesn't want tips; it's his call to make.
I thought it would be a .NET assembly for manipulating XML.
It's about a lot of things, not just slave revolts. E.g. the whiskey rebellion:[1]

[President] Washington responded by sending peace
commissioners ... while at the same time calling on
governors to send a militia force to enforce the tax.
With 13,000 militia provided ... Washington rode at
the head of an army to suppress the insurgency

And also to help protect individual rights against an overbearing government. Of course now that we've been providing every small town sheriff with APCs and military weapons, that deterrent effect might no longer be as relevant as it once was.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion
The discovery of the paper was that these adversarial examples worked on other neural networks. Including ones trained on entirely different datasets. They are not specific to a single NN.
1. Work at your full potential. Top mental work requires significant time uninterrupted by texts, phones, humans, etc. It also requires sleep and is inhibited by alcohol and drugs. You can get by with less or poor sleep, but you won't perform at your full potential.

2. Don't waste time on office politics or squabbles. Express your opinion with superior work.

3. Think things through. Like chess, think a few steps ahead before you decide on a course of action. Put yourself in the position of others -- clients, users, associates, and competitors.
Accept bitcoin and I'd be glad to pay 10X the yearly hosting cost for my account.
Orchestrate Docker Locally with Makefile: Example with Interactive Brokers in Go
Nuclear war?
Maybe from working side jobs? Most police departments offer a ton of various side jobs. Be it renting out officers to basically do security for various businesses, or working at understaffed or undesirable locations. These jobs usually pay really well, sometimes between 60-80 dollars an hour.

I have no clue if this extra pay would be shown in city salary databases, but I wouldn't be surprised if not.
> Why do they believe that illegal drug sites will have honest reviews when even yelp, which is supposed to be completely legal and reviews completely legal businesses has obviously manipulated reviews.

Because anyone can write reviews on Yelp, but getting privileges to write darknet reviews is fairly difficult. And IIRC if anyone who you invite into the review system tries to astroturf, then you and everyone else you've invited automatically get banned also.
You're right, the wording is a bit humorous and certainly contradictory. I should rephrase the statements to say:

1) "free for as long as the service exists"
2) "we currently have enough funds to support 226 more days of hosting given that no one supports the server costs

Hosting a simple email service such as Pawnmail is cheaper than the cost of hosting many individual mail servers for each domain, so the incentive to donate exists as long as individuals and companies value the service. Being financially open is an attempt to fix the problem met by Google and Microsoft, who have suddenly discontinued their free custom domain email hosting services within the last year.
I've wondered the same.. I actually subscribed to see what the hype was about; after using it for a few weeks I found it hard to justify the cost for such a simple and relatively featureless webapp
> Not to mention I've heard stories of developers whose motivation to work on open-source projects has gone _down_ since getting paid, since it makes it seem like work instead of a hobby.

I am having trouble finding a good link, but I believe this effect is well documented in several areas – where compensating someone for an activity winds up with them being less likely to do it.
> 25 years is a very short time to expect some of the longer term economic and cultural changes to take place.

And yet, the GDR only existed for 40 years.
> I was given the impression that as soon as the lifeline was out of scope, the resources were cleaned.

And you are right.

Even though GP is almost right, lifetimes do interact with destructors and, in fact, dictate when values go out of scope and hence when drop (Rust destructor) is called.

> So it acts like a GCed language in most ways, in that, most of the time you don't have to worry about cleaning up after yourself

Nope. In Rust you almost always have to worry about cleaning up although not explicitly, but via lifetime and ownership management.

Sometimes you're lucky and those lifetimes can be inferred, but you still have to think about ownership a lot.

> and that it is hard to memory leak.

But not in the same way.

In Rust you can memory leak only when:

- Using GC like Arc or Rc with cycles.

- On blocks/fns marked as unsafe (which are mandatory for unsafe operations).

- Running into a Rust bug.
What can we consider a large audience? One million users?
I'm a little concerned with the lack of any absolute numbers in the data visualisations in this article. The 'more/less' and 'higher/lower' bars could be very misleading on some of these stats. I can understand that adding numbers can make these visualisations a little more intimidating but is it too much to expect the high/low ranges to have an absolute number on them?

For example in the disposal income visualisation what kind of magnitude of a difference is there. Is the average 2 thousand euro a year lower or 10 thousand euro a year?

What concerns me is that some of these stats can be massaged with the right visuals into producing a difference between East and West that isn't as big a difference as the graph makes it out to be.
I should pay more attention but I believe I've always used "doctor" when dealing with real professors (adjuncts might get a "professor," or "hey asshole") and I tend to think it's the norm in the midwestern schools I attended. I'm not sure about that, but I don't think I came up with the habit all on my own.

The exception was in theater classes, and perhaps in a couple of other instances of long acquaintance. It just seems reasonable to default to the safer, more formal option. I believe in some places (Europe?) the preferred title would be "professor" instead of "doctor," and I agree that that is more conceptually reasonable outside of medicine.

> Asking that the title be used explicitly just smells like insecurity, and wouldn't reflect well.

The professor in question is teaching electrical engineering students. If they're anything like the EE students I know, this is almost certainly not the only time during class someone will have to politely but firmly remind these students to color inside societal lines. :)
Seconded! Love, love, love the way you've setup filters. The wife and I are big movie and tv bingers (hate that word but that's the label I guess).

This is terrific and we've already found 5 movies that look exciting.

Amazon and Hulu links will be awesome! Netflix doesn't realize what the creativity they'll be stifling by shutting off their API.

Great job!!!
I'm happy to accept 'relatively unimportant compared to other issues with rust'.

REPL is a useful learning tool, but its also a not relevant to the majority of tasks for rust. Rust is for large complex tasks. If you want a scripting language, use python.