skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try to write more. I think I have the same struggle as you and I've seen improvements when I started writing everyday. There is an application for that: 750words.com (which only gives you a 30days trial but it's a good way to start! I've made my own application like this (3pages.fr) it's free but it's in french :))
UK to US is not as straightforward as say Russia to US (my path). Yes, Russia offers a lot better protection on paper, but what most people don't think about is that in most of the world what is written is very often not what is in practice.

The US state of post-doc employment is well documented to be abysmal. I never had to go through it, but had the privilege to work with people that had and gave up, going tech route instead.

Because of taxation and general consumerism, you get great standard of living as long as nothing bad happens. On average luxury goods are cheaper in US. You even have the option of Oregon to avoid sales tax on big purchases all together (doesn't work on cars easily).

The weather/nature in Bay Area is amazing too. Los Angeles is a bit more desert-like, but still great.

Can't speak for east coast though.
My last two places were like this. I can't say I was happy about changing, but I can say I priced it into the equation.
You're worth what people are willing to pay you, good job!
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> What happens if you're sick but don't have enough sick days saved? Are you fired? Stop getting payed?

You stop getting paid by your regular employer. Depending on the exact nature and effect of your illness and work situation, you may be eligible for a limited duration of legally-guaranteed job-protected unpaid leave (either federal FMLA or state-level protected leaves which may be more generous), during some of which you may receive disability compensation payments which are less than your regular salary.

When you exhaust the guaranteed job-protected leave, you can be fired.
A demo: https://vimeo.com/76917854

The time-lapse build: https://vimeo.com/96262428
This is terrible.

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We didn't want to disrupt the busy schedule of Drupalcon Attendees attended Drupalcon, a event to engage in discussion of the platform we, the organisers, know currently has a critical vulnerability.

We also assume attendees are uninterested in critical vulnerabilities while attending Drupalcon.

We assume attendees will be unable to return to their regular roles due to the excitement / insight / general awesomeness / other affairs unrelated to Drupal for a full week after attending out event.

Non-attendees implicitly missed out on our fun

We have now issued a fix, which is one line of code altering a database query string. Please be noted in our security advisory that you have almost no way to know whether your site was compromised and if it remains compromised.

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It is more than terrible. It is arrogant, negligent and contempt.
Correct. It's no longer free.

I have it on an older domain, and it's still free, grandfathered in.

I recently signed up with a new domain, and I'm paying for it on that domain.
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Indeed! It looks to me like there's two of them, so the potential is pretty incredible.
I have a question: How do people even have real counteroffers? Do you apply for multiple jobs and two or more happen to make you an offer? How do you manage to get the times to line up so perfectly?
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Newton did make advances towards women as a schoolboy in Lincoln, but never persisted.
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There are two things that helped me when getting better at writing.

1. Reading other good writing.
2. Practicing writing.

The first one is pretty self explanatory. Just read good writing and analyze the patterns they use to express themselves.

The second involves practicing the art of writing. When I write, even on a site like HN, I take my time.

The first draft is a throwaway. I just dump what's in my head on the screen or paper.

Then I "refactor" it. I add organization to the thoughts and concepts and then I ruthlessly cut anything not crucial to what I want to express.

I have a last step I use when It's a blog post or article. I use an "editor" usually my wife who looks it over misspellings, grammar, or confusing content. I don't usually do that for HN though since it's a more informal medium.
Disclosure: I had submitted this to HN over a year ago to no discussion; however, new information obtained this weekend provides interesting context.
I know that redis really wants to be a persistent kvstore. I had a problem with a large website when I increased caching by 2 orders of magnitude (enough RAM to play with). When it came time to write a snapshot to disk, everything died for 5 minutes. Turned it off and haven't thought about it since. I'm not sure I'll ever shed my RDBMS predelections.
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What would be the use case ? Data already exists on the OS, no need to copy it on another storage and risk having stale values.
Another vote for fastmail--it's a fantastic service. I prefer it to Google's in many ways.
It'd be nice if you could get Google Now on Android at least. I doubt Apple would open up Siri, though.
Agreed. However, in this situation, it would be in tight competition with the HR person saying "You're changing your story!". Absolutely disgusting. Is this a discussion with an employer or an interrogation of a criminal.
I've found that reading everything I can, and then writing lots of random things, helped my writing the most
Ask HN: Why do you guys work so much?
I work at a startup in silicon valley. Most of my colleagues spend a lot of hours at the office--usually at least 12hr days. I know most of these people (including myself) could make substantially more money working at a more established company and that our options are unlikely to be worth more than the salary we will have "sacrificed" by the time an exit opportunity comes along. Now, the reason I'm at a startup is to learn about doing a startup. But I think most of my peers have zero entrepreneurial ambition. There's also a shortage of engineering talent. So.. why are you breaking your back working on someone else's dream (and potential fortune) when the incentives (as far as I can tell) don't warrant it? If you love hacking, why not keep bank hours at the office and work on your own projects outside of that? I used to buy into the myth that bigger companies that pay proper salaries are like working for some soul-destroying 1960s IBM corporate mediocrity. But now I have friends at bigger companies--the difference seems to be that they have unlimited resources, big annual bonuses, nicer office furniture and less pressure. Otherwise we work on very similar things. Maybe you like to "stay hungry"... well, why not do your own startup instead of staying hungry working on something that will make a handful of people (not including yourself) very rich? I apologize if this comes across as confrontational--that's not my intention. I'm more just kind of baffled, and I assume I'm missing something, hence the ask. Thanks.
Is insurance much more expensive in California?
There's nothing self-evident about that at all. All species of animals have a homosexual population; this has been observed in the wild as well as with domestic species (dogs, etc.). To be sure, it is a minority behavior, but "contrary to nature" is stretching it.
Yeh right
There can be fast differences in fork times between different virtualization schemes, even if your code is CoW-friendly (and Redis's is).
Just a tiny nitpick - Arendt was a woman - Hannah Arendt to be more precise.
As I said, the xorg.conf problem might be old, but the other problem I mentioned is really new. And they are just a few of the problems.
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> the irony of "free market" Republicans

> Our clueless president

While I agree with the sentiment, it is important to emphasize that protectionist policy and bribery is not limited to any one political party.
I'd have to register an account over there, but I could get ready for that while you post the question. Thanks for the suggestion.

AFTER EDIT: I'm registered on Stack Exchange now. I refer in my user profile there to my Hacker News user I.D.
I'm not sure it would take the long term to determine reliability: there are engineers who specialize in that,and there are software tools to simulate the reliability of a mechanical systems.

Whether this company did this or not is unknown, if they are offering this system on a per month basis, it makes sense they did some reasonable level of analysis of costs, because it would reduce their risk greatly.
You couldn't make this shit up! Except someone already has:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

It would be a funny film if its central premise wasn't so terrifying!
Do they still do that awesome thing where if your invoice isn't paid they delete all your mail and give you no way to recover it? This has actually happened to someone I know, where he didn't respond to the invoice fast enough.

Edit: I should say that of course they need to have a recourse to stop providing services to people who don't pay. However, giving maybe 30 to 90 days to at least download your mail after your payment is late would be nicer than going "remember years of email you have saved here? Say goodbye to it all".
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Feel free to ask the devs of Hierarchy any questions on this Hacker News submission!
Native english speaker here, I have the same problem. I can express my ideas clearly in my head and when talking to people but my writing is just terrible IMO. I feel like I'm not taken seriously some of the time because my writing is bad even though my content is not.
A relevant anecdote: One of my own contacts at Microsoft has been moved (to a completely different department) at least 3 times in the last year. His job has been sort of the same but one day he's part of one "silo" and then is moved to a completely different one. Of course with the added "huge company weirdness" of having either too many bosses, but also for about 6 months, had no boss at all... I can imagine that this could breed incredible apathy in an organization.
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I'm not saying that anyone should be prohibited from reproducing. I'm saying that we should encourage (or, at least, avoid discouraging) thoughtful and intelligent people, through economic means, to have children if they want to do so, and not to wait until they're in their mid-40s and have their careers worked out, but might be infertile. I know intelligent people who don't want to have any kids, and I know smart people who want to have 4 or 5 kids. The latter set should be able to do so without having to either (a) make $1 million per year or (b) have a cousin who works at a top college and who can "fix" admissions to schools.

Also, this isn't about some classist fear. I'm arguing that we should help intelligent people in the working and middle classes. (The rich don't need any help.) The problem is that, even when you control for social class, fertility and IQ seem to be negatively correlated.

Even if you take genes out of the picture, it's still the case that thoughtless, stupid people make bad parents. Even if there's no adverse differential in genetics, there's still the risk of one in culture.
As other commenters already mentioned, BitTorrent Sync is closed source.

An alternative, open source, multi platform (even mobile) solution is Seafile.
That's the straight dope. #truth

Having worked on the IT and Biz side of tech companies (happily SaaS closing that gap daily) I can tell you the logic patterns are diametrically opposed.

IT = born problem solvers, nothing is too big, small or complicated
BIZ = friction solvers, nothing can be too efficient

The struggle isn't that 'you' could do it (better, faster or even cheaper) in your mind... but that if isn't a core competency moving your business forward, write a check and let someone else handle the core. Break free from the burden of 'undifferentiated heavy lifting' and improve your core product.

We sell a SaaS solution and in turn I write ~20 checks to other SaaS providers a month to keep me focused on improving our customer's experience.
It can go up in the UK depending on your employer. IIRC my wife got 6 months on full pay and then 6 months on the statutory (government) maternity pay.
You can write a simple library to apply a valid JSON patch in any language. Your method basically requires a JavaScript engine.
In Norway you get 49 weeks with 100% pay covered by the state (up to $80k), or 59 weeks with 80%. For those who earn more than $80k, most employers pay the rest.
My Kolab (https://mykolab.com/) might be just what you want.
I had no idea that English is your second language. I am impressed. I've upvoted a lot of your comments since I first started seeing them, so your writing method seems to work.
To put it a different way: Turing was necessary, but not sufficient. We needed him, and the entire field is built on his work. But his is not the only contribution; indeed, many others needed to also contribute to be sufficient for the field we know today.

In this light, it seems the original comment is correct.
Philogelos, a collection of jokes made in the fourth or fifth century CE
No kidding, if not for Eich we might have a scripting language with integers.
That is a nice breakdown. Thanks for posting it.
I would definitely notice a jump like that in a video game, I'm guessing you'd need over 100 to make it seem smooth.
No, it is so the employer doesn't need to carry the additional liability in their accounting. Vacation time is something with a monetary value that must be paid out if the employee is terminated.
You inaccurately equate the "blogger law" requirements (i.e. having to "register, disclose [blogger's] personal information and submit to the same regulations as mass media") with mass surveillance.
You make me wonder which assembly you're talking about. x86-64 feels heavy with legacy designs, many ways to get the same result, common pitfalls regarding memory management, and some surprising very specific gems to make some things fast… such as SIMD.

(I know little about other instruction sets.)
Nice response - I don't want to hijack this thread by going through this with a fine tooth comb but a couple of points:
1) The God of the bible pursues relationship with the people he created, every other god is some form of "be holy, zen like, detached or well behaved enough and I might relate to you".
2) I've never used God as the only explanation to natural phenomena - condemning my argument by what someone else has said is equivalent to me condemning your argument because soviet/maoist leaders said illogical things in the name of atheism - it wouldn't be fair to you if I did that.
3) On a philosophical level, there is no such thing as absolute certainty. We all have to take faith in something. I have walked across a certain bridge 10 times and it has never collapsed. I will walk across it tomorrow having faith that it wont collapse extrapolated from past evidence. I believe animals evolve over time but I have never seen a fish sprout legs.

None of us have absolute certainty about anything we have to make our best analysis of the facts before us. I analysed the facts heavily and believe that the God of the bible is more plausible than any other explanation of our existence.
> "Punishing them for hiring women who want a family" is a curious way to put it.

The reason that private companies should be expected to perhaps shoulder SOME of this "burden" (I disagree with your choice of wording there) is that we all live together in a goddamn society and there should be a part of everyone's effort (private individuals, businesses and the government) that goes towards the overall betterment of that society as a whole, and that includes supporting those that choose to procreate and keep our society going.
> Frankly, nobody cared about Jobs sexual life

Uh, yeah they did. The Lisa Brennan-Jobs paternity thing was a serious black eye for Steve.

https://www.google.com/search?q=steve+jobs+paternity
> I'm entering a short postdoctoral programme at the moment and my salary in the UK is about 1.7 times what I would expect in the states

It sounds like you're working in academia, a sector which is under pressure from way too many people who would like to enter it. It's pretty likely you don't want to and won't get to work in the United States in this sector: the market is very saturated.

For other positions in the United States, it's more plausible to find comparable or better salaries. In many areas you can also expect lower tax burdens and lower costs of living, especially if you're interested in owning a small home of your own or if you expect to operate a motor vehicle (your petrol prices are twice as high as ours because taxes). Rising medical costs are an ongoing concern, and recent reform attempts have done an excellent job at not fixing this, while possibly also undermining the economic recovery in general. :(

"Workers' rights" are in fact more limited, but the labor market is typically much more dynamic and as such when there is hiring going on in the economy at large, it's much easier to actually get hired to begin with and change jobs to a better employer. It's especially much easier to break into new fields as a young person -- youth unemployment has long been a chronic problem throughout much of the EU, including the UK, and it's only at the bottom of this last recession that the US has reached similar levels, despite many EU nations having more favorable demographics which should mitigate against it. (The US has more illegal immigrants than some EU member nations have citizens.) So this is sort of a risk / reward tradeoff.

Now myself, I'm pondering a job offer which would put me in London in a year, so I'll get a glimpse at things over there in practice before too long. :)
If you can avoid following your 'passion' it's Not passion
> Why express paths as a string if you have the ability to encode it as an array in json?

Probably because it's mimicking XPath, which was the analogous string but for XML. Think regex as well, which is a string.
You might have missed all the Snowden / NSA posts if you think the first paragraph is really true.
Certainly Article 377 is bad and so was the Supreme Court judgement ("[only] 200 people" being the nadir, see http://www.outlookindia.com/article/The-Unbearable-Wrongness...), but given that people still have issues with religious, caste, same-gotra, etc marriage, might not India have to tackle those first?
> It's really good that young gay people to have so many prominent and positive role models now,

Agree! Though as an avid sports fan, I'm disappointed in the sports world for not embracing this topic. With so many professional athletes odds are in favour of many a house hold name being gay, yet there are only a small handful of sports people that are openly gay.

It is inspiring that Tim Cook has done this, and I really hope top athletes look to this and follow suit. Tim Cook will positively influence many, but not as many as say, Michael Jordan or Christiano Ronaldo.

I suppose this is yet another example of our industry being thought leaders.
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What benefit does this afford over existing SNMP tools?

http://www.oid-info.com/get/1.3.6.1.2.1.25.4.2.1

or

http://www.oid-info.com/get/1.3.6.1.2.1.25.5.1.1
reminds of a HN favorite story, about how the study of bombers links up with work done today

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1671172/how-a-story-from-world-w...
In Praise of the Hand Tally
I highly recommend taking a look at react's immutability helper update[0] for these kinds of operations. Keeps your data structure persistent and intelligently re-uses internal objects when possible.

0. http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/update.html
*she coined the term "banality of evil."
Bitcasa also does zero-knowledge encryption. We're working on collaboration, but I don't have an ETA.
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> "indefensible interpretation"

They believe they have defenses for their interpretations, and that's all that should matter from a religious liberty perspective. Neither you nor I nor the government qualify as the final arbiter of "true Christianity" or "correct Bible interpretation" (or "true Islam" or "true Mormonism" or any of the other religions which might object to same-sex marriage.) It's not my place, or yours, or the government's, to force our understanding of what the Bible says onto groups that think the Bible (or the Pope or the Synod) says otherwise.

If members of the community wish to perform acts which are against a particular church's beliefs, they don't need to perform those acts in that church (and if you want bacon, you don't need to shop at a kosher deli.) There are plenty of alternatives -- like you said, other churches that will happily perform those ceremonies for them, or even the courthouse.

EDIT: just so there's no misunderstanding: I support your right to have whatever relationship you want to have with whatever consenting adult(s) you want to have it with. But none of us have the right to tell anybody else that they have to participate in the celebration of any relationship. (If a church wants to turn away Brittney Spears because her understanding of marriage offends them, that's also their right.)
I don't drink coffee either. I drink water and unsweetened iced tea. That's about the only things that I drink that is non alcoholic.
This was an interesting article. However, one thing that wasn't discussed is the correlation between existing population density and resistance to new construction. San Francisco is notoriously opposed to new construction, but it does have relatively high population density by US standards. I'm not saying that this means the opposition to new construction is justified, but I do think we might want to investigate the possibility that population density may play a bigger role than political liberalism.

This could be a difficult one to tease out, mainly because there aren't all that many highly dense areas that lean heavily conservative in the the US. New York, Boston, San Francisco, Washington, Seattle… they're pretty much all liberal cities (as measured by percentage voting for Obama vs Romney).
You never mentioned whether or not you would be willing to defend my right to believe what I believe....
Of course he's entitled to his opinion. The public is also entitled to use whatever criteria they wish to choose where they spend their dollars, ad views, or seek employment. A board of directors is also entitled to weigh the effects of its officers public statements and actions on the future health of the company.

Note that I draw a very strong distinction here between officers and typical employees -- typical employees are not allowed to speak for the company unless specifically authorized, whereas a high-profile officer's public conduct is more inextricably tangled with the company itself. Someone might rightly interpret Eich's donation as an indication that Mozilla would be a less-friendly environment for a gay programmer than another company would, because Eich's opinions and policies are directly able to shape the culture therein.

There's no magic here. There are many ways in which executives are subject to substantially greater scrutiny than ordinary employees. This probably sucks for them, but in today's environment, it's part of the job. Changing that - well, that's a longer discussion.
It's also worth noting that the level of discourse is higher because low-quality content (e.g. Reddit-level puns) is appropriately dismissed.
Yeah, I know, the US is literally the only place on earth where many people are still religious. South America and Africa and India and countries with Muslim majorities are totally not religious. Just those weird Americans.
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