skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Come live in Mexico and tell me that the drug war is working. And once you are at it, try to explain how the potential risk of getting some more people addicted is better than 40,000 deaths, as many "disappearances" and many more kidnappings a year (just in Mexico).

If you think that the drug problem only involves the US, please read this article [1]. Maybe by the time you reach the end of the article, those libertarians don't look so libertarian anymore.

[1] http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/a-country-disappeared/
I love my HN fellows who love to _hack_ others's comments :)
> Just wait until it happens to a middle-class or upper-middle-class group.

These things don't happen overnight--there will be many years as the class of jobs that you're talking about becomes slowly less well-regarded, until when they disappear no one will care.
The Creepy, Kitschy and Geeky Patches of US Spy Satellites
As an embedded programmer with a strong background in C/C++, I'm always a bit disappointed that simple bit operations are considered magical by programmers today.

The game looks really cool and sleek, but I can't understand how the observation that a two state tile can actually be stored as single bit is blog post worthy.

As computers are growing stronger and faster than ever before, ram and storage are multiplying by size everyday, it seems that the bit fiddling skills of the past are becoming obsolete.

Languages like Java and JS which make bit-wise operations and manipulations difficult aren't making the situation any better.
This article leaves a lot to be desired. No perspective from a security expert on how law enforcement backdoors are also backdoors for others. Mention of non-existent end-to-end encryption for Gmail and Yahoo email (might be referring to the end-to-end project, but that's not even close to done). They probably meant to say server-to-server email communications. Also refer to Silent Circle as "in development." Finally, the title demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the past year and a half of disclosures. This is Verizon doing what Verizon does: find something they can charge extra for and slap together a poorly thought out and inadequately engineered app for it.
Likewise, except I started using finder with Snow Leopard. I use it on 3 macs at home all the time, and at work I use Explorer all day. I also find neither better or worse, they are just different.
There are favors and then there is the bidding of a powerful hand.
I don't understand your point. Two people did something bad, so that means the promotion of LGBT rights as a whole is wrong?

Would you like to count how many heterosexuals are in prison for doing the same?
Here's why retailers keep sending you catalogs
Obviously if we aren't as bad as someone else we don't need to worry about our own misdoings.
As a counter-anecdote, I'm in a very similar boat as the parent comment, and I have been astounded how consistently all the people in irc who definitely could make me feel like an idiot are unwilling to do so. It is a really refreshing experience after years of going into rooms full of arrogant people who actually don't know very much, as opposed to Rust's irc where everyone seems to know everything and are humble nonetheless.
Keep believing the sob stories. One of the most frequently visited websites is "barely paying for the servers", yeah right. Wish Wikileaks would publish real numbers and profit they make.
It actually does have the potential to break things, because to do this today requires you to explicitly list out all the types of the return type (which should really be considered implementation details). If a user of your function accidentally relies on one of these details, their code would be broken once you switch from the fully-specified return type to an anonymized return type.
Same problem on Colemak. (although less so thank Dvorak)
I read more than half of it and I learned literally nothing, other than that there exists a "male idiot theory". Luckily it's still okay to call males idiots, unlike if you say the same about females. It saddens me that there are people producing papers like this. But then again, most of the work done by humans is mundane and pointless.
> we become friendly and I talk about it a lot.

Loose lips sink ships.
The dandelion principle... Factory Records https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIXz80LnDjo
I should clarify, I don't mean poor judgement in the "he's a good kid, he just had poor judgement" sense. He might be a terrible person for all I know. Heck, he probably is. And I wouldn't be surprised if he wanted to murder people. I meant it in the sense that I don't think he is capable of finding someone willing and able.
Full text: http://cl.ly/0x3n0Z0A3a0q
I think you need to expand on your review criteria.

Recruiters are incentivized by the companies that hire them for two things:

1) Providing a steady pipeline of candidates for their clients.

2) Maximizing the compensation numbers for candidates they close.

It's arguable that a recruiter that pushes hard to get you a good salary "cares" about you. But they won't care too much if the company they get you into completely burns you out and treats you poorly. Nor will they spend much time prepping you for interviews if they don't see you as a sure bet to land a position with one of their clients.
It should be mentioned that there is a huge bunch of various implementations of the statsd pattern; depending on ones existing infrastructure one may prefer one or the other. Heres a comprehensive list of them: http://www.joemiller.me/2011/09/21/list-of-statsd-server-imp...
Zurich = Central location in Europe, natives speak multiple languages, science and R&D already there (pharmaceutical).
Everyday. I'm heavily using photos in my line of work so it's necessary.
There's definitely a qualitative argument. Certainly that's what you see if you turn on any ad-supported media, and you're inundated with that "quality of life" everyone is selling to the middle-class.

But for example, you can pay ~$1000/mo for a family of 4 for "Silver" health insurance and earning > $63k you would have to pay the full amount. Credits pay for almost the entire cost (aka $12,000 of tax-free income from the Fed) if your household income is $33k. So under just one program (ACA), $30k of incremental work disqualifies you from $12k of assistance. And that's for the same exact plan/service.

Then you get below $33k household income and instead of paying thousands for a Silver plan with a $6,000 family deductible, you pay basically nothing and have no deductible for Medicaid / Medi-Cal. That's effectively a $24,000 / year value for a family of 4. [1]

In both cases, you can argue about access to top-specialists for chronic care, but certainly access to acute care coverage is equivalent (i.e. hospitals can't base their ER services based on ability to pay). In many ways Medicaid is better because deductibles are a hell of a lot lower than $13,500 Bronze / $6,000 Silver.

By the way, Whole Foods takes food stamps. So that's another example where you get straight up cash for not working. Up to $8,400 / year, cash on a debit card, which phases out as household income goes to ~$30k / year (plus allowed deductions) for a family of 4. [2]

If you have a qualifying disability and have to make the choice of giving up work and going on DI, assuming you have the work history credits, it's another up to $31,000 / year of income (not entirely tax-free though). [3]

That's over $60k right there, and there are many more programs to account. It would add up to well over $100k except you can't fully stack all of the programs, e.g. CA SDI payments count against SSDI payments.

I was thinking about making a "how much do you lose by working" micro-site as an excuse to play with D3 and interactive visualization, targeted to residents of California, but the whole thing was too infuriating I haven't mustered the motivation to do it.

[1] - http://www.coveredca.com/shopandcompare/#incomeGuidelines

[2] - http://www.stanworks.com/community-reports/other-services/co...

[3] - http://www.disabilitysecrets.com/how-much-in-ssd.html
The Airplane Apartment
This may largely be because we don't actually know everything, thanks to the fact that Rust changes so quickly that even the experts must constantly re-learn the language. :) But I'm very invested in maintaining that atmosphere of respect as we progress towards stability.
If you have evidence that Russian troops...

It was the (trigger-happy) proxy forces, more likely.
I'd say, we are not demonizing Putin hard enough
Did the screen keep waving for anyone else after stopping the game? I'm feeling a bit woozy...
Yes, I've never had any issues with it. I pretty much only use it when I'm going to my PDF's directory.

(I know you said not to, but for pretty much every file operation, I use the terminal.)
What's worse is some damn "George Martin" guy published a whole bunch of Game of Thrones spoilers 15 years ago.
I don't know if you have kids but I do.

I don't want my kids to be exposed to any form of expression supporting any sexual lifestyle. In fact, I don't event want my kids to see a blurred photo of Kim Kardashian's naked butt on TV.

There is zero prejudice in this value statement. And most parents agree with my position.

When my kids are adults they can decide about sexual relationships for themselves. Until then I decide for them and I want a legal system that supports my decisions.
How to lose $6,537 and create a product nobody wants
Cocoatech's Path Finder - I love it.
The Age of Miracles: A novel, Karen Thompson Walker - ever wonder how will homo sapiens survive?

Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman - taught me how to make better decisions

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, Chip Heath - improved my ability to persuade.
And I have the choice to walk into a store, lift something, and leave without paying. I could probably do it without any consequences. But it's morally wrong so I chose not to do it. Your choice to not pay for things has always been there. It's just now easy to do it without getting caught and it's easier than ever to ignore or excuse (it's not available on my terms/it's a copy/it's not stealing) the moral consequences.
h seems to be the hash.

h = k & (SIZE - 1)
I like the simple gameplay and music.sharing the highscore on twitter would be a fun feature.
Show HN: Stoneboard – A GitHub milestone visualizer
Note that I am not jarcane.
I have a pet peeve. I have setup OSX to show the hidden and dotfiles. So, everywhere I go using finder (say mounted drives), I get that .DS_Store file. Is there a way to avoid seeing that in the list?
The main function Wired magazine served early on was to give the writers of the old BoingBoing magazine (years before the current website) a paying job. So that justified its existence for quite a while.
I've found that I like some older magazines. Fangoria, Cinefantastique, etc.

These magazines went out of business years ago, back issues are difficult to find, and it's unlikely they'll ever be available digitally legitimately.

So yes, it's not always about getting it for free... in some cases, it's about getting it at all.

But on the "free" angle, it's not about that for me, or not entirely. I want to punish the copyright holders (and if only I could). They've subverted the system and turned into rent-seekers. It was never intended for them to set up their descendants with royalties for all eternity, nor is this an unintentional good thing that sane people should support.
Is there some sort of internet award for a paper about the Darwin Awards which wins an Ig Nobel prize?
Holey shit it's Regex :). Old ARGA dev here :).
Easiest way to take an idea and run with it.

Except compared to daytrading. Eek.
The major (and really only) criticism of Finder is a lack of an "address" bar. I would really like a bar where I can change directories quickly instead of doing ALL navigation using mouse clicks. Yes, I know you can invoke a Command-Shift-G to do this in a secondary menu, but Explorer has this built in. Having an address bar with tab completion and unix file-system shortcut support (i.e. "~", ".", "..") would be great!
Well, in this case, there is no difference --unless you want to end up like regime critiquing reporters often end up.
Disk42: Open-source encrypted cloud storage
you're missing the point... SystemD is about RedHat trying to take over the entire Linux ecosystem. It's intentionally designed so if you use any part of it (which there are good parts) then you have to use all of it (which there are many bad parts). Oh and conveniently RedHat is the main project maintainers.
Chutes and Ladders via Markov Chains with D3 Demo
This is one of my favorite phenomena because it underscores a basic human emotion: being 100% confident that something is not true, yet simultaneously unable to escape the feeling that is can’t be completely untrue.

This sounds a lot like my OCD. I'm an atheist, I don't believe in a "higher power." And yet, I feel compelled to do certain things a certain number of times all because well, "it can't hurt, and just in case." I wish I could explain it better but that article is exactly how I feel about my OCD.
What if there's a conflict? Who merges it? There would be thousands updates every day.
The logical structure of the two arguments is the same.

I don't want my kids to be exposed to public promotion of any sexual lifestyle. In fact I don't even want them to see a blurred photo of Kim Kardashian's naked butt on TV.

LGBT community can rent out a conference center and hold the rally there, advertising it publicly and denying minors access to the premises. This is perfectly legal under today's LGBT laws in Russia.
I see. So Putin has made media to lie. What an asshole!
Auschwitz Survivor Discusses the Angel of Death
No.

The levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) is estimated to be far greater for PV and wind. Why? The operation and management (O&M) for PV and Wind is insanely high. Grid scale PV has to be continuously cleaned with deionized water because dust and greenery can dramatically decrease efficiency. If a leaf lands on a cell, energy builds up like a capacitor in the shadowed area, and it can eventually decimate the whole cell.

On wind: the intermittency is overwhelming, and the cost to deal with that at base load is estimated in the trillions without even adding an extra megawatt to the grid.

In an urbanized setting, plants must be able to concentrate energy using small land mass. Neither wind or PV can do this at scale.

Some panel data on LCOE in this paper:

http://www.nber.org/papers/w17695.pdf
Same happened to one of my production nodes as well. I had to take a snapshot and migrate to another physical node as suggested by the support team. Had about 6 reboots without warning in the last 2 months.

I love DO, but sometimes the reboots without warning can be annoying.
I like it too, it reminds me of Mass Effect 2's music, galaxy map in particular (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1fJoBDP6Fo)
Well the core of the issue here is you can't really staticly link against a library that depends on dlopen/dlsym (nss system is built around this).

I mean, you could, but now your staticly linked binary still depends on other dlsym'd code. So whats the point?

(Not trying to make an argument that this is good or bad behaviour)
Or woman.
Containerization. CoreOS is pretty much built around systemd, and RH has publically stated that they will be focusing on cloud going forward.

Systemd even has the capability of supporting systemd within containers that then talk to systemd on the host OS level.
I use a 2TB Synology NAS that's backed up to Amazon's extremely cheap Glacier backup service.
Ask HN: How often do you expect a raise in salary?
I know it's tied to your performance, company, etc, but in general terms, if you're doing a normal decent job as a programmer in a software company. How often do you ask for a raise? how much of a raise do you expect?.
You hit the nail on the head but you didn't drive it far enough. You forgot to mention how those poor stupid little web programmers also secretly want to be awesome like you and that's why they keep doing this.
I use totalfinder on OSX to make up for a lot of finder's defeciencies.
On Irrational Fear
Because maybe they're not interested in your monetization strategy. It seems disingenuous to pretend to be about honesty and openness when the only value to any investor down the road would be the size and targeted nature of your user database.
Considering the authors of the paper are all males it's a strong endorsement of their own theory. "MIT exists, just look at what we produced".
Linode bet the wrong way by prioritising more cores over SSDs and I think this slip up is what gave DO room to enter the market. Had Linode moved to SSDs earlier and offered their cheapest VM @ $10 instead of $20, DO's trajectory may have been a little different. Also, Linode was (and still is) very bad at marketing imho. DO definitely spanked them on that front (both through their content marketing strategy and just by virtue of their $5 SSD offering which caused all the geek hobbyists to jump over and start blogging about them).

Having said all of that, Linode are still going very strong and remain the much better option for production stuff. I have 3 machines with DO (two $5 ones and a $40 one) and about 15 with Linode (of varying sizes) and in my opinion Linode is head and shoulders above DO in terms of features, capability, professionalism and reliability. They just need to improve their marketing.
I know, but I'm telling that's understandable, but only acceptable IF the designer knows what he's talking about AND understands the problem/company.
help... choking... irony... too thick...
>>I am a programmer, but I can also weld and fix cars. This is because in high school I took some auto shop classes.

That's a pretty flippant dismissal of the knowledge required to either "fix cars" or "weld" for a living. My brother was an excellent welder and it's a very hard life.
I've been using this SO answer[0] as a list of good resources. The egghead.io videos have been most helpful to me, I really enjoy the "bite-sized" videos style and the way the speaker explains how attributes/vars relate to others in the application. Here's their specific page for beginning AngularJS.[1]

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14333857/how-to-master-a...

[1] https://egghead.io/articles/new-to-angularjs-start-learning-...
Well, if you take advantage of it may break stuff. Although this doesn't really qualify as a breaking change since older code is going to compile when it's introduced.
One word. Meditation.
Why would they suggest you to interview if they don't believe you are a fit? I think that's one of the criteria that differentiates good recruiters, that don't want to bring someone in to interview just to "keep the pipeline going".
Combo of Quicksilver + Finder + knowing the keyboard shortcuts works ok for me. Quicksilver partially covers for the lack of address-bar – CMD+Space and type the name of the folder you want to go to. I suppose Spotlight can serve the same purpose, but the killer app for me is moving files. I find the column-browse mode vastly superior to the others. Quicklook helps a lot. Ditto tabs.

For a sort of online alternative to the finder, check out: http://are.na/.
ROS101 Tutorial: Creating a Subscriber Using Git Hub
I fear that one user of this repository will be US software startups wanting to operate in China to show they want to enthusiastically play nice with the government.

To those companies I say: you're selling out a billion people's human rights for a buck! Shame on you!
There are plenty of straight folks doing this same thing but there is no ban on people from talking about heterosexuality around minors.
You probably shouldn't say "A 'Ton Of Customers' Are Leaving Box For Us Because There's Less Risk Of Being Hacked" in the current climate.
If anyone, like me, didn't know about 'track by' as a way to optimize ng-repeats, here's a couple of articles that explain what it is and why it's beneficial:

http://www.codelord.net/2014/04/15/improving-ng-repeat-perfo...

http://www.bennadel.com/blog/2556-using-track-by-with-ngrepe...
Content Marketers: Get your post converted into presentation for $0 until 12/24
Thanks, we changed it from http://imgur.com/gallery/h47E4Bj and updated the title.
You just brought my fiancee and I to tears. What a brilliant idea.
I'm roughly 50/50 using Finder or Terminal.

You haven't said what about Finder you don't like, so I've got no suggestions for you. For me, it does the job just fine. (Is it possible that you're just more accustomed to Windows?)
> it's easy to see how file sharing could become virtually nonexistent

It's also easy to see how financial privacy could become virtually nonexistent if digital currencies like Bitcoin take over. Most Bitcoin evangelists are turning a blind eye to this highly troubling downside when they extoll the virtues of a global cashless society.
There's no way to really prevent a system like that from being gamed by recruiters without entering into agreements with employers that have little to no upside for them.
> There are no verified cases of the alleged phenomenon

You could say the same thing for SIDS, but most people in the west accept that it exists.

> People around the world sleep indoors with fans on every day.

Then surely some of them must die in their sleep, so it shouldn't be that difficult to do a study.

It's one thing to say that no research has been done to study whether people who sleep under fans are more likely to die in their sleep, or to say that the South Korean belief is unjustified given the lack of evidence, but to say that it's 'obviously false' strikes me as being a little bit racially tinged.
I've been giving this a lot of thought lately because of Musk and Hawking. I think they are wrong, for a couple simple reasons.

1) A true AI wont care about us, or probably anything. It may just suicide.

2) Very simple to destroy. EMP, etc.
The disability topper was a huge scandal for the Long Island Rail Road in recent years:

<< About 600 Long Island Rail Road retirees will lose their disability benefits after a federal agency voted last week to halt the payments, amid a sweeping investigation into what prosecutors have called a major disability fraud scheme, according to agency documents and officials.

The agency, the United States Railroad Retirement Board, which over more than a decade granted disability benefits to hundreds of railroad retirees based on fraudulent medical evidence with little scrutiny, took the action on Thursday during a five-minute meeting at its headquarters in Chicago. The vote approved procedures under which the board will cut off the benefits, which, officials said, are costing the agency $2 million a month. >>

A bunch of the people involved have gone to prison over this fraud:

<< The first terminations came several weeks after the doctor who submitted what prosecutors have said was the bogus medical evidence underlying the applications of the roughly 600 retired railroad workers pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to fraud and conspiracy. The doctor, Peter J. Ajemian, told the judge in January that the retirees were not in fact disabled. …

Dr. Ajemian, who was sentenced to eight years in prison, is among 24 people — including retirees, another doctor and two facilitators — who since 2011 have pleaded guilty to federal charges resulting from of the investigation. Charges against eight other people indicted in the case are pending, and the investigation by the F.B.I. and federal prosecutors in Manhattan, officials have said, is continuing. >>

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/nyregion/600-long-island-r...
24-Hour Product Challenge: Creating the Beginning Swift Course
Zuckerberg declares no dislike button for Facebook
I use path finder, i find it way more powerful and useful than finder. http://www.cocoatech.com/pathfinder/
Just because it's one instruction doesn't make it faster