skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Large and small are fuzzy metrics. A subset of non binary thinking (see Kosko, the model of probability and the hypercube, etc). "Jeremy is short," well - to a 5'0 person, I'm freaking tall.

To Yao Ming, I'm short. Trouble is, we each of us technologists tend towards introversion (been struggling since...well, take my age and then subtract however many years my communication skills were less than stellar).

Ever try to raise money for an idea based on numbers? It's like trying to land a date based on the size of your...real estate. Sooner or later, another yutz shows up, plops his drink on the counter and announces that the yacht he just stepped off was twice the size of yours.

Ya, it's never a fun game because it necessitates that binary outcome. Suffice to say good tools in the wrong hands can still be used to chop off your own feet if you don't pay attention.
maybe this is what it's referring to?

Congress 'Endorses' Warrantless Collection, Storage of U.S. Communications

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/12/11/congress-endo...
Probably at the age of ten, the moment when I got to understand the concept of a loop, be it a while or a for loop, I started to realize the endless possibilities one can do with coding. 20 years later, with more sophisticated tools in the pipe, I'm still looking for the boundaries of what is possible and what isn't.
If you want to understand Meditations and Marcus Aurelius, you should read The Inner Citadel by Pierre Hadot. For instance, there are good reasons for his writing in Greek, for the format of the book, for the repetitiveness, etc.
> Why do you code?

I'm decent at it and it puts food on the table. Sorry ...
Linode seems to be going strong. I wouldn't dare put anything in production on a rickety shop like DO. Especially after the whole controversy of them taking down someone's blog because it criticized some VP's friend at Google. DO feels like a company founded by devs first and sysadmins last.

DO seems to be for devs farting around and kids putting up wordpress sites. Its not really competing with shops like Linode or Rackspace. That may change, but everything about DO screams, "Do not use me for production."

Meanwhile, my 7 or so production VMs on Linode are going strong and now have been migrated to their new SSD-based platform.
Absolutely. I don't need $10 droplets for all of my internal servers, so the cost adds up significantly. I run a cluster of $5 droplets as well as a few large units, and I'm sure many people have similar use cases.
US states vie to lure medical tourists seeking healthcare alongside vacations
This site is literally so hard to read. Are you going for page views or relevant content?
Call Levels App – A Simple and Elegant Way to Track Financial Markets
What's the best way to check allocation theft using NR?
If you're saying, a bug should always be investigated downstream before reporting it upstream, then I agree.

If you're saying, there are scenarios where segfaults caused by upstream code are not upstream bugs, then I disagree.
Flights grounded across UK as air traffic control computers fail
How do they pick? Maybe they need help picking better. Seems like there's a lot of people around here interested in trends and intelligence that could help with that.
As mraleph said. On node, inline limit is defined by max_inlined_source_size which is by default 600. Adding 2 characthers will reproduce the behaviour.
On Chrome this limit might be different.

I just used twitter to have many people testing in differents browser (and so JS engine) and so comparing behaviours :)
The same distinction is what allows us to express outrage in the Eric Garner case.
Realm is trying to persist your computed properties
Classic arcade game TRON on a cloth modelling grid
He's probably referring to the average American, and someone with a predicted savings in the mid seven figures is certainly not among that demographic.
All the turnkey solutions for my line of business are garbage. I used to be a data scientist and moved into sports science, and wow, you should see what passes for "good software" in this industry.
Everyone can still be screwed at the same time you're OK. Unless you're implying you're just average median dude.

Some experiments can be run in a spreadsheet. I assumed 40 years of work (optimistic) and google reports a median personal income of 32140/yr and average savings rate of 3.2%. Shadowstats reports an average inflation rate around 5%, thats sounds about right. The S+P 500 total return over the last half century has been 7% but it oscillates insanely from -5 to +17 percent per decade. I think it very unrealistic to assume the 50s or 90s will ever happen again, but whatever, I feel optimistic this morning. I modeled in a 1% annual decline in income, which is lower than actual but sounds vaguely realistic.

My spreadsheet model shows an inflation adjusted retirement nest egg of $51K for joe 6 pack median middle class dude assuming its never dipped into for medical, educational, or unemployment issues for J6P or his kids or parents (in other words almost everyone will not have the money). I'm also assuming smooth economic growth (LOL) for best compounding results.

It still affects you as most investment advisors assume 0% inflation, 10% rates of economic growth, etc. In a world of poverty for almost everyone, that sounds rather optimistic.

Some other interesting experiments... 15% annual growth rate still only gets joe 6 pack to about 10% of your goal.

Joe6Pack at 1% annual wage increase (which is totally unrealistic in era of long term decline) and 15% annual economic growth rate (LOL) and triple the median savings rate at 10% of gross income being saved for 40 years and no unemployment, medical issues, or educational costs for J6P or his parents or kids (LOL) is still only about 1/3 of your goal.
Been coding almost non stop since 1982 when I turned 8 (birthday computer).

I like it because it's creating something from nothing. I like writing for the same reason (I'm better at programming though ;). For me the idea that I can simply get a <=$5 device of Ebay or the local thrash heap and open up infinite creativity, ideas, experimentation and even wealth is why my work and hobby is creating software. I don't have to anymore, but I like it and the more I learn about it the more I like it.
(Ah, yes, thank you, 900 million per minute. I typo'd.)

Nice performance page. It pre-answers my follow up question, which was how linear is scaling with more cores? Looks solid.
option 1 is far from 'nothing else', since I cannot get HBO, without suscribing to a whole package.

Option 2 will allow me to watch GoT, true, but I'd have to wait for the BR release.
Fun and profit. Simple enough, yeah?
A couple of times, the article mentions using:

> services and object references to propagate object changes between scopes.

There are so many ways to wire things up in Angular -- references, watches, broadcast/emit -- that I'd love to see some examples from the author, who seems to really know what he's doing.

For example, say I have a `userService` that maintains a small `user` model with username, name and roles properties. What's the most performant and maintainable way of "binding" to changes to this object so when I call, e.g.: `userService.logout()` somewhere, some component I write can pickup the change and adjust it's state / UI accordingly?
How are the Mac and Linux Mono versions? Are they production ready? It's not really about the "bigger challenge", but being able to ship code that solves real problems for clients.
Korean Fan Death
It's worth noting that much of what Irvine lays out in this book is closer to Epicureanism than Stoicism, per say. For a better treatment of Stoicism, I'd recommend The Inner Citadel by Pierre Hadot.
Ok, I skimmed LGBT article. Would you be willing to skim the following white paper on the subject? http://gallery.mailchimp.com/d0e55f3197099944345708652/files...
Because it's fun.

I love going from a blank slate to a working piece of software. I love that I can create things with just a terminal and a text editor.

The fact that I get paid to do it for a living is amazing, and something I find a little surreal from time-to-time.
Firstly, to show off!

Secondly, because it is very rewarding. To create something non-trivial and watch it work for the first time, after a dozens of failures, gives me a lot of satisfaction.

Wow, the question actually made me more aware of my motivation. It seems that everything I did was some case of "it looks simple, I can do it! Others will admire me. :)".

I, as a kid, played a lot of games on Amiga 500.
Naturally, I was amazed by them and didn't even dream of doing a game myself.
Later in life, a friend showed me how to do a 3d model in 3d Studio.

I liked it a lot, I could spend nights polishing minor details on car models (like those: http://hrekin.za.pl/)
As I was spending a lot of time in front of a computer, parents decided it would be nice thing for me to study Computer Science.

I remember, that my expectation then was something along the lines "They will teach me there how to make an application like 3d Studio Max", or actually any other desktop application. I was truly believing it would be the case. I was trying really hard to learn as much to make it happen.

But still, even 3 years after graduation, I didn't know how to write a desktop application which does some very rudimentary things. I was expecting it would be very easy to it, since everybody else seemed to do it: you click on a file with a certain extension and appropriate app opens.

Today, I am actually writing a very simple desktop application with all the pieces in place.

Of course, in the course, I had successes in more job related fields. I did survive a financial app maintenance and even got to sell one Android application to a commercial bank - which wasn't trivial, since it had some advanced computer vision stuff implemented (in pure C, no libraries used). I also wrote a C# game.
These reasons are why I need to get into new things all the time; they keep it exciting and they actually make other people to think that i'm practicing magic.
Motorola expected to sell a lot more hardware (read phones) and when there wasn't demand they cut bait.
Graphite's rendering functions are its real beauty. I looked at both OpenTSDB and InfluxDB as replacements, and neither have anything close to the power of Graphite's rendering.

I haven't been thrilled with grafana as a dashboard for OpenTSDB, either. I hadn't seen Cyanite.
It wasn't an option for me as a kid. I was told I "wasn't good at math" so not to bother trying to program. Later I learned to work through those issues, and now it's accessible to me.

Apart from the motivation to prove to myself that I can do it, it's fun. Nothing quite like getting some piece of code to run successfully, or making something that people enjoy using.
"It is unlikely however that your code contains a lot of loops like this."

Absolutely agree.
I enjoy writing code because I love computers. The ability to give the computer instructions that it will eventually understand and execute is the exact kind of empowerment I have sought out since I first touched MS-DOS at 4 years old.

Unfortunately, the hobby was never discouraged by my parents (constantly told to get off the computer because I was "melting my brain", being heavily pushed towards business and law related subjects etc.). Although I can't entirely blame them, the result was I lost interest around high school. I didn't rediscover my passion until about my Junior year of college (thanks to Skyrim modding, honestly).

I'm here now, and I love it. I'm currently learning C and I look forward to playing catchup with everyone who had a real head start.
I'm a Romanian, a country that's pretty close to Russia and I am one that suffers for what the Ukrainians are going through with Russia, because I can see how the same thing could happen in Basarabia (Moldova) and there are already signs of that. Russia historically has been occupying territories, getting rid of any political dissent by effectively killing or deporting people, while crushing their national identity. I hate Russia for what they did after the secret pact from Yalta, for the soviet induced hunger that happened after that and for the years of communism we endured.

It's been only 24 years since we escaped their control and apparently we've been lucky, but now Putin is destroying any chance of having a peaceful neighborhood. War is effectively at our borders and Putin is to be blamed.

So spare me rhetoric about every government or country being the same. No, they are not equal. And I hope the Putin administration will receive what it deserves.
Looks nice, but could do with a max execution time or some other limiter.

loop do
puts 1
done
Ask HN: Good anti-virus software for windows?
I'm using Bitdefender and it honestly is a resource hog. I'm wondering what anti-virus, firewall programs windows users on HN can recommend.

I don't mind paying but honestly feel like sometimes I am getting ripped off by the AV vendors.
In Europe, Denmark's "Flexicurity"[0] model is often touted as an exemplary system. I don't know the details of the implementation though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexicurity
money. i like money. and it pays well for very little effort.
Ok I searched a few porn movies to verify whether they have it completely or not. Glad to tell you that it's really the 'Pirate Bay'
He's 43, but your comment makes it sound you think he's older.

I'm not sure he's a great example. He has inertia and a lot of money made from when he was much younger. Take an average person at that age, middle class income, family, etc, and see if they can accomplish life changing goals that they just started chasing.

I'm not going to agree with the poster above that claimed that "At 40+ you realize you've pretty much accomplished everything you're going to with your life." but I think as a generalization it's probably closer to truth than feels comfortable (I'm 37).
Unless he's running this in an incredibly powerful machine on an incredible well connected network, nobody will be DOS'ing anyone worse from that machine than they could do by spinning up a single VM somewhere.
IT failure closes London airspace
* It gives me hope. It's the only activity (for me) that may one day lead me to fully control my destiny (i.e., side project -> lifestyle startup)

* I can be god-like. When working on a side project, I get to make ALL the decisions.

* It's rewarding. Being able to take an idea born purely from my thoughts, and make it into something real, is inherently rewarding. Although I guess this applies to any creative endeavor, with coding it's cheap (all I need is a computer) and the feedback loop is short.
Something to the effect of the low earth orbit and the number of satellites makes Iridium really useful in the mountainous terrain of Afghanistan.
Because I'm okay at it, and it appears to create enough value for society that I can capture some to feed my real passions: contemporary art and architecture.
The reason it is important is because this case is going to set a legal precedent for a lot of important topics. It's worth reading up on both sides of it. http://freeross.org/
That's what I know to do, but sometimes it get boring.
It crystallizes my ideas. In more than one way. It still staggers me that I can think up complicated structures that do entirely new things, even impossible things, and put them into practice using only my fingers and mind. I love architecture more than code, but code is the way to bring the architecture to life.

It also works the other way around. Code helps me think. It's rigid and exact, and doesn't allow for vagueness in ideas. It means that, when I'm coding, I'm required to think things through. It forces me to bring blurry notions into sharp focus.

And lastly, I believe it makes me a better person. Programming is a refined balancing act between abstracting and precision, between simplicity and complexity. Doing that balancing act makes me more capable of handling other situations. It trains your mind to understand complexity and reduce it, just as it trains it to see the problems with simplicity that make it more complex.

Oh, and it's also a great way to pay the bills. But I would still be coding if it didn't, I'd probably still be coding if I had to actually pay money to do so.
An alternative may be to call someone with a valid license to come collect the car. Towing isn't absolutely necessary.
URIBeacons
DHT is a way to discover peers who also have pieces of the same torrent you are downloading. It's an alternative to using a centralized Tracker to tell your client about who has the pieces of the file you need.
A program is a building of thought. It is costless to build, it is weightless, and it grows easily under our typing hands.

I like the puzzle of creating fictitious miniature, living worlds, over which I [can sometimes] exert complete control. I like words and names. I like formal elegance. It is also pleasant that I can get paid to do this in a very stable, corporate environment.
Hangover severity may be partly genetic
I felt dirty, but this made me laugh out loud:

>While I'm here, let me mention that journalctl's default behavior of 'show all messages since the beginning of time in forward chronological order' is about the most useless default I can imagine.
The Iridium GO! device is a pretty cool Wi-Fi hotspot that works anywhere outside in the world.
Sounds plausible - I note that the paging links don't work. Compare http://thepiratebay.ee , which has the same problem.
Does Crashplan have a backup service for NAS'? or does this involve some type of NAS mount as USB drive?
I always had a fascination about writing code ....
Coding is fun .... and also the way of making money for me.
I understand, I also agree with your suggestion. I guess my point is really that even though a nice ideal, based on my experience, likely not attainable.
IsoHunt unofficially resurrects the Pirate Bay
Freedom for me/security for the people close to me, I guess. I was one of the lucky few who made a lot off Bitcoin, and paid off my dad's mortgage with the profits. I think I work harder now than if his house had ended up being foreclosed, as now I realize what an outlier that opportunity was.

It's becoming increasingly hard to find inspiration for the things that conflict with my personal ambitions(school, getting an internship at a megacorp etc), I regret to admit. As I'm typing this I'm sitting in my last networking lecture of the semester, and it's difficult to find inspiration to pay attention to this to say the least ha. If I'm working on a freelance project I actually care about, I will work at 100% for days at a time without any need for external contributing factors. I'd be content at a startup living out of my car working 16 hours a day coding/moving boxes/anything for peanuts(I mean as long as everyone else was doing the same of course), but I want my parents and other immediate family to be financially secure.

I guess it's hard to find inspiration until I'm willing to sacrifice to attain whatever goal I have in mind. I first went the business route, wanted to become a quant and wore suits with the rest of 'em. I then realized that if I really wanted something, I wouldn't have to watch corny youtube videos to motivate me to go do it.
Guess I'm the only one who had a cron job restarting the PulseAudio process regularly.
It is also possible that the evidence was collected illegally.
>I found that when the output is piped it doesn't invoke the pager. This seems reasonable to me.

This might be less being smart and getting out of the way. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Less_%28Unix%29#Usage:

>By default, less displays the contents of the file to the standard output (one screen at a time). If the file name argument is omitted, it displays the contents from standard input (usually the output of another command through a pipe). If the output is redirected to anything other than a terminal, for example a pipe to another command, less behaves like cat.
Microsoft makes its MSN consumer apps available on iOS, Android, Amazon devices
So, I have been looking at this implementation for several minutes. Ignoring what others have already posted about the code being way too dense for no benefit, how is this a hash table? It looks like a bog-standard associative array.
What's the current best guide for learning AngularJS? Is angularjs.org my best bet, or would you recommend some other resource?
It is the default Heroku error page, displays when your server crashes it has nothing to do with client side code such as AngularJS
Palm-sized drone follows you round [video]
For data you can get an unlimited plan (includes SMS) for $150/mo.
Badly, have photos all over on different drives. It's always something I want to organize, but never get around to it.
It depends on which program and what you consider a lot. There are three main disibility programs: SSI, SSDI as the dependant of a retired worker, and SSDI as a disabled worker.

Everyone is eligible for SSI but pays the least (maximum $733 / month federal, some states add a small amount). Someone on SSI whose parent has enough qualifying working quarters can switch to SSDI at 1/2 of the benefit the retiree would be eligible for at full retirement age. This currently tops out at around $1400 / month. Finally, if you yourself have worked enough qualifying quarters (6-20 depending on age) and become disabled you may be eligible for primary SSDI. These top out at around $2600 / month, but average much less. An additional benefit of SSDI, is that after two years a recipient becomes eligible for Medicare.
Before I became a programmer, I wanted to be a freelance illustrator, but then I realised I can't be creative for anyone else but myself.

As a programmer, I still need to be creative but in a much different, much more straightforward way. I've got clearly defined problem that I need to solve, and I solve it.

I do sometimes find I get emotionally invested in whether I solve the problem or not - so if I'm stuck on a problem for a whole day and haven't solved it by the evening, I go back home dejected and depressed. Vice versa, if I've done everything I wanted to do, I'm in a great mood all evening. These sorts of ups and downs make my job exciting and refreshing.
As long as a raise of income of $N docks you at most N - (whatever you consider minimum wage) dollars in welfare, you won't be outright disincentivized from working.
So I have no dog in the systemd fight. However. $SYSTEMD_LESS is quite possibly one of the most aggressively stupid ways to force a bad UX on someone.

I mean seriously. If you have $LESS defined then you obviously have an expectation that less will behave in a certain way. An expectation that has in all probability built up over years of tweaking your shell.

For some other application to ignore that preference and in fact force it's own preference on you and only allow you to use your own preference for how less should work by reading not the docs for less but the docs for an unrelated application? That breaks so many rules it's just sad.

Yes it's easily fixable with a quick peek at the man page for systemd which might not be the first thing you check given you've been using less for years. Systemd's manpage is the last thing I would check. First would be what is my $LESS set to? Second would be is less still less? At some point it would occur to me that maybe systemd is being aggresively stupid and check their manpage.

But given I have no particular preference I would be inclined to assume it couldn't possibly be systemd's fault. I must have messed something up.

Put this minor annoyance in the middle of attempting to debug a segfaulting init? That's what we call a major annoyance.
Because, while it is a tired old trope that mathematically/technically-minded people are not creative in a traditional sense, it is my only creative outlet.