skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree with your general point, outside of course grain growing regions, there were too many things going in the '30s to ascribe the rural depopulation you note to just this.

Biggest example would be the federal government suppressing food production and trying to keep prices high, at the same time the same Department of Agriculture estimated 1/4 of the population was malnourished. As was confirmed by the WWII draft, and I've read that was one of the inputs into the Truman school lunch law.

As an extreme example, see Wickard v. Filburn where in 1942 the Supreme Court ruled the Federal government could prevent you from growing wheat on your own property for your own consumption.

Get back to the price supports, a big problem was an inability for all farmers/farms to make a living on what they could produce. Specialization meant it was much harder to try to provide for yourself everything you needed, and people responded to these incentives and opportunities in more urban areas, real ones at least once WWII production got started and the draft drained the manpower pool.

And of course a large part of this was increased mechanization, which pretty much never stopped replacing farm labor with machines. My parents are from farms and the Silent Generation, so they experienced the tail end of this. And they made very sure to "get off the farm", the work is brutal, a lot more so back then.
I can't either, and neither can my wife or any of our 6 kids. Please send 80.
Oracle stock at all time high on cloud growth
Barcode-in-barcode attacks [pdf]
Looks like they changed it to "All iPad hardware with iOS 6 and above". Which means no iPad 1. :(
Elasticsearch can run with Zookeeper. Zookeeper is pretty solid. Also, MSSQL with AlwaysOn is something which seems very robust too.
Agreed. Sites not loading for me, but I've looked into this nonsense from time to time over the last 15 years.

A couple of issues I remember:

1. They only publish results for positive events. They only use pseudorandom data, not sampling other time frames of their existing data

2. Their random source showed consistent bias (I believe it was something like 51% chance of 1 vs 49% of 0. This is after Von Neumann whitening which means they have some additional biases in their random sampling
The observation is, in EU countries with nationalized healthcare you don't get a hospital bill. In the US you can have good health insurance and still get a bill that bankrupts you and leaves you homeless. You can't rate shop in advance of getting rear-ended.
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Lightshow – Test grammars with GitHub's syntax highlighter
Your comment doesn't imply that they will stop either. Advocating for change doesn't mean you'll get any.
Therein lies the problem. The government gets to approach the issue from "It's not explicitly in the Constitution, therefore we can do anything we want," when it is doubtful that the spirit of the document intended peoples digital communications to be handled differently than their physical communication.
I wish more companies released their pitch decks like this. Creating a great pitch deck is an artform in itself. Even in redacted form, I think it goes to show you don't need to use technical terms and corporate speak to raise money. Of course having a steady stream of growth also helps as well. Look at that growth graph, impressive.

Seems being concise, using facts and getting to the point quickly is the way to go. I've seen a lot of companies who go as far as creating pitch videos with fancy production, graphics, voiceovers and a soundtrack to try and use fancy visuals to get funding.

Congratulations on the recent funding round. You have a great product Mixpanel.
Idk, is being wrong on multiple fronts that much better than being wrong only on one?
Here's an example shared earlier today on the Racket Users mailing list:

https://lightshow.githubapp.com/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&scope=from-u...
My point was not to trade your own in the hopes of getting hired.

Don't try to impress people, or even try to get hired on.

Instead, the goal (should be) to make yourself so undeniably talented that they are trying to impress you to work with them. That may not happen, but if you're really talented, you will make money. You can learn on your own. Takes years, but most of what people "have to teach you" in this area is bullshit anyway.

I agree with your statements. Although, relationships mean nothing (except in service of getting more capital). Mentors can be good. Costs are critical and you can get pretty low on your own, although not as good as HFT - buy why try to even compete there? HFT is not the only game in town however.
Like Uber but for Credit Card Fraud
Thanks for your insights. We're considering this in my current company and I assumed it would be tricky.
There are a lot of things that have changed since my first programming job, back in 1997. Things that I still use and love: Postgres, and Emacs.
Resume templates that cost less than lunch
Exploring C# 6 (Interactive)
Nope, definitely was White Pine, 5 needles on each sprig and black bark. Ponderosa Pine doesn't grow natively in the North-East. Oddly, people do make tea out of Yellow Pine too! Give you an idea, this stuff is pretty good. Going help myself to a second glass once I'm sure I don't have any weird reactions.

[1] http://rockymountainbushcraft.blogspot.com/2012/11/rocky-mou...
If the local vendors get hurt by this, it means they were providing an inferior service, and we're better off replacing them with Amazon.
CRLset contains a fraction of all actual revocations. As far as I remember Chrome chose this solution to minimize download size. I'm my opinion, if revocation checks only are done sometimes it cannot be trusted. I am not arguing that Chrome e is better or worse than other browsers, just that their current model is broken and give users a false sense of security.

Don't you agree that the current method where the Chrome team choose a limited set of revocations to push to users is broken?
I've used BetterTouchTool's tiling functionality for the most part, but I just got a 4K monitor and most granular most tiling managers can do is quarters. I wish there was an out-of-the-box solution that allows me to just tile my space more granularly
Ask HN: Anyone here start a startup after failing to get a job?  How is it?
I've tried to be hired. No interviews let alone offers. I'm thinking it's time to move on. Too many recruiters saying they can find someone better. Too many hiring managers rejecting my resume after first sight.

I'm tired of jumping through hoops for just the sake of jumping through hoops. I just want to make something cool.

Of course, I'm in the doldrums, but I'd rather work harder on something I care about than just sit here and wallow in pain and negativity. I still want to stay in tech.

So for those of you who were forced to start a startup because nobody else wanted you, how did it work out for you? What did you have to do to make it work? How did you deal with the negative emotions?

Thank You
That chart is missing 2014. The latest I've heard is that Saudi keeps increasing supplies:

http://arabianindustry.com/petrochemicals/news/2014/dec/14/s...
Isn't any "news aggregation service" a net loss for the general internet-using public?
Full notes here:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/release-9-4.html

My favourite parts:

Allow views to be automatically updated even if they contain some non-updatable columns

Allow control over whether INSERTs and UPDATEs can add rows to an auto-updatable view that would not appear in the view. This is controlled with the new CREATE VIEW clause WITH CHECK OPTION.

Allow security barrier views to be automatically updatable
Despatch EN (DEep SPace Amateur Troubadour’s CHallenge)
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No, I'm saying that "seizure" means taking something away from someone. Duplicating something doesn't take anything away from anyone.

You could get into the old argument about IP theft about say copying vs stealing a movie. But even then, creating the concept of IP monopoly was explicitly granted by the Constitution, it doesn't arise from the 4th Amendment. If copying something is a "seizure" then why does the copyright clause even exist?

My interpretation of "search and seizure" is the situation that: you keep and possess private stuff that you secure at a location that you control, the government shows up at your place, takes all of your stuff back to their warehouse to look through at their leisure. The government has your papers and you no longer do.

That seems fundamentally and qualitatively different from what's happening when you choose to use someone else's telecommunications equipment. Now, instead of hanging on to your private secrets, you've decided to go ahead and scroll them onto postcards and toss them into the mail (for safe keeping? really?). And then after sending them out into the World, you're shocked that your secrets somehow got out of your bag! It defies common sense.

Edit: I guess what I'm saying is, if you write something on a postcard and drop it in the mail, that behavior clearly indicates that you do not consider the information you put on the postcard to be private.
Yes, that's not the point. We haven't run out of gold, either, but if you invented an engine that could burn gold it sure wouldn't be too useful for powering cars. Oil doesn't need to run out to be economically useless for powering the world economy.
There is a maintenance mode in every cell phone that allows it to be remotely turned on, that is, used as a listening device, without your knowledge.

I don't know what authentication is required. I expect that it was designed so that only your cell carrier could enable it, however whatever may have been secret about it, quite likely has leaked out by now.

If you don't want to be listened-to, don't have _any_ cell phones anywhere near you. Not just your own - say you want a private conversation in a public place; the phones of other people in your general vicinity could be switched on to listen to you.

I learned this from a well-known left-wing radical organization known as the United States Air Force, when I applied for the USAF Cyber Command. Their site had a recruiting video, that depicted a couple officers locking their phones into a grounded metal box - a faraday cage - before entering a secure area, that is, a room where secrets were openly discussed.
They've just enabled 10001, 10010, 10016, 10017, 10018, 10019, 10020, 10022, 10036
Like you say, science can't really help with questions of subjective experience. I think this is more about observing an objective phenomenon, which is that "thought" can affect random number generators. The problem, as stated on the site, is this:

When it comes to "what we are measuring" the story becomes
more complicated because there is no real understanding of
the mechanism whereby an REG [Random event generator]’s
behavior can be altered by thoughts and emotions or
intentions.
[...]
We do not know how a mental state such as an intention or
emotion is able to inform the physical system to affect
its behavior. In addition, all of the robust measures we
have providing evidence for the anomalous effects are
statistical in nature, and the signal to noise ratio is
extremely low. This means that we typically cannot be
sure that the "signature" of an effect in any individual
analysis is driven by the hypothesized influence of
consciousness. The details written in the data from
single instances are more likely to be chance
fluctuations than consciousness effects. Only in larger
concatenations, gathering the weak signals from many
separate events, can we be satisfied that trends and
structure represent the hypothesized effect.

In short, they believe they have observed an inexplicable phenomenon -- intention influencing random number generation. The attempt to quantify, describe, and eventually fully understand that supposed phenomenon is the key purpose of their research.
Andela Is Paying Nigerians to Learn Computer Programming
They can charge you for some pretty ridiculous things, though. My mom got charged $175 every time an assistant nurse checked on her, 4 times a day. It wasn't reduced by insurance; instead they didn't cover it at all, so she was obligated to pay the $5000 charge.
I glanced through the parser rules, and it looks like you guys have implemented some kind of named filters in addition to the per-tag-per-attribute rule set from wysihtml5.

Having just spent too much time fighting wysihtml5's overly opinionated rules trying to allow <a> tags to allow any value for href, changes in this area are of great interest to me.

Could you touch on what changed in the parser rules?
Applying Architecture to Product Design: Lesson 3 – Sketching Tools
A Circuit (or two) for Christmas
That sounds good, but it sounds hard to show that to a potential employer and impress them. Have you built anything with what you've learned?

I'm 42, and I performed unimpressively in an interview two years ago. That gave me some motivation to go back and polish the projects I'd been working on, so the projects would speak for themselves. Since then a number of professional opportunities have come up, largely based on the quality of the projects I've been building. It has a snowball effect as well; it's become easier to pick the work I want, and get work in that area.
It seems to use a standard odata format over ssl with oauth token security. I wonder if it's possible to simply attach an Excel worksheet to the data feed (https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Connect-to-an-OData...)
Except when wine tasters can't distinguish between red wine and white wine with food coloring

This oft referenced study took oenology students and asked them to use adjectives to describe the odors of the wine. The only wines tested were white...and white with food coloring. It is unfortunate that red wine wasn't actually tested, as it would provide an interesting contrast, nor was taste actually tested at all. So as is all that you can go on is that given what appears to be a red wine, students who presumably have motives other than being entirely straightforward use red wine-type terminology.

It is an interesting study, but is not quite the trump card that so many think it is.

Further, it's a little silly how people are taking products with minor taste differences (most beers, wines, ryes, etc, are made with almost identical processes, yielding close to identical results), and then presuming to claim that the same applies to things that are dramatically different. That someone couldn't tell the expensive wine from the table wine does not prove that someone can't tell a beef burger from a veggie burger.
BS could take from Haskell (libraries) and go a bit further by requiring every function to be an infix operator. Because being pronounceable and Googleable is overrated.
33% Hispanic and 44% women (I noticed you didn't address that), don't constitute "mostly white and mostly male".
I wonder, what would be the reaction if somebody organises "Male Founders Conference" or "White Men Coders Group" ;)
I haven't read Atlas Shrugged, instead opting for her non-fictional works. I'd recommend Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal as a reasonably concise introduction to her philosophy.
I personally use Clicky Analytics which costs me like $12 a month. Gives me real time tracking, Twitter campaigns and a whole bunch of other stuff in a no nonsense interface that is easy to use. Of course, I don't need detailed analytics nor need to action particular events like sales, etc (because I just track simple apps and blogs). Google Analytics falls into the same category as Clicky and other basic analytic platforms, they show you the views, but don't really let you dig deep and query it.

I've always seen Mixpanel as a mixture between an analytics tool and a data analytics platform. Seeing the number of visitors is one thing, but being able to action specific events and drill down in the data is where a product like Mixpanel really pulls away from the pack. I like how Mixpanel allows you to query your data like you are querying a MySQL database.

A perfect use-case for something like Mixpanel is online media. Say for example you are Youtube. You don't want to just know what videos the most popular or which videos make the most money, you want to know where the people are coming from and what is driving them to consume specific media. If 15% of your revenue is coming from say the top 5 Youtuber's, you want to know how those Youtube channels are getting their traffic, is it subscriber count or something else? You want to ask questions like, "Of the top five Youtube channels, how many of them received their views from Google Plus shares?"
Out of interest, why do you say that it can't do big files?

It definitely has the capability to distribute large files (it has a built in download manager so it can do it in the background).

Or are you arguing that it just isn't good at it in practice?
"not fit the company culture" has many meanings. Again, if you started any type of flame war in my interview, you would be gone instantly
I don't doubt Rand Fishkin as a marketer. I just don't like misleading people via inventing new terms for already known concepts, like "content marketing" for PR. It disconnects his followers from a lot of knowledge and they keep on reinventing the wheel.

Or optimizely's A/B testing, which depending on your definition is anywhere between wildly imprecise and outright fraud. And this is by design, because they know their customers just won't put the effort into learning experimental design, sampling, normalizing, distributions, hypothesis testing and validating. It's just much better to charge clueless people a monthly fee for what is essentially a redirect script with a WYSIWYG editor, while telling them what they are doing is scientifically sound. And off to the echo chamber they go. Changing a button's color improves CTR by 90%. You can read that on pretty much any blog. Moz, ConversionXL, unbounce, kissmetrics, SEJ, any blog/publication which passes for "industry authority". Sorry, I just don't have the time to sift through all of this self-serving bullshit.
The fact that Chrome is open source doesn't helps me, a Firefox/Safari user, when I see the site that works correctly only on Chrome.

Open source or not, I don't want to use Chrome. There was a time when Chrome was lean, now Chrome is a pig. Not to mention blatant Chrome push from Google - the last one is Inbox, "it works only on Chrome". Set Safari user agent to Chrome? Everything works well. Shame on you, Google. That's exactly what Microsoft did in '90s.
The most amusing part for me is the domain name dns-cargo.com
Seems like a random choice. Wonder if this was just some spare throwaway domain they had laying around.
Insofar as most Brainfuck derivatives are boring and it's had an excessive impact on the field, I agree with you entirely. Believe me, I'm quite aware of all this stuff: I used to be pretty active on Panu's esolang list back in the day; you're preaching to the choir here.
"When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed."

Source: Atlas Shrugged, Francisco's "Money Speech"

Anyone living and producing goods or services in a corrupt country will understand this. You need to experience several years in the society described in the quote to fully understand the implications.
Just wanted to say that I liked your donation section. You don't often see one where someone says Here are some things that you'd might rather donate to than my project.
My preference at the moment is Optimal Layout.

http://most-advantageous.com/optimal-layout/

but, I haven't spent much time with Mjolnir.
They disabled OCSP by default in 2012 due to incurred latency and privacy concerns. Are you saying they changed it again?
I think I wrote syscall32_from_64 to try to test something related to the 32-bit syscall (as opposed to sysenter or int80) handler in ia32entry.S. TBH, I don't remember exactly what it was for.

On my Intel-based box, it gets SIGILL, but if I run it under QEMU without KVM, it says "syscall return = 137".

The more interesting things in there include segregs (testing for an info leak that has no CVE yet), syscall_exit_regs_64 (run it under strace and watch it fail), and dump_all_pmcs.

I'm hoping that dump_all_pmcs will stop working in Linux 3.20.

Also, on new enough kernels with new enough glibc (I think), even 32-bit programs use vdso timing.
Such a cool post on Madhukar's Blog.
Make submissions tag-able so i can customize my front page (perhaps only allow predefined tags). There are a number of topic-categories i do not care about and they withhold interesting links.
Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"Will they set up a control center to monitor world events and observe when not to jack prices up?"

And this is why automated surge pricing as a business model is socially unacceptable and I expect (or hope) that regulations would ban or at least limit the extent of the "surge". This is also why taxi regulations etc. are required in the first place.
I nearly got caught by this just 5 or 6 days ago with handling dates. Chrome would parse:

> 2014-12-15 08:00 PM

For example, but firefox needed the RFC3339 format.
Unfortunately, the lead developer has decided to work on a closed-source alternative to Mjolnir so a new fork has been made.
You've already got some better replies, but I have always wondered about the strength of 3D printed materials.

I think it's just amazing that we're at this point anyways. Regardless of how good the tools are, we can print them in space.
Perhaps, but there are definitely people who just stick in a string of verbized/adjectivized nouns in order to sound sophisticated or intelligent. In reality they just sound like they are full of hot air.

It's one of the many reasons people are so put off by salesmen.
it's ok, I prefer to be able to set windows where I want them and assign keyboard shortcuts. I was the original author of Breeze, now autumn apps has it available - http://autumnapps.com/breeze/index.html
Pronouncable is one thing, but as to "Googleable":

symbolhound.com

haskell.org/hoogle
There shouldn't be any legal implications, unless it is revealed that you're doing something illegal with it.
Somewhere, Kozmo.com CEO Joseph Park is reminding someone that this is Jeff Bezos's second attempt at one hour delivery, and that he was already doing this for Bezos back in the 20th century.
Why would someone falsely accuse anyone of rape? It doesn't make sense, but unfortunately it happens.
Last Week Tonight is a great show, but this piece made me think about it... if he misrepresents Ayn Rand so blatantly, how accurate is he on other topics?

edit: fixed name of the show
You're wrong.

When I go out, I personally feel more comfortable in good looking, "business-casual" sort of clothes. That's generally a brown vest, some black pants and slightly fancy shirt, all of which I got for a total of 20 quid at a charity shop back in the UK. And yet, that set of clothes which probably costs less as a whole than the gaming shirt my buddy was wearing at the time got me an off-hand remark of "dressing up too fancy for a geek".

I'm very much a geek at heart and the guy knew it... but don't mistake the shirt-and-jeans culture for a "wear what you like" culture. It's a "wear what I like" culture, and the "what I like" is shirt and jeans.