skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just from your responses in this thread, I think it's more your personality rather than your age. It probably a lot more of a factor than you believe.
What really gets me down is when an indeterminate progress indicator is displayed during a determinate process.

There's no real way to know ahead of time how long a DNS lookup will take, so an indeterminate indicator is appropriate for that.

But when downloading a large file, the size of the file is often declared at the very start, in its HTTP header, yet we commonly get a spinning whirligig or a barber pole rather than an advancing bar.
I believe it often happens here in the UK as well, although it does not involve 100% of businesses like in some other countries. It's also a one-off, whereas elsewhere it can, in some circumstances, become a recurring request.
You're not allowed to bring any electronic devices into a secure area. Period.

That means, watches, phones, laptops, pedometer and just about anything that has circuits.
It's not just the SR-71 as it is almost any example of exceptional and unusual engineering. You'll also see semi-frequent posts about Concorde, gigantic cargo ships, space launch rockets, iconic high-end cars, etc.

And I don't know why it would be remotely remarkable that a group of nerds finds that stuff interesting.
Thanks, this is helpful, I didn't realize so much of their infrastructure was tied up with a single point of failure :(
You have to worry about those people anyways, because they are broken.
Git v2.2.1 (and updates to older maintenance tracks)
They store it in New Jersey, for NYC, if you were wondering.

http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2014/07/amazon_warehouse_...
I don't know the Everpix story well, so I'd rather not comment.
I was once paid specifically to figure out a way to activate a camera without turning on the light.

However in that case it was for a legitimate purpose.
Good, reputation is overrated. I mean you don't punctuate or capitalize properly, and you don't worry about someone berating you for not maintaining the reputation of the written word as a serious medium for expression.
What I learned from this discussion: Ayn Rand (and, to a lesser extent, Objectivism) is the highly electrified third rail of Hacker News.
Vmg announces Git 0day release shortly
Entertaining post.. I tend to relate programming (in my mind) to engineers and architects designing a large building, or civil engineers designing a city... but considering "software engineering" is a named discipline, I guess that's not a novel idea.
After $90M Funding Round, Hampton Creek Aims Its Simulated Egg at Asia
Yep. They discovered another one in Japan that was founded circa 700 AD.
Happens with farm kids all the time. If no kids want to continue the land is often sold or just rented out.
>> What Can We Learn From windows?
>>> After a lengthy development process, Windows Vista was released on November 30, 2006 for volume licensing and January 30, 2007 for consumers.

...

>>> Many types of aquatic animals commonly referred to as "fish" are not fish in the sense given above; examples include shellfish, cuttlefish, starfish, crayfish and jellyfish.
>>The End
At least in the UK, you'll be required to keep such private data for 10 years, which also means registering as data processors and controllers with the Information Commissioner's Office. See this: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/revenue-and-custo...

Also, try explaining how simple all this is to the self-employed women selling crafts online using PayPal.
This policy is so widespread, and it has been the policy for so long, that I would be quite surprised were such a reason not to have leaked out by now.

People with clearances all know about this maintenance mode. None of them ever explain the error of my ways, when I discuss it with them.
Is Selenium better than other scrapers?
Make use of your school's network and resources while you're a student. I would start by contacting your school's venture/entrepreneurship/tech transfer office.

Also your profs might know of people that have done the same. Ask those people for advice as they probably know about things beneficial to you in particular that random people on the internet don't.
It's funny because some developing countries still use the now ancient R2 signalling and wouldn't be directly affected by this (just in connecting networks I'd assume). IIRC Brazil is still a big user of R2, unfortunately for those working with VoIP. Also China.
Git client vulnerability announced
Yes I think so, plus jokes/sarcasm doesn't go down well (unless you are funny which face it most of us aren't).

And apparently, even discussing jokes/sarcasm can get you through the shades of grey.
Shake Released a Brand New iOS App
Why We Picked Cassandra for Big Data
Lots of good reasons for that.

How do you know that a pedometer is really just a pedometer?

That's how Bradley Manning made off with 800,00 diplomatic cables. He used a CD label printer to print CD-R blanks so that they looked like the albums from all his favorite bands, put the CD-R media into a portable player, then burned the CDs at his PC after downloading the cables over the Internet.

Oddly, he was always searched on the way in, never on the way out.
It is the same family, though it would be more amazing if they adopted and raised younger kids kids without consideration for whether they would inherit the business or not, and still manage to keep the business in the family for 1300 years.

But the act of passing the business down to non-blood related adults for 1300 years without going belly up is amazing.
Nobody's disputing that, but the Japanese custom for adult adoption is something else entirely: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_adult_adoption

So if you adopt a child and raise it as your own and that child takes over your business, is it still a "family business? Yes.

But can you say it's still a "family" business if it's gone through the Japanese custom of adult adoption? Arguably yes, because that person was brought into their family as a legitimate heir.

On the other hand you could argue that it's no different than a family business being sold in the western sense, it's just that in ancient Japan you couldn't really buy and sell businesses, they were owned by clans, so this was their mechanism for ensuring business continuity when there was no suitable male heir.

I'm not taking a stance on whether it's still a "real" family business, but it's important to understand that what the Japanese mean by "adoption" in this sense is not at all what westerners mean when they use that word.
I think the guidelines suggest something a little less broad than "whatever you personally find interesting":

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

Let me elaborate: Should I start spamming links to long-winded vegan propaganda? I would find it interesting, because it appeals to a viewpoint I happen to agree with. I also find Sailor Moon to be interesting. Should I start linking Sailor Moon content? Exactly how ridiculous and fluffy do my interests have to be before we can agree that there would be a better forum for the content?

Although they might be interesting to some particular hackers, vegan evangelism, libertarian politics and Sailor Moon are pretty far from the obvious intent of "things that good hackers would find interesting."

More than that, political content is poisonous to good discussion. The more you allow politics in, the more politics will consume everything, and the more comment threads you'll have that only gratify people's need to be outraged. I can understand that some political stories legitimately reflect a new trend that affects hackers and entrepreneurs, but allowing anything that interests anyone just allows far too much junk and hastens the site's decline.
QML EVERYTHING
There should be no fear. IE6 held the web back. Chrome pushed it forward.
INTO is not supported in 64-bit mode.
> And one small advantage of NYC is that my neighbors probably won't be coming at me with rifles and shotguns, either.

No, they'll be forming packs and gangs and groups. And though you see differently in movies, once there are more than about 3-4 of them who are intent on killing you, you will have zero chance of living through that. They won't need guns to do this. Baseball bats and knives and whatever else they can get their hands on, and you'll be done for.

Guns would make such gangs slightly more dangerous for you, but at the same time they make you much more dangerous to them.
they're using 200 bits. look at the generalized birthday problem section on your cited link--the number of samples for there to be greater than a 50% probability of a collision is > (3-2ln2)/6 + sqrt(2(2^200)ln2) = 1.4910^30. For a probability of 0.01 of a collision you expect at least sqrt((2^200)ln(1/(1-0.01))=1.27*10^29 samples.
That seems to describe every nation on Earth for all of human history, to varying degrees.
It is amusing however how it is a practice now that all major technology companies partake in. For example Google & Apple constantly take ideas from a 3rd party apps and integrate them for free into Android/iOS.
> you have to work hard, you have to do the tough job, you have to know every tiny part that can go wrong during the show

I absolutely agree. My intent wasn't to describe programming as magic in the sense that it's easy or as simple/nonsensical as waving a wand around. It's very much a discipline. I was drawing the parallel to magic in that it's an ethereal exercise—you describe what you want to happen, and then the letter of your description comes to pass. Getting this description to accurately model a moving system is a huge part of what makes the field so challenging.

dyeje was on the mark with their fantastic quote further up the thread:

"The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. Yet the program construct, unlike the poet’s words, is real in the sense that it moves and works, producing visible outputs separate from the construct itself. It prints results, draws pictures, produces sounds, moves arms."
This is a developer of the site problem, not a Chrome or Firefox problem. No self respecting web developer would ever make any site work only in one browser.
Hey dang, are you friendly with the folks at Mixpanel? Is that why you're jumping in to defend them?
I don't believe you have a wife or kids. Enjoy your hand.
I was looking at other systems that were in the RPi/Beaglebone category and this one popped up. I don't recall seeing it mentioned here before. I've just ordered one to see how it compares to the Pi.
I live in a country where gun ownership isn't a thing and I don't think citizens in my country need guns.

Aaah, there are definitely some serious cultural differences at play here then. I grew up in a country where my grandfather bought me my first gun before I was even born. And I've been shooting guns (rifles, pistols, etc.) since I was about 9 years old.

Here in the US, there is a large population of people who taking shooting very seriously. There are competitive shooting events run through obstacle courses and using pop-up targets, similar to the things you may have seen on television for police training. Yeah, people here do that kind of stuff for fun. There are magazines, books, videos, training courses, etc. dedicated to tactical shooting, self-defense, etc. Of course none of this is required (by and large, but see below) and not everybody goes to this extreme. But this is what I mean by "gun people". And in my experience here, the kind of people who make the choice to carry in public, tend to come from that population. So yeah, I by and large trust those people to do the right thing in a scary situation.

I would be on your side completely if, to get that permit, you had to take a yearly training course to ensure you are going to act rationally and safely in an event like a movie theatre shooting.

FWIW, every US state sets its own standards. Not all states even require a permit for pistols (concealed or otherwise). But in my state (NC), if I want to get a concealed carry permit, I do actually have to attend a training course which includes covering the legalities of carrying a firearm and using deadly force, a firearms safety component, and a visit to the gun range where I would have to certify as proficient with my weapon. There is no yearly recertification requirement however, as best as I can recall.
I think that many here find the Skunk Works and the process by which the SR-71 was developed to be as interesting as the plane itself.
Agreed, in America the Goldwaters, Buckleys, and other intelligent conservatives died out in favor of the fox contingent. A shame really.
And here we go again. The lack of knowing what a monopoly is and what it can and cannot do.
Maybe you are seeing your own personal rating? For me, it shows:

Average of 413,520 ratings: 3.4 stars
Vulnerability announced: update your Git clients
Except that humans are incapable of making objective observations in practice with anything resembling consistency.
> The article is clearly substantive enough to pass the minimal bar for this site.

Perhaps it meets the minimum bar for substance (but if so, that bar is so low that almost nothing could squeeze under it), but if so only in a general interest sort of way, exactly the kind of way referred to in the guidelines (emphasis added):

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."

A review of the rather old phenomenon of the political philosophy of Objectivism that is prompted by a reasonably recent convention but doesn't really address anything new about it doesn't seem to fit into the topicality guidelines even if grants that it is substantive (which, in this case, seems excessively generous.)
I've often thought that the first people to be prosecuted for this whole thing should be the the psychologists. At the very least they should be permanently barred from practicing medicine or providing any sort of therapy. It give me a queasy, almost sick feeling in my stomach when I think how these people distorted a profession that's supposed to be dedicated to helping others.

Don't get me wrong -- I think that it's important that they be given their day in a fair court, which more than a lot of their victims got. And there is a lot of blame to go around -- they psychologists didn't start or fund the program, and lot's of people contributed to it. But it's important that the people who were in charge of this destructive train-wreck of a program be prosecuted.
In meatspace, I am in reality quite mild-mannered, reserved and polite. As I said, the consummate professional.

Quite likely you and the others who raise objections, have never been subjected to age, racial, religious or sexual discrimination. Those who have know what I'm talking about.

When was the last time you met a Mexican-American computer programmer? One who actually had a job?

The education in Mexico, I understand, is very very good.

Even born and raised American citizens don't find much work in technology, if they are of Hispanic heritage.

That's not just me saying it - I am an Anglo. I've observed that to be the case everywhere I have ever worked, I've also read about it in the trade press.
There have been some reports of government-sanctioned malware being installed on smartphones to override the behavior of the power-off switch, making it appear that the phone has been turned off when it's actually not. This could presumably be used for surveillance purposes, and probably has been, given what we've seen in the Snowden disclosures and elsewhere.

However, the idea that an unmodified or unhacked phone can be made to behave this way is sheer tinfoil hattery. You're not allowed to bring anything even vaguely electronic into a SCIF, but that's because the whole idea behind a SCIF is to have a room in an otherwise-unsecure facility where even the vaguest potential security risks are aggressively countered.
No, I think I actually mis-wrote.
How cool! Does anyone know what changes they had to make to get their 3D printer to work in microgravity?
State of the MirageOS: an OCaml unikernel [video]
You can theoretically turn off window shadows. https://github.com/puffnfresh/toggle-osx-shadows
via https://lobste.rs/s/hgknhb/state_of_the_mirage_an_ocaml_unik...

Submitted here, to get a wider audience, and ask: does anything in Rust preclude this from being done in Rust rather than OCaml? Sounds like a nice idea...
SoundCloud and copyright: an overview
You should try BetterTouchTool. It can do everything spectacle can, but has a lot more features, and support for trackpad gestures, and other nice things. It even has draggable window snapping like Windows/Ubuntu Unity.
The EU has no control over splitting up Google or the ability to make that happen.

As far as Android goes, Google has no monopoly on the phone business.
Not how to unlock a vehicle
The point of the GP was to say that while cameras on computers at least pretend to let you know when they are on, microphones do no such thing.
Don't make it obvious that you're starting a startup, if you're trying to fund it by getting a job.

My most recent position on my resume is "Chief Executive Officer, Dulcinea Technologies Corporation", where I specifically say I'm funding my own product development by consulting for other companies.

It only recently occurred to me that that's losing me clients.

However, I've left it on my resume. I regard it as a Bozo Filter.
Out of curiosity - what was that legitimation? Can you tell?
There are a lot of commercial options available too; I was reminded of the 'How I reverse-engineered Google Docs' discussion where the author recommended paying $200 for Redactor. Releasing an easily usable full-featured rich text editor is a generous gift!
What did ancient Babylonian songs sound like? Something like this
nat makes me think of arbritrary-precision numbers. I think uint is fine.
Fascinating. I hadn't realized Mjolnir wasn't under development anymore. I'm glad to see the community is keeping it going, though.
That old term comes to mind, "perfect is the enemy of good".
A couple of years back I faced a similar situation. I was fresh out of college had no "experience"
and apparently my college wasn't among the ones recruiters look out for. I tried to get my resume in through the door but rarely manged to succeed and when I did the offers were so bad that I thought it best to not take up the job.

To get by I started freelancing. Odesk is a pretty good place to work if you are starting out. The people
there gladly trade inexperience for a tiny amount of salary(work!) and it can be a start. What I learnt though that it
is more or less pointless to market yourself to the technology people (but if they do come to you on their own it is worth it to discuss the opportunity since you have a slightly upper hand in negotiations). Rather it is more profitable to market to people who use that technology.

So for instance suppose you work on your programming skills and learn how to build a CMS. This feat will be "meh" for technology people. They do this stuff day in and day out and see no value in it(maybe they will even criticize you for using jquery). But if you can learn to sell this CMS to say a local travelling agency who is still marketing their services through blogger, by showing them how much more they can accomplish if they used a better tool, then you are on to something. A single sale can transform into managing the server for them which can be quite a good source for recurring income.

Another thing that I learnt is that it is very valuable to have a domain expertise (besides programming). Taking the above example if you learn how the travelling agency conducts it's business you will no doubt find ways to generate income from this knowledge. Maybe you will design a CRM for a them or maybe you will create a tool that makes it easier for them to find new leads or send invoices or whatever.... you will learn to look out for things that can be done better with a program and that is where the real money is. That's what these companies do after all don't they?

Unless you have a debt, or a family to look out for, may be you are better off without a job (or maybe not). Regardless of this take time to learn how to market yourself and the stuff that you build. Oh and how to deal with negativity I don't know what will work for you but I pick up a PG Wodehouse book and laugh till my stomach hurts :)
The reason my company chose Mixpanel was their privacy policy. We are privacy-focused, so the idea that providers like Flurry or Google Analytics have access to our customer's data was not something we were comfortable with.
Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan hotel somehow proved they were older. (Founded in 705, run by the same family for 52 generations.)

Tofugu has a nice article about the centuries old establishments in Japan: http://www.tofugu.com/2014/10/28/over-a-thousand-years-of-se...
Starting a company does not have to take much money. One of the wealthiest men I have ever met co-founded what is now "The Nation's Largest Sperm Bank" with a $2,500.00 investment, mostly to buy medical and lab equipment, like liquid nitrogen dewars.

If you can't start your company with the money you've got, you're doing something wrong.

Sure it costs millions of dollars to start certain kinds of companies.

Start some other kind of company, is what I'm saying.
I would never think that Apple intentionally limits themselves as you imply. As far as tight integration goes, there is nothing to stop any company from doing that. You misunderstand why Microsoft was hit so hard in the US and the EU.
There is an anime about her very situation. It's called 花咲くいろは (Hanasaku Iroha). It's pretty interesting if you don't have any familiarity with traditional Japanese inns. Be warned: PA Works (the studio that created it) likes drama!
One reason: fiscal conservatism doesn't offer anyone any advantage, and politics is (sadly) mostly about competing over unfair advantage. The goal of a political campaign is to exercise your power over someone else (e.g. theocrats, PC fanatics), slant the law in your favor (regulatory capture), or directly access the treasury.

The second reason: Keynesian economics works, at least in the short to medium term. When a recession hits, real fiscal conservatives lose big. Democrats know this and play to it explicitly. Republicans also know it, and are masters at politically weaponized Keynesianism. They espouse fiscally conservative rhetoric while being ardent Keynesians in practice, usually through military spending and financial bubble-blowing.
We did image processing for movie applications many years ago. The studios sent armed guards with the data tapes. They had instructions to remain with the tapes until the job was done. That often meant 16 hour days. Intimidating but a rather false sense of security. I am sure they are far more sophisticated today.