skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that is healthy at all.

Let's say you have a favorite person that you really enjoy being with all the time, at most you'll probably manage to get 50 hrs a week in with them. Way less if you do any of the following (and more) alone: exercise, study, side projects, home renovations, reading, movies, etc..

Most people spend at least 30 hours a week with their coworkers. 3/5 ratio is insane for people you hate! How do you think that shapes your attitude, personality, etc.. and how does that impact your happiness?

My company is absolutely not like a family, it is very much so work. But, if I hated everyone, or even most of them, it wouldn't work out!

Company vacations (or whatever you want to call them) are silly (IMO) if you're already seeing those people 30+ hours a week. I don't think it is very silly if you're seeing them < 8 hrs a week.
Why I Hope Congress Never Watches “Blackhat”
Yes, I don't think the same issue applies in France at all, for example.

My daughter is currently reading this series:
http://www.amazon.fr/Les-Carnets-Cerise-T01-p%C3%A9trifi%C3%...
Van Dale
Never meant that college was a waste of time, i was just stating that it would be a waste of time for me to go through it then get a job i would have gotten 5 years ago and i could have become a senior web developer by then! And thanks, but as i mentioned in the title are decent jobs a possibility for me? Because age i assume would always be a problem for me if i want to pursue higher paying jobs.
GOP makes U-turn on net neutrality
> All sexual material sold legally in Japan is censored by law.

So there's a little black bar where the tentacle is penetrating the woman?
As the father of a daughter, and someone who normally gets worked up about this sort of thing, I don't see the big deal. I've always viewed comics as equivalent to daytime soap operas made more pornographic to suit teenage male tastes. What value is there in trying to capture this bit of culture for girls? Is it going to lead to higher paying jobs or more equal gender roles in the home? Is it going to lead to greater fulfillment in their personal lives?

To me, asking how we can get girls more interested in comics or sci-fi is like asking how we can address the gender imbalance in ditch digging jobs.
The categorization of something as "political" is not meant to be falsifiable or objective, but to serve as a useful tool in studying it. It's exactly like saying that studying planet motion is best done by applying physics, rust is best studied with chemistry (so we say it's a chemical process), and mitosis should best be studied by biologists (i.e., it's a biological process). But all of those are physical, and the latter two are chemical, and yet the categorization helps. Is it always absolute? No. Carbon nanotubes might be studied by both physicists and chemists, and ATP by both biologists and chemists.

When we say an action is political, we mean it is best analyzed through political sociology/psychology, i.e. by using the techniques used to study about power dynamics in society, and drawing on the knowledge learned in that field.

Usually, those categorizations aren't even contentious. No chemist is offended when we say that metabolism is a biological process, even though it is also chemical. But I think that in this case (of politics), many people -- and especially here on HN -- don't even know what the word means, let alone its academic definition.

And consider this. If you were to travel in time to, say, Mesopotamia, and tell them that fire was a chemical process, they won't know what you're talking about. In fact, they may have used the word "chemical" to mean material or something. But you know that the process is really one of reactions among molecules -- they wouldn't even know molecules exist. So too in politics. The power dynamics shaping our society are often hidden from those who aren't trained to see them.

When we say "the invention of the fork was a political action that caused..." (we don't, but the invention of the fork was just something I studied once so it came to mind) everybody understand what that means, and no one is offended, because people who know about power in society immediately grasp what we're talking about. Those who don't might either don't understand at all, or even push back -- like you have -- and say something like, "but that was purely technological", which is not too much unlike saying that lightning is a spear of a god. You need to learn -- even a little bit -- to see politics at work, and that Wikipedia article on power is an OK place to start.
Depends on how you define poverty. Living on a couple of dollars a day was probably quite good many years ago. So now we have millions living on $2.50. we are doing better, right?

I personally want to see a far greater redistribution of the wealth. What the point in a county having economic growth if it only affects 1% who are already comfortably well off?

As for staving children in Africa, what have you done to help exactly. You claim you are fixing it? How? Writing a mobile app?
It turns out there's plenty of profit in hatred: http://boingboing.net/2015/01/14/how-crowdfunding-helps-hate...
I upvoted your comment but a problem in "any field" seems too strong a statement.

AFAIK this isn't much of a problem in CS (my field) and never heard math or physics people complaining...

Seems to only be problem in Social "Sciences" & Bio/Med where many (most?) results are statistical significance tests.
I'm an overseas developer myself, currently sitting on a point break in Morocco enjoying perfect wifi, powering it all with solar panels.

I'm pretty sure that the 100,000 IRS deduction is only for income earned from a foreign source. So, if you are like me and have your income coming from Apple app store sales, then you still need to pay your taxes, without a deduction.

Basically, the big problem with working out of the US is that nearly all countries pay way less for software development. Thems the breaks.
KISS needs to be taught, I really feel there should be a political movement around this principle.

Maybe one good exercise would be to ask programmers to write some program, and then let people vote on which code is the simplest to read and to understand.
What it feels like to corpse on stage
LiveCode is a (now open source) 'heir' to HyperCard / SuperCard etc. http://www.livecode.com
Great point. Indie games are good for helping you realize how much hard work goes into triple-A games and can really help you appreciate them again with fresh eyes (and totally more affordable on the hardware front! :-)
It depends on the company, but I doubt you could get a senior level position. But you could probably get a well paying mid-level position at the right company.
Both the name and the concept remind me of Borges: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tl%C3%B6n,_Uqbar,_Orbis_Tertius
I had three different Lenovo laptops that I used to experiment with the various BSDs. One fairly old (2009) and the other two were between 6 - 10 months old. On all three of them OpenBSD detected my hardware (wireless, sound, lan, etc) better than Net or Free did.

Anecdotal I know and I don't have specific model information in front of me at the moment but, at least in my case, I found OpenBSD to be the best choice for these laptops simply because when I finished installing, everything Just Worked.

Oh, and they sleep properly too...
Indeed. It took me a couple of tries to parse this headline, thanks to that mistake on my part.
one day battery life [...] would (IMO) be preferable over a 2 or 3 day battery life

That makes absolutely no sense.

Nobody forces you to use the "extra" battery time.

Nothing stops you from pretending it doesn't exist and charging your gizmo every night.
For a young girl, it looks like the new Batgirl might fit the bill well [1]. Not trying to minimize the issue, I just thought the author might like this for their daughter.

[1]: http://36.media.tumblr.com/98dffc116ba398dd71703e02abd7518b/...

http://40.media.tumblr.com/f0256cc6e4845526b9b9444935a6b287/...
Gimp used to be better than that like having a "Save as" that worked or "Save" just saving the PNG you loaded and changed, instead of insisting on saving an XCF. I think they we're too close to some Gnome developers and got infected by their way of thinking.
So basically keep code simple, concise, and predictable.
The rule about pointer is pretty limiting (no pointer function, no more than one level of dereferencing).

The reason is also pretty sad : "Pointers are easily misused, even by experienced programmers". I don't see how an experienced programmer has more chance to misuse pointers than anything else.
US citizens are hustling right now to get healthcare Cubans take for granted.

Furthermore, Cuba has been attacked by the US (yes, a country which usually shrinks from violence) with sanctions. Nice word for "siege". You know, kinda like the siege against Iraq which killed half a million children, strengthening the dictator we previously supported. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0WDCYcUJ4o)

Other nations south of the US did far worse on their knees to the US.
1500 people died in America in 2009 because not everyone gets sick leave
As a Norwegian (where translated French and Belgian titles as well as US translated imports and a wide range of our own production tends to be available in nearly every grocery store, gas station or corner store), who now lives in the UK (very similar comic culture to the US, and with very limited own production) and who have visited a few US comic stores too:

The US market is dominated by superhero comics, with some book versions of newspaper strips, and a small segment of other stuff. From a non-UK European point of view, it's a very strange experience. Though I love the superhero comics, I also grew up with a wide range of alternatives.

The first time I went into a comic store in the UK was a shocking experience. Not least because of how thin and filled with ads the US stuff was.

Basically the US format is to bombard the market with a massive number of titles, fill it with ads, and pump out a tiny number of pages each issue.

When there was a regular translated Spiderman title in Norway, it was edited together from the stories in something like 4-5 different US titles, in order to get a single magazine of sufficient number of pages to be viable in the Norwegian market. Trying to publish multiple titles for a single character would be seen as suicide. Instead the Scandinavian approach is generally to publish titles with a single "headline" character and then guest stints of a few pages of smaller characters. When guest series gets popular, they get to try out their own titles.

Some main titles get odd in that they get a level of popularity whereby even if the main series may not be drawn any more the magazine is kept alive, and eventually the guest series kinda "takes over" more and more - Calvin and Hobbes survived that way as a monthly title in Norway for a decade after Watterson ended the series.

I think the US publishers basically have shot themselves in the foot this way, by creating an image for comics as cheap and trashy childrens entertainment, and so massively limiting their audience, as reflected in the extremely low sales numbers even for the top series.
I'm not versed enough in the law to answer the spirit of that question, but the law has chilling effects greater than the letter of it. Adult material is kept in a separate section, usually with the books sealed in opaque packaging, and 7-eleven in Japan has removed it's adult section entirely.
What do you mean by pressure?
While the effort is remarkable, the web isn't fixed and this isn't responsive. Just wondering what happens if someone hasn't that font installed or the browser rendering is still different and everything is off then. At least the whole website isn't an image file ...

For me it's rather an expression of ignoring that websites are always slightly differently displayed than a good solution.
Taghazout perhaps? If so, it's good to hear that you can get good wifi there now. I spent a few weeks there back in 2008 and the only internet access was a tiny sweaty one room place with dialup speeds and no AC.

Considering how comfortable and cheap those houses along the front were, I've always wanted to head back there and set up shop for an entire season. Sounds like that might actually be possible now.

Good news.
When I was helping launch Peter Thiel's MetaMed.com, I came across all sorts of stats like this.. It's amazing how many hundreds of thousands of lives might be saved if doctors did simple things like wash their hands.
after level 50 there are black & white tiles that increase/decrese the value when you step on them.

Not so easy anymore
> Typically, this means no more than about 60 lines of code per function.

Uncle Bob would be very upset by this statement. He advocates a maximum of 4-5 lines per function to ensure readable code in his Clean Coders video series. Anything more, and you need to refactor into smaller functions.
> Why would he take his 7 year old daughter and 5 year old son to look at that?

Presumably because he himself remembered how it used to be, and did not realise that the age bracket had shifted so dramatically.

Even US comics used to be kid friendly.
I worked at a comic shop for 4 years, we pride ourselves on having a good "Kids/all ages" section of stuff that was more in line with what kids saw on TV; Justice League, The Avengers, Young Justice, Batman Brave and the Bold, avatar the last Airbender, adventure time, etc. That shop sounds like they need to stock better.
Back then, comics were ten cents. Now they're twenty bucks. Kids don't read stuff that costs twenty bucks.
There are a lot of good options out there, comic shop guy didn't help as much as my local shop would have.
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I did a bit of research on this and you're right, legacy encodings are one problem. More seriously there seems to be no established way to manage multilingual text which includes homoglyphs (say by using colour coding) so you would really be replacing one problem with another.

It does seem like this Turkish I problem is the most conspicuous situation, maybe unique, where changing locale changes the behaviour of toupper/tolower. Unicode, on the other hand, has many homoglyphs and duplicate characters which all need to be dealt with.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyph
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplicate_characters_in_Unico...
Ok, that makes sense. I guess I can see how that kind of dissonance would then apply when thinking about women and technology.
Thanks and sorry for bothering you with all these questions since there is no where else i could actually ask theme. And if i may ask what would be the salary range for someone with my portfolio?
Will this be OSS? It's not clear from the website.
I absolutely adore Krita, it really is one of my favourite programs. It's very intuitive in its controls and very good at "getting out of the way" when you're painting.

For example, it has a quick-selection wheel that pops up when you press right mouse button. It's a radial design with the outer layer being your favourite brushes, then your last used colours and in the middle it has a colour-selection triangle.
This means that if you're drawing in full-screen mode (hiding all the controls) you hardly ever have to switch back to the menus to tweak stuff (changing brush size is also done by holding shift and dragging), only to switch layers really. (that is my work-flow at least)

And, if anyone is looking for an OSS project to contribute too: Development is very active and open, it's written in C++ Qt/KDE. :)
The only thing I miss in Photoshop is a command line (Autocad style). This would be a killer feature.

I hate looking for a command in the menus or remember a shortcut, I would prefer to remember an alias derived from the name (like Autocad). This (and probably a huge reduction in price) is the only way to make me change to something else.
I’m well aware of strategies using chroot, virtual machines, and the like. These are useful tools up to a point, but a long way short of what I would ideally like to see. For example, they restrict access at a very coarse level compared to the kinds of user/group/ACL models we use in many other contexts. By their nature, they also do not admit convenient ways to break out of the jail with the user’s explicit consent. Once you get beyond individual applications with their own dedicated file types and consider more generic cases like text editors working on text files that are likely to exist throughout a filesystem, this lack of flexibility is a serious limitation. Another key distinction is that chroot and the like are voluntary mechanisms, usually off by default and therefore not completely enforced by the OS.

Some systems mentioned in this HN discussion are closer to the kind of model I had in mind. As other posters have pointed out, the difficulty is how you structure a system so that it is reasonably effective by default but still usable by non-experts. I believe we could achieve this — or at least get much closer than the typical security models we use at the moment — but it will surely take a lot more thought and experimentation than we have attempted as an industry so far. Microsoft’s UAC mechanism makes an interesting case study here: it was fundamentally a reasonable idea, but the first implementation proved too intrusive for average users to tolerate and lost much of its effectiveness as a result.
Now we know their actions were justified!
It is a defense tactic. They are trying to create reasonable doubt by suggesting that someone else may have been behind it - that's a tactic.

As for the 99.9% comment, I was obviously trying to convey my opinion - based on the publicly available and very damning facts - that he has no meaningful chance of acquittal on the most serious counts. It wasn't meant to be a scientifically accurate number (as anyone but perhaps the Sheldon Coopers of the world surely understood). That said, the statistics are pretty close to that: once indicted at the federal level, every defendant on average has a 97% chance of being convicted [1]. Since this case is more airtight and more resources have been expended on it than most, my exaggerated number is not off by more than a few tenths of a percent. It's scary that we live in a country with a conviction rate this high, but it is an undeniable reality.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate - "For 2012, the US Department of Justice reported a 97% conviction rate."
Reason to buy for me: read an ebook in the sunlight.
New H-1B bill will 'help destroy' U.S. tech workforce
This is an American problem. In Europe I grew up with Tin Tin, Jo, Zette & Joko but also John Difool and Nikopol.

Got to a comic store in Paris an there's an abundance of comics that are 'real' and kids friendly. No boobies or asses etc.
Not on my phone. Shows square [align text] which does not disappear.
Was about to post this. Thanks.
> The US patent office is paid by the patents it grants.

Not exactly, the USPTO is funded by the patents it examines and keeps active (maintenance fees). Issuance fees are actually small compared to the rest of the fees involved in examination. Additionally an issuance happens only once, but rejections are unbounded. If making money was an incentive, they'd do much better by repeatedly rejecting applications and forcing applicants to keep paying for continued examination rather than issuing them.
Ok but i was wondering how to get 3 users from 1 user for exemple.
A bit shocked that he seemed to be allowing his 5 year old son to buy Batman comics. I recently played catch up on the New 52 Batman series and found them pretty violent in places, enough that I wouldn't let any young child read them.
His statements and arguments were correct - that ought to be all that mattered.
HARDWARE.co Opens Application for Hardware Tech Accelerator
Oh my god I think photoshop has a hideous interface. It is accepted due to the massive traction it has and the number of professionals that are used to it.
Any recommendation of a good static source code analyzer for C++ ?
> Once you feel that you have to moralize and keep people from doing things that you think are bad for them, where do you stop?

Never. Why would one stop? It is a good thing to stop people from doing bad things.

It's not a moralization that drugs are bad for you. It's an objective medical fact of injuries to the body, psyche, collateral damage to bystanders etc.

Not to forget, acting morally is also a good thing. It seems to be a popular idea that acting morally should be avoided, and I disagree.
I think yummifajitas means that if done in any field, it would be a problem, not that it is necessarily observed in every field.
That was a loose statement in the book, 60 lines might be long, but in extreme cases, it's ok.
What a rambling, unreadable load of crap. This guy shouldn't be writing anything. Besides being a shitty author, this guy shouldn't be in IT, or a parent.
I've never understood Americans' obsession with superhero comics. When I was a kid I was reading Asterix[1], Gaston Lagaffe[2], Spirou et Fantasio[3], Lucky Luke[4], Prince Valiant[5], The Phantom[6] and similar stuff. Of course, I've read Superman, Batman and Spiderman also but at least I've had a choice. I can't understand why they don't exist in US, why are the only comic books Americans know superhero comics?

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_%28comics%29

[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirou_et_Fantasio

[4]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Luke

[5]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Valiant

[6]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom
I feel like you are missing the point entirely. Economy is doing better than at any point in human history, and so do we as a human species. There is less people dying today from hunger or diseases than in any point in known history, and these numbers are falling every single year.

And why are you so aggressive in asking me how I am helping? That's none of your business - and I meant that again, as a society, we are fixing those issues. We are sending humanitarian aid, we are sending food, we are establishing helping programmes at home. When I say "we will fix those issues" I mean we, as humans, will fix them.

So once again...why would you define the economy as bad, when it's in better shape than ever before? You can make another clever point about wealthy people becoming more wealthy,but it doesn't change the broader outlook.
Gif: http://img.gfx.no/1477/1477615/spacex2.gif (source, norwegian article: http://www.tek.no/artikler/se-spacex-raketten-kraesjlande-pa...)
I don't know if it's a good feature or not but I enjoyed being able to finish the game using the solutions found in /parity/story.json.

Would not be a good feature if you want to create some sort of leaderboard.
Cool program. The model of free entrance and no equity is nice for making sure companies can grow based on their own terms.
Swiss franc is one of the few currencies with real value nowadays and it is backed up with gold to some extend.
There is also the possibility that judicial decisions (such as Alice) have created enough change that reform is less necessary. See this interview or Mark Lemley, a scholar who is often seen as a critic of the patent system: http://www.iam-magazine.com/Blog/Detail.aspx?g=28572386-7cf9...

Whether judicial activity as opposed to congress should set the de facto policy is a good idea or not, I cannot say.
Apple is a private company, so stop trying to decide what they should or shouldn't do.
Getting a presentation from http://davidrevoy.com/ sounds like a motivating way to start using the program :-)