skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, FreeBSD always sucked for hardware. For a random option with bonus hardcore points, you could consider running the SeL4 microkernel, then both Linux and FreeBSD as paravirtualized guests, letting Linux do the video. See http://sel4.systems/ and http://www.nicta.com.au/pub?pslides=8203
Have we learned nothing from pets.com and the expense of shipping heavy pet products? :)
This keeps popping up because many average people have their own understanding of unemployment and it's not the official one.

I'm going to go out on a pedantic limb and say that defining U3 as the "official rate" of unemployment is misleading.

There is no such thing as a singular unemployment rate, and we could be more transparent when we talk about it. Being clear that we are referring to the U3 indicator of unemployment could help raise the question of nuance for average people.

Faulting people for their illiteracy doesn't help move us forward. If we find a way to make them literate, this goes away.
It's very nice, but the Javascript is 475KB mainly because it's written in poorly compiled Go; something like this could be written in 100x less vanilla Javascript.

What implementation of compile-to-javascript Go is this? They should add tags for closure compiler optimization, just simple optimisations (without type annotations, which are present, usefully in go) cuts the filesize by half.
Yeah, similar in concept. You encrypt a message with a public key and can only decrypt it with the private key. It's great for storing data so that a root/filesystem compromise won't reveal any of the previously encrypted data.

I'm hoping that jedisct1 will add a parallel functionality to libsodium soon. :)

https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/issues/231
I tend to agree, but there is still a place for this app. SF's parking enforcement and the appeals process is thoroughly broken. I know several people who have lost appeals when they parked at a broken meter despite having taken photos or videos showing that meter wasn't working (and in SF, signs on parking meters indicate that parking at broken meters is legal as long as you stay within posted time limits).
Why I'm disappointed in React Native
How would that hurt Microsoft?

There aren't many people who have bought MS software for years and are now excited to use a fork or their own build. Even assuming that some other mega corp comes along and offers world class support/service and their own fork, it still probably wouldn't hurt MS much.

Most small companies would have released their code as GPL (versus MIT as the case here) to limit the risk of a fork fragmenting everything (not being able to merge forks back in or make everything compatible). But in Microsoft's case, because of their size, few companies could hope to make a better version than MS. Further, MS makes money in lots of ways and this isn't a zero-sum game for them. They'll profit immensely from a more open ecosystem. Companies such as IBM, Apple, Google, and Oracle already have proven it's possible to be profitable with open source.
Catholics don't believe sin is atoned for with suffering.

Sacrifice and repentance? Yes. Suffering? No.
Did they not make regular backups of their production environment? Surely one of them would have the encryption key in the source code.
Betel is a really good buzz and clearly has medicinal utility. If you get a chance, try it! Don't worry, your teeth won't change color overnight... that takes years.
Ok, fair enough. Then the answer is yes, they did fix it. :)

I guess I'll give it another look then.

But I'm still a little wary of a database built by people who ever thought that such behavior was acceptable for a database...
Sounds like the designers that decided that on a tv remote the clip that holds the battery door in place needs to be the flimsiest thinnest piece of plastic imagineable.
This is exactly how I feel. From the marketing, it seems to be exactly what my team needs. But I've got a 50 person team and we're all currently limping along using trello. $450/month is a big spend for something unproven. We're currently leaning heavily towards JIRA, but I haven't pulled the trigger yet.
>Which I still wouldn't do. It's a commodity, engine oil, and largely the same between brands. Ditto with PM software. Or most any other software.

As a former mechanic I would like to point out a flaw in your way of thinking about engine oil as a commodity similar across the board.

Regular engine oils vary in overall quality not due to the oil itself being of substantially better or worse quality itself, but because of the different combinations of surfactants and detergents that the varying brands use, and molecular uniformity allowing tighter tolerances in the engineered part using the oil in question.

The more expensive the motor oil, the less it chemically looks like crude oil until you get to the most expensive types of oils (synthetics), which aren't crude based at all but synthesized using the Fischer-Tropsch process.

Precision engineered parts require synthetic oils. It's akin to placing your smartphone face down on an asphalt sidewalk. At high speeds and temperatures the contaminants in a lower grade oil will destroy the car that calls for the 50 dollar oil cans, and it'd be ill advised to ignore the need for it.
Yeah, I think that mechanical work is the best choice. I can't concentrate in two tasks that requires intellectual skills.
Try Motek Technologies, my friend Marc works there and they are pretty cool. His email is mjackson@motektech.com
I don't think junto has an issue with the concept of terrorism encompassing the blowing up of buildings. And I think that you know that.
On the other hand, consider the chain store "Tacoma Screw" around here. They sell what you would expect - screws, nuts and bolts, of every description, type, grade, hardness, length, head, etc. It's a marvelous place for an engineer like me.

The prices are, of course, high, but when I break a bolt or lose one for my car or other project, Tacoma Screw has an exact (or better) replacement.

The hardware store sells bolts and nuts, too, but the selection is erratic and the quality is dubious. When I don't want my transmission falling off, I want top quality bolts guaranteed.
Great. But what does this have to do with Hacker News?
What OS are you using scons on? I found that scons is way slower on Windows than it is on Linux.
Putting up a wall to open the conversation about diversity in games
Because "paramilitary" has a strict legal definition[0] in addition the commonly used informal definition of "organized armed group that's not a government sanctioned military power". The California State Military Reserve[1], for example, is a paramilitary organization under that legal definition. About two dozen states have similar paramilitary state defense forces[2], all of which are distinct from both federal military units and the state's own National Guard units.

[0] https://www.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v1_rul_rule4

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

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_defense_force
It's brilliant. I wonder why people have a knee-jerk reaction to drugs as being "bad". Research and writing like this are quite promising.

> Only 10 percent of drug users have a problem with their substance. Some 90 percent of people who use a drug—the overwhelming majority—are not harmed by it. This figure comes not from a pro-legalization group, but from the United Nations Office on Drug Control, the global coordinator of the drug war. Even William Bennett, the most aggressive drug czar in U.S. history, admits: “Non-addicted users still comprise the vast bulk of our drug-involved population.” - Why Animals Eat Psychoactive Drugs [http://goo.gl/7vB8Eu]

Drugs not only can be used responsibly, but they should be. We are needlessly Luddite about this type of stuff. I think within the next decade we'll see a paradigm shift towards a much wider societal acceptance of "brain drugs."
Terrorism seems to be uniformly violent, but it is not always murderous. Extreme property damage is a tool of terrorism as well. But hacking is virtually never violent, and Stratfor wasn't an exception to that.

We may be jumping to conclusions when we suggest that Hammond's inclusion on a watchlist means that the FBI views Anonymous as a terrorist group. What he did with Anonymous is surely what got their attention, but his other affiliations seem like a more likely grounds for being added to a list of people to flag.
I don't use it; I just know that this is the reason many of my coworkers are moving away from it. I've heard concerns about it breaking on a future OS upgrade, or just failing to keep up with others in features.
Can you please explain:

"2. Alpha test. We make small batches and test their efficacy on a small alpha tester group before scaling."

Also, how do you make your analytical data available, e.g. searchable by batch number? How do you 'educate' your customers so that they are able to meaningfully interpret your analytical data?
I think "it doesn't really matter anymore" is right on the money.

.co as a TLD was essentially built around tech companies and directly marketed to them.

Plus if we're honest - most of the time people Google for companies websites that don't autocomplete in their address bar...

As an OTT example: If I want to come to Hacker News I type HN into Google and its the top result. I type two letters and click one link vs typing 'news.ycombinator.com' (typing 'news' for me brings the BBC). If a startup has put thought into their branding then a full web address isn't needed to find them. For that reason .co isn't confusing to most web users these days.
WalmartLabs - Clojure Developer. San Francisco (full time) or US remote.

You can work on Clojure at quite a few companies, but rarely can you impact millions of people at such a personal level. Walmart's mobile apps are highly rated and the services we write to support them are the base of that success. We started from a small company acquisition with a single product. Today, we power a platform and a suite of products running on mobile devices and systems in retail stores.

Our team has a unique environment. We're still a small, flat team of engineers. We work with our own tools and make our own build-or-borrow decisions. Our culture is a healthy mix of sharing and pushing each other to be better at our craft. For example, we pair program when it best suits the task. We use pull requests & code reviews liberally. We make refactoring time. We deploy often, with a single line of code run from a REPL. Engineers on our team are challenged to work through our full software stack and be part of our product and project management. We believe that people are more engaged, fulfilled and happy when they feel responsible for actually shipping their work.

What we're all about

The environment at WalmartLabs balances moving fast and breaking shit, with the knowledge that we could break shit for 150+ million people every week. It's a tough balance but we've found the payoff to be worth the challenge and responsibility.

Some aspects of our work that are important to us:

- high performance distributed systems
- robust & well-factored codebases
- simple & fast deployments
- automating the hell out of operations
- thorough system test coverage
- managing our own development process and work backlog
- pair programming when it makes sense (locally and remotely)
- contibuting back to the clojure & open source community
- having an engaging team culture and environment

What we do:

- write all our production systems & tools in Clojure
- create and orchestrate massive distributed systems
- spin up RESTful web services for consuming & ingesting large volumes of data

We are just a part of:

- Walmart is the world's largest retailer and one of the world's top online
retailers. The scale of challenges and potential impact is enormous.
- Walmart is actually a group of retail businesses spread all over the world
including Sam's Club, Asda (UK), Massmart, Walmart International
- WalmartLabs is a software development shop responsible for tools, platforms
and applications for new products in all Walmart businesses. These
include platform tools, data analytics & machine learning, search engines,
mobile applications and physical retail tools.

Does this sound like something you're into? Shoot me an email at atait@walmartlabs.com

edit: formatting
IBM US has unionized employees. In much of the rest of the Western world you don't get to just sack people on a whim.
This headline makes me giggle. I can't stop imagining a bored bureaucrat managing a group of depressed writers trapped in endless labyrinths of rules.
>It's a fine school reading list book but that is all it is.

The book has been banned from many schools.

Racial slurs, profanity, and blunt dialogue about rape have led people to challenge its appropriateness in libraries and classrooms so often that, today, the American Library Association reports that To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the most challenged classics of all time and still ranks at number 21 of the 100 most frequently challenged books of 2000–2009. Even as recently as 2011 and amid 326 other book challenges for that year, it ranks in the top ten more than 50 years after seeing print.

http://bannedbooks.world.edu/2012/07/30/banned-books-awarene...

http://www.marshall.edu/library/bannedbooks/books/killmockin...
Parent comment was specific that killing a member of AQ in a specific instance was unlawful under International Law. I was asking about that specific instance, so I'm not sure what point you are trying to make. Clarify?
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 503 (Service Unavailable: Back-end server is at capacity) https://support.netflix.com/en/rest/views/popularbytopcat.js...
Right, I'm aware of 1) what pump and dump is and 2) the fact that unlisted stocks can still be traded. But the reason the NYSE suspended trading is to prevent pump and dump amidst talks of a buyout with Sprint, Amazon, etc. It's much harder to do so with unlisted stocks...
Oh my, there's some really magnificent stuff, I started giggling while reading this:

The Quantum Mechanic monster is basically one big physics joke.
Its attack will randomly teleport you, and eating a Quantum
Mechanic corpse will give you the intrinsic speed ability (or
remove intrinsic speed from you if you were already fast). Upon
death, the Quantum Mechanic also has a small chance to drop a
box. When you open the box, a cat named Schrodingers Cat will be
found inside. 50% of the time, the cat will be alive, and 50% of
the time, the cat will be dead.

What brings this into The Dev Team Thinks of Everything territory
is that if you look at the game's source code, you discover that
unlike every other box in the game, the state of the box's
contents (whether the cat is alive or dead) is not determined
until you open the box and look.
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 503 (Service Unavailable: Back-end server is at capacity)
> not true at all.

Be serious @dang - Hacker News mods and community are very strongly pro-drug. Own it!

Your warning to @avodonosov:

> please stop re-litigating the presence of <drug> stories on Hacker News. You're creating a gigantic off-topic diversion.

Anti-drug views on HN are litigating/vendetta/off-topic/divisive. Pro-drug views on HN are exciting/substantive/interesting. By your own words! :-)
2 new builds in a week? I hope that's a trend. Gave up buying a license for ST3 (I have for ST2) after seeing the development stop.
Is that actually true? I've never heard of a IBM union for tech employees. Is Alliance for programmers? Are they officially unionized? It seems ambiguous from their about statement [1]:

> Alliance@IBM/CWA Local 1701 is an IBM employee organization that is dedicated to preserving and improving our rights and benefits at IBM. We also strive towards restoring management's respect for the individual and the value we bring to the company as employees. Our mission is to make our voice heard with IBM management, shareholders, government and the media. While our ultimate goal is collective bargaining rights with IBM, we will build our union now and challenge IBM on the many issues facing employees from off-shoring and job security to working conditions and company policy.

There is WARN to consider, which is why they can't just do mass layoffs without lots of notice.

[1] http://endicottalliance.org/aboutmembership.htm
I'm watching House of Cards right now, but it took a few tries for it to start and not throw an error.
The github readme says it was compiled to JS using GopherJS https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs
I'm two weeks late, but this is the topic of my research! Not with code, but with text that follows a given style guide. Even after the standardization of text, it's actually quite remarkable how much you can distinguish authors.
What is the point of prison if we can't keep guards from smuggling (drugs|cell phones|weapons|information), or prisoners from beating and raping each other, etc?

Prisons are some of the least secure environments in the world. They do not rehabilitate, nor do they effectively punish - violent criminals thrive so long as they are more violent than the next guy and able to buy the guards.

People are talking about radio jammers and Faraday cages. As part of a defense-in-depth strategy, maybe. But if we can't stop corruption among prison guards, if we can't expect even basic professionalism, what is the point? I don't want to be subsidizing the creation of a paradise for the most powerful violent criminals to rule over people who lost their way while poor. I don't want to be subsidizing something that fails spectacularly at everything it might be construed as trying to do, except make money for contractors.

We are doing something horribly wrong. Maybe we need to replace guards with a small handful of well-paid professionals in a heavily monitored, regularly audited control room. At least electronic locks and cameras can't be corrupted as easily. Maybe we need shorter sentences served entirely in isolation - there seems to be nothing good about the social life of prison. Maybe we should give up on the communications ban and let them Skype their families and browse Reddit all day - who can they really hurt that way? Maybe we should make prison more or less like day-to-day life, except that you can't leave. I don't know, but it seems like anything other than the status quo is worth trying.

We definitely need to incarcerate fewer people, though.
Shadowstats is the dumbest thing I've ever read. If they have it right on inflation, the US has been in a recession since 1988. If they have it right re: house prices, houses are worth 60% less than they were in 1980 and we never had a housing bubble. One important note, Williams from Shadowstats definitely doesn't use 'the old computation methods' -- he just arbitrarily adds a 'factor' to the CPI rate and claims that's the real number.

The BLS has published volumes about the idiocy of the assumptions behind Shadowstats. As have many economists from all over the spectrum.

Literally nobody worth listening to takes them seriously. Why would banks willingly offer 30-year fixed mortgages at 3.6% if inflation was 8%/year?

From the right-leaning AEI: http://www.aei.org/publication/why-amity-shlaes-is-dead-wron...

Think for a moment what that means for real GDP growth the
past three decades. Nominal GDP averaged about 5% from
1986 through 2013. Of that 5%, 2% was inflation and 3% was
real GDP growth. If inflation was really 5% — and often,
according to Williams, it was much, much higher — then
there has been no real economic growth in America all that
time. Actually, we have probably been in a long depression
from the Reagan years forward.

Or from the left-leaning John Aziz: http://azizonomics.com/2013/06/01/the-trouble-with-shadowsta...

But Shadowstats is not calculating inflation any
differently. They are not using the 1980s or 1990s
methodology that they believe would be higher. All
Shadowstats is doing is taking the CPI data and adding
on an arbitrary constant to make it look like inflation
is higher!
> Have we learned nothing from pets.com and the expense of shipping heavy pet products? :)

It gets shipped even if you buy it in a retail store.

Pets.com was a great idea poorly executed about a decade too early.
Hrrm, certainly looks believably like the visual effect of hallucinogens, doesn't it?

Strangely, I saw a program on those Irish sites just yesterday spanning from Sligo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Sligo#History in the west to Meath https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Meath#Places_of_interes... in the east which seemed to be implying that the circles represented a religious movement that was pan-European and demonstrably encompassed at least north-western France, Ireland, and northern Scotland. They also divided it in to two periods, an earlier 'earth worship' phase and a later 'sky worship' phase, though much of the interpretation seemed to be pretty close to pure conjecture, they did identify advances in astronomy may have enabled superior navigation leading to technology exchange, seasonal migration, better timed fishing expeditions and wealth from trade. The program also featured a single glyph inside a monolithic grave. Clearly there was some form of pictographic script coming in to use at the time.
> We've seen recently in the news reports of the UK's Prince Andrew at 42 having allegedly had sex with a 17yo (that's above the age of consent in UK). It's a massive scandal apparently.

Its a massive scandal not just because of her age but because of the allegations that the 17yo was a victim of human trafficking and that this was known to the Prince (and because it is on top of the Prince's other connections to the alleged trafficker, which were already a scandal before the specific allegation), and at least one of the encounters is alleged to have taken place in a jurisdiction (the US Virgin Islands) where the age of consent is 18.
well, it is near-bug-free, in that most of the bugs get permanently folded into the api and become features for backwards compatibility
You are seriously underestimating the differences in labor and material costs.

Steps for making a curved wooden yoke

1. Cut down a tree

2. Saw out a rectangular cross-section

3. Cut out rough outline of the curved pole

4. Whittle it down to the appropriate thickness

5. Sand down to smooth it out and reduce the possibility of splinters

End result: A single curved yoke and a lot of small pieces of wood that you can't do much else with. You could make more yokes with the rest of the tree, but each time you make one you will essentially waste the cutout section.

Steps for making a Bamboo carrying pole

1. Cut down a piece of bamboo

2. Cut a piece of the appropriate length

3. Split it down the middle

End result: Two carrying poles. The rest of the bamboo can then be cut to make even more carrying poles with practically zero waste.

So you see that the manufacturing processes are very different. The bamboo carrying pole can be made using just a machete with minimal skill or effort. For the wooden yoke you will need an ax to cut down the tree and various woodworking tools to shape the yoke. It also takes more time and care to carve the wood appropriately.

Another consideration is that trees take a relatively long time to grow, whereas bamboo is the fastest growing plant on earth.
This is the reason those games can be so complex. Want to make a character fly 10m? Just move his character ('@') 10 grid steps. Want to make a camera? A char 'c' will do it. It's awesome that this allows you to easily program whatever you wish but you still get a visual representation of what's happening.