skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still waiting for a good cross-platform UI toolkit with good tools and ecosystems around it without resorting to C++ (Qt) or JS approach (atom/nw).

C++ tooling is behind its time (CMake, no dependency management) and JS approach seems kludgy right now.

Java was pretty close (JDK .. or NetBeans, support packaging to Windows or Mac AppStore) but the UI component for OSX is not pleasing and would be nice if it can produce something for Ubuntu/Redhat at least (don't care Arch or the rest at the moment).

Basically I want something better than what Oracle Java has to offer today :)

PS: I would require a great IDE, unit-testing/automation-testing, good scriptable build (Maven/Gradle style, not Ant/NAnt/MSBuild).
Looked into this because I have never heard of it.

Based on some forums it appears that often stolen credit cards are used to buy redeemable codes. Those codes are then sold for far less... Basically washing the stolen CCs.

Hacking individual accounts seems much more difficult / less rewarding financially.
Why are you opening log files with a text editor?
The beauty/terror of NetHack is that even if you play with the wiki/spoilers at hand it's still a difficult game to master and win, even survive. YASD and the RNG kill most people, and often.
Docker for Pythonistas
UniFi is likely a better solution if you are technically inclined. For most people, getting the controller up and running is too complicated. UBNT targets enterprise after all.
This Song (Still) Belongs to You and Me
I generally agree with your comment, but I think you are oversimplifying the demographics and that leads to your 'why' question. If you get a bit more specific with numbers at various ages and cohorts, plus discouraged workers, you don't have a big hole in the arithmetic.

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2014/06/demographics-prime...
Geico experiments with insuring ride-share drivers
Thanks! We know our mobile site is horrible :( will try to get it fixed asap!
You (and they) should write the state after Oakland - there are many Oaklands.
Please let us know what you think! My emails brian@teamleada.com
Are there any economists reading this who can comment on the state of research and theory on this matter? (This question also raises the issue of posting a story about minimum wage on HN.)

Many here are applying a few concepts from Econ 101, often with surprising confidence in their own analysis. I expect economists have studied these questions extensively.
An Iceberg Flipped Over, and Its Underside Is Breathtaking
Anyone who deals in data professionally is sharply aware that any single figure measure is misleading on it's own. And if they live in the US they will more than likely be aware of the broad swath of government statistics that are made available ( for free ) to the public. As such it's quite easy to develop a contemptuous attitude towards lay people who aren't aware of things that are so foundational to people who work in the field.

That the "lie of the official unemployment statistics" keeps on getting rediscovered is a testament to the general lack of numeracy in the population at large; and to the construction of political reality by the media and the political class.

And in a political sense, the unemployment statistics are a lie; since we are supposed to be reassured that the situation is fine when in fact it's not. If the vast majority of people in their prime earning years ( 35-55 ) are drastically un- or under- employed what does that mean a decade out? Are we going to have millions of 60 year olds who haven't held a straight job in a decade? What's going to happen to them? Are they all going to survive by panhandling in the parking lot at Walmart? What?
"But the number of bookstores goes down by one, and the volumes available are not available in the library. So the community has lost something too."

Maybe some sort of collection could be set up to have Bay Area public libraries buy out as much of their stock as possible?
I would add "domain expertise" but other than that I totally agree!
https://zyring.com/#/tracks/ios/projects/messaging

Found a typo, UIBotton
Absolutely, I didn't mean to imply that rote speedrunning doesn't require skill. It's just a different kind of skill, and a lot of patience.
> DOUGLAS CROCKFORD ADMITS '!' OPERATOR THE ONLY GOOD PART OF JAVASCRIPT

Now that's funny
I found NoScript was interfering with it. You've got to let their site and their site's CDN through.
It's worth pointing out that no one ever finishes (ascends) a game of Nethack without looking at the spoilers, so they're really not spoilers, they're more like the instruction manual.

It is definitely more fun to try playing the game for several hours without reading the spoilers, but you're not going to figure out stuff like the Invocation Ritual without reading the spoilers.
Protip: Paste URL into Google Search, click result.

No paywall.

Same works with a lot of news sites that don't show paywalls on search traffic, but do on other referrals.
it's funny that some right winger would link this ridiculous article here, thinking it would fool the HN collective.
People are unhappy with partisan gridlock, not with the services government provides (i.e. people hate politicians but friggin' love Social Security and Medicare).
ARM Sets New Standard for the Premium Mobile Experience
Reveal.app 1.5 with Autolayout support is here
However the pdf file is part of the source package, and presumably future ports. This is at the level were lawyers would have to be consulted to be sure this interpretation is correct (and that's a per country thing...), and that brings us back to negating the #1 advantage to Shen being "BSD licensed", you don't have to run it by "legal".

His purpose in this is to prevent any one of a number of GPL related stunts, such as explicit re-licensing as was attempted on a painfully reverse engineered OpenBSD driver, or declaring a GPL license on an entire Shen distribution. Of course no part of the standard library will have a GPL or other viral license.

He's OK with e.g. a Scientific Shen distribution incorporating the GPLed GNU Scientific Library, just as long as the, err, virility in both practice and claims is controlled. If he were to accept such a distribution on the downloads page, it would be very clearly marked.

And addressing your final point while emphasizing mine, I don't believe he's trying to "[exclude] the possibility of a port author licensing the port author's own original code under a GPL license". He's just saying, or trying to say, you couldn't then claim GPL over the whole distribution including his modified BSD licensed code.

Given that we've come to different conclusions about this (granted, I've been involved in this BSD effort for almost a month, and entirely approve of his ends, just not his means), I'm even more confident of my position. And thus Shen will continue to be kneecapped in trying to gain market share, something he's declared to be entirely comfortable with.
Your typo can be easily fixed by a Python one-liner:

>>> (lambda w:w[2:]+w[:2])(''.join(sorted("Phyton",key=lambda c:math.sin(ord(c)^50))))
'Python'
Ask HN: Laptop for FreeBSD?
I'm thinking of replacing my current XPS 13 running Debian with a FreeBSD laptop. I'm looking for something with a nice screen (preferably better than 1080), and reasonable spec (the usual i5, 8GB+ Ram & SSD etc.). Is anyone currently using a FreeBSD laptop, or recommending one?
How often do you find yourself editing a 2MB file of code? If the answer is "often", I'd strongly suggest refactoring.
You can't say the same with the same degree of efficiency.

If someone's a no-degree superstar, they have to network or market themselves harder to get on claypoolb's radar. Information exchange is more expensive.

degree+GPA's a reasonable filter to pass over lots of candidates. Mind you, claypoolb's also talking about entry-level positions (I think...)
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A decade ago I knew Jeremy, a very little. Not enough to be particularly interesting even then, yet alone now, and I haven't spoken to him since he went to jail for the first time (I think around 2005).

I hugely admire his morals, and that he lives his life by them so completely. And I agree with a lot of them. But, at least from the vague impression I have based off old (and no-doubt memory-distorted) conversations with him, mainly on IRC, and on news reports in the last couple of years, I'm not too sure "possible terrorist" isn't a fitting label for him. He's always wanted to fight against big chunks of society.

As far as I know he's never committed or planned to commit any violent crime, but his personality and view of the world make me think that he'd be willing to if he thought there was a greater good to come from it. The first thing he was caught and locked up for was stealing 1000s of credit cards from a right-wing website and using them - if I remember correctly, to donate to a charity. Those people who suffered at the hands of his credit card fraud were people he didn't know, but was willing to justify it morally in that they had donated or purchased something from this right wing website. And yes it was a very right-wing site, it was very much within the norms of the American political spectrum, it's not like they were neo-nazis or the KKK.

Maybe I'm doing him a disservice, and maybe the FBI were just abusing terrorism laws to crack down on (relatively-)innocent hackers. But the truth is that if I were in their shoes, Jeremy Hammond would scare me as much as the next plane from Al-Queda.

(And while on the subject of surveillance... I created a fake account from Tor to write this. Can't imagine anyone would really care about my saying I knew him, hell I'm 99% sure he wouldn't even remember my name, but I'd rather not make that tie if it hasn't already been made.)
I think the types of problems each programmer tends to confront make up a large part of the disconnect between the ones who "drink the koolaid" of a programming paradigm or process and the people who are unimpressed.

I typically do games. Games are useful to think, in part, in OOP terms; there is very little "data flow" and (typically) there are a lot of objects that need to interact in asynchronous ways. There are specific parts that could be reduced to flow based programming (FBP), but it seems like the wrong paradigm for writing an entire game, as an example close to me. I could imagine FBP certain AI logic state machines being useful, for instance.

But other areas of development have flow-style tools and that's clearly the right way to write code. Signal processing is an obvious example: When you want to send an audio signal through a reverb, split it to two different types of processors and re-merge it later with a fader tied to an external control, laying those components out with boxes is 1000x better than trying to write code in text to do the same thing.

So I think articles like this are useful to introduce everyone to various other paradigms, in case they might be applicable to a problem that you're working on. But it's never a "silver bullet" simply because each tool works best in certain problem domains. A friend tried to convince me that I should drink the functional programming koolaid, for instance, but on drilling deeper I found that he had never worked on a game, and didn't really grok what kinds of code you would normally end up putting in a game.

What I'd love to see is an article that compared a lot of different processes and paradigms and talked about where each is most useful. Especially if that article surprised me. :)

Problem is that most people are familiar with their own areas and toolsets; we'd probably need a team of people from different specialties to collaborate on it. Maybe a wiki where people could add in their experiences trying each approach or tool on their own problem domains? Then when someone does use functional programming to write a game, they could talk about the pros and cons and the kind of game they wrote. And that would be useful data.
There Is a Rebellion Brewing in Bitcoin's Underbelly
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ARM's latest processor design puts fast 4K graphics on your phone
I agree. I think I'm gonna order myself one, to continue the tradition of printing out things from Internet on t-shirts. My last one[0] gets quite a lot of questions from people.

[0] - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/216352/moloch-rendered.p...
Might be a better idea suggesting users search for their email address, rather than contacting you personally.. I'm able to find the site with yours..

The information has been indexed as of 5 days ago. Credited to "@LulZSecSecurity"
Masons carefully state that that they aren't a worship group but demand that you acknowledge a supreme being to become a member. So they sort of reject the rituals and do not avoid the god question.

(for example: http://www.wisc-freemasonry.org/basics-of-freemasonry/qualif... )
iOS 8 Adoption Rate Hits 72% as Android Lollipop Distribution Reaches 1.6%
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I note that the author of the blog post says:

"The change in minimum wage will mean our payroll will increase roughly 39%. That increase will in turn bring up our total operating expenses by 18%. To make up for that expense, we would need to increase our sales by a minimum of 20%. We do not believe that is a realistic possibility for a bookstore in San Francisco at this time."
I frequently find myself sifting through dozens or hundreds of megabytes worth of data. Sublime handles it just fine, FWIW.
This reinforces the point made by people who oppose the minimum wage.

The argument opposing the minimum wage is not that it hurts businesses equally, but that it focuses the pain on businesses and workers at the margins. Here we have a business that for all the reasons you point out is a marginal business, and this price shock pushed it over the edge.

It should be somewhat tautologically obvious that the businesses who have the hardest time absorbing a price shock like the minimum wage are the ones that are struggling already. This can be ignored with regard to large-scale industrial policy only if you feel there is no value in marginal industries. But keep in mind that almost all businesses go through "marginal" periods eventually, either on the way up or the way down (or both, sometimes multiple times).
Your post perpetuates the idea that some women don't make false rape accusations, which is demonstrably false.
Think about all the things that Wall Street has said Microsoft should do over the past decade. None of them was "more open source."

All the groundwork was done by Ballmer. It had to be because now that he and Gates have reduced their ownership stake and are no longer the two largest shareholders, Wall Street's flavor of the month ideas cannot be ignored.

The 'new' Microsoft has been building at least since they hired Hanselman back around 2008. He was talking then on his podcast about taking the job to advocate open source. Even then Microsoft worked with the Mono team. They moved Office to an open file format.

It takes a long time to change an aircraft carrier's course. This is Ballmer's strategic vision. His passion for developers even made it onto Youtube.
The issue is already the amount of regulations that attach to a full time worker. Adding more will only generate adverse affects.

Using words like 'forcing' and 'penalising' will work in the opposite direction to what you might hope.

You already identify the issue - full time workers require benefits and the like. For many small organisations, these make the cost of a full time worker prohibitive, so they fill in with multiple part time instead. The employer is incentivised to keep people part time.
do explain :) or point out the origin.
Jeremy has publicly encouraged rooms full of people to sabotage and destroy city buses and property. He regularly stole power, water and food. He has encouraged destabilizing the government in all ways possible. He has been involved in violent direct action. He tried to beat up an old man in a restaurant. He's threatened many people with physical harm. He's been to prison multiple times. For years he's recruited people through his "learning to hack" websites to work with his activist causes.

Oh, yeah. And he's involved with the hacking and leaking of private and public information, basically to cause damage to the federal government, capitalistic entities and individuals.

Jeremy Hammond is an actual terrorist.
This is the correct interpretation of what I said.

I don't know if it is also related to long strings in general on one line (have not tested)
I like that my editor can edit hex and it doesn't barf if I give it a giant file. But yea, it's only maybe once a year I open a file that big.
We’ve added auto layout inspection, new inspectors, spanked Apple in the accuracy department and given the whole UI a spring cleaning.

We’re even including a bundled iOS app called Soundstagram that you can use to explore the features of Reveal. You can start it with one click from the Welcome screen (requires Xcode 6).
They're sister papers, i.e. News Corp / Murdoch / Fox News.
Not quite. I used to be a 'data scientist' in finance. Their jargon for this position is "quantitative analyst".

The two definitely have intersections. Here is what's in DataScience \cap Statistics

1. A solid understanding of basic inferential statistics.

2. A healthy dose of skepticism about drawing conclusions from data.

3. The ability to model the problem and communicate how data fits into the model.

Here are the skills that most data scientists I know do NOT have but statisticians do.

1. A solid mathematical foundation of statistics: I am guessing because this stuff is only taught in graduate-level statistics classes, which most data scientists have never taken.

2. The research frontier of statistics, or the "what's new" of the statistics academia.

3. Coming up with new statistical methodologies (or discovering anything new and contributing to the foundation of statistics). This is not entirely true, but most data scientists I know are users of existing techniques/ideas.

Here are the skills that most statisticians I know do NOT have but data scientists do.

1. "Vocational" programming skills: most statisticians know R/Matlab, but many of them lack the experience of acquiring and cleaning data before doing analysis. I don't think this is a matter of ability but experience and lack of exposure.

2. Communicating statistical conclusions to non-statisticians: some of my statistician friends have a knack for this, but it is a skill that's hugely important for data scientists. People who want to be data-driven and ask for statistical conclusions far outnumber people who can actually understand statistical subtleties, and almost by survivors' bias, all data scientists I know are excellent at getting their conclusions across the organization even if others do not fully understand the full ramificaiton.
> If you make a mistake, own it.

But if the city makes the mistake, they shouldn't own it? It's their own rules, on their terms, designed to confuse newcomers. I can't fathom how you would think this is fair.
http://www.mkweb.co.uk/pictures/8203-BLETCHLEY-PARK-Alan-Tur...
That isn't it, there is a cap on the number of volumes the libraries will keep. And of course the folks who frequent used book stores don't always have access to the Internet or a credit card and a fixed address to order from Amazon.
>The beaver doesn't know what it's doing, literally. It can't tell you why,

That's because beavers don't speak English.

> it doesn't have a greater plan of building a dam, etc.

Just because you've never seen beavers with little tiny HP calculators poring over pages of drawings and equations does not mean that beavers are mindlessly purposelessly building the dams. You think they just throw stick and through some coincidence, a beaver lodge appears? That's crazy. Beavers build those dams with the intent that it will protect them from predators; they intend to dam up creeks in order to submerge the eventual entrance to their lodge. It is deliberate.
Not that I'm aware of... but when I try out new PID-settings I tie my quad to four pieces of string, tied to four bricks. Kind of low tech, but does the trick.

A flight controller in its most basic form isn't extremely complicated. It takes input from a gyroscope and distributes more power to the lower side. You can easily make a testing environment with the frame and motors, so without props attached.

Also, the APM mission planner software has a setup tool that takes input from both the transmitter and the flight controller. Maybe you can find a way to make that work for you.

The multirotor forum and the rcgroups.com forum have tons of resources about multirotors. Also, feel free to drop me a line if you have any questions. I'm by no means an expert, though!
Replication works for managing read load, but it doesn't help manage write load. This is when you need automatic sharding.

As far as ACID, many applications don't need it, for example in a game application users will forgive you if you lose their latest scores, but in a banking application users will not forgive you if you lose their last deposit. So it depends on the application.
OK! Let's refactor this 2MB file!

Wait... we kind of need a text editor that can open the file, don't we?
If they have a strong argument that they will be able to come back after being marginal, they can take out a loan or seek investment.

Otherwise, it's just a matter of delaying the inevitable.
Borderlands surprises me - I thought any business made unprofitable by San Francisco's minimum wage hikes would close up shop quietly, or just blame the evil landlord. After all, they've still got inventory to sell before they close, and there's no percentage in pissing people off.

It'll be interesting to see what replaces the business, when the retail space eventually becomes available. It'll have to be something high-margin enough to afford the labor costs, so I believe there's now an increased likelihood that it'll be a chain store catering to the well-off - something like a Lululemon. There's now a decreased likelihood that it'll be one of the quirky new businesses that make a city unique, since start-up costs have increased and businesses with unknown economics are therefore riskier.

If things in San Francisco work out like I suspect, this'll be a pretty good example of the law of unintended consequences - the 77% of voters who wanted to increase the pay of the lowest-paid workers didn't realize they were also voting for increased chain-ificiation and homogenization of their city. (If they did realize that, would they have still voted for the measure?)
It can be hard to parse sometimes, people who are educated from people who suffer from severe cases of Dunning–Kruger and have tied their supposed expertise deeply into their persona.
And @shithnsays https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says
In design (UIs, pricing, etc.), there is a constant battle for attention & processing between emotional and cognitive. Round numbers and solid icons are understood and don't set off mental red flags. When things become more difficult to understand, we either assume (correctly or incorrectly) or have no choice but to make an effort to fight those expectations.

On reddit, there are popular subreddits like /r/oddlysatisfying, /r/mildlyinfuriating, and /r/mildlyinteresting that demonstrate intrinsic attraction and repulsion to said expectations.

In the world of interface design, there's been some debate regarding solid vs hollow icons in terms of processing. Here's a well researched article that sheds some light: http://viget.com/inspire/are-hollow-icons-really-harder-to-r...
Thanks, it works.

Here is a URL from the search result:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
I'd really like to hear your opinions about it