skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I avoid WordPress self-installs due to its poor track record on security, so I'm currently using http://jekyllrb.com.

However, there's something to be said for just being able to open up a page on WordPress and start typing away.

The (albeit small) speed bump to getting a new post going in Jekyll has kept me from posting/writing many times. It's slightly cumbersome. I may switch to WordPress.com or something, soon.
> you don't have to assume that the people posting here are paid shills because their view is politically mainstream

That's exactly my point. No mainstream (even partisan) view is supporting monopoly. Such views are normally expressed by corrupted politicians and paid shills. Or you are suggesting that supporting corruption is now mainstream or that some party now is officially against free market even without being corrupted?
> But what I don't get is being all offended that someone is trying to change language on the basis of "language is always changing."

I think the offensive part comes from the implication that one way is right and one way is wrong.
I lived in a 2 BR condo and couldn't get any AP that would cover all of it. The cable came in on one side of the condo, and I lost about 20dB to each wall; someone suggested from the age of construction that I might have wire-mesh in the plaster.
This is a pretty lightweight self-hosted kanban solution I've made: https://taskfort.com

The ios app should be coming out by the end of this month.
Spelling, minor grammar errors, and graffiti is all I'll fix nowadays. I won't bother rewriting awkward sentences or the commonly encountered repetition of the same facts in different paragraphs. I sure as hell won't add new content. That consumes too much of my time for something that will likely be reverted by a pedant who can't stand for their precious to be touched by someone else.
Except that we don't track those numbers, so it could be that earlier in the recession more people were recently out of work, and looking hard, meaning they were counted in this number. Right now, it's been a lot longer, so perhaps many of them have given up, even if they need jobs, so they are no longer being counted.

The number of people needing jobs, regardless of searching might have gone down similarly to the reported number, or it might have stayed exactly the same overall. Without the information, we don't know. I certainly know a few people who need jobs and can't get them, and some of them aren't being counted. Maybe it would be good to find out.
The BLS publishes pretty comprehensive statistics for the US:

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.toc.htm

They still have some of the caveats that you mention, but not as many (and many of the reports are for some purpose where the caveat is sensible).

For instance, this table breaks down full and part time employment:

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t08.htm
Reminds me of benchmarks between Cassandra, HBase and MongoDB[1]. The only thing it "exceeded" at was higher latency.

http://www.datastax.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/WP-Benchm...
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Ehh... we used open-mesh for a while, but there's still a lot of room for improvement. I don't know what their hardware is like now, because we gave up on it years ago, but when they were running on the Engenius hardware the reliability was pretty awful. I think we ended up having to replace every single Engenius unit we deployed.

Then we discovered Ubiquiti and their hardware was amazing, but you couldn't use it for open-mesh after the FCC tapped Ubiquiti on the shoulder for allowing their radios to be reconfigured with a different country code.

Open-mesh seems like they're targeting the hobbyist / light commercial deployment market, Eero looks like they're aiming for the home and end-user market. Maybe their marketing is stretching things a bit, but I don't think it's completely out of line.
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Classic survivorship bias. "I became a successful, self-taught iOS developer, therefore all school is for suckers!"

It's unfortunate that this kind of thinking is so pervasive. You see it in a lot of contexts... I've seen this in folks who manage to raise themselves out of poverty and become successful, only to turn around and oppose social programs because, well, they didn't need them!

The author can't be faulted... this type of reasoning, a combination of survivorship bias, hindsight bias, and confirmation bias, is extremely human. We're wired for it. The hard part is realizing when you're doing it so you can try and catch yourself. The clearest remedy is the simplest: use data, not anecdotes.

In this case, the data supports the view that post-secondary education leads to long-term advantages. Of course, that needs to be balanced against the increasing debt load students are burdened with. But the reality is, generally speaking, more and more jobs are requiring a post-secondary degree, and advising people against getting one is generally speaking bad advice... while there are the odd outliers, they are just that, outliers.
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Same as in Germany: Every government invents new possibilities to "count people out" of the official statistics. So the numbers fall, but unemployment stays the same or even rises.
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The idea of an IoT with lots of tiny nodes running windows is terrifying.

Remember when the regular internet started having a lot of nodes running windows? We haven't recovered from that yet. Now, imagine that the majority of those nodes are in control of something with external manipulators.
Agree with @Xorlev, what's "very large" to you? If it's anything less than 1TB, then your definition of "very large" has scale issues (which is fitting if you are a MongoDB advocate I guess).

Further, what's your read / write pattern? Do you do replication? Do you have requirements around writes being visible to reads on slaves near immediately? What is your data integrity requirements? All of these play into whether MongoDB is the right fit for someone's needs.

The point remains, MongoDB is good for some use cases, but if you buy into the marketing hype of "the new DBMS standard for any team, in any industry", then you deserve the inevitable pain you will endure (that said, I do feel bad for your likely eventual replacements who have to clean up the mess from your poor choices).
The problem here is that it wouldn't necessarily be bleak.

Housewives by choice, college kids and those just retired at 35 (or 65) are good things - these people are doing what they most want to do with their lives, and are having all their needs met without a job.

However, as we haven't been collecting this data for the last hundred years we don't know what's normal for this number. And we don't know what percentage of the population are these "good unemployed" and what percentage of people are the traditional (bad) unemployed, so our guesses suck as well.

I think this number should be released, but I don't think it will do much good for the first decade or 2.

--

Addendum- after seeing maxericson's comment, I was reminded that I should not comment on things I don't know in depth. And it does seem like the U.S. does report the number of employed, it's just not what the press tracks. However, oddly, the numbers he links to seem to mainly be predicated on the same definition of unemployment, and do not seem to dive deeply into the category of "neither employed nor unemployed." Anyhow I'll leave my comment for the time being.
Here's U6, which takes into account these groups: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/U6RATE
"Gallup defines a good job as 30+ hours per week for an organization that provides a regular paycheck."

Perhaps this definition hasn't caught up with the increase in freelancing and self-employment. Underemployment, particularly among lower skilled workers, surely is an issue in the U.S. but Gallup's approach could be undercounting some newer types of "good" jobs.
MIT-licensed, even.
The various unemployment rates are pretty clearly defined and U3 is arguably not the most meaningful one to use but it is considered the "official" rate.

More information here:

http://portalseven.com/employment/unemployment_rate.jsp
I find it pretty weird too to be honest. Lot of better free alternatives like Popcorn time or Duckietv out there for people that don't want to pay.
That only works if it supports bridging rather than forcing you to use NAT.
In Polish cz, rz, dz, and sz are very common, like sh and ch in English. Look at your US style keyboard and notice when typing ch and sh it is a L followed by R hand press. Now look what happens when you want to enter the common Polish cz, dz, sz, or rz. They are both L hand. So that's why Y and Z are better swapped for Polish language. L and Ł are better to be two separate keys because often there is only one modifier key for the letters with tails and it is on the right near the L key.
Except one shouldn't see it as bleak, they should see it as reality.

I imagine even the given 30 million number is grossly below what reality is. If you only consider people who have careers, who are not wage slaves in menial labor, who are not ultra-rich who don't work actual hours, who are not retired, who are not disabled, or are not off the grid, who are not children, who are not homemakers, etc you would probably only have 40 - 60 million people working what many consider what a "job" is supposed to be.

The other 200+ million are all either working dirt wages in economically compelled indentured servitude, are taking behind the scenes cash deals to survive off, are living with family, etc. There is just not that much practically productive work to be done right now where someone is willing to pay someone else to do it.
Take a look at this chart:

http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/charts/employment/...

I fear that 1999 was "peak labor" -- the point at which technology started to destroy more jobs than it created.

We HN types live in a bubble in which times couldn't be better -- but in the larger economy there are fewer jobs paying and they're paying lower wages. It's troubling.
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Presumably "giving up hope" would be evenly distributed, not all at once as to cause the rate to drop significantly.
I have a feeling if this person had actually gone to school for CS they would have thought it equally useless. Most CS programs don't concentrate on say building iOS apps etc.
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Show HN: Behavioural Experiment – Request for Participation
Hello HN, we're developing a new behavioural system for authentication.

We've released an app for Android that tracks the user's behaviour when entering a pre-set PIN. You can find it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idenux.invisilockexperiment

We will track behavioural features such as typing speed and pressure, along with geolocation. There are more details in the application description.

Any participation and feedback on the app and approach in general is greatly appreciated. Thank you for the help!
"tech worker" is the new "knowledge worker", so IMO not exactly programmers. Sorry kids, Programming is not glamorous, no matter what all the Google/MSFT/Etc. "tech evangelists" spout on their blogs.
> there are many well-educated people on both sides

However, there are not many linguists—y'know, people who study language and how it works—on the prescriptivist side. There are a lot of well-educated people who reject evolution, too, although you'll note that not many of them are biologists.
It seems more an opinion piece about the unemployment metric than about the politics. Granted, the White House is mentioned, but more for framing than any political slant.
The fact that this post has made it to #2 despite the huge number of PM tools out there reveals two things:

(1) Project Management is painful and the existing providers still don't fully grasp what the market needs/wants

(2) Matterhorn must be doing something right to get over the noise, so kudos to your team! For me, it's your realization that not everyone manages their workflow in the same way, so being able to coordinate while giving people their personal preferences is really powerful. I wish I could see a demo!
Deficit is dropping like a stone, but republicans aren't looking to bring back government jobs, they are just looking to use the flavor of the day to make people afraid of the Obama administration.
short version: nobody really managed to, but the idea was popular, because they figured "hey, it ought to do something good".
DMV is a state agency though so it's a lot more complex than national agencies.
The bot can also do things that would bore a human player to tears, such as automatically switching between items as the need arises.
He meant pivot. It has become a bit of a buzzword and perhaps people think that it has only just come into practice, however it was always around it just hadn't been reduced to a single word.
Oh, good point. Clearly if it works just fine for you, it works just fine for everyone else too. :-)
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Heck, I live in a detached home and have 14 visible networks from my living room.
Hacking a netflix account just seems odd... to what end?

They're sold to people at a discount relative to Netflix's standard pricing -- e.g. $20 (or BTC equivalent) for 1 year of service. The customers don't always understand that they're paying a thief/fence for stolen goods.
The standard rate (U3) doesn't take underemployed or those who give up looking for work into account, but the U6 rate does. The U6 rate in January of 2009 was 14.2% and it is now down to 11.2% from its peak at 17.1% at the end of 2009/early 2010. Is the economy still struggling? Sure. Is unemployment headed in the right direction? Absolutely.

Edit: One thing that people commonly like to do is compare the U6 rate to the U3 rates of the past. "Unemployment isn't 5.6%, it's really closer to 12% ..." That's foolish because it's an apples to oranges comparison. Yes 11.2% is high unemployment, but what we judge as the low/satisfactory unemployment rate would come in somewhere around 7-7.5% when looking at the U6 rate -vs- the 4-4.5% that's considered low/satisfactory using the U3 rate.

Source: http://portalseven.com/employment/unemployment_rate_u6.jsp

"The U6 unemployment rate counts not only people without work seeking full-time employment (the more familiar U-3 rate), but also counts "marginally attached workers and those working part-time for economic reasons." Note that some of these part-time workers counted as employed by U-3 could be working as little as an hour a week. And the "marginally attached workers" include those who have gotten discouraged and stopped looking, but still want to work. The age considered for this calculation is 16 years and over."
Pretty cool! Was wondering how it would transform a whitespace sensitive language like Python. The service seems to be slow. But it looks like it would strip out all the indentation leaving it rather meaningless.
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If we applied the pattern to "to comprise" (which means, roughly, "to made up of exclusively"), then the sentence would be something like "Many interesting people are comprised by the Wikipedia editorial community" because the "A active verb B" form is "The Wikipedia editorial community comprises many interesting people", so the "B passive construction + preposition A" form would have to be "Many interesting people <appropriate form of "to be"> comprised <appropriate preposition> the Wikipedia editorial community".
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Go to his house and punch him in his goddamn face.
Interesting. I've actually read that it's for a different psychological reason: nines are big numbers, and make others look smaller. So in $20.00 you have a first digit of 2 and inconsequential zeroes, but in $19.99 you start with a 1 and make it look even smaller next to the imposing nines.

(Wish I could remember the source but I don't.)
Smaller government has been a part of the Republican platform since long before Obama.
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Here's a piece from a conservative think tank that is essentially the same argument as what is in the "non-partisan" Gallup opinion poll: https://www.aei.org/publication/tracking-the-unreported-15-6...

It's been a pretty common talking point.
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Direct link to repo:

https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr
You mean this?

https://plus.google.com/wm/4/+DanielKeysMoran/posts/dQx3oqkH...
But is that because of the expectation due to the preceding piece of work or can it be judged on its own merit?
I don't think they are going to open-source legacy stuff that they want people to forget. .Net, ASP.NET, CLR -- all of it is technology they want to keep.
That's a good point. With a run like that, the advance may be all you ever see.
Thank you for clarifying. So its more about type safety than
Quick link to what I think is the most interesting class in the CLR:

https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/src/mscorlib/s...
Looks like the Key has to be a whole number? If you're asking about the Data Access Key, it is not a number but a string.
Without giving away too much info:
I work in the upper midwest as a software dev. 3-4 years ago, I was working at a good company, but was underpaid with good benefits: $70-$75k a year (with about 6 years of experience), depending on bonus. Not where I wanted to be, and not enough to get my family into the city/schools I wanted them to be in.

So I looked around, adjusted my skillset, invested time into knowledge building, took a job as a contractor at a company where I would get better pay (without benefits) and a place to really work on my skills. I parlayed that into my current job, a fully time employee with really good benefits and (for my area) top pay, about double what I was making before.

It's doable, but it won't happen overnight. Work out a plan, adjust and improve your skills, and in a couple of years you can greatly improve your income/position. The people who you see doing this aren't special, they're just working on the things that need to be worked on.
Not only that but if they run out of benefits looking for a job they lose their eligibility to be "unemployed".
OP here. I also quoted two friends who graduated from the same program and work in investments. They agreed with me for what its worth.

Unfortunately your ideas for decreasing the financial burden of college do not scale. Not everyone can just perform well and get scholarships.
Or even lead paint.
Love this. Thank you. This is why I started the path..esp after burning out after not being present for 7 years @ blip.tv.
I strongly believe in eventually getting rid of most traditional university lectures and replacing them with excellent online, free videos. However:

1) That's not all you get from a university. Labs, smaller classes, etc etc are very important.

2) The amount material covered by currently available free courses/videos is very, very small. You might get a semi-complete computer science and math education, but that's about it.
Whether or not this information is always available each time BLS publishes the statistics is not the issue here.

The potentially alarming angle is whether the drop in unemployment is attributed to people finding jobs or to people leaving the workforce.

The current reporting of unemployment numbers certainly leaves room for spin, depending on how you want to package the news.
If it was me I'd contact both the police and Netflix. Let them give this person a good scare. Doing that yourself might have unintended consequences such as acts of violence against you or your property.
Love. Thank you for sharing this.
I thought this too initially, but the problem is that the unemployed can shift from one category that isn't counted to another that is. Unemployment rate goes up, but the same people still don't have jobs.

What could be said is that it is a non-partisan measurement error both sides can abuse equally.
Or an interesting technical challenge. I know that's why I would have done it.
My time estimate included opening illustrator, layout out the code and printing it :)
'fear'?

That's an odd response to our most precious resource, human minds, being freed from time sucking drudgery.

We've created the economic systems. They are not the Laws of the Universe. We can change them if they become a problem
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[1] Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, Seneca
Not to mention the farming. I could never do that.
Ditto: so much about Meteor just makes the day-to-day work of building something a real pleasure compared to other tools.

For me, the thing really holding it back from more serious work is that I've had real problems getting testing to work well: Velocity[1] has had a bunch of problems for me.

I hope things like the focus on MongoDB and the lack of good automated testing tools are just because Meteor is still fairly immature. It could be a really good tool for a lot of use-cases.

[1]: http://velocity.meteor.com
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Interesting commit:

https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/commit/90ef39bc3c9886e7967...

"This change fixes a potential problem in unwinding on Linux"
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Why hate harry Potter? it probably encouraged many more people to pick up a book, some of whom may never have read a book otherwise, and then they may have gone on to read classics such as To Kill a Mockingbird.
Only for people who don't know how to look up the data for themselves.
Some people would argue that Social Security Disability Insurance is soaking up a huge number of people that would rather be working as well: http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/

"But, in most cases, going on disability means you will not work, you will not get a raise, you will not get whatever meaning people get from work. Going on disability means, assuming you rely only on those disability payments, you will be poor for the rest of your life. That's the deal. And it's a deal 14 million Americans have signed up for."