skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if someone says they do, I don't believe it. As someone who runs -CURRENT on vm's and physical hardware, it's not stable to do anything aside from development and testing on it, and it's not meant to be stable as well on purpose.

Unless Netflix enjoys filesystem wipes, file corruptions, and extremely reduced performance due to kernel level debugging flags that are enabled by default (and often can't be disabled due to ongoing development efforts), then they are not running -CURRENT. Remember, -CURRENT runs slowly because of debugging code!!
You should post a question and then answer it yourself, so that people in the future will see it.
Sure, but a very large fraction of that money goes into things that are quite literally just blown to bits. There is an actual destruction of resources.
>The IRS contractor rules are the most important employee classification rules with any bearing on this discussion, and they are both clear and very well-understood by employers.

You can not say IRS rules are more important than State case law for purposes of classification or this discussion. Such a statement shows the law is anything but clear. Federal/State classifications are an independent determination and require separate analysis.

Example, say A hires B as an Independent Contractor, having focused on complying with only the Federal factors, then B sues A at the State level after being was injured on the job claiming A misidentified B, whereas B claims he was really an employee and should receive workers comp. The Court is not going to apply the Federal Rules/Law they will apply the State Law, in fact we can go ahead and assume B was correctly a Independent Contractor at the Federal Level, but the Court could find under State Law B was classified and the relationship was that of employee/employer now A is liable for failing to comply with State Law and have to pay B's workers comp. This is the exact type of lawsuit that could be replicated hundreds or thousands of times sinking any Start-up, who fails to comply with any aspect of the classification paradigm.

>I am not a lawyer, but I am something like 99.999% sure that 1099'ing an LLC does very little to ensure that a contractor can't be retroactively classified as an FTE for whom W2 withholding was required.

As I said you are correct, just because you pay a company rather than a individual does not automatically make that an Independent Contractor relationship, but it is one factor. For example, in the Florida Worker's Compensation Statute (which provides its own factors, separate from both Florida Case Law and the IRS 20 Factors) factor number 2 reads:

"(II) The independent contractor holds or has applied for a federal employer identification number..."

[1] http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ...
Whoops, edited thanks!
Why ngrok is so awesome for server development
Fuck banks, the only way to reduce their power is to not depend on them.
Something missed in the analysis of Hotellings law is the difference between positive and negative competition. In a positive sense neither food cart or shop are any better than the other. However intense negative competition continues to happen and if one food cart op coughs on the food or calls in sick, the reliability of the market is boosted by having the other cart a step away. Likewise, under normal circumstances there is little reason to select one shop over the other, until one shop has a rude clerk, or a slow clerk, or a sick clerk, and suddenly reliability and alternatives is very important.

If you're in a non-Hotelling market, you win by doing something revolutionarily better than everyone else. In a Hotelling market, you win by perfect execution of a commodity.

I guess a dotcom analogy would be '07 smartphones were a non-Hotelling market when the iphone was introduced, and the android device market is clearly a Hotelling market where they're all about the same but the phone mfgr that screws up the least (hardware reliability, specs, bloatware, whatever) is the winner. The transition between those markets sometimes really trips up businesses and customers.
for such security, you should use something like Qubes OS (https://qubes-os.org/) which uses Xen to sandbox apps into different domains (VMs), and keeps the networking stack in a seperate VM, disk storage in a seperate VM, DE in a seperate VM, etc.
That's the Korean war, not the Vietnam one.
Is there something about your site (or the audience) that would be valuable to specific types of advertisers? For example, are visitors indicating buying intent of anything (e.g. you review android phones) or are they particularly valuable (e.g. you have luxury lifestyle articles). If so, sell direct advertising to the right market (not through advertising companies).

Would your users trust you to make purchasing decisions and be ok with you getting a disclosed affiliate fee. Seek out affiliate relationships.

Make an e-product to sell to your audience.
I completely disagree that any of these conflicts other than Vietnam, were lost. They were just inappropriate use of the military power, akin to the Soviet invasion to Afghanistan. Americans never had a big problem of defeating any enemy, problem was what to do next (and Iraq-91 was a victory for exactly that reason: they quickly withdrew and left defeated Saddam to deal with the mess, with Schwartskopf correctly stating that there is no interest for U.S. to 'run the country'). If you see 'victory' as 'Iraq (or Afghanistan) adopting a stable US-style democracy', which apparently was an intent, than this 'war' is not winnable, and there is nothing to blame military for in this fact.
Batteries have a limited number of charge/discharge cycles. If you use your car to power your home you'll have to replace the batteries that much sooner, at a cost of $thousands. Electric car buyers are paying a premium to have the batteries be mobile, better to use them for that application.
want this on embedded devices...bundling apps on embedded linux is real pain.
Here is one. If this is the company I was originally thinking about, they make their money by having their recently educated users translate documents from the learned language into their native dialect.

https://www.duolingo.com/
What do you mean by 'technically'? If you mean by the definition that the Constitution follows, the US is not at war. If it was, Congress would be required to declare it.
Not to worry. With how things are going in Ukraine, we'll have a great war in Europe again before you know it, with a "real" enemy (Russia). (And we have all that anti-terror stuff to prevent any broad and effective anti-war movement developing... both on the NATO side and on the Russian side). With any "luck" it'll be like when monarchies went to war in the middle ages. Invest in DynCorp International and Academi (nee Blackwater) now.
They way you funnel it into the economy makes a difference. It could also be spend on infrastructure, education, heath care.
Don't bitcoin transaction fees provide a means to handle that without resort to fixed centralized policy?
"Why funnel efforts and capital into military instead of funneling the same into producing infrastructure, consumer goods, and advancing science?"

Because that's socialism, if not worse.
Answer is less clear. US was hesitant to go above the 38th parallel line once N Korean army was routed. They were happy to stop there and go back to having 38th parallel line before the Korean War started. However the S Korean troops just marched across 38th parallel in order to reunite the peninsula under 1 government. And the US troops in away just kept going with them. Because the Korean war was so unexpected, no thoughts had been given on what to do.

The Korean peninsula had been 1 kingdom for over 500 years, far longer than Germany as a nation.

Both N Korea and S Korean leaders had been calling for a united Korea, even with force, even before the Korean War. For this reason, US govt hesitated giving heavy weapons to S Korea before the start of the Korean War.

So no, US didn't exactly invade N Korea. N Korea invaded S Korea first.
The Army, at least, appears to already have a MOS for interpreters/translators: http://www.goarmy.com/careers-and-jobs/browse-career-and-job...

But they clearly either don't have enough people in that MOS or have enough but specializing in the wrong languages, if frontline units still need to rely on hired translators.
At least looking through sopython, with the exception of today, it's an average of 1 every ~20 minutes during "peak" hours. There are deliberately fewer today, due to the room's discussion of them this morning, but have a look at: http://chat.stackoverflow.com/search?q=[cv-pls]&Room=6&sort=... as an example (particular days before today).

The majority of those are questions that should be closed.

It's just that a lot of wheat gets thrown out along with the chaff.
Just a small issue I noticed on the landing page, you're including the "bootstrap.js" file twice.
My budget isn't limited, so that's not a problem. I'm an electrician, so this would be a project for fun. But I know if residential DC became a thing, this would be so easy. I think we'd all be better off with residential DC and solar panels.
Is there code for this?
My problem with this article is that the author doesn't define the criteria for "winning". What does winning look like in Iraq or Afghanistan?

I generally don't understand what the point of this article is. The US should learn the language of the countries where its soldiers are operating? I can't think of very many armies that have ever done that. Historically it would be the very rare case. And we should we willing to tolerate more bloodshed? The argument seems to be that if we aren't willing to needlessly sacrifice the lives of our soldiers as cannon fodder, then the conflict isn't worth being involved in. I don't think that makes a lot of sense, either.

There are some very flawed premises here. I think the bottom line is that the US military is still the envy of the world. Recent conflicts have been poorly planned in terms of goals and exit strategies, but it's a bit disingenuous to imply that the armed services aren't able to meet military objectives or face threats of all kinds at any point on the globe. There have to be better ways for the author to say "I don't like recent US military actions".
Please use “.yaml” when possible
As someone with a major in philosophy, I can attest that it is in fact something we talked about often.
That's definitely not a false dichotomy. /s

People funnel money into the military because they are afraid of terrorists and whatever else is the flavor of the month.
We're losing wars because we're not fighting them.
A dim star passed through the Oort Cloud 70,000 years ago
> "be your own therapist" That's impossible. It's like being your own dentist when you have problems in your teeth.

Sometimes it's possible, and sometimes it's not.

To respond to your analogy, I would equate "checking in" with your mental state with brushing your teeth.

No, you can't perform a root canal on yourself, just like you can't bring yourself out of spiraling depression or a mental disorder -- you can, however, do some "preventive maintenance," and take care of your mental state. Seek a professional if/when you need one.

"Burnout" is a nebulous state. Some people are burned out when they've had a hard week, and others are in an intense state of panic/depression. I think these should be treated (or self-treated) accordingly.
The main sites from my last job load the mobile view/content first, then load in the desktop experience as appropriate (some are still in the process of transitioning to the newer design). However they were done in such a way that it shouldn't result in any jarring transitions. A couple of examples:

https://portal.ehawaii.gov/
http://energy.hawaii.gov/
Not loading for me :( - guess you've been HN'd?
In a way yes. It is a little bit more than that because DataFrames internally are actually "logical plans". Before execution, they are optimized by an optimizer called Catalyst and turn into physical plans.
Interesting, I'm glad to see people have positive experiences with Hackathons despite my own being horribly toxic. The reasoning given in the article is actually the impetus behind my decision to ditch hackathons (and later the "development" community in favor of QA Automation).

The 'competition' portion of a hackathon usually messes me up in both approach to the work and the desired end goal. Whereas it seems to be a major portion of the attraction for the blog author and a lot of people in this thread.

Perhaps it is a matter of teammates that I have participated with thus far, but trying to hack together a minimum-passable-product (note: not even viable but ~passable~) stuck me as an utter waste.
Too Many Worlds
WePay is hiring engineers to build highly available and asynchronous systems
Building bombs and guns is the economic equivalent of depression-era ditch digging (worse, in fact, since they can only be used to destroy economic output). Sure, you are paying people's salary to make them but you aren't producing anything that is a benefit to the economy.
I have clients in the health insurance industry that use Access all the time. These are not devs, but rather business analysts. Datasets become to much for Excel, and many learn basic sql.
Oh, come on! Using the preprocessor is cheating!
ISIS on Europe’s Doorstep
Did she really use the word 'sausagefest'? Ouch. That noise was credibility slamming the door on the way out.
This is the team listed for their previous watch: http://www.neptunepine.com/about/
I don't really see this as a replacement for touch typing. It's telling that there's a keyboard and mouse to the side of the computer during the video.

Instead, I see the sprout as a way to replace more specialized hardware controllers with software. Many applications, such as DJ software and vector graphics software, can benefit from integration with input devices. But this leaves manufacturers with a choice:

1. Force users to buy the controller, with the software (which adds cost, and may dissuade many potential buyers, as well as limit customers to your controller).
2. Use existing input hardware (keyboard/mouse) (which leads to an inferior user experience).
3. Offload this choice onto the user, who can start with the existing input hardware and later switch to the specialized controllers. However, this requires supporting two systems, and sometimes the poor user experience from using the default controllers will prevent potential users from using the software with the specialized controllers.

Sprout sidesteps this problem completely by allowing software definition of controllers. I think the big problem HP will run into is that if other manufacturers don't create similar products, HP will have a difficult time getting software developers to develop for the Sprout because it would lock them into HPs platform.
Forgive me for a short rant, but this sort of thing is one reason I think other kernels should look at OS X's virtual memory interface for inspiration. There, you can always share any existing mapped page with another process, regardless of how it was allocated. Usually useful because it reduces the need to redo the way you allocate some (regular) memory just because you want to use it a certain way (sharing), but it works with driver-mapped pages too.
Yes, commercial businesses are obviously part of the economy. I was just being more specific, lest the parent comment be construed as referring to general economic stimulus.
The economy is not some game where millions of people needlessly do actions for no purpose. We don't hire people at great expense to purposelessly move mountains between states, or rip each others hair out. The economy allocates resources. The fact that some of the wasted dollars spent on needless militarism splashes back into producing food for some of the people that were taxed in the first place isn't a goal, its a pitiful side effect. The same resources could have been used to further spaceflight, AI, public health, peace, or the environment in or outside of public spending. Warfare is a hellish waste.
My office stack:

1. Word, if a lawyer sends me a critical document in review mode it's always Word and I want to be sure that he and the other party gets all my additions. Moreover, Word is performant and fully featured. I haven't seen any word processor handling a 600 pages document with over 1,500 footnotes on an 5 years old Macbook Air 11 with such an ease. The Windows version is smoother and faster though. Google Docs for collaboration stuff and really small things since it still doesn't support proper chapter numbering and many other details.

2. For big complex stuff Excel and smaller easy stuff always Google Spreadsheet b/c of the collaboration and great integration in Google Mail. BTW, the online version of Excel (Office 365) is quite nice too and very smooth and has collaboration too.

3. Presentations, clearly Keynote which is not much better than Powerpoint but the UI is more intuitive and everything looks crisper, then Powerpoint but the Windows version. Google Slides is living crap, yes you can do stuff and collaboration is great but it lacks so many features and feels often very cumbersome and tedious to work with.

I tried a few times Libre Office/Open Office but the problem is: if you do serious office stuff like important presentations for board, legal documents or the next lawsuit, larger bizcases for new investors—stuff HAS to work and there are too many smaller quirks with all Libre Office apps, if you just play around a bit, yes it is very impressive 'hey an full Office for free!' but the 'free' comes with a price and to get things done under time pressure or your life is in danger this software monolith is so the wrong thing and you instantly switch back to mentioned products. And frankly, always when I use office stuff it's about serious matters, I do not open Word for fun.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.

We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

These plain and cruel truths define the peril and point the hope that come with this spring of 1953."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, in his "Chance for Peace" speech
Cool; I did something like that with NodeJS a while back for an art project. I made this node package to facilitate it:
https://github.com/internet-research-labs/instagram-realtime

event-drive, object-oriented lib for realtime instagram subscriptions
The next logical step is death squads, drone surveillance (and strikes?) and kidnappings on US soil, not just abroad. I hope it won't come to that, but I fear it will. Maybe not until 2050 or so, though.

Judging by current operations abroad, and historic evidence, like who and how Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) (Nee School of Americas) have been training and for what, things like COINTELPRO -- things are looking grim.

[ed: not to mention the lack of consequences from Snowden and the CIA torture report -- there doesn't appear to be even a thin veneer of acountability left.]
Being able to sell things is very hard work indeed.
GameMaker, Security, and Freedom
What is the use case for something like this? I think it's really, really cool that this is possible, but I'm having trouble coming up with a scenario in which I'd actually want to do this.
Well, the difference is that the US military is unstoppable against a military foe - the US can fight armies, but they absolutely suck at occupation. They won the Iraq war ('mission accomplished') but the occupation was an absolute disaster, somehow thinking that you can pacify a country through the use of military outposts rather than political nous.

All those pithy quotes about getting a soldier to fight by appealing to his soul rather than his wallet (ideas over the physical), these things apply to civilians too - just because you have a military base, doesn't mean they will believe in your ideology. As the article says, if you're not willing to get out amongst the people, you'll never understand them.
The fact that it's the toy of your childhood actually makes me wonder how effective the ad was at selling legos in 1981. The author says it would have him out the door and buying legos, but that's because he already knows legos and how they work. Would this sell to someone who didn't know legos, or would it just be weird?
I was talking about taking the menu options out of OSMAnd. I mentioned Eclipse because it is necessary for Android development.
Most of these incidents just sound like guys who were genuinely trying to be nice or funny, but because anything can be seen through the lens of sexism, this woman took the opportunity to consider herself oppressed.
Cool! Always fun to play around with APIs like these.

I created a Hyperlapse player where you can also search by city: (for example, videos tagged #sanfrancisco http://lapsetube.com/tag/sf)
There was a web app that let you draw with your mouse and get back real image results based approximately on what you drew. I think it even had an API. It was impressive and great for animal drawings like cats, dogs and chickens. Wonder if anybody can link to it again..
Wish they would implement a ribbon interface, as it's so much more effective than toolbars