skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think people often underestimate it, but one of the biggest influences you can have -- I mean you, the HN reader! -- may be cultural.

By the same reasoning, people can haze each other (in school, the workplace, etc.) for their positions on things like abortion as a "cultural influence." Is that ethical, though?

If I personally, on reflection disagree with you about Julian Assange, should I be blacklisted from the industry? Serious question.
Deflation effectively increases the risk free real rate. So the same effect of seeing the rate on the 10yr rise will be seen with disinflation. The difference being that you get some yield for "free" by just holding the cash and not buying bonds, but this is just incidental. The effect on risk-taking should be the same. So the point is I don't understand why it's treated as a deathblow for investment when we accept interest rate rises all the time without widespread panic about investment coming to a halt.
I'm looking to set up something up like this. Could you post the source of your simple app?
I appreciate your candor. I would like to back up my claims, and given the time, would do so at my lunch break/free time tomorrow. I have no reason to lie and nothing to hide.
And I guess 150 years ago, it was "If we can't use slave labor, how can we afford to produce X".
More and more the US is starting to look like one of those countries full of corrupt and incompetent politicians and their cronies who enrich themselves from the sweat of the general population and are untouchable.
Well, you've made good points and I hope you're right.

But hey, if the inventors of cars didn't think the horses can be improved upon there would have been less incentive to invent the cars. The problems still have to be recognised somehow.
A new study says it doesn't matter how much time you spend with your kids
Driving the Ethernet Roadmap at 100x Speeds
It's a full stack platform (note the distinction between a framework and a platform). I could explain it further, but I think reading through the tutorial [1] will help you more.

1: https://www.meteor.com/install
When will RethinkDB be supported? :-)
Pacman Easteregg in Google Maps
That silliness has more to do with raising awareness and being a reminder than actually something which actually conserves water --simply it's symbolic
Meteor is a full-stack platform. It is made up of a bunch of smaller sub projects that come together to make this awesome project. So, if you don't want to use part of it, you don't necessarily have to.

You can read more about that here: https://www.meteor.com/projects
Do you mean assets, or employees? There is a difference... normally the word "asset" is used to refer to people who are recruited and run for human intelligence purposes ("spies"), e.g. using payouts or blackmail - for example, there is no health insurance which comes with being a CIA "asset," while a CIA employee even under non-official cover does have benefits.
Participation in Facebook doesn't mean those people aren't against NSA. It probably isn't hard to find examples of people using Facebook to complain about NSA. Whether it's a matter of ignorance or cognitive dissonance or believing that the same level of surveillance is unavoidable.
I agree. Scaffolding and generators to glue things together in code are sorely missing in Meteor. Scaffolding is useful to beginners and experts alike.

With everything in a predictable location and following the same patterns, code is more intuitive to reason out.
> Sequencing parsers applicatively allows the compiler to perform static analysis on a parser without running it. This knowledge can be used to avoid things like backtracking that may slow your parser down. This is not possible when sequencing parsers monadically because the grammar of each parser depends on the previous one. However, performance results in this case are probably negligible; don’t hesitate to choose do-notation if you find it easier to read.

Would be good to talk more about this and quantify too. Very interesting topic.
Michel, I thought you were playing with this idea? ;)
Wow, that is a good thought as well. I imagine the 1% of competitors that complete the race would be willing to do any challenge given to them.

Just constantly driven.
>> there's a defined early game, a midgame and endgame.

all things with defined start and finish criteria can be conceptualized this way.

careers: education is early game setting you up for success, job/career is midgame, retirement is end game.

relationships: dating is early game, engagement/marriage is midgame, death/divorce is end game.

software development: envision project/write requirements is early game, coding/developing/testing is midgame, shipping and bug patching/customer support is end game.

... I could go on and on, but I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader
Human psychology and its inherent cognitive dissonance and moral relativism is an absolute bitch.
And wouldn't it be even more shocking to discover that CIA recruited from all the prestigious schools and that former CIA agents had even acted as President?
Yeah I can understand romanticizing the parts of this guy's experience with computers, but it wasn't all gravy. Did you read the part where he marveled at his new "daisy wheel" printer only having broken down once in a year of use? Or the disk drive that took 10 minutes to write out a few kB?

And how about those prices? Sure, some were $400, but you'd need $3000+ for a machine that has non-volatile storage, can run arbitrary programs, and has an input and an output device. $2000+ dollars for a hard drive storing a few MB? Not to mention the horror of completely undecided OS and instruction set architecture wars.

It's cool to imagine the simplicity of this dude tinkering with his printer made from a converted typewriter and unplugging the entire thing when the thunderheads roll in, but we're definitely better off where we are today.
I understand how the deal is structured, but selling your interest in some shares seems only superficially different from selling the shares directly. Perhaps the employer could argue that you're effectively selling shares and the ROFR clause applies?

I don't know, just speculating. Might not matter in practice if the employer doesn't have that much interest in exercising their ROFR anyway.
And what if the same stigma tactics are used against you in the workplace because you are for gay marriage, or are pro-abortion, or agree with gun control? Suddenly it does not sound so good any more.
It's a full stack framework. Check out this article: http://wiki.dandascalescu.com/essays/Why_Meteor
On a per calorie basis that is on par with a tomato in the article you linked. In fact those numbers don't mean very much without context.
You made some very good points. Too bad that, realistically, "nobody cares" about good interface design.
See my answer here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9300690 - about why you're getting O2 for a Giffgaff number (Giffgaff is an O2 MVNO, and owned by O2's parent Telefonica as it happens).

Re: a Twilio UK landline number coming up as JT, as you're probably looking at the results of a SS7-MAP command that returns the SMS routing info for a particular number, in this case it's likely that JT look after the SMS side of that number (routing for voice and SMS and the networks themselves are generally quite separate).
Advertising absolutely is inherently unethical - manipulation is a core component of it. That's the difference between an advertisement and a listing.
Thanks for the encouraging words. I shall attack the lessons with gusto!
Yes, I've been using a Surface Pro 3 as my primary computer since last year, with Ubuntu (dual boot with Windows, secure boot, no problems). It works well enough after I made my own kernel patch to have both multi-touch trackpad and keyboard with the type cover. There are patches for the cameras too but I haven't used them yet. Wireless is iffy but it works every time if I connect manually instead of letting it connect automatically.

Touch works surprisingly well, but multitouch support in Ubuntu is quite primitive still. The pen works allright but without pressure sensitivity.

Coming from a ThinkPad W500 I'm very happy with it but it still has rough edges, like the lack of suspend mode. I do a full shutdown instead.
I think you're exaggerating a little bit, but meat is a huge culprit that people don't talk about much. The meat and dairy industries make up 47% of California's water usage, while other agriculture uses 46%. A large part of the reason is that there is enormous energy loss in the growing-an-animal part of the food chain — every serving of an animal product comes from many servings of plant products given to the animal.

Source: http://www.waterfootprint.org/Reports/Fulton%20et%20al%20201...
You're absolutely right. A quarter-pound hamburger costs 1,300 gallons of water, according to the WSJ: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB120001666638282817

The organization that represents California cattle ranchers begged to differ, contesting that it's only 110 gallons:
http://blog.calbeef.org/how-eco-friendly-is-beef-infographic...

Even using the latter number, just think about that. Eating one hamburger is like dumping 110 one-gallon jugs of water down the drain -- or leaving your kitchen faucet running full blast for over an hour with the current 1.8gpm flow restrictor mandated by code. Or flushing your code-mandated low-flow toilet 89 times.

And if you're talking about a 1-pound steak, multiply all those numbers by 4.

Am I saying you shouldn't eat beef? Of course not -- it's delicious! But California's beef producers should have to pay market rate for their water. If that means the price shoots up and I have to start eating hamburgers made from Texas cattle, so be it.
Thanks. I'm not scared by math, but might just need to write things down myself so I can space out the formulas. I never learned math just by reading, so I suppose that I shouldn't expect to do so with LC. Part of this could be my crappy eyesight.
My next project: AutoSEO
I'm not sure if this is an April fools joke or not... as Matt posted it on March 31. My locale however is Australia which makes it April 1. So am I right to assume that Matt (as the fine global citizen that he is) launched his April fools joke early for our benefit in this part of the globe? ;)
This should be a more common configuration and it would be nice if web apps themselves promoted using different OS identities for sensitive parts. W^X and privilege separation are widely used in daemons, why not in web apps?
I agree that we should stop calling them farmers, it allows them to leverage all the Norman Rockwell good sentiment.

I have family who farm lavender, grapes, pomegranates, etc. They work hard and they are a small operation. They are farmers.

This pistachio guy is a run of the mill corporate shitbag and should be reminded of such.
If you haven't read or seen Freakonomics, I should begin by saying that it is quite entertaining, and you should check it out, but it actually looks into this very issue. It turns out that names, while they may not directly cause a person to turn out a certain way in life, are strongly correlated because different social groups have different naming patterns. Low income African American communities have children with distinctly sounding unique names like Darnel or Ladayna. Lower class children often wind up with outdated older names like Scooter or Candy. Upper class children usually wind up with more hip names.

Names often become something of a self fulfilling prophecy. If you were raised in an environment where it seemed reasonable for your parents to name you something unfortunate, your life will probably be just as unfortunate as your name.

The thing is, people know this. If you are dealing with a Laquicha or a Brandi, more likely than not, you will assume that she is from a lower class upbringing. This might influence the way you think about her.
One gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds (3.78 kg).

The average almond weighs under 2 g.

It follows that less than 0.05% of that water ends up in the final almond.

So...where does the remaining 99.95% of the gallon actually end up?
Lots of startups looking for new talent, so you should be able to land a job with some work. The app you linked to is probably too small to generate interest though. Have you considered something like Recurse (https://www.recurse.com) as a place to get some more reps as a coder and then using their services to find a job? That seems like the best bet if you have the resources to be able to spend the time there.
All of the above seems pretty accurate. Meteor aims to provide pretty much 100% of the things you need to build a real-time web app right out of the box (or package manager). Front-end, back-end, middleware, tooling, DB wrapper, etc.

Meteor is modular enough that you can swap out current pieces if you want to, but you're certainly not expected to do that (and if you're just getting started with Meteor, it's almost discouraged). And there are plenty of benefits to just using Meteor for everything -- e.g. Meteor creates a "minimongo" interface on the client that lets you re-use your MongoDB queries on the client.

One way to grok this is to compare Meteor to Django. Just as you can swap out Django's default homegrown templating system with Jinja, you can swap out Meteor's default homegrown reactive frontend with React. But you certainly don't have to and neither Django's or Meteor's devs expect you to.

There's a more thorough discussion of Meteor's various parts here: http://joshowens.me/what-is-meteor-js/
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>Am I saying you shouldn't eat beef? Of course not -- it's delicious!

IMVHO, there are much better reasons to drop meat + dairy from your diet than water. Human taste is a malleable thing - after a while, other things start to taste much more delicious.
Why aren't these great books turned into the official documentation if the current official docs are lacking in so much quality?
I've just started taking advantage of Subscribe & Save. The products are cheaper than what I pay for them at the local grocery store, plus I've made sure to include at least 5 items in each order so I get the 15% discount (instead of 5%). Subscribe & Save is really great for items that are hard to carry when coming back from the store and that don't degrade quickly.
“Metamorphosys” allows you to design your own Google Ara Modules
Fortunately we in California have a well-established means of circumventing partisan bickering and political gridlock. Granted it usually ends in disaster, but I am counting the minutes until one or more water-rights related voter initiatives show up on the ballot. Considering how the numbers stack up, I would be very weary indeed if I were a Central Valley farmer.
Either the interglacial period is not over yet, or we are actively preventing the next glaciation. Either way, it seems premature to claim human intervention AND say it's a bad thing.
"Humorlessness"? Are you one of those people who think that the targets of harassment have to just laugh it off?

Have you read about Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services?

> On several occasions, Oncale was forcibly subjected to sex-related, humiliating actions against him by Lyons, Pippen and Johnson in the presence of the rest of the crew. Pippen and Lyons also physically assulted Oncale in a sexual manner, and Lyons threatened him with rape.

> Oncale’s complaints to supervisory personnel produced no remedial action; in fact, the company’s Safety Compliance Clerk, Valent Hohen, told Oncale that Lyons and Pippen “picked [on] him all the time too,” and called him a name suggesting homosexuality.

The original court decision held there was no EEOC violation here, as all participants were heterosexual males.

Was that humorlessness on Oncale's part? Surely no. At least, I don't find multiple and serious rape threats against me. Do you?

Should Oncale have worked harder to become more familiar with his coworkers? Was Oncale at fault for "poor expression or self control", which somehow justified this behavior? Surely no. Should Oncale have instead worked more on maintaining his personal mental health?

Going back to my scenario, "I" confronted my peers but nothing changed.

I curiously note that you seem to blame the victim, and require the victim of unwanted "humor" to be inordinately capable of people management. Why aren't the peers in my situation the ones who need mental health treatment?

Why do you think Oncale deserved being 'teased' with threats of rape?
That water doesn't just disappear from the face of the earth. It'll turn back up again.
What is Asynchronous programming all about?
aah, well I can't resist commenting...

Pricing: ...

There is none there. I can't click on something and find no information about what that link is supposed to tell me.

>we're creating an alternative to hiring freelancers and agencies.

It sounds like you're very much an agency with a different spin on it.

I'm not sure whether you can say you're re-inventing anything, as Breta seems very much like an agency that may possibly work on a freelance model (all contractors).
Fair point! But the last time I mentioned these stats, I was accused of pushing a militant vegan agenda, so this time I wanted to be sure to establish my meat cred.
Life After Cyberspace (1999)
Ask and you shall receive. https://github.com/iron-meteor/iron-cli

There are actually a handful of good scaffolding options for Meteor. But once you understand Meteor's special treatment of some folders & files, and the basic CRUD stuff then you will be hooked and scaffolding will not be a big thing :)
Ah yes, but, "We must all pull together!" as Jerry Brown says. In other words, Californians must protect the special interests which brought him into office.

http://www.followthemoney.org/entity-details?eid=6468626

The solution is not more politics (and absurdly limiting water at restaurants) but real prices.
> There are no native apps on ChromeOS

This is not correct, you can run native apps for Chrome OS via Native Client (NaCL) or App Runtime for Chrome (ARC).

VLC, a poster child for native apps, will be released for Chrome OS in a few months using ARC.

Anandtech has already tested a beta version:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9082/the-chromebook-pixel-2015...
Same place it ends up when you rip out your flow regulator and take a 90-minute shower, or maintain a lush green lawn.
Ask HN: Is there a synonym search for programmers?
I was wondering if there was something akin to a synonym search engine for programming terms?

For example, I'd type in "options" and the results would be: "settings", "configuration", "preferences", etc ...
Bloodborne creator Hidetaka Miyazaki: ‘I didn’t have a dream, wasn’t ambitious'
This is why it's important to dollar-cost-average (finance speak for sell over time) your way out of a large position. You'll never time the market so stop trying. Set up a recurring transaction that gets you out of the position over a sensible timeframe.
I am 28 but would never consider myself too old for an internship, but only if the internship is in my best interests.

For one, I would consider an internship if that was the only way to get hired at a company that I know I would like to work at. Maybe the company has great individuals that I will get to work along side?

Secondly, I would start by networking and try to get a paid position first as a juinor dev. I might be in a different position in life then you though; ie: two children and a wife in school.
By that logic, let's all turn on every tap in the house. Drought averted!
Agreed. I usually cross reference Walmarts online prices. They are usually the same (for the products I have looked at). I utilize the subscribe and save for items that I never realize I need until I'm all out (razor blades, shaving cream, diapers). However I've yet to fully explore all the offerings.
Hi pgib (and everyone else),

Thanks for the opencnam mention. We are about to launch www.everyoneapi.com -- version 2. The current everyoneapi offers the same lookups that Twilio offers, but we will be lowering our price and adding even more data-points. Our reverse phone append product offers a lot more than just linetype and carrier. The parent company to both opencnam and everyoneapi is telo (www.telo.com). If anyone has any questions or requests, feel free to contact support@telo.com!
That's a great question. I wonder if there's a more efficient way to water the plants that doesn't involve saturating all of the area around the roots just to ensure they can absorb the water?
I personally enjoy games for characters & stories. I don't need to "fight the game" for a sense of accomplishment. Not sure why that's "worse" than playing games that are hard to master. I played hard games in the past. I don't feel a sense of accomplishment. I feel like a wasted an hour learning an entirely useless skill.

It's fine to like a certain kind of game. There are plenty of games that are hard and if you want to play them - good for you! But it feels kind of weird to say that the quality of a game is relative to how frustrating it is to play. Games are a form of entertainment after all.
We're planning on open-sourcing the Docker image that runs our build so people can send pull requests for tools we're missing.

If you follow us on Twitter/FB/Newsletter etc, you'll get notified when we're ready for that...
Size is definitely relative. I just visited my cousin in Georgia and my house would fit in the play room he just added. He cleans carpet for a living.
The official docs are great for the core APIs. I agree more attention is needed for Blaze and Spacebars. But lacking? No.

The source code is very well annotated also.
Kansface's reply is really good.

Hayek also wrote a great paper on the subject in 1990. In it he quite presciently predicts the current conundrum of the euro zone and makes the case for competing physical currencies. He realized that this would never happen in his lifetime but went through the the intellectual steps nonetheless. Virtual currency could make his thesis possible.

Check it out if you're interested: http://mises.org/library/denationalisation-money-argument-re...
>And a lot of people love them—Chromebooks were the best selling laptops on Amazon last holiday season, and teachers and students made them the #1 device in schools last year.

What does this even mean? Does it mean on Amazon all Chromebooks combined sold more than any other laptop categories, Windows or MacBook?
still waiting for the windows version
You're talking about an organization that has an existing infrastructure that is bad. This thread is about an organization that has an existing infrastructure that is good but not 100% optimal for NewProjectX, and whether or not it makes sense to use a a better fitting technology for NewProjectX.
Oh goodness, this is finally out??!? I had the Cintiq Companion (original), loved it, but unfortunately it was stolen (by a very lovely girl who needed it much more than I do :b) and the specs on the old one were starting to age a little.
I'm sorry, but the site does not say much about anything.

What am I going to get and where is the feature list for AutoSEO? Why should I trust AutoSEO with my email?
I don't think you can compare Angular with Cocoa.
Is there a playstyle of chess where both players agree to skip the opening, just setting up the board as if the opening were played "by the book" by both players and going from there? It seems like that'd be much better for getting amateur-level players practice in their middlegames, since they wouldn't need to worry about perfecting the opening before they could even attempt it.
Marking Streets to Improve Parking Density
You know the Pixel 2 has two charging ports and handles this case correctly...
200 characters allows for the use of (short) passphrases. Longer would be better, though.