skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The maximum payroll tax in Norway is 14.1%. From a quick google it seems like the rates are about the same in the US:

"making the total Social Security tax 12.4% of wages and the total Medicare tax 2.9%."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Insurance_Contributions...
Issues like this aren't resolved until enough people are personally effected. When a community or two wakes up and turns on their faucet and nothing comes out, then there will be change.
Um, good.

Things like lockout provisions are bullshit meant to provide a benefit for insiders. In addition, founders and early investors can often "cash out" some of their shares to another investor while the rank and file never get that chance.

Anything which provides added liquidity to the little guys is good.
They could make the packets stand out less, but there'd still be the overlapping reply from the legitimate Baidu host, unless the attackers went full MITM.

In case anyone is confused: we're now talking about the TTL of the packets coming from hijackers, whereas I was originally talking about the TTL of the packets going towards Baidu and the hijackers. The TTL the hijackers send won't affect the tracing method I was suggesting.
Oh the manuals that came with the machines...they had schematics in them and explained every part of the machine and what it did. It was glorious.

It would also be difficult to do now as the machines are more complex. But if you imagine today that every new PC came with a full MSDN subscription and the Intel system programmer's manuals, that's about how it was.

Of course, it took many minutes to load a program from floppy disk, so there was a lot of not-so-glorious waiting.
Mansplaining the Ellen Pao trial and fixing the gender issue in venture capital
Using Baidu to steer millions of computers to launch denial of service attacks
Bug Hunting in the Real World
I'd wager most people don't understand CDS's even now.
It's really probably not, is the thing. "Any little bit helps" just isn't true when you consider the relative scale. One glass of water per resident per day is something like a thousandth of the per-capita water usage state-wide, which itself is dwarfed by agricultural and landscape use.

This is utterly pointless.
Why do you think running Windows is an advantage?
No, it's been a few years.
This is something from waaay back in 2006. Googling this I found this gem of internet discussion: http://pandasthumb.org/archives/2006/05/creationism-dis.html

But how in the world did this old thing make it at least to top100 on HN in 2015?
F.W.T.B.T. – Ou Phrontis Pictures Co
I always give the webserver read only access to the file system, except the uploads directory, and then prevent the webserver from being able to execute php inside the uploads directory.

You can't update plugins via the admin with this setup, that is instead done with a deployment script.

I've deployed many WP sites with this setup and have never been hacked.

Oh fail2ban monitoring wp-login is also essential.
Exactly. The ability to just tap some buttons on your phone and have an item show up doorstep is magical. The dash button is just another step in that direction. Its ultimate in convenience for people who want it.
Did you play the original?

You probably liked the reboot because it is aims for the lowest common denominator( as most AAA games today do ). It is made to be really easy to play, since the obligation to keep the player playing, takes priority over gameplay.

The goal is to prevent player getting stuck by Any Means Necessary; keep them always occupied so they don't get frustrated and quit. For example:

You always now where to go thanks to the always present directions and the minimap, quick-time events replace sequences where skill mattered, there is a tutorial for everything, treasures and trinkets keep players, who have hoarder inclinations, occupied.

The original has None of Those. You were presented with a level and that was the obstacle. The satisfaction was deeper, you felt good because you actually had to suffer and persevere and choose to not quit. When you finally you solved the level you really accomplished something.
Do you believe that everyone can become an NBA player no matter how hard they try?

The NBA players are the top 1-in-1000000 world's best players.

A programmer only has to be 1-in-100 to be competent. The other 99-in-100 should find other careers.
I should have clarified that I don't think that SOX is totally a bad thing. It's just that the problem it's addressing is an exceedingly difficult one; it's not too surprising that unintended consequences should crop up. I do suspect this is an indication that SOX went somewhat too far, though.
I'm trying to think of a better slogan but can't come up with anything. What would you suggest that better reflects what netlify is offering? I'm probably too much of an engineer to cone up with good marketing copy! :)
This is actually typical of conservation policies.

We freak out over disposable bags and mandate a 10 cent charge for them, even though industrial users could reduce a lot more waste for ten cents.

We ban incandescent light bulbs, irrespective of how much additional tax anyone would be willing to pay to buy one.

We ban high flow shower heads, while placing no restrictions on how much water you draw for your lawn.

It's like one big social experiment to see how inefficient and value destructive the policies can get before people finally balk.
If you get lost at any point, I highly recommend https://www.discovermeteor.com/. Definitely much useful than the official documentation if you're looking for any sort of tutorial.
lots of repressive states have engineering led governments.
I got really into chess for a bit, but started to find it sort of boring after a while. Midgames can be interesting but the early games are simply displays of memorization. Really incredibly good players end in draws more often than not.

Games like Starcraft are pretty much the exact same - there's a defined early game, a midgame and endgame.
break is probably the wrong term. When people are "breaking" the back button they are usually using the history API to simulate that you are on a new page. I do not think it makes sense for a slideshow or for viewing images, but for many SPA's it does make sense.
It's true that one glass of water for lunch is almost negligible. But residents do account for 20% of total water use, and it's been shown in various countries that residents can reduce their water consumption significantly, by a mixture of efforts. Any reduction in that 20% would help the bottom line, and it would come from a combination of little things, including not wasting water at lunch.

I'm not saying we should focus on those things. We as a society should focus on the 80%. But for most of us, we can only directly influence residential water usage, that's why you notice it at restaurants and so forth. You and I wouldn't notice when e.g. a farmer switches to drip irrigation to save water.

Again, the 80% matters more than 20%. But cuts in the 20% are a good thing too.
fair enough, i guess i was thinking more in terms of elderly or those who have a chronic illness where money is heading primarily to medical bills (from the many treatments)
The Rise of the ‘Expat-preneur’
GADTs by themselves do not allow arbitrary computation[1]. But Haskell also allows you to write functions at the type-level ("type families" in the Haskell jargon), so you can directly write functions to compute types without any trickery, and the Propeller example uses this feature.

GADTs let you write down basically the same things that you could write as an inductive datatype in a dependent language like Coq and Agda. So (with some patience) you can make a function return a "proof" of anything that can be witnessed by a first-order inductive type, e.g. equations between expressions, list membership, proofs that a term in an object-language is welltyped, etc. The main limitation is that Haskell doesn't have any termination checking, so if you consider it as a dependently typed language there is no way to write a trustworthy proof that uses induction. Also its not very user-friendly, see [2] for some examples.

[1] Basically, GADTs are equivalent to having equations between types. If all the equations are written out in full, it is reasonably straightforward to check whether two types are provably equal. If you want to do type _inference_, i.e. figure out what equality assumptions a given function should make in order to become welltyped, then you run into various undecidable problems (e.g. "rigid E-unification"). My guess would be that if you wrote down a completely general typesystem featuring GADTs, then you would be able to encode arbitrary computations as type-inference problems, but the encoding would be very clumsy. The Haskell and Ocaml implementations deliberately don't try to be very general in the type inference, and instead try to pick a decidable subset, so the programmer has to add enough type annotations to guide it.

[2] https://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/conor.mcbride/pub/hasochis...
It's worth clarifying, because every time this comes up, some California-basher says "hurr durr why are these morons trying to farm in the desert" while ignoring the fact that, pre-irrigation, natural runoff from the mountains made many areas in central California swamps/wetlands.

It's incredibly fertile land with an absolutely massive water source (in "normal" years). It's the diversion of water that's caused the issues, which have been exacerbated by the drought.
Architecture of Rancher’s Docker-Machine Integration
FWIW In Chrome you can already inspect the inspector.
And how many of her teachers will be adjuncts?
All Systems Down (2003)
How do I navigate to `my_cool_app`? Do I need to change the apache configuration, or symlink into `/var/www/html`, or what?
Relational eXpression Map (𝐫𝐱𝐦)
𝐫𝐱𝐦 is a terse syntax to help generate structured documents from entity relationship mappings. Its purpose is to remove database- and output-specific code from queries.

It is still undergoing development -- features such as aggregation, ellipses references, query execution, modules, and namespaces are incomplete.

I would like to read your comments regarding its usefulness and your thoughts on improvements.

https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/rxm
You're right that many of the jobs were skilled labor. But like I mentioned, when the factories closed down, skilled labor moved out of town. They had the ability to do that because they had money and their skills were not readily available in the marketplace. Unskilled labor doesn't have that advantage.

The idea is that blighted cities, no matter where they are, need to fix the unskilled labor problem before they can truly solve the downward slump.
Did they change the syntax to full forms? Previously they looked like cljx prefixes I thought. Looks much better imo.
Ask HN: I just turned 30. Am I too old for an internship?
I know that internships are typically given to recent graduates, so is it something I should look into or would I be better off working on "side" projects and try to get a job as a junior developer once I have something to show? Ceterus paribus, I would guess that the latter route is better overall, but the idea of working within a company on something that actually has users and revenue (or at least funding) has a lot of appeal.

FYI, I've been coding on and off for a few years, I consider myself an intermediate coder, and I just turned 30. Most recently I made this: fraze.meteor.com. (It's a knock-off of the game Catchphrase - get your team to guess the phrase (in my case it's just a word/idiom) before the time runs out. It gets random 'idioms' from the Wordnik API.)
The LLVM project has a tutorial for building an expression language[0]. The tutorial was ported to Haskell by Stephen Diehl[1]. The person who built Crisp is also following that tutorial (I recognize snippets).

I can recommend anyone interested in building a language to try this tutorial, either the original one or the Haskell one. It's easy to follow, and you can just copy and paste as you go along and in the end you will have not just your own little toy language that you fully understand and can modify to your liking, but one that actually is compiled with a world-class optimizer, getting you sweet performance.

I am currently attempting the build a C compiler in Haskell with the tutorial as a basis. (It's nowhere near even compiling Hello World, which requires more C features than you'd think ;), so I won't link it)

[0] http://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/
[1] http://www.stephendiehl.com/llvm/
Plotting Music’s Emotional Valence (2013)
I used Meteor a number of times a few years ago and was totally blown away by it. Utterly fantastic.

Then went down the route of working in enterprise java for a few years and now, trying to get into full stack javascript based development, I feel totally swamped.
Almonds are a drop in the bucket, compared to the sacred cow(s) that is meat.

It's just a tad bit more than NPR's 'trying to lose weight by cutting your fingernails'.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-j-rose/how-to-take-long-s...

http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/californias-drought-whos-...

http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/sustain/global/sensem/MeatIndustry...
Based on a comment further up, my understanding is people buying on the secondary markets are not actually buying the shares. They're just offering $X to an employee now in return for being entitled to the full sale price of that employee's shares ($Y) immediately after IPO. $Y could be higher or lower than $X (that's the agents risk) but at no time does the agent actually own the shares.
I have sleep apnea and have to use a CPAP machine by wearing a mask that pressurizes the air that I breathe while I'm asleep. The pressure keeps my airways splinted open so that when my muscles relax during REM sleep, my airways don't collapse, causing me to stop breathing and choke in my sleep. Among many other health complications, these apneas destroy the quality of my sleep, and without my CPAP, I cannot physically or mentally function.

It's amazing how many CPAP machines out there do not give the patient access to their efficacy data, and often, the data itself is hidden behind a secret clinicians'/provider-only menu. For a while (from 2006-2010), CPAP machines used proprietary smartcards and non-standard $100 readers manufactured in China to store the data.

I had to purchase a data-capable machine out of pocket since my DME only gave me a "brick" -- a machine that does not record any efficacy data. Of course, my insurance did not cover the slightly more expensive data-capable machine.

Patients with sleep apnea need efficacy data to track how their treatment is going (how many apneas they had per hour per night of sleep). Without this information, it's completely unclear whether the CPAP is set correctly to deliver therapeutic pressures, let alone actually help that patient's sleep. It is expected that the patient takes their CPAP machine every month or so to the doctor for the doctor to download and interpret the data for them, who may then adjust the titrated pressure settings on the machine based on the data. This, of course, is a trivial process that the patient can easily do on their own which can DRASTICALLY improve the patient's quality of life.

There's a blog with a ridiculous table of devices and advice for fighting the DME provider/insurance company for data-capable machines with such gems as:

"Ask for the System One Pro with C-flex Plus . . . (AVOID the System One CPAP Plus with C-flex -- not data capable). Note how confusing the names are as the Pro also has 'plus' in the name! To further confuse you, all the Philips Respironics machines are marked 'Remstar' but that name isn't really used anymore."

Imagine navigating the maze of complexities and argumentative DMEs/insurance companies while thoroughly sleep-deprived because you stop breathing 30 times per hour while asleep. That was me 3 years ago...

https://maskarrayed.wordpress.com/
This is pretty neat, I wonder how much coverage you have (http://hackersearch.io/search?q=path%3Agithub.com%2Falixaxel... doesn't seem to be indexed for instance).

I'm very impressed with the performance however, what kind of stack are you using in the backend? What plans you have for this tool once it goes out of alpha/beta?
Meteor and bootstrap combined have made it awesome to prototype new ideas. Everything is very smooth and as a beginner web developer I'm not banging my head against the wall writing large amounts of code to link various frameworks together.

A few hours a day for a week have already generated real progress with a startup idea, which would have taken me weeks using angular/express/mongo/node separately. As someone with a full time job who is trying to work on side projects in my free time after work, it's really nice to see progress every night and definitely motivates me to keep going.

Keep it up!
A well-written Windows 8 application should be able to target desktop, phone, tablet and xbox with very little rework, and mostly shared libraries.
Said every doomsday prophet ever. No one ever comes back and says sorry we were wrong they just change to some other claptrap. Life is too short to listen to these people.
This is merely recycling the argument ad infinitum.

All these predictions are wrong. They are all wrong because of an unexpected development. The OP says Malthus was right, but for the discovery of cheap energy. Maybe an Ehrlich supporter was right, but for the development of better crop yields.

The point is these 'buts' are the fatal flaw. An unknown unknown comes along and destroys the premise. (At this point we can safely classify it as a known unknown) As these are unpredictable, and down to a known factor - human ingenuity - it's safer to say things will be all right. The human genome is a successful critter because it selects for intelligence and ingenuity.

The numbers might look bleak because they're based on current assumptions, which will prove to be false. We know they will be false, the assumptions always prove to be false. It's the one thing we can rely on being constant. At the turn of the 20th century, New Yorkers were convinced the city would be rendered completely unliveable because of the amount of horse shit in the streets. The numbers were depressing. Everyone assumed that horse use was going to continue to go up in a straight line. Someone was probably looking for government grants to design a shitless horse. The assumption was wrong. its always wrong
RE: The Zenbook

How do companies not get this? Don't call it the Zenbook [Impossible Number]. Call it the damn Zenbook and be done with it. No one cares that its part of the UX300 line, because UX300 means nothing, and you're only going to have three computers in the UX line anyway before you discontinue it.

But you know why they do that? Price matching. They can sell a SKU on Amazon for $700 and sell the exact same computer at Best Buy for $750. When you try to price match with Best Buy, oh whoops you're buying the Zenbook UX305-XYZ, that's the Zenbook UX305-ABC. Same hardware? Doesn't matter, different SKU, no price match.
Thanks for the info. @RobSpectre: what alexkinch just said re: Ofcom data :D
Yes, especially if you include economics in STEM, then 5 out of 7 on the standing committee are in that boat, as well as many of the previous members.
I have an expert level rating. I agree with everything in the content. My games are very similar to what he describes. I have not memorized many openings. I just know a few moves in common openings and how to respond to a few quirky responses to them. I want to get to the middle game or out of my opponents memory as quickly as possible. I also sometimes deliberately make some opening weak moves to get out of opponent's memory.

One main thing I found in my experience is, majority of the games in amateur level are decided by blunders. I am not talking about small positional bad moves. These loose pieces are get mated in one move. If you are an amateur first focus on avoiding them by studying tactics before memorizing anything else.
But then again, try buying accessories for the Kindle Not-Fire. First off, you have to figure out how to search for Kindle without Fire results coming up. Then you have to try to figure out which generation you have, when Amazon themselves don't tell you that anywhere.
You're wrong. 100% of Chromebooks are running Linux. If you don't want to use Crouton you can bootstrap Linuxbrew and have access to pretty much any program you'd have on any other Linux distribution.
Looks interesting but seems to be lacking a bit in the mobile number lookup department. The current service we use for mobile numbers can provide:

- Is the phone number not only valid in terms of syntax but a number actually registered to a subscriber?

- Is the subscriber currently connected to the network? (Normally indicates if their phone is switched on or off with the exception of not having a signal)

- Has the phone number or subscriber been barred or blacklisted in any way?

- Network that the number originally belonged to

- Network that the number is currently registered with. For example if they ported their number from another provider this will be different from the network the number originally belonged to.

- Network that the subscriber is currently connected to. So say if you were roaming in a different country this would return the network the phone is currently roaming on. Can be used to see if someone is out of the country.

This works mostly worldwide with a few exceptions. In a few countries we can actually determine if you are on a prepay or contract plan as well.
No, it is a way of telling people in cities "This is all your fault, so stop giving farmers a hard time."
Because it hasn't hit individual people hard enough to begin fighting against the agribusinesses.

The agribusinesses (let's not call them farmers please) know that the moment there is real water rationing or consumer price of water goes up, all holy hell will break loose and people will demand that the use of water for crops simply stop.

So, they are making sure that the end consumer view of water stays static while vacuuming up as much profit as they can before it all collapses.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, I think you make a good point.

You can't on one hand hold people who make bad money decisions unaccountable and at the same time say they should have access to all the high risk opportunities.

It has to be one or the other.
Market forces will force us to start conserving and optimizing now; and solving problems sooner is generally better than solving them later.
Good conversation at about my level (read: plays a bit, but not necessarily well). I've noticed that many new players seem to obsess on their Openings, while my skills are very much the Endgame (I'm great at holding multiple logic trees in my head, which becomes an asset late in a game when you can pursue these to a checkmate). Basically, if I can survive 15 moves against comparably skilled players, I will win.

But that's an "if". I thrashed a mate in about a dozen games in a row, including one where I called 'Checkmate in 8' which drove him mad. And then the following game he 'pantsed' me, drove through to a checkmate without me even taking a single of his pieces.

Is there a point here? I guess you'll rarely win a match in the Opening, but you can lose it. And maybe more people should practice end game positions instead of just playing lots of games from the start and researching Openings because of the literature volume dedicated to those.
Is that because HTML/CSS UIs are more robust and advanced than native UI frameworks? Or because native UI framekits solved all the problems that the vast cornucopia of HTML/CSS UI frameworks are still struggling to solve? Or because everybody looks at all the HTML/CSS frameworks, decides none of them solve their problem, and decides to write their own?
it's an awful computer
Mobile Devices and Accessories for Healthcare in the Field