skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR:

Not like Textmate. Tried vi before, gave up. Tried again, gave up. Tried to do real work expecting it to be Textmate, gave up.

I see a pattern here.
Ask HN: Freelancer's – what is the ideal client
I have a project that has grown to the point I am seriously thinking about hiring someone to pick up some of the dev load I can't find time for, but it is nowhere near fulltime, at most a few months work.

There have been a number of threads about working as a freelancer: what about hiring one?

From a freelancer's perspective: what does the ideal client look like; what should they do; what do they provide (other than $$$!)

Do you provide standard contracts, or does the client propose them; what about NDAs; how long ahead due you typically book (or would consider booking)

Any insights that would make the experience easier on both sides?
Beautiful. Anyone know what music is playing in the background?
Graduate student takes a problem-solving approach to his brain cancer
> This article originally appeared as a guest post on Auth0’s blog.

um...
It actually took some time before I realized this was a mockery of Islamic jihadist hackers.

Well done!
Dash is 100% real: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tn-amazon-dash-button-....
The next release (in six weeks) will also disable RC4 fallback, except for a few sites which are on a whitelist for one release after that.
Don't be mistaken. In many developing nations there is a thirst for power. Renewables aren't up to it when it comes to the scale and speed required (even though the countries involved are on the equator).

I don't advocate for the use of coal in generating power but this is what seems to be going on.

The largest (MW/GW wise) expansion projects in terms of power generation are all coal projects as far as I'm aware on the entire African continent.

Typically each unit/turbine generates close to 1 GW. It's hard to find something with the equivalent cost (including the use of a small amount of space) with renewable energy.

Even the best geothermal well in Kenya, on the rift valley geothermal reservoir, only gives out near 5 MW.

The renewable scaling issue is something that needs to be faced. Costa Rica truly has achieved a milestone much larger than it sounds.

It is possible I'm not saying its not. The three gorges dam hydroelectric plant is able to produce near 22 GW, also the largest power plant in the world (including non renewable energy)
A Logarithmic Additive Integrality Gap for Bin Packing
..I don't. Did you read the article? He doesn't say not to use VIM.
"Unlike major mobile operating systems, which were designed based on Linux codes, Mozilla created their Firefox Os (project name: Boot to Gecko) on an HTML platform, more precisely HTML 5."

afaik Firefox OS is also built upon a Linux kernel, so it's a bit misleading ...
> So to prepare for drier weather that's likely to come with climate change.

I don't understand why do so many people equate climate change and global warming with drought?

If only it was only that simple?

One of the most noticeable, measurable effects of climate change is the warming of the oceans.

That warming adds energy to the oceans and that energy then causes big changes to barometric pressure, resulting in wind directional changes.

The warming oceans warm the air above them and that causing the air to rise. That rising warm air sucks in colder surrounding air. That air movement changes the prevailing wind patterns.

It is those changes to local wind patterns that cause the changes to local weather. If suddenly you’re country is seeing more onshore winds, you’ll be seeing more drought. But if you’re seeing more offshore winds you’ll see more flooding.

The climate models are so complex it’s impossible to predict how these changes will pan out at a local level.

But as someone living here in Oz, it's clear that over the last few years the local wind patterns have changed and those changes have caused changes to local weather.

Some areas are seeing warming, others are seeing cooling, some areas are in drought, others are in constant flooding, but in the end it just depends on how the the prevailing winds have changed.
Corporate April Fools gags are nothing more than tasteless opportunities for Ads
> That translates out to "What Costa Rica runs on is 100% renewable."

No it doesn't. You changed the meaning.
> I kinda agree with that sentiment. There's a lot of unnecessary stuff going on in CS. We had extreme OOP and I fear extreme FP will spread into the mainstream. The mission of programming language designers should be to help programmers do their jobs better, not design something elegant/interesting/powerful/expressive/[buzzword]. Those things are all good, but only in the service of programs with fewer bugs and shorter time-to-market.

I'm not sure where you're going with that. I have stared at enough medium- to large-sized codebases to realize that an excellent way to "fewer bugs" is to protect programmers against themselves and restrict their proven ability to shoot themselves in the foot (especially in the absence of code review and/or competent technical leads). Shorter time-to-market is actually a different property. PHP or Rails got popular because they make it easy to crank out a web application in a relatively small amount of code. However, this often doesn't translate into "fewer bugs" when the codebase gets big.

I don't know what "extreme FP" mean, but there is a night and day difference working with referential transparency and immutable data structures in terms of cognitive load and ability to change parts of the system with confidence (for the record, I'm also mystified about "extreme OOP").
Robert Sapolsky: On turbulence–teens, stress, and the information age
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Ohh, I suppose that makes more sense than what I always think of, which is minor league baseball. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple-A_%28baseball%29
I've been searching for this!
Computational Mathematics Inspired by ISAAC NEWTON – TEST ONLINE( Heru.com.br )
The Web Runs Out of Disk Space
Amazon announces the Fire HD Seven, Fire HD-7, Fire HD Sven, Fire HD VII and Fire HD 7' as successors to the Fire HD 7 and Fire HD 7". Each launches with it's own range of mutualy incompatible accessories.
http://www.shopclues.com/laggayi90percent-offsale.html?icid=...
"exactly zero legal avenues"

In this day of age you very rarely need to be permanently physically present in the US to own and run a US business, and once your business passes the threshold of actually being viable theres multiple routes to getting a Visa.

There's the whole E2 Visa system specifically designed for this. In addition after a year in business there is a L1a route too, assuming the business goes anywhere.

Admittedly theres very little room for a "starving devpreneur who is making some social app that doesn't make any money", but assuming such an app can take off then the investment they could raise would instantly get them to quality for a visa too.
2015 – The Era of the Web 4.0
I can't read this article without turning on Javascript.

>Oops! It appears that you have disabled your Javascript. In order for you to see this page as it is meant to appear, we ask that you please re-enable your Javascript!
Strong encryption and method that REPLACE THE BINARY TREE
chromecast, chromebit. whats next? chromeblast?
Surprisingly, google points to a 127.0.0.0/8 address.
Once the token has a signature, three-legged authentication.

For example, a Netflix employee can log onto the Netflix Single Sign On system, and that system can issue them a signed token saying "The bearer of this token can log into this AWS account with these powers until this time". The employee presents this to AWS and, if the signature is valid, AWS lets them log on.

That way each employee only needs one account - on the Netflix Single Sign On system - instead of them also needing an AWS account (with a separate password, 2FA and so on).

(SAML is another standard for doing this, but it's a standard with a lot of unnecessary complexity)
I'm sure this is a dumb question, but can someone explain why it's frequently written as "the lambda calculus"?

I never see "the algebra" or "the trigonometry", although I realize that's not a perfect analogy.
Coldfusion was actually pretty good, alot better than many so called modern stacks. In fact the whole react + flux takes alot of pointers from coldfusion by putting data access in the view layer
(though with a 100ml limit)
Here's a capture
http://img.nux.ro/v4C-ekjeacheblog.com-firefox-the-next-mobi...
My Adventure of Getting a Code Signing Certificate
That's mean. I'd love to have the source code to Microsoft Agent. :(

At least there's floppy.js

Also, spoofing GitHub.com might piss them off.
GIF – Private Rooms in ChatGrape
Custom Infix Operators in Haskell
In Spain is "Chinese", not "Greek".
That is a perfect April Fools' day joke.
"I have to say that now I regret that the syntax is so clumsy. I would like http://www.example.com/foo/bar/baz to be just written http:com/example/foo/bar/baz where the client would figure out that www.example.com existed and was the server to contact. But it is too late now." Tim Berners Lee[1]

[1] http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html
This. I take my hand off the piece and immediately resign. Allowing a single 'undo-last-move' play would help my game a lot.
You did not misread. Crouton runs alongside ChromeOS and you retain full ChromeOS functionality.
Only if you don't bother exploring to open up shortcuts, or if you insist on killing every enemy every time you respawn.
Required Documents for Your Restaurant Business
If you are about to start your restaurant business, you will require different permits and licenses depending on the laws of your state. Similarly, you will have to pay a different amount of fee for each permit. The fees for each permit varies from place to place.

See more at: http://www.headwayfinance.com/blog/permits-required-for-your-restaurant-business/
OpenBSD 5.7 highlights
World’s Largest Potato Identified Using LiDAR Analysis Tools in Global Mapper
Very cool stuff - question - on the website you mention: "Those that need a CMS (major exception we know, but check in with us regularly - we are working on something huge), and those that need constant updating."

Can you give us any hint of what you're thinking about?
Except .org was already free to use by anyone (including for-profit companies, e.g. craigslist.org) and there was .net, which wasn't descriptive in the least, and .info which is even weirder than .net.

What you had was an illusion of meaning, and the new gTLDs killed it. Good riddance.
Disappointed. More than 4 colours.
Some diagrams and actual moves would have been very useful to help explain the concepts he talked about.

As it is, I am left with no idea what "attacking the king in the midgame" really meant to him. Did it mean sacrificing material for a mate, or a more standard development?

Most midgame analysis use the concepts of force, space, and time[1], and he didn't even mention these terms, so I was left confused.

I am not sure what my level is, but pretty much all I did in my two years in prison was play chess, and in my relatively short stay, I became around the 5th best player "on the yard" and was able to play at the specific table where only the best players could play.

There were over 1500 inmates at the facility I was at, and at least half of them played chess as it was one of the only board games readily available, so playing at that table was no mean feat.

We would play for $1 a game and it became my "hustle" (a hustle in prison is something that allows you to make money doing something of value, like making some else's rack (bed), or sneaking food out of the kitchen etc).

Anyway, I digress...I try to play at coffee shops when I can these days but I find often the existing players seem snobbish and its hard to find a game with the better players.

[1] http://chessimprover.com/force-space-and-time/
Cyanogenmod 12 nightlies April 1st build:

http://imgur.com/l6PV5x5

http://imgur.com/M9fRJpf
indeed because "The evaluation fee is US$185,000."

http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/customer-service/faq...
He doesn't actually use that as his mic, it's just for headphones - there's a much better one just below the shot.
>>> Do you talk like this in public?

Honest question: What is wrong with above sentence?
Microsoft Announces Its Own Linux OS:
http://itsfoss.com/microsoft-announces-linux-os/
Peat accounts for close to 10% of the energy sources in Ireland. It's mostly coal and gas, but the damage done to the environment by mining peat is downplayed a lot here.

People don't realise we're destroying a natural resource.
Ah, the wonders of CSS. I bet they're choosing "random" phrases by trailing post ID characters.
Now someone needs to take this full circle and run it in the browser with brython or rapydscript
That hasn't been true since at least 1997, when whitehouse.com was registered.
I made it because I chose to : if that's not the answer that works for you, I'm sorry for you if I won't be of more use for you! But let me know if there's anything you don't get and I can help you more. Thanks for stopping by, maybe check out https://fakefakeproducthunt.appspot.com/ :)
Show HN: Sublime Text move around and reform code demo
While nuclear is finite, we have enough for tens of thousands of years if we use breeder reactors: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-will-glob...

And it is also true that the extraction and refining is completely dependent on fossil fuels, but so are renewables.
.local reserved for special mDNS functionality
http://files.multicastdns.org/draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicas...
Most of the randomness you mention isn't actually random, it's just stuff you haven't figured out yet. For example, weapon damage isn't random at all, but it depends on various factors like your character and weapon stats, whether your weapon is extended or not, what the enemy is doing (blocking, neutral, attacking) and any resistances it may have, and so on.
Well, it's debatable, but I'd argue that exposing serious issues in the presumed robustness of systems turns out to be useful in the long run. In the worst case, it provides another data point for identifying systems that aren't working how they should.
Not that I'm advocating the creation of malware, of course. Don't do that. :)
You're right, sorry. I've changed to post title to make it clear it's a direct download link.

By the way, this seems to be a slightly different version of the font: http://xkcd.com/1506/xkcd-Regular.otf
Yeah I tend to just lose this entire day's worth of news because people literally lie and I don't want to have to guess if things are true or not.
Knotlink / Introducing the ESPN Channel
I am just now writing a static site generator that generates a directory based website from a folder hierarchy. It is heavily inspired by gopher. No bling, no js (well, unintrusive js to make the directory listing sortable) and a focus on getting shit online. The pages are either plain text or generated through some templates using markdown.

I am in dire need to clean the code up, but I will put it on github sooner or later. It grew top-to-bottom and bottom-to-top without meeting in the middle :(
But the problem is that modern liberals think the free-market is too slow and too inefficient. That's why they want the government to force everyone to agree with them immediately.
His advice is good; I went through the "don't touch the arrow keys" and "you don't need the mouse phase" a fairly long ago. It did help me eventually get very efficient in Vim but I had to sepnd a lot of free time doing it and there were months where if I was at work I ignored all the "good" advice and used the arrows, the mouse, special keys like PgUp and whatever else was needed to get the job done.

Years later I showed a younger coworker the Windows version of GVim - it comes with an "Easy" mode that makes it behave more like notepad. He loved it, used it all the time. He never did get very good at using it in Unix mode but I can't fault him for that. Most of his work was on Windows and he was quite productive so that was good enough for me.
Python language creator Guido van Rossum Reviews code on CheckiO
There is no chance of that. It's a Sony game.
Yes, I think this is where experience comes into it. Knowing when it will likely pay off in the long run. As a junior its difficult to differentiate between hype and genuine usefulness.
another bing clone that won't last a week
Agreed: the higher level the players, the more endgames. Think of two people fighting on a balance beam. The weaker the fighters, the greater the chance that one of them is going to slip off the beam (make a blunder that is punishable) earlier in the fight.
This article is so badly written.
Amazon Dash?
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It's not common at all. More than 20 million consoles have been sold to date. If it was a common thing you'd hear about it a lot more places than Amazon reviews.
That's exactly what it means - grid power. I don't know why everyone thinks it means we somehow, under the radar, stopped using gas vehicles and stoves and stuff... obviously that's not the case.

And it's not a milestone.. it's a sensationalized headline.

As much as I'm proud of my little adopted country - this doesn't represent some new investment or initiative. We had more rain than usual this year so ran on renewables longer than average this year (dropping electricity prices 10% for a while, which is fantastic).
Yes, thank you for clarifying.
Show HN: New 24/7 Twitch Plays Game
There's been modern experimentation with "intensive grazing" to emulate what the early bison herds did to grasslands. Densely packed cattle are moved using temporary electric fence over smaller areas of pasture for shorter amounts of time. The end result is quality feed for the cows, the manure gets trampled into fields, helping water retention and fertility, and the cows are moved along before they completely destroy the area.

Joel Salatin, of Polyface Farms here in Virginia, uses this practice to good success.

I don't know if such practices can sustain the volumes of cheap beef production we enjoy now, but if we properly managed large grazing areas this way, we could utilize land/water/feed much more efficiently than we do now.
> In 30 years, 14 out of about 1,100 runners have completed the race, made up of five loops around a mountainous 20-mile course. With a finisher rate of about 1 percent

14/1100 = 0.0127…
Fish Oil Claims Not Supported by Research
nah, I'll stick with altavista
The models may well have changed, but a quick Google for "climate change impact Costa Rica" brought up a 2008 study, saying:

> Regional climate models predict that the area will become warmer and drier as climate change accelerates.

Give them the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps they are talking specifically about the best current models for Costa Rica, instead of suggesting every place will have drought.

Although the models are complex and may change, there's no reason not to run with the best current models, changing your plans only when these long-term forecasts change.
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As long as this industry exposure is low, bubble bursts may not impact main stream economy but if the exposure is more, then as previous financial crisis shows,---due to inter linkages in finance sector and due to wrong judgments of even supposedly sophisticated investors,--- main stream economy cannot live insulated life.

So as of now, risk may be limited to investors in question only but if the scope and invested money increases, then it can create fresh financial crisis worldwide.
I actually agree $20K would seem fairer here, but to answer your question, one reason it may not correlate closely is that you're only referring to the demand side, ie how valuable is this discovery to Google?

The compensation level also comes down to the supply side - how many other people might have discovered this bug shortly after this?

For this reason, there's probably a good argument to increase the reward according to how long the vulnerability was present, to the extent that's knowable. (More so with an open source libraries under version control than a website.)
Re: Rail......

All of those railroads have been shut down for ages - there are no working railroads here, other than a revived diesel commuter railroad with a few cars that goes back and forth across the central valley.

Historically, yes, costa rica was one of the first countries to adopt electric power as a nation, including for railroads and stuff... but that time is over.
I'm using it on my Chromebook via rollApp: https://www.rollapp.com/app/emacs Have you tried that?

Not a chrome web app, but works pretty fast and responsive for me.
So, a pilot explains why we all will forever need to have pilots.

I am friends with a pilot (commercial 737 short-haul captain for a 'value' european airline). He will happily tell you that

a) Much of what he does is automatable and rather boring (takeoff, landing interesting; the rest very dull), and that it's mostly punching settings into computers. Indeed, he does not have complete ability to do whatever he pleases - if, for example, he climbs too fast or steps outside flight parameters set by the airline (set mostly for cost issues), he would expect to be facing disciplinary action.

b) That a large amount of the training book-work that they have to go through is irrelevant for flying a modern airliner - but is in place mostly to act as a barrier to entry and to keep wages high.

c) That the biggest barrier to 'self-flying planes' (which doesn't mean 'autonomous', it may be drone-style remote-control or other options) is the perception of safety.

It's the last part that's interesting. The Economist ran an article years ago (I can't find a weblink sadly) about how a UPS cargo plane was flown entirely remotely on a test flight. It noted that humans seem to prefer the risk of a "human being" flying them around vs a "computer" - _Even If_ the data showed that the latter was much safer. It went on to point out that this might well be the case given the proportion of accidents classified as "Controlled flight into terrain" (I.E: the pilot crashed an airworthy plane into the ground).

It will be interesting to see if that public perception shifts given recent events. This article is however exactly how I'd expect a pilot to respond.
Why have you decided to use OSclass?
Well, no. You would never change elevation, you'd be standing on top of the 1 inch peaks. It would be impossible to actually descend at all.
Ming Mecca, the jazz instrument for videogame improvisation
How Avocarrot Replaced Targeting Algorithms With 742 Real People

http://www.avocarrot.com/blog/how-avocarrot-replaced-targeti...

Announcing HERO, the Human-Enabled Relevancy Optimizer, to address one of the hardest challenges we faced yet.
The Scars on Mars from the Curiosity Rover Landing Are Healing
Please, please let it be an April fools joke. I love Meteor platform and I would like it to stay indepentent, not to be acquired by some big corporation and then discarded after few months/years :/.
13 Content Marketing Hacks That Will Help You Attract More Clients
No, it isn't just about the cost.

If I had a choice between a £150 Chromebook and a £75 Windows laptop, I'd choose the Chromebook.

Windows isn't an 'upgrade' to Chrome OS.
This was simply a case of someone getting the systemdaemon name on github. It's not the systemd project.
Move Laptop Screen to Play Harmonium Online
I wish 1 pound of beef was only 213 calories. I think you took Google's first result (https://www.google.com/search?q=1+lb+beef+calories) which is actually for 3 ounces (85 grams). You need to multiply that by 16/3 (there are 16 ounces in a pound) which gives 1136 calories/lb.
Ai, that's a real pity. To go from being ahead of the curve to behind really sucks.
First thing Facebook is pushing for is a Blaze powered WYSIWYG.
it very well could:

CFWheels.org - https://github.com/cfwheels/cfwheels

and no, this isn't a joke. Full disclosure: I worked on and LOVE this project.