skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually thought about it, but it's a total mess to parse :( Think of posts like "We're sorry we can't sponsor H1B at the moment, but we might get you a VISA for our London office".

On the other hand, once you're already browsing New York City, good ol' ctrl-f for VISA will probably serve you well enough.
> at least from a moral point of view I don't see that we did something wrong.

You did. You lied on your Thai tourist visa application form. It explicitly said:
"I hereby declare that the purpose of my visit to thailand is for pleasure or transit only and that in no case shall I engage myself in any profession or occupation while in the country"
"Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Harari
A breathtaking history book, I read in one night like a good thriller.
but those who understand gun safety know very well that one never points a gun at another human being unless one fully intends to kill them

Nope, Rule 2 is "Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy." (Emphasis added.) Big difference between "fully intends" and willing.

Roughly when did the Navy incident happen? As of late, like the last couple or so decades, I've read that the firearm training has really been shortchanged. It was very different when my father started at Great Lakes before being tapped for OCS.
I misread that as "holding a gun at someone's head", as opposed to "holding a gun aimed at someones's head". My bad.

But even so, should police officers really aim for the head?
Why Every IT Technician Needs to Be CompTIA Certified
Ripe for abuse, but not gross in principle.

This trend of "crowd-source everything" is getting a bit silly though. It really just makes more sense to operate a laundry service with pickup/dropoff. If there's no demand for that service, then there is no demand for this one.
I really like your example project. It's good that you go into detail about some of the calculations, which could trick people up otherwise.

As for the interview, just try to be relaxed and friendly to the interviewee--you want them to fail on their own merits, not because they got stressed out or anxious.
This is cool, nice to look at other projects analyzing this data. I publish HN Hiring Trends, http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/ , that watches the various technology terms being mentioned in the postings.

Once thing I changed to was just including top level comments and no replies/discussion of the posting. Do you handle similarly?
Using Putty to remotely open GUI applications
Neural engineering by Chris Eliasmith:
http://www.amazon.com/Neural-Engineering-Representation-Neur...
Curiosity of photos shows.. the dream of cinema reveals
OT but I have to say that the amount of Apple apologists in these comments is mind blowing. HN reader of all people should be the ones urging Apple to issue a fix for a very serious bug such as this one. Yet many comments here are saying that people should just upgrade while it might solve the problem for some, there are ones who can't upgrade machines at will.
$10 for a load of laundry seems really expensive to me. What am I missing?
Useful, but falls short for surrounding areas of Los Angeles like Venice (neighborhood of LA) & Santa Monica (adjacent and much a part of LA). I imagine there are issues like this for other cities and regions too.
InfluxDB (YC W13) is hiring a full-stack developer in SF
At InfluxDB, we're building the time series database of the future. Our front-end team needs one more talented full-stack developer who wants to build beautiful visualization and analytics tools with cutting-edge technology. You'll also contribute to the Go-based backend that powers our front-end tools.

This role will be based out of our SF office in SoMa. We've got tons of great benefits, a passion for open source, and an appetite for making tools that other developers can't live without.

Want to join us? Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/influxdb
Patent troll claims patnet on Web Components, reverse trolling ensues
There it is: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/84952/software-develop...
I also read Anna Karenina (I am a big fan of Russian literature) - but none the less (or maybe rather b/c of that) I am curious to learn how this book did change your perspective on your life?
The rise in violent crime preceded the drug war. When Nixon uttered the phrase "drug war" in 1971, the violent crime rate had more than doubled since 1960. http://www.decisionsonevidence.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/1.... To a great extent, the drug war was a response to the increase in violent crime rates. People blamed drug use for the collapse of the social structure of the inner cities.
Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves by George M. Church, Ed Regis. Mind blowing to say the least.
'Silicon Valley Is Coming' Warns JP Morgan CEO
I've been reading his short story collections and I'm very pleased with them.
It would be nice if "Is this review helpful" numbers would weigh into the overall rating. So if 10 people gave 1 star because "I PLUGGED IT IN AND NOTHING HAPPENED" or "Seller sent me red instead of blue!! This is trash!" but they had very low "helpful" ratings, those 1-stars would count significantly less into the overall rating.

This would allow crowdsourced moderation (kind of an upvote/downvote for reviews).
"There's already a lot of bad things, so let's have one more bad thing"
Here in NYC, laundry pick up and drop off services are hugely in demand. I look outside my window all day and watch van load after van load of other people's laundry get delivered and picked up.

I don't know what such services cost, but if this is cheaper and/or more convenient, I can see it taking off.
Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves: George M. Church, Ed Regis. Mind blowing to say the least.
Chatrooms are making a comeback, and Bindle is leading the charge
Rotating Words Using CSS3 Animations
If you watch the video, at least one person working on this specifically calls out surveillance as a potential application. He doesn't explicitly say much about what their opinions on it are, but it seems they're definitely aware of what they're doing.
I love the irony of having apt-get and yum install instructions for a package manager.
"Ich kann denken. Ich kann warten. Ich kann fasten."
The only reason anyone needs to never read anything by Dan Brown is Dan Brown's writing.

I'm terrible at random-access, on-demand list building like this, but I strongly agree about a few of the other things mentioned here:

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Godel, Escher, Bach by Hofstadter

Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton

The Abolition of Man by CS Lewis

Walden by Thoreau

A few of the better and more philosophical bits out of the bible (especially in a good modern translation), including Ecclesiastes and 1 Corinthians 13

To this list, I would also add Ralph Waldo Emerson's classic essays, including Self-Reliance and Experience
Gnarly single-engine loss in commuter turboprops is fairly common (for a rare failure). They often happen in climb outs but thankfully there's usually more altitude.

Air Canada Jazz had 6 engine failures (plus 2 more problems) in the last 12 months across their DHC8 fleet (I fly with them once a month on average and never had a blip, thankfully.)

http://www.aeroinside.com/incidents/airline/jazz
Take a look at Paychexonline and let me know when you find a "good" passive ETF that isn't charging above 1.5-2%
I am really pissed they are only releasing a patch for 10.10, and forcing me to upgrade to 10.10.
Dell releases updated XPS-13 Developer Edition in wide variety of configs
I get the impression you read that passage as a "feeling" or a "belief". I read it as the person quoted was citing scientific fact that, regardless whether the outcome for humans is negative or positive, is an observable phenomenon in the physical world.

I have no stake personally in whether it will turn out good or bad for humans, though of course I wish no ill upon future generations. However, the fact is I will be long gone before anyone will know what the impact will be.
See my first comment in this thread; that signaled very clearly they were willing to kill them, although nothing about intending (and indeed they didn't). See also a lot of the bad behavior after the Boston Marathon bombing in the futile Watertown search, lots of contemporary pictures, plus there's a recent report that's well discussed here that tells us just how badly managed it all was: http://weaponsman.com/?p=21830
Really depends on the size of a "load". At least a dollar per pound is standard. If their "load" is more than 10 pounds of clothes, then it's easily within range.
How did it change the perspective on your life?
It may be a circular dependency problem, but when I start DART I get an error from my local workstation nanny that Chrome startup is blocked and then DART exits. So if there's a way to set DART to another tool than Chrome I can't seem to get there.

I haven't tried it with DART 1.9 so maybe that problem is no longer there.
You also need to read "Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results". I've been successful with a mini-habit for about three months now.
If you haven't read Charles Stross' Accelerando [1] yet, there's a character early on that advocates for AI rights so that maybe they will fairly treat the humans who made them later on.

[1] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...
The whole point of Homebrew is:

1) To install things in userland

2) To make maintenance easier.

Is there a Linux package manager that puts everything in userland in a place like /usr/local? If not, then it installs things into the operating system, essentially. And that is bad design, pure and simple. You're basically mutating your OS, with nondeterministic results- such as I often run into when I hit "update everything" and my Linux distro then refuses to boot.
Heartbleed Threat Won't Fade Away
Sounds like we need to do our job as apex predators. 'course, that won't make some animal rights folks happy, but until the natural predator population rebounds (which it may never do), it's our responsibility to at least clean up our own mess and do the job for them.
A lot of your post touches on concepts touched upon in Walter Benjamin's classic essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. If you've not read it, it's well worth it: https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/...

Here's some more contextual information on it: http://modernism.research.yale.edu/wiki/index.php/The_Work_o...

(Although Benjamin might object to the notion that art has value, in the sense of metaphorical value implying financial value and vice versa.)
Strobe – Animate Your Moments
Here's what Homebrew runs for the MySQL installation. Can you point out the part of this that's giving you security concerns?

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/For...
This brings to mind the fantastic "Regular Expression Matching can be Simple and Fast"[0] article.

[0]: http://web.archive.org/web/20150315004427/http://swtch.com/~...
There's no guarantee that using other managers would have resulted in the same "expected" returns.
Should recent grads be making major engineering decisions for any established company? This article smacks of entitlement.

A very few recent grads may be able to make major contributions. How do you know if you're one of them?
The Unsustainability Pattern
Are these prices for real?
I'm paying 3.50€ for a load in the laundromat next door.
Thats the best beginning to a book I have ever read! I just bought it
I assume that was just a DST issue. The bot posted it an hour later than usual, and the DST transition (for the US) took place between the March and April posts.
I've always thought the hiring process needed a better way to vet potential employees. I'm just not sure an online Linkedin Classroom is one of them.
Dead-on. Lots of eyeballs.

Even in a non-open-source tool, lots of users means lots of reference on Stack Overflow, and an exponentially better chance of not encountering bugs for your particular use-case.

Any framework of moderate size has bugs in it. The only question is, has the bug that would slow you down been fixed yet?

That's why the size of the alternative is so important. If the alternative is just 300 lines of code (as in this case), then even if you do run into bugs, fixing them is gonna be trivial. But what about 3,000 lines? 30,000? ...

I wouldn't say everybody should automatically go with the popular option, because this kind of herd mentality can really be destructive. If another, less popular tool seems better for your use, give it a fair consideration. I've actually personally chosen that route several times, and I would again. But by doing so you accept the strong possibility of dealing with bugs which your competition doesn't need to worry about.
How in the world would you get the impression that it was a feeling? You are projecting your and the medias doom mantra. Malthusian pessimists were wrong, sorry.
> 3) Doesn't explain the statistical violence peaks of the 1970s and 1980s in our society.

The statistical increase in crime rates that peaked then is largely well explained by the baby boom of the 1940s and 1950s and the widely-observed correlation between crime and the proportion of population that is adolescent to young adult males.

> 4) We are at one of the least violent and peaceful decades in US History

Which is also largely well explained by the same demographic effects.

Lead exposure through lead in gasoline also can explain some of both of these effects, as noted in other comments.
Although it happened on takeoff, they were at about 1000ft, so it's not an immediate "do or die" moment. They should have been trained to calmly identify the failed engine before feathering it. Many high-time pilots say that the first thing you should do when an engine fails in cruise flight is absolutely nothing. You need to relax and calmly assess the situation. Although they weren't in cruise, they certainly had enough altitude to be able to take 10 seconds to calm down and properly identify the problem.
The Search-Recommendation-Notification Spectrum
It's even worse than it seems if you talk about it as 'anybody'.

Most OSX boxes are probably single user devices. But you do not normally run as root/wheel, you need sudo (sometimes through a nice GUI) for software to get root privs.

It's not 'somebody' as if another person were logged into their own account. It's that malware running as you can now get root, to further compromise your system, without needing a sudo password.
I hope the people will look back to the way the tobacco industry has killed thousands by ruthlessly effective marketing, intentionally making their product more addictive, spreading misinformation and lobbying against laws that were in the interest of public health. Can you think of any particular reason why "Big Marijuana" will behave better?
Snowden's Leaks Forced the DEA to End Its Own Mass Surveillance Program
Because the kid asked about Haskell. This is explained in the first sentence of the article.
Yeah, reminds me of USA spying on everyone "to prevent terrorist attacks".
Beta blockers are exactly what you want, but note that they can only provide a moderate level of effect; taking more could do bad this to blood pressure while the anti-panic effect suffers rapidly diminishing returns.

I found this out by accident after being prescribed a beta-blocker for typical blood pressure reasons while I was trying to deal with some panic-attack issues that were serious enough to need a mild benzodiazepine. After starting the beta-blocker, the need for the benzo just went away. While the benzo was effective at blocking part of the recursive/positive-feedback loop of panic, the beta-blocker was much better at preventing the feedback loop from forming at all.

Later on, a friend of mine who attended RISD mentioned that the drug of choice that was sought by all the art students was beta-blockers, so they could present their projects without all the stage fright.

/* obDisclaimer: This is not medical advice. Taking any drug can be dangerous. See a real doctor. etc */
AI takes over the world? Now a free personal assistant for vacation planning
Awesome, awesome idea! Any plans to do the same with "Who's looking for work"?
DoE Awards $200M for Next-Gen Supercomputer at Argonne National Lab
Top 15 Most Influential Growth Hackers on Twitter
Petition to build Jedi Temple on university campus
I understand, but during times when you can buy a decent whole web servers for just $60 per year with traffic and all, the SSL certificate prices are just outrageously high!
Speaking as someone who just left a startup to join Google, I was excited in getting really stock options that after vesting could be exercised and sold.

It's a long road to go from options to real money. Something I didn't realized before joining a startup. There are many points at which you could be locked in if the company is sold or other events happen.
Many towns in Massachusetts have adopted a Right-to-Farm bylaw which "encourages the pursuit of agriculture, promotes agriculture-based economic opportunities, and protects farmlands within a town by allowing agricultural uses and related activities to function with minimal conflict with abutters and town agencies."

As far as I know there's not much of an issue with the farms and orchards in town. (On the other hand, it's a pretty rural town and doesn't have much in the way of new high-end residential developments.)
Should it have been "bros" by country? :-)
Defeating Imposter Syndrome
Hacking Twitterbot Using R
How about instead of requiring a certain amount of karma to post in the thread, require a certain amount of karma just to view it?
The Struggle for Series A
So is Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6.8) not affected?
tl;dr excerpt:

“The Justice Department was going into court and saying, in part, ‘What we’re doing in this intelligence-surveillance program is OK, because it serves national security interests and it’s not done for routine law enforcement,’” journalist Brad Heath, who broke the story, explained in a video interview posted on USA Today‘s site. “And then they sort of had the problem of, ‘Well, we’re doing something like this for routine law enforcement.’ And at the end of the day they had to make a choice between the two programs.”
Jeff Bezos’s Rocket Company Will Test Reusable Spacecraft Later This Year
Offer both. As an example: the Threema messenger gives you an ID (cryptic, but could be a choosen handle as well) and allows you to add phone numbers and mail addresses as identifying information.
Most self-serve laundromats in the US charge $3-7 per washer and dryers cost $0.25-0.50 per 10 minutes.
Check the comparative pricing table, I think it's pretty accurate. When I lived in SF, that's what we'd pay for a large load at the laundromat. Same in NYC. That said, the laundromat was 1 block away and the industrial machines are much larger than the typical home machine so there's not much of a value prop for me unless the delivery works really, really well. I tried washio once because I had a $20 promo code and it was over $40 for a smaller load.
Off Topic, but I HAD to tell you: I love your work! 3D Infographics that engage the five senses make for a much memorable message.
Their website says a standard 18-pound load.
The whole point of Homebrew is to be a package manager for OS X, and it's only popular because its the best of several shit options.

That it installs things as a non-admin user is not specific or inherent to its goal.
Yes.

Though if the silicon process technology is as good as they claim, then scaling that up a little bit (to be on-par with conventional 8-bit micros) won't be too bad. It will be interesting to see if they can maintain the kind of leakage they're talking about with a smaller process size.
The problem isn't testing. Testing is fine and is actually necessary. Even testing with socioeconomic bias is okay since you can norm to historic values to see trends.

The problem occurs at two points:

1) when you then use the results of those tests more broadly than applicable.

Comparing results in the same school year on year is generally valid (although you have to watch out for events like a big employer closing). Comparing two different schools close in location requires a bit of finesse. Comparing schools in completely different locations with completely different demographics is generally useless--yet NCLB effectively tries to lump all schools together with the same tests.

2) when you apply those tests to provide punitive measures

Why don't people get that doing this is going distort the system? Software people wail continuously about "you can't judge my craft with objective measures." Practically any measure in software I can dream up: number of bugs fixed, number of bugs found, number of commits, number of lines of code written, etc. will be met with cries of "that doesn't measure my ability" AND "if you promote on those measures, people will start gaming the measures". And they will be right.

Why can't people see that the exact same thing will occur in teaching?

The standard complaint is that only programmers can judge programmers and that non-programmer managers can't judge correctly. Yet, with respect to teaching, we magically think that any moron can judge teaching ability and that non-teaching managers are well equipped to judge teachers.

This is one of my hot buttons. Tech folks are so very quick to defend their own area with "you can't objectively judge and punish me" and so quick to apply "but I can objectively judge and punish you."

And, even when a school is doing things right, it's really hard to keep it going. Positive results take years to show up unequivocally while negative results can appear almost immediately.

See: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/275/t...

The bit about how quickly things dropped one year when they didn't have parents come in 3-times-a-year to review report cards is particularly enlightening. Achievement is getting a lot of little things right, and only the teachers can see when they're right and when they're wrong.

By contrast, it took 10 years to move from 15% passing reading and math to 66%. That's roughly 5% a year, and I suspect the first years were slower than that. 5% is statistical noise to a test--which means that all of the things that were occurring in the first years would have been filtered out by a test. Not the result you wanted.

So, given that achievement at that school is now dropping, what does the test tell us to do? Where does the test say: "Whoops. The teachers are the same, so A) either the children got worse or B) we need to unroll every single change made by administrators in the last year." Where is THAT application of the test?

Now do you see the problem with testing?
They're in a ring.
Nice name and clean interface!

I'm glad to see Remote as a location, but due to the free-form writing in the original posts, there are errors. For example, "Haskell dev at Standard Chartered Bank" is listed under Remote, but the post itself says "Remote work isn’t an option". The post for Button similarly doesn't allow remote, but uses "Remote - no" to convey that.

I've been planning on building some filtering for the Who is Hiring threads, and I've pretty much determined that some degree of manual review will be needed. In the most recent thread, I found a huge number of posts containing "remote" which don't actually allow remote working. "No remote" is fairly common and easy to filter out, but there are any number of variations that you can't anticipate a priori.
Galago – your personal Google
Show HN: Albatross – flaunt your new tab
I have never hung my OS X boot simply by updating Homebrew packages.

I have frequently hung up my Linux distro boot simply by apt-get updating. To the point that I now run all my Linux OS'es in a VM and take a snapshot prior to updating. Coming from a Mac background, this possibility is not only ridiculous, it's fucking unacceptable. And it happens BECAUSE apt-get and yum mutate the OS install instead of installing into userland the way Homebrew does.

Game, set, match.