skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm continually in search of a job where I can split my time between programming and building stuff. I already had my dream job. I was writing control and data processing software for lab instruments, but also doing mechanical design, making parts in a machine shop, assembling electronics. Then my grant ran out, and I wasn't getting paid much either. Still think my dream job would be building boutique one-off scientific instruments.
That's easy. Less harm comes from addiction than from the Drug War. Narcs are much worse, functionally, budgetarily, etc., than addicts. So if YOU believe in a social safety net, we ought to be punishing the Drug Warriors first.
Getsolid.io open sources its Google and Office365 calendar intergration
The claim that every culture only picks a handful of animal species to be considered edible, and this is part of some sort of psychological defense mechanism, is BS too. Counter-example: China, or any society that has access to a diverse hunting ground for 'game' or 'bushmeat'.

Even a 'picky eater' society like the US that only eats a few kinds of land animal species treats all fish as edible but only a few named species as 'the good ones', and only a handful of plant species are commonplace in the diet despite lots more being readily available.
There are so many things to say about this context, but maybe the most interesting story is the one of Potsdamer Platz. How it was before, how it was during the wall, how it was (horribly and wrongly) rebuilt...
Ember.js Glimmer engine is merged
There's no stopping people from racing to the bottom. There will always be developers and designers willing to give away their work for nearly free.

As a developer, this doesn't need to affect you at all. You're not racing to the bottom. The people in that race are not capable of competing with you on quality (or they wouldn't be fighting for $4/hr work). You can (and should) continue to charge several hundred dollars per hour for your services to clients who can tell the difference between you and those oDesk guys, and who are willing to pay for those services.

You're right though. It would be nice if there were a way to create a market that included neither those clients wanting to build a Facebook clone for $350 nor the developers willing to try. But nobody yet has come up with a way to do so.
I could easily understand him, but yes, the narrator sounds like he's almost falling asleep, or he is recording in a room with a sleeping baby and doesn't want to wake it. I assume your comment is receiving so much resistance because apparently a lot of people find his voice "soothing", and people don't realize that a soothing voice is not necessarily the best for communicating information.
It would be interesting to subsidize your tech R&D (and therefore your food output) by using a CSA-style subscription service. You don't have to only self-sustain. You could produce quality food for the local community using technology.
A Git horror story: faking provenance with a loose nonce
I'd prefer not to have content-free ads on the HN front page, regardless of who is involved in the product. I'd feel differently if there was at least some useful content on the site.
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For trading them into 'real' currency you would usually use an exchange, yes. Coinbase (IIRC) simplifies things for merchants by accepting bitcoin and giving them the currency they want.

But for pure bitcoin transactions, no, you can run all the stuff yourself, maintain your own wallet and transact with anyone you like, all without needing anything other than functional bitcoin client software. You need to trust the bitcoin network as a whole, but not any individual authorities.

I'm really not a fan of BTC, personally, but I have looked into it quite a lot...
Would you? That allegation, if true, would open a whole bag of hurt without definite, irrefutable proof. You'd need more than personal experience to push that through the court system. You need full, authenticated documentary evidence, from multiple channels before that charge had an ice-cube's chance in hell of being treated seriously.

This is one of the main difficulties of challenging governments in court. The proof of guilt needs to be orders of magnitude above that needed to prove an individual person guilty, as they can always divert the blame to some unknown, undocumented, "unauthorized" section of the staff. Scapegoat found, case dismissed, continue as before.
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I found that I disagree with about 25% of the categorisations.
ok, I suppose what I am against is the commerialization of it - cigarrettes have made corporations like BAT significant amounts of money and killed significant amounts of people - investing in products that seek to sell them will produce companies whose aim is to sell them / create profit - that is bad when the products they are selling have harmful side effects.

Make it legal / Ensure people know the risks / Do not create corporate entities who have taken investment and have a responsibility to shareholders to make money as that is bad.
Much better for newer features... for async/await dotpeek would show state machine ( which was actually cool to see), but JustDecompile would actually show me async await in decompiled code.

ALSO, coolest feature is decompile to csproj ... very nice ;)
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Someone less lazy than me should put something like this in a chrome extension.

getEventListeners(window).mousewheel[0].remove()
I'm new to freelancing and a friend recently referred me to https://boonle.com. It seems like a new service and the available projects look to be limited right now. However, I did complete two projects. It is different tho as you work for tips instead of setting an up front bid. I was nervous at first, but I received payment both times. I guess they are trying to target newbies? Not sure, but maybe worth a shot.
This is absolutely stunning. I bet elementary school music teachers would love this as a teaching tool.

Another thought for you - I wonder if you could plug into a music website like noteflight.com? If you could, then people could search among many thousands of pieces to play. Just a thought! Keep it up - it's a beautiful project. Thank you for sharing.

In peace,
Mike
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Hey - outdated and unmaintained seems a little harsh!

Not quite sure why you couldn't have submitted a pull-request for this...
I'll never forget that morning I started reflector and it deleted itself from my system.
Perhaps that's a new service. I think Upwork is the Reddit and you might build a very successful HN like version if you brand and focus on quality and price.
Post-Charlie Hebdo France passes Internet surveillance law
Bash-pass: A Simple bash script to manage password with GPG encryption
I've noticed the same thing as a contractor. I only seem to get hired if I am one of the first few bidders. Otherwise there is a slim chance I will get noticed.
You never know what can happen in the internet world.
I was wondering when they were going to get rid of the separation of sites. Curious to see if the chat platform really makes any bit of difference.
Seriously is every media outlet on the internet becoming "serve all" content website?!! The hell this news has anything to do with Tech, Hackers, VC, Software ....

Can we start getting mods on HN?
I meant "agent" in the general sense of "works for the FBI in any capacity".
As I sit here watching this parent post go grey, it is remarkable to me the degree to which people are bothered by the idea that automatic encouragement may not be a good idea, even when posted to a story about how someone didn't like programming as a career and even as people are singing the praises of the person realizing they don't want to be a programmer and probably should never have been a professional programmer.

Do you all really want to accept the idea that "encouragement is always good regardless of the consequences!" with such religious fervor? Is the idea that sometimes someone should not be encouraged in a particular direction really that horrifying? Where did this idea come from? Have you examined it? Have you consciously accepted it? Or is it an unexamined axiom that has wormed its way into your belief structure? And I mean that with all the philosophical baggage the term "unexamined" has.

Think. These are people's lives and livelihoods we are talking about here, not what they're going to eat for dinner tonight, and you are not excused from thought by an unexamined axiom that "encouragement always good". The linked post is hardly that unusual; I personally can name at least three people who have left the career and also gotten happier, and I know one other person currently finishing up before they go back to school to switch to a career that is definitely not programming, something that is not "farming" but is also in its own way absolutely as far as you can get from programming. You have to think, and teach others to think too.
Because it's a market and prices of their time should be as high as their skills can be priced, not as low as possible to survive.
upd.: and when they don't understand it, their price demping hurts whole market.
http://ilspy.net/ is what I generally use. Functionally modeled after .NET Reflector.
This is why there's a "flag" button.
Has anyone ever implemented a farming haven for programmers recovering from burnout? Stories of downshifting are so popular it must have been done somewhere.
Reichstag looked much better without the handicapped ramp. Couldn't they put it somewhere that wouldn't ruin the aesthetic of the building?
If you're writing a web-app knowing how the TLB works is just as relevant as knowing how a red-black tree works. Which is to say, not very.

> but known VHDL or semiconductor physics isn't a good predictor of success in that

Sure, I'll grant that. But I would also argue that a lot of what people are doing to interview isn't a great predictor of success either. Data structures and algorithms are important in some jobs, but knowing how to use git, automated deployment, testing, and shipping products or features seems a lot more relevant to job success than the "how to tell if there's a loop in a linked list in linear time with constant space" question that everyone seemed to love 5-10 years ago.
Yep, this is a straight-up advertisement.
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I think you have to understand that lots of people are "conflicted". By that i mean while some people personally might find something tasteless, they never the less can find usefulness and justification, just as long as someone else does the dirty work for them.

So, for example, may not have the heart to get a bum vagrant or homeless person from your entrance, but you'd totally be okay if your neighbor or another entity went around making sure the homeless person was shooed somewhere else because you too feel fatigued by the reeking urine at the door to your building. Or, that pest rat. I don't like the idea of animal cruelty, but never the less, please get rid of that rat for me, I don't care how you do it, just don't tell me. I just don't want to see it again.

So that is to say, one might not like some things, but we're okay, so long as someone else gets their hands dirty in our stead. Just don't let me know the dirty details and embarrass me or my conscience.
I also grew up in a relaxed beach town in Florida, and hated it (then).

I've moved to larger, and larger, and larger cities since, pursuing academia and career, and they have their charms and I'm glad I went. But now I miss the beach town, and hope to get back. I guess we are the sum of our experiences. Maybe the feeling you're missing out helps by driving you to seek new things out.
Build is not a wide public conference, it is intended to be for developers. Ignite conference (which is this week) is the one for decision makers (http://ignite.microsoft.com/#fbid=OzEF049y498).
The idea is not to crash the entire program, but the part of it that has gotten itself into a bad state. Look at the Cowboy web server for instance: it doesn't just fall over in its entirety if a request handler barfs for some reason.

You'd want the UI to not crash, and show a nice error message:

http://joearms.github.io/2013/04/28/Fail-fast-noisely-and-po...
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That's not an idiom, and the two sentences have two very distinct meanings.
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Believe this is the same talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJsVS3l-xmU

Edit: The BBC video is not loading for me
Volkswagen’s Apple Watch App Will Notify You When Your Teen Driver Speeds
4 essential steps before you launch your design startup
DotPeek has the option to export decompiled code to a project and solution.
JS optional parameters made easy
For getting a good job/lifelong employment this list seems way too long and broad.

I'd argue better time is spent actually building stuff in your area or language of choice, networking, taking internships and jobs, and practicing—not reading books about unrelated subjects.

I'm still in my early 20s, so I could be wrong, but I don't think you guarantee lifelong employment by just having a laundry list of subjects you read about.
Thats a problem with messed up North American culture. Kids should be able to go outside by themselves in cities. They do exactly that all over the world. In places much more dangerous then normal city in US. I commuted to school at age of 9, having to switch streetcars and walk for 15 mins. Total time of about 40 mins one way. Often I would walk back through the city instead, this would take about 2 hours of wondering through city of more then 2 million. I love cities, but I also love countryside in different way. I despise suburbs.
Einstein's election riddle: are you in the two per cent that can solve it?
>Half your post is you telling them they're stupid

No I was saying my question was unrelated to a stupid decision their former employer made....

>and the other half is a patronizing link to very well-known concepts

The link was NOT for the benefit of the OP to whom I was asking a question, it was for reader here that might not know what I was referring too in the question.
Its a class thing.

Middle levels have the money to burn and often prioritize time over money. Plus complaining about paying $3 for an apple at the gas station quickie mart is a rare and cheap conspicuous consumption opportunity for them. I only have about 2 hours "off" unallocated tonight and I'm not going to spend 1/4 of my time off today saving $2 on the cost of an apple by going out of my way to shop at the food store.

For poor people its a poor people budgeting thing. As per the previous recent discussions on HN, poor guy has $3 in pocket, gas station has $3 apple on shelf, he buys it because 1) he doesn't have $5 to buy a 5 pound bag from the supermarket 2) no idea when/if he'll ever have an extra $5 again to spend on an extra luxury like an apple 3) travel isn't free when you're poor so bus fare and hours spent taking public transit to the store and time spent not working means that $5 bag is more like $15 total systemic cost and thats a bit steep for a poor guy who just has a taste for an apple today?

Upper levels have their personal assistant / admin assistant buy the apple for them. Its all going to be expense-d and its a rounding error anyway and the admin assistant is in a hurry so fine here take this $3 convenience store apple and I need a receipt for that thanks.

And thats how we love our $3 convenience store apples. Despite most apple sales being in 5 pound bags at the supermarket of course.
I bought the e-book on the sheer strength of the title. Everything I've read so far is largely concerned with people who want to control huge amounts of money, hire employees, own a market segment, rather than work slowly, cautiously, incrementally, and happily towards a better future. I'm sixteen pages in, and it has yet to disappoint.

I read Anything You Want by Derek Sivers, it's my current favorite business book in this space. I hope this book manages to supplant it with an actual followable and iterable plan for action.
It isn't bigger on the inside or capable of lifting more. But it goes faster, and further (though that is a combination of more fuel and slightly better mileage). It will be useful we use more smaller, lighter vechiles or autonomous pack drones. I don't think it will be dropping MRAPs or 40 Marines anywhere anytime soon though. I guess it reflects a change of the overall military to smaller, more mobile forces.
A little Megaman game made with Ruby
I just discovered this video, showing Berlin in 1945, a few days ago: https://vimeo.com/126267047 - it's high quality and in color. Very impressive if you are only used to the black and white shots of that time.
Slowing Aging in Humans – What Can We Do Now
I was pointing out that sometimes hotels leave few alternatives, and that sometimes charging via the laptop is often your best solution in that situation to keep all of your devices charged.
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This is essentially the hippy commune / kibbutz concept, with the wrinkle of generating most of its "foreign exchange" through tech work rather than pure agricultural produce. With a bit of careful tax planning you could offset all the fun unproductive stuff against tax and claim both R&D and small farmer allowances.

Division of tasks is where this kind of thing tends to fall down.
Logged-out csrf is an issue if you are serving as an oauth provider. There might be other use cases that I haven't thought about. I would ere on the side of precaution and implement logged-out csrf.

If you create a session for the logged-out user, you must be careful about not recycling the same session once logged in or you expose yourself to session fixation.

http://stephensclafani.com/2011/04/06/oauth-2-0-csrf-vulnera... and http://homakov.blogspot.com/2014/01/two-severe-wontfix-vulne... explain the issue pretty well.
This environment is conceived when an individual is the canonical source of their own credentials. I get jealous of doctors and lawyers because someone else grants and revokes their credentials. You either are or are not a doctor. It doesn't matter if you're a good one or a bad one, you still have this boolean state: yes, or no. But the UX/UI/whatever yields these coffeehouse quality debates that fatigue everyone and solve no particular issue other than a redistribution of the shared, global volume which inflates egos. You're a UX person and I am not? Fine, can we just not worry about it any further? No one's car is going to crash or heart stop.
The super-dracos are on the sides of the capsule, not the bottom, so should be able to provide thrust all the way down to surface contact on land and sea. Also the vehicle can suffer the loss of a thruster without compromising it's abort or landing capability.

I don't really see that parachutes in 30ft waves are going to be all that much beter than anything else, but don't manned launches have fairly strict weather condition safety requirements? I'm pretty sure that would include sea states in any conceivable abort landing zone.

One final advantage is that the vehicle can use the thrusters to manoeuver prior to landing, potentially avoiding problematic terrain. In theory you could probably designate a series of preferred abort destinations that are within the vehicle's operational envelope for different stages of the flight. So instead of ending up anywhere along a line, there would be a series of preferred landing zones along or near the line.
Ask HN: Should I join startup for less-than-expected equity?
- startup is SF-based company

- pre-series-A

- significant traction already with customers you'd recognize

- likely to raise good series-A round

- about 8 engineers, 18 to 20 employees in all

- me -- 20+ years significant SW dev experience

- me -- would work remotely most of time

- offer: $130K range, 0.2% equity (seems low-ball to me, or inexperience on part of founders ... or lack of respect for the position or me)
I think lots of people feel like doing this, but few really get the chance (make the decision) to. I know even just doing "dumb" outside work like mowing the lawn makes me feel better, mentally and physically, after sitting in front of a computer all day.
We agree with you that there is room for improvement. We can make it more accurate by adding more training samples to the MonkeyLearn classifier. We plan to keep working on this to make it better.
Do you have any numbers on their battery life? I've done some googling and can't seem to find anything definitive.