skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a software engineer near Venice FL in his early 20s there isn't a lot to do here still. I guess some people do enjoy going to the beach a lot but it definitely gets old.
No, what I meant is that even the non-arbitrary ones may not have good reasons behind them.
Square is using Stack Overflow as their support forum
Learn Rails is out on Codecademy
Feedback made easy: Add comments on Dropbox files
Can you explain more about hacks piled on other hacks?
ODesk.com is now upwork.com
[Survey] Microservices: Hype and Reality
Show some promise... like Nip Alert... It gives you the location of a woman with erect nipples... That's what people want.
Reach out to journalists for the media you want to be covered in. Be sure to tell them how this service will benefit the audience they are/will be writing for. They are all looking for stories that their readers will find valuable. So pitch your story accordingly. All the best!
Honestly, if anything, I think Heroku needs servers in Asia
The goal of the article isn't about sheer performance — there are plenty of notes about it. If it was about pure performance, it'd be recommending moving away from objc classes and methods and using C functions or C++ classes instead, like std::atomic<>.

It's meant to be a somewhat-easy-to-digest introduction to lock-free design, where applicable.

What @synchronized ends up doing is far more complex — it has to be, to ensure the correctness of its purposes: https://github.com/opensource-apple/objc4/blob/master/runtim...
I plan to use VPN in area that are NOT friendly with the OTAN, such as Russia.

I'd rather have Putin spy on me, than my own governement, or its allies. He has far less influence over my life, and I doubt that french and russian intelligence are cooperating.
ExpandJS – 80 custom elements and 350 utility functions to kickstart your WebApp
I used to think I had the same problem. I tried to make sure everything I used could be used in a full-fledged way on my phone. But eventually I realized: This isn't a problem with org-mode, it's a problem with the shitty state of software on mobile devices. And laptops are a good enough way to keep org-mode with me at all times. So I just gave in and used it.
I'm a paramedic. The scenario described in the article is pretty rare... There are certainly various anecdotes to be shared, but this is not some systemic issue. Cops generally see EMS (and, by and large, Fire/Rescue) as being 'on the same team'. I have never once had a cop question my judgement... I would be completely flabbergasted if it ever happened.
> From what we can tell so far, life has only arisen once on earth - wouldn't that also be an indication that genesis is rather hard/rare ?

Not really. It might just mean that the emergence of life itself created conditions no longer favorable for the emergence of life.
It's going to be very interesting to hear their excuses for this kind of nonsense. By now we now it'll hurt the french population most. It'll hurt their economy second (I'm a big fan of Gandi, but that might change very soon), and it won't protect anybody either.

I have hoped learning from the mistakes the US gov made after 9/11 would be the one good thing coming out of 9/11.
Optimising what? Logistics for the supermarket?

The British are big optimisers. That's why the supermarket oligopoly (Tesco, Sainsbury's etc) have taken over many -- perhaps even the majority -- of small, neighbourhood shops (Tesco Express, Sainsbury's Local etc). The distribution centres and large vehicle fleet that delivers to the big supermarkets is reused to deliver to the neighbourhood shops, and many people then walk (or cycle) to those shops.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/search/Tesco+OR+Sainsburys+in+...

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/search/Tesco+OR+Sainsburys+in+...

Milton Keynes is generally regarded as a boring, US-style city: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/search/Tesco+OR+Sainsburys+in+... (I've never been).
tldr: the thin savior from Boulder, CO embarks to Memphis on a stated mission of evangelizing the ignorant fatties of Memphis, TN, but all he really does is open a GMO-free organic restaurant called "The Kitchen" to make money off the rich, niche, hipster market.

edit: ; to :
The power of a uchiha (dance)
Verizon: Netflix Slow, Verizon Lies to Try to Up-Sell Pricey Broadband
Additionally, there's good evidence that principals of Prenda Law were the ones that uploaded the movies in question to bittorrent in the first place. These movies were never released through more conventional channels.
Please don't editorialize titles when submitting stories to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thanks! I skimmed the article, but wasn't sure if I was missing something.
I immediately thought..."you must work in Vermont, Oregon, or a blue part of the Midwest, or some place like that." Judging from your profile, looks like I was right. I wish this mentality and culture were more pervasive across the United States.

EDIT: My point above was less about a specific "culture of respect for EMS workers", and more about a "culture of respect for non-law enforcement" in general that law enforcement does not always seem to have in the United States. Rethinking, it might not be the red/blue state divide as responders have pointed out. I still do think that there's a geographic component to law enforcement culture. I completely agree that urban areas, though a blue general population, regularly show instances of oppressive police culture. With the above, I was more trying to point out that in those areas there are generally less reports of oppressive and abusive police behavior. However, maybe the effect that I am trying to point out is an illusion of sample size. Either way, I think we would all be in a better place could we extrapolate the small-town police vibe to large urban areas. Yes, it's idealistic, but removing the adversarial relationship between big city PDs and their populations is something worth striving for.

https://xkcd.com/1138/
Well, a good answer would be "because s/he is familiar with codebases A, B and C and has skills X, Y, Z", and I would expect the employer to follow-up with a raise if the employee in question also learns all of the above.
A dark cloud is hanging over the Oscar-winning Snowden documentary
I didn't vote you down, but I wouldn't be so quick to assume that the people who did voted you down because they failed to think. I don't find your point of view particularly convincing. It's not because I think everyone should be blindly encouraged to do any particular thing. It's not because I didn't think. It's for reasons such as the following:

* The grass is always greener on the other side. It's not obvious to me that, had the author of this blog started as a farmer and eventually ditched it to become a programmer, he would not have felt a similar sense of having moved to something better.

* It's not obvious to me that we should not be encouraging everyone to do whatever constructive thing they want to do at that particular time. Maybe by demotivating someone we're lowering their chances of getting far enough along that trajectory to even realize whether they like it or not. Maybe your advice makes it more likely for people to choose to do nothing hard or risky and end up unhappy flipping burgers.
This isn't legal advice, just practical advice.

1) Find a way to market this as win-win for you and the scraped sites. If you're perceived a net benefit to all involved, you will probably succeed. If you're not then you won't (for any of a number of reasons, including legal conflicts).
2) It is immeasurably easier to get forgiveness than permission, so I would not even try for the latter. That said you should honor any predeclared restrictions like robots.txt or clear terms of service.
3) Test out traction and interest as quickly and cheaply as possible. Launch as soon as you've got something usable (don't sweat whether it is "useful", as that is not really your decision to make).
I'm still misunderstanding what happens when a network partition creates a two leader scenario. It is in a slide here http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/ under "log replication" after creating a network partition that separates CDE from AB. Doesn't that mean a client of node B could read stale data? Or maybe an implementation like etcd would let the client choose to read or not in that case?
So you're suggesting that the PHP community at large, is somehow responsible for a single site, that gives bad advice, has bad information, etc.

What exactly is your solution? a SWAT raid to take down this travesty of technology?
so they'd be iojs.io?
Ask HN: What is the best off the shelf speech recognition solution
I am interested in transcribing audio files to text. I don't need 100% accuracy, but the more accurate the better. I have googled around a bit but haven't found anything that worked the way I needed it to. I tried a few free web APIs that worked for short bursts of text but did not hold up for longer audio files. I also have looked into Sphinx, but I haven't gotten past the setup phase.

Does anyone have any experience transcribing long audio files to text, and if so can you share your experiences with the different software solutions you tried?
> He said if I could build a search engine that searches the top 500-1000 sites for this industry, it could be 'really' valuable

Let's say that you can get past any legal issues with scraping... Don't dive into a startup based solely on this anecdote. Figure out what you can do to size the market. He says it's valuable. How valuable? Do customers understand why they need this? Are the spending any money on something similar today? How would you target them and sell to them?

I'd treat these questions as equally important as the legality when it comes to "should I start?"
That really IS a nice pitch deck.
Looks like it's unrelated to jobvite specifically - iframe is located on http://mi9.com.au/careers, it is referencing some assets on advertising.ninemsn.com.au and adblock is blocking because of "advertising" in the url.
There is a 99 Percent Invisible episode about the "rebuilding" of the Old Town of Warsaw.

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-72-new-old-tow...
Ah, my mistake. So would I be correct in saying that a trait is a type, but it does not necessarily implement the Sized trait, and if it does not, then it cannot be allocated directly on the stack?

Also, I've been wondering something about dereferencing a Box where the inner type is just a trait. If I dereference a Box<CanineTrait> and call "bark," how is the correct implementation found at runtime? Is there a vtable or something analogous?
Apologies for my incorrect punctuation, edited.
DIY Bio-Engineering: Disrupting Democracy
> Self closing tags have no place in HTML.

...in your opinion. In my opinion, you're wrong. Closed tags and valueless attributes have no place in HTML. Your example for the script tag actually follows the XHTML standard which states that elements whose content model is not EMPTY do not use the minimized form. However, if enough people really have a big enough problem with this, I think we should change the standard to allow self closing script tags. (And apparently they already work in Chrome and some other browsers.)

Given that there are clearly a number of people whose opinion differs from yours and the fact that HTML is an open standard...I think the current compromise as stated in the HTML5 standard (optional self closing tags) should be acceptable to any reasonable person.

(edit: Also, don't ever use React from Facebook if you don't like self closing tags because (since they had to write a parser) they require all tags to be closed or self closed. Consistent, unambiguous formatting is just that much easier to parse.)
Given the recent news about breaking out of Docker containers, this would be best wrapped in a VM. You'll get the performance boost of not spinning up separate VMs coupled with greater security from breaking out of a VM.
Sorry to hear things didn't work out. I am curious to know more about your thoughts on VCs in Toronto versus those south of the border. Canadian VCs have this rep of being quite conservative, only wanting to invest at later stages when there is very little risk. Does your experience agree with this characterization?
438 for – 89 Against: French Law Passed, ISPs Forced to Install Backdoors
World's Smallest Computer: A New Way of Surveillance
You make it sound new, but the article makes it sound like it's been an issue since the 70's, except maybe for narrow instances in the last year with the previous ruling. I've been aware of and uncomfortable about digital applications of the "third party doctrine" for a few years already -- does this ruling open that door wider?
Goya Takes Flight
Very refreshing. Hacking away at the keyboard day-in-day-out is definitely a draining experience.

I enjoy talking walks once in a while and looking up at the sky. Its the little things that keep us alive.
Not sure why @higherpurpose was downvoted, she or he described accurately the surveillance programs revealed by Ed, according to the leaked documents [1].

Of course we don't have the luxury of leaked French docs, but in the absence of data, we shouldn't automatically leap to the position supported by the least amount of evidence.

[1] Selectors used: https://prod01-cdn00.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/20...
Grooveshark is back
That's a sad story, but a very interesting case I hadn't considered.

The techniques are useful here in software, too: build a report, don't always go head-to-head, bring in an outside authority, etc. Technical types tend to approach things in technical ways that non-technical types cannot appreciate.
I'd say spin up the VMs on a machine that doesn't matter if you're attracting automated attacks.

If you wake up one morning to an exploit being discovered and have an unpatched host machine, is it still a honeypot?
There are some great tools for finding negative keywords as your account accumulates impressions, I am surprised this article doesn't reference them.

Karooya.com
negativekeywords.com
wordstream.com/negative-keywords

Here is a great list of universal negative keywords...
http://www.engineready.com/sem-resources/sem-newsletter/nega...

and finally, here is a shared google doc with negative keywords.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnWRJf6amhDYdEd...
I'm the co-founder of UpOut and even I think this article is not super relevant for HN.
the biggest immigrant community in the US is Mexican so they have a common language that is Spanish.

In France it's Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, where they all speak good french and a local dialect of arabic (let's say 60% french speaking people in all 3 countries, declining towards the local dialect), so it's easy to get the French as a common idiom. So you have many languages, but it's easier for everybody to use French anyways.

On the food packages, the second most common language (often exactly the same size as the french) is ... Dutch ... Ok, we'll have to go north and speak about Belgium. Those packages are sold in all european French speaking countries (Luxembourg, Switzerland, France, Belgium, in one day of trucking you can cross the area). Of those countries only Belgium and Switzerland have another language as official language, and only Belgium require to have both of it's national languages on its packaging (another story of bigotry for next time).

One exception to the language distribution I talked about might be the Chinese community, being such a populous country, they can be enough immigrants in an area to avoid French altogether, I don't know them very well, they are very concentrated in small areas, and I don't know if they speak both mandarin and cantonese, or if the majority is from only one linguistic area. But I'm pretty sure the kids speak french at school, it's mandatory and in French here.
Your answer shed a lot more light to what's it like in France and corrected my misinformation.

The guy told me about the danger of Paris is not French, so are most of his friends. I imagine their ignorance about what's dangerous and what's not caused them to get in more troubles than locals like yourself.
This seems like a bad decision. Unless they are trying to start over and they couldn't recover their reputation management issues. Even then, still a bad choice, imho. Probably will be successful for them as a business but I'm concerned they haven't fixed their underlying operation issues.
How to become a 10x engineer (or a unicorn)
I started when 28 (30 now).

Sounds like you might hate where you are currently working.

I approach software engineering with the mentality that I am always behind, and need to keep learning. Granted, I believe I've generally chosen my jobs well. My first one had me mentored heavily - later ones, I've took on more responsibility.

Remember this - as a junior developer, a lot of your role is to learn & develop. The company is investing in you in part (or it should be). Just focus on improving your craft, and be humble.
Using apt-cacher-ng with SSL/TLS
Just wanted to ask how common is it to return money to VC's?

Or how is this any different than a bank loan, If the VC doesn't shoulder the risks that come with these kind of projects I wonder what is the value they add.

People might as well borrow the money on loan.
The technical SEO optimization checklist
Trait object pointers are "fat"- they consist of both a pointer to the object and a vtable pointer (much like Go interfaces if you've used those). Other DSTs are similar- pointers to slices consist of both a pointer to the elements and a count.
HOLY. SHIT.

I am sorry. :( 90% of these coding schools need to go. I thought my private school was bad.

Also, there are plenty of free sources for education. Definitely enough to get you started building your own applications. Hell, ever pluralsight is a better bargain.
BIS (central bank of central banks) is based in Switzerland, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_for_International_Settleme...
I wish I had read the comments before reading the article. You summarized the article quite well.
(Ozgun from Citus Data)

Sure, we'd be interested in running more numbers. If you have example data sets in mind, could you share them with us?

For clarification, we picked this data set for several reasons. The data set was real, sizeable, publicly available, and it became highly referenced in PostgreSQL's JSON/JSONB development:

http://www.pgcon.org/2014/schedule/attachments/328_9.4json.p...

http://www.pgcon.org/2014/schedule/attachments/313_xml-hstor...

http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/jsonb-type-performance-postgresq...

http://www.pgcon.org/2014/schedule/attachments/318_pgcon-201...
Why would that be geographically variable?

I'm a paramedic in New York, outside of stories that very occasionally hit the various EMS news sites (like this one), I have never heard of a cop questioning a paramedic's authority to do what's in the best interest of the patient.
Great to see documentation on syntax extensions; hopefully this will end up in the official Rust book at some point.

Also, this domain makes it really hard to take the content seriously...
Facebook Experiments with 'Sell Something' Button in Groups
As a software practitioner, I find it hard to believe the distinction is a question of degree of quality and thoroughness.

CS largely involves design and implementation of machines and automaton, and in many cases far more complex machines and automaton (for example, self-learning ones) than "real" engineering. I can't see how this is not engineering, so I'll have to respectfully disagree.
Sure! Took a little while for it to post.[0] This Android variant [1] also uses Crosswalk, which shields you from differences in the stock WebView.

[0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tenjin-technology-sampler/id...

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ie.tenjin.ati
Cars with an Information Dashboard
I also grew up on a farm - a dairy farm in northern Wisconsin to be precise, which my father and younger brother still operate.

Farming can be awesome. The hard physical work and exercise are satisfying, and you'll often encounter problems that need to be solved quickly and ingeniously (e.g. some implement breaks and you need to come up with a quick fix while the sun's still up). You can really build a camaraderie with your family members / coworkers after slogging through some really physically challenging jobs or solving mentally challenging problems together.

The downsides are that the work never ends and you can never take a vacation. The cows always need to be milked (on a very annoying schedule I might add) and fieldwork needs to be done quickly when the weather is right (e.g. "make hay while the sun shines"). And it's really hard to find good hired workers to help out, because nowadays no one wants to do strenuous physical labor for relatively low pay. So on my dad/brother's farm, if one of them gets sick or hurt (another not uncommon danger), it's a big strain for them because they only have a couple high school-aged randos working part-time to help fill in the gaps.

For me the big thing that made me want to get away from the farm was the lack of free time to get lost in your own thoughts. All the menial labor, maybe excluding driving tractor, doesn't give your mind a lot of time to wander. Which, after we got our family computer when I was 10, I often found it wanting to do...
They're not apartments, either!
What is the X-axis in the graph?
I volunteer in EMS and I've only once encountered a similar situation where the police officer disagreed with our judgment to transport a patient, but before I could even grab my medic, the cop got chewed out by his sergeant.

I have run across a couple police officers wanting to clear lanes of traffic on the highway faster than we were comfortable with (when responding to a car accident), but our first responders (fire department, usually dispatched to most car accidents to provide initial medical care, extrication, scene protection etc) have always been good with maintaining scene safety.
I was just going to say... in ten years on the streets, I don't think I've ever had an interaction like this. If anything, I'd say they are more likely to refuse to take a "suspect" and have us take him or her as a "patient", regardless of presence or absence of existing or suspected medical problems.
Hungarian Rhapsody #2 is the first thing I went looking for. :)

BTW, one simple feature that would make this much more interesting to me would be the ability to skip back 30 seconds and try a section of a song again. Just a suggestion.
Depends how you define important; Sky's $18bn market cap is testament to their customers spending an awful lot more money on satellite television and telephone landlines than on VOIP calls.

Neither party will change their name in the near future, and the lawyers from both companies that have made a lot of money fighting each other will be equally keen to make more money stomping on anyone with the temerity to start an EU-based VOIP service with a name like SkyPeer or SkyBe
TLS with Adam Langley at Yahoo Trust Unconference
The article's interactive map has a misleading caption: "The Best and Worst Places to Grow Up ..." The map is based on the upward mobility of children from poor families, not all children.

The article's map doesn't have enough resolution to separate Austin from the surrounding areas well. Although downtown Austin is in Travis county, the county is over 1000 square miles in size. The top rated Austin school district is very very good and is only 31 square miles out of the 1000. Furthermore, the Austin area includes Williamson county too and there are several additional good school districts with schools in Williamson county as well. Westlake High School, located in the Austin area, is ranked by Newsweek at 117 among all public high schools nationally and an admission based magnet school in the Austin Independent School District is number 8 in the same ranking.