skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly, I suspect a phase of that sort is inevitable. For all the good it has done, the Internet inherently transcends national borders and therefore national cultures, laws, and tax systems. Western governments are, as a rule, all in favour of globalization when it means they can have cheap imports and new export markets, but much less keen on it when it means giving up control or tax revenues.

With physical international travel, and even physical shipping, there are inherent barriers to crossing borders or places where governments can impose checkpoints and reassert their authority at least within their own domain. With the Internet, as long as it remains open as it mostly is today, governments lack that control. Normal people deal with foreign contacts and businesses routinely every day. This is a threat to established powers like big businesses and governments, particularly in economic terms.

Given the most powerful efforts at international trade agreements we're seeing today -- the likes of TPP and TTIP -- are not even being negotiated with real scrutiny by elected legislators any more, never mind the general public, I think we can safely assume that the upper echelons are now so corrupt that the present system is beyond hope. I would like to think that the freedom of communication and sharing of knowledge offered by the Internet would lead to a better system taking over, but as a realist I fear an increasing tendency to lock things down instead, at least for the short-to-medium term. Can't have governments losing their sales taxes, major IP holders losing out to more liberal foreign IP regimes, and the like.

Obviously that lock-down will actually be catastrophic both culturally and economically, by hurting both the normal citizen and the small/young businesses trying to offer better ways to do things. I just don't think the big business/big government complexes that dominate Western politics today care, as long as they keep their figures up for the next quarter/election.

That all said, I remain optimistic that in the long run the advantages of the Internet will win out. Sooner or later a generation who grew up never knowing a world without mobile communications and the Internet will come to power. Before then, corporate and government greed in the West may lead to another financial crisis and questions asked about our current systems of government and business practices last time may turn to direct action in more than just a few places like Greece.

I suspect we're going to go through a pretty dark phase over the next few years as governments and business communities led by people who frankly don't understand the technology anyway most of the time struggle to adapt to a changing world they can no longer manipulate as they used to. But I don't think it will last forever, because the dinosaurs will become extinct in a decade or two and those who replace them will remember what they did.
I was in oDesk trap many years ago and got out of it just by applying directly to prospective clients. Since then, I always recommend to look for remote jobs/clients directly, rather than through these kinds of mediums. It works. HN remote jobs, and many other sites.
Effective way to use pull requests
Right, after playing through a whole song on the web, my first reaction when I saw that there was an app version available was: Oh, that's brilliant, the web app (which I thought was the end of the story) is actually an interactive demo for a paid app. So I was surprised to see that the app itself was free -- but perhaps this is the first time the web version has gotten any traction, so the developer was unprepared for customers with this set of expectations.
I expect they come up all the time, in interviews for sufficiently low level positions.

There are far more relevant things to ask in the vast majority of software interviews, though. Ignorance of the existence of memory cache or its impact isn't a good thing in an application developer, of course, but known VHDL or semiconductor physics isn't a good predictor of success in that.
You would think they would at least "jog" after multiple court cases say they cannot continue to be secretive about the program and use it without warrants.
Respectfully, I don't think it needs to said again. This is English - meaning is determined by common usage, and for quite a while now the Linux has meant both the kernel and the OS to almost everyone (disambiguated by calling the former the "Linux kernel" when need be).

Is it logical? Not really. But the horse is well out of the gate at this point.
Seems like the author may have misunderstood him?
This would be fantastic if there was just a filter to hide all of the political posts here yet still show everything else.
Pick Crew is the only one I know of: https://pickcrew.com/
GHC progresses fast and the internal types change subtly, so after upgrading GHC, some libraries fail to compile. Fixing it is usually trivial, and it's a nice way to keep in touch with your compiler.
Interesting. I wonder if they'll make EMET 6 a core part of Windows 10? (It would be rather nice if they did!)
Frankly I think it is not the whole picture. The guy is not sharing his long term financial plans for his family or his financial situation. Without that information the picture is incomplete.
Qatar Detained German Reporters Investigating FIFA World Cup
I think the GP means 'sluring'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slur_%28music%29
Paying Respects, Pentagon Revives Vietnam, and War Over Truth (2014)
Wouldn't they still be able to work it out when your tax code is corrected?
What if the job can be done by an engineer with a cost of living where $15/hr is viable and profitable? All this will do is drive clients to another marketplace where there is no "minimum wage." There are a ton of reasons to hire a local developer and tons of reasons to hire a foreign developer, and an American developer probably doesn't want the clients that can only afford $15/hr anyway.
Well, if you put it that way then I agree but then cost of living is cheap in developing countries so an equally good developer there would be happy to do it at a lower rate compared to an American dev for the same work. How do you take care of such issues.
>> Life IS easier if you're kind to others.

The inference one draws from this is that one should not take delight in watching others fail.
Please describe how Putin made Russia rich. It's like saying Stalin won 2nd world war. If Russia is richer, it's DESPITE having Putin and his KGB komrades at steering wheel.
I would find more interesting 1989 vs Today along and near the Berlin wall.
If that is true, that member of the SWAT team should come forward. Leak this info well documented to the public.
If you're going to be pedantic, at least nail it.

Debian (Linux) and OpenWRT are distributions. They're super-sets of applications, the GNU tools and the Linux kernel (or HURD). You only need the last two to form an "operating system".

Android is a little different in that it doesn't sit on a GNU stack. I'm happier calling Android an operating system than I am Debian and OpenWRT.
Looks a bit...inefficient? At least compared to regular helicopters, and I assume it doesn't go much faster than a helicopter going by its design. But at least its bigger than any existing helicopter, so there's that.
It's a global market. Many quality devs earn less than that in less developed countries. Why would they not want to work for less money if it allows them to be competitive but is still a good amount of money for them?

Why would you undercut their pricing power in the market just because Sillicon Valley has insane costs of living (but also insane job availability)?
The second to the last with A. Hitler/woman eating ice cream was probably my favorite of all of these.
But with systemd, I can just throw an extra key-value pair in the unit file, and bam. No messing with wrapper programs, no modifying the service's code and recompiling, etc. It's not that it's not possible without systemd, it's that systemd makes it trivially easy.
Periscope for Apple Watch (UI Concept)
This assumes that the FBI cares about the Constitution, human rights, civil rights, or common decency. I don't know think that's true for all of their agents.
The NSA engages in industrial espionage: http://www.bbc.com/news/25907502
Perhaps the only way around cognitive dissonance is repetition.
If the operator is only one that checks credential, it is still huge security risk IMHO. He/she can reuse this information to imitates one of the customers he got the credentials.

Here, the operator forwards you to a machine and you input your phone password, so the operator does not know your whole credentials.
This is an exercise in extreme frustration. I know what I want it to end up looking like, but the site seems hell-bent on making me do bizarre things that have nothing to do with my thinking.

How is this supposed to help?
I'm in. Not at all joking / exaggerating. My wife and I would love something like this. We are currently looking to switch cities with no specific desire for one place so the iron is hot.

I'd not limit it to engineers though -- just makers in general.
If you are German, the NSA likely won't listen to you.

The German government is responsible for the presence of the NSA and it has the means to largely end NSA activities in Germany, but not the will.
A .NET decompiler written in .NET: I bet "let's try it on itself!" was not an uncommon thought among its users already.

It wasn't this one, but years ago I remember using a decompiler to look through things like the system libraries and the (relatively few) apps written in it at the time, and it was quite interesting how much metadata was available (if it hadn't been obfuscated). I think it's fun and enlightening to take things apart, see how they work, and modify them, so that aspect of .NET really appealed to me, but I still prefer native code for its efficiency and succinctness...
> ...networking configuration is written into the init scripts themselves

This statement may technically be true, but it is misleading about what component actually does what.

It depends on where you consider the init system to end and the distribution's networking scripts to begin. On Debian and Ubuntu, the ifupdown package provides traditional networking configuration, and network-manager the "desktop roaming" networking configuration. They integrate with the init system like other services (and arguably a bit tighter) but they are still separate components.

So yes - as you say the networking configuration is written into the init scripts themselves, but the init scripts are provided by the distribution's networking components, not by the init system component.

And indeed the systemd switch in 15.04 - a replacement of init system - has happened but the networking configuration mechanism (ifupdown) remains. Both before and after the init system triggers the networking to be configured, but the init system is not the component that does the work.
The Single Founder Handbook
This is exactly why I'm morally opposed to socialized medicine.
http://www.dawn.com/news/1180023/haryana-discovery-that-prom...
The Curious Case of ██████████████
Haha, I love some of these talking heads.
Behind the Recording Industry’s Campaign to Squeeze Out New Competitors
You make an interesting point about the dangers of blindly "monetizing", but I don't think it's relevant to parent's comment for a few reasons (not the least of which that paying for software doesn't by itself reduce its utility, unlike the ice-cream + scenery example where the implicit scenery value is removed in the commercial "product").

Natural scenery doesn't cost money to make. Making profit off of it isn't intrinsically value-creating.

Software does take effort to make, and being comfortable finding ways to monetize it means more programmers can afford to create things like this. Not everyone has as enough free time to make all the things we want to pro bono. Many people have jobs (often for other people who did figure out how to monetize their own ideas).

So I'm all in favour of developers practicing asking/answering that question, because often finding the answer is what allows them to actually pursue those ideas. It's not wrong for people to sell the fruits of their labour—the world gets fruit that might not have existed otherwise.
9 Hidden User Experience and Interaction Gems on Airbnb
No, they trained an automatic categorizer and built a filtering front-end.
I've spent a bit of money (over $10k) on oDesk for my mobile app. I used a lot of translators and some artists (Illustrator), and did the programming myself.

Everyone wants you to review them with 5 stars because anything less is bad for business. The quality does greatly vary and so does the pricing. You can get good deals and you can get burned. I once had someone using a keep-active program so they could log more hours. Thankfully I looked close enough at the screenshots to notice.

If anyone can recommend a great mobile designer on oDesk, I'd like to redesign my iOS app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/h4-spanish-lite/id388918463?...

My account on oDesk is h4labs, not sure how to link to it.
Yes. For me it was the "Apptimize is hiring HPMOR readers" headline for their YC jobs post.

I loved HPMOR but putting that in a headline for a job ad, combined with such heavy-handed emphasis on the team's academic credentials, just reeks of rationalist elitism.

I know next to nothing about the company or why I'd want to work there from reading their job post. What I do know is that they really think highly of themselves and work six days a week.

Pass. YC job ads are getting progressively more cringe-worthy. It's not hard - just write a sane job ad with realistic requirements and don't be intimidating. Your hiring funnel is something you really want to optimize, and many of these companies don't seem to be paying much attention to doing that at all.
Fantastic idea! Will implement this today too! Will let you know when its ready :)
That sounds amazing. Lately I've been picking up hobbies, like wood working or building more hardware centered projects because day-to-day I design and produce software, which itself is intangible.

My girlfriend is from upstate New York, and her father is a farmer. It's backbreaking work to run a farm if you're mostly by yourself, hiring farm hands when necessary, and when ROI is sufficient. Yet, at the same time, the "Mega farms" of corporations tend to use a lot of hands BUT also inappropriate a lot of tech.

There seems to be a middle ground where, like you mentioned, a tech+farm group could be formed either members own their own small plots, or own one together. The burden of tech costs could be spread amongst the members, but the tech can be incorporated to satisfy the intellectual engineering approach to things, as well as the "close to nature" manual labor wants.

I feel like I'm rambling... Anyway, this is sounding very much like a hippy commune, but I am not sure if that bothers me at this point.
>I have this feeling that kids tend to hate where they grow up

Even so, you don't hear as many kids hating on the big city as they hate on the suburbs or the countryside.

I mean, kids hatred for the suburbs have inspired tons of movies and songs, for the city, not so much.
Have they figured out how they are doing LTS yet? Last I saw there still wasn't agreement.
'Somehow they always manage to destroy windows.'

this. Sigh.
The number of times I have to clean up all the things she (my mom) manages to install 'tool bars and what not'.
I grew up in the suburbs also, and hated it. As a kid, you have no freedom until the age of 16 where you have the POSSIBILITY of owning a car/borrowing your parent's car. We had bikes, but the nearest anything was 1-1.5 miles away, and there were very little sidewalks or safe places to bike. Nothing was convenient without a car.

I went to school in a small/medium city (Champaign/Urbana) and loved it. It was the perfect mix of having a city and space for a small suburban life. I lived in a house that was off campus, and was within walking distance to downtown and busing distance to the bars/main campus. It was peaceful and crazy when I wanted it to be.

I now live in Chicago and while I love the convenience of everything(huge advocate of all things public transit), I miss being able to easily just disconnect from urban life.

My next move will probably be somewhere warmer, but it'll probably be in a small/medium sized city for sure.
How the Languages in Game of Thrones, Defiance, and Thor Were Created
While SV is an extreme, the sad true is that the cost of living is not as low as it seems from outside - but the people are used to low income. They just buy less goods, live frugally, etc...

I'm myself from less developed eastern European country, and the last time I checked, groceries - eggs, meat, milk, etc.. had comparable prices to that of Californian cities, such as San Diego...

And if we're talking about getting high quality education, healthcare, etc... in developing countries you have to go premium, and it costs even more than in western countries.
I'm failing to understand how this is on the hn top page.
Do you do this yourself at the moment?

It's certainly possible on paper, and looks like a more-or-less ideal balance to me -- but very interested to hear about actual experiences.
As another programmer turned farmer, I am curious how you managed to reach self-sustainabilty so quickly? Programming is still an integral part of my farming operation because it pays the bills.
Haha, so true! All my favorite classical performers are the ones who play more evenly, favoring subtle rubato over grandiose, momentum-killing swoops. For piano, that would be Kempff, O'Conor, Leif Ove Andsnes, Misha Dichter... It's such a challenge to find people who play that way -- please suggest any others that come to mind!

With this app, I would have to memorize all the little interpolations in order not to interrupt the flow. Playing through the third movement of the Waldstein Sonata was hilarious -- I was constantly skipping beat fractions where there were a few missing sixteenth notes in the middle of a run, and then there sections where I simply couldn't type fast enough and the tempo lagged. And even if I practiced, there is a little too much latency and occasional stop-the-world pausing to achieve the kind of rhythmic precision I'd hope for. But it was still thrilling to hear the correct notes and good dynamics!
Nordic cultures have quite the history of the passage to manhood being warfare...
I mean... really? You don't just say "this is my Skype, what's yours?" when you start a contract?
French congressmen approved Internet traffic monitoring system (French)
Ask HN: What is the next big thing in tech?
Please prefer those things which are beneficial for non-tech people.
The difference between decriminalization and legalizing trade is significant. In Portugal drug traffickers need to spend energy just to avoid getting caught. A legal cannabis industry on the other hand will have free reign to spend vast resources on lobbying, marketing and making their product as addictive as possible, which may lead to a significant increase of use.
This was posted a few days back, I don't know if you've seen it? https://lolware.net/2015/04/28/nginx-fuzzing.html (discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9463785)
MBA = MacBook Air. Can the histrionics.
Fall of the Designer Part V: Self-Flagellation
Sounds like React is going on my todo list (picked AngularJs for my current project so have to stick with it).

Great suggestions btw, and I absolutely agree with Clojures a big win over Java, I was actually very briefly learning myself Clojure during Java and algo labs but the teachers didn't appreciate that at all :(

> P.S. I use Vim for everything non-lisp but I use Emacs with Evil mode for lisps. Evil mode is bar none the best vim emulator I've used and is the only one I can stand to use on an extended basis.

I love reading that, I have been using Vim for 4 years or so, but for a month or two I actually managed to switch to emacs with evil-mode. I did however notice that my knowledge of the different modes was too limited, and I was basically just using vim in emacs, so dropped it again. Since today I actually switched back to Emacs, found my self-written cheat-sheet and so far it's going great (no evil-mode so far).
Dart Developer Summit Highlights, Day 1 by Joel Trottier-Hebert
Mark Twain stories, 150 years old, uncovered by Berkeley scholars
Please do not write software, thanks.
Subreddits are a way to form communities centred around a theme or concept; this is a way to filter out the noise that you're not interested in. Very very different.
That website is simply extraordinary.
Gun.io is another.
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Early Academic Training Produces Long-Term Harm
There seems to be enough interest in this to actually start talking seriously about it. I created a Slack account for it.

https://farmcombinator.slack.com/

You'll need an invite, so if you're interested in this sort of thing seek me out on Twitter (@ccallebs) or send me your email (chuck@callebs.io).
Show HN: Picky – Meet cool new people in person
It would be interesting to see the major consumer electronics companies, already in opposition to the governments' growing control of the internet, start to add new root DNSes.
>Hopefully, they will appreciate the things I didn't have as a kid. A backyard, nice neighbors, low crime,and better schools.

They'll appreciate them as kids, but they'll probably hate you as teenagers...
I highly doubt it. They could try to appeal when they lose this case, but I highly doubt any higher court is going to pick it up as it doesn't really deal with any new matters of law.
Companies vs Candidates
For the same reason Windows did not become a mainstream OS for tablets and phones. There is a much greater distance between a finger-touch UX and a mouse UX than most people imagine.

There is also probably a hardware dimension to the answer: There is a greater distance between a heavy "convertible" part-time touch laptop/tablet-ish device and a real tablet that can be carried like a sheaf of paper than most people appreciate.
I'd recommend PPH: http://www.peopleperhour.com/

It used to be pretty popular in the UK. I don't work freelance anymore but I still check the site out once in a while, it's fairly high quality and I've had several high-paying clients from there.
The Connection Between Color and the Existence of Life
We spent some time to create a collection of well designed resume templates for Google Docs. They are all completely free to use, hopefully you guys will find them useful.

If you guys have any suggestions of what kind of designs you'd like to see in the future. let me know.
I made friends with two brothers one was a farmer (Wheat most with some mustard and rape seed). For three years my two week vacation was farming during the morning and than water skiing for the evening at their farm. Went to bed dead tired and than continue to work on the farm. I had a desk job and I enjoyed every second of the farm work. I certainly would not want to be a farmer but man it was a ton of fun to do temporarily.
Show HN: Codementor AMA for Developers
the one i was most familiar with was reflector. you could change the languages it was decompiled to from c# to visual basic.
> The other day I thought I'd try the pomodoro technique to help with that, but proceeded to spend 6 hours trying to find just the right timer. Then ended up writing my own.

This describes my habits so well. Some days, it's exhilarating to have so many options for where to point my brain, but other days, I just wish I could sit down and focus on something I actually thought was important.
the fuck is a growth hacker?
France just passed controversial surveillance bill with 84% votes (in french)
Elance-oDesk aka UpWork vs Freelancer.com and the race to the bottom and dismal customer service but I think that when it comes to poor customer service Freelancer.com shines through as the heavyweight champion in this regard across the board.
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