skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before I say anything, I want to say to onlookers: Alex, Rich, et al bust their asses to do a thorough job of reviewing patches. Clojure has a stunning good track record of quality, backwards compatibility, and robust design. This is in no small part due to the meticulous contribution process.

That being said...

> the work involved in all of the steps combined is insignificant compared to the essential work of creating and reviewing the patches.

Certainly true for most interesting bug fixes and enhancements. However, I've found that it's not true for a fair number of small issues I encounter on a not-uncommon basis. Most of them escape my memory now, but I've run across issues like docstring typos or the like, and it's just not worth the effort to submit a ticket and patch.

This particularly afflicts ClojureScript, where the review process isn't nearly as rigorous. Especially true when ClojureScript lags Clojure, and all the hard problem analysis and design work has been completed on the JVM side of the fence. Often a copy/paste is sufficient to get the work moved over to ClojureScript, in which case the work of creating a Jira ticket dominates the effort to make the change.

I don't have a particularly good solution. Part of the problem is learned hatred of JIRA... Anyway, I'll stop looking at this gift horse's mouth.
Regardless of the topic at hand.
Pretty bold to call the site "brilliant maps" if they rely on crappy colour coding like this. Even with helper tools I can't make head or tails of the map.
Then I stand corrected, I had read somewhere before that they didn't work.
Every time I read a story like this, I'm reminded of Iron: http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.ht...
The afterlife is far from a fixed concept in Christianity.

For a recent example: http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/04/20/us-pope-limbo-idUS...
Maybe I'm being unfair, but I'm perfectly content to live in a world where people experience an intellectual and social disadvantage for believing in nonsense.
https://dev.twitter.com/overview/general/image-resources

Twitter allows you to use it in your applications. they just have rules you must follow. Read more below

https://about.twitter.com/press/brand-assets
100% website traffic increase
Bound by a non-compete, and offers to work at a competitor startup
This article really tempts me. About a year and a half ago, I moved to the SF Bay Area. And since moving here I've been just, totally disappointed. There's a tyranny of the useful here. Silicion valley loves boring B2B software -- your Slacks -- and boring social media products -- your Twitters -- and useful but banal consumer products -- your Ubers, and it's just depressing.

We don't value fun here. Or art. Or games. Or films. We're like robots, looking for useful things that make money, rather than something risky and expressive and thoughtful. We've fallen in love with money.

Reading this article, it's refreshing. A city of artists. I wonder if I might enjoy it to this city of gross utilitarians.
I don't have answer on the "Why". I think that this question is not a scientific question because the answer could no be proved/invalidated by experiments. It's a philosophical question and some people find the answer in religion or philosophy, some just admit they don't know and others just don't care.
The recruiter honeypot (2012)
Would a same-day delivery service change that for you? (I'm thinking of Amazon's offering but there are others.)
"really should've made smaller helper functions"

I couldn't agree more. Especially when you're under pressure, bite off smaller pieces. Not only is it possibly better practice in general, but in a time of diminished cognitive capacity (such as when much of your bandwidth is being eaten up wondering how you're coming off) they will be easier to get right, and small successes will help ease your stress as much as they help solve the problem.
This will always be a constant battle. Management wants new features asap and developers want to make the code base better. I've been there many times.

Just be honest. You will have to show them why it's a problem, you can't just tell them. Add new features onto the code base and show them how long it will actually take you.
Iridium's website makes a selling point of the fact that Chrome contacts Google servers, but fails to mention that it may phone home to servers of its own. Having to search the source to discover that large a privacy difference isn't proper disclosure to my mind.

I don't claim it's necessarily malicious. The explanation given in the git log makes sense, though there are better ways to accomplish the stated goal, such as replacing Google's tracking URLs with invalid ones. But leaving those changes in public releases of software supposed to increase privacy seems negligent.
>the bigger problem is ability to charge where potential customers live

Is this really a problem? Every EV I've ever seen offers a home charger that can be installed in your garage. I drive very few miles each week, and find going out of my way to stop at a gas station much more inconvenient than plugging in each night would be.
You will. It's great down here. There's a balance - different professions, different perspectives. SV can be a big echo chamber. It's great to geek out, but you also can fall victim to serious group-think.
I take a fair amount of pleasure in banning the domains of anyone who tries to recruit me at my company email
Except that "[coherent-under-consequential-reflection] nice makes right" is a fairly accurate description of moral affairs, if not of epistemology.
Your method of use breaks the rules of usage.

Don’t:

Use speech bubbles or words around the bird

I would suggest creating a new logo
Most full-size sedans can comfortably transport five adults. Get a station wagon, and you've got plenty of cargo space too.

You don't really need a massive SUV.
slightly off topic but I'm always baffled by photo captions like the one in this article
"Hamish Robertson, an artist, with his wife, the writer Andi Teran, at their home in Los Feliz"

Why is Hamish just 'an artist' while the other person is 'the writer' Andi Teran? seems like some kind of bourgeois class system. Makes me suspect Andi is a well heeled trustafarian and other isn't ...but then I'm a terrible cynic
Hipster class moving to LA. Wowsers!
Considering Facebook has been a big proponent of zero rating, it seems like a step, albeit a tiny one, towards a walled garden.
"He [Steve West, a prosecutor] concluded with a settlement offer in which the government would keep half the money."

How do these people sleep at night?
I always thought a distributed/federated social network built as a WordPress plugin/theme would have the best chance of adoption. I haven't looked at BuddyPress in a while to see if they have gone anywhere in this direction.
From known data, I don't believe your hypothesis is likely to be correct:

1) 13.8 - Age of Universe (Billion years)

2) 4.5 - Age of Earth

3) 3.5 - (minimum) Age of life on Earth

Our ancestors have already been alive here for at least 25% of the duration of the universe. To me, the most fascinating number is the small gap between 2) and 3). Suggesting that life here, at least, was almost inevitable. Whether through panspermia or ab initio, it appears difficult neither for life to get started nor to keep hanging around.

I read last year about a hypothesis that iirc 100,000 years after the big bang, as the entire Universe was cooling, for some duration it was lukewarm in patches all over. Ideal for the first iteration of life and perhaps for an initial panspermia event that seeded all parts of the expanding universe.
As an LA resident currently in NYC for college your claim of best bus system is humorous to me because when I'm in LA I rely on the buses heavily but they do slow down commutes and can be somewhat flaky. LA has the terrible public transportation reputation because of the buses, even though they are fine to me, but not as good as a real subway system. "Best bus system" to me sounds like "best masters program" rankings; they can be not terrible, but probably not great.

I absolutely love LA though.
On a slightly unrelated note, I recommend the new Nightwish album "Endless Forms Most Beautiful", named after the Darwin quote in the first paragraph.
They start out with the "guilty until proven innocent" maxim that civil forfeiture operates under and then convince themselves they're doing you a favor by taking all your money and returning half of it.
Having maintained a giant codebase in Oracle PL/SQL, I'm going to have to respectfully disagree and run screaming in the other direction.
It's too bad the president is only lukewarm at best on this issue, as shown by his nomination of Lynch.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeleef/2014/11/25/loretta-ly...
Working to Stop Rewriting Copyright Laws via TPP Treaty
You can easily write a function in C++ that takes an object by const reference and creates a dangling reference without returning it. Such functions regularly result in use-after-free (sometimes causing security vulnerabilities) in the wild. Running grep on the signatures of functions is not a sound analysis.
I wonder if this was inspired by the recent #talkpay trend on Twitter. Announcing your salary on Twitter is not the best idea. It will likely to be found by a recruiter and then (possibly) used against you in negotiations. I support the transparency, but I do not know if this trend is in one's best interests.
ACLU Releases App to Track and Record Police
I don't get why he can't simply sue the government. It's a decent sum of money, and it seems like a pretty easy case to win.
I agree, the relationship is not analogous at all. That's why I said I was going on a tangent: I was more interested in learning about the evaluation system in the US than it's possible parallels with job interviewing,
The Australia Electronic Travel Authority is relatively painless, cheap and instant, compared to the ordeal of leaving your passport at an embassy for days and paying them hundreds of dollars to get a visa pasted in, as I have experienced with other countries.
"...law enforcement agencies get to keep forfeiture proceeds. Such a windfall, critics say, creates perverse incentives..."

'Critics' say? Is there anybody who doesn't concur with this assessment? It seems like a flat, unambiguous fact.

This toxic style of perspective hijacking is a huge part of the problem. It's always, "[government interest] says sky is green; critics say blue. The facts remain elusive."
Well, religion tells you the answer, so there is no point in looking.
Possible, but widely variable:

* The bus system and rail is better than many people seem to be aware -- if you live/work near a good line you can commute as quickly as an auto commuter (and sometimes quicker). Once you have to make multiple transfers or otherwise bridge a gap, speed of transportation goes down fast.

* Bicycling is possible, but the quality of bike accommodations varies widely and so does the consideration afforded cyclists.

* Real estate costs here are lower than San Francisco and New York but still far from sane for the median wage... even modest homes are often much more expensive to rent (let alone buy) than you'd think.
You won't believe it but this office is in Sydney, Australia. When I told this to some people, they were shocked this kind of office existed here.
"How do you properly answer 'why' questions?"

Maybe the answer is that there is no scientific answer to a "why" question ? The question has no scientific answer. In maths, some equations have no solution, some proposition are not provable with common axioms. The "why questions" are just question without scientific answer.
In my experience, religion is usually answering scientific questions, not non-scientific ones. And the explanations they give hardly explain anything at all.
We are just emerging from stealth mode... sorry. The web site is up and running now (modulo DNS update)
How the Indian Telecom Industry Is Still Fighting to Kill Your NetNeutrality
> Especially not when you have some basic const correctness to convince you of this in C++ (the equivalent of what we're seeing in this Rust code),

Const correctness has nothing to do with it. It does not enforce reference safety in C++, and the Rust compiler does not use "const correctness" to enforce proper memory management.
Optimize Your Ionic Testing with Wallaby.js, Bard.js, and WebStorm
Civil forfeiture law is one of the most despicable aspects to our current system. The echoes to monarchy and state power greater than individual rights is too much. If you are in the US, this is exactly what smarter people before us crossed the ocean to get away from.
Watch this John Oliver segment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks&t=12m44s
Google Handwriting Input Lets You Hand-Write Your Text
It sucks to be a junior dev, though. You have no idea what the market is like yet, you don't have any bargaining capacity, you're basically stuck taking what you can get. And that's where "tell us your previous salary" becomes a major liability.

I started freelancing part time during university and got up to a $100 per hour rate. When I was negotiating for this current full-time job, after interning for half a year, my employer lowballed me with a very low offer $X. I told they could give me $2X or I'll go back to freelancing where I will make $2X+Y. $Y is a imaginary number I hand-waved.

A recruiter contacted him, and I didn't read this thread, I told him my current salary, and he told me of a position that offered $3X. So I don't know, I don't think he's my advocate, but he gave me some information too.

I plan to finish launching this project I've been working on for almost 2 years, that I'm responsible for, in several months time, and then, see what happens.

You might ask why I'd work in an place where employers would lowball a salary in negotiation...They let me make all the decisions regarding development, and pick the developers I'll hire to work for me, so...

I currently make maybe $10k more than the average developer of my age in this country, so I'm content for now even if it's less than the average for my level. My employer forbids us to work more than 8 hours a day, and I can come in at 11am, and there's the cafeteria coffee machine, and I love the stack I built...It's the first thing every developer who comes to interview mentions being interested in, so I'm kind of proud of that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design

They're taking a route that is intended to prevent legal challenges in the future. It makes quite a bit of sense.
To be fair, it's not like you can completely ignore the remaining range in your dead-dinosaur fuelled vehicle either. If you run out of gas on a freeway or backroad in the middle of nowhere, you're still gonna get annoyed at your "oops".

I'm probably a bit more aware of this than many - I ride a motorcycle with only 200 or so km (maybe 130mile) range, and take it _lot_ of places where keeping a good running tally of where the next fuel options are, and how I'm gonna get home if the next place happens to be shut.

I suspect that in under 5 years, there'll be roadside assist vehicles with big 3 phase generators on board that are capable of Tesla Supercharger kind of rates of charge.
Just as bad are "officials say"..
Kip lets you build and personalize searchable worlds
The really depressing thing is that even just 6 or 8 years ago, San Francisco was about all those things. It had artists, it made films, it valued culture and fun and creativity. I moved here 6 years ago for exactly those things, but even then I noticed it was changing. Now the artists and filmmakers and musicians have mostly left - moved to Oakland or LA or elsewhere. In a way, our moving here destroyed the things we moved here for.
Wonder if some of the work from here [1] could be leveraged to fill that hole faster.

[1] http://www.androwish.org/index.html/home
Relay is one specific implementation of the Flux pattern.

Flux is a generalized pattern and there are a number of libraries out there which implement their own flavor of Flux. Relay is one of those libraries implementing the Flux pattern which focuses on describing data dependencies in the same place the data is used.
The benchmarks reported on the web page (http://ponylang.org) and also reported at http://ponylang.org/papers/fast-cheap.pdf are more recent, and for these the code was run for different languages, and on one machine.
I don't trust them. They have not a single contact information and no imprint on their website. Which is in fact illegal as their website ist hosted in Germany and uses a german top-level-domain.

They advertise their product as ”a secure browser“ without making any significant changes under the hood. As ”unicornporn“ said: ”privacy“ != ”security“. Especially when you replace one villain by another.
https://sandstorm.io/ is working toward much (if not all!) of that vision.
I will give you $5K cash if you can get me a decent 1 br in the 20s for $1500.

even if you own just the condo fees will run $1500
They migrated to a relational database about 4 years ago: http://www.slideshare.net/sarahmei/taking-diaspora-from-mong...
http://www.causality.io/#team
I hate splash sign ups but this looks cool. I've never seen world building like this before
> the bigger problem is ability to charge where potential customers live and charging times. Unlike a conventionally fueled car, or EREV, there is no oops with a five minute fix. You forget to charge and you have to wait it out.

How about swapping in a pre-charged battery at the charging station, instead of charging the one you brought with you? Some EV idea posted recently on Hacker News used this plan. If it's too hard to swap the large battery for an electric car, at least have a small secondary battery that can be swapped and can get you home.
While it would certainly be wrong to call children idiots when teaching them basic arithmetic I'm not convinced it's entirely out of place when you're explaining the same thing to grown adults.
Exactly: it will clean an actor, once there are no messages to it, and it has no work to do, and there are no references to it (or any references come from such actors which have no work themselves -- i.e. are in a cycle).
And then your lawyer likely recommends you take the settlement.
Do you mean refactor or rewrite? If you actually mean rewrite, then get a better plan. Figure out how to proceed with a phased refactor based approach. Fold the refactoring into new features.

Learn to speak in terms that the deciders understand. Speak in terms of FTE hours (cost) and reliability (risk). Speak in terms of What you're doing, not How. When you speak in terms of how, you're just inviting people to micromanage you. They really want to know how many FTE hours doing something is going to take, and how much risk they are exposed to. How you accomplish it is up to you.

If you tell them that next feature will take a year (because you're going to rewrite everything 1st), then they'll probably tell you to take a hike. So, you'll have to figure out how much refactoring you can do with each added feature to still make them happy.

Finally, you can't care more about the problem than the customer (in this case, your employer). You should care about your work, but don't put yourself in the position where you're more emotionally attached than the owner.
Wow, these guys seem to be using an ancient and vulnerable version of cgit.
Squawk Talk: Researchers Try to Decipher Chicken Speech
Erlang has something like that as well:

http://erldocs.com/17.3/erts/erlang.html#hibernate/3

Hibernate compresses the current memory, save it and then kill the active process. Then if a message is sent to it, it "wakes" up.
> Moreover, it should obviously not be used to imply that any country is better than any other. While we there may be differences between some of us, we are all equal.

If you need to tell this to your audience you might want to find a different audience.
Who Keeps Track If Your Surgery Goes Well or Fails?
Out of 6 or 7 friends who live within walking distance of me, I'm the only one with a garage - one of them has a side entrance/carport, everyone else parks on the street. (And depending on exactly what "install" means, putting one in my rental garage might not be possible.) Further afield, I've got quite a few friends who live in high-density residential buildings, where their "garage" is a space in the big lot underneath the building, and has no facility for power (and certailnly not individually metered power).

Plugin electrics are good for people who own houses - not yet so good for everybody else.
This language claims to be "capabilities-secure", which I assumed meant that it uses capability-based security and is an object-capability language. This got me excited -- my work on Sandstorm.io and Cap'n Proto uses capability-based security heavily, and a high-performance object-capability language would be awesome to have (the existing ones are mostly dynamically-typed and slow, though you can use capability-based design without using a capability-based language, as many programs and most OS's actually do to some extent).

Unfortunately, it turns out they have simply coopted the term to mean something completely different. According to the documentation: "Pony capabilities are completely new, no other language has them."[0]

Please think of a new word for this; don't redefine one (or a pair) that is widely-used already.

[0] http://tutorial.ponylang.org/capabilities/introduction/
Well, he can try to sue, but it's complicated because the case isn't against him, it's a case against the money, and probably named something like "United States vs $107,702.66". He's a third-party claimant.

If you're thinking that this sounds an awful lot like "guilty until proven innocent" then you can find loads of really fun reading over with our libertarian friends at http://reason.com/tags/asset-forfeiture where they've been raising alarms about the trend since 1989 (long before its abuse in places like Ferguson, MO made talking about it cool)

Postscript: Oh, I think I was spot on about the name; thanks Google. https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/North_Carolina_Eastern_Dis...
> If you say that privacy is huge and you don't demand only free software then you are inconsistent. You don't put your money where your mouth is.

I think is something we all do. We all have "wants" in our products and "needs", I want all my software to be secure and open source but I also want something usable and something that allows me to interact easily with my peers. I believe both iOS and Android do this and I believe both are equally closed. Sure Android has a open source base but let's not pretend that that's what the VAST majority of people are running. For the handful of people running custom roms with no closed code and a FOSS app store I salute them. Good for them, I can't do it and the vast majority of us can't. I'm not going to cut off my nose to spite my face. IMHO, the "Android" that 99.999% of people use is no better than iOS when it comes to openness/knowledge that the software you are running does what you think it does.

I've got to weigh the pros and cons of which both my time and my want for secure products factor in. My options a lot of the time are use closed source software or use open source (that may or may not exist) and extend it to do what the closed source software does. Since the latter would take substantially more time (especially when also considering I only know a handful of languages) I choose to use the closed source software. So yes, I trade time/energy for my security from time to time. Put very simply, I'm not going to choose to play life in hard mode, I've got enough stuff going on that I'm not going to add endless coding to that list (Note: I code plenty in my free time to just keep up with and learn more). If that makes me a monster then so be it, I'm genuinely interested to know how other people handle this.

I'd really be interested for someone who ONLY uses FOSS to blog about their whole setup. There are some tools for my job that I simply have to use that are closed source, how do other FOSS advocates deal with this?