skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why don't they just use TAI time in places where leap seconds are not practical?
Congratz to a very smart team. Love how Meteor seeks to include other good Javascript frameworks into the platform (like React, Angular), rather than trying to force an artificial "one true way" — looking forward to seeing Galaxy.
cool job, thanks for sharing.
IUP is one of the friendliest toolkits to write bindings for.
This is what you call an "internal DSL", a DSL implemented as a valid subset of another language. A DSL that is its own language requiring its own interpreter is sometimes called an "external DSL".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language#Usage_...
Note that that's all computed by LESS code.

https://github.com/SLaks/Silon#implementation-details
https://github.com/SLaks/Silon/blob/gh-pages/styles/_operato...

The actual declarations end up being nicely simple; see https://github.com/SLaks/Silon/blob/gh-pages/styles/_themed-...

The CSS is just a truth table, but the LESS (which is Turing-complete) actually contains all of the logic.
Executive pay: Who really brings home the bacon
Nowadays, its C/C++. In the past it was Ada (at least in the US). Ada was created specifically for this sort of thing (and was actually a requirement for certain projects), but it never gained popularity so companies would just petition the government to use C/C++ instead. Its a shame, too. Ada is fantastic if you want to avoid bugs. I wish more people would give it a chance.

On the other hand, I also wonder why people don't think of using Erlang for something like this. The VM is designed for a ridiculous amount of uptime, it has a supervisor tree that can monitor and restart failed processes, and it can interface with C/C++. A rock-solid VM should be running and monitoring life-safety systems.
Maybe in the U.S. Not here. Nothing I've bought has extras. Looking at some current top movies (including Disney ones), no extras.

edit: after checking 10 movies in the top current movies, finally found one with extras (released by Fox). so it exists, but nowhere near "most"
Maybe with new AR devices coming out soon, maybe you can quickly do a picture to social media lookup, and then use that to see if the employee has their address/phone number online. The look on their face as you give them their own personal info would be priceless.

The investigation for stalking, not so much.
There is a spreadsheet included with this book [1] that helps you figure out how much life insurance to get your non-working spouse. We signed up for private term life - it was substantially less expensive than my employer's optional term life plan. Plus it's decoupled from whatever job you happen to hold at the time!

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Ultimate-Financial-Plan-Balancing/...
Here's another data point supporting the claim that Europe's start-up ecosystem is weak:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/73-most-valuable-startups-ear...

This is a list of start-ups(in private control) with value over $1 billion. 73 companies in total , 6 are European , and 15 are Asian.

EDIT: one possibility is that European are suffering a similar problem to that of the Israelis - even though they have great tech/product , they just sell earlier. BTW in Israel(which most agree has a strong start-up ecosystem/culture) it's mainly because they're lacking in certain scaling skills(but they're learning) + and to some extent they try to minimize risk.
I was in Budapest in 2003 and I have to say: the creative energy that was there seemed to be singular. I hope it's still strong. I don't know if I could convince my wife to move (it would set back the clock on her U.S. citizenship) but I'd love to get out there more often.

I came up with this card game (Ambition) out there: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S7lsZKzHuuhoTb2Wj_L3zrhH...
I have great appreciation for people like Dijkstra and Knuth and the work that they do. They write operating systems , compilers and databases.

But coming down from the ivory tower of academia , do you really need to go to the trouble of writing your custom CMS in Haskell after proving it's correctness in Coq ?

As a further example , the succesful company KissMetrics built the first version of it's product in a month and shipped using SQLite (!!) as a DB.

In their own words , they optimized 100 % for shipping speed.

Software doesn't exist in a vacuum , it plugs into a business.

The amount of rigor and research that must go into a piece of software depends on the domain and business requirements. To insist that all software be written to such a high standard is unrealistic and will never happen.

I'm yet another software engineer who (most of the time) writes CRUD apps as quickly as possible so my boss pays me on time. I have no pretensions of being a 10x or being the hero who drags the world out of the dark pits of poorly specified and mathematically inelegant software with his superior intellect.
Cameron to announce new heavy-handed anti-terrorism bill
That had occurred to me, but it seems too obvious.
Odd since it was America which instigated the Ukrainian coup, inflamed ethnic tensions, and continue to push towards military conflict.
Getting started with ES6 object notation
but this is a python convention, not a symposium on religion. Under what context would scientology even come up?
I love this idea. It's highly practical, of good use and deals with life as it is.
I use IPsec in addition to OpenVPN, primarily because that's all iOS used to support. Since iOS 5 or 6 (I think; maybe even as late as version 7?), Apple has allowed third-party VPN apps, so with an "official" OpenVPN client now available in the iOS App Store, it's not as important as it was. However, I've left it running as a fallback solution to OpenVPN (some hotel firewalls, for example, permit IPsec but actively block UDP-based OpenVPN).

I use ipsec-tools, as circa 2012 when I was originally setting this up, it was the only free software IPsec solution I could get to work with iOS clients, but based on this vulnerability I've now disabled it and will try StrongSWAN again.
I stared at it for a while and nothing happened, please provide a link to a working codepen/jsfiddle etc
I've personally noticed a significant drop in Uber quality in NYC. I recall a year or so ago Uber blew taxis out of the water in overall service quality. Now most of the time the driver relies heavily on their GPS which doesn't work that well in NYC so you end up taking noticeably longer to get to your destination than a professional driver that really knows the city. In addition, the quality of drivers has plummeted. Half the time it seems like I'm being driven around by someone who just got their license, which can be nerve racking in the mid-west let alone NYC. Pretty much the only thing Uber still has going for them is it "feels" safer to take Uber than a random taxi according to my girlfriend.
I think that this article could end up being cited a lot. It has a very believable thesis. I'd like to see it put to the test, and then condensed down and hopefully inform news reporting a bit.

If we accept that, as a member of the super-wealthy post-USSR kleptocracy engaged in an endless Presidency, Putin is naturally most concerned about maintaining domestic power, then the thesis is: massive uprisings in their largest ex-Soviet neighbor, against a Russian-allied President, where the public floods into the President's palace and becomes even more enraged at evidence of their wealth (a golden loaf of bread; a pirate-ship restaurant), make it impossible domestically that Putin not respond with a show of force.

As the article says, he and his chums have palaces too.
Get the minimum insurance you will need to take care of your kids and pay any debts that would be hard or impossible to pay if your wife were to become disabled.

Anytime you buy insurance you have to be ready to do some math. If you make enough to cover a caregiver (often covered or partially covered under health insurance) for your wife and have a strategy for taking care of your kids then you may not even need it.

I'm fortunate enough to live close to both my parents and my wife's parents. Because of this and because we have decent savings we decided against disability and life insurance for her. We are in the process of getting better life insurance for myself but are keeping it as low as possible to cover our debts and living expenses until the children are old enough to go to work in the coal mines.
Housing.com CEO Rahul Yadav Doing an AMA on Reddit
Astonishing. Did you realize what your responsibilities would be when you were hired? Could only imagine having to do a full blown tech interview to find out the position was mundane and could be scripted.
I built this for fun, and to remind people that CSS can do more than you think. (it should also be a nice tool to help teach adders)

While I would obviously never do something this insane in a real product, I have used CSS for surprisingly much actual logic in real code (empty states for lists, hiding controls that the user cannot use, etc).

See also http://stackoverflow.com/a/5239256/34397
Tools Needed for Shingle Roof Replacement or Repair – LGC Roofing Blog
Since a csrf will come from a <img tag which is not on your site, you can check the header. So the only problem is if the user copy pastes the link from a website or clicks from some other application. Which decreases the chance of a substantial attack alot. If you are using http as laumars stated, this doesnt work. But i think this should be a pretty decent and easy to implement solution if you're using https.
Let's be honest here (I'm Dutch): In the Netherlands failing is looked down upon, investing in something as risky as a start-up is very uncommon and probably frowned upon, working for 40+ hours is okay but we highly value our spare time, there are lots and lots of rules and regulations if you want to hire and fire. All these things are part of our culture and need to be modified in our hearts and rulesets to have a better environment where startups can thrive as well as in the US.
Why wouldn't I want to do

dialog.set_title("blah");

dialog.set_size_piels(100, 100);

on two lines?
> The internal complexity is not something the customer gives a shit about. They want their feature and they want it now.

None of this is false. At some point though, the internal complexity may grow to the point such that you can no longer deliver the features they want right now. What then?
When I visit the hair cutting place, they refuse to serve you without a phone number. So I always give them the standard TV placeholder: xxx-555-1212.

The stylist is often confused why there are 20 people with that phone number.
> for a one-year project coding is not allowed to start before the ninth month!

And here we are, asking team leads why development cannot begin till week 2 of a 24-week project.

It is a really strange and funny industry we are in.
The major problem is that some of the best Europeans leave to US to start or join startup companies (e.g. Stripe). And if you look at the best US companies you will typically see a large amounts of Europeans in them. So Europeans are very capable of starting and joining startups - they just don't do it in Europe.

What Europe needs is a better way to keep the talent at home.
Browser Monitoring for GitHub.com
Big Tech Urges Obama to Support Strong Encryption [pdf]
This is completely biased and anti-Russian. Fair enough though. One cannot expect less from the hyve mentality forming against the re-emergent Eurasian state.
Workload Analysis with MySQL's Performance Schema
GitHub Launches an Engineering Blog
The only thing this new MacBook Pro has over the Chromebook Pixel (LS) is OSX (iffy as a positive with the availability of Chrubuntu), a better graphics chip, and more hard drive space.

Not sure that's worth $700...
Usually you call something an internal DSL when it reads like its own language. The reason that Ruby lends itself to internal DSLs is how optional a lot of its punctuation is, especially parens around method parameters, making it easier to write code that looks like a variant of English. A good example of this is Rake.
Password protected keys (edit:certificates), yes, but not regular user/password no matter if it's LDAP backed or anything else... (but I think you can do password and key, but I need to check docs)

I'm in a meeting and drawing a blank on what the primary reason was for avoiding password-only... I'll update if I can remember the reason besides "passwords are easier to crack"
>It wouldn't cost them anything to extend it to the whole internet.

Yes it would, the entire point of the project is to make a subset low-bandwidth standard. Highly optimized from server all the way to device. By not encrypting it they can even use multicast and caching.

When you visit an internet.org site, your phone wont load 30 tracking js files from 30 different companies. It will load the text of the page.
Request Hijacking Vulnerability in RubyGems
No country with 'freedom of speech' does not define acceptable and unacceptable.

Unrestricted freedom is anarchy. Give me ultimate freedom of speech and I'll stand outside your house with a megaphone calling your family illegitimate so you can't sleep. (Ok I won't, but I promise you people will)
There are a lot of places using IPSec VPNs for point-to-point connections, in part because there's an awful lot of equipment out there that supports them.

Heck, Cisco's "Small Business" RV router series (RV042/RV082/RV016/RV042G and possibly others) are still being sold after several hardware revisions (still kind of long in the tooth), and they support all of two VPN types: IPSec and PPTP.
one more symptom of the anti-russian and fascist tendencies of the same you mention.
This concern applies to any JavaScript: your browser is automatically downloading and running untrusted software on your computer without prompting you.

Even if you enjoy having JavaScript enabled for many sites, something like NoScript is still a good idea---it at least gives you a chance to question whether it's needed at all, or verify what it's doing yourself.
If you want to make a positive impact on the world, I would go out and see the world. People like to live in fear of not following the right path - but diverging from the norm is what makes new possibilities happen. Take some time to relax, recharge, and think about what it is you want to accomplish.
I've noticed the same in Dallas as well. The cars, although technically newer than '06 or '07 as Uber requires, have gotten shittier and the drivers have gotten shadier.
Getting Paid as a Freelancer
Apple Shows Off a New 15-inch MacBook Pro and a 5K iMac
> it's pretty common for programmers to be undereducated...

[citation needed]
It seems that you can upgrade to 32GB as well (update: replies are correct, I seem to have imagined this, both models are still limited to 16GB).

My fear is that this means Apple believes Skylake is delayed, since they'll presumably want to do another release early during that cycle.
There are a few grammatical errors in these documents as well that do not inspire confidence.

Also, you better be damn sure that you can trust the person you give power of attorney to -- the document provided here assigns power of attorney immediately, not on incapacitation/death, and allows the person you designate to gift themselves up to $13,000 a year of your own property without your consent.

Considering the laws of the 50 states are sometimes very different, and these documents cover a wide range of legal topics, I think you'd have to be an idiot to use these documents without running them by a lawyer in your state, because they might not have the consequences you think they have.

Frankly I don't see why the HN crowd would upvote a site like this -- I'd bet it was ring votes that got it to the front page. Or maybe it was just the snarky domain, who knows.

www.uslegalforms.com has been around for a long time now, and they at least have state-specific documents. Use them if you're going to use anything without consulting a lawyer. But really, pay a lawyer, it's worth it.

I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.
I think we're doing alright in London? Pop over to Silicon Roundabout and every bar man will want to tell you about his App. There's start-ups and incubators everywhere. The one thing we don't have the same structure of is VCs - the US kills us there. It's growing though, and the government is really pushing to grow it further.
Motorola basically did the same thing in a Northern Illinois community. I think the massive site stayed open a little more than a year. It still today remains a huge empty space sitting in the prairie some fifteen year on.
You realize that more people use Windows 8+ than OS X, right?

The reaction that I see is that all sorts of workers are now walking around touching Windows on tablets and laptops. I've seen them in restaurants, supermarkets, service centers, stores, in my house, in my yard.

You're thinking about the tech blog/news people's reaction to Windows 8+. Plenty of actual people are using the product because it offers something that no other system does - and that is a full operating system with touch, not a locked down rental unit.
" I have absolutely zero respect for anyone who supports Russia in any way." - Fascist statement. As a LGBT person you should see the type of Nazis being turned into deputies and elected politicians in that shit hold named Ukraine.
I just wish it wasn't so tightly integrated into everything. I'd love to use Meteor as a library, but I'm always afraid of choosing something that I can't replace later.

Either way, best of luck to them!
> By definition, that's not free

Nonsense. Freedoms are never unlimited. I can't think of any that would even be unlimited in idealistic worlds like software licensing. Can you name any?
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The GitHub Engineering Blog
Times advertisers agree to pay same rate for tablet edition as print
How to Make Sure Your Copying Is Better Than the Rest
H1B is not outsourcing.

By definition perhaps, but not in practice. When a company replaces long term employees with H1B's, the H1B's are (in my experience) typically employed by a third party such as a foreign based service provider. Most of the largest users of H1B's are outsourcing agencies.
Related: Do you know of any good sources to look up rules and regulations like this? Looking at single owner, bootstrapped stuff? (German language is ok too)
People like you completely miss the point on Russia. You cannot accept that it is indeed a democracy, that people are not brainwashed. And that pretty much the contrary of what western media portrays is happening there. Trust me, i've been there.
> ...whatever business model I pick.

Would it be a good thing for society to allow you to pick a business model where you blare your music from loud speakers and then pay large burley men 50 cents to collect 1 dollar from anyone within earshot, on the premise that they heard your music so thus owe you?
Because functional programming.
Why is internet.org an easier target than state run telecoms? Your ISP isn't decentralized.
At one point that number was universally owned by TellMe/Microsoft iirc.
I don't think this is an American only thing. You see the same in Europe with respect to Eastern european immigrants who don't speak the local language well.

You also presume people would be uncomfortable with either native English speakers of either Hispanic of African ancestry --which for the great majority of people would not be an issue. Also, not only white English speakers take uber.

Personally I think those commenters prefer not having to repeat or ask the the driver to repeat what they are trying to get across.

Imagine moving to China, you a polish speaker with little Chinese fluency, and try to make a living as a taxi driver. See how well you compete with people who speak Chinese natively.
I need a new magic track pad, was hoping they will release a new one with force touch soon. Anybody have information about that?
Possibly a new keyboard as well with the wider spacing like the new macbook?
Watch Surgical Robot Deftly Suture a Grape
I think there are several out there, the best one I've found for simple will and living wills (and free, no monthly charge bs) is http://www.doyourownwill.com It also has good general advice and a legal forms section..and was fast. pdf and doc. made it easy for us.
An engine stuck on has happened before, though I believe this was only flight idle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_32

Mind you, that was the result of an uncontained engine failure.
Russia invaded Ukraine. It was an invasion. End of the story. Why are you blaming the US?
General principles to explain DNA brick self-assembly
It's when you start to think you know everything that people don't like to work with you. I haven't met that many people in my software career ~15yrs that have enjoyed working with a know-it-all.

You can of course be super smart at your job and know a TON, but when you start acting cocky and like you know everything it usually doesn't end well.
I think the primary focus on further development in Meteor should be supporting additional databases officially, and after that, supporting operational transformation and conflict resolution strategies come to mind. In my opinion, they are the biggest hurdles towards creating reliable real-time applications.

Official React or Angular support isn't a game-changer. They can already be integrated easily with the reactive data providers.
Not being able to watch a TV show isn't exactly oppression. If I didn't get into a closed beta of a highly-anticipated web service or video game, it wouldn't be "a form of protest" to brute-force someone else's login, or to crack the signup system. It would be wrong.
Six months of severance per fired employee is a rounding error

For a marginal startup founded on a Mastercard and only tenuously on the right side of the border between life and death six months of severance is not a rounding error.
The defense industry runs heavily Mormon? Since when? I work in the defense industry and I've never heard of that.
> I still after 5 years discover some regulations that I completely missed and I always hope that there's no big one hiding behind the bushes.

Any juicy examples you could tell us about?
Is this really a problem ?

I was under the impression that the vast majority of start-ups 1. fail or 2. require employees to expend huge effort while the lion's share of the revenue gain is made by the C-level officers.

Why would an European labor force want to expose itself to the "start-up" platform ?
Since it would be nearly impossible to universally "poison" your footprint the most like scenario would end up being that Lawton Fogle is tied to an alias of Hitler Manson that lives on Sodomy Lane and has a fake social security number with strangle biblical references. Not a good way to stay off somebody's radar.
That point is dangerously close. I don't now what to tell them . Not everyone appreciates the benefits of not adding ridiculous features and non stop changes that overcomplicate the system while not adding much value. In fact many of the features aren't even used.

Also when a project is outsourced , then the outsourcing firm is only happy that there are lots of changes as that means more billable hours. They're not going to push back. And neither can the developers working there. This is yet another danger of completely outsourcing your project without any technical oversight.

Hopefully , I'll soon be working on something else . ;).