skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like Byword, but often end up using stackedit because I like the side by side rendering.
> Devtools exist to solve a problem. You should not evaluate devtools based on the webpage or how many people are using it.

That sounds rational and it's what I used to think, but I think this talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzzL_QDKv0c) makes a good case that fuzzy human factors always play a role in technical decisions, and that's not necessarily bad.

Eg, which is better, Angular or Ember? Ruby or Python? Go or C++? Haskell or Common Lisp? You can accomplish the same things in either tool. Which you like better has a lot to do with what you already know. And popularity may seem like a shallow measure, but it affects whether you can get questions answered, find blog posts and books, locate a library to do something for you, and hire developers who already know the technology.

Popularity is probably also weakly correlated with stability. If my custom jQuery code doesn't work, there's a 99.999% chance that it's the fault of the code I wrote (used by 1 person) rather than of jQuery (used by thousands). When jQuery was new and used by tens of people, there was a higher chance that it was jQuery's fault.
The comment can be considered a meaningful contribution as well. Dialog is not only information but also flow enablers and/or facilitators.
The fact that (s)he expressed sympathy/approval might show that others think the same, which in itself if a tidbit, if not too small. But it can greatly help others to chime in and relate or expand.

If you block these expressions then you get a lecture/dissertation, chock full of info, but not a dialog within a community.

So the question is: what do you see HN to be: a knowledge repository or a place that allows technology-minded people to share and belong?
i am shocked, shocked i tell you
The police are facing and have experienced funding cuts. I wonder if CCTV is a more efficient approach than PCSOs.
The problem I have with loops is that they are like fly-paper. Once you have a loop iterating over a collection it's tempting to add more and more to it, mixing responsibilities in run-on code. This isn't theoretical, I see code like this all of the time. It's nearly impossible to abuse HOFs that way.
Another discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9691654
I dunno. But I will bet you that August 2021 in Chicago will be warmer on average than February 2022.
The End of Big Banks Is Nigh
> Last I checked, IBM were offering sub 30k for graduates

You expect to walk into an 80k a year job straight out of college? Everyone has to start somewhere. If I was a graduate, I'd much rather be working sub 30k for IBM than sub 40k for Dublin's next Groupon killer/Airbnb for iguanas.
That's exactly my point. When it was announced it wasn't obvious that this didn't come for "free" and I am saying the new dual pane feature is likely to need the same such implementation which won't attract developers.
This (missing) EPT must be the reason my MacBook Pro from 2009 is crashing when running it. Thanks for pointing that
On mobile (disclaimer)

not extremely clear what your value proposition is.

I would keep going down the path of interactivity, add another widget that can appeal to a different segment.
I would also consider adding a read more area at the bottom for people who like to dig deeper before acting.
Having been there on holiday myself, the only way to ensure that everything is pre-selected and engineered would be to effectively shut down the entire city (indeed, every city and town I went to), and create a kind of bubble around each of our buses (and, when we switched to foot, around each pocket of walking tourists); fake cities filled with actors, all standing and doing nothing until someone shouts "The bus is almost visible" at which point they break into action like a pack of extras on a Hollywood set, pretending to be walking somewhere as the bus passes, only to stop as soon as it's out of sight. Everyone's life on permanent hold, just waiting to show the tourists what it looks like when people walk on the pavement. What glory for the Fatherland that is!

To say that "everything in these pictures is thoroughly and carefully pre-selected and even engineered" is simply not true.
It's only .exe installers that are affected, and probably only ones that they can easily wrap; I doubt they're actually modifying any source code.
>in fact if you're going to do malware stuff like this, why even ask?

Just a guess, but probably plausible deniability reasons for when they're inevitably brought to court.
You could be very right here, since most of the people I come across working on contracts are already in the market for at least 10 years. In today's market, for someone new starting out, I guess there will be cut-throat competition to get programming contracts, with people ready to work at a very low rate (e.g. on Freelancer, oDesk).
Thank you for that very helpful comment.
There are lots of different kinds of anxiety. Procrastination is a form of anxiety. The only way to really get started in dealing with it is to see a doctor and get into a system that is tailored to your specific needs.
> if anyone is looking into this stuff is more because it's the technology du jour, rather then the off chance that they end up with 100 million users

Knowing the technology du jour is a lot more likely to get you a job, even if an older technology is better in some ways.
> All of these taxes really make you ask yourself "why bother work harder and longer" and really kill any incentive to work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve
I know we are hiring technical writers. Primarily in New York although I think Palo Alto is an option as well.

http://t.co/9uZjQeSRdv
I thought that feeling was just normal. I've experienced it basically since I started working in tech. I can't imagine most people want to actually wake up and go to work. It's not possible.

The funny part is I find myself dreaming of going back to stocking shelves at a grocery store like I did in high school. I'd never make enough money to support myself doing something like that though. I romanticize the Peter Gibbons move to go work in construction even though I know I probably wouldn't be happy doing anything. I long for stress free days. Especially when most of the stress I experience is just completely artificial or manufactured by my boss or company. Most of the problems I have at work shouldn't bother me after hours but they never leave.
The statistical likelihood of Steph Curry's ridiculous shooting streak
Introducing PayPal and Card Payments in One API
"When confronted with the fact that scientists as a general rule are scrupulously honest"

citation needed
The only problem is communication with government, rather impossible without polish.

Very true - and very difficult at first, if your Polish is rather poor.

That said, my Polish was terrible, and I managed to bluster through it.

I recently helped an acquaintance through the process, and it turned out I'd done it the wrong way around. First hire a good accountant (mine costs slightly more than usual at $100/mo, thanks to processing many many many invoices/mo), sign over power of attorney for submitting tax documents, and they'll take care of the rest for you.
> Also, recognize that while the pay may be higher, if you're in the US you also are on the hook for 8% payroll tax that your employer would normally pay on your behalf.

You are on the hook for more than just that. Federal, state and often county taxes (gross receipts, business licenses) will need to be paid. Plus you will need to acquire health insurance, fund your retirement, pay for needed business expenses, etc. Not to mention, most contracts you sign, will require that you also carry some form of business insurance (errors and omissions for example). All these things will slice and dice your hourly rate down severely.
Content blocking in Safari 9 and iOS 9
Almost 2000 subscribers to the new gTLD group on LinkedIn
> when he was caught quote-mining analysis software written by the CRU researchers

As in 'building a graph of who quotes who ?' What's wrong with that ?
I have a bandmate who is an alcoholic. She mostly keeps it under control, but it's a worry. We have a great friendship and make wonderful music together, but I always knew that it ever got to where I had to tell her that it's the bottle or me, she'd choose the bottle.

Luckily, she has decided it's a real problem and is sobering up a lot - not completely, but better and more conscious. I've seen others who weren't so lucky.. failed marriages and parenting, car crashes, even worse things.
> growing organically by overworked developers hacking in whatever they needed right now

One of my personal favorite examples of this is the GetRandomRgn function in Windows's windowing API.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd1...

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/06/18/10321...
Those statistics are somewhat flawed.

See http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/25/race-and-justice-much-m....
Matrices, diagrammatically
Yes but the "universal" sense is vanishingly rare outside of religious boilerplate and doesn't make sense in the context here.
Docker has a huge interest in making it easy for the legions of Mac-toting developers to use it easily without first telling you to get complex, fragile external tooling like vagrant or virtualbox working.

I doubt it'd go in the mainline product but I'd be shocked if in a year or two there isn't a Docker.app one-stop option which makes it trivial to run popular Linux apps.
‘Project Premonition’ tackles disease outbreaks with drones
Spend a kickstarter to dump it down a volcano then. The point I was trying to make (poorly, apparently) is that it's stupid that this is actually a problem at all, there seem to be a number of viable and cheap solutions.
Thanks Skaplun. Would you add the read more content directly on the page so users can scroll to it? I'm concerned that might distract people...
>effectively shut down the entire city

So.. you guys were carefully corralled in the city? N Korea is mostly rural, with most of its population barely able to get enough calories to eat. Pyongyang is a propagandist show-room and is full of connected party types. Your average N Korean doesn't live that lifestyle. This is all fairly well documented by various sources, mostly via the oral histories of defectors:

http://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Envy-Ordinary-Lives-North/dp/0...

http://www.amazon.com/Escape-Camp-14-Remarkable-Odyssey/dp/0...

If you care to discredit these works, I will argue with you on a point to point basis. I have read both and other sources that describe the regime and everyday life in North Korea. Perhaps we can also get Dennis Rodman in here too but clearly you both are on the same page.

Sadly, I find North Korea cheerleading often to be a biased political position tied to the usual pro-China HN crowd that finds fault with everything the US/EU do, thus anything the US/EU are critical of, must be good and any criticism of these regimes must be "western propaganda."
The doctor who prescribed it to you, without any warning, was very irresponsible and did you an extreme disservice. When I was prescribed benzos by my doctor, it came with no shortage of warnings, and she cut me off before I could get addicted. Even coming off the small dose I was taking was unpleasant.

Benzos have their place, but they need to be handled responsibly.
They think they do, but they don't. At least nowhere near what Apple is doing. Right now they're at the stage where they think that if something has material design and looks pretty, then it must have a good user interface.
I like this idea a lot more than just "make a website." While that is clearly a valid application of programming, it's not my strong suit and most places already have websites up anyway.
I'd imagine most any of them could use some good scripting and such though!
Thanks!
Magma: Extending C with macros
I can sometimes get 20 minutes at work but there are few private places where this is possible. I got a 10 minute nap once and woke to find two very concerned people wondering if I'd had a heart attack or something!

If you haven't experienced insomnia it is, like most maladies, far more complex and difficult than you might imagine. Everyone has a suggestion or two, but it differs for each individual and has a multitude of causes (as I hinted, in my case a heart problem plus various complications from that, which I hope to get sorted soon).
I am not even sure now that this will work in good economic times, since there is saturation in contract-based assignments, with agencies hiring programmers on very low rate in developing countries.
All I can take away from this is that, one needs to have experience and a great network (potential clients) before thinking about contract work. Thank you for your input.
If you're on Windows, consider upgrading to WinSCP (http://winscp.net/eng/docs/free_sftp_client_for_windows). Not only is it a nicer UI and updated more often, but they have direct downloads with no crapware.
This runs boot2docker pretty well out of the box. I made the required edits to xhyverun.sh as found in this gist: https://gist.github.com/bruienne/d1053df883b47822c6e

It requires that you copy the vmlinuz64 and initrd.img files from the B2D ISO to a local filesystem location. As of right now enabling networking requires root privileges. Not sure if the Hypervisor framework has user-level accommodations for that.
Oculus Rift – The Next Evolution in Developers Heaven
>regarded as politically useful for the Obama administration

Judith sure knows how to play to the gallery.
Spy Virus Linked to Israel Targeted Hotels Used for Iran Nuclear Talks
Not without literally tons of bloodshed.
"making sure we DO discuss race issues"

So... you're saying the only possible opposition to his climate results is distraction via playing the race card, logical fallacies, and sophistry? So you're a strong supporter of his climate claims. Yet you were implying between the lines earlier that his climate claims are perhaps not so good. Which is it? Or is it just the anti-scientific "truth depends solely upon who says it"?

As a meta analysis I'm not sure dramatizing or personalizing a statistical analysis is supposed to improve anything anyway. So how deep does the sophistry go? Is there any reasoned response to the claims other than personal attacks against theoretical semi-libelous attacks against individuals based on unrelated political beliefs? Sadly, there probably is, so you're doing a disservice to that position. Are you are being paid to disrupt scientific reports about climate change by discrediting "supporters"? It is known there are people being paid to do that, although I'd expect hirelings to do a better job for their pieces of silver.
It seems like if these large public datasets continue to come on line, there will need to be some sort of semi-cooperative distributed data store to make them truly "accessible." Or the data provider will need to provide an access/query API, rather than just a big tank that you can copy if you dare.
Blegh, https://gist.github.com/bruienne/d1053df883b47822c6e0
Taiwanese Company Brings Bitcoin to 10,000 Convenience Stores
I think applications can make X calls themselves

There definitely is a network somewhere in between (possibly almost optimized away in many cases)
Yes, this is good news!
In terms of being taken advantage of, I feel that there are areas outside of product ads that really are of greater importance. Politics is an important example where information, misinformation, and manipulation run rampant. Teaching kids to recognise influences and to introspect on intentions is essential if social and self awareness are to be sought. Understanding ads is like the training wheels of understanding social manipulation -- the penalties of misunderstanding are relatively small, but they do add up until the money adds down.
This is why we need some kind of trade organization -- the developers who wrote this stuff need to be kicked out, or disciplined in some way...
"The purpose of the system (and the spectrum) will likely be broadband data, not hand-portable voice."

You're unlikely to get one without the other.. if down the road you can get an affordable internet connection on your phone without having to deal with cellular networks, I'd bet that you would see a huge shift to VOIP.

Edit: Whoops, looks like phones probably won't be able to receive this signal practically.

"I believe Musk is, like Teledesic, planning to use the Ka-band. That means the smallest antenna would be the size of a large laptop" [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9689869
Why I'm Breaking Up with the Apple Watch
Unfortunately the world is a cruel place, and this guy wants freedom from it. I know, I took the 3-4 months off after quitting a job to do my own thing. I did earn a few dollars but nothing like what a business was willing to pay for my skills.

We'd all like to be free to do what we want to do, but in all honesty only a fraction of 1% ever get to. And even those people serve a master. Did I ever find the answer, no. I think what its going to take is a huge leap in what we call work.
So.. you guys were carefully corralled in the city?

No. We travelled through rural regions as well; small towns and so forth. I saw (but did not go into) numerous very small villages. Those were not much more than a collection of buildings, generally with a dirt track leading to it from the road we were on.

In the city, whilst walking with our two guides, the distance between the front walker and the rear walker was on the order of a hundred metres at times. When I went there, it was a significant national holiday. Some of the exhibition centres we went to had literally thousands of people flowing through them while we were there. We were in the crowds, mixing in with the people attending. Huge flows of people. At a military parade, we stepped off the bus and stood with the crowd to watch. On the underground, we stepped onto the carriages with the locals who were waiting for the train. A funfair in Pyongyang; huge, huge queues outside and inside. Enormous numbers of people milling about and again, our group wandered through them.

I saw numerous signs of deprivation and malnutrition. I saw extensive evidence of a massive solid fuel shortage in recent years. I saw a lot of things that made it clear that the nation is, in many many ways, truly grotesque. I also saw an upright stuffed alligator on wheels holding a drinks tray that David Koresh of Waco fame had sent as a gift.

I would hazard (but of course do not know) that I know more about the subject than you do (both before and after travelling there I read an enormous amount of the available literature and various collections of conference proceedings), and I have the additional evidence of my own eyes.

The western media LOVES to spin stories about the DPRK, and the western public LOVES to read them. There is a lot - a LOT - wrong with the DPRK, but the media seem to be able to write pretty much anything they like and people want to believe it. You know what, go there and see it for yourself. Run in the Pyongyang marathon. Do a cycling tour.
there is no plausable deniability if it does something different in a VM. that takes active coding to set up, there is no reason anyone would ever have any code that has this effect.
The OP would suggest not by an algorithm, but by a committee.
brew install docker docker-compose docker-machine
open https://kitematic.com/download/

Kitematic might even come with docker, docker-machine. It will then set up a docker machine for you and you're ready to go.
no fence , but do you understand what he/she talking about ? Qt (simply) does not allow any changes to Qtwidget code base's . (If I remember correctly) they even freezed Qtwidget API.
How to use SSHFS to mount remote Linux partitions in Linux and Windows
Yes - UK is a turnkey fascist wet dream waiting for the right psycho.
What Happens When an Ex-Google Executive Creates a School System?
North Korea has a history of doing crazy things to make things seem normal or better than they are. For example they built and have maintained an fake and empty village next to the DMZ for the last 50 years to try and entice the South Koreans to come north.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kijong-dong

North Korea is not a rational place.
I found the reporting wanting (but this is techcrunch :-) but lately have been thinking about this sort of application. Sort of an office view screen. Now that I've got a bunch more people I interact with regularly all around the world this sort of thing is more useful. But $20K isn't the price point where I expect these to take off. Especially given that a 4K 84" TV (http://www.amazon.com/LG-Electronics-84LM9600-84-Inch-LED-LC...) is about $8k and a really nice machine to drive it and to OCV vision for knowing where you are touching it is less than $2K, the "make it" seems to be so much less than the "buy it" choice I wonder if it loses on that basis.

From a practicality point of view having a "whiteboard" that you can bring from meeting to meeting seems like a win, and if you can share it with someone else's screen in a remote location even better. And since you're probably replacing a projector set up in your conference room ($3K for a 1080p projector, $1.5K for a more modest one) that is a benefit.

I wonder if they will have these in their stores, it would be interesting to see one operate.
We know who didn't say it, but last I checked, no one knows who did. Might it be sarcastic fabrication?
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But most of those cameras are privately held for things like security in small shops or around homes or garages. They aren't connected to some centralised Big Brother database. In fact, the authorities probably don't even know most of them are there until, say, the police turn up to investigate a theft from a shop and the owner offers relevant CCTV footage to help the investigation.

There are also a lot of state-controlled cameras monitoring places like public spaces in big cities, and we do have things like ANPR cameras monitoring lots of our roads, and there are genuine and legitimate privacy concerns about these technologies and how they are used. But please let's keep any discussion of them proportionate and based on the facts not the FUD. There are greater threats to privacy in this country than cameras that show you where the queues on the roads are before you set off to your London job in the morning.
Are you aware that your OS X machine is, itself, a deployment target for developers somewhere? All environments benefit from enforceable loose coupling.
While I agree with you on that point, just looking from a cash flow perspective if you were to keep working for a little while after paying everything off you'd likely be able to save a huge amount of money very quickly. Save, invest, relax on a beach...any of it's easier without that mortgage eating away at you.

I remember when I finally got around to doing the math on my first mortgage and realized I was actually going to pay close to triple the sale price of the house if I waited the full 30 years. The real trick, if you don't want to pay off the whole thing, is to make a lump sum payment to pay down about half of the mortgage early. It's the first 10-15 years on a 30 year where the payments are so interest heavy that you're really just throwing away money.

Get about halfway to payoff as fast as you can though and those payments are a whole lot closer to just paying back a cash balance.
So, in a way, you are actually running a software consulting/development firm, however, in this case, you just have to manage yourself. Scouting for clients, deadlines are similar to a firm/agency running multiple contracts. I get that it requires pretty good networking and communication skills. Thank you for sharing your experience.
After the Snowden leaks, none of this should be surprising. Still makes me cringe though, just to have it confirmed.