skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"After two years of living together, they became common-law husbands."

David Miranda: "I never met anyone like Glenn — he's my husband and I don't know where either of us would be without each other."

Greenwald: "They [the goons who detained Miranda at Heathrow airport] humanized the story, and they gave a platform for my charming and admirable husband to speak out."

http://www.buzzfeed.com/natashavc/david-miranda-is-nobodys-e...

Regardless of whether they are technically, legally married according to a particular definition, they consider themselves to have been married for 10+ years, and actually do seem to have some legal basis for that view.

BTW, I can think of other minority populations that historically have been named by the majority with diminutive words -- language that intuitively sees that population as less legitimate. Perhaps a good rule of thumb is to call people what they want to be called, and default to the respectful choice if we don't know.

(Full disclosure: I am a man married to a man.)
People were asking for him to dress appropriately, he apologized, happy end. I mean, that’s a neat solution to someone wearing a really dumb and inappropriate shirt and no one every had to be fired over this … nor am I really aware of many people demanding that?
Exams Around the World
Lost comet lander awakes, sends 'hello' from space
Two things jumped out at me when I switched from Ruby to Go

- Go speeds up my workflow since the compiler catches many of my errors. When I write Ruby, I'm about 75% confident it will be right first-time. With Go, that's about 95%.

- I ended up thinking about every possible error. With Ruby, edge-cases would often only crop up after a few weeks of running the code in production.
The obvious ones:
The Lean Startup - Eric Ries,
Rework - Jason Fried & DHH,
Getting Real - Jason Fried
I love the connections to the continuum case where these problems show up looking like ways of solving path integrals, Huygens principle, etc. In particular, some of these jump point rules look alot like diffraction (of a wave) around a boundary.
I wonder how OP solved this, if at all. There are too many of them to partially rebuild. Maybe they combine two systems.
This is an interesting idea. An information management tool like git could accomplish this, but it would be really interesting to see this automated or self-reported or something like that. Although... the kind of company that you would use a tool like this to "discover" is not the kind of company that would self-report this data.
It's awesome to wake up into a day knowing that humanity is taking another step forward into the boundaries of knowledge.

Absolutely awesome.
A bit of useful background here: The Guardian scooped The Sunday Times for one of the most impactful news stories of the decade, and I'm sure some of the Sunday Times article is just a somewhat bitter attempt at retribution.
"spouse of ten years" might be a better phrasing.
Modular arithmetic, division by multiplication, cracking LCG (PRNG) with Z3
You may not want to believe it but getting users is 90% of what it takes to succeed with dating apps. It's much more severe than any other types of services out there due to the nature of what it does. To succeed you should either have: 1. a plan to succeed at getting critical mass of users; 2. a plan to make it work even with a small set of users. If your clever idea doesn't involve any of those, you will fall into the trap of what tons of other unsuccessful dating app entrepreneurs fall into
Me, me, me, it’s only about me! That’s what you sound like – and that’s not what mutual respect looks like. Mutual respect means communicating with others and finding an ok solution for everybody, not wearing whatever the hell you want (and it also means that you better be careful especially around sensitive things, like potentially objectifying depictions of women, especially in a context were women have long been denied access, and to be proactive in your behavior in those contexts, because the people affected by it may feel or actually be unable to speak up).
For those not familiar with Craig Murray:

- former British ambassador to Uzbekistan

- he accused the Karimov administration of human rights abuses, which he argued was a step against the wishes of the British government and the reason for his removal.

- complained to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office that intelligence linking the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan to al-Qaeda was unreliable, immoral and illegal, as it was thought to have been obtained through torture

- was subsequently removed from his ambassadorial post on 14 October 2004

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Murray
> That's probably why the sharing economy is growing rapidly while the unionized workforce can't compete.

This is the same problem as with Mitumba (donated clothing of western countries) in Africa. You can't compete with free.

The sharing economy looks good on paper - but when things like accidents, illnesses or a "disruption" occur, the workers are left in the road ditches, while employed workers keep to enjoy social security, health insurance, unemployment insurance, ...
> Other than that, there are few killer problems with the language when doing server-side stuff.

Which ones?
GitLab CEO here, we did some informal performance testing comparing GitLab and Gogs and we could not find a big difference in most operations. The only thing that was slow was the web-editor and everything else to do with satellites, we'll remove satellites from the web-editor in 7.13 and will work to completely remove them from GitLab. What speed difference stood out for you?
About the first thing: he means that Google stores them in a way so that they can access the data – instead of doing end to end crypto with a password derived key.
http://www.popsci.com/nasa-can-make-3-more-nuclear-batteries...

http://www.space4peace.org/ianus/npsm2.htm#2_3
Well, rich people and economists. Here, let's ask Paul Krugman:

The analysis of rent control is among the best-understood issues in all of economics, and -- among economists, anyway -- one of the least controversial. In 1992 a poll of the American Economic Association found 93 percent of its members agreeing that ''a ceiling on rents reduces the quality and quantity of housing.'' Almost every freshman-level textbook contains a case study on rent control, using its known adverse side effects to illustrate the principles of supply and demand. Sky-high rents on uncontrolled apartments, because desperate renters have nowhere to go -- and the absence of new apartment construction, despite those high rents, because landlords fear that controls will be extended? Predictable. Bitter relations between tenants and landlords, with an arms race between ever-more ingenious strategies to force tenants out -- what yesterday's article oddly described as ''free-market horror stories'' -- and constantly proliferating regulations designed to block those strategies? Predictable.

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/07/opinion/reckonings-a-rent-...

But, of course: Paul Krugman. Rich dude maximizing profit-seeking behavior.
It looks like Selenium [0] can control both native browsers and headless PhantomJS [1] for test automation [2]. Native browsers pass fingerprint tests and allow visual observation of the running test, but are slower due to display rendering.

[0] http://www.chrisle.me/2013/08/5-reasons-i-chose-selenium-ove...

[1] http://www.assertselenium.com/headless-testing/getting-start...

[2] http://blogs.adobe.com/security/2014/07/overview-of-behavior...
I agree. I don't think Uber is a hard sign of change. It's the creation of a market with one big firm and lots of small contractors in place of a market with lots of small firms. This is a normal sort of restructuring that happens a lot.

Shipping in the early "age of the sail" was usually controlled and operated by monarchs or crown backed monopolies. The task was suited to this structure at the time. One big, expensive & risky journey. Technology has shifted this around a bunch of time before and after that time then. Before the medieval collapse of european trade those same routes were alive and well (eg Italy to China) but were handled by a "market" of camel drivers, corsairs, merchants, markets and who knows what all along the spice and silk "roads."

Transaction costs still played a big role and technology dictated the structure of the economy. Along the silk road items could be traded dozens or hundreds of times over years before reaching users who had no idea what strange distant people made them. Beautiful, but inefficient relative to a single flotilla traveling the whole way.

The internet has done these things too. eBay enabled tiny traders and decentralised retail. Amazon concentrated and centralised retail. This is normal creative destruction and it doesn't seem to have an obviously dominant current.

It seems to me that this is fact and metric picking.

OTOH, maybe those stats on "contractors" is indicative of some shift in our labour market conventions. Who knows.
The bouncing did not mean, that it went off the comet. It just landed very roughly and ended up in a place next to a wall with little exposition to sunlight.
I don't get the advantage of system credential managers - at least as long as the user is logged on, I can always hook myself into a browser process and retrieve the passwords.

The only advantage system-level password storage has is when the attacker e.g. wants to get the passwords from a forensic image or such.
I'll be a third person to recommend Khan Academy.
"Using U+2019 is inconsistent with the rest of the standard" I agree with the article, just my negativity is such I would say the correct statement is more like: "Using U+2019 is inconsistent with good use, making it consistent with the rest of the mess that is the standard."
It didn't fly back. It bounced, as in what goes up must (unless it achieves escape velocity), come back down. The comet has gravity, just like earth. Just not much, because it is much smaller than earth
Yes, but it takes effort and cooperation: flag the political stories.
In SF, it's clear that people WITH rent control get lower rents. Rent control makes it very very expensive to change apartments (since you lose your locked in rate), and since causes even less supply (due to low liquidity of apartment stock), rents for apartments that are newly on the market are likely a lot higher.

That does not necessarily change the city's average rent.
Tales from guerrilla marketing at WWDC 2015
Oh I really would have liked to have talked to Coase, on your reference I tracked down his paper on the nature of the firm [1] and thought it was excellent. His point is a bit more nuanced than why firms exist but more why is it that markets can self organize and firms do not.

The interesting thing is that historically it seems that part of the reason was all the non-firm stuff that was needed. So doing payroll, providing benefits, managing coverage when people went on vacation, but those things arose in a large part because of labor unions. So as labor union's influence has declined, so has the value of the "package" provided by a firm to the employee, and the value equation of contractor or employee can more easily swing back over to contractor.

That is just such an awesomly interesting thing to think about. Thanks for the reference.

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0335.1937....
> But it pervades this thread. It's full of people who can't imagine even the possibility that a regulation could be created for the good of people instead of with literally evil intent.

Who writes the regulations? Ask yourself that. It's not the regulators, they just enforce the rules.

Regulations always start with the best of intentions, but are almost always co-opted by industry lobbyists to create barriers to entry in the guise of helping the common good. That hurts the common good and hurts the industry in the long run, all for the sake of lining the pockets of entrenched players.

I don't see you proposing a solution to this. I just see name calling.
If you're interested, the original paper is very accessible. He also interviewed on econtalk shortly before his passing. Still sharp (and cranky about everyone misunderstanding "Coase Theorem" well into his 90s.

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/05/coase_on_extern.htm...
American Economic Orthodoxy insists that rent control can never work, and that price controls are only for home owners, not renters. (Government-supplied, fixed-price mortgages, California's Prop13, etc etc.)
Your personal cause was shown the door on reddit. Please don't think that means it's welcome here, or on other websites.
Understand that employment in the US and California in particular is based on the doctrine of "Employment-at-will". Your employer or yourself can terminate the employment relationship for any reason except for a few narrow exceptions. This is quite different than way employment law is structured in the rest of the developed world.

This puts employees at a distinct disadvantage unless they have significant financial assets and makes it very important to choose an ethical company to work for.

Management by fear is common due to employment at will and especially in ethically-challenged companies.
The averages in Germany (Mietspiegel) are always calculated taking different factors beyond the size into account: location, proximity of public transport, noise level, age, interior quality (windows, floor, etc.), energy consumption, and similar.

Oh, and the law doesn't apply to the (rare) furnished flats at all.
Is there any kind of proper formal definition for the algorithm? The linked paper is a bit unstructured in this regard and seems a bit implementation focussed.
Check out this podcast. It's as close as you can get to talking to the man :)

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/05/coase_on_extern.htm...
"If you can't beat them, join them or hire the founder if you're that desperate"
This is a product of the EU's free movement and with that whilst the German people have a decline in birthrate the migrant population has not and as such any natural rise and organic growth in people has mushroomed.

On the flip side were these people move from leaves voids and some area's of the EU have become over-crowded and other parts are becoming ghost towns.

Still not everybody can look out the same port window, yet the EU free movement allows it and takes not into account the impacts and disparity of the members countries in the free movement aspect.

WIth that the German solution is not a solution, it will just create a privileged group who have a rent controlled place over those who can not get one at all.

10 years down the line for Berlin, it will be worse as they will shuift the price discrimination into one of space and with that, 10 people to a room hotspots and illegal housing will only grow.

When you have a supply and demand problem, the outcome is simple, but if you handicap that you just create a backlog of problem that piles up and in this case shifts from cost to supply or lack of and does nothing to address that from any angle.

Yes, this is going to be a problem, but will be seen as good by the people in the short term with shortsighted vision.
I'm not sure why it's credible to say that just because two events are happening in the news at similar times that one is a distraction from the other. You could say that about a hundred different news items throughout the day.
The real story here is that, even after being shown proof of that it was a hoax all along, a chunk of the same population will continue to hold that eating chocolate helps to lose weight.
Yes, it won’t always keep you safe from data races as Erlang will, but Erlang keeps you safe by copying your data over and over, making it significantly slower, TANSTAAFL.

Potshot. Defend it at your peril.
It's because the distinction isn't meaningful for day to day use. People use and compare languages and their standard libraries as a whole.

I do think people recognize the fact that these two are different things (e.g. when comparing C to a language with a richer standard library it's one of the points that are often specifically and separately mentioned.), but it's just not very useful to separate them explicitely in a comparison of languages from a user's point of view (as opposed to a language designer's point of view).
Of course one can say basic things like "average daily calories should be between 800 and 3000", but even a range that covers 95% of the population isn't right for everyone, and isn't precise enough to really help anyone. Individuals differ not only in terms of lifestyle, which conceivably could be studied, but also in terms of genetics, which no study to date has examined in more than a rudimentary way. The various statistics sins that we complain about on HN are exacerbated when important factors like genetic background are left unstudied. And we haven't even mentioned the fact that most published (and unpublished) nutrition studies are funded by the food and supplement industries!

A rejection of a particularly poor practice of science is not a rejection of science. I doubt we'll see decent nutrition science until we're all equipped with a network of bloodstream nanobots that measures the actual physical response we each display to nutritional input.
I hate that the blame is being placed on China already. I want to blame the victim for having poor security practices.
Pretty similar today.
Not sure what you're talking about. Go provides No "methods" for arrays.

You have to remember all these tricks :

https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/SliceTricks

You can't even wrap them into functions or you'd have to write type assertions everywhere.

Now,you could define a custom Array type with methods, but goodbye type safety. It's funny how sometimes Go works better as a "dynamically typed" language than as a statically typed one.

Ruby on the other hand provides loads of methods for every single "core" type.
It's explicitly stated in the article that the author uses git for version control with a Magit Emacs plugin...
This assumes that the ceiling to new unit construction is the market. I don't know Berlin, but in SF the main limiting factor is politics. If the cap is done right, you could keep construction at a similar rate (since you move the market equilibrium down, but not below the ceiling from politics).
Show HN: ClojureCL – OpenCL 2.0 Clojure library (GPGPU and parallel computing)
It's a bit misleading to call this faster than A* since it is still using A* under the hood. Most optimizations to path finding with A* involve changing the world representation somehow. Most do not use a simple grid, with navigation meshes being more common.

Very clever though, I like it.
I'm reminded of the current s/millenials/snake people/ fad. How about "according to snake people"?
Using a salt ensures that an attacker cannot use pre-generated rainbow tables to crack something. If there is no salt, it is very fast to use rainbow table lookups for cracking.

The salt doesn't really need to be secret, as it is only there to make an attacker work harder. However, the existence of a known, hardcoded salt means that an attacker can generate rainbow tables specifically for cracking these cookies, so the salt isn't really useful here.
>implying only men do this to women and never the other way around

Ah yes, some feminist propaganda on Hacker News, the perfect way to start my Sunday afternoon.
Actually, the takeaway for me is that John Bohannon behaved unethically and made a bunch of invalid conclusions.
It would be nice if Google Maps started doing a decent job, though. I lived for years in NJ and I would typically require 3 roads and 20 minutes to get anywhere I needed to go shopping because I would drive to the highway, hop on, get off on the road to my destination, then be there. Even if I avoided the highway I would get there in 30 minutes with smaller roads, taking the minimum needed to go the right direction toward the destination.

Google Maps? It was a disaster. It would take the small roads since it couldn't bear to drive 2 blocks the wrong direction to get on the highway, then every small road it would alternate taking a left and a right and end up with dozens of turns when a human only needed 3 or 4. I actually met the ex-Googler who bragged about writing that algorithm that alternates left and right, I think he must be responsible for millions of hours of lost time for drivers just because he didn't realize turning has a cost and was trying to draw a diagonal as best he could.

Does it really make sense to brag about fast calculation speed when the calculation is a disaster? I'd rather wait a minute for a calculation and get the right one, than have the wrong one back in 3 seconds. I think the Google Maps engineers don't understand this.
There are great courses on http://www.coursera.org and http://www.edx.org

I like Mooculus, developed at Ohio State http://mooculus.osu.edu
Because information has value and is very difficult to protect.

Notice how all contractors are being shown NDAs as standard now. This is the replacement for employees having job security for keeping shut about the knowledge they have.

Now, sign an NDA and you secure the knowledge with legal threats and chilling effects. It works.
>The biggest problem with the "contractor economy" is that there is no form of insurance when you are sick.

That's a feature, not a bug.

Or at least, it is for those who are doing everything to make this 'contractor economy/road to serfdom' a reality.
That's true, though I was talking about Syrian refugees.

I picked Jordan because it's just a neighbouring Arab country, plus mostly Sunni Muslim, just like Syria, and unlike Lebanon. And of course the Palestinian refugee issue is another topic entirely.
I think you might be using a different (more accurate) definition of "blue sky" than me. I didn't mean that blue. I meant something more like product development with a lot of rope.
His point about Markdown is why Commonmark now exists. The guy who created Pandoc is one of the people who are working on it.
Nope, at least not according to the figures I've seen (e.g., http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-de...). I think the main reason is that installing solar panels isn't perfectly safe. Nuclear comes out a long way ahead of solar -- but both are vastly ahead of coal.
He also claimed that the US brought people to Uzbekistan to be tortured and that one of the methods employed was to boil people alive.

Good times.
It's only true because he's stuck the words "by default" in there. The button to set a password-based key is in the menu and then it does end-to-end crypto.

If you don't give it a key, it does the best it can with an impossible problem.
Was this intentional hibernation?
Why I faked being black for med school
Not yet but there probably will be. Personally I think using Swift for webdev is waste of time however it's just my opinion.
Those kinds of rent control (for existing tenants) are already in place in Germany as a whole for decades and we have seen none of such effects.
Note that I didn't say that free trade was "good" or "bad". That's a different discussion. I was simply describing the labor pool here in the US. Similarly, I am not saying that illegal immigration, H1B, etc is "good" or "bad".

Also, I am not complaining - I am doing pretty well for myself, thanks.

My other answer (to thomasfoster96) has more details on how free trade with Asia jacks up the labor pool.
Well, atleast it goes well with the salt.
The Right Answer by Isaac Asimov (1996)
> The main problem of online dating is that men usually are looking for sex while women for long-term relationships

this is an out-dated, stale, and dare i say sexist interpretation of modern gender relations.

there are lots and lots of men looking for relationships and completely failing to even get a date, much less get laid. there are also plenty of women who just want to hook up with hot caddish guys and have no interest in a LTR any time soon.

you don't need to look any further than tinder or reddit to find plenty of examples of both.