skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you're saying Illinois pension liabilities are more problematic than those at the federal level, meaning that the former should be counted as worse for purposes of tabulating future promised benefits, and therefore the OP's figure understates the extent of the problem?

Then why did you present the evidence as contradicting the OP's point when it actually supports it? It seems your post should have read:

"That figure understates the severity of the problem because some of the liabilities are promised by states and localities that are far more constrained in their ability to get out of paying."

Also, if governments are serious about honoring pensions, they should be accounted for on par with their bonds. If not, they should help future pensioners plan against the risk of non-payment. Framing it as "like tentative road construction" is trying to have it both ways: expect people to work as if the pension is guaranteed by the credit of the state, but really keeping it separate therefrom.
Asia has lower or similar accident rate normalized to traffic compare to NA and EU, according to ICAO, for 2010 - 2013. I cannot find report for 2014.

http://www.icao.int/safety/Documents/ICAO_State-of-Global-Sa...

http://www.icao.int/safety/Documents/ICAO_SGAS_2012_final.pd...

http://www.icao.int/safety/Documents/ICAO_2013-Safety-Report...

http://www.icao.int/safety/Documents/ICAO_2014%20Safety%20Re...

This in contrast of the 2008 accident rate quoted. Might we say Asia flight is getting safer the FASTEST?
Delayed a year or so by having to switch engines and languages (and building new tools, including this language). Still in progress, but only two developers, so I have no idea what a reasonable ETA would be. They say they're aiming for the end of 2015 on their blog.
This doesn't surprise me.

One of my top dev team leads wanted to relocate from India to New York a few years back. I sponsored it and, along with a relo package, put him down for a salary around the median for his level in NY.

I got a call the next day from HR in India telling me that there was no way that they could sanction such a high salary. Their argument was that if people in India found out then all hell would break loose. The salary they suggested was actually lower than all the junior devs that would work for him.

I refused to accept any reduction and the relo went through on the original basis. But I do know that a number of similar appointments did go through well below market.
How thick-headed are you? Is anything you read in this thread getting through to you?
I'd suggest it's purposefully obfuscated. It's certainly not clear this is being done and many users are surprised it exists. Such a possibility would be in line with Mozillas recent actions and allegations made against them.
I second the request for more details. How do you know it's your upstairs neighbors? Have you asked them? How do you know that they're reading off of your screen? If it is them, could they just be reading your screen through an hole in your ceiling? What OS'es have you tried? Is there a possible other explanation, such as screen reading software (e.g.jaws)?
Evernote, DEVONthink, and Google Docs are the big players.

There's also: http://are.na/, http://pinterest.com, http://www.dropmark.com/, https://kippt.com/, https://pinboard.in/, Wordpress or Tumblr (with the right theme) and there are 5+ more projects in this space announced over the past year of which I was aware at one time, but sadly I lost track of the list.

Not to mention, http://etherpad.org/ / http://piratepad.net, https://hackpad.com/, http://notepad.cc/, http://socrates.io/, http://quip.com, http://simplenote.com/, https://www.penflip.com/, http://snippi.com/ and the like share similar features.
Ubuntu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisquel
Parity puzzle game
I got a job through Hired.com about a year ago at a series B start-up in Mountain View. It was a great experience, they connected me with 11 companies and I got offers from half of them within 2 weeks.
I think you must have misread my post. People with severed brain stems may have an illusion of self. It doesn't follow that the rest of us do.
There's a small but vocal contingent on the Amiga boards that insists on classic hardware at nearly all cost for different values of "classic hardware" that usually includes some extent of new expansion boards or replacements, as long as they're suitably close to the original in spirit.

The business purpose is that there is still a small number of people that keep buying hardware.

The Amiga community is odd - you have the whole spectrum from purists that want 100% original hardware, via Franken-setups with a mix of original hardware and newly developed expansions, to FPGA reimplementations, to the PPC AmigaOne's running AmigaOS 4.x, to the AmigaOS reimplementatins/inspired OS's (AROS and MorphOS), and some people are very militant about their camps.
If you are into (hacking | making | DIYbio) consider a visit to Waag http://waag.org/en
I quite like the idea of separating browsers and their dev tools. Beyond the immediate benefits of familiarity for the developer, a standard discovery/communication protocol helps reinforce both standards compliance and good documentation processes.

As it stands, there is no standard for dev tool communication. V1.1 of Chrome Debug protocol, which we used to teach IE to speak to Chrome dev tools [1], is a good start though. However, with the deeper (ie profiling) features of browser dev tools, you tend to find a lot of "blit a chunk of memory to the dev tools", which would almost never end up being standards compliant. So there's still some internal work to be done before Kenneth's dream of truly interoperable dev tools can become reality.

1. https://github.com/Microsoft/IEDiagnosticsAdapter
Only if it's signed by a known good publisher. Is that file you downloaded from Github signed by a known good publisher? Nope, then it's getting sent to Google for logging. Oh, it was a list of detained journalists? Well, no more gov contract work for you and you'll never know why.
another option:

set a goal for the company. and if they dont meet it leave.

like: we will gain 1000 users and reach 1000$/MRR in 6 months or im out.

gl.
The metadata sent to Google includes a hash of the file. That's what the metadata part means.
This is macosx only but give DevonThink a go:

http://www.devontechnologies.com/products/devonthink/overvie...

with the office version you get web access, hence accessable from anywhere.
Your question provoked an interesting thought process when I began to answer it.

I had first thought that one of my projects was zero-maintenance as I truly gave it zero-maintenance in the three years between when I built it, and when I sold it. It was a website which indexed content from others. I had coded the "spider" in such a way that it was quite flexible if the content on the page changed a bit and it stood me well for those three years. I had a database back up system in place that backed up to another server.

But then I began to realise that although I had gave the site zero-maintenance, it wasn't truly zero maintenance. If I'd had a hardware failure, I'd have a backup of the database but no way to automatically spin up a new server and put it in place. But even if I had some monitoring in place for that, what if the monitoring service went down? I guess what I'm getting it as that there can never be a zero-maintenance self-sufficient service - just one that is incredibly well automated by great engineers.
"browser stats: IE8 passes IE7 (arstechnica.com)"

shudders
Yes, in the Netherlands they were very popular too with pupils in the last grades of primary school and the first grade of secondary school. They are a relatively cheap entry into the iOS ecosystem (with for example popular games) and Apple devices until recently provided status...
Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News, no matter how thick-headed someone else may seem.
How is agreeing that posted salary numbers are accurate "baiting of googlers"?

Why is every discussion of fact treated as incendiary?

People react as if they were baited when they see my name. That's on them, not me.
Water should be a public resource that is controlled. When it comes to corporations making profits off of a resource they pay almost nothing for, this is a travesty to the public good. I pay local taxes to support water purification, but I don't profit for it - I shouldn't be subsidising profitable businesses.
StackOverflow ain't dead (and it keeps evolving)
hasnt ubuntu got spyware in it ? the most obvious thing i couldnt see at a quick glance was how they audited the hardware itself against malicious backdoor code inserted during the manufacturing stage.
Interesting, but would this do any better than using real crime data, such as geolocated data police departments have already?
This old blog post has some info about BIOS and firmware, https://puri.sm/posts/bios-freedom-status/ . We need more OEMs to publish similar lists and begin moving the incremental needle towards transparency, rather than claiming an opaque supply chain of black box components.
Actually that copyhackers site raises another good example, of where I start to suspect I must be just weird.

When that little nag element popped up in the bottom corner, I couldn't read the rest of the article. I stopped reading to try to remove it, but I couldn't. It was then really distracting, so I gave up just closed the tab.

Copyhackers must be A/B testing their site to death...So the percentage of people who have a similar reaction must be pretty small.
I have to do "see PC version" then do pinch zoom.
I did the same thing, spidering for open rsync shares:

http://blog.steve.org.uk/secure_your_rsync_shares__please_.h...

Some scary stuff out there, freely available with minimal effort. Of course with rsync things were generally read-only, but even so lots of family financial-data, and pictures.
Tuples in Swift, Advanced Usage and Best Practices
I think their messaging is pretty clear. These are laptops built with a focus towards keeping your information private.
You would expect a well-built, modern (and hackable?) iPod Classic successor (with support for streaming services, but traditional UI) to be a nice Kickstarter idea?
How Wal-Mart hired 2,200 developers and made 'magic'
I have a problem too. I've reached the reading glasses stage and have problems with small text. I was actively looking for a solution recently, something like the Readability or Clearly extensions which work well in Chrome on the laptop but I failed to find anything like that for the iPhone. I was considering trying to make my own app to do it with the idea of using Phonegap/Javascript to read the html for a site and then process it in a Clearly type manner. I'm not quite sure if that would work? I think cross site ajax requests don't work in most browsers (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15005500/loading-cross-do...) but I vaguely recall they did work when I tried them from Phonegap on the phone.
I really wish the Chrome remote debugger allowed multiple websocket connections.

A while back I made chromesync [0] to automatically push changes to your local files directly in to Chrome. It means you can work in your own editor (whichever it is) as normal and have your js updated on the fly. For me, it's a great way to develop SPAs.

Unfortunately, all too often you need to inspect something in the Chrome dev tools - which causes issues because you can only have one debugger connected.

Someone created a proxy to handle multiple connections [1] but it requires running the Dev Tools in a separate tab via the proxy too. You can make it all work but it's a lot of moving pieces.

[0] https://github.com/aidos/chromesync

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/ws-multi-proxy
I believe it was from a post made by a high profile developer I follow on Twitter.
How much time elapsed between you speaking to GH support and them removing the account?

I would very much hope that GH would attempt to contact the account holder before they deleted the account!
> What is the business purpose behind this initiative?

Why there needs to be a business purpose? When did hackers stop doing stuff because it's fun and because they can?

I guess this is somewhat costlier than doing free software development during one's spare time. Still, they'll probably lose money only while prototyping, since they'll start producing after pre-orders start coming in. Unless, of course, they screw up and start getting refund requests via paypal.
Yet another URL shortener but with something extra
I tried running a POWerwheel-laced wheel for a while, but the problem was that the wheel eventually shot off ahead of the rest of the bike. When i got a new one, i stuck to the conventional pattern.

That wheel is probably still going, out there, somewhere.
Any system is zero maintenance as long as you choose not to maintain it.

Also, zero is a very small number.
SourceForge's monetization plan from 2001--2007 was SourceForge Enterprise Edition.
Seriously, couldn't they have gone a lot further with the Pure* rebranding? I have: PurePlayer, PureTerminal, PureNotepad, PureMenu, PurePurePure, PureShit and so on and so forth ...

Or, of course, they could have been honest with the OS and browser they are using ...
I have somewhat mixed feelings about having a unique [1] first/last name pair.

The bad case IMO is sharing an unusual but not unique pairing with someone who you really don't want to be confused with. Back pre-web, a friend of mine in NYC shared a name with someone who was involved in a fairly serious local baseball scandal. My friend received everything up to and including death threats on his voicemail.

[1] According to "deep web" searches, not entirely but the one or two other cases have no web presence and may well be deceased.
Well, I'm not going to sign up for Instagram. Wankers. Smells like desperation when companies are willing to alienate their core like this.
1. Reading of the screen can be done in ways other than root kits, e.g. TEMPEST[0], or a good enough strategically placed webcam, or a telescope pointing at a window on a nearby building that functions as a mirror.

2. BIOS rootkits are definitely possible, and quite scary. However, I have so far not found any reliable documentation about them being found "in the wild" - does anyone else have any? (Yes, I am aware of the Snowden disclosures; Yes, I've seen stuff like Thunderstrike in action; But these things, if/when used, are extremely targeted. Is there a dependable writeup of a non-targeted BIOS rootkit found in the wild?)

3. If you don't know how you got infected, what makes you think a new PC will solve the problem? PCs are programmable devices. No programmable device is safe. There have been reports of malware hiding in GPU firmware, USB controllers, SD cards and HDD / SSD controllers. The PC itself is just a small part of the overall equation.

4. Have you had a psychological or physiological crisis recently? Have you done some known or unknown chemicals recently? uptake of cigarettes? Do you have a history of schizophrenia in your family? It might be a good idea to consult with a healthcare professional and tell them about what you are experiencing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_%28codename%29
While nostalgia is part of it, the Amiga had a special feel to it that is still not met to me by mainstream OSs. I'm occasionally involved in AROS in the hope of getting something that gets finished enough to let me use it.

Things like Datatypes (gaining instant ability to read any image format into any viewer or editor by dropping a library into the right directory), XPK (gaining instant support for any compression library everywhere), pervasive AREXX support (Linux is slowly getting something similar with dbus, but in comparison to AREXX ports dbus is overcomplicated), screens (sort of like virtual desktops/spaces, but could be private or public and named), responsiveness (e.g. by default widgets and input handling were running in different tasks/threads to the applications, and so would remain responsive even when your app was doing stupid stuff), or the device/filesystem model which was frequently exploited (e.g. the editor FrexxEd exports the open buffers in a custom filesystem, so that on limited memory systems you could process the content of the buffers with external programs - like your compiler - without having to save it to T: (the equivalent of /tmp), which was usually assigned to the ramdisk), or assigns - creating dynamic drive/volume labels (less important now, but I could e.g. "list music0:" and get prompted specifically for the disk with the label "music0"), or "joining" multiple paths together under a single name. E.g. LIBS:xpk.library would find xpk.library in whichever path it was as long as that path had been added to the LIBS: assign.

There are many little things. None of them sufficient for me to be willing to use AmigaOS now, but many of them things I still miss.
Opera, called Text Wrap under settings. Works great.
I very much hope that this article gets around more. Unlimited vacation is a very (very) deceptive practice.
Tools to Hire/Hired are Broken
What were some of the main reasons that made QNX and BeOS fast? For BeOS, was it that the OS took advantage of asynchronous execution?
Another problem is when a non-zoomable mobile site makes it impossible to view a list of thirty items at once; instead, you get just a few items in your viewport and you have to scroll incessantly to browse the page.
But that doesn't really say much!

How does their hardware tackle privacy issues? What do they do exactly?
The Amiga was a reliable well-polished machine when it was released. This, like most "vintage" computing projects can't be for more than the love of the machine.
If it were a business purpose per se it might promise an enterprise model for over 200 euro. Nope. Maybe it's so you can have a plexi case with accelerators (the M68k-ish CPU this project requires you to bring from the archives) in the entrance to your accelerator. Then you can save a few hundred thousand in attention to someone very stuck in disambiguation?
I don't really understand the split between pulleys-on-gates 1770s nostalgia and this; if you're going to have a micro, why no RasPI headers so you can write up 'IPv6 gateway DNS vuln in Paula netBTMPdeen?' Pretty sure it was this or early ARM or PLD nostalgia, and completely awkward hardware (Sinclair Z1 anyone? Anyone not wearing burning phylacteries? No?) wasn't the challenge sweetspot?
Not really a clear advantage if you need it to help rebuild Washington once it's half-subducted.
On one hand, it's nice to have standalone fanless gadgets, perhaps running demos as background noise. On the other hand, is it really out of reach for an old phone and 8W rather than 50W (give or take a multisync monitor?)
I am now e-resident of Estonia
Function Visualizer: D3 based mathematical function explorer
For the gophers in the crowd, a CDB implementation in pure Go. Memory mapped, thread safe.

https://github.com/repustate/go-cdb
I can understand the first paragraph perspective as being a valid one, but I can not understand how that would prompt a rape victim to complain about rape victims who want to shed light on rape as a crime. I know some people are immature and think that it's a grab for attention, but I think that these are immature and / or unresolved coping methods.

I had a therapist suggest to me that that was what I was doing to myself, re-traumatizing myself every time I remembered it. I do not think so. I think having a parent scream at me that what I experienced was not rape, was traumatic. I think having a parent prod and poke until I described my rape in detail was traumatic. I think my rape was traumatic, I felt violated. I think it continues to affect me sexually, to the point that I am almost hopeless in having a normal sexual life.

I do not desire living a life of suffering, but I allow myself to feel the sadness and the emotions that trauma caused. I have had people mock me and call me cruel names and say very cruel things, some people I was very close to, over the incident. I was convinced that I hated myself because of it, because of the whole thing. It was painful to accept that I had been raped, but it was not as painful being raped. I had almost been brought to believe that remembering being raped was suffering that I willfully brought onto myself. For me, beginning with that premise was mental hell. I could never resolve the feelings I had, I couldn't explain why I was crying all the time for what seemed like no reason. Everyone around me wanted a reason, but the reasons I gave when I had them weren't enough.

For me, talking about my rape when it is relevant helps me. Feeling like I have firm position and understanding of what happened to me helps me. Feeling like I am emotionally and intellectually strong despite my past (and how my past has affected me) helps me. I am genuinely sorry for what you experienced. In a similar light, I can not be confident with anything I can say to you to help, because maybe you have already found inner peace and balance. I'm just okay. I'm sad, but I'm okay with being sad, because there are lots of things that happen in life that are valid things to feel sad about.
I'm in a similar spot. Below are some of my own experiences:

Depending on the scope of your project that budget could certainly be reasonable.

Here are some of my strategies:

- I dont use E-lance to source talent. Rather, I use their escrow system to pay my non-US freelancers. (Escrow is a must-have for me).

- There are lots of places to source good talent. You might be surprised what a good tweet with the right hashtags might bring back you. Try a tweet. Try to post something in your linkedin profile.

- Go right to the communities of the frameworks/technologies you are using. For example, Appcelerator (my mobile tech of choice) has a small (but decent) community that is active with their own slack channel (ti-slack.slack.com). It is free to join up. IRC on freenode is also helpful.

I'll drop you a line privately as well.

Good luck out there -- would love to see what other HN'ers have to say as well.
It doesn't need an index, it just needs to be sorted...

Then you can do fast lookups...
Looks like we might see a major shift in functionality, adoption and competition in the wings for the mobile space.
I've rewrote so many similar replies that I think I'll just copy and paste from now on. See here for more context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9813873

> See Atom's performance for why it's a bad idea to use web technologies for something that needs performance.

This sentiment, that Atom is not performant because it's built on web technologies, gets repeated a lot, but it's provably false.

Light Table and VS Code both use the exact same HTML/CSS/JS stack on top of Electron. Both are much more performant than Atom.

Whatever performance issues plaguing Atom are more likely caused by flawed architecture and/or lack of optimization. The underlying web technologies it's built on have been demonstrated to be capable of delivering highly performant text editors.
Thin and light laptops have always been more expensive than boat-anchor laptops. On top of that, you always pay a premium for a device that's higher-end than consumer class. And you're paying a premium for a lower-volume device.
I have, I met with a licensed psychologist who did this in my area, but we didn't proceed because my experiences as I described them were things he did not think he would be the best with helping.
If the requirements are static and you don't require external connectivity, it's very possible.

My wife is a financial person. Her billing system (it's a public utility) until 2009 ran on an AS/400 with 33mhz processor. It was probably rolled out in 1991 or 1992 and upgraded to support IP connectivity in the late 90s.

It's only connectivity was a modem that called IBM when something broke.

I made fun of her about it, but It actually worked great. The only reason it was replaced was that IBM ran out of spare parts for the printer.
HP is making a long-shot bid to change the fundamentals of how computers work