skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NYC's subway may be much older, but I find it much more effective. Something Beijing lacks are express lines. If you need to travel the length of Manhattan in the middle of a workday, you can easily jump on 2,3,A, or D and get there quite quick. It is not the same in Beijing. Traffic gets terrible and trains are no faster because there are no express lines. traveling to different parts of the city during the day is a major undertaking no matter who you are.

Where Jing-Jin-Ji really excels (and the New York Area really struggles) is in regional train travel. The regional high speed rail connecting Beijing to Tianjin; Shanghai to Hangzhou, or Suzhou is affordable, frequent, and quick.
Affordable: last time I was there a one way ride was about $6
Frequent: they run at least every hour, typically every 1/2 hour.
Quick: Trips between Cities like Beijing and Tianjin or Shanghai and Suzhou are about 30-40 minutes, and more important use stations in downtown locations.

I don't know if there are any economic impact studies done on this, but the effect to me seems pretty profound. Not long ago, It would be a full day trip to visit Beijing from Tianjin if you are fortunate enough to have a car, and almost impossible to do in a day otherwise. Now it is almost thoughtless to go between the two.
...because employers are displaying so much loyalty to employees these days, right?
>I completely disagree with your assertion that you can "cure" deflation with a printing press. And how is Japan not a relevant example?

Of course you can always “cure” deflation by printing money. If you gave me control of the printing press for a few weeks I would print up a few billion dollars for each person (or maybe just a few trillion for my friends) and give it away. You can be sure that a dollar would be worth nothing after this exercise.

To answer your second question you can’t create inflation unless you actually get the money into the hands of consumers. The central banks have not been printing and handing the money out to consumers, they have been printing and giving it to banks. If the banks don’t have anyone they want to lend to then the money just sits in the bank and has no effect on demand. If I printed off a few trillion dollars for myself and just left it in a huge vault there would be no inflation - we would only get inflation if I went out a started buying every asset under the sun.
For every use case this might be applied, .bind -a built-in function- is superior.
"The plural of anecdote is not 'data'."
I take it you have never been an employer. Or maybe you have been so you know first hand?

I think most people who have worked for a number of employers find a range of relationships. Some will take advantage, some will nurture, and with some you are sort of neglected.

Regardless, if what you say is true then as an employee your choices are to be honest and taken advantage of, or dishonest and taking advantage. Maybe there are more options, including some that don't involve being dishonest?
Interesting. I like what he says about debt-to-GDP, but I'm not sure I understand his leap to the conclusion that we should be striving for full employment.

I understand why we'd want to scale production to meet the increased demand induced by consumers having more money. But if it would be efficient for us to scale up production without creating jobs, why should we create jobs?

What is the value of full employment?
I'm assuming that if there's a safe way to do it, there's also an unsafe way to do it even further ("crank it up to 11"). I'm sure it would be a really strong temptation for a lot of people. That's what I was wondering about in the comment. But yeah if it's safe, I'd be all for it!
Let's say it is theft, under the rules of the system. But in a repugnant system, it's good, sensible theft. More people should steal. (Unlike the wage theft employers commonly employ, where they find cute ways to overwork their employees or garnish their paychecks.) We should look at ethics by the outcomes, not the technical terms used by a particular system.
R.I.P. Windows Server 2003
The percentage of laptops which are already made in China and Taiwan is nearly 100. As of a few years ago, Taiwan alone was well over 90.
The possibilities are endless, I imagine someone will make this data easily searchable and journalists will be digging through to found anyone of notoriety that was dumb enough to sign up with their own names and credit cards etc. This hack could create a ton of news stories, including record divorce rates.

I'm curious as to how the ashley madison admins are killing these links? DMCA takedowns? What's the mechanism for this?
You can have negative interest rates (Switzerland and Sweden currently have them) so the zero lower bound does not need to exist. Of course monetary stimulus only works if the banks decide to actual lend all this cheap money. If they don’t then the money just piles up on their balance sheet and has no effect on aggregate demand.
The HTTPS connection uses a self-signed cert?
Some of the latest polling data shows Trump at or leading Bush. If anything, Republican primary voters will really respond to his rhetoric. They eat up the Only True Conservative vs RINOs narrative.
Per Wikipedia, Shanghai Metro managed "only" 7.75m pax/day in 2014? Both Seoul (9.2m) and Tokyo (8.7m) exceed that, and that doesn't account for the extensive non-subway commuter train/AGT/monorail networks in both cities.

I'm not trying to be dismissive here, as I'm fairly sure both Beijing and Shanghai will power ahead some point in the near future, but just pointing out that the challenge of moving around ~10m people/day within a city isn't quite as novel as the article makes it sound -- and both Tokyo and Seoul have, by and large, made it quite tolerable to boot.
Nice becuase you can get SQL syntax highlighting.
maybe the fault you find with Apple is not without merit, but surely you can't be suggesting that a websites choice of UI could possibly come down to apple.
I'd always wondered about this. Planar always just seemed a horrible way to try and think about a screen.

What made it faster? Is it just that the hardware could be simpler? Curious to know.
Hey Greg! We met at one of those Linux events in SF 4 or 5 years ago. Congrats on selling Blekko.

I agree with your point: it's probably more a default factor of the processes around weaving looms than specific conscious creation. Here in Asia the backstrap loom is the most widely deployed (in a pan-traditional-cultural-sphere sense), and linear designs are frequently deployed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loom#Back_strap_loom
As I see caffeine validated, I wonder about other "upper" substances. I write code a lot better with a lip full of Skoal... And I'm sure there are other beneficial chemical compounds that have been given a black-eye. Certainly seems like there must have been something to all of the people I knew in college doing lines of adderall, who have probably upgraded to another white powder now that they work for Bridgewater...
Ashley Madison Hacked
Mongo is actually great for very small datasets. But they sell it as a clustered solution (mongodb.org is currently featuring a giant banner that reads, "Agility, scalability, performance. Pick three"), so it's fair to judge them on that.
Ask HN: Yamder
I thought about creating a corporate tinder. Kind of like Yammer is Facebook for the enterprise. Yamder could be the corporate Tinder. Would you use this app? How can I monetize it?
Uyghur is way late in the piece, post-Islam. Previously it was largely Buddhist with some Iranian beliefs, probably Tibetan Bons and Nestorian Christians for good measure. The British Museum has an awesome 20th century gold dinar (or similar arabic-inspired coinage) minted in Xinjiang, great to show unbelieving Chinese friends who think Xinjiang like Tibet and Yunnan are "inalienable parts of China".
> We’re in an era of the cult of the entrepreneur. We analyze the Tory Burches and Evan Spiegels of the world looking for a magic formula or set of personality traits that lead to success.

No, pop mags like Quartz do. Some entrepreneurs go to trade school and are electricians, deli owners and carpenters. Something like 7%[0] of Americans are self-employed, difficult to believe that many people come from massive wealth.

[0]http://www.careerbuilder.com/share/aboutus/pressreleasesdeta...
One-sided != antagonistic.

Also, the relationship has at leaast 3 parties: employer, employee, boss.

The employer doesn't know or care about individual employees, but may have a disposition towards or against bulk layoffs in various circumstances.

The boss does know the individual employee, and may personally like or dislike them (in addition to having some impression of their performance level).

The employee just needs to not piss off the boss, and not appear as deadweight (and optionally, impress the boss enough for protection from semi-discretionary layoffs).

Employers will not fuck over employees "just because". They're mostly rational enough to be predictable.
3 ways we screwed up our offshore development – and how we fixed it
You can actually submit any bogus name and address when you pay with a credit card- in most cases, the payment will go through if the zip and CVV match. Most carders know this, but the honest costomers do not...
I confirm. I had a machine similar to that one up to 18 month ago. It was fast enough to develop web applications (Rails, JavaScript). The only problem was the RAM limit at 4 GB. I replaced it with a ZBook 15 with 16 GB RAM. It's faster, so doing the same kind of work becomes more convenient, but the main advantage is not to have to close some programs to start another one. That's particularly handy when working with virtual machines or multiple browsers.
Those are the databases that most people mean when they say NoSQL.
It depends on how low-level/from-scratch your scripts are going to be. Ruby would be useful as its used by other config management tools, if that's something you need, but for command-line-tool scripts, Golang would be very useful. I'm currently converting some Python scripts into Go so that they're smaller and don't have prerequisites (e.g., version X of Python).
No, the OP is correct about the Crusades, particularly if you care about the POV of the political actors in the Middle East itself.
This could be just as easily directed to the articles author.
"It would be spread over 82,000 square miles, about the size of Kansas, and hold a population larger than a third of the United States. And unlike metro areas that have grown up organically, Jing-Jin-Ji would be a very deliberate creation. Its centerpiece: a huge expansion of high-speed rail to bring the major cities within an hour’s commute of each other."

China seems to have a loose definition of "city". This sounds more like a densely populated area, with multiple cities connected by high-speed rail. Chongqing is another example -- it's billed as one of the world's largest cities with 30M+ people, but it's really a province that China has officially designated as a city.
Iot.js – A Node.js-like framework for Internet of Things
The euro is a disaster even for the countries that do everything right
Epigenetics: the latest science buzzwords to be hijacked by quacks
do you have more information on that?
Jerryscript – A JavaScript Engine for Internet of Things
... or worse, use somebody else's name and create a realistic profile (do these sites have profiles?) that makes it look like the person you are impersonating.
> I went to high school with a girl who found a previously unpublished method of proving the Pythagorean Theorem around 2002

if it is not too inconvenient, may you please link to it ? it would be instructive to see a novel proof of something which has been around for approx. 2500 years. thank you !
How to deal with a toxic coworker
Glad you asked, wrote about it here: http://blog.faqt.co/post/121242652146/a-note-app-to-replace-...
If Node Is Java98 Is Golang Java96?
I'm just trying to see where Node and Golang are on their popularity and hype curve, comparing them with the popularity enjoyed by Java in the late 90's. Also, I'm trying to decide between Node and Golang to put some serious effort to learn. What are your thoughts?

However, I don't expect any of these two new languages to have the same rapid growth Java had. It just started in 1996 and there was an enterprise ecosystem built around it by 1998 (EJB, Servlets, JDBC) and ruled for about 2 decades already.
Back. Here's a recent selection of subject lines, extracted from spam daemon replies. The "Zenefits + Problem" ones are funny .. my dba is "No Problem", and they're not smart enough to correctly handle that I guess, which makes sense, since they're also dumb enough to spam me. I've never replied to any of their messages.

"Re: Zenefits + Problem"
"Higher Targeted Traffic: Associatedtechs.Com"
"Re:re: UL,CE,ETL Split-core Current Transformer(0.333V or 1A/5A output) ,Rogowski coil,hall AC-DC transducer"
"Poor support processes could be costing you customers"
"Get ranked higher:"
"Higher Targeted Traffic: Associatedtechs.Com"
"Re: Zenefits + Problem"
"Re: Zenefits + Problem"
"Your Website...!"
"Get ranked higher: associatedtechs.com"
"Google Update for: associatedtechs.com"
"How to increase your website traffic and generating leads??"
"Zenefits + Problem"
"Mobile Apps Development"
"Digital marketing proposal- www.associatedtechs.com"

This isn't a complete list, sadly, since it turns out the daemon isn't logging ban attempts against whitelisted networks. I should fix it so that it does.
You are correct about the Crusades. And the below commentators act as though you have to somehow choose between the post-WW2 context and that time period for explanatory power, when of course Middle East history is lengthy and rich and has room for both and a lot of important additional contexts besides, including the Ottoman empire, the Persian empire, the breakup of the original Caliphate, etc. etc. "Those who cannot learn from history," and so on.
Of product design and Studio Ghibli movies
I'm sorry you've been running into trouble. The practical problem was that neither Bitbucket nor github offer a lexer for the language on their site, and the markup doesn't allow custom styling. So I just screenshotted the editor.
Public Comments on the Proposed Wassenaar Rule to Limit Export of Hacking Tools
ES6 rest/spread operator is really nice for dealing with function arguments.

function curry(fn) {
return function accum(...args) {
if(args.length >= fn.length) {
return fn.apply(null, args)
}

return accum.bind(null, ...args)
}
}
I just did Swacker[1], which does a deployment from a Github to a continous integrations build with Wercker to a hosted container on Giant Swarm. No downloaded software required.

1. https://github.com/giantswarm/swarm-wercker
For those who want to use React to generate a static site check out the source to my blog: https://github.com/kentor/kentor.github.io. I've ditched Jekyll because I don't want to use its template system and have ruby set up.
Most private investigators must be spending their Sunday night trying to get everything they can on this. They can and will make money on this data.

EDIT: Spelling
Tangentially, what's impressive about Shanghai's metro is how quickly it became the longest. It essentially went from nothing to the longest in 15 years.

Compared to the 20 years it took the Big Dig, or my own home city which has been talking / debating / purchasing / cancelling / assessing / suing re mass-transit, it really is an impressive achievement.
This is demonstrably untrue.
What you should know about molly
Yep. To see this, consider a coin flipped into the air so that it's tilted 45 degrees with the floor and spinning only around the vertical axis. To a casual observer it will appear as if the coin is tumbling but in fact one side faces up 100% of the time.
A real-world use case of currying in JavaScript: jqMath [1] from mathscribe.com, a lightweight alternative to jsMath (which is succeeded by MathJax). jqMath utilizes its own jsCurry library [2], and both are released under MIT license.

[1]:

http://www.mathscribe.com/author/jqmath.html

http://www.mathscribe.com/mathscribe/jqmath-0.4.3.js

[2]:

http://www.mathscribe.com/mathscribe/jscurry-0.4.0.js

http://www.mathscribe.com/mathscribe/jscurry-documentation.t...
MySQL is okay. I still think Postgres is better, but the more severe of the problems MySQL had in its early days have been fixed, and honestly it's good enough for most sites. Certainly it's far better than MongoDb.
Is the earth visible in an optical telescope from the spacecraft? This should be the basis for automatic tracking... (transmit the laser through the same telescope back to earth). The transmitter on earth could track on the "star" of the laser from the spacecraft.

I've been trying to understand the noise temperature of erbium doped fiber amplifiers- not nearly as good as DSN masers.
How to cut children’s screen time? Say no to yourself first
Some actors in the middle east like to claim that any involvement of the west is another Crusade, but no western country is interested in “freeing the Holy Land” from non-christians.
Good. I hope the company goes bankrupt. People murder other people and kill themselves over shit like this.
If somebody wants to give obblekk's suggestion a try, you can use my docker masscan container right away [0]

[0] https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/dordoka/masscan/
It ain't broke.
The computer bit's inventor also made the first wearable
I agree, but I'm getting the sense that some people (including the OP) are using the CMM article to claim that Postgres is more reliable. Postgres doesn't have this kind of clustering feature at all. Not a fair comparison.
You don't always need the CVV. A lot of processors will be fine with card number, expiry, zipcode, and the street number of your address. Sometimes I try giving wrong information to see what will happen. Usually, it works.
China relocated 1.24 million people for the Three Gorges Dam. [1]

Farmers are still routinely moved off their land to make way for urban construction and nearly always miss out on the profits from the rise in value of said land.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam#Relocation_of...
The security lines are not a big bottleneck at most stations in Beijing. There are rush hour peaks at some stations (e.g. wudaokou).
Hackers threatening to out millions of users of dating site for married cheaters
I was in Germany, when there was a traffic jam blocking the way from just outside Munich most of the way to Hamburg. A 5 hour trip took over 10 hours, and that is because we moved onto the back streets.
Security checks (x ray machines for all but the smallest bags) were already in operation in 2012. I don't knew if anyone looks at the images. I have never seen anyone be challenged due to the content of their bag.
"Smart isn't everything: perseverance counts for a great deal." - Technofiend

Im gonna print this and put it in a frame! So much of enlightenment in one reply!
I have no idea what the next commenters point is, people are often moved around for big projects. Or do you imagine that they just let people drown when building the hoover damn, or London subway?
China's government is desperately trying to disperse things more. They'll succeed in time, but not enough of the transportation infrastructure is in place yet. Within a decade, it will be.

The Baltimore-Washington corridor in the US has over 50 million people. However, it has no single metropolitan government.
One of the images that impressed me most in my life was flying down the east coast of China, equivalent distance from Cape Cod to Florida, and seeing nothing but a Venus-like hellscape of smog. Wasn't any better on the ground. It was as if they had combined the worst aspects of Las Vegas development with Charles Dickens era London.

I am not at all eager to go back. I know there's lot's o' money sloshing around there, but I also don't care to spend my time in an airport smokers cage, which is basically what that place is.
I think the money quote from a comment is

Purism’s Librem 15 will ship with an Intel CPU fused to **run unsigned BIOS** code

This is apparently the first time a laptop is (almost) available with a recent Intel cpu where this is the case. This is needed for an attempt to port coreboot to be possible.

Original claim here: https://puri.sm/posts/pioneering-cpu-efforts-to-liberate-lap...
Tolerance of failure is different for ICs and Managers, partially because Managers tend to have such an ability to really screw things up in a way that isn't technical and has an impact on a bunch of other people in the company.

The shortest IC tenure I've seen here was the result of being a brilliant jerk (which interviewers did not catch during the interview cycle (and I speak here as one of the people who interviewed this person)). The shortest Manager tenure I've seen here was noticeably shorter than this, and was the result of pissing off your engineers.

I've not seen any IC here screw up on a technical level in such a way as to get fired for a first or even second screwup -- it really takes a pattern. My shortest IC termination was six months from hiring to termination.
Yup. And the bus described was an inter-city bus, not a bus within Beijing. Buses in Beijing are often full, but it's rare for a bus to be so full that some passengers must wait for the next one.
Polling data in the July before an election has close to zero predictive power. Last time around, Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich had similar periods of being the front runner before they were dismissed by voters.
I can't stress this enough. I was a lower middle class kid who grew up with rich kids and seeing HOW other parents made a life made it so I had no question what I wanted to do. I learned from an early age what I could just apologize for and I developed a very high risk tolerance with proper research. I never took a dollar but always found a way to make it work. 2cents
While I'm not sure that I agree,

I /certainly/ am not sure that I disagree!

I think the question of whether the hacking done was ethical is probably nontrivial.
Neither Sanders nor Trump will come within a mile of the nomination.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems as though Australia is in for a disaster when the current housing bubble bursts. Median house prices in Sydney are around $1M, which is shutting out the majority of people in the 25-44 age range from buying their first home.

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/map/housing-affordability
Thanks a lot for open sourcing this!
Mind expanding on what exactly you mean by "widespread organizational decline."?
The key concept here is diversification - having more than one source of income. The more of these you have - the less you are affected by risks and market volatility. You have much lower loss-aversion, you could even afford to fail-fast, abandon and start again or just delegate.

The simplest example is a landlord having a running businesses in his basements instead of just collecting a rent. These businesses could be seasonal, habit/passion-driven, barely profitable, etc.

Btw, a rich family doesn't mean lots-of-money-in-the-bank, it usually means many diversified sources of income.
You are definitely selling yourself short. This is one area where you absolutely must not trust your instincts; they will give you wildly wrong answers.

A rule of thumb to start off with for calculating freelance/contract/consulting rates is to assume 1000 hours/year and figure how much you need to charge for what you want to be earning. By that rule of thumb you should be charging at least $120/hour - arguably more because this is your precious free time you're giving up, placing your health and happiness in danger, and you don't really need the freelance gig. If they balk at $120, they were never going to replace your day job and you're better off without them.
My wife often has a 30-40 minute wait at liangmaoqiao during peak travel time. This is just to get in the station.

God forbid if you ever have to transfer at xizhimen; I never thought it was possible to wait in line so long to take a subway.