skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original Atlantic article mentioned Pittsburgh as one of the cities in the "sweet spot" for affordability and social mobility. Interestingly, Pennsylvania happens to be the one state that has perhaps gone the furthest in implementing George's proposed land value tax reform (at the local level, mainly). Pittsburgh used a different form of property tax that taxed land at a far higher rate than improvements until 2001, and the Pittsburgh Improvement District (I am unfamiliar with what exactly this entails) still uses a pure land value tax as a surcharge on the city property tax. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax_in_the_United_S...]
Related, this is why manufacturer's coupons have changed in the last few years. It was previously possible to create a manufacturers coupon barcode for any UPC that would represent one of the standard discounts before GS1-128 including Buy 1 get 1. The new GS1 barcodes encode much more data that allows better fraud protection.
You can require a minimum number of connections; this isn't perfect since there are ways to fake this out as well, but I don't think it can be done for without investing time or money. (Also, it means that if you don't have many friends/etc. that you cannot use the service.)
Except, to repeat the lines from the movie, as if by rote, is a way of interacting with the joke. It makes the joke participatory instead if didactic.

I don't think anyone is trying to educate you. They're just immersing themselves in this forty year-old shaggy dog story.
I think WebAssembly is more or less going to solve this problem in the long run.
The real money here is not in the glass eels
The commission says that, unlike Google, FB was refusing to respond to their questions: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-18/talk-to-us...
I feel you are justified, but I also suspect you could do yourself a favour by remembering that the interview process is a two-way street.

Are you asking enough, or good enough questions before accepting offers? For the right company be up-front about your reason for leaving, as long as both parties know the role is sufficiently rewarding I doubt you would be classed a flight risk.
I would highly recommend this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DleXA5ADG78 from Geoffrey Hinton in 2012 that I think is related to this research.
10 Roads You Would Never Want to Drive On
Potential of Quantum Computing as a Service
exactly when I worked on the Management system for the core UK SMDS network we spent 9 months designing the system and built the first version of the product in 12 weeks.
This article actually debunks its own headline toward the bottom:

"Since the first coding boot camps were founded in 2011 and 2012, there’s no clear impact [on the number of CS graduates], but note that computer science degrees had already seen a sharp decline since their peak in 2003."
XDG config dirs are for per-user configuration.

EditorConfig is for per-project configuration.

Having EditorConfig use XDG config directories in any way would defeat the entire purpose, which is to distribute settings to be shared by all users of a project.
Superconducting Qubits with Dark Microwave Photons
same article posted two hours earlier... and an hour after that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10533480
Ask HN: Which do you prefer: org-mode or Taskwarrior?
I'm currently using Omnifocus for my [GTD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done) needs, but I'd much prefer using a FOSS alternative.

If you're using either: How does your workflow look? Why is your system good for you?
you know they still use leeches for some conditions :-) and NMR uses magnets
Same here. I've been using a desktop user-agent to get rid of this.
The thing is in Australia, we have near ubiquitous support for contactless payments so when Apple Pay launchs here it'll be supported _everywhere_ on day one[1]

[1] Well, the tech will be supported. Whether the business will accept amex or not is another story...
The Army's List of Six Game-Changing Cyber Security Technologies [pdf]
Even if that's true, you're average person on earth is generally better off than their parents were. In the United States it's not quite as cut and dry, but in general you are likely at least as well off as your parents. Inflation adjusted wages have been relatively flat, not decreasing (unless new data I haven't seen suggests otherwise).

At a macro scale people in the United States aren't getting poorer, they're just not getting relatively richer over time.
‘Star Wars’ Partners with Code.Org for Hour of Code Tutorial
I want to see this done with a swarm of drones unloading a self-driving truck which was loaded by a robotic fork lift. Maybe they could also tile my bathroom and put a wood floor in my living room while they're there.
"It is simply incredible to see anyone criticized for having a strong commitment to the freedom of speech."

That's because you ignored the word "ideal". It's not saying he can't have a commitment to freedom of speech. It's saying that he can't excuse not taking the students concern seriously because of it. Just because I like to promote e.g. human rights doesn't mean it's appropriate to troll every military thread on HN about it. Anyone can hold stubborn views and it's fine to do so, unless it's actually your job to takes peoples concerns seriously.

> When students tried to tell him about their painful personal experiences as students of color on campus, he responded by making more arguments for free speech. It’s unacceptable when the Master of your college is dismissive of your experiences. [...] We are supposed to feel encouraged to go to our Master and Associate Master with our concerns and feel that our opinions will be respected and heard. [...] He seems to lack the ability, quite frankly, to put aside his opinions long enough to listen to the very real hurt that the community feels. He doesn’t get it. And I don’t want to debate.

Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ayaleh...

It's almost never about opinions in these cases, but about trust. If you're unrelenting now, what says you want be that when I have some other concern?
How we evenly split our RSpec build into N parts
I couldn't find the exact # but it seems like between 60% and 70% of all 25 year olds in California currently live with their parents. I'm shocked that the number is this high. I would love to see the same rates for 30 year olds (at which point you are truly considered an adult) but I guess it's not tracked.
5 Life changing things I wish I'd figured out 15 years ago
Taskwarrior. Reason: I use vim :)
Read this again: "To the vast majority of consumers, 4K is currently irrelevant."

It's very relevant to electronics stores like BestBuy as they want people to buy new things. But 1080p to 4K is going to take a LOT longer than SD to HD did. Even in that transition, some folks were happy with fake HD (720p) as opposed to full HD (1080p). The majority of laptops still ship with fake HD screens.

Far less than 1% of homes have a single 4K panel in their home. Far less than 1% of content is available in 4K. So, yes, "To the vast majority of consumers, 4K is currently irrelevant." The key word here is currently. A year from now -- not "2016", I mean 12 months from now -- there may well be enough 4K content to make it worthwhile for upper-middle and upper-class families. But there isn't right now. And a year from now there will be a new set of TV top devices.
Big regression in accessibility, copy/paste, automatic translation, everything that makes the web uniquely great.
Well engineering RnD is done that way ie you run experiments - what do you think NASA Boeing Etc have those windtunnels for.
Thanks for the links! OgleFace not only has our best brains working on getting people to click more ads, said brains are also whirring furiously justifying why OgleFace has gone off the charts on the scale of 0 to creepy. Sad..
Correct. The doc did it to me.

I had a very dead tooth, and a very alive tooth. Worked like a charm.
I mean that he tested the devices with his iPhone (criticizing the iOS Chromecast abilities) but didn't bother to test them with Android due to the fact that he is an Apple user. This despite the fact that a larger percentage of folks own Android devices and the fact that Chromecast works better with and has more features on Android.
Thanks for the recommendations!
For desktop at least, I use HN Special which includes this feature.
Fair enough :)

So how does your workflow look? Do you use GTD or some other system? Have you ever looked at alternatives and compared them?
Absolutely. Everyone replies to the first comment, and it takes forever to get down to later/lower conversations.
It's definitely a goal to make sure that wasm is as readable as possible. The binary format will be able to be "pretty-printed" into a textual format [0]. We haven't finalized the exact format yet, but it will be much more readable than current asm.js javascript [1].

[0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/TextFormat...
[1]: https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/643828456631857152

(Disclaimer: I'm a Google Chrome PM contributing to the WebAssembly project)
The original Apple TV remote app allowed it. It hasn't (yet) been updated for the new Apple TV, but I imagine the update is coming soon.
McDonald's dumped their (black) CEO in favor of a new (white) one this year.

This is a definition of "progressive" with which I was previously unfamiliar.
Awesome, thank you,
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I had a conversation about Brython vs PyPy.js on Reddit 6 months ago[1].

The short of it is that I wouldn't trust Brython to handle edge-cases that PyPy.js will, and that PyPy.js is at least as fast for me when warmed up. That said, I've lots of praise for the Brython project, and it's a way lighter dependency (both in size and warm-up times).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/33m7io/comparing_th...
Counting Things in Python: A History
Even here in the banana republic called Thailand I can do instant transfers from my account in one bank to my own or someone else's account in another bank. I can do it by phone, at an ATM or online. I too loathe interacting with my US bankings.

BTW, any issues or threats by your US bank to close your account because your are living abroad? It's going around.
I understand what Google+ is, but I don't get what a 'Google+' account is in relation to logging in to Youtube or Gmail, and its difference to a regular Google account.
Just right-align your property names. I know that sounds ridiculous, but give it a go:

body {
font-size: 16px;
margin-bottom: 100px;
padding-top: 40px;
color: rgb(100, 100, 100);
background-color: rgb( 90, 255, 3);
}
Wu.js – Higher order functions for ECMAScript 6 iterators
Lebron James needs design help with his Twitter profile
6 of the Worst Email Signatures You Can’t Escape
Bare Metal Rust: Low-Level CPU I/O Ports
Zoltán Dani - the man who took the stealth fighter down
sure but it's irrelevant. it's like saying "baseball is inaccessible because Derek Jeter is amazing". or "i can't play chess because Carlsen Magnus is a grandmaster".

there are so many responses suggesting Starcraft cannot be played casually. it's no different than saying chess cannot be played casually- which is ridiculous.
Ok, lets just never have another trade agreement in the history of the world. That should do it. Clearly all of them are bad. We can prove it because some of them are bad.
Can the upvote and downvote triangular arrows be given more separation? On my Firefox Mobile, they appear together vertically close together and I fear I may tap on the wrong one.
If only it were so simple. It really depends on the field, but in the biological sciences it really matters where you are in the authorship list. If you are first it is assumed you did most of the work and if you are last you were the head honcho of the group. When you apply for scholarships and grants the committees will only consider the first and last authors as important and everyone else is just filler. It really important to be last when you are trying to get grants as so much emphasis is placed on track record.
There are protections to this type of abuse in just about every comercial parking system -- so much so it is not even listed in advantages/features for most of their marketing materials. It is commonly refereed to Single Entrance Gate or Stateful Egress; basically the card is tracked in a stateful database and is either in use (it has been used to enter but not yet to exit) or not in use (it has exited since its last entry). If you attempt to use the card for entry when it is in the "in use" state it will deny and log the action.

Edited to add: For the next common "game" on this line "why dont you just walk past and card swipe exit" you will note the cameras positioned at the card terminals at all of these lots for this issue. Basically they will have a record of: your license plates for the entry/exists (the sipes and video systems have timecodes that can be matched) and of your person walking by on foot to trigger the exit state.
We're working hard to make sure that WebAssembly is a first-class citizen in the open web platform in ways that other native execution environments didn't accomplish.

For example, it's a goal to have WebAssembly modules interopt with the ES6 module system, and as soon as GC is supported, you'll be able to access the DOM and the JavaScript context in WebAssembly [0]. Both of these are huge steps towards ensuring that wasm plays well with everything that's great about the web today.

[0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/Web.md

(Disclaimer: I'm a Google Chrome PM contributing to the WebAssembly project)
I fail to see any major difference between that Medium article and quotes in the Friedersdorf's piece.

It would be reasonable to speak about missed context if students protested something that was an example of a larger issue. But that's not the case. They protest something that they view as a symbol of that larger issue. Example. Symbol. Different things, but it seems people no longer can tell them apart.

I mean, really, Halloween costumes? What's next? Banning toy soldiers to protest war?
Already posted yesterday.
And the day before.

The original has lots of comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10526729
HN works in the reverse. If you're going to assert your opinion, you back it up. People don't have any particular obligation to prove you wrong. Also, no one wants a conversation about votes.
As my post above indicates, this effect is really important. The plaque biofilm is really sticky. I'm not sure what's going on in GP's case, but when using a plaque staining dye to see what's going on, it's clear that toothpaste makes a huge difference in the ability to mechanically disrupt plaque. It's amazingly hard to do without toothpaste.
That's not really correct. Around about the close of the Qianlong Emperor's reign, China was possibly the most prosperous it had been, at least since the golden age of the Song dynasty. There was something on here not too long ago about the industrial revolution in Britain that went into this in some detail[1] - standards of living were a fair amount higher, per-capita, than in Western Europe at the same time.

There is very little that China would, or ever did, want to import from Europe. This was a major historical problem for Western traders in the China market - outside of bullion, and furs, to some extent, they had a real hard time finding products that they could successfully trade.

It's not as though China was bereft of the capabilities of fielding a large, powerful fleet - the Zheng He expeditions in the Ming dynasty were quite impressive, even if the accounts are somewhat exaggerated, and some of the biggest naval battles in history have been fought on Chinese lakes and rivers. But historically, the government was always facing serious threats from the interior of Asia, whereas coastal threats were generally little more than pirates. This has some knock-on effects - less incentive to study astronomy and geometry, when you aren't using them to sail ships around the world, different approaches to fortification - the Great Wall was more of a Ming thing, whereas the Qing, as an outsider foreign dynasty, tended towards assimilation of Mongols and other dangerous nomads into the ruling elite and the banners instead.

[1] http://www.csun.edu/~jaa7021/hist531/Goldstone%20-%20Efflore...
These are already a thing in Seattle--they call them 'apodments': http://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/seattles-mic... There's a lot of controversy around them though as they're in a gray area of regulations. Developers want to take existing buildings, gut them, and rebuild as apodments without adding extra parking or other facilities that a denser building would need.
You do understand what mercantilism is, right? Less free trade is a central part of it.
really? you expected all that? shit. all i ever wanted was a sports car and a decent apartment, and i have that after quite a bit of work. i've entertained the possibility of striking it big, but never expected it. it's still a goal i work toward but if i were to crash and burn tomorrow i'd probably just go find work on a boat somewhere tropical and warm.
The #1 thing that makes the web uniquely great is that all you need to do to access a program is to paste a short string into a box, and your browser takes care of the rest. Anyone can slap a website onto a server they control, and anyone in the world can then access it.

Outside that one advantage, web applications (not talking about simple documents here) are worse in almost every way than native applications. (It’s not without reason that Photoshop, ProTools, Maya, Excel, Final Cut, SolidWorks, ArcGIS, Sibelius, Mathematica, Visual Studio, and thousands of other serious tools don’t have credible web alternatives.)

They’re slower. They aren’t persistent. They change all the time with no ability for the user to prevent it, sometimes spontaneously breaking when the developer stops supporting the user’s browser or goes out of business. They make it hard for users to load/save local data, and instead they store personal data on a faraway server. Accidentally pressing the back button can destroy hours of user work. They usually have terrible accessibility. They don’t interoperate with other applications on the system. They flagrantly violate UI design conventions on every platform. They can’t access most local hardware devices. They have an extremely limited user input device model. Their UI layout tools are limited, inflexible, and incredibly hard to work with. They throw out decades of implementation effort on various standard solutions to problems and force complete reimplementation from scratch. They are difficult or impossible to build proper cryptographic primitives on top of.

In short, web applications are inherently second-class citizens on every platform.

BUT! Web applications are also amazing. Dropping the barrier to entry – URLs and HTTP and fairly reliable code sandboxing – makes all the difference, and makes the web an extremely attractive platform despite its many flaws.
As a liberal, I am embarrassed by the simplistic display of liberal values at Yale.

It all seems rather childish. Erika wrote the most open wise letter that basically expressed the desire to not render judgement.

The students are angry that they didn't want to judge others.

Sounds a lot like the troubles Jesus got into personally.
Everyone being a contractor is the most honest economy I can imagine.
Links used to support JavaScript some time ago [1].

[1]: http://links.twibright.com/user_en.html#ap-javascript
Flash should definitely export to WebAssembly and retire its player once and for all. Whether Adobe is ready to do that is another issue.

Flash is still an excellent IDE for artists. And I enjoy some "creativity" on the web. The "everything's flat and like the next site because Bootstrap" web is getting old.
Mysterious Tesla Rival Faraday Future Backed by Netflix of China, LeTV
I appreciate the sharing of your point of view and didn't take any offense (nor anything else negative).

I understand the people working for me who don't ever answer email unless they're on-call. Nothing negative as 24x7 email SLA isn't part of the bargain.
Couple of things:

1) It doesn't have to be THAT big. As long as the cardboard has twice the dimensions of the book, having the cutout be in the center ensures that you could reveal a Waldo anywhere on the page without letting the other person see any bit of the book to try to reason which section the book is under.

2) They only get to choose one piece of cardboard to remove per iteration of the game - they don't get to lift one piece and then immediately the other, they only lift one. That means that the person placing the cardboard can't cheat (because they don't know which piece they are going to lift, the one revealing the whole book or the one revealing the waldo), and the other person can't gain any information from the reveal. You can repeat the process many times (moving BOTH pieces of cardboard each time to ensure no gained information), but you can only do one cardboard lift per cycle.
Search depends on you know what you are searching. If im visiting another person blog for the first time and enjoyed the post where i landed, i do want to know what else of interesting that person wrote before.
But i dont know what search.

I agree with the problem, not with the ssolution (and i dont have any to propose neither)

Edit: paul graham solved it just by showing his complete list of articles (no other info aside title. No dates, no tags, just title): http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
I would be extremely interested in looking at that!
A number of those things have been very common and living with housemates at least was very common among professionals recently out of school a few decades back in my experience. I didn't personally but I knew many people who lived in a shared house for a few years after school.
Because the complaint isn't that it isn't testable. Since we're talking about non-testable properties of these models, the only way in which they differ is in how we think about them, which puts this in the realm of philosophy. And the article is arguing that the philosophical implications of MWI are problematic.
[Edit] Dammit. Now I've read Alex3917's response, I wish I'd done the accurate calculations on that "Smoking Gun" link to note it was posted on 1 April, 2008.
It did raise some issues I was not aware of, for example Canada is one of the most sued countries. Also, some pending cases and the arbitration involved is quite appalling.
I don't think it is unbiased, but it certainly does shed some light on important issues (to Canadians anyway).
How is Taskwarrior different than todo.txt
Not really. I keep it as a backlog of shite to do and prioritize it all maybe once every few weeks. Pop a task off the stack, and push stuff into the bottom.

It is like a single person not really but kind of agile workflow. Works well enough.
The carousel ride is over and investors are out of nickels for little Marissa

It has been three years and she still has no idea what she's doing. It goes to show you that Google/Stanford pedigree and a pretty face doesn't necessarily make for a great CEO.

Now they're bringing in the big boys to clean up the mess and make the decisions she couldn't (doesn't want to) make.
My math teacher would show that to us every year in high school. Love it.
Yeah, I wouldn't mind being able to write something like QT for the web.
> this is desired over a better language

Some people say Javascript is the best language , you see the problem ? nobody will ever agree on what "a better language" means.

JavaScript is constrained by forward compatibility. The goal here is to let people choose the language they want to develop with. The APIs will stay the same, and that's what matters. Front end development shouldn't be about knowing Javascript ninja tricks, but web and DOM apis.