skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Per the Office of National Statistics:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171776_337841.pdf

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The population we have used in this report is all adults living in the UK who were not enrolled on any educational course on the survey date. The age range we have focused on is women aged between 21 and 59 and men aged between 21 and 64. The lower age limit of 21 is used as most people will not have been able to complete a graduate level qualification before this age. However, please note also that educational systems are different across the countries of the UK. Upper age limits were used because we wished to focus on people active in the labour market. These particular ages were chosen to maintain consistency throughout the report as some sections consider time periods before changes to state pension ages. In 2013 there were 12 million graduates in the UK
In April to June 2013 there were 31 million people in the UK who were not enrolled on any educational course. Breaking these people down by the highest qualification they held:

• 12.0 million, or 38% were graduates

• 6.7 million, or 21% stated that their highest qualification was of an A level standard

• 6.6 million, or 21% stated that their highest qualification was equivalent to an A* to C grade GCSE

• 3.1 million, or 10% had “other” qualifications not categorised in the UK

• 2.9 million, or 9% had no qualifications
There is no price difference if I pick a flight that has a TV on each seat (with advertisement showing) or flight with an older plane that doesn't have that.

Cinema prices has not changed since they introduced several minutes of advertisement for each movie.

Buss prices in my country has not gone down when they introduced advertisement on the inside. They are currently also considering to stop having advertisement (after a political party wanted to advertise a very controversial message), but there has not been any mention of an related increase in ticket price.

Sometimes, the market price is just the price that the market is willing to pay, rather than an exact balance between costs and revenue.
bingo~
Inequality in America, summed up by one heartbreaking paragraph
> You are completely ignoring the point of dynamic typing and you are using it as if it were static typing without annotations

That's exactly what it is.

What is your definition of a dynamically typed language?
We used meteor at my last company. By far and away the biggest issue was being stuck with Mongo. NoSQL databases have their place. But they are not a universal solution to everything (or even most things).

Relational DBs exist for a reason.

Being stuck with Mongo is the major reason why I wouldn't use meteor again.

The other stuff was minor and had solutions. We also built an open source library that wrapped up collections well.

https://atmospherejs.com/patmoore/meteor-collection-manageme...
Just to add the opposing viewpoint: after watching browsers get incredibly sluggish over the past year on up-to-date hardware (desktop and mobile), I absolutely care about speed and bandwidth consumption[1]. So Brave's 'manifesto' absolutely resonates.

Very happy to see the principal agent problem on the web stated so clearly. I've been calling it the tragedy of the commons in comments here and elsewhere. Thanks!

[1] And security and privacy, they're the basic minimum the world needs, right? Grandparent seems too quick to dismiss them.
their pages load quicker on desktop and on mobile saving time and battery
I am sure that at least some area some local commander of either Al Nusra or FSA have joined Isis, for various reasons, like being besieged by Assad's forces, running out of munition, etc.

This is also the messy part of civil war to survive alliances are fleeting. And so it is totally believable that some weapons given by the West to support FSA ended up in Isis hand willingly.
And they have current benchmarks that indicate that it's still the right decision: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ricom/archive/2015/12/29/revisiting-...
Nah, I think they don't have the time to get up to speed enough to even understand what it means to have their IP tracked, let alone understand the lengths they would have to go to avoid being tracked.

Most of my non-technical friends are super concerned, and frequently tell me how scary it is not knowing what to do or how to avoid it.

It's an active role the current ad-based industry takes to convince their users that the tracking either doesn't matter or somehow empowers the user, which are both demonstrably false.
Less a startup than a Ponzi scheme.
Can someone help explain what this means? Is there something about Square that we can attribute this to? Did they make a mistake? Were they overvalued to begin with?

I've spent the last year trying to understand the whole private-to-public process and I'm curious what this means for Square and other companies like Etsy who are experiencing the same drop in stock price.
Overcame...and then lost it.

"Firefox's total user share -- an amalgamation of desktop and mobile -- was 9.5%"

Firefox gained marketshare 10 years ago b/c most internet users were still early adopters. There people were more tech savvy and into open source.

Source:
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2893514/an-incredibly-s...
Whenever I read an article like this I think, well, what is the purpose of life anyway? I like to think our destiny is to colonize other planets. So if you look at it that way, from an economic point of view, we have built and are continuing to build the infrastructure needed for future space exploration and colonization.
That article was really good. I thought Cracked was basically CollegeHumor or something. Never would have expected that article.
They did. It's only been a few months since that regulation was dropped.
I don't think SF is even the most liberal city in the Bay Area, much less the entire country.
"Here are some other great manipulation products you may be interested in..."
> Sure, we'll see a decrease in gun related suicides... but the suicides will still occur, just with an alternate method.

Citation needed; that's not the evidence I've seen.

Mass shootings are extremely rare, but non-mass crime is not; guns are also a big factor in whether disputes over e.g. property (particularly drugs) become lethal.

Most of the victims of guns are not particularly sympathetic. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to prevent their deaths.

These days we've done most of the easy/cheap things we can do to prevent human deaths; there are few low-hanging fruit left. So anything we can do to save lives will be expensive and/or involve sacrificing useful things. IMO gun laws are one of the cheaper ways to save lives that remain available (I'd also advocate making driving tests stricter, repealing jaywalking laws and adding an assumption of liability when a driver injures a pedestrian).
Nasdaq accused of discrimination within DevOps ranks
The Iraq war and David Kelly's suicide is what happened:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_Inquiry

Add things like the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal, and the ongoing threat from the conservative government to turn the BBC into the equivalent of America's PBS (irrelevant on the political landscape, lacking financial heft, and in close to nonexistent viewership) and you have a recipe for a neutered public news broadcaster too afraid to do anything meaningful.
Millions of Linux PCs, Android devices vulnerable to serious 3 year old bug
Bank Innovation, Fiserv Partner to Launch Fintech Accelerator
> It's about whatever level is acceptable to society.

I agree, you can see the US ranks fairly low on these statistics which may be good enough or a problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r... My point is saying something bad is at a tolerable level is different from saying it's not bad.

Spending more money promoting gun safety would likely save lives. As far as I can tell the cost benefit on that is simply money and would not impact freedom so the NRA may even approve. But, it's easy for people to look at things emotionally and say that's a waste of money because there is no problem.

PS: Your flu statistic is off. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm Influenza and Pneumonia: 56,979 Just Pneumonia is listed at 53,282 So Influenza is much lower than 57,000 http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/pneumonia.htm

Though many of these deaths are complications not direct causes, you can die from AIDS and Pneumonia.
Space Exploration can be debated, but launching Satellites, every country should be able to do it.
Laws should have a defined lifetime, and at the end of that time be reinstated only if they have greater support than the support that initially instated them.
Its not even true either because there is the iron-router package. Yes it is not "core" meteor but it is a very popular package.
The only programming languages vying for a web position were those from Microsoft and Java. Yes, VBScript and Java are real programming languages. And no, I wouldn't have wanted either on the web. Having lived through those dark days, I think it's a bit myopic to think things would actually be better if those days were still in effect.
How do you suppose those "timeless principles of software development" were born? People sharing only their success stories?
Or you could use a SSH agent (Pageant, ssh-agent): you enter your key passphrase once when starting the agent, and it handles the key auth on your behalf.
Europe average R&D spend cross industry is just above 4%, but that's mostly pulled up by R&D on healthcare (which is closer to 18%). Without healthcare I think it's around 2%. I would hope to see them spend at least £100m on R&D, but that's obviously not just on broadcast technology.
I don't think I've seen any of this whitewashing you describe. The farthest I've seen anyone go is along the lines of what I've said, that people welcome ISIS not because they're in any way good, but merely because ISIS's order is less bad than the chaos that existed before.

I think this is important to understand, because without that chaos ISIS wouldn't have had this fertile ground in which to grow. If Iraq and Syria hadn't been left to disintegrate, ISIS wouldn't have gone anywhere. Looking at the future, if and when ISIS is destroyed, it's essential to ensure that some form of order is established in these areas, or else we'll just be back at it again in a few more years.
They are monetizing by....advertising!

They substitute bad ads for their ads.
Just block smoothScroll.js in your ad blocker :)
"Why 3.5 times more Apple users choose Apple Maps over Google Maps"

The power of default settings is huge. Perhaps you're thinking of yourself or your peers.90% of the rest of the population just doesn't care about these issues.

Source: http://fortune.com/2015/06/16/apple-google-maps-ios/
History of Logical Block Addressing
> I'm not sure this would be near the top of my list of proposed criminal justice reforms, though.

Though, if it has a positive effect, it seems like it would be a cheap and easy reform to make. I think it's pretty reasonable that the defense be the first to speak and the last to speak to the jury in a criminal trial, even if its gets extra timeslots compared to the prosecution.
I've emailed you privately about getting your email address removed.

In general, Google is going to give credit to open source developers whose code it uses.
Microchip to Acquire Atmel for $3.56B
Here's the exact board that's in there:

http://store.digilentinc.com/zedboard-zynq-7000-arm-fpga-soc...
Show HN: Martial Arts on Rails – online platform for managing martial arts gyms
Not saying its easy and we have discovered the reason most MMOs have long wind up animations for actions...

The other layers (chat, non-space game state) are handled by discrete microservices on other connections to other hosts - to keep the space flight data slim and connection dedicated in use.

Can always give it a try, our next public playtest is on Saturday 6 Feb 8pm GMT/UK | 12pm Pacific | 3pm Eastern US at http://www.ageofascent.com/

Just don't try it on a phone; give us a chance with the latency ;-)
You nailed the problem with AMP: some people, like me, like to reduce the amount of tracking and general information gathering by corporations (and governments, but that is a different discussion). I stopped using Google Analytics (which is a great free product) because I wanted to reduce the tracking of people kind enough to visit my tech web sites and blog. If I were to use AMP, then my readers would get tracked.
How online schema changes are possible in CockroachDB
Making a Standard Media Player for Android
> Are you aware of any existing, serious effort to build such a thing?

NaCl (>90% of native performence) comes to mind. Too bad NaCl apps can only be downloaded via chrome web store not by visiting url like PNaCl (~10% of native performence).
Customer support product for SMS inbounds
On my agile team, we will say, "We see a problem here." We create an issue and start working on it, and alert the product owner as to why it is a problem and needs to take priority. We have that respect because we deliver working software. We are not the "fastest" team, but we get the latitude to make things better because we work with adults.

We refactor as we go, even if the business value could have been delivered "faster" by compromising long term value for short term goals.

But we also let them do their job and trust them to understand the strategic goals to the business better than we do.
the US only started bombing the oil trucks once their hand was forced by the russians doing so while pointing out that the US had been avoiding these obvious targets. we can speculate on reasons that they held back before then, but i suspect it had to do with the oil being sold to the turks.
How does that solve anything? Half the time we don't know videos are about to play, then suddenly a blast of sound comes out of the page.

What we need is a way to mute the browser by default, with selective un-muting of particular tabs once we decide we want to hear them.

An option to remember mute state for a whitelist of sites would be nice too.

I'm amazed browser vendors don't offer this. All the fancy features they build, but this one has alluded them. Auto-playing videos are the worst thing about desktop web browsing. I cannot think of a worse problem.
> Forensic science is rarely validated because that’s just not its job.

And this is as terrifying as the fact that experts are selected specifically to support the side that pays them. Expert witnesses should probably be selected and paid by the court, which would at least help a bit. But the pseudoscience stuff horrifies me. The whole hair comparison thing is bunk and a lot of people were put in jail on the supposed strength of this "science". Ditto for so many other forensic "sciences".

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-fo...
Yes when you open it to look for a plumber and see an ad for a pressure-washing service. You were happy with your driveway but now feels it needs something else.

At least with the yellow pages, we were able to close the book once done. With the web, it's anywhere, all the time and with machine learning to make it adjust in real time to your preferences.
I had one of those ad-display things installed on my computer in that era. I used the manual controls on my CRT to push the ads off the top of the screen, so I could just see like a 2-pixel-wide edge that showed me the thing was still running.
Thanks for the downvotes for being curious how Hacker News works. :(
Awesome. I wanted to build this for ourselves, but I'll just sign up and use your product. Great job.
Upserting Records with PostgreSQL 9.5
I'm not saying the # of GitHub stars is a good reason to choose a framework.

But it is an indicator of it being something more than not-just-another-stupid-shiny framework that cannot be immediately dismissed.
Whats the nexus in Germany north of Frankfurt? (My guess is, that it is Hetzner, but can anybody comment?)
1. Mosh is about a decade younger than this ("why would anyone write this, when there would be a better solution in ten years?!" - Mosh was a response to the shortcomings of available programs, namely the combination of autossh+screen), 2. Mosh solves a slightly different problem (persistent terminal emulation across variable and unstable connection X persistent SSH connection - one has intelligent local echo, the other has tunnels)
It's really, really difficult to make a coherent argument against equal marriage without being a homophobe. The desire to exclude a group of people from marriage based on their sexuality is pretty inherently a 'hatred' of homosexuals. This is reinforced when the campaign is like the Prop 8 one which—let's not forget—was pretty strongly homophobic, full of 'watch-out-the-gays-are-coming-for-your-children' arguments.

I'd argue that as a result of the above, the act of donating to the Prop 8 campaign is a homophobic act.
> Without Javascript we would have got real programming languages on the web quicker (maybe tklets would have taken off).

I can't find information on "tklets", but if you're referring to Tcl, no way. Tcl doesn't even have references. The "everything is a string" model is fine for small programs but is pretty dated; there's a reason why no language since Tcl has adopted it.

> Without Mozilla we would have got a sensible box model quicker

This is silly. CSS1, and its box model, was developed by Håkon Wium Lie and Bert Bos, neither of whom were at Mozilla. -moz-box-sizing has been supported since Firefox 1.

> more development on the open-source-from-the-ground-up (and, not coincidentally I think, higher quality code) KHTML sooner

It's debatable whether KHTML is higher quality code. I'm no fan of XPCOM and XUL, for example, but I equally don't like many of the things WebKit does, like not having a holistic solution for DOM cycle leaks.
It's not insane. I want to buy things, I'm going to continue to buy things, and advertisements sometimes make me aware of things I want to buy. If you think that's insane, I'm confused about why you're participating on a site that's fundamentally about promoting a culture of entrepreneurial spirit and enterprise, which requires making people aware of new products and services.
Well without reading up on Square: markets are in a downturn worldwide.

Other remarkable tidbit: Shell now has a smaller marketcap than Unilever.
No, in terms of the overall cost of operation of the system, bitcoin is most definitely not cheaper. Transaction costs paid by the users are low because of the inflation subsidy paid out to the miners.

In terms of overall costs, the bitcoin mining network alone (i.e., ignoring the cost associated with running all the full nodes, the underlying network and so on) costs $1MM per day to process a measly 100k transactions.
Someone with a little more knowledge of financial markets, help me out here. Is it really news if a tech company's stock drops 8-10% on a day when NASDAQ is down over 3%?
"when I have umpteen Manager objects, I then need a ManagerManager"

Actually, when this happens it only makes sense for you to get inspired from the real world again and end up designing a hierarchy called "bureaucracy"! </sarcasm>
They've made some questionable business decisions to spur growth and are being called to task. They haven't seemed to be able to grow effectively without deals like that, and the sector is becoming crowded.

Here's one example: http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/15/technology/square-starbucks/
>tragedy of the commons

I suspect it's also due to developers getting and using the latest hardware (i.e. top range Mac Book Pros) and as long as it works on their machine, with all bells and whistles, they don't care about any of their users with slower machines. Same with phones - older phones are out of date because the updated apps get bloated and bloated for them but are not bloated for the developers.
For certain web apps, maybe that can work. Not for anything slightly more complex though.
There's definitely a grey area. I just think we're so far deep in the black it's almost not worth bringing up.
Given the crowd on HN I'm surprised there isn't at least one person chiming in that works on these backend bank systems.
Dataflow and open source – proposal to join the Apache Incubator
They seem to be swapping invasive ads for non-invasive ones or giving you the option to pay sites via a micro transaction?
Why should every country be able to launch satellites? There are many countries which have no sea ports, yet they all need space ports?
Watch a Neural Network “Walking” Through Amsterdam
A few thoughts:

(1) If they block tracking, does it block Google Analytics? Because that would annoy me as a website owner.

(2) The reason I don't pay subscriptions to sites like Wall Street Journal and NY Times is that I get my content from aggregators like Hacker News so I only go to one of those paid sites if I follow an occasional link. Micropayments would fix that if I could pay one company a $5/mo subscription to then have payments automatically dolled out to a select list of good sites until my $5 was used up (then maybe ask me each time after that, or something).

(3) They talk about avoiding the ad-blocking war, but they are just contributing to it. I guess what they think is that by making a way for the website owner to get paid they avoid some of the war, but many companies like to be in direct control of their money so they might not like a middleman sitting on the high way charging everyone a tax to pass. And if Brave doesn't charge something for its services then it has no business model, so I'm assuming they are not passing 100% of revenue on to the site owner.
And being able to wrap totally unrelated things into the bill.
I just don't see how the alternative could even be workable. It's also an advantage to get the last word, so I'm not sure there's a problem here.
Wedding Wednesday: Industrial Wedding Ideas with Love Theme
When I play Elite: Dangerous with DK2 and throttle/stick, I would tweak the position of the actual controllers on my desk so they matched the position of the virtual sticks in the game. The appearance of the virtual throttle/stick in the game is essentially a recreation of the actual model I have and the game is set up so the virtual hands move to mirror what I'm doing in real life.

Obviously with the current setup it doesn't detect my hands in real space so the on-screen motions only happen as I make them in real life but as long as I keep my hands on the controllers, the illusion is great. Move the stick a little to the right and the guy on screen, sitting in the same position does the same.

I think once they add a Leap/Kinect/RealSense type depth cam on the front of these HMDs you'll get some basic hand tracking for better representation. As the article says, it doesn't have to have the most realistic graphics if the feeling of actually seeing your "avatar" moving 1:1 with your actual motions flips some switch in your perception and it's easy to feel like the virtual person in the virtual environment is an extension of you in the real world.
I'd say at this point it's best to enjoy. Looks like he's having fun.
> There is no guessing, there is just a false sense of security.

How is it false?

> the uncertainty of a dynamic language is often an advantage

How can uncertainty ever be an advantage over certainty?

> I've seen multiple times when bugs have been pushed to prod due to a false sense of security because "it compiled".

That same program would have compiled just as well with a dynamically typed language. Except with potentially more bugs that the compiler didn't catch.
The Ruby project discusses adopting the Contributor Covenant
Prosecution presents first because they have the burden of proof. They are the ones making a claim. The defense has no claim to make, they are simply responding to a claim by the prosecution, so of course the prosecution must present first.