skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say it was all propaganda but that they use techniques of propaganda to progress their point of view. You are oversimplifying in order to paint it as invalid point of view.

It's interesting to note fox news has more diversity of opinion than does NPR. On NPR all minorities are progressives, yet IRL I know minorities with all points of view, but listening to them you'd think they were all progressives. So, yes, they forward their narrative very adroitly.

This morning they had a piece about WalMart increasing base wages more than originally announced, and the presenter, as an aside mentioned, "I'm sure out of the goodness of their hearts". See how insidious it is? There was no reason for that, it didn't follow from what the reporter was saying. And it's this kind of technique they've mastered.
I am a JS dev (after a lot of experience in statically typed languages) and just amazed to see the comments in this thread. At one end its experts(or near-experts) and at other end is just ignorants who probably did some $(...).show() and call it javascript.
No wonder why its hard to hire good javascript developers. People just don't appreciate how wonderful this language is.
I've always envisioned most tech businesses in general as an elephant standing on a board with a bunch of mice underneath it. The mice keep the elephant moving, but if the mice aren't continuously fed, they slowly die off. When enough mice die, the rest can't support the elephant and it thus squishes them. The elephant is shot shortly thereafter because it stopped moving. The mice that left sometimes come back to feed on the elephant carcass.
Very clever. I just hope Buzzfeed don't chase you down and force you to take the list down!
Why does it have to be one or the other, though? You can have static, pre-rendered landing pages for search engines to crawl and index, and your actual application can be an SPA. Right?
Microservices in Phoenix: Part 1
To Google school is not important it is important to the top rated Universities that Google is hiring people from :)
Why we choose Java instead of a polyglot stack
Bookmarked, excellent tool. Thank you!
You want local governments to use the easily obtained revenue generated from cigarette taxes to create programs to reduce smoking? Which reduces revenue from cigarette taxes that they can use to fill in the gaps in their budgets? Good luck with that.
Way too many C#/Java developers who used JS in the early 2000s and hated it still think it's the same language.
R for web marketing
Do you actually ever listen to NPR? You think it sounds like Glenn Beck? Seriously?

You don't have to like or support NPR, but they are absolutely not just pandering and pushing propaganda like Glenn Beck.
Inflation goes hand in hand with growth, you can't hedge away changes in real value. If cash can be put to productive use, people who hoard it will do less well than those who put it to work.
If you expect your shareholders to get much better overall tax treatment on the money sometime in the relatively near future, it makes a lot of sense to hold on to it.

Especially with respect to money earned abroad, I'd think that's a decent guess. In particular, I'd expect there will be another one-time-only-we-really-mean-it-this-time repatriation holiday in 2017 or 18.
As another poster pointed out, red tribe conservatives are not the ones saying that Indian/Chinese-Americans are no longer a minority.

The only people who consider Indian/Chinese-Americans "no longer a minority" are the same ones who complain about them being whitewashed.
When ads are good, they connect you to products or services you’re interested in and make it easier to get stuff you want.

They don't make anything easier. If I want something, I will get it, otherwise it's just annoying.

It's great that they are working to make ads safer (which is obviously in their interest as well), but they have already lost me (and I guess many others). Even AdSense ads are obnoxious these days (see [1] for a taste). On mobile many websites are completely unusable because of ads.

[1] https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/185666?hl=en
Vaporware, car is 4 years away and no pictures...

No so much news but rumour of what might happen.
In spanish we also have lots of accents, plus the ñ, and the ç if you write catalan - plus, we open questions and exclamations with ¿ and ¡. I have a generic american layout in my laptop and it's not a problem at all.

Regarding the œ, shouldn't that be a ligature, handled by the font system? Although it should be language-dependant....
What's the point of stabilizing stock, price, when instead you can just have cash in bank plus an unstable lowe price stock?
I assume it's a combination of both; I very much doubt that all ~$250 TRILLION in assets are being marked-to-market.

And, being as how both assets and liabilities will use the same accounting measure, I don't think it matters.
Diet is still, in 2016, poorly understood. Taxing all food choices in a way that successfully reduced negative externalities would be quite a challenge.

For one thing, taxing your grocery cart will not powerfully alter the behavior of people not shopping for the groceries. Tobacco taxes work primarily because we prevent new smokers from taking up the habit, not by alteration of existing smokers consumption patterns.

I do strongly favor substantial increases in alcohol taxes, across the board, for similar reasons to tobacco.
You have to keep in mind the source. Let me put it this way. A VC's job is to buy X (where X is equity in a startup). Of course every VC would love for X to go on 50% sale ... or even better 75% sale.

You saw this with hedge fund managers and the stock market as well. Lots of hedge fund managers went on and on about how irresponsible Bernanke was because he kept interest rates low which raised asset prices.

To be clear, I don't think this is a nefarious or even conscious process. However, I think if someone really wants a particular scenario it tends to color their thinking.

Also the actual claim made isn't as sensational as the headline. Just says that 90% might take a lower valuation. All that requires is a general market decline.

Anyway, take a look at the list of unicorns.

http://graphics.wsj.com/billion-dollar-club/
Ahs yes, greg KH. While he did good work with udev initially and stewarding the stable kernels, i fear he has sold out otherwise.

He was basically pitching kdbus on behalf on the automobile industry a year or two back, because they wanted a drop in replacement for QNX and its in-kernel RPC.

And you will find some "lovely" mailing list duels between him and Landley about documenting the interface between kernel and udev, as Landley was trying to develop a minimal udev replacement.
Your assumption of 10% breakout is based, on some level, an assumption that each company's valuation is uncorrelated with the others, and each company will rise and fall on its merits. However, the nature of bubbles is that valuations become based on underlying structural reasons - this is what happened during the housing bubble as well. Statistical generalizations such as 'even if up to x% of people default on their loans, we'll still make money' were used to justify unreasonable investments in homes, which in turn drove a real estate valuation bubble.

Well, here's what we learned in 2008 - in a down market, it's possible for _way_ more than x% of people to default all at the same time.
For a luxury condo in downtown SF? Yes.

That's not where the people who work for a living at charitable organizations live.

HN is a weird bubble.
Could they just be trying to put off paying their taxes until a Republican gets elected and lowers the rates?
Create a gulpfile and write gulp tasks using TypeScript
How VoIP will transform businesses in 2016
If this "might" be a hybrid, why wait, you can buy the 2015 BMW 3 Series Hybrid today. Totally not news unless they commit to an all electric vehicle (and even then I'm not sure it is big news unless you're a BMW fan).
Glad you like it!
So you are saying one shouldn't use JS to implement voting and comments but instead voting and comments should interrupt the video and then one uses JavaScript to restore the playback position. You also imply youtube should have waited for 6 years or whatever for video playback to even be possible without client side programming.

> Maybe browsers could even agree on a standard to refresh only part of the pages by querying the server themselves.

Maybe browsers could also agree on implementing all needed applications in the browser. Then you just make <youtube> tag and you have implemented youtube.
> I bet Apple doesn't consider all the rubles they have from their operations in Russia as less risky than parking it in US treasuries.

They certainly have somebody looking at it.

There's more than one component to risk. Sure, holding rubles in a Russian bank is risky, but that risk isn't really of losing your whole pile all at once. So you have time to leave your position if it gets more dangerous.
like this? http://www.apple.com/no/shop/product/MB110FN/B/apple-tastatu...
The CUBA Platform: https://www.cuba-platform.com/
WebPack 2.0 does support ES6 module import statements. In fact, it does tree shaking now too, but only if you use import {x} from foo.
No, drug bans have not been outstanding successes, but they've gone very well compared to prohibition of alcohol.

It is at least physically possible to control the distribution of methamphetamine and heroin precursors. The same is not true for alcohol. No alcohol ban could ever work, conceptually.
Correction: I'm not implying that separating of concerns is bad.

I'm saying that arbitrarily separating them into folders by-type at the base level is not a useful pattern when it comes to reusability.
Not really. It's a bit partisan on tone, but the actual debt graph on this article is interesting. Basically there have been three big changes in direction for US national debt since WW2. Sharp upturns on Reagan and George W's watches, and a strong downturn under Clinton's.

http://zfacts.com/p/318.html
You may have missed my sarcasm.

You can easily see from the pictures that the ribbon cables are different widths. It looks like every ribbon connects a PCB to a connector on the backplane, most of them D-subs. The photo of the backplanes as installed show that most of the connectors aren't even being used.

By coincidence, the large-sized cables have 40 conductors. The medium ones have 25 or 26, and the small ones have 15 or 16. Those are all standard sizes for ribbon cable, and you can likely buy new cables of the correct sizes off the shelf for less than $10 each, or make them yourself at 20% the price or less.

In comparison to the overall cost of engineering the box, the ribbon cables are just a drop in the well. Nevertheless, about 12 of the ribbon cables in the box could theoretically be replaced by old PATA cables and 35 million people would still never know. The potential problems would be that some ATA cables block pin 20 as a mechanical key, they would be longer than strictly necessary, and ribbon cables are obnoxiously effective antennas.

The 40-pin ribbon cables as installed could almost certainly be used as very short PATA cable replacements, with a little mechanical modification of the connectors.
Again, powerline ethernet isn't ideal. It's two selling points are (1) not having to run a new cable, and (2) significantly improved latency and packet loss compared to wifi while maintaining reasonable bandwidth. I normally get about 70-80 mbps across my PLE adapters. It is susceptible to picking up some interference at times, which cuts performance in half, but during those times the wifi is unusable for any sort of realtime/latency-sensitive applications. I have local GigE segments in my living room and computer room, but I would need to run a drop to connect them and I rent.

USB-C and Thunderbolt are point-to-point bus connectors, they're not designed to have multiple clients on a network. Even if you designed a switch that could use ethernet-over-Type-C as a physical layer, the maximum length for an active cable is only 50 feet for USB 3.0 speeds and 82 feet for 2.0 speeds. Passive cables are 15ft. That's not really enough for long runs inside a wall, so we're back to asking the question: OK, I plugged my USB Type-C into the wall. Now what?

If you're going to actually run a new cable to your outlets, running Type-C seems like a poor choice. You could stick a Type C ethernet adapter in a wall-socket formfactor, run CAT-6 in the walls, and call it a day. That gets you runs of up to 330ft for GigE. But if your vision is "plug into the wall and instantly get on my network, without pulling ethernet to every outlet" then you need something that runs over a power-line, because that's the only wire that's guaranteed to be run to a power outlet.
Aren't your two paragraphs really two ways of saying the same thing?
Looks cool! I just noticed the search is case sensitive - "php" returns no results while PHP returns quite a few. Same with c#/C#.

Thanks!
> It is next to impossible to get an english layout Apple keyboard in Norway.

I'm surprised. Each time I ordered a laptop on the Apple Store, there was the option to choose the keyboard layout.

> For the non english speakers among us, especially those from small countries like Norway we mix in a lot of english in our writing. But spell checking software isn't really designed to handle that.

(Sorry to contradict you :)) But again, I found Mac OS to be very good at guessing the language I'm using in a text input field. I could type French now and it would be able to correct it! maybe it's not as polished for Norvergian.

The only think I miss is the ability to lookup the definition of a French or Spanish word. By default, it only looks up english definitions when you click on words (if somebody knows how to achieve this, i'm interested!).

> I think a lot of Europeans suffer over their keyboard layouts.

Actually, I'm pretty fine with the AZERTY keyboard, even for programming. What I dislike is that I have to use both. My computer have qwerty keyboards, but sometimes I have to use French keyboard on other people's computers...
TechCrunch has one, peppered with their usual breathlessness:
http://techcrunch.com/unicorn-leaderboard/
The simple answer is that these companies have leveraged the immense economies of scale in their info-tech niches, and are soaking up billions of consumers' money but there's nothing else for them to buy.

This is the sort of purchasing power imbalance that caused the Great Depression. The good news is that even if Depression hits, we still have access to web apps.
Show HN: Create good habits with text message reminders
From the title I thought, "uhoh, Facebook have bought a stadium":

http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/enro...

As others have said, this looks like FB trying to capture the anarchic live commenting/participation behaviour from Twitter. I've never seen anyone attempt to do anything "live" on Facebook, that was always Twitter's ballpark.
No, Glenn beck is an exaggerator. My point was if there were no bias they'd sound the same, but they don't, indicating everyone presents their point if view.
One company's "culture" is another company's Old Boy Network.
I generally agree with the article, but the examples of javascript web apps that were given seem weak:

> Most web apps I work with daily have highly sophisticated in-browser interactions that are built with JavaScript and can only be built with JavaScript: Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, GMail etc

The web apps that I use the most day-to-day are Trello, Slack and Gitter. IMHO, those are better examples of js bringing actual value to the table that progressive enhancement simply cannot.

With that being said, the issue of overusing SPA technology when it doesn't fit the need is definitely real.

Part of the issue comes from people wanting to pad their resumes w/ experience in "hot" technology, or people who do have a genuine interest in improving their skills, but are not very skilled in identifying the pros and cons of whatever "new hotness" or "best practice" they read on their favorite news aggregators. By extension these creates an industry for grunt work to maintain/refactor/rewrite everchanging codebases/frameworks. Coupled with the general tendency of people to favor new shrink-wrapped libraries over doing good ol' painstaking research, it's difficult to reverse that trend.
Business vs. Startup, a flirting story
Things You Need to Create Usable JVM Languages
YouTube-now-lets-you-play-videos-on-loop
No, that doesn't work with proper sandbox attribute. To quote w3schools (http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_iframe_sandbox.asp):

When the sandbox attribute is present, and it will:

* treat the content as being from a unique origin

* block form submission

* block script execution

* disable APIs

* prevent links from targeting other browsing contexts

* prevent content from using plugins (through <embed>, <object>, <applet>, or other)

* prevent the content to navigate its top-level browsing context

* block automatically triggered features (such as automatically playing a video or automatically focusing a form control)

I'd say alone blocking scripts, form submits, preventing links to change other contents and checking if there's behavior stuff in the CSS (which facilitates Javascript injection) is enough to have a secure webmail display. Responsive webmails \o/
GCHQ-developed phone security 'open to surveillance'
WW3+THE+WORLD+PERSECUTION+OF+WHITES+GETS+WORSE+-+YouTube
I saw this coming. Nepal has such good natural resources to generate enough electricity for itself and export to its neighbors, yet political deadlocks and bureaucratic hurdles are ruining the potential. http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/755108/energy-starved-nepal-los...
Very neat to see the how the centroids move to the equilibria. Also interesting to look at other point distributions to see what happens in more pathological cases. (For the interested, I once made a kmeans visualization http://www.naftaliharris.com/blog/visualizing-k-means-cluste..., there is one in the sibling comment to this, and many others can be found with a little googling).
Although I agree with you, I generally should trust my email provider to not mess with my email, however I choose to receive it.

Sure, html email is annoying, but let there be a flag or option for the user to decide to display it or not.
HTTP 204. You send the request, the browser stays where it is. Super simple, and what it was made for. Amazon used to use it quite heavily back in the day.
The cool thing about the address calculation is that there is a LEA instruction (load effective address), which gives you the resulting address. I.e. instead of actually loading the value from the calculated address in memory, it gives you the address itself without accessing memory. This allows you to do "complex" calculations in just one instruction. This doesn't really help performance-wise in modern CPUs, but it used to in the old 386 days.
The UX of Typography and Readability
The point was that if you simply cut parking lots, the situation changes. Because then you need time for the "hunt a parking lot" while busses start to be on time as congestion decreases.

In Helsinki, especially before 550, certain trips are lot faster with car. Currenly my school comute is 25min by car and 1h by bus. The fucked up thing is that bus routes are so winding that they compete with bicycle in speed and reach.
> mashes two familiar companies together and calls it a new one.

Hasn't that always been what "merger" meant? :p

Edit: My joke is that corporations have been making dumb amalgamations for many many years now. Anybody remember "Mr. Sparkle" from The Simpsons, where two companies in fish vs. heavy-industries combined to sell detergent? That was amusingly-relatable even when it came out 18 years ago.
I don't quite understand the pigeonhole concept as it relates to the pigeons. Is the thought experiment saying that if they check each pigeonhole they'll only ever find one pigeon? Even with infinite pigeons, they'll only find one? (And presumably all the other pigeons will occupy the other roost?) I'm not quite following.
I created a site which encourages good habits by weekly text message reminders

For example you can say

* Every week Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8pm - go to the gym

* Every Tuesday and Thursday 5am - walk the dog

* Every Sunday -10am - Call my parents

What happens is you get a message and you are forced to reply yes or no.

How this differs from other apps is the greater precision in the time of the reminder, and the fact that responding is done via your phone messaging app.

Sorry, at this time, only US mobile providers are on the list. If you are from another country and are interested in trying out the service, leave a comment, and I'll be sure to add it by end of the week.

For me personally, I found the site helpful as a reminder to take my fish oil for dry eyes every morning at 8:45am, and to read at 8pm. I'm not sure if it is due to the constant bugging, or the dreadful awareness my phone is going to ring and I have to respond. But it seems to work for me.

Sign-up is free for one habit. Lastly the technology stack used is Rails/AWS/Delayed Jobs/MMS e-mail gateways.

Feedback is appreciated!

http://www.vhabit.com
There's nothing wrong with a hand-stitching look. Making an app look interesting is not the problem.

The issues with skeuomorphism occur when the attempt at making a "real life" object imposes restrictions on functionality that would not have existed otherwise. For example:

- Making something look like a "book" causes designers to try too hard to shove things into a two-page view when computers are outstanding at being far more flexible than a book (e.g. multiple resizable columns, scrolling, and so on).

- Making something look like a "dial" just makes it unnecessarily hard to interact with when using a mouse or even a touch screen. Interface elements designed for use on computers are superior.
I think you're looking for rtags: https://github.com/Andersbakken/rtags
On Windows, try "Pseudo VT320" from http://keyboards.jargon-file.org/ , it has most of these with AltGr as a compose-like key.
Nice set of images showing the result of tweaking different parameters:

https://twitter.com/BlackiLi/status/689860531293941762
IMPRAISE Gives Insights on Their Recruitment Process and Practices
Feed, please? Would love to get this on my daily reader.
Isn't this a clear cut example of linguistic prescriptivism? The vast majority of people do not use the word to mean that.
#CES2016: Noise, hype, hustle … and business as usual
Github homepage is more informative: https://github.com/Soundnode/soundnode-app/blob/master/READM...
Actually, the <video> tag is the only important part, the rest is just noise.
No one on NPR claims that all minorities are progressive. It's well reported, for example, that many Latinos lean conservative on many issues (anti abortion, opposed to opening relations with Cuba, etc).

It's not a misrepresentation to say that, e.g., blacks tend to vote Democratic. That's factual information, and it's not the same as claiming that all minorities are progressive. No one claims this. I don't even know what "narrative" NPR would be forwarding if they claimed this.

This frankly sounds a lot more like a Fox News tactic than NPR. "All minorities vote progressive!" sounds like a rallying cry to get conservatives riled up and active.
But the worst offender they list is General Motors.
Can you share the requirements that you employer needs? Box has been trying to get into enterprise for a long time, and has many 'enterprise' features, but we all know how well Box is doing financially. I think the problem with Box is "it's just a feature, not a product", especially in the presence of other alternatives like One Drive, Google Drive, Amazon Drive and what not. It might be a feature done better than the others, but it's not a product by itself to be bought in a stand alone package. There is no differentiation, actually it's even worse as I can't edit my documents unlike with Google/MS. Pricing is definitely not better than any of the competitors.