skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the city and the job imo. Many cities have very bad late-night bus services (often non-existent), which is a problem if you're a janitor or fast-food worker who gets off at 2am. And many of the better-paying jobs available to the poor are in wealthy suburban areas with bad bus services as well, so with no car you're cutting out a bunch of employment options, like cleaning houses or waiting tables in upscale suburbs. Atlanta has interesting rush-hour traffic along those lines, with a large group of poor people from southern Atlanta driving to jobs in the suburban/exurban counties to the north.
Well, by matching investors with investments you are helping the market supply capital where it's needed.
There are some cool Babbage-related meccano models here: http://www.meccano.us/

One of them is a "barrel" for the Analytical Engine: http://www.meccano.us/analytical_engine/index.html

There are also fully working models of the Difference Engine e.g. http://www.meccano.us/difference_engines/rde_2/index.html although I think they had to make some modifications due to the limitations of Meccano!
Sounds like he could've easily embedded python into his app instead.
If he's actually poor and desperate, at least now he has a roof over his head and three meals a day.

As it stands, this guy had time and money for leisure activities like social networks, and his own friends were surprised he didn't have a legitimate job. That doesn't strike me as something you can say about someone forced into poverty by their circumstances.
Very interesting, all three concepts. I found Nelson and Coupland the most intriguing. Alice would be great for entertainment, but a hassle for instruction/information.
Sad fact
The intersection of the languages I want to use and the languages software I'd like to have written were written in is the empty set.
"Would you also be willing to pay a monthly fee for software that you download? Why should a company fix your problems forever when you only paid them a one-time fee?"

1) Companies who sell physical goods generally offer a limited-time warranty, not forever. Software can do likewise. They can also specify what they don't cover - ie "if you install this on an OS other than what we listed, or use peripherals that come out in the future which we couldn't have anticipated, and something doesn't work, you'll have to pay for support or updates to get our help." 2) I wouldn't expect a company to spend more supporting their software than they make by selling it. But a company SHOULD help their customers get their software working because it's good customer support, and because "fixing my problems" may well mean improving their software. If they're unwilling to put forth reasonable effort, I'm happy to use their competitor's product.
The drawing parts were close, but mobile profiles can greatly be affected by other parts (in this case the original FPS counter was consuming tons of CPU and battery). The optimized versions do a first approximation of what the Flash engine is doing under the hood, but are still fundamentally equivalent to the original drawing code.
Having just left the US High School system, the problem is that we aren't teaching anything in high school.

As PG said in his essay "Why Nerds Are Unpopular" [1], American high schools are popularity contests. The focus is not on actually learning anything, but on keeping us confined in one room while the adults go do work.

Of course, the system is WAY too complicated for that to be the only cause. For example, another cause is apathy amongst the students. My high school senior class was 250-300 students large. My high school graduating class was about 150-200 students large. This is because ~100 students simply didn't care enough. Of the 150-200 students graduating, most went on to a community college, very few - about 50 or so, actually went to a 4 year university.

Again, that's only barely scratching the surface, but I have class to go to, and that's of a higher priority than this comment. Because caring about your education is half the battle.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/nerds.html
Being honest, nothing at all. And it takes ~25€ to run it each month (superfeedr credits, virtual machine).

Honestly I need some good tips to make this more than a occasional tool. But I definitely don't want to be a replacement for google blogsearch nor technorati, but rather be an interesting 'hub' for contents (and realtime, that too).
Instant World Wide Web loads pages instantly in Google Chrome as you Type
Google Chrome extension is like Google Instant for web pages means when you start typing this extension predicts your input and loads web pages automatically(no need to press Enter button), seems working well for all major sites for example if you type ‘g’ Google homepage will be automatically loaded as with typing “gm” Gmail will be loaded etc,.
Sorry I'm trying to improve my English but progresses are really logarithmic at this point...

Well also the fact that I try to write this blog posts in very little time (it took me two hours at max, probably even a mother tongue should alloc more time to end with an high quality blog post) does not help either.
Sorry this reply took so long (I just saw your comment). Thanks for the great testimonial. Pasadena is a lovely town - hope you have a splendid trip!
Being poor is having the child of a partner at a top CPA firm tell you that you don't need more handouts.
I suspect a lot of that article is sensationalizing and extrapolation from too few data points, on behalf of security experts seeking publicity.
I wasn't aware of the change. Thanks for letting me know.
“The core function of the cookie is to link what you do on Web site A to what you do on Web site B,” said Peter Eckersley, a technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “The Flash cookie makes it harder for people to stop that from happening.”

I think the technologist intends to refer to third-party cookies.
I do understand this article; however I would point out that among the "poor" (in America hardly anyone is poor like in the 3rd world) I have met, TV is present and books are not.
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I agree, I think it is brave of IDEO to focus on the interaction and not overdo the glossy visuals. There are some real UI pearls (and some barnacles) in here, but it would be wise for the new crop of ebook companies e.g. Inkling.com to pay attention to this!
Monthly Audiences For Zynga Titles, Top Facebook Games Shrinking
Depends on where he lives.
As consumers, we are not responsible for how a company intends to make money. If I buy something, I own it. If I license it, I explicitly know that it isn't mine. He bought it, its his. They don't get to say "this doesn't fit our business plan."

Some time ago I bought an iPhone, went though the contract, and then changed carriers. I put the iPhone in a box, where it remained for the next year.

One day I needed an iPhone to do some market research for a product I was making. "But wait, I _have_ an iPhone," I remembered. I took it out of the box and it didn't work; it was deactivated, because I'm not longer an AT&T customer.

I had to spend the next four hours of my life jail breaking that phone -- I still needed it -- to make the iPhone I have "sort of" mine. This is after paying for the device and for a year of service under contract. After all that money spent, I still needed permission from two separate companies to use something that was mine in the first place.

So after going though that experience, I don't really care if a company (startup or not) goes bust, come up with a better business model, not my problem. If I payed my money for it, I will do whatever I want with it.
Being hired on the US minimum wage is hardly going to lift people out of poverty. One thing that really seems crazy to me is that the US minimum wage isn't even tied to inflation and went though a period of no increase from 1997 to 2006.

Almost need some kind of subsidy somewhere to give these people at least a decent standard of living.
Siemens AG is not quite an American company.
Mercurial runs unchanged on 2.4 to 2.7, and it's not a trivial little piece of software.

Pretty much the only thing you need to do to make your Python code run on 2.x+ is "don't use features released after 2.x".
My guess is that Perl has been silently chugging along in the background, while Ruby (with Rails) and Python (with Django) popped into the spotlight under higher scrutiny.

Perl hasn't had a popular framework that has built as large a community of users (and detractors) as any other. They do have frameworks (like Catalyst), but nothing that has gathered as much attention.
I love how when you click on the "about" tab on usgovernmentspending.com, it's basically revealed that the site is run by some guy with a blog. I went to the guy's blog, and prominently on the left side of the screen, there's an image that reads, "proud right wing extremist".

Usgovernmentspending.com looks like a great source of accurate, reliable information! </sarcasm>
nice idea, not sure about the name though, I'm English and loo means toilet to me. I assumed it would be lots of 'crap' links not good links.
If you lived in a bad enough neighborhood and had an insurance policy like that, "accidentally" leaving your doors unlocked would be a cheap and easy insurance fraud--which is why some insurers are reluctant to cover people in that situation.
So the folks in the barrios live in makeshift shelters, assembled from whatever materials they have available; they have to worry about where they're going to get clean water and food from one day to the next, etc.

How is this any different from how all of humanity lived for millennia, up until about ten thousand years ago?

I don't mean to sound condescending or dismissive, I'm just wondering why more people don't see these circumstances as an opportunity to develop mature, self-reliant communities, and instead presume that some external catalyst is necessary to improve the situation.
The RAF has always been very clear about who its real enemies are... The Army and the Navy. I think this is true in most countries...
Perl was pitched initially as a replacement for shell-scripting + sed + awk; if you take that as a baseline, Perl is usually much faster. Many of the other "slow" languages seem to pitch themselves as competitors in wider spaces.

The text-processing focus, especially early on, might also be a factor, because if you're mainly banging data through regexes, it's pretty fast. The super-fancy regexes-that-are-more-than-regular do have degenerate cases, but they're fast in a wide range of cases, and in my comparisons usually beat sed.
I don't know when this was written, but some of the "facts" listed are simply not true.

"Being poor is hoping the register lady will spot you the dime."
The minimum wage in California is $8/hr, so $0.1 is equal to only 0.75 minutes of labor.

"Being poor is crying when you drop the mac and cheese on the floor."
A burger at McDonalds costs around $1, or only 7.5 minutes of labor.
Sure, in that sense it is the same. I was thinking about methods without side effects. Then it wouldn't matter if they exist in several instances, I suppose.
He committed the crimes; he is responsible for the consequences. He knew he had a pregnant girlfriend, and chose to not care. To let someone continue on a destructive path against the community around him isn't dong anyone any favors, not him, his girlfriend, or his child.
Zed Should have used Lua(the entire lua source distro weighs couple of hundred kilo bytes). Lua is superb embedded language and even better configuration language.

No one needs to know it is Lua, (which also happens to be a marketing problem for Lua, heh).

His decision not to use Lua the second time around is perplexing because he is not averse to reusing third-party libraries and he is already using the code from Lua for URL pattern matching (IIRC).
Software development is like winemaking
I also think Adobe is somewhat responsible, it seems like yet another case of them not looking out for there users best interests.

Also, I'm writing this post from my Flashless iPad, and it makes me feel even better about Apples's decision.
What is the shortest and generally most useful bit of wisdom you know?
An interesting read, in which I learned that Americans spend far fewer days in the hospital than others, but our costs per day are ~2x average, and we receive 25% more procedures than others. I wonder how much of this is waste due to either profit motives or fear, versus how much is due pioneering new procedures that will gain widespread usage a few years down the road elsewhere. (That's intended to be a sincere question.)

One sentence struck me as odd, confusing me as to what the author was trying to demonstrate:

> "In fact, the increased numbers of percutaneous coronary interventions, knee replacements, coronary bypasses, and cardiac catheterizations alone accounts for an extra $21 billion in additional inpatient costs."

Percutaneous coronary interventions are life-saving procedures. It's a bit odd to see them lumped in with diagnostic caths and knee replacements. I would like to see at least X PCIs, where X is the number of myocardial infarctions that occur each year.
There are a lot of things I don't like about it. But in all honesty my dislike might actually be how RIA Services implemented the approach, not the approach itself. I am currently writing a big blog entry going in to details on this. I'll let you know when it's posted.
If it came to war then speed of production of fighter aircraft would have a pretty minimal impact on the US ability to achieve air superiority. The days when Britain survived WWII by manufacturing >14000 Hurricanes are long gone
Well, if a person complains about being poor and still have kids, I find the right to point out to that person the obvious planning mistakes in his life, It's not like I am shouting at random poor people now, is it?
Crap, didn't really think about the name, I just had the domain name lying around (was the name of one of my first projects, when I was 13 or 14).

For now it's just a concept. Maybe if it ends being something useful for people on a daily basis and I can get enough time to push interesting features I'll change the name and establish it as a serious project.
Resourcey - Resources for Programmers
I wish there was a mass-migration of some sort. K5 was the most well-rounded community I've ever been a part of. I wish this could be recreated. :-/
awesome web app!
Some simple lessons I learned about the App Store
Well, he said he made the new parser read the unchanged config file format. Presumably, lua would have needed a change of syntax.

Also possibly he decided to step outside the language wars because it's less hassle to write your own parser than wrangle language partisans.
The US Govt can use Redhat, but not Ubuntu (Ubuntu hasn't been Common Criteria / EAL tested).
That's a pretty huge market right there.
For example? The search is powered by sphinx, the title, summary and tags are indexed and words are stemmed. Search is fast, instant search is error-proof for concurrency problems (or at least it should). There is no synonym search, but this isn't google either.
It's great :) Love the instantization of select news sources. Maybe you can provide an on-the-fly custom selection of news sources - or adding custom news sources by RSS
http://bit.ly/9t0CIz is our voting site, links to GE.

$50k for the idea with the most votes
$100k for top 5 best ideas, voted on by judges
$200m venture fund for most promising ideas
Partnership potential with GE.

ends september 30th
not to mention the fact that the bot will get spotted for entering the same phrase more then a few times, get put on a list and get served the squiggly crap
Hi everyone,

Resourcey is a "scratch our own itch" project we made, to keep track of all the great user-created extensions and other resources that Hacker News and other sites have.

We'd appreciate any feedback/bug reports, and of course please add any other resources you know about, both for Hacker News and other sites.
From my perspective, Daeken's work made me more likely to buy one of these devices, not less likely. It sucks that Emotiv chose a poor business model; and it's really too bad that they're too short-sighted to see how a passionate community of tinkerers and makers can be the road to their success.
I'd recommend putting somewhere on the page 'instant news search' or hopefully a better tagline.

I had no idea what linkloo was until i read the page title which is partially hidden in the tab.
:e also has tab completion.

I also use ctags. Usually I want to look things up by symbol name, not filename, though it's trivially easy to make a script that generates a tags file of just filenames too. (And :tag also supports tab completion.)
Navigation buttons: Back, Forward, Up, Top, etc.
Maps of race and ethnicity in US cities
Exactly. Not to mention all the extra stuff like repairs and maintenance that is a shock to most first time buyers.

You'll need a lawn mower, curtains (most likely), more furniture, etc... It all ads up, especially if you have a wife.
It's clearly a huge security flaw, but as you say -- only within the context of twitter. Looking at the big picture of my life something like this doesn't even register. What's the worst thing that could happen, really? A popup? Maybe my account gets stolen somehow? Some garbage tweets in my timeline that I delete later with a non-web client? All of the sudden I'm following some spammers... I'd get over it.
Hopefully the new CTO knows to how to enable SSL on their login page and ecommerce pages.
JDK 7 Features updated  Plan B has apparently been approved
Is there an inside joke here?

Because I'm quite certain that Parkinson's bike shed allegory was commonly used among software development teams well before 1999.
So after complaining that he could not use new language features that appeared six years ago, he went back and rewrote the whole thing using a different language whose syntax is much much more than six years ago.

I guess he must have found these must-have Python 2.5 language features that are so important and desirable in C.

And by the way, don't use new GCC features, because some ancient GCC versions will be supported by Red Hat until 2020.

For God's sake, support != enforce
Ask HN: What are the most canonical python libs?
I've found myself writing more and more python and I kind of want to do it right. Is there a place where I can see a list of the most commonly used python libs? I'm dealing with GIS and AMQP right now, but surely I'm going to have more library needs. Anyone care to take me on a tour of what's out there?
Being poor is not being lucky enough to have the opportunities others had. Check out the collaborative list on Listiki.
This type of attack is going to become much more common in the future.

"Nation States" and their various agencies have been interested in SCADA systems for quite a while. There is no security to speak of in industrial control systems. These systems are out of the view of all but the most sophisticated hackers, and only make the news when things go boom.
Come on - at least you could say you are the developer. Otherwise thats not fair. (BTW We use tarsnap as a server offsite backup.)
Huh, I've been able to edit google docs spreadsheets on my iPhone for a while. I guess I never tried editing a word processing document.
It doesn't matter how likely you actually are to get cut. Turns out everyone feels their job is at risk until they know it isn't, so productivity falls across the board.
What does it mean to say "society has hit its limit"?
> I'm curious why not just use `ViB:sort`?

Because we use LessCSS[1] which lets you nest selectors:

body {
color: #151515;
background-color: white;

a {
color: red;
}
}

When I sort the "body" properties I don't want it to break up the stuff nested under it.

I'll give the indent settings a try, thanks!

[1]: http://lesscss.org/
Cut these bloody referal links.

And I would -not- recommend DropBox for critical backup files. First, they can read all content. Second, they got some problems with large folders or system directories.
Apple Sues HyperMac Battery Maker For Patent Infringement
Okay, this looks great. When can we do this in Silicon Valley??
PeepOpen or Command-T.
I only have anecdotal evidence to share, but, take it for what it is worth.

I'd noticed that many people aren't always good judges of character and will fall for illusory confidence. IMO, this explains why there is undue emphasis in certain areas of life on social litmus tests: actual character evaluation is time-consuming, difficult, and requires a certain amount of introspection. So the test becomes a heuristic that works more often than not, and is relied upon. (I like to "whimsically" mention my past history of LAN gaming on 3rd dates as a way to assess how judgmental/uptight they are.)

The upshot is that other people's perceptions of you are way more malleable than you might believe...as is your own perception of yourself.

Ultimately, social exchanges are something of a game, and can be exploited.
yeh but you gota look at it from a business standpoint
who profits from the outsourcing? why would a website owner pay to outsource the ads to get solved in india just to get blacklisted then lose revenue that would have come in anyway for less
> Intellectual property has changed the game fundamentally

You know there's no such thing as "intellectual property". Property, or ownership, is a thing about physical stuff. Scarce stuff. Stuff you lose when others take it. Knowledge is so different that any analogy from the physical realm is bound to lead to critical misconceptions. (Just like anthropomorphism spur critical misconceptions about computers.)

What people actually refer to when they talk about "intellectual property" is intellectual exclusivity, or intellectual monopoly. Copyright and patent laws are about just that: the exclusive right to copy some data, or the monopoly over the usage of some idea.

Now we know that intellectual property doesn't exists, we also know that it couldn't have change the game at all. Actually, what did changed the game is the Ultimate Copying Machine, namely the internet. And as Copying Machines became more efficient, exclusivities and monopolies are harder to maintain. So naturally, those who have a stake in them stroked back.

Hence the term "intellectual property", one of the most effective propaganda oxymoron I have ever seen. See, "property" is a heavily loaded term, which has an extremely good connotation. The right to property is perceived to be fundamental (I think it is, by the way). And that does it. few see that this term glosses over the fact that knowledge can't be owned at all. But the emotional impact of the starving inventor and "stealing intellectual property" are such that it become very hard to see the flaws of this analogy.
It all depends what you're comparing it against, and how you're using it. Keep in mind that Perl was originally created to fit a text processing and shell scripting niche, in which it is tuned to perform quite nicely. I've heard it claimed that its regex engine is likely the fastest you'll find anywhere.

These days its reputation is mainly in the above, and as a glue language. It's simply not used as much for large standalone applications where people would really notice the speed issue, in comparison to something like Java (which is what comes to mind for me as at least at one time having the "slow" reputation).

And although it might not apply in the distant past, CPAN is large enough now that for any conceivable resource-intensive task, there will be a modules available to wrap an appropriate C library.
It's true that no-one should not assume that hardware tinkering is immoral. It would be so much smarter to encourage it. It's a way like another to get people engaged with your product. Tinkering, hacking, or re-purposing what you fully own is a natural process, a human right. You can't stop it. Unless you want consumers to revert to a state where we just know how to use tools, not make or modify them!!