skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Y'know, I'm usually a believer in the genetic component of human behaviour, but I don't think there's much genetics involved here. Fertility rates have been dropping all over the civilized world. Reasons:

1. Women are pursuing education and careers, which means they're often already thirty before they're "ready" to have children -- leaving no time to pump out more than one or two

2. Children are getting more expensive, both in terms of the absolutely compulsory costs and the things you're just expected to buy for them

3. For people who expect to get around by car, more than three children is a nightmare. In fact, with all the modern safety regulations having more than two children is a nightmare. My parents were happy to cart around three young children in the back of an early 80s Mazda 323, but you couldn't do that any more because a minimal child seat would take up nearly the whole back seat

4. There's really no incentive to have more than two children any more. Child mortality is nearly zero, and it's no longer expected that children will support their parents in their old age.
This doesn't seem like it estimates anything - just searches for a particular pattern in the commit messages and does some simple arithmetic.
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I hate to do this to everyone, but what every comment here was saying— that was the joke.

Edit: and for more fun, watch to see what percentage of the comments on the Economist's page fail to catch on as well.
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What makes you think they are delaying anything? You think they haven't been doing the same to others? They've been building a cyber division for years.
The article is obviously tongue-in-cheek. But anyways, not all sections of the population are declining at the same rate. Women who attend religious services regularly, for instance, are much closer to the generational replenishment rate, if not above it.
I'm not sure what world you're living in, but none of the banks in my (medium-sized middle-American) city buy or sell gold. I have to go to a coin dealer, pawn shop, or one of those "WE BUY GOLD" places. A used guitar would be just as easy to convert to cash.
True. I am ready to work as a junior developer too. I have computer science background and have willingness to learn as well but that just does not cut it, in this market.

I am however working on my own apps and learning and trying to build a portfolio that way.
Why would CloudFront double his bill? It's $0.12/gb just like S3.
Congrats on launching. From what I've seen in my brief tour of the site, it's a unique idea.

I agree with stingraycharles that it's a nice and unique hybrid b/w Reddit and StackOverflow.

Best of luck!
I definitely believe that it does. Whether you're a programmer or not, markdown is SIGNIFICANTLY faster to write than actual HTML code, and when the purpose of using a templating system like this is often to reduce the time required getting things to look good. By understanding markdown, the time required to make a presentation will be reduced significantly.
My experience disagrees with your experience, again based on my own life and people I actually know.

The data, broadly speaking, matches up with my experience -- "some report" agrees with my "in the field" data, and with yummyfajitas' "in the field" data, and many others' "in the field" data. "Scalzi's article describes a fairly atypical poverty experience"; you and Scalzi are the outliers, not the norm.
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if you've ever been inside the hanger at spacex, it's incredible
I'm not an intern, and I don't understand why web vs. local makes a difference in this case. Can you explain?
Most infographics delight in providing info and some insight in a visually appealing way. This provides very little info and even less insight. Very disappointing, esp. from Column Five, which usually does superior work.

The infographic trend is rapidly approaching infotoon status, and that's not good. Just because you _can_ make an infographic on a hot trend doesn't always mean you _should_.
And an apt title for his biography.
My thinking was that most research with STM for imperative codes have used the library approach. Since they will have full control over generated code and how it interacts with the STM, they may have more opportunities to optimize.
I'm always very impressed with the continues release of awesome features. I'd love to see your roadmap! Just knowing that, whatever you need or desire, AWS will probably release it at some point soon-ish, is awesome.
That's a good idea for new functionality. A 'Open script' button that opens a popup that you can move out the projector into the screen that you only see that has an overview of slides and the notes.
You mean like the billions of dollars Apple makes from their App Store ?
That's easy to say, but ignorant of history of other open source projects. A lot of open source projects have killed themselves by overcommitment to a bad idea. PyPy is just getting to where it might be considered a practical answer for some problems and if the core project wants to drop that property, committing to a path like this is a great way to do it.

Sure, if it's some guy's branch, hey, whatever, but I'm running on the assumption that this is being promoted not as SomeGuy'sBranch but as an argument about the way the official project should go, because otherwise, why proselytize when you can just do? An awful lot of projects have died this way.

The problem is, this won't die in week two. It'll only die after a lot of effort and either several stalled or buggy releases. It's not an "it just doesn't work, crashes the system" problem, it's an infinite regress problem.
We have. If nothing else, look at what's happened with communication. We have 3G cell service on the top of Everest. We have internet access to almost everywhere in the world. Every civilian can have a device which tells him his exact location down a couple feet.

We've put landers on Mars. We've deployed the Hubble space telescope. We're on the path to having commercial space travel.

Maybe these things aren't as breathtaking as a video of a man walking on the moon. That doesn't mean there hasn't been progress.
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I think sometime in the last year or two this issue has transformed into something that you could argue one way or another to something that's obvious: the Chinese are actively and purposefully trying to break into computers around the world. This is a policy of their government.

Motives are still unclear. Everyone seems to agree on punishing dissidents and suppressing political groups they don't like. Most folks (I think) think it's pretty obvious they're trying to steal U.S. (and foreign) military secrets. Industrial secrets also look high on the list. Perhaps it's all of the above. And more. My money says they're out to steal anything they can.

Now that the discussion is beginning to yield conclusions -- most people agree that this exists and is a problem -- the interesting thing is what to do about it. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't see a lot happening in the next couple of years. But pressure will increase domestically in democracies to provide some kind of relief from this. Would a new administration in the U.S. be more confrontational? Would we start a more public counter hacking effort? Does this just heat up more and more as both sides escalate without dealing with the underlying problem? Or does one side or another try to get some resolution? If the politicians continue to dodge it, does it at some point just blow up?

This is going to be a fascinating story to watch play out over the next decade or so.
How would this be ever an issue? You could simply compile PyPy without STM just as you can compile PyPy without the JIT or with a different GC.
I'm confused, the TouchPad is cheaper than a Kindle, true, but the Kindle has demonstrated that there's a huge market for $100-150 eBook readers. The TouchPad just isn't the right product.
Here's the other mindblowing stat:

"I got the signatures of everybody in that room and in the back room. Every time I did that I would ask them their age. Well, I sat down and ran it out. The average age the night we had splashdown was 28."

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/nasa/4318625
For some reason the proxy server at my work is blocking your website with the message "Virus detected and blocked" and McAfee reports it as having Medium risk:
http://www.mcafee.com/threat-intelligence/domain/default.asp...
> The longer the US delays to enter the cyber arms race the more it risks conceding dominance for the foreseeable future.

I thought that the US was not only the founder of cyber war fare but far and away the leader in it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
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Fair enough - I can never quite seem to get up the momentum of contracts I need to make a go of it. I'm not a sales type...
The sad thing is that it's not just one typo, it's used throughout. Great job!
Yes, because the title of the software says "Denial of Service Network Attacking Tool, By Chinese P.L.A. Electronic Engineering Institute, Version 1.0"

Btw the Institute website is http://www.eei.edu.cn/
Hmm, thanks for the heads up, I'll have to look into that. I don't know what would be causing that.
I'm in Cork, Ireland. Second-largest city in the country.

I'm gonna bet you €10 right now (or an equivalent value of the element of your choice, if you insist) that there's not a bank within 20 miles of here where I can walk in with gold and walk out with cash.
Just in case anyone missed it, the HD photo is here: http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/upload/2011/08/22/pwg_high/2011...
Another reminder on why it's bad to rely on just a central information hub. Wikileaks is not 'freeing information' as much as drumming up publicity for themselves (and Assange).
Tomboy is one of my favorite apps of all time (even kept up a Snowy for a while to sync.) Of all the alternatives mentioned here (which I've tried time and time again) it's the only one with such a slick workflow. Popping multiple pages open like sticky notes, or one big page for reference was a killer feature for me.

I've been waffling between txt or Google Docs for a while now, mostly just for need of a strong mobile client, but miss my Tomboy littered desktops...
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I imagine this is a very large portion of NSA operations.

There's no need for "cyber command" to really be part of the military. There's no need to put hackers through boot camp, or make 'em wear uniforms, or salute... it would bring down the average quality of the hackers and the average quality of the military. Far better to fold it under the roof of the intelligence agencies.
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Ya, sorry to be the bearer of bad news, I know this is the last thing you want to hear on launch day!
Why is the organization designed in such a way that anyone - Assange included - can permanently delete submissions? People risk their lives and their careers to submit this information. It's hard to believe that this act was "in the interest of the security of sources" as Domscheit-Berg claims. Don't delete it, encrypt it!

Any digital submissions should be backed up in multiple physical places, and disconnected from any networks. Physical submissions should be scanned in (at which point it becomes a digital submission) and similarly backed up.
Do you take feature requests? If yes, then I would like to have:

- ability to have multi-user chat (side-by-side rather then one under another)
- ability to remove arbitrary symbols
- ability to highlight (when you select some text, it's displayed as highlighted on the other side).

I hope I'm not asking too much. :) And, anyway - thanks! I've been thinking about writing my own, but was too lazy to experiment with it.
Check http://slickdeals.net. Occasionally someone will find a store with more stock. It's rumored that HP will have more in about a month, and/or we'll see these again around Black Friday (post-Thanksgiving sales in the U.S.).
> It looks beutiful and all. But does people actually do presentations like this for hand? (css and html).

Yep, I've used LaTeX/beamer for quite some time. It's great for some things (not only math, but really any advanced text formatting and layout and some simple animations) and awful for others (graphics, mostly). PowerPoint, on the other hand, allows you more fine-grained control over layout, and is more graphics/diagram-friendly -- but having to do everything with a mouse is kind of daunting. I'd rather type everything in, let the system lay it out for me and then correct what doesn't look good.
We're far more proficient than they are

I wouldn't be sure of that. Check out the country distribution of Google's Code Jam participants: http://www.go-hero.net/jam/11/regions
>If you teach someone that there is value in making Car extend Vehicle just because that expresses a real-world relationship, you are teaching exactly the wrong lesson and your students will create overly complex inheritance hierarchies.

Only if your students are idiot drones. I think the majority of us went through these same lessons and came out just fine. Stupid is as stupid does (why do I keep saying that so much?) People who are good programmers can take a simplistic lesson like that and grasp the over-all concepts while people destined for terrible careers simply wont. No point bringing down the rest us with them.
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Amazing job!!! When will it be available?
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Don't read too much into it. I just thought it might be fun to see him resurrected.
Unlike environments like GWT or ClojureScript, coffeescript doesn't treat the JavaScript as an invisible target language. You do actually think a little about the JavaScript that your code is being compiled into (or maybe more accurately, translated into).

This makes CoffeeScript fit really well into the JS-centric environment that has grown up around tools like JQuery and backbone. It's also very easy to debug in the browser compared to the environments that are targeting JS as an object code.

Personally, I don't think of CoffeeScript as a fully independent language but, rather, as a way to write JS which is cleaner, more reliable, and more fun.

If you really want to turn JS into a black box (and there are some good arguments for that), GWT or ClojureScript might be better choices for you.

(I've been writing a bunch of CoffeeScript lately and loving it. I'm very anxious to try my hand at ClojureScript also. GWT has always seemed very unwieldy to me.)
I doubt that building LEGO's has anything to do with building actual houses out of concrete and glass. That's my point. You can't build a real house out of legos and playing with them will not teach you anything about how actual houses are built. Same with programming - you can't learn to build good software by just mucking around aimlessly (unless you are some sort of genius). You have to learn how high-quality software is built.

Or maybe it just seems so to me, because I'm really really stupid and have to work hard to grasp even the easiest concepts :-)
This will be implemented as an interpreter transformation, the entire idea behind this is that you don't have to care about it, just as you usually don't have to care about the JIT or the GC.
Only problem I see is incentive to write on your website. People write on SOF or HN for reputation, why should they write on listry?
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Interesting point, I guess we need to know to what extent this behaviour is genetic.

Your interesting and pertinent question has both an easy answer and a hard answer. I'll provide references for both.

The easy answer is that this behavior is "heritable," that is that correlations in rank order on this dimension of behavior are stronger for close relatives than for persons who are not close relatives. That is true of ALL human behaviorial characteristics, without exception. A genetically sensitive study design on any human behavioral characteristic from political behavior (who is "conservative" and who is "liberal") to obesity to IQ will always show a broad heritability greater than 0 (and always strictly less than 1). Everything that people do is heritable.

The hard answer is that even if a human behavior is shown to be heritable, as all human behaviors are, it still remains unknown how much the behavior is subject to environmental influences. Some human behavioral characteristics with high observed heritabilities are nonetheless highly sensitive to environmental influences. Most human behavioral characteristics are polygenic, that is they are influenced by many genes, each with a small effect, and even monozygotic twins are consistently found to differ in highly heritable characteristics, for environmental reasons that are sometimes still quite poorly understood. Knowing the heritability of a human behavioral characteristic says nothing about how much that characteristic is subject to environmental influences.

Here are the references I promised, recent papers by world-famous behavioral geneticists:

http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/papers2/Articles%20for%20O...

http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/papers2/Articles%20for%20O...

To sum up, in the context of this thread, a LONG-TERM trend of women having fewer children might be expected to reduce the reproduction most of women who have some genetic propensity to disfavor having children. But all women of all shuffles of the genes respond to societal and individual incentives to have more or fewer children, with few of those incentives yet being well understood. It is certainly possible in principle to reduce the trend toward reduced reproduction, irrespective of which persons (with which genomes) are reproducing.
I think Apple will have a hard time winning this since they altered some images of the Galaxy Tab.

Some links:
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Apple-iPad-Galaxy-Tab-10.1-Lawsu...
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/apple-accused-of-doctorin...
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I'll be sure to clone it while you are walking by =)
I really like this library. I probably wouldnt use it for presentations for the reasons already cited by others, but i can see it being useful for interactive help manuals or information packs personally.

Just a thought.
Pick up Visual Studio Express (Visual C# Express) for starters:

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Windows Forms is NOT deprecated, nor is WPF.

The good news is that you can jump in anywhere and the skills you learn will help you down the road. WinForm and, even moreso, WPF programming will help you if you wish to jump into Silverlight.

It's all the same crap and you'll be able to transition easily. I've been playing with WPF and Silverlight as of late. Perhaps you should start with WPF.

You can write your app in whatever today and it probably won't be deprecated for at least a decade, but in the current eco-system of WinForms/WPF/Silverlight it's pretty easy to transition code if you keep it clean.
In terms of scope I can agree that there is a bit of a difference, in that we're talking about whether you can copyright an entire library design versus a specific limited set of interconnection points. But even that would be problematic and contrary to existing practice; for example, Wine's reimplementation of the Win32 API would be a copyright violation if the Win32 API (and not just the code implementing it) is copyrightable. It contradicts the assumptions behind clean-room reverse engineering as well, which are that how-something-works documentation doesn't taint copyright of a new implementation that follows it as a spec.
Cookies are shared with the server. Local storage generally is for local data only.
I meant "toilet math" -- I'm not sure if it's a good expression, I heard it somewhere before; not a native English speaker :)
The article treats the 'open' and 'closed' status of APIs as if it somehow relates to being open-sourced or something. Really they are just referring to access control, which is both irrelevant to the issue at hand (whether an API is copyrightable) and also not at all relevant to the actual APIs being discussed (Java). Access rights for linked APIs mostly don't exist, and if they do its by way of authorizing the runtime the library is running within, not by using security tokens + authentication.
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It is also stated why doing that automatically is unfeasible.
The way I read it, it's a PyPy-the-VM feature, used in RPython, but not a PyPy-the-interpreter feature callable in the Python code interpreted, hence it's not available to users (i.e Python devs)
"in the interest of the security of sources", if true, is actually a pretty good reason.
Sure. The API Oracle is talking about is the interface between various parts of Java--if you include this file, you can now call these methods. Conversely, Twitter provide network endpoints with which you can communicate with Twitter.com. These bear a certain abstract similarity (there are interfaces), but they have vastly different purposes.

The author could make the argument that changes in the patentability of one meaning of API could impact the other meaning of API. Instead, while purporting to define the APIs under discussion. they talked about the Twitter sense instead.

They then discuss Java's API in terms of "Open" vs. "Closed," which appears to refer to how easy it is to register for an API key with web APIs. When you are using an APIs of the library kind, the files you are interacting with are under your control--there is no registration, there are no API keys.
Gold is not entirely useless - it is used in small amounts in some electronics manufacturing (as a coating to improve conduction and resist corrosion for pins on CPUs, etc). It is also biologically inert, so if it were cheaper, it might find use in implanted prosthesics.
While we're talking about fantasy technology anyway, creating atoms of an element is a very different problem to rearranging existing atoms into food.
This would be a good time to remind everyone that Sergey Brin was born in Russia during Soviet rule.
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I understand, but I was curious if there was any leading site for such news? Not necessarily like HN or reddit, but, an industry blog that does a good job of keeping people informed.
Oddly I'm most impressed by the Mode7 look, which has that analogue-TV Teletext look about it missing from most viewdata emulators.
I didn't realize a company was offering Android tablets, $199 for 10" and $99 for 7". That's quite cool. Thank you for posting the link.
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I've used semantic.gs during the beta test period and love the fact I tell my html it's grid based using css and not the other way around. Declaring grids in HTML always felt like doing table based layouts but even more obfuscated.
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Congratulations on launching a Beta! The site is visually pleasing and the layout works.

I noticed one small detail that is jarring and it should be a simple style fix. The location of content contained in a div or span shifts when you change categories on the "New Articles" tab. You should be able to see what I mean by selecting "New Articles" then watching the Listry icon in the upper left move to the right (or left) after selecting another category from the list.