skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess my boys and their friends are luckier. None of them has been arrested, though they have been stopped by police several times- for offences like "walking around downtown while young and male", and "driving around on Prom night while young and male".

Helps that they are mostly Eagle Scouts, tops of their classes in school, half are planning to enlist, the other half going straight to Univeristy.

One was even accosted by an off-duty policeman when he was in a bar with a friend. He was only 18 but wasn't drinking, just having a good time before he shipped out to Iraq. When the policeman learned this, he bought him a drink! Then the officer called a buddy to drive him home when the night was over. Imagine his folks' surprise when a squad car pulled up and let their son out!

Anyway, the young people I know who have at least one parent that tried hard and kept them involved, haven't had any experiences like the study suggests. The stats are probably more a testament to the economy that keeps both parents working, than any statement about youth today.
Bizarre. I had almost the same experience in the south of France.

I was first on the scene of an accident where a car had taken a corner too fast and rolled. The car was upside down, the roof was partially crushed and petrol was pouring out of the car but the engine was still running. The single occupant was a young woman who appeared semi-conscious but was bleeding where shards of glass were embedded in her chest. I checked her vitals and then wanted to switch the engine off. Because of how she was positioned (half out of the window and without a seatbelt) I could not reach the ignition to turn the engine off. I was worried that the petrol pouring out of the car might ignite. I had to squeeze myself through the passenger side window but the roof had partially collapsed. After a bit of a struggle to reach I succeeded in turning the engine off.

By the time I had extricated myself from the car and returned to the driver a crowd had started arriving and were simply gawking (but not helping). Then someone lit a cigarette and I flipped. I'm the least aggressive person you could meet but I pretty much clouted him, gave him a mouthful of abuse and then when back to the driver.

It was a weird experience because "normally" I have a really bad phobia of blood. I can faint just hearing someone talk about the circulatory system (I'm not kidding, this has happened).

In this case my brain seemed to switch into a different highly-organised purely logical mode.
Taking Stands and Speaking Clearly
Earlier discussion here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3371392
There's a very powerful transmitter from a US spy base in Exmouth that was suspected at one point: http://www.takesontravel.com/web/index.php?option=com_k2&...
I love this quote - "We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours."

Reminds me of that time when Apple invented the mouse-driven GUI.
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"For example, if the baseline traffic on a data center network is 1Gbps, but peaks at 10Gbps for just a few minutes at lunch time… do you wire the entire data center up with costly 10Gbps gear, or just admit that there’ll be lots of latency and packet loss at peak times?"

Heh. The article makes this a 1G or 10G choice. Haven't they heard of 802.3ad?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_aggregation

Kludge.
I know... When that was published, by sidebar was half the height that it is now. I'll edit it tonight to reflect the new layout. Thanks for the criticism.
At 690,000 atmospheres, you can see this too!
CryptDB - Encrypted MySQL
I prefer dark, less light hitting my eyes.
Or links on a webpage?
When Less Is More: The Case for Teaching Less Math in Schools
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Nice to see a Danish startup getting traction. Go Europe! ;)
Warning: You will really have to want to read the article to click through. It's a small article split amongst 7 pages, and if you get distracted and leave it up for a bit, it switches away to an ad. Evil.
Here's the appstore link for what he's talking about: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tymoot/id423231052
You're right, it isn't. The presence of yield makes the return value of f() a generator object. The function body is not executed initially. When you call .next() on the generator object execution starts and runs until it hits the first yield, raising a NameError because g is not defined.

edit: typo
I like their weekly email newsletter. It is curated well for the best content. I don't use the service or visit their site.
"I would not be surprised to see Google make a change to its signal strength to bars mapping for LTE and placebo away an issue that never really existed to begin with."

As an engineer it grates on my sanity when people compare engineering measures (such as the number of bars) when the measures are computed with different assumptions. It happens all the time when the technical meets the non-technical.
BEST.COLOR.SCHEME.EVER
Apple Wins Patent Dispute, HTC Phones Banned From Store Shelves
I'm pretty sure any psychologist would trash this application, but having to deal with my 2 kids, i have to say, should at least be fun to use it as long as you don't think this is an educational tool.

Edit for format. (my first reply to a thread!)
The alternative that was the 10 years prior to this round of lawsuits where they didn't try to win in the courts.
I'm sorry, but are people not able to ignore this? I, like everyone, use Google all the time and I didn't even notice this till now. There are times when pointing out something that could be improved makes the experience worse.

On top of that, isn't this complaint ignoring relevant differences between Google and Wolfram Alpha? In particular, the fact that Wolfram Alpha is funded by Wolfram's other income and Google makes money from its search engine (and therefore needs to put ads in a prominent place).
I use tir_black for Vim (Terminal Vim via iTerm2 with xTerm reported); I find it softer on my eyes that a lot of other colour schemes I've tried.
I fell off of my bike and broke my collar bone a few years back. Up until that point, i was young and naive enough to not be fully aware that not everyone shared the same experiences I had, including basic first aid training from the boy scouts. So when a bystander who saw the crash came over to "help", the first thing he said was "we have to get you out of the street", and he started trying to pick me up and drag me. I had to scream at him before he would listen and put me down. I remember being completely flabbergasted that he had done the one thing they tell you to never do -- try to move an injured person. I had to explain to him that if I had a neck injury, he could have just paralyzed me.
I found the article to be an interesting read but I wish that someone could talk about the psychology, history behind why the country became that way instead of just finger pointing on how terrible the conditions were. While its difficult to feel any empathy towards a manipulative, despotic, authoritarian regime, I also think that most westerners misunderstand and underestimate the people and their situation.

The NK brand of communism is just a thin veil for the old dynastic feudal caste society that Korea traditionally was. This is just how the country was for over 2 millennia. The north, especially due to its easily defensible mountainous terrain, has always played a pivotal role in keeping larger more powerful threats from absorbing the whole. Considering its history it sheds some light into understanding their extreme xenophobia.

Westerners always raise the question, why don't the people rise up against the injustice? This is a culture steeped in confucianism, the patriarch is supreme and group cohesion and harmony is of higher importance than the needs of an individual. Even linguistically, social order is embedded into the language with many different levels of honorifics for different rank and class.

A little off-topic but just my 2 cents.

The Caste System:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Korean_caste_system
It already got expanded a couple times this year.
Yes and he was 1 of 2 authors that wrote back to me when I sent a bunch of fan letters to fantasy authors around 1984 or so. I just looked and I still have it - a perforated postcard printed using a dot matrix printer.

David Eddings was the other author - he sent the full syllabus to his college writing course plus some photocopied short stories in response to the statement I was thinking of becoming an author.
In the Objective-C world, you extend it with Categories and Extensions: http://developer.apple.com/library/IOs/#documentation/Cocoa/...
Pretty small potatoes. I wonder what the Apple executives, canny competitors by most accounts, really expect to accomplish from the legal campaign. Do they mostly intend to raise the stakes for their lower margin competition? Delay major Android phones at a crucial juncture in the race? This gets negative PR in tech circles, but you wonder if it plays well to the broader public - the more respected brand is making serious claims that lesser brands are copying/stealing from them.

It's easy to cast this as a Heart-of-Darkness style deathmarch, but unfortunately, I think Apple is finding value in the whole enterprise, even if there isn't a resounding victory.
We agree with you, this was an attempt to tracking the time and providing some fun with the punishment wheel, in no way was meant to be a "Parenting" guide.
Android Faces Setback in iPhone Battle
The periodic table is pretty much complete at this point, the super-heavy elements after about 112 are very unstable and are probably very rare in nature.
Bank ringfencing will create IT jobs boom – but only after 2016
"Limited victory" is right, starts with 10 patents and gets reduced to one patent covering automatically linking phone numbers to bring up the dialer on click? Seems to me the result is that Apple lost rather badly in this case. This is the second time I've seen a misleading headline suggesting a Apple victory in a patent case but turns out to be a loss once you've read the details. What's the deal with that?

But really? They have a patent for making telephone numbers in a document click-able to call that number? That seems so obvious a thing to do on a phone why grant the patent? Plus, if HTC can come up with a workaround so easily and quickly doesn't that also support the thought it's an overly obvious (i.e., useless) patent? Did I understand that part correctly?
I haven't been following the thread, but Ram posted the same riddle on Python-IL mailing list a few days ago. You can see the discussion there.

http://hamakor.org.il/pipermail/python-il/2011-December/thre...
Mike Lynch: Man on a mission
Same with me, though I prefer a very soft grey to full on white. Too many webpages have white backgrounds, and it's painful to flip from a dark editor to go look something up on a glaring white Google.

I use a slightly customized iPlastic in TextMate.
Sophos updates mobile device management platform
You could say that about much of their products.
That's an interesting and a well-written story. But yet, I find his "I pray for Kim Jong", "I don't want him to meet a tragic end" et al. a bit strange.

I don't know, it seems like denial and rationalization. A dictator got his family killed(possibly tortured before killing them), there is nothing he can do about it, so he is trying to find solace by believing he doesn't want Kim Jong Il hurt; and to justify why he thinks so, he is imagining good and innocence, when none exists.

He is well aware of things Kim Jong Il did to his family and common masses, and yet he is trying to imagine good in him - I can't find a rational explanation for his line of reasoning.
I would recommend you spend a fair amount of time reading material on human behavior such as biographies and histories. It will save you a lot of time in designing systems and processes for people.
This seems implausible to me, and I've known a number of kids (of my own generation and the next) that pushed the limits fairly hard. Now, if one simply takes the age cohort and divides it by the number of arrests, then maybe I could see the number as plausible.

To be sure, my sample doesn't extend much below the middle class (my day) and upper middle class now.
But the power of smalltalk is not in the language syntax but in the system as an overall. It will be really interesting to see how far this goes. I'm also very curious to see something similar in the .Net platform. As you, this is one of my favorites languages.
"Compared to JRuby on Java 6, JRuby on Java 7 without invokedynamic is around 25% faster, and JRuby with invokedynamic is nearly 3 times faster."

JRuby already is as fast or faster than MRI, and a 3X increase in performance is absolutely huge.
Piers: Yes, I can’t print in Linux on my current system.

Well, we've only had 20 years.

Ah the hours and ink I wasted trying in vain to get acceptable color results out of ink jet printers on linux. It's networked Postscript laser printers for me from now on and I'll just print photos other ways.
I think the biggest problem is simply that it was a software bug that occured infrequently enough. To change a working piece of software that has thousands if not millions of problem free flying hours behind it is not something you do "just because". It requires lots of analysis and testing to make sure that they don't introduce new problems.
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Lousy employers who employ lousy interviewers deserve lousy employees.
Honestly, any win for any company in that area is a loss for the whole industry.
One of my clients still has a marquee (with jquery upgrades) and I installed it on their site for them. Does that make me evil?

If cdata's customers site visitors don't come back then this will feed back through the chain - cdata is making the tool not using it; blaming gun makers for murder, etc., etc..
And here I was just thinking Quantas had found the island from Lost...
Perhaps there is an IPR issue here too? C&D just around the corner?
Agreed-- not-quite-white on not-quite-black is much less fatiguing for me than pure white on pure black. The slightly lower contrast is quite pleasing, but still allows for good contrast with syntax highlighting.
(I use a variation on the Twilight scheme in Textmate, Eclipse, and Xcode)

http://i.imgur.com/uxpcm.png
Apple takes patent attacks in a new direction
Given the above comment I would be even less optimistic about a computer being able to determine the difference between thinking "I should call mom at some point" or "What a nice phone call I had with mom yesterday" and "call mom right now".

This would take the "butt-dialing" phenomenon to disturbing new levels.
Yes, this. App stores are like a new-fangled version of old-school Yahoo.

In the early internet, it made sense to sort web sites into categories and curate the best ones into lists. Eventually, the internet became too big for that, and search became necessary to cut through the mass of things people could find or wanted to find.

App stores are showing the strains of this today. Discoverability is through the floor. It's also important to note the power of a lightweight link. Web links can be shared with the assumption that a friend can open them with zero friction. This becomes much different when a user has to install an app, possibly even a paid app, to see what you sent.
While this is a good point, it's not unusual for the third-party library to be more Pythonic and easier to use than the core lib analogue. For example, Requests.

http://docs.python-requests.org/
Google Chrome Getting A Terminal
T-Mobile will never have Droid phones. Droid is a marketing brand that is used by Verizon to sell android phones.

On the other hand they were the first Network in the US to carry Android phones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)
Cloud Explosion on the Way
Didn't the whole "minimalism" fad die a while ago?

Tumblr is pretty minimalistic in its own way.
"under the loving care of the fatherly leader" is a fascinating and quite in-depth history of the regime.
Don't forget AKS, which is deterministic and faster than trial division. Can be a bit of a pain to implement though.
Ah no, so I run overground and work out the routes before each run - so I actually run a lot further than the tracks but I hit every tube station and get a picture outside each one!
I don't know anything about antennas, but that thing looks freakin' massive:

http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=exmouth+western+australia+harol...
White on black - ir_black

http://blog.toddwerth.com/entries/8

Tried a number of themes - this works best for me.
I also agree that the transition between each stage is too slow, both vertically and horizontally.

A personal opinion. I would not have used a color scheme that sombre colors, I would recommend something that is has a little more excitement, blue or orange, in case you haven't thought about it in the past, heres an interesting link

http://www.usabilitypost.com/2008/09/29/a-guide-to-choosing-...
Island of stability: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability
Because in the end, him meeting a tragic end all to appease the author's anger does no good. While if Kim Jong can open up it would have a larger and more positive impact. Just a matter of trying to break the cycle of violence.
... And your children, and their children, and their children. 3 generations is the rule of thumb, though surviving that long usually makes the issue moot.
syntax highlighting against black is nearly impossible when achieving and exceeding the ballmer peak; too blurry for me.
The talk was basically flamebait. His main argument for "web is dead" revolved around increasing power of client devices, and he completely ignored that web technologies (aka HTML5) make great use of that computational power.

There are more valid arguments he could have made, e.g. native apps being more flexible or easier to monetize, but increased computational power is orthogonal to the web/native debate, as long as people keep innovating on both platforms. Which they are, furiously.
It's a lot less likely that someone will spend $4+ billion on a company just to shut it down, than a few million.
I guess most people find the whole idea of a prodigy child rising up from nowhere without any family support all by himself kind of enticing.

P.S: Yes, but did you also escape from Nazi Germany in a sub?
Haskell: OOP vs type classes
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Ask HN: What are your contracting pain points?
What are the things that you wish you knew when you started? I've only done a little freelancing in the past so I don't have a complete picture but even with that I experienced a few:

- Figuring out how to do payments. They wanted to use PayPal and I really didn't.

- How to word the contract

- How to get the contract to them

Thanks!
white on blue
On Facebook and Twitter - 80% of the content that makes people come back daily for more has links in it. These links could be application specific, sure they can, however the attention span on Twitter is small enough without putting barriers between users and the product / content served. Take away the web and social applications, no matter how awesome they are, will lose a lot of value.

I actually think the opposite is true - I think that Facebook and Twitter are going to die eventually. That's because the need for these social networks was satisfied in an age where phones weren't directly connected to the Internet. One missing point from these discussions is that a social network already existed before these - with much stronger ties between people - a social network enabled by your contacts book. It didn't scale however because of a lack of software and because calls / SMS messages are expensive. If mobile carriers would pull their heads out of their ass and made SMS free, then Facebook and Twitter would become irrelevant.

Why? Because then people could send updates and links to other people, regardless of their device type, anywhere in the world. Then you could have evolved SMS managers that knew how to handle groups, deliver digests, take care of spam and so on (like email clients do). If you need a stronger indication that this is true - consider how nothing replaced email yet, no matter how many predictions of death went by ;)

Nice quote from Seth Godin linked in the article:

The problem with just about every prediction made by industry firms like Forrester (all the way back to 1985 when these firms said that the Commodore 64 was going to change the world–until the VCR interrupted to become the next big thing) is that they are based on sophisticated analysis of what’s in the rear-view mirror.
Well, it's not finished\; so if you are going to send'em to anyone, might I suggest you pick particularly relevant citations and just link those instead or something like that?

\ You obviously have no way of knowing this but my convention on gwern.net is anything in lower-caps is draft/incomplete, and so I don't link it unless it's extremely relevant (as it was in this case).
I think you misunderstood which value gets thrown away.

Consider this:

>>> g = lambda x: 7
>>> f = lambda: g((yield))
>>> list(f())
[None]

Can you tell me where the 7 went to? As far as I see, it went into oblivion.
They were supposed to scroll down to these parts of the page but they became useless since the page fits in one screen. I will remove them on the next push. Thanks :)
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That can be gamed as well. The OP could have let himself be pushed further by getting it done faster, but he did the "silly but adorable" thing of solving it with some mumbling and hesitation, which seemed to convince the interviewer they had seen his learning process. Someone more devious — betting on an unusual interview style — might have failed some answers on purpose.
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The control of information and people's lives in North Korea is incomparably more than the examples you gave. Respectfully, your comparisons are not close.

The difference is not merely quantitative.

North Korea's activity is well documented and overwhelming.

If you want independent corroboration, sources here -- http://joshuaspodek.com/north-korea-bibliography, particularly in the human rights sections -- are a good place to start.
Great post. I had this same realization not too long ago.

I am a firm believer that HTML/CSS/Javascript will eventually take the role of all mobile applications in the future. While mobile applications do provide the benefits of interacting with the mobile OS at a lower level, browsers are becoming more and more powerful. The line dividing the OS and the browser is getting lower as seen in some OS's including Google's Chrome OS.

Why HTML5? While browser incompatibility is still an issue, HTML is the most supported and consistent markups on the internet; everyone uses it.

In addition, Apps written in HTML5/CSS/Javascript are all hosted on the server, meaning that it is very simple to update your product. It is more difficult with mobile OS based Apps for which you have to send an update to the phone each time you update the product.
black on white, +flux.app