skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can mostly ignore the media if you're in the tech industry because there's basically two economies here: one is fecked and the other is the tech industry, with tons of open positions.

Re. the weather: yeah, it rains. And when it doesn't rain it's often cloudy. And sometimes it's inbetween (a "soft" day). But then the hills, fields and mountains look fantastic (unlike, say much of the UK) because it isn't being burnt to a crisp.

Of far more concern is the poor broadband infrastructure outside of Dublin, particularly in rural areas but even in some cities. It ranges from 25Mbs fibre to no fixed broadband at all in Cork city. Out in the country (i.e., 10miles from a city), it's mostly a choice between mobile (3G), fixed wireless or satellite.
Couple of months ago on a group programming competition ( one computer - three people). You write your code, if it doesn't work, you print it and another person sits at the computer to write your code and you munch on yours on a piece of paper.
Maybe it's a bit off topic here, but we also saw it was sometimes more productive to do it like this with the physicality of the paper and pen. You can doodle, or visualize data right on the margin.
Still I think it's only usefull in such "academic" problems. You cannot possibly do it with a multi-file, >1k SLOC project.
" People who need laws protecting them are the ones that are in menial labor jobs that can be replaced by any schmoe off the street. " Nice to see you are no schmoe and know who needs protective laws. Unfortunate that IT professionals are a dime a dozen from my POV and this will just make it easier to cycle through cheaper labout from others POV. Anyways, good to get an opinion from someone inside the warming soup with such high opinions.
I wish sites would always offer a single page version but the split up versions like this are more search friendly I think.
I fly pretty frequently - into, out of and within the US - and I have not seen anyone in a US airport with an automatic weapon since November 2001.
I just picked one up and I'm kind of disappointed. There are 3-4 specks of dirt under the glass, and with the exception of the amazing display, I'm not sure it's worth the upgrade from the iPad 2. Probably going to return it, and either get my money back or get a device that has a clean display.
Tesseract
Project management made cool. All thanks to AI. All hail the Tesseract
> "In the end this is not good for the web, because it’s just too bloody much data."

This reads like an ISP's argument against every form of progress on the web since the mid 90s.
Yup. This week's cabal anguish:

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/qxopq/announcing_th...

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/qwj5j/the_cabal_of_...
This guy didn't even have his facts straight when he posted.

Apple already increased its cellular file download limit from 20MB to 50MB, before rolling out the LTE iPad. That's an increase of 2.5x, which is more than enough to cover the expected increase in sizes of apps containing Retina-resolution graphics.
As I see it the baby boomers, rightfully worried about their retirement, are going to camp out in most top positions longer than we expected or was normal in the past. This will inhibit upward mobility of younger people for quite some time (retirement ages are creeping up all across the Western world). Additionally they are demanding loyalty and commitment in the workplace from the younger generation for part-time and casual jobs with no security which would have been more secure full-time jobs in the past. There is constant bellyaching from the baby boomers on this point about flighty millennials without recognizing it's far less secure and stable than when they started.

All this combined with the student loans situation and the stagnant real wages since the 1970s is going to be a big problem. You can see it very starkly in the university system, but it applies everywhere. When the mass baby boomer retirement comes social security and health systems will be put into stress while the Western world is still in fairly deep debt. However, the baby boomers will still be dominant in politics as they will retire later there, and they will still be voting in retirement anyway.

On the long horizon graduates will then be fighting with a new generation of kids with cheap online education and more modern skills and middle class BRIC teleworkers. Non-graduates will, as has been the case for a long time, also be competing increasingly with the rising BRIC workers. While there is potential for full-automation to bring a lot of manufacturing back to the West in the next few decades, that's not going to mean that many jobs. "Motherboards now made in the USA again!" will be the cry... but by an automated factory supervised by a handful of Ivy league engineers and some cheap maintenance workers and self-driving trucks bringing in supplies. Amazon, Walmart and the like will continue to clean up "mom and pop" shops, drugstores with skype video connections to pharmacists in India to confirm prescriptions, even some restaurants going for more automation. Farming is already down to a tiny percentage of the population and the rest will be immigrants (illegal and otherwise) and perhaps some robots too.

In this situation it's insane to go into 60-100k commercial debt for a philosophy or fine arts degree given there are already distance and online study options for these at insanely low prices (the "hobby/cultural enrichment" argument is valid, I think society would be poorer without this influence, but it doesn't need expensive on-campus study or a brand-name). Those prices are only going to go down.

Things are going to get tougher.
I think one of the problems is that a lot of "twenty something's" still believe in their degree. A B.A. means pretty much nothing. As a recent graduate (about six months ago), I can honestly say that not letting my degree do the work for me was the smartest decision I've ever made. Grads need to realize that there are thousands holding the same, useless piece of paper. If you want to make money, teach yourself some cool shit and hit the road. It's terrifying, sure, but I think there's a lot of false hope in your four year stint magically converting into a $50k+/year job.
Nitpicky but:

The remaining arguments &haystack, &haystack_len, &needle, &offset specify the variables to put the arguments into. As you can see, they are all passed by reference (&), which means that not the variables themselves are passed, but pointers to them.

References aren't pointers, they are the variables. The address of the variable itself gets passed with a reference, whereas a pointer is a variable containing the address of the variable. A pointer itself has an address. A very subtle yet important difference.
This short ebook explains it extremely well: http://www.amazon.com/The-Rent-Damn-High-ebook/dp/B0078XGJXO...

Basically, prices are so high because that is where building supply is constrained.

This book http://www.amazon.com/Gated-City-Kindle-Single-ebook/dp/B005... explains the nationwide economic consequences of constraining housing supply (and thus rising prices) in the most economically productive areas.
You do understand the difference between proving a technology exists and is suitable for localized high latency low bandwidth communication and suggesting that it's suitable to replace tier 1 isps that handle terrabits of data traffic per second, right? No one has ever suggested that you can't run a relatively small, localized, and centrally managed mesh network - those have been in use for all sorts of purposes for quite some time. What you're being told is that those technologies don't scale to millions of users, long distances or high bandwidth/low latency applications.

It's perfectly fine that you don't know a lot about networking or network management. Just stop telling people how they can replace the internet when you really have no idea.

If you don't want your ISPs or others sniffing your traffic user encryption. If you don't want the RIAA telling your ISP that you're pirating music stop putting your computer on a global list of computers that are offering to serve popular.mp3. It's a pretty solved problem.
And I would argue that the greater pixel density could be a good thing, because it may drive consumers to demand greater bandwidth from their internet service providers.
I saw this problem coming way in advance. As soon as a graduated college I moved directly to NYC. Do not pass Go, DO collect a lot more than $200. There are a zillion jobs here of all kinds, so I am not worried about losing my job at all.

The cost of living seems high, but it pays off. Wages are higher, for one thing. What money I lose because of higher rent I gain in that there are awesome things happening all over the place just a short bike ride from my house. That's worth the price of admission alone. But also I don't have to pay for a car, and many other expenses of the suburbs just don't exist.

Of course, now that I'm here I would not love to move. I think I might be a homeless bum before I moved somewhere else. I'd like to travel, but I can't imagine staying anywhere else as a permanent resident.
Just been there. Great city with a grest variety of interesting things and everybody is complaining how horrible the winter is.
I live in Boston, and have lived in Silicon Valley. Biking in Boston is downright scary.

Having a bike sharing program is great, but Boston needs to invest in more dedicated bike lanes, and bike paths before it can get anywhere near SF in bikability.

Plus you are visiting when its 40ish degress out, not 20 and the Hub system isn't available in the winter.
When she says "IT Workers" what she should say is those involved in Software Development or Systems Analysis.

IT Workers implies help desk, phone techs, etc. Doesn't appear to affect these folks. And that's the most important as these jobs are typically hourly with overtime.

Most professional class (as defined by higher pay) jobs are already exempt:

http://www.dol.gov/elaws/esa/flsa/screen75.asp

Computer professionals: Section 13(a)(17) of the FLSA provides that certain computer professionals paid at least $27.63 per hour are exempt from the overtime provisions of the FLSA.

So does this mean they are simply removing the $27.63 requirement?
That might have been a terrorism thing in the 80s in Germany. You know, domestic terrorism. The RAF was still active in the 80s and was actually able to carry out a few attacks (unlike, say, islamic terrorists).

During a recent terrorism scare (you know, elevated danger of an attack and such) those submachine guns really were everywhere in larger train stations but they disappeared after some time. I usually only see police without submachine guns now.
Last time I printed code was during my first semester in university. That was some 5 years ago. We had to prepare printed reports of all our assignments. Those were dark times.
These problems aren't going to just go away on their own. Apple needs to step up to the plate.
Just had this exact experience with a company called Vindicia. No matter how many times I asked for pricing, just getting the usual guff. Already found other vendors of the same solution where I immediately understood their pricing & therefore felt better about investing my time getting to know them and their products better.
Reading through this list of anecdotes I had mixed emotions. I spent a significant amount of time unemployed 10+ years ago in the post-dotcom recession in the UK and it was awful. This was partly due to the highly unregulated nature of UK IT recruitment but the problem was the lack of jobs.

Still, a see some problems in this article. Like "I graduated with a philosophy major in 2008". Bzzzzt. Sorry, you made choices. People need to realize that college is an opportunity that comes with a significant cost (real and opportunity). You may want to major in South American literature but you need to have a plan for what you're going to do in the Real World. Or at least question whether the cost of college is worth it.

As for state residencies, depending on the state it may only take a year to establish residency in a new state. This can mean the first year of college is expensive but then it gets cheaper (IIRC California works this way) or it means you move there and flip burgers or whatever for a year.

The second thing I picked out was "there are no jobs in my area". I have no sympathy for this. Either you didn't think about this beforehand or your area is just hard to get into. Doing a degree in that area doesn't entitle you to a job. Get a job. Any job. Jobs are like social proof. It's far easier to get a job when you have a job.

The third thing I picked out was that it's expensive to move. No it isn't. You can get from pretty much anywhere in the US to anywhere else for under $500. What's that? You want your stuff? Ok, that's the real problem.

I think back to Fight Club: the things you own end up owning you. You basically need little more than a bed to sleep on. I think back to that photo of Steve Jobs from the 80s sitting on the floor of his apartment with just a lamp. He basically didn't own anything.

I can tell you from experience it's incredibly liberating to just get rid of your stuff.

If you want to move to New York City (as one example) to find work, it's not expensive. Bring yourself, some clothes and a laptop and you can get here for maybe as little as $100. Find a cheap town in the commuter belt and find temporary accommodation (eg I know someone who works in Manhattan but lives above a garage in Long Island for $300/month) and just come in to the city when you need to go to interviews.

And the beauty of NYC is you can get rid of that car too. Oh you want a car? You can have one... when you can afford it.

Oh you want a social life? And a furnished home where you can "entertain"? You can have those things... when you can afford them.

EDIT: let me clarify one point. I was careful to say you "need a plan" for the real world when it comes to college. That phrasing was deliberate and different to treating college as some kind of vocational processing plant. It means if you spend 8 years studying history at top schools and rack up $200,000 in debt then you probably made some bad choices. But if you studied philosophy at a state school and worked part-time such that you have little or no debt, then you've made far better choices.
I don't particularly care if Marco makes an Android app, it's his product, his time, he should do what he wants.

But let's assume that his analysis (as biased as it is) is correct. It still might be a net positive to make an Android version if you consider this. All Android sales are potentially a double sale. Android has a majority market share on phones and iPad has a (overwhelming) majority market share in tablets.

There is a strong chance that the person buying his Android version would also have an iPad. This is pretty obvious when you think about it. Android covers a wide spectrum, with a lot of people on the low end. The people who would be buying his app must represent those on the high end (simply because they'll pay for it), and those people are far more likely to also have an iPad.
IMHO, no. Centralized is where I go to get more than one type or source of content. Hence, the rise of aggregators, which are now the most popular sites online.

Netflix is also an aggregator; we just don't normally think of it that way because we consume it as a service which offers content unavailable, for the most part, elsewhere online. With the decline in movies, however, I am seeing lots of content that replicates other sources (lots of TV shows), but it's still nice to have it all in one "place".

I'm actually quite pleased to be able to have TED videos in my queue. I'd prefer they get a few more, you know, "flix", but in the meantime, this opens up TED content to some whole new audiences.

(Of course, the next logical step is for Netflix to go straight downhill and start offering video "podcasts" by annoying youtube "stars" and become a youtube junior. I hope not, but we'll see...)
Update at the end of the blog post rsynnott linked to
This was never about the songs, you think the sovreign cares about a company losing money from songs? This is about power and the ability to control what is authorized or not over their internet.

Phase two will be taxing the bits that flow between devices. For the children of course. They have identified an opportunity to expand their power, and they are taking it. Because we will let them. It's power grab. Will they abuse their power? Is the pope still infallible?
Q&amp;A: Promoting the Little Printer
This was such the obvious, vim vs. emacs, automatic and expected response... and yet I still laughed. Well played, sir.
Adium 1.5 Released
Mark Vanhoenacker is a writer and airline pilot based in New York.

I read through the whole interesting submitted article, and the one question I have is about actual numbers of tourist visitors to the United States.

After the worldwide recession, tourism to the United States from other countries declined,

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Foreign-Tourism-Drops-in...

but the number of tourists has since recovered. The United Nations World Tourism Barometer

http://mkt.unwto.org/sites/all/files/docpdf/unwtohighlights1...

reports that the United States is second only to France in the number of foreign tourism visits, and that the United States enjoyed growth in visits from the 2010 reporting year compared to the 2009 reporting year. The submitted article didn't mention statistics like this, but reported on anecdotes.

I'm an American who has lived overseas. I haven't crossed an interational border in a bit more than a decade. (All other members of my family have crossed international borders since 9/11/2001.) I hope to travel to Canada by car with my whole family this summer. I fully agree with the author's premise that the United States ought to look as friendly and welcoming as the people in my community when foreign visitors first encounter a United States border official. But I can't help but wonder if this really matters a lot from the "attract tourists" point of view, if the United States has a continued growth in the number of tourists, and it is second only to a Schengen Area country that has a land border and rail connections with other Schengen Area countries in the number of foreign visitors it enjoys every year. Maybe most visitors understand that annoying security measures at the border are part of what make the freedom of movement inside the United States borders a palatable policy for many Americans who are more worried about terrorist attacks than I am.
I understand your points. I have been thinking about that as well. I never experience any of your points before though and there are a lot of cloud solutions out there (e.g. Dropbox use AWS and I use Dropbox; Google "Online IDE" and you will get what I mean).

But, given your context, I think cloud solution is just not for you, including koding. So, there is no necessity to use harsh words on koding, keep it for yourself. Cheers! =D

PS: thanks for your comment, it gave me some new insights that I never think of before. :)
Crime-Reporting app lets you officially rat out your neighbors
Birds evolved compass 'head up display'
This is a brilliant article. Are there other resources that go in as much depth as this article but aren't really stuck to RDBMS? What's the standard to doing graphs like these (linkedin/facebook)? RDBMS or a document oriented DB?
Not sure if this is really useful for anybody, but there is a single page version:

http://use-the-index-luke.com/book/export/html/12
I have a group of friends who have master's degrees in art education (from a private school), and are stuck being substitute art teachers and waiting tables, because there are few openings for art teachers.

In their minds, they did the "responsible" thing. They got good grades, went $100k+ plus in debt, and are waiting tables at age 28. The problem is, they didn't do the responsible thing -- they used alot of someone else's money to learn a skill of very narrow utility. Now they need to pay the piper.

People lack a critical eye. It's amazing to me that people advise high school kids the way that they do.

Frankly, I don't know how people do it. My wife and I make a good buck, own a modest home and drive one 5 year old car. We don't owe anyone anything, and we save alot, so we're "broke". I don't know how people fit a $400 student loan payment in, while living a non-frugal lifestyle.
Shaping the product's interface in a Lean Startup
I agree completely that you should build a network and use that to get a job. Extra points if you start building the network before you need a job -- networking's a lot more natural if you're not already trying to get something out of people.

I disagree that failing to get a job in 3-4 applications represents a problem with your resume/presentation/etc in all circumstances. While there are certainly times that's true (if you're an engineer in the current market, for example), there are many industries where there are simply too many qualified people applying for too few positions for getting a job via a cold application to be anything other than a complete crapshoot. (which, again, only emphasizes the importance of having a network to support your search).
The pictures are less than 1mm wide. I've added a grey bar that approximates 1mm at the same scale at the top of the post to give a sense of the scale. Does that help?
How to Negotiate Your Rates With New Clients: 3 Things You Should Know
There's a difference between saying it and actually offering licenses that would enable it.
Nice and simple...I like it. Snippets like these are great to have in the arsenal. Sometimes I end up using the 'heavy' solutions for simple things (just cause I've used them before and its easy to snap in) when I could really get away with rolling a simple solution like you did there.
We have far more safety nets in place than ever - yet people are moving less. We've gotten so used to the notion of safety nets that we're terrified to move away from one lest another not be there - unaware that our predecessors took greater risks, and thus reaped greater rerwards, precisely because there was no safety net.

Doesn't help that the paranoia about safety nets results in demands everyone pay for and get premium nets, and then come to believe they cannot get by without such ideal services.

Suck it up and step out. You're going nowhere if you don't.
A+ for O'Reilly Customer Service: Keep the books and donate them
The other day while placing an order through O'Reilly, I inadvertently submitted two orders. When I caught the mistake, O'Reilly had already shipped two identical orders to me. They gave me a full refund, however, instead of making me ship the books back to them the told me to just go ahead and donate them to a school or library. Donating books is way more fun than a trip to USPS.
This is cool -- but for pitch control, the down arrow key should pitch the nose up and up arrow key should push the nose down (this is how the controls of most simulators and actual aircraft work)
Just my experience, but there are a whole bunch of optimizations one can make to "official" recent MySQL versions before having to switch platforms, even to mostly compatible ones as mentioned in the post. Yes, Oracle ownership can be a reason to switch, but if you don't want to, don't just assume the thing can't scale til you hit the point of "more hassle than it's worth". Premature optimization and all that.
This (http://www.hekseskudd.com/) is what I use. It is a bit spendy, but they never spill and my kids (4) haven't broken it yet.

That remote is the worst thing Apple makes, imo.
A very important difference for a C developer. For a PHP developer reading C, it's a pretty good analogy that gets the point across without causing too much confusion...
Unless you have AT&T or any other provider which limits your total download MBits per month.

You will use up your allowed bits quite a bit faster.