skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a state of equilibrium between 'bad neighborhood' and bourgeois that needs to be achieved if gentrification is to sustainably hold a diverse base of residents. There's a tipping point that can easily take a neighborhood in one direction or the other. Somehow over the years I've managed to live in this "sweet spot" in a number of different cities - just after the gangs have left, the artists and coffee shops are thriving but the older residents can still afford their rent.

The downside to gentrification is that it never stays in the sweet spot forever, eventually the neighborhood becomes SoHo or SoMa or whatever. With the current wave of re-urbanization in the US this cycle has been moving faster and faster and gentrification moving further afield. Eventually the majority of every major city will look like manhattan with the poor and creative class living nearly to the suburbs.

I'd say thats the real downside to rampant gentrification - a future where urban centers loose all character - and affordability and creativity are relegated to distant enclaves far out of reach
Two of the three of those have prevalence rates at around 10% of the population, so if nothing else not effectively employing such people cuts your pool of potential employees by 10%...
Most people aren't going to build rockets to the moon in their backyard and those who want to can.

http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/

With regards to reading a passage and comprehend it. That is obvious but completely missing the point.

We don't have a shortage of people with critical skills we have a shortage of people who's knowledge isn't only abstracted from the phenomena they are reading about but a combination.

Testing and experimenting should always run before abstraction and critical thinking exactly because abstraction is based on premises made by experimenting and testing.

Academic discipline is way overrated and the best scientists aren't those who only deal in abstraction (with a few exceptions) but rather those who more more like engineers.

We didn't bring people to the moon by reading about it. Someone had to make those experiments. But it is more and more a lost art and that is sad.
OpenFrameworks 0071 - The Industry
HTTP Speed+Mobility (Microsoft's IETF HTTP 2.0 submission)
I just tried the tool and find it useful. It can be made more powerful by coupling it with the Linux utility wmctrl.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4069177
Alternatively, I have almost no web experience and come from an embedded consumer electronics background. Similar problem... :)
On keeping a journal: 1091 days of life data collection
Airline Will Seat Passengers Based On Their Moods
Investor sentiment (as irrational as it sounds) is very important. The "apparent" failure of FB IPO along with the less than impressive performance of web 2.0 companies in the public markets have casted a dark cloud in the industry. Nothing has changed in the material sense, but this narrative is a great opportunity for investors to bargain for better deals.
Is this a more well designed replacement for Yammer? Hard to tell what the use case is from the article.
2012 Transit of Venus across the sun
http://incident57.com/codekit/ is another mac only alternative
Google Acquires Mobile Productivity Company Quickoffice
If you only select one module to build a custom script, it downloads an empty file. Other than that, awesome project!
Mint is cool. Firefox in Mint ships with Duck Duck Go as the default search engine.
In San Francisco city itself, black and poor are highly correlated, for a variety of historical reasons. Most of the long term middle and upper middle class black residents in the Bay Area are in the East Bay. There are fairly concentrated areas of SF which are low income, low development, and primarily black (HP, Bayview) and some areas which became more developed (Fillmore). Mid market and tenderloin have gotten a bit more developed and more diverse (mainly in that poor Arabs and SE Asians moved in 10-15y ago).

Economics and race in SF is really complex.
Knowledge is not some quantity that teachers mechanically shovel onto students in an efficient manner. Teachers must be curious and intelligent, so that they serve as a role model for their students (who also must be curious and intelligent to learn.) An uninquisitive teacher encourages uninquisitive students.
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Scaling PHP Book: I will teach you to scale PHP to millions of users
RIP Good Times, Part II? The popping of the bubble that never was.
Personally I love to see Facebook's stock languish. Not because I dislike Facebook, but because it's great to see the market react rationally to an over-hyped tech stock.

FB is arguably the most hyped IPO in history. There was a blockbuster movie made about it. If ever there was a positive sign that we are not in a bubble, the poor performance of FB on the open market is it.

It's great to not be in a bubble. That means we won't wake up one day to discover it has popped. But to see the lack of a bubble on display so publicly has more important benefits. All the sub-par investors and entrepreneurs who flood the valley just to cash in on bubbles will be repelled.
If you think there's a meaning to the phrase "inherent value", try to define it instead of being petulant. Nothing has value without some customer who has a demand for it, which is why the concept of inherent value is meaningless.

If something was only worth the cost of the materials that went into it--then what determines that cost? Even steel and oil have value that depends on customer demand rather than any sort of inherent value. And if that was all it was worth, why would you waste time and effort turning steel into a steel bracelet, or a steel ship, when the end product wasn't actually worth more than the materials that went into it? You'd waste energy and human effort without producing any value. You'd be richer just holding onto the raw steel itself.
If you are using QuickSilver, install Chrome plugin and create a hotkey to reload the tab under Current Web Page.

http://cl.ly/3h2o0v1e1v3O371y3G3b

Edit: On Mac OS X
The problem with India is that the indian government is broken (or is at least percived to be broken) outside of India. I wouldn't risk my customers money there -- too much corruption.

I doubt it will ever be available in Nigeria either, nor most of Africa.
Thanks ZenPsycho, I added sorting of object schema keys to fix this issue: https://github.com/dogada/RJSON/commit/a27c8927cd0c2d7d151e2...
A search engine for social networks based on the behavior of ants
Context clues from the "How to" section steps 2-6.
I only just occurred to me - are these self-driving cars expected to pump their own gas? Surely Google's not prepared to build a complete network of fuelling stations that are compatible with unmanned cars?
What It's Like To Be The CEO: Revelations and Reflections
Not sure that the article conveys the message well, but I agree vehemently with the sentiment of the article's sub-heading (the title of the HN post). Standardized tests do a great job of ensuring we end up with standardized kids that will safely perpetuate the status quo.
Firefox 13 Released - Homepage + Speed Improvements
Even if it does not fit the Gnome agenda, there is a way to make everyone happy: just add an annex section in Gnome documentation describing how to configure all the tweaks asked by Linus. This "Linus section" would be useful for many people to understand how to configure gnome to their wish.

thanks
People find their place in the world. I cannot imagine being dyslexic or unable to empathize with people. It's inspiring that people can turn those "handicaps" into competitive advantages.

While the comment wasn't very sensitive, it also happens to be true. Our society tries to build a support structure around folks to enable them to reach their potential. Sometimes we're successful, other times we're not successful. In the past, unless your family was able to help you find a place, folks with mental problems were basically discarded by society.
I couldn't agree more with Mr. Torvalds. I'm relieved to know I'm not the only one - I was thinking maybe I was too picky, or too dumb to set Gnome 3 up the way I wanted it. I spent a half hour searching and Googling to find where they had hidden certain settings only to discover they had removed them, as if to say "This setting you depend on everyday, we don't think you need it - too bad!" I don't mind tinkering with things that may or may not break when I'm at home, but I've got to work at work, so I back-peddled to Gnome 2.32.
I'd hardly call that enterprise software.

When you can make any of the following somewhat more painless, and marginally prettier, you'll make $$$:

- SAP

- PeopleSoft

- Pretty much any ERP or financial application
Check out J. There are a few inconsistencies in APL that are remedied in J, though you lose out on the "cool" non-ASCII operators.

http://jsoftware.com/
I don't think you've ever met anyone with severe ADD, or severe Asperger's for that matter.
The real problem is that many apps that matter aren't available as first party apps. No Pandora, no Instagram, No Pinterest, no Path, etc...

While Angry Birds is available, the Angry Birds in Space(?) is not.

High numbers are needed for marketing, but there's still a big hole in the market place. I think windows8 and wp8 will greatly improve the situation though.
But it doesn't help to use the wrong names for things.

everytime i move teams at bigcorp, which recently mandated agile, i have to figure out what waterfall artifact got each scrum name. It's madness.
It's more like a better designed basecamp, a place to manage projects. Email us at contact@siasto.com if you have questions.
Talks in most TED categories are ranked better when they're longer. http://www.ted.com/talks/lies_damned_lies_and_statistics_abo...
People is not either autistic or socialite. Following the same (rhetoric) logic, "if the world was left to you autistic, humanity would extinguish in two generations tops".
Sounds like most of the commenters here would subscribe to this philosophy: http://programming-motherfucker.com/

Myself included.
> * Bad English:

Don't know about this one. There is probably a correlation there, but we should stop at that. I think the temptation to explain it can lead into all kinds of nasty stereotypes.
What's stopping them from making deals with petrol stations to have the attendants pump the petrol for them?
Mining data with Pig, Consuming it with Hive - Hadoop Data Lifecycle
I guess I phrased the question incorrectly as I know the reason is is to avoid downvotes and the person is aware of what they are saying will get downvoted.

My feeling is that by saying "sorry if this is insulting" or "I apologize in advance" or "before you downvote me" you are rolling over on your belly and appearing vulnerable by acknowledging your vulnerability and trying to show some humility. And in a sense you are setting up the contrast principle because the belly in comparison to the crime just doesn't seem so bad.
I'm logged out of FB at work for productivity reasons. I read FB probably about twice a day. Once in the morning and once at night.

I'm not missing much.
Push Changes to BuildHive and Never Run Your Tests
I totally agree. You have basic set of issues such as not being able to create icons on the desktop, cannot drag icons from start menu onto panel.

I cannot believe that gnome 2.6 was working fine, then I made the mistake of upgrading from debian stable to testing and got new GNOME. I have lots of SMB shares that are mounted. they don't show up. Neither can I drag a folder onto the favourites. I have to go into a folder then add bookmark.

Running applications became a multi-step process: Move mouse over to the panel on the left (that doesn't exist unless you focus mouse pointer over it), select applications button (forget what's it's called), then hover over to the right (full list of apps) then search there.

There is ALT+F2, but it's completely useless. Instead of assisting the user with trying to at least complete a command (or do some dingbat, but cute activity such as show how many times that command) it's just a plain text box, every basic window manager even tries to resolve things for you.

While I'm not big on 'minimalist' UI such as fluxbox, it's far more functional in basic use such as create a launcher and run a program than new GNOME.

How the heck does one add applets to the panel such as a sound mixer which disappeared for some reason, yet it can be found from applications.

Keyboard shortcuts?

But at least it's pretty.
Angry Birds artist leaves Rovio to create new gaming startup
I should mention, my implementation does not cause you to lose focus of the window (IDE most likely) that you are currently working in.

I'll check out wmctrl
If you just use GZIP, supported by most browsers, it compresses without the need of special software on the client side to rebuild the original JSON response. And does a better job at compression I bet. I thought of doing something like this to rebuild cycles in object graphs, but I didn't because it requires special parsing logic for the client to use.
Some orgs just hit the sweet spot for a certain kind of mentality; if this is reasonably accurate I'm not surprised the most frequent kind of post on the Github blog is "<your name here> is a Githubber".
Here's the original source, without the blogspammed ads:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/05/net-us-facebook-su...
Women startup founders getting more publicity
Yes and no. Obviously his teacher was in the wrong for yelling and screaming at him over such a trivial matter. However, in California at least, testing standards (as dictated by the state) are incredibly strict. More than one good teacher has been fired for not following the written procedures EXACTLY. Any reported deviation (state inspectors interview students and staff at random) is grounds for punishment and possible dismissal. It's a complete disaster, but this is what the teachers have to deal with. It can be incredibly stressful.
YakShaving:  I totally "invented" airtime 2 years ago
My status updates have gone from about 1/day a couple of years ago, to about 1/week now. Even though I've blocked all apps, etc., I find FB to be too noisy. The only thing I like about FB is that I can keep track of friends' events, like babies, marriages, breakups, trips, etc.
Thanks. I was expecting somebody to mention this. What I am currently doing is investigating most of the code I use, be it methods, classes, and so on. It takes me off of the main task, but I think based on what you experienced its a good thing. I have a folder for rails source code in my editor and I usually just hang out there. ;) Hopefully this will mitigate the problem.
I'm sure that's the case

putting a sentence about how your comment may be downvoted, is just a request not to have that small number reflexsively downvote, because sometimes that happens
This is good news. The backend for Google Docs right now is a patchy patchwork mess that was originally based on OpenOffice (many many years ago). Replacing that backend with Quickoffice is going to make Google Docs a force to be reckoned with. Can't wait.
Instapaper 1.0
FB seems to get into a negative press spiral lately because of the underperforming IPO...suddenly its all just a fad because people want to read about this new super company failing...

But the truth is, it still has CRAZY numbers in terms of Daily/Weekly/Monthly Active users and average time spent on the site. Its a behemoth and will not fall!
Github developers and designers are all big users of the product. I hope they change how the world works on developer tools. But a different (or at least very modified) vision is going to be needed at a company working on products that their developers don't use.
Facebook Is a Buy at $20
Huffington Post's 404 page has Barack on it
Don't violate design laws, even if you're Apple
But he also writes in a subsequent comment:

"And for all the people wasting everybodys time with "Why don't you use Unity/KDE/xfce/xyz" - I've tried them. They are even worse"

https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/UkoAaLDp...

So Gnome 3 is officially the best Linux desktop.
i am not addressing most parts of the answer, but this one part of the reply bugs me the most; "he wound up raping another member". Because this equates any sexual harassement with rape. Are you suggesting that someone would eventually rape just because they are assholes?
I think only problem is that we again got into 2000-dot-com thinking that "users == money".
Smarterer Scores Series A, Looks to Replace Resumés with Skill Matching
Something something "ideas are cheap" something something "all that matters is execution"
Yeah, it's started growing on me once I learned about what's possible via extensions. At some point as long as they expose the APIs to build the right thing it stops mattering to a degree how the defaults work. Witness things like Conkeror (http://conkeror.org) being built initially as a Firefox extension due to the fact that all the extensibility to build a better UI was there from the start.
Great theory and great reference study to back it up.
I never really got why facebook was considered interesting. I made an account because I was pressured by some female friends into doing so but I never log on it (at least 5 months). I know I'm not the norm but still, I feel like facebook is just a fad and that people will get bored of posting every second of their life onto the internet eventually.
Everyone should read "Notation as a Tool of Thought" by Iverson:

http://www.jdl.ac.cn/turing/pdf/p444-iverson.pdf

APL was originally designed as a uniform mathematical notation. It was only implemented as a programming language some time later. I don't think classic APL has a future, but there are ideas there worth learning.
Not necessarily; I usually don't use a score when I play. It would also be insightful to see the 1st person perspective of a jazz musician playing from a lead sheet, to see how his eyes jump between page and piano.
What is with the deluge of articles telling people what they should do? If people want to build rockets, robots, or learn to code they can. They should be doing what excites them and interests them whether thats science, writing, music, or coding.
I learned APL in college and used it professionally for about eight years. I really enjoyed the language. Once you know it well enough it creates a very interesting flow condition. You are able to focus on the problem rather than the mechanics of solving it. It's hard to describe but you definitely feel the difference when going from APL to something like C, Forth or Lisp.

One of the huge problems with APL back then was that workspaces (the memory and resource sandbox your work is constrained to) were limited in size. The other was the trouble you had to go through in the early days to be able to see and print the character set. On early IBM PC versions you had to change the character generator ROM. You also had to buy very specific printers for which you could buy APL print heads (for example, IBM Selectric).

Today these issues are gone and workspaces are large enough to tackle the vast majority of problems.

There is, however, in my opinion, a serious problem with APL today: It is too expensive.

Yes, there are low cost or even free APL's, but the ones you want will run you $1,000 to $2,000 per seat. That's ridiculous. If there's a language that would have benefited from FOSS, this is it. I strongly believe that APL adoption would be far wider today if it had a strong FOSS offering.

The other issue is that, probably because it didn't go FOSS, the language didn't evolve into OO. I think it needs to. It also needs a few additional mutations to make it easier to work with and deploy. APL for the web, as a wild thought, could be a very interesting idea. The compression of code would be magnificent to see.

I haven't used APL in quite some time but would jump on it if it made sense. Back in the day I used APL for projects ranging from robotics, to business databases, DNA sequencing and astronomical calculations. It was fun.
Apple swapping out Google maps for iPhone
This also breeds a society that is increasingly willing to accept things at face value. Nobody asks if the correct answer on a multiple choice test is really correct. No one is allowed to justify their reasoning--they're wrong. After getting beaten down so many times, people just accept that things are the way they are. This is also the same reason that people can just memorize things for tests and parrot them back without a real understanding of anything.

Book learning is only valuable insofar as there is experience in the real world that it can be applied to. The sole reason I learned algebra and eventually calculus was because I taught myself very basic Java in 6th grade. I had a useful framework to apply the math to.

We need to remember that "if it disagrees with experiment, it is wrong." (Feynman) Not because the test says it's incorrect. It just may be that those two statements coincide, but it is because of the former.
Constrained by your team? I can see you making that case for Instagram with only 12 people, but according to Yahoo Finance, FB has about 3500 people. Not one of them is thinking about how to increase revenues? And they don't have enough engineers to try out some of the ideas?
Wow. Talk about your first world problems.

Did I really just read a blog post about how difficult it's been for her to come to terms with the fact that an image she expected to be on public display in Antwerp also ended up in Times Square? Oh, the humanity...
Everything falls eventually, the only question is how long do they have in the sunshine.
Lisp and Brain Neurochemistry
I met a friend in college with real ADD. The type where the medication he takes is about 2 chemical reactions away from straight-up cocaine. One day, he forgot to take his meds, and I was talking to him at lunch. He was in the middle of a sentence, and he just... stopped. Completely frozen. Motionless, mid-gesture, staring off into space. He stayed like this for close to a full minute, and just as I was about to ask him if he was ok, he yelled out "SHIT, WHERE'D IT GO!?!" Apparently the sentence he was saying evaporated from his head while he was in the process of speaking it.

So yeah, there really is such a thing as ADD. I won't contest that it's overdiagnosed to hell and back. I wouldn't be surprised if only 1 case in 100 is the real thing, or even 1 in 1,000. But there actually is a real thing, that exists, underneath all the misdiagnoses.
Tech behind Flame attack could compromise Microsoft Update
I'm all for thinking about where your stuff is coming from, buying local, paying for sustainable practices, etc. Ensuring that young people are involved though? That's just weird and unactionable.
That was narrow minded. You know it's possible to be a developer and never touch a web app stack professionally, right? Let alone the One True Language that is Ruby.
Facebook fascinating? 2 in 3 users actively engaged!
Just checked the list of apps I am 'hiding' from my News Feed... It's no wonder people are tuning it out:

Angry Birds Friends, Battle Pirates, Bejeweled Blitz, Bingo Island, Budweiser King Club, Camelot: The Game, CastleVille
Daily Horoscope, Family Feud, Games on Mindjolt, Happy Pets,
Hidden Chronicles, Hockey Pool, Horoscopes, Light of Nova, Lucky Slots: Reno, Marvel: Avengers Alliance, Miner Speed,
Mirrorball Slots, Pet Society, QBet Casino, Quiz Whiz, Quotev, Ravenskye City, Ravenwood Fair, Restaurant City, SCRABBLE, Slotomania - Slot Machines, Treasure Isle, War Commander, Washington Post Social Reader, WeTopia, What is your old lady name?, Zoo World, Zuma Blitz
I just noticed this comment. It does indeed help teach programming. I use it to start students off in understanding booleans, if statements, loops, and variables. It's very fast to get going and to experiment with visual results, and the way the blocks snap together makes it easier to put the right types of expressions in the right places.