skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something that wasn't confounded with deaths by suicide and high-speed automobile accidents, both of which are so anomalously high in the US that when you factor them out of life expectancy the rankings are totally different.

Say what you will about the worldwide quality of mental health care, but there's not a whole lot a good hospital can do once you've set out to harm yourself, and that one particular tragically underserved health problem is not what people are thinking about when they suggest "Americans pay more money to get less than what Europeans do". That last notion is dubious at best.
As a mere recreational jogger, what's there to know about running?
Emphasis on: "When I SAW this, it instantly killed any craving I had had for Apple's MacBook Pro Retina."

We've seen a lot of devices that look good but then end up poorly implemented.
I learned C and C++ when I was 11, having only done BASIC before that. Why hold 14 year-olds back if they're capable of doing it?
Google forgets about usability with latest Chrome build
> An interesting video I came across ("Look In The Mirror") a while ago -->

Absolute strawman. The black "leaders" he calls out have been calling out the black "community" for self-inflicted ills for decades, ranging from misogyny and violence in hip-hop, to homophobia. Not to mention there are literally hundreds (if not thousands) of black-led organizations all over the country where folks are spending their own money to encourage parental participation in education and address other ills - this is the stuff the media for whatever reason doesn't like to cover (I've been to press conferences given by these folks who try to get the word out on their activities, to have no one show up).

As for why they don't march for black-on-black crime, I'll just leave this here: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/04/why-dont...
A linkbait, "N Ys that X" content-farmy headline that seems just tailor-made for getting on HN.
'11 MBP and it's smooth as butter... thinking about it though perhaps JS support at that resolution is pushing it too hard.
Actually it is. See the 13th amendment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_Uni...

A war was fought over the issue, and we decided to add that particular issue to the constitution through the amendment process that the founders allowed for in the constitution. It turns out, that after the war, we didn't repeal the 10th. That's totally still there - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_Amendment_to_the_United_S...

Facts are pesky things, aren't they?

And Reagan appointed Kennedy. What's your point?

I see you also skipped over the part where I'd be ok with amending the constitution to add it. I wouldn't support it, but I'd be ok with it if it actually passed.
It's not donations that are meant to sustain open source software. The idea is that it is not the software itself that is meant to sustain itself (because information ought to be free) but rather things like support, maintenance and other tailored services are supposed to provide the funding for the project and for the people working on it.

This is why commercial Linux distributions can work and have worked.

Yes, granted this doesn't apply to all OSS, but in the cases that it doesn't, then it's definitely just for the benefit of the programmer to be able to freely work on, share and collaborate to complete something.
I think we really would do best to attack the cost explosion problem at the same time we attack the coverage problem. Fixing the coverage problem is mostly a matter of political will (granted that the opposition has been bitter). Getting costs under control requires far-reaching changes to the health care system itself and will take years at best.
In other news, I'm up far later than I want to be debating something I have almost no control over, with someone who describes himself as an idiot.

"Honey come to bed"

"I can't, somebody is wrong on the internet"
I've been watching a plane 'land' via cockpit mode in my home town, a surreally genuine experience given how well I know the terrain and have flown in so many times. Each time the plane rolls to maneuver in, it's as if I'm back on the flight.

Oh, now Google Earth crashed as it was getting to the good part. I feel like I missed the ending of a movie.
The future of hacking - microchip/wireless hacking NEW FICTION SERIES
I have written this series of books as a social commentary, based on current developments in science, technology and politics - major focus on hacking and development of human weapons. Check it out if you're interested.

see:

www.jkbowden.net
www.facebook.com/bioweaponseries
It is called Apache Cordova now, and it is a set of implementations (one for each platform) providing JS hooks into native APIs, so they can be called from JS in a web view, so your web app runs in a native app container.

Phone gap is now a set of technical/busisness services for managing Cordova projects, such as Build deployable packages for all platforms via a web service
Apple is a gatekeeper, but so is Microsoft. Google effectively controls what users see on the web. Have you figured out how to balance these influences, or do you avoid all three of them?

In any case I find it highly ironic that one commenter on your blog post brings up Samsung as an alternative. Not quite a flying drone, but still... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_SGR-A1
Are you saying that someone who hasn't read the complete source code of all the software he uses is a moron?
Literate programming in Factor in just ~10 lines of code
These are NOT his opinions but the opinion of several different people who answered the original StackOverflow question.

The first one, for example, is obviously a joke.
And those running Lucid LTS and will never hellgrade to Precise!
That's reasonable, but if we're talking easy math, I just add 25% to the base. Just divide by 4 and add that. Covers tax with about a 17-18% tip, and I usually round up. I also tip better to any server I see regularly, I agree that pays off.
An MVP gone wrong and the 3 pillars of success
Competing with archiv.org?
I assume there is no progress if one "side" - I assume - attribute it to laziness that pupils can't read and the other "side" blame it on racism - meaning each one sees the main problem with the others.
Please don't post comments like this. It doesn't really add anything to the discussion, and for that matter it doesn't really add anything to any discussion.

I'm a fan of making fun of politicians, too, but you don't accomplish anything or convince anyone by doing so.
Top 5 reasons why you should move to Berlin, now:

1. Lowest livings costs with highest quality of living. Stay in gorgeous, perfectly renovated apartments in pre-WWII residential buildings with high ceilings, right in the middle of the center and pay a fraction of costs of any other capital (even cheaper than any Eastern European capital). No need for a car—Berlin has one of the densest subway nets and wide streets make biking fun. In addition, Germany has an amazing social health care system including health, unemployment and pension (when working as an employee).

2. A vibrant and fast growing ecosystem of smart people. A vast number of new software talents, founders, software companies and VCs are moving to Berlin, every day (Twitter, Google, Soundcloud, Early Bird and many more).

3. People here are open-minded, outgoing, mix well and international—no need to learn German, everyone speaks English! Making new friends is a matter of days. Visit tons of networking and startup events, every week.

4. Easy work permissions—Europeans do not need any and can work from day one and the rest applies for the hassle-free Blue Card.

5. Berlin's night life is unmatched, huge and changing every day (plus ridiculously cheap). Berlin has got some of the most dazzling, naughty, and original clubs on the face of the Earth.

Berlin is calling and getting the new tech hub of Europe. If you are passionate about building great software, we’d love to talk with you. If you don't live in Berlin yet, we could help to fix that.

=> http://urge.io/jobs
Not if you live in the 2012
I don't agree at all. I don't think Galileo would agree, either.
Perfectly smooth on a '12 MBA under chrome.
There isn't. But it is an interesting book. It's about barefoot/natural running btw.
That's no less omplicated than downloading the PHP source and recompiling with the --with-pcntl flag. Now compare that, just for your own wonderment, to how it works in other modern languages..

pip install package_name
or
gem install package_name

not to mention, with bundler and virtualenv you can easily, easily keep multiple versions of different packages for different projects without any juggling and hacking your way through.
I seriously expected you to say something like "Ah, I hadn't checked the dictionaries and repeated what I read in article X". I wanted to find out what X was. :-(

>>Examining word usage is an obvious starting point.

>>It's called fighting fire with fire

So you are consciously lyi... redefining the dictionary and do logical jumps through hoops, to get out the opinion you consider "good". :-(

>>Racists

So, all means are OK that attacks the racist enemy in your own social group? Even trying to define away racism in other groups -- presumably so there won't be a negative view of them because of their racism?

If that excusing of racism in your attacks on racism wasn't such pathetic Orwellian double-think, it would be funny.

Anyway, thanks for the honesty -- if it really was honesty and not another trick.

(My internal monologue right now is: "Grumble, must shower; I feel dirty when people sell out their intellectual integrity. Seriously, the left wing extremists are as crazy as the US right wing extremists.")
Really surprised at the amount of hate for Python significant indentation. I've only used Python a little, and I expected to hate that too, but found it wasn't really so bad. I thought my experience was pretty common, and that by now most people either thought it was a great idea or at least found it tolerable. But "it was a bad idea" is currently favored 43 to 5. Maybe not many Pythonistas have seen this page yet.
Very cool site. The flight sight is a bit nicer, it shows you pretty much all planes at the same time. With the boats map you have to preselect an area to load the view. Might be more boats though.

Anyway thanks for pointing this out. My insight today, was just how crowded the Strait of Hormuz is. I read about it and saw air pictures but now I _really_ understand what all the fuzz about Iran war consequences is about.
I am a runner also (finished one marathon with a time that is nothing to write home about), and was looking forward to an interesting story. I read this whole article with a growing feeling of incredulity, not about the cheating that it describes (yes, I understand that there are confabulators of this type - Stephen Glass was already mentioned in the comments), but about the effort and space that a national magazine would spend on this story. I kept waiting for SOMETHING of momentous importance towards the end somewhere that would justify all this buildup, but it never came. Yup, a guy cheated in a bunch of races. Yup, he is a confabulator who will invent any number of details and fake personas to build up his fantasies. Yup, he was caught in due time. You could summarize this in five lines. This is not just beating a dead horse, this is shooting it with a howitzer, repeatedly.

The only truly interesting detail would be the method by which he cheated, which the reporter, at long last, admits that nobody has figured out. This leaves the possibility that other people are cheating the same way, although maybe less brazenly. Again, this could be summarized in a line (it's clear that he cheated, the method is difficult to figure out). What is this, a slow news year?
"You don't, though"

Interesting, though I'm not sure how my knowledge of C is relevant to the conversation.
What do you classify as 'xenophobia'? How can I avoid falling victim to it? How can I make my arguments more rational in future?

For what it's worth, I have lived in Asia for several years, speak three languages, and my opinions are influenced by the Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang, so I'm trying my best.
Actually I think that it's a more ironic take on the meaningless links that made the front page (twice I believe) a while ago about some (not so) controversial opinions on software development. I certainly hope no one thought any of these were opinions to be taken seriously.
The United States, for instance.
That's pretty true. However, in C, you can actually write interesting data structures and algorithms that come up in computer science. I think that makes for good "theory meets practice"-based learning.

I'm not saying all algorithms classes should incorporate writing C code all the time. But probably every budding computer scientist or software engineer should take at least one such class.

I'm also not saying C is the only language for which this is true. But it's definitely not generally true for interpreted languages.

Also, C is pretty much the language everything higher-level is implemented in. So once again, at least some exposure to C can help someone conceptualize what's happening on the computer at every level.
What is the highest possible score achievable in a single game of Jeopardy?
In the US at least, the FAA's official data feed (ASDI) is delayed by at least 5 minutes. The undelayed data is only given out on an as-needed basis (e.g. to airline operators) and can't be redistributed to the general public.
You made a false assertion about C.

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Connect the dots.
What are we supposed to do with this information? The article doesn't suggest any approach to mitigate the problem.
It's sad that everyone of these threads has the same three people defending Apple no matter what the reason or circumstance. Come on. It's embarrassing to watch.
This is a narrow view of what software is supposed to do. Are styrofoam cups inferior or are their designers "incompetent" because they break easily? No! That's the whole point--they are cheap and disposable.

The same is true about most software people write--it is also cheap and disposable. Often, having something that works well enough now is better than having something that works well tomorrow. I'm not even talking about being impervious to skilled hackers; even breaking under normal use is not necessarily bad.

Sure, if your software would kill people or destroy things, you have an issue. If your software is very critical and usually above suspicion (like a compiler, say) this would also be a problem. But if you're just writing a web app to share cat pictures or some internal tools or really most any other type of software? It's most often better to be cheap and fragile than good and solid.

My laptop is probably my single most important possession. (Yeah, I'm a student so I don't really have much else :P.) Do I have a Tough Book which is nigh unbreakable? Nope. I have a laptop which is actually fairly easy to mess up. And it is in every practical sense the better choice.

This is, coincidentally, why I think the cynical view of "planned obsolescence" is somewhat shortsighted. Sure, in a sense it's bad that electronic gadgets fall apart after a couple of years. But there's no cynical force behind all this: the simple fact that you wouldn't pay twice as much for a phone which is only more sturdy--but not more capable--is what drives the markets. If you were really worried about it, you would have bought a purpose-built device that would hold up better; instead you bought something cheaper which will break sooner. And this is a perfectly reasonable compromise to make!
> Zeigarnik effect: uncompleted tasks and unmet goals tend to pop into one’s mind. Once the task is completed and the goal is reached, however, this stream of reminders comes to a stop. For example, if you listen to a song, your mind moves on; if you listen to a song that’s abruptly cut off in the middle, your mind will continue inserting bits and pieces of the song into your stream of thoughts, reminding you that you’re not “done” listening.

Interesting, I wonder if this is the same as when you have a song stuck (looping) in your head. I've been told that listening to the whole song will make it unstuck.
Yeah, learn effective programming by a guy who obviously has no idea what he is talking about ...

Why is this idiot still getting publicity?
That is only because you picked an internal extension that is usually already built-in. If you install the php-cli package from any major distro it includes pcntl. For normal extensions you either do an apt-get install php-imap (for example) or a pecl install stem if your distro hasn't packaged the extension you need or you just prefer to install it directly.
Yeah, must read if you are into bullshit research.
For alt least some of their data, they rely on radio amateurs picking up transponder data and uploading it. They probably don't have a good network of stations in those regions.
"Black students, even adjusting for poverty, routinely score lower on average than white students nationally."

This is because black students, on average, are less intelligent than white students. Mystery solved.
Unrelated, but there are good open source clones like https://github.com/antirez/lamernews
I had a somewhat similar experience. I took a CS class in high school and, having had something like a four-year head start, did pick the material up somewhat faster than other people.

The biggest difference I noted didn't have anything to do with what the other students did in their spare time. Rather, the major difference was that some students would immediately ask for help as soon as they ran into any sort of trouble where others would spend some time trying to overcome the problem themselves.

The latter approach is far more important than anything you do in the subject itself--it teaches you the skills you need to solve problems yourself. Forcing yourself to sift through documentation, try different approaches and just sit there staring at the screen and thinking prepares you for similar problems in the future where just asking for help only teaches you how to solve your immediate issue (at best).

This post is gender-agnostic because it applied to both boys and girls in my class. I'm sure there are plenty of gender-specific issues as well, but this was the single most important factor I saw in how well other students did.
Why Enterprise Matters
And then later you come across Haskell :P. Everything you could possibly want in a language, and far less wish-washy than the rest; a perfect testament to the fact that theory and practice are not at cross purposes.

Sure it's not perfect, but I posit that it's a local maximum for most tasks.
My thesis for both my undergrad and graduate study (currently doing) is about NLP. But I only have little knowledge in Python. Can I still apply? I also live in Asia, is relocation possible?
whoever this nimbUx is, he's very childish. No, google didn't forget about usability. Flagged.
Few Hours left for DroidCon Registration 2012
really cool stuff.
Hmm, can you give an example of a typical "learning CS" level algorithm that you can't implement in, say, JavaScript?
Jada's argument is quite good. You can hear her read her essay here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-lG1Wb2AfM

At no point in her essay does she call for black majority schools or say the problem is not enough black teachers. It seems like most of the posts in this discussion are claiming that is her argument but it is not. It is odd that there would be so much discussion about some unrelated topic that wasn't even brought up in her argument.

So what does she say? Two major themes are that she calls for white teachers to be more accountable and to improve their pedagogy, and she calls for students to expect more of their teachers.
It works fine on my iPhone4 too.
I have had many failed interview cycles at G over the years, but sourcers kept reaching out every year. They used to be awful at maintaining relationships (contractors disappearing and ending the cycle without notifying anyone), but they are more organized and recruiting staffed up to match the workload recently.
I been there, and it definitely doesn't fit the description.

On the other hand, there were plenty of folk who would swear up was down if they thought it made the world fit their personal narrative better. You haven't have seen any of those people about by any chance, have you?
Really? I've always seen it as a percentage of colors that can be displayed (sRGB). Of course, a graph would be better, but according to Dell, my U2410 has 110% color gamut and it looks pretty amazing to me.

As for the Retina, I may have to take that back. First article claims the Retina has 99% vs. 71% for the previous generation:

http://cdtobie.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/color-gamut-of-retin...

But Anandtech says it got worse (67%):

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6023/the-nextgen-macbook-pro-w...

I'm assuming calibration has something to do with it, or somebody tested it incorrectly or with inferior equipment.
A Mozilla employee has posted a fork called 'Bookmarks On The Go' which opens links in the Safari instead of using an in-app browser.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bookmarks-on-the-go/id5500371...
"to Texas, for a “better business environment” than you can apparently find in California. I think that means that the CEO doesn’t have to pay state taxes and is allowed to hunt low-level employees for sport."

Um, no. California is an offensive rip-off, which practically begs businesses to leave with such maneuvers as charging an $800 annual "tax" on ZERO OR NEGATIVE income. And that's not counting any municipal taxes, such as Los Angeles trolling around for another handout.
It is so ridiculous to me that the word "Github" in this article links to an engadget search for the word "Github", rather than the Github repo that the article is about.
Most passwords resets do not mail you the password; they usually mail you a unique URL which you can use to reset the password, which often generates a second mail telling you the password was changed.

That prevents anyone from "sneaking" into your account, even if the can snoop your mail / copy your inbox. You'll see the intrusion, and you'll be unable to log into the service after the password is changed.

Storing the password in plain-text in your inbox has none of that protection.
Exceptions in general FORCE a developer to deal with the problem.

There are good arguments in favour of exceptions, but I don't think this is one of them. If Java has taught us anything, it is that trying to force someone to handle exceptions just causes a lot of code that says:

catch (Exception e)
{
// silently ignore e
}
>I don't think our species has produced even one nontrivial correct program

Off the top of my head: seL4, a correct microkernel...pretty nontrivial!
The New Yorker likes to publish long, meandering human interest pieces. If you don't like those kinds of articles, skip them.
Seriously? As in if you recorded a video and looked at each frame, every one would be distinct from the previous frame? Why can't a RMBP run it then?
I think this is fairly trivially explained in most cases by the fact that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. Almost by construction, nearly every article starts with "X is a Y" (modulo grammatical niceties) where Y is a more general class to which X belongs. In cases when the article doesn't follow that form, the first linked term is usually still explanatory or definitional in some sense and hence more general, and cases where that doesn't apply (e.g. Obstacle) are unusual enough that they don't generally break the cycles. There are no "Wikipedia axioms" that I know of, so this is pretty much guaranteed to end in a cycle looping through a limited set of terms used to talk about abstract concepts. Hence Philosophy.
Bingo. Treat the interviewer like an intelligent student in a class you are teaching => win.