skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only differences are in how the visual elements are
> presented.

If you don't care about performance, then yes. Everything that affect desktop web performance for the worse (number of requests, latency, lame caching policy) will bite you hundred times more on mobile.
Almost everyone I know who uses a tool for tracking their finances uses Mint. They do not have an API that I am aware of, however.

It appears Yodlee may be something you'd be interested in.
Odd, though, that a 7 year old article can turn up as news.
I suspect the most severely depressed in 3rd world countries, to be blunt, end up on the street and die (assuming they don't take their own lives first). That's one reason you may not see depression as obviously prevalent in the general population of a 3rd world country.
That's easy. I just say to myself, "Think of a random number between 1 and X.", and then I do. I see magicians do this all the time.

If it's hot out, I remove the undergarment.
You could be bipolar with a hypo maniac phase. You should check this with experts.
I was refering to "dominating" + "turning point".
C/C++/Java is still dominating the programming world. By far.
It may be that i don't program C and only occasionaly Java, but that's only me.
but dep management in the browser is still so different then the npm workflow. it's not just code you have to worry about, it's css/html/static resources
Flip, I need to get into Canada. Unlike mylittlepony, I do have a family and want the best for them. From October, serious thinking to be done.
I do not assert that reputation is a proxy for general intelligence. However, reputation is a cornerstone of becoming a peer reviewer, and it takes peer review for an assertion to become science. Therefore, my assertion is more so that having reputable academics backing the paper will decrease the equivocacy of its assertions and aid its adoption rather than assert that reputation functions as a proxy for intelligence.
If that was his only project, yes. But I've not seen evidence of that; I was suggesting that even if he'd stewarded that Android app project he'd also still, as a founder, be weighing in on things like the "who viewed this" feature and policy.
Ask HN: What are the best in-classroom education apps for K-5
I just got back from the first PTA meeting at my son's elementary school and we have a $200K surplus from last year. We need a solid technology plan to help spend this money effectively. I am thinking something related to tablets would likely offer the most bang per dollar, but don't have a good sense of what is out there specifically for the classroom. One limitation we have is we need flash support. Awesome apps the school already uses such as Dreambox use flash, so the ipad is likely not an option. I definitely like Class Dojo and plan to use that as one use case where a tablet in each classroom would make sense. I am hoping to help create a technology plan that maximizes value per dollar spent. We have a nice big surplus for a public school, but parents need to see it spent prudently if we expect them to be generous with their donations again this year. Do you have any recommendations? Do you have kids in a school that uses tablets in the classroom? Or know of good applications that make the teachers day easier given they have a tablet?

I have a Kindergartner and 2nd grader so am personally more biased towards those grades at the moment. Especially if we go with some kind of initial staged roll out.

Thanks for the advice.

-Wojtek
As an immigrant and entrepreneur in Canada, I'm less than impressed by this new visa class.

This visa means you can work for your own company, in Canada, provided it has funding from a VC. Lets reword that a bit and it sounds like "You can work for a specific company, in Canada, provided you have an offer letter"

Honestly if Canada wants to do something truly innovative, they should look at the track record of applicants rather than simply saying "get a VC to sponsor you". Things like: have they received funding previously, do they have relevant experience, have they got any revenue or "traction" on their current idea, how have they validated their current idea and whats the chance of it getting funding...are all great places to start.

The bottom line: there are plenty of people without VC funding who Canada should welcome, and this visa offers no assistance to. Sadly if Canada doesnt let them in, someone else will, and with VCs in the US getting more comfortable with non North American investments, maybe this doesnt change anything?
An interview with the designer is available at https://vimeo.com/album/2067663/video/48937359
It is not unreasonable to assert that it takes intelligence to understand this area of mathematics. However, it is wholly inane to assert that one is intelligent if and only if one understands the intricacies of this proof.
Yes, actually, it does matter. Side effects of antidepressants include the period of getting just enough energy to kill yourself, and the risk of serotonin syndrome, especially when seeing multiple doctors for multiple issues, who might start SSRIs in near succession. The list goes on for a ways.
Tacky works pretty well.
> no one is quite sure how or if Amazon makes money

I thought it was pretty clear that they're an e-commerce powerhouse.
Absolutely. I haven't seen anybody mention David Burns' book "Feeling Good" but it probably saved my life from a descent into insanity. It's my "bible" now. I knew something was completely and absolutely wrong with my self-destructive thought patterns but didn't understand what until I learned about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).

A sad observation: everytime I encounter a struggling friend with dysfunctional thought patterns, I work through their thoughts using CBT techniques (without mentioning that's what I'm doing). This almost always results in a calmer friend who starts feeling better about the situation, or at least more confident in their ability to deal with it.

I then tell them what I'd done to improve their emotional state and how they can learn to do it for themselves by pointing them to CBT and Burns... and a few months later I find they still suffer from dysfunctional thoughts and haven't bothered following my advice.

Funny thing is I was the same; it took a bout of severe depression and reading "Feeling Good" exactly at the time when I could introspect my severely dysfunctional thought patterns for me to accept my situation (having purchased the book a year previously but being dubious about its claims of my "mild" depression at the time). I don't know if this is social conditioning (only "weak" people get depression) or general ignorance of the fact that the mind needs "maintenance work".
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The Growing Importance of Sharing Metadata via APIs
> It helps tell these apps apart

I would agree, variation is very important in this respect - however, this skeuo-leather-morphic design is but one small niche in the set of all possible variations. Have Apple exhausted their own potential? Is the only way for them to further refine their software really for them to turn away from minimalism and add more and more revolting kitsch?

If this is true, why does it have to be this particular style of kitsch?
Math stuff in ruby can be greatly speeded up by using the NArray library http://narray.rubyforge.org/ Method list here: http://narray.rubyforge.org/SPEC.en
Correction. Debugging JS in not easy. I have been working on a native application which has some HTML5 components in webviews. There is no easy way in XCode to debug JS in this kind of mixed application. In fact, it is a royal pain in the ass. You can run the JS in Chrome debugger or a web development IDE, but that can only work if all your functionality is in HTML5/JS and not a mix of Native and HTML5.
It even happens if you just open port 22 on your home router. You can use things like fail2ban to put a short-term ban on offending addresses, and put your ssh server on a random (i.e. not 2222) high numbered port to reduce automated scans.
This is good news. I had to move away from Parse just because I had to do some computation at the backend. Will try out the new feature.
I agree that the point is important, but that problem already exists independently of this issue.

To use your analogy, the guy I was responding to was saying: "if you make a law I don't agree with, I will break it and frame innocent people. See if I care."

That's where it becomes a competition for the title.
RIP Vile Rat, EVE Online Diplomat, IRL State Dept Rep Killed In Benghazi
Skateboarders are a huge nuisance on sidewalks. They simply move much faster than everyone else using the sidewalk, and disparity in speed is a huge source of danger in transportation. I can only imagine it'll be worse with a faster, motorized skateboard.
I went to college (here in Kenya) with two sisters whose family had a history of suicide. Both committed suicide after they had graduated.

The sad thing is that people rarely talk about mental health issues[1].

There is also a shortage of psychiatrists and when they are found most people cannot afford them.

[1] http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/31/health/frank-njenga-mental...
RSS in JSON, for Real?
Ah! Sorry, I misremembered. You're right, it's NAB.
"Privacy is as apple-pie as the Constitution."

This really hit me. I finally know how to describe it!

I don't own a weapon because I want to kill someone. I own a weapon because I may have to use it against those who wish to do me harm. The same with privacy!

I don't want to overthrow the government or betray friends, I want privacy because every single person who wants to access my information has their own reasons, and rarely are they in line with my interests. I want privacy so that the expectation of privacy doesn't draw question or ire: it should be a no-brainer! Everyone wants to keep their personal communication hidden!

Or should.
The consensus was that it works in severe cases of depression, but milder ones show little benefit.
https://www.braintreepayments.com/tour/international

(And as zhoutong correctly pointed out above, it's NAB, not Westpac.)
The latest offering of Kindle Fire might actually give the iPad a serious competition.

I'm currently an iPad user.

If I don't have the iPad now, I would be torn between buying the two.

The Kindle Fire is cheaper. Amazon's customer service is great.

But the most compelling reason is they have Amazon Prime. Being able to access all the Amazon Prime free movies and TV shows is a huge draw, at least to me.

There will be those who will buy it to install their own Android versions also. Small group though.

If I were to recommend either tablets to friends, I'm not sure which one I will recommend. Prior to this release of Kindle Fires, I would have recommended the iPad without much thought.
Isn't that the definition of business? Get as much as you can for as little as you can?

A common misconception, I figure. More correct would be: Get more for less. That is, add value. Perhaps you're expected to maximise the stock price, but as long as the company doesn't go bankrupt, you have a lot of leeway in how you want to work towards that in the long run.
I've had this very experience.

Until you have the medication, you don't realise how completely you've stood in the shadow of depression for your whole life.
This was an good explanation and it made me consider some things that hadn't occurred to me so thanks :)

I figured the probability isn't handled by the car wash itself but instead essential to derive the price of the quote. Surely they must give an insurer the volume of cars coming through, yes? What seemed unlikely to me is that the car wash must also show the types of cars getting washed. This would be something handled by the insurance company after making certain assumptions that factor into the risk.

Assuming that each car wash did pay damages (which as you mentioned they don't), do you think they would charge premiums for washing all luxury cars? The price to insure against damages seems like it should be fixed per car (even if based off volume). One month might be oversaturated with $30,000 cars and another month might have more $20,000 cars. Will the cost to insure the car wash against potential damages these months not be the same even when a higher saturation of more expensive cars incurs more risk for the insurer?

My answer to this forms my basis of why I didn't like the example, even artificially, which is that the price to insure every car is the same based on the likelihood of all cars getting damaged and the price to fix them (monthly insurance cost/amount of cars). The insurance cost has no respect to which cars go through the wash - probably because it's too much of a hassle for the insurer to police which cars are actually visiting and making a more accurate calculation of risk. Instead, they assume every wash has a certain amount of luxury cars - even if they don't. Obviously this wouldn't hurt margins if they accepted the cars that are covered but it doesn't stop them from raising margins, which they still might do.
Google makes more money off iOS users/devices than Android devices, in addition to all the cap ex goog has dropped on the effort.
Very good article! I think it really comes down to the fact that people can rationalize anything nowadays. Get 10 people in a room and they'll all disagree on what's right and wrong.

You know, I always feel like deep down, everybody knows what is really right. Whenever you make a bad decision, you've just got to know that you're rationalizing why it's okay. How could you not?

But maybe I'm wrong; I doubt that sociopaths and psychopaths have a true sense of right and wrong. There's stories of these people being in interrogation rooms and revealing all of the atrocities they've committed with no trace of emotion. It's only once they read the faces of their interrogators that they realize other people are horrified. And then they pretend to have remorse because it improves their own chances of a good outcome.
The winter blues are a real thing.[0] Wil could have very well been talking about that, which is fairly common. It's something you might not personally notice, but it helps to have someone else give their opinion.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder
A few years back, coach Angel Heredia did an interview with Spiegel on the same topic in which he alleges many of today's world-records would be impossible without PEDs. There's a translated version below, but note that at the time of interview, he under investigation for supplying illicit drugs to athletes, and his responses are mildly tainted by personal agenda.

Translated Spiegel.de article:
http://www.sherdog.net/forums/f13/angel-heredia-interview-sp...

NY times discussing the investigation:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/sports/13doping.html?_r=1&...
I'm not sure if you already knew this but you don't need a student visa to live in the US for 9-12 weeks. You can apply for a B1 visa (business/visitor category). Technically you are only learning and not working for wages. Once you land a job offer you can get a H1B visa and that's a different story. You'll need an invitation letter for B1 visa and am pretty sure the guys at appacademy will furnish you one if you are selected. Hope this helps.
I've been talking to a mob called pin.net.au who are aiming to do in Australia what Stripe does.
Baroque?
Nostalgia seems like it better describes skeuomorphism than fake-skeuomorphism.

A notebook application that looks like a notebook is "nostalgic". Weather applications that look like my pants are not.
Aweful, just aweful. May he rest in peace.
Did you try mint.com. There's Yodlee (which mint uses) for API however its not free.
Modern medicine: Bio-Printed genitals, spray-on skin for army veterans
SA mod too, all around nice guy.
>> "You can start a business without an idea. Just go into a market like “Veterinarians” for example and Find The Pain. In that pain, you will come up with a product idea."

Is that really true?

It is very hopeful, and I'd like it to be true. Is it?
I submit that the system does needlessly bankrupt some people, but there are also a number of alternatives which allow a large percentage of the uninsured to avoid such a fate.

If I may submit two personal stories in place of rigorous data:

my incredibly poor sister recently injured herself and was facing nominal charges of about $40,000. She was able to get that written down to a few grand and then get donations from family, friends, and charities to cover her bills. She didn't have to "play hardball"; she just explained her situation and the hospital bent over backwards to help her. The hospital staff treated it as a routine occurrence.

My wife and I do not have health insurance at all. We use something called "Christian Healthcare Ministries" [0] which is not insurance, and (at our level of participation) doesn't cover routine visits or small problems, but covers us in case of conditions that might otherwise bankrupt us. So while I personally cannot get insurance on the open market, and routinely get counted in the "not insured" category, I still have coverage.

(Note that I'm not defending the US health care system overall, just introducing some information about alternatives that help people avoid bankruptcy.)

[0] https://www.chministries.org/
I'm just going to assume that this comment came totally naturally.
What Work Is Really For
Adam D'Angelo answered a question on Quora regarding this: http://www.quora.com/Charlie-Cheever-1/What-is-Charlie-Cheev...
I think the incentives need to be re-aligned. https://www.sofee.com.au/ is new and maybe a step in the right direction, though only for Australia at the moment.

Does anyone know of anything similar internationally?
> I've just never encountered the level of non-technical user that would be lost but for those particular touches.

They say that economics happens at the margins. In other words, changing the price of a sandwich from $3.40 to $3.25 isn't going to make you buy 10% more of them. But in the population of consumers, there is a chunk that are on the margin that will be totally converted, and that results in a 10% volume increase in aggregate.

Something similar may be going on here. Make a design tradeoff (using leather) in order to get a 10% user benefit, even if 50% of your users get no benefit.
There has been an annoyingly noticable uptick in the past week or so.
Hi bokonist, I am relatively new to web development, but am interested in HubSpot. Would you mind if I send you an email with a few questions?
Unlikely you'll see this, so long after the fact, but oh well. My "method of substituting a variable" is nothing more than a more mathematically rigorous way of observing that x^2 + 1 is not prime for any of the odd integers, which is roughly half of them. Of course, that's using a definition of "prime" that is at odds with yours, and I'll defer to your more advanced math knowledge in that regard.
What a ridiculous comparison. As anyone who has skateboarded ever in their life knows, a bicycle is a thousand times safer and easier to control. Why don't you address the parent's points - that it is impossible to provide safe and effective braking on a skateboard.

It's impossible to prove, but replace bicycles with skateboards and the fatality rate would shoot up.
> This is the problem with cheating across the moral landscape: it’s robs others of their possibilities.

If 1000 guys compete, only 1 wins the possibilities, 999 of them will be robbed of their possibilities regardless of whether the winner cheats or not.

Don't plan (let alone invest significant portion of you life and health) on 1/1000 ratio. You have more or less that chance of dying next year. Do you plan on that?
"People don't get depressed in Nigeria"

http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/People-Dont-Get-Depressed-...

[via http://www.metafilter.com/119650/You-must-always-keep-an-ope... ]
Minimally Viable Life
Strange times we live in. Blessed to be able to learn from and interact with amazing souls, no matter where they are in the physical world.

RIP.
Ask HN: which WYSIWYG/Markdown text editor do you recommend?
This is a frequent question, but I think it hasn't been addressed in a while: if you were building an online community like Stack Overflow, Quora, or Hacker News, which text editor (if any) would you use?
Couldn't have happened to a nicer racist apologist for imperialism. RIP Viletat
Africa would have been subjected to a bloodbath of proportions unseen in history if the white man hadn't destroyed their culture first.

Examples I point to are as follows -

The Zulu nation was happily destroying not only all of it's neighbors, but many of their own people as the leadership happened to be certifiably insane. Shaka for example had a small penis (actually historically accurate) and killed thousands of people because of it. The zulu empire was actually not the bad one as the Matabele under Mzilikali after his loss to the zulu, took his tribe and conducted a scorched earth campaign across the lower section of africa destroying all in his path.

Lets not forget the laughable Xhosa girl Nongqawuse who said she saw visions that if everybody killed off their cattle and burned their fields the dead spirits of their ancestors would grant not only tenfold cattle in return, but destruction of the new white Anglo/Boer civilization in the southern cape. Needless to say after they slaughtered and burned everything no ancestors were forthcoming and 25 thousand of the Xhosa tribe died.
The tribes of africa were largely barbaric and vicious groups of people who really only understood killing for the most part. There were exceptions to the rule as there always are, the hottentots, and various smaller tribes, but for the most part african culture was set up to destroy other cultures to begin with.

I'm not going to say that they are better off having been colonized by the europeans, but the alternative was pretty vicious as well.
Also, the golang-nuts google group is a great place to ask questions.

Another good thing I've found if you just want to see other people's code to learn from- searching through gists for "func main" or a google search for site:play.golang.org on google.

Super pro tip: Gists searches don't have next/previous buttons by default, but you can still add &page=2 etc. to get the other pages.
> are these two things really issues?

Of course. Real people don't say "Calendar app? Oh, right, the one with the calendar sheet," or "Address book? Oh, right, the one with the people's contact info in it!". This is why we need on-screen leather.
Implementation tip - you don't need to invert that matrix! [1]. Whenever you see an equation of the form Ab = c and you want to find b, you should use a function equivalent to lu_solve (in the GNU Scientific Library) or the left-divide operator in Octave/Matlab (b = A\c), which will use the LU factorization algorithm [2] without ever computing A^(-1).

This is normally faster, more numerically stable and more space efficient. Even better, once you've computed the LU factorization of A once (which takes O(n^3) operations) you can then solve Ab = c for many different values of b and c in O(n^2) operations, by caching the factorization of A.

[1] http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/01/19/dont-invert-that-ma...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LU_decomposition
Religion is the root of all evil. There is no logic to acts like this. These are people riled up by their upbringings and brainwashing in religious circumstances. Whenever I hear people taking about their imaginary friends all the time I get very cautious around them. It's sad that they always have to bring down good people, who just want to live their lives in peace.
It is so common I'd be surprised if you weren't seeing these login attempts. Every ssh server I've run in the last 10 years has had this happen, even those without domain names. They must just scan random IPv4 addresses for anyone responding on port 22. It's the modern equivalent of wardialing.