skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't even mind law school! My problem is, I've only got a semester of undergrad. I was a professional developer more or less directly out of high school.
Dick Costolo: Twitter Users Can Download Their Entire Archive By Year-End
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...
No, I'd much rather have an agile and fast incompetent government than an agile and fast competent government after looking at who funds the majority of the reelection warchests.
There's nothing wrong with having children and having that experience be a great one. However, that kind of story is the dominant narrative in US society and people deserve to hear alternative points of view and experience for those where it didn't turn out OK or as a positive experience. Those kinds of stories and experiences don't get a lot of exposure, esp. in regards to media representation and cultural norms.

> Why don't those unhappy parents give up their kids for adoption?

The article went over this, as there are a wide variety of reasons someone has a child, planned or not. Some people may have children that they were forced to, or may find that the life they imagined having with children never materialized and that they do not want to continue being a parent. Also, cultural norms and representations of parenthood and expectations of how to interact with children heavily influence the perception of being a parent, so when these norms leave out the experience of people who regret or are not happy with being a parent, we are misleading people. Adoption and foster care systems are not a perfect solution, it would be better to provide more information and experiences for people to help them evaluate whether or not a child would be for them.
"climate change" here is a shorthand for "climate change caused by human emissions of CO2". I don't think the OP meant that people deny that the climate changes over time due to natural causes (actually, I think it's incredibly obvious).

I have learned, though, that in a politically charged atmosphere, it is important to be very exact in choosing your words, because people are looking for opportunities to attack.
>Given a system like that I'd be curious what the numbers might really look like. How high a tax would we need? What would the actual tax burden look like for different amounts of cash-back?

It seems like the math is fairly straightforward, but dependent on how much money you need to raise. The big question is to what extent you would want something like that to displace other taxes. If you wanted to displace all other federal, state and local taxes then a sensible rate would likely have to be in the nature of 20-30% (depending on the size of the exemption and how much money the government is to spend).

>Could we replicate something similar to the progressivity we have now?

It seems to me you could achieve an arbitrarily large degree of progressivity by playing with the size of the exemption. In the extreme case you pay everyone something like $50,000/year and then have an extraordinarily high tax rate, but then you get a different kind of distortion where people quit their jobs because they can live off the tax rebate.

On the other hand, having a substantial unconditional rebate (not that large, but say $5000-$10,000/year) would eliminate the call for many need-based programs, because those in need would then have that money with which to buy food and shared accommodations, etc. That would significantly reduce government expenditures for those programs and allow such a large rebate to be had without the need for a prohibitively high tax rate. (It would also eliminate several redundant government bureaucracies dedicated to administering now-redundant need-based programs.)

> Why are goods taxed but not services? I've never been clear on that.

I think it's jurisdiction dependent. But as to why, it's almost certainly only because that's what has been successfully lobbied for by someone. There isn't any sound economic rationale unless you want to encourage the purchase of services over goods for some reason, at the cost of exactly the sort of distortions you're talking about.
The fact is that I'm not sure that people totally believe what they are doing will hold up in a court of law. The thought that it might and it is so easy to do, coupled with the herd mentality (all of their friends are doing it), make posting something like this seem to have no downside, but only upside. After all, wouldn't you hate to be the one rube whose privacy is invaded because you didn't simply post something to your wall? To someone with little understanding of technology and law, it's like Pascal's Wager (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager), right?

Of course, my opinion of these friends of mine drops, but what do they care about that? :)
Have you read the article? It speaks of the exact opposite: regretting it AFTER having them.
I think it is promising and long overdue, too. It also is clear to me that this will win, because Apple pushes it into LLVM, and has a head start at it.

On the other hand: if someone would do the equivalent to their browser, people would call it fragmentation.

It will be interesting to see how gcc reacts to this. If this decreases compilation times significantly, I think they will have to follow suit.
"Anything else is gravy."

Thanks :). I wish my wife thought the same though haha. She has a list of about 100 items and trust me, she has a way of justifying each one of them. :)
Since these are not in C++11, we'll have to wait 10 years...
I like the authors method better. It's more of a "lead by example".

To be honest, I'm not likely to just pick up whatever life-changing advice someone is preaching. But when I see somebody striving extra hard to achieve, that's what is truly inspiring, and lights a fire under my ass. You can tell me how to create good habits until you're blue in the face, but nothing is going to sink in until I see the results of your actions, and the competitive streak in me comes alive and wants to catch up to that.
Almost like the way D programming language handle it

http://dlang.org/module.html
From Webhooks to the Evented Web
You forgot about a very big #3: find something that's working elsewhere and adapt it for a new, local audience. Lot's of countries have their own "ebay", for example and ebay tended to buy the best ones.

There are endless possibilities out there to make a business and most of them are not disruptive at all. The disruptive ones are vastly more risky.
Correct. The $1500 is per month for a babysitter included (hopefully). We are not moving yet but planning to after the kid is about 6-7 months old.
This might be nice, but my personal opinion: whoever designs UI elements with dark grey text on black backgrounds is a absolute f'king moron. That shit needs to stop.
Only from James Bond villans.

I am sure that the U.S. armed forces have a very secure scheme to prevent this.
In the olden days (circa 1995) there were precious few Cert providers (Verisign, Thawte, and few others) and they vetted you, because SSL certs are about trust, not about encryption. As a result, Certs were bloody expensive.

In order to get the cert for dsac.dla.mil (the computer shop inside the US Defense Logistics Agency) we provided reference to the act of Congres establishing the DLA, and then the command chain that proved that my boss had the rights/responsibility for the SSL cert for the domain.

The process could take weeks, but in the end you could trust that the server on the other end was who they claimed to be.

Fast forward tot he internet boom, and everybody needed a cert, and there folks realized that generating certs was physically easy, and could be lucrative, so they started selling cheaper and cheaper certs. but you can't vet an organization for 29.95, so that aspect of SSL Certs was conveniently forgotten as the masses rushed onto the web.

Everybody thinks SSL Certs are about the encryption. We know that the Cert only establishes the identity of the other party. The encryption is performed using a key which is shared after the cert is used to establish trust.

So now, people are starting to realize that cheap certs don't provide trust, and we're seeing $1500 vetted certs again, and browsers that change colors to signify trust levels.

However, to make this personal, I have a Comodo cert that I got for free with domain registration at namecheap, and a bunch of browsers don't want to trust it.

So I'm stuck between not having revenues to buy a super-cert, and having people refuse to use my app because their browser is saying my app's cert isn't trustworthy, and they aren't technical enough to override the warning.

So will these $50 wildcard certs fare any better?
> People are responsible for their own stupidity

No doubt, but this doesn't scale. Right now you and I both are suffering from bad hiring decisions from local government up. I cannot wait for the great wheel to turn and bad hirers to be punished in the afterlife.

> I don't see what the gender of the HR department adds to the discussion

HR is a girl's club, just like IT is a boy's club, and deserves to be called out as such. The gender is relevant, indeed central.
"everyday development"? Really? Could you explain which behavior needed patching? Garbage collection, I'm guessing?

I'm not saying the JVM is perfect but I'm inclined to think that if the JVM is causing you problems, you already had them in your architecture.
This is probably the biggest single change we've shipped to the site since we started (until today the only way to sign in was using Twitter - as of now you can sign in with LinkedIn or create an account with an email address and password as well).

It turns out handling multiple social networks is pretty tricky! We've had to implement full account merging, so if someone signs in with LinkedIn and then tries to associate a Twitter account that they've already got an account for we offer them a merge screen.

Since we have HTML5 and iOS mobile apps already out there we also had to coordinate a switch-over for them to having an account picker signin screen. We shipped the mechanism for doing this a couple of months ago.
yes, i agree and if had $1000000, i should spend for that but i haven't.
For the most part, I agree - I'm using Windows 8 on my personal computer, and at this point I have absolutely no desire to go back to 7. But I'm a computer guy. So despite my initial frustration at having to go through yet another round of Redmond Musical Chairs, it didn't really take me very long at all to get back up to speed with the new UI changes.

That said, I do think that is a serious issue for businesses. Half the folks I work with still aren't up to speed on Windows 7, and it has a much more discoverable UI than 8 does. Not only is 8 an even bigger widget mover than XP was, but having everything hidden offscreen so you need to be able to independently think to hover the mouse against an edge of the screen to find what you're looking for is going to be an absolute discoverability killer for these users. No, I don't know why it is that so many people have a hard time learning new UI. But they do, and it's a reality that can't be dispelled with dismissive remarks.
More than just expecting to break your habit, I think the crucial piece is planning what you will do once you have.

The most dangerous moment in building a new habit is the moment when you realize that the best case scenario (aka sticking with the awesome new habit) is just not going to happen. For me, unless I have my Plan B ready to go, I tend to just revert to the status quo or worse (since I already failed, why not go all out). Having the Plan B - a glorified "if failure to complete Plan A, then do B" - already articulated lets me immediately move on to the next thing without beating myself up.

This was really helpful for me when I was getting going with a regular early morning jog. If I didn't get it in before work, plan B was a quick run after work before I drove home. The latter wasn't the habit I wanted to stick, but it helped me forgive myself the lapses until morning running became a habit.
So how do you know that the majority of people who voted this article up aren't already there? I have to be honest, your post strikes me as karma fishing.
I tend to like Joel (and Leo's) posts, but I found myself feeling a similar sentiment when I read the details about his own morning routine in this one.

I guess the reason is that, in that context, it felt unnecessary to convey the point being made. It seemed like it was more for author's benefit than for any reader's.

(And I recognize that part of it is my human reflex for envy/jealousy and comparisons to self. Even though I'm set with my own morning routine, it's just the kind of sentiment statements like that trigger. And I'm sure I'm not the only one, as the parent comment suggests...)
Paul Graham says he's unaware of many instances where company owners acted to screw small shareholders, and I believe he believes that, but I've seen multiple instances of exactly that†, and because my exposure to startup management is so much smaller than his, and because I don't believe the instances I'm aware of are correlated to each other, I think he's simply wrong about this.

†(most of those incidents started with the company encouraging departing employees to purchase their shares)
Visual brainfuck
The terrible thing about this: it's the sign that users have absolutely zero clue about online privacy and facebook terms and conditions.

Some of my friends (and not the stupidest ones) posted this and really thought they were safe after that...
Click wars: Google vs. Facebook
Google: We Did Not Acquire ICOA for $400 Million
Somebody writing a fake press release on PRWeb != Google misinforming the public.
Chronology of Python Packaging aka Timeline of Pain
The Facebook legal notice meme is hilarious and scary (for Facebook)
It is a great story but it happened almost 3 years ago.
Speaking as someone who doesn't follow the development of those specs, can you elaborate? What behaviors are contentious?
First "Action, Another Action..." menu with icons is broken on hover, for me. Blue bg only covers half of it, rest of text is obviously unreadable. Looks like this is the result of the width: 1.25em; in the CSS. If I remove that, then the blue bg on hover doesn't span the box any more. Looks like these icons should really be applied as ::before or ::after, instead of modifying the element itself, as this seems to horribly break things.
Maybe you're talking with nincompoops.

But maybe -- and perhaps more likely -- you're just a terrible communicator.

Perhaps you have genuinely poor written communication skills, and are incapable of holding a conversation without the proper social cues that non-programmers or other coworkers need to feel like you're not exerting your ego.

Communication skills, social skills, soft skills, they are all skills. They're not things that necessarily come naturally to people, and they're things you can practice, and things you can get better at.

I can't think of one good reason to have a casual conversation with anyone and mention GitHub. The only situation is if I'm a GitHub salesperson, or we're having a very non-casual conversation comparing tools.

Those aren't normal conversations. GitHub is not a tool that normal people use. Suggesting it to someone who is not a professional developer demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of your audience, of their skill set, of their engagement level, etc.

By definition, being a developer takes you out of "normal," so you're not really well-suited to judge how other people are receiving you. This is why you feel like it takes "large expenditures of energy on my part" to talk with them. When, strictly speaking, no-one has to talk with you. Talking is entirely about the other person.

Growing up, I did speech contests, which teach you how to present and how to deliver an argument and how to articulate your ideas well in a short span. Something like Toastmasters would help you practice that today.

That doesn't help you social situations, or in professional relationship building like business requires.

A friend of mine has a coworker who is socially rude. The coworker constantly interrupts, and their voice gets higher and higher pitched and they talk faster and faster when they think you're not "getting it." The problem is, all the senior developers "get it," he's just so enamored with his idea that he's not seeing the practical issues. The coworker is really looking for agreement and praise, not discussion and critique; his statements are leading, and his questions are rhetorical.

My friend finally sat this coworker down and explained how he needed to learn how to act like a normal human being having a normal human conversation. My friend now physically intervenes in conversations and points out every instance of verbal malfeasance, and the coworker is learning to control himself and convey his ideas reasonably, to think before he responds, and to actually consider someone else's perspective for once.

This friend, years ago, would stand over my shoulder and edit my emails with me.

My friend doesn't scale, but maybe there's someone you trust -- not a programmer, a normal person -- who can do things like edit your emails for you -- that's what editors are for -- and who can shadow you in conversations and talk with you about them afterwards.
Only civil engineers allowed to code for infrastructure projects in CA [pdf]
You guys really are masters of specious analogies. Comparing the best of one field to the worst of another isn't a legitimate comparison and you know it.
It really is awful how tech blogs like TechCrunch breathlessly run with any rumor without trying to check it first. Kara Swisher (of AllThingsD) has a rather tart riposte to TechCrunch on Twitter. 'hey TC, it was not a PR agency that was "dead wrong," it was your "process" journalism (aka doing no actual reporting)'. https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/273106406536802304
Big Data Analytics: Taming Data Variety and Volatility is Key
>1) Late return to work

I don't care about this one. Butt-in-seat time is an outdated measurement.

2-6) Pretty easy to deal with this: your workers are behaving irresponsibly by coming in drunk and making mistakes. So you terminate them and get people who can deal with alcohol responsibly (I don't mean you can't have a drink at lunch, just be professional and don't get drunk when you're supposed to be working).

> but the UK has a poor reputation for the quality of middle management in industry.

If you find a place that has good middle management let me know and I'll have a look! :)
>I'll gladly do it, but who am I to impose that to another person ?

The one that gave the same "other person" his life, and 18 years of house, food, education and care?
Apple is an Internet giant? When did that happen?
The US government has, in some ways, become divested from the best interests of the people. I think that's an inevitability of integrating democracies with bureaucracies and careers.
Payments Startup Balanced Innovates In Wrong Direction
http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/64-bit-s...
I've used browser plugins for this for a decade already, for Firefox even before Chrome was written. I guess a bookmarklet is more accessible and easier to install, though. That said, if you really want to break new ground, The Android layout editor recently gained the ability to show multiple layouts of different size/orientation at once. It would be nice if someone made a browser equivalent. I.e. so you can easily tweak some HTML/CSS and see several different windows with different resolutions update instantly, preferably not having to go click refresh on all of them. Although monitoring file changes may require going back to more powerful technology, like plugins.
This is a really terrible idea. It's not so much "edgy," as heartbreaking. Instead of mocking them, perhaps you can contact any of these Cambridge organizations and do something less dehumanizing that might actually be helpful:

http://www.horizonsforhomelesschildren.org/
http://sparechangenews.net/
http://www.ci.cambridge.ma.us/DHSP/programsforadults/multise...
I don't seem to be able to edit my post, so I'll add this clarification: it's a PaaS-like product that you'd host both internally and in the cloud to provide a homogenous platform for your developers across the entire runway.
pure gold, going to try this tomorrow.

thanks!
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?"

-Joshua
According to that chart it traded as high as .0004 today; so TechCrunch and Hacker News helped contribute to a 400% profit for some pump-n-dump scam. Volume peaked at about 500M shares, maybe 800M total, or about $320,000 transacted.
Why is it lame/appalling? I've read the comments on the blog post and apparently the "duino" name isn't trademarked, and therefore they are quite within their right to use a variation of it (however lame it may appear).

Further commentary reveals that the people who have backed this guy are happy that he is the real deal, and that the problem has mostly stemmed from English being his second language, leading to a mis-communication over quite what part they had in manufacturing arduinos in Italy.
Nope. Closure under convolution is the same as closure under summation of the associated random variable, which is the defining property of stable distributions. This is explained in the first paragraphs of the wikipedia page you linked to ;-)

Closure under marginalization is something else.

It so happens that the functional form of the gaussian satisfies both, but the two properties are not at all the same.

P1: X, Y gaussian => Z = X+Y gaussian
P2: X, Y gaussian => X | Y gaussian
He unequivocally says that global warming is real, and man-made. How is that an anti-global warming agenda?

What he does say, is that the proposed solutions would make little differnce, and the proposed effects of global warming are exaggerated.
I got some feedback, I'm not sure how useful it would be, but the first option is you could get a job position there, as you mentioned; or join a research group.

It is apparently very difficult to get in by yourself, so you would have to focus your research topic towards physics (not necessarily particle physics), and work with a supervisor who is already working on research with the LHC. You could check with your university physics department if they have an LHC program, or you could ask your university to apply to join.

The other option, is to get involved in the programming and information processing, the main language there is c++ with ROOT, my roommate is working with atlas and programming at the moment; but as a contrast another one of my friends is with new material development or testing for the accelerator and sensor hardware.

Unfortunately they had no information specifically related to chemical engineering opportunities.
EU and Asian sources allege the tungsten-switch has gone sovereign
Identifying your customers
I imagine it depends on the company. A friend of mine with a data-scientist job reports that the most important part of his particular job is making convincing PowerPoints to present "insights from data" to management.
For completeness, here's how Rust handles modules:

http://dl.rust-lang.org/doc/tutorial.html#modules-and-crates

Browsed golang.org for a bit and didn't find any info on how Go handles modules/packages. All I know is that it has something to do with the folder hierarchy of your project (links appreciated).
Designing Invoices for Mobile User Interfaces
Golang should get a kickass debugger before C++ gets modules and steals their thunder.
Ruby block syntax may have been inspired by Smalltalk, but this is where the similarities end. Ruby block implementation is simply awful (an afterthought?), and no way near as powerful (and simple) as the equivalent in Smalltalk.
Ode and a [slow] farewell to Twitter