skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a list of potential red flags. The vast majority of people making claims that aren't accepted by mainstream science are wrong. The small percentage that are correct need to convince the scientific community before presenting at a conference like TED or TEDx.
I recently graduated and got a position doing iOS development for a start-up. I'm nearing completion of my first app and two iOS concepts I've found to be of vital important are Core Data and GCD. Being able to persist the data you're working with and manage it in a multithreaded context are keys I've found to creating a good UX.

For learning, I've browsed the Stanford slides, but I mainly read www.stackoverflow.com. Determining the issue at hand and then seeing how other developers have solved that issue, I've found, is the easiest way for me to learn.
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Kansas City resident here.

Based on the amount of wailing and gnashing of teeth surrounding Google's initially small fiber roll-out, I would say that demand is, in fact, there.

That said, by being a virtual monopoly in many of their markets, Time Warner's management might live in some sort of echo chamber. They very well might not recognize "demand" if it was staring them in the face. I'd also argue that the limited consumption of Time Warner's higher-speed offerings might have more to do with their overall QoS than lack of demand. How many people would buy a $50 steak at McDonald's, given their experience with McDonald's $5 hamburgers?
I'm only 20, not sure I have a lot to say, but here it is so far:

Life: Deciding to stay with my girlfriend through a long-distance relationship. It's hard, but definitely worth it. We've not seen it all the way through yet, though, so it's hard to say yet if it really is a good decision.

Programming: Getting into game programming. That's where I started six years ago, and although I've moved on, if it weren't for the joy of making my own 3D games, I would have never dug deeper.
I don't think so. This is a particular style - common to aspiring "avant-garde" writers - that emphasizes the aesthetics of language at the expense of focus and clarity. As a result the reader encounters oblique references, convoluted metaphors, and implicitness bordering on loose-association, to the point that the article appears to be barely-comprehensible drivel.

After reading it through three times, I think that the author is trying to make the point that the preponderance of websites overflowing with superfluous crap and poor usability hasn't been caused by designers' incompetence, but originates with clients who simultaneously demand many conflicting features. Of course, this has been true for fifteen years or so; it isn't exactly a revelation.
We broke the Google! Found this through our SCAD Design Management grad student buds.. anyone know who owns it?
I search my computer for something and it says "hey, you could buy this". sounds like an ad.
What on earth is this post even talking about? People can name their variables and write their comments in any language they see fit. How you've managed to draw a parallel between the current state of programming languages and "negroes in the army" is astounding...

>I value inclusiveness, that includes including people who don't speak English.

This is incredibly vacant. You value inclusiveness but you don't cite a single place where you'd like to see that. Do you want more programming languages to be constructed in Portuguese? Do you want to see more French comments on HN? What specifically are you looking for?

Edit: Perhaps I'm missing something crucial in the linked video? YouTube is blocked at my workplace.

Edit2: Alright, there's been a line added to the post referencing http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4886560 Although I might disagree with the post, there is certainly context for its existence now.
WAT? Bad random numbers are fatal to AES. Attacks against "AES" with a bad RNG don't attack the whole AES keyspace; they attack the bad RNG; in effect, implementing AES with a bad RNG reduces the security of the system to that of the RNG.
Your counter example is poor. Flynn holds a degree in a related (but not closely related) field. He holds a PhD from a real university. He has published in the leading journals for his area of research.

The only possible way he triggers any of these red flags is a degree in sociology rather than psychology. These are red flags calling for more scrutiny, not strict conditions. And indeed, it seems like Flynn does deserve more scrutiny. He's clearly a legitimate scientist doing important work, but this is despite the red flag of being someone from a different field offering up theories that go against previously established science. He shares several of the quickly observable features of a crank.

How do we know he isn't a crank? Because he's published in the leading journals and other scientists who meet the "not a crank" test have said that his work is worthwhile.

In short, this is not a false alarm by the "red flags". This is a correct alarm.
Are the translational grammar of latin based languages such that you could just add more reserved words? If we were to add for/if/etc for other languages that use our alphabet, would it be just one word each time? Would an imperfect single word be chosen over a better fitting phrase, because the nuance is not needed?

Who is this aimed at? It's relevant for OLPC-educated, but if you were contributing to Lua (Brazilian Portuguese) or Ruby (Japanese) you'd be on english mailing lists. OLPC in South Africa alone has 11 languages. Maybe we can't add reserved words and entirely portable scripts, maybe there has to be conversion, and modes/switches like english-reserveds, european-reserved, all-reserveds.
And then he gets accused of astro-turfing. Basically, because of some ridiculous idea of anonymity in charity, you suggest he should deliberately mislead.

George Orwell would have been most proud.
It's probably a response to this discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4886560
Google chat actually uses Jabber[1]. I believe nothing stops you from using some other Jabber service with GChat.

[1]: http://www.jabber.org/

Now Facebook, of course, is another story. My impression is that they use a technology based on Jabber but not compatible with anything outside of Facebook. I could be wrong--I simply never use Facebook chat.
We use GitHub to build GitHub, so typically a feature comes from our own usage pain points.

I imagine the conversation internally went something like, "Man, attaching an image to an issue is really annoying. Let's make it not suck." An issue and pull request followed, internally shipped it to test it, and today rolled it out to you all.

That's literally how 99.99% of features happen on GitHub. :)
You could call it a company, but that doesn't quite have the same rock-star ninja cachet...
>Is there a technical reason that modern cable-Internet bandwidth is asymmetric?

There is a very good reason, so they can get more money out of you to buy the faster/larger service.
Great news for Dropbox, I cannot wait to see what Guido will do for Dropbox.
I think having a strong personal and professional network of friends and colleagues in "bigco" type places will help getting back into such an environment if/when the entrepreneurial venture unfortunately fails.

I think that kind of peace of mind would be invaluable in really giving it a go.
I think AppCode is the exception to that tendency. I've never been able to get it to do as you'd like.
> That said, by being a virtual monopoly in many of their markets, Time Warner's

Not virtual. Actual. I, like 80% of the US, have no choice in my cable/Internet provider.

> I'd also argue that the limited consumption of Time Warner's higher-speed offerings might have more to do with their overall QoS than lack of demand.

When you choose the speed for your Internet package on Time Warner, you're literally choosing how much you want to donate to them each month in exchange for whatever speed they feel like giving you. In fact, when you go log into your account online, they make it almost impossible to see what speed you're paying for (and they certainly don't tell you in your bill).

Amusingly, they also implement DNS-based throttling, as my roommate and I found out one evening. The solution is obvious, though not for non-techies.
Time Warner logic: We'll provide 1GB Fiber but we'll have a 50GB transfer cap.
The post is talking about doing things like participating in discussions, submitting issues or feature requests, reading or writing documentation, and so on. Try submitting a pull request to any major OS project. Can you document your changes in Spanish?
> Corporate America (and VC-istan is just as bad) is "a nation of social climbers."

But (from what I see at least) it's still better than a lot of other countries. At least in the larger areas you can earn a decent wage, with a decent amount of seniority, while still being in a technical role.

This just doesn't happen here in Spain - after 7 or 8 years you've hit the ceiling, you're an architect or analyst or whatever you want to call it, but to get further (earn more, have more responsibility in your company...) you need to move into non-technical management.
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Wow - great story. This is yet another great American success story - and still congress can't get our immigration policy figured out. Congrats to Eren and the udemy team...if only congress could get their act together...
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The use of "alarmism" is a political judgment dismissing the extreme of what some scientists claim is the only possible policy choice. Ethics and cost benefit analysis is never a scientific question. The cost benefit analysis needs input from science, but it is separate from the purely scientific questions.
The internet connection is Ad-hoc IIRC, but of course one member still needs access to the internet.
Though I appreciate yet another author shining a light on the woes of the current patent system, I'd appreciate it a lot more if one of these patent stories actually tried to put some energy into explaining what actions concerned people might take to improve the situation.

Every single week it seems there is a new story from a reputable source lamenting the many billions that are being extorted by anti-innovation entities. But the conclusion of the story always seems to be: "And that's why it sucks to be in the software business." I'd much rather read "And here is what you can do if reading this made you feel depressed..."
Depending where you live it can go by many names: lottery, powerball, loteria, etc.

A rich, childless uncle dying may also work.
Ditto. Lack of a viable alternative is the only reason I use Time Warner. As soon as this changes I'm switching and throwing a party.
Among my coworkers there's often the idea that Microsoft should have made the "no-longer-Metro" interface an add-on. Maybe it could be even installed on Windows 7...

It seems to me that if Apple launches an "iOS as an app" for OS X, that allows people to run iPad applications in a sandbox and/or virtual machine alongside Mac applications, it would be a great thing.
Can anyone tell the inside story? Did he not like it at Google? What is it that Dropbox offered to lure him?
Offer for the user to make a certificate or personal salt, have them email it to themselves and put it in dropbox and backup their iPhone. Use that and a salt from you in a two-way hash.
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You're quite possibly right -- the extra bandwidth might go unnoticed and unused. I'd be willing to bet the "killer app(s)" just haven't made themselves apparent yet.

This refrain reminds of feature-phone users in 2005, before the iPhone, Android, or the mobile web in it's current form. Many people saw the appeal of smartphones, but professed they just didn't think they'd use them all that much.
Yup. There are a few fields of innovation where reverse engineering is cheap. The patent system prevents some of that reverse engineering in a rather costly and ineffective manner. (Think China.) It also prevents companies from working on technologies they think might be in development somewhere else (because they'll probably lose the patent), generates huge legal expenses, and completely perverts innovation in a lot of other fields, such as software. Is it worthwhile to bear these immense costs for the sake of a few chemical giants and the doubtful efficiency of their research processes?
This article is not "On Programming Languages", it's "On the Use of English in Software Development". Has anybody coined the term "linkbait-and-switch" yet? I'm not against the inclusivity proposed, I just don't like the overloading of the term "programming language" here. Grumble grumble.
I did that a year ago. My last day at work was 2 weeks after my son was born. You can read about it here: http://nathanbarry.com/i-quit-my-job/

What made it possible was that I spent an entire year before hand designing and developing apps on the side. I got to the point where I was averaging at least $2,500 a month from the App Store, which was half of what I made at my design job.

I knew with that as a base I could make up the difference with consulting.

The other really important thing I did was save a lot of money. I took all the profits from an entire year of selling apps, plus my regular savings, and had just over $30,000 in savings.

Those two things gave me the confidence to leave, even with a newborn baby.

Now, 1 year later, I've written two books (one comes out next week), released more apps, and make more money than I did at the day job. All while having more flexibility.

If you want to talk further, my email address is in my profile.

Good luck!
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Thank you. There's a difference between being psychic and being sensitive to the needs of others. We all make mistakes, but if we apologize if it's required and most of all if we don't continue along an unwelcome vector there should be no need for any invocation of a code of conduct.

As someone else has pointed out, its primary purpose is to reassure those who (reasonably or unreasonably) fear harassment that the issue will be taken seriously if it occurs.
"...life isn't a competition to see how upper middle class you can get."

That's been on my mind a lot for the last few years. While I'd like to put my (future) kids in a good starting point, there's more to life than rolling around in cash.
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Referring to unpaying users as customers is hilarious. Users are not google's customers, they're google's product.
Interesting article. We actually just had a discussion on this topic the other day at work. Oddly, or out of best practice, whatever you want to call it, we try to keep all code documented in English, written in English, etc, but almost everyone involved on our projects would understand it better if it was in the native language. I do sometimes wonder how big of a difference it would make in the community, since most coders just read the source code anyway. I've had to work on a couple foreign language code bases in my life and it wasn't anything extravagantly difficult. Though, then again these were all european languages where you more or less know what something means if you speak a couple anyway, that's not the case with something like chinese or arabic. Anyways, I wouldn't mind not forcing the "everything" in English, I think if it was a looser atmosphere more people would get involved.
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Language, it's awesome like that.
Perhaps, pretty simple to do the math though. Lets plug in some numbers and see what is what.

First we'll assume that the weight changes altitude by 2 meters, next we'll assume the "weight" is 5 kG (about 10 lbs) it could be more than that if you used denser material but it looks like they are expecting you to fill a sandbag to weight it dry sand is about 1600 kg/m^3 [1] so a sandbag that was 15cm/side would be about .0033 m^3 or 5.3 kg.

The force exerted by that sandbag, 2 meters up is 5 * 2 * 9.8 or 98 Newton-Meters. Now the campaign says it runs the light for 30 minutes so to find the power in watts we take 98 Newton-Meters divide by 1800 seconds (bag goes from 2m to 0m in 30 minutes) and get .0544 watts per second. Assuming the generator is 50% efficient (that is a really good generator) that is about .025 Watts to run your LED. So can you get decent light from an LED with 25 mWatts? At a forward voltage drop of 4V (White LED) that is 6.2 mA of current. (updated to be a decimal order of magnitude smaller)

Given that current LEDs are seeing something like 50 lumens/watt you might see 2 - 5 lumens from such a light. Not nearly as bright as I originally estimated.

EDIT: The time was wrong 1800 not 180

[1] http://www.simetric.co.uk/si_materials.htm
Take a deep breathe and do not panic. It probably was not stolen. The federal government requires them to send you a letter if, say, your check went to the wrong address because you have the same name as some other policyholder. Also, if it was serious, they may be required to pay for credit monitoring for a year. (So you can call and ask if they are providing that.) If it wasn't that serious, you probably have nothing to worry about.

I used to process insurance claims for a living. I have written a few letters informing customers of a privacy breach. The vast majority of the time, the customer really had nothing to worry about. Most customers who get a check or letter that wasn't intended for them are not career criminals waiting with baited breathe to get your info. In fact, I have had to write privacy breach letters when we sent the info to the guy's father by the same name or mother whom they still lived with (or twin brother with a near identical name). Federal law compels the insurance company to inform you. But unless you see weird charges or something, you probably have nothing to be worried about.
That's different, as the restaurant is a US business employing a foreign national without a visa. In my example, the business was outside the US, and no money changed hands here.
Thanks.

For $50 (sale price) -- and the $10/month bump, I guess -- the One V seems a very low cost trial, while waiting to see how things develop with the Nexus 4 availability.

The One V price I found was $99. Of course, who knows what it will be, tomorrow.

I've been looking at / waiting on the Nexus 4, as well. But for $99, I may well just do the One V for now, and wait to learn how people in the area do or do not like their Nexus 4 / T-Mobile experience.
One distinct advantage: Outlook is supported for Push mail on iOS mail client.
The author is the cad responsible for this flagrant violation of blog title ethics:

https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2011/12/...
Sharing Google Docs to large amount of ppl doesn't seems a best way of doing it. I seen it couple of times and usually there were some problems.

Are there any other lightweight tools of doing it? I could even imagine a new startup which create/provide tooling around Google Docs.

Some desired features:

- spreadsheet based

- better tags/search/filter for column

- fine grain permissions (proposing a change, ability just to add/modify your entry)
- ...
While Go is quickly eating into my use cases for Python in my own work, I'm not really sure that there's a connection here. Guido's employment at Google was a little more than simply, "Python's a cool language, so let's hire the main Python developer so we can use Python at Google."

Furthermore, Google's vision for Go isn't as a replacement for what Python does - the fact that Go can satisfy many of Python's use cases is by coincidence more than by design.
Henry Ford - "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

I know this is a played out quote, but this is essentially the same circumstance. You could go further and even say that there wasn't any demand for the Internet at all. Until we had it.

True be told, Internet infrastructure is probably more important than transportation infrastructure. Having said that, a 16 year old with high speed Internet access bares more fruit than a beginners permit, in my experience. Fast Internet transcends a community.
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Imagine if everyone were required to sign up for a food/water plan to make sure they and their children would be covered for all of their food related needs. Employers would be required to pay a percentage of food plans premiums for all full-time employees.

Ha. In Australia, 9% of our annual wage is contributed to superannuation. It makes a lot of sense. We also have a Medicare levy of 1.5%. It's not a bad thing.
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and that's what I said - twice - don't use TEDx for the next science discovery

I happened to use "willow bark extract" as my example because it would have been a red flag in the guidelines and last month was "Native American Heritage Month" in the US and it happened to come up as a bit of trivia.

I really don't know what you seem to think I am saying other than repeating what I said as some opposition. Whatever point seems to resonate with someone given my down votes.
Surprisingly similar to my situation when I quit (except I didn't have a baby, and I'm not American). So nice to hear things turned out.
> And I really hope you're being ironic using a Feynman quote there!

If you had met Feynman, you would realize when he said something like that, he wasn't posing as any kind of authority. This naturally reminds me of one of my favorite Einstein quotes:

"To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself."
Publicizing charity work does not necessarily mean that it's a selfish act. I think Larry Page's G+ post shows this fairly clearly. To say otherwise is a non sequitur.
I guess this would be a good place to ask. I remember a while ago using a DNS provider that actually let you edit your zone file in a textarea, but I can't for the life of me remember which one it was. Does anyone know?
I'd imagine you can document your changes in the language the product has been documented in previously.

Reading and understanding software is an already difficult task, I'm not sure why you insist we add an additional layer of complexity to it. Your intentions are noble, but I think the end result is a detriment not only to any English committers, but to the Japananese committer who is also expected to be able to understand/translate Spanish and English. And when she starts committing in Japanese, your original Spanish committer is now saddled with an additional layer of complexity.

The army analogy is a little bizarre to me as well. The issues of discrimination you pointed out were not centralized around communication issues. I imagine most militaries don't support all the languages of the world due to the obvious communication problems this would create.
Wow, this is messy!
Interesting, I did bottom up first and then when I started to feel that same itch to actually build something useful things were more top down.

I agree that a mix of bottom-up and top-down is probably best, I was curious about other paths because I found that starting with bottom-up worked really well for me and wondered if that generalized to other people or was just well suited to my learning style. My experience makes me think that a solid foundation is essential but it's entirely likely that's just "that's the way i learned" bias.
Just over a dollar day isn't worth it? I'd disagree. But with that said there are reasonable alternatives out there for less.
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