skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But there's a difference in that "America" or "the Americas" can include a much larger area than just the USA, while that's not true for the countries you list. China is agreed by both the PRC and the RoC to include Taiwan -- they just disagree over who is the legitimate government; "Germany" historically meant all German-speaking lands, but that usage is now, for understandable reasons, defunct; the Commonwealth of Australia is coterminous with the collection of islands collectively known as Australia; and "Ireland" is in fact the full official name (in English) of what is sometimes known as the Republic of Ireland to distinguish it from Northern Ireland, to which the former until recently laid claim.
Google itself might not want iOS to have this feature. If they can keep their apps sufficiently far ahead of Apple's, power users will use them in spite of the extra hassle. Some of those power users will feel like they're getting a second-rate experience with iOS and might switch to Android. If they could functionally swap native iOS apps out for Google apps such that there's zero hassle to using them, iOS power users would feel like they had the best of both worlds and have zero motivation to switch platforms.

Power users certainly aren't the majority of the market, but they do tend to steer things. There are, of course, many barriers that keep users from switching platforms, but every little bit helps.
By 2030 over 2 billion jobs will disappear

Big data will replace the need for 80% of all doctors

Those two are scary
I'd still say that the most important thing there is to give fluids, not insulin. When you're seeing a new patient and don't have a medical history, it's impossible to know how sensitive they will be to insulin, and the last thing you want to do on a transatlantic flight is take them from hyperglycaemic to hypoglycaemic. Giving enough fluids will allow the kidneys to do most of the the critical fixing of blood chemistry.

(I am not a doctor, but I am a diabetic who has experienced DKA.)
Very much depends on how you define "UK will break up". Remember Ireland seceded from the UK in the 1920s. The break up has already begun.
But I don't. I just loaded up gmail.com on the iPhone, and its nearly flawless. If I click the "show all folders" button, it seamlessly swings over. No lag, no jittery animation.

In fact, I use the built-in Mail app all the time. Loading gmail via IMAP in this Mail app is actually slower than the Gmail.com web app. For example, if I enter a subfolder I've created (labels), and haven't entered it in a long time, there's a considerable lag on the Mail app, and 1 second wait in the Gmail.com web app.

(iPhone 5 BTW)
I don't deny there are issues, but they are societal/educational ones. People need to learn that when you send someone something, that's it, it's out of the bag, even if you trust that person. Due to backdoors, security holes and just general warrantless wiretapping, there's almost no way you can guarantee that what you send won't be snooped by a third party, sooner or later. Add to that that people are far too trusting, and society is sick (between treating sex and nakedness as "dirty" and misogynistic predators like the ones mentioned in your link), and yes there will be problems. But things like ShotBlocker won't solve the problem, it will only exacerbate the already tenuous control people have over their property (what right does anyone have telling people they can't make screen caps on their hardware?).

No, it's not worth trying, because a) it won't work, and b) it will have unintended consequences.
I was reviewing a paper, and cannot submit the review due to this. I have e-mailed their main webpage with a link to the warning, etc.
These trends are so broad and vague as to be basically meaningless.
Great points. Thanks! There's more than one right answer and I certainly don't have them all. My blog post was just a reflection on what I've seen be most successful over the years.
Before giving you specific advice, there are a few general principles:

1. Happiness at work frequently has more to do with your circumstances at work than with what you do at work. The three major factors are Freedom, Mastery, and Purpose.

2. Unhappiness at work can usually be traced to missing one or more of those factors. You want to identify which ones you're missing, and come up with a plan to gain them without sacrificing the others. One major mistake people make is to make a career change that, e.g., gives them more Freedom but takes away the learning opportunities needed for Mastery.

3. Generally speaking, Freedom and Mastery are functions of how long you've been at a job. You get better at your work and gain more autonomy the longer you stay in a specific field. Purpose is usually a function of company culture. So if you feel like your company is doing great things and you're learning fast but the job is too restrictive, the best option is usually to stick it out and "pay your dues" until you have more autonomy. If you feel like you have plenty of autonomy and are good at what you do but your company is evil, then it's time to join something else.

So of those three factors, what does your current job give you, and what does it fail to provide?

For more on this topic, see self-determination theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination_theory
"My posture, ruined by years of computer programming, was fixed in less than two months."

Would you mind sharing the 80/20 gist of what aspect mainly contributed to that? I'm sure the best method would be to follow the program totally, but if one wanted just to see gains in that area with the least possible investment, what would you recommend?
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Still few and far between overall. Wondering when, if ever, it's going to be "the year of telecommuting". Hopefully sooner than the year of Linux on the desktop.
Yes, I agree that one critical element of treatment is fluid resuscitation. I think that because the person who started this thread was talking about insulin, that has remained a subtext throughout the conversation. My goal in posting was to alert people to the fact that blood insulin/glucose emergencies include states on both extremes of the insulin/glucose spectrum. I didn't mean to imply anything about management.
All I ever hear or read about in my Rails bubble is Backbone. In my ignorance I'd assumed it had become the default.
easy , your non standard firefoxos code wont run on ios or android phonegap code will because it designed to do so.
Yes, clearly there are many different languages spoken in a large, populous country like the USA.

However that's not at all like the European Union which has to publish all EU Directives in 23 languages, and each country has 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 official languages for their region. In the USA, English is the lingua franca, and official stuff can be done in English. There is no language that you can use all over the EU that will work in all (or sometimes any) official capacity.
The word "You" in a headline is an idiom and not literally a personal communication to the reader. "Lie" is used similarly.
It's not completely his. Other developers have put in much more than him alone into rails, and you need to respect them for that.
Sure. Gmail.com run on the iPhone. In some cases, such as opening a subfolder that I haven't been in, loads more quickly than Apple's Mail app. (This is provably because of IMAP lag.)
Germany does not want anything more than create new successful start-ups. We are just not focused on 'Internet start-ups'. There is a huge infrastructure in Germany to support it.

> negative sentiment towards 'entrepreneurship' as it is connected with "making money fast" on the internet and/or "just" doing things to make money.

In Germany? I have never heard that.

It is just that we don't focus on 'Internet startups'. Start-ups can be in logistics, chemical products, machine tools, ...
Your background in coding and understanding of technology is a boon to you in many different areas of the technology field.

You say you enjoy 'playing with the latest Apple product, watching TV and reading HackerNews'. Unfortunately, I don't think you're going to find a job where those are the qualifications. However, dig deeper and you might find something.

Unfortunately, you haven't really told us enough to help you find where you fit, but look at the different jobs within your company, and maybe ask if you can shadow a few people for a day or so. Spend some time in Marketing, Finance, etc. etc. The non-programming roles that require an understanding or programming are often in Product/Project Management.

When I was 20, I was fortunate enough to work for a large company and they would ask me to join different teams about twice a year. So within a few years I had experience in Retail (in-store, warehousing and purchasing), finance, customer service, sales, marketing, PR, event management, product development (non-tech), and finally IT.

I don't think enough people spend time learning about the other careers within the company they work for, and miss out on finding something more suitable for them.
No. Others have pointed out a few, but I can't let Pyramid go unmentioned. The ideal framework; gives you what you need to bind your code to the web, without being obtrusive. You write pure Python with whatever components you choose or with the sensible defaults provided and use Pyramid's config systems to bundle it all together into a cohesive "website". It's awesome, and the only framework I've used like that. Truly simple (not "simple" like Rails, Django, or other frameworks where simple means "a million abstractions, assumptions, and exclusive language expansions that practically turn it into a derived DSL"), fast, and smooth.
A library to manipulate jsonlike data structures (letting you query, pivot, aggregate, etc.)
What is your favorite sci-fi story involving a pharmacist?
Firsthand: graduates from top tier law schools with good grades have a very good shot at 150k starting, even recently.

I know you're referring to lawyers in general, and top tier grads are a small subset. Just nerding out a little.
Off topic: are you guys still using proclauch to run your services?
What are your PRs?
I, for one, would be interested in seeing that nokogiri script that turns ugly HTML into markdown... although I'd totally understand if you want to keep it close as a competitive advantage. ;-) I regularly have to deal with the ugly HTML that various apps' "Export" features disgorge.
College student's turtle project takes dark twist
> These trends are so broad and vague as to be basically meaningless.

That's how you know they'll come true.
I've gotten one or two leads through Linkedin, though from contacts who knew me fairly well (well enough to vouch for my skills), and who had my email address as well. So the fact they used LinkedIn to make the connection was just for convenience.

That said, what I like about Linkedin is it widens your "social surface area" - my referrals have come from unexpected places (a university professor, a classmate, a guy I met at a hackathon, etc), and Linkedin is a good service for maintaining those type of contacts.

I'm not so good at maintaing contact with old connections (any tips? I read Never Eat Alone but as an introvert, I find it hard to get motivated to put it into practice). I think one thing the platform we're building should do, though, is encourage and support freelance devs to build their professional networks.
http://engineering.twitter.com/2012/12/implementing-pushstat...
Maybe have a chat to Drew Wilson who is working on http://spacebox.io. It's a nifty little tool for collecting payments via Stripe.

I believe he's currently working on adding subscription payments (and hopefully invoicing) which I am very keen to get but affiliates/electronic delivery could be another great add-on for him to deliver.
Thanks for the response, Brennan! That's an interesting insight!
Again, you force me to repeat myself. My point is that it's all about scale.
There are surely big differences between NY and Idaho, but these are smaller than those between Norway and Greece (as an example). Greece and Norway have very little in common in ANYTHING, not only "buying preferences, business opportunities, cost of living, potential market and such". They are totally different countries. The huge difference between these countries was visible more than a 1000 years ago, when Varagians guards were employed by eastern roman empire / Bizamtium. In fact, part of the reason why the differences are bigger in europe is exactly because of the longer history of the countries, but that is a whole different subject. The point is, YES, there are differences between such states in the USA. NO, they are not as huge as those between countries in Europe. (Probably, but arguably, the fact that in Europe these countries exist for way longer than the USA, is a reason why the diversity between them is so strong)
No one is contending that the NYT has never generated a profit. It has been very, very successful on the past, however with the advent of the Internet came a lot of cheap and free content, making the average consumer less willing to pay for content, while simultaneously creating cheaper, more targeted avenues for advertising.

Nearly every newspaper in the United States sees that by switching to free, digital content, they only earn a small fraction of the revenue that they did from the more heavily based subscription model. The response to this was to erect "paywalls," or requiring a subscription at some point online, in order to recoup done of the lost revenue.

What we are finding (and the NYT is the 600-pound gorilla in journalism and arguably the most important case study) is that some people are willing to pay for access to digital content.

The problem, however, is that the cost to produce this digital content is currently still greater than the revenue it brings in. Yes, the New York Times loses money every year - it's publicly traded and its profit and loss statements are publicly available, so there's no assumptions being made; they are losing money. A lot of it. They're publicly traded and have a lot of retained earnings, so they can afford to do this for a while, but they are losing money every year nonetheless.
But if she had gotten a phone call on Thanksgiving that something had broken and needed to be fixed, she would have worked on Thanksgiving (we've all been there). That was my point - since now we can be productive anywhere, we are always available.
I've been a consultant for close to 5 years and have written similar articles in the past. I agree with just about everything in the post.

What I find most often is that aspiring freelancers/consultants don't realize 1 important fact: Freelancing/consulting is harder than a 9-5 salary job, in every way. If it's one theme that rings constant among freelancers or consultants that I've lent an ear to, it's the "I thought it would be easier" sentiment.

And that supplements the point made in the article. So many developers think their craft is enough to succeed as a freelancer or consultant; the truth is quite the opposite. A business' success depends on marketing and selling their services, and that's what most (if not every) developer underestimates when they start a freelance or consulting business.

To help combat that, I also advocate the gradual approach. Take a full time job in the industry for a few years first, then build up your freelance/consulting business on the side until it becomes sustainable.
The new protocol (at least for military, or at least serious trauma) is to treat massive bleeding above airway/breathing/circulation. I guess what you'd do is have someone applying pressure (or strap an israeli bandage around the neck, but not tightly in a way which would cut off circulation?) while someone else does CPR and then AED. The goal is to never have more than a 10sec break in chest compressions.
I must admit, some secret part of me always hopes I'll be in a situation on an airplane where they need an emergency perl script written

On a flight from Sydney to Vancouver earlier this year, the in-flight entertainment system on my plane was broken. I spoke up: "Hi, I have a doctorate in computer science and I know a bit about these systems... want me to take a look?"

I was surprised when they agreed, brought me up to the front galley, and showed me their interface to the entertainment system (alas, the server itself was in the ceiling and not accessible). I ended up pulling out my laptop, borrowing a cat5 cable from one of the flight attendants (all of mine were in my checked suitcase) and running tcpdump on the plane's network. Alas, while that allowed me to diagnose the problem, I lacked the serial cable needed to connect to the server's console and wasn't able to fix it.
Single User Utility In A Social System
The first couple years are either boring or terrifying for many people once they hit professional programming. Give it a few more and concentrate on saving money.
If money wasn't a consideration, what would you spend your life doing?
Well said, I feel completely the same way. At the start, I just wanted to build things. Then I wanted to be good at coding for the sake of being good... and I got bored fast. Now I just want to build things again :) this took the best part of four years to figure out, though.
I'm pretty sick of it... Most cheap clients only want simple websites that take zero skill to make.

Sounds like a lot of full-time web jobs, too, especially outside the Valley. I speak from experience.

I decided to just stop freelancing...

Keep this perk of freelancing in mind. Such a career lends itself much more to pivoting than full-time ones.
> Those two are scary

Right, because if you don't have a job, you don't deserve to have a house, a car, or self-respect.

Also, if you're born a serf, you're bound to a manor, and smallpox is God's way of reminding you that all humans are born in a state of profound sin.

Technology drives culture.
The notion that Germany is bad for solar is wrong.

If you check the insolation maps you will find that southern Germany is surprisingly sunny. Their cooler temperatures also help with efficiency.
More interesting than to read about big data, the cloud and the slower pace of investment, though...
The sad part about this is how they kicked Bill Joy off the team because he wanted Java to have closures, functions as first class types, etc and nobody else did.
There's a tax break right in the article:

"They pay more in sales tax (German installers are exempt)."

But you're right, that the largest subsidy is not paid out of tax money, but through a (very large [0]) mandated surcharge on private utility bills. There's little practical difference. It's functionally equivalent to a tax subsidy funded by a tax on electricity.

[0] http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/25/eu-oettinger-idUSL...
Now I am intrigued and want to hear the other four.
Best Buy, when I need something "now", though it has gotten better, has had a nasty, at times outright dishonest history of issues relating to its online experience - at one time they were caught having different pricing when the site was browsed in store ("But online it was $x-20" "Sorry, sir, I'm looking at it here on our website and it's $x" "But I can pull it up on my cellphone and see that it says $x-20")...

So I don't support them, but if I need something, ordering for pickup a) ensures the price, b) minimizes upsell, and c) ensures stock (I'm sick, too, of times when there was a display model out but nothing in stock).
If the professors and graduate students involved in this didn't start a company to exploit the company, then I'm guessing the university still owns 100% of the patent (I don't know if that's the case in this situation or not). I think this is similar to in industry when employees may have their name on patents but the company they're working for will own the patent.

This case gets me thinking a bit because they are probably involved in this in part so that they can get money to do more research. It's not like they're doing this as a power play to grab more market share.
I'd suggest you consider product management. At the right company, product management is a good overlap in the venn diagram of "thinking up cool stuff", "tradeoffs & problem solving" -- ideally with exactly the kind of technical insight it sounds like you have -- and "making shit happen".

Given your lack of inspiration, I'd strongly suggest not starting a company just yet. Wait until it's a calling.

If you pick a company who makes products that interest you, that seems like a win. Ideally one where you can get some mentorship in product management as well.
Chinese Court Hits Apple in Copyright Dispute
First, your notion of Black's absolutism is hyperbolic (I'd also ask you: did Black ever actually say that, or are you attributing to him Wikipedia's description of his work?). For instance, the Vinson and Warren courts didn't overturn statutes regarding fraud, which are clearly restrictions on freedom of speech.

Second, it's easy to be an "absolutist" about free speech, because the First Amendment is very clear. "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech." But read the Fourth Amendment carefully and notice that it is not written as strictly. "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, against unreasonable searches shall not be violated." What's "unreasonable"? If the framers didn't want the Supreme Court constantly grappling with that question, they'd have written the amendment differently; it's not as if it didn't occur to anyone to write "Congress shall make no law enabling searches or seizures without a warrant, and no warrant shall issue without probable cause". But they didn't write that.

It's 180 days, by the way, isn't it? Not 60?
Please keep goosey.
You didn't how happy the Chinese are now.
you can't see they've become stronger because your eyes were blinded by your arrogance and the fear of rising of China.
These things aren't built for users, they're built for developers scratching their own itches. DHH built rails for himself first, and happened to share it for those who like his way of doing things. If you don't like his way, use another framework.
My apologies I was writing on the move and I wasn´t too precise. In fact is anyone with medical training, paramedic, nurse, or physician.
I think thats good news. Aren't people tired of jobs that they don't love ? These 2 billion jobs will be done by the robots and computers, and eventually it will be 99% jobs. But thats the goal. But until we move to 99%, there will be lot of pain caused by loss of job and income unless governments create protection plans for people.

But I am wondering what kind of innovation would get rid of 80% of lawyers!
You're being awfully pedantic. Liberals in the United States generally identify with the Democratic party, and they generally favor more taxes and more government. Conservatives in this country generally identify with the Republican party, they generally favor less taxes and less government.

If you want to use a different definition of liberal and call yourself liberal but actually favor less taxes and less government I guess you can do that, but you would be the one using an ill-defined term.

FWIW, A small bit of stats on conservative vs. liberal giving - http://geekpolitics.com/heres-why-christians-dont-want-gover...
This is already possible if they have the same Bundle Seed ID.

This feature has been around for either the entirety of or damn near the entirety of iOS programming.

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Genera...
You're absolutely right. The thing is if, as he (DHH) writes in his post, if they were to make a suggestion he would take them very serious.