skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Barclays one is not exactly the same thing, but it doesn't appeal to me.

You have to pay £25 to donate 3 full days of your work time (likely more in terms of work days given 16 hr days not 8 are the norm at hackathons - so this is 6 work days of work.)

A big difference is the application is for charity rather than, as with Campbells, being something that directly and obviously benefits the business and would normally be something they would have to pay for.

Barclays does say "Each team will have access to at least one follow up meeting with technology experts that have been involved in the design, development or marketing of Barclays mobile applications." It's not clear what this means, perhaps this is to get a brainstorming session with some of Barclays developers, or perhaps Barclays might develop the "charity app" further themselves.

When I have a 3 day weekend there are a lot of things I would rather do than pay £25 for the privilege of doing 6 days of work without compensation beyond a sleeping bag rental and a few pizzas, donuts and sodas.
Looks cool! What inspired the llama theme?
Now now, that's cheating :)
I wouldn't say "improves on it." It certainly does bring a lot of really nice functional features to the table (oh, I love async and lambdas, and futures are such a nice tool to have), and it fixes a lot of problems that have plagued the language for decades, but it doesn't "improve" on functional programming any more than Java does.
http://www.ihelplounge.com/ipad-mini-kindle-fire-nexus-7/
I just got the System 76 Lemur Ultra a few weeks ago. Intel i5, 128GB SSD, 8GB RAM. It's amazing. Ubuntu works perfectly. All hardware works perfectly. Their support is top-notch and almost instant. With shipping, total was like $860.

Peace of mind going forward with new Ubuntu releases is priceless.
They look funny.
My first reaction to hearing the term "too big to fail" was "then make them smaller." I'm surprised that it's taken this long for such an idea to be seriously considered.
I appreciate your compliments.
I noticed the round Os in TOYOTA also -- for MATTEL, the height ratio between the top two and bottom two horizontal bars on the E is more even in Helvetica than Arial.
Top reasons of why I hate Windows
When I google something, I want information that won't leave me running in circles while I figure out why it's not doing what the docs say it's supposed to do. I've had that happen with w3schools more often than any other resource. It's a waste of my time, and I get better, clearer, and more accurate information from MDN and the W3C, so I've stopped googling such things and just go to the horse's mouth.
The History of Tron's User Interface
> If you're familiar with Ruby, it's the equivalent of the "rake", "gem", "rails", and "cap" commands all rolled into one.

You can add "rvm"/"rbenv" to that list, as it manages Clojure versions, too.
I didn't understand what it is supposed to do.
If all people started writing code with more RAII and Smart Pointers this would be a better world.

Talking about C, well... it's unsafe by nature, let's face it.
I meant the specification language, not the formatting,
What a horrible strategy. Proof that it is better to be lucky than smart.
http://cubegrinder.com/
Worse is better, right?
IPhone Low-cost Numbers
So far I doubt C++ is going anywhere - it's here to stay. When the usage of such languages as Rust will gain more traction up to the point that high performance games engines will be written in it, one could start saying that C++ is being pushed out. But it's really somewhere in the future.
Google vs. the press: avoiding the lose-lose scenario
A 14 year old kid should not have to say "finally some support words". Good one guys.

Congratulations on all your success nshen. It looks great! :)
Did you say the same about the links related to Aaron Swartz?
They'll come don't worry ;)
Nice work. Couple specific things that came to mind:

- Love the music (reminds me of Truman Show). It somehow adds to the weirdness of the game. Would like to hear a little more variety but within that same style.

- Cool little feature would be for the sun to set and rise as time progresses (1 day = 1 minute or something like that). Would add a little visual fluff and more graphics stuff for you to experiment with.

Again, well done! Keep it up and continue to broaden your technical horizons.
If Dean Baker's analyses are correct, then concerns around demographics, retirement, and Social Security are all relatively easy to solve, and the only really big problem is health care costs.
Except that runs counter to (a large portion of) the point of Medicare, which is to provide assistance to the old. (Yes it's also for low income households, but it's also a lot aimed at the elderly as well.)
> This propensity for today’s working programs to be broken tomorrow is what I mean when I say these languages are not future proof.

It doesn't matter. This is not how programming works in the real world. In the real world, you write the most correct program you can under time pressure. A new compiler, operating system, or platform arrives that exposes a bug. You fix it and you move on. It doesn't matter if the language is future proof or not. The process is similar for any complex program.

The blog's name is "Embedded in Academia" and this is perfectly valid viewpoint for someone in academia to take. And people in academia should research towards building more robust tools and languages. But it really is not going to matter in the real world. Languages and platforms will always not be future proof because computing is complex.
Of course it's economically feasable. It's just a matter of priorities.

Congress managed to come up with 8 trillion dollars for the Wall St bailout at the drop of a hat, and 3 trillion (and counting) for the Iraq/Afghanistan wars. On top of that, the US manages to spend more on its military than the rest of the world combined.

To say that it couldn't come up with the money to support its own citizens in their old age would be laughable if it wasn't so sad.
Charles Darwin's ecological experiment on Ascension isle  (2010)
Not if more people have this trait than are successful.
I have had my W530 for a few months and it is the best laptop experience I have ever had. The power brick is a beast, the only downside. I use the NVidia card in dedicated mode (Optimus disabled) and would recommend the T530 for someone wanting to use integrated Intel graphics. I use it as a desktop replacement, with a Samsung 830 (which is rock solid) in the main drive slot and the original 320GB 7200RPM drive in a media bay HDD adapter.

I haven't upgraded from 16GB to 32GB yet, but I like having the option!
I liked http://www.thefanclub.co.za/how-to/how-install-apache2-modse... For some rules to allow Wordpress to work http://wpsecure.net/2012/01/using-mod_security-2-with-wordpr...
Remember to check http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/ for laptops certified to work with Ubuntu. This is an easy way to ensure compatibility.
Usually it is those who are 12 y/o and don't know what this is.
No, this is horrible advice. The difference in the fonts will make your site look completely different to people using different OSes.
An extension to track multiple Gmail accounts
So just make ineligible the people the social service is meant to serve? I don't think the solution is quite that shockingly obvious.
It is a little racist to see a difference in test scores and assume that it is 'likely' due to race. There isn't much in that post (which is pretty good) about why the scores of immigrant Finns are lower.
"News is what somebody does not want you to print. All the rest is advertising."
Thanks for posting something like this. I clicked the link cynically expecting the top post to be someone whining about the poster feeling the need to mention his age.
Nick, You are awesome.

-Rohan
I'd like to see the results of this math.

How much is saved/earned if each worker retires at 70 instead of 65?
10/20 - I'm a complete failure.
You should also add "bundler" along those Ruby tools (as if I'm not mistaken, bundler deals with fetching the dependencies).

Leiningen is like Maven :D
Here's a transcription of Taren's eulogy (consider it a rough draft -- I don't have time to check it carefully now):

http://mretc.net/~cris/swartz-transcripts/taren-transcript.t...

If anybody does read it along with the video, please feel free to send me any corrections (or change the txt file and send me a diff). Thanks!
Parsing Expression Grammar - part 2 (An F# walk through)
very happy with x1 carbon
Wow, great feedback! I'll be sure to implement this in the next update!
I never used Scala but I'd be surprised if Maven support for Scala is at minimum.
What the OP doesn't say is this going to be a desktop replacement or not which makes a lot of difference.

Remember most professional code writing is going to be done on a full sized desktop with 2 or 3 screens - a laptop is a second machine is for when you are out and about.
If you're using iOS, limit your home screen to two pages, and only allow a max of 3 or 4 folders.

Since doing this, my experience finding apps has improved significantly. It does mean you have to be frugal when installing new apps (add one, delete one sometimes). But then you're forced to keep only the stuff you use.
I don't see how that makes the title deceptive? The title says that the business roundtable wants people to work until they're 70, which is true. The calculations involved here are irrelevant.
If all people started writing code in a modern C++ equivalent called Rust this would be a better world. After all in comparison Rust is safe by nature unlike C or C++. :)
Show HN: StartupSupper - Stop eating instant ramen you hungry-hungry-hackers.
Has anyone got something uploaded? I'm curious how the downloading actually works. Do they still use the original monetization scheme, i.e. pay to get faster transfer?
The fallacy of this observation is easy to demonstrate. You interact with dozen established businesses during a day. You got a coffee at Starbucks, you fuel up your car at a gas station, got a dinner at a restaurant. So how much of that experience was driven by "stochastic processes, full of unexpected random behaviors"? Instead of cup of coffee you got a clown with a machine gun singing a serenade? How many surprises you got a gas station? That certainly would be the best place to get surprised at, especially if it involves fire.

Thats the whole point of business operations to take into account objective reality "full of unexpected random behaviors", find a formal system that will hide these complexities from the customer, and present him with easy, predictable and repeatable experience. Every time you get into Starbucks you get a cup of coffee, not a random outcome. Joel talked at length http://bit.ly/33fK5T how many little details are hidden in these corporate systems to produce what seemed like much simpler outcome for us on customer side.

Mistakes happen, employes are never ideal, yet that doesn't prevent creating formal systems how business operate, far from it. Its only differentiates good startups growing into good businesses. They are the ones who figure out correct way of formalizing their systems so they can grow and hire more employees, scale nationally etc.

(btw for a person who actually knows and practically uses math these observations would be self evident, yet perhaps less so for a typical comment troll )
Yes, there may be a mobile phone here and there. But the difference between the usual european or american standard is so extreme, i'd say that before they can dream about facebook they dream about easier/faster/better internet access and widespread mobile (or even smartphone) usage. And no censorship of facebook ;)
Sufficiently Smart Compilers vs. Sufficiently Dumb Code
Lovely story! If the author ever wants to apply to YC, he has a perfect answer for the 'hack a system in real life question' :)
I don't like to give acces to my facebook to whatever I find, what exactly do that thing?
Facebook graph search is humorless creepy and doomed to disappoint
He might, or he might also have been saying to go easier on him since he's just starting out. I dunno, are we so used to everybody hyping and hustling we see it everywhere now?
'Quadruple helix' DNA seen in human cells
You skipped the dollar number for entitlement spending. It may surprise you how much it costs to give $15k/yr to 50million people.
Layers with Carbonate Content Inside McLaughlin Crater on Mars
You may eventually realize that not all publicity is good publicity.

...bro.
65 is younger than 90
https://github.com/technomancy/lein-scalac could be a starting point.
"This view of layered rocks on the floor of McLaughlin Crater shows sedimentary rocks that contain spectroscopic evidence for minerals formed through interaction with water"
A Rest DNS API allowing to perform DNS queries over HTTP, outputting JSON
A side note I took away from this post is the existence of Frama-C, which appears to be a quite nice, open-source analyzer: http://frama-c.com/
Is it just because you have to have different size copies of graphics, and other such adjustments?
Real world variables
Now if only we could have someone who actually understands science and technology on the House or the Senate science and technology committees...
The particular kind of not-future-proofness he has in mind seems pretty practically important: code that relies on this undefined behavior often suffers from exploitable security holes. Just because computing is complex doesn't mean you have a free pass if you shoot yourself (or your customers) in the foot the same way the previous 100 folks did. If it happens enough, it becomes prudent to do something about it, like people finally did about unsanitized format strings, or the use of unbounded sprintf().

His suggestion #3, that the standards should define more of the commonly used behavior and leave less of it undefined, wouldn't even require C programmers to do anything about it themselves.
It still has to be remembered that many people don't live to 70. Even today people working in hard manual labor and black men in general are pretty lucky to get to 70.

People who are healthy and able to work should not be living on retirement simply because they have reached 65, but neither should someone die at work because their life was harder to begin with.
The problem is, it isn't about money. The government has all the money it needs, the government can print money if it needs to.[1] The problem is that all these old people will need goods and services, and no amount of legerdemain with mere money can get around the fact that those goods and services must actually be produced, and the people producing those goods and services are therefore not producing other goods and services.

When you hear that statistic about two workers per retiree or whatever, don't just be thinking about money; that's the output of those two workers putatively going to support the retiree, and what's leftover going to power the economy.

As convenient as it can be to analyze problems in terms of money in normal life, when it gets to these really big "structure of society" problems the abstraction starts to get in your way again. Many of the characteristics of money are downright deceptive; one may save $100 today, but $100 of, say, corn today is not going to feed any retirees 20 years from now, it'll just be a rotted mess. Goods and services store poorly; they need to be matched up producer/consumer in something more like real time. Money is a great abstraction over that, but a still a secondary phenomenon compared to that real-time match up.

Of course, we can indeed support quite a few retirees... if one adjusts their standard of living down a long way. If it's OK for them to dial 911 and for nothing to happen, we've got more than enough wealth to support all kinds of retirees. Start specifying out a "good" first-world life style, though, and it becomes problematic again.

The problem is not, in absolute terms, a "lack of money"; the problem is that we've made promises about the quality of the retired life that are going to be very difficult to keep with small single-digit numbers of goods and service providers, while at the same time having enough of a productive economy to produce the wealth that will make it possible to keep those promises. Money is a very poor lens to analyze this problem through.

(Personally I don't believe the problem to be as hopeless as it seems, as there are still some avenues for significant per-worker productivity enhancements, mostly in terms of significant improvements in robotics. However, it must be observed that with our current set of promises, we 20-, 30-, and probably even 40-year olds are effectively all-in with our retirements on that hope, because if tech were to stagnate at current levels the current set of promises is probably mathematically infeasible.)

[1]: I'm not saying this is good or desirable, btw, it's just part of my point about this not being about money.
About $750 billion per year? What portion of that did they save previously by paying into the system? Why is it that productivity has skyrocketed since the social security system was introduced, which should account for the longer lifespans, yet we still find ourselves having these conversations?

It is a matter of priorities, plain and simple. Just because it isn't a high priority for you doesn't mean it isn't a question of priorities.
I'm surprised that people have not appreciated Maven more seeing how there are many praises for Leiningen.

While using Maven is like a love and hate relationship in my case, the best tool by the next door neighbour (Clojure) is apparently a Maven like tool :) (perhaps Leiningen is heavily inspired by Maven?).

People may dislike Maven but I found that nothing out there beats its features and it really takes a lot of pain away in setting up (or even maintaining/upgrading) Java projects.

I'm super glad Clojure has Leiningen. NodeJS also has a promising tool in NPM (haven't had the chance to search around for the other related build/deployment tools though).
As it should! ;)

Lately we've developed this fetish for sites being pixel-perfect across any display.

The web was designed to decouple the way a site was designed from the way it's displayed. To allow it to reflow, and people to use their own designs.

If you really want pixel-perfect layout, why not just use bitmaps and imagemaps ;)
AppStore Optimization - The Complete Guide to Enhancing Downloads & Sales
This caught my eye "Program analyzers that warn about these problems are likely to lose users."

For me, this is perhaps the biggest issue raised in this article, as static and dynamic analysis tools become more ubiquitous we should be learning to fix the issues that they raise, not ignore them.

I remember a while ago (2004 or 5) interviewing a college-hire candidate, I had asked about working with others and we had gotten to talking about code review - the candidate was passionate about how code review had helped with a group project he worked on, but every single example he gave of a a bug found by code review was something that -Wall would have found...

The same applies to static analysis - let the machines do the work that they can do, that leaves the humans to get on with the work that the machines can't do (yet!)
Pirate Party Lower Saxony (Germany) suffers a terrible defeat (Google Translate)
Ask HN: Jingle/Sound purchasing
I want to add some sound to my app. Does anyone have suggestions for purchasing audio tracks?
The article seems to contradict what I previously read about KIPP [1]. I thought KIPP also heavily emphasized 'emotional intelligence' going so far as to giving their students t-shirts emblazoned with the "Don't eat the marshmallow" slogan. The words refer to the famous Stanford experiment on delayed gratification.

It seems the article (or Paul Tough) does not provide a balanced, complete analysis. Perhaps the colleges the kids dropped out of overemphasized academic achievement. It could be that emotional intelligence plays a role in the long-term success, of which college may or may not also be an ingredient.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/18/090518fa_fact_...
I have a better idea: remove the payroll tax cap, you cheap sons of bitches!
Because that what your comment sounded like. "Microsoft sucks and this guy sucks and I can tell it because I can."

(I personally know nothing about you, of course.)
"Bigness" matters because only a few of the large banks are primary dealers [1] - they directly play a role in US treasury auctions. All the other investment banks that aren't primary dealers only play a part in the secondary market. Part of this relationship is also the agreement that large banks are always making markets [2] and providing liquidity for highly-traded Fixed Income products - without someone to make the markets, no one would be able to trade. A large part of the global finance system is based on the ability to easily buy or sell these products, from the huge institutional clients like Fidelity, to the individual investor using their Schwab account (albeit even that is done through a much larger entity to access the market). The move towards computerization in the financial industry over the past 30 years has directly impacted the bottom line of these large banks (via smaller bid/ask spreads [3]), but has also directly lead to increased liquidity due to trading volume.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_dealer
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_maker
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bid-offer_spread
It is also different in that it seems to be completely non-functional. Well I guess that makes it unlike megaupload was but entirely like it is now.
Will this include a decent amount of vegetarian recipes?
Kim Dotcom's MegaBox set to target Google, Yahoo
If you have unexplained weight loss and are concerned about a change in your ability to focus, you should consult with a medical professional about your health concerns, and provide them with far more context. You might also (though not nearly as advisable) seek information from sites and discussion communities specifically dedicated to similar health concerns.

This thread is followup for a story about primary/K-12 school student achievement, and not a good place to get personalized health advice.

Good luck.
It's really sad to see how selfish people are (or have become). I wonder if it is a subtle result of the seemingly permanently-lousy economy.

This is a problem for all of us and we should solve it as a group, in a way that hurts as few people as possible. What happened to solving hard problems with innovation and intelligence? Why are so many people so ready to throw in the towel and abandon ship, taking whatever isn't nailed down on the way?
All someone has to do is release a white-label, searchable aggregator for links and keys, with instructions on how to copy-paste the key to decrypt the file. No need to interact with the Mega API at all. The developer releases it with a collection of Creative Commons content, legally says "This should only be used for open-access content," and open-sources or sells the source code. Then these sites pop up all over the place with pirated links. Since the aggregator's original authors never intended it for piracy, they're blameless, and the operators who use the site take all the risk of takedowns.

Such an app would bring Mega back to its former infamy. A MegaDropbox is not needed. And no developer needs to take the fall.

Piracy isn't the answer to our arcane copyright laws, or to the industry's failure to embrace digital distribution, so I hope such a thing won't be made. But I'm pretty sure it will be.
I would love to contribute to this, both being a veteran of cash-strapped startup life and someone who enjoys cooking. Do you provide a way for people to do so?
I grew up in Montreal, which is definitely more east coast but is so unlike other North American cities it's probably a poor comparison.
Some flagging :( people don't got what I wanted to mean :(
This shows up in the JS console when trying to do anything non-cachable:

POST https://eu.api.mega.co.nz/cs?id=01234567 500 (Server Too Busy)