skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This economic downturn is breeding a whole generation of just-try-to-stop-me kids.

I disagree that the economic downturn is the cause of these young peoples motivations. I would argue that due to a large amount of people achieving a high level of education, degrees are not a foot in the door. As a result personal investments such as attending networking events, doing work experience and building an online presence (Such as a quality GitHub account) will make it a lot easier to stand out from the herd.
It's called "roaming", and most modern phones support it. The "cheapest tower wins" roaming described in the article would be difficult to achieve because of the massive web of contracts required. Not to mention the terrible user experience -- most users DON'T want the cheapest possible connection, they want the one that won't drop their calls.
So I guess a more productive donor gift would be to endow a chair or professorship.

edit: Donors can actually set up scholarships in their name too (and you can even restrict the students who can apply if you so choose -- say, only engineering majors, etc.). Many of my friends in college were given generous need based scholarships from alumni who had set up scholarship funds for future students.
Until around 2001, GCC supported U/WIN as a host and target platform. The FSF/RMS demanded they remove any code allowing that platform to work, so they did. The GCC project allowing technical decisions to be made for them for political reasons is not new.
LWN has great coverage on the modularity issue, from the time period when Clang was just getting started: http://lwn.net/Articles/301135/
Can you please show what you mean in a demo. the link you posted is using the same "float:left and pseduo-selectors with the margin rules" or am I missing anything?
RovAir Aims to Be the Airbnb of Mobile Broadband Plans
I'd be surprised and disappointed if those companies were using GCC to compile avionics code written in C++.
For anyone else that had no idea:

Wikipedia: "Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing (FXAA) is an anti-aliasing algorithm created by Timothy Lottes under NVIDIA. It was first used on several games such as The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim."
The trade-off is supposed to be that you can't always get a last-minute room at the Four Seasons when you book it for "tonight" -- sometimes they'll be sufficiently full that they won't have sold that block to HotelTonight, and instead of having a plush room right across the street from where you'll be working early the next morning, you'll need to settle for a "motel" right on the highway, 10 miles away.

I'm not sure how these things end up playing out (and if HotelTonight shows data that maps how often selected hotels actually have rooms available, that might undercut the hotels' stance a bit), but I know I wouldn't want to rely on it; even planning in advance, in my experience it's not terribly rare that hotels are booked up if you don't call early enough (and it's an in-demand area).

Edit: ah, yup -- that's HT's pitch to the hotels. From the section for "hotel partners": The key to targeting these unique and valuable guests is the IMPULSE DEAL, a rate so you good you only use it when you absolutely need to move rooms at the last second. Since you don’t have that need everyday, our display changes everyday, meaning guests can never predict when your hotel will be offered.
Yes, and very type-unsafe. You could do all this using C++ templates in a type-safe way.
It is unfortunate that so many people still believe in fairy tale creation stories of the world, enough so that crazy public officials are elected into office. But I suppose the Human mind by default is irrational.
Yes. Sorry, I should have made that more explicit.
Kinda funny, when I inadvertently buy a TV show or movie that features global warming propaganda, I donate the same amount of money to Climate Audit or Bishop Hill.
Another site which I will nevcer be a member of.
Nice job!

Also nice for us to see. Five years ago we (sleep.fm) asked for feedback here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=75323) about our alarm clock that is social. Since then we have witnessed many similar apps, some using same theme , some going a different route in making the alarm clock social. All makes us smile and compels us to continue on.

Good luck to you!
Well you have Go, D and Haskell: And Scala, Clojure, Erlang if you count VM languages.
PHP 6: Pissing in the Wind
> [Shakes his head in disgust.]

[Shurgs].

> You and your first world problems have NO IDEA how to fight for freedom.

Flaunting your experience living in a totalitarian regime to scold those first world kids might not be as convincing, than, say, if you just skipped that part.

Someone else can always trump that "well, my family members were tortured" so "don't tell me about your experience".

> If you really want to learn about effective popular action to bring about more freedom, point your Web browser to the Albert Einstein Institute publications

Those are good resources and it is good to point them out. However the situation and the initial conditions in each country are different. What works in Burma might not work in US.

> ... before they were adopted, on the example of Minnesota's sentencing guidelines, federal sentences were just about wholly indeterminate,

Ok so how do you explain what happened and how downloads of scientific articles can result in threatening someone with 35+ years in prison. Isn't this exactly the area to attack, just because it was random before now it is predictably horrible. I would take the randomness again. At least then someone can point to the judge and say, this judge is out of control, they are responsible, they are ruining lives and wasting tax dollars.

Now they have a list of minimum requirements and they can all point their finger too everyone dismisses the accusations with "But I am just a part of the system".

The goal is not necessarily to remove the sentencing guidelines but to make them sane. You assume it the goal is to remove them.

> I know actual freedom fighters, that is publishers of opposition magazines and organizers of nonviolent protests, from Taiwan.

Again, Taiwan is not US. By comparing the two you are also implicitly lowering the standard and expectation for US. The assumption being "US is just like Burma and Taiwan, what works there should be applied here". I think first we should examine that assumption. Pretty scary. Here is a country that managed to convince most of the its population and those from other countries that it is qualitatively superior. Founded on unbiased justice, representative democracy, everyone has a right to happiness. There is freedom to prosper. And now we are left comparing it to Burma. That is interesting.

Absolute comparisons are good to conduct (when possible). We are still better than North Korea or Eritrea. So we are looking good there. But there is also a relative comparison -- between the image a country projects of itself (via propaganda, or what most people expect from it) and its reality. There is also comparison between the countries at roughly the same level of development (comparing Burma to Taiwan) but then also comparing US with say Norway.

In this case the most important is comparing US to the image most expect from US. Here the situation is not pretty.

Also, I don't necessarily agree with attacking websites, but I don't necessarily disagree it. If it reveals corruption, good, make those servers burn. We don't know what it will reveal, so I can't say if this is effective or desirable.
Outlooks is so much worse than gmail in almost every way. The only good thing about it for work is integration with all the other MS applications. My experience with Outlook after many years of gmail has been nothing but frustrating, and I hear the same story everywhere.
Was this really that different from all the badges telling people their site was best viewed in Netscape Navigator 2.0--a commercial browser with over 70% market-share largely caused by exclusive bundling agreements with Internet Service Providers--as they relied on Netscape-specific extensions like framesets or required installing Java applets that were accessed using the Netscape-specific JavaScript/Java bridge?
I know that twitter boostrap is a great tool to start a project and to prove the concept. I love the idea as a amateur cook and developer (not amateur :D), but if you want to reach a larger public (non developers) I think you should invest some time (and probably money) into a good designer (by the way, is a website where we could really "rent" a webdesigner? I know some where you coul rent a coder but not a designer).
Oh, just throw the Boehm conservative collector on it and be done with it.
I'm not certain that you appreciate how crucial and widespread native email clients are in the business and academic worlds, both on the desktop and on mobile devices.

Maybe these users do have personal Hotmail or Gmail accounts. However, for anything serious and work-related, they're very likely using Outlook, Lotus Notes, Mail.app, Thunderbird, or one of the numerous other native email clients.

Many people, especially those in management, sales, accounting, finance or other communication-heavy areas of business, often spend many hours each workday using a native email client, on both the desktop and on mobile devices.

Within technical and academic circles, and also the open source community, many people prefer native email clients because they're so much more powerful than the web-based clients.

Furthermore, I personally know a lot of people who have an @gmail.com account, but they essentially always use it from a native client via IMAP and SMTP, rather than using the web interface. They use it mainly because it's free, and because of its large storage space, rather than because of its web interface.
Doing functional programming in C reminds me of Greenspun's tenth rule: Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp
Since it was a college project, we didn't think much about licensing and stuff :)
Anonymous means well, maybe, but they drag Aaron's legitimate causes so far down into their muck. We have a chance to have some good come from this, but not with wankers in it for the lulz.
The way to prevent a site from being indexed at all is through a <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"> tag on the page or X-Robots-Tag HTTP header (both of which, ironically, require that you not robots.txt it out, because otherwise the page content will never be crawled), or through a Noindex directive in robots.txt (which is unspecified by the spec - Google supports it, but Yahoo and Bing don't).
It's far more a waste of their time and effort than it is of mine.

Pointless drama like this does not result in new products, it does not result in improvements to existing products, it does not reduce their cost of doing business, and otherwise has no beneficial properties.

Like I said before, even from a marketing perspective, it probably does far more harm than good for both of them.

And I put "design" in quotes because I don't know how else to refer to them. They apparently don't like being called "hipsters", which is the only other word I could think of that would describe them, collectively.
So great that there is some alternative to passportjs which isn't easy to get in. Try to repost at a better time or another post (i.e a tutorial)—user authentification/autorisation is one of the most wanted libs on Node
Cool examples of social polling widgets for blogs
When this story first came out last year claiming that Thomas Jefferson was removed from the curriculum because he was an atheist (which he was not), I went and looked at the actual differences made to the state standards so I could have a laugh. As it turns out the claims in the story were false. This latest version at least gets right that he is not on the list of influential Enlightenment era authors. That's true. Not pointed out though is that he is more covered throughout the rest of the curriculum than just about any other figure. Also relevant and not mentioned in these articles is the simple fact that Jefferson's two books were both private projects which he didn't publish or intend to, his Jefferson Bible edit and the Farm Book detailing daily goings on at his farm. As these were not published in his era they are certainly not major Enlightenment era works. His biggest writing contribution is in the large number of personal letters he wrote to friends and colleagues, which were not published as a collection during his lifetime. That these establish him as a major enlightenment era writer is not something beyond doubt. We can reasonably include the Declaration of Independence as a product of Enlightenment thinking, and Jefferson was the author of this work which summarized the thoughts of himself and others who met at the time. But we must remember it is a single brief work and it is comprehensively covered in the curriculum, just not under the brief list of suggested Enlightenment authors.

As far as the claim that listing the middle names of Presidents is teaching children a false history, it is an absurd claim provided the middle names are accurate.

Regarding the discussion about creationism, creationism is not mentioned or included anywhere in the Texas curriculum standards.

A few years ago the media jumped on Kansas curriculum standards, and yet here we are and Kansas continues to do quite well compared to other states on things such as SAT and ACT scores, which unlike state achievement tests are comparable between states because the same test is given in all states. Because of this embarrassing fact that Kansas schools do quite well in impartial evaluations by respected outside parties, this genre of article has given up with the Kansas argument and moved on to Texas.

I recommend that anyone interested in whether the claims in the article are true download the Texas curriculum standards for themselves and check, in addition to refreshing their knowledge of history.

edit: It's always amusing when one posts facts that are so uncomfortable to propagandists and the uneducated that they not only downvote that post, but they go back and systematically downvote everything one has posted in the last week. Such actions show the failure of the propagandist to be able to form a coherent response in the face of reality.
Interesting, but he mentions all these techniques that are available if you have low-level access to the GPU. But on a PC, you never have that because of DirectX and OpenGL, so why do the GPUs have all these hardware functions that are never going to be used by any PC gamer?
The Social Media Landscape Is Boring
>The logic is basically that low-income minorities can't be trusted to raise their own children, so the government needs to step in and separate them from their kids

In general this is true. There is a serious culture change that needs to happen and the parents aren't doing it. This is coming from a black man that has seen first hand the toxic culture a lot of these kids grow up in.

>The program revolves entirely around extrinsic motivation, which will prevent most of these kids from actually maturing into adults and being able to handle anything beyond minimum wage jobs.

I see some version of this argument trotted out all the time, and frankly its nonsense. The majority of kids, rich poor black white, do not have the motivation to learn or try hard at school on their own. It is only through extrinsic motivations that these kids are able to succeed: parents, peers, culture. This is precisely exactly what poor inner-city kids lack. Any program that aims to change the trajectory of black achievement must address these issues head-on. There is absolutely no place for political correctness in these discussions; this is entire generations of kids being lost to low achievement and poor future prospects.
done with C, yep
I've spent a lot of time researching the economics of information and one of the interesting things that popped out of that was when I looked at yield management, as a research topic, I realized that that is what information markets would look like when mature.
>> They are saying do things our way or we burn your house down.

No, they are protesting events that are generally perceived as a gross injustice of the judicial system.

>> They don't believe in democracy and so what's left?

Says who? To me, they seem to be the very embodiment of civil disobedience (and thusly of democracy).

>> The same skills they used to do this can shut down power plants, bring down air planes, and wreck general mayhem.

I don't understand how is that related to anything. Yes, a variety of things can be used for good AND BAD purposes.

>> They are saying the people in power are corrupt. Some how we have to trust they will never become corrupt.

In other words, let's not remove the corrupt people because the people who would replace them COULD be corrupt as well.

>> Before I posted my original comment. I had a moment of fear.

The thing about fear is that it's not necessarily rational.
How do you currently obtain image content for your projects?
I'm guessing that since Google pushed so hard in the white space auctions of years past that they would use those bands.
We made something very similar for Node Knockout (the 48-hour hackathon), http://foodhub.jit.su.
Market failure:

Market failure is a concept within economic theory describing when the allocation of goods and services by a free market is not efficient.

Colleges are not operating in a market system. They get money rationed to them by the government in various ways. Therefore it is not a market failure.
> If you're [...] that's not really a fake identification card

I'm not a lawyer, nor a law enforcement officer, nor a prosecutor, nor a judge.

While agree that something to allow you to use a website shouldn't be a serious criminal offence it's easy to imagine that it could be painted as such: unauthorised access to website services after a clear warning; fake id instruments; etc etc etc.
>There is no right or wrong way to fight for freedom.
Retracted that is not a good statement.

>Not all fights are wars, nor are all wars fights (for examples wars have been fought to pump up nationalism or to test a doctrine with neither side actually engaging in real fighting. If you read 'The Prince' much of the wars between the cities of Italy are not fights).

A majority of wars are fights, in the case of your example the war may be doctored up but there is a fight, not a fight of weapons, a fight to control the population and to bring them together for one reason or another. But every war has a fight in it which, may or may not be clear and only revealed with the passage of time. And a fight is a manifestation of war. Not always guns drawn, but of minds, and some higher interest. The fight is not always apparent as I said or vice versa. But highly likely that one contains the other.

>There are very few rules in war.

Yes you are correct and I am aware most wars are not absolute wars. But rules are on paper and historical evidence such as, bombing of Dresden, Osaka or Pforzheim in WW2 are small examples of how rules get thrown out the window when in desperation. Or how banned weapons come out when on dire straits. Wars will start with rules, and rules will only stay when they are of interest to both sides.
Or rules of torture? How quickly lawyers and the law makers can overturn rules when they need to ? This statement is 100% true, do not fool yourself to believe otherwise.

>make no mistake if there is a fight - there will only be one winner.

>This is certainly not true, you can have all losers, all winners or any combination thereof. Who wins in a absolute nuclear war? Maybe invertebrates, maybe not.

Evil wins.
> Is year round schooling really the best way to close the literacy gap?

What's the alternative in your mind? Personally, it makes complete sense to me to have year-round schooling. Especially considering the effects its been shown to have on math and reading performance.

What's so bad about extra schooling?

Edit: Also, perhaps it was different for you as a child, but most children are not intrinsically motivated to participate in school as it stands. As a kid I was far more interested in playing Age of Empires or playing outside, so the argument that extrinsic motivation doesn't work seems weak to me.
Wow, this is incredibly addicting. I can sit here and watch this for hours.
>If you actually look at KIPP (the main education reform that Bill Gates advocates), it seems more like an effort to basically enslave low-income minorities rather than a real attempt to improve education. I think there is actually pretty good reason to complain about this.

Yes, enslavement of low-income minorities, that's exactly what he's going for. This is ridiculous hyperbole.
Ask HN: How do you know you are getting "fair market rate"?
I am currently worried that maybe I'm getting paid less than what I worth. I am a end to end web developer in SV working for a "big company" as a permanent employee. I'm getting $140k salary. But from what I hear I think I might be able to make more. Specially because I am an immigrant (Green Card holder) and not a native English speaker. I don't know how to make sure what is my actual worth in market.

Interviewing can help but there are two problems with interviewing.

1. It can damage my professional repetition if I use other companies as a measurement tool.

2. No other company have exact equal condition. They might be a startup with high risk or a company with bad culture. Even they pay more, I wouldn't be as happy as I am.
Do your friends really need this kind of spam?
Being focused in a particular aspect of programming isn't a bad thing.

If you are focused on front-end work, knowing probability probably isn't going to change much.
Speaking as someone who grew up in Texas in conservative evangelical family, there are plenty of churches that are politically active (not all but there are a lot). So you basically have a voting block that takes marching orders from their spiritual leaders.

I attended such a church until my early 20's (I'm 32 now) and around elections there were many sermon reminders that they needed to go vote for people aligned with their conservative values. At my former church they wouldn't explicitly endorse candidates, but it was understood you voted Republican. If the Republican at least appeared to be an evangelical Christian, you would get more support. (I remember George W. Bush being called a "man of God" by several people.)

Moreover, if you had an inclination to, say, vote Democrat, then you better be quite about it. People would just about question how "true" of a Christian you were if you did that.

Disclaimer: I know that not every church in states like Texas are like this. I know because I went to less political churches too. (I don't go to church anymore for what it's worth.)
Why oh why is the drivel from Phoronix repeatedly at the top of HN. In the few cases where I have know people involved in what Larabel writes about they have always said that he blows things out of proportions and that little of what is written is actually true.
In the original press release from the laboratory they discuss using this against fungus and bacteria. So probably the toenail infections is correctly mentioned, but HIV and Parkinson is only hype.