skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't get why everyone seems to be running out of (what appear to be) fairly sturdy concrete buildings and into the street.

Well, since one brick structure collapsed, and since one's immediate impression was that it was an earthquake, running out into the street seem perfectly reasonable. The fact that it was a powerful sonic boom, not an earthquake, would be something I might figure out at my leisure only after running outside.
> force students to learn about handling large amounts of data and working through statistics and probability courses as well

Basic probability and an understanding, at least intuitive, of statistics should be thought to everybody - it's gonna help you even if you end up writing poetry or painting for a living, trust me! Imho this is more important that teaching coding, as it's quite easy to for anyone to pick up a well written programming tutorial, but much harder for an artistically oriented person to gain an intuitive understanding of probability - you need a good teacher for this, a teacher that when he sees you can't grasp the formula has the idea to bring some dice and poker cards to class and teach it to you this way!
Why does the timestamp on the video say December 31st 2012?
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Tesla CEO Musk writes rebuttal to NY Times report he called "fake"
> If the average citizen could be extorted on the highway they'd start to catch on here too :)

Actually, after having driven tens of thousands of miles on the interstates a number of years ago I think they would be a tremendous improvement on rest stop safety at the very least. That may be better served by an omnidirectional parking cam (and it would have to be running all the time, or you would need to flip it on), but I don't think it's a bad trend. It's certainly more appropriate than asking the state to manage/install even more surveillance nodes...

Edit: by 'it' I meant recording devices in vehicles, put there by the vehicle owner.
Well, no, they're not currently paying any licensing fees on Macintosh or Windows systems. So they make the same profit per sale for all three platforms. Now, this may not remain true forever - but if HL3 comes out before the status quo changes, pure profit wouldn't be the incentive (and in any case, in the current steam model you can buy stuff for Linux then run it on Windows later anyway). You could argue for driving people to Linux by giving them perks, of course - but that has nothing to do with present-day marginal costs.
When you still need to explain why Mozilla matters, despite a market share of ~20%, I guess it's already doomed...

Practically nobody uses a browser, or any other product, only to "fight monoculture". It may be an honorable goal, but a product needs compelling advantages beyond that.
I just clicked on a couple of the search entries, and they didn't even seem to include the word `please`
> benefit [is] reduction in congestion, denser communities due to less parking space ... Car should never be the vehicle to use for a single passenger

Er, of course, the same is true even without the "Lit Motors C1"...

Denser communities, walking, biking, and good public transit FTW.
Most likely a sonic shock wave, not an explosion. Even if the meteor broke up, that's very unlikely to be the source of the sound. It's more likely like a sonic boom you're hearing.
Talk about expletives in Source Code. Ha Ha! http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/content/xslt/t...

Perhaps mozilla's code base can be analysed for usage of commit styles ;)
Hi, I live in Ohio. And what I just read was a PERFECT description of human behavior around temp controls during Midwest winters.
Even if you get married, it's not an automatic solution. There still may be more complications.

Applying to a large company is not the same as being hired by a large company. Also, I'm sure even large companies would rather avoid visa issues if they can.

Long distance relationship. LOL. I see you've never been in one.
Sounds easy to find loopholes. Instead of a "brothel", you have a clothes-optional "wellness club" with easy access to a building next door full of luxurious bedrooms, who just happen to be rented rather expensively by a bunch of beautiful women who like to hang out naked at the club... If necessary, the two operations can be run by completely separate companies.
7-7 so, say 5am - 8pm with the commute and the morning thrown in.

That's no family life.

If you're checking into work over the weekend, you may think it's an hour or two, but it'll be 5 or 6 hours, you just don't realize it.

So out of the what, 32? hours you have for family over the weekend, another 5 or 6 are spent working.

And there's no "personal time" in that schedule yet.

That's not sustainable to me.
The words he used for his actual endorsement didn't scream "MANDATORY CODING" to me: "I want to make sure that (young people) know how to produce stuff using computers and not just consume stuff."

Yes, it could mean coding. But people produce stuff on computers without coding all time. They produce stuff on Photoshop. They produce stuff on Excel. They produce stuff on Wordpress.

It's becoming increasingly clear that economic growth and wage growth are becoming uncorrelated in the US. For example, startups add billions and billions of dollars to the GDP of the US, but we'll never hire the millions of people that got laid off at steel factories over the past twenty years.

The economic model for the US this century is essentially one that consists of high-skilled knowledge workers, high-end manufacturing, and local service workers. Everything else will be subject to economic factors outside of US control. Lower-skilled manufacturing has had a revitalization in the US over the last couple years, but that's mostly due to things like China's currency appreciating, the price of oil remaining high, and a natural gas boom in the US. If any of that changes, those jobs will go back to China. Or Singapore, or Africa, or anywhere else where the supply of raw human capital is cheap.

If you view the future of the US economy in this lens, then everything Obama talks about makes sense. For example, if this is the future, then the safety net programs we had in 1980 are inadequate in 2013. Nobody really debated health insurance in the US in 1980, because over 80% of Americans already received health insurance from their employer. Now it's barely two-thirds [0]. If you have a "top-heavy" skills distribution in the US, and your income is more strongly related to skills than ever, then you need a "top-heavy" tax code. Or you could just let people bleed to death in their bathroom because they tried to pop their own thrombosed hemorrhoid (trust me, don't google it) because they couldn't afford a trip to the ER.

And to tie it back to the OP, it also means education for those high-skilled jobs will be the best way to ensure economic advancement. It's no longer a sure thing to advance economically by putting in your time in at the plant and have your labor union negotiate a 5% raise for you every two years. That doesn't need to mean everyone becomes a programmer. We'll still have manufacturing jobs, but they'll require more than just punching the clock every day[1][2].

We've all probably worked with a self-taught programmer who was toiling away at some crappy job until they either got a degree or made enough web sites to convince a company to hire them. And they probably tripled their income in the process. So I see Obama's statement as saying we should streamline that process as much as we can, and orient our education system to produce as many high-skilled workers as possible.

[0] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/study-fewe...

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/02/business/economy/02manufac...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/magazine/skills-dont-pay-t...
Guy's a pathetic loon. he's cut and pasted this on over 8000 pages since 2010, at least.
I have also seen videos of this event dated by January 1970. The explanation is silly: most of the drivers don't care to set the correct date on their dashcams.
How much do you love her? How important do you think the relationship is for you? How much do you both value this relationship? Think about those questions..and think about if you should marry her...
Not quite. A lot of the 100 "games" are DLC for other games.
Sure. There was one like this in the US in the early 1990s - the Peekskill fireball. There was also the Great Daylight 1972 Fireball, where the meteor entered and then exited the atmosphere.

The Peekskill meteorite was estimated to be 26 pounds and 1 ft across before it entered the atmosphere. Spotting something like that in space is hard.
More on the mozilla source code website: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-release/search?string=screw
Source Code Mozilla: search for 'screw'
I'm pretty sure I get to choose who NOT to sleep with, and so do women. All rape aside of course, ho ho ho.

The tone of your comment depresses me. It sounds so bitter. And confused. As if you hadn't had sex or a healthy relationship in a very long time, if ever, and feel powerless to change that.

If it's so, I hope it changes soon.
>> If you think that’s bad, you haven’t heard the half of it. Another reviewer mentioned being able to taste the dry saliva of a previous punter on the escort’s nipple while he sucked it

O...M...G...

Edit: there is something, levelling, and humanising about the sheer unexpectedness of this. Plus no showering in between clients, nope going back to OMG
I agree, some people tend to think that Heroku is some kind of silver bullet that magically scales anything into the sky. But the underlying platform is nothing we haven not used before, and scaling linearly as the userbase grows is no easy task indeed. Give them some slack..
This is a year old post although the title is very attractive. Does anyone now a newer, more comprehensive and scientifically solid article having the same claim?
I might add that for learning, Windows is pretty good (now... it was not used to be this way, haha) - though the problem you mentioned consists and it is better to switch to Linux after a while (when you need those gems).
Come on... who names an animal after a programming language? :D
Does Photoshop 1.0 have significant features that are missing in Gimp?
No problem with it. Consider it a class in logic. Math is mandatory and people still can't figure a tip in their head.
Xkcd: App
Both C&C and PoP are about 20 years old. If you consider the copyright terms that most pirate parties are advocating, this IP would be in the public domain already. The PoP franchise is owned by Ubisoft now, so you really can't make the "starving indie developer" argument in either case.

There is such a thing as Fair Use, and it covers many educational purposes. I think it's absolutely fair to include 15-20 year old content under that. No reasonable person could think he's claiming he invented C&C or PoP, the point is obviously the engine. All he's done is make his tech demos more appealing by banking on people's nostalgia and using a real world example to demonstrate relevance. When a gaming site publishes a "Top 50 Games from the 90s" list, the article also cannot exist without wholesale lifting of other people's IP. The only difference is that they steal a little bit from a lot of people, rather than a lot from just one IP owner. When said IP owner is a giant faceless corporate entity that doesn't pay royalties to its artists, is there really a difference?

I've also never seen anything wrong with abandonware, because it feels like digital preservationism, a volunteer-run cultural library. Companies like LucasArts hoarded their licenses until platforms like iOS gave them an easy way to milk them for more money, again about 20 years later... There wasn't any more creativity involved than what this guy did, and it's very likely none of the people who worked on the originals saw a cent of that money. And let's not forget that it was the efforts of the abandonware community in creating SCUMMVM that made it easy to port these games to modern platforms in the first place.

Copyright exists to encourage and reward the creation of culture, not to protect profits no matter what.

Edit: Come to think of it, I think it's far more disrespectful for Ubisoft to make a new Prince of Persia game with the original title, than for someone else to create a way to play the original in a modern environment and get some exposure along the way.
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Traditional machining in the sense that you need industrial space where you can make a mess and a lot of noise as opposed to something you can conceivably use in normal home/office space. Waterjet cutters need special FLOORS because of the weight of the tank. Laser-based SLS and SLM emit both nasty fumes and spread dust everywhere. This is why the tech is not sexy, not because it's less advanced.
that thing was no joke
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While these sites typically worked well, they did not provide ideal user experiences. More mobile sites are being designed to complement the main site.
The problem is that well intentioned suggestions like "eat dark leafy greens" tend to sew doubt in the minds of patients, and as a result you have lots of cancer sufferers on batshit insane diet regimes because "a friend-of-a-friend said this would help"[0]. When someone is staring down death and you say "hey, I bet this would help", they're going to listen very, very intently, regardless of what a rational person might make of your suggestion.

At its extreme, this mentality can be actively harmful. I know of one person who does "spiritual healing" over the phone, charging a handsome fee to pump your telephone line full of good vibes. It may sound stupid (the cynic might even assume malice on the part of the giver-of-vibes), but things aren't so black and white when the chips are down.

[0] This wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that crazy diets compromise your ability to enjoy life without delivering any discernible medical benefit. It's all well and good to adopt a fighting attitude and say "I'm going to beat it!", but that attitude may not result in an optimal payoff in the long run.
> it would almost certainly poison the minds of the people who have no interest in it

...what exactly do you mean by "poison the minds"? I think "rolling it into mathematics curriculum" is the best way to make a large portion of students averse to it! In my country, we had a pretty advanced chunk of probability and statistics rolled into the math curriculum - it was a disaster, even the teachers tried to skip it because they thought it ate away precioud time that could be spent delving deeper into calculus (yeah, we had what you in the US would call "college level calculus" put into the high school curriculum but that's a different story...).

...now, for example, if those probability and stats courses would have been a different course or maybe some kind of "workshop", maybe someone else besides the "math geeks" would have gotten something useful out of them! Lots of high school kids hate math, but if you chip away chunks of it and present it as something else they tend to love it. On the other side, if you want them to viscerally hate something, teach it to them as part of "math"!
This article is fucking disgusting.
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Same goes for the UK, to some extent: our politicians are generous enough to have secured for us the ability to "opt out" of the 48-hour limit. The result is that almost all employment contracts contain a clause opting the new employee out.

Having said that, I've personally never exceeded 48 hours in a week, and it may be that the prevalence of the opt-out is more due to a disinclination to add bureaucracy that to a desire to exploit workers.
Improvement Proposal:

"Want to visit an incomplete version of our Website where

1) you can't zoom

2) we have better access to your private data

3) we can better enforce DRM

Download our app!"
I had started with rails in my spare time, but there are a lot of security issues that they are having to fix, more out today. I don't want to have to patch something in the middle of the night or lose everything. So I'm waiting for the next major release to see if they iron it out. In the mean time nodejs with express seems to be a decent use of the time.
Get your feet wet free:
https://openshift.redhat.com/app/
They're helpful and backed by aws
Some of their images are a bit outdated, but there are custom images you can load from github
Installing Metasploit on iPhone/iPad
thats how it looks from the inside of buildings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs6sj6xAzeg
As someone with Stage IV cancer, I say "congratulations" but don't be so hard on your oncologist - I don't know your details, but every situation is different. Every cancer case responds differently. If you think your oncologist was wrong, then switch oncologists. However, maybe (s)he was right if they gave you a life-saving regimen. Enjoy the life you have, and be grateful for every day/week/month/year that you're still around.
Accepting bit coin means reduced chance of fraud, so the merchant can offer a price reduction for payment in bitcoin. If I am selling iPhones and accepting PayPal then I have to charge legitimate customers more to cover fraud by dodgy customers.
I have been developing in python in Spain (EU) since long ago and I can't see how a product called "Python", as in "I will buy the latest Python server" or "We have connected the radius to the Python Authentication Web Service" is going to confuse anyone.

I can see how this issue bothers the PSF, but I don't think PSF can claim "python" name for every technical-related topic.

I think a much better approach would be talking to them and agree a link on each other web, ie:

Python.org says: "Were you looking python awesome servers? Click here"
And Python.co.uk will say: "Were you looking for awesome python software development resources? Click here"

Python (PSF) and Python (servers and web services) only have in common that are "technical related" but they are not competing with each other and I can't see a clear missunderstanding on this topic.

But, this is my POV, and I might be wrong =)
I think a problem here is the release of 'weekend projects'. Someone is trying to boast their speed and efficiency when they build something for themselves, and then claim that projects are impossibly difficult when asked how much they would charge for their work.

That being said, I think this guys request and offer are both ridiculous. Maybe someone who likes the general idea, contacts him and explains that they could rough out a shitty version to test the idea and hopefully pull some seed money to hire some real crunchers at a true wage to flesh it out completely.

That 'weekend project' took you much longer than a weekend. It took years of research and study. A lifetime of perspective building experience. A performance of Beethoven's 9th lasts 45 minutes. Do you think he released it saying 'this sound took me less than an hour to create!'.

Let's avoid mocking the ignorance of others when our own nonsensical boasting is what is causing these people's misunderstanding.
I highly recommend the pickaxe book (http://pragprog.com/book/ruby3/programming-ruby-1-9) for a full examination of Ruby and its standard libraries, as well as for a reference later on.

Sandy Metz's new book on advanced object oriented design in Ruby is amazing and a fun read (http://www.poodr.info/book/)

And Michael Hartl's online Rails tutorial is in my opinion the best place to learn Rails from beginning concepts to advanced strategies (http://ruby.railstutorial.org/)
> the general public doesn't expect journalists to "construct a narrative"

That's right, they don't expect it. They are merely disappointed if they don't.
HN is a gem
I agree that it would seem annoying, and what you've mentioned is intriguing though. Maybe they thought it could be a window for people to actively help in making posts more visible, as opposed to posts/(post types) visible by nature becoming less visible due to user feedback or behavior. But I wonder how big of a risk it would be to promote any and all types of posts from friends? I certainly wouldn't want someone to promote my sharing of an article about a brand, making me look like I'm endorsing it. Weird.
Business idea: CAD object library inspired by Lego.

Imagine being able to build your model from components in software, then print out the parts and put it together.
Perhaps you should bring up the Raspberry Pi as Python is its main language and it is being used in schools all over the UK and the government is helping to support the project.
Have you tried filing a dispute resolution claim with Nominet to revoke python.co.uk. Their policy is here:

http://www.nominet.org.uk/disputes/when-use-drs/policy-and-p...

You might have a case under 3c(ii).

Edit: By the way, Nominet themselves use (or used) mailman, which uses Python:

https://lists.nominet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/nom-steer

So you might have some sympathy there.
Well that seemed like a very well-reasoned and well-written article without. I found myself nodding along with a lot of it.

The part about there not really being "One Webkit" is the bit that stuck out for me since it seems (warning: generalization ahead) most outsiders (even web-developers based on articles and comments I have observed on HN) do believe that Webkit is mostly one engine worked on by one basically happy family of corporate sponsors.
> I haven't heard anyone killed by meteorites, so I wouldn't consider them very threatening.

Just for the historical record, an Egyptian dog was allegedly killed by a meteorite:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorite

Quote: "The most infamous reported fatality from a meteorite impact is that of an Egyptian dog that was killed in 1911, although this report is highly disputed."

Another quote: "The first known modern case of a human hit by a space rock occurred on 30 November 1954 in Sylacauga, Alabama.[41] There a 4 kilograms (8.8 lb) stone chondrite[42] crashed through a roof and hit Ann Hodges in her living room after it bounced off her radio. She was badly bruised."

She was also extremely fat, and the meteorite grazed her ample side. I'll bet it motivated a soul-searching consideration of a weight-loss program:

http://blogs.funeralwise.com/dying/files/2012/05/Anne-Hodges...
They are confused on what's going on and cursing badly :)
The reason I use Firefox over Chrome is mostly down to memory usage with a large amount of tabs open. Chrome really starts chugging when you get over 40 tabs (and it's a pain to organise them too). It also has some really weird caching problems which you only seem to stumble upon if you're doing a lot of web development.
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What are your thoughts on using Guanabana (specifically the acetogenins and other phytochemicals)? Do you know of any ongoing research? Results?
All true, but easier said than done :/
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You have the option the choose between tasks - when I was freelancing I always tried to pick tasks which required a bit learning but I was sure I can handle it and create a good product. Also It is great if you have a partner who is a bit more experienced than you.
You don't need a distributed sufficiently-consistent counter strategy. You can do just fine with a two layer routing mechanism where the first layer "sort" the incoming requests (e.g. by host header) so that the second layer is grouped by customer and can apply any number of simple alternatives like least-connections.
I'm not arguing against teaching students to use their computer as a tool. I'm arguing against programming specifically...

When people that spend thousands of dollars to learn programming can't even do simple coding exercises, what makes you think a high school student struggling under the current workload will do?

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/why-cant-programmer...