skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google got the benefit of the search engine placement in Mozilla for the money. Bing would love to be in Google's place in relationship to Mozilla.
I had a similar "whoa" moment a couple of weeks ago.

Google alerted me that I should leave for Santa Barbara "now".

Which was really, really weird for me, since I was already halfway there (from Phoenix).

Apparently, it had read through my emails, seen a receipt for sigur ros tickets from ticketmaster, figured out where I was, and already calculated how long it would take me to get there.

That is insanely awesome.
Ask HN: Is there a list of websites and their subscription fees?
Unless you run them through a preprocessor (which I recommend)
You are doing learning wrong. Developing is not about books, tutorials videos etc... is about thinking. Start writing some code WITHOUT any sort of help except for the code of some projects similar to what you want to do. You will have to think with your own head and you will learn how other people approached similar problems and you will also learn how to overcome them.

Keeping up to date is important but it's not your job. Also, if you don't have a base, there is not much to keep up to date. Just choose a starting point and do something concrete. Everything has a starting point and will one day need an update but don't worry about that now.
Unfortunately the Gmail app for instance is better on iOS than on Android... I'm jealous. Hopefully Mailbox for Android will come soon.
Im not sure how a signature could prove who signed it. Handwriting analysis can tell some things, but how many people still sign enough of a name to actually analyze. Look at the [Jack Lew signature](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://images.politico.c...), assume that doesn't tell anyone much about _who_ signed it.
That would be your choice. Just like I don't provide any kind of hosting to anyone because I'm not good at it. But the miners and users want to do their job somewhere and if we don't provide them with the hosting, someone else will. And only after some time some seriously better services will emerge.
OSX 10.9 To Bring Better Multi-Monitor Support, Siri To Mac
Why? Open Source just means the source is open. There's nothing to say it can't be paid for up front, or even that the binaries are free.
Software development basically peaked in the mid 1980's.

Macintosh Common Lisp circa 1987: http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_V..., specifically: http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_V...

Firebug circa 2013:
http://getfirebug.com/logging, specifically http://getfirebug.com/img/logging/consoleDir.png
Struts was released in 2000, so it predates yours. However I know people who were using MVC as a design pattern in Perl in the 90s.
As a 40-something who is 20 years into his career, I don't think I'm a particularly better PROGRAMMER than I was about five years in. But there is SO much more to being a useful tech than programming! And I'm much more sophisticated about big-picture thinking, business, and planning these days. Back when I was barely past "junior", I got to work on some really cool software at a dotcom-era startup. Technically, it was a blast. As a business decision, it was absolutely idiotic, and it was a massive management failure to have us wasting our time on it at all. (Basically, the idea was that six man-months of code at the time would save the company millions in the future. Which would have been true, if it HAD a future. Never, ever waste precious development effort on something that can be bought easily off-the-shelf and isn't core competence for your product! That's not even a good use of time in an established company, much less a ticking-clock startup!)

As I'm prone to saying, I cost as much as two junior programmers, but I can do things that two junior programmers can't do. And actually, cost is one of the problems older programmers have... senior == expensive. On the other hand, if you're in the industry for 20+ years and haven't found a way to make yourself and your work more valuable than what some drone straight out of college can do, but you expect to get paid more than said drone, you're asking to get sidelined.

The problem isn't the myth that older programmers are less flexible than younger ones. The problem is that so many older programmers haven't attended to their careers in a way to make themselves substantially more valuable than some pliant kid. It's not enough to do the kid's job better... you have to do things the kid CANNOT do.
Library being hidden by default makes a lot of sense. It contains user specific application configuration, it's the same as on Windows having AppData which is hidden in the users "home" directory.

There is almost no reason for a user to ever be in the Library folder, let alone why it should be visible by default.

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As for scroll being inverted, they did this so that it matches what you do on iOS. You move up to scroll down the page since you are physically dragging the page, and you move down to scroll up.

I recently used a friends computer where the scroll was still inverted and he said it felt much more natural. To each their own, it is a non-hidden setting!
Stop Everything Everywhere from sending mass SMS messages with no opt-out info
The issue I've had is from not being able to use keyboard or mouse entry for some random (3-5 seconds?) amount of time.

Anyone else seen that? rMBP, fwiw.
I'm doing some market research and was wondering if there was a list of websites and their subscription fees. I am trying to gauge average subscription fees in the startup world.
I bought a book from Amazon couple of months ago - The envelope had an ad for a movie (forgot which one). For a second I thought, it was the DVD for the movie - but no, it was my order alright, except it had an ad for the movie, right on the packaging. This is after I paid for the book.

Advertising is everywhere :(

This might work? (for outdoor ads) - http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/73/Sao_Paulo_A_City_Withou...
I solved one correctly, it didn't do anything special.

http://crapcha.com/show/#eaShnaILW1
Tron Legacy & The Tao
Honestly I think it's more poor interpretation than bad paraphrasing. They were sampling reputation and correlating with age, not tracking reputation scores of single users with time. So a more precise, if not clearer statement would be "They found that median reputation increases with poster age at least into a user's 40's". Better?

Whether this constitutes good science or not is not something I'll speak to, having only skimmed it. But certainly stackoverflow.com looks like good data for this kind of research to me. I'd hope they'd have done things like control for different fields, different activity times for the accounts, etc... But I don't know.
I am not the biggest fan of some DRM schema, but I am a big fan of this style of DRM integration.

Ultima 7 did something similar; in order to leave the starting town and continue, the Avatar has to answer 3 questions asked by the Mayor about Ultima lore, like the latitude of another town. The game came with a little map and a book that contained the answers. This was in 1993 so I am assuming it worked ok.
Isn't that exactly what the virtual observatory already has? They base their tables on XML, and call it a VOTable. Lots of fabulous software can read and write those.
I somehow got an IP ban. That was annoying.
America does have a tech talent shortage. It's the shortage of rockstar developers willing to work for low wage.
I agree. While I think markdown is really neat, but I hate having to mess with paragraph tags when using css classes.
And it's not the first time the mainframe has been re-invented - I remember sitting through a presentation on the technical architecture of SAP (don't laugh) and I thought "it's a software mainframe".
Yes a SecurID token is probably more secure than a piece of paper, but it is also less convenient and more expensive.

Also, the piece of paper with 4 words will have 52 bits of entropy while a SecurID token with 6 digits has only has 20 bits of entropy. So I wonder whether SecurID would be easier for an attacker who has access to the password hash and salt to derive the original password...?

In any case, whether you use a piece of paper or SecurID the main point is that financial sites which only require email+password are being negligent in their duty to protect user data from unauthorised access.
The visual designer is great, it adds back in the ability for the designer to alter the template without the developer having to change any code. If this was a standalone product the template format would most likely need to be a proprietary format anyway for some basic piracy protection.
Fortunately, despite your apparent wishes, you do not yet live in an authoritarian regime where the meaning of words is defined by the government. I recommend you switch to using the definition used by other speakers of English so you can participate productively in conversations about the issue.
I tried to put it like 1 hour in the future, or 30 min in the future. I think I wanted to ask is, if you add an event that it should pop up now (e.g., it's in the evening, and the just added event is tomorrow), does it show up instantly or is there a delay for Google Now to find out about the event?
Here's one use case: http://docker.io
I like this model far more than the one that depends on declaring information to be property. In fact, I hope (and largely expect) it will become the predominant means of getting developers paid.
A quote from the article also applies to the recent fad of promoting STEM education in K-12 etc.

"Roughly twice as many American undergraduates earn degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math disciplines than go on to work in those fields."

Maybe if my kids grade school gets their way, we can boost that to four times, or even more. Those numbers are almost as bad as recent law school grad stats.

Needless to say as a life long STEM guy I'm strongly encouraging my kids to avoid the STEM field at all costs. I'm not annoyed at my kids school for focusing on STEM; its a very good educational technique and not any worse than other educational fads. As a vocation choice STEM is as likely to be as unrewarding as trying to become a rock star, a pro NBA player, or a fine arts painter, but those classes are great in K-12 schools. Those examples, and STEM, make truly excellent hobbies, but awful jobs, at least for most of the participants. I may not know the right answer, but I know STEM is the wrong answer. I'll still love my kids anyway, no matter if they become unemployed programmers or unemployed musicians, but I hope they can do better financially with their lives both for themselves and the grandkids, by being quided out of "hobby" jobs like STEM and music and art and into something with a profitable future.
NBA player Jason Collins says he is gay
Ask HN: How to rub shoulders with the like minded?
What do you do to meet like minded people (in person) and thrive with them in whatever interest you have in common?
They didn't just ride rough-shod over an existing trademark, and in fact licensed it from Cisco.

[I'm aware that Ubuntu release code-names are probably not trademarked since they don't refer to the official release of the OS. Still, reusing another codename that's popular public knowledge in the tech community? That would not be cool.]
Just add /places/ in that URL, then it works...

https://maps.google.com/places/united-states/california/san-...
Better yet, use a code review system, then automate a test that detects this and rejects outright any patch containing it. Sure, you can use this in your private repo, even keep it in your stashes/branches, but if it gets pushed to the central master, expect to be slapped down, hard.
Have patience, the cards will appear when they're most useful. Also, the calendar cards don't appear when you make the appointment, it shows up to remind you and possibly give you an estimated time from where you are to the location of the appointment.
Is there any irony this game appears like a complete "remake" of Game Dev Story which I have bought and played a ton of? I do agree piracy is bad but I hope if they don't do well they don't just blame pirates. It's incredibly complicated and I don't want to knock their work but I hope they had some evidence there was demand for such a game, beyond the first one that already established some good market share.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Dev_Story
I have my own google apps domain and tried to sign up for it with my email, but it says that my I haven't enabled it for my domain. Anybody know where I go to do that?
Why is Ghost the future of blogging, exactly? Nobody is going to take-on WordPress without a plugin architecture and a plan to host it.
Very Nice, reminds me a lot of google's speed tool.
One thing, your crawler seems to have a small enough viewport for my website to switch to "mobile mode". This may change quite a lot of things, depending on the site.
I have no idea if it's related, buy my mouse cursor sometimes freezes on a 2011 iMac running Lion. Lots of details (and no answers) at http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/88211/cursor-stutte...
IIRC they did that without informing or asking their users for permission. Contrast that with android which is opt-in.
Bootstrapping is Hacking
> Doesn't it become a length problem when we are talking about a fixed-width font though?

When drawn on its own with a space before and after, the length itself is not the problem, but of course in a monospace font, character_spacing = (character_width - actual_width_of_glyph), so you are right in that respect. Semantics. :-)
Study shows software developers' skills improve over time
I think that when we're including non-technical founders and marketing managers, it waters it down. Not to belittle anyone's achievements on the list, but realistically, you might as well put women working at Geek Squad on here, too, as they're inherently more technical than some of these titles. There's no reason to grasp at straws when it just takes some phone calls and emails to tech companies asking who their all-stars are.

Instead, these lists are almost always done by nomination (as this one was), which means in the end it is just a popularity contest for those who knew about it. Even if you didn't know who that person was, chances are enough people did to get them there in the first place (or worse, it was gamed).

Not a fan of outsourcing your content to whoever can put a name in a hat the most.
Thanks we will start looking for its uses as a stand alone product.
SimCity and many other similar games are often biased towards American ideals, techniques, and methods. They are, in essence, confirmation biased. A good example is the tax structure, i.e., taxes automatically mean drag on an economy. The problem with such assumptions is that they are supremacist in that they make a broad assumption that they are definitive in spite of all the evidence in the real world to the contrary and while ignoring factors that lead to the confirmation bias being affirmed through externalities that support what is defined and determined to be "success".
"when in reality there maybe 1% of pirates that would have otherwise bought the game."

Not saying you're wrong, but recognize that you're completely pulling this out of your ass.
As you probably know, Google Now is on Jelly Bean and up (Android 4.1+)

According to Google's own statistics, just 25% of Android devices [that access the Play store] are on Jelly Bean. Almost 70% are on Ice Cream Sandwich or Gingerbread.

http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html

Not sure how many iOS devices have the Google Search app installed, but I wouldn't be surprised if the percentage of total iOS devices with Google Now is > 25%...
Laser Mountain Played Laser Tag With Nerf Guns, Android Phones And A Node.js
Is it a high horse? Quite a few people seemed to knee-jerk to that assumption, yet it was absolutely nothing of the sort.

Much of society lives a lie (such as the nonsense that teachers live puritanical lives). Those lies are unsustainable with the continued impact of technology on our lives.
Or, terrifying. Take your pick :)
I don't know if Google Now is that clever.

If you had an event in a calendar which had something in the "Location"-field it took the location you should be at from there.

Still it is a "whoa" moment. :)
Particularly interesting is the possibility of using a SSD as a cache for a HDD just like the Fusion Drive in the recent iMacs (https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....)

Reviews were quite positive of Apple implementation. Has anybody tried the linux version ?
If Jason Collins is reading this:

Good for you Jason. It takes serious guts to admit to that in the athletics field. You have helped pave the path and change closed-mindedness and therefore should be proud. :)
Ask HN: Why should I care about HN Karma?
Is there are any benefits for users with high HN Karma?
There is a nice HN Karma Tracker I found: http://hn-karma-tracker.herokuapp.com/ and it nice.
But I didn't find any use for it yet.
The rise and fall of naïve romantics in my daily life
Isn't that what raising VC money is all about? What's wrong with raising money for something you're going to spend several months on?
Isn't it funny that people who keep a cryptocurrency behind a website don't use a key pair to sign-in.
I believe research (sorry no link) is showing that older people tend to actually have much better focus than younger people, and better memory of what they were focusing on (in the absence of actual neurological problems, e.g., Alzheimers).
I really like the dynamic header pictures. It seems to be based upon your location. Any ideas how they are made / where they are from?

http://i.imgur.com/0rEQcKp.png
This is actually kind of horrifying to me. The fact that there are multiple software design processes is really per se evidence that they're all broken? You can't really think that the fact that some people like TDD and some people hate it is evidence that we're not doing it right?

N.B. I'm not saying we are doing it right, but if we're not it's not because people hate/love TDD

Even in the stultifyingly stodgy confines of the DoD we don't believe that there is one and only one optimal way of doing things.

Or to put it another way, unlike the vast majority of Americans I hate and despise mashed potatoes. I can't eat them without gagging. But I don't take this as evidence that I'm wrong and mashed-potato-eaters are right, or that they are wrong and I'm right. I take it as nothing more than that different people like different things.

Instead of finding The One True Methodology, why don't we instead explore how to identify the best methodology for a given developer and a given team?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell
> Could it be that schools aren't teaching their students the right stuff, that despite their fancy credentials, today's grads lack the programming chops or logical prowess needed to succeed at a Google or Microsoft? Not so much.

Having done interviews at Google, and given a lot of very low scores to people with impressive degrees, I'm inclined to say yes. The author thinks that this would cause wages to rise, but the argument there looks pretty sketchy.
How to radically simplify your user interface
As always,

$ gem install rails -v4.0.0.rc1

The issue with `--pre` is that it has trouble finding prerelease versions of other gems as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bottom_Billion
Well, it's her mouse :)

And one of those terrible clear plastic mighty mice with the useless trackball. I'm quite surprised it's lasted this long given the beating she's given it.
And Belgium

(and Quebec maybe)

Not sure how GMaps deals with this
I think countries that want more immigrants could learn something from Canada.

In one of the recent reforms, it started to favor those who can fit into the country better -- those who have spent several years studying or working here can get immigration visa much easier and faster, without needing any sponsors.

This ensures a few things:

1, it reduces the chance of some highly educated immigrants failed to adapt to local job market and ended up doing manual labors, or consuming social assistance.

2, it gives the market more power to influence who should get in the country.

3, companies cannot hold foreign workers hostage, because after a couple years, the workers can fast-track through immigration visa without them.
kneejerk reaction: like what? I haven't thought a lot about this, but I tend to equate STEM with 'profitable future'. What other industries/disciplines are you thinking of?
How many times is this going to be reposted to HackerNews? How many times are we going to bring up the same issues with this interpretation?

Like, for example: the assumption that every STEM graduate wants to work in STEM fields, and that the failure of a STEM grad to find work in a STEM field is a failure of the STEM field instead of a personal decision of the STEM grad to pursue whatever career they want.
The hubbub was due to some bugs in iOS location services and wasn't ever directly accessed by Apple or shared with 3rd parties.

http://www.apple.com/ca/pr/library/2011/04/27Apple-Q-A-on-Lo...

All smartphone providers track the same sort of data in roughly the same way, it's part of what makes location software work.
> How many times are we going to bring up the same issues with this interpretation?

Another great reason to flag articles that are primarily political in nature, although I have to admit this one is fairly close to a lot of us.
Jack of all eSports: Meet Trevor ‘qu1ksh0t’ Henry
How is it awesome that it told you to leave, when in fact you had already left? Shouldn't it have alerted you before you left?
Grad student responds to Reinhart's and Rogoff's rebuttal
"Die" is not a bad keyword in German ;-)
Can any designer out there speak to how these colors are chosen? It seems to me that it'd be a matter of taste more than anything else, but if there is some trick to choosing better palettes I'd love to hear it.
> Respectfully I submit that we might not be in a big disagreement here.

I like it when that happens. :-)

> And I don't think the tech lead is an idiot, he is where I was 18 years ago

I shouldn't have phrased it that way. The idea that you're more valuable than someone who can solve a core business problem when you can't is idiotic. He himself is probably not an idiot - we've all let our emotions get the better of us.
Was it Einstein who said: "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough"?

In any case, I agree that it's hard to explain computer stuff to non-computer people. That does not mean one can then be arrogant toward others.
After listening to friends rave about Now and reading so many positive comments online I really wanted to like it. I've been using it for a few months and my experience is significantly worse than what others have reported. It always seems to show me notifications for the wrong information at the wrong time.

Take directions. I work at a coworking space 4 miles from my home. The hours I'm there vary. Now seems to try predicting when I'm going to leave and shows me directions home. Its timing is never correct and I don't need directions for a route I drive all the time.

I can only remember one instance of it correctly notified me of when to leave (with directions) for something on my calendar. Often it just shows directions without the "Leave Now" message.

Sometimes it notifies me of the weather. Sometimes it doesn't. I haven't figured out that pattern yet.

Overall it just doesn't seem to understand my usage patterns.
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