skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely you don't believe the sort of people judging someone for what gadget they hold or wear makes such a fine distinction between those two things.
You're assuming that most users want to edit the subject of ongoing threads (and thereby break the thread.) I have my doubts it even occurs to most them. So not having that option visible makes sense. I understand what you're saying about hidden options being unknown, but generally overall cognitive load is one of the biggest issues for new users and one of the best ways to mitigate that is to remove visual complexity.
Elon Musk has 5 children. He therefore designed it so that his whole family can be in one.
>A large percentage of workers are not going to have much to offer, economically, and I'm not sure where we go from there.

I wonder about this all the time. My primary interest is in fields like Computer Vision, with an ultimate goal of contributing to the self driving car scene. As excited as I am by that and want to see that future as a reality, there's a side of me that wonders what the workforce will do as automated system continue their steady march forward. Once we 'automate away' driving, things like truck drivers (of which there are 3.5 million) will be a thing of the past, probably cabs too given enough time.

Where do they go?
I think it fits the definition of an explosion.

>Noun

>explosion (plural explosions)

> A violent release of energy (sometimes mechanical, nuclear, or chemical.)

> A bursting due to pressure.

> The sound of an explosion.

> A sudden uncontrolled increase.

> A sudden outburst.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/explosion

>ex·plo·sion

>[ik-sploh-zhuhn]

>noun

>1.
an act or instance of exploding; a violent expansion or bursting with noise, as of gunpowder or a boiler ( opposed to implosion ).

>2.
the noise itself: The loud explosion woke them.

>3.
a violent outburst, as of laughter or anger.

>4.
a sudden, rapid, or great increase: a population explosion.

>5.
the burning of the mixture of fuel and air in an internal-combustion engine.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/explosion
Realtime redis dashboard with node.js
Original Galaxy Note receives Jelly Bean update on AT&T
Probably ties into the increasingly blurred lines between work and home. I check emails/answer hipchat questions at home, and browse Hacker News/Reddit occasionally at work. Seems like a fair trade-off, in moderation of course.
Who needs more than 8GB? /s
That's not really arbitrage as much as it is cornering the market (since you can ignore the outlandishly-priced items as a part of the viable market volume) and using a price pin to manipulate player psychology. I frequently did it with my own auctions - post 10x of something, then post 1x at +30% cost, so people see "a deal" and grab it. It reliably works in MMOs and in real-life retail - people are manipulable.

It's basically what JC Penny does when they jack prices up and give you coupons - by pinning the price high, but giving you a lower price (which is what they actually want to sell at) by issuing coupons, they manage to twist consumer psychology in their favor, and get people to think that they're getting a deal on what's actually a market-price item.

The reason that people posted inflated (high-volume) items in WoW, by the way, is that once upon a time, addons kept moving averages of item costs, then suggested purchase/sale prices to players. Posting a bunch of outliers could move the average upwards (since you couldn't see sales prices, just posted prices). The outlandish prices on low-volume items are because people are bad at economics and value their item far above the market's value. These are usually people with very little gold who got a lucky drop; they price the item so high because they believe that it "cost" them many, many hours of gameplay, and likely misgauge that cost.

MMO economies are a great example of Econ 101 in action.
In Mexico people try to trick you by asking something for something innocuous, like the time, and then ask you for money.

Also a supposedly common scam is to get personal info such as names and phone numbers in surveys and, later, to use this information to make fake kidnapping calls sound more plausible.

The upshot is that you learn to ignore people who try to get your attention. I don't think it would work too well here.
It means, "not including all that other BS we had in the last $500 price". Like claiming the entire car as a business tax deduction.
Codefest it is. Like the sound of it.
But wouldn't 300ms for one request and 300ms for 6 concurrent requests all have the same latency?
The properties on the edge are cheaper because they are less protected by the rules of the subdivision.
you are aware that Apple devices are advertised exactly the same way right?
Because we've been listening, rather half-assedly, for less than 100 years to a thing that is orders of magnitude larger than that (in light years) and haven't heard anything ... there must be nothing there?!

That's pretty much like knocking on the door of a house with all the lights on, and when it isn't answered three milliseconds later, concluding no-one is home.
> And just to quench my own personal curiosity, since you're on the hiring side and I'm not: why is it that every company absolutely must find someone who fits the bill exactly? What is with this aversion to spending any amount of time training people?

We don't have an aversion to training, but when someone has supposedly 8+ years of development experience and cannot answer simple questions, well, on to the next candidate.

I personally do always look for potential, I believe it is the most important aspect when hiring. But potential means having a drive to learn independently. I really do understand why a lot of employers are just saying "screw it" and not hiring anyone who isn't on Stack Overflow, or has a tech blog, or some sort of presence that said "I am passionate about this field."

(I'd be doomed by that metric, I don't have a github or Stack Overflow account! I'm on this site and /r/programming, however I do have a somewhat maintained tech blog.)

> As for knowing how malloc works: fewer and fewer universities are even touching C. It's all C++ or, better yet, Java (no need to understand memory management _at all_ in that case). The only guys left that are into reimplementing malloc are the minority of Computer Science or Computer Engineering graduates that are into embedded work or HA scenarios.

Ugh I know. My college still teaches native, and in fact the majority of the curriculum (last time I checked, its been a few years) was native, but they are unfortunately the exception to a general trend.

The thing is, managed languages are pretty damn nice for teaching software engineering principles in, but bad for hands on "this is how it works" explaining.

Covering how the JVM or CLR does stuff on a PowerPoint slide isn't the same thing as having students write an allocator. Which sort of sucks when they go on the job and have to write an allocator!
Keep in mind the regenerative braking is only on the rear wheels, and it is the front wheels that usually do most of the braking.
This is just sad. We don't need more guns in this world.
As someone in his 50s, I can tell you that my generation was criticized for lack of motivation. The generation before mine was criticized for lack of motivation. You can find criticisms of the younger generation's lack of motivation (and lack of manners, and respect for their elders, and taste in music, and ...) written in ancient Greek over 2500 years ago.

Different people are motivated to different degrees, to do different things. A list of anecdotes won't convince me that there's any sort of trend in either direction.
Most of the country handles rail stations in the most retarded way possible, by surrounding them with acres of parking lot that make them extremely unfriendly for pedestrians.

In New York, the commuter rail stations are surrounded by retail/residential. I live ~20 miles from Midtown in the suburbs, and I haven't driven my car in two months. I can go to the Costco, 27 miles from downtown, entirely on the train and walking (it's right next to the station).
Meltdown.. the dangers of running a startup
I'm always perplexed by the (possibly rhetorical) surprised tone of these kinds of articles. As if it wasn't glaringly obvious that young people are getting screwed because of their lack of employment histories combined with an ultra-competitive job market (for most industries).

The discussion then usually turns to how young people have useless degrees or are lazy or entitled, or some other monday morning quarterback commentary. The reality is that prior generations goofed off and made blind decisions just like this one. They just had more of cushion to rebound from.

I'm steadily employed in a fantastic job but have been on the other side of the fence as well. One thing is obvious: most white-collar, educated people who already had jobs before 2008 are doing just fine, haven't noticed a thing, and don't give a neuron to thinking about unemployed people.

This is just another indication to me that there is a growing class divide and there will be plenty of losers (and no, the rising tide doesn't help undeveloped, inexperienced college grads with nondischargable debt). The means of production are now more abstract than owning factories -- they're owning the information networks. We have yet to see anything close to the sufficient political will or desire in DC to bust up these modern day trusts (like Teddy Roosevelt did with the industrialists a century ago). By design, they're harder to identify and harder to educate the public about. And with mass media stomping out thoughtful journalism due to basic economics and a civically uninterested public, where's the opposition going to come from?

If you happen to be in a line of work that helps those in power (like most programmers), you'll probably thrive. If you don't, you're going to have a tough road ahead: our public institutions are behaving more and more like results-driven board-run corporations. They're misappropriating improved efficiency to matters that benefit more from longer-term strategies ("Instant Dashboards! Metrics! Data-Driven Decisions!"). I fear most the speed at which the consolidation of power could take place (aided by the speed of technological progress).

Have a great weekend :)
GNUstep: free and open version of NeXTSTEP APIs
A 64GB iPad has 57GB available storage space, that’s 10% less than the name suggests. A 64GB Surface Pro has 30GB available storage space, that’s less than half of what’s advertised.

When shopping for tablets, consumers should compare the 64GB Surface Pro with the 32GB iPad.
Ah, I see your point. You're right. If it's studying philosophy to convince other people then I'm in.
Your example may be true, but many sites are actually 100x100kb, spread over 3-5 domains (tracking, ads, etc) and browsers limit the number of concurrent requests to any one domain.

The recommendations here are actually pretty simple (though the image responsiveness can become complex) and are in line with Google's recommendations (https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/), which are also pretty much the same as Yahoo's (http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html).

Ideally, you'd be doing JavaScript and CSS minification as part of your build or release process and push to a CDN, though some packages do it on the fly and cache the output. It's a surprisingly interesting practice.
Tiptop Speakers Launches On Kickstarter
Would you want to be the person working for that organisation?

Working for one council means working for a committee, working for multiple is probably working for a committee of committees.

Decentralisation and out-sourcing are central words for the public society. The idea of bringing this in-house and sharing between other councils is probably a couple of pay-grades above the person on the comms team who is in charge of the website. The person in charge of the website may not even be a "technical" person and have time to think of all the cool possibilities.

MySociety make fixmystreet for councils (the open source fixmystreet.com but hooked into councils existing systems + extra reporting), I'm sure there are plenty of private companies making these things and selling them.
You seem to agree that Kierra's prosecution is grossly out-of-line but terribly worried that we might forget that she maybe, should have got a slap on the wrist.

In think its fairly understandable that if someone gets expelled and charged with felonies for a "slap-on-the-wrist" offense the response is focussed how outrageous the prosecution is, not about the details of whether she should have got a talking to or a detention.
How to gracefully handle cache expiration
So why did they not think about this possibility in the first place? If they had some simple checks that made sure for instance that the standard deviation was not too high then this kind of problem should have been avoided, right?

Kudos to the players who exploited the loophole. I mean that's how a lot of individuals make money in real life.
You're basically asking them to be consultants...I don't think they'd be too thrilled to get into the consulting business.
> I'm not against H1 for other reasons, but I'm a little skeptical of the trickle-down benefits of software engineers.

Video Games are a great example.

How many jobs has Halo created?

Well there are all the various paraphernalia that goes along with the series. From artists hired to design custom Xbox face plates, to the sales person selling the t-shirts, to statues, action figures, etc.

Then there are the advertisers who make the TV spots. The writers who run the various alternate reality games before releases. The musicians who do the score, the voice actors, directors, texture modelers, and so on and so forth.

Then there are the gaming bars that draw patrons in with Halo tournaments. The additional drinks sold, the chairs for spectators, extra food that is sold, and so on and so forth.

> A little business to local grocery stores, restaurants, etc. But I don't see software as a leveraged job-creation industry.

Ask Puget Sound and Silicon valley what the economic impact is!
Dr. Neal Goldsmith says "Skunk works are countercultural"
Portraits Derived From the DNA in Hair and Gum
Why not use SinonJS? http://sinonjs.org/

Same ability to mock responses and errors, but everything is local. Check your responses into git and every developer is testing the same stuff, no reliance on a 3rd party

Makes for lightning fast automatic background testing.
I don't know where you live, but in my state only 12% of time the police get to the scene within five minutes for property crime, violent crime is about 30% (based on data from 2008, the most recent collected), that is more than enough time for a person to kill another or for someone to rob a house.
Hey guys, this is probably the biggest technical blog post I wrote and I'm looking for some tips/feedback on how to improve my writing skills.

I'm also aware there are other ways to approach this problem, this post is aimed to people who are not very advanced when it comes to caching dynamic data.

Thanks!
Nah, those two things aren't really related. My post was about gaming the marketplace prices that show up on coldfront. (http://kol.coldfront.net/index.php/content/view/1903/146/)

Though KoL's economy is in general really fascinating. And it interacts in neat ways with the way they make money. They were way ahead of the curve in using a sort of free-to-play model. (And even doing it in a way that doesn't feel scummy!)
You're aware that a 16GB Apple device has far more than 8 GB of usable space right?
A 16GB iPhone 5 has 13.6GB available storage space. That’s 15% less than the name suggests. If a 16GB Samsung Galaxy S4 has 8GB of available storage space, then that’s half of what’s being advertised.

I’d say that’s quite a difference.
I was playing with electrolysis a lot when I was 8-9. Probably just as well I didn't think to capture the hydrogen and blow it as I'm not sure my parents would have appreciated explosions in my room.

I'm not quite sure why I wouldn't have gon there - whether I just thought it too risky, or didn't realize the possibilities. I did have a series of books titled something like "hobby books for boys" my dad got in the early 60's when he was a kid that included a lot of chemistry covering various ways to make home-made fireworks and blow stuff up, which were all decidedly not considered all that acceptable to publish any more when I got them in the 80's, and I believe that's where I got my inspiration to play with electrolysis (my chemistry equipment was all originally my dads from the 60's too...).

I did instead have great fun covering one of my moms silver spoons with a nice layer of lead instead after using it to stir the brine, though. Not popular. I did suggest to her that I could probably fix it by using the spoon as one of the electrodes, but she wouldn't listen.
But... that's dishonest. The hardware is a 64GB SSD. I would be very confused if they did that. I am looking at this from a modder/techie perspective, where the hardware is more important to me than the software. In a fully closed appliance, it may be different.
Understood... but all your points are about the negatives of that, and none are about the positives.

It's pretty easy to come up with a bunch of arbitrary gripes about any major UX change. But you haven't made any effort to contemplate why these changes might make a lot of sense.

For example, you're complaining about the need to do two clicks to make a link, but it seems to me that 90% of the time people just paste in a URL and gmail deals with it properly. Separately entering a link and URL is more like writing HTML and I don't expect regular users do that... and frankly, I'd rather just have the URL anyway. If you knew that users were only using the "add link" icon maybe 1% of the time, wouldn't you move it down a level as well? Or just get rid of it?

I'm a super, super heavy Gmail user - I average ~6,000 emails a month received on my work account, and a smaller but similar flow on my personal gmail. I know and use the keyboard shortcuts. I generally find the mole and the new text formatting UX a bit annoying - but from a product usability perspective - not a design perspective - I can see why they make a lot of sense.
I was in talks with them as a dev. Their requirements were a bit weird, so that's why I didn't sign a contract in the end. I think there was one requirements which asked that the developer answer the employer's message within a pretty short time frame, not matter the timezone difference.
I'll sidetrack for a minute and say I think the jewelry looks awesome.

Shooting-from-the-hip site feedback: it is a bit weird that some (maybe all?) of the product pages recommend–"you might also like"–the same product you are already looking at.
10 years ago, I was building WAP websites specifically for the large majority of people who felt uncomfortable strapping a BlackBerry or Windows Mobile phone holster to their belt, preferring to suffer through the painful experience on more stylish phones like the Motorola Razr instead. A smartphone wasn't necessary to access the data at that point, but made consumption and creation much more readily available, just like Google Glass does today. It's hard to remember that previous status quo in a post-iPhone world, but the people walking around with a BlackBerry in a belt holster then weren't unlike the people wearing Google Glass now.
I had thought you had asked about the difference between seeing whether a problem was just some odd, isolated thing and informing the people running a system that you were having a problem. If that's not it, I'm unclear as to what you were actually asking.
I was suspended for 3 days in high school for burning a small strip of magnesium in the school. I did it exactly the way we did in my chemistry class. Personally, I think it was not dangerous. I was in a room without any wooden furniture, and with a concrete floor.

Earlier that year someone had intentionally (according to investigators) started a fire in a stairwell that was being used to store chairs and desks, so the subject of fire in the school was a bit touchy. The incident also led to the installation of surveillance cameras throughout the school.
Why do you need free speech? If you're not guilty, why are you bothered by police searching your possessions?

History has a couple too many lessons of governments removing the citizens firearms with the result being an increase in violent crime and theft. Many of those cases turn into other civil rights being lost. Also, if you study history of the US, a certain hate group in the southern USA was all for taking guns away from minorities so they could terrorize them.

Also, why add laws to something that is working as violent crimes continues to drop (check the CDC stats)? Why alter something that works?

For specifics home protection is the biggie. Protection against wild and feral animals in rural areas[1]. Sport is a minor part of it.

But, none of those really matter.

1) I really, really hate people who release their no-longer-puppy in rural area and hope it gets picked up by someone kind. They turn feral quickly and kill livestock and horses, and attack children. I have a cousin who is only alive because he had a rifle with him when a pack of 6 attacked him. Animal shelters people.
Ask HN: Freelancers - What do you do when a client doesn't pay?
A mashup of questions here -

I'm currently dealing with a situation where the contractually stated project-completion/payment date on a coding project has passed. How soon after a freelance project is completed, do you expect payment?

What steps do you take if a client simply doesn't pay you?

I'm not looking for official legal advice here. A summary of experiences and general advice would be very helpful.
Exactly. Sating my apetite for a burrito at 1:50am will make me happy but there are better ways of generating more interest and in a way that people will remember for less money.
Congrats to the TipTop team! I've been coaching their class a bit, and think these guys have a great product in the works!
The system partition is 2GB on my 16GB Nexus 4
Because space-time is expanding at an extraordinary rate, such that vast portions of the universe are forever inaccessible?

"For example there are stars which may be expanding away from us (or each other) faster than the speed of light, and this is true for any object that is more than approximately 4.5 gigaparsecs away from us." [1]

That said, 4.5 gigaparsecs is 10^10 light years, which is still pretty damn big.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_expansion_of_space
same on Chrome Windows 7
> None of these "misconceptions" have much to do with the main point OP is making

Exactly. Few of the points the OP makes have anything to do with his main argument, and most of them are illogical in some way.
Indenting and maybe vertical lines to help the reader figure out the threading would be an improvement. However, I don't think this is good enough in a long email chain. The way traditional email readers solve this is, of course, is with two views, one of threaded email subject and another for contents (http://www.davep.org/mutt/screenshots/). I don't think gmail will ever adopt this interface, though.
You've fallen into a trap: anthropomorphizing aliens.

Aliens aren't necessarily anything like us. Curiosity isn't necessarily a property of life. An example: cats don't appear to experience remorse, yet dogs do. One could envision the same for curiosity.

One motivation for a space program is when a civilization realizes their resources will be gone in a matter of centuries.
Good read, thanks!
There is a notification on the site that says only some are animated:

"On this demo site the most part of the icons are in a static mode with disabled animation to prevent an unauthorized use. To see all of them in action please look at the LivIcons preview video below."