skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not plain English, but careful & correct: Big O, Big Omega, & Big Theta
Copy updated. What do you think?
Enough of the Google ads already. Google makes changes all the time. It can't all be news.
The really cool thing about how digital technology has changed the world is that by the time you buy this dumb plastic toy and just 9 of those little wheels, you could buy this pico-projector and project all of the pictures you'll ever take.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B001L4L7AQ/ref=mp_s_a_1_8?qid=...
No, not "quite". They are actually very similar to each other. So much that, for non-native speakers, it becomes very hard to try to learn both at same time.

Portuguese is just a modern version of Galician (Galego), a Spanish dialect from northwest Spain and northern Portugal. After the expulsion of the Moors invaders in the 8th century, it became Portugal's language. Castilian (Castellano), the root of modern Spanish, is a close sibling to Galician.

Good and fluent speakers of Portuguese, Galician and Castilian can understand each other without too much effort.
My family, my wife's 4 sisters' families, her mom, my mom = zero ESPN viewing. Moving on to friends...
Like any art, some of it is great and a lot sucks. Just because it is directed at children doesn't make it interchangeable or a lesser art. There is a rather large difference between Pixar and Good Times Video. A 3 year old will not watch stuff they don't like, as they will loudly tell you.
> The "Moz" = "Mozilla" comparison is easy to make so I hope time and continuing branding efforts by Moz will hopefully change that.

Hopefully not.
Interesting. I have "labels" setup in gmail that match this system very closely, and i use "rules" and manual filtering to deal with it. I wonder if Gmail will automatically mark the emails for the right tab accordingly or if there'll be some scope to customise/tune the system.

Either way, it's a welcome step forward.
Have you looked at an Ultrabook? Getting at the hard drive involves disassembling the entire machine, something that's almost impossible to do without either specialised tools or a willingness to inflict some amount of cosmetic damage.
"For many folks outside of our community, the acronym SEO has (unfair) associations with spam or manipulation."

I'm not sure that the association is unfair. There are a lot of honest people out there plying the trade and doing good work in the SEO space, but the same could be said for email marketing. For every good guy, there's enough spammers out there that even now, guys like patio11 have to spend a decent amount of time spelling out the difference between legitimate email marketing and spamming. SEO strikes me the same way: lots of people doing good work and being drowned out by the negative press of snake oil salesmen, con men and link sellers.

It's unfair to the people doing the good work... but I don't think it's unfair that people free associate "email marketer" with "spammer" and "SEO Guy" with "Hucksters, Liars and Criminals". Too many run-ins with the Black Hat SEO crowd have made me wary and I'd be shocked if I was the only one.
But your physical form w/r/t a sport isn't really a matter of controversy since no one thinks a 5'7" person is going to become a basketball great, although it's not totally impossible http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spud_Webb

But even in athletics it's more about the type of practice as shown by this study of swimmers: http://www.lillyfellows.org/Portals/0/Chambliss-Mundanity%20...

What I mean is, of course there is "natural talent" in being 6'7" that pushes you towards one sport and away from another, but that's not that interesting I don't think. What's interesting are those things-- chess, music, writing, film making, etc.-- that aren't tied to physical types, and so far the evidence seems to be that talent is largely a myth.

Now, the interesting question you raise is why do some people keep going and others give up.
Maybe now it'll be ported to other platforms, but they are generous with the platform-agnostic file downloads.
Excellent news, no note about what he's doing next though?
> Does internship to employment transformation imply easier interview process overall? i.e. rather than apply to full-time position directly.

Not necessarily easier, but having 12 weeks of experience working with me gives the company much more context on my software engineering skills than 4 hours of interviews does.

> Another concern - does this also imply the offer with a below average compensation?

I don't think so. Anecdotally, I've heard that recruiters have pretty fixed packages for newgrads and that I was given a newgrad package.
The NIST Time and Frequency Division is one of the unsung heros of physics. Their senior guy, Wineland, got the 2012 Nobel Prize.

I remember when the current Primary Standard, NIST-F1, was meeting the press in the late 90s. I was in undergrad and one of their junior guys came through interviewing for a faculty job. His lecture remains one of the most memorable hours of my life. Probably helped by the fact that I had just heard about the F1 in Scientific American a few weeks prior.

It is unclear that this particular clock will take over as the Primary Standard, whose data is compared to a competing project in France and coordinated with the astronomical measurements at the US Naval Observatory to construct the Universal Coordinated Time standard.

That is then what the USNO transmits to coordinate the GPS satellites, radio services, etc.

http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/
Students have rights, but it is well-settled that they do not have the same rights as adults. The Bill of Rights applies to schools, but cannot be applied wholesale to minors. There is an analysis where the rights are fitted in to the unique requirements of the school context. The only precedent I'm aware of in the context of the 5th amendment is J.D.B. v. North Carolina (2011), which found that a uniformed police officer who questioned a student on school grounds about a robbery should have given the student a Miranda warning. It's a huge leap from that to conclude that school administrators can't ask about drug use on a survey in a non-custodial setting.
How Code For America's Apps Benefit Kansas City
Ask PG: Are comment scores ever coming back?
The hiding of comment scores affected readability for me and as a result my participation in comments went down. Although I have gotten used to the new system now, I was just wondering if the hiding of comment scores worked out as well as you had hoped and if the scores are ever coming back. It will be interesting to hear everybody's thoughts regarding this.
Thanks for the feedback! We're still finalizing pricing but our goal is to be at least be 15% less than what you'd pay at retail (ie. Fedex, print shops, etc.)
On What I Think the World Should Do - By Sir Grandiloquent
As an undergrad making the choice of a coursework-based MS and simply graduating with my BS in the next few months, this could not be more timely.

What makes me want to do get the MS is that my undergrad performance was not stellar. I struggled in the middle of my time in college, and while my grades have rebounded and I have been doing well for myself since, my GPA is pretty dismal. I can't see myself getting into any of the good MS programs around the country, and the easy remedy to this is to staying at my university for another year and getting my MS with the goal of having a much better GPA in order to demonstrate my ability.

That said, if the value of such a degree is declining at the moment, maybe it's a lost cause to redeem my academic credentials.
Except that (from memory) Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo treat it as the law of the land for all U.S. users. And based on the DOJ's twin appearances before congressional committees in the last few months, they're not arguing.
The reasons for this are a couple I can think of:

1. Large web applications will eventually demand this of you to break the large solution into smaller chunks (components/modules).

See this methodology: http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/16/a-new-front-en...

SASS will help you follow whatever standard/methodology your team may be following.

2. And having multiple files will ease development on a large team. Having multiple frontend developers checking in code, it helps to organize, and alleviate one developer stepping on another when checking in SASS files into source control. No conflicts, if developer A is working on the footer, and developer B is working on the header, which are separate SASS files.

I don't agree that it slows down refactoring, and would argue it speeds it up. In the end, the multiple SASS files will probably (depending on how you do it, and your situation), compile down into one file. SASS also has options that allow you to say what the output looks like too (nested, expanded, compressed).
I get cable AND Internet for $55/month (including espn and amc). People who claim cable is expensive seem to be unwilling to lessen their bill.
I'd say the biggest difference is simply usability. My coworker uses KeePass and I use 1Password and most things take him 1 or more steps to do than it takes me. For instance, the browser plugins with 1Password are pretty seamless, no copying and pasting just a simple click to login.

However, I tend to think that AgileBits over-charges for 1Password and I still haven't upgraded to the new version since they moved to the app store and tried to make me purchase the same version I had already bought(just to move to app store distribution model).

I bought the family license which gives me 5 users I believe, but I still have to buy the app for all iOS devices which in my house includes a total of 5 devices (at 9.00 a piece right now...that's on top of the 70.00 I spent for the family license). They don't, however, charge for the Android version which I find a bit odd since they charge for iOS.
I'm not freeunter and it's not important to me but it is obnoxious; that being someone going out of their way to make themselves seem above something or someone else when no one asked nor cares.

---

[Ignore below. I misread the comments but I'm leaving for context. I think the above comment stands without the evidence below.]

Quoting from above:

some girl I never heard of

... and below:

I hear about her all the time

He may not know that she's an actress but it's clear he had previously "heard of" her and lying only makes it more obnoxious. It's the same behavior you can read about in The Onion link.
Thanks for the note! Although I don't think it makes it a bad example, there's no requirement that a double construction always be used in order to count. It being perceived as correct when used is enough.
You implied it was okay for the teacher to talk out his ass about the 5th amendment because someone needs to tell kids to "spit in the face of authority."
SAP to hire hunderts of programmers and testers with autism
Fucking Dreamhost...
I'd say that Instagram is perfect for its medium. The photos look great on my phone. They even look good on my tablet. But blown up? Perhaps not.
I noticed the other day (through an email I received) that it's no longer available through Kindle.
Totally. I also feel like telling kids that they can do anything with enough work is kind of self-defeating, because then you can get your heart set on something and be disappointed when you just hit the wall of natural talent.

I feel like what we should tell kids is: the things that seem easy to you now are things you'll probably always be good at (though you'll have to work harder the better you get). The things that seem to come hard will probably always be a challenge (though that's no reason to give up if your heart is really set on it).
A cheaper iPad Mini ‘expected,’ says Citi 
The iPad Mini is already cheap at $329. But Apple is expected to go even lower, according to a report out Tuesday from Citi Research...
The Horizontal Reading Experience
The first pictures of blood from a 10,000 year old Siberian woolly mammoth
Cord cutting sucks for people who like to watch live sports in the US.

We've been cable free for a little over a year now and I've missed two sets of NBA playoffs. I chomp at the bit to watch playoff basketball for two months and finally get my fill when the Finals come and are put on a broadcast network (ABC).

If I want to pay to watch the NBA playoffs without cable I can, I just have buy an NBA League Pass (which I'm cool with) and then pay for a VPN service and route all my traffic to another country (which I'm not cool with).
Those numbers are most certainly wrong, if ESPN was only pulling 1.36 million viewers a day they would not be doing very well.
Yes, but also while keeping in mind best practices, for speed of rendering in browsers:

https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/best-practices/rend...

See Github's slide deck on CSS performance, and what they gained by being smart about refactoring, and how they use selectors:

https://speakerdeck.com/jonrohan/githubs-css-performance
My family and my wife's family are, to a certain degree, I suppose, part of the "unexotic underclass". They usually don't live check to check, but they don't have months and months to live on saved up, usually. And the fact is, they don't have piles of disposable income, and never have.

So in order to sell to my family, you need to make things cheaper and/or more reliable and/or unneeded. For product ideas, examine these sorts of stores: Cabela's, Walmart, Costco. The target demographic is one which drives everywhere; it's wholly suburban to rural. Biking doesn't really happen, and cell coverage can be spotty. Computers might well have been bought last in 2003 and be using Windows Me.

If you can figure out how to make essentials cheaper or non-essential (by redesigning how other things work), then their standard of living goes up and their income effectively increases.

So. Things you can think about include: grills; furniture; carpets; clocks; microwaves; vacuums; cleansers; etc.

Things You Buy At Walmart, in other words. The challenge to the American businessperson is to be able to sell to the Walmart crowd, things they buy at Walmart.

I would bet that you can charge a bit more for things than Walmart, if you can double to quintuple the quality. Imagine not having things that break quickly. Or, like I said, a new product that obviates other products would also be good.
Nobody knows how to identify "talent" other than in retrospect. We say people are talented when they produce results, and then we select little anecdotes about their story to allude that it was destiny.

We can't settle this debate because we just don't know enough about how the mind works and how genetics play a role.

My question is, what's the actionable piece of advice? If you try programming and don't get it, you'll never be a good programmer? At what point do you give up and say that you just aren't talented enough?

It seems to me that the only people asking the nature vs. nurture questions are the ones that want an excuse to give up.
Link for nsxwolf's observations (thanks for posting!):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5786439
This probably means they're about to release a new version that you'll have to pay full price to upgrade to. They do this every time they're about to release a new version.

I find LastPass premium a much better value. You give up a little control for a lot more convenience and clients for any concievable platform.
I really don't think it's a cost issue. It's a lack of choice issue. I pay about $65 a month for IPTV service (plus another $15 - $20 a month for the privilege of having HD channels and to rent a few set-top boxes) and I still don't get at least a few "premium" channels that I would really like to have, just because I am at the upper limit of what I'm willing to spend. I don't want to be force fed a bunch of channels I will never watch. The model is broken.
Some people work hard to reduce waste and pollution in society.

Others choose to do this.
This feels like precisely what I was after in picking your brain, especially how German language encourages deductive reasoning (or maybe it's the other way around). It's a pretty obvious connection to me now, knowing German words like gemeinschaft.

Perhaps it's fair to generalize that the more specific the concepts behind a language's vocabulary (maybe just the more frequently used words) the greater the average speaker's tendency to use deductive reasoning. Or at least, that's a good point of departure for more investigating.

Thanks for the insight!
> it was demonstrably used for criminal transactions.

I'm sure you have proof of this.
Right--although the only speakers of Middle English that I've actually met were reading Chaucer out loud in a college class. So we've got it out of the way about them being ignorant or unintelligent.

I don't judge any particular speaker of French or Afrikaans to be ignorant or unintelligent. I do however judge that while they are speaking French or Afrikaans they are not speaking English.
I'm willing to guess that GMail is among the top 3 most used products by HN's readership. This is a substantial change in the experience of that product, as well as deployment of what seems to be some pretty nontrivial technology powering that. It's also the kind of feature that will impact any startup that uses email as a communication channel with its customers (to wit: All of them).

If that's not relevant to the HN community I'm not sure what is.
Noise-canceling: Internet connections 400 times faster than Google Fiber
Mobile, How Do I Develop Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
1. Work to the best of your ability
OR
2. Leave and look for better opportunities elsewhere
On Emacs: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FullScreen

On a Mac, with Aquamacs:

(defun writeroom ()
"Switches to a WriteRoom-like fullscreen style"
(interactive)
(when (featurep 'aquamacs)
(color-theme-initialize)
(color-theme-charcoal-black)
(aquamacs-autoface-mode 0)
(aquamacs-toggle-full-frame)
(scroll-bar-mode -1)))

And then do

Alt-x writeroom
AMC is a terrible example for this, because their shows are available on iTunes a la carte right now. I have 'cut the cord' and still get new Mad Men episodes thanks to iTunes. I can directly support the show--not even the network--that I like. That is the cord-cutting ideal. Consumers don't give a shit about networks and their profits, we want the content we like at a reasonable price in a timely fashion.
On a recent ATP podcast episode, Marco hinted he had another major project or few in the wings, and from the sound of it, it was going to be unveiled soon.

He recently bought a BMW (a long running joke), and estimates guess he made about $6.2 million from the Tumblr sale. If he puts the BMW up for sale, then worry.
IIRC, he hinted several times on twitter that he's experimenting with some new iOS apps ideas.

He's often said that his strategy was to do cool stuff with Apple's newer APIs to maximize the chance for his apps to get featured (eg. the magazine with newsstand).

So whatever Apple announced at WWDC could be a nice hint towards his next venture :)
Dupe to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5786554
The economics remind me of trying to cut government spending:

> Only 4.8 percent of households watch ESPN. If ESPN were only available a la carte, each of those households would have to pay $101.60/month for ESPN to achieve the same revenue numbers they do currently
> The 95.2 percent of households who don’t watch ESPN would only see their cable bills decrease by $5.13 were they able to exclude it

Is like: Cutting XYZ program would significantly hurt a small group, who understandably protest. It would save each taxpayer only $1 a year. So it probably doesn't get cut.
I'd imagine now that tumblr made him a pretty penny he'll be working on a personal fun project that's been on the back burner.
I think I'm getting hipster overload with this idea.
KeePass runs on Linux (I'd happily pay for the better UX of 1Password, but that's a deal breaker).
Firefox Users:

Options / Content / Fonts & Colors / Advanced ... / Minimal font size

(some pages don't like this)
What Everybody Knows & Nobody Tells You (About Coding and Development)
How do you know the speaker is talking in AAVE and not just broken English?
Same great service, new great price!
This measurement states that it's possible to build two clocks that differ by less than two parts in 10^18.

Accuracy: getting as close to the target as you can.
Precision: hitting the same spot repeatedly.

The paper is correct - these measurements hit the same spot repeatedly. Accuracy in this context is a tricky thing. The SI second is defined by the Cesium standard, but the best Cesium clocks are >100 times less precise. These two clocks are hitting the same tiny spot over and over again somewhere within the fuzzy bullseye that is the Cesium target. The SI standard is not defined as well as the new generation of clocks can measure.

Once the world settles in on an optimal optical clock design (the previous leader has been an Aluminum clock, this one uses Ytterbium), the SI standard will move to the new technology.

The impressive success of these clocks as a measure of gravitational redshift is also an Achilles heel. I'm not sure that anyone really knows how to do reliable time transfer with them yet, as one's depth in Earth's gravitational potential relative to another clock must be known at the centimeter scale. Another factor of 10-100 in precision will require that such metrology will improve by the same factor. It's a challenge.
As MS in CS degree holder, I strongly agree with the article re: the idea that coursework-only MS in CS programs are less worthy that programs that include a thesis. I say this as a MS holder who did not complete a thesis and regret it (much more than leaving grad school, which was the right decision for me).

I did (thankfully) participate in research, so I can always talk about the research work even without a publication track record. I have published since in different formats, so that worked out.

But, and this is a crucial issue, a MS in CS of any type helps get you past the HR filter at big companies. When I completed mine, it meant a significant boost in starting salary right out of the gate. If you're looking to join IBM or Microsoft, you probably need to think hard about that signaling credential . . .

Ignoring the disconnect between the academic CS experience and the reality of what most CS programmers work on in the day job, the biggest challenge I see for new practitioners is building a portfolio of software work that a hiring org can understand well enough to make a hiring or interview decision on. How do you communicate that ability and drive to hiring managers outside of your personal network? Do these combined BS/MS programs (e.g., a year of additional coursework to finish off a coursework-only MS) or simply hitting grad school still work better than saying, hey, here is my open-source implementation of path expressions for concurrency control in Common Lisp?
Looks like they're just formalizing the power-user label pattern to make it more accessible for new users/non-tweakers
Apple Tax Bite
Are all these families cable subscribers?

And the number essentially means 19 of 20 "cable families" have zero ESPN viewing. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't see that being a realistic number the methodology that created the 95% statistic wasn't exactly solid.