skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps it's pessimistic of me to say so, but I doubt Amazon wants you to be able to appreciate the price relationship with quite this degree of immediacy. Sure, the data is there for you to plot yourself or use a third-party tool such as the OP's. But if you naively select an on-demand instance (the default) where a dedicated instance would be more advantageous for you, Mr. Bezos is made a tiny bit happier.
What about Texas (with lots of job growth) or North Dakota (with really low unemployment)? There's been mass migration back to the South too.

Maybe (NY, CA, DC, etc..) are dying, and maybe they'll bring the rest of the country with them, but there are other places in the US which seem to be OK.
Implied culture, style, and casualness are certainly signal, though not in the formal academic sense.
It's rarely practical to start over from scratch. For example if other applications use the very same database, you can't just come up with a simpler database schema.

Also in my experience, many business applications aren't vastly complex, they are simply very big and have to handle many, many special cases. That's not something you can redo in a few weeks, no matter how talented and ambitious you are.
There are ways, of course. As one example, find more inexpensive ways to make goods already marketed to a higher segment. For example, 300 dollar laptops that look better, especially if you can get a few reality TV stars using them and bravo pimping it. Start a brand that is perceived as high end by the middle class, show it to them in conspicuous consumption avenues, and then tread downmarket. You can only do this so many times.

But if I'm looking at a startup, it sure wouldn't be my first market of choice.
Yes, but as usually, the problem with O is the growth

In the same way that Insertion sort can be faster than Quicksort for small vectors, there's a number of elements from where even O(n^100) is quicker than O(n!)

Because the (practical) problem with NP problems is not when they are small, you can try every combination for a small TSP problem in a reasonable time.

But for big problems, even if it's n^100 instead of n! it'll be most likely faster than the existing algos.
Alright, but the question is "why would someone want to log in with Amazon"? There's no social network attached to your Amazon account. It seems like it would be an odd choice of identity provider, unless you are a store and already using Amazon's fulfillment services.
This article is completely false. There has been an exponential increase in the number of start-ups in America to specifically serve the underclass. What the poor want is money, and the market has responded with almost every conceivable solution. Some examples, Gold for cash stores, Payday Loan stores, Auto Title Loan stores, increasing number of pawn stores, new high risk credit cards offering 29.9% APR, rent-to-own furniture/appliance stores, the 'short term' elimination of any standards towards an approval for purchase of a home to allow predatory 'Borrowers' to buy homes they could not afford, etc...
How to use BigInteger for Arbitrarily Large Numbers
Global flight-path maps
A Chinese farmer has built his own pair of prosthetic arms from scratch
I like the way my company does it. We have periodical "hack weeks", where for the entire work week, you can work on whatever you want that's at least loosely related to company technology or objectives.
It's not ideal, but if he can put himself in a position where it's obvious to management that the project didn't fail because of him, I don't think he'll end up too badly off. If the parts of the project he's worked on are well put together and working well, then it doesn't look too bad on him that the overall project failed.

On the other hand, it sounds like a depressing situation to be in, so I'd prefer your option (b).
Maybe it sounds extreme, but I agree with @edw519: you don't want to work at a place that lets a project fail as badly as the OP described it. I've been in situations like that too often and I've learned that particular lesson too well.

Like @angdis said elsewhere in this discussion, projects "fail" all the time, but the OP is talking about a specific kind of failure. Notice how many commenters mention "finger-pointing" and "paper trail". When you find yourself in a situation where that becomes important, it's time to consider leaving and it's always better to leave on your own terms.

Unless you're deeply invested in that project or that company, it's usually better to start looking for a place where projects fail more gracefully than this.
Citation needed.

Left wing thought, in my world, is creating the maximum benefit for the maximum number of people. We against "robbing peter to pay paul".
X Window System security issues [and the impact of embargo on patch quality]
Unfortunately, the most recent edition only covers 2.4 & the at-the-time proposed 2.5.

The best equivalent now is the language reference at python.org.
Show HN: Noted: Research together.
Quote for poignancy and mention of authoritative diction as a pass of, well, authority.

I bet this all fits well into NORM dialectics.

We may need 911 to help these idiolects.
What I think is rather ridiculous is the reliance on survey methodology to assess drug/alcohol abuse among the student body.

Questions about drugs/alcohol/sex on student surveys are typically rather inaccurate.
The author used "a combination of python, arc and illustrator, with python doing the actual work for arcmap." - https://twitter.com/MichaelMarkieta/status/33935004333520076...
Emacsy accepted as 2013 Google Summer of Code project
A survey seems a rather crude method, though, surely.
GLYPHICONS - library of precisely prepared monochromatic icons and symbols.
Conformity Monkey - Keeping your cloud instances following best practices
Cool. What kind of identification? So can I install Ruby and Sinatra?
do you find the Interactor pattern preferable to implementing a different re-use pattern for Controllers though? Why not use, for example, use Abstract Controllers and just include them as a Mixin to your Controllers.

e.g. CommentMixin would be an abstract controller class that is included in any controller that has an object that can be commented on.
So, if human life expectancy went up doing X, we're guaranteed that it will still go up if we continue to do X? That's the same reasoning that caused so many bubbles.

I'm no tree-hugger, but also from a purely egoistical point of view I worry about the consequences of the very fast changes we're causing to the environment in which humans evolved and to which we are adapted. Nothing guarantees that the changes will lead to an environment that can sustain 6+B human beings, so trying to predict the consequences is a very wise thing to do.
O is how you choose to work on something, like how you choose to wash the dishes.

n is how many dishes you have to wash.

Which is faster? Washing, then drying, then putting away each dish one after the other, or washing all of the dishes, then drying all of the dishes,
then putting them all away?

If n is 1 then either method is the same. If n is 10 then maybe the first approach is a little less efficient, but when n is 100 then obviously the batched approach is more efficient.

Big O notation is just the formal way of comparing which algorithm is more efficient when applied to large data sets.
I think the idea of targeted practice is a tough one for folks.
i have a 14 year old son. probably due to

a) bad teeny-movies
b) a demotivating school system

he believes that ha has to find his "secret" talent - and after he has found it - life will

I) be easy
II) suddenly make sense.

i try to explain to him that it (life) just does not work like this he should just do what he is interested in - even if it is hard (especially if it is hard). surprise, surprise he does not believe me.

for me the concept of "talent" is just thought-cancer, it might be valid in some edge cases but overall it's just harmfull (not only for teens).
Just be aware of the stuff below:

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
Curious. I was watching a screencast from Tuts+ Premium the other day that was meant to teach Django to beginners, by building a Hacker News clone.

[1] https://tutsplus.com/course/django-unchained/
Ringelmann effect: larger groups have decreased individual efficiency
I'm not too sure, for my purposes. I was trying to think of some ways we could use this, but I'm just not seeing it. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, though.

Can anyone provide some neat examples for cases in the context of web applications? Their mobile app examples didn't really speak to me.
I posted my observations from last night in the other thread. Overall what impressed me was two things:

- Dryden's supporters came from everywhere on the political spectrum

- Kids were really smart and really amped up about their rights

Sadly, I was pretty sure Dryden's censure was a forgone conclusion while watching the administrators stare blankly across the room while people poured their hearts out.
I completely agree that natural talent is a huge part of the equation. The best example for me is sight reading on the piano. (For non musicians: "sight reading" is the skill of being able to play from music you've never seen before).

I am a musician (singer, mostly) and when it comes to sight reading as a singer I would estimate that I'm in the 95th percentile or so. But I've tinkered with the piano recreationally for basically my whole life, at times more seriously than others, and yet I still cannot sight read on the piano for my life. There's just too much information for my brain to process in real-time. I've played some pretty difficult music on the organ, but I have to basically memorize the piece to get to that level.

I strongly believe that no amount of time at the piano will make me a good sight reader. I believe I could get marginally better, but I will never reach the level of even an average pianist.

Now one could be tempted to say: "you've spent far more time sight reading as a singer, which explains why you're better at it." And while this is somewhat true, it gets the causation backwards. It was obvious to me from a very early age that I was better at sight reading as a singer, so I spent more time doing it.

I sometimes wonder if this is where the 10,000 hour rule comes from: no one could stand spending 10,000 hours doing something they truly suck at. But on the other hand, I know plenty of amateur musicians who love what they do and have spent their entire lives making music, but will never reach a professional level (which is totally fine, but contradicts the 10,000 hour thesis).
>Would you care to address any of the points he made in the original article?

No. He is paid to produce FUD. He is repeating a well known pattern of disruption that was pioneered by tobacco companies.

He has a track record for lying, for manipulating other people's research, for misrepresenting other people's views.

I'm not going to waste any time with people who are so intellectually dishonest and who are being paid to waste my time; people who are paid to spread misinformation and confusion.
Show HN: Shorter than bitly more intuitive than QR CODES
If I was selling something I would want to use Login with Amazon. This press release doesn't specify, but potentially they could add a one-click purchase API, which would be very nice.
There's an important distinction between management and leadership. Technical leadership can (and should) come from anyone.
Google removes ability to place/receive calls in Gmail
There's more to it than just whether the teacher was right or wrong, though. Let's suppose that he was wrong, that there is no 5th Amendment issue (the school board gave some reasons why that would be true, which are described in the article). Even so, why reprimand the teacher? Why not just release a statement saying that the teacher was incorrect in saying that there is a 5th Amendment issue involved (giving the reasons why), and leave it at that? Then the teacher could discuss that with his class; was he right or wrong? The students could actually debate the question and learn something--they might even learn the lesson the teacher was really trying to teach, which is, never take any authority's word without question--always consider the possibility that they might be wrong.

Instead, the school board is teaching the students a very different lesson: that our society is run, not by reasoned debate, but by arbitrary exercises of power.
To back this concept up, check out this post[1] on Zerohedge which points out how it's becoming more lucrative to work a minimum wage job (or no job at all) and collect entitlements than it is to work a 'middle-class' job.

[1] http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-27/when-work-punished-...
Has anyone done any studies on what % of web users use/need screensreaders? Supporting such technologies can be quite cumbersome. Also, is screenreader support mandated or addressed under the Americans With Disabilities Act?
The declining value of the MS in Computer Science
His books are about marketing. This one is about marketing oneself to managers and co-workers. In the beginning of the book he slams public education for preparing people to be good factory workers when there are no factory jobs in the USA. Some thought provoking analysis.
i had a similar problem in my first real programming job. i was hired along with a very senior person to deliver a project. accept that very senior person didn't know what he was doing (something that was no immediately obvious to me since i was very junior).

I panicked, and since stackexchange was not around back then, i went to IRC with a very similar question. I was basically told to stop blaming my problems on others, shut up and just do the job. Really it was an angry response and made me feel like i was stupid for even bringing it up. so i put my head down, and tried to do what it took (while not getting any guidance for the guy).

the end result was 3 months of wasted time, the guy getting fired (and he did not see it coming a at all). Somehow i managed to keep my job and eventually being the main person supporting that product. The problem was with management of that place, by hiring new people, and not paying attention to daily progress and direction.
The unbearable lightness of what Apple's Tim Cook says
I don't think there's anything about education that requires the sort of information they were requesting. I think it's a perfect occasion for skepticism. In fact, I think public anything is a good occasion for skepticism.
There can be mitigating circumstances that could warrant staying, but mostly I have to agree with you. Either fight to turn things around or avoid being stained by the inevitable failure.

The worst thing about staying to turn things around is that often the failure is set up from the beginning by those in leadership. Your reward for working your ass off to make the project succeed is probably going to be to make someone look good who was responsible for digging the hole that you helped to pull everything out of.

Unless the game board is set up so that you benefit heavily from your hard work (equity, bonuses rewarding the risk and effort) - there's little upside to killing yourself besides some opportunity for personal growth.
I may have chosen the wrong word with 'manipulation'. I think that the school administration is unhappy that the students were told they could reasonably choose not to fill in the survey. What makes me feel uneasy here, and why I used the word manipulation, was that this choice _was_ available to the students but the school felt that informing them of this fact was inappropriate. This, in my mind, amounts to manipulation or at least a form of exploitation of the fact that most young students feel they are obliged to do as they are told.

Now, in this case the survey wasn't very sinister in itself. But the reaction of the school, to a teacher telling students that they could choose not to take this survey, is.

With respect to your second question. I think that in this case there is a fundamental question of how we expect people to treat the children who are in their care. I think that a debate around the complex legal aspects of this case tend to distract from this real central concern. Whether constitutional law was applied correctly here would not change for me one way or the other whether I felt comfortable with the school treating my children this way.
Do I like this and it is enjoyable = you go long way.

I will work my ass off to get my title, my uniform and promotion and or status, shit I do not like this = not so.
Anecdotal drivel.
I think they're talking about the way she sort of drags out words like "I di-id" or "It i-is". Unless I'm wrong.
SCSS is a lot easier to pick up for new devs, in my experience. "CSS with nesting and variables and some other cool stuff" is significantly easier to grasp.
Exactly. So, the technological issue really is one of making
assymmetric keys easier to use / keep track of.
> The biggest drawback is that there's no client side evaluation like less.js.

I've seen less.js make its way into live sites enough times that this almost counts as a positive for Sass for me.
http://colorizer.org/ is another nice tool in this area.
All it would take is a little bit of technological imagination.
When she first starts talking, it's in how she says "I did, yeah..."
I think Temple Grandin's point here is that the 10,000 rule needs an adjustment for those in the autism spectrum.

An autistic person is usually good at X at the expense of being bad at Y (or the other way around if you wish). So for an autistic mind X would require 10,000 / k hours while Y would require 10,000 * k hours to become an expert in.
This is the sort of thing I was assuming as well, if it let you tie in to doing purchases via amazon's payment API (though I'd still expect another request for password during purchase, but it would pre-assume account) could be useful, if leveraged correctly.
>put in a tremendous amount of time
how much hours overall (< 10 000)? would be interesting for this discussion
I thought sass and scss were the same thing.
The Future Of Television Isn’t About the Hardware
"There is a simple but powerful metaphysical system underlying these verses and I apologise to the uninitiated reader, but would be happy to briefly outline this system should anyone wish it so."

I would be interested to hear more about this.
It's interesting how much closer to Yahoo's internet keiretsu model Google is looking these days.

Google used to be, very clearly a search box. Then they were a search box with an ad platform and an email client (that had a good search box). Then search with lots of cool, free web apps.

Now you definitely couldn't define Google as a search box. You'd need to say something lie technology company or somesuch. The revenue still mostly comes from the search box, but the buzz is mostly around (very interesting) other stuff.
There's not a social network, but there's a "money" network attached to your Amazon account (i.e. your credit card) From the article:

>> "over 200 million active Amazon customers"

That's 200 million verified credit cards of people who are comfortable with ecommerce. There's arguably some value in that.
I was shocked to discover this is the canonical URL & domain for the Amazon press releases. After I clicked the link and saw the URL I initially thought this was some bizarre phishing scheme.

That being said, I think this is a great idea. I don't love the Facebook OAuth flow and the amount of access most apps ask for. I have trouble taking Twitter seriously as an OAuth provider [bias much?]. I think there are many US-focused companies who will be excited to have Google & Amazon as the two default OAuth authentication providers. If nothing else, it's much more adult than Twitter/Facebook. Oh, and Amazon has your credit card info and a great platform for SaaS billing :)
He is interested in searching for concept you do not approve :)
She, right? Isn't that Temple Grandin writing?
MarkdownPad http://markdownpad.com/ is neat and does the preview thing, split screening your editing. (requires Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Client Profile, which it comes with and installs if you don't already have it. Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8.)
Everest: Rivers of Ice IE10 Experiment
Pure ignorance.....Setting aside admissions because of who your grandfathers, fathers and mothers families were/are and the prospect of future donations to the endowment program from same, it appears that the gifted students among the student population know who arrived on campus by merit and those who arrived via the silver spoon (similarity of diploma does not translate to similarity of characteristics) Concerning employment, I believe personnel officers make judgements reference their selections on a Yale bias (Yale is a great school; Jimmie went to Yale ; Jimmie must be a great person) which saves time and effort on their part no matter the consequences i.e. George"Dubya" Bush
"Thought cancer", perfect! I always wanted a term like this to describe it. Definitely agree, even if there's such thing as raw natural ability, I dont think the lack of it is among the major reasons people fail. Succes is like a fire, there's no "rule", it can result from several different things and it's very complex. Trying to oversimplify it like the author does can only do harm.
One of the implicit assumptions in this thread is that the developer actually has a choice -- e.g., he can "run the other way" if it's a bad situation.

That's likely to be true for developers in the early stage of their career, especially if they don't have a lot of financial obligations (mortgage, spouse, children, etc). And it helps to have a resume and current technical skills that might be attractive to some alternative employer.

But I run into a lot of situations where the developer is "trapped" by his/her circumstances -- including the current situation of a lousy economy in which there are few, if any, alternative jobs available. So for many, the relevant question is: what do you do if you're stuck in a death-march project, and don't have the freedom to walk away and get a better job somewhere else?

Ed Yourdon
Login with Amazon. Now the person has one-click purchasing power. Or most likely, a credit card on file, which is more valuable then a Facebook profile without any CC on file, especially in the context of a web application.
"On February 5, 2013, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs announced
that instead of building a single integrated electronic health record (iEHR), both DOD and VA
will concentrate on integrating VA and DOD health data by focusing on interoperability and using
existing technological solutions. This announcement was a departure from the previous
commitments that both Departments had made to design and build a new single iEHR, rather than
upgrading their current electronic health records and trying to develop interoperability solutions."

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42970.pdf
I have some friends in tradehill and while I can't speak to their precise regulatory actions, I do believe they registered as a money transmitter.
Yiroco - Twitter #music randomizer , full screen music
twitter #music randomizer , full screen music
These are all great advices. I started with php and I can say I'm almost a master at. I've build a social network platform with it and solved many problems with it. Now I want to take it to an all new level and want to convert all my code to ruby format. These tips and advices will help me a lot thanks!
Really? Data that you don't control has effectively become a permanent record. On the one hand we say that any information on kids is private, and on the other it's being handed to third parties, and we all know that you can never really take that back. Sharing information about your crimes or abuses with the State or corporations is something that you will certainly regret in a couple of decades.

[ http://nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com/2013/03/inblooms-... ]