skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Largely agreed, though I am skeptical about your southward immigration theory, and do think (in lieu of broad based salary increases) that immigration is a good solution to Canada's talent shortage. Why? Look at our whole discussion - clearly it is the US's solution! :)

My point is that (a) US immigration reform is dying in the house of representatives, there's a chance the US will make it harder and harder for Canadians to stay there. I know I had my complications. Canadians largely enter the US on TN visas, which have gotten easier (the 3 year renewal requirement vs. 1 year). An immigration-unfriendly administration could make this harder.

H1B's are also possible lately as the quotas haven't been being hit since the financial downturn, but they have always been highly controversial.

(b) Canadians require citizenship before they can be eligible for a TN visa to the USA. It's a long period of time for a Canadian immigrant to achieve citizenship in Canada and THEN move to the USA.

Anecdotally, I have seen what you're suggesting (a southwards movement), but not with the majority. For example - my colleagues & friends that have received permanent residency in Canada from India (usually engineers from Infosys or TCS that were part of the onshore crew of a contract) have mostly stayed in Canada, with a couple of exceptions that moved to the USA for a specific job opportunity and used the L1 visa to do it.
I like #4 - life dashboard.

I don't quite know how but these will have to go on the occasional tinkering list.
Right in your utopia we all use openid for auth.
So that means there are drastically less places storing passwords for users. Those places just gained two things:

• an incredible amount of power over a lot of people
• a HUGE digital bullseye for attackers to aim at

No system connected to the Internet is 100% hack proof.

So what happens when an openid provider with 20 million accounts gets hacked? The attackers now have the potential to access any of the sites you've used openid on.

How about we just try to teach people to be more secure - use strong one way hashes with random salts, dont assume things are secure by default (rails session data in a cookie anyone?), don't trust any user supplied content, etc
This issue is one big reason why my attempt at remote working failed. If I had had a basement office, away from the rest of my family, it very well could have worked. But I couldn't get physically enough out of sight to be also mentally out of sight.
Persona could work as an alternative.
Okay I see your point. Your question is valid, and my previous answer is my opinion about it.
Glad you like the design :). Hmm, something like "Regex library" maybe? Unsure of how to word it properly.
except to those who have no idea what this poverty looks like.

I think this is a very important observation. Sometimes poverty doesn't look anything like this.

I'd like to note that although I grew up in "technical" poverty, e.g. in a small rural community with a median income of $11,121, very few saw much violence or any of the markers of poverty lifestyle this article talks about.

Although my anecdote is not scientific, I do think this has much more to do with observed culture than with an arbitrary signifier like poverty. Urban poverty and rural poverty are entirely different things, for instance. As is transient and temporary versus chronic poverty.
You're presenting facts, the "total abstinence" people don't like that.

I find it funny how the "total abstinence" people come up with such amount of unproven facts, like "any consumption of alcohol" will cause harm. You'll be hard pressed to find a mother that hasn't consumed any alcohol whatsoever during pregnancy in Europe.

This looks like it works as well as the "total abstinence" for sex works.
The idea of forward-reaching fiction to encourage advances in science and technology is what Neal Stephenson and others are trying to do with Project Hieroglyph.

http://hieroglyph.asu.edu/
I had to use Powerline adapters in my apartment and was skeptical because of early problems. I have been very impressed. I've had no problems. Although I don't understand why the manufacturers put 100 Mbps Ethernet on 500 Mbps adapters. Probably because 500 Mbps real world performance is closer to 100 Mbps.
Thats a great idea! I'll work something out.
The greatest burden in life is not having a burden to carry. - Sadhu Sundar Singh.
> Good nutrition, stimulation, and education are all important during development.

But not so important that they would have a 40 point IQ difference. If it is, show me the studies confirming that.
Residents of some border states (WA, MI, NY, VT)and some Canadian provinces (BC, MB, ON, QC) can also obtain "Enhanced Drivers Licenses" that can be used as entry documents at land and water crossings. A US Passport Card is also convenient if you're prone to forgetting your passport. Nexus can also be used between many US and Canadian airports. Nexus holders can register with US Global Entry just by checking a box on the application.

My favorite Nexus benefit is avoiding hours of waiting in line at major US/Canada border crossings, especially on holiday weekends.

One potential drawback for some people is that applicants to Trusted Traveler programs receive a criminal background check.

US government Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative Info:
http://www.getyouhome.gov/html/eng_map.html
>Remind me where in the Constitution it says that "Congress shall pass no law abridging the freedom of journalists to keep their sources secret?"

Remind me where in his comment he said it was in the Constitution?

What he said was: "This administration is walking all over civil liberties and constitutionally protected freedoms".

"Civil liberties" and "constitutionally protected freedoms" being two different (if somewhat joined) sets.

Second, it can very convincingly be argued that the taking away of such a protection is bad, regarless of if it was in the Constitution or not. (Depending on your stance on the freedom of the press and it's ability to keep those in power in control, of course).

The heart of the issue is not if it was in the Constitution. That's a pedantic issue, irrelevant in a democracy. The items in the ammemndements weren't in the Constitution either. And if the right to own slaves had been in the Constitution, few would argue for it remaining there, some centuries years later.

The core of the issue is: do people WANT such a protection or not? And do people feel that they explicitly taking of the table is bad or not?
On the other hand, it could provide some degree of plausabile deniability, wouldn't it? "Sure, I talked to X several times. I also talked to Y, Z and <a gazillion of other people who look important, but aren't>. But I can't tell you about what -- you know, client-attorney...".
That sounds like "I just read the title so I could post a snarky remark". He does put some suggestions forward of what he thinks could be the root cause.
TV has always presented unrealistic expectations. Look at the hit show "Friends" - there's no way that group of people could afford apartments that size in NYC with the jobs they had (waitress/chef/copywriter/actor).
IMHO hacking is doing something you're not supposed to in such a unique way that it is considered clever, skillful and attractive. Increasingly people call themselves hackers by doing something that is trivial, unskilled or uninteresting.

Brute forcing your way into banks to steal credit cards for the sake of leaning how to do it (I may have done that as a kid among other things) is hacking. Doing that to pay rent is where there's a departure. Hacking shouldn't be offensive. Hacking shouldn't be boring. Writing Mario Bros 1.0 in a couple lines of jQuery is boring. Hacking shouldn't be about money. If you're at a startup participating in a hackathon then you're ultimately doing it for money. It isn't hacking.
I am working with some students of mine on something like 89, 'Code Journeys'. We call it Storyteller.

http://www.storytellersoftware.com

It allows one to comment on the evolution of code rather than on individual sections of it. Currently, there is not a good place to write down why things have evolved the way they did. There is a search/filtering interface to find only the interesting bits of history.
And here we come to the crux of the free market economy. A system that is purposefully built to harbor unsustainable and frigid behavior. A system that, ultimately, defeats innovation and thinking.

Certainly without such restriction the great minds of the world would be free to ponder the future of human-computer interaction and solve real problems. I am vastly underwhelmed at the state of technology in the year 2013.
The parent comment is absolutely correct.

I blame Descartes and his mind/body dualism for much of the "brain-centric" view of consciousness :)

The human organism needs lots of physical exercise, movement, breathing, stretching, etc. to function properly. Along with proper sleep habits, your body's environment must be taken care of if you expect to feel "good" and expect proper brain functioning.

The most demanding cognitive activities require support of all the rest of the body's systems (mood, temperament, stamina) which can be kept in shape through proper physical conditioning and nutrition.
Aaargh - no.

Crush chaos and entropy through decoupled design, through APIs that are simple and affordant, crush chaos by making it
everyone's job to make the whole simpler. Don't add people who cannot code and hope they will improve things.

You want to formalise it - have a checkin flag #simpler=+1 or 0 or -1. Everyone should look at a -1 and ask "what can I do to make that a +1"

Simpler simpler simpler.

Edit: I always come back to the idea that software is a new form of literacy - and if you see a software issue, reframe it first as "reading and writing". What we are arguing for here is there should be non-coding people running around finding out "stuff" in some super human manner and then reducing chaos with it.

Reframe that software house as a newspaper - What foolishness says hire illiterates to run around discovering what the newspaper needs? Hire editors, create a process around the writing, proofing and editing of the written word. At the software house - do you need project managers - or do you need editors? Senior developers who realise their time hands on the code base is now over and they need to guide, edit, mentor.

Now build respect into that. And then tell me how respected national newspaper editors will feel if the guy in the office next door, who now has as much influence on the decisions as they do - and that guy is illiterate.

Treat software like written words - build organisations like newspapers, and hire no-one who cannot read.
I actually don't believe at a micro-level that causation comes into play at all. I was responding to the statement that at a macro-level there is probability of causation, and it is more rational that poverty is caused by stupidity than poverty causes stupidity. The latter is nonsense.
I've spent more time using the developer resources recently, and I completely agree. Clicking one link will take you an entirely different feeling architecture, like parts have been built on top without thinking about what the impacts could be. It's probably been a house of cards for a long and it's now fallen down.
Shush, don't divulge their secret!
How did you get that price for that much disk space? I'm on the RamNode website and can't find a plan that matches.
You're confusing two different things: lawyers enjoy client-attorney privilege at every level in the US. For this to apply you must be a practicing attorney. Journalists don't enjoy similar protections because they aren't a self-regulating profession (there is no law appointing an entity to regulate journalists, as there is one to create the bar organizations).
Banks’ influence over raw materials supply chain under scrutiny - FT.com
An area of failure in anecdotes about "sharing economy" or specifically airbnb is the locality and individuality of the transactions vs the "big domain name" for the whole thing.

Anecdotes, good or bad, are as pointless as reading nation wide multi thousand tower cell phone company reviews. "Oh, you're looking for a cell phone company (in LA)? Well let me tell you, (multinational) is (terrible|great) (in NYC)."
Crack Cocaine and Cocaine are not quite the same thing. Cocaine is known and used in the US as well. Crack was a US ghetto phenomenon, it is not used as some code-word for blacks.

The results are surprising in the sense that what was said, and generally believed even by professionals in the field, at the height of the issue was that it would be impossible for these children to develop at all. Poverty has a known affect on development, it was believed that these crack babies wouldn't even have the chance to hit that level.

The surprise comes from that the previous belief couldn't be more wrong. The actual effect was basically non-existent.
Or he lives in an apartment and running CAT6 isn't really an option.
No, I was saying that money in pocket != intelligence.
And who haven't already switched to Google Maps...
The last time I used something like this it was http://httpstat.us/
Interesting; the http://devimages.apple.com/ URL seems to return the underlying contents of the file, bypassing the SSI (I'm so happy they use SSI... seriously: I love SSI ;P). You can then see the raw <!--#include virtual=""--> directives, and pull the individual parts. (It isn't quite then fair to say that it is a "broken bit of their template system"; it is more that it is a poor way to setup a static large-file caching endpoint, and may itself lead to a security vulnerability. To be clear: that's probably worse ;P.)
It's a pain in the ass no matter where you live. Making using existing wires that much more appealing.
Web services should be relying on passwords because that is a simple means of authentication that users already know and it keeps the services independent from a central identity provider. As we all know passwords alone can't protect us anymore though, so web services need to give their users an option to secure their accounts with a second factor. Thus in a few years I think that two-factor authentication is going to be a standard way of protecting our online accounts.
You don't seem like an idiot but all your comments in this thread seem to be making the same obvious error.

"Being raised in poverty" is a broad term that means all kinds of things, you seem to think it is merely a measure of wealth. This myopic view is why you're so very very wrong.
I found the success story important to heavier weigh the fact that cocaine exposure doesn't stunt brain development to a greater degree than general poverty. The author made plenty of other points about the tested groups not behaving other than expected given poverty as a common factor among them.
"They found that 81 percent of the children had seen someone arrested; 74 percent had heard gunshots; 35 percent had seen someone get shot; and 19 percent had seen a dead body outside - and the kids were only 7 years old at the time."

That's not really much different than the national average for kids whose parents aren't crackheads. E.g. 1 in 20 kids see someone get shot every year, so you would expect that by age seven that 7 in 20 would have, which is in fact exactly 35%. C.f. https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/227744.pdf

N.b. that some of these statistics are pretty wonky, e.g. they count getting beat up for your siblings as assault, or getting flashed as being a victim of sexual assault.
I went here:

https://clientarea.ramnode.com/cart.php?gid=11

And got the 256 RAM one, it has 90 GB space. Then I used the leb35 code the GP gave me, and it comes out to $29.83 yearly.
"for of" is actively being added to V8. It should not be very long before it lands in V8 (and thus in Node). I don't like the idea of another keyword that at best acts exactly the same (or at worst acts subtly different).
I almost missed out on NSA leaks because I didn't bother to install encryption
You are confusing intelligence with intellectual capacity (IQ).

IQ is the ability for a child to do exemplary things with his/her mind.

Intelligence is building upon that.

Being poor does not make you have lower IQ, nor does it make you less intelligent. A large number of the poor have come up from the depths and are very intelligent people.
Of course he would say that. It makes his job important and justifies increased budgets. I don't believe such BS either.
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Could you imagine if the Linux Developer Center went down? It'd be nearly impossible to write Linux software, or download Linux development tools, or generate a Linux binary that a device was allowed to run. It'd be awful.
I'd be curious to see how things are today at McDonald's in the Yugosphere.
Does it make sense to say that a 4 year old is poor because of his low IQ?

No.

But it does make sense to say that a 4 year old is both poor and has a low IQ because his parents do. And this applies whether you believe that his low IQ is due to heredity or a poor environment caused by his parents.
As the article notes:

Hurt's study enrolled only full-term babies so the possible effects of prematurity did not skew the results.

Nonetheless the head of the study does note that crack cocaine can induce premature labor, among other issues:

Hurt, who is also a professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania, is always quick to point out that cocaine can have devastating effects on pregnancy. The drug can cause a problematic rise in a pregnant woman's blood pressure, trigger premature labor, and may be linked to a dangerous condition in which the placenta tears away from the uterine wall. Babies born prematurely, no matter the cause, are at risk for a host of medical and developmental problems. On top of that, a parent's drug use can create a chaotic home life for a child.

I think the OP's point is that some (political) groups attribute minority group failure to advance socioeconomically to drug use, whereas this study suggests that poverty has a very relevant effect on child development (and thus prospects of long-term economic success).

That's not to say that there is no truth to the "crack baby" myth, but that like the "welfare queen" myth, it is part of a strategy to delegitimize welfare programs or socioeconomic criticisms by blaming the low-income groups for their lack of success.
Finally! Google as a company unifying their user login. Its about time.

For privacy freaks like me: share only what you want. If you dont like this, you have the freedom to leave the service at anytime (along with deleting all your data also)
I read the whole article. The suggestions cover all the cases one would that thought himself.

He is being Captain Obvious.

Including the gem to "set some time aside" as developers, because we might have some work to do after the site comes back up.

Everything in the comment is what men wiser than us called "idle speculation".
Does zsh support matching long and arguments? That's what I want. A bit like fish (http://fishshell.com/assets/img/screenshots/man_completions....) and finalterm which others have mentioned.
I think its picasa
In 1970, a glass of wine a day was what the doctor suggested my mother should drink during her pregnancy.
I'm becoming more and more convince that this is a cultural thing and less about laws/taxes. Entrepreneurship requires risk-taking which (we) Canadians are less likely to do than our American cousins.
Nice, this could be really useful for beginners. I tried the "random regexp" feature and it showed one that used \P<Given> and \P<Middle>, among other things. I have used named capture groups a bit I wasn't aware of these, and was wondering where they came from.

Which leads me to the problem I had with the site.

I was hoping for a way to easily (one click) get to the documentation for each of these. It seemed strange that a given name pattern could work for any human language, so I was trying to work out how this would be done. Eventually I found the tables at the bottom (with Advanced and Tricks tabs) but clicking on the links in there just adds the items to my current expression.. what I was hoping for was a direct link to some docs for the specific item (not a general link to the top level of some huge document).
'Does not equal' is a very strongly bound form of 'cause.' I don't think you can meaningfully make that definition apply to the topic.
And anyway I don't think it's a reason to create difference in learning programm. All these stats... It's a shame for any foundation to be racist in this way.
then you deserve your fate as a nation!
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I absolutely guarantee that nobody, especially not someone depressed, is actually thinking on the scale of trillions of years. At that scale we stop being able to think and have to switch to mere computation instead.

Existential despair is when your brain decides to think up some Profound Issue instead of just admitting it needs some exercise and a hug.
Marco's audience includes a bunch of people who wouldn't have known this, or might have assumed it's back up: this draws attention back to it for people who like discussing this sort of thing (although, past that point, I largely agree with you, as I'm not certain what really there is to discuss).
Excellent, actually. I was just speaking with someone yesterday about how McDonald's is executing a long-term strategy very effectively. They appeal to children without offending adults. The population in the region places a high emphasis on eating home-cooked meals and domestic cleanliness. They've managed to make a name for themselves without having too much negative stigma being attached to them for being "fast food" which is casually viewed as an American malaise.
Bad story design...

I disagree. If you're trying to tell a compelling story, you want to reinforce the story that you're trying to tell in every way that you can. That makes it more compelling, and sells more page views.

The danger being, of course, that making reasoned decisions based on compelling story lines is dangerous. But this article isn't in that business - it wants to sell page views.
Nice attempt at snark, but something being fault-proof in this regard doesn't magically make it worthy in others.

Like desktop use, for one. People will not adopt Linux for their desktop/laptop even when offered for free. Where by people I mean more than 1% of them.
The comments here, as usual :) It's a habit of mine to read through all the comments before reading the linked article to decide whether it's worth reading.

If you think that my conclusion is wrong and you can quote a bit of the article to back it up then that's good, too!
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Wow, Cambridge!
And yes, the profile privacy options are extensive and are painless to setup. I fully suppport the single-sign on.
>You'll be hard pressed to find a mother that hasn't consumed any alcohol whatsoever during pregnancy in Europe.

You are very, very wrong about this.
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Interesting proposition, but do you have any idea how this could actually work? Where would funding come from initially? Would this be a for-profit or non-profit organization? How would we reach a consensus on anything, given the diversity of the community and other communities? How would we protect ideas, other than developing them? (since this can already be done by anyone, given the resources).

I can't picture how we could create such system in a society built around the complete opposite, where the government backs corporations and fails to acknowledge the innovations of individuals, unless they pay for it.

On a side note, I have many ideas that I've not released, not because I'm worried about someone stealing them, but because they're so far outside any mainstream convention that I'd be seen as a raving lunatic by many if I published them.