skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Give it a little while. This is the very first time this issue has come up for a vote post-Snowden, it's also in the summer when plenty of people are not paying all that much attention to this sort of thing (vacations and such).

This vote has demonstrated a really serious intent to change things, and there's a good chance they will be in due course.
I have heard about declining educational standards at the primary and secondary level in the US. There are also studies on the impact of grade inflation at the college level. However, this is the first time I've heard about declining quality of Computer Science education at the college level. Are there any references about this? I am sincerely curious.
I think he's implicitly they are in positions that are paying them more.
Just checked for the update on my N4 and got it immediately. I'm in SE Asia, if that makes any difference.
Sure. I don't think anybody is arguing that every single programmer needs to be a pirate rockstar ninja-hacker, but there is a need, in some places, for those people.
> We’re Status-Obsessed And Seek Attention

This is just a general fact about humans. We're social animals who care for status almost as much as we care for food and sex. If you don't notice the status games of other cultures, you just don't know the rules.
Nick Disabato: Cadence & Slang Ed II
Teach a man to fish (and he'll die when he catches Fugu)
The finance industry majorly stepped up stock grants after the financial crisis to decrease moral hazard. How often do you hear about SV engineers getting million dollar spot bonuses? Tech bonuses are peanuts compared to finance bonuses. And cash is king, you're already overexposed to your employers stock because you rely on them for income, you are better off with a pile of cash.
What you call a "stock response" is also known as the role of price in equating supply and demand in free markets
No offence but attitudes like this are the worst. If we all took your advice we would all be still using punch cards or writing everything in assembler. Sometimes you don't need a clear justification to use newer technologies. Perhaps developers just want to experience the significant developer productivity that comes with using many of the NoSQL databases.

Also might be worth dropping the whole "SQL is better" insinuation. We have seen some pretty major data loss bugs in PostgreSQL and MySQL recently.
It's not as magical as it seems. Just a lot of single-character, composable functions. You could probably do the same thing in Haskell. (I mean it does look cool but . . .)
Designing a Book Cover in CSS with SASS
"...the erosion of confidence in the ability of the United States to do anything discreetly or keep anything secret."

An amusingly worded statement perfectly delivered in intelligence speak. Because Mr. Hayden is so crucially aware of how improbable it is for anyone to keep anything secret at all anymore, he's only worried about people's misplaced confidence in secrecy being rationalized. The IC banks on people's impression that secrecy is still practical, but certainly once you realize that if the people most aware of the porous nature of data networks can't even stop their secure side documents from leaking en masse nobody less focused will consider their documents private.

It's a classic double edged sword - the intelligence community had been the primary driver of innovation in computer and network defense strategies. But somewhere between the beginning and the end of the development of TPM they decided that insecure computers were so valuable as an asset that it couldn't be risked that they might fund research that might accidentally result in some real level of defense.

If general Alexander spent a tenth the money on defense as he does on offensive teams and research and bugs maybe they'd actually have more advanced strategies than air gap and pray. But once the basic judgement was made that software quality issues appeared to make computer security np complete they basically gave up on the problem. Thus began the race to exploit and backdoor the world that we took an early lead in but has lead to a lot of blowback when not everyone was as concerned as we were with not sharing the benefits with private industry. Now the big states know more or less everything about each other, while US multinationals essentially have to horse trade for even basic information sharing about active intrusions on their networks. Meanwhile the only people left in the dark are members of the public that are trying to play by the rules.
The phone I have is a HTC Droid DNA, I bought it out of contract to keep my unlimited data. (~$600)

The only thing keeping me on Verizon is there excellent coverage in rural areas, it certainly isn't support, cost or devices.
Isn't it using Miracast internally?

Will it work with Windows 8.1 which has Miracast support?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UXXNLlmz0A

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2013/06/windows-8-1-supports-miraca...

I hope they work with standards instead of creating proprietary and incompatible protocols.
As far as I can tell this is an account that was created entirely to post negative responses in this thread. How sad.

(it was created 1 hour ago and the only comments from the account are negative posts about the article: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=petea)

To me it just confirms what the GP said: plenty of bruised egos in this thread.
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I think you're confusing Adsense with Adwords -- Adsense is the offsite platform Google runs; if Facebook told websites using their non-existent off site platform what to advertise to you, that would very quickly turn into a fountain of money
For me (as european) it is now unacceptable to use american webservices and remote apps.

As someone running businesses in Europe, I am genuinely concerned about whether the Safe Harbor scheme still protects us legally if we allow US-based services to use personal data about our customers.

As I understand it, the point of Safe Harbor is to recognise that some US-based companies have data protection measures sufficient to meet the stronger European standards, and therefore to permit the export of such personal data outside the EEA to those trusted partners where this would otherwise be against the law.

Given that the protection that any US-based partner can offer is now known to be limited, and that no-one running a business here could credibly claim not to be aware of that, I don't know where we'd stand legally if a politically active customer decided to make a point. Even if we openly disclose which US-based partners are involved as part of the relevant privacy policy, it still leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
is there a link of the individual votes? govtrack.us doesn't look to be that up to date
Repost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6037848
I don't know whether finance companies pay or whether they have less problem hiring people. But what difference would it make it that were the case? We're talking about the same pool of people. The specific companies where the shortfall appears doesn't make any difference to the argument for immigration.
> If your t.v. has an HDMI port it more than likely has a USB as well.

This is probably true for current new TVs, but HDMI ports were common on HDTVs before USB ports were, and not everyone replaces their TV every year.
This is an interesting article on this "rule":

http://www.heracliteanriver.com/?p=324
In other words, people don't have to be real on your site? Did George Zimmerman actually sign up?

It may help the reputation of the site itself to have a real user base. I know it's slow going in the beginning when you get out there - but I simply don't understand this.
I know this is well intentioned, but it might have the opposite effect. There has been a lot of study done on rewards and motivation. It turns out that giving external rewards can undermine motivation. For example, giving stars to children for their drawings will undermine their natural motivation to draw. The same can be said about monetary rewards. Moreover, people who do deeds for an external reward are usually less satisfied compared to those who do deeds for their own sake.

A lot of this research is done under Self-Determination Theory.
"beyond the rack" seems like one of those sign up clubs. Do you have to pay a subscription fee with them?

What is a "portable usb charger"? A 12v car adapter or something else? Did it really cost $12? Who makes it? Did you pay for shipping? I'm asking because I'm trying to figure out if your comment is sarcasm or not - to me $12 seems like a lot of money for something that doesn't have a brand name guarantee behind it.

I may just be completely off base, but I'm confused on why this was such a great deal.
I actually agree with most of this but I am double sick of the essay-presented-as-a-list-of-little-known-facts form. This an opinionated view of the US, it would appeal to me more if presented as just that. The present form might indeed appeal to lazy readers and thinkers more, yes. But since I assume the text is partly intended to convince people stop being so lazy, it could by taking a different form.
House narrowly rejects bid to curb NSA domestic surveillance
"Is Twilio really making so many transactions per second that Postgres won't scale?"

Telco billing systems are (or at least used to be) one of the busiest uses of databases. When you're billing in increments of only a few cents per transaction (typical for outgoing SMS), the volume of transactions for any reasonable amount of money can be _huge_.

I don't know how soon Twilio are going to get within an order of magnitude or two of AT&T or Verizon, but I'd hazard a guess that their transactional billing database is _very_ busy by just about _anybodies_ standards.
He refers to "open positions for programmers at high tech companies", so I would have to disagree
The only durability "problems" I've ever been able to come up with for Redis involve human error as a key component, like what Twilio experienced here with the AOF/RDB mixup.

The new CONFIG REWRITE command makes it easier to avoid, but it would be nice if it were harder to get this wrong in the first place.

What it definitely isn't is fully ACIDic, though for some workloads you can get close if you use it very, very carefully.
If the finance companies couldn't hire top techies, they'd be fine.

It's a Red Queen race; whoever runs the fastest front-running operation skims all the rent from naïve institutional and individual investors. If everybody is 200ns slower, everybody is in the same position as before. All the talent invested in saving a few ns does no good to the world; it just changes the relative position of finance companies.

They might even be happier if there were fewer techies they could hire.
What's interesting about this rebuild is it tell us Apple tightly couples it's services.

I would except at Apple's scale they would have followed a Service Oriented Architecture. This doesn't seem to be the case at all.

And whatever happened to static hosting for videos/downloads.
I actually find that website almost entirely useless. A to-do list means nothing and demonstrates nothing useful. It has no associations between models and nothing particularly complex. I have tried so many of these frameworks and found crippling flaws in all of them, but on the surface they all look peachy when compared via a to-do app.

It's pretty much only useful if you want to write a to-do app.
Reddit rolls out its front page-changing multireddit feature
The worst thing about this article, is so much of it applies to human nature, not just Americans. For example:

"people from other countries don’t hate us either. In fact — and I know this is a really sobering realization for us — most people in the world don’t really think about us or care about us."

This is not a sobering realization.

Americans don't think much about people from other countries either. Indeed, as a culture we're constantly unfairly criticized for that. We get trashed for lacking knowledge about the rest of the world, but that applies both ways.

How much do Australians know about Nigeria? How much do Romanians know about New Zealand? How much do the Chinese know about Colombia? How much do Mexicans know about Sweden? Point being, in my observation and opinion, most people are ignorant of anything but their own culture (and often anything but their own local culture).

How much do you think a billion people living in China actually know about America? Not much. How much do you think people in Ukraine or Spain or Congo actually know about America? Not much. They've never experienced the vast diversity of culture and people here, and most likely don't know it exists and don't care about it. And that is a shared ignorance: most Americans don't know squat about those cultures either.
This does not work at all. The causes behind RSI are physical and real.
I started using this today, and it's great. Even works immediately with ActionBarDrawerToggle, which is awesome.
Back in the 1990s, movies would include an AOL Screen Name (or something similar, room name or something - but AOL specific) in exactly the same way that movies and other advertisements today specify "like us on facebook." At some point that will stop happening as Facebook loses its shine.
I realise it's twice the price, but an Apple TV will be much simpler to use, and will work with almost all apps on her iPad that play video (and audio). That includes all the built-in apps and nearly all store-bought apps.

There's a strong possibility your mother's soaps are being played in a way that's unsupported by the Chromecast.
Come hang out with us on freenode (#agda, #coq, #idris) and we'll try to answer any questions you have about dependent types and such!
Fantastic; I'm glad to hear it. I've been using nouveau for the past couple of years because of this issue; sounds like it's time to try nvidia's drivers again.
here's raw if the links posted by others are 404ing for you: https://gist.github.com/beaugunderson/6075673
dog pile - reminds about FB outage couple years ago when their in-memory cache machines got simultaneously flushed by software update and as result piled up upon MySQL databases for the refresh. Twilio's prohibition of master restart seems like a solution to a consequence only.
3.4% increase in combined budget for intelligence agencies

Yes, that was a rather striking discrepancy. Our media seem to be giving the current administration a free ride lately regarding civil liberties generally and trying to control the Internet in particular. Maybe everyone is too busy worrying about getting onto the "Bob watches porn" list this week to worry about getting onto any other lists that may or may not be relevant to this discussion as well.
House Defeats Effort to Rein In N.S.A. Data Gathering
SF HNers: Rep. Pelosi was against the ammendment.

Surprising no one.
Please be careful with this article. It is not remotely skeptical, and seems to be highly biased in the favor of Dr. Sarno's book. Chiropractic medicine for anything other than lower back pain and Acupuncture are two forms of alternative medicine that are well known to work off the placebo effect, yet the article mentions their use despite alleging to be a skeptic. This is a major red flag.

There is not a large amount of unbiased information about Dr Sarno's methods that I could find quickly, but from what is available TMS appears to be a form of alternative medicine that has no basis in science, and instead relies on pseudoscience and the placebo effect.

Rather than the pain relief being due to TMS, there is probably a more likely cause behind the result. Perhaps stretching exercises or pain medicine was involved. Or perhaps even just the placebo effect itself.

Please read this article for more information. It even contains a brief mention of Dr. Sarno.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/why-do-people-turn-to-al...
Ask HN: Should I learn a few different languages or become a master of one?
This past year I had decided that I want to become an iOS developer. I had no prior programing experience, but I was determined that I would teach myself how to code and design to release an App. I have succeeded in doing that and plan on doing it many times over. However, making myself too dependent on one platform kind of scares me. But I also want to be great at what I'm doing, and that only happens through hours of beating on your craft. Should I continue to pursue and master iOS or branch out into learning something else like Ruby or JS?
If you are looking for a current good alternative to MSPaint that is easy to use, I suggest http://www.getpaint.net/. Free, but not OSS.
Some of the Republicans were probably swayed by the Heritage Foundation's critique of the amendment's wording. This is the type of issue that won't be a party line vote, but I would be curious about an age breakdown.
Arial, believe it or not, wasn't originally designed for the screen. It's not an optimized Helvetica, it's a generic looking franken-Grotesque that was billed as a low-rent Helvetica. And that's pretty much what it is.

Some of the other 'Microsoft core fonts' (Arial was originally designed by Monotype in 1982, not Microsoft) were actually designed for low resolution screen display, like Georgia and Verdana. Arial is better hinted than some of the versions of Helvetica out there, especially some of the lousy ones more common to older PCs. It has a high x-height and was designed to be readable at smaller sizes—in print. But so was Helvetica.

In fact, one of the virtues of Helvetica is that it's pretty legible as body text. Like any typeface, it can be abused, but it's not a crime to use it for body copy. Just make sure not to track it too tightly.

As high resolution displays become more commonplace, concerns about hinted type should lessen. And having to design fat, wide letters for crude raster grids will hopefully become a thing of the past—like old terminal displays.

One last thing: Helvetica's a pretty sweet looking typeface; contrary to its reputation, not at all 'neutral', it has midcentury charm and character without looking too dated. Give it its due!
Congrats to Geoffrey and his team! PeepCode's screencast have been a huge time saver for us and I hope this acquisition will only allow them to do even more awesome things.
Big high tech companies with open positions for stars would benefit most from a bidding system for a fixed number of visas. That way, the companies that really need top people could just pay enough cash to get a visa and be assured of having one available. The whole system could operate much faster, too.

But what's being proposed is a vast expansion in the number if visas available. Most of the new ones will go to the same mediocre outsourcing company drones that fill the current quotas.

It's just an expansion of the current system that rewards blizzards of similar applications from cheap workers with faked credentials. (Or credentials that document some kind of educations and experience without reflecting any talent)

A bidding system would wipe out those drones in favor of American workers. Meanwhile, everyone who needs stars would get them. Of course, bidding hasn't been on the table since the early 1990's. Republicans were inalterably opposed to it then because it would support middle class wages and Democrats oppose it now because they expect a mass of immigrants to eventually vote for them.
I don't know, I just bought it on Amazon with free shipping and spent a total of $35, so it's effectively $11 for me factoring in the Netflix savings.
Doubtful, as the same text is posted on their public-facing website...
Claims to be sceptical but then:

"The first medical specialist I consulted was a chiropractor"

Chiropractic was founded by magnetic healer, D.D. Palmer. Magnetic healing is also a pseudoscience but less people take it seriously.