skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a little confused. How much of this is client-side optimization-specific? It seems like most of these (if not all) are also standards in making your server-side rendering apps faster as well. For example minifying, CDN, GZip, etc. would all be used in a Rails app, not to mention a bunch of these come by default with Rails.

If I'm not mistaken, a bunch of the speed problems with the client-side apps has to do with memory leaks (not addressed) and client-side browser speed (not really addressed). I was wondering if there are any solutions to these.

In any case, good article, was pretty helpful.
I think he was referring to Nixon's illegal espionage not being trivial.
My thoughts as well. This is just like the enhanced CD of old. It was a proprietary pain in the ass.

Meanwhile, I have mp3s from the 90s that play and sound just fine. Not sure if the Apple or Google stores will even exist in 20 years, but my mp3s will always play.

Also, it took them two years to make the android port. That tells me how little invested they are in future proofing this thing. What happens when the next couple of versions of iOS or android break it? I doubt they're going to be there to support it. So this is music as temporary gimmick. I can't say this is a good thing. This app is more like a game Bjork wrote the soundtrack to as opposed to an album with games.
Mine have:

1.) My name
2.) My email and xmpp address
3.) A link to my website
4.) Fingerprints for my public PGP and XMPP OTR keys
5.) A small cheesy photo of my face

I don't care how "professional" it looks. I only care how useful it will be to the recipient.
May or may not be interesting, but:

lambda x, y: pass

will throw a syntax error because pass[0] is a statement and the lambda form[1] expects an expression:

[0]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov_y5kYJQSY
[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov_y5kYJQSY
I agree about the title, but this was a little unnecessary. I mean, he himself is a pretty well-known front-end dev with a pretty impressive background (http://alexmaccaw.com/). Critique the work, not the author.
Another identifier which would seem to help accomplish the task is identifierForVendor. As a bonus, it isn't something that can be opted out of like the advertisingIdentifier.
It's about the culture of using prepaid vs contract phones, ie it's not like carriers don't understand ARPU, it's subscribers who stay away from contracts.
I've seen them flying over the city I live in a few times. Bloomington, IL, US - it's between Chicago and St. Louis right on the main Interstate 55. So I would say they normally fly them wherever they are going.

As far as speed goes, they can keep a constant AIR speed, they don't get caught in traffic jams or anything like that.

From the FAQ: The usual cruising speed is thirty-five miles per hour in a zero wind condition; all-out top speed is fifty-three miles per hour on the GZ20. As to cruising range: the ship can carry enough fuel to fly for twenty- four hours, although it rarely does so. When traveling cross-country the blimps fly wherever they go, and the crews try for an eight-hour day, or about 300 air miles.
The older I get, the more interested I am in the thoughts of people from another time. I discovered long ago that there is far less continuity of wisdom than young people realize. There is a common assumption among young people that the best ideas of the past are carried forward while the failed ideas are left behind. This is true to some extent, but it is much less true than most young people seem to think.

People vastly underestimate the gap between their theories and reality. Experience forces them to change some of their theories to ideas that seem less plausible but that turn out to correspond better to reality. When they try to pass these improved ideas on to younger people without the same experience, they are often rejected. They sound less plausible than what they and their young peers take for granted.

If the younger people go on to have the same experiences as their parents, they might eventually recognize the wisdom of their elders' ideas, but if not, they might never realize how wrong they are and will easily pass the plausible-sounding bad ideas on to their own children. At some point, most of society can have a good chuckle at the old people's "out of date" ideas.

Since each generation faces different experiences, we have a mechanism whereby wisdom born of experience keeps being lost and replaced by plausible-sounding bad ideas.

You also have the mechanism whereby people point at one area that has clearly improved as evidence that today's ideas are better than those of the past. After all, today's telephone hardware is vastly better than the Lisp Machine of 50 years ago, so the design of HTML/CSS/Javascript platform must represent a substantial improvement on the best ideas from Common Lisp with the bad ideas removed.

No? Well then there's another mechanism whereby wisdom born of experience in the past can be replaced by worse ideas that just happen to end up carried to popularity by historical circumstance.

Just as I study how old-time engineers solved technical problems without using today's technologies, I try to study the writings of "old people" from ancient times to modern, and I try to learn from the "out of date" ideas that came from experiences I've never had. I find it contains more real wisdom than the taken-for-granted trendy theories popular among today's young elites. That of course makes me "feel different" and my thoughts "out of date", too.
I am not sure that the edit wars reveal correctly the controversial topics. Edit wars also show pages where contributors are more beginners, like perhaps 'List of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. employees'. Lots of new contributors don't understand the rules and try to push their edits by editing a few time a page.

The paper takes into account the weight of an editor – "The weight of an editor x is defined
as the number of edits N performed by him or her" – without distinction between small and large edits for instance. Is it really a relevant metric?
I bet Marketus could wear a hoodie and walk home from the store in China without getting shot by a racist vigilante. Lin Biao, who wrote Long Live the Victory of Peoples War, Black Panther Maoist ideology, China support for Third World liberation like in Vietnam, Cuba support for liberation of Angola, and Third World solidarity and liberation struggle in general had more to do with forcing legal change in Western apartheid ( also separate but equal laws in U.S.) regimes then the civil rights movement.
Tape never supplanted vinyl, it complemented it (read/write vs read-only).
Of course, you fail to mention the land reforms (which brought life expectancies up from 35, to more like 45). He saved as many lives with the land reforms as he killed in the Great Leap (which was only about 3 years - how long should he have tried it, if he genuinely though it would save hundreds of millions of lives?)

1960 to 1970 was when China actually came out of darkness (life expectancies rising from 45 to over 60). You could argue that this was because Deng (and other reformers, when Deng was purged) had managed to seize enough control that Mao couldn't do too much damage. The Cultural Revolution (which is the time period we are talking about) was bad for the people who were targeted, but China just didn't have that many educated people that trying to kill them all would make an appreciable dent in life expectancies. China would probably have developed a lot faster if it hadn't destroyed its education system, but it still grew pretty quick (even during the Cultural Revolution).

So basically, over Mao's life China went for a life expectancy of 35 to a life expectancy 60. Much of this was probably Deng fixing up the things that Mao broke.

Maoism is a terrible system of government, but it turns out it's streets ahead of feudalism. Really, the heads of the Qing dynasty should really go down as the worst leaders ever (imagine a century of people dying at the same rate as the Great Leap), with Mao as a runner up.
Perhaps he had kids at 25.
It seems that you know something about the field.

Perhaps rather than offering snappy responses with negative tones, you could offer something constructive to the discussion?

Say, what you think the skills required for day-to-day work as a data scientist are, and how you'd suggest someone develop them.

Perhaps also what you think the best approach is to credentialing your learning--grooming a pedigree--if neither Kaggle nor a degree program are good approaches.
The article is mostly fluff. There are some new classifications and limitations on which type of posts will show up in users' dashboard.
The UK has had automatic number plate recognition for years; first around Heathrow and the City of London (the financial district, the "square mile", not the entire London city) and then on motorways and elsewhere.

We even had a law change to specify the type of fonts you can use for licence plates.

I can understand it if they're catching uninsured drivers, or stolen vehicles. But I can't understand why they'd keep it for longer than a month. (I recognize that I'm on the lenient end when I say "a month" and that some people don't want the data to be kept at all.)
From "The Tipping Point" on page 47:

"Tjaden actually sat down and figured out what the average Bacon number is for the quarter million or so actors and actresses who have played in television films or major motion pictures and came up with 2.8312 steps. Anyone who has ever acted, in other words, can be linked to Bacon in an average of under three steps."
Come on - people overhearing that "KGB can spy on people using X" would not change anything, it is expected and well known that KGB/FSB can spy on you no matter what equipment you use; heck, if you're a political activist or interesting to the politically connected megacompanies, then you may have microphones in your house (no matter if your phone is "safe") and physical keyloggers in your keyboard cable (no matter if your software is "safe").

In that environment, you aren't surprised by backdoors, you treat them as a natural part of life.

ALL things have backdoors, no matter who made them, so for individuals (not army/gov't purchases) that isn't a factor, you just choose whichever device you like. If they're not spying on you, then backdoors don't matter; and if they're spying on you, then they'll get the backdoor in anyways.

If it didn't have backdoors at manufacturing time then it may have backdoors by the time it's sold to you. If the device didn't have backdoors when arriving at your house, well, it might have been installed yesterday.

Americans could/should be surprised, but not Russians.
Stunned by Go
> We value a fun work environemnt

If a ping-pong table is on your stuff-to-buy list for the first 3 years or so you've either hit one out of the park or you're as good as dead.
Perhaps sharpness impairs wisdom.
Putting your data on Google's servers in Finland won't save it from the NSA. Google's headquarters are in the US, and so Google complies with "legal" US Government data requests. Your data is subject to US Government subpoena, FISA warrant, etc. if it's stored on Google's property--wherever that property happens to be.
That sounds very interesting. Any examples?
DivShot (Bootstrap UI Builder) releases 1.0
Nice job! I think it's great that you've got a MVP up and are seeking objective feedback. I signed up for the beta (michael (at) mherman (dot) org. Your product looks promising. You're solving a big problem. The teams feature looks very cool.

Your design could use a bit of work, but nothing to worry about right now.

If you need help with dev or design in the future, I'd gladly put some time in to a project like this. I can help in other areas as well. Contact me.
Dinosaur With Big Nose and Long Horns Discovered in Utah
That's true enough, but even back then your case was not the norm, and while I have no hard data to back this up, I heavily suspect the situation is even worse now as contemporary companies seem much more willing to publicly fuck over option holders, ala Zynga or Skype.
A sensible rating system for images seems like a good idea. Bob may want to see naked men and women, but not want to see any insertions, for example.

This isn't about prudery, it's about letting people find what they want quickly.

It's possibly a good way to market a filter to the people who dislike the net-nanny style filters.

Or am I totally wrong here?
Connecting on the QUIC
Apportable blog post on the announcement with a more technical explanation on how Apportable works exactly: http://blog.apportable.com/apportable-raises-2-dollars-dot-4...
Solar storm could cause a catastrophe, and Earth’s defenses are few
I've been wondering if feeds would be more discoverable if browsers integrated it with bookmarks. Bookmarking a page with an RSS feed becomes a 'live bookmark' that acts like a bookmark folder with unread counts.

But there's probably a billion edge cases that make it too difficult.
Landing pages are mostly just a loose proxy for interest in your product. I wouldn't worry too much about how you get one up, just that you do so. Focus on messaging more than anything else while making sure the call to action is readily apparent and easy to act upon.

Good luck. I'd be interested to see what you put up.
PayPal pays Pa. man $92 quadrillion, due to error.
Follow pope online, get to heaven sooner -- Facebook likes don't count
Here is some tin-foil:

So does the CIA drug trafficking. However - the country is done-for. The presidency is a CIA-bankster puppet position.

The CIA (GW Bush++) took over starting in the 70s (when Cheney and Rumsfeld were lurking behind Ford and Carter.

Clinton's got rise to power after allowing the CIA to run everything through Mena Arkansas. (look into it).

The banksters launder everything for the CIA (Wachovia, HSBC, et al)

The coup happened already.
You have multiple fundamental cultural conflicts that I think will effectively provide enough noise to cover up any signal.

The first one is intelligence metrics are only permitted WRT aging which makes them impossible to intelligently compare. Culturally verboten to discuss the same metrics WRT class, race, pretty much anything else. So there's numbers... and we have no idea what they mean, if anything, in the bigger picture. OK then.

I suspect there are no large collection of serious peer reviewed numbers to back it up. A vague cultural belief of "everyone knows" but no one's really measured or documented it with enough detail and repetition to prove much of anything. Or its a statistical anomaly.. men who make it to age 20 have always lived to 60s-80s. The reason average lifespan exploded in the last century or two is 4/5ths of the kids stopped dying. Therefore the avg specs over the centuries means little to anyone already an adult. Might very well be the same effect. So no data and no critical analysis.

Another cultural problem is pigeonholing. Teen screws up, well its just hormones. Slightly older, must be on recreational drugs. A little older, well, he's the new guy. Bit older, the baby is keeping them up all night can't blame him. Now he's worried about his teenagers. Same old screwup who still screws up at the same rate as when he was 5, finally reaches a well seasoned age with no excuses left, well, his screw ups must "NOW" be because he's old, LOL. Even if a graph of "screwup-full-ness" is a perfect flat line for his whole life.

Another interesting distortion is changing jobs. Generally our culture doesn't give kids big picture jobs and old people entry level jobs. Odd how their demanded performance seems to match the stereotypical expectations.

Final cultural barrier you have to power thru is the classic, teens energy and ignorance rebel against parents wisdom and experience. I donno if you're going to be able to power past that, its a heck of a roadblock to correct for. Much like a recreational sport, the "conflict" might solely exist for fun/cultural reasons. There may be no actual difference at all, but humans love to "other" each other and get all dramatic, and this sounds like a fun topic to fight about, so...
"Additionally, since you’re going to exercise those options and immediately sell them, the gain in value will be taxed as ordinary income."

Isn't this the point of pre-exercising options? At least in CA, I've been told that one should always pre-exercise ASAP so that if the options are ever worth anything substantial you've held onto them for at least a year, so it's long-term capital gains.
> Nice to know that somebody with common sense can decide what is good for me as I sure can't.
How-to get the latest PostgreSQL version installed on Debian – the proper way
Barun Singh gave a great talk about a similar workflow at Boston Ruby in December. I highly recommend it.

Talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4whL7Ll7ww

Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/barunio/atomic-commits

Well-written notes: http://barunsingh.com/2012/12/13/anarchy_in_software.html
Has very little to do with the language, apart from what undefined and platform dependent behavior allow the compiler to trick around. Of course, if the compiler goes nuts or is buggy, anything can happen "behind the scenes", but as far as I'm aware, this has nothing to do with the language as specified in the standard.
What barriers keep thermal random number generators from being widely available? Or are they actually?
That's a good option. Thank you for your insight there.

I can't help but think that this won't really work for many Microsoft shops because the Microsoft CLI is very different from the Mono CLI.

The reason I ask is that there's a number of providers of private PaaS solutions that are willing to install their stuff in your organization for Microsoft stack(HP Matrix, I'm looking at you), but they are full of holes and aren't nearly as robust as what Docker/Dokku/Flynn can offer in terms of plugability and modularity.

Also, free is a pretty good price.
Zeppelins can't really deflate because there is not pressure difference between the inside and outside of the zeppelin. If there were to be a tear in the fabric, gases would simple start mixing and the buoyancy of the aircraft would start to decrease. I suspect this would cause a rapid decent (but I'm not sure if it would be lethal)
Chemists use the term 'water-white' for just this reason.
Connecting to Dropbox with Python
12 Factor model for architecting SaaS applications
Montenegro has population of ~600.000 people and ~1.200.000 mobile subscribers.
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/livebookmarks.html
I don't think you are taking the word "infinity" seriously. If parents believed that, why are they recklessly endangering their children's lives by taking them to a public place where they could be shot and killed, instead of hiring a personal shopper? Why did they put them in a car when auto accidents are the number one cause if child deaths? Why are they living in America when child mortality is lower in several other countries?

The answer, of course, is that while losing a child is unspeakably awful, children are not infinitely valuable to us - at least if you go by what we do rather than what we say. And public policy needs to reflect that.
It seems to me that this should be able to be tested by checking whether the gravitational force between two objects of a given mass increases over time. If it does, then their mass has increased. If it doesn't, then their mass has not. (Of course, if the gravitational constant is correspondingly decreasing then this idea goes out the window.)
Khan Academy's 3 Rules for Development
Both of which are self-serving opportunistic scumbags.

Edit: ha, whomever downvoted me is clearly not familiar with these people.

Look at Bechtel and how that company fits in here. See Anonymous' release today on the $700,000 in bribes one of these folks took...

Do t downvoted a comment if you have no clue to what it is referring to.
So why not make it illegal to record the location of a license plate, unless related to a specific traffic stop or target of a specific criminal investigation?

ANPR is an excellent system for finding stolen cars, fugitives, etc and responding to the hits immediately. The issue is archiving the data. So don't ban ANPR, ban the retention of license plate geolocation data without suspicion.
I had a look at JottaCloud, but was put off by a few things:

1) The location of their servers in Norway; I'm based within the EU, but quite far from Norway, and Norway doesn't scream great connectivity to me in the same way Britain, France, or Germany does;

2) Their FAQ seems a bit slapdash, e.g. "What kind of servers are my data stored on? Linux";

3) As with most other storage providers, there is no mechanism preventing the provider from accessing your files, or sharing them with third parties, no matter how much you trust them.
It probably depends on what you're learning. Not all knowledge/experience has equal personal or marketplace value. I'm past your random number, and as you expect, there's opportunities with good education value I've turned down. There's still some I'd take a pay cut for.
Still less than 60k. Unless it has the same bar the Harvard of today has, its not the same brand.

Part of the thing with Harvard, is getting in is so hard that if i'm interviewing a candidate half the job is already done. But if anyone is allowed into the program (and why not?) then that filter is gone... so the name while still having value as a great program loses the value as a filter.
The demo of the app looks really fascinating!

I tried installing colar app on an Android 2.3.6 (Samsung GT-S5300) phone, but it seems it's not compatible with that device. It's a low-end phone, so I guess I will need something more powerful.

Since Google Play doesn't display the device compatibility anywhere in the store (besides "This application is not compatible with your device") could you please state the application requirements somewhere on your pages?
Ask HN: List of government vendors in the construction industry?
I'm considering attacking a business problem for construction vendors to U.S. government agencies.

Primary vendors are the companies that deal directly with a government agency, and delegate work to sub-contractors (a sub contractor would be an electrical contractor, etc).

I'm able to get a list of all construction companies of a certain revenue, and within a few different construction segments, but "government contractor" is not a criteria I've found support for.

Any ideas?
You seem to be assuming the return is voluntary and not the result of police activity. 115 incidents is not that many in the context of the whole population, but that's not going to be much comfort to you if it's one of your family members that goes missing, is it?
You are leaving money on the table.
Also, it's not really certain that you'll learn more at a startup than at an established company:

- Most startups fail, so all you might end up learning is one particular way how not to run a startup, not how to run a successful startup.

- Many startups are run by younger people who themselves may not have had very much experience shipping products or running a company.

- Startups are under pressure to deliver quickly before the money runs out, so you might not spend as much time considering alternative approaches to problems, which is one of the ways to get deep understanding of a problem domain. The desire to move quickly might also pull them in the direction of quick and dirty solutions instead of solid engineering.

On the plus side, you might end up with more responsibility for the product than you would get in a larger company, and there are many things you could learn from that experience.
Yeah, it's almost like they moved from vinyl to tapes to "Creative SoundBlaster compatible CD"
Sand – Insert Head Into
If you can 'cut out the bottom 50%' reliably, I think a lot of VCs would want to hire you.