skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, a bit harsh, ok a lot harsh, but essentially I agree with the premise that Medium is where you publish if you can't get published elsewhere (yet).

I for one am enjoying seeing how the markets around writing are evolving, in many ways they are much more effectively evolving than video and music markets.

For writers we got the great "Internet" where you put download blogging software put up a server and start posting. Except you were one of a trillion zillion people so discovery was basically impossible. Then we got blogging "sites" which collected people who want to write, and among those sites added some discoverability. Then we got "Blogzines" which are essentially all on the same topical area by a fixed stable of writers which feels more like a magazine. And of course e-books which are single topic / single author.

It is interesting to compare the likes of Blogger to Medium to Ars Technica to HufPo to Salon etc.
The look of music
> I thought the anecdote about 1st class trains in London being socially unacceptable was an interesting cultural anecdote. I've ridden Amtrak in the US both steerage class and first class and no one thought it was overly interesting or revolutionary

People view long distance travel differently than their daily commute when it comes to economic segregation. I imagine there would be an uproar in NYC if the MTA talked about a plan to create a first class car on the subway however no one bats an eyelash about Amtrak.

However, I bet you could find a price point where people wouldn't complain if you added a first class car to the London Underground or NYC subway system. I think there's a psychological effect in play where if it's a price that you could pay if you cut into your budget then it stings but if it's a price that seems ludicrous to you then you don't mind as much. I personally would feel more ok with a first class car if it was $100/trip vs. $10 (regular ride is $2.25).
Examples of that in the Io source:

https://github.com/stevedekorte/io/blob/master/libs/coroutin...

https://github.com/stevedekorte/io/blob/master/libs/coroutin...
This is the main problem I've found with fixed position, large height nav. Unless you engineer a way for the nav to be responsive and scroll separately from the page (which, BTW, is a bad UX) the bottom will get cut off.
First, our country is much less tame than US in outright evilness...

It is a government that is very inefficient, and corrupt, but does not drop bombs on other people heads to get minerals.

Aside from that, what I am doing?

First, I don't pay most taxes, literally. I don't even bother looking at what taxes I should pay. The tax that I pay correctly is the state (not federal) and municipal ones.

Second, I support with campaigning and donations when I can, some politicians.

Third, I support protests, specially the big and loud ones (like the ones that attracted international media here, and DID resulted into a couple of law changes in our favour).

Fourth, if after next elections things don't improve, I plan in moving somewhere else, and renouncing my citizenship as soon as I can. I don't want to stay citizen of a country that I don't agree with the actions of its population, the government is only a reflection of the local population, maybe with the exception of extreme cases of autocracy.

Fifth, after I amass enough power, I plan in engaging in politics in a active manner, whatever manner is needed at the time, and where I am.
At this point, it would make more sense to store data with the NSA. They have that entire, taxpayer-funded Utah Data Center full of storage. Why not just open it up for people to backup their files cheaply?

The slogan could be "It all ends up here anyway."
Never heard of frontback, but wow! What a brilliantly simple idea. I told my younger sister about it, who loves Instagram, PicStitch, and all the other photography apps, and she could not have been more excited. I don't know if it will spread like the others, but I am very impressed by the idea.
It's funny how much people bought Bush's "they hate us for our freedom" line.

Generally, they hate us for screwing over their part of the world. Osama's stated goal was to get the US out of Saudi Arabia. (He succeeded.) Killing a ton of people in Iraq hasn't helped either. And there's plenty more.

The idea that they hate us because we're allowed to speak out against our government or whatever is just silly. I'm sure they delight in millions of Americans being forced to remove their shoes in airports, but that's not their goal.
Yeah the word hatchback comes to mind. remember the frunk though. This thing probably does have a lot of cargo capacity.
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That's awesome news, thanks! I've been considering getting a Tesla in 2015 when I've paid off my Volt, but I live in Wisconsin so the rear wheel drive was a deal breaker on the Model S. I like the Model S more than the Model X though so if it has an all wheel drive option that's probably the way I'll go. (Assuming the fabled more reasonably priced 3rd model hasn't been revealed and won me over by then).
Zurb Foundation has used border-box for a long time.
Well, not exactly. I/O Kit uses a specification called Embedded C++. It has been heavily criticized by C++ folks and is basically dead at this point.
ah. Good point. Do they still have libertines there, though?
Can people explain the fascination with Coroutines?

I don't see what problem domain hits solutions that are best done with them all the time.
You wouldn't, but some kid might.
well that's lower than I expected.

still weird to see iraqis killing each other as the result of an american invasion...
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So if it's not commercial, why don't you discuss your idea here, in public? You may also ask a question on Quora.
Except Bootstrap 2.x's JS was terribly basic and didn't play well with single page apps. I haven't tried v3 yet so I don't know if it has improved.
I think that's the problem though. My browser connects to Gmail with SSL/TLS/HTTPS. The internet community moves fast when we decide something (Goodbye support for Internet Explorer 6!), why can't we decide on this:

You will use a mail client that requires SSL to connect to our mail server, or one that does support SSL will be provided for you.

Would you ever allow fallback to HTTP of authentication or credit card data? NO! It is time for unencrypted mail transport to die.
You can't use longjmp/setjmp - http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/program/longjmp

There are several popular "C" libraries that use them - jpeglib comes to mind, but there are others. Also certain language's runtime environment uses it. There is a way to handle it, but you need to take care.
If you're using procmail as your delivery agent, then adding this to your procmailrc should work:

:0fw
| /path/to/gpgit.pl you@example.com

Be sure to also enable opportunistic transport-layer encryption in Postfix (it's pointless to encrypt mail upon receipt if it just traveled in the clear on the Internet) by putting this in main.cf:

smtp_tls_security_level = may
smtpd_tls_security_level = may
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /path/to/cert
smtpd_tls_key_file = /path/to/key

You need a SSL cert for this, but it can be a self-signed cert. If you're on Debian (probably Ubuntu too) you can use the snakeoil cert (/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem and /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key).
Perhaps if the issue was brought to the courts the Guardian may have become subject to a court order (let's say, a gag order), which even if violated in the US could have lead the Guardian to be in contempt. I think in this case a small retreat was more effective than a direct confrontation.
Remember, your bones are largely CALCIUM apatite. Calcium isn't just used structurally, it's used with hormones in signalling and it plays a huge role in many enzymatic reactions in the body.

Excess dietary calcium is stored in the bone bank and withdrawn when one of the 100+ crucial human biochemical reactions requiring calcium lowers the blood availability.

Perhaps there are ways of maximizing the effect of one of our most important and most used nutrients, but nothing can replace the Ca element and it's widespread, fundamental usage in our body.

I wish I could watch your video (I don't speak German) but I want to stress that Ca is absolutely a requirement for healthy bones, and is the #1 requirement. Without calcium intake, there cannot be bone for long.
How not to run a hackathon
> Why don't you go and have a good long thing about your life, how you interact with others, and what you want to achieve when you talk to people, especially strangers. What you are doing now is, long term, going to do you no good at all.

You first.
A lot of Google searches come from the same place: having google as the default search engine and then typing in "facebook" rather than "facebook.com"
KDE Releases Plasma Media Center 1.1
Actually I don't really get why anaphora are considered so hard:

the difference between
We gave the bananas to the monkeys because they were hungry.

and

We gave the bananas to the monkeys because they were ripe.

is simply to check in what you know about the world. Monkeys are animals, which can be hungry. Bananas are fruits which can be ripe. The third example is ambiguous because both animals and fruits can be 'here'.

Similarly, out of all the meanings of 'bank', there's only one that can be sat on.

Consider me naive, but it shouldn't be too hard to build a program backed by nothing more than an SQL database that can handle these.

And consider me SUPER naive, but that's exactly what I am doing at the moment in my spare time.
Well I have a very basic understanding of the methods I would think to employ, but I appreciate the info. I will look into it. Truth be told, I just happen to try to approach all problems with a fresh mind. Poke around and see if it has been done. I am under no illusion that its the grand fix all, but I always hope when I sit down with someone that they can help me flesh it out, or it at least puts their gears in motion. My limitation is actually going and doing it myself with my shallow knowledge pool. The pitfalls of tryin to dabble in everything and gaining expertise in nothing ;)

Thanks again though!
The time subdivision is barely the tip of the visible surface to me[1]. The music itself, the superimposed flows of time relationships and frequency relationships (melody, rhythm, harmony), is something very wide and when you're finally able to parse and follow along it's a very soothing mental experience. It's really separating a whole into different views, and recombining them (almost) on the fly, not very different to data transformation. Also, in my case, the conservation of momentum in sticks, when trying to play jazz drum parts was really close to physics. You can't sustain complex and fast movement like these if you don't think deeply about your limb/joints and in more abstract ways and when you do so, it flips everything upside down (you almost rotate your sticks backward)

Music is invisible at first, the journey between unconscious appreciation and the 'parsing' stage is long, and full of counter intuitive realizations, which to me, is the same whatever domain your try to understand.

Another parallel is the way we interface with these. There's the remote long round trip way and the direct tangible way. For computers : large systems requiring pauses in your knowledge acquisition, think ~minutes build times (this is the main view on computers, lisp OSes and smalltalk browsers are unknown to many) vs REPLs. In music there's music theory[1], lots of wasteful (borderline absurd) ceremony and delay before reaching to the music itself, and just following along, failing and trying again (here I think the most used one is the direct, you buy an instrument and "play" without real understanding, opposite of computers).

Hoping I wasn't too blurry.

[1] Have you seen Chris Ford Functional Composition talk ? https://www.google.com/search?q=chris+ford+functional+compos... (youtube/skillsmater hosted) He manage to layer music theory ideas in a very simple manner in one hour, with direct rendering of what they are. Much more efficient than what I could experience or see in music classes younger (I understand that kid psychology is different especially in groups). It's really not very profound and actually it won't teach you music, just reference ideas needed to then impregnate the whole subject through your won learning process (I believe it's a 10000hour thing).
Odd sort of ad-hominem. The pricing structure of airlines certainly wasn't determined by ad execs. What he points out is that it isn't so bad: it does much better at maximizing utility than having all the seats the same and most of them more expensive.

His point was that if the airline pricing system is not so bad (and I'm not agreeing with that), then having it apply to other high fixed cost, low marginal cost things--like his daughter's bus--might also not be so bad.

Of course, the example of his daughter's bus makes me wonder if the whole thing isn't tongue in cheek and I'm not getting it because I'm not British.
If you are interested in coroutines, take a look at GNU Portable Threads http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/ and this paper: http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/rse-pmt.ps
Unfortunately your experience is all too common. I personally interviewed two times at google. The first time I never made it to their offices, but made it through 4 phone interviews, that all went well. After I had gone through the 2nd phone interview, I had started interviewing at another company (well, I needed a job afterall). Within 3 weeks the new company had given me an offer. I meanwhile went to two more google interviews over the phone, and had been stalling on accepting the other job offer, because the prospect of working at google, was exciting. Well 2 more weeks went by, and finally the job offer at the new company was going to expire, so I had no choice but to take it. At this point I didn't see the point of continuing the interview with google, which my internal recruiter at google said would easily last 4 more weeks, as I had not been onsite yet.

Fast forward 3 years, and I had another poor interview experience with google. I flew up there this time, and got to interview in person. It was fun to see the google plex. I had 5 interviews in person scheduled. I felt like I ace'd 3 of them, 1 of them I did OK, and 1 I bombed. 2 days later google informed that that I was not a "culture fit".

I am not sure what the deal was. I felt like I had rapport with all of the interviewers, and I also had 2 internal recommendations. So, maybe that was some canned response way of saying no. Or maybe it was literal.

At any rate, I will never try to apply to google again, even though I too am contacted by a google recruiter no less than every 6 months. Sigh.
I was referring to his original rant on C++: http://250bpm.com/blog:4 and http://250bpm.com/blog:8. They are pretty misinformed. He claims in C++ the erasing solution is O(n) where it is O(1) in C. This doesn't make any sense of course.

The comments you are referring to where he moderates his position are resulting from the comments he received from the C++ community regarding his incorrect statements.
He's writing in the New Yorker. New York City is still widely considered to be the #1 terror target and the New Yorker magazine knows what it's readers will probably want to hear.
I'm interested to see how the Nanomsg filesystem state model compares to the ZMQ context state model. I'm a little bit worried about using Nanomsg in a multithreaded environment.
Breaking cryptography doesn't require sending people's children to die, giving people PTSD, or otherwise angering a significant portion of the US population. If anything, it creates good middle-class jobs.

Imagine how much computing power the US fighter jet program's budget could buy.
Sorry, I think I was in a particularly argumentative mood.
There exists at least one UK university which uses Haskell as a teaching language in its CS department. Not quite 7 year olds, but certainly a good percentage of fresh programmers.

Does it result in better programmers? Perhaps. It certainly forces you to understand recursion.
Another really easy way: I have a simply memory game on my phone, 6x4 fields. If it is too late or if I am tired, I will make more mistakes and take longer to memorise things. On the other hand, I can turn and solve it much more quickly when I am fresh and well-rested. Also, if I play a number of them at a time, they start to run together, again resulting in worse results.
Better yet: coroutines in three macros. I found this page googling "yield in c++", not really expecting to find anything. I ended up not using it, but it's still my favorite bit of hackery.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html
Am I the only one who doesn't think Medium is some horrible, evil thing? It's still a solid, pretty, functional, and easy blogging platform for people who just want to get something out there. It doesn't do much to allow authors to distinguish themselves from the pack; I think this is left up for the author to do, if they want or even care, via other social media, like Twitter. It seems there's a general trend away from a single, all-inclusive social platform like Facebook towards a distributed system of smaller pieces which can fit together.

It wouldn't be my blogging platform of choice, but I'm the sort of person who'd go to all the trouble of hand-crafting a personal website for something like this, just for the fun of it. Medium is obviously for people who want the opposite experience.

None of this is to say that Medium doesn't have its share of problems, but I think it is at least decent from the blogger's perspective and IMHO pretty good from the reader's perspective.
No one remembered the conversations between Ryan Dahl and Zed Shaw on the http parser two years ago?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2549403

[2] https://twitter.com/zedshaw/status/15714602817
Haven't used it, but Steve Mann (http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/steve-mann-my-au...) is their advisor and the founder is one of his former students.

"But Google Glass is much less ambitious than the computer-mediated vision systems I constructed decades ago."

"I worry that Google and certain other companies are neglecting some important lessons. Their design decisions could make it hard for many folks to use these systems. Worse, poorly configured products might even damage some people’s eyesight and set the movement back years."

Lots more meaty detail on computer glasses in that link.
They're available in Arabic and many other languages as well: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms?locale=ar_AR
Dealing with recruiters who don't understand what a company is actually looking for can be pretty frustrating.
An alternative approach, arguably with too much magic:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html
I'm fairly new to web development, but I've been thinking about starting a Node.js project backed by a PostgreSQL database lately. I was planning on using express to create an API of some sort to do all the database queries and return relevant information in JSON, then create the website front-end with something like Angular and have it just communicate with the API returning the JSON. Is there a better approach?
Doesn't this arbitrage play work the other way around? Unless you are saying, since money is so difficult to get out of Mt Gox, people are buying coins there, transferring and selling them (at a loss) on other exchanges where withdrawals are faster?
I'm struggling to find any source that directly confirms it, but it's most certainly the same plug used in this standard, and the Dell Streak which conforms to it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDMI
I did that and could't go back to Java, but then I learned Clojure, and now I can't go back to Scala =)
> qualities you describe hardly meet the bare minimum of what the public should expect from an editor.

Or from head of MI5, head of Civil Service, Attourney Generals, Prime Minister.

There is a lot unknown here, but I think you are assuming he allowed the destruction so that it could not be proven they had it in the first place (making him safer).

There are other explanations - including a desire not to let UK courts have jurisdication over his sources. He is moving the entire reporting to NY - thats a pretty clear indication of his thinking. Choose your jury wisely.
the tube runs at full capacity in central sections at peak times.

on some lines you even get a train entering the platform while the previous train is still pulling out!
I think the thing we need to consider is that they don't need to have explicit files per se on anybody anymore.

It seems more likely that if a file was needed on you, they could generate one by simply typing some PII (say, a name and address) into a computer form, which then causes form letters to be sent mail merge style to credit agencies, retailers, telecoms, and major social networks requesting your information. Then, as the relevant data comes in, it gets added to an electronic folder to be accessed by whomever thinks they need access to it.
His initial bug report included a link to a post he made, using the exploit, on a user's account that was not a friend. The timeline of all that makes it very clear that he violated the TOS, thus the whitehat program rules, prior to reporting the bug.
Source?

A very pale person may burn in 5 minutes. It doesn't make sense that your body would speed up the synthesis of cholesterol just because your skin has less melanin or is more sensitive to UV radiation. Also keep in mind that no matter how much is synthesized it's up to the liver and kidney to make it into a useful hormone.
Organize. It's the only course of action that has ever worked.

Voting/not voting/protesting/etc. are tactics that are only useful as part of a larger campaign, and as part of a large group committed to a particular goal.
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HR's don't recognize talent and tell you they have fixed salary bands which are solely based on years of experience.
I think it is the weaknesses of the screening process at the other end. A lot of good applications go nowhere because they get little to no attention. It is still too hard to separate good candidates from the plethora of the applications received. This partly comes from missing good indicators of performance (See [1] for example).

While performance lacks good measures, compensation is quantitative as it is. This leads to misjudgements on quality-vs.-cost tradeoff impacting both the potential employers and good candidates.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130620142512-3...
It doesn't have explosive bolts.
> That's cool?

Yes.

> How about Justin Bieber articles, if, say, a bunch of teenage girls sign up?

Yes.
Not well enough that I'd throw away my monitor, but it's also a gestural control system, etc. so it' not a perfect comparison.
Actually some research has shown that the darker your skin, the more likely you will have Vitamin D issues.

What cause most Vitamin D issues today is that people are NOT enough in the sun...

I personally dislike the sun and used to avoid it a lot (because I am more or less white and it burns me fast), now I have a really bad Vitamin D deficiency and was obliged by the medics to take supplements.

I stopped avoiding the sun... But it is still not really enough (I am programmer... I wake up in a dark room, walk to work in the sun, but the walk is 5 minutes, and then I stay indoors until night, when I walk back home, without any sun, thus my total sun daily is 5 minutes :/)
I would love a good citation if you have one. I'll look around on my own, too. Curious about this because I am 1) very pale and 2) enjoy hiking.
Can Free Speech and Internet Filters Co-Exist?
Not really. NSA already use their mail mass-dumps mostly for aggregated analysis, to pinpoint networks of interlinked individuals which they can then pass to other agencies for parallel construction.

Mailpile will not change that.

At the very least, we need metadata encryption right about now.