skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, I can see that being a problem. Though I have a habit of avoiding distro-packaged interpreters/compilers anyway, even with Fedora, so that I'm always on the latest.
Performance analysis of Twitter Bootstrap over the last 2 years
unordered_map?
Given the founders now work at different companies I'd assume it's dead.
> You must sign in to read past the first answer.

That's all I need to know about Quora.
I have a friend whose company charges up to $1000/hour [sic] for SAT and other tutoring. And parents in NYC and SF pay it. And succeed in getting their kids into Stanford, Harvard, etc.

I have another friend, an accomplished author, who says "I paid for my house writing term papers" for rich, lazy college students. Not sure which schools.

If you're just trying to make it on your own, it's tough to compete against all this. Without SAT tutoring or parental money, I earned degrees from two elite schools, but these days - who knows whether I'd even have got in.
The version at http://mrrio.github.io/jsPDF/ works for me in FF23.
*De bello gallico

(or, if you prefer, "Commentarii de bello Gallico")
As Skinney says, Mozilla are creating JS APIs for access to hardware and commonly needed phone features in Firefox OS. Check out the WebAPI list: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI#APIs

Some of these APIs are also available or planned for the Firefox Desktop and Android versions (availability column).
Every wireless router & device should have been shipped, from early on in the history of WiFi, with default-on support for ad-hoc networks. Few and fragile at first, in many areas would have grown to a robust "backbone" by now and will only grow larger & stronger with device proliferation. Account for priority traffic & battery life, of course, but even low-level support would have grown very difficult to intercept. Alas, the desire for central control, as usual, overruled.
Your URL is dead, I believe this is the right one:

http://nplusonemag.com/the-intellectual-situation-issue-15

Edit: your URL is missing http://, for whatever that is worth.

Every time a plane flies over New York, we think, “Oh my God — is it another Atlantic think piece?” We mean, “an Atlantic think piece about women.”
I'm pro-gun, but guns can be very dangerous. They are also very easy to secure. Buy a gun safe, buy trigger locks, don't leave any of the keys at home. ( hiding them isn't enough ) an 8 year old doesn't need access to their own(or any) gun.

The media loves to eat this stuff up for sure...
I don't understand why Nimrod has to mostly look like Python, but then make all kinds of innovations in syntax and formatting which have nothing to do with performance.
"Do not keep secret keys on the instance." I'm curious how people deal with this--what approaches do you use?
Yes, using google's DNS servers go to authenticated google search page.
Shared with me by a Facebook friend who thought a lot about the college admission process, and then went into industry before finishing his college degree. Although I enjoyed reading this article, I didn't submit it here because I usually like Hacker News submissions that tell us more about the reality of the external world. This article, as smooth-reading as it is, tells us mostly that the author is in the business of college admission counseling (serving as advertising for the author's business), and buttresses factual claims with inherently unverifiable anecdotes. I agree heartily that children ought to grow up to pursue their own passions rather than gratifying their parents' egos, but I've seen other submissions here that make that point even better.

P.S. The article should be submitted with its original title, by the HN guidelines.
Reminds me of the story on how "Settlers of Catan" was created.

"Every once in a while, he would bring the new game upstairs to test it out on his family. They would play along, but Teuber could tell that the game wasn't working. Sometimes, in the middle of a match, he would notice his youngest son, Benny, reading a comic under the table. Other times his wife would suddenly remember a load of laundry that needed immediate attention. After each of these sessions, Teuber would haul the game back downstairs for further refinement. He repeated this process over the course of four years..."

http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/magazine/17-04/mf_...
I’m going to ask you to go ahead and come in on Saturday.
Yeah that is frustrating. I was able to update some apps, but the OS update is not working. I heard about the 1.1 update which speeds things up, but turns out that bug is for a 1.0 update. I think the keyboard is the biggest holdup right now. It is slow to register, and doesn't have much of an auto-correct. They have an auto-suggest which isn't as useful. I don't want to dwell on the negatives, but there are a few issues.
Using 3-D Printing to Create Synthetic Organs
There essentially is such a secret pact. The official hospital bill is a worst case that roughly nobody actually pays. It exists for leverage, both with insurance companies and with people paying out of pocket. It also exists because some people will actually pay it, and that's profit for the hospital.

Because hospitals are mandated to perform life-saving treatment regardless of willingness to pay, they have to foist the cost of that treatment onto their other customers. However, insurance companies hate paying much above cost, and they have a huge stick in the form of "we will remove your hospital from our network of approved providers" to get the hospital not to charge too much. Hospitals can't recoup those extra costs from insured people too well, so it tends to fall mostly on uninsured people with money. But the way it works is everyone gets the same bill, and then when the insurance company steps in to pay it, they activate their secret pact with the hospital to pay a small amount above cost instead of the nominal $8k figure.

Yeah, it's insane.
Shameless copy/paste of my comment from the earlier article:

My problem with the rah-rah around Tesla is that, good as they might be compared to the status-quo, they are still cars.
There's not enough attention paid to the fact that cars and the sedentary lifestyle they encourage are a net-negative for most people. Many of the folks I talk to who'd like to move to an active form of transportation don't because they are scared of being hit by a car. We've effectively ceded huge swaths of public space to single occupancy vehicles, and made it off limits to humans. This is bad for the health of the people in those cars, but also bad for everyone else.
Fetch associations with subqueries and Rails scopes
I don't think unguided is an appropriate descriptor for an evolutionary process (by definition or in the scope of PHP's history). However, your point about success is right on, and seems to fit the 'evolution' title and the language.
I'm glad the code is available. I'd like to see this visualization applied to previous census data, so that we can visually compare two points in time (or more). So, say:

* the 2000 census data

* the 1990 census data

* the 1980 census data

... and so on. If this can be visualized, and then maybe animated, that would provide some insightful results.
No, you have no idea what your scale problems are going to be (if you ever have them). That is because if you get lucky and your application scales, it (and the world) will change significantly from what it is today.

Let me tell you a story: in 1998 at Inktomi (look it up) we had a distributed search engine running on Sun hardware. We could not have anticipated that we'd need to migrate to Linux/PC because Sun's prices would make it impractical for us to continue scaling using their hardware. It took us three years to make the switch, and that's one of the reasons we lost to Google. Had we started two years later (when Gigabit ethernet became available for no-brand PC hardware), then we would have built the entire thing on Linux to begin with.

"It really doesn't take a lot of time to plan ahead."

Have you ever experienced the growth of a startup to see your infrastructure cost soar to five, six, seven figures per month? Two hours will get you as far as "one day we'll probably need to replace MySQL by something else." What you don't know is what that something else will be. Too many writes per second? Reads? Need for geographical distribution? A schema that changes all the time because you need features and fields you never imagined? Will you need to break up your store into a service-oriented architecture with different types of components? Will you run your own datacenter, or will you be on AWS? What will be the maturity level of different pieces of software in two years?

I hope you get the point.
Yep, me too. It sucked, cause moving just doesn't have enough expenses already. Apparently my great credit score is meaningless, more important was the previous tenants were deadbeats.

Morgan Spurlock also had to pay a deposit in his show 30 Days, and he commented about how it was the first time in his life he had to pay a deposit, and it must have been the address he was living in. (He was living with a minimum wage for 30 days in the episode, so he moved into a low rent apartment in Ohio.)
For very good engineering reasons, Redis is limited to what it can keep in memory. Postgres, for equally good reasons, can use disk. That makes a difference if you have a lot of key-value pairs to store, and are willing to accept a few disk seeks.
I know precisely what I'm talking about.

Still, I guess I should have been clearer - there are several "non client side" saving technologies which are outside the scope of this law, and make the law completely useless.

Further though, I would criticise the EU whatever the content of this law. We do not need a law to enforce rules about a specific technology of HTTP. What the hell business is it of the EU?

The EU is absolutely obsessed with writing up laws to invade into absolutely every area of our lives.
The New York Times Dropped a Rare F-Bomb
Experts See Benefits In Resurrecting Extinct Animals, But Critics Abound
Unavoidable when you have to hit fleet mileage requirements and a pickup is your best selling vehicle. You can always move up in power though, but most people don't come close to needing the base model's engine.
Ethnicity is not a clearly defined term

Oh I know. There is lots of disagreements about if subset of humanity X or Y counts as a different ethnicity (Irish Travellers are view as a separate ethnicity in UK, but not Ireland for example). However the existance of disagreements, nor a clear definition doesn't mean the word is useless.
That doesn't pass the sniff test. Slaughtering a few thousand stunned pigs would be exhausting. Killing that many people who are trying to kill you? Not gonna happen.
> lists of thousands of real-world weak passwords

They are compiled in a different way but serve the very same purpose as a rainbow table. A list of precompiled hashes.

Thus, they are just a kind of rainbow table.

Therefore, rainbow tables do matter.
If that's racism, then it is a lot less virulent of a thing than we normally think of. Almost everybody in the world has some sort of affinity for their own cultural group, practices and norms. Maybe we should develop another term for active inter-racial hatred?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4076872
"Facebook Launches Simple Mobile Payments."

Trust factor amongst the technocracy (here), but I wonder if this will have the same end-result of non-usage.
I never liked this service and found it an annoyance that every time one of my friends had a birthday, this thing would be bugging me with these minor value items. If it were a person I give gifts to, I would have bought them something already, and it would be something more personalized.
Really? They have been around since 5.0, which is nearly a decade old. See some of the other interfaces SPL provides here: http://php.net/manual/en/book.spl.php
If you'll go read his opinions, you'll see that he has been a strong advocate for static analysis. His position is very understandable since he spent a lot of time working on complex pieces of C/C++ code, encountering a lot of subtle accidental errors that could have been avoided with better tools for static analysis or with a better language. He also worked mostly on client side software, where the fail fast / fail hard strategy of projects built in dynamic languages doesn't work so well.

Lisp vs ML vs others is a very subjective issue since languages involve different kinds of trade-offs, so optimal choices depend on the project or on personal style.

Also, this is John Carmack. For me he was a God 10 years ago and he's still one of the best and most practical developers we have today. Seeing him talk about Haskell is amazing.

BTW, I've been a big fan of Scala lately, and I don't see myself using much Haskell precisely because its tools for modularity seem limited. In Scala you can use OOP to build abstract modules, with the much hyped Cake pattern being based on that. Dynamic languages are naturally more modular, however I still prefer static languages.
Now you've got me paranoid.
Ask HN: Where to print B2B flyers the old school way?
I have been looking to get some side projects in my area and one very well connected B2B person asked me to give him some flyers and business cards. I looked at moo.com for business cards but flyers ?? I thought i could just share the website but he is very old school and he said he will personally share flyers with his contacts. Any other places to print flyers ? vistaprint ?
If you were on the MIT campus, you knew about the NSA. There were big ads in the student newspaper.
Chinese Man Hires Actors to Impersonate His Parents and Sell Their House
the color combinations are very dull.
We're a 50/50 UNIX and Windows financial outfit. We use windows 7 + office on all desktops. UNIXy stuff is all on the end of PuTTY.

From a general office work point of view, Excel is a piece of crap when it comes to anything past simple ledgers. Sure it starts out awesome but the moment it gets attached to an email, all hell breaks loose. SharePoint is the best fix for this but it's an ugly behemoth. Failing that, access + SQL Express is pretty good for most things but requires some knowledge past basic pointy clicky stuff.

However, I uaed excel (and an HP48 calculator) for years as an engineer. In fact I built a massive toolkit with it. Fine for that though but not for data sharing which is what it inevitably degrades to in the wrong hands.

Also our entire document authoring system is built on top off word and VSTO.

Office cost is a non issue. Its cheap enough not to be noticed if considered across 5 years.

Google docs doesn't cut it and we're not even likely to use it due to data sharing/privacy concerns and compliance issues. Plus google docs is hideously slow and the API is horrible.

Office is not dead by a long shot despite the whinging from hipster startups pushing social crap.

Oh we use JIRA too btw.
1) I responded to you. Obviously. You just replied to my response to you.

2) Because your comment was in response to one of mine, it is impossible for me to downvote it. I can only downvote comments that are in response to others.
Your vision sounds great; I just caution you on the execution. Getting far away from your current situation is important in everyone's life journey. Doing this right will make you stronger for the rest of your life; doing it wrong will make for an ugly or even fatal experience.

Wherever you go, I encourage you to travel by land. People who get dropped off in the middle of nowhere can get in trouble fast. If you travel by land, you will see the transition from the concrete jungle to the far north unfold in front of your eyes. You can then decide how far you want/need to go, and how quickly. You could walk, hitchhike, bicycle, drive, take a bus, whatever.

I grew up in New Hampshire, but I find references to the Yukon in my early elementary school writing. The far north is just in some people's blood. I spent 18 months living on a bicycle in my twenties, and I wouldn't trade that time for anything. I live in Alaska now, and loved the journey here.

Good luck!
Reminds me of something a former boss used to say. "Pay me now, or pay me later; either way, there has to be a payment". It sounds like Carmack is saying that brutal purity always forces the "pay me now" approach since it's harder to write this code, but it is worth it in the long run.
Most people need to move large things only rarely, such that it makes way more sense to buy a car optimized for daily tasks, and rent a truck the one time a year or so that you need one.
Ask HN: Did anyone else get spammed by Mashape API marketplace?
I got two identical messages sent from two GMail addresses. Based on the e-mail they sent them to, I suspect they scrapped my address from my GitHub profile - does this happen frequently? Do most people keep their email private on Github?
You're lucky someone put it online http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8S4BbWhayk

Some additional info from the tv channel who broadcasted it http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/047580-000/les-gaulois-au-dela-d...
I think they meant there was no malware being delivered from visiting the page.
This is about the very wealthy types (members of the buller) whos kids are genuinely puzzled that you dont have a castle in Ireland or a summer home in the Hamptons.
Here's a pretty important and clear amendment:

> The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

The Constitution defines what the government can do, not what the people can do.
Remember "Stratcap" folks. The organization made to funnel insider info into other nations where it would be profited off of, I believe JP Morgan or some other shady company was to be the financial backer.

Then the "terrorists" wikileaks helped expose it all.

Bonus snippet from the leak:

On Jul 23, 2011, at 11:41 PM, Don Kuykendall <kuykendall@stratfor.com>
wrote:

"We blamed everything on the lawyers. The result will be a frustrating StratCap and Service agreement that you and Bruce will vomit over. So be it. George, Shea and I are on the same wave length and are willing to have loose ends in the contract to get the business deal done. The three of us have an understanding that goes beyond whatnots in the future that might happen. If we can't trust each other, then things are going to fail regardless what the contract reads. StratCap and STRATFOR are the same investment to Shea, George and me."

[1] http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/releasedate/2012-02-27-00-strat...

edit: I cannot for the life of me figure out why this would be down-voted. Was it the syntax, grammar? Was it highlighting one of Stratfor's own emails about StratCap and Stratfor being considered one and the same? The cultivation of insider info paid for, then 'laundered' offshore for for-profit use while those involved also get a cut of the profits?

Beuller?

edit edit: I would honestly appreciate input to whoever does the negative votes, sometimes sprees. In some instances in which I vote down myself I cannot fathom down-voting without adequately explaining why the to user.
The Spy Who Loved Nothing
And running with your example, what do you imagine would have been the political situation in the U.K. if say London had consisted of 60-70% Irish nationalist Catholics in 1985?

Well Ireland was 95% Catholic, and had a terrorist guerilla war and seceeded from the UK in 1922. This often happens in Europe when there are ethnic disagrements (latest example: Kosovo). Or there's policial independence movements (e.g. Catalonia, Scotland).

Or is there still discrimination within categories of whites?

With regard to Polish people, there has been a lot of Polish migration to UK in the last few years since Poland fully joined the EU. So there'd be loads of "white Polish" families who moved there in the last 10 years. Not exactly comparable. There would be racism against ethnic Polish people. The UK does have a large Indian and Pakistani population, some third generation by now. And yes there can be racism against them. I suppose a pedant would claim the US racial definitions are still relevant by claiming things are different, but social and legally racism against Polish people, and Pakistani people would be seen as quite similar, not different types of discrimination. "They took our jobs" would a common type of discrimination in the UK against "white" migrants from Eastern & Central Europe. Racism between, what in the USA would be considered, "whites" does happen in Europe.
I use another tactic sometimes, somewhat related.

I make a stronger and radically (more inflammatory if you wish) than the person I am talking to. It has to be just inflammatory enough for them to start defending the weaker more moderate position, basically leaning towards the direction you'd want to persuade them originally. For example, I have some hard core Fox News watching Republicans in my extended family. So sometimes when they bring health care and how it distributes wealth to the lazy and it is not free market and such. I bring grandma so and so and how she is just mooching off our government with the medicare. She never paid all that in her life and she is part of the socialist communist system that is robbing the country. Then they usually start to backpedal -- well...you see this is different and they argue for how the country should take care of the elderly and so on...

Anyway I do it more for fun and amusement if someone makes the mistake of bringing the topic up, rather than hoping to actually convince them.

And maybe this is well studies and has a name I just don't know what it is called. "Act crazier than the crazies"?
More than 1% of the kids at Ivys are from the 1%, or at least that's what conventional wisdom is, and that may or may not make sense. The posted article is attempting to explain that it's through a fault in the system where those with money can use that money as a substitute for intellect or drive to distinguish their children.

I have no clue if it's right, but it's more valuable to daily life of those applying to Ivys than Honey Boo Boo or Jersey Shore would be.
From my response to somebody else in this discussion: " Hiding behind terms of use on SDKs isn't something that mellows the sting of this to users who probably don't even know what "SDK" means."
Commit: The Hacker Way to Build a Habit
> I have a friend whose company charges up to $1000/hour [sic] for SAT

Not understanding the use of [sic] here.