skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Major hard on for this work, amazingly awesome geekery going on here.

Given the clock drift, it seems like our man could use a PPS injector/killer alike what Google uses to slowly shift their time-synchronous data-centers through situations like leap seconds. Something's got to be done about the drift, but making a big event out of it would be, IMO, generally a bad thing, whereas taking a couple days to undrift off the added milliseconds would be ideal. Just- don't stop logging drift, in absolute time too. http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/11/google-spanner-...

Superb work. Would love some pictures of this setup! Some of the coolest 486's in use!
It isn't a shallow comment. Receiving Justice in India is largely a function of gender and caste. I mention it not because I look down on India, but because I see so much potential in that country that may never be fulfilled if it doesn't fix its government, and its social attitudes towards women and poor people.

I don't think that there is a dramatic increase in rapes in India, its just that information flows more freely now. I agree that its getting attention because people in India are finally ready to talk about such issues. When I talk about India being a shitty country, I'm talking about the government, and the people who allow the caste system to persist. Many average Indians are outraged by the way that rape victims are treated, yet the government just wants everyone to act like its OK to punish the victims.

For what its worth, I bitch about the United States just as much if not more than any other country, because we have been fucking up a lot lately too.
Until some wearable device can actually replace a smartphone instead of complement it, I think you're right. Not many people want to carry yet another device, so you've got to have a pretty awesome and broadly appealing use case to convince them to do so. I just don't see it with the Gear (or the Glass for that matter).
This is not aimed at you, but at your wording. Controlling parents keeping their children isolated inside their own bubble, safely ensconced away from undesirable beliefs, classes and ethnicities, should take care not to be deluded that what they are offering their children is 'freedom'.
Why cards are the future of the web
I think a lot of that comes from the iTunes gift cards that everybody seems to get for Christmas, Birthdays, etc. I purchased my first app with "real" money a month or two ago for android.
> I just see people doing it as if it was a mean to something and that's what eludes me (apart from, growing muscles to attract some girls, I get that).

If it helps put things into perspective - it's a rare person who wakes up and wishes that they were weaker than they were the day before. However, that's precisely what happens to you if you don't engage in resistance training; this is especially true the older one gets.
Please note: I am actually a huge fan of Google+. I posted this because it shows real world emotions based on design decisions that sometimes developers/UX people shrug off. I personally hope that someone here has the power to help this user (and correct the original design problem?).
You can shave away a LOT of form factors if you just agree to cut off development before Android 4.0.

This is tough for people to resolve to do, but in the US that's 60% of the market. I'd rather ship a good product to 60% of the people in a reasonable amount of time, rather than spending a ton of time working on tiny slices of the last 40% and limiting what the product can do overall.

You also end up targeting much newer devices and OS versions, which evades a lot of problems with piracy.
What are you talking about?

If it's somehow clearer to say if (x == true) instead of if (x), why isn't it also clearer to say if ((x == true) == true) instead of merely if (x == true)? And so on?
You're right....I don't live in the UK. Either way....the OP didn't say "Amazon will be a monopoly in the UK"...he implicitly said it would have a 'monopoly on retail'.

For all intents and purposes, I assumed he was talking about in Amazon's home country (or even globally given Amazon's distributed nature).
Perhaps you should try reading the article and my comment for context, because it's apparent you didn't understand them. I'm saying that Gray is demonstrably wrong about authoritarianism wrt the Reformation, because the Church was not above criticism. The article, and my comment, was on-topic in that regard.
Call me when we stop sending drones to kill school children on their way to school.
Also, we have indefinite detention without trail. Guantanamo .

North Korea is a result of American Empire( Korean War). They are not going to disarm and be foolish like Libya ( who was silly enough to sign away its nuclear program)
"...for Yahoo’s sake, we hope the new logo announced tomorrow will remind users of its graphical heritage."

That the logo should "remind" people of the old one seems correct, but too close to the old one would be a mistake.

These days, it seems like Yahoo management is caring more and more about its image to non-users. For that purpose, they might be better off keeping some of the testably preferred characteristics, but taking a sharp right on others to rewire the brand.

Same great Yahoo, new chocolate filling.
3D printing's forthcoming legal morass
Industry numbers I've seen suggest that this is changing rapidly. I think what we're seeing is that Android is attracting a lot more high end smartphone customers and they are buying more apps. The gap is still big, but it is shrinking rapidly.
This article is so black and white and elitist to add practically no value to the public school debate.

I have two middle schoolers in an affluent public school district and our experience is very different. There are many motivated teachers constantly tweaking their approach to keep students engaged. If anything, I'd want more structure in our schools.

The much bigger issue is that alternative schooling approaches work only with a high degree of involvement from parents and the community. Do we really thing "Sudbury Valley" schools would work in inner cities or the deep South? I rather think parents are glad to have someone keep their kids out of trouble while they work overtime to scrape by.

Also, self-motivated learning gets you only so far. Without some external pressure I don't think most kids would decide to study calculus or statistics or other dry but important topics.
Uninformative and inappropriate title. The entire article is about "background fetching", and the title should reflect that.

Also, Apple has always advised against "splash screens", and instead recommended that you make a fake-screen bitmap so it looks like your app has already launched. This is stupid for two major and related reasons:

1. When the user starts tapping on controls on your fake screen and they don't work, it looks like your app is defective and locked up.

2. The screen will show outdated and inaccurate information until the app is actually running and replaces the fake screen with the real one.

iOS 7 is rife with examples of this screen-shot problem. iOS has always (as far as I know) taken a snapshot of the app's screen before it goes into the background, which it then displays when the app returns. This often shows wrong information or even the wrong orientation, long enough to perplex the user.
Well, what you write certainly isn't aimed at me, because I don't do any of "keeping their children isolated inside their own bubble, safely ensconced away from undesirable beliefs, classes and ethnicities" in my culturally diverse, community-involved, intellectually curious homeschooling family. Most homeschooling families I know, and I know hundreds all around the United States, resemble my open and free family life more than they resemble your caricature of some unknown anecdote you've encountered.
Isn't the "winner" the current crumby logo? I would suspect that beyond any kind of validity questions from the surveyed cohort that there is a significant bias built in. Humans are kind of silly that they will always choose that which is familiar over that which is not, no matter how stupid or silly the familiar is. People have to heavily be told what they want, because people also don't like thinking. It is the very core of our society in particular, but also generally so.
They spent 30 days on logos meanwhile butchered their sports site. So many errors and so many inconsistencies, you can't even look at player game logs anymore. One page is all in black, while others have the old look(better) in white.

And the kicker is that they role it out a 2 weeks before fantasy football starts. You cannot even move to another site in time.

All this time spent on self promotion, and so little spent on execution.

I am a frustrated consumer, and all I get are logos for 30 days....who gives a blank.
No kidding. Completely uninspiring.

And, I'm thinking, do we really need to take a step backwards again with the camera? Smartphones are really just now catching up in photo quality where cameras were years ago (relatively speaking). Do we really need to go back to 1.9 megapixels, just to say we have a camera strapped to our wrists?

Across the board, it just seems like an unnecessary, underpowered smartphone duplicate, when smartphones are already comfortable for most.

The fitness application is the biggest I see for the watch, and of course, better dedicated watches already exist for that.

Pass.
I should point out that many of these techniques are not specific to Julia, although many of them are not so familiar to users of high-level languages since one doesn't, for example, need to think about ordering of matrix iterations when writing vectorized code. Those who write high-performance C and Fortran array code will already be familiar with much of this advice.
You never see these comments on the DPRK articles mentioning the torture, mass executions, widespread starvation, and labor camps. Just on the lighter ones about visiting the country.
It isn't necessarily the governments fault that the rapists decided to commit their crimes, but the lack of a fair and impartial justice system has inadvertently created an environment where rapists thrive. When women have been gang-raped in courthouses by lawyers, the average rapist probably doesn't think that he'll go to prison.
Also, there is some value in teaching people that sometimes you just need to do what you're told... and that's coming from someone who has always been diagnosed as having "problems with authority".

That of course requires that Those In Charge have the right sense of purpose, that they know what they are teaching and why they are doing it. George Polya had some words about is, and then there is this remark in Mark's Gospel, where the people "were astonished at [Jesus'] teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes."
> The problem is that the android users will most likely hate the UI and the bugs as it will probably be thrown together.

This is where your argument breaks down. It assumes that because you are on Android, you app is shoddy. That need not be the case. Android gets a bad rap for being "hard to develop for", but that's only the case if you try and hit the entire 2., 3. and 4.* userbase.

If you limit yourself to 4.*, the dev work is very comparable. It's just a lot of people are utterly convinced they need to put in 2-3x the work to pick up that 40% of the market.
coinbase June 2012...
The only thing web app can make you achieve faster is to reach end user.
Anything else will be so much faster using native SDK it is not even funny (assuming you have equal knowledge of either technology).
> my response was directed at him

OK, point taken and understood. My apologies for taking your comment out-of-context.

> not your hypothetical single mother with a special needs child

It wasn't hypothetical. That's an accurate description of the life my mother-in-law leads.
That would create the blandest option, the epitome of "meh".

For a similarly inspired experiment in art, see http://denisdutton.com/most_wanted.htm
We also don't post any pictures of our kid online. But for the simple reason that I know that it would be mostly for my own ego, I feel immense pride and have to hold back the pictures/videos on my phone frequently. Who genuinely likes to see hundreds of pics of their friends kids? I wonder...
> North Korea is a result of American Empire( Korean War)

It's a good thing you posted this from the US and not the DPRK. Don't think you'd fare as well over there (assuming you could smuggle in a cell phone with a data plan).
my guess would be instacart, goldbely or teespring. But there are probably some B2B contenders I haven't thought of
Go channels are bounded queues[0], Go's goroutines are coroutines.

[0] with a twist, the default size is 0 meaning unbuffered: items can't be stored in the queue, so a PUT will block until a GET is performed
NEW tutorials and examples C4 is an iOS API for rapid prototyping / interaction
If $100 a year would allow me to develop iOS apps on my Linux laptop I'd be fine with that. But $100 a year + paying for overpriced apple hardware doesn't sound appealing.
1. There is no one-size-fits-all plan that could possibly work for education. Everyone is different (duh)

Why is that? All able-bodied humans have brains, mouths, eyes, arms etc all of which work in much the same way. If you are making clothing, you don't say "everyone is different", you make clothes based on the same pattern in a relatively small range of sizes.

For people who have specific disabilities, we should make adjustments, but I don't understand why a single way of teaching would not work for most people. Leaving aside whether schools are the best way of teaching.
I suspect that winning online surveys is not a good fitness function for a successful logo.

I'm reminded of the spat over the London Olympics logo. Say what you will about the chosen design, many of the "better" alternatives offered to much acclaim were completely unsuitable. In particular, I remember one was a takeoff of the London Underground logo, which, while doubtlessly sure to be popular in online polls, rather missed the point of creating something distinctive.
Complete secrecy messaging system on the verge of expanding
Actually I find this kind of funny. Many people complain that it's so hard to delete a Facebook account. So here you go.
Was Diana Nyad really at risk of being bitten during her historic swim?
Cree LED bulb flaw
Homeschooling a child can help but it can also harm them. It really depends on the parents, the child, the style of education.

There is no one-size-fits-all in this case.

One thing I fear for my children is that homeschooling may rob them of vital social skills that can't easily be taught at home. But with the right social network (large family / friends), this can also be addressed.
This is obviously a horrible user experience. She's right. Why would any user make the connection that deleting their Google+ account would delete their YouTube channel as well? It's not intuitive in the least and it shouldn't happen. But if it's just the way things have to be then they should have ample notifications that it's going to happen before you commit.
If people are so different and have such different beliefs, why do you recommend forcing them all into a regimented uniformity?

Montessori Schools, Mondragon cooperatives, and such are good first experiments, and we should be learning from them how to better construct institutions in which people actually enact their own beliefs and opinions by actually making decisions and taking responsibility for their own daily lives, in accordance with intrinsically motivated self-discipline (which, notably, requires less reward-and-punishment enforcement infrastructure!).

If you object to the very principle of equality between people, fine, but at least object out loud. Don't come telling us that "sit down and shut up" is a means to any ends other than regimentation itself.
It could have just barely achieved statistical significance, but it would be hard to draw conclusions from it. Presumably the other 99.98% of families had political preferences, too. We just don't know what they are. And we don't know what caused that tiny percentage to share theirs.

It wouldn't be a bad idea to factor in the number of Democrats vs Republicans holding offices in the area around NYC during that time, either. I know NY state leans Democratic, and Democrats do well in city-level elections. Holding an actual office would probably make you more likely to mention your party.
"I'd say, given the historical track record of governments during the last 100 years, that it's very gullible to believe that whatever future problems our current data sharing will cause will somehow be "fixed" and not have consequences just as long as it affects a critical mass of the population."

For that matter, parts of our government like the NSA and the DEA consider the over-sharing of personal data on Facebook to be a useful source of exploitable information. They'd probably quietly lobby against any legislation to scale it back.
Disingenuous how? I genuinely don't understand.

The idea is to get out ahead of all the social networking bits, and create a deliberately blank slate. All of that stuff is placeholder, neutral, for as long as the kid wants it to be so. The kid's free to fill all that in, or not, but the child won't start with a bunch of their personal data filled in. That last part is consistent with the stated beliefs/goals of the author, bearing in mind that over time data only accretes and there's no undo.
If you are making clothing, you don't say "everyone is different", you make clothes based on the same pattern in a relatively small range of sizes.

Then why do the rich buy custom-tailored clothes?
Don't expect reasonable discussion of the DRPK here, of all places. :/

There's a reason that one of the HN guidelines is 'stay away from politics.'
There is the homeschoolers that you know, and then there is the families you encounter in "Jesus Camp". I have no idea how to get around the Dunning-Kruger effect, but to ignore is is dishonest. I haven't made up my mind about the Amish and Hasid communities either.
5 websites reviewed
The winner seems very similar to the old logo, sans serifs.

I wonder if the proper conclusion is that this is the best new logo, or that this is simply the most familiar.
Like what? Background fetching is great. What else?

For the end user, iOS 7 is a UI fiasco and a massive regression. Spindly, illegible text. A ridiculously degraded calendar, which no longer shows a concise list of a day's appointments but instead forces you to scroll through every hour of the day, hunting for whatever it is you have scheduled.

"Transparency", a stupid UI idea that came and went a decade ago because it SUCKED. Why do I want to see the crap BEHIND the UI I'm trying to use? Oh, but I don't really see it; I see a mottled mess of a background, because it's "blurred." This of course renders text illegible in many cases, because the background may be any combination of colors.

There are the tiny, undefined control areas. The invisible controls. The unresponsive controls.

The camera icon on the lock screen is a great example of Apple's UI stupidity (which predates iOS 7). People are still trying to tap this thing, because Apple inexplicably doesn't put an ARROW above it to show you WTF you're supposed to do. Why? There's no excuse for it.
By a large margin, users prefer a slanted exclamation mark, serif font, uneven baseline, and uppercase letters.

Now, the selected logo was almost identical to the current logo, except with a sans serif font. But wait... don't users prefer serif fonts?

So wouldn't a truly representative test also measure the logos against the current logo? Did Yahoo perform this kind of sanity check when trying to choose a new logo, I wonder?

And as a side note, I just want to say... some of those Yahoo logos are truly terrible.
HTSQL requires Python 2.7 and psycopg2 binary. As long as those install, I don't see any problems. We have tested it with older versions of Windows without any issues. If you run into a problem, you could report an issue: https://bitbucket.org/prometheus/htsql/issues
The position of the sun is very easy to predict, 90% of the time, in England: it's behind the clouds!
No registration allowed from your country? We registered a developer account on our business in The Netherlands a while ago. No problem at all.
are. you. fucking. serious.
I think you're trolling, and we're victims of some sort of social reaction experiment.
Many colleges/universities are starting to have pilot programs that have similar themes like WGU (competency based, self paced, online, etc). The biggest thing that some have mentioned about online that is constantly being disproved that online degrees are low value.
Some are yes, I won't deny there are some that are only worth the paper they are printed on.
That being said, WGU (and similar programs) not only offer accredited degrees but also help give experience. In the case of IT degrees, certificates are part of the program that help many get a step up and good for entry level. Long term value of certificates can be argued but in my opinion, they are worth it for those new to the field or wanting an extra step up. WGU I've also had my current employer (who is doing tuition reimbursement) have no issue with WGU as being worth more or less than any other accredited university.
I found my high school classmate's wedding announcement in the NY Times. She happened to be a doctor.
Day 28's logo[1] was the only one I liked. It didn't get too weird and still managed to feel like there was some energy to it.

Some of those logos are very obviously duds, which makes me wonder which were under serious consideration.

[1] http://is.gd/kz5bFE
Actually, they'd be fine saying that in the DPRK, as it's pretty well accepted that American imperialism _did_ cause the split-off of south Korea.

Then again, maybe not posting on this site. But their post is certainly right along the party line.
Can you elaborate on some of your personal experiences in teachers' unions stifling innovation?

I don't know too much about this topic, and the few friends of mine who are "in the know" are teachers. Not exactly the best place to get an unbiased opinion.
That's a really good take away for all the people who look down on stuff like this. EVERYBODY cares; they (you) can't help it. Repetitive manipulative messaging (think sexy slim people doing sports in beer ads) works even if you're aware that it's a complete ruse. It persuades your lizard brain and there's nothing you can do about it. This sort of brainwashing is one of the most disheartening and insidious things about human nature and, by extension, the marketing industry.

Don't get me wrong, there's good marketing. There are companies doing amazing stuff and they can tell you about it honestly with a take-it-or-leave-it mentality. It's a noisy world and when enough money gets involved (enough is usually a surprisingly low bar) being honest quickly becomes not good enough.

After spending a couple years in marketing and seeing this kind of research over and over I had to get out. (I left an online marketing agency to focus on design and tech.) I think on some level, it's taking advantage of human weakness. It's in the same ballpark as the studies that show that the placebo effect still works a little bit even if you TELL THE PARTICIPANTS they're in the placebo group. WTF, brain? It's so frustrating.

Anyway, You can bet your life that as much aggregate exposure as the Yahoo! logo gets, that selecting a proven one will impact their bottom line.

It's not a hair worth splitting for your start up with 30 customers, but once you start dealing with billions of slices of attention, shit gets weird and unintuitive. See Google's infamous testing of 41 shades of blue [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/business/01marissa.html]