skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless you think of a dynamic ad market as an efficient market signals system critical to the economy.

Ie get the most interesting market messages to the right people, while not bothering the rest.

Not that I do anything related to advertising, but when done intelligently it can actually be a pretty important.
Another way to look at it is that the best minds are thinking about how to optimise capitalism.

They are doing that and in effect we are all getting a better more efficient society. Plus the best minds aren't working on world peace because people vote for people with the best hair to do that job.
I'm a computer engineering student. I've taken physics, thermodynamics, electronics, linear algebra, etc.

I've never had a need for a TI-89. I inherited one from my brother and I've never used it. If I'm doing anything complicated I'll just use my laptop.
Pushing a Firefox OS Web App to ZTE Open phone
My comments: I'm that guy who uses NoScript/ScriptSafe to disable JS on most sites. Took me several minutes to figure out what combination of hosts I had to enable to play your slideshow.

My suggestion: find a simpler tool to display your slideshow.

Otherwise: a pretty decent collection of horrors.

I'll also note I'm that guy who generally avoids shopping online if at all possible. I'll do a lot of online research, but prefer patronizing local stores if possible, and paying cash. Why? Because:

- You know what you're getting when you buy it.

- When the deal is done the deal is done. No late-hit fees or follow-on solicitations.

- Generally a much easier returns policy, should that be necessary.

Yes, for some items, there's less choice (though you can special order a great deal of stuff), and there are some things I will purchase online (air travel on the rare occasions I feel it utterly necessary to humiliate myself before airport security).
Wow, My Friend just launched a stem job board on Monday. If there is a transition from "Alarm" to "Boom", this seems like a great business opportunity.
I think this is exactly right. There's almost always somewhere you can cut - when I was a student I lived on $11k per year in today's dollars. $2000/month seems kind of luxurious.

And I didn't suffer any of the wrenching decision making overhead in the article. Decisions were easy - "Is there any way I can avoid buying this?" No? Then I bought it.
Burke also says that we are in a transitional period and offers a solution for the NSA data collection. Checks and balances from the public would allow us to do queries on the people who queried our data.
Can I talk about this from the other direction? One of the things that I got drilled on in school was that in the real world, good communication skills are critical. However, after a bit less than a decade in financial services, I have come to the conclusion that the real take away is that understanding poor communication is critical, more critical than any other skill in your entire life (I suppose, unless you are at the absolute top of the hill from which shit rolls down).

I think we do children a disservice by asking them to read great works of modern literature. They should probably spend their time reading Chaucer in the original middle english and puzzling out half translated foreign language classics. Basically anything Shakespeare and up is too easy to understand if you really want to hone your abilities.
I'm not sure I agree it's a good idea at all.

30 years later, and the electric car market is still miniscule.

There might start to be a market demand for them when petrol is at least twice as expensive as it is now. But there's some wiggle room to reduce the tax on it a lot.
Tommy DS: C library of high performance hashtables and tries
pthread_cond_timedwait has existed on OS X since Tiger. Look in /usr/include/pthread.h.
Although difficult to analyse, we must also consider the quality of STEM degrees from different institutions. There's a world of difference between a first class degree in Physics obtained from Cambridge compared to say Stafforshire. Some Universities in the UK have unemployment rates for graduates over 25%. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10159647/...
If you're correct, I don't really see what is novel here. If I already had a group of 50 people I could trust, what would I need this software for? How is this better than just handing out credentials to my IRC Tor hidden service?
> Only a few countries are teaching children how to think ...

A truth easily explained. Governments fund education either directly or indirectly, therefore educational agendas are set by governments, and people who can think critically are difficult to govern. No mystery here.

What is admirable are those countries that teach people to think for themselves, and think critically, even though this makes governing more difficult. Sadly, the U.S. is not on that list.
Treesheets is an awesome way of structuring ideas and materials. As Matti said, the XML output from TreeSheets is easy to parse and convert for other uses. Basic HTML export is also provided as a simple means of sharing sheet data. Since TreeSheets is an open source project - it is possible to extend these areas of functionality to meet your own workflow needs and the code is easy to follow and fun to work with.
Programmers can cross fields, as can most enginners.
Why The Sharing Economy Isn’t
Yes, naturally! I'm glad you're following me.
Cannot cross fields? My major was Me/Ae, took no CS courses, worked for Boeing designing airplane gearboxes and hydraulic systems, and yet I had no trouble transitioning to a CS career.

When I took mechanics/fluids/electronics/materials classes, I discovered that the math was all the same, except that the EEs liked to use 'j' instead of 'i'.
I'm sorry, but I still don't follow where you're trying to go with this. You don't strike me as someone who is particularly well informed with the modern startup, or the principles of turning an idea into a business.

If you were, you'd know that cofounders are important because building a business is difficult, and going the path with a partner has numerous tangible benefits. You'd also know about the pitfalls that kill startups, things people believe to be important but are not, and may get in the way of "building something people want". It is not useless advice, its actually quite good advice that can save you a lot of time and energy. That's why I don't dismiss it, I seek it.
Thanks for posting this. I actually noticed this on my site gitignore.io when I was trying to cut the load time of my site to under half a second. This is a great tip to cut down on the loading time, and I'll definitely use this in the future.
I was thinking of more than two points. The two you mentioned, plus looking for overqualified candidates, plus:

1) Requiring more experience than necessary or even plausible on certain technologies. 5 years of experience in X. When X is 2 years old.

2) Focusing too much in a specific technology stack. We use X, Y and Z. You lack Z? Bye. Or we use Z 1.2, you've only used 0.9? Bye.

3) The 3 day interview, the brain-teaser interview, the work-for-free interview, the you-only-got-1% psychometric test interview.

Regarding your point #2, Mexico recently implemented tax incentives for companies hiring first-time employees. That's something other countries should consider.
This speaks to how quickly what we're taught in school goes out of date. You were able to transition to CS, compete with same-age CS graduates, because much of what they were taught in school had become obsolete, while what you learned on the job became more and more valuable and relevant.

> ... except that the EEs liked to use 'j' instead of 'i'.

And that only because of the coincidence that 'i' refers to current in electrical equations.

It also addresses the issue that, with respect to getting useful results from a computer, one's mathematical knowledge and ability is now more important than one's knowledge of a computer's inner workings.
> Good question. I don't think that would pass for discrimination in the courts, but avoiding the lawsuit is an excellent reason for a school to disallow political speech in its dress code and enforce that uniformly (no pun intended).

How far does this go? Imagine a T-shirt which is intentionally provocative and offensive. Something like:

Free Speech
"Kill the niggers... We intend to do our part..."
-- Brandenburg v. Ohio 1969

Now the offensive quote is from footnote 1 of the Supreme Court's majority opinion describing the speech at issue. It is some of the most vile speech one could imagine but it is protected due to extending precedents aimed at reining in McCarthy-era abuses. Or suppose it included a picture of a burning cross instead? (Cross burning has also been held in certain contexts to be free speech on the same basis.)

Now if you are a black student you might be pardoned for assuming this is glorifying KKK activities and their rein of terror. It very well might create an unwelcoming educational atmosphere for minority kids and thus run afoul with the civil rights act. On the other hand what does this say about the rule of law?

> The courts are never going to rule against presenting what Aristotle thought in philosophy class.

I would have thought his Politics would be more appropriate for social studies. "This is the way societies work." Interestingly it is hard to understand modern sociology or anthropology without having a general understanding of Aristotle's approach here.
Paul, the point is that you looked at a metric that has "correlation" (your words, emphasis mine) So I am not sure how you inferred "causation" from it? You could have easily looked at metrics like founders who wear hoodies are more likely to succeed.

I think that somewhere there is sublime conscious at work that is not aligned correctly.

People expected higher standards from you on this front!
I don't think "you can prevent someone from even using your trademark in any way." In this case, we're talking about a service piggy-backing on top of Tumblr using "tumblr" in the domain name.

I was mostly trying to divorce the actions Tumblr took from the moral outrage in the other comments by showing how what they did was not an EXTREME response, but basically the third-most-mild response after not responding at all and sending a less formal response.

The C&D could have been mildly worded for all we know. In any case, it's most productive to see a C&D as a strongly worded, "We don't like what you're doing. Please stop, now."

One is free to say "No, and here's why we won't" or even not respond at all.

This is speaking as someone who has received a much more serious C&D from Groupon and made it go away by doing nothing more than replying with a similarly-strong message. We can kvetch about the morality of it all day long, but in the mean time I went on doing what I was doing and the istumblrdown.com fellow shut his site down.
Probably trying to protect their brand. You can always still hit: http://isitup.org/tumblr.com
Anecdotally, my brother, with a Mech Eng degree, has been unemployed ever since he graduated a year and a half ago, despite looking constantly. He's married with a kid and lives with his wife's parents in a spare bedroom.

The STEM shortage is nothing more than employers looking for cheaper workers (either salary-wise, or without any obligation to train them the necessary skills).
It sounds to me as if you are saying average wages are not increasing because of the influx of young developers. Isn't that exactly the point the article makes, that the non-increasing wages indicate that there is no shortage of tech workers?

It also seems unlikely that the decreasing averages don't affect the wages of older tech workers. They compete with the young, cheap tech workers after all - why should companies continue to pay high salaries to old tech workers if they could replace them with cheap young tech workers?
There is a definition of "social class" I read in the last few years that separates income or wealth from social class. The definitive marker in this definition is the length of time you are able to plan for. Naturally wealth affects this, but is not the be all end all. This definition separates the spendy nouveau riche who blow millions on status markers as still being 'lower class', where thrifty thoughtful people of modest current means would be of a 'higher' social class.

Thoughtful thrifty people of great means are able to think in terms of what their grandchildren or foundation might be doing. The impoverished, disadvantaged of education (Like the SOB who stole my motorcycle only to crash it immediately) might be thinking minutes or hours into the future.

Having been in various economic conditions under varying amounts of stress, I find ritchiea's post dead on the money.
Next step is to go down to the Embarcadero station and replace your working sign with the broken ones :).
I'm a freelancer who is available and I don't have the impression companies are desperate for software developers. I get requests from recruiters, but they offer significantly less money than a couple of years ago, and they seem to be able to find other developers when I decline or don't express great enthusiasm or years of experience with whatever frameworks they require. (Berlin, Germany)
Not being able to walk a linked list sounds pretty dire. Is it possible that candidate A hadn't written tree-walking code recently? Did he have access to reference materials?

I aced my CS degree, but a few years later, after endless CRUD, I was given a task at work which involved constructing and analyzing hierarchical data. After realizing that it would be modelled with a tree, and a few minutes with my textbook and it all came back to me. If I had been given the same task in an interview, I may well have flunked it.

I personally allow candidates access to Google and whatever else they need on programming tests. That's how they'd solve problems in real life, so why make them relive their final college exams in an interview?
See if Doro phones are available in your country. They're just that: simple phones for seniors.
http://www.doro.com
So train them. Give them a general aptitude test, tell them you're taking a chance and hope they'll stay for at least three years and give them mentors and a couple of months to come up to speed or they'll be let go
Here you go: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id597761546?mt=8
For anyone looking to do this you must download an app for your Android or iPhone, without doing so you just get 2GB.
It's pretty horrible. Stop using it.
But who outside of China would put anything of importance on USA servers?

It is the same question, given that USA spying is the biggest in the world, specially industrial spying, and that thanks to the patriot acts they could spy on you even legally.

You could put something important in the cloud, but this could not be secret.
I'm not sure - if private companies maintain these databases, wouldn't it be easy for a hypothetical corrupt government to access them?
> I wonder if tolerance for diversity should also include tolerating other countries making their own laws, in this case Germany. It is a democratic country, apparently the majority don't mind this ban on homeschooling. Now yes, I am speaking from a far away perception. Anyone from Germany please help us out here. Is this this seen as such an egregious abuse of power people's power is just not enough to overturn it or is this what most would agree with?

This leads to two fundamentally separable questions in my view. The first is, "do we have a right to criticize across cultural barriers like this?" The second is "Even if we do, is this our problem or a problem for the German people?" The answers I would give are "yes, as long as we contextualize, and it is a problem for the Germans not for us."

So yes, I think they do deserve respect, and as much as I think Germany is wrong here, I don't think this is a case where asylum should be granted. There are many times we can and should say "not our problem." Unfortunately that isn't the way policy seems to work.

> But what if they are crippling them should they be allowed?

Out of curiosity, what do you think of the Supreme Court (unanimously) granting the Amish an exemption from mandatory education laws on the basis that such would destroy their religious way of life in Yoder v. Wisconsin?

The most interesting part of Yoder, IMO, is Douglass' concurrence in part and concurrence in judgement where he complains bitterly about the fact that one whose education is cut short because of such religious reasons will have fewer career opportunities available. In the end even he agreed that the religious exemption must be granted however.

Regarding your points on health care reform, I can understand that. Discussing the views you bring up will lead to long posts far off topic, but suffice it to say that the big issue is a state-by-state single payer would have to be funded through money currently flowing to Medicare. The states can't set up systems if they only have a free hand in regulating a minority of the health care market. There is no doubt that our system is broken though. The larger issue is that there is a question of centralization vs local control and I wonder what motivates people to feel like everything must be centralized to prevent people from endorsing policies they see as bad.
Okay, for those who glanced at the article and (like me) couldn't immediately understand what the "breakthrough" was about, here is a simple explanation ripped off from replys there:

What these brilliant mathematicians are trying to do is solve a 3000 year-old problem which is to prove that no matter how high up in the numbers you look you will always find some twin primes. Primes are whole numbers that are exactly divisible only by themselves and one; an example is “13.” Twin primes are primes separated by 2 as in 11 and 13, or 17 and 19.
Blimey! Any idea if there is a way to mount that on a Linux server?
Fortunately Compass eases all the process with inline-font-files http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/helpers/inline-da... :)
After patent loss, Apple tweaks FaceTime—and logs 500,000 complaints
PhoneGap Build User Submitted Plugins
" There's little downside and it takes too much time / attention to discern between the cases."

Thank you for so aptly explaining why making fair use an affirmative defense was/is not enough.

Nobody should have to pay an IP attorney 450 an hour (plus whatever retainer they will surely force you to pay to engage) because some large company has decided to be a dick.

Trademarks were created to enable consumers to identify the source of goods. Dilution came later, which the supreme court struck down (requiring actual dilution), and then congress readded in a weaker form (likely dilution).

Dilution was and always has been just a way for companies to snipe at each other and screw little guys through C&D. It has never helped consumers.
If your kid is dumb enough to eat those little balls after being a toddler, or you as a parent are dumb enough to let your toddler play with them, well, that's on you.
If you can't attract high-quality candidates then either you are low-balling salaries or your company does something shady. Sorry to be blunt but that's the truth.
I have this train of thought lately not unlike Burke's.

It postulates that the key issue is assymetry of collection and usage of our personal information. NSA and other intelligence agencies are basically collecting data for malicious purposes from an individual's perspective.

The data banks have no benefit to us as individuals at this point of time. However NSA's databases and technology could be used for many wonderful things to improve our lives.

PRSM.com is just a tip of the iceberg. Even if it is just a joke.
You're assuming they're telling the truth.
Different company. Sinclair Research was the company that was born from the ruins of Radiophonics.

Not that Research fared much better!
Linked report is cool, but a rough skimming doesn't peg it at 80 kids for this product, just these small neodymium magnets in general.
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In the EU we laugh every day when we unpack a product.
Why? They are shipped in plastic bags suitable for international usage. And each bag has printed on it on or more:

"This is not a toy." "Keep away from children." "Do not reuse bag." "Immediately dispose of this bag."

So each time we receive a product, we chuckle at the US, because they need to be told this.
(Obviously the people don't need it, but your legal system requires it.)
Two things:

1) Lego bricks are targeted at a specific age group (there's a reason why Duplo blocks are larger, and thus, targeted at a younger age group)

2) Lego bricks aren't attracted to each other and burrow through soft tissue to meet. Buckyballs, made of rare earth magnets, are attracted to each other and can cause tissue damage if two or more are swallowed.

Granted, Lego bricks might cause irritation going through the digestive system, but not nearly cause the damage that rare earth magnets can.
>>> Vietnam estimates 400,000 people were killed or maimed, and 500,000 children born with birth defects as a result of its use.

>> Agent Orange was intended and used as a defoliant, not an anti-personnel weapon.

> You are twisting words around (a tendency that has been growing on HN for some time).

His clarification is valid. Agent Orange was not intentionally used to kill and maim children. Its intended use was crop destruction. However ill-guided that may be, it's not the same as trying to kill people directly with chemical weapons, which is what was implied.

> Agent Orange was definitely used to gain the upper hand in the war.

The point of fighting in a war is to gain the upper hand.
Sharing programs on an 83 was simplicity itself, and always worked, and cables were usually pretty easy to find.