skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One advantage of the MEAN stack is that you only need to know javascript to start developing on it, which saves time and brainpower to get started.

That being said, I'm curious if there are other advantages to learn the MEAN stack?
I think reading code is a very good practice, and the more you read the easier "step 2" (the understanding bit anyways) becomes. That being said, I don't think reading through huge blocks of comments so that you can understand a function is useful. Forcing yourself to write self-explanatory code with a short docstring is a lot more useful than some hacky code with a huge comment explaining what it does.
For $300 I'd expect it to be a complete stand-alone phone device, to be used with a Google Glass or a bluetooth headset or a wifi-only tablet as a client.
The Gear does not feel like a complete gimmick - not having to take out your (big screen) SmartPhone out for emails/texts/pics/shares etc. is kinda useful to the mainstream people.

But the problems are Price, Performance(Battery life, responsivness) and Limitations that make it work only with Samsung phones. For those reasons I think the Gen 1 of the Gear will flop. And who knows what kind of apps Samsung is running on the Gear - if that's something non-standard it makes it even worse. (If Google released a watch it would hopefully work with all Android devices and let people build apps using the standard Android SDK.)

So meh on the Gear. With Note 3 and Note 10.1 however Samsung seems to be mostly doing the right things - extended multitasking, more RAM, Dot, Circle, Box, great screen res, more battery life etc. Almost makes me hopeful 10 in Android tablets might go somewhere finally!
Most software bugs are, when described to the layman after the fact, pretty elementary, but at least structural engineers usually don't insist the software architect that wrote the initial specs for a project must have been stupid when the version the outsourced dev team releases crashes under certain input parameters.
Video game training enhances cognitive control in older adults
or, rephrased,

"training on a task designed to tap into cognitive control, enhances cognitive control, in older adults ... and we named the task 'a video game'"
You're presupposing that whatever admissions standard existed before was "neutral" and any deviation from that involves discrimination.

No he isn't. The question is whether or not merit is the ultimate criteria for admissions. If gender is to be elevated above merit, all we've done is exchanged one form of discrimination for another.

We should be constantly scrutinizing how we judge merit and filter out discriminatory practices. The danger is of course that this is very hard, and it's much easier to weight our decisions in favor of those who have been discriminated against rather than strive for getting the judgement correct. To my heart, this is worse than the original inequality.
that's what she didn't say
I don't have anything against Riseup in particular, but it's making me sad to see that there are still smart people who are passionate about email security, are based in the US, and are saying "you should just trust us to ignore the secret court orders that legally require us to spy on you without telling you about it".

The world changed already. Take the energy that you're currently putting into making promises that you can't keep and work on something with a defensible security model instead.
Buuuuuuurn.
This is true only if your time is free or you're cutting corners on reliability. For example, using an EC2 medium instance on-demand is $0.120/hour and RDS is $0.160/hour. If you use enough MySQL, that $0.04/hour (in reality, $0.022 at reserved rates) can reach the point where it's worth rolling your own management stack, backups, failover, etc. but there are many people who will never reach the point where they don't have higher-priority investments to make.
Just sleep in a rapidly vibrating magnetic field, with your watch on your wrist and your phone by your head.

What could possibly go wrong?
or, rephrased,

"training on a task specifically designed to tap into cognitive control, enhances cognitive control, in older adults ... and we have named this task 'a video game' "
Some calculators do function this way. Pressing the clear button once clears the current screen but doesn't clear the equation. Pressing twice clears everything.
All we (men) can ask for is equality in programs dominated by females. What this university did to increase proportion of men in Gender Studies?
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It isn't odd, at all.

It's great to see someone treat their child's privacy with some value, instead of using them as a way to endear themselves to virtual friends or get laughs and votes on reddit, while putting photos and information out there about their kid, without the kid's permission, that will be there forever. The rest of us had the opportunity to come to the internet in a time when someone wasn't putting our information out there.

Reserving accounts at places on their behalf, as well as domains, is also a smart choice. It isn't placing importance on anything. It is simply giving their child the option to have these things in the future. Hopefully, facebook won't exist when this kid grows up. But there's a chance it might. And if it does, then this kid doesn't have to compete with someone else taking the name. More importantly, it prevents someone else from pretending to be you.

I have to do this with my name, too. I have an account on Facebook, though I despise it. Same with the other big social networks and other things I don't use. I have been on the receiving end of someone who was upset with me (one a user I banned from my site after defrauding other users) and did things like make an account under my name and put awful stuff out there as "me". That would be more difficult to do if I'd already staked my claim to that identity (even if I didn't use it).

What these parents are doing is simply investing in retaining the tools with which their child will someday be able to safeguard their privacy and - if necessary - build their professional or other identity. It's worthwhile, today. It'll be even more worthwhile in the future.

Really, I fail to see how anyone can have any problem with this.
They are mis-quoting this study: http://hmi.ucsd.edu/howmuchinfo_research_report_consum.php wrongly.

From the linked article:

In 2008, Americans consumed information for about 1.3 trillion hours, an average of almost 12 hours per day. Consumption totaled 3.6 zettabytes and 10,845 trillion words, corresponding to 100,500 words and 34 gigabytes for an average person on an average day.
I have a clavid.com openid delegated using my own domain...
I hate it when people say this as a response.

If I'm on a bridge, and people are jumping off en masse, then one of two things is happening:

1. They've all been mentally affected, in which case, I almost certainly am too, or;

2. They know something I don't.

It's disingenuous to throw out a contrived example of a herd of people nonsensically jumping off a bridge. If that many people are jumping off a bridge, you probably should too, because they probably know something you don't (yet).
To my understanding, Android offers something similar and also allows apps to wake up arbitrarily in the background. Reasonable people can disagree on whether the latter ought to be an option or not (or, perhaps even more reasonably, can be happy that both types of devices exist so people can choose which they'd prefer). But the complaint regarding Android was that it let poorly-behaved apps drain significant amounts of battery in the background and it's not true that Apple has now added that possibility.
Bombardier running on Rescale (YC W12)
Ask HN: Looking for custom planning poker cards, with company logo
Hi,

Wondering if anyone has created any custom planning poker cards to be used in Agile scrum meetings?

Would love to also hear if anyone has any good planning poker cards they have used in the past.

Thanks!
Bayesians and ABMs
Luxury items are meant to be flashy, a man with a Rolex is basically saying "Hey look here, I'm freakin' rich", while a man with that monstrosity is just saying "I'm a douchebag with a ridiculous-looking watch".
I think Mariner (the codename for the cancelled project) was supposed to be developed in parallel with Gecko.
>>Please don't be a sarcastic asshole. You said you saw "posts" that showed it was unsustainable, and provided no citations at all.

You are terribly and hopelessly confused, dude. I didn't say anything of that nature.
This article shows how much progress we've made in languages and tools over 13 years. It's vastly more difficult to read large, c++ codebases with tons of memory allocation, pointer arithmetic, macros, and complex locking schemes than much of the Java/Ruby/other mainstream language code written today.

Also, it strikes me that this was written in an era where most large-scale systems were giant monolithic codebases sharing an address space, rather than distributed groups of services communicating over a network. Distributed systems are inherently easier to rewrite because a lot of the hard problems around abstraction, state, representation, etc. already have to have been solved by the architecture -- you can't exactly pass a naked void* over the wire.
This article is written by a parent and being debated by pseudo-teenagers (~ 15-25 age group). Of course it'll be ripped apart just like my comment :)
Who needs privacy until you are a parent yourself.
In my vim setup, ctrl-\ <Tab> drops a search for the word my cursor is sitting on (with word boundaries) in my quickfix buffer, for easy stepping through. More or less the same thing.
Rackspace Looking For Google Glass Developer. Winner Gets $10,000
Thankfully, the best way to use myOpenID was to delegate to it from the ID you actually wanted to use, so everybody who did this will still be able to log in using their OpenID credentials as soon as they find a replacement to actually be the endpoint.
How Designers Can Hustle for More Business – 3 Things You Can Do Right Now
Read the book "Getting to Yes", "a universal guide to the art of negotiating personal and professional disputes". It will repay itself a thousandfold as you walk into any negotiation with confidence, not just salary negotiations.

http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Yes-Negotiating-Agreement-With...

The most underused trick for salary negotiation is actually realizing that salary is negotiable - simply asking one question could increase your salary thousands of dollars.
Over the past few years in my neighborhood in Los Angeles they have been replacing the older yellow buttons (that people tend to hit 10 million times thinking it will make the light change faster) with newer ones, which are really great. When the button is pressed, makes a loud click, a red light comes on, and it stays depressed until the signal changes. They've also added in that rat-a-tat-tat clicking that I assume is for blind people. Some people still pounce the button but I've noticed most tap it a single time. I'm a big fan and I'm sure the city is too as it probably cuts down on wear and tear.

In terms of actual crossing, it is worth hitting the button at some lights, so that they know there are pedestrians (otherwise it could be a green light and you still have a red hand) and other times there's always a way for a pedestrian to cross, usually with a countdown timer after a certain amount of seconds. Every ped crossing in LA seems to have a countdown timer, which is great, for peds and even drivers (it gives you an idea when the light is about to change).

And remember, this is Los Angeles, not really a city known for pedestrians so I think the city has done a good job for the most part.
Well, all I've written since college has been Java, so this is all new to me. I've only briefly checked out Ruby and Python, and not enough to really know that much about either language.
Yeah, sorry, cross post with everyone else. Still, I think it is a valid gadget, it won't be for everyone, but useful for some.

It's not that much different from using the iPod Nano as a watch - http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/18/ipod-nano-review-as-a-wat...
> In fact it's quite hard for something random at that level to have any noticeable [to a human] effect at all. So basically all the multiverses are identical.

If and what particular type of tissue damage and/or cancer(s) is caused in someone by exposure to radiation damaging their cells in repairable or unrepairable ways (which depends on the particular times at which particular radioactive atoms decay and the paths of the resulting particles and their interactions with with the small-scale constituents of the person's biology). I would think that whether a person recovers from some radiation exposure or the exposure went just beyond what their cells could handle and thus causes a fatal cancer, that is noticeable to a human. Finding that wasn't altogether hard.

Given a sufficiently long time horizon (some physicists at UC Davies got some press arguing it could be on the scale of months), future weather conditions at individual moments are currently in the realm of quantum uncertainty/randomness. The people who have/don't-have car accidents due to the rain&sleet or not on some winter day a few years hence will easily notice which of the multiple worlds they ended up in.

Also, should anyone so choose, they could easily make world-history-scale decisions based on Geiger counter readings or some other implementation of a quantum-coin-flip. Imagine an assassin setup and ready to take out a large nation's leader(s), and taking the shot or not based on such a random quantum outcome. Scale is no barrier to such things.
Unfortunately, I believe Facebook toed over that critical mass that has moved it into a long-term dominator of social networking. It has long since passed the point where it's going to just go away and be replaced by something else, like Myspace and other past social sites were. They may not be around forever, but it seems unlikely they'll be unseated any time soon. We are no longer in an age where a bunch of geeks moving on to something new changes the dynamic of the internet. We are now in a time when the average Joe Sixpack and his grandmother don't look for new things, don't try new things, and don't care about new things. They will stick with Facebook indefinitely, the same way a lot of people still stick with the big three over the air networks for their sole television entertainment.
You might want to try to specify which problems, in your eyes, a wiki solves, and maybe also which ones are inadequately solved by a wiki but that you want to be solved.

Otherwise you're essentially asking "I want something like X, but not X", which will probably not lead to any paradigm shift as you seem to be looking for...
Even if it doesn't disappear, it's guaranteed to change a lot in the future. As the top poster pointed out, this whole namestring-is-unique-token idea is not sustainable nor elegant.

Surely in the future there will be a better way of differentiating ourselves than "john-doe.com", "johndoe.com", "jdoe.me", etc. And what happens when JohnDoe #1 and John Doe #2 are famous people? Who gets the "verified" badge on social networks? It isn't sustainable, and Facebook and others are bound to change this sooner or later.
The set of problems where you're really struggling between mongodb and dynamodb as a choice is practically non-existent. They have hugely different characteristics and vastly different trade-offs. You might want to spend some time reading about the architecture of various databases before just picking one.
Samsung Introduces Galaxy Gear
Patrick Winston is a disciple of Marvin Minsky. They're considered wackos these days.
Yes, sure. But if you read the parent's comment, he's bragging about replacing the code without even understanding what it does.
I really don't know. It's even more of a special case than MIT, being the world's top science school and less than 1/4 of MIT's size. So filling out a freshman class of ~250 students with truly qualified women is going to be easier.

Last time I checked they hadn't relaxed their requirements, upped them in fact from 1979, you must know single variable calculus vs. having a chance to learn it there (AP is much more widespread), and you're asked to start on Apostol, although you can later take an applied track. And the math requirement is longer, including e.g. deferential equations.

From everything I've gathered it's quite a different place, and if you get in there's more support (it's been in all seriousness compared to Hogwarts compete with dorm room cleanup service, minus of course the Deatheaters and impossible teachers), which you can much more easily do at its scale.
This is cool, but probably the biggest appeal of docker to me is never having to use puppet again.
An example is legacy color parsing. I personally figured out where legacy color parsing is in the Netscape classic source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-thi...

It is so subtle even Netscape's own Gecko rewrite did not get it completely right the first time: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121738
I agree with you in large part, but I do believe Snowden's revelations show government conduct that is far beyond a reasonable reading of Patriot, FISA, etc. Things like the "three hops rule" don't even pass the laugh test.
> once prediction 1 starts to happen, (...) there will be...

...people that will want to use it to track their kids
See also a previous scoring guide here:

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6769919/matrimonial-mone...
Interesting, not sure the battery life of this watch will sound appealing to the masses.

As a side note, this presentation is one of the most amazing displays of poor taste I have ever seen. You have to give them kudos for improving on the stage decoration of last year (remember the red curtains horror?) - now the music, the acting, and the outfit of the presenters still sound out of this world to me.

PS: for the golden trophy of inelegance, I'm still unsettled between the plastic glasses and the grey smoking!
Samsung Reveals The Galaxy Note 3
How many of those 117 million people will HSR be transporting from LA to SF?
Thanks I'll check these out.
Compared to normal Redis-Paas, it's on the same line, probably cheaper than the average price on ther market. ElastiCache is basically a way to spin up a EC2-backed instance of Redis, with automatic failover and replication. It only handles one node per cluster, and doesn't handle scaling (you need to manual provision, replicate, switch, etc.).

But if you go with a true clustering solution (like Redis Cloud, www.redis-cloud.com), then you get automatic transparent scaling with zero downtime thanks to dynamic sharding:

http://redis-cloud.com/redis/redis-comparison

To me, such a cluster solution justifies the PaaS price over a manual Redis installation.
Why You Should Write Programs to Write Programs to Write Programs For You
So, basically, everyone that doesn't agree with her is just irrational, deluded, etc. The world horribly bad, oppressing, we're all sinners in need of salvation, etc., etc.

I'm tired of these rants. I'll gladly listen to you describing your experiences, but I don't accept your worldview, and I will not agree to describe myself as “misogynistic” or “racist” (not to mention “asshole”), just because I don't agree with you.

It's not that our current system is perfect, or that it can't be improved. But for every person that feels oppressed like the OP, there's a hundred that don't have to starve to death, ten others who can live and fulfill their dreams, five others who…

It's good to reflect on the fact that our human minds are predisposed towards prejudice and selfishness. Calling people nasty names because of those inborn traits is just silly.
Yes, but can we be assured that Hyperloop will involve the same level of payola and corporate/government corruption that building a bullet-train (which American's have someone been convinced is a necessity) would?
Yeah, It's not at all different, but I was the first to say that using an iPod nano as a watch was a stupid idea. I can understand testing the water with some prototype like Google Glass (those just look ridiculous, we're several iterations from something approaching a real product) but it's a stretch to go from prototype to mass product.
The Python implementation is a wrapper around a C++ module, so it's probably not practical to use on AppEngine.
Manning lawyers filed a request for a pardon from President Barack Obama
No, it's a very measured and pragmatic response. It even struck me as something an engineer would write. Explaining the conditions leading to a problem is not evading responsibility.

The test, of course, will be whether they will be using the coming 12 months to figure out a solution and applying it so this won't happen again next time there's sun in September. I think they will, since torching things is generally not a good idea, and also liability hell.

> How about they design a building right.

Oh please. If you've never build anything that turned out to malfunction in an unexpected way, you've never build anything.

It's not about taking the position of the sun into account, it's foreseeing that the curvature of the facade would concentrate the sun in an unfortunate way.
Just need Stackexchange to upgrade to Persona. That's probably the only place where I've found OpenID useful.
Google Glass App Store Coming Next Year
I would love prediction 1 to come true and already have a Pebble. To be honest though, I couldn't care less about the privacy "problem" of having a cloud-connected wearable on you.
Hm, would it not be where x := Go?
Keep in mind that not only is it limited to Samsung devices, but it doesn't even support their entire range of currently-sold devices. No launch support for the Galaxy S4, their flagship device and the one that they sell the most. No promised support for their brand-new Galaxy Mega 6.3. No support for any of their other devices that are still on the shelf being sold even today...
Qualcomm introduces Toq smartwatch
AquaPax Water Cartons: Reusable and Recyclable
Ditch the Plastic.
yawn

I've seen a bunch of these now and frankly I don't see the point. Maybe we should all become Zen Bhuddist monks and subsist off happy thoughts alone lest we accidentally step on an ant and take a life?

I don't know exactly what needs to be done to fix these problems, but I know rants like this do absolutely nothing. You want to see what might make a difference, look at something like this:
http://www.hackingplay.com/carnegie-mellon-study-on-gender-a...
MyOpenid EOL
The claims on this site are pretty impressive, but I have close to zero knowledge of the history here, so can someone comment on how many grains of salt this should be taken with? Otherwise, this looks pretty cool. Something that beats protobufs in overall speed could be really helpful depending on the application.
Whatever happens to their daughter is going to happen to the entire world, pretty much, and thus is going to have to be addressed collectively by our future selves anyway. We just have to stand up to those who misuse the data in discriminatory ways, sure, but simply refusing to take part in the future of the collective human experience is hardly a real solution.
The last thing we need is yet another article (albeit a fairly well-written one) about the problems faced in the abstract, with no solutions in sight. So I'm going to propose one thing you can do. Yes, you. If you see someone being an asshole, particularly if they're someone you know already, make them aware of what they're doing and why it's inappropriate. This works just as well for casual sexism as it does 'bully' attitudes in the workplace.

Seriously. Speak up. We as a community have a tendency to be passive-aggressive, talking in hushed tones about how X acted that night, or how we really wish that Y would stop making racist comments on team outings. In the words of a wise man, "Shut up and say something."