skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reeder has always been great - but Google Reader's shutdown (through Reeder) forced me to cut down on my RSS use. I use Feedly sporadically now. I focus on a few sites, and feel like I've saved TONS of time previously wasted "keeping up" with my RSS feed. While I realize I could have done the same self-moderating with Reeder, I don't see myself going back.
Indeed, a lot of data suggests that a countries level of income equality and citizens happiness is negatively correlated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality#Effects_of_...
You can't have the Brooklyn Bohemian life without Brooklyn city planning. The modern suburban sprawl demands two-car households, and two-car households demand full-time middle-class employment.
So, you are in favor of the current remediation against teenagers that sext, which is generally to bring the recipient up on charges of possession of child pornography and the sender on charges of making and distributing child pornography?

Such felony convictions will have far more ramifications that the act itself ever could.
I completely understand the appeal of the concept, but it seems like it would be significantly more expensive for the same features of another phone. I'd be concentrating on the features that most frequently drive upgrades other than the screen: memory and camera.
How come this story is being buried below older ones with less comments and less points?
There seems to be a concerted effort to suppress this.
Congratulation! Turbo Vision had this only 25 years ago, JS is catching up :-)
Pushed to the limit as a banking intern
But also partly because they are unable to imagine the consequence of their actions. With cars and guns the protection goes only so far.
It actually works with web apps as well.
Concision is a virtue.

Further, not a big fan of annotations. Which is declarative programming for Java. In which case, just use a dynamic programming language.

I am a big fan of stepping thru code with a debugger. Which rules out programming via XML (eg Spring) and annotations.
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Why your tests aren’t scientific
So, PHP is the one where they mix all of the ingredients in your liquor cabinet together and top it with a raw egg, right?
The .ai extension is cute :-)

I don't know if people will remember it and be receptive to this touch but I like it.
Russia Today is the best source of news if you don't want pandering to the entrenched power structure.

Look at today's headlines:
‘Monsanto Protection Act’ quietly extended by Congress,EU lawmakers nominate Snowden for Sakharov human rights prize,Syria researcher cited by McCain, Kerry fired for fabricating credentials,CIA starts arming Syrian rebels overtly
Available in Austria, Czech Republic and Slovakia with not that much trouble. Though mostly in bars/pubs and.. hackerspaces :)
I am amazed at how one web framework managed to completely redefine a long standing pattern in such a short time. MVC is quite old, and well established, and was even used in web development well before rails came along. But now suddenly 99% of people think MVC means a rails style mess.
Nice picture!
4:15a "I was in pain level 8"
12:30p "I ate hamburger and fries"

Seriously, is it really a disease or a sucker game?
Skimp on CPU, buy AMD and budget mobo, go to eBay for GPU.
On Siege Warfare (2009)
Interesting! Nothing happened after I registered with my Github account though using Opera.
I also wonder how this compares to http://www.maluuba.com/ ?
Maybe this wouldn't be such a problem if those with the money wouldn't use it to pay Congress to help them make even more money to the detriment of others. I think that's really what bothers most Americans, and not necessarily the fact they can make more money on their own.
I elaborated on actual expressiveness here:

http://shadow.cat/blog/matt-s-trout/pizza-snakes-bicycle/

(which post starts by quoting the Black Perl to put you in the mood :)
If I live outside of the UK, what's the right way to go about seeing "In Real Life" legally? There appears to have been a showing at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday, but apart from that there appears to be nothing.
what about languages other then English ?
One provocative free-thinker is worth a thousand shaming conformists
Java 7 Update 40 Arrives with Mission Control for HotSpot
> You can require an invite and try this in less than 5 minutes.

Fair enough, but then you should make it clear:
"Want to try it out? require an invite and try this in less than 5 minutes!"

You usually have to wait several days when you apply for a beta like this.
It's not JS.
Define "slimy". Offering someone something which you have a very good reason to think they'd want seems like about the best that marketing can ever be.
How Zynga went from social gaming powerhouse to has-been
A good cocktail showcases and highlights the component spirit(s) to make a more interesting and (hopefully) tasty drink.

Unfortunately when cocktails are based on nasty components, they often end up trying to disguise the spirit with sugary mixers like fruit juice or coke.

If you're interested in cocktails and don't mind diving in the deep end, try an authentic Sazerac:

http://www.esquire.com/drinks/sazerac-drink-recipe

Remember: the point is to highlight the primary spirit, so start with something good: http://www.anchordistilling.com/spirits/old-potrero-straight...
Rails started out as a "the database is stupid, it is just storage" and "models are just object wrappers over your stupid database" as defining characteristics. And it has always had this weird notion that everything has to go through controllers. So it certainly did bastardize MVC, and the guy who came up with MVC has even pointed this out (not specifically about rails I don't think, but about the plethora of faux-MVC frameworks that exist now).
You don't call a framework "micro" based on the amount of code it takes to achieve certain tasks. You call it "micro" because it's small enough that you can learn and truly master in a short time (and you get that by cutting out as many non-essential features as possible).

Therefore,

Micro: http://www.sparkjava.com/readme.html

Not micro: http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/3.2.x/spring-framework-ref...

The downside when using a micro framework is that you always walk a fine line between simplicity and code reuse. Because of this, as the application grows you do end up writing more code than with a complex framework because you slowly start reinventing the wheel -- this is the old argument you hear over and over (Flask vs Django, Sinatra vs Rails, BackboneJS vs AngularJS, etc.)
Absinthe + pear juice is great. Also absinthe + energy drink of some sorts. Though somewhat good absinthe is necessary for it as fake/cheap brands are really horrible.
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Are you also then against CSS transitions?
> I'm not sure I understand how we can simultaneously be resorting to violence too quickly and also swinging too far in the other direction.

A generation ago, many conflicts in elementary through high school - especially between boys - were solved by physical confrontation. Two generations ago, it wouldn't have been uncommon for young adult men to come to blows. In neither of these cases would law enforcement have even been considered.

During my own time in public school, I saw the attitude change from "don't start a fight" to "if you get into a fight, both parties will be punished".

> I could be mistaken, but the former sure seems like the more pressing problem in practice.

Aggressive personalities are being shunned in our culture. Being "Alpha" is being construed as a negative thing, as a deficiency in some set of social skills that are presumably teachable.

> Are there advocates of taking it too far in the other direction? Of course, but there are advocates of just about everything. I would tend to save my worries regarding those advocates until the problem of resorting to violence too quickly recedes some, and the opposite problem becomes more prevalent outside of mere advocacy.

We're teaching our children that using violence represents a failure. I strongly believe the employing violence in defense of self or of a third party is entirely appropriate and in some cases the only morally coherent response to the violent aggression of others.

Instead, we should be showing our children how to form a rational basis for their actions and to consider their emotional responses in light of that.
I thought Reeder would lose a huge chunk of it's user base because of the slow update time. The inability to use the desktop app has forced people to investigate alternatives.

Turns out all the alternatives are shit.
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It's missing the BASIC:

10 tequila
20 GOTO 10
correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the point of this that its CSS and not JS?
However, in the case of Borderlands at least, the app store version would limit you from playing multiplayer with anyone with the Steam version.
Facebook COO Discusses Cooperation With China’s Internet Regulator
10GB in that Alpha server seems like a massive amount of memory at the time. But DEC claimed capability of up to 28GB. An 8400 configured the way they had it was probably a half a million dollars, not including the disks of course.

You can see how far behind Intel hardware was at the time - the quad-CPU Pentium Pro boxes only had 256MB of memory! Sure, that was only a $40k box from Compaq...

Fun fact: At the time, Quake engine licensees were buying 4-way Alpha and Intel servers to do the level processing for first person shooters.
Unicycling Gorilla and 40 other Linux kernel names
Indeed. Even if you are not using an ORM, controller functions should be short. Functions are just not supposed to be 30+ lines.

If my controller function isn't less than 20 lines of code I look over it and figure out what code can be placed in a library or a model or a view. The controller function should do very little.
Is Lemon 10,000 Times Stronger Than Chemotherapy in Fighting Cancer?
But then you also need to include those features that most frequently crap out: screen, battery (easy enough), jacks (maybe a block of jacks -- power, microusb, headphones?).

Otherwise you'll be upgrading memory and camera on a broken phone.

It's a wonderful concept, but extraordinarily hard to pull off. I'm glad he's trying to find partners before any thought of crowdsourcing.
Who is worse, the one begging for the money, or the one supplying it? You're portraying Congress as some kind of passive conduit when in fact they're quite active in their own schemes.
Same question: what makes you think just being a woman would make you less likely to be passionate or dream about building things with computers? If your theory is true, I'd assume its because young women are socialized to think that such dreams are not for them, and because, for example, they lack female role models to identify with, not because there is some inherent contradiction between femininity and computers.
Coming from a country where the ratio is significantly more balanced than in north-america(about 40% are women), I appreciate any attempt to address the sex balance in the industry.

However, this might be more harm that help. One big problem is the gender centric culture of the industry, and these kind of initiatives are just trying to hide the sun with a finger. The culture problem would still be there and what will happen after the program ends? Are the alumni going to start women only companies? IMHO that is far away from the solution.
http://www.joshlehman.com/thoughts/stop-using-the-cup-of-cof...
I don't have links on the tip of my fingers, but my impression is that family formation among young people is down, and its not simply a matter of symantics

I'm not even a believer that that's necessarly a terrible thing

but I do think its a real trend, not just otherwise committed people deciding that they don't need a piece of paper

I think internet == food is the right analogy, too much of certain types of internet usage seems obviously not healthy for you, I think as a culture we should make efforts to make sure that message is widely dessiminated
So the future of America looks like San Francisco?

A 0.1% - Capitalists: LP clients of VC firms, very successful founders and VCs

A 10% - Service professionals: rank-and-file VCs, engineers, managers, lawyers, accountants, consultants

A 90% - Unskilled service workers: baristas and waiters at trendy SF hotspots
Dunkin', Trident Air First Vine-Created TV Ads
Regarding Opera, it has been tested and everything should work as expected!

Can you email me your GitHub username at willy@wit.ai to make sure we got your request? Thanks!
Better, but it still seems to have lots of things happening on timers. So I still have things I'm trying to read disappearing out from under me.

I imagine as the developer you don't notice it. But as somebody trying to read a page, it's really jarring to have that happen. Enough so that I give up trying because I just want it to stop doing that to my eyes.

Any chance you could turn it off completely and just put some arrow icons on there?
Without newsblur support, not really likely to rebuy.

I respect the work involved in moving what had been a google reader client into a true multi-provider client, so would rebuy it it supported the provider I actually use. :-)
> how this compares to http://www.maluuba.com

Wit is 100% open and flexible, you can create any intent you need for your app, you're not limited to a static set of domains/actions.

EDIT: @ragebol we are very interested in ROS and robotics, don't hesitate to get in touch with me arthur at wit dot ai. In the future we would like to provide an off-the-shelf human/robot communication module for developers.
>Views inform the controller, controller updates the model

No, that's not how it is supposed to work. The idea that everything has to pass through a controller for no reason, and that we need a controller per view, is the rails bastardization, not actual MVC.
My biggest concern is that it shows many things as normal and healthy that aren't. Warning - intimate details lie ahead.

As an example - in recent years, this has become increasingly common: women fellating until they gag, almost vomit, drool mucousy streams of saliva all over their partner's genitals, and then slurp it all back up. Most of them look truly miserable while they're doing it.

The guys look like they think it's awesome - never mind the discomfort they allow to be caused to their partner, regardless of how good it might feel.

I can't rule out that it's possible there are women who do enjoy almost tossing their cookies during sex acts. But I am pretty comfortable in believing that most don't. You and I know that. Most people not raised on this variety of porn know that.

Yet now we'll have a generation of kids being shown that women should do this, and they'll be seeing this before they even reach puberty. We're not talking fringe stuff that someone will find, make a decision about, and either look for more of it or not. This is in 'mainstream' porn. Showing young kids that it's normal and expected. And because most people don't do much talking about sex with their offspring, there won't be anybody who tells them differently.

Besides, from ghastly^H^H^H^H^H^H^H sultry smiles on the faces of the women after the fact, it's clear that they really must have enjoyed it.
> It is very rude to sit at the dinner table with people and be interacting with your mobile device rather than your real life companions.

Right, and whose responsibility is it to make sure that children grow up knowing using their mobile phone at the dining table is wrong?
The Startup Life Is Not For Everyone
I don't see anything pretentious about it. He's not bragging about being smart, just stating that he is what most people would call intelligent.

Intelligence can mean many things, but I like to think of it in terms of "brain power"; the amount of abstract thought you can hold and process, your brain's RAM and CPU power so to speak.

The term depression is very broad and probably encompasses numerous as-yet-undefined sub-categories, but his description is very much like my own experience: A dulling of the mind. It's like downclocking the brain's CPU and emotional coprocessor from 2Ghz to 200Mhz. Thinking became slow and required more effort, analytical capabilities pretty much went away and I didn't have the spare capacity to really enjoy anything. A song or a movie I knew I liked just didn't register because my brain wasn't capable of processing it the way it used to. Learning became uninteresting and a chore and problem solving became near impossible. In short, I felt really dumb. I knew I wasn't, but I couldn't "smarten up" however much I tried. Knowing this, not being able to enjoy learning, problem solving or experiencing something was the worst terror of depression.

The experience left me wondering about the immutability or genetic predeterminism of "intelligence". If we broadly define intelligence as "brain power", I know now that it can vary a great deal. I wonder how much of this brain power is predetermined through genetics and how much is affected by the environment. We know that diet plays a large role and that certain diseases affect the brain in this way. How much of a person's "dumbness" can be removed by changing the external factors? In addition, I think broader aspects of intelligence such as analytical abilities, memory and "abstract capacity" can be taught or improved through training. I know my own "intelligence" certainly has required lots of training through the years, not to mention the knowledge that plays a large part of it that had to be acquired.
No Child Left Untableted
IMO, there is some kind of correlation between efficiency in the economy and the inequality in the society. I believe that it is part of the government job to reduce the inequality... but the devil is on the details on how to do it.
>Again, I am not against open source, as I actually am an heavy user of it. But based on personal experience there are only a few markets where I see a possibility to earn money from it, at a sustainable level for what is expected in western civilizations.

So, you don't believe me when I say that you can get paid by a major corporation to work on open source software, to make that software do what the corporation wants, and to give [some of] those changes back to the community?

I mean, these are plum jobs. Not something just anyone can get. But, these jobs are also where the majority of open-source software comes from.

edit:

If you are saying that it's difficult to be an "ideologically pure" open-source programmer and make a living from it, we are not in disagreement.

My point is there are a lot of jobs in and around open-source, though; I've gotten paid to work with (and sometimes make small changes to) open-source software for almost half my life now. I in no way qualify for the 'plum' jobs I described where you work full-time writing said software.

But eh, really, the same is true for most systems programming. Most programming work is CRUD apps. Only a few really good people get to work on systems programming, even in the proprietary software world.

The open-source model means that those of us who keep shit running (or those who write CRUD apps) can modify small portions of more complex programs when we find problems that are within our ability to solve.
+1

Felten's book ( http://www.amazon.com/Hows-Your-Drink-Cocktails-Drinking/dp/... ) has a good overview of all the classic cocktails, and in general is an interesting read. I have yet to try the Sazerac, having 3 bottles of rye at home... Shame :(

Also, the "original" pre-rye Sazerac was done with Cognac, gotta try that at some point as well.
>Unless your definition of model is the business logic area of your application.

Yes, that is the definition of the model in MVC.
The Law that Gave Us the Modern Internet, and the Campaign to Kill It
Reeder was near-perfect until Google Reader was shutdown. Giving a developer another 5 bucks for an updated code base that unifies iPhone and iPad versions is so worth it.

The app is by far the best RSS reader on iOS imho.
Django Software Foundation adopts trademark policy
When you lived in a roundhouse 3000 years ago with all your family in 1 room you didn't see anything sexual?
French + English available now. Which language would you like to get?
Thoughts on "Mood Indicators" for app features?
Some people think the story belongs here and they upvote it.

Other people think the story doesn't belong here and they flag it.

The site has some mechanisms for ageing stories.
>But take something like "new users are sent a welcome email." Would you put that in the model?

Yes, 100% absolutely, no question.

>That fits into the class of behavior and belongs in a controller.

The controller is just to handle input, it has nothing to do with behavior. This is one of the key misunderstandings that differentiates between MVC and the weird mess rails calls MVC.
Doi. This is an obvious danger and I feel stupid for not putting two and two together.
And google still insists it didn't give anything to the NSA.
This is stupid behavior from the banking people. Don't they realize that they are less productive working all-nighters?
If you grew up in the 50's through the 80's...
That doesn't happen in my country. The US legal system is a cluster fuck of horrible practice, and it's not just weird application of sexting laws that's the problem.
Isn't this all just a matter of supply and demand? There are a lot more young people willing to work in this industry than there are positions, so those people who actually get the jobs have to put up with all kinds of stupid shit.

I've never understood why these employees (who are clearly quite intelligent) don't just pursue another career where they have more leverage. After all, I don't think they have any particular love for banking. Being on HN, the obvious suggestion would be software development (not a bad choice, considering the current state of the market), but there are a lot of other options out there as well.
The title “Cocktails for programmers” gives me the same feeling as would the phrase “Leaf blowers for stamp collectors”.

Yes, a stamp collector might use a leaf blower, but it would not be relevant to collecting stamps. On the contrary, using a leaf blower while collecting stamps would be… inadvisable.
Maybe. It could always get worse though. The poor maintain their current standard of living in part thanks to laws and structures that protect this: minimum wage, food stamps, welfare, unions, Medicaid

These tend to be in decline or under attack, sometimes with good reason. But there's no impetus to replace them with anything.

Brazil may be our future. The low end goes very low there.
I just accepted your invite :)
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Yes, ironically the web frameworks that explicitly say "we're not MVC" tend to be much closer to actual MVC than the ones that call themselves MVC frameworks.
Wouldn't inequality make efficiency worse? On an individual level, it would seem that poverty makes your life less efficient -- you end up treating your own time as less valuable, and so you do less productive things, such washing out your paper towels to reuse them, using more energy and water in the process than was used to manufacture them in the first place. When if you had more income, you could, hypothetically, do more productive things? Or would you just around watching Netflix more?