skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's mine (without distances)

Toronto->LA->Toronto->St.Catharines->Ottawa->Toronto->Whistler->New Jersey->Whistler->Frisco(Colorado)->Vancouver->Whistler->LA->Whistler->Santiago->Sydney(AU)
Similar experience: since leaving my country (Germany) I have been 1.5 yrs US, 3 yrs UK, 1 yr Mexico, now for 3 yrs in Spain. Even though I do feel lonely sometimes due to culture difference and language barrier I love it and cant imagine going back, I'd rather go somewhere else. However, my wife wants a baby and is pretty much nailed to her job so I prepare myself to settle at least for a while. Btw I'm 43
To make it more clear: a web version would make it instantly available to every modern mobile device holder (let it be Android, iOS, Windows Phone), plus anyone on the desktop with a tablet. I might even prefer using it with a mouse, just drawing things instead of selecting shapes from a list.
I haven't trusted that site since they allowed a shock-journalist to dox one of their most productive members.
It's "real" enough when you and your wife change jobs, your kids go to new schools, and none of you can no longer go out easily with the people you used to know.
>Almost no one ever really analyzes sanity.

Assuming you mean the general public, then yes, I suppose so. But the measures taken by the mind to protect itself from reality have been a central area of study for psychologists for over a hundred years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_mechanism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_schema
I think its the natural process of evolution. only the strongest/fittest survive and that's exactly how it should be. the only problem is that the early stage investement flood created this problem and until that will settle down, we will keep suffering from the same symptoms without being able to actually address the problem.
I think this is an unreasonable judgement, which only reflects the fact that the OP has made different life decisions than you have.

Bringing your family stability is a noble cause, but OP's children get to experience a breadth of culture (among other benefits), for which they will surely be grateful.
> Reddit is entirely arbitrary with who it chooses to protect from doxxing, and why.

If you agree with the official Ideology, I think you're safe. Otherwise, you're the enemy. The whole site is /r/politics with a vigilante twist.
Why designers shouldn't force innovation
> Its no better than mob mentality.

That's the internet post-Eternal September in a nutshell.
Have look at Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contribute/
The necessary conceit of the essayist
Whistler is pretty awesome, I can see why that one keeps coming back :)

If you find yourself in or near NL let me know please.
I live in Brazil and nothing going to happen, trust me. Next.
drawing shapes using mouse.. IMO, not very usable
If you want me to be blunt, I think he is incapable of it, and he is wasting all of our time with a "what if" post about a language that will never exist. Happy now?
From ancient history (although explicitly based on Hoare's CSP) there was Occam for the Transputer.
Self-absorbed is putting it mildly. No-one outside your singleverse understands what you're even talking about.

Moreover, “A native app is a web app opened and used within the Tictail dashboard, creating a completely seamless transition between Tictail and your app.”
So, a “native app” is not a native app at all but some made-up doohickey. As in other marketing mumbo jumbo, existing terms are bent beyond recognition to mean the exact opposite of what they meant before. Way to bring your contorted vision to the masses.
Seven Days in the Life of Young Microsoft (1994)
When faced with a JS problem in a SPA - around 6 years ago - I had a representative from a client say me "wait, I will install the latest JAVA and see if that fixes it". He even chose the jdk to be safe.
My work experience : Italy(6 months, I'm Italian), USA (5 months), UK (1.5 years), Spain (4 years running).

I agree that the main problem is rebooting your social life... finding a job (at least whithin Europe, for a European, employed in tech) in my experience is not.

Apart from the first two jobs, derived from projects I started at the end of college, I have always applied to job offers online, went to interviews etc...
You move from the second camp to the first camp when you have to read massive amounts of code and commit logs.

You are also right. Small projects don't need them because you have to time to to look trough the few changes fast.

Linux development would not go as smooth if it would not have rules (that are quite minimal btw.). If everyone would commit code with different indentation and these changes would constantly end in git, it would be chaos. Same for commit logs. It does not matter at all for those who are contribution only time from time, but if it's your everyday job to read trough them it's important.
That's funny, I consider myself a nomad and have almost your introduction word-for-word as my bio on my website. Your article portrays the moving activities well and a few things I haven't tried (the new house stuff). I am surprised to find this is you considering some of the physical projects you have written about (windmill, gas station, RV, etc).

The stuff accumulation is a big one for me too. Before I started this lifestyle definitely was doing all I could to save things and then I just realized that most of it I never touch so I took the nostalgia things, took pictures, and then donated to charity. That way my stuff's "soul" can give happy memories to others.
As always, the devil is in the details.

Keyboard smashing can be made quite unpredictable if implemented correctly. The randomness should come from time difference between keystrokes, not from the key values.

I have used the Unix signal(3), using SIGINFO, in conjunction with a tight CPU loop to generate random numbers for e.g. WiFi passwords. The technique is something like this:

volatile int signal_info = 0;
void sighdlr(int sig)
{ signal_info = 1; }

int main(...) {...
unsigned count = 0;
signal(SIGINFO, sighdlr);
...
for(;;) {
count++;
if (signal_info) {
signal_info = 0;
...
}
}

Before running this program I use
stty -kerninfo
to avoid seeing CPU statistics.

Then every time I press ^T I display a new random number displayed based on the LSBs of the count. E.g. to simulate a die roll I print count%6.

This technique is good for not just a few bits of randomness per ^T, it is good for over 20 bits. That's because when I examine the timing of the inner loop generated I find it taking about 2 or 3 CPU cycles per increment (depending on compiler). So on a 2 GHz machine the counter is incremented at a 1 GHz rate. That's about 30 binary bits, the least significant of which are the most unpredictable. Assuming you press ^T at about a 3 Hz rate, you're probably getting over 20 bits (more or less) of randomness each time you do so.

The above only works if your system supports a decent SIGINFO setup (works fine on OpenBSD and OS X, I don't know about Linux). It probably has serious problems in a virtual machine, I use a real keyboard that has its own independently clocked CPU.
Holy crap man, paragraphs are a good thing.

The biggest obstacle that tech journalist faced was his own perceptions on how Windows should work.

You mean, like it's worked for the last 10+ years? You don't jettison a decade of muscle memory and UI conventions on a whim. At least with 3.1 -> 95 it was more or less obvious that the changes were a step forward.

With their behavior in 8, the desktop UX, where real people are getting real work done, is made a second class citizen to the touch UX, which is primarily consumption oriented.

I think that, behind all the aesthetic complaints, is where a lot of the animus comes from.
It's not weird for girls to play video games
WordPress can render LaTeX since I can remember.

Example:

- http://l.wordpress.com/latex.php?latex=\displaystyle%20w_{a,...

- or a simpler one: http://l.wordpress.com/latex.php?latex=\frac{\pi}{2}&bg=ffff...
....or a plumb bob and a protractor would work too I guess?
There are MRS-MIL and LYS-ZRH fiber paths to protect the Iberian peninsula. A PAR-MAD cut does not bring down ONO or any of the other Iberian providers. Additionally, PAR-LON has more than one path, any backbone provider worth their weight will use both. Also, PAR-FRA-AMS-LON or PAR-AMS-LON are viable alternative paths should all LON-PAR paths be cut.
Former NSA director’s view of the Internet looks a lot like China’s
Leadership in Crisis: TD Ameritrade's CEO on the 2008 financial crisis
"A 2 terabyte hard drive costs $94.99, 4 terabytes is $169.99. Buy one and stick it in a desktop computer or server. Then install Postgres on it."

Done! Although with more drives and a backup server. Right now, we're pushing 15Tb with no loss in performance.
Reread the word, "alghorithmical". It's completely misspelled.

Memory isn't an adjective either, but the phrase "rethinking primary memory constraints" strikes me as perfectly valid. That's why I concluded that "algorithm" would be the most clear word. But yes, I think "algorithmic" would have been fine as well.
This is something I'd pay £20-30 ($30-$50) if it was available on a PC, hell combined with a digital whiteboard (and with a couple more features) and you'd have something most developers would give a left arm for!.
Actually I think you might be wrong about that, the shape recognition and the way you draw a simple line between two objects to join them would be useful even with a mouse.
I do like an expressive high-level encoding like that, but 1) I just needed a silly example to show what pipes are. In practice you would probably use higher-order library functions (or components) like group for the same thing. 2) In my experience, very compressed expressions can be hard to modify in certain directions. Practical stuff like printing, logging or storing progress every X seconds, which is a small modification in a for-loop, can be a hassle.
Not at all constructive feedback.
"Man, people really need to listen to the actual quote instead of repeating BS. Gabe said ONE GUY had made just over $500k OVER THREE YEARS."

The source that I read (the quote, below, from Gabe) indicates people, which is of course plural. Also, it indicates $500,000 per year, not over three years:

"So now we're in this strange world where we have people who are using the Steam Workshop who are making $500,000 per year building items for other customers."

Exclusive interview: Valve's Gabe Newell on Steam Box, biometrics, and the future of gaming:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/8/3852144/gabe-newell-intervi...
The history with an open and free for all internet that we have enjoyed does inspire me, it is somewhat amazing in retrospect that it was so, despite not having an international organization to defend these principles.

The fact that it happened, perhaps due to those ideas of freedom to share knowledge and connect with each other over wast distances and boundaries, makes me believe it will happen again, in another form.

We will find each other, just like we did on bbs, irc and in various in-game chats and forums, perhaps next time in a field of ciphers, stenography and darknets, small lights of communities will spring up.

Next stop, hyperboria.
Some of us have touch screens on our PCs too :).
If you've ever wondered what's the deal with C++ and why it's being used in 2013, you might wanna watch this. Stroustrup isn't a very flashy speaker, but he says some incredibly insightful things.

C++'s C heritage makes it hard to master and also causes countless misconceptions. Even if you never want to use C++, it's worth looking into some of the unique concepts that, sadly, didn't catch on in other languages so far. (My personal favourites are const correctness and RAII.)

Do watch the talk, the first few minutes might already be mind blowing for anyone who thought C and C++ are basically the same language.
Again, I don't know the full story, just based on what and how I read the article. If your family enjoys it, then by all means it sounds great :]. Heck, maybe it's even better for them than sticking around.

It's just like I had mentioned, it seems more people these days think that they are privileged and they're too self centered and not seeing what their true role should be. It's an issue that bothers me and it's simply how I read the article.
True Size of the Shadow Banking System Revealed (Spoiler: Humongous)
That's already a sunk cost to everyone in the thread. Further criticism - that doesn't address the reasons people are enthused, serves as a time-sink for no return in value.

i.e. if you want it to go away from altruistic concern, you're probably better off addressing the flaws in the concept or ignoring it. ^_^;
Something for Mozilla to consider using inside Firefox inplace of LevelDB ( If that was ever landed )
This is great! Tictail is raising the bar when it comes to e-commerce, specially with their user experience. Keep at it guys! Cheers from a fellow e-commerce developer in Brazil :)
This looks interesting, though I don't agree with the "most candidates cannot write code to simple algorithm" thesis.

I interview A LOT. Almost 100% of the candidates I receive cover the basic programming abilities.
The real problem is that they don't know how to THINK.

I talk with them 20 min on the phone when they have to present a problem they had and how they solved it. Then I try to find out what they find interesting.

Giving a mini project is a good idea, but it does not scale well, and still requires a lot of resources top candidates will just not be willing to invest.
Reducing eCommerce's Shopping Cart Abandonment Rate
Syrian Rebels use iPads to aim homemade mortars
I have the lowest priced account on this, and I probably don't use it all that much, but it's useful (especially when you're in support) as a kind of insurance policy for those times when someone goes, "One of these has stopped working - fix it", and your first thought is to reply, "What the hell is one of those?", and your second thought is, "I'd better find a book on whatever the hell one of those is."
High Speed Photographs of Ink Mixing with Oil
Sorry, but I find landing page confusing. It's not clear what the service is, does, or how can it help me.
Rebuilding a city, on this scale, takes a LOT of time. Maybe our lifetimes, or two. It took a lifetime to grow Detroit from a small city to a big one. But this time, the game may be much more complicated.

Although my evidence is only anecdotal, I can see with my own eyes when I'm in and around Detroit (I live about an hour west) that people are working incredibly hard to turn the city around. But the statistics may not show this at first glance, and it could take many years for all of this hard work to even register on the national radar.

If we're here looking for simple answers, the only simple answer would be to let Detroit continue declining, and forget about it and deal with the blowback, whatever it may be, for however long it may last. Every other answer is hard.
Thanks for sharing your experiences guys. Finding work for you all is probably easier than for me. Going back, I would have taken a different path, but as of now, even if I do know some web development and python/R for statics/data analysis, it is pretty hard for me to move away from finance (which I also like, by the way), thus I find it pretty hard to have that kind of life and CV.

Basically, since I joined the workforce, my company pretty much decides where I will be. If I live this company, it's going to be another one deciding for me. This kind of work ties you to companies much more than yours it seems. Which is one of the big cons of this job, the pros are there too of course, but I am in a period of life where I actually envy people that can move like you do.
Thanks a ton. This was useful!
The issue isn't just that antibiotics are used routinely for animals. The issue is that high volume (and low cost) animal rearing techniques require extensive antibiotic use to compensate for the awful conditions and diet of the animals. Legislating against antibiotic use in animals would definitely help though.
I understand and agree with the author's main point that many companies that use big data do not need to use these technologies.

I do not agree that the tools are inferior to Sql. Hive is really close to sql and Pig is extremely powerful. I would take a look at a few of the recent updates to these tools before declaring them inferior to Sql.
Stepping Out of the Search Box (Bing rebranding)
Actually you're quite right. There aren't any significant profits in the development of new antibiotics (right now) but that is changing as more and more resistance is popping up.

Additionally there are new treatments being investigated such as phage therapy (albeit this more of a revival) heavy metals and bacteriocins (protein based).
But you truncated the quote for impact. It ends with: “And for some patients and for some microbes, we are already there.”
While I can appreciate your situation, those last two paragraphs read with the same kind of anecdotal logic that lead people to the conclusion that vaccinations do more harm than good.
I like this. One great feature would be to automatically save to a Dropbox/Google Drive/.. location. Im pretty sure the Dropbox api's support that, don't know about the GDrive apis.
Japan Warned U.S. of Blackouts in Appeal for LNG Supply
So true!
I would 'up' it twice if I could.

Too many startups go over to Hadoop/no-sql solutions before the overhead is indeed justified.
SQL for most of the data with a bit of Redis and numpy for background processing will take you much further than most people assume.

It's fun to think you must have DynamoDB, Hadoop or a Cassandra backend, but in real life -- you better invest in more features (or analytics!)
I know "who he is". Do I have to agree with him because he is a professor? Every piece of his writing I saw used the most complicated language possible and the largest amount of digressions to in the end convey nothing concrete whatsoever and this is all the more true of this article. Moreover I think one can not make any serious contribution to cognitive science using the methodology he uses and that what he is doing is akin to people trying to explain "what gravity is" before Galileo came, abandoned the question, and used equations to predict effects of gravity instead. If I am wrong, I seriously would love an explanation of why do you think so.

As others have said Marvin Minsky, who I by the way respect way more than Dennett because in his prime he actually did do real research, had this idea of a "community of agents" thirty years ago or more, in fact he several time claimed that if only he would receive the money to hire programmers he would produce revolutionary AI programs in a matter of months. How this is looked upon by more mainstream scientists one can guess. To me the whole theory is as vague as saying that the brain is made up of cooperating parts. Does any of this lead to testable scientific predictions?
Wow! This is great! One question: Why is this free. I think this should be a paid app.
To name a few from the top of my head:
1. Strategic location along the straits and along an international border.
2. Most (almost all) of the needed infrastructure is already in place.
3. Many reputable universities in the area, including two Big 10 schools.
4. An educated workforce (well, those who have stayed in-state).
5. Top-notch medical and robotics industry and innovators in the area.
6. Scenic travel destinations directly to the north (and west on Lake MI).
7. Situated smack-dab in the middle of the industrial shipping corridor between Chicago and Toronto
8. Excellent international shipping facilities and international port of entries (DTW, etc.)
Points against that:

- I can have a wacom (or similar) device connected to the desktop

- I can even .. use my android tablet as mouse/touchpad/wacom simluator

The benefit: The result instantly on a bigger screen (and maybe even a really big screen if I connect the desktop/laptop to a projector or something).
Indeed.

A rule of the thumb that I've inferred from many installations is: Just introducing Hadoop makes everything 10 times slower AND more expensive than an efficient tool set (e.g. pandas).

So it only makes sense to start hadooping when you are getting close to the limit of what you can pandas - everything you do before that is a horrible waste of resources.

And when you do get there - often, a slightly smarter distribution among servers and staying with e.g. pandas, will let you keep scaling up without introducing the /10 factor in productivity. Although, it might be unavoidable at some point.
Actually you're quite mistaken. The reason no one uses phage therapy is because for it to be effective it has to be given in a cocktail, i.e. you're given 20 different phages at a time. The FDA/CDC strongly discourage cocktail usage as it promotes the development of resistance more than antibiotic abuse.

MediHoney is used mainly as a wound dressing to prevent infection, not to treat current infections (maybe infections at the wound site). The answer is not profit as you may believe.
I sort of agree. However when you think you will grow into the TB range, you just as well do it in hadoop right away.

We are using Hive and HiveQL and have SQL like queries which generate the correct output. The result is: we dont have to hassle with the hadoop mappers and reducers. And we can write our "queries" in a human readable fashion.
1. Yes, the linear typing for mutable data is inspired by Clean.
2. I look at Shen from time to time. It looks nice, but I have never gotten around to play with it.
What was the title by the way?
As someone that is friend of people of Serpro.and know some of Air Force research I feel offended.

Brazil do have researchers and brains and money, and politics get in the way.... We have even particle accelerators of our own design! Also, the rocket project was not scrapped, it is only waiting for new engineers to be trained, since.the last accident killed all of them.

Did you knew, that the card to pay a phone is a Brazilian invention? Or the language Lua that drives games like World of Warcraft, Baldur Gate, Far Cry 2... Or that no country matched Petrobras drilling techniques yet, or that our army use locally invented radars, anti-air equipment and so on. Or that the air force has. a locally invented portable air traffic controller station ( for those curious: it runs Debian ), or that CNPQ is investing heavily in research about how to cure heart problems with stem cells, or that the state universities in Sao Paulo are so good with image recognition that French universities send their students here to learn.

Brazil has one of the best academia in the planet, heritage of the emperor Pedro II that had the vision and.created the current system, and created stuff like the agronomical research institute.

Also we have lots of brilliant people, here ( Carlos lattes for example, that died some time ago ) or elsewhere (I forgot the name of the guy that researches uniting brain with machines, now he works for Duke.University), also we obviously have money

Don't insult researchers, we clearly have political problems that end killing cool stuff like the OSORIO battle tank, but don't claim our academia is incompetent, if it was, other countries would not hire people trained.ed here.
"Encouraging companies to host data directly in Brazil"

I hope they change how hosting and domain registration work in Brazil. I gave up registering .br domains because the way it works in Brazil is very obtuse. There's a centralized register (registro.br), their web site is stuck in 1995 (you can't change data easily, etc), and you can't register a domain for more than a year at a time (you have to renew every year).
However with a strong robotics industry in the Detroit area, it may be easier servicing those robots if they were installed near, say, Detroit.