skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google+ deserves to wither and die because of the BS they have pulled.

When I'm forced to create a Google+ account just to use some of the basic features of the corporate Google Apps account which my company already paid for, it becomes quite clear there is no one at Google who gives a damn about customers. They are just trying to inflate their numbers at all possible costs.

It will be a great day when companies are finally forced to stop playing the "number of signups" game and start playing the "number of people who actually like our service and use it willingly" game instead (and no, we're not there yet; not even close).
so this appeals to people who have moved away from home I presume?

This is an incredible logistics challenge, especially insuring the food arrives edible. I wouldn't want to pay $40 for a sandwich to have it show up soggy and falling apart.
Somehow I don't find this to be a problem in my code. Yes, when using someone else's library you need to know how they handle ownership. But this is basically a problem inherited from C.

For example, in the code you posted all the pointer-like handles are named 'p'. In my experience, if we consistently pursue minimal scope and minimal lifetime for our objects, then longer-lived objects are oddballs and we use the type of the handle to help describe its ownership strategy.
Leaving out a lot of the North side there. I was going to sign up and give it a shot (currently use Peapod) but they don't deliver to me.
He doesn't believe it, though. That was kind of the point.
> This was a planned economy, and yet no one was looking at production and consumption numbers?

It's important to understand about that "planned economy" is that it was guided by ideology, not facts. In practice, this meant anything that contradicted ideology was ignored or denied. In the later years that was a habit of mind, but in the 1930s, Uncle Joe purged anyone who doubted the ideology -- liquidated them. The survivors took that lesson to heart.

This is how a bogus biological theory (Lysenkoism, or inheritance of acquired traits) because the centerpiece of Soviet biology in Stalin's time -- he killed anyone who suggested that his pet belief was wrong. This undermined all of Soviet biology and science, and destroyed any chance to have an effective science-based agriculture program.

SO much for the planned economy. But my point is that, as more and more signs of collapse appeared, the older policy-makers went into profound denial. That's what made Gorbachev possible -- once in power, he was willing to consider alternatives to the party line.
FireShell, fiercely quick front-end boilerplate and workflows
To be fair it's a new style language. It's going to take time for people to normalize on designs. Eventually I think that there will be a more homogeneous experience, but right now everyone is trying to feel it out and explore. Design follows trends, but right now there aren't any trends to follow in ios7.
The feature is announced via a popup when affected users try to install apps - I.e. They announce it to users for whom it's relevant.

That's much better than them mindlessly issuing press releases to the world every time they change a feature that affects a minority of users.
"Instacart CEO Apoorva Mehta told AllThingsD that his company built a 'feasibility matrix' to determine which city it would expand to. Components of the matrix included what you might guess: car-ownership density and income. Weather was reportedly also a factor. Mehta tells TechCrunch that '33 percent of the year, Chicago has some form of precipitation' and that his company has learned in the San Francisco area that 'people just do not like grocery shopping when it’s raining.' Seattle, you might be next."

I think Chicago is a natural fit. The specific neighborhoods they picked have about 600k people in 33 square miles (a bit denser overall than San Francisco as a whole). There are a ton of residential skyscrapers in those neighborhoods, which means they probably can hit several orders in one go. 30% of Chicago households don't have a car, about the same as San Francisco. It rains or is cold about half the year, and is hot and humid a couple of months out of the remainder, which makes people not want to carry groceries home.
Android development fragmentation
This article digs up the age old question: is imprisonment intended to punish or to protect society? Or a little of both?
Can we edit The Story of Send?
You know, a simple and entertaining info graphic explaining making satire of recent events?
Probably that many previously, but this has been a long requested feature of the hobby 3d community.

If you build it they will come sort of thing.
> Immediate implication: teachers are actually paid well over there.

Apparently not:

"The average salary for primary education teachers with 15 years experience in Finland is about $37,500, compared to $45,225 in the United States."

http://www.cato.org/blog/no-teachers-finland-are-not-paid-do...
This assumes that it's easier to manage 100 servers using Hadoop than, say, using the same 100 EC2 servers with a normal grid scheduler, task queue, or even something like GNU parallel.

It's orders of magnitude easier to start 100 servers and reuse basic Unix skills than it is to setup and manage Hadoop on the same infrastructure.
A friend and I built http://www.bld3r.com as a vastly more open 3d file sharing platform than thingiverse. We welcome this move, as we prefer files to be hosted on open platforms like github. I thought I'd plug the site for anyone who wants an alternative. We are still in beta, but are finishing that soon.
That's why we're discussing the news.
Code Liberation is hosting a women's game jam in NYC
> In order to become a teacher you need a Master's degree

This is not true in at least some (I suspect 'many') US states. Pennsylvania for instance requires a minimum of a Bachelor's degree: http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/pa_...

A Masters degree provides a much-needed salary bump though; a new teacher in Philadelphia with only a Bachelor's can expect to earn a whooping $45k/yr. If you are living in Philadelphia (or worse, paying for a car and insurance to commute into Philadelphia...) and just got done paying for four/five years of school, 45k/yr is not exactly pleasant. That isn't how we treat members of society that we respect.
The secret of Finland's stellar schools is Finns[1], combines with an immigration policy that borders on xenophobia. Why do Finnish students score better than Swedish students?

[1] http://www.vdare.com/articles/pisa-scores-show-demography-is...
This certainly makes Github a viable option compared to Thingiverse. Hopefully we'll see OpenSCAD file support in the future!
Thanks! https://github.com/HubSpot/vex/commit/5ce17fccca4df92009ca43...
I learned a good bit about data processing while reformatting 78-column BBS text files and manuals for printing in full-page-width proportional font (so as to save my father's printer paper).
This is great! Historically, studios has shunned dvcs; github moving in his direction - even if motivated by personal 3d printing projects - may open some eyes and change some minds.
I'd always thought of it as kind of being both. You don't need to subject inmates to the equivalent of torture and humiliation in order for them to become institutionalized, to fall behind on the world around them, to disrupt their careers and family ties.

Those things alone are pretty terrible. And that's before you get into the whole "solitary confinement/tacitly accepted rape/etc" things that plague prisons.
Fair enough, but I suspect "thousands of years" of evolution may come very quickly if phages were to be used half as widely as antibiotics are.

Besides that, not all of the cells bacteriophages could harmfully target are human cells. What about the billions of gut bacteria in our digestive tract?
What do you read? My first programming project.
Well now that Github actually supports 3D files, I'm sure that will change.
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I like them. The information is much more clear.
> the lack of emphasis on education in the U.S., at least historically, has been a sign of the strength of the U.S. economy, not a weakness of the culture

And when the country is suddenly not that attractive anymore for some reason, the whole thing collapses like a house of cards.

I'm not saying it's going to happen necessarily, I'm just saying the system is dangerously tuned to extreme levels of high-performance / high-risk.

When the engine in my Honda Civic will eventually fail (after many decades probably), it will just stop working. When the engine in an F1 car fails, it may blow up sending flames all over the vehicle and its occupant.
I wouldn't necessarily agree that TA'ing takes away from teaching and learning. Many of the top researchers are also, in my experience, fantastic teachers.

I like to refer to Feynman's writings on this matter:
http://www.pitt.edu/~druzdzel/feynman.html
I presume he means he has the mathematical aptitude to teach high-school math, which (at least in my area) maxes out at trig in most schools and Calc 1 in the bigger ones.

To teach as an adjunct, that's about all you need to teach. If you want to be good at it, some genuine compassion for your students will help there. If you want to be awesome at it, you'll typically need the above plus some training in the proper ways to educate, motivate, etc.

Source: married to a college math teacher.
Why did they have to remove "good" skeuomorphism when going flat? :(
No. It's looks like they are telling developers the state of affairs, so that they don't fear slow adoption.
7 uses for iBeacons that don’t involve advertising or commerce
Cool, that's one wishlist feature down.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5519676

(hehe "Wow. That's a stupidly large amount of work, barfed out with seeming ignorance to the cost of implementation." Yes, well.... libffi helps out a lot.)
How Complex are TodoMVC Implementations
The segmented control in "Photo Investigator" is completely illegible post-update.
I actually came across this last night and completed the entire stream-adventure. It was significantly more fun than I ever would have imagined. I wanted to write my solutions in coffeescript so I forked it[0] and enabled coffeescript support if anyone is interested.

[0] https://github.com/switz/stream-adventure

PR: https://github.com/substack/stream-adventure/pull/18
More easily than a teacher who, like we kids always suspected, actually needs the answer key?
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

These aren't universal, unqualified rules and I don't understand why you're trying to generalize them beyond fundraising. To use a different and perhaps silly example, I'd be more inclined to trust my intuition with respect to dog kennels than, say, medical or legal advice.

I think pg is saying that fundraising is more like medical or legal advice and less like dog kennels. He's not making a blanket statement about trusting people with prior experience.

If you want to make this more mathy, imagine there some function

I(s) = amount I should trust my intuition in situation s

pg is writing about what happens when "s_1 = I'm fundraising for the first time," but you're trying to rebut his point as if he were writing about what happens when "s_2 = I'm talking to someone more experienced than myself." There are three possibilities: pg believes I(s_1) = I(s_2), you're misunderstanding pg, or pg is contradicting himself.

You're arguing that since pg believes I(s_1) != I(s_2) (as evidenced by his previous writings) then pg must be contradicting himself. The correct line of reasoning is actually "If pg believes I(s_1) != I(s_2) then either pg is contradicting himself or I'm misunderstanding pg."

Given pg's generally fastidious nature with respect to these things, I'd say the prior odds of pg contradicting himself are much lower than you simply misunderstanding him. At the very least this is what most folks believe, so when you jump to the conclusion that pg is contradicting himself you come off as an uncharitable little troll. First stop on the troll tour: Downvote City. :D

Putting on my teacher hat for a second, when you smell a contradiction like that it's often a sign you're misunderstanding something. Rather than point out the apparent contradiction and go all j'accuse on the author, it's more useful to stop and ask yourself, "Assuming the author is intelligent enough to spot a contradiction like this, is there a way to understand what they wrote in a way that isn't contradictory?"

There's really no downside to doing this, even if there is a contradiction. At the very least you'll have developed a more robust argument. Often you'll end up with a way to express the author's argument more clearly than the author did in the first place, since you're probably not the only one confused in the same way. What's more, if there actually is a contradiction, folks will be more inclined to believe you when you demonstrate you've gone out of your way to try to understand the author.
I live in Chicago and a Trader Joes opened up near me about a week ago. This is the most fantastic news I've heard in a long time: cheap, good groceries delivered to my door!
I wouldn't call github an open platform. Maybe you meant gitorious or cgit or gitweb?
Twitter Poaches Microsoft Developer Relations Director for Platform Gig
Thank you for saying this. Exactly what I was thinking when I read the article...
What truly older iOS versions?
Yep - it's this gap between common sense and actual patents that the patent Trolls are exploiting. The only true way to fix it is to reform the patent system itself.
Valve drops hints about Steam game hardware
People who have moved away from home is definitely one market, but it's just a small part. There's also gifting (corporate and personal, it's a way more interesting gift than a basket from somewhere), events (wings from Buffalo for game day, cupcakes or pies for a corporate event), and of course, personal use, both just exploring and getting a taste of home, like you said.
Thanks for the in-depth answer!
The article doesn't answer an obvious question -- whether an Eclipse-based Android project can be seamlessly imported into Android Studio. That was the first thing I thought of, and in scanning the article I saw it wasn't addressed. IMHO a glaring omission.

EDIT: The Google article about Android Studio covers this -- it's a two-step process in which one exports a project from Eclipse, then imports that into the new environment.
In my experience, awesomeness feels a bit less Star Wars and a lot more Gurren Lagann. No accounting for taste, I guess.
I would tentatively disagree with raising the bar and describe it using my favorite MySQL / PostGRES analogy that they have a fundamentally different philosophy but do about the same thing.

For example, if you want to do something software raid-ish, ZFS has the philosophy that should be done at the filesystem layer, not as a virtual device like every other linux filesystem, ever. Its not a new feature to be able to do RAID, but its new to embed RAID into the filesystem layer itself. Linux style virtual RAID devices don't care if you build a FAT32 on top of /dev/md0.

There are other examples of the same philosophy in ZFS. For example everywhere else in linux if you want some manner of "volume manager" you simply use LVM. ZFS has its own interesting little volume manager. Which relates to snapshots.

It's exactly the same with encryption. Every other implementation on linux uses a loop device and your choice of algo. ZFS shoves all that inside the filesystem.

Another philosophical decision is every other linux filesystem doesn't scrub, but only fsck's metadata, so logically ZFS implements the exact opposite.

Although ZFS supporters are technically telling the truth when they run around saying only ZFS can provide software RAID, or only ZFS has a volume manager, and ext2/3/4 does not, its not relevant. I've had LVM and software RAID and all that for many years on existing linux stuff.

One of the few true features ZFS provides is allowing ridiculously big filesystems. Which is cool.

It is mostly a philosophical difference between modularity and monolithic design, with pretty much everything else being modular, and ZFS being extremely monolithic.

In that way I don't think ZFS has prodded any innovation at all in any other filesystems other than maybe BTRS which I haven't been following because my data is too valuable to experiment upon and filesystems aren't my thing. I don't see the iso9660 FS driver adding native volume management, snapshotting, software RAID, and encryption any time soon.
Have you tried iOS7 on an iPhone 5?
> the only safe way to sneak out from under an existing license would be a black-box rewrite

It still doesn't protect you of patent lawsuits.
Thanks, you're right. Note: I edited it for clarity on the point you mentioned.
Are people really redesigning their whole apps just to fit iOS 7 better or what's going on?
I don't understand how putting the code into the same repository/makefile changes whether it's derivative in terms of copyright.
This is so great! I'm always working with STL's and always asking myself, "what's different in these models?" I'd love to see meta data and other 3D file types like VRMLs or SolidWorks parts included in the future as well.
Not reverence for educators, reverence for education.
For a new market the area covered is pretty good. Your neighborhood probably got skipped because of Uptown :P. Notice how far west they go in Logan Square but Humboldt Park is skipped?
Good question — the Android tools in Eclipse can export an Android Studio project.
I really hope they partner with Google on this, at least I can't think of any reason not to.
The "tipping point" theory popularized by Malcolm Gladwell's book was proven to be too simplistic and flawed by Duncan Watts, a network researcher currently at Yahoo. His book "Everything is Obvious - Once You Know the Answer" debunks this popular misconception. He describes many studies, simulations and actual experiments that show that how fast something spreads virally has less to do with where it starts (influential groups/tipping point), than how susceptible a person is to being influenced (ie how infectious the idea is to begin with). The book is great btw.
Straw Poll
Thanks Omar :)
Oh yes, sorry :D
LinkedIn vs DICE vs others
Self-taught elites might be the next group to have big impact. Not 100% sure if this will happen. But with easier access to then-valuable information, people in different locations on earth will have opportunities to form a group that shares common value system. This may affect the current society structure a lot. It can be a big topic. I guess the possibilities that this will happen is getting bigger and bigger.
Everything is so flat.
But I like it tho. :) Simple and cool.
> anything up to the 21-year maximum sentence (Norway has no death penalty or life sentence)

One thing has to be noted every time: Norway has no life sentence (well it does, for the military) (and it has a 30 years sentence for crimes against humanity as required by the Rome Statute) but it has forvaring, "preventive detention".

It is indeterminate length sentence tacked onto initial 21 years, which translates into the ability to extend the imprisonment by increments of 5 years if the prisoner is still considered a danger to society. The prisoner can petition for parole every year during forvaring, but there is no limit to the possibility of extension, so forvaring effectively allows for life in prison.
It's a really crappy predicament. Any politician here in the US that would want to model our prisons in a more humane manner would be labelled soft/weak on crime and would never get elected. I can't see this changing anytime in the next 20 years.
I find it amusing that people are so sheep-like in the way that the herd mentality just takes over. To be fair, I am not claiming any sort of immunity from this effect, I am as guilty of it as the next person ... but it is quite funny in a sad way when you are able to step back and recognise it.
Prison in the US isn't about punishment or rehabilitation. It's about money. Incarceration is big business.
Thanks Stefan :D
My first reaction was that there was no curation, no filter here, given the broad range of UI quality (both before and after), but then I realized this collection was even more interesting because of it.

While Hipmunk, for example, clearly has a team of UX and UI designers, and RecordOrders is almost certainly the design work of a single Cocoa programmer, I'd say the latter actually improved by a greater margin. Hipmunk already had a very nice pre-7 approach which they translated expertly to the new design language, but RecordOrders' awkward color fields and cramped buttons benefit greatly from the enforced minimalism.
These mostly look average at best, downright bad at worst. Before and after.

And, kids: "Making something look like iOS 7" does not absolve you from your duty to use good UX and to think about the "why" behind your visual design. Shitty design skinned to look like iOS 7 remains shitty design.
Web development in C: crazy? Or crazy like a fox?
I love how ads brings practically no money and are just an annoyance that you monetize for the user to get rid off :)

disclaimer, my salary is paid with ads :(
Gorby took office in 1985. If the CIA had noticed that event and the significance you attribute to it, when it happened, they still would only have gotten passing marks. To get the gold star, they should have noticed years earlier. That they never noticed, is what leads one to wonder what the hell they were doing all those years.
I thought the same. No 3D GUI for text? Guess I'm gonna have to write my own.

Cue swordfish music.
On Apple.
Goodbye Wayne Green, and thanks for the memories
I've also been sort of feeling like titles get rewritten just for the sake of being rewritten these days. I understand the need to combat sensationalism, but this sort of edit really takes away the writer's voice.
It could also be used offensively to start a rebellion or change political outcomes.