skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The flip side of that is if you're a startup in the Bay Area if your interns are doing work that hits production start paying them before you piss one off and they sue you. $10 bucks an hour (mimimum wage) is cheap...
MR folklore that I've never bothered to corroborate says:

We like helium because it doesn't react with anything. That also means we can't easily extract it from anything--you have to extract everything else until only helium remains. This is a ridiculously expensive process.

The large underground domes that trapped natural gas in Texas also trapped the helium that resulted from millennia of radioactive decay within the Earth. Getting helium from that sort of a deposit is comparatively inexpensive.

In the early 20st century, we believed helium airships were going to become important military weapons, and we started to stock pile helium as a strategic reserve--Texas natural gas producers were mandated to extract the helium and give it to the government for storage and eventual military use rather than vent it into the atmosphere.

Later we got airplanes, and airships became a thing of the past like dodos. And since we had a large store of helium, it was available for research and science and balloons. Cool things developed. For MR this meant high-fields generated by superconducting magnets.

But of course maintaining a large stockpile of helium is also expensive. And what does the public know about helium? Why are we wasting our money on balloons and funny voices and besides if scientists say it's important, then it must be the devil's plaything.

So along came the Gingrich-era House and the Contract with America. Congress stopped the economically-crushing over-bearing regulatory burden of helium trapping that was crushing Texas's natural gas competitiveness.

Congress also decided to simultaneously make a few bucks by selling of the helium reserve at cut rate prices, killing any chance of economic incentives developing a secondary market for helium. You can't simultaneously cut funding for science and jack up the prices of helium, that would be one straw too far! Thus the large US reserve was to be sold off at very low prices.

Texas natural gas producers thereby had little incentive to catch the helium themselves as they plowed through the easy natural gas supply, so it was vented. And the Texas dome natural gas was extremely easy to mine, so production skyrocketed after being freed from the shackles of government regulations.

Now that we've moved through the domed natural gas, we're going after the harder to reach natural gas via fracking.
I don't think the reporting on this is properly emphasizing the fact that there is actually an impending helium shortage. What I've read so far makes it seem like a bureaucratic error of some kind.
Why? Shouldn't I be free to work for no charge if I really want? AREN'T WE SUPPOSED TO HAVE "FREEDOM" IN THIS COUNTRY? (the US, that is.)

(Postscript while comment score at 0. I take your downvotes to indicate 'no'. Which is about what I figured. :P)
We're in production with Scala since 2010 and for that use case it worked out pretty good. Not enjoying the GC at all, it is by far the biggest issue.

Also keeping an eye on Go and D, but not yet committed.
Step 1: Teach me functional languages.

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Step 3: Profit.

In all seriousness, I don't think I'm qualified to teach those concepts to anyone, let alone kids. But there's some awesome discussion on robotturtles.com/community about future directions with both similar and additional rules and pieces. I bet you'd find some folks there who could help!
At least in the US, the general rule of thumb is that you can have unpaid interns as long as there is some sort of training program for them.

Thats not the rule of thumb. The rule of thumb is that if they're doing "real" work they need to be paid. In software that generally means anything that goes into a production service or release.
It's not really a blind curve though;

https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=Elk+Tree+Road%2C+Wood...

Bicyclists can do ~35mph on that stretch, which is about 50 feet per second. She was around the bend for at least 3 seconds before she impacted the van, plenty of time for the van to see her and for her to slow down or turn off if the van had turned before she came around the bend.

More likely than not, she was already around the bend, nearly to the intersection when the driver turned. It's quite shady in that section, so it's possible the driver lost her in the shadows, or just wasn't paying close enough attention.
I was just up there for the first time a couple weeks ago and I was surprised by how many bikers I saw. Its one of those streets where locals (in cars) just barrel down the hill bc they are so familiar, while bikers and runners love the area bc its beautiful and provides a challenging workout. Just a reminder that there needs to be a balance. This is really sad news.
It doesn't have to be a screen door, and as far as I understand, it's not intended to be with iOS 7. The phone will not let you sync with an unrecognized external device unless you unlock it, and will stop you from brute forcing the passphrase, as well. Unless you physically take apart the device to remove the flash storage, I don't think there's a way to access the photos on it.
I feel like a dumbass. The two great data science tools I learned for command line are grep and sed :-)
Not to beat on Gladwell (more than a bit) but I tend to double-check most of what he says.
University of Queensland scramjet test failure
One where you win an N64! It was some sort of mail-the-coupon-in thing from Andrex in the UK.
Anybody know what Yang is doing following his resignation last year?
> If we are shitcanning missions because we don't have Pu-238, then why doesn't NASA just take the money they would have spent on those programs and spend it on more Pu-238 instead? Surely that should buy us enough Pu-238 for at least remaining uncancelled missions.

Requires an act of congress. Need I say more?
> Lets take desktops, file and folders fucking suck but everyone wants to reimplement it, when the real advantage of computers is search.

But files and folders have their place: they're for collecting groups of disparate items which wouldn't be found by a single search query (or at least not one that isn't inordinately complicated), e.g. to manage a project. Tagging files is a viable alternative, but there's no guarantee you won't forget and end up with orphan files. You have to save a file somewhere after all, and with folders you can ensure you can find them again...
> I wouldn't be surprised if JavaScript is used at all for large projects in the future.

This is actually a scary prospect, considering how consistent JS is as a language, let alone as a bytecode replacement.
I'm happy for Pinterest to skimlink my pins. There's no option for me to give them that permission.

I guess they're nervous after the earlier backlash against skimlinking?
There are legal constraints on Pu-238. Market forces do not apply, unfortunately...
What's most important these days is the data was cleaned first, and was proactively given out to police which was used indirectly to ward off future crime. All it took was police presence.

They didn't need to indiscriminately take patient records out of their backend systems or monitor the hospitals networks and reverse engineer http and packets. They didn't need to target individuals who are repeat offenders or violate any privacy consideratio.

I'd say 150 years ago the nurse was telling the sheriff the boys keep getting too roudy at the saloon, too.
To be honest a secret part of me hopes it'll happen so airship technologies will be forced to use hydrogen rather than helium.

I've always considered the false safety issues with hydrogen and the fact you can instead use, safer but expensive helium have held it back.

No facts of figures to support my reasoning though.
"There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses." -- Bjarne Stroustrup
She impacted the side of the van (from a different article I was reading) and aggressive riders apparently ride about 2-3mph under the 40mph speed limit in that section (from a bike forum I frequent).

All signs point to the driver not seeing her and turning into her path when she was well past the corner.
How do you know the cyclist wasn't violating the speed limit for that blind turn? Use Street View to go north of the accident and simulate traveling around the turn that the cyclist would have been going, and imagine the cyclist was doing 35mph. There's very little advance notice if a car is already turning. At 35mph, a bicyclist would probably need at least 100ft to stop, if you've got your wits about you, you might be able to slow down enough to evade or run yourself off into a ditch on the side.

This just looks like a dangerous intersection to drive on, let alone bike on.
Furthermore, even if you restrict yourself to the new stuff, C++ is not memory-safe. C++ would need some sort of Rust/Cyclone-like lifetime/region semantics to become safe.
My guess is their business plan was -- get it out for the tail end of the current gen consoles, then rake in cash a second time on a remastered edition when the next gen consoles are out in significant numbers.
QuickOffice now free on Android (and iOS)
What happened at the 2013 Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting?
You can go a long way when you don't consider your own time an expense!
I think you've misunderstood that quote. The resident is saying that both bicyclists and motorists are going too fast around the blind curve.

Here is the intersection in question, from the perspective of the van that was in the accident:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Elk+Tree+Rd,+Woodside,+CA&hl=...

The van could have begun to make the left hand turn before the bicyclist even came around the corner.
Thorium reactors produce PU-238 as a “free” byproduct. One more reason we should be pursuing LFTR reactor research.
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Why are your examples "evil"?

Your first one might mean gmail serves me ads for chicken wings (which I want) instead of diapers (which I don't). Is that evil?

As for the second, banks are under Orwellian central management - every penny is recorded going in and coming out. Is that evil, or is that good for everyone who holds a deposit? What's employee empowerment software exactly, anyway?
Wow, at ~40mph, on a bike, the stopping distance I think would be at least 80-100ft, that leaves precious little distance to react, if you come around the corner and your reaction time isn't immediate emergency breaking.
It's rather alarming that the only reason helium balloons are so common is that it is being sold at prices that don't reflect it’s scarcity due to government subsidies.
It seems like lunacy to me to use a smartphone on a connection where you're charged using usage-based billing. My provider throttles me when I'm over my "cap"...
Proper description of what's going on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_decay
The crucial difference is that C# is memory-safe by default, and for most code, this is fine. As another commenter said, manual memory management is available as an escape hatch from the garbage collector if you need it.

To extend the Edward Scissorhands analogy, with C#, you can use scissors when you need them, but with C++, your hands are scissors, so you'd better be careful all the time.
I wouldn't have mentioned resource management at all if it weren't for Bjarne's keynote: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/2013/Opening-Key... . Apparently this is still not common knowledge.
Hydrogen is the Universe's most abundant element.

Helium is a product of Hydrogen that has undergone fusion. We'll be able to manufacture Helium when Nuclear Fusion becomes a reality on Earth.
This is wrong. Providing training isnt enough. "The employer that provides the training derives no immediate advantage from the activities of the intern; and on occasion its operations may actually be impeded;"http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.htm
Maybe these people you call your friends are not really your friends? For if something is affecting you, they should be able to be considerate of your feelings too. Just a thought.
The thing about titles is very true often senior or junior means two very different things to different companies in this industry. Just follow the money.
> weather data, gps, even that old chestnut, the internet, the postal service

I think it's a stretch to say that these things "couldn't possibly [have been] brought to market by a private company" -- especially not only because it was government that happened to fund those things (I mean, doesn't the existence UPS/FedEx pretty strongly imply that a private postal service is/would have been viable?)

> so we collectively decide to pay for basic research with the understanding that some chunk of it might be useful at some time

That's not quite what happens. _Some_ collectively decide that _all_ should pay for basic research.
Both TAI and GPS time are offset from UTC by a noticeable amount, so switching to one of them would produce a large disruption, especially given that it would have to be done incrementally. Also, many people feel legally compelled to use UTC, so the only solution for them is to legally redefine UTC to have no additional leap seconds added in the future.

I wouldn't bother with leap minutes or hours either; instead we could just adjust timezones to create a virtual leap hour. It would effectively be a permanent version of daylight savings time (assuming that such a concept exists in 2,000 years).
Anyone in here know who I can talk to to join as an early advertiser? I am a co-founder at a beauty startup. We wanna give Pintrest our money. - josh@nyla.us
Visualization Driven Development in Clojure
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Call me strange, but there are times when I am honestly happy to get a Bud Light. It's cheap, very light, and still gives me a "You're drinking a beer" feeling. It's relaxing.

I definitely prefer Sierra Nevada, Stone IPA, and Harpoon to Bud Light 95% of the time, but there are days when it's 115 degrees out and my mind says "I want beer-flavored water."

The worst beer, by far, is heavy beer that tastes like garbage. I can drink Natty Light and be happy; I cannot drink a heavy beer that tastes bad.
WTF Is Calico, And Why Does Google Think It Can Defy Aging?
That seems like the most probable path, although I can't speak for the people making that contribution.

What I mean, regardless of how we actually implement, is having an elegant way to deploy containers in environments where the sysadmin relies on SELinux contexts and labels to implement security.
Is there any company / product that uses it? (serious question)

I heard good things about many other "nice" languages, just nobody saw them in the wild, actually doing something useful...
Let me approach this problem logically. What does sincerity mean? Would you say a man wearing a $2000 dollar suit was being sincere? What if I told you the suit was custom made bespoke and it took eight months to make? Would that be sincere or pretentious? Why is wearing something about expressing a sentiment that you need to be aware of? Maybe the person's sentiment is for their sake?
Er, well, Google Drive is ... storage.

I don't think of it as an "office app" at all, and it would frankly kind of bizarre to have to use QuickOffice to get at the various tar files, html files, image files, etc, that I've put into G.D....

If anything they should really just share components, with Google Drive invoking Q.O. document editors as appropriate, and maybe a Q.O. app remaining as a thin "office-oriented" frontend (whatever that means).
Yes, good points. On the other hand, it makes things easier to point to a standard in lieu of answering security surveys with hundreds of questions, not always the same, from different prospective clients on a weekly basis. A certified standard would streamline this process. But, maybe that's why organizations each have their own survey in order to really gauge how well the org cares about security.
It would be great to speak to you 'offline', I think it would be really interesting to compare experiences.

A few points which I hope you might find interesting. London taxies are pretty tall (6ft easily) and there is no chance of being able to see over a London bus! It is a fairly common thing to think of Europeans countries as driving tiny, economical cars. However that isn't nearly as applicable in London as elsewhere in the UK and much of the rest of Europe.

The congestion charge for driving into central London is prohibitively expensive such that only those people who can afford it, driving almost SUV sized range rovers, or those who make a living from it driving vans, taxis or buses do it.

Our cities and road networks have evolved around streets and roads dating back to Roman times. They are rarely straight, often narrow and heavily congested. We have no concept of jaywalking and our pedestrian population universally appears to have a death wish.

The quality of driving in the UK in general is reasonably high, though I find it more variable in London possibly due to the number of foreign drivers.

Driver attitude to motorcyclists is interesting. Generally most allow us to get on with it, some are actively helpful and a small percentage attempt to stop you getting through. The last group generally don't succeed for long, even if I do have to get a little creative!

That being said, the average speed of traffic through rush hour London is 12mph so it's easy to see why skipping to the front of a few queues makes a big difference!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/5/5/7/557cb46ae9126680a7d57...

Basically one of the neutrons kicks out a beta particle and becomes a proton. The atomic number goes up but the mass number stays the same.
Impressive. I'll add it to the list.
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. — Steve Taylor

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/
The reserve was running a big cash deficit.

Of course, it seems to me like the right action would be to try to increase the market price. It is clearly more valuable than its current price, and the US reserve was providing more than half the world's helium for a while.
You're right that there's a lot of mythology about IQ, but presumably a person could show documentation of such a thing - e.g. a score on a "real" IQ test administered by a professional qualified in psychometrics[1].

Same thing with a CPA exam - presumably, the professional organization keeps records of scores for some years and it would probably be possible to pull their file. (Similar to how you can contact a university registrar's office to verify a person's claim to a degree.)

Keep in mind, I'm not saying that the journalist actually did their fact-checking to this level of persistence - just that they could.

[1] e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Modern_t...
Stories like this make me feel bad for naming my music blog Killhipsters. I think Reddit have proven one too many times that they're good at jumping to conclusions and ruining lives, look no further than the Boston Marathon bombing fiasco where many Redditors incorrectly blamed someone for the bombing and started a flurry of unwanted media attention. While the name of my music blog is a comedic take on the hatred people have for hipsters, I think it's sickening if anyone has a real hate for hipsters beyond jokingly on the internet or between friends...
Sorry but I have to call bullshit on this.
Even in addition to the passage I quoted which explicitly calls out compatibility with C as the biggest problem with C++, the bulk of the rest of that article is directed towards resource management, starting with dismissing malloc as the worst possible API for memory allocation and going on to bitterly complain about various problems with pointers, global memory, side effects, for loops and any and everything that C++ inherits from C.

The overwhelming thrust of the article is that C++ needs to stop looking like C and has to start looking like Haskell or whatever other functional cool-aid is being drunk these days. If you are interpreting this blog post to be a call to programmers to go back to C, you're not reading the same words that I am.
Tail-tolerant systems
Darn! I was hoping an interview meant a new book was coming soon. But while he's halfway through a pair of new novels: "I think [they will be released] mid-to-late 2014 perhaps - something like that."
Thank you very much, I was under the impression that the electron was lost from the orbital cloud, not the nucleus!

Edit: Looking back at my math it was an off-by-one error in the wrong direction. :)
Yes, I agree that the person turning across traffic would in most cases be legally responsible.

FYI, the speed limit on that stretch of road is 35 mph:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Elk+Tree+Rd,+Woodside,+CA&hl=...
These current interpretations of labor-law restrictions have been made more stringent as part of an Obama-era effort of the Department of Labor to promote Communism and labor unions. :P
> In the early 21st century
Pedantic, but I assume you meant "early 20th century."
if i click on a docx in the google drive app, it uses the intents system to open in quickoffice. its only if i try to open a google drive document in quickoffice that it has a problem. So if you have a technologically inept relative, the solution is simple - just tell them to use google drive for everything, and never use quickoffice.

which i'm sure is exactly what google wants. they want you creating documents in their format, not in microsoft's format. quickoffice exists to tick off the "MS Office compatibility" checkbox on spec sheets, not because google loves that file format so much. and office documents don't get the realtime collaborative editing or chat interface or any of the other stuff that drive documents get, so to reduce confusion about why some features are unavailable, it makes sense to keep it as a separate app.
From talking to a friend at Google, I know that there is a way to get Go running on an iPhone. I don't know the specifics though.
How to Create a Menu With Flight.js - My first Flight blog post.
Basic prob & stats:

1. _Stats: Data and Models_ by De Veaux, Velleman & Bock

2. _Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability with Solutions_ by Mosteller

3. http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes

Basic data analysis:

1. _Python for Data Analysis_ by Wes McKinney

2. http://camdavidsonpilon.github.io/Probabilistic-Programming-...

3. _Exploratory Data Analysis_ by Tukey

4. _The Visual Display of Quantitative Information_ by Tufte

Tools:

- R & ggplot2 & (Sweave | knitR)

- Python & numpy & pandas

- UNIX tools (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6046682, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6412190)

- basic SQL (https://schemaverse.com/tutorial/tutorial.php)

- data visualization: (R & ggplot2) | (Python & matplotlib) | d3.js

- OPTIONAL: C/C++/Java for hardcore Bayesian stuff, Julia for being cool, Fortran for specific academic domains

On getting people to take you seriously: If you knew the stuff up there, I would take you very seriously, even without the STEM degree. You can pick this stuff up outside the classroom (in fact it might be hard to find uni classes that cover this stuff). So if you did self-study, and blogged about it or something, people would take you seriously (esp. if you got good at something "hot" like d3.js or Bayesian). In fact, given your background in web / software / business, you could be considered even more valuable (by web / software / business people).

What are you interested in specifically? Where do you want to end up?
Automatic braking that is capable of detecting cyclists and pedestrians should be mandatory on cars.
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Do you have some pointers to your C# manual memory management techniques? I've seen a few, but none are particularly pleasant.