skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was born in 1984 in Turkey. We lived in an apartment building in a major downtown area. My childhood memories consist of playing with other kids in the same apartment building or the neighboring buildings. These games were almost always improvised on the spot, where someone would throw out an idea and the others in the group would build upon it. There would be rule-making and negotiation, and lots of arguments. And then we would play.

Even when we played well-known games, they had at least some element of improvisation. For example, if we couldn't pool enough money to buy a rubber soccer ball, we would find a soda can, crush it on the ground and use it as the ball. There would be rules with that, such as wearing close-toed shoes and keeping the can on the ground at all times (if it took into the air it became a sharp and dangerous projectile). The interesting thing is that these rules were invented on the spot by us kids. Parents had no involvement.

One of the major differences I noticed when I came to America for college was that, in social settings, people were utterly incapable of improvising a game from scratch. We always had to play a game that someone else had invented, such as a board game or a well-known drinking game - both of which had strict rules. And if the board game was missing a piece? It was deemed unplayable. No one tried to improvise a solution because it required outside-the-box thinking. One weekend, the guy who had all the board games went back home to visit his parents, and his door was locked. So I found a large piece of cardboard from the trashcans behind the dormitory, and some supplies, and spent an hour or so creating a board game. When I presented it to the group, people were stunned. We played for hours and I became the god damn hero.

The interesting thing is that I notice the same patterns in the workplace. But I don't want to turn this into work talk!
Wait. Does the author offer any evidence for these claims: "What I learnt in my hunter-gatherer education has been far more valuable to my adult life than what I learnt in school, and I think others in my age group would say the same if they took time to think about it."

Just "thinking about it" proves this?
Okay then, GNU/Linux.
You're describing a randomized controlled trial and not an epidemiological study.
Design tools for a better responsive workflow
> I know Android is linux underneath, but in much the same way OSX is BSD underneath - to the point that to the user, it doesn't matter much.

So you define Linux as what? X11? We'll that's going away, so that can't be it. Gnome and KDE? There's also Unity now and Elementary so that's too restrictive... so what exactly is Linux to the user?
> My iCloud account is already at data capacity...

Photostream doesn't count against iCloud capacity.

"Q. Does Photo Stream use my iCloud storage?"

"A. No. Photos uploaded to My Photo Stream or Shared Photo Streams do not count against your iCloud storage."

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4486

So the shared photo streams are effectively free photo album storage you can keep private or share with friends.

It also doesn't wait for a million photos to sync. It syncs the most recent one(s) you just took. It's hard to imagine more elegant or efficient than "it just happens without you doing anything".

It sounds like you're not very familiar with how Photostream really works. That's not unusual, a lot of my people I know complain about things that it turns out Photostream supports because Apple never really pushed or promoted it.

> I often don't have Wifi (or it's hotel/airport wifi where you're limited to 1 device), and then I wish I was back on my dumbphone...

You're in luck; iOS has a switch to turn off 3G data and become a dumb phone.

If you're in the mood for the dumb phone style manual management instead of an automatic photo stream , there are several really great apps for popping single photos over or sharing the clipboard. I personally use a clipboard app that I can "copy" a photo on the iOS device and on my Mac just "paste" it somewhere. That one works over ad-hoc WiFi so doesn't need a WiFi base. Others work over bluetooth.
Actually i coded it for myself, in tired of refreshing job listing pages and see most of are from agencies.

Hire me if your business in Manchester, uk :) I love javascript/coffeescript and golang!
The wireless providers in the US do their best to keep SMS a walled garden. They severely restrict what you're allowed to do. In some way this is a good idea as cuts down on spam.

As far as the complex protocol part, I'm too familiar with MMS exactly although I did read the SMPP spec once. I get the feeling the complexity is partially design by committee as well as a bunch of referencing other "standards" by the ITU. For example, for text messages, there's a language identifier for "Pennsylvania Dutch".

The upside to any complex protocol is that it raises the bar to entry. If you can make implementation 10x more difficult, and you're a large company, the extra implementation cost hurts you little, but might prevent a smaller competitor from getting in because they don't handle strange cases. It's hard to tell whether the complexity in protocols comes from this malicious intent, or just incompetence.
Deanlet and deanlings making six figures to oversee "student life" and "strategic planning". Tenured professors who have 2/1 teaching schedules and haven't published since the 80s, but can't be forced to retire and keep on picking up inflated COLAs. Ever multiplying new unnecessary buildings (usually paid for by donors, but maintenance comes out of the budget). Special signing bonuses, research stipends, forgivable loans, and extraordinary salaries for "star professors" who are considered stars not because of their teaching prowess -- which is never, ever considered by hiring committees -- but because of their fame in a particular field. Lacrosse, volleyball, and crew coaches and facilities (only football and basketball pay their own way).

And so on and so forth. The people that actually do the bulk of the teaching in many schools -- adjuncts and grad students -- get paid very very poorly. Even in schools that claim to have a high ratio of tenured faculty teaching classes, if you dig into it you will often find teaching assistants doing a lot of the direct student interaction and almost all of the feedback.
Realistically it could be done a la DropBox - i.e., another app (lets call it AirDrop) that receives these files and can launch the App associated with the file. Users could send the file through AirDrop.app by sending that file to AirDrop.
As someone who has hired designers over the years for various startups, I agree.

The author seems to conflate UX with visual design or graphic design. They are not the same thing and often aren't done by the same person.

I've had fantastic UX designers who, frankly, can't get perfectly laid out pixel perfect work done or do eye candy. I've had UI/graphic designers who were awful at figuring out flow.

I've had people who are great at both. But one thing is certain, I want my products to be intuitive AND sexy because there is a certain subset of the market that will try your product just because it looks professionally designed and is on trend. There is a high overlap of those people with taste makers and I need those people using my product.
> "Fighting" as I said there was actually things like snowball fights in the winter or paper-cone-in-tube or soft/rotten-fruit-in-sligshot fights in the summer, and always in a group-vs-group setting.

That was always what the less lucky kids were told when they complained. And then painted as spoil-sports until they stopped complaining to avoid embarrassment.

> It's that they don't have the option to do certain things anymore - things which may in fact be extremely valuable.

I don't know about your specific family, but in general, they have far, far more options, up to and including extreme sports. Pretty sure I didn't know any kid that could try climbing or spelunking in the eighties.
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Yeah, "Linux is a kernel" and all that. Except, for many of us, Linux is also an ecosystem, and the Android ecosystem is definitely not that ecosystem.
On the AMA he said that they (and the VCs agree) are concentrating on growth now. It makes sense to me, if the "bigger than Windows Phone" thing is even close to being true that seems like something worthwhile.
no.. not only with EE. Usually the answer was out there somewhere else free on a different site, but EE serp spam was just an obstacle in the way.
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The problem is that the economic and ecological problems are problems we already have today, even before the application of any life-extension therapy more powerful than Good Old Fashioned Diet and Exercise.
What you're describing is the "as long as you omit health-consciousness as a variable" part of his comment.
But no one develops for them, at least not in the same way they develop for chrome or FF.
Our bad. Should have put some p-values in the text itself. All those differences are statistically significant, typically at <0.001 levels.

All the statistical output, including confidence intervals, is available via clicking through the links to the dataset itself, available here: https://www.statwing.com/open/datasets/88ed02bd6dda2f813ba98...

Edit: We added a couple notes about this in the blog post, thanks for the feedback.
That was probably too strongly worded. What I meant was that he does not have the option of playing outside, unsupervised with his peer group (5-9 year olds).

Even if you see the value in that, as the author or my family does, you would likely find it practically very hard or impossible to do, mostly because it depends heavily on other kids/parents way of thinking and expectations.
> When I go to places like rural Belize or small-town Costa Rica I see kids still playing and I wonder if that's not the best place to raise a small kid (4-10 years old).

Interesting Idea. I'm a bit far off from having kids, but I always think about the future and how I would raise them when I do have kids. That would also be great for cultural exposure. I know I want to raise my kids to be multilingual.
a) I'm not that sure SF wants or needs more parking. It's not a city for cars and doesn't really want to be.

b) Parking is a problem mainly in dense urbanized areas like commercial districts. In residential areas like the Sunset or Richmond district, there's already plenty of parking, and that's where the bulk of the gains from this suggestion would be realized - which is no help if you're trying to park in the Mission or Upper Haight.

c) Good luck finding the money to pay for altering the front yards of many houses; even assuming automatic agreement from the residents, they have no particular reason to spend the money to implement this scheme so the city would have to pick up the cost.

I think the best solution tot he problem of parking in SF is more smartcars (as there are many 1 and 2 person households that just need a runaround vehicle), more zipcars, more rideshares, and eventually driverless cars. SF can be a hard city to get around at times and bicycles or public transit are impractical for many purposes, but the root of the parking problem is too many idle vehicles.
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The next best story for linux has been enterprise linux. A stable kernel, easily configurable(and free)toolset and a growing engineering pool has driven this market. In terms of dollar value this market is nearly (if not the same) as large as the handheld/portable linux market that android has conquered.
The new Blackberry Z30 is out to save the company, wait….what?
"If the detainees home countries refuse to take them now, why would they suddenly agree when Cuba offers?"

I find this rather unlikely. The enemy of my enemy is my friend so anyone not willing to deal with the USA because we're, well, the USA, would bend over backwards to cooperate with Cuba.

Cuba has a moderately good international rep. They don't get involved in too much international empire building once the Soviets broke up, and they export good doctors to the 3rd world. And they're an enemy of the greatest current Imperial power. I think they'd do pretty well..
“What does Trello Gold mean for Business Class?” Nothing. They work totally independently. Trello Gold is for individuals and Business Class is for organizations

Getting upset that your Kanban board will get cluttered by stickers is missing the point.

(I think stickers are awesome. You might not think so, but I think so, and I'm generally inclined to give Trello my money. This, if nothing else, gives me a venue to do so.)
Surely it is better for people to not die - to not cease to exist - even if that means they rise to the top of the social hierarchy?

Not unless they're going to be benevolent rulers, no.

I will not grant people immortal life so that they can make everyone else's lives into a living hell.
Yet my accountant and I use web-based accounts packages, making the desktop OS irrelevant. The same will be true for many other categories of software.
> Oh, I grew up in the same times, in the same general area, with just a little whee bit of difference: I'm aspergers, I'm socially anxious, and I quite clearly remember that most of the fun groups like you mention had were actually at the expense of the kids like me.

It seems a rather "Harrison Bergeron" to disparage the sort of unsupervised and unrestrained play that martythemaniak is talking about just because some fraction of children are ill-equipped to participate in it.
The article is written in regards to Linux on the Desktop, so I'm not sure how Android is relevant.
I'm fascinated by how schools methodically kill any sense of creativity.
The OLPC team once conducted an experiment where they left a few tablets to kids who didn't know how to read nor how to use a computer.
Yet, in 5 month, they learned how to hack Android and enable stuff that had been previously disabled by the OLPC team (I believe for security reasons, some sort of parental control).
What this example illustrates is how schools create clone workers rather than hackers. And I strongly believe our society needs more hackers, as they apparently are the only ones to be able to foster our world's development.
> As long as we treat languages as personal preferences, the programming community will remain deplorably divided.

Languages are personal preferences; they certainly have objective differences which have some effect on utility, but a substantial part of what makes a language the best for a particular programmer for a particular purpose is how well the the language matches the programmer's experience and patterns of thought for addressing the problem domain. These are inherently subjective factors.

> In order to join forces to work on demanding projects, I think we need to agree on a relatively small number of good-enough languages.

We may need to agree, for large projects that need to be integrated in such a way that you can't use a mix of languages for different components, on as few as one language for a particular project, but that doesn't constrain the number of languages we can have in the whole programming ecosystem (and, indeed, restricting the domain of available languages would restrict the development of new techniques and languages and the development of better languages for new use case.)

> To do this, we need objective criteria for choosing one language that is good for a particular class of software.

This requires, obviously, the ability to objectively categorize software into "classes" to apply the criteria. Since I think you are going to fall down hard on that, I'm not really holding my breath to seeing your vision realized, even if I thought it was a good thing.
Read the next sentence: This would be news to Georgetown University -- one of only two Catholic universities to make U.S. News & World Report's list of top 25 universities -- which just recognized its adjunct professors' union, citing the Catholic Church's social justice teachings, which favor labor unions.
Yes, it's only an anecdote, one of these which this kind of article provokes; nevertheless it summarizes the content nicely.

I was giving guitar lessons some 20 years ago, among my students a well-mannered and friendly little, maybe seven years of age. Being a bit shy he did not tell much about himself, but he did not study much and I tried to find out if he was bored with me or the instrument.

"It's just, that I do not have so much time to study. I also have recorder lessons on Thursday and I get some extra private lessons because it's not going so well in school"

As he continued he revealed a stunning package of forced child labour extending into the weekend. Keyboard lessons, swimming, soccer (training and competitions), judo (also contests every second weekend). Not a single free minute.

Halfway the year he stopped. On the time of the guitar lessons his parents had scheduled regular counselling with a psychologist.

This happened 20 years ago (in the Netherlands). While we tried to find a kindergarten for our oldest sun two years ago, we learned that we could opt for mathematical and English training in some of them (we live in Portugal right now).

I understand that parenting also means: offering your child a future. For some this means: education, keeping them busy, making them competitive as early as possible. Not having done "the best" for your child: a nightmare, a failure! But often doing your best is: having trust, do nothing and let things grow. No need to hack your children.
The file extension should probably be .red, not .rs. rs is taken by Rust.
How old memories fade away
Let's discuss how Linux is only a kernel. It'll be wonderful.
There have been several times in human history where the majority have decided it would be best if the 'elite' should have their lifespans shortened. Arguably with positive results.
Well the sad thing is the pirate test barely runs in IE10 and actually renders things wrong.
I'm extremely happy with it. It's the best internet-connected pocket computer I've owned since my iPhone 3GS.

It fits in my front jeans pocket (much to surprise of many people; just barely, but it does), and I can sit comfortably with it there (for more than a few hours, I do take it out).

It can't be fully used with 1 hand (like when standing in a bus), although it can used partially (scrolling a web page, switching tabs in Chrome, scrolling twitter).

I primarily use iMessages/SMS and email for communication, but I do have a VOIP that I can make and receive calls at. You can use a headset with it, so there's no need to bring it up to your head. FaceTime, Skype, etc. I'm a developer, so I don't talk on my phone 24/7, hence it's enough to get by.

There are a few advantages over an iPhone. Infinite battery life, essentially. Much cheaper monthly plan. I pay $30 for 3 GB of data. No contracts (came in handy when I moved from Canada to US recently). No long distance, roaming... if you travel and get on wi-fi, you have the same (VOIP) number and everything. Huge screen, I use it for browsing all the time instead of a laptop. It's an iPad mini, enough said.

One other limitation is it doesn't have a vibrating motor, unfortunately, so when you put it in silent mode, you'll have no way of knowing about incoming calls or text messages. So I either have sounds on, or leave it on a table so I can see the screen light up (instead of keeping it in pocket).

It's still unusual enough for people to talk to me about it. I don't do this just to be different, I do it for the practical value. I wanted a bigger screen and I don't want 2 iOS devices (it'd be a hassle to keep them in sync). It's been around a year and I'm still extremely happy with it. It may not work for everyone, but it's a lot more viable than most people would expect.
Many adjunct professors are people who have full-time jobs doing something else. A friend of mine did this one semester to make some extra money. He worked full-time as a structural engineer, but took a long lunch three days a week to teach Introduction to Statics at the university we both attended. He said it was fun to do for one semester, but he computed that he was only making about $10/hour when you included the time to prepare for lectures and grade papers.
Introduction to wireless channel models and OFDM [pdf]
One impact of your suggestion will be increased congestion as these automated cars use the road twice - once to drop and once to return to parking.
How I Turned Some Luck, Lack of Direction, & a Passion to Learn Into a Business
Looks like XP is the 2nd most common variant of Windows according to this page on Wikipedia[1]. I'm sure there are ways to criticize/pick apart the different sampling techniques used, but none have XP above 7 anymore. Certainly not a non-trivial amount of XP machines out there though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system_usage_share
Well, their Catholics are apparently less hypocritical than Duquesne's Catholics. I'm not sure, doesn't this simply reinforce what I was trying to say?
Agreed. Chicago got a lot of criticism for privatising its public parking system, but given the ti will take 30-40 years for the private firm to break even on its investment and the contract runs for a full 70 years, I suspect the city will ultimately be seen to have made out like a bandit.
Wow, sounds like Monsanto for Nerds.
If you're looking for a notebook that's made specifically for this kind of thing, I'd check out the Action Method series from Creative's Outfitter. They all use high-quality materials, and many of them have task lists built in:

http://www.creativesoutfitter.com/products/100/action-method

But if you just want a blank notebook, I've never found anything I like better than the Dot Grid Book. It's amazing:

http://www.creativesoutfitter.com/product/34/dot-grid-book
Yeah, no kidding. My idea of an adult playground:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_the_Gods_Wilderness
When my mom, an accountant, buys her next computer, it will almost certainly run Windows, because the accounting software she uses targets that OS.

Accounting software is being taken over by the web. More generally, the entire financial industry is being taken over by the web. The impact of iPads and smartphones isn't a small contributor to this movement.

There are enormous numbers of office workers who could very easily transition to Linux desktops with barely any notice that they did (Firefox is firefox is firefox, after all).

It took a decade+ longer than most expected, but the operating system really is becoming irrelevant.
It reiterates the spin that freeing concentration camp victims equals closing the camp, and reiterates the very peculiar idea that the guy at the top of the org chart is not in charge, or the people beneath him are in rebellion
Delicious style js tagging library
This sounds like update-specific problems. Have you tried rebooting the OS, and if that doesn't resolve, reinstalling (restoring from the backup you should have taken prior to update - you did take a backup, right?)

Yeah, I know: it's the old Windows support mantra (3R): reboot, reformat, reinstall [1]. But it has clearly helped me before in resolving iOS issues.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reboot,_reformat,_reinstall
Cool concept, lets see where it'll go!
Not only that, but by default, swipinging the view controller off to the right I.e. Physically reversing the animation that brought in in, also functions to go back, so the 'button' is more of a signpost of what you will go back to than something that must be used as a button.

The reviews don't mention this because frankly a lot of them are superficial - or they are focused on justifying a number or a thumbs up or down rating that they have assigned, rather than helping people to understand anything.