skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is probably a part of a larger trend in migration. I lived in 2 countries as a child and 2 more as an adult. I'm 30. I think around 70% of of my coworkers have lived in more than one country. Basically, migration isn't an extreme decision anymore. Your lot doesn't need to be bad or hopeless to migrate from Germany to Spain or spend a couple of years on Seol. The difference in earnings/lifestyle doesn't need to be an order of magnitude. A marginal improvement can be enough to move some people.

Wealthy modern states rely quite heavily on the middle class for taxes. Within the middle class you'll find groups (eg single, childless, urban Europeans) that pay very high taxes while consuming very few services. They earn via highly taxable salaries. Most of their earnings are consumed and thus subject to GST/VAT and excise taxes. They also play the real estate, credit card, car financing, etc games that funnel money into finical institutions & industries which are so important to the political-economic goals politicians take on.

The net result of this is that for a middle class household in a wealthy country, wealth is somewhat of an illusion. Imagine a 30 year old unmarried couple earning €100k - well off on paper. They can expect to pay about €30-35k (depending on how the salary is split) in income tax. €1-€2k on flat taxes (car tax, tv tax, local tax). Then 25-40% of the remaining on a mortgage - say €21k. That leaves 40k-50k per year for taxable spending. Most of this will be taxed at 23%. Some stuff like petrol, alcohol, tobacco & cars will be taxed at a higher rate.

These people are still well off. It's hard not to be with to above average salaries and no expensive children. But are not near as well off as their earnings suggest they should be.

In some Eurpoean countries those taxes prop up a wasteful government. In some, they are paying for recent bank bailouts. In some, they are paying for an expensive legacy welfare state (with corresponding welfare class). In some, they are paying for past infrastructure investments. The best run countries (Netherlands, Germany, Scandinavian countries) do a good job of funneling those revenues to the same people at different stages of their life. Only a portion of most people's life is spent in this highly taxable, no need for government services state. But even in these cases it might make sense for a self interested individual to study at the countries expense and then earn outside of their tax jurisdictions.

If middle class migration and 'shopping around' for high quality of living becomes more prevalent, the tax revenue implications are enormous.
I think it's great for braintree if they get acquired by PayPal. Unfortunately, I won't use their service since PayPal is one of the worst run companies I can think of aside from eBay. The CEO of Braintree doesn't control the company, the majority shareholders do (and in this case it sounds like it will be PayPal).
No, their original mission was to organise the world's information, and remains so. Search was just the first step and the one that became a cash cow.

Of course the timer sucks for the owner of the top-ranking timer, but I can't see how it diminishes user experience in any way.
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Typing "timer for 10 seconds" is similar to programming. Most people don't want to program.

In a world where people still don't know what a browser is, I am optimistic for online-stopwatch.
I did help out by reporting the issues in detail.

I am very thankful to PyPy developers for all the help they provided though as I said it did not address all of our concerns, which is why our PyPy deployment is more limited than what we wish it could be.

We are not Google or Facebook. We cannot invest resources in hacking internals of every low-level component of our stack. We are happy to contribute feedback and test suggested solutions, but we have to stay focused on our own product and business.
I look at UI changes in a totally different way now. My saw me come online on Skype, so she called me. There's an ocean between us currently. She said she called me because she was writing an email to me, but couldn't find the Send button, so didn't know how to send it. Either it made her feel stupid or frustrated, or she felt so sad that she couldn't send an email to me that she had spent some time writing, or whatever, but she started crying. She was crying because she couldn't find the Send button in gmail. She's approaching 60 and isn't as technically adept as some of us, so that is admittedly a factor.

Seeing her cry about this made me change the way I think about what some users go through when they experience unexpected UI changes. I remember hearing people say they got confused by Windows 8 tiles, and didn't think it was such a big deal. After seeing my mom cry over a UI change, I think there are better ways to implement UI changes than simply shoving them down people's throat. Sure, if it must be done, it must be done (UI change), but don't shove it down people's throats unexpectedly and with no hand-holding at all.
Probably not a huge job market for someone in her 80's. There's not a large job market for someone 20 years her junior.
On a somewhat related note:
Here is a f# type provider for R: https://github.com/BlueMountainCapital/FSharpRProvider
Have you blocked javascript? All that kind of stuff disappeared for me when I installed noscript
From the headline, i first thought about the MKV video container and video frames. :)
That's one way of looking at it.

If she was living in Western Europe she'd probably be retired 23 years already, have a pension and free healthcare.
Google has moved all their UI towards "don't worry your pretty little head about it" mode.

It's incredibly insulting. But it is aimed at people who don't know they are being insulted so it works out perfectly for them.

What I do not understand is why it would be so hard to give us options.

Just give us the option of having the old compose box back, with all the controls visible, all the form fields visible, for the other 50% of people who know what they are doing.
A Google+ CSS "recompile" makes it entirely hidden by Adblock Plus
Reading this I'm reminded of Alisdair Gray's "Poor Things"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Things

...wherein the narrator believes he has brought a woman to life, Frankenstein-style, and is teaching her about the world, but at the end it turns out that he was a fantasist and Bella is only odd to him because she is a modern independent woman (a suffragette, etc), and he is mired in the past.
I know microbenchmarks are generally daft and horribly misapplied, but it might be worth showing/measuring the difference between using built-in procedural methods and your OO ones on some some example use cases to stop people speculating and just to make sure you aren't majorly shooting yourself in the foot perfomance wise for the benefit of a nice API.

All that aside, kudos!
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I use Yahoo and Gmail. Which is better is subjective depending on how you like to use email. I prefer Yahoo, mainly for the same reason the OP mentions about the size of compose. Yahoo compose gives you almost the full screen, in its own tab. It gives you space to think, copy and paste, vomit draft.

Also, objectively, from the time I hit the bookmark, to the time I see my inbox, Yahoo is faster than Gmail. Where Yahoo loses is the terrible ugly display ads that loaded in.

ps: you know what other site has an annoyingly small compose space? HN! :)
It's, a Primesense camera, so it literally is a mobile version of Kinect, but with better hardware.
I'm kind of sad I can't deploy Shiny app like that on Heroku.

Otherwise, Shiny is a really good name, because the product actually makes me go "ooooh, shiny!"
I love the new Gmail and I think it makes a lot of sense if you embrace the idea of conversations/threads, and if you don't insist on having a 10 line signature. (Also, keyboard shortcuts help a lot though I agree not everyone has time to learn to use them.)

The new design makes email more lightweight and fluid; replying to a thread or composing a new message feels less like work and less ceremonious.

I agree the formatting options are a pain to use though...
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That doesn't solve the problem of people who have existing @gmail.com e-mail addresses and who would gladly pay a little extra for access to the account via ActiveSync, but aren't interested in paying for a full-blown Google Apps set up, getting a domain, changing their e-mail address, etc.
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How does this work? Why did they obfusicate their JS? Do I want to trust them?
Hahahah! You're one lucky guy! I have always known teaching someone programming is pretty simple (I managed to teach simple C++ to my 9-yr-old sister and also to my 74-yr-old Granny). But it was easier to teach them because my sister was too young to have the "I'll never understand that" barrier and my granny just loved the attention i was giving her so she put all her effort into learning what i was teaching her.

So can I teach it to my girlfriend? Probably not. Partially because she's technologically challenged (she's cute that way) and as a medical student she already has tons on her plate.

But I must say I share your dreams of having a girl with whom I could discuss tech stuff the same way i discuss it with my friends
If the only thing you can talk about is programming, then it is not the girlfriend who has to learn new things.
This came to mind when I saw what you've created - http://xkcd.com/927/

Although I do believe that there is value in someone forking PHP and standardising everything in this fashion... just throwing out the legacy support entirely.
Reminds me of:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-mans-intelligence-prob...
I've been using it for a while and documented my experiences at http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/04/use-drakon-to-generate-code-...
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This is kind of like the ways I have helped my boyfriend learn programming except for how it is hopelessly mired in the idea that programmers are guys who have cutely technologically impaired girlfriends.
It's behind a paywall, but basically the article is suggesting that the success of House of Cards is down to Netflix's data mining.

"In the case of House of Cards, the data signalled that fans of the original BBC series also liked Spacey and Fincher. Those findings were pivotal in the decision to invest $100 million (£62 million) in 26 episodes. This, say pundits, could be the start of a television revolution."
You can kill yourself with Aspirin, in fact I thought that Aspirin was the #1 choice for that (without research). In any case, take too much and you are dead - I think not because of stomach ulsters, but because of bleeding in the brain. Again, that's just from memory, but google for it and you'll find some negative side effects.
I think there is also a problem in combination with other stuff, for example grape fruit juice.

(Edit: Googling for "aspirin suicide", find it in top 20 list of suicide methods http://wantdeath.blogspot.de/2011/07/method-5-of-suicide-asp... )
Doesn't work for me neither. Might be because I'm in Europe. The given URL redirects to www.google.de
some·thing
/ˈsəmˌTHiNG/
Pronoun
A thing that is unspecified or unknown: "we stopped for something to eat".
Adverb
Used for emphasis with a following adjective functioning as an adverb: "my back hurts something terrible".
Synonyms
pronoun.	anything - some - somewhat - any
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Doesn't work for me as well.
Wasn't there an overwhelming negative feedback for refinements? What was the rationale for still going ahead with them?
Decent countries decouple jobs and pensions/healthcare. Parttime employment should have nothing to do with your access to either.
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I have experience with Cython, and it works pretty well -- you basically use python code, but add some type hints and it will compile and get quite faster. Of course, it will not be as fast as normal C, because it still uses smarter (but slower) Python data structures, but it provides nice middle ground between pure python or PyPy, and writing the performance critical-part of your software in C by hand, which is bit more work, especially if you need to transfer multidimensional arrays between C and Python.
I'm not sure it has stricter controls (think you can buy it OTC, too, but not 100% sure), but it also has better health insurance for everyone. Perhaps that could be a factor - people are more likely to see a physician before overdosing on pain killers?
When I write emails, they are often lengthy. It's totally ridiculous to change the size of the reply box to such a small area.
How does that work - they forget to drink and die?
As far as the small new compose window goes, just Shift-click and pop out the window. Problem solved.
It took me a couple of days to get used to the new interface. Not really an improvement for me, but not annoying or terrible either.

I filed it under "meh" and moved on.
Matz has said we're getting them, so we're getting them.
Do you have information we don't? I hardly think any user testing at all.

I hate I when organisations like Google, who have no real personal contact with end users, just do a redesign without consulting the people who actually us their products. It's the Alan Day school of design, and it is totally unnecessary.
Swedish game devs an no mention of Starbreeze Studios ?!! Seriously ? "Brothers : A tale of two sons" was the most interesting game i played all year.
I have taught many "technologically challenged" people how to code. They say cute things like

... okay so how do I "compress" this file

... i used that "tag thingie" but its not working

but they still learn it and are able to build websites sometimes even faster then the "technologically exposed".

In general technologically challenged doesn't mean stupid. Its just a lack of exposure to the technologies and in time they get the hang of it.
I'm in The Netherlands, it redirects to .nl, and it works for me.
I guess I'm wondering it cache across requests?
The problem is that for most people, with a drug that is massively advertised as "trusted by hospitals and doctors", taking a little more than prescribed when you're in a lot of pain IS basic common sense.
A bit too much of a patronizing tone in this article... it even felt quite sexist at some points.
You can change the size of this :-)
Are you talking about regular banks or Simple?
I'm so glad I didn't use Braintree now. Thank you Stripe for opening the UK Beta at just the right time back when.
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On a similar but different note, there were stories of children getting upset at the new look of iOS 7. When I saw the headline I thought it odd, because I doubt the designers of iOS 7 ever thought they'd actually make someone cry with the new design.

But what can be done about it? Good design is important, but sometimes things have to be changed, and ultimately a lot people just don't like change. Even if it's the best design in the world, somebody, somewhere will struggle with it being different. I think some "hand holding" as you suggest would be a good idea, but I'm not sure how that could be done in practice.
I once starting building a PHP library that was pretty much identical to this, I was really excited by the prospect of being able to write beautiful, object oriented, method chained code. Eventually I was overwhelmed by the sheer scope of what needed to be done and abandoned it. These days I work (almost) exclusively in Ruby, and life is good.

I'm not trying to dump on this project, quite the opposite, I hope they achieve what I was never able to. The point I'm trying to make is that I could only defend PHP for so long before I had to admit that it's a lost cause, and other languages are simply a better fit for web development.

Stuff like this should already be part of PHP, but it's not, and I'd bet good money that it never will be. But hey, we got namespaces and late static binding, things I've used maybe once each.
Nicely done :) You're right, it's mostly about them wanting to learn and having the time and energy to do it.
I agree with many points, except the smaller compose window.

1) It's done so you can search your email while typing a reply, maybe find some info and copy/paste it. It's extremely useful.

2) You don't tons of horizontal space to write an email (except for embedded photos). Vertical space scrolls.

3) I'd actually argue that short emails are better than long ones. Learn how to write succinctly, to the point, and there are more chances it will be read.

4) Get a high res display if you need more screen space. 1080p displays are dirt cheap.
Usually they have a gastrointestinal infection and lose fluid through diarrhea and vomiting, i.e. drinking doesn't help. If they don't get it via an infusion, it can be game over surprisingly quickly.

"You die of dysentry" isn't just a game quirk.
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672250/how-a-tiny-new-compose-w...

Reasons for redesign:

> "Google’s actively trying to make email less fussy and formal--or, in other words, to make it a little more like instant messaging."

> "email is just too much work"

> "Jason Cornwell, Gmail’s lead designer, explains, one of the ways to do that is simply to "give you permission to write shorter messages."

Why is gmail trying to compete against iMessage or Whatsapp or fb chat? Email IS for work and should be optimized for it. Email is a useful medium because you are allowed to write long messages and permitted to respond later during the week. A friend would not read your text if it was 500 words long.
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Fancy, however, I still prefer things like http://e.ggtimer.com/ as it allows other functions such as a Pomodoro timer.
"Test changes thousands of times a second"... What does this even mean?!?!
Exactly, being "technologically challenged" isn't a bad thing, it just means you spent a lot of time in completely different areas. Technology isn't something special, it's just "yet another thing" that can be learned.
That is three (and one coming). About the same as the number of iPhone models you can buy in a store.

How many of those phones can you update in three years, like I just did for my iPhone 4? (An armless man can count them on his fingers? :-) )
Depends if it was built by a hacker or a company with product managers.
Unity is also from Denmark (although I think they moved to San Francisco now).
She actually refused aid on numerous occasions, I believe there was something of the Vie Bohème in her.
Also according to the math she began teaching at 58, which asks what happened before.
It may be trivial, but by my estimation the domain "online-stopwatch.com" gets somewhere in the region of 50k-100k visitors per day as a first-order approximation. It wouldn't surprise me to learn they were making between $300-$500 daily in ad revenue, or somewhere on the order of $100k - $200k per year.
And if you know your phone is stolen you can disable it anyways.
What Is My IP Address? - ifconfig.me
The problem with hand-holding is how many times have you created good looking prompts to introduce a new feature and then find that the client just clicks through them ignoring what was written?
Didn't come up for me on .com, only on .ie.

I'm not sure why exactly, but I really hate this. I hate it that sometimes results have a news link and sometimes they don't. I hate that youtube suggestions are tailored to me. There are rational reasons. I want the thing I use to be there when I try to find it. But, I dislike it beyond the inconvenience. It just feels wrong, like I'm being probed.
Yay, I broke it :-)

https://www.google.com.au/?q=timer+for+23+hours+59+minutes+6...
Interesting - can you provide sources for b, c, d? In particular, isn't b) and c) contradictory? Just want to read more on this - not trying to be adversarial.
Hiding the subject field is a massive pain in the ass.
$10K/year is equivalent to $5/hour full time.

Even a complete moron with no education can make more money doing cleaning, washing dishes, delivery, etc.

And that lady was not a complete moron, she was teaching.
DukePad (Build a tablet with a RPi)
Was this submitted already? Sorry. :(
She was 80. For a woman born around 1930, getting a job as a French teacher was more than she'd be expected to do. Her circumstances have more to do with the US social safety net than her planning a poor career.

But it does highlight the fact that working in academia can be a worse career than working in retail.
I thought this is just a toy until I read your blog.
Now I'm actually looking into playing around with it a little... Thanks.
The bank has never asked me if I had my PIN written on my card when I've lost it... all they ask is lost or stolen.
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> But they're doing this at the expense of the sites they took the data from

That would be Freebase, which is what it's for.

I'm not really seeing your point for that example, though. Maybe for something simpler it would be true, but if I'm looking for a movie review, the information in the top right isn't sufficient for anything besides seeing a wikipedia summary, a screenshot, and some of the actors in it. Anything deeper would require clicks into the actual content, which is actually an apt analog to a simple timer not replacing anything of substance.
Don't even try to teach anybody anything unless he/she actually wants you to do that. Teaching is completely different from giving somebody idea what you're doing.

Especially try to be aware how many things you "know" as a "professional" are fully irrelevant details about the technologies or methods that are going to be obsolete in very, very short time. Most of the "knowledge" that make you money today is irrelevant even in just a few years. Or I have a lot of lectures about Clipper 5 and CP/M to teach you.
That project is finished. The other fellow has some PHP work to do to wire up my work, but I will probably not return to it myself unless he needs something else.
Yeah the idea is to have something that hopefully paves over the rough parts, and who knows? One day this might be similar to what PHP will look like in the future (in a galaxy far, far away)
To those saying this post is partly sexist, I think it says more about the prism through which you choose to view the world than anything about the author. This is just a guy and girl that have found themselves in a relationship where one is interested to learn the skills of the other. He's happy and excited to teach her, which is totally understandable. I see no evidence to suggest he feels like he's paternalistically teaching her about the world, rather he's glad he's found a partner he can share his enthusiasm with.
I'm like you. My work Gmail account currently has about 30 messages in the inbox but my personal Gmail has 2573 (in the priority inbox alone). The use cases for work vs personal are so different it's hard to fathom any single app that would handle both equally well. That said, I get enough vendor spam at work that I'd really welcome a "Promotions" inbox that force-separated the chaff. And, since we use G+ at work, too, I'd be cool with a Social inbox, also. I thought I'd hate that part of the redesign but it's turned out to work pretty well. The lack of formatting buttons in the compose box, on the other hand....
> Also according to the math she began teaching at 58, which asks what happened before.

Probably married with a husband earning the wage, the default mode of living in a marriage for the generation born in 1930.
Also, cache invalidation can actually be cache replacement. Otherwise, under very high load, you risk cache stampede.
Different use cases, surely? I tend to pick my painkillers according to the nature of the pain.