skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is refreshing to see a telecom executive make a statement like that, but its hard not to feel as if it might just be a clever marketing tactic.

Apparently he used to be the Chief Executive of AT&T Asia. I wonder how cellular service plans are structured there. I know that Europe has traditionally favored the no-contract plans that are just now starting to get attention in the U.S., I wonder if perhaps Asia does too.
But the Kardashians are just so much more interesting. Have you seen the buns on that Kim girl?
Piercing Through WhatsApp’s Encryption (2)
The Copyright Monopoly Can Only Be Enforced With Mass Wiretapping
"Schools Supplies" and "Special clothing" are most definitely NOT child care. Medical attention already has it's own category.

Child care definitely means someone else caring for you child wither it be a nanny, pre-school, day-care, after school care ETC.

I agree with you about the parent staying at home bit. I really think that most people could still do it (like my wife and I do), but they would have to live frugally and not listen to the women's lib Hollywood+Media+peers who are telling them that they are losers if they don't get a career outside of the home and leave the child rearing to a stranger (This sounds so wrong but that is ultimately what they are saying).

Quality of life should not be measured by wealth because wealth will never buy you happiness and never will raise your kids as well as you could have done it.
i change my macbook to PC with ubuntu 2 weeks ago
and i dont think about come back to mac

are you use any osx only apps ?
Is it that ironic? Git is inherently decentralised, github is just a publication method. Everybody's repo is still good if github gets nuked and can be used as the new public. It's nothing like, say, Facebook where They Have All The Data And You Don't. Self-hosting with Gitlab is no different, except to have the public repo sit on a different server.
FlasForth is another fun Forth for AVR and PIC microcontrollers. You can even try it out over telnet... :-)

http://flashforth.sourceforge.net/
i remember seeing at least one other font trailer way back in the day, but this is the only one that i can remember a url for

http://www.trixiefont.com/
I agree you could live on the $540 a month for food. But, how does one go about the room, obviously a cell phone bill with tethering (or leeching wifi?) Because she makes 100% of her income blogging from a macbook that costs more than 3 months of her food budget.

I like the concept, but it's just so obvious there is more behind their income. The other guy vacations to hawaii to surf, but doesn't mention what he does for income.
you might need to cover Sundays public holidays and so on and cover of staff during the flue season
Thanks! Filed as an issue https://github.com/frabcus/redecentralize-website/issues/23

Do you know if any of the open Github competitors store the issues in a decentralized way? Similar to Bugs Everywhere?
Unlearning software engineering
I thought it was an interesting presentation, but like many others here, I wouldn't have known it was anything had people not mentioned to press the space bar.
For sure Rust has better design than Go, but I don't know any actively developed web framework in Rust. Go may be a better choice because of ecosystem.
T-Mobile are terrible in the UK; +1 for their pay-by-the-day SIM being an amazing option when visiting the US.
I'm also with you. I rarely have sound on, actually at the moment there seems to be a bug with my sound. I don't plan to investigate it. I strongly dislike video content.
The problem is I suffer when other people buy products like this.
I suspect management covers all the professional grades as well you know the HR, marketing, securitty and professional engineers not just those with strict line management roles.
You're not the only one, but videos actually have higher engagement across the board.

A lot of us prefer to read. Most don't however.
I don't think the iPhone 5s has wifi calling.

Is this accurate? http://support.t-mobile.com/thread/52768?start=0&tstart=0
The other guy vacations to hawaii to surf, but doesn't mention what he does for income.

The sentence immediately following the mention of Hawaii states Price’s version of the simple life costs $5,000 a year, which he earns from publishing a wilderness zine and doing odd jobs around Joseph, his eastern Oregon town.
You do realize that NASA contracts everything out to private companies? All of the NASA employees I know are either project or program management (the two sides of the contracting coin).
Microsoft no, but I do see Apple doing new osx releases every 1-2 years. Upgrade only every 4 years? Surely you're joking, LTS is for servers not desktops.
I didn't truly respect and understand Feynman until I read American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer And it really shows how important Mr. Feynman was to not only making the first computerized filing system for the manhattan project, but also in solving some of the crucial challenges they faced. He had such a unique way of approaching physics that I think a lot of his contemporaries admired.
Most of your post is lost on me. I am sorry, I'm not a native English speaker...neither am I particularly good at deciphering stuff written by people smarter than me...my problem, I know...sorry...

However, I would like to say that I do know the importance of shoulders of the giants our current world stands on. If there were no Intel in 1961, then most likely there would be no iPhone in 2006, if there was no DNA model in early sixties then there will be no stem cell advances now. The point I was trying to make was that the fact standing on the shoulders of theses giants gives us a better shot at the kind of problems our predecessors couldn't even dream about. So the only time better than now, will be in future....when I am long gone up in smoke....I have absolutely no reason to complain...

edit: typo
Please see and respond to the comments above about the ineffectiveness of using only videos to communicate your messages. Whatever they are.
As it always is when humans communicate, context is everything http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yDMd9g1oSA&feature=share&lis...

When two men use that word between each other the expectation we all have around what that means and implies is naturally going to be very different than when someone calls a woman that. This really shouldn't even need explaining. The "I don't see colour/race/gender" blindness approach really doesn't work in practice Spock.
I totally agree with this. Reading can be a huge help, but only when you apply it and test things out.
The purpose isn't to pledge loyalty to one company forever - it's to vote with your dollars to encourage the type of behavior you'd like to see.

If enough people switch - the others will have to make some changes in order to stay competitive. He's not suggesting that we all pledge loyalty to t-mobile until the end of time.
Google X Display Guru Says Wearable Computing Is Unstoppable
Agreed. Yet my field (Operations Research) has seen four or five new journals born in the past 10 years, all of relatively high level. Most often they were born as an initiative of one or more scholars in the field, who convinced a publisher that the journal would receive submissions.

So there is room for new challengers. However, now these scholars treat this journal as their precious pet project, would like everyone to submit articles to it and are (understandably) unwilling to embark in another, open-access initiative.

[edit: clarity]
The thing about this is that I am not sure how much of the differences involve inherently different speech and how much involves different subject matter that inherently will involve different vocabulary - ie, it doesn't necessarily show women would talk about the NFL differently than men or that younger people talk about family differently than older people. It might just show some group talk about different topics more.
> If you are a plain-vanilla engineer (from the article), no $10 million or $1 million for you

Not true.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/11/google-offers-staff-enginee...
Some specific things you should make sure you don't read too much about:

- Anything about venture investment or finance related to fundraising, company valuation, liquidation preferences, etc. Your investors will tell you everything you need to know.

- Management. There's really nothing here you need to know about. Hire fast, fire fast, have a ping-pong table and catered lunches. It's that simple.

- Product development and project management. You are a visionary and everything you are doing is novel and innovative, so don't waste your time on these subjects.

- Computer science. Really, it's nothing like it was 20 years ago when the only language was FORTRAN or whatever. Everything you need to know about building software you can learn from attending a talk or two at a conference, provided it doesn't interfere with networking. Just make sure you only go to node.js-related talks because everything else is old, outdated, and useless. Also, don't even bother worrying about databases. MongoDB is the only thing you need.

- Marketing. This is especially useless since product is everything. Just build your product, put it online, make the app live in the app store, and go back to iterating on your product. They will come.

You can get any knowledge you need related to any of this by just building a business. Since you are clearly going to be the next Steve Jobs, you don't have time to waste reading useless things.
Theres no Big guy with a white beard who's going to reach down and say "you yes you with 2.2 in business studies from Luton University are worth X and those uppity train drivers must work for minimum wage"

Ps Luton is the Uni that props up the bottom of the university league tables in the UK
UCSD students test fire 3D-printed metal rocket engine
4chan camgirl grows up
I made a spreadsheet for my girlfriend when she bought the iPhone 5s. She was debating between AT&T, StraightTalk, and AIO wireless. On AIO, you're still better off on AT&T over the course of a 2 year contract by $90. If you choose StraightTalk, you'll save $174 over 2 years. (That savings goes up to $299 if you buy an AT&T phone and then immediately cancel and pay the ETF; both prices combined are less than the $749 sticker price.)

The trick is that most people don't replace their phones on a schedule. Some phones don't hold enough of a charge after 18 months and get replaced early; some people are still happy with their 4 year old phone. If you are on a pay-as-you-go plan and hold onto a phone for longer than 2 years, the savings start to really add up.

The other trick is that many people can get pay-as-you-go prices on contract, through their corporation, credit union, or university. When I was on AT&T in 2009, I used my university's alumni association to bring my cost down to $55 per month.
One massive advantage of the API first architecture that wasn't mentioned in this article is that it makes proper unit testing much easier because of the clear distinction between the server side API code and the client side JavaScript/Mobile app.

Of course it is possible to test a "fat" server that does view and presentation logic, but it is much easier and more efficient to test a thin server and have a separate suite of tests for the client side app.
Oh yeah, I'm actually going to do a demo in the next week or two on HN. The idea is to provide a simple jQuery plugin to allow any element on your page to be drawn upon. Additionally, there is a way to sync that element up with a smart phone (scanning the QR code), and draw on it in real-time.

The initial idea was to add the ability to put your signature on a website using your finger on your smart phone. I dunno if that's a valid use case though, because if you're just signing once, its not worth your time to download the app. If you're signing something many times, you'd rather just press a button to add your signature.

I was thinking that perhaps marking up pages on a tablet could be useful. Just circling things on the iPad shows the circles on the page. Not sure.
This is what I'm doing too. Even if marking not-immediately-useful things as "toread" means 99% of the time that I'll never read them.
What the NSA - and governments around the world - are doing is simply indefensible. By overplaying their hand, there will be technical solutions that will be unpredictable and exceedingly more difficult to pierce that will put real criminals beyond law enforcements reach.
I bought a 1 month unlimited plan the last time I was in Germany, but went through 100MB in less than 3 days (and I was trying to be fairly conservative with my usage); the remainder of my trip had speeds so slow I could basically only use e-mail.
i'm pretty sure that title should be "mathemagician", cuz that shit is freakin mysterious
There is an informative textual index of projects we are working from here: https://github.com/rossjones/alternative-internet
so to decentralize we would need to host everything ourselves? PC turned on 24 hours and awful gaming latency since you'll be using lots of upload traffic. please tell me I'm wrong, this would never work for lots of reasons.
There are probably a good number who had the expensive items before they decided upon this lifestyle.

Plus do not confuse living with living, as in what you would accept is likely far different than what they accept.
Which gender deserves to be called a whore in a professional context? There's nothing acceptable about this behavior.

Her rebuttal was very classy by the way, well done: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9kTZx1vq7c
Are NFL Coaches too timid?
Here's the raft algorithm we chatted about:

https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/wiki/download/attachments/1137...

And an implementation:

https://github.com/goraft/raft

Decentralised conversations :)
#1. A commenter is not a website.

#2. There are a lot of considerations apart from bandwidth when it comes to disseminating information. For eg., having to use speakers or even reach for a set of headphones is reason enough for me to skip to the text.
I would definitely not want to be a new AT&T customer today as they've phased out nearly every part of my current grandfathered plan, but I've had nothing but good experiences with support.

Even last year, when they somehow lost my old messaging plan in a phone upgrade, the rep (who I didn't even have to wait long to speak with) quickly switched me back.

The moment they require me to switch to a Mobile Share plan I'm out, but until then I'm continually surprised to be such a happy customer.
Science needs a short format that is frozen in a certain point (not very far at the life of the text). If you want to change something, great, but those two requirements are very important.

People would also benefit from a large changing body that reflects out current knowledge. But that was impossible until very recently, so every initiative on that line is new. Anyway, that second body can not replace the short frozen format.

If those descriptions makes you think about version control software, well, there are already a lot of comments talking about it.
Nice collection. I wanted to add many of these movies in my Netflix queue and found this handy bookmarklet called Cue That http://www.cuethat.com/. You can select movie title and add it in Netflix queue quickly.
Its not just a publication method. If you loose your github repo for some reason you loose

* the issues
* the wiki
* the community because your local repo is fine,
but nobody knows any other remote than github.
Go has more mature libraries for web development and you could argue that it is more suited, due to easy concurrency via go-routines. Rust is closer to c++ in the level of abstraction above the hardware, and complexity of the language.
Says the game developer who sells virtual goods...

I've lived in the bay area longer than BART has been in operation, and I'd rather see my fares raised to pay the BART employees even more so that they can focus on the safety and security of the system instead of having to be worred about being evicted to make room for some virtual good merchant.

BART workers directly help millions of people in the bay area every day and provide far more value to the bay area community and economy relative to what they are paid then do the participants in this forum.
Why does popehat assume Ofek is male?
> Incidentally, Soyuz is considered the safest craft with only two accidents (Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 11) in 46 years.

No. There were only two Soyuz missions with fatal accidents.

However, there have been a number of Soyuz missions with nonfatal accidents. Multiple ballistic reentries, multiple engine failures, multiple docking issues, multiple failures of the braking rockets on landing. Cosmonauts have suffered bruises, broken teeth, broken ribs -- one crewmember on Soyuz 18a was so badly injured that he never flew in space again.

But Soyuz was an inherently robust design. It is designed to be survivable, to have backups to backups. You may not enjoy the experience, but the Soyuz will try its best to bring you back to earth alive.

For example, there have been three separation failures during reentry, most recently in 2008. This is an extremely harrowing event, because the unseparated spacecraft assumes a head-first orientation, unprotected by the heat shield. However, the Soyuz is robustly built, and in all three cases the reentry module survived long enough for the connection to the orbital module to burn free. Once that happened, the mass distribution of the reentry module automatically rotated it to face heat-shield forward.

Those three separation failures could've killed 8 cosmonauts. Instead, they killed no cosmonauts. Because the Soyuz could tolerate this particular failure mode.
wrt "Most don't", how do you know this? Is there a study or a poll you could point to? I'm genuinely curious about this.
Perhaps Ubuntu has already demonstrated for years that many people are interested in packages which aren't extremely old but are pretty stable?

It would be great if Debian took away Ubuntu's reason for existing. But that hasn't happened yet.
He presented this at Dorkbot-SF last night; I streamed it:

part 1: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/39791560/highlight/423948

part 2: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/39791773/highlight/423949

Q&A: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/39791773/highlight/423952

The net connection dropped out between part 1 and 2, and it's using my laptop mic.
It does: http://www.math.harvard.edu/~knill/mathmovies/swf/pi_pattern...
I live in the EU and the median wage in my country is around $5000 a year after taxes.
So what's in this for yahoo?
Because it should be bad enough that the guy is a jerk without attempting to permanently label him as a sexist and/or a racist when there's a good chance that he might not be.

Most agree that he is a scumbag who said something that he shouldn't, but that doesn't mean he's racist or sexist.

He called her a whore because its a universal, non-gendered term for a sell-out. If a person thinks that its a gendered term, then that person is an idiot because there are lots of male and trans-gender prostitutes. That being said He's both wrong and hypocritical for accusing her of being a sell-out, especially when you consider he wanted her content for the sole purpose of making money off of it. She should be entitled to make money off of her work, especially when another entity is going to be.

He most likely called her an "Urban Whore," as a play on words using the title of her site. He probably thought it was clever, but as we already established, he's an asshole. Assholes often exhibit poor judgement. Yet when an African American woman (or anyone else) calls herself an Urban Scientist, she loses the right to be genuinely offended by the use of the term Urban. I didn't see her state that she was offended by the word, but nobody else really needs to be offended by it on her behalf. Instead, focus on the fact that this guy's an asshole for calling a person a whore for not giving him free content so he could make money.

There's a potential that he meant to be both sexist and racist, but there isn't really any way to know for sure. That's why its stupid to suggest that he was either of those things.

Does it really matter that an asshole is accurately classified? Not really, but if we are going to talk about something, we might as well be accurate about it.
I read logicalee's comment as a reference to the way most (all?) branches of mathematics may be built using sets and their axioms. Set theory boils down to "in the set" and "not in the set", ie. black and white.
Maybe this is timely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMdHDHEuOUE
Please note that the thin server should never be too thin. Logic should always happen in the server domain, handle the client as merely a presentation unit.
git is good here since it by default has colored diffs.
Central Park (Banksy)
I don't know a Github competitor, but Fossil is a DVCS that also stores issue and a wiki in the repository.
Totally agree, when I first time used this architecture it was first time when I had over 80% of the server side tested.
There's a difference between an intro slide and a featureless interface that leaves the reader with no clue that it's a slide show.
Seconded! I feel like it's hard to strike up conversations at tech events, especially with most people squirrelled away scarfing down mediocre pizza. Having some open-ended topic-based discussions would be great.
Good points. However:

Issues - I'm sure these can get recreated, even the discussions. In many cases, people will have those threads in their email.

Wiki - In Github's case, this is also a git repo.

Community - GitHub is rarely the only mechanism used to manage a community. There's likely a domain name and mailing list of some form.

Losing all of the above is certainly painful but I'm trying to point out that it's not irrecoverable. A better question might be how painful would it be to lose that (and the likelihood of losing it) as compared to other options.
I first spotted that book in 1993, when a semi-illiterate guy passed it to my dad. The book came from a person who runs a school "Feynman public school" in a place called Bharatpur in northern India. It was the best thing that happened to me in 1993 and there was quite a lot that happened that year in my life...

The part that got me hooked was "he fixes radios by thinking" and then sure enough I learnt a bit of safe-cracking too :-)

His lectures on physics were the most beautiful books sitting on my shelf during my school years(never read them), but in India cool kids aren't supposed to be theoretical physicists... they are supposed to be Engineers..and so here I am...
this sort of open data the poster one above suggested will always be problematic because the temptation will be to do meta-studies where you cross-compare datasets from experiments that 'look alike' while stripping context. It plays to a 'science is objective' fetishism, when in reality context is always subjective and context matters, deeply.

Presenting data as separate units in a publication serves the purpose of requiring actual cogitation and consideration before using the data. In a sense, all data are proprietary, and attempts to de-proprietarization of it is a mistaken endeavor. This is not to say that we shouldn't try to reproduce results, but we should be careful to acknowledge that the context is always different.
Hard to use on Android as well, since it sets ahistory state for each slide change. Get to the end of the presentation and have to press Back a hundred times to get to where it started. Not great.
One small quibble:

- Computer science. Your only job here is just to make sure that you have a cofounder who is a ninja. You need to get deep on this, make sure they're the real thing. If you need to, consult with faculty: http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/people/historiographical-institu... Only a real ninja will make you a millionaire.