skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One problem with the bootstrap argument is it ignores the pyramid. So there's 5 pump attendants and one of them has the brains, motivation, luck, family connections, whatever to get promoted to be the next $7 car mechanic. Well that's just awesome for that one kid... and what is your proposal for the other four, let them eat cake? Wait for the local version of "arab spring", let the cops shoot them, hire the next batch, repeat? Soylent Green?

"It's illegal to hire him, pay him and let him grow to better position."

That's ridiculous. Managers take chances on noobs all the time, especially at the lower levels.

"Again, the unemployment rate among the young is the highest among all group ages"

Hello Arab Spring, coming soon to a failed state near you. Historically a graph with a y-axis of "desperate angry unemployed young men" tends to peak around revolutions and upheavals. The future is on a path that is aimed much more toward France in the 1790s than USA in the 1950s. There are probably startup implications to this trend toward inequality for awhile, then revolution.
Jack, John and Jill came to the party.
Jack, John, and Jill came to the party.
Three people came in both cases.
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what's your definition of "working personal dashboards"?

just curious :)
I really wished they'd always referred to it as 'The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel' to differentiate it from real Nobels.
> After that Samsung will just figure out some other identifying feature to recognize the benchmarks.

Yep, reminds me of 3DMark2003 when NVidia and ATi "optimized" their drivers by disabling, altering or swapping the benchmark's shaders for their own or less complex versions
> AIUI exceptions and RAII are mutually exclusive in C++

That is... very wrong. Exceptions are perilous unless you use RAII religiously (which you should; it's good.)

For more information, read up on RAII and search for "exception safety."

The definition of C++ RAII from Wikipedia: "In this language, if an exception is thrown, and proper exception handling is in place, the only code that will be executed for the current scope are the destructors of objects declared in that scope". Without this it is very hard to reap any benefits of exceptions (people have disagreements on what those are, if any, but that's another topic).
> imagine your parents posting your fully nude pictures on FB?

There is a small but very vocal element in the UK who would be horrified by that, and who would call the police and child protection social services.

I know it's stupid, and that parents have photographs on their children in baths, but these people have caused some problems for parents wishing to take photographs. School sports days, school plays, your child playing at a playground or in the park - all of these have been made difficult places to take photographs at.

Luckily, it's less of a problem now than it was a few years ago.
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> The whole of London is an undesirable area in my opinion

Agreed. I think OP was more referring to crime. Ok maybe Chelsea vs Croydon is a bit different, but compared to any of the surrounding areas e.g. Wimbledon and Clapham, it isn't much different.

(I was in South Wimbledon - close to Mitcham and Tooting - for 2 years)
Amongst people who have never visited, yes. Which is presumably one of the reasons it is still so cheap.

The central business district also still suffers from ugly office blocks, as the town centre was bombed out during the war largely due to the proximity to the RAF base at Croydon Airport (which used to be London's main airport until Heathrow - it's been closed since the end of the 50's) and the factories at Purley Way, and most of the rebuilding resulting in massive amounts of large, ugly concrete office buildings mainly used by the home office initially.

As I mentioned, it's below the London average when it comes to crime, quite a bit above the London average in terms of salaries. A lot of good schools, including a handful of expensive high end private schools.

There are a few run down areas though the worst are "hidden away" far outside the main town centre, but also quite a few upscale areas, including Purley (in South Croydon), which is consistently one of the wealthiest post-codes in the UK due to a large number of very spacious estates (we're talking houses that can hardly be seen from the gate facing out to to private roads, forming adorable little seemingly old but entirely fake vestiges of old country villages) dotted around a leafy and generally nice little town centre.

Most of Croydon, though, is covered by mostly firmly middle class neighbourhoods and parks. Lots and lots of parks (120 of them), some of them very substantial. There's of course also the central shopping area, which is one of the largest in England, with two massive shopping centres (which look to be refurbished and combined into one centre as part of a join venture that includes the Westfield operators). Some of the best public transport in London (central choke-point on main lines from Victoria and London Bridge to the South Coast, as well as the tram system).

Part of the reputation problem is probably because most visitors at most see the central business district (which as mentioned still looks ugly), at most, including TV footage of Luna House (immigration processing for the Home Office), and don't even realise that most of the much nicer looking small towns and villages surrounding Croydon town centre are also part of the borough.

The last 5 years or so, we've also had a massive increase in building of upscale housing (highrises with 1m+ penthouses etc...) - they're in the process of putting up another high end 50 floor highrise in the city centre - and upgrades to the town centre, with more underway, so soon it'll even look nice.
The collection maybe a little eclectic, but ccan might interest you: http://ccodearchive.net
I guess we have to disagree in the end.

Transparency is important - in public. The government, work, politics in general should be transparent. But using transparency as a reason to kill any notion of privacy (because that's what "not posting pictures of my kid" is about) is a strange point to make.

There's no reason at all for someone on the internet to ask about 'transparency' regarding the daily life of my family, my children. That'd be an utterly ridiculous demand to make. My sex life isn't 'transparent' in that way either.
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Reading posts like yours and the article you posted make me sick. Sick because of all the bs that is in there,but it only takes a few seconds to look at other articles posted there to see that it is written by a complete nut-job, and it appeals to the same audience, which you can see after reading the comments.
Adding to that, there's also somth in the article about "modularity" not being the default when it comes to "nature".

> In nature, complexity is where the good things, such as life, happen.
They read minds, don't they? Introducing the Quantified Audience.
most popular web frameworks don't put data in the cookie, signed or not. yes it introduces different problems, but avoids this one.
Android 4.3 Update Status for Galaxy S4
this is bad news, should get to front page.
no online demo :(
I agree, and you don't even need China in this analogy. Suppose that 5 of the best blacksmiths leave the blacksmith cooperative and start producing custom-made nails for less than the old blacksmith coop, which by the way is now missing their best people. What happens when they take over the market? Will the now-jobless blacksmiths be accepted as members of other cooperatives with full rights, or do they need to sell their labor in the market for whatever someone is willing to pay? The only way so far found to preserve socialist principles in this situation is with regulation which prevents free economic choice - the bootmakers don't get to choose whose nails they buy, you can't quit your job with five of your friends and start a competing concern, and you don't get control over who you let into your cooperative. But having removed this right to dispose of the results of one's own labor (I am not even talking about hired labor), we've created a state-run society in practice if not in theory.
CCAN: The C Code Archive
Ghost Launches to The Public
I did not get sick at all.

I would definitely try the demos which were written with the Rift in mind, not general games. RiftCoaster for example is superb (be even better if I could get it to work under Wine ...).
The following two are among the most enlightening I can remember.

* Richard Hamming's "You and Your Research"
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

* Gian-Carlo Rota's "Ten Lessons I wish I had been Taught"
http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~cahn/life/gian-carlo-rota-10-le...

P.S. Ciao Pino! :)
To simplistic it doesn't reward investment risk in companies over safer investments in say government gilts.
Whoops, I had to redo the Q&A highlight, and I didn't update the link: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/39791773/highlight/423954
Yes, a person with drive might achieve that. That said, it'd probably be massively less likely. Out of the 100 million kids in India born into poverty, probably 1 in a 100 would make it to a blue collar job, 1 in 10k to a white collar job, 1 in 100k to a professional, 1 in 1M to be a millionaire, and 1 in 100M to be a billionaire. I'm fudging the data but would I be massively wrong?
There's no replacement for exceptions, but you can use setjmp and longjmp if you really want to jump out many layers of nested calls.

In C11 there is type generic macros that helps writing C++-like overloaded functions.

There are several extensions in GCC too.

For RAII-like memory management, there are __attribute__((constructor)) and __attribute__((destructor)).

C++ does type reflection on constant expressions via type traits templates, in GCC there is simply typeof().

If you are bored about writing static function modifiers, you can write a function inside function.

If you want to allocate a vector which won't change capacity and be released when out of local scope , for example in C++:

auto v = std::vector<int>(n);

With C99 dynamic arrays you can use this instead:

int v[n]; // n is a variable determined at runtime

You can use the union trick to achieve safer type casts too.
This response smacks of a religious creed. Let's try the opposite:

> Deflation (a jargon word that basically means printing money) transfers money from debtors to the rich. This is destructive.

Yep, the opposite is at least as true.
Most of the couchsurfers I know have switched partially or fully to http://www.bewelcome.org/.

Hope this helps :)
Do the American unions eschew financial interests in their employers out of choice?
"BTW I read the book last summer for the first time."

In the proud tradition of founders generally solving problems that mostly affect themselves rather than the rest of the population, I propose the startup idea of a hackers bookshelf startup. Not the first time its been tried, its a hard problem which means its a good startup topic.
I'd be too nervous about renting into my old age. Who's to say the govt in 20-30 years time won't have a more capitalist outlook and allow rents to rise with rises in property prices and price you out of your home? I agree foreign ownership should be limited, but I think there will always be local demand due to people wanting security for themselves. But maybe this is a UK style view-point (I'm not British, but live in London), maybe the Swiss have faith that renting for the rest of your life is safe enough?
New atomic clock to time the cosmos
I handle developer relations at Xero. Happy to discuss your API limit needs when you've got the chance (email in profile). Secondly, it is our aim to have everything available via the API. We have been ramping up resources within the API team in order to keep pace with the rest of the product.
Previous discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6540842 (27 comments)
I thought The Wayback Machine only displays snapshots that are more than 6 months old?
Is it just me or is there a gaping logical hole in this story.

The guy who supposedly refused to work for her because of her gender must have realized that she is a woman long before signing the contract. Ie - if he really had problem reporting to a woman, why go through the process if the information was readily available that it wasn't for him?

Occam's razor (as opposed to her coach) would posit that certain events changed his mind, as per his explanation to her.

However - the phenomenon that is real is her uncertainty as to whether her gender was a factor. Ie - it would not occur to a man to question that. Unfortunately that's life.
An online application that tracks online and offline tasks, personal analytics, events, contacts and goals and presents it visually on a single screen (I like rainbows and unicorns too).

Reportr isn't actually operational I take it, since I get an application error every time I try to sign up.
If you use Devise make sure to read this, too:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11281141/after-logout-if-...

(I was quite surprised a long while back :-)
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911

Lots of things have happened in the US since 1911.

Factory fires killing employees still happen in Bangladesh.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24453165

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24195441
Google Gravity experiment
Google Gravity Experiment , check it out.
The attribution to (through) Wikipedia describes the term as being coined in 1997, but the original authors of that paper expanded there ideas in 1999. I reread this paper every couple of years just to make sure I'm not "guilty".

http://laputan.org/mud/
I never used 1password (I don't own any Apple hardware), but if you need a password manager that works on Linux as well as Windows, KeePass (using Mono) is pretty good.

I'm using it on my laptop and desktop and use Dropbox to synchronize.
"worker safety much less of a concern but the danger was also less well understood"

Another important point is to people who don't understand the physics, something not understood "must" be feared, therefore the most dangerous part must have been the physics. However I understand at least some of the chemistry and industrial processes using bulk hydrofluoric scare me more than the physics. Aside from the mechanical / explosive hazards, of course (machine plastic explosives to precise shapes on a milling machine for the implosion weapons, are you insane? You're hooking up a zillion blasting caps to .. what?)
Investors are a subset of “people who save“
Repository available on GitHub: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost
Mmmmm, this could very well be just a new application of the Forer effect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forer_effect
Hyundai Debuts 2014 Sonata With At Least 50 New Improvements
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This is interesting...still doesn't answer my question though :)
How To Create And Online Community - The Make Money Part
> If I could get a virtualization scheme where I could have one desktop with OSX and 3-4 desktops of Linux, that would be ideal. But I don't think that's possible with Parallels or VMware

Isn't that the main feature of VMWare Fusion? (Although it seems more targeted at integrating Windows into OS X, it looks like it supports Linux as well)
Bill Moyers on the Sabotage of Democracy
Yes it was. But in the 90's we didn't have any great personal operating systems competing yet, and no one got fired for buying Microsoft products.
Awesome! I've been following John O'Nolan's project since it was announced on Kickstarter. I even started writing my own version which is up on GitHub[1]. Just signed up and I'm looking forward to the future of this project. Just incase anyone else is looking for the source code, it's here: https://github.com/tryghost

[1] - https://github.com/joeblau/bl0g
You might be surprised. In the year to date, Kensington & Chelsea have had about 12 crimes per 100 people according to the Met. Croydon have had about 6 crimes per 100 people. K&C does come out better if you look at certain subsets of serious crime, but Croydon is consistently in the "better half" of London Boroughs in terms of crime, often doing very well.

Most of the worst boroughs in London in terms of crime are the inner-city boroughs, regardless of wealth (Westminster in particular is a crime ridden hellhole if you look at the raw numbers by population, due largely to the amount of business and nightlife and low number of people living there; but Croydon city centre suffers from some of the same effect, dragging the overall crime rate for the borough up, even though the totals for the borough still remain better than average for London).
I think JSON being a subset of yaml is one of THE biggest mistakes YAML made, second only to making YAML a serialization format.
Can science fiction ever get the science right?
Perhaps they want to do things that static HTML can't do?
The coach is a bigot. Or she is just trying to make the author feel better about herself.

Either way this doesn't merit an article on sexism.
> If you pick Ubuntu, any issues usually aren't too hard to fix.

I've tried various distros on my laptop (Thinkpad W500) but I was seriously impressed when Ubuntu had everything working (including WiFi and ACPI key bindings) out of the box.
He wouldn't be Gates if he was born into another situation.

So the person born in the current Gates' situation would prolly have achieved what Gates did - given that Gates is who he is because he won the ovarian lottery.
And the other thing worth noting for people considering this: If you have any way of avoiding zone 1 (if you work near the border to zone 2, and it's viable for you to take a bus, walk or cycle the last bit, for example), zone one makes up for an atrocious amount of the travelcard price in London - getting a travel card that excludes zone 1 can be a major saving.
This seems like it would be useful for advertising, but it probably won't be. It's still difficult to link a social profile to a particlar web page view. Google and Facebook have a lot of information about everyone but they still have trouble linking it up all around the web.

I think the real value is in making predictions. Many of the things that really matter to businesses, like the stock market, government and judicial system depend heavily on human personalities. Having a better guess at what a CEO will do is valuable. Predicting what the Fed will do is even more so. There are countless boards, commitees and commissions that make influential decisions every day. Having just a slightly better idea about their actions will be based on their personalities can make a huge difference.

As the article points out, the biggest problem is that there is usually a gap between what people tweet and what they really think. The author's twitter feed was more about his persona as an online journalist than his own personal life. Many people communicate socially as who they want to be rather than who they actually are. Google could probably find out more about someone's true personality from the pages that they visit rather than the words that they use.

This technology still has great promise. One thing algorithms aren't good at is understanding the quirks of human behavior. Anything that addresses that problem moves us closer to an automated world.
I'm sorry but I don't agree. Cultural notions and societal pressures exist in all cultures, and India is no different.

Yet in a world that is being "eaten by software", if young, educated and ambitious software developers are bemoaning centuries-old practices for their inability to take risks, the blame lies closer than they think.

If they can't handle the heat, they shouldn't be in the kitchen. Get a safe, salaried job and shut up. Else cope with it. Society isn't going to change overnight, so stop moaning about it.

I'm sorry if I sound harsh but I'm been seeing more than a few of these whiny posts on HN lately.
I don't mean to derail this conversation but I thought to HR I am just "Contingent Labor". How can I be considered management?
Thank you - so that's his thesis. I guess it sounds a lot like gangs.
I assume this is a molten salt plant? If so, I didn't think that was a new thing because I've heard about it plenty before now. Is this the largest solar-thermal plant doing this? The first?
Use GObject (https://developer.gnome.org/gobject/stable/) and GLib. GObject is basically a bunch of macros to let you write OO code in C, GLib is a cross-platform set of libraries with somewhat of a 'standard library' of data structures, string handling stuff etc. It's the foundation of Gnome, it's also LGPL so that may be an issue. To be honest though I've never used it for strictly C-only code, I've only used it on Linux with gcc and it was 10 years ago.

Still, it's a nice hack for when you want to write C++-like code while still using C constructs only.
"Sveriges Riksbank Prize" != Nobel Price

This is a prize given by the Central Bank of Sweden, not really an unbiased source. They have a clear agenda to propagate, and it is more about how to get more money for them for central planning than about economy.
Like Dexen says, the surprise is in the non-linearity. The sudden transition from a sparsely connected to a widely connected system comes somewhat unexpected (at least to me :-) ).
OK, build us a logical bridge between the situation and "it happened because he doesn't like women". Don't forget the evidence for every logical leap.
People still buys. In business sense, it is funny. They cheated and impressed as much as they can and made really large volume of sale. Media reporting like this does not seem to make much difference. Other than few hackers/engineers/programmers, majority of consumers don't give a thing on benchmarks. Too bad.
THEY WON!!!! YES!! Now wait a minute there is a global conspiracy to undermine the just about all strong crypto in just about all countries that has forced everyone to question just how many people have access to the conversations they have in whatever form. If you think that the cpunks won, you have most certainly lost. The winners are the ones who have formally ended the open internet and then had proof of their handy work splashed across the internet via leaked PowerPoint.

Cypherpunk now has evolved, they found that the most paranoid were not even close to the actual capabilities of the other-side were. Now the stakes are raised has even the academics (Matthew Green) and inter/national bodies (NIST IETF) have been shown to be victim of outside forces.

I think things just got MUCH more interesting...
So far the main problem I had with the demo system is that I can't set it up to my very myopic sight; none of the sets of lenses did it, and you can't wear glasses with it.
> I guess we have to disagree in the end.

I'm always up for that.

I'm not saying that private lives should be transparent. Only that they will be. Therefore I believe that kids comfortable with over-sharing will have easier lives, psychologically. I think we are one of the last generations that believe privacy to be natural state. I think our grandchildren will be absolutely devastated when they find out that because of some technical glitch there's no recording of the event they just experienced semi-privately.