skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the most glamourous aspect of being "poor"? Well, by necessity, they (we) are creative. The 1950s, 1960s and 1970s now appear anomalous in their move toward a more equitable distribution of wealth; such that people in the top, say, 10%, might have had a chance at a share in meaningful power and wealth. The creativity and happiness books, TED talks, and their ilk are trying to make the (middle-)managerial class not notice this for a while longer, or feel better about their place in the distribution that is shifting away from them. The professional middle class spends a lot of time right now differentiating themselves from the lower classes, when in fact if your non-home wealth is less than some number (apparently about $400k in 2004[1]), you have a lot more in common financially with them than with the billionaire giving the TED talk. This is what the Ocuppy movement was trying to tell people.
[1]http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp_502.pdf
Same as Apple - when they were almost dead they had to use and contribute to open source projects and treat the customer fair. Nowadays they are making it clear all iThings out there belong to Apple and working hard to wall Mac OSX as well.
It is strange. I often upgrade my distros or those of my other not-informatized friends and I never had a single problem.
Writing now from a ubuntu 13.10 upgraded since 11.04
AFAIK there's no keyboard shortcut that selects the whole block (taking block to mean a multi-line chunk of code, rather than a closure).

What you can do is put empty (or even non-empty!) comments between chunks of code, double-click just after the comment and everything up to (but not including) the start of the next comment will be selected.

""
myFoo do: [:each |
each bar
]
""

... and so on.

Many years ago someone did produce a set of vim key bindings for some version of Squeak (ancestor of Pharo), never tried it and I've no idea how well it would work under Pharo. Googling for vim squeak will get you some starting points.
Did I say that a single editor with fifteen people sitting around it is a good tool?
So who started that war?
Here's an aside on Forth-like languages: how much academic interest/research has there been in them? I've seen some people say that Forth is like Lisp in that it is its equal when it comes to high-level abstractions, but at the same time that it fits like a glow for low-level tasks. Some researchers must have been curious about this paradigm, at least enough to find out if that claim might hold some weight.
If you like this, you may like "Escher and the Droste effect"[1][2] and the "Lotsa Escher"[3] screensaver as well.

1. http://escherdroste.math.leidenuniv.nl

2. http://www.ams.org/notices/200304/fea-escher.pdf

3. http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/lotsablankers/lotsaescher
Do you have a link to the $30 prepaid plan? I can just find the $50 one (?)
Sure. But sometimes the strict limit forces you to do things that are worse than just leaving the long line, simply to comply with some automated coding style enforcement. For example sometimes you have to break up strings into separate parts and wrap the last argument following them to it's own line for readability... Even if the same arguments pattern if used all over the project (so one line would be more recognisable / readable). So you get 3 lines that are worse (for example) to grep than one line just because it would have 85 characters otherwise.

Long lines are unreadable, enforced short lines are unnatural, common idea of the best judgement doesn't exist. :(

Newspapers can deal with this by squeezing words / letters together, or allowing more space in some lines to make the text align better. Code using monospace font can't do the same.
I used promo code E46J6WR73MPR

It's a good looking app. Unfortunately you can't review a product after you use a promo code.
Annual Income and Cost of Living for BART Employees
The (eventual) AC vote on progression is a simple majority vote — where there is one vote per AC representative (and one AC rep per Member). (The vote technically only happens if an appeal is launched with 5% of the AC in support, which requires one or more Formal Objections — but will almost certainly happen in this case.)

The EFF is the only person/org in that list of people who are Members. The rest — effectively — have no say. The Director practically cannot go against the majority of the AC (as they can just amend the Process to remove the Director's veto). You'll need to convince a lot more Members to vote against it. I see no evidence of MS having done anything underhand here — this is simply a case of a lot (quite possibly a majority) of Members wanting something a lot of people disagree with.
But at least there are no 2 year contracts to keep us locked into T-Mobile if they ever turn into dirtbags!
I'm an applied mathematician (PhD) working partially in software development, partially in research mathematics and statistics proper.

A mathematician is someone who works on things that honestly very few folks can understand completely (not due to complexity per se, just depth and lack of general familiarity). Publication peer-review aside, it's also unlikely that the few folks who can judge your work are in any position to fire you. It's a rewarding and pretty secure gig.

But I still think that the most interesting work is very multidisciplinary in nature, so a CS, engineering or physical sciences background really does enhance the work you can do. Like in any other career, don't let yourself become a one-trick pony.
Share your entire screen using chromecast
Side-topic question: is anything from the Smalltalk OO model that hadn't made its way into Ruby?

I know that Matz took lots of ideas from Smalltalk when he created Ruby, but I wonder if there are any good OO model related things he didn't adopt. I don't mean the whole image based and IDE in the program thing, I know this is something only Smalltalk has.
Not you. But I only play with basically one fame, okmarguably not a game, but a flight simulator, and if ran on linux, I wouldn't have a MSWindows box.
Thanks for the info! Are there any public links I could read more about this on? (specifically Apple's involvement and commitment)
They then sold their towers for $2.4 billion http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-28/crown-castle-to-buy...

Looks, like something you do with office space financially.
I really enjoyed learning about these security concepts, and the slideshow was well made - but it might not be the best format for online sharing on sites like HN. I felt like it was missing a presenter's voice to tie things together.

Maybe HTML5 audio or video could be added to flesh out some of the concepts?

I don't mean to be overly critical because, again, I enjoyed the presentation. Just offering some food for thought.
from what i've heard attempts to prove the Riemann hypothesis this way have been a dead end. mathematicians agree the heuristics concerning random matrices and quantum chaos are true but

Physics of the Riemann Hypothesis
http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.3116

Quantum chaos, random matrix theory, and the Riemann zeta-function
http://www.math.harvard.edu/~bourgade/papers/PoincareSeminar...

The quantum physics methods being used to solve the Riemann hypothesis can solve easier number theory problems as well. We can look at the structure of the primes more directly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollonian_gasket#Integral_Apol...
It's the walmart special. http://see.walmart.com/t-mobile/
Don't ask around these questions because nobody knows you have them.

If only you get rid of the printouts you're safe because nobody can prove anything so basically you're free to do what you feel is right. After the printouts are gone and you do happen to remember what they said, there's absolutely no way to connect that information to you.

The owner of the papers might want them back though, so consider that too, please. You can return them in an anonymous envelope if you want your identity to not be disclosed.
Can you post a download url to this hex file? Will the license allow you to do so?
As they say on ShopTalkShow, "JUST BUILD WEBSITES!". It took me about 3 months to get to "practical web developer" status with almost no coding background (was previously in marketing). Another 3 months of practice and I was competent enough to get a job doing it.

How did I do it? Total immersion. I spent a few hours every day doing tutorials, and then applying those lessons in little throw-away projects. When not coding or learning, I listened to podcasts in the space.

http://shoptalkshow.com by Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert is FANTASTIC, they do a friendly Q&A podcast with guests, sound effects, and it's just a lot of fun overall.

http://codeschool.com by the guys at Envy Labs is the best place to learn, bar none. I tried plenty of sources: Udemy, CodeAcademy, Treehouse, and various other platforms. These were all "okay" to "pretty good", but CodeSchool is the best value for your money. The courses alone are worth the $25/mo, but you also get exclusive screencasts that are really great for enhancing your learning.

Stack Overflow is your best friend. I wouldn't recommend doing direct searches on their site when you first run into an issue (just Google your problem) but the vast majority of solutions will come from SO. You can trust the answers on there for the most part, and the best part is that most answers are very informative: they explain the reason for the problem and why the solution works, instead of just giving you some code to copy & paste.

If you're a strong independent learner, you should have no problem following along with the CodeSchool courses (they move pretty fast though, don't feel bad about watching the videos multiple times). Sign up for a month, take a few courses (one or two a week should do at first). Then once you're finished with a lesson, go build a little website (it can be stupid, many of mine were) to demonstrate what you just learned.

If you run into issues, Google it. This is how you will learn. Ultimately, no tutorials will take you from 0 to "rockstar ninja guru", that will only come with experimenting. A helpful template for Google searches is [technology] [command or problem]. For example, "move a div with jQuery" or "rails generate migration". Sometimes including the phrase "how to" works, like "how to deploy node app". Also, "is broken", while less specific, can work: "doctype broke my CSS" will probably explain why changing your doctype is causing style anomalies.

Also, just to be clear: I'm not affiliated in any way with any of the websites I mentioned above and have no vested financial interest in them. They're just awesome :)
Ask HN: Which JavaScript framework is worth investing time in?
Nowadays it seems like there are endless choices for javascript developers. Having just learned javascript a few months ago, what framework would you recommend i invest my time learning and why?
I think "distributed" in this context is about multiple machines/servers. Not multiple plataforms.
I find it amusing that everyone is acting like there's no DRM today and this is somehow an attempt at bringing DRM to the Open Web. DRM is already a required and de facto standard for the Open Web -- it's just hiding inside of NPAPI and ActiveX. It's there and it's even worse than DRM because there are no DRM plug-ins that don't bring massive runtimes with them that are the number one cause of security problems on the Web.

(If you do not have Flash or Silverlight today, you are not going to be able to watch restricted content. Pretty much everyone has one or both installed and will happily install it if it's not already on their system.)

Killing NPAPI and ActiveX, which is how DRM integrates with browsers today, and replacing it with a much smaller and considerably safer API is progress at shrinking the proprietary surface of today's real Web.

This is two steps forward and one step back, folks. This is positive evolution.
I didn't say evidence of the hypothesis, I said "evidence that the hypothesis is WARRANTED" which is a very big difference. If apples don't fall from trees and matter is not attracted to other matter then the gravity hypothesis has no evidence for it to even be considered! We see apples fall and planets orbit and matter attracting other matter and so we think, there must be something there! So we investigate and only after much testing do we say that the hypothesis is scientific fact within the bounds it was tested.

>> Until you get clear evidence, it is a matter of philosophy, and you can fill it with anything that doesn't contradict the known facts.

NO YOU CAN'T. Why? Because the nonsense ("philosophy") you fill it with STILL REQUIRES EVIDENCE when you claim that something positively certainly EXISTS such as a creator of the universe. You can claim you HYPOTHESIZE that there exists a creator, but it is on YOU to prove that a creator exists, not on anyone else to disprove it, especially when the scientific body of knowledge, both theoretical and experimental, shows no evidence and no sign of a creator outside of humans projecting their own desires.
It's actually been posted 6 times over the past 5 years.

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Indeed it works like that. Thanks!
Biology-Online.org, "Urban Whores," And The Many Axes Of Douchebaggery
I don't understand how they're paying $2000 a month to AT&T. We have 5 iPhones and 1 AT&T iPad on a family plan with unlimited text and very high number of minutes (can't remember exactly) and pay not more than $450.
Contagious Content: The Six Insider's Secrets [Infographic]
How would you seek justice if your family is killed by an USA drone strike?
The thing is, you can't design a web based system where you can't read the plaintext. If you have to give up your SSL key all bets are off. The FBI can perform a MITM attack to your users. The best you can do in that case is shut down the service, which is what they did.
> Space is no longer pioneered by nations, it's pioneered by people making money.

Why is this bad? That space is a viable destination for private businesses shows just how far we've come.
T-Mobile throttles after 5GB on that plan, not 2. Straight Talk straight up terminates your data connection after 2 GB. They claim that they throttle, but they effectively terminate it - the throttled connection is so slow and has so many packets dropped that I couldn't use a single app on my 'throttled' phone without it timing out and giving up.
BTW, there are also zip files with code and stuff:

wget -c -w5 -rH -nd -Dubm-us.net -Azip http://gdcvault.com/gdmag

to get those
http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_851327...
Not everything in life is about making money. As long as your basic needs are fulfilled (and even if some are not), human spirit needs to go beyond and do things for fun and art.
Outlook Web Access has a UI just like the actual program, provided you're using a compatible browser. What you're seeing is the fallback presented to incompatible browsers. Upgrade to the latest Internet Explorer. :)
Observing Iridium Flares
SCMP is a Hong Kong based newspaper. Within HK (which does generally pride itself on its 'independence' from the mainland), there are some allegations that SCMP is overly pro-Beijing. That said, they are pro-Beijing from HK's perspective. Compared to a mainland newspaper, they aren't particularly pro-Beijing.

That said, I really don't know why it matters here. The news is pretty clear. Citizen group found elevated Cesium and radiation levels in and around Tokyo, claims that they are because of Fukushima. Officials do not deny the actual measurements, but point out that the levels are safe. The paper (if anything) is weighing on the side of "this is all ok".
> DRM is already a required and de facto standard for the Open Web

How is it required? Browser makers have to implement it to adhere to standards? Site makers have to use it to adhere to standards? No, nothing like that. DRM is an optional junk now. Making it a standard promotes it to mandatory status.

Also, the statement that DRM is a "standard for the open Web" is an oxymoron. It's like saying that spreading disease (not vaccines) is a standard for curing. DRM is a complete antithesis of openness.

So, to correct what you said, it should read: DRM is already a required and de facto standard for the closed Web. And those who really care about the open Web should oppose DRM everywhere. DRM should be marginalized, through plugins and 3rd party non trusted black boxes which are hard to use and which are very apparently a problem. Not integrated with comfort through EME and the like, which only masks the problem, but doesn't solve it. To give a clear analogy - hidden surveillance camera is not better because it's hidden, it's actually worse because people don't think about it. "Unobtrusive", "comfortable" and etc. DRM is not better - it's always much worse.
Online Collaborator's Toolkit: The Sharing Tools You Need to Web It Up
but let's not forget that just a short while ago, they were just like all of the other major carriers.

I've been using T-Mobile for five years or so and have always had really good customer service.
As mcpherrinm said, you can get a SIM for it at Walmart, or you can get it online. I got it online:

http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans

Scroll down and you'll see '100 minutes talk | Unlimited text | First 5 GB at up to 4G speeds'

You have to buy the SIM card online and have them ship it to you; then you open it up and use the activation info in the box to set up the $30 plan and pay for your first month. It's pretty straightforward. When I did it the SIM only cost like a buck so it's pretty much as advertised - no hidden costs.
My question was in response to this post by the same person:

>"If you dont like sex tourism it is ur mental problem. Feel free to agitate in your europez but please leave my thailand as is. Every girl has a right to do anything and its not your business."

That seemed to imply that the prostitutes had willingly chosen their profession, which led to my question.
As far as I can see, being a programmer has almost nothing in common with being a doctor...
The T in AST means that any straightforward textual representation is going to come out isomorphic to Lisp. But if you try something non-straightforward, then programmers will have to do the mapping between text and AST in their heads, which defeats the purpose.

Thus what you're asking for reduces to either (a) a mainstream Lisp, or (b) a language whose programs naturally translate into something other than a tree. (a) is a can of rather boring worms, but (b) seems like it could use more attention. The only thing I know of in that space (maybe) are stack languages.
A false dichotomy if ever there was one. Anyone who doesn't think the code is ugly must just be blinded by hero worship?

How about the possibility that a1a is one of the people who just automatically equates "large volume of code" with "spaghetti"? In my experience there is a fair number of HN users (and devs in general) with this knee-jerk perspective.

In my very humble opinion any reasonable person who takes a few minutes to actually read through this code would never call it spaghetti. _Especially_ considering 1) the feature set of PHP at the time the code was leaked, 2) the immense scale of Facebook even at that time.
If your win condition is "eliminate all cheaters", you've already gone to "ditching the program in its entirety". Human systems have defectors, otherwise game theory wouldn't exist.

If your win condition is "eliminate most of the cheaters", I'd like some proof that we're not already at the Nash Equilibrium for that with the current system.
Ford raised wages so he could hire the best workers and retain them in a competitive hiring environment in a growing industry. The main reason his workers could afford his car wasn't because they were paid so much, but rather because Ford reduced his production costs overall so that the car cost so little. A lot of that probably had to do with being able to demand a lot from his workers because he could hire the best factory workers.

Paying your workers enough to buy your own products is mathematically impossible to profit from--they're just paying you back money you paid them in the first place, and they can't pay you more than 100% of their salary, so you always pay them more than they pay you.
> "unwanted pregnancy, but solves most other sexual hazards": The failure rate for condoms is "18 or more pregnancies per 100 women in a year"

That's really surprising. What is methodology did they use to get to that number?
Tesco. I'm telling you, man, Tesco's customer service is so badass. Never had a problem with them. They also piggy-back off of O2's network, so I never have coverage problems unless I'm out in the sticks.
My advisor in grad school put it this way: being a mathematician basically amounts to being the world's leading expert on something only about 5 people give a shit about.
I didn't realize the frequencies were so dramatically different. If I remember my basic electronics, that's double the wavelength for the AT&T signals and that makes complete sense. Thanks.
9/11 in the academic community
Microsoft wants to replace browser Cookies with cloud system
I'd like to add a little to the puzzle analogy. Not only is doing research like putting together a puzzle without an idea what the picture is, but the puzzle is irregularly shaped.
Because he doesn't bother to make a coherent argument and I have plenty of better use of my time than try and parse what he is trying to say.

If you understand his argument - can you make an outline for us?
To be fair, it appears that the robber barons never even tried.
yes blocks are also evaluated with cmd+d. So its possible this way to evaluate/execute multiple smalltalk statements (message sends).

so you can do

a := [ message . message . message . ].a value.

if you just ctrl+d it will execute all messages. "a value" executes the body of the block.

also in pharo like emacs and vim , shortcuts are tied to methods so you can add a shortcut for any method you want. And since pharo has over 70 thousands methods , you will need a pile of keyboards :D

We could implement also a more convenient way of executing multiple lines in a workspace. Generally in Pharo we spent most of our time with system browser and debugger and much less with workspace. Workspace is more for one liners. There is also already a tons of shortcuts, I am new with pharo so maybe there is something already I am not aware of.

Also I don't mind using the mouse now and then. I find it harder to remember tons of keyboard shortcuts. But I am moving slowly to a more keyboard orientated workflow.
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Apple still contributes to open source A LOT.
Or join forces with https://medivizor.com/
I was interested in StraightTalk but this article scared me a bit:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2414418,00.asp
How to Live in a Monastery
Right. I was mentally comparing it to the 10 uSv that you normally receive each day. IIRC a lot of is from your own body's radioactivity, but someone getting .484 uSv/hr isn't even doubling their normal radiation exposure.

EDIT: Handy XKCD radiation chart: http://xkcd.com/radiation/
you dont need to do that as I replied above. Using my approach will automagically select the whole block and evaluate it without having to touch the mouse.
So talk using VoIP over 3g/4g and have unlimited minutes.

T-Mobile will not throttle until at least 5GB. In my experience they just don't throttle at all though.