skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After the first request fails it will confirm it's the connection at fault, and immediately show the message. Depending on the nature of the connection problem this can be immediate, but there is a small possibility that it can be delayed if the nature of the problem causes connections to timeout. If we get reports of that happening in the wild, there are things we might be able to do.
Anything with iOS 7 in the title. Definitely stay away from any books before iOS6 because there have been a lot of changes since the boom days of iOS books.

Not sure why you want to stick with community practice though. Who says the community is doing things the right way?

Check out "Functional Reactive Programming on iOS" for a more modern take on programming in general and how you can leverage it to make iOS apps.
:) Easy to get these things backwards when you're just glancing over things.
That's what I found remarkable about the Wikileaks embassy cables: Just how much of "diplomacy" amounts to leaning on our supposed friends in the world to accept our screwed up intellectual property laws and to otherwise compromise their standards for some pretty low, non-strategic commercial interests. At best it seems like diplomacy amounts to MPAA "spam" influence and at worst it is the spear-point of economic espionage.
A more detailed article about it: http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2010/11/features/20-...
Dating is disgusting solely because of power dynamics. The whole thing reeks of entitlement from both genders. From the rating system (which requires a highly reductionistic view of people, to the point that it is damaging to you), to the pseudo-scientific alpha/beta monikers, to the creepy game advocates ("she says no, but she really means yes!"). Both sides pull out shoddy excuses for what amounts to knee-jerk dismissal of potential mates.

I've been dumped over the hazy prospect of something better more than once. AFAIK, those exes are still searching. But, I'm 31 now, and really happy as a husband to a wonderful wife.

Dating is severely overrated. The best thing you can do is get in and get out without becoming cynical from it. Long-term relationships are satisfying in a way that dating can never compare to.
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A notable one that's made the rounds on HN before: http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/11/why-im-leaving-harvar...

I see the "I quit" genre more from CS/engineering professors, but that's probably because I'm on HN a lot. It would be somewhat interesting to compare the humanities subgenre and the STEM subgenre.

Also yesterday I had a long conversation with my neighbor at work (former math professor) about everything that's wrong with academia. He mentioned the phrase "loan farming".
Worth pointing out that you don't need to have an attacker watching your power consumption to have the partial nonce leak problem.
Precisely the reason for attempting to chronicle the journey. Thanks for your interest. Its not very common to come across documentation of subtle aspects of design decisions like type choices.
Could there be a climate connection here as well? A cursory inspection of some weather stations scattered across europe[1] indicate a slight warm trend over the past two winters, especially 2011 (disregarding 2013 data as its not yet complete).

[1]: weatherspark.com
I guess Boston is one of those rich cities. There are swarms of business people commuting through the city each morning and night. I was not aware of anyone calling them bums. All of the people that ride the bike paths at night were unaware that it was illegal. The dedicated 10mi long bikeways like the Minuteman Commuter Bikeway are especially useful. 5000 lumen bike lamps help too.

Also, why would you want to bike on the shoulder of an interstate? The whole definition of a limited access highway is that only highspeed cars, going the same direction are on it, for safety.
That's a tight little explanation.
I enjoy moments like this, where it's suddenly obvious in a discussion that we think about something in completely different ways.

Did I want a blimp when I was 16? If someone offered me one I would have said yes, but it's not something I ever really considered - likewise for a car.

I suppose a large part of this is due to growing up in an area with very good public transportation and bike infrastructure, but there were a million things I wanted before a car, such as the $60 computer I spent years saving for.
I purchased Mining the Social Web, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly, 2013) a few weeks ago and have been loving the IPython Notebook setup they're using to distribute the code examples. Anyone can clone the following git repo and play around with the code:

https://github.com/ptwobrussell/Mining-the-Social-Web-2nd-Ed...
Larry Ellison did it.
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What these women don't realize is that a lot of the men who _want_ to commit find someone to commit to in their early to mid twenties. The men who are left, and have perhaps never found a women willing to commit to them (like some of the 'power women' mentioned in this article), have been trained that women can't be trusted to commit to them, and so there you are. Sure there are plenty of exceptions, but it seems to be a general trend.
I love his commitment to the joke.
"Lavabit told them they couldn't comply"

That's not accurate. Lavabit offered to construct a backdoor for that particular user at well below cost. Instead the government demanded they destroy their business model by making all users insecure.

Imagine you run a hotel. The police are looking for a fugitive that's been known to check in occasionally. You offer to build a system that notifies the police if that user checks in. They refuse. Instead they demand you place a camera in each room.
Hmm.. It's not too hard. Know a bit of good music, read a bit, don't be super boring, be passionate about something. Go to meetups for your interests and meet people that way. Rarely fails and you're bound to find someone with the same interests.

Don't go on dating sites, except for maybe okcupid. But even then, things like Reddit meetups, concerts, meetup.com meetups, are where you should meet people. Don't go to the bar either.

If you're in public, go up to someone and say "Hi, I'm x and y" followed by something relating to wherever you are. I've had great success with this, at the very least, you'll get a coffee date, at worst, a fake number.

It's not hard, you just need to put yourself out there. Screw rejection.
There are 1.11 bikes per person in The Netherlands, but I don't see why that's too many. I've lived in Amsterdam and it's an absolute joy to move around.

Anecdotally, I've been told that people that live in a different town than where they live have:

* a bike to go to the train station
* a bike to go from the train station to work
* a nice bike for weekends
+1 mcburton

What an awesome idea -- I can think of some sociologists/biologists who had to suffer through MS Word equation editor with excel charts who would love something like this. The internal hyperlinks would be awesome too.

For now, at least you can "decode" ipynb to LaTeX and use the %%latex magic.
If you don't want to spend $99. Don't. Someone is going to, and for spending that $99. They are going to win a million. Many people spend more than $99 to win nothing. Many people spend more than that buying the latest mac book air, registering on the apple store, buying IDEs and libraries to develop their app and they end up making $500 when all is said and done. What's your point? It take's money to make money.
because traditionally the male was the wage earner. so whoever he married, his standard of living doesn't change. in contrast, in traditional (ie my parent's generation, uk) roles, who the woman marries fixes her standard of living.
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I wrote the js in Offline. I agree completely, this is definitely not an attempt to resurrect Google Gears. I would love to see how more people use it, and what sorts of problems they run into before deciding what the solution might be.

Two thoughts right now (make a gh issue if either is something you need):

- Make an option to only enable request remaking for GET requests

- Make an option to throw out POST/PUT/DELETE data if it's more than X minutes old

Listing the requests is interesting, but would obviously require the programmer to associate the request with the user-facing feature it enables. Something like messenger might be better for that: http://github.hubspot.com/messenger/
Looks like something out of Cryptonomicon.
Is this part of the Cookie Clearinghouse project? I wish there was more information about the crowdsourcing data collection. What data is collected and how will it be used?
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By default it only updates minor releases, which are only used to fix security issues and regressions. So it's only automating the the safest updates, and I think the good it will do by keeping sites secure outweighs the risk.
"Data from American colleges show 20 per cent of males - the most attractive ones - get 80 per cent of the sex"

damn it..its just like the app store.
They put in a metal firing pin because 100% plastic guns are illegal in the US. It was technically capable of being completely plastic.

But like the other poster said, it's a one-shot pistol with a weak cartridge. It's a long way from a practical firearm that will survive more than 10 shots.
"Rich" is an understatement. This is one of the biggest unsolved problems (or badly-solved problems), potential market size-wise, in the Western world.

The person who does better than Match.com is going to be Zuckerberg-level rich.
The main message, that one group of people in society (women) should defer their careers by 20 years to avoid this, is still the wrong advice to be giving to people, in my opinion.
And my kids have owned more bikes between them than I've bought cars in my life. They outgrow them quickly.
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I wrote the copy, which word would you prefer?
We have people here that bike year round, even though our temperatures dip well below 0C (we get -25 to -30C on a regular basis, with windchill being -35C to -40C). That is far more effort than I'm willing to put in.

Once it snows, I consider it far too dangerous (though again, there are a few people here that bike in snow w/ studded tires). I only have a bike lane for a short part of my ride, the rest being on 50, 60, and 80kmh roads with no paved shoulder. I don't want to find out what happens if I hit a deep patch of snow, ice, or some cross-winds while a semi is passing me doing 80kmh.

As for your 2nd point, I made that mistake the first time it got close to freezing. By the time I made it to work, I had a tough time breathing.
I, too, would love to see some actual data around this.
Unsubstantiated claim, but that is how it is. I have never met a receptionist married to a professional. Executive assistant maybe, but that is wink/nudge-heavy industry.
That's the usual hypothesis for why, but I was wondering when this became the norm, since traditionally there was quite a bit of social opposition to that direction as well. A man from "respectable society" wasn't supposed to marry someone from a poor family, or he'd be disowned, or at least cause a minor scandal. Particularly true among more prominent families with a family name to uphold.
As much as I hate most of the Snowden revelations, the European reaction to "learning" that espionage agencies conduct espionage is laughable.
It's actually used to control what projects show up here: http://github.hubspot.com/
Unfortunately a huge number of those bikes are gathering dust in a garage. Europeans bike 188 km/yr vs 40 km/yr for the US [1]. It would be really interesting to see the rate of change.

[1] http://policy.rutgers.edu/faculty/pucher/jpah08.pdf
Looks interesting, just to take it for a quick spin I tested it with a small set of bookmarks. [1] Then I deactivated noScript and Disconnect and reactivated them individually. (Screenshots at
http://imgur.com/a/fRrnp
).

So the result is, that there are three sites which do not incorporate third party connections whatsoever (DDG, HN, fefe). Without the addons, the other sites form a connected graph. With disconnect, the graph is less strongly connected. With only noScript, it starts to fall apart. With both activated, the primary sites are disconnected. ( But the combination apparently breaks something, since a second Guardian primary node appears.)

A few caveats, first of all this is of course not reproducible, since it depends on my whitelists for noScript and Disconnect. And the test set is of course not representative for anything except itself. And absence of a edge in the graph does not mean absence of a connection. But with this in mind, I found it quite interesting how connected even a small test set is.

[1] guardian.co.uk
zeit.de
blog.fefe.de
reddit.com
http://natmonitor.com/2013/10/24/ghostly-shape-of-coldest-pl... ( from reddit)
duckduckgo.com
http://linuxreviews.org/kde/screenshot_in_kde/ (from DDG search)
I always find the most interesting aspect of "we changed from X to Y" to be about why change is happening, how it is managed, etc. Context is everything, but the process described by the OP sounds like standard, top-down decision making. The OP certainly gets to it by the end of the article.

I've gone through this process (tech stack shift), both as a recipient-of-change as well as a catalyst-agent-of-change. Remarking on the email that the OP's CTO sent to everyone, these statements stick out:

"...A technology choice will be made appropriately for the needs as we see them..."
"...no hard decision has been made about our future languages or technologies..."
"...Less C#/.Net, more Scala/Java/Open Source..."

The CTO likely has very good intentions, but this is an implied technical decision that's already been made. He references "we" in the email to imply group participation in decision-making, but it is very much a you-are-with-us-or-you-are-against-us definition. To wit, those who didn't buy in were shown the door.

Having been the guy in that chair, this is not an easy thing to do. Being handcuffed by prior technology decisions is not only difficult, it's often untenable. Usually, the people hired into those leadership roles often have to resolve the decision making issues that got the company to that point. That said, here's what I've learned in terms of how to go about these types of long-term changes:

- As the CTO, take full responsibility for introducing change. This is not taking credit, but instead being the owner of the decision and ensuring it succeeds. Support the team, and encourage them to openly question the decision, so that those questions can be addressed. The CTO's email above makes a change decision requisite, but it's up to everyone else to make it work. To anyone who's worked in a potentially charged environment, that's a typical setup for scapegoating. As the lead dog, don't put your team in that position. If your decision comes off as playing-the-executive card, you have failed.

- As a team member, embrace change but make it completely objective. Be open to change, but only as it helps to reach a goal. Evaluate technologies after using them, comparing them, and finding what's good and what's not-so-good. Make your personal productivity the least-influential point of analysis. If you can't find a way to assess something honestly because of your preference for operation, you're doing yourself a disservice. Be productively critical of technical decisions -- your own, and others.
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How does this handle security? Sending data directly into a database from the browser with no application layer sounds a bit scary.
But your first name seems to be Peter, not Charlton!
"High-achieving" is used loosely here. If you define "high achieving" as CEO's and hedge fund managers, there are way more men in that group, but if you define it as "college educated desk-job professional" then at least within the 22-35 cohort, there are more women or it is rapidly becoming the case that there are more women. The graduation ratio for college is almost 60 women for every 40 men these days.
Marissa Mayer is confused.
That's the power of hackernews. Back up with more power :-)
Agree, and to wander further afield: how's your luck running apps? The Google apps work great, I use Opera and some hack to get Flash games to work, but the vast majority of apps just fail to load.

In spite of the problems, it's amazingly fast and usable, esp. compared to Windows/Ubuntu.

running the stable android-x86 on a Samsung NB505
I think this is a very important point. I know a woman who is around 40, attractive, successful, intelligent. Her fiance is a 28 year old man. He's attractive as well, but hes obviously less intelligent than her. As far as I can tell, they make each other extremely happy. They get very strange looks when they're together, much stranger than if the genders were reversed.
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Imagine if more workplaces had a small shower stall one could use after commuting in? Or a bike locker area with secure parking?

I have the luxury of being not only 2.5 miles from my workplace (I ride in daily), but I can bring my carbon fiber race bike into my office and lean it against my desk. I am very lucky.

I've gotten very good at doing a mild cleanup upon arrival at the office if I go for a longer training ride before work: a damp washcloth, reapplication of deodorant, and I'm usually good. I do shower and shave before leaving my house, though, so I am starting things off fresh.
Really interesting blog. I would love to follow it but I don't see an RSS (or atom) feed: did I miss it?
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There are hundreds and hundreds (thousands?) of us with the same issue and Apple has done NOTHING to help.
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I think that might be part of what happened to Trayvon Martin. Walking to the corner store rather than driving was probably what seemed "suspicious".
I don't think you will find the path away from pervasive surveillance in the G10 nations. They all have their own well-equipped secret police.

At some point though, some head of state will calculate that the only way to win is to not play the game, and make policy that defends against all surveillance, because the value of their own surveillance is low enough to do without.
better, I also got it set up with selenium doing a set of tests, my own version of a chaos monkey (a powershell script) that created failing instances, all triggered as part of a TeamCity process.... Too much faff to do it in TFS. The glue code for this is truly horrific, I'm thinking of buying ranerex.

I've not yet linked it up to the build quality (which I want to do) and I'm also thinking of making a more Windows Focused Chaos Monkey OS project. I dislike the idea of testing only that a VM stops. I want to see what happens if I hammer say its CPU with a few higher priority threads. Or simulate insane network latency, or some other networking quirk.

I worry I am only testing against very well behaved nodes disappearance.

Ultimately I'll have a nice little dashboard, which allows me to switch instance between UAT2/PROD, that shows me the available reserve for each environment. I'm toying with making some OWIN extension that allows me to control which components are loaded. For example, we have a 'chat' component, which is obviously not essential. I'd love the idea of automatically failing that. As we add more value add features, certain models and the like which are CPU demanding, these features will not have any uptime guarantee, so I'd like to automatically throttle them, in the case of a catastrophic failure (like a DC loosing connectivity).

I am looking for something 99.999%. I've got three physical separate DC sites, each DC site has 3 or more servers. We could run the entire system on one server, easily.
Thanks! Do you mind opening an issue for the websocket support in GitHub Issues? I'm not sure if there's anything we can do there, but I'm happy to talk about it.
It is a very practical idea. How many times do you want to test an example? With pdf and other formats you could make a copy-paste but many things could go wrong. But the really important improvement is the use of Vagrant and a virtual machine to give an accurate workspace.
> Do we really need more papers on Ancient History, or should we invest the same money in better teaching?

This seems to me like a pretty dim view of the humanities in general. Research in the humanities is not in the same category as research in Computer Science, for example; there is often little to no free-market value. People who enter the humanities tend to do so (at least in my experience) because knowledge for the sake of knowledge is something worth pursuing. Your next company might not make a fortune knowing more about agricultural practices of the ancient Macedonians, or the concept of fatherhood in the music of Robert Schumann, but people doing that research aren't doing it simply "to advance their career," and not necessarily just to teach new people how to research either.

It has traditionally been the function of universities to foster this sort of research, as a general goal of "making the world a better, more knowledgeable place." It's a societal goal that goes way back: people say that humanity was set back something like 1000 years when the library at Alexandria burned down. This type of research doesn't fit neatly into any of your categories, and it is (I think) a more trenchant problem. Disillusioned humanities PhD's often have problems finding work in the "real world," since companies aren't keen on hiring someone who knows everything there is to know about Macedonian agriculture.

-- a fairly disillusioned Ph.D. student in Music Theory
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Not all self-described power users are happy: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2013/10/when-free-co...
Biking is a safe activity –– very safe in fact. Good route selection is a big part of making it part of one's lifestyle.

Sometimes it's nice to have some strength in numbers; can you commute in with a coworker?
9 months and 47 pages of comments without a response from Apple. Amazing.
Some JS is still used, certainly. However you can define the animation steps, timings, recursion, panning, zooming and many other facets purely in SVG/SMIL. When I wrote a financial world map visualization and drill down tool, 95% of the animation logic was in SVG/SMIL. The JS just called start/stop on the various animation elements.
Congrats on JFDI an idea - There is a ton of opportunity in this space as well as competitors. It's been something I have been struggling with as I want a cheap option that lets me take the screenshot (works with flash and lots of javascript) and lets me resize or crop and then place on s3.

What's ur next steps with it? Charge? OpenSource?
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Saying this reinforces the double standard. Why can't he stay home while she wins the bread?
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