skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here we go again. We've got companies building skytowers using the steel and concrete we fund with bake sales. Our most important open source projects are dependent on corporate philanthropy that can disappear overnight.

We can debate the merits of RVM/chruby/rbenv yet all agree that open source version management projects are essential infrastructure for Ruby. Sure, we're grateful that EY funded RVM (and other projects) for so long. But what now?

I contributed $50 to the RVM Bountysource campaign.But a one-shot charitable fundraiser is a slim reed on which to sustain a project like this. Tens of thousands of developers use RVM. And the companies they work for spend millions to develop businesses that could not be be built without the infrastructure provided by open source projects such as RVM. It's skytowers funded by bake sales.
Something funny happened to me when I went to that link. On the side panel, right near the top was a video titled "The Power of Smalltalk". I clicked that to see what it was about - it was about real "small talk", as in "chit chat" :)

AI ftw!
I have couple of websites. The first one[0] is done with basic Bootstrap. Second[1], I bought BootStrap theme from WrapBootStrap and reducing it to my needs.

Apart from this, the main issue is designing logos and graphics. Eventhough it takes time, I somehow do it myself(with GIMP) and enjoy it as well :)

[0] http://www.computeloops.com
[1] http://www.remotewaker.com
If a bank gains extra money in the vault, won't it lower the interest rate it's offering on loans to try to attract a credit worthy borrower so the money isn't just sitting there?
Jarvis Corp.
Attachments.me shutting down its Gmail file sharing service on November 11
They're still allowing you to access it via adwords (which is very much an auction system).

They also have extended analytics for the nice clean price of 150k/year - http://www.google.com/analytics/premium/
The Endangered Double Irish Could Make Apple, Google, And Twitter Pay More Taxes
I had read that ~$300 investments may become mainstream; with such an investment, the investor is probably hoping for an equivalent outcome.
Wow, talk about a mono-culture. I just checked some of their photos and it seems they are male-dominated, 90% white, 10% oriental-asian with an average age of 25.

They even dress alike lol

Is this common with Silicon Valley startups?
Bitcoins are not backed by anything. This is clearly stated here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ

In short being backed by something means you can convert it into that. So money that is backed by gold can be traded in for an amount of gold. Bitcoins are not backed by math or computer cycles or anything else because they cannot be traded in for it.

So while you can sort of turn electricity or computer cycles into Bitcoins you cannot turn bitcoins into electricity or computer cycles and so you can't say that bitcoins are backed by either.

Edit: it's worth noting that the US dollar is also not backed by anything however.
> There is no central bank.

OK, let's suppose for some reason there is a sudden inflation of the US dollar...

Please, asveikau, can you explain a single precise example of what the "central bank" can do to help in this case that causes a net improvement?

Will they invent an "un-printing press"? Will they get people to turn in the excess dollars by exchanging them with gold? Please, asveikau, explain what it is that a central bank can do in this situation that justifies its existence.
You have to make a distinction between the intensional and extensional domain. Real numbers are merely infinite decimal expansions, where "infinite" is a convenience term (semantically no different from "really big").

I believe the mantra is "π is a rule, not a thing".
From Wikipedia, Vermont is 98.12% white. Many statistics correlate with demographics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont#Race_and_gender
I think most of us don't have budgets for hiring designers for side projects, because they are just side projects which may not merit spending more money on design, as a lot of hackers do know the very basics of design. If it does grow out of the side project phase and is actually showing potential to generate some serious cash flow, then more money is spent on proper design.
Oh. Right. Whoops. Thanks.
Another MUD lover here; I have a full JS MUD (WebSockets) engine I hack on from time to time for fun. Generally speaking its modeled after a flavor of diku.

I have another big commit planned with some significant refactoring but was holding off for nodejitsu to update their supported node version (you can try an early version of the mud with the link on the github page) and for socket.io to move to 1.0.

See: https://github.com/MoreOutput/RockMUD
I know UI Design and a just a little bit of backend. My sideprojects are always more about design and less about technical part, however whatever little technical part it requires, it gives me enough to learn something new.

For http://typezebra.com/ I learnt a bit of Javascript while for https://bootmystrap.com/ I learnt to design websites properly using LESS CSS.

The way I keep myself motivated to finish sideprojects is that most of the part is right up my alley, design which gives me confidence I can finish it.
I wanted to make things. First I wanted my own web page; so I learned HTML. Then I wanted to make AIM robots, so I learned perl. First I modified the source of programs that already worked, then I read the Llama which magically filled in all the blanks (oh, that's why that keyword is repeated all over!) Then I wanted to make Facebook apps, so I learned PHP. Then I wanted to get a job, so I learned ruby, CSS and JavaScript.

I also went to ACE computer camp where I built crappy versions of Tic Tac Toe in BASIC and completed numerous factorial exercises.
I think it just depends what you're looking for. React is fairly self-contained and only attempts to provide the view layer, not the model or controller (or however you choose to structure your code). Frankly, that's one of the biggest reasons that we are able to use it at KA: it's easy to adopt into an existing codebase and you can use it alongside whichever libraries you're already using.

Ember and Angular both try to own the entire (frontend) stack, which can work well but usually only if you're building a new app from scratch. In fact, there's been some brief discussion in the React IRC channel about possibly making an easy way to use React views instead of Handlebars inside an Ember app.

Angular has its own share of problems. As I write this, "Things that suck in AngularJS" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6630156) is on top of the front page of HN. Earlier this summer, I tried learning Angular and gave up because it seemed too hard and I couldn't wrap my head around it properly. Maybe that means I'm too stupid, but it also speaks to the value of creating small, reusable libraries. Angular inundates you with new concepts and confusing vocabulary (e.g., transclusion) and makes it hard to write "directives" (their reusable components), while React's bread and butter is making reusable components and because it's so focused, it does it well.
Depends on the build speed. It could "print in" holes into the wall and use a scissor action ... but I don't think that would work. You want the whole concrete/ferro cement to setup at once. An overhead cement pump and a much smaller more precise placement head/nozzle would probably be a better choice. Anything you can reuse from existing construction tech the cheaper.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_pump
Motorola Ara - Open modular hardware platform
That's a silly definition of "backing" in my opinion. By the definition that backing means "you can convert it into something," what is gold backed by? It's backed by... gold? That doesn't mean anything.

Bitcoins, by the way, can easily be converted into computation and energy. The simplest and most obvious way to do that would be Bitcions->USD->AmazonEC2. Of course there's a billion other ways to convert Bitcoins into useful things, just like gold, because they're simply a store of value with little use for other purposes.

[EDIT] Feel free to refute my argument rather than downvoting me.
haha that isn't what I meant, I was pointing to it not being a systemic issue with older iPhones... however if what @hrrsn says is true then it does sound like it is a big issue. I wonder if there are any specifics that lead to the wifi issue, like a certain batch of devices.
It depends on how many people land on that page. If you have 100 visitors a day and you have 10 sign-ups a day, that's an awesome conversion rate and probably a sign you can consider your idea validated.

Or you can approach it the other way around. If you have 1000 emails and you expect to convert 5% of them for a $20 product, you know you'll earn $1000 from your current audience, and can plan from there whether or not that's enough to justify working on a project.

Those are all random numbers obviously, but you get the idea.
Not currently. Our frontend testing is extremely sparse at the moment. (We're working on making it better.)

That said, React components are naturally small and reusable and so should lend themselves nicely to unit testing. Even though I don't think it's particularly limiting now, more robust infrastructure to support testing is a future goal for the React team.
I think it would be exactly like programming if piracy was legal.
I have a 15" MBP and I run it at 2880x1800 (not in HiDPI mode) by using RetinaDisplayMenu. I've been working without an external monitor like this for ~6 months now.
Form in cable runs in the floor and walls (use modular extension style cables for all the wiring). Let the "customer" run that stuff. Have voids in the ceiling for light pipes that also store solar energy for light at night. There are tons of solutions to these problems. We need some mid-size prototypes (10x10 size) and some playtime.
People don't work on a "real" project -- meaning a project that will be shipped into production -- so IP assignment is not an issue.

The project people work on is dependent on their role (front-end, back-end, etc). It is meant to be representative of their full-time job and is a standardized project so that we can objectively compare across candidates.
I don't think the point of central banking is to move away from shiny things stored in vaults. I think the point of central banking is to consolidate macroeconomic power in the central bank, so as to e.g. promote growth of the nominal GDP by maintaining a so-called healthy rate of inflation.

And, as I mentioned in a cousin comment, I think the whole definition of backing is just silly. Bitcoin is backed by trust in math and computation, but gold and the USD are backed by trust in people and government respectively. Gold is trusted since it's been in use for thousands of years and is widely used as a store of value. The USD is trusted because the US government has been relatively stable (and powerful) for a while now.
I have no expertise here, but I wonder if the Alzheimer's rate in Washington and North Dakota reflect differences is how deaths are classified.
This is why minimalism became so popular as a design solution.
Adobe Breach Impacted at Least 38 Million Users
inb4 the thread gets nuked by apple :(
Or to put it another way, CSS makes me scratch my head sometimes.
I can understand the developer why they cancelled the project. This is a game only hackers would like. The big question is still, how to learn programming like it would be a game. The best example in my opinion is the game spacechem in my opinion. http://www.spacechemthegame.com/
The 780m is a huge power draw. It's basically a minorly downclocked GTX 680, with all of the performance (and heat) that implies. It's estimated to draw 122W at maximum, for crying out loud! It probably won't be fitting in a .7" laptop anytime soon.

Aside from that... This laptop isn't intended for gaming. Honestly, I'd think that if Intel HD graphics can drive an rMBP display, then the 750m will suffice for this. Though I would love to see QHD+ come to some of the gaming laptop lines...
Goodbye Sticky. Hello Ara
"Governments only have sanction to enforce the law."

Hobbes would disagree [1]. The Sovereign's mandate via the social contract is to maintain peace by absolute means. It is not bound by law only duty.

[1] if he was not dead.
You could be right. Indeed, were I to lay money down, it'd be on the side of fewer chases. But there are public safety concerns on either side of this, so just citing "public safety" doesn't cut it.

However, the fact that you're citing reality TV as evidence definitely isn't helping your case.
I think that what you're seeing is the effect of design coherency on a product. You are generally far better off having one barely-trained designer put together a product than a dozen best-of-class designers. Why? Because a product designed by one inexperienced person will at least be consistent. They have their overall vision of what they want to achieve, and they can make trade-offs appropriately.

When you have dozens of designers that all want to leave their mark on the product, you end up with...dozens of features, none of which fit together quite right. Google is in that state right now. Microsoft is in a far worse state, where you have hundreds of PMs that each want to display their button as prominently as possible. This is what people make fun of as "design by committee".

Until 2010, Marissa was the sole gatekeeper of what could go onto the search results page. The result was that it was at least consistent, if minimalist and relatively unchanging. The other result was that she pissed off a whole bunch of other people by saying "no", brought Search to a virtual logjam, and made numerous talented people quit. That's the price of design consistency and a highly usable product for users; everyone who's not calling the shots ends up pretty disenchanted, and usually finds greener pastures. Steve Jobs played an analogous role at Apple Computer - it worked great while he was alive, but now there is a design vacuum that you're starting to see in their later products.

BTW, if you want to see what some of Google's design talent can do when freed from committees, check out the Doodles. In general there is just one artist responsible for each individual doodle, and it shows. (Some of the interactive ones have multiple people involved, but even then it's a small team with a single creative lead.) And the doodles generally have a reputation as being one of the most delightful parts of the site.
The mic/speaker assembly are in the middle of the window
but the window has substantial size relative to the
dimensions of the room and the distance the listener is
from the device.

For what it's worth, the pictures in the article show a series of rings around the device that significantly increase its surface area, a component that is not present on the device in the video.
Maybe racism is not yet over..
Is this going to be made available on play store? Installing it and keeping it updated would be much easier :\
Well maybe you could post the stats from "everyone country"? And maybe the study controlling for the factors that make the US different? Hard data would help.
Central banks have already invented the un-printing press, and it is perfectly possible for them to intentionally deflate a currency (vastly if desired) through the use of OMOs and also simply by increasing the fractional reserve requirements for other banks. This is totally normal and non-theoretical central banking stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_market_operation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_reserve_banking
Significant parts of the Ads management front ends are written in GWT, but Closure rules the consumer facing front ends.
Wasn't Mavericks supposed to improve battery life?
The main way people exchange mouth bacteria is through dating

This is not correct. During birth, babies are exposed to their mother's vaginal fluid which then transfers bacteria into the baby's mouth. This transfer introduces a nice bacterial balance and makes it more difficult for a single species of bacteria to monopolize the mouth and digestive system. This exchange doesn't occur when babies are born via C-section, so doctors usually swab some of the mothers vaginal fluid in the baby's mouth so he will also have a healthy balance of bacteria.

See here for more info

http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/06/22/babys-firs...
"И — боже вас сохрани — не читайте до обеда советских газет..."
In the context of currency, "backing" is typically understood to be referring to guarantees, typically by a government or bank, such as the gold standard: "ensuring" value by "guaranteeing" some conversion rate to something else, especially something else considered to have some "intrinsic" value, to stabilize the value of the currency.

This is of course a fuzzy line. And you're right, there are other definitions of "backing" which render it a meaningless term. But the distinction is a useful one for discussing these matters, so what terminology would you prefer instead?
This, and TextMate 1 plugin incompatibility, is why I have deferred my upgrade.
HIV correlates with sexual activity, which seems likely to have a negative correlation with suicide. People who are getting laid are happier.
Once upon a time, I was working lots of all-nighters and really busting my gut. Yet my boss was getting angry at me for no reason. Wtf? So eventually I sat him down and asked if there was a problem. Turns out he was tracking the wrong user when monitoring my after hours data, and he thought I was lying about my overtime. He was fuming and thinking about firing me.

Oh, you say. But he was just misusing the data! He should have collected more or different data! Look, the takeaway is that many managers will use this kind of data as a crutch, not a supplement. The employees will suffer and the biz will lose good staff. How about treating your staff like fucking adults, and if they are hitting the agreed delivery milestones, save your whip for the bedroom?

The most effective management system I have used was at Yahoo. You would fill in a daily and weekly TODO list on a wiki page, and the deltas were automatically emailed to your PM. Simple, respectful and effective.
Motorola reveals ambitious plan to build modular smartphones
So You Want To Start A Start-Up? That's Mistake #1
replace "writer" with founder

http://www.ryanholiday.net/so-you-want-to-be-a-writer-thats-mistake-1/
You can download OneNote and use it free for 30 days. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/try/
How does mortality data account for age? Given heart disease, cancer, and respiratory diseases were the top three causes of death in 2010, if in 2060 the average life span were 10 years longer, isn't it likely that these three things would still be the leading cause of death? The geographic distribution is interesting, but it seems to me that to breaking it down by age group would be more informative.
Wouldn't the result would be as smooth as the FFT's window function?
In my experience I've been teaching to friends over lunch. I think as an analogy it's like jQuery - it's easy to learn the basics and actually do useful start within a short time, but I you want to go for the deep end there is a really deep end.
Gorilla - Bruno Mars VOCALS/BEATBOX/PIANO/GUITAR MIX
Gorilla by Bruno Mars recorded with only VOICE/BEATBOX/PIANO/GUTIAR MIX
Mavericks was all about performance I thought. Could be a bug they will fix in an update.
40% of babies use a mobile device before they can even speak full sentences
From Brad Feld regarding contractors (see #3):

1. Shut down everything including taking all the existing sites offline.

2. Set a new launch date of July 14, 2014.

3. Fire all of the contractors.

4. Hire Harper Reed as CTO of Healthcare.gov, give him the ball and 100% of the budget, and let him run with it.

http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2013/10/how-to-fix-obamacare...
Ara, an open hardware project to create customizable smartphones
Once I heard Marissa Mayer recount that she asked Sergey Brin where he got the idea of doing such a minimalist design for Google. Sergey's answer was: I don't do HTML.
SassyLists
WikiLeaks launches site for Edward Snowden's legal defense
Agreed 100%. This is a murderously difficult problem, so claims of miracles need to be received with some skepticism.
Kid Hacks Government Websites In Exchange For Video Games
Here's a snapshot, just in case: http://archive.is/B9g9D
NSA Security Configuration Guides
I do not understand the rhyme or reason behind why people vote some answers but not others, but I always upvote questions I have also had, and answers that solve my problem. It's possible the post you link hits some magic combination of commonly-searched-for terms used by some of the zillions of programmers each day, many of whom have SO accounts.
I've been thinking about making the code I wrapped around gae-boilerplate on http://stackgeek.com and http://tinyprobe.com a bit more modular to make it easy to get something running quick. The code comes with Oauth logins, blogging with Gists, and Bootstrap templates. If anyone's interested in the code, it's on Github: https://github.com/StackGeek/stackgeek-gaeb.
For when the censorship kicks in: https://mega.co.nz/#!a8RwCB7D!dOj9HAyof01vALrVKnZ9wQlrhdscc_...
we're developing a website for non-designers who have built or maintain websites

the basic idea is to get a quick review of your website from an expert designer. They'll give you tips on what they would fix if it was their website.

if anyone has a website they'd like an expert designer to take a quick-ish look at and give you feedback please see my thread here (note: its FREE whilst we get it going):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6621909
While I did not learn programming this way [1], I highly recommend the following book to beginners of programming:

"Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs" by Niklaus Wirth: http://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Structures-Prentice-Hall-Au...

While example programs are in Pascal programming language (that the author created), it is still a very well written book that teaches how to connect real world problems to programming from a beginner's standpoint. It assumes the least out of the reader of nearly all programming books I know of. Check out the reviews at Amazon.

[1] My story: I started programming at the age of 11 when my father gifted me a computer, and its manual. That manual was so concise and precise that I learned something new from it each time I read it. It ended with a chapter on writing machine code, which led me to write short programs in machine code straight by age 15!
Man, Apple's had a real string of dog products lately. My 5s has crashed a couple times and I've only had it for 2 weeks. Prior to this I'd never had an issue with the 4. Can't wait to see how poorly the MBP fares.
Human JavaScript available for Kindle
Can't you fix that with RVM?
your family or your job?

they made it too easy, who chooses job?
Modern laptops occasionally have lots of add-on hardware that requires the OEM's software to work (3G modem, webcam, thumbreader, occasionally wifi, etc).

That might be fine if you're buying a Dell. They're easy to get drivers from. (Though, who else has had to deal with those handful of Dells that required a custom Dell build of the Intel PROSet/Wireless software to work? -.-)

But if you bought an ASUS? With the Impossible Website From Hell? HELL NO! Anyone who has had to download a driver or firmware update from their sites will tell you just how unpleasant the experience is (if they can even do it). I swear their webserver's connection to the outside world is a 14.4 modem.

Running a non-ADK/OPK'd Windows install on a modern laptop reminds me a lot of running Linux on a laptop or OEM desktop 15-20 years ago. Hey, anyone remember how fun winmodems were?

It's just not worth the risk. For me, laptops without Apple branding haven't been a sensible choice in a long time, and there was a good half-decade before that where the only serious manufacturer made ThinkPads.