skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think demand for development skills is going to continue to increase.

While there does seem to be an increased popularity, there is still a number of people who exit the profession either due to burn-out or retirement.

Anecdotally, in the UK there has been concern for some-time about the number of people retiring from technology positions in the financial sector (people in there 50s due to very generous retirement provisions); industry crunches like this along with 'software eating the world' would suggest to me that the good times will continue for some time.

The word of warning I'd have is more around the economics of VC finance - money is cheap right now, if/when interest rates rise there might be an impact on the amount of money available to start-ups. But it's not like any other industry/profession is going to be unaffected by macro-economic issues.
Show HN: WishBooklet lets you crowdfund wish lists
Vesper Sync Diary #3 - Immutability, Deleting, and Calculated Properties
Apple hides a Patriot-Act-busting "warrant canary" in its transparency report
There's a long history of being able to search google for sites with vulnerabilities or infections if you know what to look for. With a black hat on, alter a busy forum's code to generate a link spreading the infection via google to every domain that commenters mention; a tiny fraction of those will be infected, those will show up later in a search.

That's a bit weak, and might not pick out decent targets. However, visit the forum as a user, mention some specific sites, and hey presto - google infects them for you, while you disappear in the crowd.

Seems a bit airport thriller though. More likely the leaked sqli and google's use of it were accidental.
I would assume Europe shipping times would be more or less the same from China or US.

I guess I was over estimating the amount of sales happening in APAC.
...because single thread is enough for any task!
Are your email address and password in Adobe's hack?
I know, I was gonna say: wise beyond their years.

Anyway, whatever: http://gizmodo.com/5851062/generation-x-is-sick-of-your-bull...
This is one thing I think a lot of young people here (Denmark) don't really realize about their advantages. Yeah, the taxes are higher, but they have no student loans to pay off. (Not to mention: they can start a business without worrying about healthcare premiums.)
From the article:

> This self-limiting process means that Scala will never truly die out; at any point, there are still more people who are new to Scala than people who have been burnt by it, so there’s always a fresh supply of people willing to believe that it can’t happen to them. The same is true of smokers, of course.

If that's not inflammatory for the sake of it I don't know what is.

> And no, 2.10.x and 2.10.y being compatible isn't something to crow about; it should have been the default.

The moving of the of the goalposts isn't helping your case that your not being inflammatory for the sake of it.

Few people are going to state that Scala doesn't have any problems. However, if you want to raise issues about the language, at least argue fairly and don't insult the users and developers of said language in the process.
Between 4G And 3G: What 4G Can Do That 3G Can't
Thank you, I appreciate your feedback.
It was an unfinished idea and just a hint at the potential behind the creator's own idea. I think the problem you mentioned can be solved by putting the sand into a transparent hood ontop of a very thin plate made which all is made out of this meta-material: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmEE-2aJkeo

That meta-material allows sound to pass through, which is perfect to reduce a loss of sensitivity in the visualization. Also you could use something other than sand, that reacts much more intense to any kind of resonance frequency. My idea would be to create lots of fullerenes, each containing elements with different resonance frequencies, mix them up and put them into a closed cage made out of that meta-material. Should be amazing to watch the material form shapes out of your brain waves.

(stumbled over this article, while researching for the material http://www.technologyreview.com/view/421285/mass-can-be-crea... maybe of interest)
According to the Internet $650 in Bangalore is $4700 in Seattle. Thats about what you'd start out at as a programmer in the midwest U.S. but kind of low for west coast. Still, a kid straight out of college with no health problems or baby mamas should be fine.
Edit: wolframalpha seems to have something to say but its kind of confusing: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%24650+in+bangalore+in+...
That tool is good but the problem of Python 2 -> 3 wasn't just syntax incompatibility, but API changes that made many libraries hard to migrate until recent.
char* first_name; int age;

fscanf(fptr, "%s %d", first_name, &age);
printf("Name: %s\nAge: %d\n\n", first_name, age);

Cool usage of uninitialized char* pointer bro.

(Sorry about the snarky tone, I just wanted to use that meme because it's appropriate.)
I don't see how a case-class is different than a non-case-class from a Type perspective? It was my impression it was just sugar around generating copy, equals, accessors, an Extractor and a companion-object.

I don't see how the sugar makes them a fundamentally different kind of Type system?

And Structural Typing is just Reflection I thought. It's still compile time (which is kinda the point). Which again doesn't feel like an alternative Type system.

But I'm not at all versed in Type theory so maybe I'm just mischaracterizing what a Type is...
I want to get paid in bitcoins.

Search results: zero.
There's another part of the article where this vendor is required to open their network to competitors.
Yes, and I remember when I was reading their other title: "Getting Real", and they make a point about being the "anti-MS Project" company. It's like educating people about your convictions by not telling who you are, but who you aren't. Looking at the quote you pulled in, it's clear they are holding the "anti-manager" flag now.
Thank you for your insights. I will look for that interview, but if you could share the link I'd appreciate it.

I can understand reluctance to share too many details, but I can imagine a useful middle ground between detailed and nothing.
Elo scores in different rating pools are not directly comparable at all, only the difference in ratings in the same pool is significant (although generally computer chess rating lists try to make them look reasonably close to the FIDE list).

More big problems in comparing these ratings: intransitivity of chess strength, variation of strength for different time controls, volatility/time variation of human strength, and the much lower statistical significance of human rating lists. There's probably more that don't come to mind.

But anyways, yeah, it's pretty indisputable that computers absolutely massacre humans at chess these days.
Oh, I'm not saying I need driving to disconnect. Just reacting in general to the notion of getting back online asap.
I find it helps to take the unfamiliarly large numbers and convert them back to a human scale.

3.5 million housing units in LA. If you can average $12/month/household you can service your 10% loan on $5B.

Seems doable to me.
I wish I could buy you a beer for this. Well put.
Yeah, I'm not sure there is a large underutilized fleet of cheap, high value vehicles out there.

(High value meaning predictable/reliable/etc, not necessarily sticker price)
I like a lot of what you say, especially about cars and urban development (http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/why-would-you-want-...), but I will note a couple other things:

Police... always always always make things worse

They don't always make things worse, as I discovered when a random guy pounded on my door in the middle of the night and threatened to kill me: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2010/06/21/guy-pounds-on-my-do... . Cops are also caught in a nasty place because of drug laws, which leads me to my next point.

Nobody believes that our vote matters, that the politicians sitting in office will kowtow to anybody...

This is a self-fulfilling prophecy: if you don't vote because you don't believe your vote matters, and others do, then their vote matters and politicians will pander to them, not you. Old people vote en mass; that's a major reason we've having fiscal problems related to Medicare and why those are going to worsen as time goes on. Don't like it? Vote! Convince others to vote. Every election is a potential revolution, which is why we have them.

I voted today, albeit for a mayoral candidate who, according to the polls, is supposed to lose. I've never voted for the two major political parties in presidential elections.

WRT voting more generally, see Bryan Caplan's The Myth of the Rational Voter.
If you get more than 100 upvotes here, you should put this "campaign" on Kickstarter!
IIRC (at least in California) it is illegal to lease a used vehicle - it must be purchased. I don't know what the reason for this is, or if I even remember that correctly but I'm pretty sure its a law because when I purchased my car I checked into this. You can transfer your lease (i.e. swapalease.com), but in order to do it legally the swapper typically has to have their credit approved and fill out paperwork for the dealership. Another factor is that most sellers won't be interested in leasing a used vehicle because there is so little financial incentive -- leasing distributes that value of the car over a period of time and based on mileage used -- if a used car is only worth (say) $5-10k, it couldn't be leased for very much.
Facebook Wants To Track Your Mouse Cursor
One fairly widely reported influence is that women are less likely to request raises (or promotions) and less likely to negotiate salaries on an initial job offer. One hypothesis for why this is so is that women who ask for things are seen as pushy/demanding whereas men who ask for things are seen as go-getters, not sure what the research on that is like at the moment.

However I also remember reading a study that showed people reading a resume with a female name proposed a lower salary offer in the first place (academics in math, I believe). So, all of the above?
Silicon Valley salaries are way higher than that. 200k salaries seems to be coming back.
30 year old, borderline Y here. OP's points #4, 5, 9, 10 and 12 really nail it for me. I think I've driven, maybe, 6 months out of my life. Bikes, carpools and the bus have so far worked out. From the Oregon Coast to Southwest Idaho... I've never wanted to own a car or even really drive for that matter. I'm glad there might be more people like me out there.

Full disclosure: I wouldn't mind an '83 cutty, however.
Maybe it's because they were nearly ubiquitous in the middle-class part of suburban Houston I grew up in, but even though lots of people hard cars, I somehow didn't really associate any status with them. Someone always had a car, and if you didn't, someone would pick you up. Nobody except rich kids owned their own cars, so you weren't driving anything particularly interesting anyway, just your mom's station wagon. As long as one person in your circle of friends had use of a car for the day/evening, they could pick everyone up, and it served the utilitarian purpose of covering the long-ass distances between stuff, which were impractical to bike or walk (and of course there was no public transport).
Minecraft Creator Markus Persson Set for CBS's CRAIG FERGUSON, 11/7
considers the world far too precarious to start a family

By virtually every metric, the world is a much safer, healthier place than it used to be: http://www.amazon.com/The-Better-Angels-Our-Nature/dp/014312... .
If anyone has a link, that'd be helpful. Start in a state without such regulations. Or just ignore them until you're big enough to matter to regulators.
If I want the "freedom feeling" of the open road and the wind in my hair, I'll get a moped or motorcycle, and ride it in some backwoods location where joyriding doesn't actually mean getting hit by an irritated commuter.
usually RFPs of this nature are published for due diligence purposes when someone already has a plan ready to go and they need it to not look like a slam-dunk selection process.

i wouldn't put too much stock in it.
I tinker and play with Linux all the time, on servers and VMs. Saying that "you don't love open source enough to use an open source OS" implies to me that OSS is intrinsically better and preferable to non-OSS, even if a closed-source alternative would be better for your personal needs. That strikes me as fairly dogmatic (although it's very possible I misread the original intent).

I personally use OS X as my desktop OS because it suits my needs, despite contributing regularly to open source. I agree completely that there are many non-'fanatical' reasons to prefer Linux as a desktop OS.
The article is about an attacker using Google's behaviour as a form of indirection. The attacker can't be traced directly by the vulnerable site if he carried out the attack simply by triggering Google's crawler.
Boomers didn't enact Medicare or Social Security. Basic housing is still very much in reach; nobody is entitled to live in McMansions in high-value neighborhoods. But "basic housing" is certainly available and FHA loans should cover their purchase.
Wondering how effective this is for getting a competitor website to block for example the google crawler. Maybe that's the motive.
When "frugal", "thrifty" and "prudent" became dirty words.
Does anyone know if by using BitTorrent sync, my internet connection will start to be used by other strangers as an intermediary node (to help them traverse firewalls?)
Everpix is closing down
It's actually the $0.09 growth engine, but still, very impressive.
Doing Business 2014: Understanding Regulations for SMEs
Picking up where you left off
There is one major difference between Dart and CoffeeScript: The Angular team didn't have to take a 3 month holiday to make Angular work with CoffeeScript. If Dart was just another compile-to-JS language, then they wouldn't have to bother at all.

Yet, CoffeeScript is not just a different syntax - for one, it changes declarations and scoping rules. That's a pretty big semantic change (comparison operators etc. follow).
>Our parents set our city planning up for failure.

The primary reason for anti-walkability is to keep "riff-raff" out of the nice suburbs. The white flight from the cities in the 60s and 70s was a huge event in American urban planning and those whites who wound up in the suburbs don't want any of that inner-city stuff they got away from downtown from mucking up their suburb. It's horrible but it's the truth. It's one of those awful little secrets of the polite suburbs, like why people get divorced, that everybody knows about but nobody wants to talk about.
Rationally questioning your own views first? Obviously that's a rare quality in the population or we wouldn't be in the messes you outlined above.
"What, like statistical evidence? No. I don't have statistical evidence that my car is parked outside either, but I'll still take a chance on it by walking to the spot where I left it earlier."

No, but you do have evidence by just being able to go outside and observe your car. You're not operating without reason when you go back to where you left it earlier.

Your reply is written in a very condescending way. You should know that.
Good point! I gotta admit, I am totally biased :)

However, I'd like to point out that we are not at all a recruitment agency, but rather a community of awesome freelancers. We do curate the talent to make sure you only get the best, but we are certainly not recruiters.

The goal is to allow any great freelancer to setup their own shop online without much upfront work. We support them by building tool that ensure security, timely payment, accurate project management and so forth.

:)
e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=monsanto+india+suicide

The base problem is: Once your neighbor starts to use Monanto and round up, the ground water and soil is poisoned and you need to grow resistant crops also. Using Frankenfood crops means that you can no longer grow your own seeds. You have to buy the expensive seeds, the expensive herbicides, and you end up in debt and poverty.

You can also no longer do classical crop rotation, once you start poisoning your field with roundup. The result is a monoculture that calls for even more fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides.

This is not limited to Frankenfood, but also to hybrid plants. So we come back to food laws, who only allow to sell crops of certain strains. Those strains that are sold by big seed companies.
And that Quora thread was already posted on HN a number of times over the last few days:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=workin...
I'm a little surprised to see such a differentiation between salaries for Software Engineers and Software Developers. I've always treated the two as synonyms.
Completely inaccurate back-of-the-napkin calculations:

- There are about 1 million households in LA (3M+ population but 3 people per household in LA County)[1]

- Assuming the vendor got 75% sign-up for the free tier, that's 750K households

- I'll give them a generous freemium-to-paid conversion rate of 10% (sorry but 5Mbs is fine for many people). That's 75K households.

- I'll be generous and say that most paid households will get some kind of bundle and pay $150/month

MONTHLY HOUSEHOLD REVENUE: $11,250,000

- There are 250K non-farm businesses in LA County. I'm not sure how many are in the city limits, but let's say 25K buy a paid. Since we know ISPs love to gouge offices with higher prices for the same service, let's say they get $250/mo from each business.

MONTHLY BIZ REVENUE: $6,250,000

- Quick search puts Comcast's ad revenue is about 4% of total (Charter is 5%). So I'll throw in an extra $1M/MO in ad revenue from this deal, which I think is generous.

TOTAL: $18.5M/MO

TIME TO RECOUP $5B: 270 Months (22.5 years)

[1]http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/06037.html

EDIT: Updated with ad revenue numbers
Good for Dart users. And competition is healthy.

Javascript needs some challenge, just like Flash forced HTML to evolve.

So this is a good thing. Congratulations. And devs should know this, nothing is set in stone on the web.
This seems like a good way to work around the issue for now. Good on Apple indeed.

Obviously, this is also going to be an escalating game, where the law is changed to accomodate for squelching reports like this, and the players will likewise adapt...
> They don't get variance right. Do you know what variance is? You ignored that part of my comment.

This can't be stated enough, and it's a huge problem in Java and C#. Unfortunately, most programmers don't care and simply continue to write broken code.
Why is this doomed? I'm from telecom land and this is how it is always done...

The fact that LA is soliciting bids might mean that they provide easements on the entry rights (which are the main thing that prevent rollouts of this nature). The common carriage clause is great and is actually the only way to build networks like this if you want competition. I don't know if you know this, but Fiber is not subject to common carriage laws like Copper and thus the only way to have shared fiber networks is with regulation or commercial interest (with the latter being unsurprisingly limited to the old boys club).

In short, this is actually the way to build a fiber network if you want competition. Alternatively, raise a bond and build it yourself.

Source: I rolled out a fair amount of fiber for Comcast in San Francisco. Each square foot of street we tore up was about $300 and crossing a cable car track was prohibitively expensive. These costs were the main limitations in fiber optic rollouts (pushing the payback period on buildings over 30 years made them unbuildable). In fact, the main advantage Google Fiber got in Kansas City (which was arguably unfair and anti-competitive) was easing of street cutting costs.

edit: grammar.
"I don't know why this is getting so much media attention as if it's some new innovative concept."

Well for one thing a fancy web 2.0 site [1] and airbnb is filled with pictures of hip looking people and the same place on airbnb just looks better than it would on homeaway. Everything about it (presentation wise) is nicer. Things like that shouldn't matter but they do matter to people. More or less puts a halo around the property being offered.

Right now, looking on the homepage at airbnb I see "New York, London, Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, Tokyo" even those city names (in the mind of a browser) will add value. (The halo of those names. Similar to how a watch company wants to hire a famous golfer etc.)

[1] Which even I will have to agree gives a better experience or shine to the whole process.
Safer? Yes. Healthier? Yes. Stable? No. Between income/job volatility and lack of proper social safety nets (at least in the US), its a dangerous gamble to start a family unless you're in the right situation.
Unity and Gnome3 drove me to xubuntu. Really happy I made the switch.
team up with Survata to gather data and publish a blog
A route to this would be providing an FFI for loadable modules that provide custom procedures or functions.

Folks that wanted to could then write Python/Numpy code for these and use Numba+LLVM to compile them.

It could be quite performant and avoid having to marshal data or do IPC, could possibly avoid even copying data in some cases (Numpy/Numba have pretty robust support for structures coming over an FFI, not sure about FFI in Go.)
TIFF is a great example of how a terrible specification can lead to endless security vulnerabilities in parsers.

http://secunia.com/advisories/search/?adv_search=1&s=1&searc...
> This is false, you were misinformed.

If I'm wrong, I apologize. I am not familiar with any concurrent data structures in a pure functional language, but I'd love to learn of any. I have not encountered a data structure in a functional language that supports more than one concurrent writer (and I don't mean parallel construction of an immutable DS - that's trivial – but concurrent mutation, like in a concurrent B-Tree, concurrent skip-list, or concurrent hash map).
I'm sure it does, but they don't have a problem assigning other required classes, such as a one-hour-a-week communication of science class. One hour a week for a year is enough to cover a lot of material.
I am going to tackle this, from a coders point of view, you can very quickly see if someone is any good. Or a designer, sysad, most other things.

But MBA are like economists, they all have different ideas on how to advance, and it is very hard to actually hard to test them, takes a long time to see if they were actually correct, if they fail they have a good reason, and it all sounds like something you could have worked out anyway.
Then a hipster is a leftist with weird clothes?
Spectacular own goal by Mackenzie Bezos,Brad could not pay for publicity like this.
Amazon is interesting as it is the best pure "business" of all the internet giants,nothing truly revolutionary but incredible scale and logistics.Im curious of the human cost accumulated on the way to this.
In my experience, Cable/Telco companies don't build fiber networks with greater than 15 year payback, with 30 being the hard cap. I think your math is fairly accurate.

Source: See my other comment, I did fiber rollouts with telcos including Comcast in the Bay Area.
One possible explanation for why Gen Y and younger aren't interested in buying cars is that the smartphone has replaced what the car once was: The primary tool for social interaction & experiencing the world.
Allow me to correct myself: s/overpopulation/high birth rates/g

Look at a map showing the countries with the highest birth rates, and overlay it with a map showing the countries with the highest rates of hunger. You won't find a lot of difference between the two.
Other social networks solve that "problem", by just filling the old posts with "deleted content" and replace the username with "Deleted user".
Is this the same class of exploits that affected image drawing on Windows a while back? (GDI?)