skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry for the poor phrasing, maybe you've misunderstood: I've mentioned that I'm interested, am fond of it, and have learned how it works. Not sure what excuses you're talking about.

OTOH, for when I'm not writing a browser, a HFTs, or the next-gen video game engine, the trade offs are increasingly not worth it. On top of that we don't have Amigas to have fun with anymore and stay close to the hardware on (I guess maybe Raspberry Pi qualifies as some sort of substitute) and so that particular brand of hacker, a small group to begin with, keeps on shrinking. That's what I meant by missing out.
I want this data, but I want it to live on my server, not Google's
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They've likely been committing to a private repository and only recently made the source publicly available on GitHub.
Seeing Peter Norvig congratulate him in the status gave me chills. Great times to be living around these titans indeed.
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=skryshtafovych
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Angular-pickadate
I've used this to buy tickets and it was an incredibly easy process. Really, buying anything with Bitcoin is pleasurable experience... even simply to not be beholden to any bank to send money is amazing.
The secret is to not own a car.
>until the energy costs of desalination are low enough.

Really? You think desalination is the ultimate goal? I much prefer free, ecosystem-provided desalination (aka rooftop rain-water harvesting).

As for agricultural water use, I highly suggest picking up a copy of P.A. Yeoman's classic Water For Every Farm. It details how proper runoff management, evaporation control, and correctly-scaled earthworks can provide reliable water availability with near-zero energy inputs [other than the sun, of course].

As for dams, it's not as simple as "all dams are bad". Oversized dams that are out of scale with the local hydrology are the problem.

But, I guess some people would prefer to re-invent the Earth's water cycle!
> Either they can increase supply, or they can decrease the number of high-end bidders somehow by making the city less desirable somehow.

Another option (which the city pursues) is regulations like rent control, affordable housing, etc.
The default used to be the bottom option which allows all apps. Then Apple switched it to App Store and Publishers that paid Apple $99 with the introduction of Gatekeeper. They'll switch it to App Store only by default soon enough.

I'd wager that when Apple switches it to Mac App Store only by default, lots of open source developers will simply give up on Macs. I was planning on developing for Mac myself. Even bought a second hand Macbook to fire things up. But the way Apple works, I just don't trust that it'll be viable in a couple years. Given Apple's arbitrary application of rules in the iOS ecosystem, I have a dim view of the Mac's future in terms of openness. I decided instead to continue to focus on Windows and expand into *nix and Android.
But that's not STEM so it must not be valuable or worth supporting. /s
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Will "great things" be "better ads"? Or maybe something worth while...
It's hard to criticise technology advances that are largely still lab-based. The number of people familiar with nascent technologies like carbon nanostructure surfaces for battery boosts, for instance, is very small and the reasons for skepticism very technical and difficult to make a casual reader care about - sometimes you can summarize, sometimes it would take 500 words to even explain the basis of.

Technologies like this are the bread and butter of TR - exercising skepticism is one thing, but if journalists were capable of finding flaws in years-off tech like this, they would be experts in that field, not journalists. We have to give some level of credence to the reports of the people in the labs, writing university research press releases, and so on.

How many software startups have been breathlessly and noncritically paraphrased by almost every single tech and media outlet in the last decade, and how many turned out sour or "pivoted" within two years of those articles? It's not just 10-years-off science that's vulnerable to this, but I would say it's more forgivable in this subject than in something like reporting on web services and social networks.
The Android implementation is probably smoother but both Google location sharing and history still exist on iOS via Google Now and Google+. I'm not sure about the third-party situation, though.
"The reason for all the vitriol is that he wasn't suitably enthusiastic -- he didn't pay all the required lip service, he isn't perceived to feel people's pain."

I agree. He's a strong leader who didn't start doing everything "for the poor" and instead focused on making the city strong and beating back the criminal element that ruined it.

That's never popular with the self-pity/white knighting crowd (who seem to have discovered HN, alas).
Thanks for the pointer. Is there any comparison with C/C++ I/O in various operating systems?

Note, that unlike Hadoop, original Google's map reduce system was written in C++.
Samsung Introduces Industry's First 1TB mSATA SSD
It can really do a whole lot special with Add to Homescreen as Chrome is running Mobile Safari underneath (the hobbled version for 3rd party browsers) and can't really interact with the OS as much as it can on Android.
I worked in a grocery store at 16 bagging groceries/pushing carts. My first job was working in the family restaurant at 13 for a few years washing dishes. I enjoyed the work, it gave me time to think. I definitely did not want to work these type of jobs for the rest of my life. I see this being the reason my grandmother pushed me to work at these places. It was not mentally challenging but physically challenging at times. In the summer it could get 100 degrees and pushing carts across hot pavement I thought my shoes were going to melt. While bagging groceries, I picked up how to use the register by just watching and also learned a lot product codes. The only one I remember now is Banana - 4011 only useful at Safeway self check out. I would take over a register when we got real busy. All this I can see now helped me vision my future and I thank my grandmother for the kick in the ass.
One thing I never understand about the bait and switch is how employees don't get everything in writing :(
No code left behind...
Can Obama call every doctor or scientist or pharmacist to find cancer cure? Technology has gone too far, medicine and pharmacy are not moving forward. I really appreciate Obama's speech.. but why there aren't any initiatives in other fields...
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A company is not a living being. There is a person driving the bus. His boss who told him to park in the middle of traffic is a person. And so on all the way up the hierarchy of bosses and stakeholders.

We should expect civility from people even if they are acting from behind the shield of incorporation.

Regulation is ok, but its not the best. Ideally we could talk face to face with some humans and ask if they realize the consequences of their decisions.

But I understand this isnt the way things work.
Really changes the phrase 'those who can't do teach'.
Please don't upvote a 2 week old article, and especially one with little actual content other than a "rah rah Bitcoin!" message.
I don't believe this works standalone with a TV. It needs an app running on your computer from the looks of it. I'm still waiting for an HDMI pass-through version myself.
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In the US, meeting the foreign language requirement doesn't require actually learning a foreign language. I know many people who took the obligatory college prep Spanish who can't respond to "Buenos días." This is a better argument for improving foreign language education, though, than replacing it with computer language education. And, frankly, if the latter were taught as poorly as the former, it wouldn't be worth the trouble.
Are you using unicode handling?
draconian zoning laws and absolute stubborn against new development is, ironically, causing a vicious cycle that's driving up the price and increasing the rate of "gentrification" of the city.

You can't fight the changing time by stubborning holding onto what you are used to in the past, because in the end, as long as this remains a free country where people can live wherever, the rule of supply vs demand always wins.
That was my original suggestion (awaiting moderation):-

head -35185221 infile.xml > tmp.xml
echo "<load address=’11c1385b’ size=’08’ />" >> tmp.xml
tail -n +35185223 infile.xml >> tmp.xml
> It is irrefutable that for generations American society took "affirmative action" to suppress women, to pigeonhole them into an impoverished gender role concerned only with housekeeping and child rearing.

It is irrefutable that for generations American society took "affirmative action" to suppress men, to pigeonhole them into an overworked, hyper-stressed, diseased, prematurely fatal gender role concerned only with selfless providing for and protecting the women and children in their lives.

Feminists look at the 0.1% of men at the top of society throughout history, and willfully ignore the 99.9% of men at the bottom. Those men at the top of society are useful for shoring up sympathy for women; those men at the bottom of society are not.

> Who wants to, as a woman, invest themselves in a career in tech when there is a decent chance your boss will be this guy

What a sophomoric, hand-wavy thing to say. Who wants to, as a man, invest themselves in a career in tech when there is a decent chance your boss will be this guy, who is actually, literally a powerful boss who says bullying things toward men who don't toe the third-wave feminist line:

http://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun

Plus, the man you're trying to ridicule is correct, as a recent large study shows beyond all reasonable doubt ("Penn Medicine Brain Imaging Study Helps Explain Different Cognitive Strengths in Men and Women"):

http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/2013/12/verma/

When in life do men's and women's brains diverge? Not during their youngest, most plastic years. Nope. During the surge of sex hormones in puberty. It doesn't mean men or worse or women are worse. It just means that like all other intelligent species, humans have different psychological tendencies between sexes.

> The solution to gender inequality issues is to simply hire women. Hire women and promote women.

This is a terrible idea, unless you only care about ensuring that every company has at least one vagina for every penis. History (and the present) shows us that this sort of widespread coddling is guaranteed to help privileged, connected women at the expense of underprivileged, unconnected men.

Hyper-privileged, connected, powerful men like yourself will have no issues finding a job either way. But young men—who are already out-educated and out-earned by young women—are badly affected, especially those without connections. Considering the lack of personal repercussions, it's little surprise that it's trendy for old, rich men to throw young, poor men under the bus. It's par for the course for history, in fact.

> employers tend to treat similar resumes with male versus female names differently.

Why shouldn't they, especially in the world you want?
I think it likely that this is one of those things that will slowly make the difference, and change people's minds about how financial transactions ought to be.
I doubt President Obama came up with the campaign on his own and I very much doubt "pushing down labor costs for software development" is even on the list of reasons. Labor costs may ultimately come down, but it won't be due to some devious collusion between the IT industry and him.

It's more likely that this campaign to encourage programming is aimed at multiple problems from a better understanding of the tools necessary in the 21st century to making young students interested in the field again. Just possibly there is a long term hope in him that the USA can cut down its reliance on foreign help for software development, thereby, keeping jobs in the country.

If I was in his shoes, I would be concerned that the USA seems to be relying on foreign graduate students for its research in technology. Until domestic students are interested in the field again, the reliance cannot be reduced.
I don't understand the idea that Apple is secretly opposed to the web. Why would they keep investing in WebKit then? Why re-build iWork in HTML5? Why add web notifications?

iOS 7 was a pretty shaky release in general, Apple's own native apps haven't received a lot of love during the transition either.
The fact that so many people opt for a 90-minute commute because they think it will make their social life more interesting is much more burdensome than whether they make that commute in a car or a bus. If you want to rail against someone for something, rail against that.

I don't necessarily have any problem with people doing that myself (long commutes or driving themselves). I just repeatedly see this bizarre cognitive dissonance in the Bay Area where some of the people who spend 3 hours a day riding a bus up and down the peninsula try and assert some sort of moral high ground over the people who choose to have a reasonable commute but drive themselves, because cars.
Being able to code "hello world" is almost useless, but knowing something about scalability would help. Even if nothing more than "its important".

I bet healthcare.gov is full of algorithms that scale just great as long as there's only one state, and one insurance provider, and one healthcare provider (which is a concise subversive political statement of exactly what's wrong with the American sick care system)
Are you really so "progressive" that you think people should roll over and die as soon as someone richer moves into town? There has been a recent rash of evictions by landlords hoping to cash in on the influx of Googlers. That means people are literally homeless heading in to the winter because they can't compete for housing.
Yes, generally speaking ... but I'm in management and was speaking from that perspective. My apologies for being unclear.
Its an honest question, I see a lot of cars in the photo, there seems to be shops in the photo, so where the heck do they park in the city and why can't Google buy some spots?
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I think you will find more people applying to be CS majors, not necessarily graduating with CS degrees. The weed out classes at the better colleges will put an end to anyone striving for a CS degree that shouldn't have one.

What I would expect is that the myth of just get some high school kid to do it would finally end if everyone had an idea of how high the skill cap is for coding/design.

Plus it'd be a lot easier for me to talk to people, which would be nice. It seems the only people that really get along with me these days are technically informed.
I've kept this on for a while, because since I already have a phone that runs non-free Google-written silently-updatable software, I already leak all this data anyway.

I figure if I'm leaking this data, I might as well leak it in a way that lets me see it too.

I don't want to live in a surveillance state, and I think humanity is capable of growing beyond that. But I also don't think that making the futile gesture of turning off my ability to see my location data is going to do anything.
So how is learning to code going to help with basic computer use skills? One does not imply the other.
No one complains about these ‘one-sided’ books
It's chicken and egg, innit? If there was an economic incentive for people to live in San Jose (say, the tech scene was revitalized from actual startups as opposed to the Adobe/Cisco/eBay/Yahoo!/IBM dinosaurs, and Pinger), then there would be greater demand for SJ to densify, and have attractions, and thus invite more young people to live there. But because young people don't want to live there as it is, companies are not going to move there. Infinite loop.
I thought I read somewhere that Google's buses provided free transit to anyone wanting to ride them, bearing in mind many stops will be within / at / near the campus itself ... similar the bus system in some college towns. Am I mistaken?
Funny, I thought that was the basic value proposition of the liberal arts degree.
The pernicious thing about a culture of shills and agent provocateurs is that it undermines trust in others and civil society in general. It leads to endless questioning of motives and to a complete stoppage of debate on some topics.

Think back to 2003 and the run-up to the Iraq war; which was the first time we saw what a domestic propaganda initiative on the internet looked like. Think about how much more sophisticated those tools are today. How defining and shaping issue oriented discourse can be viewed as a zero-sum game where one side "wins" and all other viewpoints are neutralized.

The thing is; once the suspicion has been planted that not all of the people one is talking to are honest participants it is impossible to ignore; impossible to disprove; and very difficult to act against.
FYI, from another Verizon user:
https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/467

Looks like we need to add some new MCC/MNC values to the defaults for that MMSC. Group messages use MMS, so hopefully this gets you down to one problem (paranoid). =)
And don't unwarrantedly put people in harms way, &c. Yes. It's called journalism. It's not perfect, but neither would an unfiltered dump have been. And it's far better than us not getting the docs at all, isn't it? Which is certainly another timeline Mr. Snowden could have chosen, at far greater personal convenience.
He phrased himself very poorly, admittedly.

That being said, I disagree with the notion that simply because you live somewhere, you get a automatic right to live there forever.

Can I get that deal in Aspen or Malibu? Of course not.

San Francisco has without dispute the best tenant protections in the country.
San Francisco (now) has without dispute the most expensive real estate in the country.

You can go ahead and say correlation isn't causation here, Just like you can also believe in the easter bunny
Things Are Getting Ugly In San Francisco: Protestors Stopped A Google Bus
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They worked for a while. Now new approaches are needed. Everything is like that. Human progress requires both a continuous input of energy and a continuous state of change and innovation. There is no formula for progress of any kind that can be applied unchanged forever.
Tzunamitom, none of the text in the links at the bottom of your email prove that women are necessary for success. Even if having women on the board increases chances for success, or increases the magnitude of success, how can you say with a straight face that a company cannot be successful without women on the board? (Or without men on the board?) There are countless companies that have grown successful with only men on the board, and I am sure there are also companies that have grown to success with only women on the board. So, clearly, whether or not gender balance improves your chances for success, it is not a prerequisite to success.
Consider that in 100 years we will still have people performing some derived concept of "coding" today, whereas all of our plumbing will probably be done by the machines which are created by those people.

Coding is an abstraction on top of an ever more essential skill: directing automated symbol manipulation. It seems foundational and those fighting against it are best likened to the subset of monks who surely saw writing as a skill to be learned only by a select few and not as some universal, fundamental skill all people would need to participate in society.
Ironically it is congress that sets the president's salary. Thus you must get congress to pass a bill which you then must sign. That's a lot of work!
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He is not even one of you :) So of course he does not represent Googlers' opinion.
US universities should really ditch the general language requirements and leave it up to the college or department within the college to decide whether it would even be useful.

Air traffic controllers and software programmers only need to know English. Business students intending to work for a multinational need at least one more language, and they should be from this list: Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese Chinese, Japanese, Russian, German, French, Portuguese, Korean, or Standard Arabic.

The vast majority of graduates of US universities who are from the US will never need a second language other than Spanish, and they won't even need to know it all that well.
In the eyes of Facebook, we are all undressed. Now it will be like they are throwing in a free colonoscopy while they're at it.

I bet the guys over at Fort Meade are beside themselves with happiness over this :-)
Bitcoin overtakes Reddit in Google trends
You'd think Google, or any of the companies, would host such a thing themselves, rather than sub it out to Godaddy, using a PTR of the domain name relevant to the site -- and, especially in the spirit of things, a properly-configured SSL certificate that doesn't set off warnings, pointing where it ought to (like the IP's PTR), with HSTS and PFS in place and so forth.

What indication is there that this is not a hoax?
"Only that nobody in their right minds would tell people to make mechanical engineering a part of the curriculum"

At the elementary school level, my kids attend a psuedo-STEM school and sadly you're not too far off the mark. Its pretty much that and civil.

Civil is actually a good one for kids. Give them a beach and some water buckets and shovels and they're happy for days if not weeks. Some clay and dirt works even better although filthier. Its pretty much outdoors only due to the mess, so the kids are stuck with a mostly MechEng STEM
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And yet the vast majority of programming jobs do not require knowing CLRS and Knuth. Let's not confuse theoretical with practical knowledge.
People with power (explicit or implicit) have chose to preserve the buildings of San Francisco over the people that live there. They're lovely buildings in a lovely city, and demand is rising. If people in power cared more about the people living in SF than the buildings, they would allow (lots) more building to keep rental costs down.
You're totally right, of course. My in-person security interview was a joke. The officer didn't even try to ask any questions. He validated my contact information and we shot the shit while their computer system logged his approval of my application. Took maybe 15 minutes of waiting my turn with a half dozen other poor saps who had also scheduled the interview 2-3 months in advance, and then 5 minutes for the actual processing.

Interestingly, my airport now has a third(!) category of security line, for airline elevated status holders. They skip the long line for the normal screenings, but then go through the normal "remove shoes, belts, jackets and laptops" part, so it's like getting half a reprieve. I'm convinced that by this time next year there will be have so much dilution of the process that everyone will be treated identically again and it'll probably be based on the Pre-Check standards: x-ray machine, no significant liquids, no removal of shoes/belt/jacket.
How can anyone make seriously make statements like this:

> Following a steep decline that saw the currency trade at prices not seen since late November

That was 2 or 3 weeks ago and they speak of it like it was a generation ago.
Thanks for sharing your experience. We are testing multiple versions of the homepage at the moment and are working on fixing these overflowing headlines.

PS: Thanks to your feedback, I reported to my colleagues the fact that we may want to give our beta/alpha readers a chance to send us feedback through the survey after dismissing it.