skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotal: Both my sister and my husband are on the spectrum. Both studied some form of math, physics, computer science. Not being on the spectrum myself, I have observed that I've learned/taught myself STEM subjects differently than they have. I mainly see this just as how the world is seen by those that are neuro-diverse.
Udacity, Coursera: Should celebrities teach MOOCs?
It was a mac pro will all the trimmings (well... except for the keyboard and mouse!). Oh, and 4k monitor for $3500, so...the computer itself was around $9500. And they want to ding me for $49 for a keyboard. Make it optional and free if the configuration build is > $5k ???
Confidence is often mistaken for arrogance. Success+youth compounds the likelihood.

Props to you for attempting to address many of the detractors, but doing so will take time from your more productive pursuits.

There is some good advice below on lowering your profile a bit until your skin thickens and your manner of expression becomes a bit less brash.

You have good reason to be proud of your success in a legal area that inspires your passion. Keep it up.
This is fascinating, I always been a huge fan of Lego and this project is simply amazing! I wish we could get more details related to the building process.
1,107 new Android apps published daily
Hmm, I've read reasons why you could code like this, but personally I would never make my code more complicated to read just to prevent errors that I can prevent with other methods, like having tests, for example. I would assume after someone has been coding for a decent amount of time, they would have the experience to spot declaration/assignment mistakes and shouldn't have to rely on yoda conditionals to prevent this. Perhaps there's other reasons I'm not aware of, and am not seeing the light because of that, care to share your thoughts?
I'd imagine the intent with storage is to use the Thunderbolt ports to connect to a storage device (probably one with hardware RAID) that takes up far more physical space than is available inside the Mac Pro chassis itself and has far larger capacity / redundancy that they couldn't fit into the form factor reasonably.
Ten thousand fuckin' bucks.

They'll sell dozens!
Can this become part of Gofmt triggered by a flag? I love it, and feel it should really be part of an installation.
" I know a lot of stores use the same software to run their everything."

It's been 6 years since I've worked there, but at the time everything was pretty much custom. The original system was created in 1993 I believe, since then there's been so many things built on top of it I can't image how they'd replace it.
Did anyone else see that the purpose of all this was to stop children from accidentally stumbling across hardcore porn? Because, yes, that happens frequently with kids.
We built Yelp for Grad School Professors
$60 for a high quality kit seems good. $30/monthly? I don't know if I shave enough to justify that personally. I just remember having like 5 unopened cases of Proactiv back in the day... as the postman delivered the next shipment lol.

Btw, Tristan Walker (guy behind this venture) was one of Foursquare's 1st employees. Nice guy and smart as hell. The launch campaign he's rolling out seems to be well executed. Wish them the best...
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for your explanation :)
If you mean Waterfall, the term was adapted from civil engineering, which of course made a lot of sense for software (sarcasm). One of the earliest papers on the process was in the 70s by William Royce where the term waterfall was used to describe software development at its worst.
The Gamepad API
I wouldn't say that cuda is more "optimized" but last I checked it does have better support for pointers, recursion, spawning new threads from inside of existing threads etc. This allows for more sophisticated data structures and algorithms that are impossible to replicate exactly in openCL. A Barnes-Hut simulation [1] for example is way tougher to build in OpenCL.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes%E2%80%93Hut_simulation
And this has never happened in small towns where merchants know everyone's business and gossip. There's always a backchannel of data when you are out in public.

The pregnant teenager outlier certainly made for an interesting and headline-worthy story. Hopefully future big data projects like this put a bit more thought into the human side of the equation, but never count on it I suppose.
FACEBOOK to pay no taxes for second straight year
I definitely got porn shoved in my face as a young teenager when I used to browse around looking for cracks for videogames that I'd borrowed or downloaded.

Then Chrome / Firefox came along with popup blockers, and Steam came along with a better way of downloading games... porn doesn't get shoved in my face anymore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammability#Flammable_vs._infl...
"a secret word"
VAT varies by country. However if you sell from one EU country to another EU country, depending on the volume (which I think also differ per pair of countries), you'll need to apply the seller's VAT (low volume of sales) or the buyer's VAT (high volume of sales)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_value_added_tax#...
A Brief History of Javascript by its creator (Video)
oriculator is much more powerful and complex than x6502, even you ignore the non-CPU emulation bits (like video and emulated controller, which are complex and difficult). The fact that they manage to get approximately correct timing is really impressive, and involves lots more logic around opcode decoding because you need tables of how many instructions each one takes.

That said, I find it much more difficult to read. The reliance on long, complex macros means that I need to flip back and forth between the macro definitions and the opcode interpreter, and long, multi-line macros like they have give me the heebie-jeebies. I'd rather see inline functions used (like x6502 does in functions.h; the functions in functions.h serve much the same purpose as the macros in oriculator).

Not to take anything away from the project -- it's obviously an amazing software project and an incredible achievement. We just set out with different goals in mind: mine was more pedagogical, and theirs was more practical.
>it's...not illegal to enforce [a]...legally valid statute

Tautologically, yes
For this kind of niche chip they probably more or less do. It's mostly workstation-focused, and the Xeon workstation market is _tiny_. It's not like this is a Haswell i5 and Apple is buying 10 million of it; I'd be surprised if they're buying over a thousand of the 12 core per month.
Snowden's Law
Another release of pro hardware from Apple. Another slew of comments everywhere from laptop peasants who don't understand the pro market, and can barely comprehend the competition.
> This is disappointing, and I expect Apple will redesign the cameras because of it.

The article mentions that authorities have tools to bypass the LED. I would guess that the complexity is on purpose and wasn't supposed to be used by the general public. I bet the same is true for sound.
How to ensure that the RPKI[1], which is designed to prevent BGP hijacks[2], can not be abused by trusted parties[3].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Public_Key_Infrastruct...

[2] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/12/bgp-hijacking-belar...

[3] http://ethanheilman.tumblr.com/post/64208098281/on-trusting-...
Well, this is the problem. Back in the day, it was pro graphics and video, and developers. Today, well, it's still nice for the pro video and 3D people, but you don't need it for photoshop, and certainly not for development. It's doomed to become ever-more niche as computer capabilities grow.
Opera Mediaworks Publishes Report on the Biggest Mobile Trends from 2013
Dancer or Mojolicious are more like Sinatra or Flask, not like Rails or Django
I want a quick feeling for today's weather. But a pictogram is not enough.

Nice Weather : http://alexiscreuzot.com/apps/nice-weather-2/
Building a promotion isn't easy. ViralSweep helps businesses quickly and easily launch a giveaway to grow their audience: http://www.viralsweep.com
Matt, I think these posts are valuable. The readers of HN seem to be exactly the type of people who might be early adopters of Coinbase. It's helpful for those people to know how the service works from a customer's perspective.

Then you also have the benefit from the entrepreneurial side. These posts can serve as a cautionary tale to other would be founders as how not to do customer service.

I think where this crosses the line from inane bitching to useful discourse is the gravity of these issues. It's not like these people are posting with complaints about the page layout of the company or <insert minor nitpick here>. The issue is with the core function of the company, and that's work discussion.

Just my $0.02.
Main discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6934248 (cbc.ca) (24 comments)

Another discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6930258 (krebsonsecurity.com) (8 comments)

Other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6935142 (cnn.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6934595 (target.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6934535 (securityweek.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6934216 (wsj.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6934038 (rt.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6933163 (chicagotribune.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6932782 (usatoday.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6932186 (arstechnica.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6932141 (theverge.com)
It's not just software. All business processes have been undergoing change from top-down to bottom-up processes as people realize those companies which allow good ideas to percolate from the bottom win in the marketplace. The driver here is the internet. It used to be the case that you didn't come into contact with good or bad practices except by working in a place they were applied, but the internet ensures everyone can now read online what works and what doesn't.
So if the damages for thousands to millions of copies of the movie are being blamed on the initial public seeder, does that mean nobody else in the torrent is responsible for any damages?
How can I deny one right from the rights dialog in Android?
Not having as much money/control over my life as I want.
At Unbounded Robotics, smart compromises bring down costs
vkontakte and telegram shares the same founder: Durov
Thank you for the post, Pierre. It is very rare such figures appear for to be viewed by average Joe.
As one can see the consumer market is very much biased towards the US. Is it because of marketing or because EU markets are so small? Is Russia relevant as an app market?
Me too. I've got ideas, but nothing with a real market.
It's not about the purchasing decision, it's about goodwill after the sale. When I sold retail electronics, after I closed a decent sale, id throw in something small for free at the very end. Even if it was a $10 mousepad (cost of $3) on a $3k sale, it made people happy! And on a selfish note, made me a lot of ongoing sales and excellent customer relationships.
It will be interesting to see this case go to court. Unless I'm not reading the article correctly, it sounds like all they have are (1) an email came through about a bomb threat and (2) that a student was using Tor at the time the email went through. It doesn't seem they actually have concrete proof that the email came from this particular student. Which, to me, sounds like circumstantial evidence.
Data has gravity, and too much of it makes migrating or backing up cloud storage very hard. Mover (https://mover.io) helps SMEs move their data.
> introduces itself on the Wiki with the concept of money-as-IOU

That's what money is. You don't eat a coin or bill, it's an "IOU some future tangible good or service".

Think about it, you either have barter -- no money concept involved. Or you have money-facilitated trade -- then the money (whether coins or bills or seashells) is always a "debt" of sorts for deferred/future "trade settlement". That IOU characteristic automatically happens to whatever emerges (or is decreed) as the unit-of-account+medium-of-exchange of the day. And that's fine, this and only this allows trade beyond immediate barter.
Well, they are sort of asking for it with a name like "Target", and a giant red bullseye painted on every fricken store!
I love your effort here, and have been meaning to ask...are you working on some means to parse old-school TXT tabs from other tab sites into your format? I always thought that would be a really interesting problem to solve, especially trying to detect alternate tunings and tempos and such. You would probably need a human to come in to do a polish pass afterwards most of the time, but still might be a net win.
This is absurd. The charity can immediately sell the stock if it wants to. There are large tax advantages to the donor for donating highly appreciate shares of stock (see https://www.google.com/search?q=donating+highly+appreciated+... ).

If someone were planning on giving to charity anyway, it would be crazy to pay the taxes on the appreciated shares and give what is left over after taxes to the charity, when you could instead just give the shares (the charity would still get the full value even if the shares were immediately sold, because most charities are tax exempt).
Linking the decentralization of Email with the convenience of Social Networking in an extremely flexible package.

http://www.airdispat.ch
If you don't plan on carrying it around, I'd recommend a custom PC. It has the advantage that if you rum short on disk space, RAM, GPU power or anything else you can easily upgrade it. Since heat production is an issue, invest in an efficient power supply (80! gold/platinum) and enable power saving options in BIOS.
I don't want to stop work getting to them. I want them to be paid more so my own relatively paltry rates don't seem like an insult to employers expecting to pay pennies per hour for a fully working whatever clone.

Otherwise the next step in that poor country is, inevitably, the work moves somewhere cheaper still or gets automated.
I can't speak to what you might call a "large" order, but in the case of a delay selling 0.4 BTC, the price went up dramatically for me, and there was no recourse. I received $156 on the day the price hit it's high of $1242.
There is a screenshot of my transaction here: http://imgur.com/iY1btbr
That's a textbook rational response. However, it doesn't address the emotional side of this kind of purchase.

Many people don't know the specs and other technical details of what they're buying. They don't really know, or have no way to tell, if they're getting good silicon value for their money.

However, they're keenly aware of the emotions surrounding this machine and its corporation: How much it will fascinate them, fascinate others, how much it will support them and their efforts, how reliable and comforting it will be, who it will put them in touch with, etc.

These people don't perceive themselves as making a capital purchase with an anticipated return; rather they perceive themselves as entering into a business _relationship_. They expect this relationship to address their emotional appetite.

Logical appetites are based on comparisons like "dollars per GHz." Emotional appetites are based on evaluations such as, "I'm taking care of you, are you taking care of me?" After paying a bunch of money, the emotional appetite expects "to be taken care of."

PP has latched onto the idea of a free gadget as a way to be emotionally taken care of. To him/her, this anticipation of his/her needs validates his/her emotional decision. To him/her,
getting nickeled and dimed annihilates, or at least attenuates, the valence of the emotional response.

Buyers with diminished emotional response, who are additionally tone-deaf, ignorant or otherwise ill-equipped to evaluate the technical/capital qualities of their purchase, have little left to stand on.

At best, forcing them to consider the purchase from a perspective which concentrates on different features, facilitates their own insecurity.

So, for a technical company looking to profit off their buyer's emotional insecurity, it would make sense to simulate an emotional entity.

Of course, no one really cares that much, and PPP is simply producing outrageous examples as a diversion from a theoretically more worthwhile pursuit, but I hope my wisdom helps someone, somewhere, someday.
Zuckerberg Gives Almost $1 Billion To Charity
> both kids that will miss out on access on non-pornographic sites that are wrongfully filtered,

just cos the implementation may be buggy doesn't detract from the basic premise.

> and adults living in family households that are left without a realistic choice

given that it will be the adults thet are paying the bill and it's their choice to filter or not not sure there's a problem here.

> it reinforces patriarchal means of control of the family unit.

umm i reckon mums will be far more motivated and keen to restrict access than dads
... And they were completely right. Who does "extreme programming" nowadays? It was a cult, not a serious software engineering methodology.
The Jolla UI looks and behaves similar to the Blackberry 10 OS, which is a good thing, and an improvement on Android and iOS.

I have a Blackberry Z30[1] and I don't think I could go back to the "old way" of using a smartphone. BB 10 feels like a true smartphone experience, as subjective as that is.

[1] http://ca.blackberry.com/smartphones/blackberry-z30.html
Using MongoDB to process payments is a double facepalm fail.
I'll echo Eric Posner's article on this issue: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_ch....

There's a big difference between not spying on foreigners because the government is legally constrained from doing so, and not spying on foreigners because it's bad foreign policy. The former idea is ridiculous: we do not live under world government where sovereign nations are subject to international legal restrictions. The latter idea is eminently sensible.
Given that several senior US politicians, including at least one who ran for the presidency, have openly advocated the use of "enemy combatant" status at home[1], it's not difficult to see why someone like Snowden might not entirely trust any promise of amnesty.

As someone from outside the US, I found that particular advocacy (and the rationales claimed to justify it) one of the low points of recent years. It makes sense that you might need different rules for acceptable treatment of enemy combatants when you're in combat, when you don't have the luxury of time and calm deliberation that a court affords because people are shooting at each other. But to me, the appropriate response to recent "terrorist" attacks is to treat them exactly like any other threat, assault or murder, and to put suspects/perpetrators through exactly the same legal processes as anyone else. It is disturbing that we are even considering the possibility that someone who isn't accused of any violent crime at all might have to worry about being labelled an enemy combatant and thus forfeit their normal legal right to due process.

[1] http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dc/2013/04/king-mccain-grah...
I'm not surprised they store something like this, when you return something you can scan your card to verify that you were the original purchaser. But why not store an irreversible hash instead of the actual magstripe?
People use Email as a todo list, which sucks. Nobody wants to swap from email, and converting emails into a list of tasks is lame.
LinkedIn stealing GMail contacts
LinkedIn just suggested to add to my network a GMail email address I created 8 years ago, and never used for any purpose (there are 3 mails on that account, all from Google). The only link between that account and my real account is an email I got from Google 8 years ago notifying me that a person invited by me created a GMail account.

I never gave a password to my GMail to LinkedIn. I suspect the way they got that contact is by LinkedIn Android app I briefly had installed on my phone two years ago, which somehow grabbed all contacts I had in GMail (the act I never consented to). Is LinkedIn mobile app known to do that?

The lesson: if you don't want LinkedIn to have all your contacts, the only way is to avoid LinkedIn completely.
I think there's a middle ground where you are giving the gift of x dollars in real food / livestock to a family in xyz. Then the actual logistics of what that means are figured out and told to you.
It might not stop him from being a bad guy but it definitely stops him from being simply a bad guy.
Can I just ask, as somebody who is currently reviewing a book for Packt on the FuelPHP framework, I've found the actual technical content to be quite good. But the foreword and a bit of background info about FuelPHP at the front seemed like it had been written by another author entirely. Do Packt add in non-technical chapters such as this?
This is a tough one for me. I hope I don't have to say that I am very opposed to discrimination against women, and I think we should take this problem seriously.

However, I also have to wonder if the scarcity of women in software is simply the result of better career decision making among women.

The sf chronicle (sfgate.com) recently released a list of jobs and what they pay in SF. RNs (registered nurses) earn an average salary of about $112,000 a year. Application developers, on the other hand, earn about $111,000 a year.

http://blog.sfgate.com/gettowork/2013/12/17/what-the-most-co...

Interestingly, physicians and pharmacists aren't listed (perhaps there aren't enough of them to make the list). Laywers, in spite of recent issues in the legal world, are still listed as having an average salary of $166,000 a year in San Francisco.

Nursing is 90% women. Pharmacy is about 56% women. At UCSF, the entering medical school class is 58% women. At Boalt law school (UC Berkeley), the entering class is 54% women.

Average don't tell the whole story. There's good and bad in everything. Many lawyers give up, so there is some survivor bias here (though you could certainly say the same thing about developers - many people believe firmly that there is bad age bias after age 40, something that doesn't appear to happen in health fields).

In terms of career stability and earnings, long term, I actually think that all of the fields (except perhaps law) listed above are probably better choices for academically talented students.

I post this a lot, but here it is again - the RAND institute concluded that the american aversion to graduate degrees in STEM fields is rational and market driven, a response to poor prospects and pay relative to the options available high achieving students in other fields.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/issue_papers/IP241.html

We should at least consider the possibility that avoidance of STEM degrees and software development careers may actually reflect better career decision making. We say that young women are generally outperforming young men academically, but not in STEM. Well, maybe avoidance of STEM is just another manifestation of how women are making better choices in life than men are.