skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the main thing is that on most of the major national carriers here in the US, it's cheaper to either pay your parents (or someone else) your portion of the line on the family plan (usually $9.99 + data plan), or in the case of the new share plans, $30-$40 for a smartphone. Compared to setting up your own individual plan which would cost even more.

Now, from experience, my sister (36) only just got off my parent's family plan this June. I myself (22) do not plan on getting off my parent's Verizon plan anytime soon because I want to retain unlimited data as long as it's available.

If it does get to the point of where they want be off their plan, I will have to go with T-Mobile or another pre-paid carrier because there is no way in hell I will pay $100/month with Verizon just to have a single smart phone.
I work on Openstack, which uses gerrit for review. We use blueprints in launchpad to do preliminary design, then reference the blueprint in the commit message, and frequently people working on patches with hacky implementations will mark it as WIP, which is basically a signal not to approve but to provide feedback.

One thing the article didn't mention is that code review works across companies and is ideal for open source work.
I think it's healthy to worry that you've let people down after something like this. However much you give people the warning about risk, you all want the thing to succeed, and you're all disappointed when it doesn't work.

I agree it would be bad to worry about this indefinitely, but early on I think it's normal and reasonable. If I were one of their employees, I'd certainly want to see them express that, so that a) I know they're decent human beings, and b) I can absolve them of their guilt on my account. Their being concerned allows me to be generous, which helps both of us.
That may have something to do with college (at least public universities) being free in Iceland and outrageously expensive in the United States.
Most economists wouldn't say that because it is wrong. At least in the US, people with low incomes pay little to nothing in (income) taxes. They may face high "effective" tax rates due to losing low-income benefits, but that's a separate discussion.
That could mean anything from about 5 kW upwards, which I believe is around $3500/year of electricity in Calgary. Can you be a bit more specific?
Probably because wind speeds are faster over the ocean due to less friction. Mountains, trees, structures, etc. all affect that over land.
it is illegal to switch from one car to another car (regardless if the train is in motion or not). that's a crime/fact, in NYC of course.
In what way are their motivations relevant? You say yourself that you believe they are correct, why does anything else matter? If a bounty hunter arrests a murderer, does it matter that he's doing it because he has a financial motivation? If he were motivated only by the desire to do good would that change anything?
And in economics you are wrong. In the real world everything is variable.

Many eons ago --before surface mount was commonplace-- I was employing engineering students to stuff circuit boards for a low volume product (a few thousand units per year).

Part of the job entailed bending component leads based on how they had to be mounted to the board. I didn't have the money or the volume for fancy automated tools. We used prototyping-level hand tools to bend the components. After wave soldering we'd clip the leads by hand and test.

Back then minimum wage was $6 or $7. I was paying the kids $10.

I bought an old Bridgeport CNC milling machine for $1,800. I devoted a week to making better lead-forming tools and a mass lead cutting machine using a cheap router motor.

Within a week the same worker could do nearly ten times more work. I eventually let go of half the crew.

Costs are everything in business. If government unilaterally and unnaturally forces an increase in costs businesses will naturally respond with cost-saving measures and technology. This can also include taking the work to lower labor cost markets...forever.

That's how it works in the real world. At one point an artificially high minimum wage will result in less jobs, not more.
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A list of minimalist frameworks(simple and lightweight).
There's a picture of the rack from 2009:

http://www.openbsd.org/images/rack2009.jpg

I think the big reason Theo doesn't want to ship this offsite is that it's a lot of old/esoteric equipment that often times needs physical TLC in order to make it run properly, or has weird boot requirements, interfaces, etc.

They still have m68k, VAX, and Alpha boxes that are at a minimum 10 years old, that they build the OS directly on all the time.
...car that don't turn on if you fail the breath test inside the car....

From what I've heard, these already exist for repeat DUIs.
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Just here to say: if you have to be using WordPress, use Timber (http://jarednova.github.io/timber/).

Abstracts away what is terrible about querying posts, pages, authors, comments, etc and gives you nice objects with what you'd expect. Uses Twig templates.
There is no such thing as "[non-criminal] dirt-bike riding in cities". Riding dirt-bikes in cities in the US is illegal. People who do it are breaking numerous traffic and road laws.

Asserting that doing this is anti-social is hardly disingenuous.

Even if it were legal, the noise pollution alone would make it unquestionably anti-social as far as I am concerned. I'd rather have tractor trailers using jake brakes in my neighborhood, that's how unreasonably loud these bikes are.

(In case there is a misunderstanding here: dirt-bikes are stripped down light-weight motorcycles meant for off-road use only. They are not street legal. Similar I believe to a motocross bike.)
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Rather than worrying about raising prices or cutting the number of employees, what about if the burger joint just made less profit?

McDonald's could double wages and it's operating profit would still be $5.5Billion. What's wrong with $5.5billion in profit?

http://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-could-double-wages-...
Depends on what the candidate would be doing. If their job is building showcases, sure. Otherwise, maybe they're awesome, or maybe they're just blowing smoke.

If it's a choice between somebody who's focused on making great stuff because that's what the company needs and somebody who is crafting another showpiece for their trophy case, I'll take the one who's less excited about self-promotion. Some of the best people I've hired are terrible at marketing, so I feel like my anti-marketing bias is a way of leveling the playing field.
From my experience, phone plans in the US today are kind of like rent-controlled apartments: The prices for new entrants keep going up, so you have a very strong disincentive to switch plans.

I have a 4-or-so year old plan with a major carrier. I looked in to switching during the most recent round of phone upgrades, and found that my grandfathered plan was at least 15% cheaper than anything on the market that matched my usage.

I suspect this is also a major disincentive to leave your parents' plan. Even if you pay the whole bill!
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What kind of response times do you get on a cache miss though?
Thank you so much! As the Founder and Executive Director of HYA and also as someone who spent time homeless in San Francisco as a teenager, I have faith that we can come together as a community and actually make a difference.
I remember finally finding the docs for all these different formats, and I wrote a program that would analyse all the files in a folder, and tell you what format they were, and what files were in them.

I was so happy when I got that working.
This has nothing to do with smugness. If you market your product as a secure alternative, it better be secure.
i'm interested in who is financing this benchmarks.
really sorry, but for me it looks like a new way of doing seo marketing
Unfortunately, there are a lot of us out there that can't get service unless we're on AT&T or Verizon.
If you were doing that in a city, I think it would be more than reasonable for cops throwing the book at you. In underpopulated areas the concept of there being a victim starts to disappear, but you still should not be doing that.
The issue is that they claim their system is secure. Peoples lives can literally depend on encryption actually doing what it says on the tin; this software does not. It's the epitome of home grown encryption.
It can be easy to get a SIM in the US. But the companies make it difficult for some reason. Everyone is obsessed with credit. Get cable TV? They want your SSN to check credit. It's bizarre.

Even on a T-Mobile prepaid plan, they insisted on an SSN after a year and refused to charge my Amex. I told them I was Canadian, so they asked for a SIN. They said Amex required it. Only after getting Amex involved did T-Mobile back down.

There's about zero risk for them on a prepaid system. The risk is someone trying to exploit a hole in their billing platform, which is really quite minuscule.
I'd wager a guess it's the water vapor.
Predicting the future is risky.

HHVM exists. You can benchmark it against Python and Ruby today. What are the results?

In any case, Python has things like cx_freeze that can be used to make apps close to compiled performance. And Python is not a single monolithic implementation. IronPython running on .NET for instance. PyPy has a VM with JIT.

In any case, few people these days are worried about raw performance of apps. There are easier things to fix with page load times, getting rid of resource locking, and so on.

HHVM will extend PHP's useful lifetime but outside of Facebook, Drupal-based sites, and WordPress-based sites, I don't see it growing in any significant way.
I see my sentence was misleading: when I leave the U.S. I discard the SIM because, as you'll know, it expires after 3 months of no use and it's cheaper to get a new one for $20 on the next trip than keeping topping up while back home.
Beautiful design. This would be awesome to have hanging on a wall.
That seems like a good thing. I never understood why classmates seemed to anxious to get their own car, start paying their own rents, and so on.
Why do front-end developers not test their website cross-browser and platform?

The font chosen doesn't render properly on Windows with Opera or Chrome.
Read the article. One effect of raising wages would be that McDonald's would then have access to a larger pool of labor (people who would not work there at $7/hr but absolutely would for $15/hr). As a result, the poorest & least skilled labor may not benefit at all from a raise in wage, rather, they'd be priced out completely because of a huge influx of "better" workers.
Wicked cool visualization!
http://www.scribd.com/doc/192157170/Eldo-Kim-Complaint

It sounds like they determined from the email provider that the message came from a Tor exit node, then from there they looked for who had made a connection on Harvard campus to known Tor relays. He had, so they interviewed him and he confessed to everything. I don't see any strong indication of a weakness in Tor from this, but it's a bit concerning that you could be interviewed for having used Tor at the same time as something like this. I run a relay full-time, I don't know if this is better or worse for me.
It's an inconvenience, but the thing that makes me most averse to that system is that it presumes guilt. Here in the US, cops are not allowed (though enforcement is lax) to detain you for any reason without reasonable suspicion that you've committed a crime.
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In general, it's largely due to insecurity. I'm not saying that this is the case here, as I didn't pick up on it, but your comment definitely resonated with me, and this is something that bugs me more than I'd like on an ongoing basis. Over the last few years, I've been trying to become better at saying "I don't know", which can sometimes be really difficult in some tech circles.
I don't disagree, Chechen bombings in Russia have used women for that exact reason.

It's a tired cliche, and I know it's not something you can do in the US, but Israeli's have a pretty good profiling system in place. You don't base it purely on race or gender, but they are factors with the biggest discriminator being your story under questioning.
Start at 4:00, before that it's just intro.
dumb question: are we sure these things are doing the same thing?

AFAICT some of the larger frameworks by default do a bunch of stuff (csrf and ip spoof checks, session management, etag generation based on content etc) that simpler solutions don't, but this things can usually be turned off.
Great new practical features. I can literally use every one of these, and many of them I've already been handling by rolling my own or using a gem.

Surprised to see enum support finally come to activerecord.
Yeah, we have several big projects in flight, and we're shipping them in the order that they're ready.

We push them out first as prereleases (which you can run by passing a --release flag to meteor, and it will automatically download and install everything) and announce them to meteor-core and see what people think. In this case both oplog tailing and Meteor UI were out as prereleases, but there was more feedback and more feature requests for Meteor UI, so oplog tailing ended up winning the race.
What are some of your favorite blog posts/essays/papers?
What are your favorite blog posts, essays, or papers? Also, where do you go to find new writings?
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Why bother risking expulsion/FBI charges/a tainted professional reputation for the rest of your life for more time on a test? Even if he succeeded, I doubt anyone could pull something like that off and then focus on schoolwork for the next day or two. Plus, <insert snarky comment about Harvard grade inflation here>.
At 10hPa, it's windy as dicks around the arctic circle. The antarctic, however, is relatively calm. Is that a seasonal thing? Will it be the opposite in June?
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> This new release also follows our new policy of targeting a minor release every
> six months. The idea being that the jump from minor to minor shouldn't try to
> include everything under the sun. Just whatever is ready after the six month
> mark.

EDIT: I have been misinformed. I didn't participate a lot in this release, and I missed some discussion. If you read my previous comment, I mentioned this was a policy change, which isn't technically true. Anyway, on to what is true:

People have always complained that upgrading Rails has been difficult, we want to make that better. Releasing often will help us make a smoother upgrade path, which should help with these issues.
Honestly, Ember has been incredibly frustrating to get going. Mainly in the area of testing—it's a nightmare.

The documentation is nicely formatted but missing a lot of context. For such a large project, it needs more than API docs and the overviews are not especially useful.

Using it with Rails is a nightmare, you have to fiddle with ember rails and if you want to use anything but Handlebars it's a huge hassle (tags, what? I thought we'd collectively moved past that to things like Haml, Jade, Thin, etc. . .)

I love where it's headed and I like a lot of the ideas, but it's been pretty aggravating to get up and running.
I had no idea that was even an option until I read your comment. Chrome on OS X shows the v-scroll bar for less than a second, and I missed it. After that, the only way they come back is to scroll. There was no visual indication that it was anything more than a title page with no links (aside from the github link).
They did what pretty much everyone tells people not to do.

The fact that they hired experts to make rookie mistakes is just beyond belief.

It's like a pro painter who covers the walls in oil before putting a coat of latex on, then goes and tells the world he's discovered a way to make paint stick indefinitely to walls, then a week later the paint peels right off.
> If your only form of communication is random updates/photos from them that you don't actively seek, then you don't really care in the first place do you?

Well that's a rather hasty judgement...

Firstly, I didn't say it was my only communication. Secondly, it does a lot to help fill in the gaps between meetings/conversations.

> Nobody is too busy for a short phone call once in awhile.

And nobody said phone calls are the only -- or even preferred -- means of communication.
If you wanted to help people with low incomes, you'd do two things:

1) More skill based education, enabling them to upgrade out of their low paying, low skill jobs

2) Make it dramatically less expensive and easier to employ people, lower regulations (rather than adding thousands of new regulations per year), simplify compliance, simplify healthcare dramatically, and overall stop providing huge disincentives to hiring

The only tax that poor pay is sales tax. The bottom 40% pay a negative income tax rate. We could attempt to kick the sales tax back to them, but it wouldn't make even remotely as big a dent as improving the macro economic environment.

We should also become fiscally responsible and stop destroying the poor's standard of living through inflation. Inflation harms the poorest the most, by far.

And I don't mean the bogus CPI, which was substantially adjusted to mask inflation under Clinton's presidency. I'm talking about the massive inflation in: energy, housing & rent, food, education, health care. The cost of a new car has gone up by 50% in 20 years, while we're selling less of them (relative slack demand). The cost of milk & eggs has doubled in 15 years. The cost of a house has doubled in 15 years. Meanwhile, we have 14% real unemployment, with no justification for the massive increases in prices on the demand side (ie it's primarily driven by the Fed's massive devaluation of the dollar, with QE being used to avoid bankruptcy at the federal level; aka the poor are being papered to death in the process of masking our nation's fiscal irresponsibility).
wow, the action mailer preview thing is one of those things you're amazed didn't exist until now. i remember rigging this up manually a few times after getting sick of sending a million test emails to myself. great work rails team!
The discussion about the costs of car travel are interesting -particularly in light of some of the topics circulating recently about how the private car is a terrible model.

It's not so much that the cost of a car is so cheap - cars do cost us significant chunks of income - it's the fact that the value (or cost/benefit, if you want to get technical) is so high.

Time is precious to everyone with a busy life. Cars save time, above and beyond their cost to maintain. Even if you are stuck in traffic and can't believe you are wasting your time, you're still saving time compared to the guy who had to wait for a bus, hail a cab or organise a rideshare and is still stuck in traffic.

Show me someone who doesn't need/want a car, and I'll show you someone who either has billions/trillions worth of infrastructure at their door, or someone who doesn't value their time highly.

Anyway, thanks for sharing. The decision to close down before the cash ran out is certainly brave and should be encouraged. Posting the lessons learned is even better.
The javascript shows they are thinking about this as particle traces of wind velocities. In visualization, the technique is called Line Integral Convolution (LIC). Each line follows the direction of the wind vector, and the overall brightness is the sum of the magnitude of the winds under the line. This particular variant just uses the wind speed at one point under the line. LIC won't accidentally miss field singularities like vector-arrow representations, and there are variants that provide smooth animations.

It's great that we've advanced from needing VTK to being able to do a visualization like this as a live movie, translating GRIB files to JSON.
> In fact, we're already running beta1 in production for Basecamp, so you know it's been taking a good beating. This helped us catch a couple of performance regressions, and we've verified that everything is still spiffy fast on Basecamp.

Wow. Well, having enough faith to run Basecamp off of it -- and the fact that 4.0 was a very smooth transition from 3.2 -- is enough reason to play around with this beta for a project.

Edit: nevermind, don't think I can handle this feature removal:
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/c300dca9963bda78b8f358...

/s
Firstly, this dude made an incredibly stupid decision to even go through with his plan to get some extra time on a test. Secondly, the way he actually went about doing it was completely asinine. He did it from his own machine on the school's network.

No matter the nature of your activity, if you're trying to obfuscate your identity using systems like TOR and GuerillaMail, you probably shouldn't do it on the network of the people you're attempting to hide your identity from...
The US supreme court ruled that DUI checkpoints, where drivers may be stopped for a brief (~30 second) questioning to see if they appear drunk, but no answers are legally required, are legal here. This was a controversial decision and several states either passed laws or their existing state constitution prevent dui checkpoints.

The idea of a forced breath test without any evidence of intoxication is simply mind boggling to me.
Stress can make people pretty irrational I guess.

I wonder if there is any sort of correlation between the prestige of a school and how often someone calls in a threat or pulls a fire alarm. I had a fire alarm go off while I was taking a final twice when I was in university. Seems like it is probably a semi-frequent occurrence.
As an upper middle class guy who married a working class immigrant nearly 15 years ago, I can say that your statement is mostly hyperbole.
Well, where I worked they solved a lot of it with literally constant supervision and feedback by managers - like 'hey Jane, smile more! Tom, don't just stand there, wipe that bench again. And again, if you have nothing else to do.' That cuts stealing and slacking down pretty fast. Customer service - pretty clear scripts, constant reminders to smile, warnings about mystery shoppers (and actual mystery shoppers), to keep you focusing on it. A three part diagram of something like 'hello - SMILE - can I take your order please?' on each register. Speed - yea, I guess there's a few clumsy workers who just aren't going to be able to do it, but it's like a factory line - a small set of tasks that you pretty much memorize then do over and over. In very busy times where every second counts, you'd put the slightly faster people on the register and have about two runners for each three registers to actually bring the food, which is simpler.

I guess there must have been a reasonable availability of workers behind this, because all the pressure was based on 'or you'll be fired'. Or they just relied on us taking them seriously - the city was at about 4% official unemployment (Brisbane, 2006), so it can't have been that bad a glut.
Wow. These are STELLAR improvements! Check out the release notes here: https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/guides/source/4_1...

So excited about all of it. Native enum is a blessing.

Took me a while to figure it out but here is the required line for your Gemfile:

gem 'rails', '4.0.1.beta1'

# This works too, but isn't required (thanks to cantoniodasilva's comment below)
# gem 'rails', github: 'rails/rails', tag: 'v4.1.0.beta1'

Booya! Very excited to put it through the paces of this new app I am working on.
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