skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was in NYC, I rented these Citi Bikes. The terms say:"After you purchased your 24 hour code, you get the bike for 30 minutes. If you return it late, there's a late fee added. 4$ per 30 minutes late." – "Fuck you", I thought. "What an annoying business model."

A few days later, I was in Washington DC. I rented these Citi Bikes that are called different there. The terms say:"After you purchased your 24 hour code, you get the bike for 30 minutes for free. If you want to keep bicycling, there's a small added cost of 4$ per 30 minutes for extended bike rental." - "That sounds fair", I thought.

This slide deck would be so much better, if it was called:"100 ways to improve your UI" instead of "100 Growth Hacks". Because they aren't. Only one out of ten is. And it's not even clever. Everybody does it. All others are marginal improvements to the UI and most of them don't even have data that support their effectiveness on growth / increased signups / decreased churn. They are interesting, but they aren't what they're advertised as. So I feel cheated although the "product" is good.
You're underestimating the importance of that paper trail. Knowing that they could have such a capability is not the same thing as knowing that they are actively exercising it, laid out in helpfully blunt Powerpoint. Yes, if you were paying attention, the signs were there. But even well-informed tech people have been taken aback by the breadth and sheer gall of the NSA's snooping. Snowden isn't the only NSA whistleblower, but he is the most important. He deserves the personal credit he's received.

As for the article, I'm thankful. If my relatives won't listen to me, maybe they'll listen to the New York Times editorial board.
Subject-Verb-Object word order like English or most other European languages. (I ate the apple).

Classical Arabic and other semitic languages are VSO, but spoken Arabic is mostly SVO.
Yes you can use perf to profile on cache misses (perf record -e cache-misses).
Imaging science. If I were hiring another imaging scientist:

Write your own Fourier Transform. [If your FizzBuzz questions involve actually writing/coding the FizzBuzz, I'd not request actually writing it...]
Ford Debuts New Car, Saves Each Driver 4 Tons Of Greenhouse Gas Per Year
Where I work, we have a 4 question SQL test where we sit you in front of a dummy database, give you 4 printed results, and say "make the queries to produce exactly these results." Very very few people get all of them, but it gives us an idea of where somebody is at in their ability and knowledge.

The first is the easiest, and the second one isn't bad. The 3rd and 4th trip up most people though.
Odesk and elance are top freelance providers in the US. I have had some success with Guru too.

With all of these you have to weed through the noise to find good clients. It takes time.
This is stupid. The article claims the term gamer itself isn't appropriate but the examples it provides are wrong. People who enjoy films may often be called film buffs or even more generically movie goers. People who enjoy reading may be referred to as book worms. Deciding to reject them doesn't really mean anything. The term gamer is not the problem.

If this article was more about rejecting sexist and racist language and behavior in gaming I'd agree with it. However I think these problems are more a factor of age and maturity than anything else. Play in a gaming community where the average age is 20+ and you'll find a more tolerable environment.
> a time traveler "will" change the course of history in the long run

Going by the current recognized (theoretically possible) understanding of time travel based on Einstein's theory of special relativity[0] it would be only possible to travel in the future (near or distant based on technology that is not yet available).

Travel back would not be possible. And for the entire period of the time jumped the person(s) would not be present.

Based on this theory alone the time travelers would not be able to change history.

Depending on how far they travel I doubt they'd be able to change the future either.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6999933
I honestly think the Libertarian party (or perhaps independent) could play up the fact he would pardon Snowden during the 2016 election process and sway a few percentage of votes his/her way.
Judging by the mistakes my daughter's teachers make, I would happily have her class like you describe. self-paced and continually graded. She brings home 40 math problems, it's obvious she has no trouble with some of them, yet they all need to be done. Meanwhile she struggles on subtracting negative numbers, a smarter system would be for the software teacher to recognise when she has something understood and slowly transition to the weaker areas.

In the early years when teacher is more like supervised play I think teachers better serve the children, but middle school and beyond, I'd vote to kick out all the useless teachers, keep the few that are good and massively switch to computerised learning.

In California education has sunk so low that one of my daughter's teachers explained the common core standards now being taught as a last ditch attempt to get most of the children that leave school to be able to do something as basic as read an instruction manual. Half her class are children with parents that have no more than 3rd grade education themselves, and the other half have parents that work at google, twitter, oracle etc. When parents were recently surveyed how to improve the school district, less than 2% of the immigrant parents completed the survey citing they couldn't understand the questions, which had even been translated (at an unfathomable cost of $24k) into Spanish. While we have such a huge range of abilities, a self-paced learning computerised scheme would at least mean the children that are capable of learning will do so and not just sit twiddling their thumbs while the children struggling to do last years level work soak up the educators time.
>Remember the netbook craze? They put linux on there, but they didn't start to sell in volume until they replaced it with windows.

Not exactly how I remember it. They sold like wildfire initially when linux was first put on it. Then MS started giving away windows licenses because they freaked out over linux adoption overtaking them.

Somehow them and intel managed to prevent all the hardware manufacturers from improving their specs (each year they got progressively worse).

Something very fishy went on with that market.