skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The craziest thing to think about is that because a few kids at Instagram were dicks or because one or two of the thousands of Twitter employees did something bad, we extrapolate those behaviors to every tech startup worker.

My fiancee and I both work very hard, live in a modest house in the east bay and volunteer in our community quite a bit. I left San Francisco 2 years ago after being priced out of affordable living and I have no resentment to anyone working at a company that provides a lot of perks. So why am I lumped in with some guy at Instagram driving his Lambo to his mansion? We could not be any more different, beside the fact that both of the companies we work for are funded by VCs.
It does not compare well to other frameworks in Ruby either.
Erhm, tl;dr? :)
Has no one has pointed out the Typoglycemia effect yet?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typoglycemia
I suspect the kindest thing one can say about Forth is:

Forth: all the other languages were written by somebody else.

As they say: if you've seen one version of Forth, you've seen... one version of Forth. And also: standards are a good thing, everyone should have one!
Perhaps I've absorbed the bias from whichever exposé I read on the matter, but (paraphrased), she ran medical centers more like "places for poor people to go and die", and ran them zero painkillers, inadequate, unhygienic conditions that were understaffed, all so that she wouldn't 'interfere' with their suffering, which she felt likened them to Christ. As I stated, it's very likely that the truth is somewhere in the middle, and I certainly don't have any knowledge that would consider me insightful on the matter.
What do people in Silicon Valley plan to do once they hit 35?
Not really since it does not compare it to another other benchmarks. This is a test of how the performance of MRI ruby has changed over time.
As usual, Linus shoots straight.

http://www.osnews.com/story/21887/Linus_Microsoft_Hatred_is_...
iA has decided to not pursue the patent on Syntax Control, and attributes decision to DHH.

https://twitter.com/iA/status/416393539182796800
How about:

PHP: getting Perl and CGI to work on my web server is too damn hard.

Or perhaps:

PHP: I can never remember the difference between %, @ and $.
Walking in an Anthropocene Wonderland
Controversy drives page views. That's all you need to know about Gawker/Valleywag.

Stop worrying about every troll. Just ignoring them is the best revenge.
Hardware scaling on this monitor would actually be better than most 1080p screens, since you have more pixels to approximate the original image with. If your target resolution was exactly half the pixels on vertical and horizontal, it would be "perfect" (albeit with pixels four times as large as normal).
With just two tweets, DHH single-handedly convinced iA to drop the patents for Syntax Control.

Well done.

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/416273904299040768

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/416274154682216448
Ouch, can't no respect? Wish people like you would learn a little decency and tact. No need to shit on someone's work
Points 2 and 3 both sound like steps forward to me.

Also:

> middle income counties has also seen concurrent high real inflation on the ground which is highly under measured.

What does that actually mean? "Real" is an economic term that doesn't make sense in that context. And if inflation's not being measured properly, how do you know in which direction it's off? Or more generally - you seem to think inflation is higher than is being reported; why do you think that?
Taliban Revenge: The Plight of Germany's Afghan Staff
Phoenix: Recently Implemented Features
As I stated elsewhere, and as the grandparent illustrates, there's a place and a purpose for the 95% guy. The Wright Brothers clearly moved aviation forward in real and measurable ways. Compared to what came after the Wright Brothers, it would be generous to say that they got 95% of the way there.

If your goal is to prove a market quickly, the 95% guy is definitely good enough. Sure, you'd take a 100% guy if you could get 'em, but they're even harder to come by. Anecdotally, I know quite a few of the 95% guys myself, and they're doing really cool things.

But what they did in their initial stake is establish that flight is possible. They took strips of wood and cloth, and turned it into a machine, that flew, through the air.

Yeah, if your plane crashes because of propellor harmonics, that's a problem -- but that's a problem beyond the initial implementation. If you've invented the first airplane, that's a big problem to have, but if you've already demoed a working aircraft to the world, you've likely already moved past the 95% into a proven market, if not having fully established the market, and you can hire a team of engineers to fix the implementation details.

Either way, you illustrate a very important point, which is that where the boundary is drawn is crucial, and that definitely gets my upvote.
Formatting log output - fantastic!

I really like to use:

$0 -> $9 last hilighted elements in the inspector view

Especially when dealing with d3 generated svg .. can be tricky to get the right element otherwise.
Also, you can still use the debugger; command to stop the context within a function (eg, callback from ajax request), from within the console.
Ask HN: What do you do on New Year's Eve?
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Computer Science or Programming?

There's a wide gap between the sorts of problems you can solve (or even identify) with the two skill sets.
My friends who are involved in this area (teaching kids programming), some of whom work for a number of emerging organizations for teaching kids coding, realize that they need to teach (existing) teachers how to teach coding.

Ideally, programming is not taught in isolation but integrated into the other classes. For example, as the student's abilities increase, they can start coding solutions to science homework or the like.

Many organizations are hitting the point where they find they cannot rely on the handful of talented teachers to drive their curriculum agenda forward - especially as they scale to multiple cities. To address this, they need to develop their own teacher training curriculums. Since existing math/science teachers already are state certified for their subjects (and most certification laws allow some leeway for math/science to teach CS - as they should), they are the most likely candidates to promote into adding CS into their curriculum. For a software developer to become a teacher (outside of a private school or charter school context), they will find it difficult - due to the minimum certification requirements - they may even need to go back to school and study stuff that may not have a direct bearing on teaching CS (e.g. determining if children are being physically or mentally abused at home).
The article is giving me a 502, so I'll just say this:

I think the American decline is a lot like the iPad market share.

Most nations today are peaceful market economies who believe in individual rights and trading internationally. As a result, the U.S. is becoming less "indispensable". Is that something to fear, lament...or to celebrate?

As a U.S. citizen I'm bullish on the future.
>In May 2007 Vulpe and i4i successfully sued Microsoft, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Isnt that considered evil around these parts?
I don't think the historical evidence supports this. PHP was invented as a templating DSL for C programmers. I'd propose:

PHP (version 0): C is not an HTML templating language; Perl and Python are too heavyweight as embedded templating languages, given that all of our logic is in C anyway.

PHP (version N): PHP works fine, except it's missing function F.

...and so on, ad infinitum.

PHP doesn't really fit the paradigm of the original essay. It's hard to even pretend that PHP was deliberately designed as a reaction to other existing languages. Rather, PHP evolved. Hence, explanations of PHP tend to be circular: "PHP exists because PHP's design, documentation, and community were tightly focused on web publishing", or "PHP exists because it's backwards-compatible with PHP".
I'd always been skeptical of the SNPs (Scottish National Party) assertion that North Sea Oil means Scotland should be far richer than it is. After a bit of research it does seem like Scotland got screwed here. Also Norway is an excellent example as it does indeed have similar population and oil production.
The Vanguard enjoys dividing millions into This Group and That Group. Usefulness > understanding.
User Culture Versus Programmer Culture
Node: It's hard to find JavaScript coders since there is no career path for them.
Saw "ninja"; didn't read.
still less expensive then the Ivy League MBA Education. Provided yes, you will get more connections. However, MBA graduate of Ive League has terrible reputation on horning their words.

This Harvard Professor even wrote many paper on the benefit of horning one's word:

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6331.html

If all things are equal, personally I would rather hire this guy than anyone who graduated Harvard or Wharton.
I agree on 20-30 hours estimate but in general, you just cannot sit down in a few days straight and find out all competitors. The reason is very simple: most of the time, you don't know the right keyword to search. This happened to me. I spent days searching for competitors. Then I thought I had a pretty good idea and started on coding. During that time, my head started to pop out with "alternative" keywords, not necessarily direct competitor keywords. Those are dangerous because again, most of the time, people already have a way to do certain things (i.e. alternative solution). So that 20-30 hours is just the tip of the iceberg. After you start reading blogs and talking to people, what you ended up having is a way better list of keywords to search for. By the way, don't forget to get ideas from Google Keyword Tool itself.
Snapchat exploit may let hackers connect names and phone numbers in bulk
Javascript: Scheme is too unapproachable
Yes, what you need to check is whether your country/state requires one party, or two- (all-) parties consent. See this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_recording_laws
Yes, I'm surprised the article didn't mention them. Certainly the brand-name hostels are closer to hotels than boarding houses but some of the independent hostels with long-term residents are really just boarding houses with a different name.
That analogy doesn't make sense, as I understand the feature. They're not patenting "basically" NSLinguisticTagger. They're patenting the use of linguistic analysis to provide visual focus in a text editor. Again, yes, this is obvious in retrospect, but AFAIK, no one else was using linguistic analysis in this way before.
There goes the job market
Thanks for the reply. Sounds like your intellect and knowledge was appreciated. You did quite well as a geek inside by the sounds of it.

Something else for you to ponder...

Once upon a time a work colleague showed up at my house with one of his friends that I knew had been inside, or 'visiting' as he called it. I honestly thought about barricading them out, such was my prejudice. I feared that things would get stolen whilst I put the kettle on even though said friend of a friend was not a thief.

Looking back I now feel embarrassed to have had such huge initial misgivings. I very much enjoyed the company of said friend of a friend, and his close group of friends, all of whom lived much more colourful lives than mine. My sister enjoyed their company too. Since then I have not exactly sought out those that are criminally minded, however, I am not closed minded about people with a chequered past.

Clearly I could not let on to aforementioned friend-of-a-friend how close I came to just instantly hitting the 'reject button' on him, hence I am sharing that little anecdote with you. Your past - or the headline shock horror prison word version of it - is reputation that goes before you but that is not always a bad thing. People get put out of their comfort zone but they then find things are not so bad.
I am seeing this red flag here too. This is sounding a bit ridiculous. It seems to me if the other guy is the money guy and OP is the product guy, and the employees, board, logistics are all in the hand of the money guy, then he is doing precisely his job.

What does OP really want his cofounder to do, maybe its time he explains why is he an 'overrated' person.
Here's an article from 1995 titled "Japan May Still Surpass U.s. To Become Leading Economic Power By The Year 2000":http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1995-04-10/business/95041...

While the overall trajectory maybe right, the comparisons between the likes of USSR is really incorrect. The actual "fall" of the USSR came at the dissolution of the lands conquered by the old Russian Empire. The tensions driving that, besides obvious greed for money and power, were that those pieces weren't always together to begin with. Russia, Belarus and most of Ukraine were, but much of the rest was absorbed through violence. Even today, Ukraine's west and east are at odds with each other - one part wanting to come back to Russia and the other wanting to go back to Poland/Europe.

The military strength is likely to depend a lot more on unmanned machinery in the next few decades rather than on human soldiers. If true, that would erode much of the advantage China and India hold from the sheer numbers stand point.

Economically, China may very well develop to be #1. That said, they do have a long road ahead of them in terms of really sustaining their own buying behaviors. Currently, US is #1 through much of its own consumption. This is a very remarkable feat. The extremely robust domestic market is not something most other countries can really boast. Currently, both India and China need others to consume a very large share of what they produce. While I'm not really sure of all the measures McKinsey analysts are using here, it is a good illustration of just how much China still depends on exports:
http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/globalization/a_truer_pictu...

The article does note a shift to more finished goods export and focus on the internal market, it is far from a complete process. Incidentally, these shifts and the strengthening of the middle class that seems so vital, will also likely bring about more political unrest.

India is likely to experience social issues as the population gets wealthier, as shown by the recent debacle with the Indian diplomat and her house servant...
logically speaking, for "Controversy drives page views" = P and "Just ignoring them is the best revenge" = Q, in this case P implies not Q. if controversy drives page views then by definition they're hard to ignore (as long as they're controversial).
My favorite thing about this article is that it doesn't harp and preach and bang and shove the bandwidth conversation down your throat.

Truly, the bandwidth conversation is relevant mostly to non-motivated or new users. The abandonment issues are real, don't get me wrong, but abandonment really occurs if the user is marginally motivated. If I'm trying to buy something I want or if I'm trying to register for a service I truly want to use, I will wait.

Point in case, I waited not seconds, but weeks, for my Mailbox account.
> Over last 10 years, the sex workers in this area have reduced.

Hardly anyone wants to ask if that is an overall benefit to society?

The sex ratio for India is 108 men per 100 women [1]. For those under 15, the ratio is 113:100, so the problem is set to get much worse in the near future.

If India (pop. 1.2 billion) were to have maximal monogamous relationships and no sex workers, you'd have 577 million happy couples, and 46 million men left over who have no chance of any sexual intimacy.

EDIT: Condoms, contraception, and safe sex are obviously good things. My comment is whether eliminating sex work should be the goal. If that's the goal, then please answer the following question: Should men who don't have or can't find a normal relationship be forever denied occasional intimacy?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_sex_ratio
> Between 1973 and 2007, oil imports have risen from 36% of energy consumed in the U.S. to 66%.

It's interesting they didn't cite figures from 2007 to 2013 yet they link to them. From their EIA link, it appears we import about as many barrels per month as we did in 1973.
The monarch did not pardon Turing, the monarchy did. Hence the signature was not that of the monarch.

Noting that Elizabeth was reigning when Turing was charged [ and later convicted and sentenced], there is some fair criticism - at least from the foundational American political perspective - that the lack of any personal acknowledgement of the injustice lessens the measure and the pardon's praise of its own beneficence, in light of its power to declare itself the very writ of pardon, is inexcusable.
I'd say a key turning point was just a few months ago when Obama backed down on attacking Syria. It was surreal.
> "I was thinking, "please don't be Chinese" when I read the title. Fuck."

Why, is this "a thing"? The closest thing I can think off the top of my head as another example is Hwang Woo-suk, but he was Korean.

This wiki page doesn't seem to have many Chinese names: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_misconduct
Well, that would I guess. But for companies with quite a closed environment? Any ideas there?
Empire is built on the back of military power and political influence. America's military power is in decline, but more importantly, its political influence is tanking. So the end of empire is here.

At this point it looks like Russia will be the next imperial world power although they are certainly doing it differently than other empires of the past. The Euro-Asian Union is likely to officially hold the crown but as we all know, the size of Russia will mean that it dominates in that Union.

Of course, that empire too will run its course and I wonder if humanity can continue on the road paved by Russia. First, it was the Russian people who ended the Soviet Union and that was a remarkably peaceful event because Russians actually don't like wars. Next, the way that they are building the EAU as a partnership based on the model of the EU holds out some hope that it will be an empire that is less willing to throw its weight around globally. And finally, there has to be an end to empire. We humans have to learn how to share this planet under a different covenant than the one given to us by history. The EU is an example that all countries need to emulate, not by expanding the EU but by applying the EU principles in a broader more global way so that countries are no longer sovereign, but are subject to some sort of regional federation which mediates political and social affairs within and without the countries in the region.
This is really sad because there is real inequality in this country but its between the bottom 40% who combined have less wealth then the heirs of Walmart.

These protestors been have duped into fighting amongst ourselves instead of focusing on the real problem. Thats why "we are the 99%" was such a powerful slogan, solidarity is the only way were going to fix the problems in this country.
Well, consider the ruler function[1], which is continuous on the irrationals and discontinuous on the rationals. The real numbers really are denser than the rationals; that's why something like the ruler function is possible (notably, a conceptual reverse, continuous on the rationals and discontinuous on the irrationals, cannot exist -- the rationals are too far apart). I'm pretty sure this is precisely the phenomenon the quote you extract is referring to: if you were standing, infinitely magnified, at a point on the ruler function, then the function would be continuous ("look like a line") if your point was irrational, but if your point was rational, there would be a measurable gulf separating you from the rest of the function.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomae%27s_function
日本語 means "Japanese" (as a language), if you ever get into such a situation again.
This reminds me of the sci-fi novel, The Unincorporated Man. Set in the novel's past, was the Virtual Reality Plague. Essentially for the vast majority of people spending time in VR was more preferable than living in real life, and for parents, it was easier to stop babies from crying by putting a VR headset on them than caring for them. It caused economies to collapse, and many deaths.

While VR is just starting to emerge, you can see similar circumstances in the news today. This article is an example, but occasionally you hear about parents who spend so much time gaming online, that they neglect their babies and they die from malnutrition.

If anyone is looking for a good sci-fi book to read, I highly recommend The Unincorporated Man. To me, it's up there with Ender's Game on how great the ideas and thoughts conveyed in the book are.
> The American empire received its death blow in 1965.

What are you referring to? Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965?
What You Should Learn In College, But Will Have To (Probably) Do Yourself
OpalRB 0.6 successfully runs all specs against MRI 1.8-2.0, JRuby and Rubinius
Not to nitpick on the race here but Pyou is not a valid phonetic in any Chinese name.
Was that because C was better than Lisp though, because of timing, or because the people working on UNIX's goals were more closely aligned with the industry as a whole?

There are of course many other things it could have been, but these are the first that come to my mind.
This is my opinion. The world is built on American financial institutions such as World Bank, World Trade Organization. These entities ensure American dominance when it comes to economic power. China maybe taking the 2nd spot, but that's where it ends. The stage is always rigged so that United States prevails. The rules change in favor of United States, at the whim of it's administration.

Then comes the military power. No other country has had as much experience as the united states. Air superiority still remains to be the most essential battlefield in any war. Those who control the skies determine where their territories end. The United States by far has a great deal of experience in this field and it's spending on military hardware eclipses the entire world by many times.

The perfect empire is the one we can't see, and that is the empire of US dollar. As long as we depend on oil for energy output, so will the world's dependence on American dollar.
That latter title made me think of the story "Spacial Delivery" by Gordon Dickson in his collection 'The Right to Arm Bears'. A fun read.
Since when does the NCAA act as anything other than the judge, jury, and executioner?
No kidding. I dream of a world economy that has grown such that the median Chinese or Indian citizen can enjoy the lifestyle of the median American or Swede today. I don't think people can conceive of the magic that kind of productive bounty would represent.
In my county (suburban DC), it was roughly (I briefly considered moving into teaching in the early 2000s):
- degree in related subject, typically math (CS is/was part of the math department in the county)

- master's degree in education, or some other combination of post-graduate work that qualifies for a teaching certificate.

My degree in Economics, with a minor in CS, didn't come close to qualifying me to teach CS in high school. Not that it should have by default.

But, it does make me wonder where Chicago will find CS teachers. If they have to come from the ranks of those already qualified to teach math, that's not a very large pool.