skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally. I wish that was just the start of the pedagogy, though... It my beginning comp classes (if I ever have enough time to start teaching again) I want to teach the five paragraph essay for two weeks, (simple) programming or technical writing as composition for another two weeks, and other forms of essay writing (ie. not getting to the final point until the end after a long, winding description, or a lyrical essay format).

As a side note, poets make great technical writers because they can be so economic with language. There is something to engage here.
Consider a dynamic language to get a grounding on the abstaction. OOPS concepts make more sense in those especially if your doing windowing and graphics. May be worth it to look at smalltalk or ruby.
I thought that was a joke... :-/ I don't if it's hilarious or just sad...
GeekWire Radio: The data science behind that amazing U.S. dialect quiz
"Note that the number of required characters changes from 17,145 to 18,770 with the installation of SP1."

Wow. The story behind the extra 1625 characters must be good.
Because we all love unexpected debates over trivial semantics! Can't get enough of them!
Agreed that it's dumb behaviour, but it's not exactly a complicated hack - just run excel again (from start menu, from win+R, etc.) and it creates a new instance.
It was used to bootstrap it. Sounds like real work to me.
I'm not in this space in the sense of building some next generation eMail tool but I'm definitely in the market for such tools and I've also been thinking a bit about ways to improve eMail-related processes lately.

From my point of view Mailbox for iOS, Mail.app (or the GMail web UI if you don't care about encryption) and SaneBox combined work quite well. Add to that some individual automation using tools like Zapier and additional uncluttering tools such as Unroll.me and you should be good to go.

None of those alone is perfect right now but it's good enough for the moment. I'm still looking for a comprehensive solution for dealing with business invoices that reach me via eMail. Unfortunately, tools like Openera or Shoeboxed look quite promising but still fall short of what I need in one way or another.
"the shit some men say about women behind their back"

or the shit men say about other men

or the shit women say about men

or the shit women say about women

... I hardly think it's inherent to men only to vent their frustrations or thoughts about a person, regardless of gender, to another person/group.

And in the case of male speaking about females, I suspect (correct me if I'm wrong) that you're in general referring to sexually-undertoned comments about their appearances? I don't think anything will be able to take that away, since we are, as men, by nature (unless you're homosexual of course, but I'd say it's fair to call that a minority) attracted to women and vice verse...
Life After Amazon
I've been using it since the first month it came out, pay for premium, and used to evangelize it. These days I find myself using Simplenote more and more to avoid the frustration.

Problems I have with Evernote:
Conflicing changes peppered throughout notes, but no ability to see what the differences are clearly so I can consolidate all in one.
IOS is downright unusable to append to a note or delete anything from a note, and it's mostly just text in all my notes.
Errors syncing with remote server on my windows Machine even after uninstall with revo uninstaller and reinstalling.
Web based version pinned as a tab in firefox or Chrome sometimes takes a solid 45 seconds to respond on my 2013 Mac.
I keep trying to find workarounds or platforms it works well on, but Evernote keeps adding extra features and crippling core functions and no platform seems spared.

I'd like a tool I can smoothly append to a list, seamless sync between platforms, use hyperlinks between notes, and something I can easily access past notes for research purposes. Lack of links in notes, amount of notes in EN, lack of robust search, are only things keeping me from using Simplenote fully.

Thought about Simplenote or clearly for lists, Devonthink for finding relevant notes, though Devonthink is Mac only. Maybe the ultimate solution is a personal wiki, I saw Clive Thompson of Wired mag researching that, so maybe there will be a informative article there soon.
Roll eyes. If this was happening during a Republican presidency, it would be some random Democrat suing. Even though both parties got together to make this happen behind the scenes.
Why good governments should embrace open data
Appreciate the lateral thinking. Several issues related to evil SEO-like behavior would need to be addressed as well:

* Blow away my competitor's links on the topic I'm related to

* Always put my links at the top on my topic page

* Sneak my link into other pages not directly related to my topic (viagra spam on comp.lang.*)
Indications are Mike Munchak will return to Titans
TFA says "More Spell On You" was cleared.
The coolest example of someone using Glass was a friend of mine on our recent company retreat. Up in the mountains in a beautiful hotel, out early in the morning, and looking at a beautiful view. I wanted to take a picture, and that meant fumbling out my phone in the cold, cold morning air, and taking a picture.

My friend just stood there, taking it all in, and just had to utter 5 simple words, and took a picture, never taking his eyes off the view.

We can talk all day long about how some people might find it creepy, others might find it useless, or how it's not feasible in real life yet. But what Gruber and many other miss is this simple point: why shouldn't I be able to just look at what's in front of me and take a picture? It's so much easier than anything else.
> To become a better writer you have to stop writing and start speaking.

I loved it right up until that point.

The problem with the 5 paragraph essay, is that it's a rule-of-thumb. It's a good guide, but isn't necessarily appropriate.

People seem like they always want to prescribe 'the rule to follow to do x'. Their 'rule' ends up being a rule-of-thumb, and then smart people dissect its inadequacies. I think that's what you did, is you nicely dissected a stupid rule-of-thumb, but then prescribed an equally stupid one.

There are a lot of flaws in the structure of thought, and that definitely isn't an optimal way to write an essay. Personally, I like to diagram my argument out first (how the sub-arguments relate to each other, like a dependency tree).
There was a big push to get more men in nursing a decade ago. Hospitals offered big hiring bonuses and 100% tuition reimbursement after a couple years' employment. There were billboards on the side of the expressway talking about how it wasn't just a woman's job.

I don't know how successful it was, but I would have jumped on it if I wasn't close to finishing a CS degree already.
I've had this trouble. I think the way around it is to open Excel itself multiple times, and then open your files from each instance of Excel. Or something like that, I'm not at work and don't have access to a Windows box ATM.
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We're looking for a technical lead (founder CTO type.

Currently building on Ruby / Sinatra / AWS but this will require someone who is fluent in several languages.

Experience with APIs and a gift for UX is essential.
Experience with cameras would be a bonus.

We'll rustle up a decent salary, but mostly I want to tempt you with equity.
> Even then, is DDG viable competition ...

An irritation for me with DDG is them formatting result URLs incorrectly, and then ignoring any feedback about it. Two examples are them adding spurious www. prefixes to Google code results, and leaving out slashes when creating Apple developer URLs.

DDG could distinguish themselves by playing bazaar to Google's cathedral, but they don't appear to. A search engine that uses crowd sourcing and feedback would be disruptive IMO.

The examples. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=apsw - note the second link is on google hosting and shows code.google.com/p/apsw/ but clicking on it gives page not found because it goes to WWW.code.google.com/p/apsw/. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=NSString and note infobox at top which goes to Apple developer but clicking gives an error. The link should have a slash between Reference and NSString at the end.
Google acquires Bitspin, makers of Android app Timely
Android is loss making for Google, and has resulted in an industry with only two profitable players, both of whom view Google as a competitor.

I doubt that is the scenario that Google would like for the auto industry.
DuckDuckGo provides better results than Google. We have viable alternatives.
I just see the person who 'created' the sample as the original recording artist.

This is a perpetual debate =D. Although I'm not sure its black or white. A good artist can use a "sample" in the same way a panatone color is used by a pointillist painter. At that stage, its all about the spectrum of color, the contrast, and the entire effevt of many points of color...not just the quality of the sampled pigments in any one brush-stroke.
The NSA works for the President. He can order them to stop any and all of these programs immediately, and if they don't, start firing people until they do.

He won't (and I don't think he should) because he thinks it would be a bad idea from both a national security and a political standpoint.
Test Driven Rails – Part 1
You could trust them otherwise? You can't trust politicians, period. Their interests and incentives don't align with ours. Your default mode should be to distrust them, to expect them to lie when it serves their ends. Anything else is, quite frankly, a very naive world view.
+1 for Zim, even if you don't much like wikis. You don't actually have to use wiki markup or anything with Zim if you don't want to. You can just organize things with folders, subfolders and tags and never worry about creating links.

I find it to be sort of halfway between Notational Velocity and Evernote. Like nv it stores everything as flat files, but like Evernote you can add some structure to how your organize things.
The Congressman Who Went Off the Grid
Perhaps you could forget the buzzword and just learn to code well in your chosen language.

Then try another language -- preferrably one that is quite different from what you started with -- to learn a completely different approach.
It sounds like you've got a solid form -- for the writing part, it's just annoying/tedious/takes time to start recording your thoughts as they go. Writing is a form of thinking, literally, and if you can train yourself to document your thoughts as you are saying or thinking them, it won't hurt as much, I promise! Your first draft should always be shit, and then you revise and rebuild, like you were already doing...
It all comes down to semantics, doesn't it?

It wasn't imaged or indexed but the officer sat down and looked through it for quite some time.

I think you asked people what they thought the 1000 searches consisted of, they would include a CBP officer going through the contents of a laptop as a "search".
What's your point here? That you find these guidelines so specific that they don't leave any room for interpretation?
Elsewhere on this thread there is the suggestion that this could have to do with improper use of message pumps... Message pumps as a concept has equivalents in pretty much every UI framework I've looked at. (Some examples: run loops in Cocoa, g_main_loop in glib/Gtk+) If you violate the run loop's threading requirements it's not totally inconceivable that a mouse event could affect behavior.

I suggest it might be helpful to learn how the system works before you bash it.
Indeed, the NSA is one of the four branches of our government, and there is little control the executive branch has over its operations or conduct.
The five-paragraph essay isn't structured the way it is because that's a good structure, but because it's easy to write and grade quickly. The AP graders don't have time to read thousands of 5+ page essays with myriad layouts and structures.
[Clicked the wrong reply link. I've now moved my comment to the correct location. Sorry.]
The best place to start is actually the scheme iOS repl that comes packaged with the Gambit source. Take a look at the misc/build-gambit-iOS script (mentioned on slide 39,40 of my linked talk slides). It's a bit of a hairy build process (and clojure-scheme only adds more hair into the mix) but once you have the repl working it's easier to see where to slide in the .scm/.m files that clojure-scheme and Gambit generate. Some kind of CMake script would probably ease this pain in setting up all this Xcode stuff.
Sorry, it won't let me reply any deeper. I'm glad you agree you are generalizing, even though you don't seem to want to acknowledge you're making gross generalizations. Either way, you do realize generalizing does not make your point valid. If anything, it's generally considered a fallacy and for good reason. And since you haven't refuted any of the facts I've posted, I'm glad that I've been able to help you learn the world isn't nearly as bad as you seem to have been lead to believe. Contrary to what you seem to think, men do not often think of women as less than human, men do not run everything (that's that generalization again), women do make the same money as men, more women get degrees than men, women live longer than men, and your generalization that men, not some men, but men are attacking women is also not true. Clearly all men are not attacking women. There is no war on women.

And do I think women are under attack by women? That's an interesting question, women do seem to be fairly angry and judgmental towards each other, anecdotally speaking. I dunno, that's a good question. Are women attacking women?

And clearly I think your uterus is unmoored. You nailed it in one. Bravo.
If the 5-paragraph essay sounds bad, you should take a look at the French essay-writing style taught in schools and universities. In the first year or two of elite universities, the structure of the essay is often more important than the content.

http://bettizpod.over-blog.com/article-17353773.html
The Mathematics of Gamification
What makes you say it's equally stupid? Why don't you think it's optimal? I've never tried it before, and I'm curious how it works.
I used to use Google's Notebook up until it ended, and switched over to using a combination of ubernote and basket notes.
I would argue that structured writing with clear organization and simple diction is the most effective for informing people.

Books like Language Intelligence or manuals of technical writing delve into the topic fairly well. Watch championship extemporaneous speakers to see how to create an extended metaphor and build a structured progression of sources and analysis in a speech.
I've used those notebooks too! Now I use Muji notebooks. They are pretty nice http://www.muji.us/store/stationery/notebooks/recycled-paper...
Please add option for "Erlang" -- because, gen_server.
Not exactly what you want, but works to the same effect:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oA4rs0pfk5NzUyA0YX6QsUEE...
Best multiplatform notetaker: wiznote.
http://wiz.cn/index.html

Yes, it's a chinese product, so the servers will be in China. Hopefully the NSA has a bit of a harder time, and the local gov. doesn't have that many people reading English notes :)

Features are amazing, but more than anything I like the fact that everything is html, with headings assigned to shortcuts. Proper outlining.
We didn't miss it. It's just that its benefits are not worth its costs to many of us.

He also didn't say you shouldn't wear it. Just that if you don't, it's not your fault.
I don't care about arguments with feminists. I'm not a white male or a white woman so those terminologies don't apply to me. It takes time for sexism, racism to work its way out of the system but most of what you said are ridiculous visceral lies.
I think the healthy library ecosystem is due in so small part to the fact that a lot of people want to learn Rust; porting an existing library can be an excellent way to do that.
I did as well in 1988, but mine was missing a lot of things as I didn't have any good examples to base it on. All I had ever read was the Smalltalk issue of Byte.
Uh. There's

the aphoristic style,

the "5-paragraph" style,

the dialogue,

the trialogue,

the research paper, etc.

A paper should be as simple as necessary, but no simpler. Depending on your topic, you could have 20 paragraphs, 10 paragraphs. And if what you're writing is arguably good, length shouldn't matter. At some point in your paper you should say, "I'm doing a damn fine job here, and my professor should love to read this."

If you cannot say that, that is a good indication that you should dump the paper. Not some rigid, lifeless arbitrary numeral. Numbers are not out to get you.

Our education system in the West has done a serious disservice to us by installing this idea that we should feel bad about making others read what we write.

It's bloody awful.
You know their web results are from Bing, right?
Ask HN: How to verify that a user is a robot?
Strange question, but very interesting for me :)

So, you you wanna check, that user is NOT a robot - you can use captcha or something, that robots can't do well.
But, if you need check, that user is a robot?

For example, we create some multiplayer game, were players will programming robots. [this just example, imagine, that we can't run user code on server]. In this case, user can create some UI for a this game and play game by himself. This is not good for a game balance and other game things.

So, we must check, that user is a robot!

We can send request like "calculate MD5 summ of this or that", but programmer can automatize only this part, and continue to play himself with UI.

So,how can we verify this?

ps. sorry for bad english, but i hope, you understand what I mean.
My website gets like no visitors but I've had my email in plaintext on it forever. Never get any spam I didn't sign up for myself :)
As an aside: $13.99? Seriously?

I'm willing to pay more for quality, but that seems rather high for what one is getting. The description does not even include acid-free/buffered paper.

I understand that Moleskins and the like are a thing, these days. But what makes this item worth $14 per 300 page notebook?

I don't mean this as some sarcastic, rhetorical comment. I'm genuinely curious as to what makes this notebook worth that price.

(A question from someone who has e.g. spent more than he might need to on "the right" pen... :-)
> Anyone can put a urinal on the wall and call it art

I normally don't read Slate because of stuff like this; apparently it was a mistake to give them another chance.
I was bothered by your question, mostly because of the word fluently. I was hoping you would define that word in your comment. You did:

"How many programming languages are you able to use effortlessly to produce nontrivial programs?

I see this as a different question entirely, as I'd question whether a non-trivial program can be done without effort. Making I'm taking this too literally, but then what are you really wanting to measure?

So, what are you really asking? How many languages could we sit down and program with, and spend time programming rather than Googling? Or is it really "How many programming languages are you able to use effortlessly to produce nontrivial programs?"

Personally, I like to think of it as how many languages am I comfortable using to employ it in a production environment and support it for money. This means I know more than just the language, but the ecosystem and environment as well. After all, learning objective-c is easy. Learning all the cocoa frameworks? That will take much longer. Learning all the frameworks without needing to reference the documentation? Hah.
Quickly:

Single Homeless Adults: 76%
Individuals in Homeless Families: 24%

male percentage of single homeless adults: 67.5%
female percentage of single homeless adults: 32.5%

male percentage of homeless family members: 35%
female percentage of homeless family members: 65%

single male percentage, all homeless: .675 * 76% = 51.3%
single female percentage, all homeless: .325 * 76% = 24.7%

family male percentage, all homeless: .35 * 24% = 8.4%
family female percentage, all homeless: .65 * 24% = 15.6%

male percentage = 51.3% + 8.4% = 60%
female percentage = 24.7% + 15.6% = 40%

Ok, interesting...

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AGE

In 2003, children under the age of 18 accounted for 39% of the homeless population; 42% of these children were under the age of five (National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, 2004). This same study found that unaccompanied minors comprised 5% of the urban homeless population. However, in other cities and especially in rural areas, the numbers of children experiencing homelessness are much higher.

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minors, 42% of all homeless
children under 5, .39 * 42% = 16.38%

So male, 60%; female, 40%; children under 5, 16%.

If I make the assumption that the children under 5 percentage is evenly split between male and female, and an additional assumption that homeless children are members of families, it means that of the 8.4% of males homeless in families, all but a remnant are under the care of a homeless woman.

That means that the portion of the homeless that are women and their children is around half.
I just can't get used to note taking without a keyboard. I recently bought a nexus 7 and I really wanted to use it for note take but I just can't do it (Evernote, Google Keep, Swiftkey, etc.) - it's too annoying to capture thoughts.

I use a pen and paper and write the notes in Emacs (org mode) later.
Bing is one of many places that they get results from, yes.
Google is an advertising company. Everything they do is an attempt to protect their advertising revenue in the search vertical.

Read this article on all of google's besides search being a "moat."

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/25/search-googles-castle-moat/
I have never, in any language, on any project, in my life not needed a man page or some sort of knowledgebase or library data sheet.

When I speak English, though, I never need a dictionary.
That theory - infinite competition and zero switching costs - seems to be completely ungrounded in any kind of reality.
That's a demonstration that there is a reasonably broad base of support among the American public for taking a second look at how government intelligence programs have been operating recently, and perhaps revising the legal framework for regulating those programs.

I don't think that's accurate. This just happens to be one of those issues where the traditional left/right spectrum breaks down. Paul comes from the libertarian wing of the GOP, and Wyden is perhaps best described as a small government liberal. Together they represent not insignificant minorities within their own parties, but nothing like a broad bipartisan base. You wouldn't say Paul Ryan's Medicare plan had a broad base of support just because Wyden was associated with it (more or less, depending on whose talking points you're reading).
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We're two experienced founders looking for a CTO / Lead Developer. You'll have to be full-stack and a polyglot, but we're leaning towards Ruby / AWS. The more you know about APIs and Hypermedia, the better.
"in the old school sense of this phrase"

You mean it made you actually laugh out loud?
The article states that the unhealthy food costs less per calorie amount. So assuming that the average person naturally eats ~2000 calories a day, whether healthy or unhealthy, the healthy food costs more.
Thankfully this is no longer a problem in Excel 2013. (I believe it was still a problem in 2010.) The trade-off seems to be getting help/documentation is worse than ever. :(
Zim and nvPY are cross-platform and save everything as plain text, which you can open and edit on iOS with Dropbox or something similar.