skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where's your argument? Where is the analysis? Tests? Predictions? The future? Who was your audience and their device demographics?

Gartner gave a decent report and predictions for 2013. The W3C is now opening classes on Mobile Web.

You're being terribly disingenuous by preaching your faith about the mobile Web which implies foresight no further than next quarter.

People are paying money to learn these skills, and you're just echoing blatantly reactionary non-points.
> In the UK many leading retail groups have called for reform, highlighting what they see as unfair tax advantages afforded to multinationals such as Amazon by outdated tax treaties.

Currently Amazon pay very little corporation tax in many of the countries they operate in which gives them an unfair tax advange against local competition. This allows them to set lower prices and trade more efficently..

In Amazon's case it would seem like closing some tax loop holes to get them to pay their share would help level the playing field and potentially increase competition between Amazon and regional stores. This can only be a good thing.

The one worry though would be how changing the tax system would affect smaller tech companies. Companies which serve multiple countries with low staff could be caught out by increased tax or just technical / accounting costs if you suddenly need to track and file taxes for every country you have customers in.
Well, just one more step forward in Britain's unrelenting stride towards becoming a total surveillance state. :/

Once the data is commercially available, it'll be sure to lead to even more targeted marketing, and discrimination by insurance firms.

Edit (couldn't resist :P)

England Prevails!
I think you misunderstood me or I wasn't clear. I'm not saying an individual's habits should be regulated or certain products should be banned, but that users of damaging substances should carry the cost those habits cause. This is the opposite from restricting individual freedoms: it makes your more directly responsible for the actions you take and makes you free to take those actions without ever burdening your fellow citizen. Maybe all those things just apply if there is mandatory health care, but I'm not really used to reason in systems where this isn't the case.
10 years of fraud cost less than the implementation of chip and pin? EU banks and finance firms must of folded half a decade ago under the crippling burden.

Thankfully these wise financial institutions know how to count monies, offloading fraud costs into higher fees and fines for consumers and businesses. Else we'd all be in a bad spot.
Why? To create unnecessary Internet controversy?

The fact of the matter is: I'm happy getting Google search for free, and I've been a loyal paid subscriber to the Times since I've moved to New York. The business model of ads seems to work, otherwise there would be no Google or New York Times to complain about.

Furthermore, the comment I replied to has nothing to do with the article. Web pages and Chrome extensions are totally different things. Web pages present you with what the content creator wants you to see. Chrome extensions as documented in this article change that out from under you without telling you. Do you see the difference?

(Compare that to an extension like AdBlock, which makes clear that it removes ads from pages you visit, so if you install it, you won't wonder why you aren't seeing ads anymore.)
"it's not just 'vapour'"

Citation needed.
All Round Responsive
Simply profiling only parts of your C++ code with perf
if all these things were interesting to people and they couldn't get used to it, we wouldn't be able to function as a society.
They want to find a longer-lasting arrangement with a company which would have two advantages:

1) Not necessary to beg the community each year, saves a lot of time for the real work on the project

2) The company could easily deduce the donation from their taxes, making this donation very cheap for them
So... what new features exactly would those be...?
Sounds good...but they will OT reach their original target of 1.5m EVs per year. It was probably a good statement of intent at the time though.
I agree, except for the last one, which I'm not concerned about - in an open/transparent society, such "problems" (slut/drug abuser/B&D/...) would not be considered problems any more, but only "life phases"/"exploration periods"/"lifestyles" - after all, when everybody is "weird" in one way or another, nobody is really weird any more.

It's only the commercial exploitation I'm worried about - it has a lot of potential to meaningfully impact human lives, usually for the worse, and often because of things said humans have no influence on.

Though for those living in totalitarian/fascist societies (e.g. gays in Putin's Russia) have much better reasons to be concerned.
I like Walk Highlands - but it's only for Scotland: http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/ and Geograph: http://www.geograph.org.uk/
Ah. Regarding the mass media campaign, it may be possible that the money spent is recouped in healthcare savings. It's very much up in the air the net economic effect of something like that.

You can't guarantee that it's going to have a positive/neutral effect, but neither can you guarantee it's going to have a negative effect on the public, either.
I've seen something like this happen before, where a person registered an offensive phrase as a business name on a mailing list and was getting mail for it because no-one bothered to check the name. The fact that the mail was qualified with "... or current business" suggests a similar possibility (it really wouldn't be hard to register a place of business on Google Maps as "Daughter Killed In Car Crash" at his address).

The corollary is that someone out there's a real fucking asshole.
From Milton Friedman, archmage of conservative, supply side economics:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax
Cacti is just a graphing tool that sits on top of RRDTool . It doesn't provide up/down monitoring and host/service check scheduling, it doesn't provide features such as alert escalation logic, and a whole bunch of other fairly important things that a monitoring engine such as Nagios does.
We have way more serious problems to solve, really.

I wasn't aware that we had to attack the list strictly in order.
Awesome. I am very interested to read your round-estimate list of what items to cut from the Federal and state budgets (only the state where you live or have an active interest, just for brevity's sake). If you would, please provide either a dollar or percentage amount.

Bonus points if you can get to 10 items per entity that comprise at least 20% of either entity's budget.

(To reply to my own snark: "Just cut taxes" sounds great until you realize that SSI, Medicare, and the military are far and away our largest expenditures in at the federal level of the United States. In Texas, health care and education together account for 54% of the state budget. What to cut, indeed.)
Good point! I imagine some people could take that as offensive/weird however.

That said I donate to an actual charity and am believing that I should start tipping less anyway. It subsidises the company, which should pay its workers, and was meant to be an acknowledgment of great work, not an expected way to earn your average income, like we sometimes see today.

Luckily where I live (Canada), we don't have 3$/hr wages which make you seem like a horrible person for not tipping. So that said, while I could tip both minimum wage workers, I could also just not, as I only earn about $1000 more per month, which is offset still, as I'm still paying off my student debts, which means that while I may seem richer, I am not until my debt is repaid.
Haha, you wish; more likely prices will go up because petrol stations complain about not selling as much gas anymore, so they have to raise the prices to compensate.

There is no such thing as decreasing gas prices.
I was hoping that distance + elevation could give a sense of the difficulty without having to create a "difficulty scale". The problem I always have with such scales is that each site is different and their definition of a hard hike is not my definition.

In terms of monetization, all I know at this point is that I want it to be freely available without ads. Beyond that, I'm flexible. A supporter badge could work. I was also thinking it would be cool if there was a way to monetize the pictures. For example, if you could order prints, a portion of the revenue would go to original photographer and hike.io.
Yes we do.I also didn't know that they were portuguese
His career is already defined, take it you've not seen "Dude, Where's My Car?"
Why not read something established instead of discussion this black grey white home-made scale?
Like the jung derivates example mbti.
Also the author is biased, he shows no understanding that people are different instead he claims that his nerotypical archetype is superior and the rest of us should strive to emulate him. It is nothing wrong with becoming a wholesided person, but saing that empathy is the best skill is biased and in majority of the cases wrong, i promise you that you don't program a computer with empathy no matter how hard you try.
My view on the matter is that most of you are connecting empathy with intellectually feeling witch i would map to feeling extrovert and then you guys discriminating continue to map feeling introverted to sociopat. Which is ironic because it would seem the author probably is a feeling introverted dom or aux.

http://mbtitruths.blogspot.se/2013/01/the-functions-explaine...

"Feeling

Extraverted Feeling - Fe users take as their primary focus group values and feelings. Their own emotions are strongly influenced by the emotional atmosphere and other peoples' emotions. If others are having a bad day, they're having a bad day. When asking about the ethical thing to do, they refer to societal norms - what OTHER people feel. They want their peers to agree with their opinions and may feel bad if others disagree. If they've done something immoral, their strongest cues will not be how they feel, but if those around them have an unfavorable reaction. But because they are more aware of others' feelings then Fi users, they are better at deliberately doing or saying things that give people positive feelings. These are the types of people who can be referred to as "people-pleasers." Their facial expressions are often quite animated, with big flowing natural smiles.
Teachers, hosts, caretakers, diplomats, politicians, salespeople, receptionists, waiters/waitresses, PR reps, missionaries.

Introverted Feeling - Fi is basically Feeling turned inward. Those who use this function have feelings that are more hidden from view; they are less obvious and they may only share their true feelings with their close friends and family members. To decide if something is moral, they simply ask themselves how THEY feel. So if everyone thinks that eating chocolate chip cookies is okay, but they feel that it's truly wrong, they will have a personal problem with seeing people eat chocolate chip cookies and not eat them themselves. They are not as expressive as Fe users, but they probably feel their emotions more acutely since they don't convey them directly. If Fe is direct expression, Fi is indirect expression. Instead saying "great job, you rock!" they would give thumbs up with a sincere smile. They also focus on individual feelings rather than group feelings. Their facial expressions are rather constrained and may give the impression of pride and passion.
Artists, poets, composers, therapists, counselors, writers, speech pathologists, photographers."
Well, I pay for the Times. Nobody is forcing me to do that, but I like them, so I give them some money. It would be nice to not look at ads, but it's their newspaper, not mine, so it's not really for me to decide except with my wallet.

It's tough for content creators to make money, so I'm grateful that the Times can subsist on my $12 a month and some sponsors. In another Universe where everyone was willing to open their wallet, I'd prefer paying $24 a month and not seeing ads. But I guess that's not enough money to run one of the world's top newspapers, otherwise, that's what it would cost. No reputable publication wants a potential conflict of interest to taint their reporting, after all.

(Consumer Reports is an example of content that is solely paid for with subscriber's money. Good, but not as good as the Times. And there are still controversies, like employees at CR getting jobs at companies whose products they've reviewed. It's hard to eliminate all conflicts of interest in the skeptical eyes of Internet critics.)
BTW this is the pizza he bought-
http://www.heliacal.net/~solar/bitcoin/pizza/

I hope that at least it was good :) (For $10M)
Frontend developer career advice?
Hello, im currently 23, studying network technologies. My interest in web dev began about a year ago, since then i decided that frontend development is more fun for me to do, yet im still interested in learning backend languages. I have a good foundation with C#, Java, Php, but sadly thats what it remains, foundation. I'm not a complete newb when it comes down to HTML5, CSS and javascript. Have also some frameworks behind me. Currently im employed by a start-up company and am a bit frustrated if i actually will ever become a good frontend/backend developer.
Questions:

1. Can anyone master OOP languages with lots of will and determination.
2. Does developing with html5, css and javascript, give you a better understanding of other languages?
3. Can someone get a job with my experience, a internship is also okay, but i have financial problems and most of the internships where i come from are not paid.

My current experience is:
3 month internship as a .Net developer
4 month (till the moment) frontend developer.
html5, css, a little bit of javascript, newb php skills. Can i score a job, keeping in mind that im ready to put all of my time and passion in learning how to develop amazing(i get amazed when i see something beautiful and intelligently developed) web apps.
I'm very eager to learn and implement new technologies in my frontend journey.
So how do these very large bitcoin holders cash out now? Is there somebody that provides a service to slow sell them?
Depends how you define "wealth". If by "wealth" you mean "money", then more money can be printed (not that you'd want to do this). If by "wealth" you mean goods or services, more of those can be produced. I'm not really sure there's any definition of "wealth" that's zero-sum, except maybe "land".
Kim Dotcom is an evil genius and a remarkable marketing guy. During his whole career no doubts he made a fortune out of other people work BUT, still, he can't be considered responsible for it because - in fact - he had MILLIONS of users who actually used the pirated content megaupload made available (and i dare anyone here to throw the first stone if they never used megaupload). So, while i'm not yet sure i like the guy, i still consider the megaupload affair a huge mistake.

What is astonishing anyway is what he made out of the whole situation. No doubt most of the people out there would have been simply destroyed by events. Not only he wasn't, but he managed to launch two different businesses that still surely has a lot to show in the future.

Regarding this specific music project, i can only say that i agree with him. Paying for the music you like IS the new model , so far he looks like one of the few who understood it (together with Spotify, which is in fact doing the same).

PS: I really like the album he made available for free.
Agree, in fact if this happened to me - given that I work with some of the systems that could give rise to such things - I would probably be more amused and curious to find out what happened, than angry. ("How did you even know that...?")
Rolling a weed cigarette with tobacco produces something called a 'spliff' in the U.S.

It's common in the U.S. in New York and California.
extra touch: pretty format the JSON response from the "try it yourself" lookup

Also, allow more fuzzyness in the query maybe. For instance, "IP4000r" returns OK, but "IP 4000 R" (spaces) doesn't.
The desktop experience on Linux has actually got worse over the last few years though, at least for me, to the point that I'm seriously considering switching back to Windows. There's just too many regressions in fundamental things like audio support. I dread to think what the PulseAudio development methodology would bring to init-land, where bugs and crashes have a much bigger impact.

(Did you know that there's no such thing as an official stable release of PulseAudio anymore? The latest release, 4.0, includes stuff like a patch that's literally incomplete and breaks audio resampling in some circumstances. This is going to be reverted in 5.0, but that'll come with more major changes and no doubt more breakage from those major changes. Lennart Pottering works for Red Hat and maintains a set of patches for Fedora that fix some of the problems - I've even encountered one major issue that was only patched there by him and not fixed upstream at the time - but from what I've heard Fedora's still not much better.)
> "well it's a great way to finance chemotherapies"

That's not how it works. Cigarette tax doesn't go directly to the healthcare budget. At least in most countries.

> Smoking is a luxury.

And a very strong addiction.
Best jobs: Lets say a "good job" is 75k starting, not more than 50 hours a week average workload. Theres a lot of other things I care about more, but keeping it highly quantifiable might make the discussion easier.

Experience: 4 years as a php software developer with good recommendations, but no where with with a huge number of users.

Applying to about 30 places, the reasons I've been turned down have been:

- Other candidates worked at bigger companies.
- Didn't go to an impressive undergrad school.
- Failed 1 technical screen out of 10 taken.

Could you name some of those places hiring?
You cant go wrong either with Rails(Ruby) or Python (Django),they will help you develop your app quickly and both solutions are fun to use. I personally prefer Ruby while Python is easier to deploy on a server. But you'll attract more data scientists with Python when your prototype is mature.

PHP : while easy to learn, i would not recommend it.It's an old badly designed language that has little future outside cmses.I only use it to customize CMSes today,i would not develop any app from scratch with it, furthermore writing PHP is awfull compared to Ruby and Python.

NodeJS: While Javascript everywhere seems like a good idea(you'll have to learn Javascript to script the browser anyway), NodeJS use async programming , and async programming is hard,no matter what people say, furthermore Node is not mature yet, especially its libraries.

Java(JVM):If you have time try it(Spring/Play/...). It will feel hard and verbose but You'll learn a lot of interesting concepts. If you want to code a prototype quickly forget about it. And Java has a lot of very good and mature librairies.

So if you want to develop an app quickly and you care about how your code look like, go with Python or Ruby. If you have more time go with the JVM.

Also check basic informations on these topics :HTTP,Rest,OAUTH you'll need them pretty quickly if you want to interact with Twitter.
.. and in the replies to your comment you have the reason for "Why Does A Good Kettle Cost $90+?"
Frankly, relying on each little community member results in the kinds of banners and full-page modals you see on the English-language Wikipedia every year.

I'm not entirely convinced that's a better alternative.
Steve Albini added figures to that : http://www.negativland.com/news/?page_id=17
Pretty famous & old article but still informative.
You claim that women are getting into STEM, and then forced out through (the cause) a hostile environment.

But you have nothing to support your claim beyond "any women I have talked about the subject" says so. If you have "lots of reports and studies" to show that the cause is from a hostile environment, bring them on! Im calling on your bluff there.

There is "lots of" reports that show that the number of women in STEM subject are decreasing. However, they rarely if ever venture into the cause of the statistic decline. Since statistics are cold facts without much worthy of discussion, its the cause that people discuss.

And its such causes that study of human social behavior is useful to figure out. It using Science rather than grunting.
Why did chief HR Officer become Chief People Officer?
> Today, more than one in five American children live in poverty.

Wow
Ever tried Borland's Turbo Vision? It came out somewhere around that time and was absolutely fantastic.
The only relationship I can establish with a company is a contract. By definition, it takes other people to have an actual interpersonal relationship.

The information that the employees at a small store know about me comes from establishing a relationship with those employees, from natural, organic chatter with them. I share it with them, and they share stuff with me, to establish a rapport. If those people were to share those details with their colleagues specifically to try and target me for marketing action, I'd feel that our personal relationship was being taken advantage of for the sake of the commercial relationship, which would make me withdraw from the personal relationship.

In particular, when it comes to this sort of personal information ("my daughter died in a car crash"), this is the stuff you share with people you specifically trust, because you have an actual, preexisting relationship. It's something deeply personal, that you expect you can trust the other person to keep private. Not something you expect, or want, to be added to your client file.
It's also the release of Kim Dotcom's debut album 'Good Times', and also his 40th birthday! :)
This is so nice, until you figure out that the electric car has been around since 1880: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car. Now it's trying to claw its way to 0.1% of worldwide car sale - and let's not try to figure out which percentage of total cars used this represents (probably 0.00001%).

I know that after a tipping point adoption just starts snowballing, but that point still looks 10-12 years away (a market share of electric car sales at 10% or better).
No, he is definitely closer to a billion.
This information will only be used to cause harm and bring misery to people when they need help the most.

I have private medical insurance through my work. Last year I made two claims, which were covered by the insurance company. However after the second claim they sent me a letter requesting access to my medical records. Obviously I told them to fuck off as they're an insurance company and have no business poking through my medial history.

This data probably shouldn't ever exist, but if it's going to, it should be anonymous.

Going to see if I can opt out ... somehow.
I think that the most important sentence in the article contains the word Mars. Mars cooled first after all. A proto replicator is possible to be carried to earth after some form of collision event with meteor or comet.
Thanks, was coming here to ask about the front page picture. Wow, what a shame, I've been to Zion but didn't hike this place :(
You are right. Empathy and sociopathy, though both rather ill defined, do not sit at opposite ends of the same spectrum.

As a child, I was highly empathetic, caring, and frequently overwhelmed by others’ emotions. As an adolescent, I did a face-heel turn and became very manipulative, frequently lying, gaslighting, and emotionally abusing others.

But now it’s the positive aspects of both; I don’t feel emotions very strongly but am quite empathetic toward others, accommodating their needs with perceptive and manipulative skills honed by an adolescence of (frankly) sociopathy.

Being entirely self-serving gets old, actually. There’s not really any challenge in picking pockets or getting laid.