skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference between being good with money and bad with money
Speaking of deterrents, it can help a lot to simply have a sticker on your house or sign in your yard of a security company, even if you don't actually have a security system.
I would even write code on my PDAs that had physical keyboards. Touch screens don't even come close IMO.
Probably. But there are a lot of constraints and requirements on the software development process for aircraft and other critical applications. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178B
Art is how society assimilates progress, converting technology into culture.

Of course stories matter. My self image as a proto nerd was largely informed by culture. War Games, Short Circuit, a bazillion scifi stories, popular science mags and books, etc. I may have learned coding from K&R. But I was motivated to learn how by the examples and role models I saw.

Liukas's talk at Heroku Waza 2013 (further down the kickstarter page) explains her philosophy and motivation for the book. Having personally spent real effort on messaging, narratives, innovation, and motivating people -- I think her strategy is brilliant.
I've been using Arq lately for online backups:

http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/index.php

It can act as a frontend to Amazon Glacier, just punch in your Amazon API keys. Considering ingress into the Amazon world is free and it's a penny per GB per month to store, I've basically paid $1/month to keep 100GB of personal data safely backed up at Amazon.

I'll need to pay more than that to get my data back out, because Amazon charges retrieval fees to get things out of Glacier, but if my on-location backups should fail to rescue me, then this has my back.
There is a very nuanced set of performance (mem and cpu) and usability tradeoffs you make when adopting a dirty checking vs change tracking system. I'm working on coming up with a reasonable talk about it.
King.com, makers of Candy Crush Saga... Trademark Trolls with a Double Standard?
Ask HN: Review my startup - gem.is
Access large amount of web search results, news, and other information, at a glance, suitable for mobile and desktop.

http://www.gem.is
Also, a good way to protect your computer, especially while travelling: use a Kensington lock cable to physically attach it to something that doesn't move.
I think concerns about national security are why the government wanted to capture and punish him to begin with. That hasn't happened fast enough and the wind is now behind Snowden's back. Showing some semblance of the possibility of mercy at least is more politically feasible than calling for his head, and they're still hoping they can stop the release of... whatever else there could possibly be.
Not a problem. I do sometimes forget that there is a whole wide world out there.
s/censorship/censure/
sigh. Perhaps it's time for Greenspun's 11th rule: never go full Libtard.
That's the rub though, 240k may be a lot to you, but what if that data scientist is delivering 100 times that value to the company? Who's to say that person shouldn't be paid $500k or $1 million a year.

The Yahoo COO who just got let go was paid $109 million in two years. He got a $29 million severance package. Would it be too crazy to suggest that maybe a brilliant engineer who was a major contributor to the success of a problem is worth more than $100-250k a year?
Good god, talk about repair costs...
I travel in Europe a lot, but Google Maps for Android has had the ability to save offline maps for ages now (which I use all the time). GPS also works offline obviously so you can navigate pretty well (still no search for offline though). In the latest version (7.5 I think) you just get the area you want to save in screen, click the search bar and scroll down to the bottom to see the option. I think it works on iOS too but you might need to use the "OK Maps" easter egg.
A lot of these people seem to think they should be paid like Wall Street traders. To which I say, "Fine, go be a trader."
You can even buy a fire-resistant safe with USB connectivity, so you can leave an external hard drive in the safe and still back up to it regularly. The ones I've seen are still pretty pricey (~$500), but they avoid the potential for "I remembered to back up, but I forgot to lock the drive back in the safe, and then the house burned down".
The F35 procurement, would be a good sequel to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA
You're almost there...

Now apply this to the implication that these sv companies did not depress engineer wages.
Google: We Don’t Use Twitter Or Facebook Social Signals To Rank Pages
The point I was making is that the NSA have lost the plot and are acting completely counter to US interests by this point. Far from trying to scale them back, any adversary's strategic interests were best served by sitting back with the popcorn while the NSA screwed up the societal infrastructure. And worse, the NSA may yet carry the day, which will embolden said adversaries in the knowledge that the systemic failure is unrecoverable. That's the clusterfuck here, not the public leak - Snowden just shined a light on it.
looks like Webscraping of major news sites ..
The Green Prince (Sundance 2014)
I could have written this. You are my friend :)
That remains to be determined; with sufficient control transmission is less likely to occur. From:http://ragoninstitute.org/hivcontrollers/patients/about/

Studies have also shown that people with higher viral loads are more likely to transmit HIV to others. Lower levels of virus are thus beneficial to the individual, because they predict longer AIDS-free survival, and to overall public health, because they may reduce the rate of transmission. Some HIV controllers are able to maintain levels of virus that are so low that they are termed “undetectable,” these individuals have been described in the literature as elite controllers or elite suppressors.

HIV is already non-fatal due to antiretroviral therapies. So, this vaccine won't necessarily result in an increase in the number of HIV+ people (who are alive). But even if it does, I still believe it's better than no vaccine at all. Curing HIV (as in, eliminating it completely) from a controller is no harder than curing it in a non-controller. Right now both are impossible, but that may change.
I like the pattern in the example a lot. We recently started doing something just like this in a Rails app at work that has to make quite a few API calls per request. In the right circumstances it makes a big difference in response time. Our approach was basically just this: https://gist.github.com/kevinmcconnell/8365521

I could definitely see how using a language that makes these sorts of operations simpler could lead to finding more cases where it's worth it.
They are missing something, right?
Why more women conference speakers?
> As if one person has any chance negotiating against a Fortune 500 company's HR department, legal department etc.

Of course, you do. Just vote with your feet.
The question does not meet their guidelines either...and that was the gist of my comment.
That Richard Sherman Interview by the YouTube Numbers
Please tell me how. I would be forever in your debt for this.
Of course! Parents should give their kid a penny farthing as a first bike. It sure hurts when they fall off, but it builds character. Once they can brush themselves off and get back up, it's off to the factory!
It means that it can be used on client and server. Its a term coined by (I believe) the nodejitsu people in this article [0]. Airbnb also used the term to describe their rendr library [1] which aims to allow exactly that: rendering on both client and server

[0] http://blog.nodejitsu.com/scaling-isomorphic-javascript-code...

[1] http://nerds.airbnb.com/isomorphic-javascript-future-web-app...
There is a very large gap between not being a jackass and being politically correct. The OP of this thread suggested the former.
The median income for Americans over 18 is $24,062[1].

You're correct that tech workers are still workers--they're not part of the ownership class--but they're the lucky workers who are benefiting from the shifts in the economy toward automation/software/knowledge work.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...
Google Ups The Ante Against Amazon's Cloud
Ooh, hey, thanks for pointing out Beeminder! We often have users tell us it's great for people with ADHD, and we have some thoughts on the cheating problem you mention: http://blog.beeminder.com/cheating
WhatsApp is huge here as well, but many people started using LINE after the 1 dollar scare (99% of users here literally can't pay because of the lack of international credit cards).
If you want to switch from LAMP on Red Hat to LAMP on Ubuntu or even on Windows, it's easy because most, if not all, of the pieces are there. It's not so with Windows desktop or web apps - the pieces are proprietary and many of them don't run on anything other than Windows.
If I use your reasoning then Americans should be as afraid to write paper checks since each check has the owner account number on it, hence anybody who gets a paper check can syphon money using ACH. Not really! (Paper checks - even today - move more money than Credit/Debit cards)

ACH is far more complex then being able to withdraw money from someone's bank account with just their account number. To be able to initiate an ACH transaction bank level authentication is needed and it can only be done from an authorized bank. Can you give me a use case where someone can withdraw money from my bank account using just my bank account number ?

Any ideas ?

There is no logical reason for someone not to give out their bank account number anymore than their Credit/Debit card number. In both cases consumers are indemnified by federal regulations.
However perception is bigger than reality - just like in the early days of the Internet/e-commerce people were afraid of using their credit card numbers online so are they wary of using their bank account numbers online.
Dudes have different ways of being playful. Some of them are weird, in a different way. Personally, I embrace weird.
> None of those cities are anywhere close to as expensive as SF/NYC

I suppose you believe that NYC and SF have rent control because housing is so expensive there.

Have you considered the possibility that you have it backwards?
Good for Google.

Bots and fake followers abound on Twitter and Facebook.

The followers on Twitter are particularly useless.

Don't believe me? Just unfollow all your Twitter followers en masse and see how many unfollow you within 72 hours.

These folks are following you only because you follow them. They don't value your content.

Far too many tweets are tweeted by narcissists, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Good list. Yeah, I really like Shepitko's "The Ascent".

Kalatozov is really good. The Cranes Are Flying (Russian: Летят журавли) has really beautiful cinematography.

Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Cuba is outstanding for cinematography. You will probably not enjoy its propaganda message, and Cubans didn't like, but cinematography wise it is a beautiful film.
> open new docx etc documents in much older versions of Office, and in some cases, edit them

Well... There is partial functionality. That makes it even more difficult to support the stack as you have to keep track of which versions of what can edit which documents.

> You can create files in old Microsoft formats

Try explaining that to the average Office user.
I work on a YouTube music player for Chrome as a side-project: http://streamus.com/. It has done reasonably well for itself - 14k users and a 4.8/5 in the store.

I think my front-end is pretty standard: jQuery, jQuery UI, jQuery Transit, qTip2, Backbone, Backbone Marionette, Lo-Dash, Jasmine.

Back-end is all Microsoft-land because I was more comfortable building it in C#. NHibernate (ORM), AutoFac (Dependency Injection), AutoMapper (DTO<->Domain object mapper), NUnit (Test). Database is MSSQL. It's hosted by AppHarbor: https://appharbor.com/
I know lawyers who charge $1000+/hour. Name me one programmer who can do the same. Outsourcing has killed our industry in terms of monetary compensation
Microsoft has been doing fantastic over the past 5 years, especially when you take into account dividends. Just cause they were massively overvalued during the dot com bubble does not mean it has been a flat stock.

I really don't understand how you can dismiss market data that's right in front of you, it's bordering on denial.
My Macs all have encryption enabled, but I didn't know about Androids encryption. I'll be doing that as soon as my phone is charged!
You can hire a bar-admitted lawyer for $20/hour, yet some firms bill first year associates at almost $400/hour. The corporate service professions (law, finance, accounting, and consulting) have a self-regulating labor supply. A professional without hands on experience is not valuable to corporate clients, and hands on experience can only be acquired in the context of real litigation/deals/audits/etc. If demand grows, firms need to train and hire more people, and supply grows. I demand stops growing, as happened after the 2008 recession, firms cut back training and hiring to replacement levels, and supply stabilizes. That circumstance is unfortunate for the people who want jobs in corporate law/finance/accounting/consulting that can't get them, but limits the degree to which changes in demand affect the price of services.
Then you read about men like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Arkhipov and are are somewhat comforted that cold hard logic doesn't launch nukes.
Thanks for the article. It seems like the gist is - (please correct me if I'm wrong)

1) We have much better ways of measuring CO2 than we ever have before.
2) The amount we're detecting is going up and recently passed a major milestone
3) Serious and politically difficult cut backs in fossil fuels are required to decrease CO2 totals

Taking all that as fact because I certainly don't know enough to dispute it, that's for sure, I have a few questions -

1) Is this actually "bad" for the planet, or is it just bad for humans? The article states that the planet had 400ppm 2-4 million years ago. I guess my question is, why is it bad if humans cause this when it wasn't bad when other phenomena caused it?

2) Could the earth have a feedback mechanism that we don't yet understand to deal with this on its own? These seem so common in nature on a small scale. It seems likely one could exist on a large scale, too.

3) If the only way out of this is drastic human behavior change, then it seems like we should switch to focusing on adapting rather than preventing. Humanity just won't make the levels of fossil fuel cuts that the article says are necessary.

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Also, to respond to your ant analogy - I gather that you equate my question of the average temp for 2014 to predicting waves from minute to minute in the analogy. If one year is too short, then what length of time is long enough to predict? I really think that a major reason why climate change is so unpersuasive to many people (myself included) is that the theories aren't testable in short enough windows of time.

Please consider this analogy:

I have invented an algorithm that correctly predicts the average value of the S&P500 over the next 50 years. The algorithm really works and it says the average value is 1000x higher than now. Obviously, people could use it to make a killing, even though the algorithm does not claim what the year to year value will be. I could explain my logic over and over, but most people are simply not going to risk their own money on it. However, if I correctly predicted the value of the S&P500 for 2014, 2015, and 2016, I bet lots of people would take my advice for 2017. Without that evidence can you really blame their skepticism?
Have you seen girls playing with kids? Would you say it's “over the top” when some of them act in a similar way doing so? When a girl plays with a kid in such a way, does it “reinforce some gender stereotype”?
It really is not that simple in real life. That's a decent write-up of how advertising is supposed to work for your disruptive yet novel startup, but pharmaceuticals is a more complicated animal.

Drugs are things that people "need". If no drug companies advertised, people would still go to their doctors with problems, and doctors would still prescribe medication when necessary (you have some degree of advertising prompting doctor visits, but for the important stuff, and in a system where people are not afraid of the monetary cost of going to a doctor, they'll be going anyway).

However currently all drug manufacturers must advertise their products because their competitors advertise their competing products. Anyone who doesn't advertise will be left behind as patients request the drug that they saw on TV. No company wants to be the company that doesn't advertise.

Advertising makes advertising necessary. It's a sort of "Advertising Prisoners Dilemma": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma#In_economics

One way to break this is to create laws that forbid advertising. Another is to allow the formation of cartels.
The immediate redirect I don't care for at all. And then the auto reload. You're scraping news sites (looks like mostly Yahoo news) but I don't see any attempt at accrediting the sources, and while that may not actually be necessary (I don't know) it would at least be polite.

And then the proxy loads the entire content of the external site in your domain, but all of the relative links wind up broken and pointing to gem.is

This is just a little too blatant for my tastes, sorry.
Wire transfers != ACH transfers

Wire transfers are (almost) real-time and use Fedwire (domestic) and SWIFT (international) for communication in real-time. Usually banks charge hefty fees for this.

ACH is a batch network that takes minimum of 2 business days and generally costs mush less - often free too if you go through the bank's site.

The 2 are separate networks and regulated completely differently and hence different charges. Bottom line: if you want money transferred ASAP i.e. real-time/same-day it's likely to cost you. If you can wait for 2-3 days its likely to be free
Woz is someone who is straight out of fairytales. I wish I had a friend like him.
"The more merchants like TigerDirect and Overstock "embrace" Bitcoin, the more bitcoins will be sold at the exchanges"

False.

Case in point: the number of merchants accepting bitcoins has dramatically increased over the last year. Yet the exchange rate has increased. This is the case because interest/demand in bitcoin seems roughly proportional to the size of the Bitcoin economy (what you can do, where you can spend them). So the more merchants -> the more interest -> the higher the exchange rate.
It's worth exploring and discussing, and if academia wants to get involved, their contributions are welcome. I just think that they shouldn't be surprised when the lede is about "Princeton researchers" by mass media.

> I think there is general consensus that in North America we have likely reached peak Facebook engagement

I disagree. There are signs that US teens are decreasing engagement or maybe not even registering: http://istrategylabs.com/2014/01/3-million-teens-leave-faceb.... However, other age groups are apparently doing well, and there's no sign that 80% of users will leave by 2017.

On the whole, they continue to grow. The question is whether the teens are an early indicator that will apply to all demos/geos and that they will all decline, or if there's maturation in the product and that it better fits an older demo and the teens will grow into FB in later years. Or maybe something else.
I've had good luck with a handful of offline map apps for Android...like GPS CoPilot. Got me through 2 weeks on the road in Ireland (a country with the most absurd address system imaginable, so bad most of the locals just give out Lat Longs)
I bought it partly to be a note taking machine in meetings. I have no experience with taking notes on any type of tablet or laptop and it still hasn't clicked for me, but that's not a problem with the Surface.

The type cover is surprisingly good. I've owned laptops with worse keyboards. It's a little loose balanced on your lap (although it's workable) but fine on a desk. I need to get a Bluetooth mouse though because the touchpad is terrible (and of course very few desktop apps are comfortable when using touch/pen).

I find drawing on the screen is a little weird because it doesn't have the friction of pen and paper, but it's comfortable to hold and write. I've tried styluses on iOS and the Wacom pen is just miles better.

I've tried 4 programs and apps. OneNote (Modern app) is pretty good for handwritten notes. It does pretty much everything the desktop version does. Evernote (Modern app) is like the iPad version, i.e. very stripped down and it doesn't support pen input. Of course you can use the full desktop app, which does support ink notes. Windows Journal is a bit of a legacy; so far I prefer OneNote for handwritten entries and mind maps but Journal is the only packaged program that does handwriting recognition. There's a desktop app for handwritten math formula entry but I haven't used it. Finally, because I take notes in mind map format, I've installed the desktop XMind, where the UI does not scale on a high-DPI screen, but if you know the keyboard shortcuts it's usable.

So honestly, right now, it's not the magic note taking machine I'd hoped for. I'm finding myself using XMind the most. You don't need a Surface for that - I could have got a MacBook Air 11 instead, or simply stuck with wide format paper. I'm starting to use OneNote a bit more though. YMMV.

If that was all I used it for it would be a disappointment, but in just over a week this thing (that I'm typing on now) has completely replaced my 15" laptop, tablet and taken over a lot of the duties I'd normally do on my phone.
Nothing is completely secure. Giving out Credit/Debit card numbers on a website can lead to theft too. Giving out bank account numbers can to. In both cases consumer is indemnified as along as they flag the transaction within 60 days. The problem is the hassle of dealing with the banks etc.
There's both a RAND study and a wargame exercise that found the F-35 severely lacking. You can read more here: http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/the-f-35s-air-to-air-cap...
Obviously having rent-controlled apartments will increase the price of non-controlled units somewhat.

But I certainly don't think that rent-control is the primary driver of high housing costs in SF/NY.
It's also different in that there is a very well-defined path to becoming one of these partners from the associate level. All the people above you are also lawyers. There are usually 8 clear levels of associate and then you become partner if you are competent and make 7 figures.

As an engineer, there is no such clear path. Most engineers end up working for 8 years and at the end are only making 150-250k if they are competent. Even if you make it to the management/architect level, you are looking at 250-400k.

Software Engineers are sadly not compensated fairly for the massive value they add to the economy. That's the bottom line. We need to work together to change it.
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