skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oooh, neat! Might have to check it out, thanks!
>So, hope that theory is wrong, but it sets off too many alarms for now.

Yes. The the alarms bells are far too numerous when the co-founder of Rails Girls ("Our aim is to give tools and a community for women to understand technology and to build their ideas."), and community manager at Codeacademy expands her mission of education and inspiration to children via a book tailored to them.

Alarm bells everywhere.

Thankfully, you've caught the issues and rang the (many) alarms before the book has even been written. Very efficient.
The Cold War in general was full of all sorts of insanity no one would ever imagine to be possible. Prime example of truth being stranger than fiction.

That and all good satire has truth in it. The more truth and the better illustrated, the better the satire. Kubrick was a visionary for a reason.
Have you tried offering other plans? Your service seems to be one that people could use in the long term. Maybe 3, 6, and 12 month plans. Do like web hosts, and offer a slight discount (over month-to-month plans) as an incentive. Also, I think $29 is a bit too low for this kind of service. That's less than $360 dollars a year from a customer's marketing budget. Which is nothing.
They are saving it for the next quarters.

They will run out of things to sell soon enough, IMHO.
yes that would be awesome and I'd join as well.
Average rent in Berlin is not 1000 eur...Oh, I see they say it's for 85 m^2 in the city center. That's extremely roomy for a single person or a couple.
One tip about finding an apartment from another foreigner in Germany... Just find some local friend that speaks local dialect and ask him to call landlords for you. It can make your "time to apartment" much shorter (and cheaper).
You ought to read Lauren Ipsum sometime. Most of the book is taken up by story; the actual explanations of each concept takes very little space.
What world are you living in? There has been no deindustrialization - the US manufactures more than it ever did in the past.

The primary opponents of free trade in labor are conservatives (the laborers likely to be imported are likely to vote against them). Republicans don't generally favor protectionism for industries full of unionized Democrats who vote and mobilize against them. That's not the same thing as opposing protectionism.

Bush was a protectionist, as was Romney, according to both their supporters and detractors.

http://buchanan.org/blog/pjb-george-bush-protectionist-1332

http://mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=463

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000087239639044470900...

The rule is, unfortunately, not a principled for/against protectionism on either side of the aisle. The rule is simply cronyism - protect your allies.
On Huawei's attempt to buy part of 3Com: http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archive...

Controversy regarding a government report: http://www.telecomreview.com/index.php?option=com_content&vi...

Key quote:

The draft report by the US House Intelligence Committee, obtained by AFP, said an investigation has concluded that the two firms "cannot be trusted" to be free of influence from Beijing and could be used to undermine US security.

It said US authorities "must block acquisitions, takeovers or mergers involving Huawei and ZTE given the threat to US national security interests".

The panel launched its probe over concerns that China could use the fast-growing firms for economic or military espionage, or cyber attacks.
The History of the CIA Black Site prison in Poland
Investigating the dirty world of phishing emails
I've had something similar happening to me on my iPhone 5 about once or twice a week: the phone will just spontaneously reboot. It seems to happen most often when I'm switching between apps.

It boots pretty quickly and hasn't annoyed me enough to care about it. Haven't had it happen in a couple weeks, though. At least I haven't noticed it.

Regarding iOS 7, the iPhone 5, and battery life I haven't really had any issues. Just noticed that the default screen brightness was higher with the move from iOS 6. Decreased the brightness and now I'm fine.
I can "imagine" a lot of things, too, or I can change one number in a pom or a Gemfile. Because the infrastructure is both predictable and standardized. (And doesn't require barfing your dependencies' changes into your source tree to do it. Funny, that.)

"Write a script" is a poor solution for an endemic problem.
Update them when you want. Just like you would with a package manager. If you need to stay up to date, then have something monitor their commit logs.
There Is No Magic JavaScript Framework
Buridan's Principle[1] is even better.

"My problems in trying to publish this paper and [22] are part of a long tradition. According to one story I've heard (but haven't verified), someone at G. E. discovered the phenomenon in computer circuits in the early 60s, but was unable to convince his managers that there was a problem. He published a short note about it, for which he was fired. Charles Molnar, one of the pioneers in the study of the problem, reported the following in a lecture given on February 11, 1992, at HP Corporate Engineering in Palo Alto, California:

"'One reviewer made a marvelous comment in rejecting one of the early papers, saying that if this problem really existed it would be so important that everybody knowledgeable in the field would have to know about it, and "I'm an expert and I don't know about it, so therefore it must not exist."'"

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/p...
The 10 years before those 2 days helped a lot too...
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Chromebook owner here. I haven't been able to convince the data on my machine to function on the free plan yet this month, but I'd chalked it up to the 3g modem being mostly iffy anyway. Looking forward to watching this.
I've been a software engineer for nearly 30 years. I accept that in this business, crunch time happens. That is, I accept it as long as it's rare.

The boss calls me in at 9 PM to work on a crash, and I'm there till 1 AM? It happened - once in four years in this current job. I accept it when it happens at that rate.

In a previous job, there was an annual trade show. The pace picked up a month before it, and picked up again two weeks before it. The rest of the time, we didn't do crunch time. I was OK with that, too.

Extreme programming had a rule: Never do overtime for longer than a week. Why? Because it makes you stupid. This isn't an assembly line. Your brain has to be working well for you to be effective. Otherwise, you're just creating bugs that are going to take you more time to find and fix. Go for a walk. Go get a good night's sleep. Go do something fun for the weekend. Come back ready to crank.
The toll of the anti-vaccination movement, in one devastating graphic
maybe apprentice positions?
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This isn't loading at all for me for some reason. I get 13 bytes and it hangs.

edit:
I found the fulltext archived elsewhere on fullhn. This honestly just a listing of Go features and there's no "confession" to speak of anywhere. It seems like the OP would like Erlang.
Did you choose to take Judith Curry's word for it over the mainstream of the scientific community because of your expertise, or because she conveniently says things that align with your pre-existing opinions?

Blogs are always a less-than-ideal medium for picking out scientific truth, but compare Judith Curry's blog (which is barely better than Watts Up With That) with, say, RealClimate:

http://www.realclimate.org/

The differences in scientific focus is immediately evident. Judith Curry myopically focuses on lazy "debunkings," yelling at her imagined enemies, and hyping up her own public appearances; RealClimate focuses on new scientific papers, what's going on at conferences, and a much smaller proportion of "ethics" and "meta" questions.
It's not an excuse. As I said, I spend much less time configuring Go packages than I do for packages written in other languages.
You are right about the development platform... BUT:

1. The difference between usability of Eclipse, XCode, and VS has narrowed. Eclipse, especially, has slowly but steadily improved, and if that isn't sufficient, Google also has IDEA-based Android Studio in pre-release.

2. Windows is everywhere, but not the same anywhere. Different for two different CPUs in tablets, different on the desktop, different on handsets. While Android is not a direct replacement for Windows, it is the same everywhere, especially in terms of app compatibility at every API level, and in forward compatibility. Android has the best technology for scaling a single executable across many screen sizes and "distances." So expect Android in phones, tablets, cars, appliances, etc. running the same apps.
> Let's all step away from the hype, politics, and hollywood portrayals to figure out what's really going on.

Sure, but let's also enact policies that help make our societies and economies more robust to whatever that answer is. When there are time lags involved, you cannot wait for perfect information before you act.
Using the Customize interface also helps. Variables that are customized go in a big list and don't get set individually, nor do they require their library to be loaded before they've been set.

A few years ago I went through my 10 years of accumulated .emacs cruft and switched everything I could to customize, and everything I couldn't to the technique you describe. I sped my emacs startup time from eight seconds down to one.

On top of that I switched to using emacsclient which makes startup instant.
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Remember: the science just improves, and the science works.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_c...

"The scientific opinion on climate change is that the Earth's climate system is unequivocally warming, and it is extremely likely (at least 95% probability) that humans are causing most of it through activities that increase concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, such as deforestation and burning fossil fuels."
In anticipation of someone bringing up the Luddite Fallacy: [1]

It's true that we're still below 50% unemployment, despite tremendous increases in productivity and automation over the preceding centuries. The standard explanation for this phenomenon is that technology eliminates certain jobs, but also creates new jobs that couldn't have existed before.

That pattern has indeed held true (in the long run) since the Industrial Revolution began. But crucially, we can't be sure the pattern will hold true forever. There is no proof that it constitutes an inviolable law of economics. It could very well be that technology can result in a major, permanent, net loss of employment, but just hasn't yet.

So what could change? What might break the pattern that has held true thus far?

Here's one hypothesis. There is an inflection point--a threshold where automation has become sufficiently advanced. Beyond this threshold, our capacity to automate processes is faster than the expansion of demand for those processes. Whereas, before that threshold, new demand could only be satisfied by human labor, owing to society's inability to immediately automate the requisite processes.

If this hypothesis is true, then once we cross the threshold, we should see a long-term decline in employment. That's not to say no new jobs will ever be created after reaching the threshold. No doubt they will. Even so, more jobs would be lost than created, resulting in a net decline.

If we take this idea to its logical extreme, we can envision a world in which every process and occupation can be trivially automated. If we assume such automation always costs less than subsistence wages[2], then presumably any given firm will choose to automate all of its processes rather than employ people. The result being 0% employment.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_unemployment

[2] This is a big assumption. There could be a dynamic equilibrium where market forces balance the cost of automation against the cost of living. Thus the TCO of a robot would in many cases be very close to the cost of a human employee. Processes would then be divided amongst humans and robots in accordance with the relative costs of automating each process.
Strongly recommend The Lives Of Others. It's not absurdist like Strangelove, but it does address the psychology and motivations of those doing the surveillance.
Your embassy provides everything you need to know ;) http://germany.usembassy.gov/acs/working_in_germany/
> Put in your new name that Google rejects because it doesn't match the name on your phone bill / credit card / whatever.

This is the part that confuses me -- granted, my Google account for work has my legal name on it, and I don't have to deal with a mismatch between that and the name I go by. But I have several throwaway Google accounts, and have never had my real name turn up on any of them. Is this purely because I don't associate them with my phone number, and don't use them for e.g. purchases in the Play Store or whatever? Are you saying that, if I did that with a throwaway account, I'd suddenly find that it had ceased to be a throwaway, and had my legal name and suchlike associated with it? Pardon my confusion -- it's just that I'm astonished at the idea of Google, or indeed anyone, pulling a trick like that. Is that actually what goes on?
London's Victoria Line closed due to concrete in the signalling room.
That's funny. I glanced at the headline and then started writing my comment without reading your post.
I started writing about how annoying I found it when Optimizely started billing me after my free trial. Yes, I was using the service, but I hadn't made my mind up about. It's just an opportunity to help people trust you. Send them a reminder 24 hours before "we're going to charge you"...especially for a year of service. Come on!
I think they mean they train the immune system by creating an antigen, not an antibody, that mimics or is identical to the nonmutating antigen on the virus. Your immune system upregulates appropriate antibodies on its own through a feedback effect when certain cells (B cell?) that have randomly generated embedded antibodies on their cell membranes come across an antigen.

These cells begin to divide faster, and the children code for and generate the same antibody as the parent. This ups the amount of cells with that particular antibody, increasing the probability that the antigen will be targeted. They trigger inflammation to increase the flow of blood, letting more immune cells per second pass through scan the area (probably not helpful for aids, but for a cut, a splinter or a tumor that is fixed in place it is useful). They also release freestanding antibodies with the same binding profile that can disable viruses and trigger other immune cells to come slurp them up.

I think when they say they aren't taking an antibody approach they mean they aren't making an artificial antibody and just injecting it for passive immunity (sort of like injecting an immune system that can't do its own adaptation and upregulation)

The main thing with vaccines I am still confused about is what the difference between them and allergy shots is, and how do the two end up with opposite effects? I guess there is somehow a different reaction to a spike of something vs a repeated presence.

(Edit: never mind.. microspheres.. who knew?)
I pay a similar amount sharing with two friends in Clapham/Balham. It helps that we've been in the same place for 4 years so the rent hasn't gone up too much over that period.
Great question.

So the issue that triggered this was a bug caused by an unrepeatable read. We changed the global level and it solved the problem. However, to stop this from affecting performance too much we targeted this isolation change to only the transaction in question.

We've also rarely touched it; it was the first time we actually messed with isolation. For the 1-5% of times, we figured it would be useful to know.
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This is exactly what happens to me when the batteries around 10-20%. If I leave it for 10 minutes it will switch on again and the battery isn't drained, it usually switches off when I try to play music or use the map, but not just navigating the phone. I wonder if the battery does just need replacing though, but strange that I have only noticed this since installing iOS7.
Just discovered, you can create a "fringe" in xterm by the -b option:

-b number
This option specifies the size of the inner border (the
distance between the outer edge of the characters and the
window border) in pixels. That is the vt100 internalBorder
resource. The default is ``2''.
I'd like to hold off judgement on a thing like that, sir, until all the facts are in.
Or they simply misread the question and reported after tax salary.
I'm just waiting for the first robots that can sand and plaint interior rooms/walls.

There is a crazy amount of wall square footage in offices/commercial/malls/hallways etc where a robot traveling on a mobile linear beam can totally do the work.

As somebody that spend some amount of time every week hiring, one of the biggest issues is not automation but the workforce itself.

Finding people that are willing to show up and do jobs is just a major problem.

Companies want to hire but the candidates that show up at the door can often be barely employable.

All the millenials want work from home jobs with executive pay.

The idea of starting in the back sweeping the floors (no matter your education but to show work ethic and flexibility) is gone.

The working world will get harder over the years. The "raised like a delicate flower" to "love their job" are in serious trouble in the future.

Putting food on the table takes time and effort. It's called "work" not "play" for a reason.
Oddly enough, this technology was foreseen in a novel, Free Radical [1], which some random fellow on the Internet wrote on the basis of the story from the game System Shock. Quite a good novel, actually, and especially so for being something you just randomly trip over on the web; I recommend it.

[1] http://www.shamusyoung.com/shocked/
It's not hard to fix this problem without hurting morale. Change the primary thing that they should have morale about from protecting the security of the nation to protecting the values upon which this nation was founded, namely the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Every single agent should know the Constitution back to front, inside and out, and see it as their job to protect it over all other objectives, including catching criminals (imho, we should substitute criminal for terrorist, whenever that person is within the borders of the United States and subject to its laws.). The atmosphere at the agency should be such that any subversion of the Constitution by colleagues and superiors should hurt morale among agency employees.

If you catch a criminal, but do so by subverting the Constitution, you should feel shame, not pride. When you have the power the agency has, it is of utmost importance that values be palpable in the air among staff. Power without obligation to something higher like the Constitution and Bill of Rights will always be debased in favor of achieving concrete objectives.

If we're worrying about hurting their feelings, we're having the wrong debate.
I have a different problem that I know is not just specific to my phone. We have three iPhones in our house: two 5's and one 5s. Over the past 6 months every few weeks they glitch. What happens is that at exactly midnight eastern time all three phones start showing the lock screen for two seconds, followed by a second of a black screen, followed by five seconds of the Apple logo on a white background. During this time the phone is running. When on the lock screen you can actually swipe left and start entering your unlock code, but you will get interrupted. This usually goes on for at least 6 hours. Hard resetting the phone does not fix it: you just boot to the same state. Restoring from a backup does fix it. And seems to be the recommended solution on the Apple forums.

This is a huge problem. First, it slights up the whole room and drains the battery. If not on the charger, the phone will die and our alarms will not go off. If on the charger, the phone will also keep buzzing. BTW, we use standard Apple cables and chargers. Restoring from backup takes a long time and I do not wish to do that for three phones in the middle of the night.

I really hope this new update also fixes this problem. Has anyone else encountered this, and if so, have you had luck talking to Apple about it?

Edit: none of the phones are jailbroken or have ever been. The home network is not special in any way other than having IPv6. My strong suspicion is that this has something to do with automatic app updates + a buggy app, but it seems like a pretty bad OS-level bug to allow this type of behavior.
You didn't read far enough...

> I called them up again, reaching for technical support after dialing in my MDN number. I got a representative who this time said the 'promotion' was cancelled January 14th.
I can't speak for the rest of the EU (I'm a US citizen working in Berlin), but it's definitely not unheard of here in Germany. In fact, it's actually becoming pretty common, thanks in part to some progressive immigration reform.

Here's a comment I posted a couple months back with more information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6648443. Feel free also to get in touch (my email's in my profile) if you want some more advice.

Anyway, I say go for it! It'll be the best decision you've ever made. :-)
Why not, the amount of money and resources spent on a single virus thread is beyond our imagination. If they succeed and like all startups they have thin odds and perhaps even thinner because of being in biotech - there are two massive implications.

1- The obvious an Aids vaccine
2- Disrupting the pharmaceutical empire on a global scale equal to perhaps a renaissance in the business of medicine and pharmaceuticals. They get a $50 from me.
I'm all for this; more power to them. However, HIV/AIDS is already very preventable and had been on the decline for a decade or more. I'd rather see something like this effort, but for cancer. A disease that affects many more people.

Actually, what I really want to see it a focus on stopping poaching, whaling, habitat destruction and ocean acidification. Even with all the disease, humans don't seem to have issues reproducing. Extending the human population, especially those of developing countries, only leads to more of the above. One day our children are going to say - "Cool, no more HIV, but what's a rainforest? what's a Rhinoceros? why can't we eat fish." Just saying.
Any thoughts on the project itself?
I parsed it wrong the first time as well. I was only confused until I got to "In 1981, as part of my PhD work," at which point all was clear.
Nokia's own smartphone OSs were selling better than Windows Phone when they were killed off.

You can get an idea of this alternate reality with Jolla, which uses HERE and other Nokia ecosystem components.
The directory entries at http://ibuildings.nl/robots.txt suggest that they're hosting much more than a blog on that domain.

Edit: As others pointed it out, it's a Drupal installation. Trusting Drupal to be 100% safe in regards to malicious attacks is not a good idea. I know this is nitpicking, it is however still ironic.

http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1367/...
Presentation and the packaging matter. It really matters to programming right now because of the image problem it has for the masses: "it's a well paid janitorial occupation for socially inept, nerdy looking males". Anything that helps break that perception helps.
Internet outage in China Jan 21st.