skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mind linking to a few you find particularly insightful? I'm sure many of us would be more than appreciative.
This should be an animation or something, perhaps with corresponding graph of anti-vaccination media mentions, in order for it to actually be devastating.

As it is, I have no idea what measles rates were like 10 or 20 years ago. I have to research that myself, which makes it less than devastating.

So, for example, this graphic is somewhat more devastating:

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67218000/gif/_67218108...
Awesome!

Mind if I grab a copy of this image, to use with whatever attribution you like, on the repo README? I don't use nyan-mode myself, and it'd be nice to have the screenshot to show people who find the repository.
The Case Against Holding Company Stock
If this actually works well, this could definitely fall into "just shut up and take my money" territory for me. I still miss the physical keys my old blackberry had.
I discovered this by accident some time ago as well but I've always appreciated the convenience - when I add an event using the Quick Add dialog, it's very useful for me to be able to say "Movie Night with alice@example.com" and have it show up on Alice's calendar automatically. I use it all the time at work and at home and it saves me time from having to go to the dedicated event creation page to add people.
This is going to be really inconvenient for all the people who say "sure, you are good at making photo sharing apps and dating sites, but you don't cure cancer or anything."
You may have missed my point, but that's probably my fault :P.
Cybercrime just took a high in Uganda
Straight to Hell: Deviance and Excess in the World of Investment Banking.
It's easy to say now that this mass Myspace migration happened, but its downfall was much more than Facebook showing up. e.g., It had a ton of technical issues, and it got really ugly / unwieldy.

If you're interested, the book "The Facebook Effect" does a good job describing the fall of Myspace.
That's terrible UX though. The point of using a computer is to make things easier - at least on the first try the program needs to ask you if you wish to enable automated invites (it could offer the option to "enable automated invites for only this address" too).
Indeed, I went through all of the stages of grief in about 12 seconds, and then laughed
Not to mention something on "our precious bodily fluids".
Doctors I know say that it's almost exclusively educated people who decline vaccines. Uneducated people generally defer to the doctor's opinion.

I think this is a lesson we should all take care to note: be humble. Knowing something doesn't mean we know everything, and it can hurt us to think so.
> The result being 0% employment.

If the robots don't take over in the meantime.
If you look at the racket quick start guide, the third example is drawing a circle. You make a checkerboard about a page later.

It's not as advanced as something like processing, but it's far easier than doing graphics with QBasic back in the 80's.
Gentrification is a really complex problem that is superficially bandied about. While it involves changes they are not all negative and the net impact on existing residents is very situation.

http://www.npr.org/2014/01/22/264528139/long-a-dirty-word-ge...
Does anyone know... what would the best-case legal outcome be?

Do you take Verizon to small claims court, calculate the cash value of the service, and have the judge award you that? Can you sue them for false advertising? Can they face any kind of punitive damages? Do you form a class-action suit for everyone who bought a Chromebook and then didn't receive the service? At what point does/would Verizon choose to settle instead, and just provide the service after all?

I mean, this seems like exactly the kind of abuse that laws are designed to prevent, no?
Sure, it sounds just fine.... I couldn't sit through the video though

I don't quite understand why kids need to be taught to want to build things. Most kids already want to build things. They just need an easy interface to accomplish a task and incrementally improve their creation.

Before legos, did we need a kid book about masonry? Of course not, we just needed an easy and approachable type of block.

I'm not meaning to sound so negative. It's a good project with a worthy cause. But, it's value is in the fact that parents want to impart their interests on to their kids and will spend money on artsy little books. So, I'm just questioning whether this is the right product to accomplish the stated cause.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Amazon book reviews
The NSA has committed no crimes.

"The NSA has not yet been investigated, tried or convicted of any crimes. However, it's intelligence director, James Clapper, did commit perjury, but it has yet to be investigated and he has yet to be tried and found guilty or innocent by a jury of his peers."

FTFY.
Does anybody know offhand what the standing practice for MMR vaccination is in Europe/Eastern Europe?

Seems to be a lot more mumps and rubella there, especially Eastern Europe.
Rather than QBasic, I would like to suggest Monkey-x http://monkey-x.com

it has a great toolchain, built-in IDE, and supports many, many platforms (Desktop, iOS, android, HTML5, others). The syntax is more modern, and is being used in many commercial games.
One question then, what motive is there to support the blockchain once mining has ended?
Quit submitting mobile versions of articles.
It looks like you can enable inline and eval stuff.

Content-Security-Policy: script-src 'self' 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline'
If I understand it correctly, this isn't based on true stats but instead heavily depends on numbers through news reports. I would be tempted to say that's almost as unscientific as the reasons the anti-vaccination crowd uses.
How We Code Review
I really doubt your company actually pays someone full time to sweep the floors. More probably, you've outsourced this to a specialist company that only sweeps floors (well they probably buff them, vacuum them, etc.).

That company has no reason to promote people beyond the cleaning floor job as that is their main business & curtailing HR costs is probably their biggest driver to profit. So in the best case they keep workers who can't find better jobs at low cost at the same position for years, and in the worst case they actually "sub-contract" those positions out to companies that exploit illegal immigrants, who have a near limitless supply of under payed workers to cycle through.

So forgive me, if instead of reading your comment as a jab against overly entitled "millenials" and instead read it for what it is, companies reaping what they sow. If companies wanted employees who will start on the ground floor and work up, they should foster an environment where that can actually happen rather than treating their employees with a cavalier mercenary attitude, and getting huffy when their employee pool reacts in kind.
They lost me at this:

>Force pilots were allowed to fire their nuclear anti-aircraft rockets to shoot down Soviet bombers heading toward the United States.

Nuclear anti-aircraft rockets?
I'm not the OP you're asking a question of, but agree with the OP's position.

In my experience the manual operations required by Go (basically just doing a git/mecurial fork into my own repo and git/mercurial updates as desired) may not be "faster" in the sense of requiring less keystrokes or whatever your measurement is, but it is more predictable and understandable, and not too much "slower".

More complicated dependency management systems are great when they work, and then suddenly a huge pain in the ass when they fail in some edge case, the Go way of doing dependency management might require a very tiny bit more effort but pays that off by being much more transparent.
You can easily replace an IBM server with any other comparable x86 machine. You can't easily replace Snapchat and the user networks it hosts with another similar service.
What's your question, exactly?
Full text of the report
http://www.scribd.com/doc/201740642/Final-Report-1-23-14
I had it happen thrice when I was skiing and never since I've been back.
…I'd forgotten all about it, but yeah, you definitely do have a point.
Most reasonable people aren't arguing against all wiretapping, but I wouldn't say nobody.
If you unknowingly were setting up a playdate for your kids with a hitman, I think you'd have a vested interest in having the guy exposed and brought to justice.
Better visualization: (aka chart this poll)

http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id=7109180
I'm really pleased about this. I've been dismayed by the computer education my kids receive at school - Powerpoint basically. I've provided them with more, but it's so welcome to have the materials from an educator.

Backed.
A couple observations:

While €20k is certainly a low salary for a software engineer (even in Berlin), it's not completely unheard of. I've seen a couple startups offering €1500/month for entry-level dev jobs, and actually, €1500 gross is enough to live on here. Then there are the so-called "mini jobs", which only pay €400/month or so, but those are usually student jobs or unskilled labor. You probably won't find any real dev jobs at that level—especially not full-time positions.

Also, it's pretty common here for people to discuss salaries in monthly terms (my German employment contract is one example), whereas in the US it's more common to talk about annual salaries. I didn't consider that when I created this poll, so it's possible some people were accidentally responding for the wrong time frame. I've added "annual" to the description to clarify.

And finally, it's entirely possible those are just junk responses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5537023
I've always had wonderful service from TD. Haven't needed anything in the past year or so, but they always had competitive pricing and handled the my only RMA pretty painlessly...
(Even though they were suppose to with the spectrum they leased from all of us who are US Citizens the spectrum we all own to the carriers through the US Government)

An important point not to be missed. Repeatedly, these organizations make agreements in order to gain benefits, and then proceed to bald-facedly renege on their portion of the agreement.

And... no one holds them to account!

At this point, I think they should be investigated criminally and prosecuted for fraud. If and as it becomes apparently they entered these agreements with ill will and with the intention to renege, this is no longer a civil matter.
""crap"" is pretty civil. I pick up my dog's every day just to keep our neighborhood civil.
A little premature to declare that the service has been rescinded based on that conversation, no?
Correct. The Genie anti-aircraft nuclear weapon had no guidance system, and was therefore a rocket, not a missile.
Bitwig Music DAW - Open Controller Scripting API using Javascript
Fair point. Indeed, not everything needs to be scientific. Though for empirical claims that science is capable of addressing (as opposed to, e.g., what is morally right), claims that are based on sound scientific reasoning are more worthy of attention than claims that lack such a basis. I consider Princeton's claim to be one which fits this criterion: It is empirical, and it concerns a topic which is amenable to scientific inquiry. Therefore I find it appropriate to critique the claim in scientific terms.
When people say that it will take 3-4 months to find an apartment, what are they doing in the meantime? Renting short-term apartments such as sublets?
That's a pretty strange assertion to make. This is a scientific issue. It will be resolved one way or another by observations of reality. Most people care about it. It's not really a religious argument at all.
HIV/AIDS is a giant problem. North of 35MM people are living with HIV worldwide and more are infected every day. Yes we have made strides in reducing infection rates, but we are far from solving this problem with existing approaches. To put this in context, nearly 5,000 people a day die from AIDS. That is like 10 747s falling out of the sky every single day. The only solution is a vaccine which is why we are doing what we are doing. There are many big problems for us to solve on our planet. HIV/AIDS is one of the biggest and hardest to solve.
3 reasons why tech valuations aren't as outrageous as some think
Ask HN: Relocation and new jobs
As an IT professional in the Northern-Midwest with a few years of experience under my belt I am feeling ready to move on with my career and to somewhere I'd rather live (east or west coast, somewhere where winter doesn't last 5-6 months) with a company I'd be interested in working for.

My question to you all - as I imagine there are many in this position or who have gone through this: What are the best steps for preparing/applying for a job across the country? (How to minimize costs for travel, minimize time off from current job for interviews, questions to ask the potential new employer, etc)

Thanks for any input! :)
Except of course dropping a bomb on Russia (with a guy riding it).
Government loves you and wants you to take your medicine.
notbroken.org website is broken
I do not. Why would that matter?
"You could build an npm-alike for Golang;"

Expanding on this --

There are quite a few dependency management packages for Go already that mimic various other ecosystems, usually written by people who just came to Go from those ecosystems. I can't recommend any because I don't use them because like tptacek I would rather just use a simple repo layout system.
Used to be offered in schools in the UK, probably still is. There was huge media coverage of the faux science that fingered MMR specifically for a link with Autism, which resulted in a large backlash and calls for alternatives. I forget if the government caved or not.
Your link wasn't there when I posted was it?
Direct excerpts that give a better idea of it:

"Hello Ruby will be a classic journey of discovery that teaches the readers about different people working together, how problems can be solved in small sequences and how remixing and sharing helps everyone."

"The activity book teaches kids early programming skills. It’s designed to be enjoyed by a kid alone, but can also be worked through with an adult. And best of all - the workbook is designed to be doodled, wrecked and drawn all over.

- The foundational knowledge structures, like sequences, variables, patterns, loops, lists, conditionals, operators and events. Taught through exercises of dot-to-dot, pairs, odd-one-out, all from Ruby's world.

- A sprinkle of software culture, by teaching them to abstract and modularise, work iteratively and incrementally as well as encouraging them to reuse and remix work.

- Creativity and DIY attitude. Tons of doodles, logic puzzles and even a foldable miniature laptop that allows the kid to peek inside a computer."

Even if it just inculcates problem solving techniques like breaking a problem down into its component parts and then grokking the real underlying problem rather than the symptoms, (the lack of the latter is quite prevalent these days), it will be a net gain.
Sure, in the long term, employment may drop to zero. But humans have an almost infinite ability to create, and they definitely have an infinite ability to want. If computers and robots do all the grunt work, and humans have sufficiently advanced economic systems to be able to benefit as a society, what is the harm in 0% employment? People will create when they want to create, and consume when they want to consume. Then, humans will do what they do best: enjoy life.
>How would you explain a simple FOR loop to a child through a story?

You wouldn't.

The same way you don't explain how to take a corner kick to a child playing soccer. All you need to do is explain that they need to kick the ball into the net, and let them go.

The same way you don't teach multiplication to a child before you teach the concepts of grouping and sorting.

Everything else comes later. This is a good introduction, not something that will qualify them to work in the industry.
Reading Books Is Fundamental
Asian Brown Cloud
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_brown_cloud
I was kind of in surprise at the wording too, I didn't believe they would use a nuclear anti aircraft weapon, it seemed overkill, and then I read the rationale of the genie. I'm surprised to say the least.
Very interesting, but there is a good chance that other people have stumbled upon, but they preferred to wear a black hat.
Anyway, hats off.
Hoping for them to replace our politicians.
Agreed. I've read pretty much every book I can get my hands on covering Cold War nuclear history and Command and Control has lots of new and terrifying details.
LA Times, reporting on the reporting of reporting of news.

Hacker news, reporting on the reporting of reporting of reporting of news.
Software testing is pretty safe.

Thanks, Halting Problem!
There's no easy way to verify the URL if I'm using a mobile device.

What's the disadvantage of the mobile site on a desktop?
I expected more harsh comments based on all the meta comments.... I was disappointed.
Yes our overhead is far lower. Our other "trick" is that several members of our team are multi-talented. For example Dr. Herst can do tissue culture work, formulation development, analytical chemistry, and immunochemistry.
China’s web junkies: An Internet addiction documentary (video)
Do climate scientists have #skininthegame?
Right, that's not actually surprising to me, I know banks still use mainframes, and I thought it was well-known. Same about airlines, and heavy-duty control systems (say, sewage control for a large city or something) that are likely to be legacy. I was wondering what could be organizations I wouldn't even suspect.
Tapstream Is Making Mobile Ads Smarter With “Deferred Deep Links"
The source, an interactive map, goes back to 2008:

http://www.cfr.org/interactives/GH_Vaccine_Map/#map
You don't get as many color choices and you don't get as many key bindings.

"C-M-%" is pretty much impossible in the terminal. You have to do "M-x query-replace-regexp", or make some other custom binding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Nuclear_anti-aircraft_...
I have 2 Nexus7's and never had an issue.

BTW If my Nexus7 shuts down randomly, I wouldn't be as Mad compared my phone shutting down randomly in the middle of phone call or in random place while using Navigation.
Oh, and it was the usual culprits: right-leaning press, both the reactionary, hateful kind (Daily Mail), and those that should know better (Telegraph.) And of course there was the undertone of anti-big-government there.

People tell me I should not worry about the Daily Mail. They can print all they like, what's the harm? Well, here it is.
Being unreasonable
"I agree with you on that”

This is human nature. We socialize with people, visit websites and read newspapers that confirm our beliefs. It’s what psychologists refer to as confirmation bias.

Should we?
Economist Robin Hanson has a good talk about the economics of nanotech and AI: http://vimeo.com/9508131

Around 22 minutes in, he talks about whether labor and capital (machines) are complements or substitutes.

I'll summarize his argument for the time-constrained: There are many tasks that need to be done in an economy. Machines are more efficient at some of these tasks, humans at others. Over time, machines have been able to do a greater portion of these tasks efficiently.

Today, machines are mostly complements. They help humans do tasks more efficiently. But as machines get better, they're able to do a larger portion of tasks. At some point, they'll start substituting for people. This has happened for some basic jobs in the past, but not to the extent we'll soon see.

On the bright side, the limiting factor in most of our economy today is people. Machines can be mass-produced, but raising and training people is hard. Machines can augment people, but run into diminishing returns. Having two monitors won't make you twice as productive, and two keyboards won't let you type twice as fast. If we can do all the tasks in our economy without people, we can get insane growth rates in GDP.

Unfortunately, with no people in the economy, everyone would be out of work. Only the machine owners (or investors) would benefit. Everyone else would be dependent on social programs or charity.

In Robin's example, AI is the machine that can do all tasks. But we don't need to build such amazing machines before putting a lot of people out of work. Most jobs are not AI-complete.
Multi-threading with Celluloid
'Although it's doubtful anyone will be imprisoned for "doing their patriotic duty."'

Except Snowden, if they get their hands on him.
What surprised me, reading http://www.examiner.com/article/apple-promises-to-fix-ios-7-..., is that the OS seems to know the color of the case. White phones get a white screen, black ones a black one.

Is that the normal boot screen for iOS 7 on iPhones? If so, nice attention to detail, especially if the 5C gives you matching colors, too.
In my opinion unless political and social changes are made to the system, the lack of money in the "middle class" will greatly hurt the economy. Who has money for smartphones, fast internet, fart apps and tablets when you have no way to make a living. Why advertise to people who are not in a position to buy anything? Why steel from people with no money? Obviously a standard income of some sort make these automation scenarios more believable.
Personally I loved the design of the phone most of all (plus how rugged it is). I got the iPhone 5C when I switched because I like the feel of the high quality plastic better. Unfortunately the iPhone isn't quite the same; it's slippery as hell and the colors are more pastel than the bold colors of the Nokia. In my mind the Lumia 920 was the best designed phone I've ever seen, but obviously that's just one man's opinion.
Yes, didn't mean to imply you lose all static type safety -- you're still way better off on that front than in a language like Python or JavaScript. Basically, if you're happy with a dynamic language, Go makes things better most of the time, but sometimes you have fall back to dynamic checking, because of the lack of generics.

Custom containers: Well, it's definitely true that you can get pretty far with just arrays and hash tables -- which Go special-cases! -- but you're probably gunna want something fancier eventually...
That is a much better link.

Sorry.
Should the HTTP response also include the Strict-Transport-Security header?
Tiny swimming ‘biobots’ propelled by heart cells or magnetic fields
You said it yourself. Do we have sufficiently advanced economic systems to handle this thing? Ideally, everyone would benefit from robotic efficiency. But the way things are going, only the rich will enjoy the benefits. The poor will be at their mercy.
Now you've trapped yourself. You HAVE to write it.
Personally I find this one the most convincing

https://31.media.tumblr.com/8a705761bae7a2f6b682c668cf409fb1...

(With "<90% vaccination coverage" and "highly religious" having an almost 1:1 correlation...)
I think the answer to the first question lies here:

> Currently, the technology is limited in that it's a fixed single array. You wouldn't be able to use the Tactus keyboard in both portrait and landscape mode, for example. But the goal is to make the third generation of the product dynamic. "The vision that we had was not just to have a keyboard or a button technology, but really to make a fully dynamic surface," says cofounder Micah Yairi, "So you can envision the entire surface being able to raise and lower depending on what the application is that's driving it." Meaning it could display a keyboard when you're typing an e-mail, a number pad when you're dialing a phone number, and perhaps letter tiles when you're playing Words With Friends.
>Heck, I used to do that in C all the time anyway.

Not a very encouraging notion, considering the issue is quite trivial, solved in 200 other languages, and it's 2014 already.