skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might well be right in extrapolating future trends from past ones.

Don't be too confident though: predictions in general are very hard, especially about the future [1].

[1] http://andrewgelman.com/2014/01/21/commissar-traffic-present...
They don't have to last 1000 years. They just have to outlast the receipt.
Ask HN: Why are domain registrars offering pre-registrations for the new gTLDs?
Really? There have been two _major_ security breaches at Linode, and both times they were extremely opaque and even hostile towards customers who asked honest (and reasonable) questions.
Indent size is definitely a personal preference; I started out with 8, then shortly went to 4, moved down to 3 for a very short time followed by 2, and have now settled on one space. One nice side-effect is that I can glance at the column counter and see the indent level immediately, and the closing braces look like a diagonal line which makes a missing/extra one quite easy to spot:

}
}
}

The nice thing about C-syntax languages is they can be automatically formatted, so anyone who finds my indents to be too small can increase them, and vice-versa,
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>I thought the point of virtualisation is to make it so you get an environment which behaves as close to a real machine as possible,

True.

>why are they still so easily detectable?

This doesn't negate the above. An OS interfaces with the underlying hardware, whether it's virtual or physical, so it always has some idea of what's going on, depending on what the virtualization layer tells the kernel. While it's possible to make a virtualization stack that makes it look like an OS is bare metal, many people don't care and already know that they are virtualized. It's possible to make the Linux kernel sidestep the tests for virtualization in this project, however.
A woman in South Korea makes more than 9k a month by eating her meals online.
And if they implemented that, you know it would be called a privacy violation: "Why are you posting pics using my boyfriend's camera?"

Note that this really is the case for 99% of "privacy violations". Eg, that "FB is reading SMS messages" thing the other day was really a user-friendly feature to enable automatic 2-factor auth on your phone. But because it was seen as a privacy problem because it potentially is.
not even close.
I contacted Linode about this, since one of my Linodes has an annual discount applied (https://blog.linode.com/2008/07/31/referral-system-annual-di...) and I was not sure how switching would affect it. They responded:

"Unfortunately, at this time if you have any Linodes that you pay for annually or biennially, enrolling in the metered billing beta will remove your discount, and the process of changing over cannot be reversed."
Comprehensive Chromebook developer setup guide
Right, which is why I made it. But to use that as an excuse is to say: "An individual Human life is worth less now than before", which is at the very least controversial.
It's not a Postgres variant at all. Postgres is emulated as an interface to the columnar ParAccel database underneath. ParAccel does neat things (compiles your SQL into a program that it runs to answer the question, for instance) and really rips if you can order your data on good keys up front (and then use those keys in your query, of course).

Source: I helped build a very high speed network data analytical tool on top of ParAccel (before it was bought by Amazon and rolled into redshift).
>"Great artists steal" //

I've read it online, I don't use it. Great artists are inspired by other artists just as in science we use the term "standing on the shoulders of giants". What precisely Picasso meant is it seems lost to us.

The blunt reading however is a damaging blurring of a legal and moral distinction - artists need to understand how copyright affects them and affects the cultural landscape. Making the adoption of important cultural works in to ones own work sound unlawful/immoral is harmful to a healthy society IMO.

However the concept behind this phrase is that "all artists use others work without worrying about copyright infringement" and that this is how the art world works, reflects culture and feeds society.

Or maybe Picasso meant "own it", make your version so much better that people think of you - undoubtedly the line-drawing of a dove wasn't a new idea when Picasso made his version.

>"we talk about one culture appropriating elements of another" //

Loose language, got you. When a culture is inspired or affected by another they don't appropriate the other cultures assets; this is kind of a key distinction when considering the way memes move; how cultural artefacts are created.

Parent's appropriate the slang of their children.

Word choice matters.

>But it's still called "identity theft." //

Actually this is far more in the middle ground - you don't get to use your identity [to the fullness you'd expect]. It's not copyright infringement, or at least that's not the important aspect. It really is like you've had your legal identity stolen (and often you've had things stolen as part of the process). "Identity theft" works IMO.

>The distinction between theft and copying is relevant in legal matters and some practical matters, but in colloquial use the two are often the same thing. //

The distinction is made in normal conversation.

>Banging on about this every time anyone uses the word is annoying and, more importantly, contextually incorrect. //

Deliberately attempting to ignore this important distinction and conflate the separate ideas of theft and copyright infringement is also annoying, intellectually dishonest and in this conversation concerning copyright infringement couldn't be more "contextually incorrect".
Why App Store is Fool's Gold for Most Developers
Hi everyone,

we recently wrote a paper that explores the unfavorable situation most developers are facing in app marketplaces. Due to high intra-platform competition and platform owner's power in determining rules of visibility, revenue sharing and ways to monetize, most developers are unlikely to make profit with their apps. This is in contrast what platform owners would like developers to believe by disseminating success stories. All is fine as long as developers understand that success stories are anomaly, not a rule, and perhaps consider ways to counter the platform owner's use of power (more on that in the paper).

Briefly - don't be surprised to see high failure rates among apps (that is a natural result of how app stores are built) and don't buy into fool's gold.

The paper can be freely accessed at: http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.6170

Br,
Joni Salminen & Jose Teixeira
Turku School of Economics
ps. we appreciate all comments, can be directed here or at: joolsa@utu
LTO is an open standard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape_Open
Wow. Open your eyes. The "poor" today live lives that kings couldn't imagine a few generations ago.
Can't those poor coloured people just die already, they are disturbing my white privilege! /s
Observation of Dirac monopoles in a synthetic magnetic field
I don't think LTO is any more proprietary than Blu-ray.
More on braces, I am squarely in the Allman camp for the reasons described here:

http://www.experimentgarden.com/2009/07/facts-behind-code-in...

It is amazing the old-style K&R still persists. I think there was one more reason it was preferred in the early days which is not mentioned in the aforesaid link: storage space which was also expensive. The K&R style saves a new-line char which would be a significant saving in large codebases.
"Looking so dorky" is actually fairly low on the list of ways in which Google Glass fails to be a usable product. Dustin Curtis wrote an excellent review in which he discusses these more serious problems:

http://dcurt.is/glass
Would a version of Glass sans camera be more acceptable? Less voyeurism & less surveillance.

I haven't used one so not sure how much of its functionality needs the camera. As a user I might miss facial recognition, OCR, etc.

One middle ground could be to have a camera that only outputs information useful for shape recognition, say for example, a monochrome sensor with an edge detection pass.
That 15-year-ago mark is interesting to me, because that was just about the time when I switched to proportional fonts.

I recognize that I'm in a tiny minority: the vast majority of developers code in monospaced fonts.

That's one reason why I value an editor that makes it easy to switch between a proportional font and monospaced, so I can code in the font I like or switch to a monospaced font when necessary. One of the few that does this well is Komodo, where each "theme" includes both proportional and monospaced fonts, and you can easily switch between them. (I just wish IntelliJ IDEA did this!)

It's also why I wouldn't presume to use a coding standard that worked only in a proportional font but looked bad in monospaced.

But to my eyes, a coding standard that works equally well in proportional and monospaced fonts is superior to one that works only in monospaced.

I must respectfully disagree that "It turns out that proportional fonts are designed for text, not code." All of the code I've written in the last 10-15 years is just as readable in a proportional font or monospaced. It really makes no difference at all which kind of font you read the code in, if the coding standard was designed to support both.
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>privacy is going away, and future generations won't care.

I think the explosion of Snapchat shows that isn't necessarily true.
That animated GIF near the bottom of the article is super creepy.
because most of medicine is not especially evidence based

This is nonsense. Most of medicine is evidence based. Most of what a surgeon does, for example, is being a glorified handyman - staple this bit to that, remove and replace this other bit, all of which has had ample opportunities for study and observation. Or riffling through a MIMS for pharmaceutical information, the bulk of which is backed by drug trials. Cut your finger? Apply some antiseptic perhaps, and cover with a band-aid, both items that have had plenty of testing.

Some parts of modern medicine may have fallen through the gaps, but it's absolute nonsense that 'most' has. The bulk of medicine is boring stuff that no-one ever thinks about. Where modern medicine is weak is in preventative medicine.
No one cares if you wear headphones. You're a jerk if you order coffee with earbuds/bluetooth in. I've never seen anyone flip up a Google Glass to the top of their head to have a conversation, but if that was standard behavior, Google Glass would be widely accepted.

The problem today as I see it isn't the camera ($diety knows tourists take enough pictures of you in SF), its people (influenced by clueless Google marketing) being smug and oblivious enough to keep the Glass on during normal human interaction.
Not sure how familiar you are with the Scala syntax, but that code actually has null pointer problems. The apply function turns Options into null pointers. They've given me the worst of both worlds, not only do I get null pointers, I get to have extra garbage created to accomplish it.
Am I the only one who misunderstood the headline to mean that the source-code for Windows 1.4 has been released as open-source? :-/
Amazon has done it a couple of times (Kindle, AWS).
They need to send some people to Norway to learn how it's done: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144... (Google the URL and click on the link to bypass the paywall, or read it here: http://pastebin.com/055t6hiM).
See also Mathics (try online at http://mathics.net/; info at http://mathics.org/), which wraps SymPy with a Mathematica-compatible programming language.
I've been meeting to get Dash after hearing about it on a recent podcast (can't remember which one though). Assuming since it's in your "toolbox" you enjoy using it?
> I think it's funny that the people who believe the most in medicine (and science in general) are the ones who don't read many books.

This is an odd statement. It's certainly true that as people learn more about a subject, they tend to realize how much they don't know and become more humble. But that doesn't mean that they start preferring non-science methods, which it seems like you are implying.
Downworthy Chrome Extention
Would mining too much geothermal energy hurt the earths dynamo like in the movie The Core :)?
That depends on what audience they target. For the high end of the market, sure, people will do a lot of research. But if you are a scam artist running a school like this, it will be relatively easy to dupe the less clueful end of the market. For example, you can set up new school every 12 weeks. Or you can fake a good on-line reputation.

Read up on the many scams that for-profit schools are running. Even some of the regulated ones are up to dubious stuff. The unregulated ones, like the "life experience degree" people, are much worse.
http://www.stolencamerafinder.com/
My single Java coding guideline:

1) Don't
I've never understood all of the hate for using tabs instead of spaces while indenting. My thinking has always been that tabs just make it easier to adjust indentation.

As a tab-using heathen, can somebody please explain why spaces would be preferable?
Oh whoa, I didn't know that the eye had to refocus to watch the screen! I thought it was more like a HUD and assumed that Google had mastered that part of the system (and was probably the major innovation behind Glass).

Are there competing HUD systems out there which can be worn near the eyes and don't require a refocus?
It looks like to use this input device you would have to do quite some wiggling of individual fingers sideways, without moving the other fingers on your hand, and that motion just feels terribly awkward to me - e.g. on a normal keyboard, if I move my right index finger to the left to press H, the other 3 move left as well; I can't just move one finger left/right.
As we learn more about how global systems are connected, it's going to be fascinating to watch the geopolitics work themselves out.

So far a number of signs point to many effects of pollution occurring oceans away from the polluter. This won't be fun to work out, because much of international relations is based around well-defined borders in the proximity of the landmass of the country itself. But winds and waves know no limits.....

EDIT: e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch, http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100809/full/news.2010.396.ht...
If your blocks are so long and nested that you are worried about losing track of indent level, your blocks are too long and nested.
You have no idea what youre talking about; you're suffering from the just world fallacy, you are simply wrong. Your statement is beyond ignorant.
"If your neighbors can help keep you healthy and productive, there's a benefit in that for them as well."

Economically and socially, of course, but epidemiologically as well!
No offense intended; I'm glad you and your friends had a good experience. My concern is about the market in general.

I like App Academy's percentage-based approach. That's definitely putting their money where their mouth is. I think the only thing undemonstrated for me is how much difference their program makes. It'd be interesting to take their pre App-Academy resumes and put them in the hands of a good recruiter.
What are you doing that ASCII art is a major factor in code readability?
It's easy to say that after the fact. There are many delicate tasks people handle as a part of their day-to-day jobs, and not every task can afford more people to help without increasing the costs.
Reading code with K&R braces is almost unbearable to me. I don't really know why, it just seems like a wasted line and visual clutter when reading code.
You can seemingly increase the digit space by doing 1/99998 or so.
From my limited understanding it's not profitable enough to capture and transport the burn off.
I would also like to add Appium from Sauce Labs[1] as a wonderful way to automate testing on multiple mobile OS-types (and versions) and they are also working on providing cloud-accessible physical devices for testing soon too.

[1] https://saucelabs.com/features
That's true, but obviously the trade-off isn't one-to-one (or better) through all of happiness-cost space. It's important to ask where a particular expenditure falls.
In the deserts of California, there are many towns that were booming during the various gold/silver/etc booms and now are, if they still exist, a mere shadow of themselves. The town of Darwin, CA is one that I was talking with someone about recently...Circa 1900, several thousand people, 2010 census - 43.
I know! Is this some new NPR web thing? I think I prefer the Times' full-screen hard-to-control multimedia extravaganzas. At least they look good. :b
Well, I'm looking forward to see where this goes, then. :)
We've been waiting for something like this at Thinkful for a while now. Our students struggled with learning how to host simple pages on Github so we built this interactive tutorial: http://www.thinkful.com/learn/a-guide-to-using-github-pages/
When some says the word "speculate" (with respect to conversation, not financial investing) they are refering to armchair lawyering that gets people in trouble.
"A simple average of the findings of the preventive care studies shows that about 50 percent of people received recommended care. (None of the studies reported a percentage of people receiving contraindicated preventive care.) An average of 70 percent of patients received recommended acute care, and 30 percent received contraindicated acute care. For chronic conditions, 60 percent received recommended care and 20 percent received contraindicated care. These values do not indicate exact levels of quality in the United States, but they do provide a quantitative sense of how much could be done in all areas to identify and eliminate overuse and underuse of care." Source: http://www.innovationlabs.com/summit/summit3/readings/Schust...

In other words, the percentage of the U.S. population who receives medical treatment based on best practices isn't even close to 50%. And more often than not even doctors who follow clinical guidelines aren't actually following best practices, because most clinical guidelines aren't even correct:

"A study published in JAMA in 1999 evaluating the quality of [clinical] guidelines showed, ironically, that they often fall short of established standards. The following year The Lancet published a report that found that only one of the 20 clinical guidelines examined met established standards of quality for three simple criteria: description of the professionals involved in formulating the guidelines; description of the sources of information used to find the relevant scientific evidence; and grading of the evidence used to support the main recommendations.

In 2000, Canadian researchers from the British Columbia Office of Health Technology Assessment evaluated the quality of the guidelines that addressed the testing of cholesterol levels. They found that four out of five of these guidelines did not reflect the best scientific evidence available. The Canadian Researchers also found that 'the greater involvement of clinical experts in the development process of the clinical practice guidelines, the less of recommendations reflected the research evidence.'" Source: Overdosed America, p. 127
Aka Tolon, right? He was a neat guy, I met him in London. Too bad I was an utter twat then.
What's pedantic in that quote?
I thought that this was more about the practice of hosting virtual machines inside other virtual machines in order to perform memory deduplication.
It isn't the invasiveness of glass that is the trouble. It's the minimum focal length of the eye and the speed of focusing. I want an overlay that is in focus, not to read email while I'm walking my buddy's dog.

Once glass is directly on the optic nerve things will be better.
I'm just click-reading the main text. FireFox 26 and Chrome 32 on Windows 7. I opened a new private tab to make sure it wasn't a plugin. It cycles through three font sizes. Doesn't happen in IE11.
I had done "rm" of a big log file to free up space on the customer's server but our process kept on filling the log file. I assumed that the disk has got enough free space and I got busy with something else. The space was never freed up as the file descriptor was kept open by the process. Ultimately the entire disk got filled up by the opened log file and their server came to a grinding halt. I think the customer stopped using our product after that because we never heard from them again.

learning from this experience: never do an "rm" on the log file, instead do "truncate -s 0" on the log file.
And of course you're included automatically, but to opt out it is most painful way to do it.

And not to mention that you need to know about it in the first place.
I'm not sure why people worry about social acceptability so much. Mainstream opinion is basically that of sheep.

I'm old enough to remember when the Internet use had a significant social stigma. Now teenage girls gorge themselves on it in public. The same people who'd be so quick to judge now keep their mouths shut.

What changed? Oh, right: absolutely nothing.
I remember hearing an interesting talk discussing this. I forgot the author, but I'll try to relate a bit of the content.

Doing proper experimental testing for surgeries often has significant ethical problems. For instance, to do it correctly you need to do "fake" surgery on some patients. This is to account for the placebo effect. However, doing this exposes the patient to health risks, which is arguably not ethical.

Then there is the tricky problem of the case where a technique does work, and not performing it causes a patient to die. Yes, they died in the name of science, but it still goes against the goals and ethics of many doctors.

On the other hand, performing ineffective surgery also exposes patients to significant risk, and may even cause death. So it's a really difficult topic.

Myself, I'd still like to see the experiments done, even if the cost if not saving some lives we could have at times.
Just look around at people wearing headphones right now. Have attitudes really changed? As a technologist, do you see someone with headphones and think "progressive"? Of course not, you meerly ignore it unless there's a practical reason to care.

Someone on the bus with headphones is likely ignoring everyone else. Someone crossing the street with headphones is likely not paying enough attention to traffic.

Is glass different? We seem to forget that headphones themselves have drastically evolved in style and shape over the years, some designs were almost universally derided.

Let's not ignore the elephant in the room here though, glass is far more similar to bluetooth headsets. How are those aging? Do the kids think it's cool? I don't know for sure, but I'd guess not. You can put that guess in the time capsule.