skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you disabled ClearType in the operating system and IE ignores that setting and uses ClearType anyway, while the other two browsers don't?
The best intro for functional programming, IMO, is Joel Spolsky's "Can your language do this" (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html).
> assume the Internet is full of malicious noise

Spot on.

The noise doesn't even have to be composed of malicious people to be malicious itself; the potential bartier is very low here. In this case I can easily imagine one drunk /b/tard posting in on 4chan because "hey, it has nukes on it", and then someone else thinking "hey, it's on 4chan so it must be troll, lemme hook it up to my DDoS bot and see what happens".

Boom, gone a city of 30M, vanished in the flash of pure randomness.
Sciencey stuff didn't work? Time to call lawyers
Yes I tried it and it works fine once you enable that flag. But fonts look much thinner than what they should be
The Male Gazed: Surveillance, Power, and Gender
SMB2 Client for Node.js
> No one would need to leave the city - they would just need to leave the hipster hoods.

And find something affordable, until the hipsters find that neighborhood, and then shove over again to make room... I hope I'm misreading your statement, because that attitude is really distasteful. It's not the less-affluent person's fault for living in a neighborhood before it becomes cool.

Maybe the Excelsior has escaped this phenomenon, but the Mission, the Inner and Outer Sunset, the Richmond, the Castro, the Tenderloin, and even Oakland haven't. And those are just the places where I personally know people who are getting priced out. Just because the author can explain gentrification with microeconomics doesn't mean that it isn't real or that it isn't detrimental to the city and its inhabitants.
Four reason you shouldnt buy bitcoins [April 2013]
Are you getting good speeds on 4G? I'm considering turfing my fixed line connection altogether and going pure 4G.
Windows 7 x64 : http://i.imgur.com/fsXFgAw.png

Chrome is a little choppy, but Firefox and IE 11 look exactly the same.

All browsers use hardware acceleration nowadays, so I'm suspecting that something is wrong with OP's graphics settings. Are you running those browsers in a VM by any chance?
SV != SF. East Bay -> SF, especially near BART is easy enough. East Bay -> SV is ... may as well be Portland ... Maine.
It's not a new economic model, it's ephemeralization, advertising, Veblen goods, and especially disaggregation of previously existing models largely involving breaking down existing toll-collection interfaces in transactions of physical goods.

And the scheme was apparent, to those who were paying attention. It simply wasn't being discussed in polite society.
Like this: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer?
Line numbers can be handy to locate compiler errors. I removed it once but then it became a lot harder to locate where the program was causing problems or where the compiler errors occurred. I would like to remove them but I guess I am stuck with it ....
Ask HN: What's your Postgres GUI Client?
I've recently started using Postgres in place of MySQL which was in use at my last job. I really miss SequelPro (I use a mac) as it is MySQL only. Induction is a bit unstable for me so I have settled on Valentina Studio.

What do you use?
Ofcourse hindsight is 20/20 & most points about risk in the article are valid, but this wasn't the most brilliant moment for the author :

"There’s a good chance you’ll lose most or all of your money. And with each Bitcoin selling for $120, there isn’t nearly as much potential upside as there was a year ago, when you could snap up a Bitcoin for $5"
iOS only? Sorry. Fail.
This, and Obama's recent admission that cannabis is not dangerous is a hint from the administration that the Feds will cave sooner rather than later (in political time, that is). Once enough states go legal they will have no choice in the matter.
true...Mike Devlin (the author of the post) is Harvard alum as well!
Unfortunately most people only know/worship Jobs. Few non-geeks know about Wozniak. Sad.
> apple would block the apps built with it

Apple went there [1] and failed [2].

[1] http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/iphone_agreement_bans_flas...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_and_Adobe_Flash_controver...
Internet addiction in China
My Wife Doesn’t ‘Get How It Is In Advertising.’
Isn't Facebook a carrier of bugs?
I think you are describing social mobility. I don't think the US is a horrible place. Having live in the US for a number of years, and in the UK, Sweden, plus having family in Switzerland and Spain, I have opportunity to compare firsthand. IMHO people in the US overestimate the social mobility in the country and essentially buys into the often repeated message that the US is the best place to live. Repeated by the wealthy and their media channels. Which if course serve them well.

That the US has lower social mobility is corroborated in some studies [1], especially lower than those listed as "happier" above.

"[A] study found that of nine developed countries, the United States and United Kingdom had the lowest intergenerational vertical social mobility with about half of the advantages of having a parent with a high income passed on to the next generation. The four countries with the lowest "intergenerational income elasticity", i.e. the highest social mobility, were Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Canada with less than 20% of advantages of having a high income parent passed on to their children." [1]

"In spite of this low mobility Americans have had the highest belief in meritocracy among middle- and high-income countries."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility#Country_compari...
As long as users don't explicitly disable windows update, I think this should work fine in the background.
Lazarus Free Pascal IDE 1.2 RC2 released
Yes, but I don't think they need to wait for it to get approved. It's a formality.
East Palo Alto Struggles to Remain Affordable for Low-Income Residents [http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201401171000]
Maybe more accurate to say the probability of being robbed on a single day is 1 in 10,000? So on average he could expect to be robbed two more times in his lifetime.
Clojure-objc
One thing that strikes me as curious is why none of the companies involved broke the story at the time or reported the situation to the Feds. I can think of numerous reasons why, none of them particularly reassuring:

⚫ They all thought they could get away with it. The idea that there were no defectors on this basis makes me question the integrity of the entire tech industry leadership.

⚫ Nobody had faith in the DoJ's ability to to investigate, or a court's ability to place injuctions, on this behavior and/or retaliatory actions.

⚫ Everyone had dirt on everyone else, at least in iteration. It was an n-way Mexican Standoff. Every player felt at least one other had the drop on them. http://fixyt.com/watch?v=HzF_TbmDH5s http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mexican%20sta... As with the first instance, this does little for establishing trust with the industry.

⚫ The threat of encroaching action was too great. Any defector would be destroyed before the practice could be halted. There's one slim glimmer of hope here: It suggests that the threat of union action would be similarly disruptive and that a concerted action on the part of employees would in fact tend to succeed. The Achilles heel of the tech industry is that its capital walks out the door every night. If it realizes it can not come back, or merely threaten to not come back, it will have gained a great deal of leverage.

⚫ They simply didn't care. Arrogance, psychopathy, delusion. It doesn't particularly matter. Again, trust and reassurance are not promoted.
I completely agree that as software makers, keyboard makers in particular, we have to be understand how prevalent and important multilingualism is. ASCII and the subsequent long road to Unicode is a fantastic example of this western centric bias.

The Minuum team includes a number of multilingual people; I mix french and english on a daily basis, others on the team speak slavic languages regularly. Similarly being based in Toronto, near the bilingual province of Quebec, our friends and family early user network included many multilingual people.

I think that more than almost any other type of software designers, keyboard makers are acutely aware of the importance and the myriad of issues surrounding multilingual support. We've known since very early on that language support is a major factor that will eventually make or break us.

For us, each new language actually brings a surprising number of exciting new technical challenges. Hopefully we'll be able to gain insights from the process and find those "few smart things" that can be done to get you from 5 keyboards to 1.
I thought the same until I found out Natalie Portman was onboard with a Hot Grits Trove.
Did you try Kii, Swiftkey or TouchPal X?

They all allow to mix multiple languages and are pretty awesome virtual keyboards. Using them with two or more languages at the same time is a very smooth experience. Couldn't imagine to go back to a single language keyboard.

A quick overview:

- Swiftkey has probably the best prediction capabilities and with its cloud sync it has many advanced features.

- Touchpad is very close to swiftkey

- Kii is the keyboard with the most configuration possibilities. You can change really everything with this keyboard, from the size of the buttons
over padding, click sounds, prediction behaviors to gestures and many, many more. It's definitely the most powerful and fastest keyboard. On par with swiftkey except the cloud sync feature. Once you you set it up to your needs your type as fast as with a blackberry either with one hand (by swiping) or with two hands (by tapping). But again swiftkey and touchpad are very powerful too and at the end it's a matter of taste.

Swype is still quite popular but doesn't have good multi language support and the experience is not that smooth compared to the other ones.
* They've never in the history of the company made a solid effort to nail UI and it's not part of their culture at all.*

Regardless of how you feel about how it turned out, they clearly have spent the past two years focusing on unifying design and UX across their products.
If you find a flaw in a published paper, the normal course of action is to e-mail the authors letting them know what you think is wrong. If authors think this is a devastating flaw, they will retract their paper. Even if they don't, you can still publish a note yourself explaining why these results are flawed. This happens all the time and the 'consequences' you desire are already built into the system. Flawed papers don't do very well on citation or influence metrics.

But much more importantly, the flaw in your mental model is thinking that claims in published papers are expected to be correct. They aren't. The goal of a paper is to advance the field by stimulating discussion and new research. The unfortunate consequence of this is that laypersons can't directly use research papers as an authoritative source describing our current understanding of a subject.

The github analogy still holds up. Non-programmers shouldn't be downloading code off github, compiling and running it because they have no way of evaluating whether the code really does what it claims to do. They're probably better off getting applications from curated app stores. Accessible scientific publications written by recognized experts in the field are the equivalent of curated app stores. That is where laypersons should be looking to understand the state of the art in scientific knowledge.
My long term plan to buy a bitcoin last year for $300 and buy a VR system with it in 5 years is going along smoothly.
More specifically, a blog subdomain of cnn (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com), which appears to be a Wordpress site, was hacked.
Sigh, I don't know how I could explain "the science is settled" without sounding condescending, but let me try.

> I still don't really see what's wrong with the statement that I made. Would you argue that we know everything that is necessary to know about, say, solar cycles? Or CO2 sequestration?

Do we know everything that is necessary to know about, say, hurricanes? No. But when the weather service warns a category-5 hurricane is approaching your town and expected to make a landfall tomorrow afternoon, you don't just ignore that (after all, they don't know everything, and the prediction can (and sometimes does) go wrong) and go on a picnic.

Do we know everything about general relativity? No, but that doesn't stop us from trusting airline pilots who are in turn relying on GPS signal which actually works only because the satellites are compensating for general relativistic effects.

Do we know everything about solar cycles? No, but we have Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory), Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), and numerous other satellites whose entire purpose is to observe the sun. If the sun is emitting more solar radiation than before, we'd know.

Let me just quote wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_variation#Solar_variation...

> The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Assessment Report (TAR) concluded that the measured magnitude of recent solar variation is much smaller than the amplification effect due to greenhouse gases but acknowledges in the same report that there is a low level of scientific understanding with respect to solar variation.

In other words, even if we don't know a lot about solar variation, we know enough to rule out the possibility that its effect is large enough to drive global warming. Unless we could somehow hypothesize a new mechanism completely overlooked by scientists so far and somehow that mechanism explains current global temperature trend and we find that the global warming effect was due to the sun instead of CO2 (which would mean that all the current climate models, which agree with measured CO2 and temperature, are actually spectacularly wrong).

Occam's razor says it's CO2.

I'm sorry, the science IS settled. I won't call you an idiot, you might be just misinformed and (due to the misinformation) cannot discern peer-reviewed science from FUDs.

* About economics, I'll just say "building 10,000 nuclear plants" is not the only way (actually, probably not even the cheapest way) to reduce CO2 emission.

And if you're looking at economics, you can't ignore the potential cost of the global warming being real (more likely than not) and we do nothing or very little to stop it (sadly, also likely). During the WW2, USA poured enormous resource into development of nuclear weapon, even when nobody was sure if it's going to work at all, because the cost of doing nothing (and finding it out when Nazis developed one first) was considered unacceptable.
There's two issues here:

1. A pretty significant amount of code is PHP serving broken HTML + Javascript, stuff which favours pragmatism over purity (to the degree that even some of the most pragmatic people hate it with a passion). These languages are popular because the authors focused on delivering results, not naval gazing.

2. When a language community starts talking up its the theoretical features with a passion, it's a red flag. Odds are, the documentation will be obtuse, and the community will bite noobs who don't know the theory. Even if they try to be nice to beginners, it's against their instincts to give simplified (if technically incorrect) answers. If your High School math teacher told you that "differentiation finds the slop of a graph, by finding f(x+e) / f(e) where e is really small", she was lying, but it's a good kind of lie.

A pedantic explanation will just confuse people, and stop most of them from understanding it well enough to learn how to appreciate the technicalities.
Ansible playbooks read about a million times more obviously to me than salt config files. Probably that's just due to me putting in the effort to learn, but I think there's a thread of truth in there too. For one thing, Ansible makes it easy for non-devops folks to just walk through what they'd need to do to provision a box, and then turn that walk through into an ansible playbook.

I also appreciate that there are a number of ways to set things up in Ansible, which makes it easy to write simple playbooks, and easy to write complex ones with multiple roles and branches as well.

At the end of the day, conf management has so many facets that I've learned to stop arguing the merits of one over another and just accept that there are different strokes for different folks.
Huge amounts of cash not being deposited surely worries banks' shareholders too.
I want to write audio VST plugins in this language! Somebody please make that easy. :-)
Correct. I'm lucky to be an EU citizen. No visa required.
It makes sense that banks don't want a part in it until it's legal on the federal legal.
I may be dense, but this does seem like a slow follower to Prismatic and co. It's interesting in a way: kind of pretty, but it doesn't seem like it's going to change my world.

Of course, I half expect to be proven wrong because I've now voiced my doubts.
Hmm, why don't manager replace H1-B's with skill-less people at fast food wages? Managers do not necessarily do things that benefit the company. Managers need to maintain the appearance that their project is important and relevant. Their goal is having as many people as possible to manage. Actually accomplishing important work is not important. Yes, other people should notice that nothing is getting done and all these people are sitting around doing work that could be done by a fast food worker. What are you going to do, go tell the guy that approved the project that his project sucks and he and the entire management chain are failures?
Huawei pays off Rockstar in patent spat
I'm responding only to the parent poster, not to original article. The view put forth in this particular comment thread is that programmers are underpaid because they don't dress well, which I find ridiculous. The article has a more reasonable explanation that programmers are underpaid because their employers collude, but plenty of others have already responded to that.
When someone steals your device, you change your passwords and Google ends all active sessions automatically. If you use a session cookie from a very different location (e.g. another country, it also asks to re-enter the two-factor token.

That leaves the chance of having your system being compromised through the internet. Sure, that's possible.
Google Broadens Its Outreach to GOP
IMHO, Twisted is not an example of great engineering and it certainly is not pythonic - which is why I am glad Guido did this, we deserve better :P

PS: I say this from reading the codebase and using it extensively to write a production BOSH server.
To go full snark, surely you'd need to append:

"from the well-thats-not-very-exciting dept."
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> Once enough states go legal [the federal government] will have no choice in the matter.

I beg to differ. If the federal government doesn't like what's going on in these states, they can prosecute individuals and businesses involved in the marijuana business on the federal level. Even if successful, defendants would face months or years of uncertainty and hefty legal bills. Moreover, the prospect of success looks dim: The Supreme Court has already ruled that the infamous universal loophole in the Constitution known as the interstate commerce clause applies even to growing your own food on your own property for your own consumption [1] and that this ruling applies to marijuana even for medicinal purposes [2].

EDIT: Given that the Supreme Court is at least theoretically bound by precedent, and given that precedent apparently allows federal policy to trump state policy in this area even for strictly intra-state activities, the court isn't the right place to address this anyway. If the President is amenable to the idea, having the executive branch proclaim a policy of non-enforcement of federal marijuana statutes in states that have legalized marijuana is certainly a good place to start -- but the next President could unmake such a policy just as easily as this President can make it.

Legislation would be a more permanent fix. The most permanent fix of all would be a Constitutional amendment which altered the balance of power between state and federal governments, perhaps explicitly narrowing the scope of the commerce clause. Some of the reasons why this might desirable are given in the O'Connor / Rehnquist dissent [2].

Unfortunately, due to historical events in the US, the notion that the federal government has too much power and states have too little is inexorably tied in political rhetoric to slavery, repression of African-Americans, and Southern right-wing conservatives. Which means that for the foreseeable future, the balance of power between state and federal governments will continue to tilt toward the latter.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich
On the E3 visa - and AFAIK the H1B - you can't be out of work for more than 10 days. If you're not confident you can find a similar salary (and have an approved LCA) within that time then that makes the idea of rocking the boat a little more scary.
If I'm not mistaken, Jason Fried made DHH partner at 37Signals.
Google Search pretty much nailed UI.
You missed my metaphor. The car is dangerous whether or not it has an internet connection, by virtue of it being a highly flammable thing that you sit in while it moves 70 miles per hour. Some of the over the air updates improve the safety of the car during driving.
Agreed, there many good positions for new college grads. I don't think there is any better location than SV when starting a software engineering career.

While housing prices are quite high, working in technology you are certainly able to afford the higher rents. The problem is when you don't work in tech and live here.
Funny you mentioned Québec when you're in Toronto: I wouldn't be surprised if there were more multilingual people in the GTA as there are in all of Québec.
real changes that need to be made to h1b are the fact that they need to prioritize the h1bs to foreigners who graduate from US universities. Every year thousands of foreign PhD students graduate and go back to their home country not because they want to but because they could not get an H1B visa mostly because they wont work at the cut rate a person fresh from their home country would work for. These PhDs are trained with public funds because no PhD student pays their own way through school they receive public grants from the schools or other public entities that fund their research and their study. Americans just dont want to enter graduate school in the same numbers that chinese and indians want to and there is no problem with that as long as these people are not being trained just to go back to their country. They use US public funds to be trained so it is beneficial for them to stay in the US and boost the US work force
I am marking this bug as closed: unable to reproduce.

Really, though, you should do a little more testing before you try to go public like this. This code renders almost the same for me on all three browsers: http://i.imgur.com/fmEhGOB.png
Be your own bank and use bitcoin in the meantime
I dealt with this after a user complaint last week - The "-webkit-text-stroke: 1px" hack mentioned in the Chromium thread does indeed work, but only for headings. If you use a webfont for body copy, and absolutely need cross-browser support, probably just have to fall back.
It absolutely will matter, because in the course of those generations, people will die or suffer or both. I'm talking about triage. We don't need to worry about the sun exploding just yet.