skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Children are perfectly capable of all of the things you listed, have you forgotten what it was like to be one? They're certainly naive, less mature, less self-aware, not as bright, and so on, but they're still there. They're still people, just an earlier form of what they'll grow up to be.

I don't like the "my little Timmy is a one-of-a-kind snowflake genius!" trend either, but that idea is easily less harmful than the idea that children are mindless cattle driven purely by their id. If you treat children like animals, using only external motivation to guide them, don't be surprised when they act like them. If you actually talk to kids and try to get at their real interests and motivations, I bet you'd be surprised at what you find.
>Nuts and jerky are the only healthy things on that list.

And sometimes not even then. The sodium content of many (most?) commercially packaged nuts and jerky is way, way too high.
You know, I thought the same thing until I got a Pebble to do some development on. Turns out, I really like getting notifications on my wrist. Lets me know if it's actually something I need to get my phone out for.

Also, it's easier to dismiss calls if I'm in a place where I can't/don't want to take a call.
Most new students have seen a text editor before (like Notepad or Microsoft word). They are used to things like using the arrow keys for navigation (instead of HJKL), not having to switch modes, and using the mouse to manipulate text. There are plenty of serviceable programmers' text editors which follow these idioms. Better to let students use something familiar so you can focus on the actual subject (programming) and not frustrate them with learning a completely different set of keyboard shortcuts.
Yes all of these protection measures are better, I personally use SOCKS over a VPN, but on the rare occasional that I need to develop on a client's possibly compromised network, I like to run this handy tool.
Seriously? Because when every consumer protection agency in your free market utopia fails to perform adequately they no longer exist.

If no consumer protection agency earns anyone's trust, how does it continue to exist in your perfect world?

On a related note: what incentive is there for an individual to create a consumer protection agency? What incentive is there for a company to open their doors to a consumer protection agency that isn't going to give them a good rating?
Little Snitch is what you need, I am a user, I am not affiliated with them, and I love their product, I cannot imagine having a personal computer without little snitch.
The original Coinjoin algorithm description can be found here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=279249.0
> Remember you are not their client. Your CTO/CIO/CEO are. It's not you they need to make happy and they won't even try.

That kind of attitude doesn't work anymore. The Enterprise Architect does get listened to these days, because software is key to the health of the company's operations.

We're not in the days where downtime means you get an extra cup of coffee or the day off. Downtime could mean you go out of business.
Making Remote Teams Work
The question is, how far will Apple go down this path. Will they kill any developer with a health and fitness tracking app, or just provide the tools to make our apps better?

Until reading this article, I was excited for the possibilities of an iWatch for my apps. Now I'm a little bit scared of being crushed by Apple.
I guess you mean mass acclaim? A piece of art only has that value to me that matches the change it engenders in me.

It is either worth "something" (don't want to say worthless) or it is priceless, there's no real continuum for me if that makes sense.
I hope everybody understand our deception. We were in front an investor showing our amazing solution and we found that anything from our servers was reachable. We couldn't make the demo, also We couldn't show the product in the pitch. We thought ours servers crash or something... Very bad experience. From that moment past almost 3 weeks and still it's not working.

We contacted OVH, we have the private cloud there, they checked everything with our team. They couldn't find anything. Then I asked to other T-Mobile users and saw that the problem only occurs under T-Mobile networks... We were very very clear in the post, but the few responses of solutions were like "did you read my problem?"
Thanks Song. :-)
The Bill Barnwell aphorism reads pretty empty to me. You could just as easily flip it to: "In the first half, your only goal is to minimize your opponent's expected points. You don't know exactly how many points they will need until the end."

His phrase doesn't really have any impact on the argument being made here unless you really dissect the relative importance of offense versus defense in the game, which requires a lot more evidence to make a case one way or the other.
Since many bottled water companies take their product from public reservoirs I wonder what brands test highly for what drugs. A new selling point perhaps? :D
This does look cool, but when it says "HTML5" I definitely do not think "requires Flash".
Was I the only one expecting the github repo to be named "condom"?
>Don't you agree that a Starbucks barista saying "Our coffee is not good" is a different matter from John Doe saying "Starbucks coffee is not good"?

Well, let's put it this way. I interviewed at Yahoo search, back when Yahoo Search was a thing. I was passing on a question, playing it off as a detail that i would look up. I said something to the effect of "I'd just google it"

Laughter. "we try not to say that here." I got the job.

As a SysAdmin, really? my knowledge of search-engines was probably not any more nuanced than any other technical person. That's probably true of the Starbucks barista, too; I believe that Starbucks uses so-called super-automatic espresso machines, meaning that the machine grinds, tamps and pulls the shot, so a starbucks barista might very well know no more about espresso than a random enthusiast.

I do believe that it is completely reasonable for an employee to have a low opinion of the company they work for.

In fact, I think that only having "yes men" type employees who always parrot the company line can be dangerous; I think this is a big part of why facebook doesn't understand just how creepy the rest of us think they are.

I think that this expectation that employees "work for the mission, not the money" and the other exercises in groupthink that are becoming more popular in "Startup culture" are... kind of dangerous. You are training your employees to conceal their honest feelings, which is certainly bad for your employee, and I believe also bad for the company.
sweet site dude but pleaz o pleaz change the background, i can't see the white text on the light gray back ground.
There also needs to be something about not making the leds any brighter than necessary, and making sure they are necessary at all.

(I would say it is a little unfortunate that so many devices end up with 'power cable correctly attached' lights. Cable modems also have an abundance of lights that are approximately only useful for making diagnostic procedures.)
> Have I argued for centralized power?

Then what are you arguing for? My understanding is that you say free market cannot be better than having some degree of regulation. Regulation assumes government, doesn't it?
Not sure if you can still donate but this is the link to the fundraiser: https://supporters.eff.org/donate/save-podcasting
I'm kind of amazed people like Ian Samuels (who represented Lavabit at the recent hearing) and Brad Liddle (this patent troll) exist in the same profession. And depressingly, I suspect Liddle makes a lot more money.
> what incentive is there for an individual to create a consumer protection agency?

Being paid by people who would like a reliable information about the products and services they purchase?

> What incentive is there for a company to open their doors to a consumer protection agency that isn't going to give them a good rating?

Being excluded from the rating altogether to the advantage of their competitors?
Wish I had seen your comment about a minute earlier.
I don't like the bait-and-switch games, but I recently downloaded Avia for free and paid for the Chromecast feature. That seemed like a good use of IAP.
Great Typefaces of 2013
The COBOL MOVE-CORRESPONDING verb. I'm not going to try to explain exactly how it works here, but imagine, if you will, copying the contents of one table to another table with a different column structure, but sort of the same names.
OK, I get it. Municipalities are very unskilled, so their services suck. Which is why they can't be allowed to compete with cablecos, because all cableco customers would immediately decide to switch to the municipalities for better prices and service.

I think we need to work a little harder on this chain of logic...
Everyone loves a bit of HN-google-twitter juice for publishing some controversial anti-jQuery diatribe.

yawn
Suppose you flip a coin and get 4 heads in a row. How many additional times do you have to flip the coin to have a 99% confidence of flipping tails at least once?

If you flip it only 3 additional times you get only a 7/8=88% probability of getting at least one tail.

You need to flip it 7 additional times you get 127/128=99.2% probability of getting at least one tail.

The coin doesn’t remember that the last 4 times it landed head.
I'm guessing the HN algorithm does not like posts that get more comments than points.
Well, isn't that is the whole point of representative democracy? The representatives listen to the people and then prioritize the issues they are working on based on what's important for the constituents. If more people call about one issue over the other, that's the hot button thing, they should give it a priority.
You have missed the point of what Barnwell is saying. He is saying that tactical calling of plays to trade expected point value against variance do not make sense in the first half, because you don't know how close it's going to be.

To illustrate: in an infinitely long game, you always pick whatever gives you the highest expected value. In a game with one play left, you always pick the play with the highest probability to put you over the amount of points the opponent has, even if has a lower expected value than other plays.

The quote is saying that the first half is more similar to playing an infinitely long game than a game with one play left.
FWIW, I was on a jQuery-hating kick before I read this article, which explains some of the beauty behind the jQuery api.

http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/10/09/designing-java...

I agree that you probably only want to use a small subset of jQuery (e.g., none of the UI, none of the transitions), and zeptojs is actually a really good alternative. But it really does provide some convenience.
Open Wash.
Good, let them raise it; got no problem with that. Opens up room for competitors, maybe even for you and me to make some online business a go. Nice.
Unfortunately I don't have a linkable source for this, but the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue gave a talk on A/B testing donation forms and it turns out that when they removed the "select card type" field, donations went -way- down. You'd think that the Law of Forms would apply (fewer fields = higher conversions), but it doesn't. Apparently people assumed that there was something wrong with the form and therefore didn't trust it (when they removed that field, they also had a huge uptick in people submitting reports of things wrong with the form).

I'm hoping someone from ActBlue's dev team sees this and can jump in. They run a lot of fascinating tests on credit card forms.
Making it easier for someone to get engaged in the political process (in this case, by helping them call their representative) is a good thing. Politicians do not receive enough pushback and feedback from their constituents (9% approval rating), yet you disapprove of efforts to improve this?

Spam and junk mail are very different than calling a representative -- this comparison feels disingenuous to me. It is their job to listen to us.
Firefox dev here. Sorry to hear you're having issues with Firefox. This has not been my experience, would love to know more specifics about apps that don't work in Firefox.

Would be hugely helpful if you could file a bug (bugzilla.mozilla.org) when you see something that doesn't work, but if you want a quicker way to help I'll file the bug for you. Just send me a one line email with the problematic URL. joshmoz at gmail
Most modern browsers are able to paint while loading script files, especially if you put your script files at the bottom of the page, where they belong. So, no, 20ms of parsing, compiling, and a small amount of execution is not a lot of time. Period.
Nice bit of reverse-engineering, and an impressive hack from whoever built the system.
California orders coding bootcamps to stop enrollment and issue refunds
...time warner spent $3B over the entire country then TW is winning in my book.

TW is winning, but their customers certainly aren't. If we actually had free markets in data connection, consumers would have other providers to choose, and TW would have to spend a great deal more on their aged creaky networks in order to stay in business.

Why did we defer to the judgment of local government when they wanted to shackle residents to one provider in exchange for big bribes through franchise agreements, but now that they want to encourage that same provider to get off its ass and provide decent service they're enemies of capitalism?
The shift to adjuncts is not confined to the Humanities. My local community college in the boondocks of the Northeastern US has just as many in the sciences. It's an oversupply of graduates combined with declining state funding.
Realistically, in terms of what they actually cover and what projects students have produced by the end of them, these programs are the equivalent of about 3 semester-long CS courses, in the best case. At best they are equivalent to around 10-15% of a degree.
Every state will have different numbers, though, and I don't know what Missouri's are.

However, you have completely ignored what happens after the 'first nine years'. Sure, a lot of politicians don't care about the future, especially if they don't plan on being in office at that point (or being in a different office). But perhaps Missouri's legislature does?
What is A Virtual Private Network? (and why you need one)
Yup. It's a flask app which can be self hosted on any instance of yours and it uses redis to store conference mappings.
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As someone who has taken a bootcamp course and now an online course learning how to program it makes me undeniably angry how government can be so abject.
This looks fantastic. Will play with it this weekend.
You've made many predictions about what "competitors" will do. Why the hell haven't they done them already? Data service in this country is terrible, for most business and nearly all residential customers.
What about my other question?

What's to keep an entire industry from creating their own protection agency, and excluding all other agencies from inspecting their facilities? Who protects the consumers then?

Without regulation what's to keep an agency from intermixing legitimate ratings with false ratings? What's to keep a company from paying every agency for false ratings, especially if everyone is profit-maximizing, and every other agency is going to say the same thing? Even if you found out, what can you do about it?

Does being excluded from the ratings give an advantage to their competitors? All it says is that they weren't rated, not that they're better or worse, and what if their competitors are terribly rated?

What's to keep an agency from being vindictive? This goes with the above mixing legitimate and false ratings.
I agree. I am an adjunct and (in my opinion, and understandably) dedicate more time to my teaching than full-time professors that also have research requirements. You could argue the opposite point-- that Universities that make use of qualified adjuncts should be rewarded due to inexpensively and efficiently providing quality education. The biggest point should be that adjuncts need to fight for better pay.

I'm actually quite shocked that article was written by an adjunct. Seems like it'd make more sense if it was written by someone with a vested interest on the opposing side.
Poor guy.

The hellbanning system on ycombinator is terrible. Hellbanning should be reserved for the most obnoxious of spammers, not for random innocents.
This does not satisfy the requirement of low performance implications. Augmented Types works by wrapping zend_compile and adding opcodes to to the compiled PHP to check the types of the arguments. This way Augmented Types can be run once at compile time (yes, PHP is compiled) and ensure type safety of all subsequent invocations.
It'd be interesting to scrape videos for this kind of information in order to map them en-masse. Great post!
Simply unreal.
How to Make Sure Users Don’t Accidentally Delete
Anecdote: I used to work with donation processing, and we had a situation where we had transactions that I knew we're identity theft (email addresses were the same, IP the same, but zip, CVV, name correct, and all submitted in a short timeframe). I refunded the transactions and called the banks to report that the cards had been stolen, and the banks basically threw their hands up in the air.
SExViaHEx: Software Exploitation Via Hardware Exploitation.
Regarding jQuery, correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it required for dropdowns and responsive navbars?

Regarding Min, I'm wondering what you think looks 2004-ish about it. If it's the buttons, those are in for a change; please cast your vote in the button design thread here: https://github.com/OwenVersteeg/min/issues/6 If it's anything else, just let me know (via an issue or a comment) and I can fix it. I'm always open to feedback.

Also, a substantial portion of people still have slow internet speeds (example: me.) It's common knowledge that if a website is too slow people will just leave, and for lots of websites an extra few percent of users would make a difference.
Is the main point that Rackspace has relaxed a restriction that required pre-approval for employees to contribute to OSS _on their own time_ but they still need approval to contribute while at work?
You're committing an equivocation fallacy and (s)he's allowed to point that out.
Not really a hack. Subcarriers are how they added color to TV, stereo to FM radio, and so on. WWV/WWVH also sends machine-readable time codes at 100Hz like this.
>I disagree. Especially when you are at the bottom of the chain of command.

Its too much to expect the average person to understand rank structure. Everyone is capable of understanding it, but almost nobody cares because civilian life doesn't often give you a good reason to care about military/government rank structure. Many people see an intimidating looking guy in a uniform and assume he's in charge of a lot of really important stuff.

I was in the military for over a decade, yet to my wife, there were three ranks. Privates, Her Husband (Actually a Sergeant), and the mythical Officer/First Sergeant (Everyone higher ranking than myself would alternately be referred to as First Sergeant or my Commanding Officer, as in, the same person would be referred to as either one, depending on the conversation. I explained the differences to her a thousand times, but she, like many military wives, just didn't seem to care.

Civilians care even less. Most people recognize that a general is the highest authority in the military, but that's about where it ends.

You also have to consider the way that the media often likes to twist a person's words around. You might be speaking as a matter of opinion, but if a news station uses clever editing to make it sound like you are an important person who is declaring an official military position on a subject, it doesn't really matter that its not true, the damage is still done.
Pretty amazing, right? A nuclear reactor built more or less like a bonfire. And apparently nobody thought this was a bad idea.

But of course, leave it to the Soviets to come up with something far crazier and far worse.
I got a kick out of this. Great project.
Adding one more detail to your post: roads. Roads are the huge one. The expense of roadways is positively staggering.

If cities can do that, they can run some cable.
It was a little tongue in cheek.

I'd take a shack on the beach and a cold beer right now and be poor AND of average intelligence...
I doubt it really works like that in practice anymore...

Yeah TFA makes pretty clear that in this case the bill was written by the greasiest lobbyist in Kansas.
Regarding the SEC's 500
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This sounds nice rolling off the tongue, but there is clearly no truth to it. Did you just make it up?
The curious resurgence of pogs
I live about 2.5 hours southish of Kansas City.

If things don't get better within a few months, I am going to be doing just that. My profile hasn't been updated in forever (like since I opened the account) but I do or have done everything in that list. I could add Python programming to that list, as I have been teaching myself over the past year. Thanks for the offer, right now I am trying to figure out what the future has in store for me and my family.
I was the TL of the libraries for almost a year, and there are good reasons we didn't go this route:

- it adds overhead. Being able to write JSON.encode(customer) would mean that every class needs to retain its field names. Minification could still work if this information is stored on the side, but it would add overhead.

- it doesn't make sense to automatically encode elements that cannot be decoded. You should have: x =~= JSON.decode(JSON.encode(x)). (where x =~= y means that the two objects are Json-equivalent).

- The Dart-Editor already provides a quick-fix to write a toJson for you. To be honest I'm not really a fan of it, since I believe that serialization information should be outside the object, and not in the object (that's what "toEncodable" is for), but that's another story.

- It's extremely easy to get the behavior you want. Just use (or write, if none exists yet) a package that has your intended behavior. This is really a one-line change... This way you pay the price when you want to, and don't force it on all users.
You're equating regulation and centralization. You're also equating refutation of your points as taking a position completely opposite your points.

If you take even a tiny look at the rest of what I had to say (which you also neglected to respond to) my argument is collectivization, which is not the same thing as centralization.
Or what, they'll get fired? Could a company do so without risk of a lawsuit?
Actually good vs. bad advertising is tricky.

When ads are very targeted and try to show you things the system thinks you are looking for, you get a small number of relevant ads vs. a bunch of spam ads. In that sense, they are actually very good and can be useful for some people. Sometimes, they can even help you discover things you couldn't find through a direct search.

On the other hand, the data collection and analysis you have to do in order to target effectively seems bad to most people.

I'd rather have my privacy and control of my own data than get targeted ads, but most people don't seem to have the same awareness or concern.

In any event, that quote isn't quite accurate. Behaviorally targeted ads are the result of data obtained from people actively searching for something or browsing as well. (Behavioral targeting is really where the money in in FBX). They may be showing you something you don't know you want, but more often, they are showing you what the system thinks you were looking for but couldn't find.