skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Tiger Mother' Author Spells Out 3 Traits That Drive Success In The U.S.
Is this new? I'm pretty sure it's been around in some form for a couple of years at least.
I hope so, too
a chatroom website chatleap.com and
yahoo stock api to learn golang https://github.com/TrevorDev/go-finance
Mozilla would love to have Firefox on iOS. You just need to convince Apple to change their terms of service to allow real 3rd party browsers (as opposed to UI skins atop the slower version of Safari).
Let's look back 30 years... 1984

Since then: Transportation, air ground and sea, virtually the same. Personal computers were there. Cell phones were there (larger, more expensive). Space program maybe in a better state. Space shuttle. Medicine hasn't fundamentally changed our quality of life.

What has changed? Not that much. We have progresses but not much in the way of revolutions.

The earth's population has grown, a lot. Computing devices are more ubiquitous and the Internet. The world has become a smaller place and people are a little less different. The Berlin wall has fallen. 9/11. Those of us with jobs are working harder. Gaps are growing between rich, middle class and poor.

2044

Climate? Population? Super bugs? We are likely to be closer to a "world state" but there's always a chance of some major war. Nuclear weapons? Major disasters?

Technology wise we will probably get self driving cars in this time frame. Maybe space exploration will advance but I don't believe in any major way, perhaps the ground work would be laid for some more major shift there. Life expectancy will probably increase somewhat. In many areas we are hitting some system complexity limits in being able to make major progress. This has been happening already. We'll get more bandwidth to our homes, have somewhat faster and smaller computers, and likely new display technologies (3d/VR ...) We will have more robotic devices around performing various functions but nothing like Asimov's world... I think client vs. server will shift back to more client side similar to the mainframe->PC shift...
Thoughts on the recent $14 billion buyback of Apple shares
Not sure why they can't just slap something together like Chrome for iOS. Sure, it won't be the real firefox, but I just want to access my passwords, history, and such easily
What chrome did is fine for me. I don't need a super snappy web browser for mobile sites. I'd be fine with a UI that syncs with Firefox on top of WebKit
As long as they keep POP3 (or maybe extend it), I'm happy.
It's even easier to create three separate var statements and let a JavaScript compressor handle it:

var one = "foo";
var two = "bar";
var three = "baz";
Gmail was announced several weeks ago (maybe December?) as coming to Takeout, and last time I checked I didn't have it enabled, but now I do. It's by far my biggest file, my last export of all the services I was able to download was ~100MB, but this is at 3.5GB and climbing.
What happened when I reached the top of Hacker News
It's worth mentioning Gmail Offline. I actually like that interface more than the regular one.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gmail-offline/ejid...
And the people putting in those last 16 bitcoins - what do they get back?

There are always losers in every ponzi scheme.
Unfortunately this is just one of the current oppressions in Turkey. This pro-Islamic government has limited individual freedom by every step taken, ironically in the name of "advanced democracy". Scare tactics such as putting people through trials because of tweeting anti-government ideas or sharing something on Facebook have become common practice.
This Artist [1] is selling to his fans on Instagram using paypal. It's manual heavy. Automate or simplify it for him.

Let me know if you'd like to learn more.

[1] http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/art-money/artists...
Rumor Monger (2005)
I can tell you that all the people that have moved into my East Bay neighborhood with good schools have been from SF. People with kids that can't handle the price for private schools and deal with the kid unfriendly nature of SF.
The DOM chain to that button is `#colorbox #cboxContent #cboxClose`. What part of that looks designed to intentionally trigger an ad blocker so you can't close it? They didn't "pull" anything. It's blocked because the CDN they host their static images on has the word "ad" in the domain (static.adziff.com -- named after their company, Ziff Davis); that's called a false positive.
> By every measure I could find, solar was over twice the cost of nuclear.

So, please by patient with me, i'm not trying to make you look dumb or anything. It's just the from what I've researched, solar power pays for itself in 5-10 years depending on location. Meanwhile nuclear power has many externalities which are taxpayer-subsidized. It seems to me the reasons we haven't "gone solar" are not to do directly with cost, but of waiting until the technology is mature before investing gangbusters.

As for the dangers of storing electricity generated through solar energy, if a nuclear power plant can be run safely, couldn't an electrical storage plant also be run safely?
Pretty clear that workers came to SF, worked and then left when they were done. Land value inflation worked as intended.
> Ah yes, the well-known computer science fields of HTML and CSS. Those aren't even programming languages!

If a kid gave you a crayon picture, would you throw it in her face for having a shaky hand and a poor grasp of anatomy?

Everyone has to start somewhere. For a complete newbie, HTML works as well as anything for teaching the basic idea of language grammar, and better than most for giving immediate positive feedback.
2025: Thanks to intense lobbying all healthcare providers have now access to that data, too. All companies state that they will only use this in your best interest.

2026: In western countries the medical wearables are declared mandatory, because of all the benefits they provide. This is another major lobbying breakthrough for the healthcare industry, which stated that their data models will work much better if everyone provides data to be analyzed as input.

2027-2032: Healthcare providers start to use the mandatory data to predict your value for society. You didn't do enough sports last week? That's bad. Thanks to the new unified healthcare data model (UHDM) you are now demoted into category 2, which excludes you from almost any job, because you could be a 'risk' for prospective employers.

2033: The world is parted into category 1 and category 2 people with no way to go back up from 2 to 1. Even living a perfect healthy life (according to the 'guidelines' provided) doesn't help as the UHDM says that any category 2 person is damaged beyond repair. Category 1 people live in constant fear of doing anything not according to the guidelines helpfully provided by those in charge.
If your goal is to manipulate people into doing what you want, then yes, you should consider their emotional state above rational argument.

If your goal is to pursue the truth and make correct decisions, you must not pay any heed whatsoever to the emotions of the person(s) you're trying to reach a decision with. That is, you can try to be delicate, but you mustn't allow their emotions to prevent the argument from being rational.
Social Security isn't a vehicle that attempts to return your principle + interest. Regardless of how many contributors there are, SS benefits would pay out at a % of the target if it could not cover the complete benefit. Ponzi schemes have no such provisions and are not transparent about it.

I suppose they are similar in that neither are actual investment vehicles, despite what many contributors tend to think.
Minutes? Really? Because that's how most people measure their investments. The only way you could see if 'he was living up to his promises' was if he just speculated on more bitcoins, which would be dumb.
Sure it does. She had a problem (not being able to share her husband's interests), and instead of the obvious solution (pull him away from his interests) she found a novel and better one (join him in his interests). It's a perfect hack.
Great to put things into perspective. I do believe in autocatalysis (innovation cycles become shorter and shorter because each stage is the foundation/catalyst of the next). Danny Hillis has a great talk on this.
No, it's okay to fork it. Deliberately ignoring the license is not okay.
What about the natural disasters? You're not choosing that pain and suffering. (Well, maybe a little bit nowadays through global warming, but at least before this century you weren't)
> I can't see why a tech savvy person wouldn't just have a domain and email hosting service instead of gmail

Maintaining your own email server to the same level of reliability (backups, etc), speed, and functionality as gmail would be a lot of work. Not every "tech savvy" person out there wants to invest the time and resources needed to duplicate what gmail gives them for free.

[Also gmail's web interface is very, very, good, and it's well-integrated with other google products, which are very popular.]
There is a spammer in the chat room spamming a new address too.
It is called an annuity. It is one of the more basic forms of insurance, offered widely since forever by more or less everyone.
Perhaps preparing to turn off 'IMAP access' feature?
While we're talking about dark cosmologies, Divided by Infinity [0] is fantastic. I'll post it here as when I try to submit it as its own post it is automatically marked dead.

[0] http://www.tor.com/stories/2010/08/divided-by-infinity
Huge numbers of users who are not using the web interface/mobile app and are not seeing the ads. Those might as well not exist.
Fantastically interesting.
"If a kid gave you a crayon picture, would you throw it in her face for having a shaky hand and a poor grasp of anatomy?"

This analogy is awful, although I admit I was being a bit pedantic: my point was that learning to use markup languages isn't "learning computer science," although it does qualify as learning software development.

I also thought the idea of "spending a Saturday learning computer science" to be kind of funny. It's like if you spent a day making popsicle stick catapults and described it as "spending a Saturday learning physics."
'How I stopped my husband making money so he could give me more attention, in-turn creating the perfect future argument that we don't make enough money'
You've never heard of it, but you most people here have.

Flappy Bird is the most popular app (#1 on iOS App Store) in the world right now, and has been for a month. Realize that, and you have your answer.
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Tech fears shadow campaign to seize global control of Internet
What about them? They're paying for the web mail service, not IMAP specifically. And their "terms of use" probably already cover that Google can do whatever it likes to the service.
Google Sync was only disabled for free accounts. It's still available for paid accounts.
I can't take this anymore – Flappy Bird creator
No need for knee-jerk "lols", it makes a lot of sense.

For one, it will force most of them to download the Gmail app.

Second, those iPhone users don't benefit Google -- Google needs to control the experience, the ads etc in order to make money off them.
Rails.

a)At this point, you need both a backend framework and a frontend JS framework. Backend is typically Rails or Django, with Rails taking 60-80% of the jobs I've seen. Front you can do Angular, Backbone, Ember.. probably others. These are the ones I know.

b)You don't need 1 year of experience in either Rails or Angular to be able to do great work in them and get a good job. With 6 months in each, you should be fine and easily make $100-$150k in the Bay Area.

c)Your perception is correct, Rails will currently get you more jobs than Angular. That's because Rails is more stable and versatile. Personally I think Angular is pretty lame and I hope it doesn't go anywhere, but even somewhat objectively, Angular can't "be the next Rails". Pure JS frontend frameworks just don't have the room to grow that much in the next few years. Maybe much further down the road (5y+), but then it won't be Angular, but FancyNewFramework(tm).
Can't believe it took them this long to get out of 2003 web design. Competition. Seriously, it's a good thing.
Yeah, I think this is fine. But is it also not irritating to think that following every web mvc framework fad is really "keeping up to date" with programming? This seems to be a very common view and I don't think it is any less irritating. :)
Not likely. You can only create a backup once every 24 hours which would be useless for importing into a mail client.
It really is hard dealing with data and the amount of thought this guy has put into it and his approach is really excellent.
REST is just a generally agreed upon convention that makes good use of HTTP verbs to create simpler URL structures when interacting with resources.

So basically, instead of having the following endpoints:
site.com/create_user
site.com/delete_user
site.com/show_user
site.com/update_user

You'd instead have a single use endpoint like so:
site.com/user

And throw different HTTP verbs at it to signify the action.

It's definitely a well-defined concept and been part of Ruby on Rails since version 1.2.
"Kicktrolling" comeback?
I'm the king of the pedants over here, but mocking a newbie for making an honest effort at trying something new and not quite having the terminology down after her very first day is kinda lame. Yeah, her language is humorously awkward, but she's getting out there and trying. We need to encourage this, both as programmers and as scientists.
I'll just ask the NSA for mine ;-)
Well, to use Randall's words, isn't HTML using words and symbols to describe the way some points of light show up? Heck, CSS can even make those points of light change over time nowadays. So, why is HTML/CSS not 'computer science'. Is programming in C 'computer science'? (I'd argue that only the smallest part of our field is really 'CS', the rest is closer to engineering).
"any bureaucrat can now decide to take down a certain website without having to apply for a court order, but you will need to take that decision to court in order to get it reversed."

This is going to be used/abused by the Islamic government to silence opposition or to cover up corruption news. That's the main goal of the law.
The last approximation of an intellectual to run for high office was Adlai Stevenson in the 1950s.

In Canada, we had Michael Ignatieff -- former Harvard professor and holder of 11 honourary degrees -- as a "candidate for prime minister" in 2011. (We don't elect our Prime Ministers directly, but the leader of the winning party inevitably becomes Prime Minister, and polling has found that a lot of voting is determined by whom voters would like to see become Prime Minister.)

Ignatieff led the Liberal party to a disastrous defeat, in large part because whenever he was asked about an issue, he would respond by explaining in detail the merits of two or three different positions -- and never quite say which position he himself held.

It wasn't that he was too smart or that voters found him to be untrustworthy; voters simply couldn't figure out what policies he believed in.
From my understanding a Bird Strike during launch would only occur very early in the flight, where the shuttle was still traveling at a relatively low speed.
PayPal A/B Testing New Homepage
Flappy Bird creator plans to remove game
How do you get those "sql injections" in 2014? The APIs for parametrized queries have been around for a few decades now.
>The "android isn't very open source" sentiment really bothers me and I see it a lot here. It is a complete and fully functional mobile OS under extremely permissive licensing. Pull it! Change it! Build it! Fork it! Whatever!

The fact that you could theoritically "fork it and change it" doesn't change the fact that Android, the thing that is actually shipped, is not open itself, in the sense that it's not a community project, where everybody's opinion has equal weight based on their work, community standing, etc.

Without an actual community behind it, like Gnome or KDE, or FreeBSD have, one cannot influence it much, one's vote doesn't count, and "fork it and change it" is not really feasible -- who'll be paying for that?

>The code is there in a series of open git repos and under Apache license. That is open source in my book.

Well, that's the least interesting part of being open source. The actual important attribute of being open source is being a community project (cathedral vs bazaar etc).
See also: the engineering dance. When two engineers meet and shit test each other on their knowledge, until both are satisfied they are better than the other guy.
There are a lot more interesting things in CS than 100 different mvc frameworks and 20 upstart languages that do exactly what LISP did in 1960.
You mean the broken needles in the gutters, the people taking dumps on the sidewalk in broad daylight, hustlers trying to sell you crack and meth on every corner downtown, and the general ambient smell of piss?

Come on, nothing builds character like that.
We're going to see this type of architecture more and more. Everyone keeps talking about this C10K problem, but the truth of the matter is that most consumer's computers are idling 99% of the time. The server only needs to be there as central storage and as an authority to authorize certain transactions.
This transaction is where everything went wrong. I think after the shutdown they tried to start paying out the largest investors manually and missed a decimal place:

1 BTC In and 10 BTC back
https://blockchain.info/address/1CeGvbrAuLJYyKxX7T2KD3358dWo...

Someone made 10x their money.

Ponzi.io (1ponziUjuCVdB167ZmTWH48AURW1vE64q) --> Ponzi.io Change (14ji9KmegNHhTchf4ftkt3J1ywmijGjd6M) --> Big Winner (1CeGvbrAuLJYyKxX7T2KD3358dWoLmAohR)
*Thing

-> Enterprise
Google still gets to mine all the email they receive for data, and if they use the same Google account (or maybe IP address) for anything else, use it to target the ads there. It also brings network effects, since you don't have to convince the user to sign up for a new Google account for some other Google service if they already have one for gmail.
I thinks there's truth on both sides of this. There are many blub programmers that know some narrow scope of Java or C# and a little SQL and that's their whole programming life. This is true regardless of age.
HTML is definitely a declarative programming language. Its a limited (i.e., not Turing complete) language, which makes it of limited value as a vehicle for most general computer science concepts, but its still a programming language.
Many years ago, we hired a gal in her mid-20s, slim, girl-next-door looks. It was a fairly casual office environment and she tended toward jeans and a spaghetti tank with an unbuttoned shirt over it. Not indecent, yet definitely skin, so on the borderline of acceptable. One day she was kind of upset because one of the few men who worked there had spent some time talking to her chest. He was in his early 50s, and generally annoying due to overwhelming halitosis and a tendency to talk way longer than necessary. Personally, I was on the fence about fault; I didn't like him at all, but also felt you put out bait, all fish will come, trout and mudsuckers alike. But he gave himself the creep label because he didn't keep his eyes on her face.
It's amazing how, in a city full of so many supposedly socially conscious people, the government has been able to allow things to get so bad for the middle class.
People can also reverse engineer Windows and "make it work". That doesn't mean it's open.
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I created a similar site, but with different types of cognitive task http://www.brainexer.com/
Microsoft's enterprise software is really, really good. Active Directory, SQL Server, Azure, C# and Visual Studio are all amazing. They also make tons of money, and MS is really good at managing them as cash cows over time.

Not coincidentally, they just put the Cloud and Enterprise guy in charge of the company.
Not for Windows Phone there isn't, and they probably won't release one.
The government can accommodate (or fail to), but most of the driving factors here originate from the private sector.
The data doesn't show why they are leaving. Renters or land owners? When they count individuals, what is the number of couple leaving SF?
NYPD ogles Google Glass specs
Speaking of rot13, why is it in the bsdgames package?
Why does Gmail not provide valuable tracking data? It has tons of very personal content, it has contacts, so I don't see what's missing if you're in the business of compiling personal profiles.
Once again, the income range quoted in the article seems to correspond to the Thompson & Hickey 2005 definition of "Lower middle class". Mostly likely the people moving in to replace the displayed Lower-middle-classers are Upper-middle-classers making $75,000-$250,000, with only a sprinkling of Upper-classers (aka the 1%).

So once again pitting the middle against itself...

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_middle_class)
This gets back to the popular notion of Karma, which says that when bad shit happens to someone, they somehow "deserved" it.

First off, I don't think Buddhism even has a notion of "bad". It recognizes that there is suffering, but it doesn't say suffering is bad; it merely says, matter-of-factly and without judgement, that suffering is a consequence of desire. In order not to suffer, the Buddha teaches, one must (among other things) be in accord with and accepting of one's circumstances, whatever they may be. Buddhism is very practical that way; there's the old saw about the Zen master who quipped, "Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment: chop wood, carry water."

When "bad" shit happens, in that light, the suffering one experiences doesn't come from the thing that happened, but instead from wishing things were somehow different than they are. When you do that, you're diverting your awareness and mental energy from the reality that is manifest and present in front of you, and instead focusing on something that is not only not real, but can never be real.

And when you do that, you completely miss the fact that, up there, on that ledge, a lone flower has somehow managed to survive all the carnage around you. Had you not been preoccupied with wishing the world was other than it is, that flower would have reminded you that, even in the presence of destruction, life and beauty are resilient, and will ultimately triumph.
File nesting with interfaces
People -- particularly in the middle class -- moving from core cities to suburbs to raise children is hardly a new phenomenon, and hardly restricted to San Francisco.
That's a little harsh.
Its really the lottery system for the public schools that is the reason most of my friends with kids left SF. People buy houses in certain neighborhoods to guarantee which school their kids attend. Without that guarantee, there is not much incentive to live there.
If your goal is to reach the best outcome, current and future emotions are an important input into your hopefully rational process.
I'm very doubtful as to whether it was within the Technical Committee's role to rule on this. After all, there is nearly a consensus on the fact that systemd is the superior init system. The question of whether certain kernels should have more features by default at the expense of portability is a matter of policy, and not a technical decision.
Fair enough, the distinction between CS and Software Engineering can certainly be blurry at times.
I just requested an archive and I will be surprised if I get it any time soon. Gmail - 5GB, Drive - 3 GB, G+ Photos - 1.5 GB - this is going to be one huge zip file !!
Or maybe we should discourage it instead, for job security purposes.

Yeah you're right, I just chortled when I read that bit.
sysv init was created before upstart, so it clearly must be even better? Your argument makes no sense...