skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes reading java more like reading lisp, which is a different way of thinking entirely. Personally I think it's a mistake to put functional programming into an OO language - it makes code harder to maintain as there are too many ways to do the same thing. C++ has become virtually unusable as a result of all the different languages they've mashed into it, and I'd hate to see java go down the same road.
That's a very generous threshold for usefulness. For difficult interactive tasks—like, perhaps, performing fiddly repair work on a $2.5bn+ satellite—there is clearly some advantage to not having a ping of 2000 or even 350.
>but it wasn't magic

No. I'm also not an world-class tennis player even though I played tennis since I was able to hold a racket and had good teachers. I just happen to be good at problem solving, making and fixing and tinkering. Most of friends who were at school who liked to build things also went on to have technical careers, just not with computer programming. So, I think that we are only starting to see a new generation coming up for whom computers aren't something they met when they were older, so there will start to be a lot more natural female programmers among them. In my generation it was rare for a father to take interest in a girl's technical inclinations, and I think I'm really lucky for that early experience. My point is that I just think this is a phase and a generation not far away won't face this gender discrepancy.
High school boys in tech are much more likely to be misogynistic and socially inept than other high schoolers are.

I'd honestly want a source on this. Socially inept, maybe.

But misogynistic? So, is your average jock some paragon of chivalry and philogyny?
Excel and macros etc are the beginnings of this

One of the startups I'm CTOing is working on exactly that problem, or rather, has worked on it and is commercializing the solution.

Logo[0] (the language for children) is actually more complex and abstract than what we've got, which isn't a language at all, but closer to a spreadsheet for code, except...people don't even know they are coding, much less using what everyone here would call a debugger. They're just doing stuff that, if you were a computer scientist, you would recognize as coding.

I'm pretty excited about it, we're beta testing with an 800 person company in Australia at the moment, and hope to go into a general release over the summer. I think it's similar in significance to the business world as the spreadsheet, which allowed non-programmers to do number crunching. Our stuff allows non-programmers to do the vast majority of business automation and back office coding being done today.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)
Actually, it is funny.
ha, I'm a Toronto guy myself.
This is a good time to remind people: Don't talk to the police. Ever, under any circumstances - it can only hurt you, never help you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
Design Details: Secret for iOS
Not better than anything I have used as I don't know how to flap. I tried enter, shift, control, mouse click, space bar and tab. (FF 26, Ubuntu 12.10)
I live in a suburb of Houston and I do not have IPV6 via comcast...
i'm sorry, don't mean to be harsh at all, but this is just a bad idea.
I guess I don't have enough experience. From what I've seen of San Francisco, buses are frequent and timely.

My friend out there checks her phone, leaves the house accordingly, and catches it every time. To me, that seems like excellent service.
Many regulatory licensing authorities of online gambling companies mandate the use of certified Hardware RNGs. Example: Alderney Gaming Commission. Certification includes Monte Carlo testing of the output, amongst other things.
The "sigh" was because it seems my point was missed. The particulars of what I happen to enjoy as a living arrangement are borderline irrelevant. The point I was making is that a bunch of people are pushing their way of life on to others (through sin taxes and policy changes and the like) based on the premise that their way of life is obviously superior.

I'm saying the dual of "my way of life is better."

Someone else brought up that there are subsidies supporting my way of life though. I'm fine with removing those. But I personally haven't seen that position advocated in this thread. So I didn't account for it.

> radical tree-huggers

Radical tree huggers? Come now. No need for the flamebait. I love nature. I frequent it whenever I get the chance. But I don't feel entitled to it wherever I happen to be.

> whilst ignoring the fact that the kind of suburban sprawl happening today has a ton of other downsides, and fails to even meet your own standards for a nice neighborhood.

I didn't ignore anything. I never said suburbs were always the best. I didn't even say that I prefer every suburb to any city. I didn't speak with exact precision because the details of "my way of life" weren't crucial to my point.

I didn't say any of this because I never argued that suburbs were, in any way, shape or form better than cities. I merely stated that I prefer them. And that's enough.
> they will do whatever it takes to essentially shut it down

Good luck on that.
I've noticed myself showing a lack of empathy when horrible things happen to people who aren't close to me. This is especially the case with photos of war or famine. I really feel like I should have a visceral reaction, but I've just seen it all before.

As I said, I also sometimes see these images in my head. I don't want to have anything to do with them, but now they're impossible to get rid of.
Wait, people use laptop speakers?
If the parking lot is not full, you're getting even fewer customers, because you're losing out on even the choked trickle that comes from cars. You don't want it to be completely full: churn needs to happen. But at less than, (out of my ass), 80% and you have space being taken up by a potential car that isn't producing any value for you.

This isn't different from a warehouse for your inventory. You don't want it to be full; in an ideal situation, the size of your warehouse is the amount that you sell over X period of time. If you have inventory sitting there, it's not being sold. Similarly, if you have parking spaces not being used, it's not making you money.
Hey desireco42, you might want to take a look at this website (http://www.oplang.org). It's called the Open Languages Project. You'll like that it gives you the 7-9 languages exposure you're looking for. I've been using it to learn Korean and it's been pretty effective (I can read now but a way to go before I understand what I read)
Their method reminds me of the Michel Thomas method where there is no need for notes or memorization. One word is introduced in each lesson and thought in a logical structure.
Even if it was, this is ridiculous.

What kind of security let's you download documents without authentication?
Please elaborate.

There's no such thing as a "misunderstanding of feminism". Feminism hasn't been a coherent movement in decades. It's a highly stratified network of ideologies and schools, some of which are only vaguely united under the pretext of social justice, but which have radically different views. Some are even openly and proudly transphobic.

I'd like it if we stopped pretending feminism is some zenith of civil rights. It did help in the past, but it is now worn out and has long been a parody.
After playing the game for a while I think it is remarkable in its depth and specificity of vocabulary. I've learned through error that you can really harm fluency by including any trace of L1 in your vocabulary practice, and this product seems to solve that problem.

As other comments have pointed out, there's a lot more to learning languages than vocabulary, but this looks like a really good implementation of an important piece of the process.
The whole point is we first need to define happiness, no?

There are a lot of people who are confused between things like sadness, disappointment, inconvenience, hopelessness and many such negative emotions.

The problem is we bundle them all en masse in to this category called 'happiness' or its opposite. To be happy is a overloaded term used to define many emotions.

Rich people suffer from the same negative emotions any human on earth goes through. Because they are humans. If their child doesn't win a soccer game, they may get disappointed, if some one in the family falls ill to a deadly disease without a cure they may feel hopeless. But these are emotions every human regardless of their financial status goes through. Whether you are rich or poor.

Having money will keep you well fed, clothed and housed. Your medical expenses are taken care of. Your children's needs are tended to and give you an overall sense of confidence and a sense of safety and freedom.

Being poor means you have a put up with a great deal of BS that life throws at you. You have to sacrifice every single thing, every single desire of yours. Its very exact opposite of what I wrote above.

I don't know of one single human who doesn't go through human emotions but yeah coming to being happy in the sense having to never really get screwed at every step along the way. Rich people never really stop being happy, and most poor people don't even what that kind of happiness actually is. Basically because they continually being fed this garbage that suffering in their current state is far better than breaking out of it.
Don't say you didn't browse rotten.com when you were 13, we would do so on school computers even before I had internet at home.
(meh, now the page is only displaying odd advertisements for silly smartphone apps)
[responding to your edit]

I truthfully don't see anything to disagree with you there. I think it'd be fantastic to live in a small town with good public transit (even if only good bike paths). There are unfortunately few of them where I live (central Massachusetts). Hell, I love a good bike path. I've been on the one up in Burlington, VT. It's awesome. Same with paths in Amherst and around Cambridge.

But the fact that I can walk/bike/scooter down to the corner pub in my little town has very very little to do with why I have a car. For example, my parents live about 25 minutes away. Some of my good friends live 35 minutes away. When I visit, it's common for me to lug stuff back and forth (whether it be food or other various items). My job is about 45-60 minutes away in the city. (That's by car. Want to know how long it'd take with public transit? Over two hours. And it's just as expensive as owning a car!)

There's just no viable way for me to do that with anything other than a car. And some day, when kids get added to the mix, I fret to think of how much more difficult it would be without a car. Hell, I even live in walking distance to the T! (That's the commuter rail that goes from Worcester to Boston.)
You still have two fundamental problems that can't be solved just by inventing new energy sources.

The first is smelting and materials. You can recycle steel with just electricity (that's a lossy process) but you can't produce it without burning coal. The same goes for copper and most other metals (aluminum is the only exception to my knowledge). If one wants to support exponentially increasing material consumption, that means, supporting exponentially increasing fossil fuel consumption at this point, since we are already way beyond what we can support there by using biomass for reduction smelting.

The second problem is that no matter what you do, if you push for ever-increasing consumption this will have massive environmental costs. We saw what happened at Fukushima and frankly I think the real lesson there is that natural disasters will always have a significant chance to overwhelm human engineering. It's easy to say "well, if they had the newer designs" but I am not aware of any real experience there seeing more recent designs of nuclear power plants go through a massive earthquake and tsunami. At best we can say "well, if we didn't miss something..." but reality is always more complex than our models. So I don't see nuclear as the answer.

The only real way to prepare for failure is to reduce consumption, and if you listen to the macro-economists, that would cause failure.

For exponentially increasing consumption of energy, even without greenhouse gas emissions you have the problem of the second law of thermodynamics, which leads to a warming planet even with a constant atmosphere. Our path is not sustainable and no amount of technological intervention will make it so. The only breakthrough that could possibly matter in that regard would be the development of perpetual motion machines.
It's Not Easy (Being a Giant Stuffed Creature)
This is what happens when my little brother shows up at my door wearing a Domo costume.
SF is just one part of the Bay Area.
I think Gnome has been taking that approach going back years in part because of the opposite criticism: many people attack Linux UI as being a hodge-podge with no coherent design, comparing it unfavorably to a unified UI system like OSX's, which has a coherent and integrated take on windowing/libraries/widgets/etc. One of Gnome's goals was to fix that. They might unsuccessful at doing so, but attempting a unified/integrated UI was/is a core project goal, so I'm not surprised that they'd have no shyness about integrating components that Unix has traditionally kept separate. The tiling window manager scene (which I prefer myself) is perhaps the polar opposite (some wms don't even integrate the status bar into the wm), but isn't really targeting Gnome's target audience either.
Feynman explains the problems with the main engines in the report about the Challenger disaster. They were a good candidate for the 3rd deadly accident if the shuttle program had continued.

Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7201645 (125 points, 1 day ago, 79 comments)
The 30 Day Free Trial Isn't Really Free
I was in the same position as you a year ago. I kept trying to find my niche but to no avail. Eventually, I took a microprocessors course and wanted to continue working with C, so I learned iOS development from various tutorials on the web. I learned more coding my first few apps than I did in all of my classes. If you are interested in web design, learn javascript and python/django. If you are familiar with java, look into writing android apps. Bottom line is to find something you love and practice every day. You will be surprised at how quickly you will learn and be much better off when looking for jobs at graduation
How can government agencies still can get away with accusing someone of "theft" and accessing a "private computer" and "private documents" when they just publish documents on the web, and the public is consuming them?
The fact that there was a HTTPAUTH protected login page in some up path on the site does not infer that the documents should have been protected.
They are or they are not. And they looked legit, i.e. public.

Esp. with government documents you are safe to assume that they are public, if they are public and look public.
Build an OAuth2 protected REST API with Node.js, Restify, mongodb,& Passport.js
The best way to figure out what is relevant in "real world" jobs is to apply to the jobs you want and figure out what your weak points are.

(Same thing with products -- try to sell a product and see why people reject you. Your product here is yourself.)

So try to get an internship in Silicon Valley -- or even apply for jobs, with the cover story that 'I'm ready to jump into something more real-world than the classes I'm taking.'
I think the crux is that you were "morbidly curious". Being denied access through one medium isn't going to deter someone curious enough. Sure the internet is a HUGE medium, and it's a lot easier to get access to that material using the internet, but that content's been around for almost as long as we've had photography.

Why exactly do you regret it?
> I live in Tokyo, which has an amazing public transportation network.

> Including walking to/from stations and bus stops, taking the bus/train costs me around 80 minutes of my day each way

That's not actually how we define "amazing public transportation network". My experience of public transit in Seattle is "about 5 minutes away from a bus stop, anywhere, and about 30 minutes to anywhere I care to go in the city, and maybe an hour if I go across the lake to Bellevue or Redmond".

The fact that it takes you longer for traveling within the city than it does for me to change cities suggests to me that Tokyo's public transit is either ridiculously bad or you have an extremely unusual case.
If you want to implement Scheme in C, I'd take a look at Scheme From Scratch (http://michaux.ca/articles/scheme-from-scratch-bootstrap-v0_...)

It's pretty excellent for learning how to implement a simple language in C.
Even if there was an initial difference, it seems unlikely that sheltering him would do anything other than exacerbate his comparative inability to deal with such material. While this is obviously just anecdote and open to interpretation, I have noticed that instances of various form of mental trauma due to inevitable predicaments of day-to-day life (e.g. non-lethal car crashes) are very common among my American acquaintances, but practically unheard of among the European ones (who, for a variety of reasons, tend to be brought up in a much more hands-off manner as far as media consumption is concerned).

If a child is afraid of swimming, most teachers would find it reasonable to keep pushing and gradually acclimatise them to the notion rather than give up and say they are just not cut out for it; why would whatever reasoning that underlies this not apply in the case of "disturbing content"?
You're not allowed to say that. Us straight white males need to be offended for you. Sigh...
ignore this, using it to "save" article.
This is a lot of fun! People may say that learning a few vocab words isn't learning a language, but it certainly helps. You really have to add on a way to repeat what was said though. Also I found some of the pictures needing a bit of explaining. Great work though.
Yep, pretty ridiculous. I wouldn't believe it if you told me, but it worked (and has worked, since). Who knows, maybe that'll change in future!
Some cities are doing this. Vancouver BC has a policy of not expanding its road network whatsoever, and is actively decreasing by reserving portions of it to exclusive bike and pedestrian use. The city has also engaged with communities to find portions of road that are unused enough that they could be converted to parklets.
All the tech you need
You really need some reading lessons, then. There have been like... 3 people advocating sin taxes.
'Desert Bus' requires 8 hours to score one point...

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/07/the-w...

...and people play it for days, for charity!
Python is growing in importance in scientific computing, displacing languages like R, MATLAB, and Fortran (yes, Fortran). There's a pretty good chance it will still be in wide use in science in 10-15 years.

Ruby is harder to predict. It seems like a lot of the web developers who would have used Rails a few years ago are now opting for server-side javascript, based in node.js.
Hacking scoreboards is pretty easy for people who are skilled at reverse engineering. Once one of these people figures out how to do it (usually by mocking up the high score message the game sends to the server) they release their crack on Cydia, and thousands of people take advantage of it.
On a very personal note, I just find it very refreshing to finally see some critical analysis of Google lately. It appears to me as if people a getting past the "idolatry", and sarting to fully grasp Google's grip on today's IT realm, with all it's bad sides.
I think it's up to discussion how they are 'less privileged'.
Tex is the name, TeX is the author's preferred stylization in non-TeX environments (and the most used).

Fix is not the best term since it's not broken. You can't force someone to adopt your stylization.
yes, this feature will land in the next few weeks. I'm hoping you'll be able to build the Docker image AND push to the index.
Flappy bird is so awesome some people reacted a like to much the people that smash there phones just because of flappy bird is just plain old straight up stupid you are not going to win at everything
For sure there have been a lot of changes but my intuition says progress over the last 30 years wasn't so great. I'm pretty sure the spread and severity of Malaria has grown. HIV. Air pollution in China.

Let's look at the link:

- It looks at 50 years, not 30 years.

- Very anecdotal. With regard to Mexico I'm not sure if it's better off than it was 30 years ago. What about the drug wars?

- Seems to equate more money with better outcome. High-rises and modern bridges = progress.

- "more than one billion people in extreme poverty," - today

- "Income per person has in fact risen in sub-Saharan Africa over that time, and quite a bit in a few countries", inflation adjusted? Doesn't look like it is. I was just looking at Wikipedia's Health in Kenya article: "The 2010 maternal mortality rate per 100,000 births for Kenya is 530, yet has been shown to be as high as 1000 in the North Eastern Province, for example.[5]This is compared with 413.4 in 2008 and 452.3 in 1990"

All that said, the world is hopefully moving towards a more stable population and a larger middle class (percentage wise) but I would need to see a lot more data before being able to say a lot more for sure about changes over the last 30 years.
Suspicion: Dropbox was REALLY hacked on Jan 2014
I agree--expose The Narrative via grassroots exposition on the web, and sooner or later the truth will spread. Slowly, but it will spread. Many europeans already know this.
Thank You for stating the obvious.
You're making a false dichotomy, between the urban no-car life you don't want, and the suburbs that make it impossible to get anywhere without a car. A happy middle ground is possible and exists in many places, and can be done without much extra effort, but it requires some. Zoning regulations and the like have proven to be insufficient for preventing developers from throwing down several square miles of cookie-cutter homes at a time embedded in a fractal maze of cul-de-sacs with no room for commercial development, meaning those neighborhoods end up car-mandatory and impossible to service with mass transit even when they're very dense. There are plenty of sound public policy reasons for wanting alternative forms of transportation to be viable, so even if it feels like someone shoving their way of life down your throat, it'll still probably save you tax money in the long run even if it has to be achieved through blunt means like "sin taxes".

Edit: Many of the subsidies the car-only lifestyle gets are really negative externalities the burden of which is shared by everyone: the public health nightmare of obesity, pollution in the form of smog and runoff, political downsides of dependence on oil. How could those be dealt with in a way that doesn't feel to you like an unjust sin tax or someone forcing their way of life on you?
that's a great suggestion. a robotic bee could be awesome
> That's not actually how we define "amazing public transportation network".

It's pretty comparatively amazing to me. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania in a town with no buses or taxis. The closest train/bus station was about 50 minutes away by car.

My apartment has a bus stop right outside its door, but I have to travel the entire bus line to get to where I want to go, and that's 15 minutes from work.

There's a train station five minutes from work and two others within ten minutes from work, but none of them go directly to the station closest to my apartment.