skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Some people consider working for Monsanto a "dead end", because not many other companies would want to hire a person like that afterwards.

Is this even true? I know it's the kind of thing that's hard to explicitly source, but I have a hard time believing that many companies (let alone most) would blacklist someone for working for Monsanto. I feel like the actual reason to avoid Monsanto would be if it's incompatible with your personal morality, not for some imagined fear of widespread reprisal.
Yep, and it is a pain with the damn note colours. Always confuse the hell out of me having lived both in the UK and Gib.
How much of your phone is actually screen?
The roots of the EU come from the steel industry. Capitalism runs the world thus rules the people. To think that any government actually subscribes to any idea of universal betterment of humanity that doesn't fulfill the coffers is naive.
It's a closed standard and nearly impossible to debug on the physical level unless you have patience and serious equipment. While many fast buses are notoriously difficult to debug, most are pretty common and have ubiquitous tools. Not so with MIPI.
Also, the specific MIPI transceiver implementations I worked with were premature crap.
Part of the explanation is the convoluted history of the people who lived in the British isles.

Originally, it was inhabited by gaelic-speaking Celts. Some of their words that are still used today ():

plaide -> plaid

tàrmachan -> ptarmigan

triubhas -> trousers

peata -> pet

Then, it was conquered by the Romans. Latin words that found their way into English (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_words_with_Engli...):

honor -> honor

imbecillus -> imbecile

inferus -> inferior

vulgus -> vulgar

Then, after the fall of the Romans, Britain was conquered by the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, who brought the old German words mentioned below.

After this, the area was Christianized, and the priests and proselytizers brought even more latin with them because that was the language of the Church.

After this, large portions of England were conquered by the Vikings, who introduced more Scandinavian-origin words that others have mentioned here. In fact, King Canute was once simultaneously king of England, Denmark, and Norway.

After the Vikings, England was conquered by the Normans by William the Conqueror in the Battle of Hastings. The Normans were Viking raiders who settled in northwestern France and who had turned in francophones. They introduce french-origin words like:

boef -> beef

mouton -> mutton

veal -> veal

porc -> pork

After which, all these language influences congealed, vaguely, into the English we know and love today.

For this graphed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Origins_of_English_PieCha...

Edited for formatting.
How Bill de Blasio Can Fix NYC Housing: build more—a lot more
Here is the kicker... the rep over the phone told me that his suggestion was for us to disconnect the hot spot after the tech leaves. But I had read the service contract before calling, and it say that we are obligated to follow all Comcast policies, and in the last paragraph it say that any modification to the contract must be in written and signed by a Senior VP from Comcast.

So I ask the tech to give me his suggestion in writing, and he refused, and gave me a different reason every time I ask for a printed copy of his suggestion. When after all that denial I mention the last paragraph in the contract, hid answer was:

- I'm sorry I cannot help you, but I don't think you will cancel the service because we provide the fastest access and that is what you care about

- I was voting against you during Church Council! I don't want you here, I was happy with ATT because they don't force their policies against their customers

- Sir, I don't know why they would do that. Do you want me to send our hot spot and your FREE wireless router?

- No, cancel the order of those, and I'll bring this to the Chairman. They will decide if they want to take your liability.

After that, someone donated a wifi router (wasn't me)
Looks like you need a form:

http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/941.aspx?CategoryID=68&SubCatego...

Which sounds a bit bureaucratic but it does also mean you get free prescriptions for 12 months after the birth.

Of course, in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland there are no prescription charges...
If by 'version control' you mean 'delete and resubmit zip files into Moodle' then sure... my courses use version control...

>How does one do group projects in school without version control?

Dropbox. If you're lucky. Otherwise, attaching files through gmail.

FWIW I wish Git were part of my curriculum. I also wish the Java curriculum included Android. You gotta take what they give I guess.
It would be good if the 5tgb and 6yhn keys were repeated either side for us psuedo-touchtypers. (Hasn't Apple got a software patent for a similar thing?)

EDIT: also F5
http://matias.ca/ergopro/pc/

I've had a freestyle for a couple of years, some of the keys are already malfunctioning
Apparently as of a couple weeks ago the R-squared value was ~90%.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ghost-of-1929-haunts-as-199...
Oh come on. Then there are a lot of global companies that can't be considered global. Bet you a number of global companies simply don't operate in Iran, North Korea, etc.
Can't you just plug in two USB keyboards, preferably identical, one for each hand? I think its been around a decade since I last tried this stunt. At least you could see if you like it, or not.

Going back further there were PS/2 era combiners to connect two keyboards.

I could almost swear I've seen this done at server racks, so you can plug in both a remote (expensive) KVM and/or a local keyboard right in front of the machine. And a similar splitter for video out (this was definitely analog VGA to give an idea how long ago)
Tv is a social experience, not a personal one like those covered by the iPhone. Is everybody in my house going to need a watch to watch the tv? Plus it would make no sense for them to reduce the target audience for the new Apple Tv. At best there will be a Remote app on the watch.
There and back again
For hosting expenses, at least. The site has been down from time to time, and the cost to companies because of downtime is pretty large.

Maybe they could make npm reliable for Windows with that money too.
Dematerializer
Yes that's largely the reason
Bitcoin has different selling points, one of them is independence of Stripe, PayPal and other intermediaries that are either too costly for some, or disallow certain transactions, or cause chargebacks, or not allowed in your country.

Another selling point is that BTC you can own while USD/EUR/RUR/CNY you cannot. Fiat currencies are always under control of the banking system and ultimately at the mercy of the central banks. "Bail outs", "bail ins", "QE", "haircuts", "freezing accounts" etc. are all effects of not being able to hold your own money. You can hold physical gold, but it's not portable or easily divisible. Bitcoin allows holding any amount of wealth, be it $1 or $1000000 even inside your brain. It's much easier to meddle with your savings in USD/EUR than in Bitcoin.
And if you found that impressive, there's some folk down the road with a big round thing, they say it'll be the biggest thing since fire.
Rally to Save Ridesharing in Seattle
There's a lot of love for the ergodox on http://reddit.com/r/mechanicalkeyboards

Some look really nice.
The pun, "WET behind the ears" is another pun.
Still coming out the wire assigned to the church address, and that what the ip will be traced to, hence authorized by the church; as in "the church agreed to have this hot spot here"
You could target ads to accounts that have less than x likes AND are more than y years old.
I think some of that can be solved with https://enterprise.github.com (which has an academic discount and offers an "unlimited campus-wide student license").

I can't clearly see how much maintenance you have to deal with though, so that might not be a viable suggestion without disregarding my original complaint.
> When the NSA demands your data, you're not really entering a business partnership.

True, but I saw the original comment as relating more to recruiting. The NSA works just as hard as any tech company to compete for skilled employees.

If you're the kind of person they want to hire, you have lots of fantastic other choices. So choose something else. Unless you're planning to pull a Snowden (and have gonads of steel).

And if you do decide to help code the surveillance state, the rest of us may take that into consideration in future hiring, buying, and investing decisions.
I know when I'm feeling old when XP is called 'vintage'.

Time waits for no OS?
Fun fact about that "It is now safe to turn off your computer" orange text: you were actually dumped to a DOS prompt even though the display was set to a graphics mode. You could type commands and switch the display to text mode.
I understand the risk is basically because you're evaling when unpickling. What formats are safe then?
I don't get the "everyone is a critic these days" argument.

We are entitled to our own opinions. As long as the opinions are expressed in a non-insulting manner, we have the right to utter them. We don't need a PhD, we don't need somebody's permission, we don't need to be rich, tall, fat, etc.

Remain polite but don't refrain from saying what you think!
Add some chlorine to the water.
And the cipher list is crap: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=theintercept....
No that was not the time and it was certainly not the same thing.
FlappyBird creator and how some people just don't have the bottle
Former Node leader takes big money, launches Node startup
What's the exit going to be? Who are they going to sell to? What revenues are they going to bring in? We're talking VC money, not a grant.

Did they just hand over the keys to the node community to someone else?
Guardant Health Improves Cancer Treatment And Diagnosis Via A New Blood Test
Including a third party javascript to protest and spread awareness about mass surveillance... That seems a little ironic.
Looks like the PiCloud team is joining dropbox but according to their blog post "The PiCloud Platform will continue as an open source project operated by an independent service, Multyvac (http://www.multyvac.com/)."

Source: http://blog.picloud.com/2013/11/17/picloud-has-joined-dropbo...
Ask HN: Why is there no collapse comment thread feature on HN?
Is there some benefit to making users scroll through every single comment? Reddit has this feature by default. I use a GreaseMonkey script that adds the functionality to HN, and when I browse from another device, I'm reminded how tedious it is to scroll through a long comment thread just to get to the next root comment.
Posted this up on our Meetup Group & sent out an e-mail to ask members to participate. One person left the group due to this. Funny thing is, she works for Cloudera!

http://www.meetup.com/Coders-Hackers-Founders/
You can see the product inside so no one will drink it by mistake.
Microsoft paid $7.4 billion for Nokia and all they get is a cheap Android phone?
This is written like those 'one weird trick to lose weight' things, and contains just as much information.
As you say, continuous math (to my mind, calculus, diffeq, and linear algebra; anything involving reals) is necessary for some problem domains. But accounting is necessary for some problem domains as well. And molecular biology.[1]

But if I get worked up into a good froth, I can make a case that software development is applied formal logic or applied abstract algebra (or both). I don't believe you can do professional software development (in Weinberg's sense) without some serious discrete math, in the same way you can't do signal processing without calculus.

[1] If you've got something that mixes the three, let me know. It's probably something I should stay away from.
Although Celery can use it, why is Amazon SQS treated as a second class citizen in python background worker systems?

I've yet to find/see a background worker pool that played nicely (properly) with SQS.
Just a guess, but probably silver:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_uses_of_silver#Water_pu...
Unless you're writing test automation.
From Ruby’s Grape to Martini in Go for Building Web API Server
I believe their intention is to turn NPM into a business offering enterprise support for privately hosted mirrors.
I understand the fact that it can be fairly expensive to run a large, popular module site such as npm and rubygems. What I'm curious about is how they intend to monetize npm, and how it affect users, if it does. Typically, VCs hope to get a return on their investment.
Are there any non-distributed task queues for Python? I need something like this for a tiny web application that just needs a queue for background tasks that is persisted, so tasks can resume in case the application crashes/restarts.
Installing Redis or even ZeroMQ seems kind of excessive to me, given that the application runs on a Raspberry Pi and serves maximum 5 users at a time.
Slightly off topic, but is there a mobile friendly version of this site?
Warren Buffet has only a few basic rules. Amongst them is only invest in things you understand. I think as a general rule, its a pretty good one.
This sort of scare tactic means nothing without an effort to explain the correlation. Without a testable theory, it's meaningless data mining.

My guess is someone on the inside has already shorted the market just before press time, anticipating the effect the article will have among unsophisticated investors. And guess what, boys and girls? That kind of "insider trading" is legal -- you can say anything you want in the press, and you can position yourself to benefit from your own article in advance. It's all perfectly legal.
"Attackers used a well-known method to bring down a system known as Denial of Service (DoS) - in which huge amounts of data are forced on a target, causing it to fall over."

Really? If it's so well-known, then perhaps Dave Lee should inform himself that DoS is a method, not a system. Does the server literally fall over too??
The Drone Industry and Leap Motion
Ironically, while deriding "The Day We Fight Back" as having no strategy, this post offers none either. But I do agree it's important to assess our strategy to see if it's actually accomplishing anything.
I think recognition of "PIE" as "Proto Indo European" in this context is a reasonable thing to expect of moderately sharp people with a liberal education.
What disturbs me is not once was Obama's image shown in this video. More than anyone he is the person pressure should be put on to start change(no pun intended).

Before we knew the extent of surveillance we saw images like this of Bush:
http://www.funny-games.biz/pictures/648-vampire-bush.html

I never had to go looking for the imagery above during Bush's tenure it was everywhere. Where is it now for the current administration?
Neat, we hit on many of the same points.
Hey... How you doin....

Drink Pepsi.
Show HN: Sunfish – A 111 line Chess Engine in Python
Then and Now: Youngest Person to Raise VC Shares His Growth Path
Hiring managers advise job seekers to contribute to open-source projects
Unfortunately, I don't understand much. So, I just invest in S&P500.
Why Startup Accelerators Are A Great Guide For Deal Flow
You know, as an American, it's interesting to see how the EU experiment plays out. Many of these issues have parallels to the American federal vs. state's rights debates. Early on, the U.S. was much more individual state-centric. Outside of slavery, the American civil war was largely about individual Southern states keeping their local rights vs. a more federal North. Over time the major political parties have largely separated on this issue with the American Left more federal and the Right more interested in state rights.

Lots of the befuddlement non-Americans feel towards sometimes arcane, mixed "American" policy (e.g. taxes, guns, gay rights, etc.) is a result of this.

Regardless, the US model has quickly moved towards a more national policy even though it's still a very active debate here.

The EU is a grand experiment, but long histories and complex cultural differences and interactions will make it very interesting to watch how it plays out.
The article comes to the wrong conclusion. Facebook isn't trying to get Upworthy to buy ads. Facebook is trying to get NBC, Mercedes, Prada to buy ads by convincing them Facebook is a place where monied people get their news. Like Twitter did a couple of years ago, Facebook now realizes its best bet is to become a media dissemination company.
I keep missing the massdrop buys for these and it makes me sad every time.

There are a few people working on split mechanical keyboards on geekhack as well.
I can't speak for Celery, as I've not used it very much.

It may be straightforward to write a functional Redis alternative in pure python using this library, but I would certainly have questions/concerns about performance.
Upworthy and the likes have already had a huge effect on my reaction to that sentence, I almost instantly closed the tab. Glad to see they're being knocked down a peg.
From way in the slides I saw this and got excited:

"darwin/arm, android/arm: a contributor is working on these, some way to go."
Show HN: Using my technical skills to explain tech terms to sellers/marketers
OK, so what do you propose we do instead?

crickets
What do you want him to say that won't get him arrested?
That's about the evolution of complicated programs, so quite different.
My crazy prediction is that the iWatch will be round.
You at least owe them to make a good faith effort to be productive. That's what the money is for.
"Go 1.3 targets that command-line tool for 32-bit and 64-bit x86 architectures.

(NaCl supports 32-bit ARM, but we have no plans to support it.)"

epic facepalm
It's build in already. Just unsubscribe from shitty subreddits and subscribe to quality ones.

The mods from quality subreddits are pretty fierce on enforcing rules against memes/low quality comments/etc.
Something seems off with the routing. I'm on one of the big 3 internet providers in Singapore, and I'm getting a 300-400ms latency to their ping server (speedtest-sgp1.digitalocean.com) and to a droplet which I just started.

DO <-> SL ~2ms
DO <-> AWS ~2ms
Me <-> SL ~15ms
Me <-> AWS ~15ms
Me <-> DO 350ms
You also get that kind of thing at snobby restaurants / hotels / other services that cater to the rich, "would sir like to see the wine list", etcetcetc.
I've seen that same chart applied to crypto currencies lately, seeing this now just make me laugh.
The messaging so far is that they don't intend for anything to change for typical users of npm, and that they'll make money with stuff like enterprise-level support. But I think it's still a bit in the air.
I'm not doing any justification, value judgement or taking sides, just stating facts. There were two factions fighting for power, one of them lost, people loyal to it were removed. It didn't happen neither for first time, nor for last time in human history.
Why Do Olympic Ski Jumpers Fly in a "V" Shape?
Define UCD please.

(Suspects irony in this request.)
Ask HN: What do you look for when hiring a senior interaction designer?
For those of you with start-ups or other tech businesses, in your opinions what are the most important skills a senior designer should possess (in order of importance)? I'm especially curious about where coding falls on this list and how much of is considered minimum. Be as expansive or succinct as you like! Thanks
Money corrupts.

It's amazing how things have changed in 10 years.

CPAN.

Perl.

A real community of programmers, system admins, enthusiasts.
I don't understand the assertion that, in order to criticize, one must always solve whatever problem is in question. It's the same kind of logical strangeness as "if you can't do it, you can't criticize it."

Criticism isn't always about "you're wrong and I'm right." Pointing out a deficiency can encourage discussion. There's no necessity to be an authority or have a foolproof solution ready in order to make relevant statements; convincing people this should be some kind of requirement stifles ideas and prevents the advancement and improvement that "hey, there's something wrong here" can put in motion.
Prophet: My first commercial web site design project (1996)
I have FiOS and use google tv (underrated, but great) and I have been having issues with Netflix recently.
Flappy Bird creator explains why he pulled the game
Well PayFlow says it supports 190 markets (does that mean currencies?)

https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/payflow-faq
Jason Fried: My first commercial web site design project
> Support for linking against Objective C code

This is the most exciting part for me! Although I wish they didn't skim so much on the technical detail here.
General consensus as in Goebels was right?
I wouldn't worry. There's only about 700 people who live in New Zealand.
I have residential fiber from a local isp @100mbps up & down, and have definitely noticed netflix has been horrible for a few weeks (appletv).

I took a look at my airport stats, and it seems the atv had connected at 1mbps to the AP, which would certainly cause problems. A reboot of the ap & the atv resolved the issue.

If you have apple gear, you can see the data rate for your device by option-clicking the AP in airport assistant.
I am excited about a new kid on the block for releases: http://relx.org/
Or we might just use our collective discretion, selecting interesting examples every now and again as we please?
Pickle (or any use of eval) is a security risk only if you're using it in the context of untrusted code. Basically any distributed task queue is going to have that risk if it can execute arbitrary code.
This makes no sense. Let's imagine that he does have some strategy proposals, but that stating such proposals would get him arrested. Well, if the fear of arrest is the reason he's not doing it, then maybe that's exactly why the "The Day We Fight Back" isn't as forceful as he thinks it ought to be. In which case he's no better than the activism he's criticizing.
I wouldn't really classify this example as a "task queue", it resembles more the RPC pattern really (and I would guess that this example does not persist the jobs in any way). Celery does have a very experimental filesystem based transport that could be used for your use case. I don't know if it fits on a Raspberry PI but celery does not have very high memory/space requirements (c.f. other Python libraries).
I think that's a "feature" of lots of writing systems, punctuation and spaces and lower case and other formatting is one of those things that's obvious only in retrospect.
Attackers used a well-known method (to bring down a system) known as Denial of Service (DoS)

The sentence is missing commas, but it's clearly saying that a DoS is a method.
Looks like it's become a recurring theme at Sony. They had kept Xperia Z demo phones and tablets under running tap water, at their outlets in Bangalore.
One prerequisite for change here is public support. Public support requires people to know and be reminded about the issue, and it requires people to know that other people care deeply about the issue and that it's okay for them to care about it too.

So I don't buy the common complaint that raising awareness is valueless. It isn't something you'll be able to measure tomorrow morning but that does not actually imply it is not valuable, just that we don't know for sure if it is.
I'm pretty skeptical of charts like this. On the y axis, the scales aren't relative. The gain on the black line before the drop is about 187% (200 - 375). The gain on the red line is 132% (12400 - 16400). On the x axis, there isn't even a label for red so it impossible to tell how the different time periods compare.
> Each pen will be sold with a notebook made of "stone paper", an eco-friendly, water resistant and durable paper made from powdered stone.

How on earth (pun intended) is powdered stone eco friendly? At least trees actually grow back...