skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Re: the first paragraph, I think that's often true comparing people in their 20s vs 40s, but many people in their 50s and 60s (especially in engineering) have considerably more financial freedom than those in their 20s. They have somewhat more obligations, but many more resources. With a paid-off house, kids through college, paid-off cars, well-funded 401(k), 30 years of savings from a six-figure engineering job, etc., they have an ability to self-fund that most 25-year-olds don't (and often, a stronger network).

I think there might be more conservatism in that someone who's had a successful 35-year career as an engineer and is used to a regular six-figure income may not be particularly inclined to quit his or her job now and start something else. But I think in terms of resources they're often actually less tied down than a 25-year-old who has no savings cushion and has to pay rent— even if the 25-year-old didn't have student debt.
Have you seen the music video of the deaf kids dancing to Hip Hop
International HIP HOP theme song for deaf children! They got moves!!
I would give end of next year, by the time its ready for prime time.

I wish this claim wouldn't come up in every Perl article because that's a big part of Perl's perception problem. P6 is entering its 15th year of advocates claiming that it'll be ready in "about a year and a half".

If that claim is true this time, then it puts off people doing interesting things with Perl now as they figure they'll wait for a successor to look at it.

If that claim isn't true, then it puts off people doing interesting things with Perl now as the claim will change to be "about a year and a half from now" in another 18 months.
There are huge performance improvements in Ruby 2.1.0 as compared to Ruby 2.0.0, I have seen as much as a 2x improvement in real world settings, and they have to with Ruby now having a generational garbage collector:

http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/12/ruby21

I don't think this current patch release itself contains much performance fixes.
Thanks! :) Regarding the release cycles: We just released v0.20.1 - just a week after v0.20.0.

It took us a while to build us this foundation but now we are constantly releasing updates on top.
"Rust thrusts memory management into the programmer's face."

How can anyone possibly think that is necessary or a good idea?
> getting ready to put in the seismic dampeners for the base layer of the Tokamak structure

I love that this sentence sounds like 50s pulp scifi.
You can actually use it for all sorts of things. (eg embedded fonts)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme
Build your own Sitefinity dashboard widget views
This is completely wrong. TOR sites are a tiny fraction of websites. The "deep web" includes data in various databases that aren't indexed as web pages. TOR has nothing to do with it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Web#Deep_resources
What does this accomplish other than a press op for Dilma? The US will just tap and spy on this cable, too. This is nothing more than a politically motivated PR stunt so that Dilma can appear to be "talking tough" with the US to the Brazilian public.
Here's the data set of all submissions containing Lisp or Erlang in their title: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tnYpawKHOg7K1eKMaERw...

There are a few negative mentions, but they're in the minority.
With chruby and ruby-install, it's really easy to move between releases, and to new ones.
I wonder if this isn't an argument for optional typing. Experiment earlier, track down possible bad paths later
Probably the best idea would be to go swimming in the ocean with whomever you'd like to contact, since salt water and mechanical agitation probably diminish the reliability and functionality of most listening devices. But there's a continuum of practicality here. It's hard to imagine the Soviet commissars hopping in the water for an afternoon meeting.
exacerbated, perhaps?
Ha, thats one of the top questions I ask employers: What's the usual hours? Seriously, I'm not gonna work my ass 10-12 hours a day for any company unless there's a huge reward at the end - looking at you Facebook, post IPO, Speaking of which, I'd be pretty pissed if I was a FB employee seeing 16 billion being thrown at a handful of people, while I'm working my ass off.
Finance and consulting are the biggest brain drains and it's a huge impediment to society. But until someone starts leveling the playing field compensation-wise, our brightest graduates will continue to flock to finance/consulting.
Although I'm not sure whether I'll stay in it, I haven't found CS academia as bad as the stories about Big Science academia. At least, if you look for a job outside the top-20 "R1" schools, which are more focused on big labs and big grants to support those labs. Industry hires away a lot of PhDs, and there are a lot of small to medium-sized CS departments, both of which improve the supply/demand situation and working conditions compared to areas like biology and physics. Things in parts of Europe are even better (which is why I took a professorship in Denmark out of grad school, rather than in the US), but there are a lot of small CS departments in the US where you can work on your research without having an insane life. It does require that you have the kind of research that doesn't need huge funding and huge labs (if you need >$1m/yr budgets, you more or less have to be at an R1 and play that game). And you should at least somewhat like teaching. But if those things are true it can be an ok job with some freedom to decide what to work on. And the odds of getting a tenured position at a smaller school aren't 1000:1 like trying to get to be a tenured prof at MIT.
Dropbox's terms of service changes met with anger in user comments
In some domains, it is necessary, and in others, it's quite a good idea.

Garbage collection is great, but not for everything.
Probably because what they bought the domain for was utterly irrelevant to their competence or complete lack thereof.

The enemy is stupid the overcredulous decision-making of ideologues and the incompetence of people who want to handle your money. Adding more dumb information just confuses the issue.
WURFL.js – client side device type detection
> I disagree, I see not relying on web apps as a big minus for Jolla.

Jolla has a web browser right? so webapps work on Jolla. Choice is great,being forced to write "pseudo web apps"(when half of the API is not standard) is not.
This is interesting to me because at some point this year, I will need to start doing straight hiring for my own early stage startup. And I can tell you right now that if you ask questions that express an understanding of how startups actually work and legitimate concern about the health of the business, I'm going to be far more inclined to hire you. I'm looking for people who are not only technically sound, but are culturally prepared for working at an early stage startup.

I find myself doing informal, unannounced "technical interview" with just about every interesting techie I meet these days. Most simply aren't good enough to be interesting very long. :(
IE 7 doesn't support it, and IE 8 limits you to 32 KB data uri's. IE also only supports images, stylesheets and javascript, while other browsers let you be a bit more creative with things like generating pdf's and excel files client-side.
Well, a lot of people have them, and a lot of people are hacking on them who might not have hacked on anything like it before .. so I consider it at least a solution to the problem, until someone releases a new-school micro with everything built in ..
ISP2 will see their netflix-using customers leaving for ISP1 in droves if that's the case.
You can get (almost) anything you want, but you can't get everything you want.
FlappyBraille: play Flappy Bird in your address bar
Microsoft's never been a stickler for the rules.
Yeah good point, it would be much better if every civil servant in every government department in the entire nation-state all collectively only focussed on one national priority at a time. I get very annoyed when my local authorities fix pot-holes in my street, and collect my bins, when they could be concentrating on energy security.
A misleading headline if there ever was one.

How has this tragic death got anything to do with how to design websites for ppl with visual disabilities?
How soon before we see efforts like this and in the RFQ/RFP it disallows US companies to bid because they are afraid of us companies not being trustworthy.
This of course also varies on your definition of rich - you can certainly manage "rich" in the traditional sense, but not to the scale that you'd talk about for finance.

I can't reply to your comment, but pretty much yes, I'm sure. Doctors and lawyers are actually the canonical example of lucrative but labor limited professions. And being able to build a practice exponentially is vanishingly uncommon, enough so that no one should bank on it, whereas compounding is a fundamental trait of finance.
Project page is a pleasure to look at, but screenshot is where it gets a little too slick, my thought as well. Adding subtle faux-gloss to screenshot section would help IMO. It'd unlikely to be confused with real controls then, I think.

(‘Screenshot’ header is there, true, but it may go unnoticed because the UI example below catches user's attention right away.)
If its untrusted, how can it be a canonical reference?
> "Cannot open: shit".

I'm adopting this error message for I/O from now on.
>> Not if the programmer was hired for his independent expertise rather than be told what to do, and how to do it, by higher-ups. That's a a common arrangement in small companies.

> 1. That does not excuse software from a proper code review process, in fact any reasonable software company ...

You changed the subject. The original subject was whether a programmer could be held accountable for a bug in a computer program. The answer is yes, under civil law, that can happen.

There are companies whose computer science departments consist of one person, which was my example, and in such a case, there is no company-wide software review process, because -- as I already said -- the computer science department consists of one person working alone.

Feel free to change the subject if you want.
> It is funny this kind of came full circle. Damien Katz, the original CouchDB author was working on Lotus Notes as some point in his life. After many years, his "creation" comes back to IBM. There is some irony in there I think.

Actually there is one more step. At some point IBM backed Damien's development of CouchDB: http://damienkatz.net/2008/01/faq_about_couch.html
Is this sarcasm? Isn't a /96 4 billion addresses?

Why would you possibly want more for a single small VPS? Just because you can?
Ultimate Guide To Funnel Optimization
Are you sure? For example I could imagine see a dentist eventually hiring other dentists, and then more and more, exponentially expanding their business everywhere and growing a brand. It's not easy, obviously, but feasible.
1. Plots were made using R and ggplot2. (additionally, charts were rendered on a Mac; rendering Line Charts on Windows doesn't work very well)

2. To maintain an apple-to-apples comparison, I only checked for the presence of a language, and not any frameworks.
This is one of the best posts I've read on HN.

There is one negative to hedge funds: they tend to have long hours. But the stereotype is worse than fact; it's generally 9-to-7 (with some fucked-up sweatshops out there that go longer) and the work is interesting enough (usually) that you don't mind it.

Compared to the (accurately stated) ills of the 4 paths you listed, that negative is pretty mild. And you certainly can find hedge funds with reasonable hours: you're just not as likely to become the $5m/year trader working 9-to-6/7. (But you can go into VC and work 9-to-5 making 500k+.)

I'll probably go back to finance in my mid-30s, because it beats being VP/Eng at some dodgy startup not because I want to manage but because it's the only way to justify age-appropriate comp. The problem I run into now is that, after some startup dalliances (and a 6-monther at Google under a psychotic manager) I ended up with a "job hopper" resume. That doesn't hurt you so much in tech, but hedge funds are terrified of IP loss and auto-reject people with "too many" jobs.
Didn't get the "A european resident has their first kiss" though. Wouldn't it make more sense to divide the frequency by two and state "Two european residents have their first kiss"?
One of the suggestions I've seen for how happy people are in their field is how readily available the "Eject" button is for leaving your field if things don't work out.

For CS, and some parts of math and physics, it's fairly close. For many other fields, even STEM fields, being able to bail out is a much more distant prospect.
I think this is great! As a Brazilian developer I would love to be able to use european datacenters, today the latency makes it almost impossible, they're way cheaper than Brazilian ones and travel to EU is easier than to the US because of the visa.

This isn't the solution to privacy but solves a lot of other problems.
How to reduce support emails from your mobile app by up to 40%
Like cables can only be tapped at endpoints. Hilarious!
Running a Conference Like A Startup?
Split how?

I usually work with a file list/project navigator/something to the left and a build window at the bottom of the screen. I usually have two screens so that docs/browsers/whatever can live on the second screen. Seems to work for me.

In my current project I'm using eclipse which has a right-hand panel for build targets. Even with both left and right hand panels there's still enough space in the source window for 130 character lines.

Don't get me wrong, I think most lines should be short and that you should endeavour to keep them a reasonable, readable length. I just disagree with 80 as a hard limit.
Article confuses dark web with deep web, claims dark web is 500x size of web. :(
It very well may only be one of the participants' first kiss.
You can get the date fusion power will become feasible by adding 30 years to the current year. Been holding steady at 30 for quite some time.
Incredible! The OP is using SQLite, particularly, Fossil, http://fossil-scm.org/. It upsets me that this this open source venture does not give credit where it is due.
If I a wrong, please correct me.
I don't know if it is just my browser, but at the top of the page where it says "everything we learned from users" the "d" in learned and the "f" in users are on-top of eachother.

Sorry I don't have anything constructive to post.
"Big machines either work as they’re supposed to or they don’t."

Anyone else struck by the wildly reductionist sentiment in that statement?
I meant that the process of marketing usually sucks. I want to make it easier for people, and that's why I'm offering marketing consulting.
I meant to suggest that git could be used as the "backend" for a track/review system. I'm imagining being able to write standard LaTeX, but have your editor expose the git history in a way that looks like Word's track/review.

(I'm not familiar with LaTeX or the packages you mention, so maybe I'm reinventing a broken wheel here.)
@muench - we've tried to assemble some pointers on http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ipv6/

In particular you may find the "IPv6 for IPv4 Experts" ebook of use: https://sites.google.com/site/yartikhiy/home/ipv6book
Perhaps you're right, but it is not the rule.

Benjamin Franklin took risks and made positive contributions throughout his entire life.
I was just reading the other day how a kid build a brail writing machine out of Legos. Google it. Afterwards, tons of people are contacting him with opportunities. He smartly found a niche where brail machines were highly expensive and produced a low cost alternative with free plans distributed. On the flip side is he undercutting the makers of the brail machines? Perhaps, but hes helping the "greater good".

So what are the projects and ideas we can tackle? I myself am in a unique position where I have the time to develop such a project. I'm an experienced J2EE developer with Web Design skills. I'd even be willing to work with others on a worthy project.
Right, because France or Germany aren't spying on anyone.
If you want to speed up the process of building your own satellite look at an open source code satellite [1] from http://www.satellogic.com/ two satellites were launched with it.

[1] https://github.com/satellogic/canopus
It seems worrisome that 60% of their text links are blogroll links - I'm not sure the stated penalty is all that's going on here.
>> No one actually thinks 80 character displays are the reason to use 80 characters.

Err, yeah they do, I have been given exactly that reason on a few occasions, generally by older engineers who had experience with old-school machines that had precisely those screen dimensions. I don't disagree with your main point, but it's really not a straw man.
It looks as though there are a lot links pointing to the homepage from blogrolls which might be causing problems too - especially as he admitted he was selling links from his sidebar?

And you can see the 50% drop in traffic here http://feinternational.com/website-penalty-indicator/?url=sp...
Many of them already do. My iPhone works wonderfully on my IPv6 home network and connects to sites over IPv6 without a problem. I know this is true for some Android devices as well.
This has come a long way since I last used it around 3 or so years ago. I'm looking forward to trying it now since it's re-done and ditched mongodb for elasticsearch.
Perhaps an interesting discussion is whether games should provide options to disable features that might be dangerous.
Looks promising. I'll give it a chance, though regardless of the genre, I think this might be one of the more difficult times in television history to breakout with a new hit.
Its going to be encrypted. And there will be submarine intrusion detection systems. Whats not to like?
I wrote an article on how you can do this with your own mail system:

https://grepular.com/Automatically_Encrypting_all_Incoming_E...

PGP is not necessarily "unusable" on Mobile. I use K-9 Mail + APG (both free) on Android, and can read and write inline PGP signed/encrypted mail. It's a shame there's no PGP/MIME support though.
By then we'll probably have decided it's a good idea to develop a JSON serialisation for HTML, and we'll all be writing client side web code 3 layers of code generators eventually targetting JavaScript, backed by a .js library that implements an Android VM
I am trying to apply the Chinese remainder theorem to solve the time required for all of the events to occur simultaneously. I am ignoring the GIF timing bug.

1. Normalize times to integers.
2. Assume congruence at x = t mod (t+1).
3. Solve congruence system.
4. Denormalize result.

Python solution: http://ideone.com/Wh2SR6
Solution perspective: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=35417600268377072234556...
The rust compiler itself would certainly not be the best resource, but I thing servo[1] would do just fine.
Also, you can just look at some rust repositories[2] on github.

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla/servo/

[2]: https://github.com/trending?l=rust
I just wanted to say thanks for posting this. I'm not into seo at all so I'm exactly the kind of person who could get blindsided by backlinks. It sucks you bought a bad domain but sharing the experience with hn is a good public service. Thanks.
Hate to be that guy, but how can a star in a bottle cost only ~105% of WhatsApp. One of them is incorrectly valued.
Truly, the future of CouchDB is CouchDB.
A family friend with Comcast in the Seattle area has an IPv6 address that Google and other sites can see. That is, when they ask Google what their IP address is they only get their IPv6 address back as a response. This can only happen if end-to-end they're routing over IPv6, right?
This update is important because of the BigDecimal division bug in the bigdecimal gem that ships with 2.1.0 causes incorrect calculations when the denominator is less than 1.

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9316
WebRTC is pretty cool and it will be interesting to see where it goes, and how well it works with multiple users. One thing I actually miss from before the bots took over and everyone left, was the chat rooms and group chats in yahoo messenger. It was audio only, but was pretty nice.

I've played with it a little on my phone even, and though it barely works, you can see the potential. All I can say from it all, it would be nice if MS/IE could play better with others.
I hadn't read the original article, "The Future of JavaScript MVC Frameworks", and the article itself[1] is unreadable for what seems like either font or CSS issues. I made a pastie of the text with links to the text there for those who want to read it too.

[1]http://swannodette.github.io/2013/12/17/the-future-of-javasc...

[2]http://pastie.org/8768093
I understand the spirit of what you're saying. Typically risking your entire bankroll is a bad move because you're risking more than you can afford to lose. I'd argue that, in this instance, that wasn't the case. If anything, I was on a "free roll" of sorts. Winning that night would significantly improve my situation (allow me to pay my bills) where losing would not significantly worsen my situation - I'd still be screwed. There just wasn't much difference between having 1k and having 0 and I didn't have enough time to build slowly.
CEO of Verizon says he expects Netflix will sign deal to pay them as well
Would it stop over in Africa first? It looks like that's along the way.
IMDB is practically the oldest thing on the web. The site launched in 1993 but it imported the archives of relevant usenet (rec.arts.movies) and mail archives going back to the 80s.
and... it's really the 'rule breakers' the article is looking for, regardless of age.
> Sorry, I'm just not seeing it.

Before Can-Spam, spammers ranked e-mail addresses read by a human higher than dead addresses (no surprise). The economics of spamming dictate that a mailing list of living humans, however acquired and however unlikely to result in sales, will be spammed again and again, simply as a bet that some fool somewhere will respond as the spammer would like.

Now that we have Can-Spam and unsubscribe links must be present, the spammers have changed tactics -- instead of collecting reply addresses known to be read by humans, they collect unsubscribe addresses known to be read by humans. Old wine in new bottles.

> are incredibly unlikely to buy anything from bona fide spam.

Yes, but let's say that an unsophisticated computer user receives, not a simple spam message, but a carefully designed phishing e-mail that is known to fool .1% of its recipients. For that scenario, e-mail addresses acquired as explained above would make perfectly suitable targets.
Then you could argue that any embedded device that runs the Linux kernel is not Linux because it doesn't use the GNU userland. I think its splitting hairs, anything that runs the Linux kernel is by definition, Linux. You can replace the GNU userland with anything you want, it doesn't suddenly make it a completely new operating system.
I think the suggestion was to dramatically degrade video, but keep audio fairly good.
No one ever is considering what Granny thinks when movie or television ratings are concerned. The age groups normally considered are 18-34 or 18-49, because those are the ones which far outweigh all others in terms of commercial interest. Also, all other age groups don't make up a significant part of the movie going crowd so even if they would contribute ratings it wouldn't make much of a difference.