skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've been using Gobble lately and I would recommend it to any family with small children. This is one of those things you don't realize till you have kids, but 4 year olds don't want to eat the same things you do. Eventually your kids' tastes may converge sufficiently with yours, but till then you either have to (a) not eat together, (b) cook two different dinners simultaneously, (c) eat hot dogs yourself, or (d) have endless fights.

Gobble has given us a fifth and better option, and I think that will be the cornerstone of its appeal to customers.
"In addition to bringing a burst of buzz and excitement, the show created nearly 6,000 jobs and pumped more than $250 million into the state economy, economic development officials say."

This one paragraph really needs to be explained and detailed since it is at the heart of the matter.
> We need to consider, seriously, the possibility that avoidance of high tech in favor of health fields is a very rational choice [...]

It's great if people are making a rational. Onsidered choice.

I'd love to see research. I suspect that people are not making that informed choice and that segregation along sex happens much much earlier.

And if being an RN is so good why are so many nurses imported from other nations? Perhaps that doesn't happen in the US or at least not for RNs.

As an aside: the highest paying RN job is in San Jose - isn't San Jose the crack capital of California? (I am only asking about crack, not about nursing or etc).

(Anecdote: My son is just over 3. He likes and talks about flamingos and his favourite colour is pink. (He has pink sunglasses.). We were drawing and I handed him a pink pencil and he said "no Dan, pink is a girl's colour." The only place he could get this from is nursery which means that children below UK school age are policing activity based on gender or staff are being careless with words. (Luckily I have a pink phone case and a pink towel and a pink watering can so I managed to persuade him that anyone can like pink.))
Federal reserve meeting transcripts from the 2008 financial crisis released
Startup advice
Has anyone experience with the projects / startups in travel industry? Would appreciate any advice for current project: europetravel.net
> Vertical splits were patched in and added a long time ago

IIRC, that patch floated around for a while.

The other thing that tmux brings to the table is better scripting support than screen + things like tmuxinator (for me at least).
CDN and PaaS performance
Hmm, that's definitely outside the scope of pushpin, but it's an interesting idea for a different project perhaps.

I guess you want a proxy that you could tell to make an HTTP request on your behalf but would return immediately. And then it would make an HTTP request back to you once it has received the remote response.

Another of our projects is Zurl, which is used for async outbound HTTP. You'd have to write some zmq handler code but potentially it could be appropriated for what you're trying to do.
Risk Is Low And Business Is Booming In The Malware Market
> This is a strange comparison, what does software have to do with nursing?

Both are statistically dominated by an individual gender. There's huge amounts that we can learn from comparing the different approaches to this matter.
It tells you that the primary route to finding out about Erlang for someone who knots nothing about it (ie Google it and have a nosey) its no bloody good.
Sigh. It's a fallacy that making loans implies fractional reserves as normally understood.

Banks can still make loans simply by offering certificates of deposit. This is the above-board way of loaning out people's money -- you make it absolutely clear that taking it out early has a cost, because the money is locked up in (hopefully) profitable ventures.

Would that be less profitable for the banks? Not really -- they would just adjust their prices to compensate, by charging fees on idle money that's instantly redeemable.

And if you let a secondary market for CDs flower, customers can still get good liquidity. Just in a way that's better subject to market discipline.
Yeah I don't doubt there are some smart people out there that could make something like that happen (look at Azul and their pauseless GC for the JVM for example). However, it will be a tough fix when compared to the simple/pure approach Erlang takes.
There is a lot of value in illegal businesses.
>I think Andreas Antonopoulos said in a video that it takes about half a billion dollars to fool the blockchain for 10 minutes. Even though that's a lot, if certain actors (state or otherwise) got interested enough, wouldn't they manipulate the chain at critical moments for their advantage?

That's out-of-date now; the total computation power of the Bitcoin network is 25,824,939.77 GH/s. It would probably take a lot more than $500 million now.
PHP as a web project's main language
I would guess that it mostly depends on the quality of the prior.
I think what patio11 is saying (and I agree) is that too much is being made of the ideals behind the Bitcoin protocol and paradigm, but it doesn't really translate when met with the hard test of practical reality.

I noted your argument, along with many others on the GP's sub-thread which make this very distinction between Bitcoin as a concept and Bitcoin as an actual thing. In so doing, you suggest that failure to make the distinction is misleading and you align yourselves with the idealistic praise heaped on by the original article.

But, I would agree with patio11's insinuation: i.e. that the real fallacy is in this praise. It's misleading, because at some point, the protocol must be implemented in the real world, consisting of exchanges, wallet services, payment services, etc. These are all points where bad actors can attach. To say, "well, that's not the Bitcoin protocol" is to point out a meaningless distinction. When you find a way around these implementation limitations, then it matters.

TL;DR: as implemented, Bitcoin in practice solves exactly none of the problems espoused by the article. We need look no further than real-world events to see this.
Again, not solving an problem..
> whimsical and youthful

Hah, yes. Honestly, if that woman's behavior is "sexual and flirtatious" then my son's kindergarten teacher is hitting on him (she puts on the same act around her students).

Yes, the video was as much about selling Liukas as a character and internet-celebrity as it was about selling her book. That's how marketing works. But anybody who sees it as "sexual" watches too much of the wrong kind of anime.
Whatsapp competitor Threema tops German iOS App Store
The tmux project is part of the ones developed alongside and included in OpenBSD, so when you support OpenBSD, you're also supporting tmux.
Honestly, if you do care about money at least in the sense of relatively short-term cash, I'd recommend trying to solve it by shooting for something Google-caliber.
They film in Baltimore.
Honestly, it's a pity that one of the big email providers doesn't just tell LinkedIn that if they continue to solicit email passwords, especially for the purpose of inducing people into accidentally spamming their entire address book, LinkedIn signup emails will be heading to their users' spambox by default.

(Granted, Google has to be pretty careful about how they act towards rival social networks)
I just wish the team woulda got a boost after the acquisition or immediately wrapped into Google Shopping.

Shopping was the logical place the product would fit, but it seemed like they weren't given much of a boost after the acquisition and they sort of slowed a bit.
Why is this weird? It's the textbook method for doing hashes.
Aled Lewis: "The Coruscant Tapestry"
Individual agency en masse should be a random distribution, which results in a proportionate representation within reasonable error margins. Not having this suggests that there's another factor besides individual agency factoring into decisions. It could be something acceptable, like men can't biologically give birth (yet), or it could be something unacceptable, like blacks being targeted by police solely on suspicion of race.

This is one of the ways in which you recognize that something weird is going on with American politics. While it's a good thing to have lawyers in Congress, it's kinda weird that they're overwhelmingly lawyers.
A Chronicle of Uncertainty, Then Bold Action, in 2008 Fed Transcripts
The part that I dislike about it is that:

1) You have to have a separate terminal window for the 'control' process.

2) Now creating new tabs / windows automatically creates them in said tmux session (unless you manually use the "Profiles" drop-down menu). It would be nice to use Tmux as a way to create a window full of tabs in a scripted way (a la Tmuxinator), but not be forced to use a single Tmux session for everything.
A Whisper – TextSecure and RedPhone to merge
CS10 TA here:
I have been involved in the development of this course for almost 4 years and in that time I watched it grow from a small 80 student pilot course to a 220 student CS goliath. In my opinion the growth in popularity of this course is representative of an underwhelming high school CS education. For students without some previous experiences, CS61A as an introduction can be brutally discouraging. This fact spurred the creation of a course designed to give prospective CS majors a first foundation. This is by no means a thin foundation. CS10 has students learning concepts including complex tree recursion, implementation of Map Reduce, Lambda functions, as well as techniques for processing large sets of data and understanding the effects of concurrency. In just one semester a student can go from not knowing what variables and “if” statements are, to building complex projects involving game-tree searches and parallel processing.

CS10 represents an opportunity for those who never considered Computer Science until they reached a university setting. For many the study feels unapproachable, and the inviting environment of CS10 allows anyone with a curiosity to explore their capacity. In the ongoing debate of “should everyone program”, while I am uncertain about the prospect of making CS education a compulsive requirement, I do believe a net should be cast out to catch those who perhaps never realized their interest and potential. CS10 is that net. It is often the beginning of a student’s journey and inspires a life long love.

It’s easy to joke that about CS10 as a CS daycare. A place where the “non-serious” can feel like they are involved in a trendy field of work. But this does not recognize the success of CS10. With a majority of CS10 alums continuing on to CS61A, the demographic of students (including female enrollment rates) will begin to change. This is a new course and it will take time to percolate up to graduation rates, but the student’s in CS61A with a background in CS10 are not only prepared, but often far beyond those who directly jump into CS61A.

CS10 was the first experience I ever had with Computer Science and inspired me to pursue a career in the field. I love CS and sharing that love with my students in CS10 is my passion.
Apple Acquires Burstly, which owns Testflight (iOS beta testing platform)
@samreidhughes Ok. Then in that case, my question to you: why do you feel that keeping the signal to noise ratio of the thread is a good thing? Where is that experience arising from in your body?
That's sort of the idea behind securitized mortgages, except once the bank makes the loan the bank leaves the picture (except perhaps as a custodian responsible for payment collection sometimes.) This is one reason securitization of mortgages led to lower interest rates and was generally considered a good thing for a while.

In the alternative scenario, economists describe loaning from demand deposits (at a higher interest rate) with a phrase like "the bank is selling liquidity".
Fed transcripts from 2008 reveal inner workings as US teetered on the brink
I'd happily pay this to have a meal delivered to me at 6pm every day.

The only options near me are a pizza place and a chinese and while both are excellent...not every night.

Personally I just wish there was a pill I could take every day that would take care of all dietary needs and hunger occasionally I eat for pleasure the rest of the time it's just fuel and gets in the way.

I'm aware of Soylent but I'll give it a few years before I consider it (there are some things where been a beta tester may not be a good idea..).
Bitstamp have proved their good intentions and competence. They also have the most to lose at this point as the market leader. Had zero problems with transfers from there, very quick support replies, seem to be in good relations with their bank. I trust them. Karaken also look promising, but it's a new exchange.

Anyway, best bet is to use several exchanges to take advantage of arbitrage opportunities and to distribute the risk.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand I've been thinking on it for quite a long time already, newer shinier Vim is something I secretly wish for. On the other hand I found it quite problematic. The main problem of Vim is Vimscript. So "newer shinier Vim" is Vim with real programming language instead of vimscript. But it's impossible to remove Vimscript: it won't be Vim anymore. It affects not only scripting itself, but also how we interact with it in command mode, not to say about plugins we have already.

And here we have a project. Virtually nothing is done, previous commit was 20 days ago, and the last commit is adding the fundraiser link an hour ago. I mean, the author doesn't seem to be fanatically enthusiastic. And plans are quite generous. Maybe I'm too pessimistic, but I have some bad feeling about that. I'm thinking instead of "Hm, maybe better to write an open-source version of Sublime Text?".
I've started flagging these stories.

It doesn't matter how many men or women work in particular careers. Technology is only singled out because the pay is high. Where are the articles about the lack of women in welding?
Some of them offer margin trading which is a loan.
"This is one of those things you don't realize till you have kids, but 4 year olds don't want to eat the same things you do."

So true.
It was even banned internally for a couple of years and Armstrong left Ericsson as a result.

I know it gets some use within Ericsson for running quickcheck tests against C-code.
Since the rest of the site seems to be down, here is a direct link to the relevant image:

http://i0.wp.com/poisson.phc.unipi.it/~maggiolo/wp-content/u...
> You're looking at something that is really well-known. What does the website of Google convey?

The Google comparison is comical. You are wildly over-estimating how well known Erlang is, even in the dev community.

> Do you really decide whether you'd learn a language by looking at its website?

Most devs learn a new language when it helps them solve a problem. Anyone who needs to solve the problems that Erlang addresses has already at least looked at Erlang.

This thread was also directed at those who have never used Erlang. Starting with the Erlang website makes eminent sense.

Specific example :

Compare the Erland and Rust websites. I've never used Rust or Erlang. I can confidently say that the Rust website does a better job of familiarizing a new user with the language. It's not just a matter of the Rust syntax being C-derived, either. It's simply harder to find any useful information on the Erlang website.

Rust :

* code sample on landing page
* comprehensive tutorial linked directly from landing page

Erlang :

* no code on landing page
* "quick start guide" which is basically a link to a non-free book
* Getting to actual code requires 3-4 clicks from the landing page
* e.g. Documentation -> Course -> Sequential Programming

Conclusion : The Erlang website isn't as useful as that of at least 1 other non-mainstream language.
We used to do Starcraft lunch at work.

2 people would play a starcraft game and the rest of us would gather in a conference room to watch the stream and provide running commentary.

We also have an in house tool that sets up lunch times between a random group of 4 people periodically. It's a great way to meet others in the office and socialize.

Both of these were employee provided ideas. If you empower your employees to implement their own ideas it can have a powerful effect on office morale.
I agree, flipping random bit is more likely. I.E. mutating random character into some other random character (does not have to be printable one). This also has a pretty strong assumption that Ruby itself is not corrupted.
> So do it?

A huge part of a programming language is, in fact, its community. I'd say that's more important than the language itself; any given feature can and will be replicated, but the community cannot be.

I cannot get the maximum out of Haskell if I cannot get involved in its community, which is heavily CS-oriented.
We seem to have a freedom to choose who we would be employed by; i.e. turn down an offer of employment for moral reasons; say I don't want to work for some animal testing lab.

But say I own a restaurant and a animal testing lab moves to town; now do I have a choice but to serve dinner to the executives of said animal testing lab?

What is the difference?

Per U.S. law; I think you would first need to establish 'sexual orientation' as a protected class like race or gender; to allow people to decide that they don't want to serve people based on some moral judgments but not others.

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class
"So, you're saying that aside from skin colour, black and white people are exactly the same and, in a vacuum, the distribution of race in any given profession should be perfectly equal? You really believe that?"
^ It wasn't long ago that that type of claim was used often. Sexist views always have some sort of justification like "men and women ARE different!" or "men have a natural ability to think logically and are therefore more suited to programming". You forget that women basically made up most of the early programmers (see Ada Lovelace etc). I would recommend reading the book "Delusions of Gender" to get an overview over the "science" behind claiming that men and women are inherently different and to learn how all of those studies have proven flawed/heavily biased towards a premeditated conclusion.
It sounds like they have no interest in getting this stuff pushed back upstream? There's no mention of it on the home page.

At this point it smells kind of Emacs/XEmacsish. Hope they can rally immense development effort.
Well, if the question is "Why isn't Erlang more popular?" then I would think that pointing out that "someone who's not interested and pressed for time won't put any effort into it" is a perfectly fine answer. The clear implication is that the resources currently available for would-be Erlang adopters require an unrealistic level of interest and time to get them over the hump. It tells an Erlang evangelist precisely what she needs to do: do more to sell the language to people who have little time or inclination to rally dig into a language they otherwise know nothing about. (Of course, while it may be a useful answer, it is not very interesting for the rest of us.)
That's not a ridiculous framework, but I think your application of it is misguided. Unless you think that there exist agents with those moral capabilities that we're overlooking, or countries made up entirely (or even primarily) of those lacking those capabilities then "human rights" is a correct label, to a pretty good approximation for our discussion here and others are going to better understand what you mean if you use the term.
They aren't saying the game would work differently. Rather, things would not be known until at least one person got that far. One couldn't, as soon as the game came out, look at the executable or source file, and determine how it ends, way before anyone else who was playing legitimately.

So people wouldn't be able to spoil the twist until someone actually got to it.

I think this would actually make people more likely to play it together, because there would be real discovery, and people wouldn't know for sure if they REALLY found everything yet.

People could tell each other what they found, but they would only be able to find it by playing, not because one guy looked at the program and just made a complete list.

(I have also thought about a similar problem before, but the result ended up being really slow, and I don't know how to make a text adventure actually fun. Mostly it was just really slow though.)
A brave effort. Given your commit history, documented plan and great idea I was happy to back it [1] and hope you succeed. Best of luck :)

[1]: https://www.bountysource.com/fundraisers/539-neovim-first-it...
No, I understood the OP's point, I just decided to point them towards a better resource in the case that they do want to learn more about it at some point. I agree that the Erlang site is utterly dreadful.
Sure, but I'd wager that the set of people with both Twitter and DB accounts is vastly larger than the set of people with App.net accounts.
"Hm, maybe better to write an open-source version of Sublime Text?" You mean, like Lime?

https://github.com/limetext/lime
The Leap – Finally quit my day job…here’s what I’ve learned (so far)
Facebook Is Getting Really Creepy
>Bitstamp has a decent track record though their local[e] give me pause.

I'd say Bitstamp has a very good track record, and what's wrong with Slovenia? It's probably about on the level of the Czech Republic in terms of economic freedom, development, level of corruption (relatively low), output, business practices, etc. Would doing business with a Czech company make you nervous?

In business culture, Slovenia looks toward Germany more than toward the former Eastern Block (of which it was never a part).

I mean, Bitstamp's owners are public people. I feel pretty confident that they're not going to run off with their depositors money. Is there something else that you're concerned about?

But I agree, if you want to just buy coins, Coinbase is a good start. And Kraken is looking very good, too, particularly if you're a serious trader (that's who they appear to target).
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One personal observation is that intense, extended development is mentally exhausting to the point that social interactions are difficult. I plan my work stints around my social schedule now, to make sure I'm well-rested for having fun with people.

Posture is also very important for my sense of self. If my chest is collapsed, I feel a subtle pain that sours my mood. If my lower back is clenched, I slouch my shoulders, and I get anxious. Exercise helps keep up positive energy and cast off anxiety. It also gives me time to relax tension in my body.

In my experience, both of these can factor into depression and social anxiety. I'm much happier when I maintain a good balance.
Perfect cleavage in 4 directions.

For teeth, you want nephrite as the base with a thin shell of corundum on the surface.
Or, just use a system like we use on Bitalo, where fractional reserves are impossible because of use of multi-signature Bitcoin addresses, which means funds are specifically tied to user wallets and exchange operators cannot use them without user's signing all transactions by himself.
In case the date at the end fails to register, the reference (19 October 1987) is to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(1987) .
Yes, I was surprised by this, and no mention of the project on vim.org ...
> Migrate to a cmake-based build

> Legacy support and compile-time features

> Platform-specific code

Sounds like well-justified cleanup, although it's possible this project is underestimating the usefulness of feature selection.

> New plugin architecture

> New GUI architecture

Now that's cool and ambitious.

I wonder whether Bram has an opinion on this?