skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What that doesn't show very well is that the growth rate is dropping fast. It doesn't show this because the year over year growth rate is already small: 1.1% per year between 2000-2005 according to the UN. As such it's a horribly misleading graph.

UN projects the population to peak in 2075, at a bit over 9 billion, with yearly growth rates having dropped to 0.33% in 2050 based on current trends. Post 2075 they project a population drop as many more countries will have dropped below "maintenance" birth rates, like large parts of Europe.
Even though I feel for your situation... Seriously this has nothing to do with hacker news. This is more of a reddit post that has snuck in here somehow.
M. Feathers's book "Working Effectively With Legacy Code" is excellent. The focus is on programming techniques to decalcify a legacy codebase, but learning those techniques makes it a whole lot easier to reason about and prioritize work on such a system.
By this rationale, if you had a way to sneak into concerts without buying a ticket, would you do so? If so, what percentage of the time? 100%? 50%? How would you decide?
Yep, I think a good way to put it is that subtrees are (or feel like) far more "first class" - you can do all the normal stuff with them.
I love blender, but I don't think Ton's rationale for not using kickstarter is compelling. Although blender.org gets some page-views, it's the same audience of people who already know about blender. Kickstarter would have introduced a new demographic, and provided more traffic to the blender.org page. Blender is an awesome project, with serious momentum, but I am worry sometimes about Ton's hubris.
Here's a guy who ran one 875 ultramarathon in 5 days at the age of 61 - without sleep or otherwise resting:

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/young.html

Cliffy Young is awesome. He's a national hero in Australia.
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If you can't trust the pilot then you can't trust the equipment either. Civil aviation requires a lot of trust, so there's no real reason to try to lock out the transponder.

Once the pilot is not trustworthy, you've entered the realm of military defense, and a lot of that is built around the ability to track targets that don't want to be tracked.
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I'm still toiling away in the mines, but when my current contract runs out next month Java EE I expect will still be invaluable. (Wildfly, not Glassfish though).
Let's say "able to study in a foreign university".

This, btw, automatically disqualifies all those tourists who think the could speak Hindi. Go ahead, visit a lecture in Benares Hindu University, or just a class in an Indian secondary school.

This is why I admire all those Asian and Indian students of MIT or Stanford.

I am biased because I work with tourists and have lived in Kathmandu for years, so I have seen innumerable cases of unsubstantiated self esteem or banal narcissistic personality disorder and tens of thousands of punks of any kind.)
Yes, but in practice practically everything in Nimrod is a value, not a ref, so GC'd pointers are an extremely rare duck.
Summary: they spent $380K to get the color mix right for the plastic nub in the port.
Job opportunity: Data Engineer – 日本語 at well-funded company Slice (Palo Alto)
Are you a bright engineer interested in processing massive amounts of data? We are seeking folks with solid experience in server-side engineering. You will be applying machine learning algorithms for information extraction, categorization and normalization of online purchases, with emphasis on the Japanese language.
You'll be working with a lean, fast-paced team of folks from companies like LinkedIn, MySpace, AOL, Yahoo!, and eBay to push out applications that will change the way people shop.
Requirements:
•	Design and develop infrastructure to process large amounts of data using distributed technologies, such as Map/Reduce, HIVE/Pig
•	Proficient with Java, multithreading, distributed systems at scale
•	Experience with tokenization and feature extraction for Japanese text using NLP techniques
•	Bonus: Experience with SQL, MongoDB
•	Bonus: Exposure to information retrieval, classification, graph mining, and/or recommendation engines
•	BS (MS preferred) in CS, EE, or related degree

Founded by proven entrepreneurs out of Stanford, Slice is a consumer internet company based in downtown Palo Alto that is venture backed by Lightspeed, DCM, Eric Schmidt and other top Valley investors. We're a talented team possessing consumer internet experience with a passion for delighting users through amazing product experiences. Slice is changing the way that people interact with the stuff they buy AFTER they buy it. And we're doing this by tackling it at the source of electronic receipts: the inbox. We're using email data to create fun and useful consumer applications and experiences. Our app for iOS/Android provides an easy way for consumers to manage & track all of their purchases and save money with price drop alerts. Email resumes/Linkedin/projects and portfolios → hannahft [at] stanfordalumni [dot] org

https://slice.resumetracker.com/public/job_detail/985

Thanks so much!
You can also just create a category on UIView that defines a property which could store a object.

@property (nonatomic, strong) id context;

or

@property (nonatomic, weak) id context;

if you are sure the context will always exist.
alexgaribay: if you post the exact same comment more than once, the second+ are dead and no one can see them. Just change up the text a little :)
Almost immediately after the fellow finally gained entrance to the cockpit, the plane ran out of fuel. So your "presumably" is completely correct.
> If people aren't willing to, nope.

The idea behind this comment is that if people don't care enough about the work to bother viewing it, the maker shouldn't be paid. Which I agree with; I hate the idea of government sponsorship of art no one wants. The difference here is, PEOPLE WANT THE ART, THEY JUST DON'T WANT TO PAY FOR IT. That's a huge distinction. It has value to people, but because they have the opportunity to steal it with no consequence, they do so.
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Remember when they said we'd run out of coal in the year 2000? Or that the ice caps would have melted by 2012?
I can't do crosswords in English, my native language. I definitely can't breeze through classical texts. It's important to be realistic on the other end of the scale too.

Criteria like this are way too demanding, and it's one of the biggest problems in language learning that makes people feel worthless; having elitist standards that you "don't" speak a language unless you speak it like a university professor, regardless of the fact that you may not speak your mother tongue that way.
I'm really interested in this. Anyone?
Which is why they would be trying to cover it up...
It is not only an issue for US citizens, also for people who have been with the same bank for 30+ years and now leaving abroad. You can either pay tones of fees and at least have $50k in the account or you are forced to take your money elsewhere.

Luxembourg and Lichtenstein will gladly take you money, though ;-)
Beggar Prince was one of my favorite games of the 2000s. I played the hell out of that game. I miss the SNES versus Genesis debates on the playground.
We are former oil and gas analysts and found that interpreting and understanding spreadsheets is an incredibly time consuming task. We have spoken to dozens of financial analysts (whom we have discovered are our primary user) and have found out that the problem is amplified by an order of magnitude for them! They spend literally hours deciphering complexity in spreadsheets. FYI, we are mainly targeting those who are in Excel for more than 70% of the working day and developing models (normally financial or market sizing ones).
I would guess that your startup experience wasn't all that recent? I'd say Java has been somewhat out of favor with most startups, at least in my area, for at least the past 5-7 years.
I am an international tax lawyer and this stuff is my day job. Consider this comment an AMA.

For smaller companies, the bureaucratic cost of international tax systems is insane. For US citizens abroad ... I will just say that my biggest area of growth is helping people shed their US citizenship and tax paperwork/penalties is the number 1 reason.

Anyway. If you are in a position like The One and Only Netai -- or don't want to be -- AMA.
Wow that's a long list!

edit: I count 249 startups,

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9529391
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I remember watching a "Mayday: Aircrash Investigation" episode (awesome series by the way) from the 80's I think.

It involved an Eastern passenger plane that had miscalibrated it's guidance system and strayed into Soviet(?) territory during a politically tense period at the same time a US spy plane was in the area.

The Russians(?) shot the plane down and it nearly started a war. The country the plane was from didn't believe it had strayed as far as the Russians(?) said it did.

Eventually, the US government released radar data showing the position and path of this plane so that it would avoid a war. It showed this particular plane had grossly gone off course and entered Russian territory. The radar they had was capable of tracking every plane in the world 24x7. This was back a couple/few decades as well! Turned out the plane has set the wrong guidance system pre takeoff which was a terrible and extremely rare mistake. The US held out until the last moment to release this data as they didn't want anyone to know they had the capability.

This leads me to believe some people somewhere know where this plane went down.

I am not sure if I am recalling this precisely, but I 100% remember that the US government back then apparently has this radar tech.
If it didn't, the NSA would not be so interested in collecting it. Paranoid people who believe they might be being listened in on are unlikely to reveal much directly in the conversation itself anyway, so in those cases the metadata is more important. Also, the metadata can reveal anomalous behavior, which they look for mainly because it's easy to find, but also because it can reveal important information assuming the targets are correctly selected.

Anyway, the only reason they aren't collecting the calls themselves is because the storage required is not yet available, so their begging off about "but we aren't storing the content" is disingenuous. They can, at any moment, capture any call going over the long-distance network (which would include pretty much all cell phone calls) so the only thing they're unable to do is to retroactively listen in on calls. If you are flagged for whatever reason (you know someone who knows someone who knows someone they suspect of sending money to a bad charity), you may well be being monitored.
In a rare case like that I have the option of paying for faster shipping, but it happens rarely enough that it costs me far less than locking myself into paying for a year's worth of shipping I may or may not use.
Good post. It reminded me of the US College textbook system. They do this at a larger scale. It definitely drives home why you would want to relaunch the product.
For the cloud version, we are mainly using C#, Python + JavaScript; and generate the tree by firstly accessing the internal XML of the spreadsheet file.
Applied to 4 front end positions with a dash of Rails work, 2 of them had uninteresting work so I declined, 1 wanted me to jump through hoops answering some silly puzzles - "Lol no... I'm not 21 anymore, you want to hire me look at my credentials and open source code".

The last one was a great fit and I'm loving the work we're doing.

If you guys want to hire good people who actually respect themselves and will present your business well inside and outside, don't make candidates jump through your silly college-level puzzles. I'm too old for this shit.
Related question: If I have some old 5.25" disks I'd like to see if I can get information from, what's the way to go? If I buy an old 5.25" drive from ebay or something, is it going to connect to a new PC running Win7 or Linux? I'm guessing no, whether hardware or software issue. So is my only option to find some more old PC hardware, or what?
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Time of useful consciousness after loss of pressurization at a typical airliner's cruising altitude is about 15 seconds. Your lungs basically operates in reverse and pump the oxygen out of your body as fast as your heart can beat. Once that deoxygenated blood hits your brain, it's lights out. I'd be rather impressed if anyone was able to make a phone call within 15 seconds of an explosive decompression. Presuming it was explosive, of course.
It's something I've considered. As a now resident of Hong Kong, I was surprised - and delighted - with how incredibly easy it was to handle my taxes. Front-to-back, I could do the whole thing, including payment, in less than an hour and understand the whole system.

Unfortunately, it is nowhere near so simple in the US, and they have no regard for expats. The US treats its expats worse than any other country in the world. The forms are atrocious. And I could go on about being taxed heavily for services I don't use.

Unfortunately, relinquishing citizenship is just not possible for most, including me. With family and obligations, it's just not realistic. But it is appealing.
Then the agency has to make sure another one doesn't want [the building]. Then state and local governments get a crack at it, then nonprofits — and finally, a 25-year-old law requires the government to see if it could be used as a homeless shelter.

Every one of those regulations is perfectly reasonable. Yet when put together they lead to empty buildings staying empty, expensive and useless. This is a very uderappreciated consequence of regulation in general.
Plus, increased shipping costs are counterbalanced by the fact they don't need to run lots of brick-and-mortar locations.
Similarly, in the Eastern US we have the Appalachian Trail (http://www.appalachiantrail.org/) at 2200 miles. Many folks do the whole thing, and many more do various subsets. Highly recommended.
Much of our infrastructure runs on old computers. That's not necessarily bad. Assuming there's no network connection, configs are left unchanged, and updates are not installed, neither bitrot nor vulnerabilities will bring down the system. A hardware failure could, if compatible replacements aren't available. The latter does occur.

Part of the reason for keeping these old systems is the risk in upgrading. The software has been in service for years so it's relatively battle-tested. New software comes with the risk of bugs and deployment problems. Bugs and deployment problems can mean lengthy shutdowns of critical infrastructure (if it proves impossible to bring the old system back into service as an emergency measure).

So there is some wisdom in letting the old systems clunk along. Up to a point, that is.
A business shouldn't make money? Surely that isn't what you meant...
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Reducing error by 25% from a 96.5% baseline gives you their stated 97.25% accuracy. About 0.75% fewer errors. Still amazing, but less impressive than the abstract makes it sound.
Wholeheartedly agree. Question is though, is it possible to appreciate what you have without losing it first? You seem to have been bored of your surroundings until you lost them (ie moved to the city). Only then you realized that in fact country life is not as bad and there's loads to do... So IMO to appreciate and discover the 90% one first has to lose or abandon it all.
He made it his job. He sells polyglot e-books and courses.
I was happy to make a donation. This hits close to home because my wife was diagnosed with Stage 0 Melanoma-in-situ when she was 35 years old. We have three kids of our own and imagining them growing up without their mother is terrifying. Fortunately, we caught it at Stage 0 though which has a 100% cure rate. So let me stand up on the soapbox for a minute:

Everyone should go to a dermatologist every year for an all-over skin check starting when you're in your 20s. That's what my wife did and it's what I started when I was in my late 20s. It's literally the difference between dying young and growing old.

To stay on the soapbox for a minute, everyone should really have at least $500,000 in life insurance when your wife is pregnant with your first child. I pay about $1,500 per year for $2.0 million in life insurance above what my employer supplies me (3x salary). You really, really need term life insurance outside of what your employer offers. Just think - if you get very sick and lose your job, you don't want to lose your life insurance as well. Don't get whole life - it's generally a rip off. Just get term life insurance. I have a ladder of 10 year, 20 year and 30 year policies that expire as I get older and need less life insurance. In fact, my 10 year term policy just expired a couple months ago (my oldest son is 9.5).

Also, get disability insurance outside your employer's policy as well. Policies supplied by employers are typically worthless. It's generally good to get an "own occupation" policy because otherwise you can be denied payment because you're able to work a McDonald's drive-through even though you've been a surgeon your entire life.
Reply to bcobb:
I agree that Working Effectively with Legacy Code is great. It's been as revolutionary for our team as The Art of Agile Development.

The big piece that we're missing is how to apply agile practices consistently when our velocity varies so significantly because of legacy code. Feathers' book gave us a long-term path to getting out of that issue, but we're struggling with the planning and communication side of things in the meantime.
As a nation and a culture, the USA has decided that business and business concerns aren't as important as they once were. I'd go so far as to say that there has been a great deal of hostility toward businesses lately. Financial success in the mainstream media has become something to criticize and suspect as "ill gotten".

There's a reason why the USA continues to drop in business freedom rankings. It's not just this one guy's whining.

As an American, I don't want to run away from this criticism. I think we should own it and make decisions about what to do about it based upon acceptance of it, not rationalization and denial.
Whatever you do, don't eat the food at Casa Bonita! They require you to purchase a meal in order to go in, but DO NOT EAT IT.

You can eat the sopaipillas though.
That's populist propaganda. Businesses are taxed on profit, not revenue. Even if they were 100% based in the UK, they'd still probably pay very low corporate taxes (if any) due to the thin margin. They actually do pay an enormous amount of tax in the UK in the form of payroll taxes, VAT collections, etc.

It's sad to see people propagate this crap. It's really about veiled protectionism. A big, efficient player comes in and is willing to forego profit indefinitely. Can't tax them legally, so shame them. Tax on 0 is 0. That's how it works for UK companies too. Try reading between the lines...
It is, effectively, the only country in the world that does this. It's shameful.

http://hodgen.com/does-the-united-states-stand-alone/
Have you considered cryonics at all? This woman was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and funded her procedure with donations:

http://www.themarysue.com/woman-cryogenic-sleep/
The most creepy line in the entire article:

"Their logo, which, Min tells me a few times, has been tattooed on more than 500 Razer fans, is a bright green-and-black three-headed serpent."
Clojure's Immutant is built on top of JBoss so you are indirectly using Java EE there too.
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I have been using it for at least 6 years.
Because you're a jerk.
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20 year term life should be <$20 for a "normal" young person. Try Zander (broker) or Amica (insurance company that I recommend). Make sure you get term life.
Multitail
Yup, you get to pretend to be the driver if you sit up front :)
http://www.kongper.dk/foto_stor/metro1f.jpg
Worth noting: There are no jobs in machine learning and statistical analysis.

Jobs come in the flavor of Web Developer in Ruby on Rails, Web Developer in PHP, and occasionally Web Developer in ASP.NET or Enterprise Java. That's 98% of the market, with everything else from finance to space probes to self driving cars and those things you're looking for crammed into the remaining 2% (none of which will be advertised as positions on Monster.com).

Expecting to find a machine learning job with your machine learning degree is akin to expecting to score an internship at Indiana Jones & Co. with your archaeology degree.

I have a degree in Mechanical Engineering specialized in Robotics. Care to guess what I actually do for a living?
I get that, but what about just simple rules?

if(Plane.Altitude > 0 && Plane.FlightTime > 10 Minutes){
TransponderOn
}
Where did you find the people online? I've looked at http://www.italki.com/, but not much else.
Or smartphones too for that matter if you have data turned off (which you would if you were, say, one of 200 Chinese tourists who had just been in Malaysia for vacation)
Ah, there's how you get to minority report type stores/advertising being used in practice...

1. You upload photos to Facebook. Facebook detects various commercial products or even--assuming deep learning can take things to "higher level" representations--"style preferences" of people recognized in the photo. It will also develop style preferences based on context, location, etc. (dive bar or classy lounge?) Because it knows who is in the picture, etc. it can correlate that with an identity.

2. Facebook then sells this "identity" to the Gap -- no actual information about the user, just these raw vectored "style preferences" which contain all knowable brand information about each user. Facebook can provide massive coverage here.

3. You walk into a Gap store. Gap has installed software provided by Facebook to detect your face/person/style preferences (but no personally identifiable information, just that "the person with this face has these preferences and probably makes this much money so you might offer X,Y,and Z at these prices") and you then get an offer via facebook message (or "facebook offer"?) on your phone to buy what you think is actually a really cool jacket at an admittedly reasonable price (based on what you're used to paying for jackets).

This probably has massive ramifications for outfits like Costco or Target or Walmart where individual consumer preference/taste/whatever can really make a difference in choosing effective lineups of products... Maybe they manage to offer deals that sort of price themselves based on what they know the user will pay?

Almost not a bad idea...
There was no real problem locating the four airliners hijacked on 9/11. In fact, one of them (United 175) didn't even turn its transponder off. The other three were adequately tracked with primary radar. The problems with the airliners that day were deciding what to do about them (e.g. intercept them) and then actually doing it (e.g. no procedures were in place to quickly scramble fighters in a case like this).

Primary radar is difficult and inconvenient but it's not nearly as difficult as you make it sound.
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If it didn't, it would be even more troubling that US uses phone metadata to assign drone assassination targets, as if it wasn't troubling enough.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/10/the-ns...
so just have a load cells on the undercarriage and a circuit that detects when a plane is landed so that you can only turn off the transponder when the plane is landed.
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His (more or less) regular blog posts along the way are also quite interesting at times. Plus: plenty of nice pictures.

http://www.thelongestway.com/