skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd also put my 2¢ out for JRuby. It's amazing how nice it can be to have Java libraries mixed in with Ruby on Rails, and your only penalty for it is a delayed startup cost (with potentially faster JIT to boot, and new Java 8 scripting performance to look forward to).
Is "meteoric rise" really an expression? Meteors generally go down with tremendous speed...
I'm sad about yet another delay. I hope they can get this sorted out. I ordered a little later in the campaign and wasn't expecting my 30 day supply until late Dec or early Jan. but now we're looking at late April.
Yes, and AFAIK (after discovering this issue just now myself and trying to resolve it) there is no 'solution' other than to re-download everything if you move your Google Drive folder.Fortunately I have 'only' 6Gb to re-download but for other's this would be nightmare.

In case other people try the various solutions proposed on blogs etc (including hex-hacking the Drive SQLLite files) I couldn't get anything to work. Might save you some wasted time.
I am sure I would not have contributed to OSM map if the licensed allowed google to just take everything.

That would be me working for google for free, and I value my time more. It is enough that my tax money goes to make maps that google later buys.
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>But what we're talking about is data collection where the government doesn't have anything you didn't already share with your thousand closest friends at Google

Yeah, exactly: "Honey, we aren't looking at anything you haven't already shown your last thousand boyfriends".
Got it, thanks!

Sitting on 1 now if anybody would like one.
No, this was just a pointed paraphrasing of exelius' argument.
> How can anyone give license of their personal stuff to third party?

How could they possibly operate a service that has as one of its primary features sharing and copying of your content, if you didn't give them a license to do that? This is standard boilerplate for just about any service that accepts user generated content for just about any reason.
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Transparency of approach, rationale needs to be made public. Otherwise it's too easy for hobgoblins in the press to make up stories and people to write books on where is Hoffa buried.
Firebug has a $ built in just for debugging.
Russia Wipes Opposition Sites From The Internet
Clever name, but are these images guaranteed to be SFW?
ankitoberoi is from India. Since he is not a US resident, he may not have a state preference.
In the Top 10 things people first do on new hardware (desktop, laptop, tablet or phone): Installing Dropbox.

Google must to invest more in improving the Web and native Google Drive clients if they want to beat Dropbox. Pricing is just a cheap & temporary trick.
Read more. Also, write more.

That sounds really, really, ridiculously trite. But it's the best advice I can give. It's the best advice I've been given, and it's the best advice I've put into practice.

Read a lot, and expose yourself to diverse writing styles. Write enough to develop your voice, and to recognize it when you find it. Know that there is no such thing as a universally "correct" style, though there are certainly better and worse styles for any task at hand.

Another good bit of advice is to write as though you're talking to someone. Put your conversation down on paper, then go back and pretty it up as needed. First be clear, then be stylish. When in doubt, be clear.
Electronic Arts Lays Off Some PopCap Employees
I'm Irish.

I appreciate you pointing that out. Thank you.

As the Chinese women pointed out, you have a good habit of boldly speaking the languages you are trying out. 「我覺得你有一個很好的習慣。 就是，你的目的是在用語言。你學一點以後，你馬上出去用和別人說話。而且，你很勇敢。」 (The transcription into Chinese characters from the soundtrack of the video is my own. The English translation was already provided as captions on the YouTube video, which I was listening to, but not watching, as I typed my first reply.) I had never heard you speak English in person and only in snatches of quoted speech while listening to the video, so I didn't place your English accent to a particular country among the countries you have visited in your world travels. I see now from looking at the linked videos that the Chinese woman in the interview has HUGE experience in speaking Chinese to foreigners with very little proficiency in Chinese, and has strong English of her own.

I'll comment for onlookers that according to Chinese social-science surveys, barely more than half the population of China is conversant in Modern Standard Chinese (Mandarin), the official language of the country.[1] So Mandarin is a very "fault-tolerant" language, as many people who speak it in China are speaking it with other people with a poor command of the language.

[1] http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-03/07/content_5812838...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-23975037
I want my life back :(
Even better than vacri's suggestion: set up load balancing so that you always have a server to fall back on if one goes down. Once you get the alert, you can fix the down server without the pressure of getting a down website back up.
Thanks bgnm, will increase the contrast. I built it in a week by myself so theres still a lot to do!
Watching these answers stream in on the spreadsheet really makes me think of what a realtime reddit or stack exchange could look like. Adding live interaction from observers (likes, comment streams, etc).
Am I the only one who can't stand Angular simply because of its naming?
I believe they now offer hourly billing. If you choose it, you are billed hourly, not monthly, but the hourly rate maxes out at the monthly rate. I got an email about it a month or two ago but haven't tried it.
Facebook introduces me blocking its crap.
Think of it as a fee for the fact that 10TB HDDs don't exist yet.
The green programming
One nice thing about the MS world is the homogeneity of the stack, which makes a lot of things easier if it works for you.

Yeah, one of things I miss about the MS stack. The whole freedom is slavery thing. If the MS stack has what you need it usually has a 'this is how to do X' and it works well together.
Having essays is not the only way to do it. The other way is to just be willing to wait for the right hire. At my company, we have a small engineering team so far, but we have taken a long time for each hire with the basic idea that they need to fit some key characteristics of our team. At the beginning this was actually harder to identify what was important, but now that we have a larger team there is more diversity (ideas, genders, backgrounds) and the core important tenants to us are more defined.
Denmark has high taxes for the poor and middle class

Ironically, there's virtually no place better to be "poor" than in Denmark, because while poor people pay taxes, too, wages (and welfare) are so high that they end up living a better life than in other countries.

Taxes on the rich are a different story, though, because while the tax rates on the rich may compare to those in the US, it seems to me (and I might be wrong here) that, through tax deductions and various other things, rich Americans often end up paying relatively low taxes. And that would be hard to accomplish in Denmark.
Inserting "bipartisan" into the conversation is moot. This issue -- torture -- is one of authority and the moral beliefs of society.
There's a few smaller ones out there like vultr.com that match DO's price. Not sure about their reliability. I've had good luck with DO in that department.
Kind of like Lyft, but for your packages
Not sure about Backbone specifically, but jQuery is good for a lot more than DOM manipulation. It hides a lot of the differences in browser Javascript APIs, and provides a lot of convenient AJAX tools. For instance, server communication is as simple as a $.getJSON away.
What markets are you trying to get more in front of? US? Europe? China?

What device levels are you trying to get in front of?

Android seems like a "no brainer" until you start looking at the details... For example, if you cut out all "cheap shit 2.2 android devices" and focus on new(ish) Android 4.0> things get REALLY murky... In the US iOS still holds a lead over Android in those markets; in Europe Android is ahead, but then you have localization to deal with.

Additionally, Android might have an edge in some markets, but the fact that iOS users actually PAY for apps also makes a big difference.

The point is that Android is a sensible choice but it's not an automagic choice, nor is it as cut and dry as it appears.
This is of interest to me, as I have much practical experience with teaching people to read faster.

I read rather fast, around 500-600 WPM. My comprehension is high, and I am also excellent at "skimming": reading far faster than normal to identify specific parts of the text.

Professionally, I teach people to do better on the law school admission test (LSAT). The exam has a section on reading comprehension. Student must read four dense passages in 35 minutes and answer questions.

Most students complain that they don't have enough time. Invariably, when I test these students, they are reading 200-250 WPM. That's half my speed! At the low end (sub-200) students actually vocalize words - their lips move when they read. Other students, who have enough time, read 280+

For the past year, I have been experimenting with training students to reduce subvocalization and read faster. A sizeable minority of students report very rapid increased, perhaps 60-100 WPM within a week. Perhaps 40%. Many other report improved skimming (important on the test), even if their speed doesn't increase. About half report no improvement, but many of them simply don't try the method, as they are skeptical.

I'm not a believer in 1000+ reading speeds, but I do think many people have a latent capacity to read better. My own results support this, though my research methods leave something to be desired.

Does anyone know of studies that test whether improvements within the normal band of reading speed are possible?
Quickey Multi-Tool. The clever key that opens everything but doors
A peak into the lives of MobileWorkers (YC S11)
Not too shocking. I'm sure this is too much of a generalisation but Anericans don't like to know of the atrocities done in their name as long as their "catching the bad guys". The global war on terror has you making enemies of people who would otherwise leave you alone...
A Hack to jump farther and higher in Game#10!!

Try this,

1. open Game#10 in chrome

2. Open the web inspector

3. Go to profiles, choose Record Heap Allocations, and start

4. Now try playing the game. You should be able to jump farther and higher. In some levels, even overcome multiple climbs in a single shot than otherwise

Also notice kind of slowdown overall. But not necessarily a drag since all the key events are still taken in seemingly the same speed

So why is this? Or is it another Chrome one-off?
To me this seems to double the effort - first you approve every single expense using Abacus, later you go over all the bills and receipts again and try to match them with what you approved earlier. At least to me it seems simpler to just go over the bills and receipts once. And if you want to avoid that your employees have to wait for their money just hand them credit cards - they don't even have to spend their own money, expenses are approved by default - which is hopefully the common case - and just in the uncommon case of unjustified expenses you have to take actions and deduct the amount from the salary or compensate in a different way.
The essays and followers surely helped, but there are lots of basic pragmatic things you can do to make yourself a desirable employer even if you aren't a great essayist. Just some obvious ones off the top of my head:

- Have sensible working hours (30 to 40 hours a week is optimal).

- Either let people work from home, or give them private offices.

- Don't have idiotic hiring criteria like buzzword matching or college degrees. (Meta: don't have the personnel department doing the hiring.)

- Get at least the basics of tools and process right. You don't have to let people code in Lisp or Haskell, but when a candidate asks you about version control, the answer better hadn't be "oh we don't have time for that here".

- If you are requiring people to work in the office, don't quibble about things like high-spec machines and good chairs that cost a small fraction of the cost of hiring people.

Hit everything on that checklist and even if you're still not quite as sought after as Fog Creek, you'll be well out in front of most of your competitors at little cost in either time or money (and infinitely far in front of Fog Creek for any candidates who won't or can't live in New York).
New chief speeds up Lookout Mobile’s security push to big businesses
I'd wondered why you read six sets of crypto challenges, but chose not to send a form letter..
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Profile. Or is it?
Ah another Opinion Network™[0][1]

Serious criticism - what's the goal of these sites? What problems are they solving?

Debates and opinions are, in my opinion, eternal. (high user engagement ya!) My understanding is that these sites want to collectively either catalog the debate (so the debate becomes eternally dynamic) or end the debate (so the debate becomes static). However there is one flaw - without full context (or lack of missing context), trying to catalog subjectivity is near impossible.

To contrast this with StackOverflow for example, the context is less important. If someone says "ActiveRecord errors out for undefined local variable" and someone gives an answer, I can effectively take the same logic and apply to my own context. This is not the same for every subject in the world. Also, what Spolsky has correctly identified is that trying to be THE q&a for everything is a poor design decision, because the name (and thus environment of the community) adds to the context of the questioning. (try asking "What should my salary be" in StackOverflow and you'll be sent right to Programmers SE site).

Whenever I see these sites, my gut reaction will always be "wishful thinking". Good luck though!

[0]https://www.quora.com/

[1]https://state.com/
Beyond cost, seeing a doctor is an annoyingly long and cumbersome process. If it were convenient, affordable, and of reasonable quality, more people would likely utilize the service- improving health, earlier detection, etc.

How many old farmers have you seen drag themselves into clinic with their 2-year bone pain that turns out to be multiple myeloma? Would they have come to attention sooner if a virtual visit took 10 mins on their computer, rather than a full day in the city?

Hard to quantify, but I do believe there is a role for a "drive thru" option here. Not every symptom needs the full weight of an academic medical center. Every day in the community there are doctors prescribing based on only a conversation, and there's ample conditions when this is fully appropriate. When a simple answer isn't possible, referrals will undoubtedly be made. The biggest issue is establishing trust.
I find your lack of C on the back end...disturbing.
Let's suppose that children have a claim-right to high-quality education. This claim-right implies that someone else has a duty to provide a high-quality education for those children.

Generally, that duty falls upon the parents and/or upon the state. The state attempts to fulfill its duty by attempting to provide high-quality public education for all children. Parents attempt to fulfill their duties by (1) providing their children with access to high-quality, public education; (2) providing their children with access to high-quality, private education; or (3) providing their children with high-quality education at home.

Many people disagree with the priorities of these duties (for example, whether the primary duty is on the parents or on the state) and many people disagree with whether any particular example of education counts as "high-quality" (for example, whether a particular teacher is doing a good or bad job at teaching a particular child).

Some people don't believe that children have a claim-right to high-quality education.

My opinion is that a child's claim-right to high-quality education is only violated when neither the state nor the parents provide this high-quality education. States generally provide public education in order to relieve parents from having to fulfill this duty themselves (because of cost or incompetence), while some parents choose to provide this education themselves or privately because they believe that the state fails to fulfill the duty because the education is not "high-quality".

There are people who fall outside of all of these groups as well, and I don't intend to dismiss them. Most people, however, fall into these groups.

With this interpretation of the claim-right of children to high-quality education, it is irrelevant whether the child wants to be homeschooled.

Here's a question: do children have a power-right to waive their claim-right to high-quality education?
I moved some servers from Linode to Rackspace, mainly to consolidate billing since we already had regular dedicated servers there.

I imagine the change was a lot like going from DO to AWS - much more complicated, but at the time Rackspace had only owned Slicehost for a few years and the interface was awful and the setup was confusing with 1st gen and 2nd gen cloud servers and it was just a mess.
I can just imagine the spam the jedi got in their email inbox after that revelation.
Blend right in? They have a bright yellow lozenge that says "Ad" next to each result on mine. The ads are even more distinct then they were before.
Thanks! I've got two to send out now.
It is people who knowingly put themselves in a situation where they kill people. It isn't about dealing with them, it's about protecting the rest of us from them. Typical prison may in fact be wrong -- an isolated island without vehicles where they can work and participate in society remotely would be okay for the ones who haven't murdered anyone yet.
I too support not eating anything that's been domesticated. Probably best not to cook food either, that's unnatural.
Using dropbox somehow feels unprofessional/unsophisticated, google drive does not.

I can't put my finger on why. But that is how I feel.
I'd say a lame article. Nth rehash of the BSD vs GPL debate, without adding anything.
Blue team, red team, green team... It's mostly the same crap. It boils down to working relationships.

CIA was founded as the intelligence directorate beholden primarily to the executive branch.
You can't do a Windows VM for $5 between the facts that you need more RAM, more HD, and a Windows license.
No ads when searching for [vlc] here.
> and it says so for a reason.

And yet you don't know the reason. It's because others may have merged your work or be dependent on it. In my case, that doesn't happen, because it's a private branch. I'm the only developer, but other people can look at it for review.
we're kind of shackled to jquery, and it's really difficult to NOT use it.

I think that the angular way is just cleaner, and less likely to break because it is pretty sensibly encapsulated.

I suspect these libraries developed for angular, is a break from the past that the web is going to need eventually.
That type of double-server architecture isn't one I'd considered. Very interesting.
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It should've been a child of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7385520 - the hacker news 2 app failed to put it in the right place :(
Triple it.
I've run a lot of Facebook ads before and I keep very close attention to the ads that are shown on Facebook. In their defense, they have over a million advertisers, they can't catch everything. Many scammy advertisers will be on one day and banned the next, I would hope. Though, it's definitely possible they are more lenient on certain advertisers now that money is even more important.

The more things you 'like' on Facebook, the better the targeting will be. Considering I work in marketing and visit a lot of sites at the office, I'm constantly getting retargeting ads. Less so the scammy dating ones (though it happens).
Unfortunately not much yet, but you're helping make way for the future.

I say unfortunately because IPv4's limitations are going to hurt more and more as the Internet gets more hosts online.
Il Miracolario di Matteo Renzi
Facendoci due conti, Matteo Renzi a parole ha promesso di tirare fuori dal cilindro la modica cifra di 96,9 miliardi di euro, di cui 88 entro luglio (una cifra più alta di tutto il debito pubblico del 2013 che è di appena 84,4 miliardi di euro).
Niente male per un dirigente co.co.co. assunto nell’azienda di famiglia per arrivare presto al pensionamento.
I chose Scala/Play framework for the same reasons. Java might be awful, but the JVM is a beast.

>Though my tip though for the long term replacement of javac is Scala. I'm very impressed with it! I can honestly say if someone had shown me the Programming in Scala book by by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon & Bill Venners back in 2003 I'd probably have never created Groovy.
-James Strachan
> and infinitely far in front of Fog Creek for any candidates who won't or can't live in New York

Fog Creek actually hires remote people now. We made the change almost a year ago and its been a great source of new candidates.
But DigitalOcean also puts their APIs forward. It made me feel like: Wow, it's nice to use and they're geeks!

So how does DO's api compares to EC2?
As in everything, Not Always. Sometimes you just need to get the gist, sometimes the information density is really low, sometimes you just need to get primed so you are more prepared for face to face meeting.

Skimming == Speed Reading, it can be a useful skill even for hard to comprehend documents like scientific papers.
Thanks for the link. I didn't go to SearchEngineLand because the change was evident enough that I assumed multiple writers were commenting on it in parallel rather than taking their cue from that article.
I'm curious how "xapo" is pronounced. Is it "zappo"?
(Throwaway because I work in the field)

It's no surprise this is coming from an employee of MapBox. Despite their incredible support of the OSM community through technical improvements, they are now a venture-backed company and are clearly looking for a massive exit of some sort. The author mentions Google, but it's actually MapBox that is best-positioned to basically co-opt OSM and create the dominant interface by which all users interact with OSM. Without ShareAlike, they are likely to begin walling off their data, or (just as well) making the underlying OSM infrastructure pointless in a variety of ways. Imagine if nobody visited or used Wikipedia directly because some other organization basically robbed of it relevancy. At first, it could be fine (Yay! Everything is better!), but in time it could be used to control the data, limit its access, and make the underlying project pointless. This is a possibility if OSM wasn't SA.

MapBox wasn't in quite such a strategic position when the ODbL debate was going on, but they were in the community so they could have spoken up then, but I have no idea if they did.

If you don't believe me, look at the licensing for their formerly-public-domain satellite imagery: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/idealab/mapbox-sells-custom-sat... "The 'Satellite' layer may be used to produce derivative data for the OpenStreetMap project. All other use for derivative data is prohibited."
You mean the paid engineers at the proprietary mapping services, or those who use data from those proprietary mapping services? I don't understand the incentive that the former would have to release their tools, and since the latter wouldn't be working with OSM directly, wouldn't they be building tools to work with those other services?

A lot of paid engineers work with OSM now, don't we? Ever since google raised rates, OSM seems to be a big player.