skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder why this is so different in CS, where it's much more feasible to get a senior highly-technical job without formal credentials. What's the source of this cultural difference?
IPhone 6 to be offered September in 4.7 and 5.5 inch versions
I am thinking to move to India or Nepal somewhere near temples to clear my mind and body with books and stuff, Am I doing right ?
I doubt selling it prevents him from doing it himself.
Test for ADD/ADHD. Seriously.

Many people with ADD/ADHD end up in the IT business. Drinking and drug problems, nicotine and caffeine addiction, high-risk behaviours and family issues are very common among ADD/ADHD people.

The reason behind this: low dopamine and norepinefrine levels in the ADD/ADHD brain. Those low levels create a very high reward threshold, so people with ADD/ADHD tend to unconsciously seek for strong or risky stimulus.

HTH
The verb malleate (shape with a hammer), related to the adjective malleable (able to be shaped as with a hammer), has the past tense malleated (as grandparent comment properly intuits).

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/malleate#Verb
Schrödinger's Cat is a thought experiment used to point out how bizarre the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum effects was.

I suppose this cements that idea.
Ideally you get to work on "what you are interested in", which is the key appeal. Money-wise it is often a game for suckers.
Zuckerberg: Facebook to use Lasers, Satellites and Drones to spread the Internet
> Curious as ribbon really has triggered a love it or hate it reaction.

What do you hate about it? I find it to be just a bigger toolbar.

The thing I care about the most is UI responsiveness, so Apple's iOS (upto 6, hate 7) UI has always impressed me with its fluidity. Google is web based which I hate the most. I cant understand how any sane person could use a shitty bloated web app over a high performance native application.
I'd recommend these guys - https://rational.org/index.php?id=1
Boosted The electric longboard
No, replying does not explicitly reverse a downvote, but pointing out your mistake sometimes causes others to fix it for you by upvoting.
Looks cool, but "works out of the box except for controls" is pretty much "doesn't work out of the box" for games...
Comparison of Four Algorithms for Selecting the N-Smallest Values
Would be nice to see some benchmarks. I can't see how this could be faster than just running it in Safari. In Safari you get access to far faster javascript jit than you do in the embedded app js engine. The app itself just translates the javascript canvas calls into objc calls to the core graphics.. which is what safari's canvas does anyway? Is the extra level of indirection through safari enough to compensate for slower jit? Plus it's a lot harder to compile this than it is to put a js game on the web.

Needs benchmarks to be able to make any decisions.
Two of my guiding principles for development are mottoes I heard repeatedly from emergency medicine professionals:

1. "Don't just do something, stand there!" Are you sure enough that the first "obvious" response is going to do significantly less harm than good? If not, wait a second, think, and try again;

2. "If you don't write it down, it never happened." At least not the way you (think you) remember it, and what you do remember is lacking a detail that will turn out to be critically important. Having information that you trust, available at need in usable form, leads to dramatically better decisions out to several sigma from the mean.

"There's never time to do it right, but always time to do it over." I'm currently employed in one of the most pathological examples of this that I've come across in a 35-year career. Development using agile processes is a game-changer, but it's the worst of all worlds when the most essential things that make for agile development — like pairing, or small iterations — are cast aside because "we don't have time for that".
Any software installed in a computer can turn the machine into a zombie. Why don't we lock everything down, or better yet, block the computers access to the internet, after all, no net, no DDoS...
EventedMind is an excellent resource when you're ready to master Meteor. Chris goes into a lot of depth on each topic.
Stopped clocks put in clinical trial contexts have been shown to occasionally tell the actual time, too.

Mercury sulfide, asbestos ore and lead oxide might give you an erection thanks to the placebo effect, but pornography has been proven to be much more effective with fewer side effects, and can be delivered efficiently over the internet.
What is the rationale of putting this work into Mysql? With its sloppy execution and the dark clouds of Oracle hanging over it? Why not Postgres, or even MariaDB instead?
This is such an obvious publicity stunt, I'm disappointed at SmithsonianMag for giving it further publicity. I have trouble believing the drone had sufficient battery power to carry a full case of beer farther than across the street in freezing cold weather, and the zip ties that were holding the box to the frame seem to have magically disengaged themselves on delivery too. I wouldn't be surprised if the Cease and Desist letter from the FAA is equally imaginary.
There is plenty of evidence that points to it being inefficient, however. Regardless of the various QWERTY origin stories, it's not a very good touch-typing layout compared to Dvorak or Colemak.
I may be alone on this, but I have difficulty distinguishing OP's argument from http://www.amazon.com/The-Quickening-Todays-Trends-Tomorrows...
Plenty of things that are inconsequential in the small scale are huge problems in the large scale.

I don't think anything is particularly arbitrary or contradictory about that idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_fallacy

Just because there is no sharp division between two states, doesn't mean they don't exist to begin with.

Quantity has a quality all its own
Berezovsky Death Remains Mystery as Coroner Records Open Verdict
It's often recommended to run ngen as a part of the user install process for larger applications.
Very good point. It had one of the slowest app startup times on my iPhone 4 which for a conceptually simple tile puzzler that you play on the train is pretty bad.
@fabulist, thank your for taking a look and giving real feedback. it is very much appreciated.

in no particular order, the questions you have raised.

Why 6 seconds. cex has a 600 requests per 10 minute limit on their API otherwise they ban the caller. i make sure that I am under that

I already know that others are using triangular arbitrage, in the stock market and I suspect they are also doing it on cex, otherwise I would be getting large numbers of profit opportunities rather than say 20-60 a day i am currently getting. So others doing something similar cant be controlled.

out of date opportunities i am thinking of doing. i can simply report every arbitrage i find to let people see what is happening. Although currently the trial which doesnt need people to even sign up or use cex shows it live as it happens.

I think you are also right into going into the math/detail. originally i have been thinking about keeping it fairly "high" level because most won't want to learn the math, but it may give them a greater sense of it being a real opportunity

thanks again fabulist
How can you possibly not be aware that homeopathy has gone through trial after trial and has always failed? Have you ever used google or wikipedia? There are NOT two valid sides to this argument.
Reminds me of this:

http://corpsmoderne.itch.io/flappy-space-program
I think that's a viable option.

Also, it's perfectly acceptable to enter new markets through acquisitions and apply Google's innovations there. That is a form of innovation in my opinion.
Room Booking Calendar in MVC3 Razor: Dynamic Loading and Airy Events
A step-by-step tutorial that explains how to create a room booking calendar with dynamic data loading and transparent events in ASP.NET MVC3 Razor. A live demo and a free demo sample are available.
Wait -- wasn't % formatting deprecated long ago in favour of the .format() method?
Mt. Gox Investigation Deadline Extended
Wow, I'm impressed some of you guys share information about your personal weaknesses. AFAIK this is one of the big steps towards dealing with your problem, so congratulations already.

Also, FWIW, my wife is a behavioral therapist and already treated a number of addicted people. She says you learn this kind of "bad" behaviors if, given a problem, they are the "only" or "most successful" behaviors you know and you repeat them for a long time.

Treatment then is to identify

- why you think it's the only behavior you know or the most appropriate

- what your definition of a "successful behavior" is

- what are other appropriate behaviors

- how to deal with situations in which your "bad behavior" usually occurs and how to substitute the bad by one of the good ones.

Disclaimer: I have no psychological background whatsoever, this is just my view on the things.
And they are changing good... For example, i'm Bizspark and i have 115 €/ month sponsored by Microsoft for using Azure (for a max of 3 years)... And it's a great platform to..

I needed help from some of them to transfer management (have my own domain name now). He called me within 2 hours, the same evening he watched my screen and we followed the additional required steps (wouldn't have found those steps solo i'm affraid).

Great and fast support, i guess that's why Microsoft is "enterprise".

(ps. Subscription wasn't hard, you have to explain your idea and what you're trying to build. Then you get access to Media Services, Virtual Machines, ...)
What interests me about this is the difference between the parking situation in the US and Europe. We don't have enough space for the kind of parking regulations the US requires. I know urban supermarkets that have no parking whatsoever.

And then I think of Vietnam. 92 million people, 70 million scooters. 2-300% tax on cars. The Vietnese I know have a desire to buy a car but they don't seem to think of where they will park it. Imagine if everyone here suddenly had a car :

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/85662646
"... we're sharing some details of the work Facebook's Connectivity Lab is doing to build drones, satellites and lasers to deliver the internet to everyone.

Our goal with Internet.org is to make affordable access to basic internet services available to every person in the world."
Four pillars of the information economy (old but valid)
"The Near Future of Virtual Reality"
It's a joke referring to the "MongoDB is Web Scale" meme. The FAQ is quite suggestive:

Q: Why is it called WebScaleSQL?
A: While there are a variety of origin stories for the name depending on who you ask, ...

They just don't want to mention it directly. :)
Is my suit and tie hindering my chances in finding jobs in startups?
yes, i am running it myself and making a profit, but as i mentioned (in another post) it is a small amount. currently it is about $1 a day with a very small risk. it may grow, but that depends on volume or volatility growing at cex. the profit is directly tied to volume and volatility.

in terms of the risk. triangular arbitrage is in "theory" safe. in that it ONLY trades when there is guaranteed profit. in practice what happens is that other automatic trading bots can place the trade faster than your bot which means you have to wait for the trade to complete. the other risk is that there can be a network problem. the triangular arbitrage needs 3 trades to complete, if only 2 complete and the network goes down, you can be left scrambling to fix that last trade.
both the risks seems to be fairly managable from the 1 month or so that i have been successfully going.

so why am i trying to sell it? if i can get $50 straight up rather than wait i will do it. also, "quant trading" from the real world stock market is way way advanced on what this app does, so i have plenty of new trading bots to create and in some fantasy land of mine i would love to be the guy that created the first set of software for it on the bitcoin market

thanks for the input cryptolect
Why did it take the bot 3 minutes?
I'd recommend you switch to Sketch[1] and/or Acorn[2] instead if you're on MacOS. I love Gimp, and was a long time user of Inkscape after growing tired of Adobe's products, but the UX simply is too frustrating.

[1]: http://www.flyingmeat.com/acorn/‎
[2]: http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketch/
+1 on this. Religion can take you down some dangerous paths too. Stick to scientific and medical methods.
The design is terrible. So much of the width is wasted with two sidebars that are seldom used. "People you may also know"? Really? And big areas of grey.
Also don't get me started on the ridiculously persistent desire for facebook to show you random stories "Top stories" rather than sorted by date, or the ridiculously irritating auto-play videos.

People are dropping facebook. It's just becoming a worse user experience each time they change anything.
Was written in .NET?!
Credit cards have little wire antenna in them. If you basically cut it in down near the chip, the chip still works when inserted into the machine but the NFC doesn't work.

I did this accidentally and have been using my phone with chip and pin for about a year.

Personally I'd prefer to swipe.
My father died of alcoholism and whatever we said to him or do wouldn't change a thing in his mind. That's a very strong addiction and he didn't stop even when doctors told him he's in terminal phase. I believe the change has to come from inside of you and you must identify where it all started and what was it's trigger and treat that first.

I have nicotine issues but I stopped smoking in favor of e-cigs. Nicotine is not that bad, the cigs are killing you not nicotine itself.

I also find doing sport to change my mentality a lot. You start looking different, you value yourself more when your body changes and you won't want to go back. Give it a try. Good luck to you!
I've always thought news could be boiled down to a few important facts, and I wonder if having all that extra copy is really important in this day an age.

Why aren't news digest sites a thing?
Hoe vind je een goedkope energieleverancier?
If the news would turn into reports that way, I think would be better than opinionated news. It's okay to get opinionated news, as long as you know the frame and background of the speaker/paper/channel/etc.
If you asked every person in the world what their main missing basic need was, would the answer be "an internet data plan" ?

Grand plans like this are why $2.3 trillion on foreign aid over the last five decades still had not managed to get 12-cent medicines to children to prevent half of all malaria deaths.

http://www.poverty.ch/newstudy/easterly-and-planners.html

Still at least they will be able to post "Got malaria, doctor says I can have medicine if I get 500 likes" on their timeline
SIGFOX raises €15 Million Series B to Connect the World
As someone who likes a smoke (Weed & Cigarettes) and is currently trying to lead a healthier life I feel your pain buddy!

Have you ever tried just cutting down? Even just a little bit? I don't believe in this "Just stop and never drink again" rubbish I think it has to be done in baby steps.

Anyway, hope you're okay and whatever you do don't go the religion route. It's a dangerous path to tread especially with the types who run these things.
what is iBeacon?
It's not really a "JavaScript implementation" when it appears to be just a wrapper around JavaScriptCore, innit bruv.
It's not about colluding, it's just that the new CEO is bound to not hire you out of loyalty to his/her friend. Social laws and laws on the books don't always line up well.
I hope you will feel better.

My problem is simply I can't go to bed on time. I try many times, forcing myself to go to bed but I just can't. I always stay up late and even when I feel sleepy I can stay awake =. I am getting tired of staying awake all the time. :(
It could be a short form for tyromancy (tyromancer?) said in jest.
PS. Release the HN Code.

Need changes to the code, ask for the HN community :)
I might also add, that to give an analogy. if bitcoin mining is so good, why do cex sell cloud mining and not keep it for themselves?

As with them the answer is that it is more profitable to build a customer base and profit from them and let them then make a small profit on the mining
I can forgive most things that Facebook has done. But auto-play videos is not one of them. I use click-to-play for media but have Facebook white listed, which probably won't last much longer.
it says "We are currently working on a game with a similar gameplay for IOS and Android : Sputnik Panik" at the bottom on that page :)
edit: also a button bottom-right in the game, that links to Sputnik Panik
I'm in your same boat, nicotine is part of what makes me what I am, I feel totally depressed and unable to function without it (tried, for months).

I followed your same trajectory (cigarettes -> ecigs), then found Swedish snus, much much simpler than ecigs (no batteries, liquids, etc.), 100+ yrs of history so no unknown long term side-effects, and all the nicotine you need plus some. You might want to give it a try, and stop inhaling stuff. :)
If you use `shouldComponentUpdate`, then React outperforms Blaze on the circle benchmark for both single and large number of updates. See Andrey Popp JSFiddles: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/meteor-core/-px_AGhj...

React by default is fairly fast but what makes it stand out is that it gives the tools to make the bottlenecks faster without having to drop the nice abstraction.
Thousands of Wikipedia articles regarding US cities were originally written by a bot years ago. Most still retain this content or traces of it, Englished from US Census data.
There were examples in Charles Duhigg's The Power of Habit about people that have managed to turn their life around. Probably it is worth taking a look at.

Also - as a person that has struggled with (thankfully) only weight - there are no silver bullets.
Ninite: Install and Update All Your Programs at Once
Glipho – stock footage gliphs
In an interesting parallel universe, Python 3.0 was released with only two changes, namely the UTF-8 system, and no "old-school" classes. Nothing else was added, and no features were removed. It was a huge success, and the whole community switched over in about a year. Each new release added features, but there was much less wailing, sarcastic blog posts and gnashing of teeth.

Due to quantum, and lots of sci-fi nonsense, that universe is slowly distorting this one until eventually python3 reaches it's state of historical 'rightness'.

In a few years time, all of time and space itself will only reflect this new reality, except for a small number of blogposts about how "Python3k will never take off" which will sit silent and forgottern, a mere curiosity in the endless halls of cyberspace.
Sorry but screen width is a pretty dumb reason to drop a rich experience on larger screens.

It's just another media query.

Why can't 27 inch/high res/super duper screens get the awesome layout, and shitty "poor people" screens get the shitty layout?
Sony Just Launched The Most Boring Product In The World
> I'd so much rather have a platform like this, where the hardest part--the image engine--would be done by experts, and the apps themselves, the feature sets, the UIs, could then be built by hordes of amateurs.

The naïveté of a budding hacker.

Great UIs are done by experts too, young padawan.
When I was into 3d modeling/rendering I struggled to make anything look real. This guy could write books about lighting.
Jobs are in big organizations, and you have expensive multi-year projects which might be your first project, and highly conservative funding/approvals boards.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) Final Beta released
Yes. And then they bought it back again. Py3.3, I think...
And the conservative/libertarian argument fails, as Adam Smith notes in Wealth of Nations, because:

• The fully-realized cost of labor is that which allows it to survive and support its family, and educate its progeny. A business which cannot afford to pay a living wage is effectively demanding a societal subsidy. While there are circumstances in which that social welfare might be reasonably extended, it seems to me that it's a decision which should be made deliberately, and that companies which show recurring high levels of profit while being unwilling to pay a living wage are prima facie proof of a market failure.

• The inherent negotiating advantage of employers means that it will virtually always prevail in wage negotiations with labor.

• There's a common misperception that people are paid what they're worth to a company. This isn't the case. Rather: in a well-functioning and competitive market, your wage will always be less than you're worth. Much as a manufacturer's printer PPM rating is best interpreted as "performance never to be exceeded", your true worth to a company always sets an absolute ceiling on what your pay will be. Exceptions exist where markets are not well-functioning: e.g., in the case of excecutive pay, where there's a strong level of capture between execs and payment committees, and in which pay serves not only a compensation but a market signalling role as to the health and robustness of the firm (it's effectively a social signaling Veblen good).

For all of these reasons, defining a minimum wage at roughly the level of a living wage is strongly congruent with Adam Smith's principles. See Chapter X, Book I, Wealth of Nations.
If you deny him his job for this act, donating money to a legitimate political campaign, you're denying him his rights. He has the right to his opinion and to voice that opinion.
But an inconsistent experience, if the page looks vastly different for some people than for others.
(Note: I have assumed you mean CS as in programming)

Because programming is not science. In fact its not even an engineering discipline from what I can see.

The process is not rigorous enough and few programmers can even hope to attempt something like formally proving that their code works. We need less people writing code, not more. And those fewer people should be held to a much higher standard than 'Bob's cousin once read a book on sharepoint so go ask him if he can create a cake ordering website for you'
The Rise of Full Stack Startups
You're right and that surprises me as well.

> As noted above, ``%s`` is being included solely to help ease migration from, and/or have a single code base with, Python 2.
Because they are locked in to Mysql and can't easily switch to something better.
Agreed

Your friend starts a company, you become friends with his employees. Eventually you start a company a really want to offer an amazing opportunity to one of your new friends but you don't because why?

Why are you denying someone the choice? It seems almost immoral that you wouldn't give her the choice and instead deny her the opportunity just because she happens to be employees by another friend

What if you had no faith that your friend's company would survive? Does that change your mind? What if you thought your friend's company would survive but never be more than limping along whereas you had faith that your company would become huge?

I ran a company,this issue came up when a friend asked if it was ok to poach from us. My first reaction was to think "no way" but my partners pointed out denying our employees opportunities was wrong. Fortunately none of them left.
I believe that regular exercise and switching to a proper diet (paleo) helped me give up on alcohol altogether.

I'd recommend you start kicking you own butt: go to http://www.nerdfitness.com/academy-overview-page/ and subscribe, start building a routine. Stick to it and you'll quickly see that abusive drinking isn't just an option.
Ejecta is awesome. So is ImpactJS. Dominic (the creator) is experimenting with making Ejecta cross-platform so hopefully we will see an Android version soon.
Why not take an exiting app and recreate it (whilst in the process of making it better).
Circa is exactly that and it's fantastic.