skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes sense; to oversimplify somewhat, the boomers tended to be really crap as parents, resulting in a generation (my generation, more or less) who are absolutely adamant that they won't inflict the same on their own kids. This seems to have resulted in a close and strongly nurturing, if at times somewhat smothering, parenting style, which in turn gave rise to the millennials, who seem by and large to have much stronger family ties than their parents' generation does.

(By the way, I'm a member of the "moved across the country at 18 and never looked back" cohort, and I've occasionally had reason to wish I weren't; by placing myself far beyond any distance at which I could reasonably hope to receive the support of my family, I set myself up to blow a scholarship and drop out of school half a semester in. I've managed to make my way in the world reasonably well despite that, and have no real reason to be dissatisfied with my lot, but it certainly gives useful perspective on some of my fellows' declamations of narcissism and selfishness on the part of the generation following ours -- if I'd had some of that "narcissism" and "selfishness" when I was young, I'd have a doctorate now.)
Why isn’t New Zealand richer and more productive?
Great, I'll brush it up this weekend and will put it on Github. Do you have an email? How can i let you know?
HabitRpg: A habit building app that treats your life like a game
I feel like browser print support is like CSS support at the end of the last millennium: fragmented and not guaranteed to be decently supported if at all.

I wanted to make a print style for my CV and it just was a terrible pain to get things like per page header and footers.
Unless printing the page is a useful and usable byproduct (which may be the case in certain SaaS scenarios), I wouldn't give a print stylesheet more than 15 minutes of my time.
For what it's worth, the other articles on the home page look pretty interesting as well.
I wonder how much variation there is between different cultures. I don't have a lot of context to go off of myself, but speaking to some of my Indian friends, it seems more prevalent in their culture to stay with your parents until you're married rather than running off while you're still single.
I think I'm going to adopt this new pronounciation.
Programmers' Proverbs (I'd love some input)
I had a problem upgrading to the beta a few weeks ago. I had some conflicting/broken packages and the installation couldn't finish. It seems the WM crashed and I was unable to access a terminal until I remembered I could switch to a tty. Ran `apt-get -f install` and fixed everything. Haven't had an issue on the official release yet though.
Barcelona and its Beautiful Sights: Sagrada Familia and... well, food.
Generate syntactically correct nonsense programs in Python
That's an interesting observation. I had thought it was really more the result of the prevailing economic conditions, rather than the result of a strong, nurturing relationship. These are hypotheses that I would really like to see tested, that way I know whether to blame parents for causing economic crisis, or for babying their children (j/k).
South Korea seeks arrest of Sewol ferry captain
Unfortunately, the app on iOS works only in Russian. But other than that cool site!
Ux is amazing, the images are sharp and the domain is solid.
I'm seeing this after uploading my bookmarks:

>> We unfortunately have not finished processing your bookmarks uploaded earlier! Please wait more, we will notify you at the specified E-mail. [0]

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/s/opk0jvuvjbssc8s/Screenshot%202014-...
Bootstrap Love
Or they're just building a highway and Earth is in the way.
Yes, it is more akin to bridge construction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gusset_plate

"The building now stands as one of the safest skyscrapers in New York City, able to withstand a 700-year[1] storm without the aid of the tuned mass damper."

http://www.theaiatrust.com/whitepapers/ethics/study.php

[1] Approximately 140mph gusts. http://civil.unm.edu/classes/content//CE%20491-002/ASCE%207-...
Ah. Great. Anonymity in the identity-theft way.
Many "emerging adults", in my limited experience, eventually transition into the "desperately poor" category when they run out of other peoples' money. I'm going to go shake my cane and yell at clouds now.
I've noticed more beer gardens popping up in the US along with the growth in microbreweries.
NILMTK: An Open Source Toolkit for Non-intrusive Load Monitoring
Those are daily builds. Releases are here: http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/14.04/release/

But I'm actually not sure which is better? I'm guessing dailies are the same as releases, but with updates already applied? If so, dailies are probably better.

And then there's and AMI locator: http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/locator/ec2/
GNOME is extremely customizable too if you know JavaScript and CSS, plus you get the advantage of a much lighter interface. It does lack some of the features of KDE though, but I don't spend much time outside of a terminal, text editor, browser, and pdf reader.

KDE has to many buttons for me :)

I think it's more of a desktop for people who are use to using a lot of advanced features on Windows, because they're used to and enjoy the idea of having a button for this and a window and sub-menu for that. GNOME is more for people who either don't use advanced features, or use the terminal for advanced features.

Personally I'm over the traditional desktop.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) release
Yeah, I just downloaded the iOS app and while I was able to guess login/signup links the login link doesn't have an option for authenticating with google (Which is what I used to sign up).
Even if we all agreed to make sites printable you would never be happy with it. Right now certain CSS rules such as "float" can not be applied to print. This means you can not do any advanced layouts without totally redoing your HTML.

It is far more important to have a site mobile compatible than print compatible which again will probably cause some HTML refactoring. So more websites are going to worry about being mobile compatible and not waste their time on print.

The percentage of people who print a site is so negotiable, that like mcmillion said you would be better served supporting IE6. This combined with the fact that print versions can not match the screen version means you'll probably never see a site embrace your rallying cry.

Your best bet is to stop killing trees and get a Kindle Paper White or other e-reader with a web browser.
I wonder where Earth lies on the spectrum between 'Rare Earth' and 'Principle of Mediocrity' [0]

Crazy to think that we may have awoken on this planet after an unfathomable amount of time and not appreciate how rare we are.

Does our situation get more or less beautiful if we discover no one else is out there?

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis
Expressions of a professional consultant
I can't seem to login via your iOS app due to the fact that is in Russian and there is no option to login with google.
Criteo strategic growth in China
If you optimize for cars, you get cities optimized for cars.

Funny that it was a American (Christopher Alexander)who write the most concise recipe for getting this right in "A Pattern Language." Pattern 88, Street Café.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language

http://www.jacana.plus.com/pattern/P88.htm
> In general you should prefer crypto constructions which are a result of global competitions. For example AES and SHA3.

The judges who chose AES and SHA-3 as the "winners" of the global competitions are the NSA.

> You should avoid at all costs anything that has been standardized by NIST...

That would include AES and SHA-3.
Is this really just a generic link to a blog? Or am I missing something?
Sand is silicon dioxide. Quartz is the same stuff. But if for whatever reason you have to acquire a "large piece"... quartz is much prettier ;)
Reddit strips r/technology's default status amid moderator turmoil
Although this is genuinely a positive article about young people, I feel that pulling conclusions about all 18 to 29-year-olds is painting with a broad stroke.
Yelling at clouds is the best, especially if you have a cane handy.
The market misprices things all of the time.

A few years ago, EMC was in a similar situation, where it's stake in VMWare was (and may still be) nominally worth more that the EMC enterprise as a whole. From an investment POV, it means that Yahoo is probably undervalued, and good management can increase the value of the enterprise substantially.
A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management
Is there a template or example post for the first item?

I've thought about doing this in the past but I didn't want to seem too elitist.
What's the best way to recruit people to your company?
I work in software development for a mid-size company in MA. Our company offers an employee bonus for referrals...how would you recruit people?
I just use the "Threads" link at the top of the page.
It wouldn't be too hard to argue that the Baby Boomers are strange. Not Gen X, Y and Z.

Until the 1950s, young people in the west were expected to live with their parents until they married and settled down. Just crack open a Victorian novel. (A few HNers have noted that this is true in India, China and Japan; but it was also true in the west.)

This changed all at one and all of a sudden under the Baby Boomers. Young people left home earlier, travelled the world, experimented with drugs. Let's forget that the Baby Boomers were responsible for psychedelia, the protest movement and flower power.

Here's what I'm saying: The Baby Boomers were a blip, premeditated by the astronomical rise of the USA in the global economy. Money and jobs were everywhere all of a sudden, endowing people (and especially young people) with the new freedom to experiment. Something that is not true now: We're facing increased global competition from the East and the west's manufacturing base has been hollowed out.

In terms of global and Western culture they were a non-stereotypical blip, the result of very particular and unusual economic and social conditions, a few flicks of the second hand on the our cultural watch.

So, are the Baby Boomers justified in criticising this generation for returning to former cultural values and habits?

Personally, I don't think so. It's hard not to feel it smacks of myopia, of judging others through the wrong side of the binoculars.
Joe Morgenstern's 1995 _New Yorker_ article "The Fifty-Nine Story Crisis" is also an excellent telling of this story.

http://people.duke.edu/~hpgavin/cee421/citicorp1.htm
Only had time to skim the article, but the section on work caught my eye. Like a lot of people I was fairly dissatisfied with my early career, but, luckily, as a programmer my job had some future prospects worth obtaining. I now really like what I do, and I've learned a bit about the nature of work. A few things come to mind:

0. The more competent you are at something, the more interesting it becomes. Expecting your first job to be interesting is setting yourself up for disappointment.

1. Autonomy, at least for me, is really important.

2. Nobody hires someone else to do the most interesting work available.

3. The best jobs aren't advertised. Visibility, or self-promotion, is important to some degree.

The awesome thing about computing is the capital costs are so low you can short circuit a lot of the career progression. You'll probably still make a mess of your first N years, which is why venture capital was invented ;-)
The opening paragraph asserts that simply not
publishing ("censoring") such concrete, recipe-like
exploits of the deficiencies of our shared
infrastructure "won't make practices like those
outlined [in the article] disappear"[2].

I am reminded of Steve Kemp's 2014 post »Secure your
rsync shares, please«[0], relating how he abandoned a project employing zmap[1] upon
discovering numerous openly accessible rsync
shares containing sensible information. His
closing remarks echo the sentiment of the article
under discussion here: "I considered not posting
this, but I suspect 'bad people' already know..,"[0]

What can be done? Are we reduced to just securing
our friends' and families' infrastructure, all the
while standing by idly while others outside of our
direct sphere of influence suffer the consequences
of naïvety?

[0] http://blog.steve.org.uk/secure_your_rsync_shares__please_.h...

[1] A cleverly-built, fast network scanner,
https://zmap.io/

[2] http://danmcinerney.org/how-to-exploit-home-routers-for-anon...
Can we really trust any of the algorithms from the NSA Suite B?
For ECC djb and Tanja Lange have put together a great list of how possible it was to tamper with each of the ECC primitives listed: http://safecurves.cr.yp.to/rigid.html
By the end of the first page of Love in the Time of Cholera I was already wondering how amazing the book must be in its original Spanish and how much could be lost in translation.

One Hundred Years of Solitude made me decide to improve my Spanish so I could read it in the orginal language. Still haven't yet :-(
> [Millenials] take [their parents] on job interviews for support

No wonder my generation can't get a damn job.
Packet loss is high latency when you are dealing with TCP. So unless you are streaming something over UDP or rely on ICMP for something like monitoring, you are fine.
Pym.js: Embed iframes responsively
Pym.js embeds and resizes an iframe responsively (width and height) within its parent container. It also bypasses the usual cross-domain issues.
I feel like there's so much negative I've heard about iAd, but this is the first real feedback I've ever seen on the tool. Now that they've reduced the minimum spending cost it seems like we should start seeing more soon.

I'm interested to know if anyone has any experience from the developer side, how iAd compares to non-native Ad services within iOS apps. What is that experience like?
You pay the price for being an early adopter. I never even heard of Loom before this news ...
One person's opinion ...

Never, never use example text that you don't want to go live in your final product. There will come a time when you inadvertently make live the wrong version, and the result can cost you dear.

In the other hand, this looks so incredibly unprofessional that I will never return.
That's how I feel when I read through Android documentation with most things: this just seems unfinished.
If you are serious about splitting wood you should just skip the axe altogether and go for one of these...
http://youtu.be/2eengn9eNQw?t=2m14s
Ubuntu had been collecting anonymized data and sending it off to Amazon* since 12.10? According to the this article* it is not included in 14.04.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ubuntu-spyware.html

[2] http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2337185/ubuntu-to-d...
From the website, it looks like it costs $266. I think you'd have to being chopping a lot of wood for it to be worth it to get that expensive of an ax, even if it is better.
They used to ask a million dollar minimum spending? That's insane, right?
What issues did you experience going from XP to 7? Did it happen to involve network drivers?
Global Drog Survey 2014
I feel like I might weather a good amount of negative perception for a same-day ROI of over 33% on 37 billion dollars. What am I missing here?
All video on Android seems to be a mess (except YouTube). For example, I can't figure out what streaming video formats are supported, and/or which apps work best. Does anyone have enough experience to say whether HLS or RTSP is better supported on Android?
Ya, crazy... Now it makes sense
Eh.. I think it's only more usable if you're coming from and are used to a traditional desktop like Windows. If you were introducing someone to a computer for the first time, GNOME 3 is by far the most simple and easiest to use desktop on the market right now. Yes even more usable than windows 8 for someone who has never used an OS before.

As for configurability KDE has quite a few more years under it's belt, so it's not a surprise, but GNOME 3 is all JS and CSS so I would say it's pretty configurable and the number of extensions is only going to increase. I think extensions will become much more stable around GNOME 4.0, when they come out with a full OS [1]

[1]http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE0ODg
LinkedIn Hits 300 Million Users
Detroit: America's next tech boom town
25 downloads on 1 million impressions. Damn, that's sad.
I've installed it today with full disk encryption option, but my keyboard wouldn't work on the password screen... It looks like this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1309246
This is, incidentally, the reason why government-resistant anonymity services need to be legal. If you don't care about stealing credit card numbers or hurting people then you don't care about breaking into some poor sucker's router. But if you're blowing the whistle on some organizational malfeasance, you won't, so you need the likes of Tor.
Another reminder to use strong, non-default credentials on something that is the edge of your network.

I'm still amazed by how many people drive around leaving their cars unlocked.
> MATE does this

That's also the default on Xfce.
Or that long-distance space travel or even communication is simply not feasible for any civilization at any level of technological advancement.
fwiw, we launched a new design for the NYT in Jan with a proper print.css stylesheet.
Why release pre-made tools that allow anyone to cause harm? You could still explain the problem without them or show code snippets if you have to.
You now what this article needs? More cowbell! I mean graphs!

This is a social phenomenon being critiqued using self-reported social scoring without tying it back to either theoretical or applied economic models.

If large swaths are asked fairly banal "Will you get what you want out of life?" questions with waaaaaay more rigorous subjective and practical analysis a bigger picture can't be assessed.

Elders "ridiculing," which is really a cynical take on what people older than adult children are doing, are expressing some insight into the pitfalls of delayed productive income acquisition. This article also flies in the face of trends that HN loves.

We've seen articles questioning and advocating against ageism, as if this was somehow unique to HN-fields of interest. Whether it is pop music, high art, math, or technology (or many other fields), the people who "make a difference" and live those envious lives of freedom to walk the path to becoming all-stars in their field and/or lives... those are young people.

Sure, some fields require great levels of extended experience or knowledge only acquirable through time, but the people getting everything out of life most frequently start early with a passionate drive for exactly what they will become.

The ascendant efforts of the young from about 18-30 is vital, innovative, and disruptive. I dislike the "disrupt everything!" mantra that leads the naive into the ditch. Fail fast can easily lead to lost opportunities to establish strong financial and technical (or creative) foundations that enable the later bloomers their time in the sun.

It's tough at the top and there are only so many who can get there now or ever. For the rest, it's best to be able to get productive to start saving early to establish a life where you can get ENOUGH out of life to not hit some anxious or depressive state later when you see doors closing to attaining EVERYTHING.

It's efficient to be able to minimize suffering as you go versus rolling the dice that you will suddenly find a calling later.

Feast upon life to learn everything you can. Deconstruct suffering and you'll find ways big and small to constantly create a life that you wouldn't trade for some amorphous "everything." The destination (goals) is usually only a milestone in the journey you are already engaged in. "If you don't stop to look around once in a while, you might miss it."
Performance Analysis and Tuning Videos from Red Hat Summit 2014
This is fascinating, but I feel that I'm missing some terminology and concepts. I wonder if you could explain in more detail and clarify the terms?

So, the atrium was (say) 80 feet tall, with the sky bridges every 20 feet. So one at 20, 40, and 60 feet. If the continuous rod that had been specified in design was used, it'd be a little longer than 60 feet long (80 foot ceiling, lowest bridge 60 feet below that, plus a another foot or so to make room for fasteners).

That would mean that the middle bridge would have to have had the nuts spun along 40 feet (either from the top or bottom) and the nuts for the topmost and bottom-most bridge would have to be spun along 20 feet of thread. But before you could put the topmost nut on, you'd have to support the rod as you placed it through the box-section beams for the middle bridge. And then do the same for the topmost beam. And then lift it all so that the top end of the rod could be secured to the ceiling.

And this wouldn't have been one rod at a time -- you'd have to do the same for all dozen or more rods at the same time. Nightmare from a construction schedule standpoint.
The first GUI I used was Intuition (AmigaOS). What would you recommend?
http://www.opensslrampage.org
It is a problem, on one set of packages that are a part of a rather large distro, not sure I would consider it a show stopper, just an annoyance.

Yes, Python is a mess. But, Python has been a horrific mess for years now, on multiple distros. I just ended up giving up on Python. Distro problems, 2/3 split, GIL and various other buggy nonsense slowly just reduced its value versus other languages.
The MediaCodec support is SO BAD in Android. I spent months and months fighting it every step of the way to try and get real time streaming video working in a app. YUV 420 vs rbg pixel formats still gives me nightmares. I remember testing 3 different phones and each one returning a different pixel format, two were yuv base (422 or 410 i think but it's been a year and I try to block that out) and one rbg. Bleh! that project made me hate android for about 6 months after I was done with it.
Don't forget to donate! :)

http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html

http://www.openbsd.org/donations.html

http://www.openbsd.org/want.html

Thanks!
Android is the new Internet Explorer
Ok, but what about Lubuntu 14.04 compared to Lubuntu 12.04?

Your comment is only comparing LXDE with other desktop managers, instead of comparing different versions of Lubuntu.

EDIT: It occurs to me you may have mistaken "LTS" for the desktop manager name (LXDE) when you replied. LTS means "Long Term Support".
It used to be much worse. Read this http://rayvinly.com/iad-workbench-campaign-performance-analy...

Compared to other mobile Ad networks is this bad?

Remember this is not taps, this is actual downloads...
Well, at least in LISP you can use "quote" instead of the single literal quote.

And while familiar with quote in Lisps, I mostly code in algol-like languages, so my OCD for balanced quotes come fro that.

Imagine a Lisper seeing an unbalanced parenthesis used in the syntax of a new Lisp, to get my pain :-)
It's the most effective wake-up call.
We have part of a system at work that was written in Java and it is horrible because the team that built it has a bad case of NIH.

In that case the problem isn't Java but the NIH. One of the main reasons to use Java is for all of the existing, well tested libraries.
Angry Horde: No more ineffective meetings.
Dave Wiskus: The Microsoft of Things
For Android > 4.0 go for HLS but you'll need a proper encoder.