skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that article actually followed the most obvious rules of an article creation...
Actually, from reading the article, it sounds like you can get an approximation by taking tests designed to measure your working memory and associative memory.
My immediate and apparently wrong assumption was that since it is asymmetrical, the improvement of the design was somehow tied to an optimisation for handedness, which in practice is always for right-handedness.
ConTeXt also provides an XML interface. Unlike PrinceXML, ConTeXt is open source. The community is quite friendly. I've been using it for a couple of years now to produce PDFs from a single source. In my case, I first transform the XML into ConTeX code using XSLT, a step that simpler systems might not require.

http://wiki.contextgarden.net/XML
We haven't investigated Balanced Payments specifically - thanks for the tip!

We did experiment with offering ACH payments via a different service (Check Gateway) a couple years ago. We discontinued that, because the automated address and other verification checks required for online ACH authorizations blocked many legitimate payers, such that it cost more in declined payment fees and hassle for our lenders than it saved in transaction cost. Also, almost half of our lenders are outside the US.
Interesting how your parents have such archetypal responses. I kind of feel that it's "they're both right" but to go meta here, it's really a question of "what would motivate me to be a productive employee?". For some, it's respect in the terms of compensation. For others the reward needs to be from within (in addition to external compensation).

From a management point of view, this is instructive - each employee is different and have different (vector of) motivations.
The filter is not there yet, but it will be soon.

We've got a proprietary algorithm in development that identifies the scope of both a candidates skills and the skills required by a position.

Without divulging too much secret sauce, we'll be filtering out positions that do not meet our definition of "full stack" and we'll also be conveying to candidates just how "full stack" each position is with a rating system.
I would be more worried about Giardia, which definitely is found in Oregon.

Someone said that there were ducks in this water. Ducks are nasty critters and can carry all kinds of things that are infectious to humans.
This is a great example of not understanding the scaling problem of IoT. Not only is the above (quasi-)transaction rate modest by IoT system standards today, but Cassandra is not doing real-time analysis or ad hoc querying of complex relationships across those transactions at the same time, which is usually a requirement.

I know of a production IoT system in the private sector that does 1.5 trillion (quasi-)transactions every 10 minutes, so almost three orders of magnitude higher throughput. Cassandra is an okay choice for storing IoT data but it isn't real-time in the sense that you can do immediate, fast queries about the relationships across those records as they are hitting the system.
Yeah basically. That could be a disaster for, say, nonce generation.

The solution would be to have multiple independent entropy pools and either bind them to cores(/sets of cores) or pick a non-busy one in a contention case.
I enjoy woodworking when I'm not coding, so I have several woodworking channels I enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/user/urbanTrash - Frank Howarth - Beautiful projects and his videos are very creative.

https://www.youtube.com/user/DrunkenWoodworker - Interesting work.

https://www.youtube.com/user/mtmwood - amazing geometric work
From the mail:

>This patch solves a problem where simultaneous reads to /dev/urandom can cause two processes on different processors to get the same value. We're not using a spinlock around the random generation loop because this will be a huge hit to preempt latency. So instead we just use a mutex around random_read and urandom_read. Yeah, it's not as efficient in the case of contention, if an application is calling /dev/urandom a huge amount, it's there's something really misdesigned with it, and we don't want to optimize for stupid applications.
Thanks! I'd say creating something similar to the article about Linode has a much better change of being accepted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linode
https://www.youtube.com/user/numberphile

Numberphile is a channel of really pleasant and interesting math videos. It's intended for a general audience; any level can enjoy it.

Perhaps you should show these videos to your kids too? When I was young I thought math was boring. It wasn't until college that I found out it was secretly very interesting.
> The whole phenomenon of kids leaving the house at 18, moving across the country, and not coming home again is fairly recent and fairly unique to the Western world.

I live in Poland and I'm the first generation that grew up after the fall of communism. I have seen this transition first-hand. I grew up in a multi-generation home with my grandparents and parents sharing the same space. I have left at 19 to another city, but some of my family members have stayed and there are four generations living in the house right now. My parents share a floor with my mother's dad, my father's mom and my brother (in his twenties). On another floor lives my mom's sister with her family (husband, daughter and daughter's children). Houses built to accommodate two or three generations were common even 30 years ago. Many people, especially in small towns and villages have built huge houses with the assumption that each of their kids will stay there and needs a floor of their own. Then, suddenly, so many things have changed. We can - or have to - work abroad, or move halfway across the country to study and then find a job. Many of those large houses are so sad right now with just a couple of elder people using two rooms and the kitchen with hundreds of square meters of empty space, sometimes filled with stuff left behind by their children who can't take it all with them to their studio apartments.

I don't know of anyone from my generation who would event think of building a house with their future kids and grandchildren in mind. But I think we're trading an important aspect of our culture for... I don't know. Money, success, independence, all these western things. I don't think I have a point here, just wanted to share.
I would go for this if the Dailies and Todos tied into my ticket systems and email somehow -- maybe make it a social button "Send task to HabitRPG"? Email could be sending it to an email (username@habitrpg.com?) like a lot of ticketing systems support.

And is there an app?
I'm a 'millennial' and my parents were Baby Boomers, and did a good job with me.
Maybe in your case they have Hadoop, but not everyone is satisfied with Hadoop or wants to create new systems with it. Choice is good, as long as we can differentiate the choices by the values they provide.
SQL would certainly have been an adequate solution for this. In our case (I work at Artsy and contributed to the code described in the post), our environment relies primarily on MongoDB already.

I think the work is interesting precisely because it achieves some of the benefits of transactional systems using a data store that isn't usually considered for these purposes. Immutable documents and serializing the processing of bids (to limit concurrent access), as described in the post, helped.
I think that economic variables also play an very strong role in what we're seeing with delayed adulthood in millenials.

Credit is much harder to come by, jobs are more difficult to get without a college education (addressed in the article), and there are also changing attitudes to sex and relationships that are becoming more pronounced with millenials (specifically casual sex/relationships) that make it easier for men (probably women as well) to put off marriage and having children.

WRT to credit, when I got out of college back in 2003, I got a credit card with a $5000 limit in my mailbox which I started using immediately, I was talking to my brother who graduated last year and he says that those credit card offers are few and far between now, and that even when you get your hands on one, the credit limit is about $1000 ..... this blew me away. I couldn't have started my business without that $5000 credit card and much of what I have now revolves around the skills/experience I gained from my initial self-employment 10 years ago.

The economic realities have such profound implications that its giving rise to the "sharing economy" http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/09/the-chea... and changing the way corporations are marketing some of their products to this demographic http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2021715711_d...!

Lots more going on there than meets the eye IMO.
I agree with you, I would personally stick with a wrapper class unless there was some ungodly number of resources to wrap. There are very likely other operations on a window object which will benefit from being able to wrap it in a class with more points for extension.
Exactly. On my teams the idea is much less "we need you to work on everything" and much more "we need you to be able to work on ANY ONE THING when the need arises."
Yep, we offered this to all of our employees at Hired after our seed round, but before our $15m Series-A. The majority took the early exercise option once they understood it.

It's a massive lift for our team (based on tax savings) when an eventual liquidity event occurs, with no downside for the company other than additional paperwork and some legal costs.
Sorry if my comment sounded rude. I'm actually a big fan of what you guys are doing! I went through more pains than I care to describe in an HN post making PCBs at home or trying to piggyback on companies I was working with for my side-projects. I'd be a much smarter man now if something like CH had existed fifteen years ago when I first spent weeks gathering the materials with which I eventually ruined my parents' kitchen table trying to make a PCB at home instead of, say, tending to my equally important studies. And if I ever find time for the gazillion open-source hardware ideas I have, CH will definitely be my first stop!

As for the privacy policy though, first it says that the following is part of the information CircuitHub collects:

> Files. We collect and store the information you upload, download, or access with the CircuitHub Service (“Files”). If you add a file to CircuitHub that has been previously uploaded by you or another user, we may associate all or a portion of the previous file with your account rather than storing a duplicate.

And then, for example, it says this:

> Business Transfers. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction, but we will notify you (for example, via email and/or a prominent notice on our website) of any change in control or use of your Personal Information or Files, or if either become subject to a different Privacy Policy. We will also notify you of choices you may have regarding the information.

I'm not a lawyer (my diploma says EE which is why I'm not writing this from Belize or something :-) ) but this sounds like anyone who buys CH can end up with access to designs and the user may or may not have a choice about it (i.e. the "choices he may have regarding the information" don't necessarily include "remove it").
It seems like it's only successful because it is the closest thing to webcam porn in China since it's illegal. The article basically says it... Mostly single men demographics... Most popular performers are young female who are sexually teasing.
Actually there is not much Clojure got from Scheme. Lisp 1 is not tied to Scheme. loop/recur is much less powerful than Scheme's TCO.
I'm reminded of "Fiddler on a Roof": "It's no great shame to be poor, but it's no great honor, either."
I thought I was terrible at learning foreign languages -- French was the only course I flunked in high school, and I only barely passed Chinese in college.

Then I moved to Brazil and was speaking Portuguese fluently in about 6 months. Nobody was more surprised than I was.

Then, after spending a few years teaching English as a foreign language, I realized a few things.

First of all, pretty much anybody can pick up a new language, since pretty much everyone speaks a native tongue. Learning a second language really isn't any different. I was shocked at how natural it felt, picking up Portuguese -- I just felt like I was 3 years old again.

But second, unless you move to a foreign country and spend all day in the language, very few people have the time or exposure to learn a second language this way. It's just not realistic.

So third, this is why traditional language-learning classes fail for most people, because the teaching style bears so little resemblance to the natural way our brain picks up language. (This is not a criticism, it's just the reality of what you can do with a very limited amount of time and the classroom format -- and believe me, I know!)

But fourth, a few students thrive in the classroom format and pick up the language anyway. I'm not convinced that it's necessarily that they have better innate language aptitude -- they just seem to be the lucky few who are more compatible with the classroom format.

So I wonder, is the test described in this article identifying people who are actually better at learning languages "naturally", or people who are better at learning them in the very different environment of the language-learning classroom?
A more important question would be "Why does asynchronous DNS resolution require random data in the first place?"
Good piece, and makes sense, but some examples would be helpful -- there's a lot of talk about foods engineered to taste like protein but that have carbs.

Anyone have some examples? Chicken and Beef are, in their un-seasoned form, pretty bland, so I'm not sure what "engineered to taste like chicken" actually means....?
#2 is the biggest one of them all. But it will be really hard to convince start ups to do this, since it has a big golden handcuffs component to it if the start up gets some decent momentum. #2 will also simplify tax planning considerably.
Microsoft to Build 1 Million Square Foot Server Farm in Iowa
I read your argument as (1) humans are entangled with the environment and (2) a judgement that guns are related (mind) to death more so than edged weapon or rope (hence my question of your mood or state). Following your logic, shouldn't we expect a higher rate of suicide in Switzerland than the US?

As for intentionality, proper reference to cultural symbol and relation, as you state in your last sentence, is essential but seemingly ignored in favor of how one believes, desires.
You'd think, but most consumer equipment is abandonware and the firmware isn't updated once a newer model is out.
Some conference channels that are high quality:

- JSConf: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzoVCacndDCfGDf41P-z0iA

- InfoQ is very high-quality, especially for Java: See http://www.infoq.com/presentations/ (See QCon videos, StrangeLoop videos)

- Øredev videos: http://oredev.org/2013/videos

- Channel9 by Microsoft has some top notch videos: http://channel9.msdn.com/ Don't assume that these are all .NET or Windows specific, for example here is one series on Functional Programming by Dr. Erik Meijer: http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/C9-Lectures-Erik-Meijer-Func... Lots of similar videos by Leslie Lamport, Rich Hickey, Simon Peyton Jones. See http://channel9.msdn.com/search?term=%22expert+to+expert%22 for example.
Any update on Iceland and Auroracoin? 
Speak up Icelanders and cryptocoin-people.
Solving the Captcha Problem
I printed out the HTML 5 spec from W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/single-page.html

It's so much easier to browse through pages on the desk, the fit on 30 pages or so that I stapled together.
Uber adds $1 “Safe Rides Fee” to UberX rides for background checks, insurance
Minimalistic OS kernel in just 40 lines of code
https://www.youtube.com/user/Matthiaswandel/videos
I wonder if high natural language aptitude translates to high programming language aptitude, that is, not the ability to write good code but rather to write code in diverse languages.

It seems the skill set often associated with good programmers in my general impression as well as in some papers I read (good working memory, good implicit learning) is present in language aptitude as well so this sounds likely to me.
Payment Startup Levelup’s Card Processing Fee Heading for Zero
Not looking to down the work here but it sounds like in using this then, you're basically lowering DB admin complexity at the cost of increasing programming complexity. Does that sound right? I'm kind of torn as to when I would want to go that route. Perhaps on very simple data sets with limited relationships.
I'm curious why processed foods contain less protein now than before.
Whoops, deleted my previous comment since I quickly found out the answer after I submitted the question :) The compiler already knows the location of the function, and should be able to call it directly, if not inline it.

Thanks for your answer.
That's surely a good solution. It requires write access to the source code of the web application being automated though.

That's not to say that Helium is a silver bullet. It certainly always depends on the context. For instance, I know of a bank here in Austria that generates a lot of the Java source code for their internet banking app from an abstract model. They also generate page object code immediately from this abstract model, which is therefore always up to date and precise. This is one example where I would say using Helium would probably not pay off.
The core research looks very interesting, but Nature should probably hire a few economists to read through all the crap that scientists believe they know about economics, and maybe a few psychologists, too.
I'm mostly into hardware, these two provide me with top content:

Ben Krasnow, physics for the underfunded:

http://youtube.com/user/bkraz333

Ham Radio Now, lots of SDR talk and good content:

http://youtube.com/user/HamRadioNow

I have many others (e.g. CCC), but on mobile inside an observatory atm.
I'd say quite a few things. We're focused on developers, not companies. This is not a place to showcase a startup or court VC money; this is a place where developers can build a new type of interactive resume and leverage it to find solid jobs.
Introducing Typekit Practice | The Typekit Blog
>Could the language part of my brain be utilized for something else?

Possibly, although as someone who has relatively easily learned as an adult 3 languages to varying degrees of proficiency, I've noticed that I learn the syntax of new programming languages with great ease, learning multiple PLs in the process, including ones of different paradigms.

My ability to learn new algorithms, on the other hand, is very much below average -- at least among my HN peers.

So if there indeed a correlation between learning natural languages and learning the syntax of programming languages, is possible that you good be bad at learning a new programming language but much better at algorithms, arguably more important to the working programmer, and definitely to the computer scientist.
Chopping firewood takes up so much labor, that there have always been specialised tools, there is no such thing as a "normal axe" - an axe for felling trees is different than an axe for splitting firewood, there are differences in the shape, width and weight of the axe head and you wouldn't want use one for other if you're doing it more than once a year; and a carpenter would use a different type of axe(s) than those.

And that's not a modern invention, it goes back for centuries. I'd guess that even stone age flint tools have been specialized in similar ways.
WebCL – Heterogeneous parallel computing in HTML5 web browsers
This is a clever use of unique_ptr, but I can't help but think this is missing the forest through the trees. There's a lot of difficult to read code so you can use a C library resource with a bunch of C APIs. If you wrap the window in a class you can get simple RAII semantics, and add a friendly more C++ API.

What if you want to add event handlers for window events, change the window title, or even (gasp) throw exceptions instead of constantly check return codes? Wrapping the resource in a class gives you a great place to add this functionality. Without the class you have a nice resource that won't leak but still feels like you're programming C.
What happens when you tell the whole Internet your password
How I know we're in a tech bubble: We have people arguing we're not in a tech bubble.
Chicken with just a little salt has good flavor. And beef is pretty good by itself.
This is where having a startup outside of the valley is nice. Nobody where we are (KC) really even expects stock options. We just pay a good competitive salary and don't have to compete with someone like Google paying 2x as much. We have given some people stock incentives but because we pay well and competitively it isn't the primary compensation. The costs of running a startup are so much lower here.
It looks interesting. I have to wonder if the sideways action of this ax is tough on the wrists? I know with a regular axe when you get a bad hit and the ax goes sideways, it's very unsatisfying - not to mention slightly jarring to the wrists and arms.
Just in case people aren't aware, this advice presumably doesn't apply to New Zealanders. We have specifically been targeted over there so that many benefits don't apply. It's rather sad - Australians qualify for benefits in New Zealand.
https://www.youtube.com/user/vsauce

https://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics

https://www.youtube.com/user/destinws2

https://www.youtube.com/user/1veritasium
The scenario is little different from any other where someone lacks a controlling interest. Controlling interests can sell the company to another company they control at a price that suits their interests. They can issue shares to dilute equity and use the shares to acquire a company which they also control. Any legal action agaist such practices can be defended on the company's dime.

In other words, if scumbags control the company, scumbags control the company. Fortunately, most people aren't scumbags.
I'm amazed no one has mentioned The Brain Scoop yet! Natural history, dissections, all kinds of awesome stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/user/thebrainscoop
Is it just me or does it really look like an incisor?

I wonder if similar physical principles are at work in making their appearance similar.
And it really depends on how the company breaks down their development teams. Some do it by function, but some large enterprises divide things by business area - so you'll have a team for accounting, one for packaging, one for manufacturing, etc. In that sort of structure, generalists are much more valuable.
Off topic perhaps, but I switched from oil/steam to gas forced hot air last year. Between the 96% efficient furnace and new gas hot water heater (compared with the 75% oil / steam with super inefficient continuous hot water attachment) and the fracking boom, I can report that gas is much, much cheaper: for me $3500 -> $700 / year for a 1100 sq/ft apartment near Boston.

http://theenergycollective.com/lindsay-wilson/307486/heating...

A heat pump with ground heat-sink may be a better long term option, but it's much more expensive. Also I'm pretty sure the gas is more efficient when considering the power plant and transmission line losses.

Even better would be a home gas co-generation plant. Honda has such a thing, but again not cheap:

http://world.honda.com/powerproducts-technology/cogeneration...
I guess that means all go applications that use crypto/rand are considered misdesigned then[1].

[1]: http://golang.org/src/pkg/crypto/rand/rand_unix.go#L30
I can also confirm that the Fiskar X27 is awesome ! I initially was skeptical when I read the reviews online but once I used it was so great. It saved me a lot of time and energy.