skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say blame the people that don't want more then 10 Mbit. And think that everyone who has 10+ Mbit only use it for "illegal activities".
Suburbia probably contribute but I'm not so sure about Hollywood. It's inflicted upon whole western world to roughly same degree.
Good point. If anything, the number of commit lines has as much to do with the verbosity of the language as it does its popularity.
The Carlton Banks character was not a "nerd". He represented a well-to-do/preppy/Ivy League/conservative/Republican/fratboy/"acting white" persona that contradicted with the poor/street-smart/ghetto/cool persona of the Will Smith character.

And the Sheldon Cooper character was much more a portrayal of a contemporary obnoxious and vane "hipster" than a "nerd". The two male friend supporting characters were much closer to the "nerd" stereotype.
Here in Wilmington, MetroPCS offers unlimited talk, text, and data with 500 MB of LTE for $40. 2.5 GB of LTE for $50. These folks have a cell phone anyway, sometimes subsidized by the government. A cell is a lot more valuable to them than a wired connection. Any money spent on fiber would be an additional expense.
I was going to high school in Poland and the popularity was irrelevant. I was surprised when I saw a Hollywood movie about kids in high school that want to be popular by any means. Possibly, that's the outcome of celebrity culture yet to be established in a postcommunist country.

To digress kids in China won't hang out with you if you have bad grades.
Interesting idea, but I'm not sure if that would be possible for all cases, for example what happens if the part of the line before the comment changed?
You'd think after reading the article you're commenting on on, you'd refrain from a pointless rant about how you marginalize a certain "type" of person because of their looks and interests, which are different from yours.

As such, I think you're tilting at windmills here and have proven not to be above the kind of people PG is railing against. He uses the example of poor whites being racist against blacks. Are "hipsters" the only people you feel you can demonstrate superiority over? That's the only reason I can come up with for your post.
Wait, what... where is Premiere matched? I am tied to Windows because of CC. Namely, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects and AME - all Adobe. If Adobe only ported their stuff to linux then I could switch completely. Autodesk already has me covered with Maya and other tools, The Foundry as well, FadeIn is a great alternative to Final Draft (although I bought both)... I only need Adobe CC alternatives, especially Premiere - or AVID to port MediaComposer.
So what's their secret? How did they manage to feed themselves? Were they living sparsely? Was bioshpere denser then? Were they capable of eating just about anything?

And how was such massive size selected for? Is it just a matter of warmer climate and a feedback loop with larger and larger predators?
Sure it's possible.

The scientists that study this kind of thing try to check for similarities and classify them as the same or different when appropriate.

They probably classify them as different if the time they lived (based on the surrounding rock they were found in) or their bone structures is sufficiently different from anything previously discovered.

It's also a lot easier to merge two classifications rather than split a group into two.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauropoda
Alternatively, you could continue using your editor of choice for editing and use grep to identify TODOs in your code.
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Not even $40 1Gbps internet would get me to put up with the traffic required to get to and from Brentwood. Highway 4 is the pits.

What a strange place to launch a service.
Ditto. I was, and am a nerd. In junior school I was on the popular side, despite being shorter than the most popular dudes (partly because I was smart, I was dressed sharply and I was a cool kid: Everyone loved me ('tough' kids because I didn't treat them as "less intelligent brutes", smart kids because we were on the same level, and those in between because I knew how to talk to them). Plus the two most popular girls were in my class and had frequent cat fights for me(Gotta love women, they may want you, but they crave for validation more than anything)).

In High-School, my friend and I were amongst the most popular: We spent our days missing classes and playing basket ball and football, we got used to our "fandom". We were known to the Administration by first names. And of course, when you were seen around a lot, people knew who we were (even years after).

But to come back to the point: I have been blessed and lucky in my life. I did sports (Judo (since age 6 or so to 17, competitions with lots of people, trained with many boys and girls in my club, both my age and older), football (many, many people cheering at your feats helps), basket ball, running, working out (body weight only)).

But I was also pretty cute, dressed nice, and was clean. These points lack to a lot of nerds (Cuteness isn't something you can change, but you can take showers and dress respectably).

I was also blessed in the sense that I hang around girls since I could remember, like since I could talk. And I hang with a clique of older girls and guys who had me, and few other girls and boys my age with them, so I had a lot of socializing way before I got to high-school. Having girls have a crush on you wasn't a big deal, it was all part of normal.

So it's not the same thing, when you already had thousands upon thousands of interactions with people, and if you only talked with one friend or something.

There are things they can do, though, and it's not to be popular per se, but if I were like those kids who had it hard growing up (like being mocked or stuff like that), I would ask myself questions and hack it. It's not even to fit in or something, but taking showers and dressing okay doesn't make you less smart.
>Note that the secure element never returns a previously generated public key in any new registration step.
>This makes tracking users across websites difficult by using the token as a supercookie that bypasses other anonymizing precautions.

So at least they make an effort to prevent that, and if they do not subvert this scheme you wont be trackable. But as the dongle is more or less a black box, it would probably be hard to ascertain that generated public keys do not have some property in common to allow them to be associated with each other.
I don't think species are classified solely on size. I'm pretty sure juvenile specimens have been discovered and identified as being the same species as the adult specimens. Yes, mistakes have been made, but my impression is that the bone shapes play a substantial and important role, perhaps moreso than just the size.
I must strongly disagree. If you like K&R books, you will find a lot of useful tips like

if (!b) { a();}
else { b();}

change to

if(b) {b();}
else { a(); }
2FA based on mobile phones is a very weak method of security. It goes worse, when using smartphones. When you use your smartphone to access internet services (worse: make banking) secured by 2FA, your 2FA is reduced to 1FA, Trojaner prone security.

There are also already cases known, where attackers just made phone companies send a "replacement" sim card and the attackers intercept those. Thus the second factor was very simple out. Some phone companies are more aware now, but all is very much prone to social engineering.

So: 2FA is only a good idea, when using some dedicated device, else it just makes the barrier a little higher, sometimes not so much, as you think.
This has been out for a few days, and i'm happy to see the HN and Reddit icons!
Most people won't come close to using 500Mbps at any time, let alone for 37 hours. As long as they peer with Netflix, Google/YouTube, Facebook and a few others almost all meaningful traffic will be "free".
I had Sonic ADSL until recently, and their customer service was excellent, but I'm just too far from the CO to get reasonable speeds, so I (sadly) switched to Comcast. I hope that some point they will start offering FTTH in my neighborhood (50 miles west of Brentwood), but who knows if local city government will ever allow it.
3 Ways To Improve Smart Phone Voice Quality
I've added a small postscript explaining why calculus of variations (in its simplest form at least) is not applicable to this problem.
Thanks, I had not seen abduco. I'll have to try it out.
To summarize it: It's great to be a nerd, as long as you're not nerdy.

Nerdy makes your life miserable. Nerd doesn't.

Anyone who's good at something is a nerd, there's no way around it. But you can be a nerd and be cool, which makes you even more frigging cool.
Does trackerless bittorrent provide a way to update a file ?

The git objects themselves are content-addressable (the key is the hash of the value) but you still need a unique ID that references the HEAD of this chain of objects. This id needs to be updateable.
Yes, if you're disciplined, and remember to do this regularly. But humans aren't perfect.
I think the answer to your conundrum is that the (business) users get what they are asking for. If you were using Hibernate/whathaveyou you are pretending you don't have a problem.

So much of this mess is caused by dumb decisions from people who don't understand what 'constraint' means - welcome to 2014, where business suits run the show, and technology is just plain broken as a result. Not that anything has really changed, the whole 'this is 2014' argument is a bit of a farce anyways.

Thats my take on it anyways, I think some people stopped reading your article once you started dumbing down what the app dev wanted to do.
https://jitsi.org

XMPP support. Video, audio, IM. It works great, including on linux.
Why not just close the lid & put it to sleep? You really shut down every time you move somewhere with your laptop?
I imagine at least one major problem is avoiding a bidding war by competing buyers.
I agree with you. Social interaction is the one thing no one has ever been able to 'scientifically' figure out. Otherwise we could all just read some books and be good at socializing.

There's people with just born 'charisma', the entertainers, the storytellers,the comedians, the incredible sales people.

And it's a spectrum of people who have this innate social ability from the terrible to the genius socializers.

No matter how many books people read they will never be as quick witted as Robin Williams or as empathetic as Oprah.
Never outsource your core business.

Never outsource critical infrastructure that your core business requires to operate, unless you have a backup plan. If GitHub goes away, you can switch to BitBucket. If Digital Ocean goes away, you can switch to Linode. If Adobe CC goes away, what do you switch to?
Is there anything like this for other languages and libraries? I know about try ruby, js & python. Any others?
I didn't read the article, and I wasn't responding to it. I was responding to what tpeng wrote.

I'm merely making observations about the situation we have today. I think there is, indisputably, a rather distinct "nerd" culture. I think there's also a distinct "hipster" culture. Recently, we've seen more interaction between them within the software industry, and more interaction between both of those groups with society at large as software has become more widespread and integral to everyday life.

I'm not sure why you're apparently taking this so personally, or why you think my personal opinion of "hipsters" and "nerds" is relevant. This is all about looking at the big picture that currently exists, basically all of which me and my opinions have absolutely no influence or control over.
I do not think school social structure influences how tall you grow.
I didn't want to be popular at school, because I was an introvert. During our lunch break, I was far happier spending my time with a very small group of friends, or sitting on my own with a book. If I had wanted to be 'in' with the popular kids, I would have had to expend enormous quantities of energy engaging with them, trying to be humorous, attempting to care about their lives.

I don't think being a nerd in anyway correlates with intelligence. Introverts tend to spend more time in solitary pursuits such as reading, programming and watching movies. For this reason they tend to become highly skilled or knowledgeable in niche areas. Extroverts tend to spend more time socialising and hence develop and excel when it comes to social skills. I've met plenty of stupid nerds in my time, and some stunningly intelligent 'popular' people.

When it comes to sports, I know plenty of introverts who are amazingly skilled. They tend to stay clear of activities such as football or other team sports simply because they are introverts. I have black-belts in Karate and Tae-kwon-do. My brother likes to run marathons (not competitively, he just runs 26 miles when ever he feels like it). Other introverts I know are amazing climbers or paddlers. These activities are all solitary, or rely on one's own skill rather than that of team-mates. They don't tend to attract the attention of others as much.

Introverts don't really want to be popular. Introverts also don't want to be bullied. Introverts would like some attention from the opposite sex. Introverts would like to be respected for their accomplishments. To gain those things, however, would require socialising on a grander scale than they feel capable of and hence they are branded as nerds.
Why people in startups are insufferable
I wonder if this is just a strong contrarian streak in me, but I've always been extremely suspicious of "company culture" anywhere I've worked. Almost any real culture is implicit; it's not designed. I think it's because growing up watching a lot of cable news, I've learned to be sensitive to narratives that don't have a lot to do with reality, and frequently "culture" and "values" are used to try to suggest a narrative to employees that also has very little to do with reality. I don't need a culture of "integrity" not to do evil things, I have a conscience. Nor do I need a cultural value of "innovation" to come up with new ideas -- a lot of times the pleasure of doing something well is more than enough.

It makes me also think about how uncomfortable I felt during high school rallies. I mean, I didn't even particularly choose to be in that place, why should I have "pride" to be part of that institution? And why do I need to express that "pride" by yelling in a mob? I always found it somewhat creepy how easily people went along with all of that. I guess it's better than being lonely.
Client-side MV* – Should the model have a save method?
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This only makes sense if they were to "broadcast" it using Frequency-shift keying (the kind used in your 2400baud modem).

So should the zombie apocalypse come we can actually reconstruct the Linux kernel. Cos you know, thats important and stuff.
New family of recyclable plastics created 'by accident'
The best source for the default commands is the dvtm man page.
The crazy thing is despite being 10 meters longer than a blue whale this puny landlubber is still 100 tonnes lighter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_whale
There's quite a backlog of requested icons. The pace is definitely not for everyone, but at least the eventual product is of high quality.

This is an apt example of why we need a native +1 system for GitHub issues.
Thanks for pointing that out.

Not long ago HN discussed a very interesting project based on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7656300 ... and I didn't realize GNAT was so constrained.

While composing this I noticed other comments trying to clarify the situation, I'll have to check for myself, which is not a good way to "do business".
Well, not to sound condescending, but we'd probably work through it together and see if maybe we need to change our values at some point. One of our values is "Always question everything" so we view it as a bit of future-proofing.
I know I have the minority opinion

Is that really the case on Hacker News? I often feel like a rebel outcast here for thinking that technology being proprietary is a desirable thing.
Everyone can code is a pipe dream. It requires high skill and specialization.

It's like saying all of us can at some point make cars, houses, electricity and so on.
As you correctly point out the problem is entirely symmetrical to that of keeping a hot beverage as hot as possible. If we take the different problem of trying to cool a hot beverage, the optimum, pathological solution would be a glass with 0 height and infinite width --studying this problem with the additional constraint that width be limited to some predefined value might make for an interesting followup article.
ZAR caught my attention as well. I'm an expat in SA, based in Cape Town. Feel free to get in touch - hans@zoona.co.za
Fantastic idea and what I thought when I saw this post; I'm slightly surprised that nobody has produced a git one-liner to achieve this yet!
Off your ego trip yet?
That's all very well, but seriously a "Pied Piper" icon was more of a priority than a blog one? This I do not understand.
1 Gbps down sounds nice, but what's the upload speed going to be?
I don't think it's meant to replace the status quo but to add a way to keep repositories that the status quo would refuse to host themselves.
"It gets better" - Louis CK
That post was extremely well put and sums up my thoughts exactly.

Culture is quite often discriminatory, hostile, and all too often filled with counterproductive sentiment. And, it is fluid.

If we look at the larger world and see how many of the problems are caused by "culture" it's amazing to think we should have adopted this word into our workplaces. Never mind that it doesn't actually fit there.

Most employees embracing principals of hard work, team play and the like isn't really "culture". Maybe "values" or "expectations" or "generally accepted behavior" are better words. Culture is larger than that. Or else something green and slimy growing in a petri dish.
How exactly Google and Others undermined Indian Election 2014
A myth with a kernel of truth, and a licencing situation that's in truth a bit complicated, means there's significantly more "friction" involved with a decision to use GNAT, and therefore to even begin thinking about messing with Ada or SPARK. As I note in another posting in this subtread, that not a good way of "doing business", and can do nothing but suppress interest in and use of Ada or SPARK.

E.g. I have every reason to believe you and the others commenting on this, but I'm going to have to confirm for myself that this is correct.
I don't know what was different before but also humans were bigger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_of_Castelnau
Popular subreddits have predictable cycles of virality
What is ECDA? I've not heard of it, search results turn up nothing and I can't think of a good set of words to fill that acronym. And more telling this post is #2 in google for "ECDA crypto" so maybe it is just a typo.
This is great!

Beginner question: Is there a way to manually remove the characters from the font files that aren't used to increase speed? Or, is this hosted on a CDN by someone?
Actually built something that sort of deals with this. it's at www.impassebreaker.com. IB compares bottom line financial positions and if there's a match, you're both told what the number is. A match is any case where what you are willing to accept is greater than or equal to what they are willing to pay. If no match, they don't learn your bottom line and you don't learn theirs. It was built initially for dispute resolution but salary negotiation works fine.
Someone obviously made that for fun. When you give your work away for free, you get to choose to work on fun things sometimes.
Is it really just re-branded Apache? It seems like vanilla Apache isn't capable of the low response times that Google has. What Apache extensions/modifications does Google use?
Here are two ways to decentralize git usefully:

1. Add the ability to git push over git:// to any git repository, which results in a patch being presented to the repository owner in some useful way Ie, reverse github pull requests, that work anywhere. http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/idea:_git_push_requests/

2. True P2P git pull/push over telehash. Something I plan to implement as soon as there's a working telehash implementation. Will allow peers to collaborate from anywhere without a central point of control, and with built-in encryption too. http://telehash.org/

(To be clear, telehash has a DHT, but it's used to find routes to peers, not for distributed data storage.)
fontello.com - pick and choose the icons you need. Includes the font awesome set.
> If I could make the rules, being good looking wouldn't matter as much as it does.

It actually doesn't. And you probably look better than you think you do, because if you were unpopular in high school you were not "groomed" to be beautiful. So you may not realize how beautiful you actually are.

From what I've seen, here's what seems to matter most (in no particular order): Money, self-confidence, and doing something interesting with your life.

If you're rich, confident enough to ask girls out on dates (comes with practice, "fake it till you make it" is the name of the game here), and you're doing interesting things that you can talk about passionately, some beautiful person is going to be with you at some point. It's inevitable. Being "good looking" is less about actual physical traits and more about how you carry yourself.
HipChat, Slack, Skype.
The Idea Factory is a great book, it totally shatters the myths so often propagated today.

It demonstrates without doubt that innovation can happen at a very large scale in very large, monopolistic, noncompetitive organizations. In fact, there's reason to believe that innovation might require a very large organization, because small companies don't have the funds needed to do research, and are likely to be unable to capture the market even if their research does bear fruit.
[QA + bounty] How to deploy correctly when using Composer with dev/prod setting?
ownCloud supports sharing links, also direct links to files: https://owncloud.org
> I disagree with their stance that other open source license are not useful

There are two inaccuracies with this statement:

1) The FSF does not disapprove of the use of non-copyleft free licenses. They encourage the GPL, but as pointed out below, they themselves have both released code under other licenses and approved of the use of other licenses.

2) You seem to have missed gavinpc's point, which is that the FSF is the Free Software Foundation, not the "Open Source Software Foundation". They don't say that "other open source licenses" aren't useful, because they don't refer to their own licenses as "open source" licenses. They dislike the term "open source" and don't use it themselves.
How To Test The Value of Core Values:

Can an employee say NO to a decision from a superior on the grounds it violates a core value?
Try to imagine it. Would a cultural value from your corporate handbook ever be used in making an actual decision about actual work? If the answer is no, then the values are platitudes, or were written so generically that they’re easily overlooked or easily manipulated to justify just about anything (depending on your opinion, Google’s don’t be evil is either a good example or a bad one).

^^^

Outstanding insight. That litmus test is usually enough to destroy most the of the paper-thin proclamations of culture trotted out by corporations (especially start-ups).
[Icomoon](http://icomoon.io) lets you assemble your own icon font and includes Font Awesome.
> Ditto. I was, and am a nerd.

Popular, boastful, not bullied, dressed sharply, pursued by popular women, played popular sports, social butterfly, good looking, many friends. Yet you attribute your "fellow nerds" lack of such to their lack of effort and claim you would "ask yourself questions" and "hack it". Nerds have a name for such a type: douchebag.