skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a Rails feature, not a Ruby feature. But building something based on this could be useful.
Seems like a rope with a couple of weights on each end would take it right down.
Who said Apache isn't capable of low response times?
Back when I heard that joke from my father, it was a software salesman, and Shaitan told him, "You must have seen the demo".
There is a natural tendency (or lack of it) towards being a social person. I have two kids, a boy and a girl (6.5 and 2.5). They are both smart for their age and very verbal, and of course raised in the same home, and share most of their genetic traits.

But you can already see that my son is a geek (well, what might "save" him socially is that he's tall and athletic), and my daughter is probably going to be popular. She simply has a better natural grasp of how people interact, and is much more interested in interactions, than say, imagination games. They are both very charming and outgoing, but you can already tell she has or will have better social skills.

There is probably also a snowball effect at play, too - if you have a tendency to be social, you might develop stronger social skills, etc.
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Why wouldn't a researcher publish? It's one of the only ways to advance your career as an academic.
Imho FA doesn't need so many brand icons or subculture symbols ala Star Wars at all. These should be separated from the core.

FA was a go to because it had a great set of useful generic icons, not because it included every symbol under the sun.
That's really bad from a security perspective. It's possible to retrieve all sorts of data from a machine that has been 'slept', especially things like the decryption key for the HDD. Various ports on the outside of the laptop, like USB, have DMA for performance reasons.
I completely agree with 1 and 2 - my question was related to a local machine with a tiling WM.

For 3, can you elaborate? How is it less context switching? You're doing the same set of operations in both settings - switching, moving and resizing terminal windows (whether real or virtual).
What will it take before I can line my driveway with these or these and they be effective?

This is the only competitor I saw of yours, is your plant currently better than theirs? http://bioglowtech.com/

Your wikipedia page says that your estimated ship date is June of 2014, this isn't correct, is it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glowing_Plant_project
Windows updates aren't required before you can start playing a game, which is a huge advantage.
He was talking about libraries, not platforms. Sorry I should have made that clear.
I'm guessing typo that was meant to be be ECDH? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_Diffie%E2%80%93H...
That's a whole lot of meaningless bullshit talking about how awesome you were to get to a single line of relevancy.
Really? China's regular court system has even less transparency and integrity than the Guantanamo courts, let alone the regular U.S. court system. I'd have more chance of a fair trial at Guantanamo than in any court in China if the party authorities had decided that you were guilty.

When China isn't a single-party authoritarian state, maybe then we can talk.
Leaders should probably check themselves and make sure their actions are a 'culture fit' for the kind of company culture they pay lip service to.
For family

>> Text Message (iMessage), What's App, FB Messenger

For friends

>> What's App (generally) and Text Message (not iMessage)

For work

>> Text Message and primarily Skype [Our CEO read an article which stated Zuckerberg favours Skype at work due to less distraction
"Probably the biggest reason is that nerds don't make any attempt to fit in" is very similar to what Graham writes, and is actually compatible with it:

The main reason nerds are unpopular is that they have other things to think about. Their attention is drawn to books or the natural world, not fashions and parties. They're like someone trying to play soccer while balancing a glass of water on his head. Other players who can focus their whole attention on the game beat them effortlessly, and wonder why they seem so incapable.

Even if nerds cared as much as other kids about popularity, being popular would be more work for them. The popular kids learned to be popular, and to want to be popular, the same way the nerds learned to be smart, and to want to be smart: from their parents. While the nerds were being trained to get the right answers, the popular kids were being trained to please.
Adobe offers Photoshop for $9.99 per month until end of May (NO AFFILIATE)
> sports are 'worshipped mindlessly' all over the globe.

But usually not in schools, because schools are actually for education.
I have always assumed that one of the reasons for "company culture" is an attempt to foster a cult of personality around the founder(s), as if emulating Steve Jobs or some other hero.

A 'culture' you can be fired from is not a culture in any real sense.
Tesla now California's top automotive employer
You might be surprised there. The fonts don't show up for those who use NoScript in default-deny mode (which is the suggested, and default, mode for this popular extension) either. Yes, this is solved by allowing the specific script (which?) to run for that page. I generally just leave the page as it is, showing funny characters instead of the intended icons.
Back in 2007, Apache, Lighttpd (Youtube) and custom Java server ("faster than Tomcat"). Nowadays some services probably based on nginx, others written in-house and some may still be on forked Apache.

The Google Web Server - a custom server used only by
Google itself - was originally built from open-source
Apache code, according to a former Google employee.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/03/google_web_server_ba...
I think Authy is saying that even multi-hundred billion dollar internet companies get it wrong, that's how hard it could be to properly build 2-factor. Don't try it yourself, use us.
Inside the battle for the soul of Reddit
Probably the biggest reason is that nerds don't make any attempt to fit in

Weirdly, a lot of people don't seem to read it closely. I pointed out an example of that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7760388 .

When I taught a couple of PG's essays ("What You'll Wish You'd Known," "Lies We Tell Kids") I saw a lot of cursory readings that were not compatible with the text—and those misreadings are similar to the ones in this thread. There were also a fair number who called him "arrogant," though when I'd ask for textual examples of arrogance I would rarely get anything. The arrogance comment always baffled me, because he seems no more (or less) arrogant than anyone who writes anything and images that someone else would want to read it.
That's a backwards and false reading.

1. Google said that if your telco is insecure, you are insecure. If you knowingly choose to use an insecure telco for sensitive communications, you can't expect every system to refuse to communicate with you.

2.
From the article, Google already offers a secure 2FA, in fact Google invented and open sourced it! Do FB and LI even offer a secure 2FA at all?

> disable 2FA on Google via texts or phone calls, and enable Google Authenticator based 2FA
Downvoted? I thought that was funny.
Sad turn of events for KickSat, but you have to laugh somehow.
This is the first I heard of the project. I'll be watching for and hopefully backing KickSat2.
How do you click/not-click the button in SCCM...? How are these two events any different?
The whole world seems to misunderstand this, but Hollywood movies about High School (with 20-something actors in them) are not representative of actual US High Schools any more than Harry Potter is representative of British schools.
I'm one of six, apparently.
Studies show that people who are on the "good looking" side of the spectrum have distinct advantages over the rest of us. Taller men, men who are more "handsome" and have more "manly" features (e.g. chin, deep voice, etc.) consistently have advantages in negotiations for jobs, pay, status, etc. A casual search turns up a plethora of articles covering everything from getting interviews to pay to grades in school (here's one near the top, just as a starting point: http://www.businessinsider.com/beautiful-people-get-more-job...).

Being "good looking" is more about actually having physically "good looking" features than anything else you mentioned. What you mentioned are things the rest of us can do to try to compensate for a lack of physical attractiveness.
I'm one of four, apparently.
It astounds me how people will happily let companies off the hook for causing negative externalities, while simultaneously blaming the government for failing to regulate them effectively and decrying the regulation in the first place.

"Remember that humans operate companies and governments alike. Except governments use force and companies are subject to it."

What utter drivel.
I still have people from Google, three years after I left, going out of their way to fuck up my life because they perceive things I've said as being threats to their culture's exceptionalism.

You bash Google at every opportunity, every since you left, AFAIK. You reap what you sow.

The rest of your post was good, but then you had to go off on Google again. Get over it.
And rms would be the first to agree with you that there are more important freedoms:

"I hesitate to exaggerate the importance of this little puddle of freedom, because the more well-known and conventional areas of working for freedom and a better society are tremendously important. I wouldn't say free software is as important as they are."

And he explains why he speaks about Free Software:

"It's the responsibility that I undertook, because it dropped in my lap and I saw a way I could do something about it. But, for example, to end police brutality, to end the war on drugs, to end the kinds of racism we still have, to help everyone have a comfortable life, to protect the rights of people who do abortions, to protect us from theocracy, these are tremendously important issues, far more important than what I do. I just wish I knew how to do something about them."

"I wish I knew how to make a major difference on those bigger issues, because I would be tremendously proud if I could, but they're very hard and lots of people who are probably better than I am have been working on them and have gotten only so far," he says. "But as I see it, while other people were defending against these big visible threats, I saw another threat that was unguarded. And so I went to defend against that threat. It may not be as big a threat, but I was the only one there."

Like any activist, he speaks of what he knows. That doesn't mean he considers the rest unimportant.

Source: http://sisudoc.org/markup_samples.sisu_fn/free_as_in_freedom...
Do I even have t read this article? I bet I know what it will say. It's by Richard Stallman.
Well, that reasoning was originally revealed to me by an economics professor, resolving the paradox "Germany supposedly has better welfare than the USA, why does Germany not have a minimum wage?"

So basically, that line is 100% standard economic thinking and therefore can be best understood and accepted by making the usual assumptions: humans as rational actors with perfect information and the cognitive ability to weight options, striving to maximize self interest.

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

If we're a a little more relaxed and maybe realistic with that assumption, we might find that it's a complex issue, with people's actions spanning a wide spectrum from "work? No thanks" to various levels of urgency, then desperation trying to find a new job and to make a living. Finally to people who'd be working hard even if unemployment benefits were 3x their wage, out of principle.

Point is, there are other factors to look at than the minimum wage alone.
"Always question everything" taken to it's logical conclusion means the end of.... well, "always question everything".

That's why these type of "culture statements" are generally only useful in limited contexts and really often just more tools for getting people behind "what the boss wants".
Oh certainly, but it's an environment that exists within a culture, albeit one that increasingly abdicates to nebulous "business" rather than people.
The user makes that assumption. Google offers and promotes Authenticator for users who want a secure connection.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Andresen

It's a key built in to the network that essentially gives him the power to broadcast a special alert signal to the network. I'm not actually sure if most clients are equipped to interpret these signals now, though.

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/583/what-is-the-a...

edit: I should clarify it's built into the original satoshi client, not necessarily 'the network' and certainly not the blockchain. Someone on bitcointalk explained it as "part of the peer to peer overlay and not part of the blockchain. You can find this public key in the source code of the official client if you look."
I disagree. Others have said (much more eloquently than I) that software is the new literacy. In a hundred years, I believe someone who can't at least read code will be at a disadvantage similar to someone who can't read English today.
I would expect the "snowball effect" to be pretty strong, especially for social interactions. Given a day where you tend to seek social interaction vs. a day when you tend to shy away from it, you can get a very different number of (practice) interactions.

There's a lot that can be learned by paying attention to other people and trying to understand what they're thinking. The earlier that someone who's not naturally adept at it realizes that this is important to pay attention to, the earlier they get better at social skills. Some of that can be highlighted for little kids while reading (story) books; paying attention to and asking questions about why the characters do the things in their interactions highlights the idea that other people do things for reasons, and that you can guess what they are (the guessing well is a skill).
I think he makes the case (and I agree) that if you create a substantial number of TODOs and they manifest as IDE/compile-time warnings, they eventually become noise which you learn to ignore instead of fix.
Great tutorial. I love these interactive lessons, but one thing I'd love to see in this tutorial (and many others like it) is something that Michael Hartl does in railstutorial.org, which is an extra credit section.

In the later sections of the tutorial, the addition of some suggestions for extending each example would be great. You don't need any "stuck" functionality or anything like that here; just some casual examples of how else you could use the subject of the tutorial would really help solidify the concepts.
> Here's an idea: get rid of voicemail completely. The only person, the ONLY person I know who has used mine is my father

The only person you know is your father. There are millions of people who still rely on voicemail to communicate.

> and his message is always "Sorry I missed you, call me when you can." Which I know already, thanks.

You wouldn't know that if your mobile phone was out of range and didn't receive the missed call.
Get ready for Google Translate on steroids
OK, my comment was glib, but I do understand the meaning of "correlation is not causation". The link you provide attempts to refute the argument that "immigration causes unemployment". You correctly point out that no correlation was found in the case of the UK. My point (and hence my rather glib comment) is that this lack of correlation tells us nothing about causation.

Importantly, taking unemployment overall conceals that fact that certain portions of the workforce (i.e. the young and low paid) are disproportionately affected by a rapid influx of young tradesmen and low-skilled workers.
This S.F. Artist Is Messing With Wireless Networks At Tech Company Bus Stops
My quora question relates to this, please answer if you can:

http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-books-or-classes-abo...
Office 365 seems to be the saver for Microsoft in coming years. That is until google chrome apps enters into enterprise.
The author is right to question the hype around culture as though it were invented in Silicon Valley, but I think he also falls into the trap of equating culture with superficial qualities that change over time. To paraphrase Built to Last: if you look outside the tech world, there are plenty of companies like Wells Fargo, Nordstrom's, and 3M that been around for over 100 years with very clear cultures and brands--far longer than any one CEO's reign. Of course, the culture changed over that time as measured by social attitudes and management practices, but they are successful because the core company culture survived. At 3M it was innovation and meritocracy. At Nordstrom's it was above-and-beyond customer service.

Don't let cynicism over the company culture of free t-shirts and late nights cloud out the goal of building a culture that lasts longer than you will. Just like parenting, it's what you do, not what you (or your posters) say that matters.
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Deutsche Bank CEO loses patience over traders' email behavior
Just checked on my hi-res Nexus 4 screen: While not as blurry as on my W7 machine, the font is still unreadably thin. Seriously, why do people believe it was a good idea to make the font so thin that you can only read it with severe eye pain?
There doesn't seem to be any code for these though. Gitchain has a (very early) prototype https://github.com/gitchain/gitchain
Never Forgetting a Face
These ever-growing icon fonts make me wonder whether the Chinese were on to something when they designed their logograms. With 439 icons in this font alone, it might be possible to start writing simple prose using nothing but icons. Some extra icons are clearly needed to add concepts not normally expressed in icon form (personal pronouns, etc) but those are easily designed or borrowed from logographic scripts.
"Pushing young people out of the job pool isn't such a bad thing if there's an educational alternative."

Do you have any evidence to back that up? You seem to have a very narrow view of "education".

"Besides, people on lower incomes spend a larger proportion of their income, rather than saving."

I think you might want to look at actual statistics on savings in the USA today.
I don't know if this gets said enough, but it bears repeating: we are truly living in a golden age of astronomy. Some incredible things are happening.

In my opinion, we need to continue to bring the cost to Low Earth Orbit down by any means necessary, including railguns for non-human traffic. Low cost-to-orbit would dramatically speed up dozens of things, exo-planet imaging among them.

As much as I love human space travel and robotic exploration, I have to admit that exoplanet research and imaging is really where all the exciting stuff is going to happen. How much longer until we have an image of another Earth? Wonder what a space-based astronomical interferometer about the width of the solar system could image? And that's what? A 10-20B project? Imagine the change in the public's imagination a series of images of the countless other planets in the galaxy would bring.
I'm saying that is a true representation, but somehow correlated. Reading blogs and news you can conclude that popularity is an asset in US.
"Raising the minimum price of chips will increase the amount of money given to chip companies which will give them more money to spend creating more jobs."

This is not actually true. Companies only hire when then they have demand.
I find it telling he is less worried about the behavior and more worried about the paper trail.

But ya, this just makes sense from a companies perspective.
This is only true at our current level of intelligence. And we're not finished climbing this ladder. If we get to build serious brain-computer interfaces, those will help with many tasks, including computing.

Working memory for instance is closely associated to fluid intelligence, which is kinda required to program seriously. What if we stick a chip in your brain that doubles it?

Finally, programming is not a specialized skill like making cars. It can help you do anything, provided you understand whatever you are doing. This is as general as it gets. Anyone who can learn programming should learn it, eventually.
There are also positive aspects of culture. Art is an expression of culture. The art of one culture is difficult to understand for people of another, because it's a form of language, and the art communicates an idea through that language.

The key is that culture is every aspect of the human condition. It is the fabric of who we are. You have to take the good with the bad. Hopefully, people aspire to be better.

To extend on what you've said here, I think we can only be a member of one culture at a time. I think we have agency over that membership, but you just can't be in two places at the same time.

So when our employers talk about the company's "culture", what I hear is "make your existence, make the fabric of your being, about work." And that's absolutely no place that I ever want to be, regardless of where I could possibly be working.
You don't have to be low class to have a lower-status job. Lower-status jobs are just jobs that are lower paid and not as desirable to have. I grew up poor in the Deep South, my boss comes from a persecuted minority culture, and some of the folks with the lower-status jobs came from nice neighborhoods on the East Coast and went to private school, so at least in my line of work it doesn't intersect with "class."
I was in 10th grade when this article first came out and I enjoyed it so much I printed it off to share with my other geeky friends at school.

I think the biggest takeaway and what teenagers most need to understand is school isn't the real world. So many teenagers have a rough time in high school because they take it so seriously and believe it's how the rest of their life is going to go.

Like other nerds I was bullied and teased about being a nerd but having that perspective and knowing that all I had to do was ignore the others and focus on my friends and my work and in a few years it would all be over helped me tremendously.
RMS's ideas don't quite square with Chinese law, and Chinese law doesn't take kindly to that sort of thing, which makes this interesting.
My one gripe about tmux is that when doing things like `git commit` where it will open my editor (ST2), after I close the editor, tmux never realizes the file has been closed, so it just hangs there. If I do the exact same command outside of tmux, it doesn't.
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Make it six or seven.
Lucky that the Chinese are capable of concern for more than one thing at once.

You might enjoy pondering a moment on the connection between open source software and censorship, for example in an email client that encrypts sensitive messages.
I try not to make prediction that long in the future, because intelligence explosion is likely to happen sooner than that. http://intelligenceexplosion.com/

Once it does, we will likely fall into one of three outcomes: Heaven, Hell, or Annihilation —most likely Annihilation if we're not careful. Any finer point will be moot.

(EDIT: Before you down-vote the singularity crap, please follow the link. The arguments are long, but serious. Machines will take over the world at some point. We just need to ensure they're gentle about it.)
Just let you guys know that China is keeping increasing control of online content. And the new leader has his plan to push it to another extent. Not a nice outlook.