skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nearly every single woman I know google searches their dates to check for domestic violence or other problematic charges.
I remember going to the library when I was a kid to pick up copies of books I saw on this show. I had no idea it had such a long and successful run; I hope they succeed in continuing it.
On a side note: I wonder why they hard coded the 4 names rather than grant access to all apps with bundle identifiers starting with "com.apple."
I have a similar model for league matches, and the home advantage usually works out to something like 0.1 goals per match. It's important in estimating the odds, but rarely tips the balance with respect to who the most likely winner is.
This is pretty neat! Work that nostalgia magic!
I ran the Qualsys SSL Labs test on the site[0]. It reports an incomplete chain; that is, the server doesn't supply the intermediate certificate required (Entrust Certification Authority - L1C) to bridge the gap between the site's certificate and the Entrust certificate in most browser/OS stores.

This intermediate certificate must instead be downloaded by the browser. I suspect, therefore, that some browsers do not have the intermediate certificate and so the certificate cannot be validated.

[0] https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=isapps.acxiom...
Do educators use GitHub to support learning and teaching? How? [Survey]
This has an extremely wide variation between colleges, the vast majority of schools my friends went to did more to beat out original/critical/creative thought then they did to encourage it... the few friends that did get the kind of education you're talking about went to very small (5k or less), very expensive ($40k or more), private, liberal arts schools where they majored in something very specific and had motivated and inspired mentoring professors. It's much harder to find these schools (the Ivy's aren't locks for this kind of education) than people realize; it more or less comes down to a flash of intuition while touring a campus.
Seems odd they have a Developer System Status board, but not an API System Status:
https://developer.apple.com/system-status/
"1 out of every 4 children in America will grow up illiterate"

Is that really true? According to Wikipedia, 99% of the U.S. population is literate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_r...
How much is your future worth to you?

For motivated students, getting tuition assistance, and sometimes even free tuition is not difficult. There are so many scholarships available, FASFA, free grant money, and at worse, loans which are very low interest and you don't start making payments on it for several years.

Tuition today may be inflated a little, I'll give you that. But I believe it more accurately reflects what it costs to provide said education. Who pays for the lights? Water? Building maintenance? It's not sustainable (as has been proven) to subsidize college education so significantly for everyone. So instead, the subsidies have been moved to scholarships, grants, loans, etc. It's a perspective thing.

I'm a firm believer that college should not be free. You have to have some of your own "skin in the game", otherwise it's taken for granted. Your education, and accomplishments thereafter will be much more tangible if it was achieved by you for you.
SaaS companies can grow faster by asking customers to prepay
Square Begins Offering Data Driven Cash Advances to Small Businesses
Seconding the post above, your clear moves towards the Enterprise have on my radar as soon as I have the resources to develop native mobile clients :).
This is a very good thing that I wish the US would adopt. We have people with three months total programming experience jumping from sales jobs to programming and calling themselves engineers. It's an insult to those who actually perform engineering professionally.
Same in Asian countries like Japan and Korea and China. I think pretty much US is the only place where FAILURE IS AN OPTION.
The Science of Bruce Lee’s One-Inch Punch – Popular Mechanics
ERPNext Version 4 Released
CEO Satya Nadella Looks for a Future That Fits Microsoft’s Strengths
Why is this opt-out in particular of interest to people?
It's unfortunate that Apple was so slow to respond to this but since it's not a money making service for them, I'm also not surprised.

This more underlines the fact that, as others have pointed out, Dark Skies should have better fallback behavior.
In for $50 and a T-shirt.
Not to be short, but to frank, finish school and then leave. How much more University do you have? If you have been working there for three years, I would imagine that you have another year and you are graduated. Power through it, get the diploma, and leave the area. Sometimes in life we have to endure bad times to get to the good times. You have endured so far, and it is hard, but keep going and then find something better for yourself.
Allowing him to present your team as his company puts him in control with the client <snip> ... he will probably be the main communication conduit with the client.

That's probably the case anyway. Client A hires Agency Z to do project Q, then Agency Z subcontracts (some or all) of the work to Team D. Agency Z is always going to be the primary interface to the Client anyway in a situation like that. If he's got the pipeline and can bring work in, and Team D doesn't have the sales/marketing mojo to bring in work on their own, they might as well just go along with it.

That said, I'd encourage them to look for ways to break their strict dependence on this one intermediary... I've seen Bad Things happen when a company overly depends on one customer and then that customer goes away for whatever reason. Building a sales funnel and getting deals takes time, especially starting from scratch.
They have also rocketed in the UK just 10 years ago a 3 year undergraduate course would cost around £3300 (~$5500).

Nowadays it costs around £27,000 (~$45000)

You dont pay up front but instead get a loan you pay back over your career.

Personally I would still choose to go even with the massively increased fees, as it opens many doors
> college is about learning to think critically, and independently

Are you sure of that? I know that's the common narrative, but I'm not convinced that's the case.
Xamarin.Forms looks very compelling. In a former life I was a .NET person, and so I've always kept my eye on Xamarin, but the only real mobile stuff I've done has been native cocoa touch dev on iOS.

Even though Xamarin.Forms might be a lowest-common-denominator type of thing, being able to build basically "universal" apps looks awesome.

The indie license really isn't very expensive, but I wish the starter version allowed bigger apps (but maybe stripped out publishing to app stores or something), so you could really thoroughly check it out without spending $300.
Can you find specific policies that produced a specific result, like innovation? Then, are those policies transferable to different cultural/political climates to produce the same result?

If you stick to results like innovation, I think you'll be hard pressed to find the former, and its pretty much the latter.

Look at hack days at companies. A really innovative company holds a really successful hack day. Are innovative companies doing hack days to drive their innovation? Or are hack days the result of other factors that drove innovation?

Should leadership of a company with innovation stagnation hold hack days? Or, is that just following the cargo-cult antipattern?
Self-driving cars will have reflexes and driving skills so great that they will be able to navigate complex obstructions and other machine driven traffic using nanosecond turning choices and G-forces that will leave you as jelly on the side of the car, in no capacity to do any backseat driving, and then pour you out at your destination microseconds faster.

Nothing to be anxious about it will all be over soon.
Things are moving quickly so I don't think anyone can blame you for not keeping up, but Docker has moved to a driver-based model and LXC is not any longer the default execution driver -- new users of Docker will by default be exposed to the new "native" execution driver, along with BTRFS storage drivers instead of the old AUFS storage.

I am one of those weird people running Docker on an i386 system which is not supported, and surprise, I had to revert my configuration to use the LXC drivers, since the Native drivers are actually very new and apparently don't target any i386 support at all.
Why operate under a False Flag?

Sadly, the intermediary's request shows his true colors. Suggest you make it a top priority to find a new Strategic Partner/Rain Maker/Business Development executive to represent your team. Frankly, this could be a great opportunity to up your game. Adios Intermediary!
Cryengine is now available as a subscription on Steam
Freshpet Fridge Break-In
Sam loves Freshpet so much he sneaks in some snacks when no one is around! Check out this funny video of what happens when Sam’s owners go out for awhile. It started with one day they noticed pet food on the floor when they came home so they set up a camera to capture what was going on and then sent the video to Freshpet.
Even though I think this is kind of a snarky comment (and they said lat/long worked, the issue was with searches), I do agree with the underlying premise. As other folks in this thread have said, just letting people know Apple is having a problem is not an acceptable solution...Location search would still be broken, and they would still be sad.

Anyway, again, I agree with the underlying premise. It seems like overkill to need to have a fallback geocoding service, but I've use Geocod.io in the past and it seemed pretty cool. I have to say though, for a single application it seems like implementing 2 of every external service you use is a ridiculous thing to expect.
They basically did, if you look at their twitter feed: https://twitter.com/DarkSkyApp

"Any other iOS devs getting a 500 error from Apple's geocoder?"

"Still trying to figure out what the deal is with location searches. (Apple support emails cost $50 a pop. You'd think they'd respond pronto)"

"Wow, the Apple technical phone support people are the nicest support folks I've ever talked to (geolocation problem isn't fixed yet, though)"

"Been 12 hours and we still haven't heard from Apple regarding the 500 error from their geolocation service. May go entire weekend unfixed."
> This is how Sun didn't get involved in trust litigation over the fact that Solaris was the only OS that ran on Sun SPARC hardware

There is also the fact that Sun didn't prohibit other operating system or application vendors from making operating systems or applications for its hardware by locking the boot loader.
> you don't need to think about "server errors" when dealing with a DataStoreGateway; DataStoreGateways don't have server errors.

I'm not sure why you even make that distinction. More than once I've dealt with servers that occasionally time out and fail; (say once a week or so). I wish to test what I show on my UI under those conditions, and what part of the text and status codes returned from the remote server that represent (or whatever) its failure I will choose to display.

Doing so without using a mock seems pointlessly obtuse and roundabout when I can make a mock to insert whatever error response I want at any interesting point in my code.
I've had a bug in Apple's bugtracker open since February 2013. I just rechecked the behavior of the bug and while it seems like it's no longer causing a crash, it is now messing up OpenGL's state.
if this were a kickstarter to public domain all of reading rainbow. I would gladly donate, but to fund yet another closed garden that I would need a subscription for is a non starter for me. Best Of Luck to those who back it.
Money doesn't matter anymore
> Plain fixed headers, possibly somewhat collapsing in height as you scroll, also seem better than vanishing headers from the point of control.

That's doable with this library btw. What happens in response to scrolling is entirely dependent on your CSS. So when scrolling down, have it apply a class which reduces the height, and when scrolling up, restore the height.

Also, it's worth noting, that whilst the obvious use-case for the lib is headers; it can be used on any element, to have it react to scroll direction and distance. For instance, I've used it to make a sidebar fixed after scrolling past a certain point on the page (classic sticky sidebar pattern). Also, I've used it to only show a "back to top" link when a user is > 50% down the page and scrolling up quickly - so unless you're deep in a page and scrolling towards the top, the link will never be visible/distracting.

It works well for these scenarios too!
Not every change is an improvement, but every improvement is a change.
An Open Letter to Erin Simmons
Man, as much as I'd love to use Xamarin w/ VS, 3 platforms for a single developer (myself) is $3000. It looks like a great product but wow, I can't swing that solo while bootstrapping. Have you considered a free-until-release approach? Don't get me wrong, you guys need to make money, I'm just wondering if there is a more optimal / appealing approach for those that are between Indie and Business.
This is amazing! I bought the LeapMotion a while ago and forgot it soon enough because the hand, finger and gesture recognition was very basic and didn't feel natural (at least to me and my friends who tried it). Now they push the boundaries of that small, old piece of hardware with a software update and show what it's really capable of. I can only imagine how impressive this must feel when you use it with an oculus rift and interact with a virtual reality environment. The sticking-blocks-together example is just the beginning of what's possible.

EDIT: Okay, I tried some of the examples and am excited! The recognition part is excellent, I can throw things up in the air and catch them again, all very natural. What's missing though are good physics. Objects glitch around my hands, wiggle mid air, get stretched even when they should be solid. But I guess that's Unity's problem, not LeapMotion's.
Where are you guys getting the impression that Dark Skies didn't do this? I'm sure they did, but as I said it's not a solution, so it doesn't do anything to relieve the situation. Users won't be happy until the problem is resolved (and they shouldn't be.)
I don't understand here. It costs some amount of money each month for housing. Unless I hugely overbuy a house or underrent a small, undesirable apartment, that amount is the same (Say $1000/mo).

(And as an aside, from what I have seen, the lowest rent on the least viable living space does not save enough to be worth the other costs in comfort, location, etc. to be worth it.)

Renting not give me an extra $1000/mo to invest and compound for decades. That is THE amount a month I must pay to live, somewhere.

And from what I have seen in the high-cost areas like SF or NYC, one is still paying out a substantial amount of monthly income just to live, somewhere, with no room to invest a difference.

To my mind, if you can't afford to buy, you're screwed.
Who's Hammering Your System?
Amicus (YC S12) is Hiring Rails and JavaScript Devs
Amazon Strategy Raises Hackles in Germany
They won’t have a steering wheel, accelerator pedal, or brake pedal… because they don’t need them.

I like the self-driving prototype. But this comment brings to my mind a situation where police operators or organized crime override the car's controls and reroute it to an alternative destination. A manual override, perhaps no more than an emergency brake, would be really nice if you thought something weird was going on.
Ironically I'm probably reading the kickstarter page poorly. Are they raising money to buy the license of old episodes, or to make new ones?
We have seen this at ERPNext too. There are other benefits to annual payments:

1. Greater buy-in: Since the amount is more, users will also invest more time in setting up the product.

2. More opportunity to talk with customers: Customers on an annual plan will more typically want to talk with you over chat / email. This also increases the engagement and the relationship.
4) If you want a good theoretical grounding in computer science/software engineering

Yes, you can become a programmer without it. A very few of the good ones I know are autodidacts to the extent they didn't need it. But the vast majority of the best people I know did do a degree and will tell you the structured, deep learning benefitted them and their careers immensely.

And yeah, as others have stated - engineers of all stripes need a degree. I don't want people 'hacking' a bridge or building.
The point was not your analogy. The point was that you made wild claims about something you obviously have no clue about.

(That is why you write so damn much text about something else. Standard behavior for non serious people that are shown to be wrong.)

And the environment changes for everything in computing. Perl is extensible. The use is very different today compared to e.g. before the millennium before testing took over.

So go troll on some subject you know.

(Perl 6 is a different language in the same family. Quite a few features have been backported.)
To be honest, I don't see why having "hidden champions" is a desirable thing. The criteria:

1. is among the top three in its global market or is number 1 on its continent

2. has less than $5bn in revenue

3. and is little known to the general public.

I'm certain the US has a plethora of companies which meet the first criterion, but we (rightfully) fail on the second and third. What is advantageous about a business culture where successful companies languish in relative unprofitability and/or obscurity?
Sorry I thought since I had "email" filled in people could reach me. I just updated it!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_illiteracy indicates ~20% of Americans are functionally illiterate.
Just a quick point. The article says "there is no guarantee whatsoever that google does anything except for changing what they display to you."

If you're on the page at https://history.google.com/history/ and click on the gear and then "Help" the page about deleting search history is at https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/465 and it says

"What happens to your history when it's deleted

When you delete items from your Web History, they are no longer associated with your Google Account. However, Google may store searches in a separate logs system to prevent spam and abuse and to improve our services."

The article claims that there's no guarantee that Google does anything other than change the display. Google actually does quite a bit of work to disassociate items from your Google account if/when you delete them.
Companies don't operate inside a vacuum. They are part of an ecosystem that they share with their competitors. If a competitor does X, the company in question must respond with Y. It's just how things work.
It is likely from here.

http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=69

"Twenty-two percent of adults were Below Basic (indicating they possess no more than the most simple and concrete literacy skills) in quantitative literacy, compared with 14 percent in prose literacy and 12 percent in document literacy."
I would say that you seem to have a bizarre misunderstanding of what college (and education) is about. The point of college is to teach stuff, not to separate people into "success" and "failure" bins. It is quite possible to increase graduation rates without lowering academic standards, by helping students stay motivated, removing distractions and ensuring that they only enroll for subjects they are motivated and talented enough to finish.
The biggest shock for me in coming back to the C# world was all the dependency injection and LINQ stuff I had to learn. The code I'm working on makes such heavy use of DI (Ninject) that I'm wondering if it's good design with all the magic that's happening. And with Asp.Net I'm using the latest and greatest web api which has it's own "best practices" for returning results and handling errors. I swear it changes each year.
Google Official Blog: Better data centers through machine learning
When should Google acquire Uber? It seems inevitable (Uber + Google's self-driving cars) but the longer Google waits the higher Ubers valuation will be.
It is far enough away to be a rorschach test
I don't think the question is whether or not college is worth it. Because that's a generalization. I also don't think the question is whether or not college is worth it to some people. Because that's exclusionary. The question is, can college make a reasonably positive impact on a persons quality of life, given all of their life choices. It's exactly the same as a gym membership. Lots of recent research shows that you lose more weight through diet than through exercise. But gyms have more benefits than just helping you to lose weight. Also, you have to actually use the gym to get those benefits, simply paying the fee and showing up once in a while will do nothing. It's the same with college, it's a tool. And you can choose to use it or you can choose to not use it. There is no right or wrong answer.
Xamarin is great. I saw a colleague of mine developing apps with it and was simply amazed. I think it definitely deserves all they're asking for it. Just one thing though: Why do I have to pay 700$ difference per year just for VS support? Is it really that hard to integrate?
Haha, that is a good observation! Bring that up at an Apple interview!
Just regular people jammin' to a great song.
On my current loan repayment plan, I will be 76 years old when my student loans are paid off. (I went to college right after high school.)
You're missing the key point that Microsoft makes an OS designed to run on hardware they don't make. Apple makes the iP* hardware and the entwined OS to run on it, much like PlayStation, Xbox, etc. Apple isn't trying to elbow other people off someone else's hardware - but Microsoft did, and got slapped down for it.

Yes, somebody does "make an alternative". There are hundreds of smartphones which are, at base specs, little different from an iPhone and run a variety of viable competing operating systems.

A monopoly occurs when nobody else can compete via resources the monopoly company doesn't ever own, either because the monopoly buys out every option (usually at a loss) for the sole purpose of denying access, or by conspiring to otherwise block fair competition. MS was in violation because (to at least a significant degree) they made everyone buy Windows (or, in a somewhat misguided case, mediaplayer), even if the hardware manufacturer was deliberately not installing Windows on a machine which the customer did not want Windows on; MS was interfering in a transaction they had no right to. Apple, on the other hand, makes the hardware and OS, and has every right to not sell one without the other - and if you don't want one or the other, there are plenty of fairly competing alternatives.
At least in the US, you would be giving him the right to commit your company to legal obligations by making a representation like this to the client. Check out the law of agency.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_agency
It seems like you need to finish school. I'm not sure what access to student loans and etc. you've got in Uruguay, but there's got to be a way for you to either go to school full-time and finish it quick, or for you to find a school in another country where you do have access to either loans or better quality education or a better wages. If the job isn't making you happy and isn't contributing to your future and you don't need it to get through school, then drop the job and put your effort into school and building things you like.