skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is my experience as well. I grew up learning many clichés, proverbs and tips, but most of them didn't really mean anything to me until I experienced them first-hand.

I suppose tips like these are like uninitialized pointers - they aren't really useful until you have experiences to attach them to, but after that they are a handy way to access those experiences quickly.
Glance: Instant smartwatch, just add watch
Its not real education unless you sit through 45 minutes of an instrctor reading you powerpoint slides from the book in person.
Journalism forms a cornerstone of our democracies. It's function is as relevant today as it ever was (perhaps more so in the light of Snowden) so we better think carefully before we write it off.

But this is where I think the article falls short. I think if someone is interested in the wider world they will figure out how to get what they want from the newspapers of today. Some news agencies will be bad at it, and some will be good. That's just the nature of diversity.

But, to say that a small percentage of online news is relevant to me is only true if I don't go looking for the parts that interest me. This was never true, not even for the old dead-tree news.

Whilst I think things can be done to make digital news more engaging, I think the real 'problem' is to be found elsewhere in the ever sub-dividing space of our 'free' time.
Anybody got cool idea's how to visualize such a dataset? I have a similar set of data I collected, but haven't gotten beyond the "trips per day, length, etc" basics. I feel there is something beyond the most basic visualisation, on a more meta level, but am not sure what.
Microsoft changing its privacy policy: here is one important change.
Privacy
As part of our ongoing commitment to respecting your privacy, we won't use your documents, photos or other personal files or what you say in email, chat, video calls or voice mail to target advertising to you.

After reading the first point alone, I'm tempted to change my default mail provider to Microsoft. Comments?
The assumption is that the majority of this downturn is because facebook has reduced how many users even see the content... given how closely it correlates to the FB News Feed Algorithm releases.

Alas, FB doesn't expose views on normal posts, so we'll never know the actual numbers.

The consensus seems to be that Brands should post more often, as their posts are only being shown to legitimate followers half as often... :-(
> In fact, most of us have little problems finding jobs paying 125+ in the midwest.

Wow. Please elaborate, with some detail.
Except that it is nothing like communism.

Communism is defined by a complete lack of freedom to change the status quo. In turn, the lack of freedom to change the status quo means that development and progress is dramatically slowed, slowing down improvements in quality of life - as people themselves would prefer.

Consolidation only persists where it is either an effective way to deliver value (Walmart) or regulatory capture has occured (eg taxi licences, car dealerships). Todays consolidated behemoth is tomorrows has-been company - as long as the laws allow them to fall apart when they can no longer innovate and compete.

Inequality of income to me seems as though an economy is functioning well at the creating-value part. A lack of inequality (too much equality) is a danger sign that the creation of wealth and progress has been halted, most likely due to lack of freedom for individuals to pursue their own interests.

It's a misunderstanding to think that competition requires many players to be effective. In many cases, you only need two players and threat of entry to any others for competition to be successful at optimal use of resources.
You only need two fighters and some contenders for a world champ boxing match to make them the best available at the time. And a fair referree.

I'll be the first to admit that the last part is the most difficult to achieve, but it's no reason to abandon the concept of the game.
Considering that Starbucks practices massive tax avoidance, the company is essentially using taxpayers' money for a very clever PR stunt.
New Aluminum-Air Battery Powered Car Travels 1,800 Kilometers Without a Recharge
Ok so they are not using it for advertising, are they using it for something else?
Wikipedia thinks it's R-717:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_refrigerants
As a non-Australian whose only recent echoes of Australian news come with "Tony Abbott" generally followed by an exemple of rabid anti-ecological policy, I'd be interested to understand why he is so vehemently opposed to anything green. Is this just the effect of lobbying?
You could not possibly be more wrong.

Monpolies are the exact opposite of economic freedom and amount to a planned economy, except the plan is not even nominally for the good of everyone.
Sorry, I didn't see it on HN at all.
Mothers day varies too - at least between the USA & UK (where I am).
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/51/pertpetual2.jpg

They just should've thrown in some magnetic shielding around the curved slide section and it would've worked :)
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I have a different take on this article than most. I'm a proponent of Classical economics, and I reject all modern schools of economics--neoclassical, Austrian, Keynesian, etc.

Classical thinkers like Adam Smith expounded how rational self-interest and competition together lead to economic prosperity. There's a balancing act going on between self-interest and competition--competition is the economic faculty that restrains self-interest.

Only in perfect competition do we get Pareto efficiency--the state in which it is impossible to make any one individual better off without making at least one individual worse off.

Unfortunately, modern schools of economics have diminished the role of competition. Keynesianism lauds government monopoly power; while neoclassicism and Austrianism foster private monopoly power. Both are evil. The result has been a state of affairs wherein the vast majority of people are getting worse off.

WRT government intervention in the markets, Adam Smith would not oppose intervention that fosters competition and stifles monopoly. The goal of the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Act was to foster competition, not to diminish "economic freedom."

"Economic freedom" is a mostly meaningless buzzword that's thrown around by both libertarians and socialists. Indices of "economic freedom" as compiled by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal serve no other purpose than propaganda.

It's impossible to divorce politics from economics in the real world. Adam Smith understood this. The subject used to be called "politico-economics."

Today, the Left favors reforms to give government more monopoly power. While the Right favors reforms that give firms more monopoly power. Until people start to wake up and realize all monopoly power is evil and what we need instead is more competition, things will continue to decline.
> must be as fast as Objective C; must have a minimal to non-existent runtime (so AOT compilation all the way); mustn't have garbage collection, must interoperate with Objective C/normal C with ease; etc.

This sounds and awful lot like what C++11/14 would bring, with a few platform specific extensions... but then again, no vendor, and especially not Apple, likes the thought of working with a language that's really trying to be cross-platform and a language that "rewards smart programmers" ( http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/Key... ), as opposed to being easy-to-teach or idiot-proof...
I seem to remember from physics class that mass cannot travel faster than the speed of light, so how is it possible for galaxies to be unreachable if you managed to travel at the speed of light?
Hexo+: Autonomous Aerial Camera
Wordpress demands $10,000 for DMCA Takedown Censorship
>I was paraphrasing.

No you weren't. You created a straw man and then set it on fire.

>So what if predictions 20 years ago have turned out to be incorrect?

So you're making the SAME predictions based upon the SAME model that the last 20 years has proven to be utterly wrong.

We've already proved that 20 years of deficit spending and the highest public debt in the world doesn't automatically cause hyperinflation. It doesn't even necessarily cause inflation at all.

If your model cannot sufficiently explain why that happened then your model is wrong. And it can't. If we went back in time, you'd be making the exact same predictions in 1997.

>Japan's government has never said they will do anything to achieve 2% inflation before.

Japan started inflation targeting in March 2001. Is 13 years enough time?
A quick dive into typography Pt.2
Too bad the listed prices are useless. No doubt the $0.01 phones come with an unspecified contract that's not been taken into account. If you can't get the pure prices, you'd better just leave them out. This is useless and misleading.
"She" the programmer. Seriously this sounds ridiculous and is the outcome of the shameful male "betafication" women try to establish these days. I say "he" the programmer.

Okay enugh bullshit and to the point:
Swift is preview. It will get better and better fromday to day. It isn't there to mimic scala or lisp paradigms. It is there to get the job done and it will get the job done.
There's four of us traveling together. We're not looking for spare rooms. :)
I can't find the source code. Is it even available?
I think we are in agreement. You highlighted women who choose to quit their job and are happy with it, I brought up the complementing part with those who don't really see the other choices as an option, and some shitty situations generated by this unbalance.

The people who might be the most hit by all this could be the men, who are as pigeonholed in their roles as women, wether they see it as a bad thing or not (I think it's bad in the long term, but that's my bias)
Does Paris need NUMA?
This time I switched to Android via a Nexus 5. Battery life is still not acceptable

I switched to Moto X after using an iPhone for four and a half years. With the same usage patterns, my Moto X lasts as long as my iPhone 4 before. The Nexus 5 is apparently notorious when it comes to actual battery life.

Having to kill an app or cleaning their local cache are things I don't want to do on my phone. Specially when I'm trying to get around or find a very urgent information.

Never had to that that. In fact, my experience is quite the opposite. Even after all those years, iMessage messages would arrive minutes to ours too late or in the wrong order (very annoying when you have to meet with someone). iTunes Match would often only download albums partially. Calendar sync was not immediate (there was often a delay between adding an appointment and it showing up on the Mac and vise versa).

Since switching to Android I wouldn't want to go back. It has decent keyboards (finally coming in iOS 8), I can actually share data between apps (finally coming in iOS 8), I can attach files from within the e-mail client (rather than only being able to pick a file from an app and then saying that I want to share it via e-mail). Google Now and voice recognition are awfully much better than Siri, especially because it's actually integrated in the Google Now Launcher, and not an island on its own.

Besides that fact that I find Android far more pleasing, I bought my Moto X for half the price of an iPhone 5 and I have a data plan for 10 Euro per month. This means I can upgrade my phone every 8-12 month without spending a dime extra.
Corporate culture in general rewards narcissists, interviews are just a manifestation
If I understood the article correctly, a BSc costs $60k in tuition for an online course. I believe this to not cover required textbooks etc., which are likely more difficult to find in a library if you’re on the other side of the country.

In comparison, my BSc at TU Berlin cost me 6 * 240 €, which includes free access to Berlin’s public transport system. And while the financial state of Berlin is certainly far from perfect, I wouldn’t call it ‘collapsed’ (oh, and I get the impression that a college education in the US is more like a high school degree in Germany and not directly comparable to a proper university degree…any comments/similar observations?)
Cultivating serendipity
Here is a fork for anyone that hits this from google; https://github.com/Atraci/Atraci
Top 3 Questions to Evaluate Your Strategic Initiatives
This is going to be a conundrum for ultra-liberal coffee hipsters... On the one hand, Starbucks is "The Man" and killing their precious neighbourhood artisan roasters one after another, on the other hand they're offering a chance to a good education to their workers and setting a new example for other companies to follow. Hard choices.
Show HN: A simple Futures and Promises library written in Swift
The absolute belief that the free-market will always correct itself for the benefit of everybody is very much like the absolute belief of communists that in a communist world everybody will work at his/her best for the benefit of everybody. In many markets, the only way to avoid monopolies or tight oligopolies is with anti-trust legislation, but recognizing this is impossible for those who believe that all regulation is evil.
> corrupt spacetime

Like (say) a vacuum metastability event?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum#Vacuum_metastabili...
Australia is selling 35% of the worlds coal. He is in the mining corporations pocket.

This is why they are shutting down much of the funding into alternatives. Even parts which are already making money, or saving money. Not including research like this which could be world changing. It's not even bucket loads of money in many cases.

Note that it is winter in Australia at the moment. There is a lot more heat and sun in the summer.

There is a small window of 10-20 years left to sell the shit out of coal before it becomes redundant. Germany already had a day in May producing 75% of its electricity needs from renewable resource power generation. So much that producers of electricity had to pay money to put electricity into the grid. The record the year before was about 60%.
People who wouldn't declare themselves "fans" of Gatorade might still be OK declaring themselves "fans" of The Glenrothes Distillery, or of The Butcher and Larder in Chicago, or of Merge Records. Doritos doesn't have much social signaling value, but the St. Louis Cardinals do.

Also: 99.9% of people who use Facebook don't think at all about how much information they're giving Facebook. They don't care. So Facebook knows I like Bob's Burgers but not The Family Guy. And?
This is missing a (2010) tag.

Unexpected problem coming from a naïve "optimization". Shows that sometimes it's better to just leave code as simple as possible rather than implementing "clever" optimizations.

Especially in something so fundamental as the base class for all Sets in the collections framework.
Here's another pixel editor, but this time made with ClojureScript and Om (React-based framework).

https://jackschaedler.github.io/goya/
Shortest path for an engineer’s brain: Coding workflow and decision framework
This is a formally documented decision framework to assist with unforeseen progress blockages and delays during work, we all have deadlines and at the same time as engineers we need to maintain the quality of our code. I composed this document some time ago to keep track of all the points that helped me develop software faster with minimal hit on quality over the years.
"Beaudry, Green and Sand make the case that the technology bubble that burst in 2000 was far more significant than generally recognized."

As I see it, there have been two milestones in corporate IT history.

The first was around getting things into databases that could be shared by multiple users. A good example of this is stuff that used to run on the VAX.

Then there was a desktop revolution triggered by the combination of the internet, and Windows NT/2000. You could now push a computer around without being a hobbyist, and microsoft office brought various kinds of productivity.

The mindsets created by the previous revolutions are holding us back now.

* IT departments suffer from the architectural mistake of creating vast databases with multiple dependent systems on them, making maintenance and quality very hard. How many times have you asked your gas company to make one change that has resulted in some bizarre side-effect on your account?

* The dominance of single-user document-centric systems like Microsoft Office hampers effective collaboration.

This narrative explains why we're bogged at the moment. It's similar to much of what was written in the 90s - at the time, writers complained that that return on investment in IT was very low, and wealth was shifting to Japan not China.
You should have added the official URL of the source for your quote in your
submission, but you may have read it in the mass mailing they did recently.
I found your quoted text here:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/microsoft-service...

Though Microsoft has a prevalent platform, and adding support for their
platform to your own products can be profitable, trusting Microsoft with
anything has always turned out to be a really bad idea.
I get at least one full day with every charge of battery, sometimes 1.5 days. I don't think it's bad on Nexus 5.

I've never had to clean caches or kill apps since the date I bought the Nexus 5 in Oct. last year.
>It makes no sense to want to have different platforms but still be bound to not have unique APIs and frameworks for each.

The point is, that this is an artificial arbitrary, a line drawn in the sand by market - not technological - forces, and to play along with it is to pander to the divide and conquer strategy begin applied in the effort to capture developer mindshare. Why deal with it at all, when .. with a little effort .. a cross-platform solution that works effectively on all platforms is a tangible, viable product? Just consider the amount of work that had to be done to update apps for the recent changes in iOS' look and feel, and consider what life would be like if instead the effort was made on a cross-platform solution that put the application-standard GUI together, driven by the application-developer, not OS/hardware vendors whose motives are entirely driven by keeping developers away 'from those other platforms'.

I've built big Android and big iOS projects. Neither one of them is better than the other, in any sense whatsoever; both platforms have their thorns and pitfalls, and maintaining two separate codebases, with all the pitfalls, is just counter-productive. Better to have one codebase that fits all and keeps the productivity where it needs to be: on the application, and not on keeping up with the joneses ..
I'm not very familiar with the implementation of programming languages, so maybe the terminology is subtly different, but how are either of those situations not deterministic?
They address cost in the article.

"So instead of relying on burning coal to produce supercritical steam, this method demonstrates that the power plants of the future could be using the zero emission energy of the sun to reach peak efficiency levels – and at a cheaper price."

They also say that it is not ready to be used commercially. But this organisation is quite good at making things commercially viable. Rather than just doing research for tax breaks.

From one of the researchers:
“Steam flowed at around 330kg/hr , which equates to a little over 300kW of adsorbed solar energy. The experiments were designed to represent a single element of large scale design, so scale up is related more to multiplicity than redefining heat and mass fluxes.”

This experiment was done so they could scale up production of power by just adding more of these.
Developer Tools and The Mac App Store
I've never heard that. It's certainly 'acceptable' to leave litter on the train at the final stop, but other than that I think pretty much all littering is approached with typical British sensibilities - we frown on it, from afar.
How to get into Y Combinator – make your barbershop seem like the next Google
Corporations are legal fictions. They exist through the power and authority of the State, their contracts are enacted and enforced through agents of the Courts. Corporations are manifestly not free to organize as they will.

Is it economic freedom to have one choice for Internet broadband? For healthcare? Unregulated monopolies should supply us with food, water, power, and all other essential utilities/needs? Welcome to the age of thousand dollar a pill medicine. Every communication, location, every purchase, every mouse click or swipe duly tracked, recorded, and data mined. To imagine that as freedom merges the Dickensian with the Orwellian.
The bind operator (>>=) is commonly expressed in 'do' notation. The following two code snippets are equivalent:

do x <- foo; y <- bar; baz x y

foo >>= \x -> bar >>= \y -> baz x y
Evernote's Major DDoS Hit And 3 Business Steps You Must Take
Learn C# instead:

0) easily very cross-platform (but you will have to pay), mainstream in mobile games via Unity3D;

1) not locked to one company: .NET by Microsoft, Mono by Xamarin;

2) open-source and welcoming feedback;

3) modern and innovative (not like Swift, but for real - introducing stuff like async/await, mixed dynamic/static typing etc.);

4) allows building mobile, web, desktop, butt software today;

5) first-class IDE, that will get an extensible compiler-as-a-service in 2015;

6) best in class automated refactoring via ReSharper.
Floors author here. It's great to have people like you commenting on such things so that other people like me get ideas for things to hack on :)

That said, I'm still learning the basics of Rust and therefore try to narrow the scope. Floor strives for simplicity rather than being feature rich. When I turned to Rust I was disappointed to see what the state of web development was. It seemed to be extremely complicated to even write a very simple web server. Especially compared to how easy such things are with something like express.js.

Rust is still under heavy development but I think we will see a lot of those missing bits popping out here and there in the coming months.
Large business corporations today have a huge amount of power in their hands; in the context of greedy shareholders and governments which are getting proportionally weaker, there can certainly be "nice" corporation in the traditional sense, but most of the times, their niceness is synonym of good PR. In this specific case, it's important not to forget the massive amount of taxes that Starbucks avoids.
Why You Need to Stay In School
Just a thought. You could do some interesting reporting on this data. What about finding all trips to a particular address e.g. a politician's house ? Or finding all taxis exiting a known crime sense.
Humans became a technological species immediately at the critical point where a few percent of us could be rational and original a small percent of the time.

That was enough for knowledge to start snowballing.

In historical terms, that happened a few moments ago and we are still at the mostly-stupid stage. Before we have a chance to evolve to be smarter, technology itself will have left us in the intelligence rear view mirror.

No species lasts forever but we should feel successful for being the origin of not just the next species, but the next order of life on Earth after DNA. Self-designed life will be as profoundly smarter than we are, as multi-cellular life became more interesting than the first microbes.

This is very inspiring to me. But if for some reason, you find it depressing that our technological "children" will soon look nothing like us, there is still time to find a way to transition your own mind into that next generation. Just be prepared to change anything about your own biology that holds you back, just like to learn you need to sacrifice any beliefs that hold you back. Prepare yourself mentally now to sacrifice your biological substrate and neural continuity for your new uber intelligence in a few decades.