skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Her school does insist that they spend a lot of time using computers for research and writing, and they even take some standardized tests on computers, but they do not teach the kids how to type. (emphasis mine)

That's just asinine. When I was in high school 30 years ago, if a school had insisted that all reports be typewritten and yet did not offer typing classes, I'm pretty sure some job losses would have occurred. What other tools shall we insist that children use without instruction? Hand them pencils in 1st grade and demand that they produce legible communication that they're left to just figure out on their own? Here's a band saw for shop class, have a bookshelf done by end of day?
I thought Apple was rejecting apps that made use of the UDID.
I'm pretty excited about this product. I find that if I'm not doing TDD, all I want is integration tests to make sure the high level stuff works. Add in the fact that there's a command line interface for local dev and it adds up to something that could be more powerful and easy to use than rspec.
>60% can't find a job in their field isn't a "motivational problem" or a "I picked the wrong degree problem". It is a general, widespread economic problem.

Not necessarily. If there have ever only been 2,000 positions for marine biologists opening up every year and 20,000 graduate, that's not a widespread economic problem so much as a mismatch between what people want to do and the availability of jobs in that field.

Part of the problem is too many people are getting advanced degrees. It seems to be dogma these days that society will become wealthier if we graduate more people with specialized skills. But that's putting the cart before the horse - producing a whole bunch of experts in fields with no demand for those experts results in a bunch of people who've wasted a decade of their lives.

People need to be realistic about the implications of their field of study.
> I wish I remembered where the study was now, but I remember reading one which said that girls were naturally curious about STEM careers, up to around 12, when it starts to tail off dramatically. The theory was that societal issues begin to kick in that makes girls not want to: no role models, fellow students telling them it's for nerds and no girls do it, male jock stuff.

Or it could be puberty.
Ah! I think this was recently reprinted in the "Intoxication" issue of Lapham's. Very interesting essay in a very interesting magazine. That one also turned me on to the "Coffee Cantata" of Bach:

http://coldewey.cc/post/49474192760/bach-ei-wie-schmeckt-der...
Because having a bachelors degree from a good (not necessarily elite) university should equip you to handle any number of jobs in general management or government.

If that's not happening, there could be a few different reasons:

1. Getting a BA isn't as rigorous as it used to be, and no longer means "This is an educated person. Besides their specialty, they should be smart and adaptable enough for most administrative-level purposes." Pseudo-professionalism has also closed the doors to some of these jobs, maybe as a way to get around civil service tests as a way for the educated to get government jobs without specific training.

2. The white collar, middle class job pool has been decimated, and not enough places need generally well-educated people.
Work with Angular JavaScript in the San Francisco Bay Area
I was (still am?) the proud owner of a microdrive. It was supposed to fill the niche between tape and floppies. Tape is interesting media but somehow it keeps losing (spoken by someone who still has tons of audio tapes lying around).

It would be cool to do a teardown of the microdrive.
Transatomic Power Wants to Build a Better Reactor
5 Reasons Natives Have Lustrous Locks: Ancient, Indigenous Hair Remedies
What's a reasonable pace? 12 wpm is 2-3 pages an hour.
As I stated above... flip is well defined so long as your arguments are positional.
It's to devalue the profession. Instead of a 'software developer" or even "programmer," now you're just a "coder" or even a "code monkey."

All of these initiatives that claim to want to make programming more accessible, even though it is already extremely accessible in that it doesn't require a degree or licensing and there are a wealth of free tools, books, and other information available online now to get started with, are really intended to change the public's perception of programming from a highly-technical, white collar career to a low-skill trade that is easy and that anyone can do so they can flood the job market with sub-par applicants and drive down wages.
>Physics journals are, sadly, extremely wary of accepting anything that seems philosophical.

What's so sad about this?
"MYTH #1 Apple Has The Best Designers" - don't want to be a troll, but it's enough to say "iOS7" as an anwser (e.g. http://www.nngroup.com/articles/ios-7)
That site works great on mobile devices!
http://i.imgur.com/W9ouzFS.jpg
Where'd you get these numbers?
Which implies there's a distinction between "siphoning arguments around" and "application". That feels very weird.
Sort of, they're very similar still. In actually the layout is almost exactly the same, its the rendering and compositing that has significantly changed between the two.
What pains come from the JVM? From my viewpoint the JVM is the best thing to come from the Java ecosystem.
Cool baby photo
A nice and cool baby picture that will surely make you smile!
One thing I haven't seen explicitly stated in this whole debate is that workplace diversity is very much a zero-sum game. If Google / Tech Sector / Random subgroup of the economy is to be representative of the population, those workers have to come from some other equality lop-sided subgroup.

There are structural issues which can cause the workforce as a whole to not be representative of the population - lack of opportunities for poorer people / minorities or lower participation by women due to child-rearing, etc. Even after accounting for those,

I do appreciate the sentiment and effort, but most of what I've seen is empty belly-aching.
Your comment embodies the millennial stereotype. There's a recession, therefore I can't be successful. The economy doesn't improve by magic, we need people creating wealth. And that may not be in their chosen field.
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_318.20.as...

Please find me 60% in a single class of major in that table for me?

How about we write off two entire categories. Say Humanities and "Other" degrees!

That is only 41% of that 60%.

It just doesn't get you there to blame "those people". Sorry.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/20/o...

And if you think the 60% number is high, this one pegs it at 73%!
Can't wait for JS support so I can:

<html>
<body>
<iframe src="http://trevorlinton.github.io/"></iframe>
</body>
</html>
I would find it incredibly hard to believe that sexual maturity has anything to do with an interest in STEM. Some kind of evidence would change my mind, however!
> You don't get any browser choice at all when your hardware is running ChromeOS or FirefoxOS

Both browser based OS's are still in their early phases. What if the hardware could run both, just as easily as you could put whatever flavor distro of linux on your desktop?

There's too much closed source OS specific drivers to really allow you to run whatever OS you want on whatever hardware you want; and everyone is disincentivized unless money is involved. But what if drivers were open source? I'm not sure how to incentivize that (the community fixing shitty GL driver implementations, maybe), but I would bet you it would be a hell of a lot easier to get you favorite software running on your favorite hardware if they were.

Right now, closed source drivers are a thorn in the side of users having choice. With the rapid progression of the Mesa project in particular, when hardware manufacturers come around to releasing their drivers, then ChromeOS, Firefox OS, and Tizen will be poised and in a good position.
Anyone know what that framework is? I switched my chrome display to 150% in order to push my laptop further back.

That framework breaks unless 100% is used.
I've heard that the whole quantum tunneling stuff is in practical terms bullshit. While it's a real effect (and physicists looove to talk about it), it's virtually irrelevant b/c the overwhelming issues is parasitic capacitances. When you have a 3Ghz clocks, everything acts like a capacitor and you have current leaking all over the place (the smaller the circuit the closer all the elements are).

So transistors in modern processors don't end up switching consistently. There is all sorts of error correction to compensate for that, but it only goes so far.
Allow me to disagree slightly. If I'm on El Capitan in Yosemite I might think it was a stellar idea to get a picture of me and my spouse from the perspective of just off the face. That would both put me in the picture and put this amazing rock formation in it as well. Currently you can only do that if you hire a helicopter.

'Getting the right shot' kills a lot of tourists (I wish I knew exactly how many), if they were using drones to position the camera into that potentially dangerous position they might not die.
Maybe it's just because my parents were born in the '30s, and experienced the Great Depression and WWII, and I came of age in the dreadful '70s, but it was always a given for me an my siblings that hard times might come again. You need reserves (which include living with the parents, if that's possible), contingency plans---hmmm, both me the eldest and my following sister had to exercise those---etc.
Indeed, the DSL is now in JavaScript.
Many South African kids who went to college were so determined to stand on their own feet that they went to the developed world to take whatever job they could find. Now the parents rarely get to see their kids (and their grand kids). So American parents should be careful what they wish for !
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=sciencevsmagiclnet#!/story/forever...
Dear Mona, I Still Buy CDs. Am I Normal?
You know - I totally missed it because of the way it was written. Sorry for complaining! Thanks so much :)
You can have the best of both world with an IDE with good autocomplete where you only have to type a few characters and hit tab most of the time, resulting in less time typing and improved legibility.
Ex-NSA Chief Pitches Banks Costly Advice on Cyber-Attacks
Why should they have to give less direct feedback or make suggestions like that? To avoid hurting his feelings? To point him in the right direction so he knows what to do next? The author is a tenured university professor, not some high school student.
I don't think that quantum computers are made of subatomic components, nor are atoms split in the process.
Balzac's story makes me wonder if I'll make it to 50. I'm not quite at his level, but I'm not far behind.
No, and the answer why should be blindingly obvious to any intelligent person: computer engineering (as opposed to your chosen examples of truck driving childcare, and auto repair) is among the most well-paid, economically influential, and entrepreneurial profession today, and will become increasingly so in the future. Gender and race representation is simply of less concern for less aspirational, lower-paid professions that do not require extensive education or access to technical resources.
Your justification of "huge amounts of history" only applies in very limited contexts, all of which can be hard wired without allowing general operator overloading.

"<<" does not mean "bit shit." Several languages use it to mean "bit shift," but many do not, and even in those languages the usage is ambiguous. C uses two operators that, visually, could refer to six different operations: arithmetic shift left/right, logical shift left/right, rotate left/right (on x86: shr, shl, sar, sal = shl ror, rol). As a result, the C standard leaves right-shifts of signed negative numbers implementation defined.
I agree that "FirefoxOS will host Safari / Chrome apps, before iOS will allow a Firefox." doesn't lead to "Open FTW." I think Open still wins, for other reasons I've been trying to document. [0] Firefox OS is still young, and if it can establish meaningful marketshare, it puts Mozilla in position to change the industry.

For example, what if Mozilla had leverage over device manufacturers to say "no locked bootloaders" and device manufacturers complied? I'm not sure Mozilla has that leverage today, but what other ways could Mozilla affect the industry for good once it does?

[0] https://github.com/nickdesaulniers/What-Open-Source-Means-To...
I'm guessing Bureau of Labor Statistics.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.pdf
Fun with Python bytecode – Generate and modify it using evolutionary algorithms
Something about Christensen and his authoritative response seems most at home in the former group.
When is typing speed ever really the bottleneck? Code gets read 100x more often than it gets written, and any editor or IDE worth it's salt can auto-complete faster than you can think anyway.

#teamReadability
Sounds like an excuse for writing bad code. I work with people who deeply care about the code quality yet somehow open to refactoring and design suggestions. If it is worth it, it is not going anywhere: care, refactor, maintain.
You're weren't looking for pink?

On a more serious note, I still wish we had things like this combined with the intelligence and semantic deciphering that Ubiquity did [1]. I've disappointed that Ubiquity didn't go further.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/labs/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/
They actually do support C#, but I missed it because I read the list too quickly.
Family? Kids? Working at night and weekends quickly disappear once you have life in your work-life balance...
> I totally agree with you. But there is a big difference between living at home so you can get your business off the ground, and living at home so you can more easily afford your video game hobby.

Or so that you can afford the rent-sized payment on your student loan debt.
This is exactly it. When people say shit like, "why aren't we encouraging women to become garbage collectors because that profession is entirely male dominated" they just demonstrate that they haven't thought about the issue thoroughly and they think gender balance is something to aspire towards just for its own sake.

edit: Thanks for the downvotes. I must have hit a sensitive spot.
So it's about equality and equal gender representation only in well paying professions? Doesn't sound all that equal to me.
Neat. Getting some good use out of HTML2Canvas as well. But always wondering why there is no way to get a bitmap from screen... something like window.getPixels(x, y, width, height).
The Supreme Court doesn't understand software
You can fork the project on Github and Mercurial and write DOM bindings to whatever JavaScript engine you'd like.

[0] https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/B2G
[1] http://hg.mozilla.org/
Most of them probably don't need to type that much.
Being nice in business is easy, it's the not-being-a-backstabing-jerk part that most people don't seem to get.
The underlying rates of degrees from the various fields haven't changed all that much. Finding a few humanities students who can't find jobs isn't all that helpful.

http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_318.20.as...

The main issues are that, since the 70s, a handful of things have happened that students (as a massive whole) haven't reacted appropriately to:

1) There are simply fewer job openings in many of these fields than there once were.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm (you'll have to step back through these reports over time, but note that the increasing industries tend to be the lowest wage industries)

2) The massive rise in the cost of education, coupled with the fact that almost any of the few good-paying jobs requires a bachelor's degree or higher. Supply of workers > demand for workers depresses wages.
https://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tabl...

3) Private sector jobs in a good many fields have been outsourced, with low wage service jobs on the increase.
http://online.wsj.com/news/interactive/MULTINATL0419

4) Public sector jobs have become increasingly rarer.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/sep/16/census-shows-big...

5) Home prices have dramatically increased over this period (which may actually be a good thing, since the workforce is now more mobile than ever before)
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/02/us-hous...

6) Unions, for all their problems real and perceived, were once actually pretty good at holding the line on wages, but have seen ever-decreasing membership.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm

7) An increasing portion of the workforce is contingent (temporary and/or seasonal). http://www.dol.gov/_sec/media/reports/dunlop/section5.htm

Does any of this mean they didn't pick the "right" degree? Maybe part of the problem can be found here. However, the problem is so large among millennials, I'm not sure choice of degree accounts for all that much of why recent college grads have boomeranged. My point is that while students with degrees in various fields hasn't changed much, the rest of the world around them has changed quite a bit. Most of it can't simply be solved with a different degree or more passion.
A lot of people like Torch. I haven't looked at pylearn2 in a while, but that might be good too. Then there are a few researcher libraries with limited documentation. Nitish Srivastava has his DeepNet library and George Dahl has gdbn and there are certainly a few others too. Who knows, maybe people will start contributing documentation.

I would probably recommend Torch at this point. The incentives don't exist for the experts to make really good open source projects and spend all the time required maintaining them and helping people with them.
MYTH #5: Steve Jobs was a vegan.

I knew about the unagi. But salmon, too?
So far, nobody has really said what value comes from the (presumably illegal, and hence cover-up required) use of IMSI catchers. We've all speculated ("easier to find criminals!", "cheaper to find criminals!"), but what, exactly, is the value to law enforcement? The citizens of the USA are supposed to decide (through their representatives, of course) about what to do and how to do it. Perhaps the tools aren't useful, perhaps they are. Without some knowledge we don't know. The feds need to open up about IMSI catchers.
Containerized shipping is a major factor in the decline of manufacturing employment in the West, which was the backbone of the 20th century economy.

Politically, NAFTA, GATT, MFN status for China, and the creation of the H1-B program all happened around the stuff waps mentions above (oil price drop, stock bubble, and dot.com bubble of the 1990s). When the latter burst, the effects of the former became more clearly apparent. While this lead to increased opportunity in many countries, the cumulative result of all these changes makes the entry-level job market in developed countries in 2014 or 2004 very different than that of 1994, 1984, or 1974, and it's difficult for older Westerners to account for this when projecting their own experiences.
>On the other other hand, if the employees enter into that deal consciously and happily, then maybe nobody loses.

Society loses. Friends and family lose. Health is probably compromised. Other businesses lose from the employees not being able to spend their money as frequently.

Maybe I wouldn't be so critical of it if we in American had the same amount of days off as other first world countries.
Harry Lewis is that rare academic who is usually honest:

http://harry-lewis.blogspot.com/2014/06/clayton-christensen-...
I see this everywhere now and it's driving me nuts. Who thought using up that much space on a mobile device was a good idea?
My parents are more optimistic and less pragmatic in their 60's than I am at 30. My wife's parents, in their 50's, are somewhere in-between. This is anecdotal, obviously, but it's consistent with the study I linked-to about millenials trusting other less than Gen X-er's, who trust others less than baby boomers.

Obviously people are more optimistic before graduation than after, but I think that's been true ever since Americans started going to college in large numbers, with the baby boom generation. I do think the shock of graduation and the drop-off in optimism has been greater with people in my generation, but I don't think it's because they were more optimistic than previous generations before they graduated. I think it's because, by virtue of the economy, they're more pessimistic and cynical after graduation.
That's crazy. My elementary and middle school required that we took typing classes. Mavis Beacon on Apple IIs FTW.
Diversity isn't a zero sum game. STEM is one of the fastest growing professional fields, meaning more people--of any gender--will need to fill those jobs.

The goal is gender balance, there's no need to fear that a woman or a person of color accepting a newly created STEM job will somehow push a white man out of his existing position. Let's be realistic here.
As a counterpoint, people with creative writing degrees can easily, easily slip into any "inbound content marketing specialist" role at $PICK_YOUR_TECH_COMPANY and immediately turn that degree into money. Drama, creative writing, social work, and teaching degrees are all skills. Better, in my opinion, than a "marketing" or "business" degree.
Granted, I was making some assumptions about the original post. For me it's not about the choice of DB, it's about having the proper knowledge, time, and team to be able to setup a production environment that isn't seriously flawed in one or more ways.

I would need a hell of a lot more than a time savings of 1-2 days to add a whole new database technology to my production environment. Even if I know the tech the installation, configuration, automated backups, and automated validation of backups will likely consume more than 1-2 days to get setup. Then add on the learning curve aspect if I've never used it in a real production environment. Then add on the learning curve for any team members who might not be familiar with it.

Weeks, maybe. A day or two: not worth it.
Was it something like "we own your inventions while you work for us, and a year after you stop working for us"?

I've gotten that clause myself in an employee agreement. The company wanted me to sign and they said their lawyers "wouldn't let them" change it.
Don't similar societal issues also turn off many boys to STEM around the same age? I was definitely not in the larger, more popular bunch of kids starting around 10 years old.
There is a lot of truth in what Tim says.

The Java + Clojure + JRuby ecosystem has been very good to me. That said, I have been spending more time writing Haskell code that anything else this year and being away frmm the JVM, and being able to build compact executables is a breath of fresh air, especially since I am looking at Haskell now more as a strongly typed and perhaps better Lisp.
Yes. Like Chrome. And Android devices. And more. Yes, this is why Heartbleed is/was bad.
So as the economy has changed dramatically people are going into the same majors in about the same percentages? Doesn't that seem like a problem on its face?
I think thats semantics. What is a coup but a transfer and consolidation of power?

The only difference I can think of is the time span. This seems to be a long haul kind of game as opposed to the traditional military coups of past (and present).
Hmm… my paddle kept getting stuck. I'd hit the arrow buttons and nothing would happen. Then it would unstick for no reason and work (after losing a point, of course). Very frustrating.
> HP lacks the funds, manpower and manufacturing muscle to really get anywhere in this area.

They might lack the political will, but HP has ~$15B cash on its balance sheet, 350k employees, and tens of billions in fixed assets.