skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Computer Scientists Show That Mass Incarceration Is Contagious
Don't go down this road of "which should I learn?". Just stick with Django, and maybe, when you are competent in Django, look at Rails. If you cut your Django progress short and switch to learning Rails, you'll soon be looking at Javascript frameworks. Or Scala. Or Go.

Just stick with Django, for now. Not because it's better or worse, but because you're already on that path.
> Perhaps the biggest thing I gained from the experiment was the ability to take a power nap any time, any where.

If this can be reliably learned, it actually seems really valuable. Now I wonder if there's a way to learn it that doesn't cost significant IQ for three months.
Wrong. Pay the bill after the statement is delivered and on/before the due date. Paying before the statement arrives means you receive a statement with a balance of $0. When reported to the credit bureaus, a $0 balance does nothing to help your credit score.
You can also ask around at credit unions to find one that reports to credit bureaus and take out a small loan and pay it back on time. It will cost you a bit in interest but is another avenue to building credit.
The boot time is annoyance, and resource hogging is unfortunate, but I can easily buy my way out of those problems by buying bigger machines and doing it in advance. My time is more valuable, I think, and server costs are negligible next to payroll. There are business models where hardware costs dominate like, I don't know, video processing or something, but most startups are not in that boat - they need to iterate on UX as fast as possible.
See mkxp (https://github.com/Ancurio/mkxp), an open-source replacement for the RPGMaker engine that was used by "To The Moon" for Linux/Mac support.
Looks like it's just Python script, so it should work either of those...
Very interesting response to one of the flash questions at the end:

>> What is the least evidence-based, most irrational area of your life?

> High-risk, optimistic hiring of people. I'm interested in the trajectories of people's lives and how they develop but it is something for which I have the least well-developed theories.
They claim they are going to open source it. This is (disappointingly) common practice among "open source" hardware projects. See, for example, most "open source" kickstarters.
Just to clarify, you were almost certainly not buying a $100 phone, but a $600 phone and two year contract with only $100 upfront.

You can easily buy an unlocked phone for full price, and use it on a prepaid service with no credit check.
It's really too bad the author couldn't come up with a better analogy and conclusion. The majority of the article had nothing to do with the intro or conclusion and was actually a decent highlight of android history and some theories into Google's thought process. But the obvious misogynistic references in the title, intro, and conclusion pretty much ruin the entire thing.
Is there a second step...?
There are also proposals for lower-layer opportunistic encryption, like Tcpcrypt. Being an OS feature it would take considerably longer time to reach wide-spread deployment, but it would add opportunistic encryption to all TCP connections, including regular HTTP.

http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-bittau-tcp-crypt-04.txt
As a counterpoint, I don't think China will ever migrate en masse to Facebook.
You'd think that someone who had regularly saved large chunks of their pay for years, and never got in any debt, would be a pretty safe person to give a mortgage to! Perhaps there's a gap in the market there. Or perhaps there aren't enough people like that to make it worthwhile? :)
I don't think that people who function well with little sleep have a significant advantage anyway.

I might be wrong, but it seems to me that they can get something like 1/16th or so more done in a day - 1/16th of what? A six month project? Delivering 11 days earlier than the other side on something that takes six months isn't likely to be a make or break point on a contract, even if their whole team could work like that - which they undoubtedly couldn't.

It seems like fuel efficiency for your car. If you go from 5mph to 10mpg it's a huge saving, but going to 40 from 35 is almost negligible.
Nobody thought of Hest? I admit it does sound kind of silly though, but it's got the 'H' at least, and it doesn't sound like Rest.
> why are we making excuses for doing the obviously wrong thing?

Sorry if I was unclear -- I wasn't advocating a mis-designed API, I am suggesting that HTTP is way more complicated and subtle than it needs to be for the purposes of remote APIs.

I concede that providing enough information to know what is cacheable (and what the caching key is, etc) is justified complexity. But I think that the other 95% of semantics that "pure" REST demands you follow are pretty useless and pedantic.
Do not take out a loan just to build credit. That's simply a great way to waste money. Just get a credit card and pay it off each month (after the statement but on/before the due date). Setup automatic payments to make this easy.

Also, check out http://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance.
I don't think it's that important to do anything crazy. If you've just had a credit card since you were 18 and paid it off every month you'll likely have a credit score that's more than good enough.

Outside of a house the only reason to carry debt is to hedge your risks on large purchase items you already have the money for (IE you have the money to buy a car, but paying for it up all front may be enough of a risk to utilize credit if it would eat up most of your savings).

The biggest factor that seems to have an effect on my credit score is account age, so I would advise against trying to do anything crazy and short term. Having a single credit card for 8 years will go farther than any crazy loan shenanigans will in 3 IMO.

Paying all your utility bills and such on time goes without saying.
How many of those new users are actually actively aware they're creating a new account?
Blocks could be allowed in one liners. That would make Python a credible solution in that use case.

(And yes, not all one liners need it. I know.)

And list comprehensions seems like a kludge from a lack of real lambdas (map). So that is an extra concept.

Edit: Ruby doesn't have closures?!

Edit 2: 2nd paragraph of the linked article: "In Ruby, Objective-C, and C, functions are not first-class objects, they don't capture closures, and they can't be defined inline." For Ruby, that don't claim there are no closures at all. Got it.
Good catch. Updated at https://github.com/imsky/LocalEuler
Probably not, seeing as that word has such negative connotations.
No one has yet mentioned a secured credit card. They are fantastic and you never have to worry about putting too much on the card since you can liquidate it at any time. Great way to start.
The balloons only have so much buoyancy, and 60,000 feet of cable would end up being pretty heavy. Not to mention that the cables would be a hazard to aircraft navigation.
I use the Jawbone UP24 to monitor my sleep, and apparently, whether I'm getting 4 hours or 6.5 hours, I constantly get ~ 3:50:00 of REM sleep. Yes, I'm one of those founders who can get by on less than 8 hours, but I totally recognize the value of naps and wouldn't discourage my cofounders or employees from taking advantage of that.
Man, I should have thought of this, ( http://kausti.com/blogg/uploadedimages/snelhest.jpg ). But like PBH says "The name is the most important part of a project, and once you have a name there's NO GOING BACK"
IRS Says Bitcoin Not Reportable On FBAR (For Now)
I can't tell if you are criticizing me or sympathizing. FWIW, it's a space I have thought a great deal about and I think I have made in-roads. I don't think it's hopeless. And I am kind of okay with being a "bitch." Successful men are often called "bastards" for being tough enough to make it. The world is not a very kind place for most people, regardless of gender, socioeconomic class, etc.
The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz [Movie Review]
Thank you for explaining the various time standards concisely. I think a lot of people don't know about TAI, but would prefer it to UTC if they did. Leap second handling has been responsible for some pretty serious software bugs. It's so bad that Google doesn't use them internally.

I think it makes the most sense for computers to use TAI internally, and have UTC as a time zone on top of that. Whenever there's a leap second, just push out a TZ update. Most applications don't have special code for time zone updates, which means a lower likelihood of bugs.

Using TAI internally would have another advantage: Computers with GPS receivers could just add 19 seconds to GPS time to get a very accurate TAI. (GPS time is defined to be 19 seconds behind TAI. That was UTC in 1980.)
Ask HN: How do you process and pay incoming invoices? 
Trying to figure out how best to manage the invoices that are sent to me through various channels (email, fax, mail, etc). Does anyone use bill.com, QuickBooks, or other software? Thanks!
france beats germany with 100% certainty?! D:
I'm jealous. It typically takes me an hour to fall asleep.
Freedom of Entrepreneurship
Well, including that wouldn't make sense unless they also included taxes.
> Most of us have forgotten what it really feels like to be awake.”

This may be one part of it. Some time ago, I'd definitely tell you I'm fine with little sleep. You can do it if you sleep very little every night. It's quite easy to adapt to, for example during university exam times

But then after some years you realise you're not actually fine. You just don't remember how different is it to sleep longer. I'm still fighting with myself now to sleep for a reasonable time to reverse the old habit. I did tell people I'm fine with little sleep before. I will happily tell them now that I was lying - just didn't know it at the time.
See my comment above - I think even "low sleepers" recognize the value of sleep for clear thinking and emotional balance. I totally value napping.
No, my argument is that there is no moral standard regarding this issue, that the majority on this planet agrees with, that there is no legitimate interest or ownership that could force anyone from doing otherwise, and that the potential benefits (colonization, resources, space) outweigh the belief in something that might be on Mars.

Meanwhile your argument is based beliefs where you can't even possibly calculate a probability, just like the belief in god.

What we have is our tools and capabilities to try and work with what we can reach at the moment in our solar system.
Implementing tcp socket acceptor pool with golang
Q&A with Gene Kim: Bringing the auditors to DevOps
I don't think this works the same way for all credit cards. At least once I've had a card show that it carried more than its limit in one month on my credit report because I paid it off twice during that month. However, it hasn't happened consistently.
The importance of attribution
There's another question that we are starting to battle recently: how much actual capacity can we honestly add to the road system?

Near my parents' home, there's an intersection of a 18 lanes (!) of highway + access road crossing over a 9-lane surface street. I just don't know how you grow that any further, without the prohibitively expensive option of more vertical stacking.

I've always thought of our current car-based transportation system to be amazingly inefficient when measured in energy consumption per passenger and travel time. But I'm noticing it's also extremely greedy with land use.
The Northwest suburbs (Boulder, Louisville, Lafayette, Broomfield, Longmont) got quite screwed over in this deal - we approved and paid into...

I wonder if, in a political science game theory sense, this is similar to the "red states get the most government spending" phenomenon. That is, it's unlikely that the people of Boulder would ever vote against rapid transit projects. So, a rapid transit program can have political success without serving those "reliable" voters as well as it serves more fickle areas, whose votes could change if they become unhappy with the program.
It's pretty "crazy" that all software that handles UTC needs to have an access to the internet (or software updates) every 6 months. You simply can't leave, say, a sensor somewhere for a year and expect it to record events in UTC.

Sure, you can record events in something else than UTC and convert it to UTC at a later time.
paulrov: You are [dead].
Yes, he may have disagreed, but most of us aren't savants with a perfect recall strategy such as this because, well, we need the inhibition to support other functions.
And conversely if you don't care about types, you might as well use a dynamic language and get something concise and flexible. A static type system without generics is the worst of both worlds; it gets in your way a lot while still not providing guarantees of type safety.
"a person who is sleep deprived has no idea how functionally impaired he or she truly is. Most of us have forgotten what it really feels like to be awake."

I can attest to this. I went through a months-long phase where I got about four to five hours of sleep a night, mostly because I was going to bed around 4 or 5 AM. Only after I began going to bed at a more reasonable time and getting more sleep did I realize how much my mood had suffered and how much worse my ability to concentrate and solve problems had been.
3 open source content management systems compared
So we need to incentivise the people who set the hours.
Ask HN: How to create a dead zone?
I was reading about the existence of briefcase-sized devices that can block GPS signals within a radius of 20 yards or so and it made me think of other methods one could use to block data transmission. I've also heard of cinemas in Ireland incorporating technology to kill cell phone reception. Do any HN'ers have any experience with this sort of technology or know the science behind it works?
What do you want to use this credit for?

I can't think of a whole lot of things that are worth taking on significant debt for a new college graduate. Certainly not real-estate unless it's actually your business because it reduces flexibility to relocate for a job. Maybe reliable transportation, but that's a problem that can also be largely solved by relocation.

Revolving type credit to purchase gas and groceries makes sense. It also makes sense to purchase supplies for one's business. Beyond that, it's just consumer debt.

Putting money into a CD as collateral for a secured loan is probably worse than a slightly lower credit score due to the illiquidity of CD's.
6 Freeway Removals That Changed Their Cities Forever
Having your name on bills does not affect your credit rating unless they are delinquent, which will severely negatively affect your credit.
I like to run long distances, half marathons and mountain runs. When I'm in shape, I can run reasonably fast; I can get close to 7-minute miles on hilly half marathons, and place in the upper quartile in mountain runs.

I have gone through some times in life where it's been really hard to sleep properly. My kid is three years old now, and he still interrupts my sleep patterns. I'm a teacher, and I never sleep enough during the busy time at the start of each school year. When I'm not sleeping enough, I feel it in my running. My muscles are fine, my cardiovascular system is fine, but something isn't there. I can maintain my mileage, but when I try to push myself, I just come up empty.

The best approach I've ever found to help me get enough sleep, was to get rid of my alarm clock. Not using an alarm clock ensures that I get the most out of the sleep that I do get each night.
The thing is, it's pretty much bound to be high as long as you don't do anything stupid. Good credit is nice, but it also takes zero effort for the most part.
You don't need understand that much. If all you know is "a block is just fancy syntax for passing an optional lambda into a method", that will suit you just fine. Does it capture 100% of the nuances of a block? No. But it's a fine bit of functional knowledge. If you throw in calling Object#method(:foo) returns what amounts to lambda {|args| Object.foo|args| } you have 99% of what you'll ever need.
According to I believe mike hearn, the whitepaper was not originally published as a pdf by satoshi. Someone else made the pdf.
Wat kost je huis als je het ‘sleutel op de deur’ laat bouwen?
It is hard. Read this story about one similar rogue balloon from a few years back. The RCAF apparently fired over 1000 rounds into the balloon, and it still stayed aloft.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/160598.stm
Looks great. Can't wait to try it after work!
> I have ~13 years of solid/good credit history, and walked away from a severely underwater townhouse ($~100K underwater) 3 years ago.

Credit items last either 7 or 10 years at most (I forget which). So, from the point of view of the credit bureaus, you have 7 years of solid credit history.

That probably weighs heavily in many credit scores, and if you've only missed mortgage payments but haven't missed payments on revolving credit, that may be strong enough on some credit scores to outweigh the mortgage.

Note that I said 'some credit scores' - there isn't a single credit score, even for any given institution. They all have several, and when a prospective lender pulls your credit score, you don't know which one they're going to use. They use them as secret formulae to figure out whether or not you present a risk to the specific lender, which is why a single agency can have as many as 40 different scores for the same person, depending on which the lender requests.
Ruby definitely does have closures.
> Ultimately the reason why adding more roads to a system produces more traffic is more people take cars vs. public transit.

More precisely, more people take cars vs. not take cars. "Not take cars" can be public transit, human powered transport or even not moving at all.
Why Health-Tech Incubator is the Right Co-Working Space for Chicago
Well yes, people are irrational.

I personally think that a lot of jobs today don't justify driving around at all. What difference does it make if you code in the crowded building of your employer or at home and use tele-conferences to talk with each other? Maybe you would even be more productive if you got rid of all the stress caused by commuting around a substantial portion of the day.

I guess a good chunk of the office work done today could be replaced by remote work, but employers insist on everyone to get into the car, commute and thereby congest roads and burn up non-renewable petrol.

I am seriously wondering why the working population don't bill the time and expenses of commuting to the employers? Most entrepreneurs do. You pay $50-$100 for the plumber to come to your place (just to come there, work is billed extra). Why not office workers?
Johnny Depp in male enhacement video [parody]
I think you are arguing "a priori" - you have a set of given principles and then you derive conclusions. While very powerful when done by smart people, a priori reasoning is often wrong, and should always be trumped by real data. I think one of the points of the article is that the data point to a flaw in the way we intuitively reason about the situation.
Amazing work! Love his about:

"f you’re gonna do something you might as well do it RIGHT. Right?"
It seems very hard to find an high-performance (i.e., not TI's CC3000 module), open Wifi module for a project like this. I assume that's why they choose a chip that requires a binary blob Wifi driver. Has anyone researched the open alternatives? Novena for example didn't integrate Wifi but left it to a PCIe module. Are there open PCIe modules?

edit: I should say, TI's module isn't open either. As far as I know the firmware, which includes a TCP/IP stack, isn't open.
Its all the hipsters fleeing because its not sufficiently underground anymore.
Hadoop specialist WANdisco acquires HBase-like startup OhmData
Title isn't title of page, and it's only one item in a list of dozens that is mostly a discussion of real estate at the time
We use QuickBooks here but have been looking at other options like Freshbooks.
its somewhat cool thing ;]
No Android app, no Windows Phone app. This is not an application suited for modern smartphone world.
This article doesn't seem to address continue, return, and break. These are control-flow features that are often allowed in blocks (though not all languages) that can't be done in a function. That is, in a block "return" will return from the enclosing function, and continue/break are a sort of signal to code calling the block. You can simulate the second, like jQuery.each(function (item) {if (timeToStop) return false}); but I don't know of good conventions for this so typically the functionality is skipped. But it's demonstrably useful functionality because it is so widely present in languages.
Programming languages, operating systems, despair and anger (2009)
> Leave it to "years of urban planning" to determine a proper solution is to make roads so poor that people decide not to use them.

What a weird level of snark. At least in NYC, demand is effectively infinite. Close to 2 million people commute into Manhattan every day, not counting commercial vehicle transportation. Building enough roads to satisfy all of those people is theoretically possible, but leads to plans like these:

http://gothamist.com/2010/01/16/1924_traffic_congestion_solu...

I can't find it now, unfortunately, but there was a serious analysis done of what would be required to accommodate all of the potential demand for car transit into Manhattan, and it was insane how many bridges and roadways were required.

Thats' why you can't look purely at demand. As you make it easier to drive into a city, more people will opt to do so, thereby increasing both demand and capacity.

You even see this in US cities like Atlanta that are not islands, where increasing demand led to more and more road construction, which drove more and more people to live further and further outside the city, since they could just drive an extra 15-20 minutes each day. In the end, the only thing that capped demand for Atlanta was rising gas prices, making it more expensive to commute.

That's why you talk about capacity and utilization - demand is effectively infinite until other costs and considerations reduce demand.
You're speaking in present tense about an 8 year old article
The concern when this got deployed in the Seattle area is that it would be poorer people who are most likely to use these. Example: somebody trying to get to the daycare by 6PM so they don't get charged by the minute for being late.
And people could steal the equipment by pulling the baloon down.
It makes a lot of sense! If there's real world dating consultants, why not have online dating consultants?
As an app just launching it'd make sense to try product-market fit on one platform before investing in all three.
It's an argument to weigh in the balance, yes. Given that Python is more readable than languages without significant whitespace (even when those languages have the advantage of easy multiline lambdas), I don't find it convincing.
What Does Brain Training Involve?
Well, first of all, I'd point to you http://arewewebyet.com/ ;)

Different linking options are found here: http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/rust.html#linkage

Basically, as of right now, when you link statically, Rust will not build in glibc (and jemalloc, IIRC). So, you'll need to make sure that your glibc versions line up. My understanding is that glibc isn't able to be statically linked in without breaking things.

You can use `objdump -T` to see these dependencies. On my system, compiling 'Hello world,' I get symbols for glibc and gcc.

(Go gets away with this by reimplementing the world, rather than relying on glibc. The benefit is a wholly-contained binary, as you've seen. The downside is compatibility bugs, like https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=1435)