skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other thing about non-large-metro areas is that they're expensive to expand into. You need to promote Uber locally, recruit drivers, use promotions to drive demand while building supply, and all of that for a not very large market. There are a lot of these not-very-large markets, and, in aggregate, they're definitely a big opportunity. But they're inherently more expensive to acquire and slow to move into. Great for a mature company -- but hard to drive rapid growth with such a strategy.
I'm intrigued by this style in javascript but it seems like swimming uphill. Note all the annotations in comments he has to give so that he can understand how his functions will compose correctly.
Isn't iBeacon a transmit-only technology? So there's no way for the iBeacon to log nearby devices. Then it's two completely different types of systems; one can auto-track users and the other cannot.
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Wow, calm down political correctness police.

Firstly, he didn't assert shit. He said he believed things to be a certain way - at no point did he state any of his -opinion- was fact.

Secondly. What he had to say was really not that sensationalist. If you strip away your political correctness glasses you will see that he was just saying that he thinks women would prefer to be hired (and attracted to a position) by their ability, not some specially crafted touchy-feely job description.

Whether you agree or not is another thing entirely but seriously back of the the PC Police attitude, it doesn't do you any favours.

The "you clearly know jack shit" assertion is just outright offensive though and doesn't belong anywhere let alone here.
A more fundamental International System of Units
Obviously. However, speed isn't relevant since you can't erase your fingerprints of your entire life on the internet.

> You can use this argument when you can wipe out all copies of a nude woman whose ex posted her to imgur or something. Until then, you are just 100% wrong because you know you can't do what you claim.

That is really what it boils down to. You can't erase all of the evidence on the internet, so you are screwed anyway.

I think the most amusing part of this is the fact I basically agree with the comment I responded to except to the severity and scope of the danger.

Vulnerable people will get screwed. Most people won't.
Don't you think that would end up like the patent office? Rubber stamps for everyone...

I think a far more effective solution would be to require all laws be version controlled on a publicly available site. Something like github for Congress. No more need to reference Act 737 Paragraph 3 section 2 part H. It's just a diff at that point. It would make it very clear who is proposing changes to what. Combine passage with a code review process so that everyone can see who voted for/against/abstain and why for everything, ever.

The NSA can view the totality of everything we do. Why are we still unable to view the totality of what Congress is up to? 300,000,000 Americans private lives are under total surveillance, while we can't even monitor the supposedly public activity of a measly 600 people.
Does Apple consider iCloud a competitor to other cloud services? You need an Apple device to sign up for it, so you can't move to it if you only have access to Android or Windows devices.
And "awesome".
As someone with the opposite experience (I have just a semester of college): if you're even a little bit successful with the iOS development job, it's going to be very hard to go back to school. Once you let it, life happens fast.

I don't regret not going to college, but I'm not happy about how drastically my life choices foreclosed it for me.
would like to know what were the results with lots of people trying out different approaches..
The big thing is each individual user would then be responsible for maintaining their own individual cloud. Otherwise, they'll just outsource that out and we're no better than before.

How do you get grandma on her own personal cloud?
I suspect the search engines (Google, Bing, DDG) could do a huge amount to combat this if they so wished.

Just check if the HTTP and HTTPS site returns near identical results (e.g. same title, response code, etc) then link to the HTTPS version by default.

A lot of links that get posted are directly taken (ultimately) from search engine results. Someone will search, view the page, then copy/paste it to others.
Google Explains How It Will Handle 'Right to be Forgotten' Requests
How would this naming scheme work if you're using heroku?
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>If your objective is 50/50, you need to encourage more women to enter the field [programming] rather than complain it isn't 50/50. 74/26 makes it mathematically impossible for every company to hire a 50/50 split.

It's not mathematically impossible. You'll just have the "excess" 48% of the population working in fields that have the opposite gender balance. (Whether or not this is desirable is an exercise left to the reader.)
Can A 50-Person Startup Threaten Oracle, IBM, And Microsoft?
Node.js testing at Box
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While I thought this language was tailored for numerical computations, I've heard of people using it as a fast general purpose language too for those that want c like performance but don't want to write c
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Fiat currencies have intrinsic value due to taxation.
This took McGuivering to a whole new level.
You're looking at the wrong corporations. ISPs are fairly small game in the corporate hierarchy. They've become low ranking gatekeepers unexpectedly which is why they're targeted.

What you need to look at is high finance, defence and global infrastructure corporations.
I thought I was going crazy. This is such a non-story.

People searching for "gary danko yelp" got the first result focused on Gary Danko, and the following results were Yelp pages. There was no link to Google+, there are Google+ reviews that are listed under the official linked website as meta-information. How the results looked:

http://vni.s3.amazonaws.com/140710080638104.jpg

Garydanko.com with their terrible flash site should be glad they even outrank the Yelp pages.

Just because Yelp is known to filter results (pay them for positive reviews on top, do not pay them for negative reviews on top), does not mean that Google is. Maybe Google should respond like they responded to that class-action lawsuit by Belgian newspapers: Do not want to be in our news index? Do not be in our entire index and suffer the consequences. The presentation linked in the article talks about a "barnacle" not a SERP position.

> Google appears to be intentionally serving up search results that contradict the users

Barnacles are NOT search results. The search result that outranked Yelp was the official site! Yelp of course wants to outrank official sites if you mention "yelp" anywhere in your search term.

"yelp" is even mentioned ON the official site (or heavily linked to these pages with the 'yelp' keyword), so it was not like Google was ignoring it. (they then strike-through the term that was not found and report it 'missing') https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agarydanko.com+yelp&pw...

Also the order of your search results obviously starts to matter then. A search for "yelp gary danko" may favor yelp sites more.
Try teaching to kids or nursing.
> A different approach to this would be to put more control of these things into the hands of end-users such that they provide the 'backend' into which you (the developer) load your application.

User Dependency Injection!
There are many startups which do this (or at least similar) already. It's often referred to as "backend as a service" (BaaS). Some links below, but you'll find many more via Google.

http://www.kinvey.com/
https://backendless.com/
https://www.parse.com/
http://www.baasbox.com/
Have you seen Stormpath?
Isn't that what App.net was supposed to be? By most standards that project was a huge failure. It's hard to proposition a user to start managing their own silo.
So true. Though I think a lot of the insecurity comes from not knowing what is actually the norm. When I started out I thought people were kidding, that it was all a big joke, when they told me their hourly wages. Turns out you actually need to bump your prices up quite a bit for it to compensate for all "non-work" stuff.

I'm hoping this article can however slightly help shift the norm for some newly started developer, so maybe they can take the step and ask for more.
If I may, I would suggest thinking about things in a way very similar to how Magic: The Gathering does, which is as a "state-based effect" or "triggered effect". This models very well into programming as event handlers watching state-changes and acting appropriately.

For instance, the most common state-based effect in MTG is death from damage. This is perhaps even easier to model in Hearthstone, as damage is persistent. Simply register event handlers on minions which get called whenever the health of a minion changes; if it's <= 0, trigger death.

Death will then cause any "triggered effects" to fire, such as a deathrattle tigger. This is also easy; just a listener on the death event.
The parent's entitlement.
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> Unless RDP and VNC have fixed their performance problems

Well, they always felt faster to me than X-Windows.
Am I missing something or could this be useful for non-mobile applications as well like HTML/JS apps if they provided an API outside of the iOS/Android SDKs?
You probably don't. You also don't get grandma to run her own power plant, telephone switching network, etc. As long as her "stuff" is portable, it really doesn't matter who provides the service
The advantage of making you register is tracking your progress (and analytics, for the benefit of the webmaster). I suppose it could give you the option to just set a cookie, but that has the disadvantage of being device-specific. Also, some browser crashes can wipe out recently set cookies.
I'm a Haskell programmer and I care about performance. So do many others, which is why you continue to see things like Conduit and more recently Haxl.
Reference? I cant find any evidence apple is shipping HSA devices.
(author here)

Interesting, I wasn't aware of DOMPDF...

Your pdf looks much nicer than what I was able to achieve going from html to pdf with wkhtmltopdf. Then again, your css stylesheet is a bit simpler than what I'm using, I wonder if that'd make a difference.
Out of their recently-launched services, I liked the name "MatchBook" the most. It was intended to provide cheap or free Kindle versions of books which you'd previously purchased physical versions of. Unfortunately, it's a product that virtually no publishers have adopted.
For me, this was the best intro to BitCoin - http://gendal.wordpress.com/2014/03/27/how-i-explain-bitcoin...
It doesn't focus on tech - it explains why BitCoin as a platform is so important and what are the killer apps that can be build with that platform.
This. Most people seem to buy the propaganda and support it universally.
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This gets sort of philosophical. What would be an example of a computer error?
Not sure about feminist efforts, but all recent efforts to reinstate some kind of draft included women: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_National_Service_Act

I know the National Organization of Women's position has always been that they oppose any kind of draft, but if it has to continue they would like women to be included. I think most feminists would understandably rather work to get rid of all selective service rather than include women.
Closet alternative, I have seen till now, is Pouchdb https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb
It shows the value of giving very smart individuals a well-defined goal and uninterrupted time to work on it. It's a good case study in creative productivity.
In EU the Europass CV [1], or "Standard European CV" as everybody calls it, is the de-facto standard CV. It is often the compulsory format for CV for jobs in the public sector and it is also suggested by many businesses.

[1] http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/en/about
It may be FAR compliant, it may not be. But, like Lyft drivers getting tickets, if shit goes down, you're going to pay the price, not Flytenow.

I'm not gonna sacrifice my certificate to find out. I'd rather spend those legal fees on a CPL.
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Looking into the service, the identify providers they support are Amazon (naturally), Google and Facebook.
Not with all decks though apparently. Freeze mage can benefit from the coin immensely
Google Shopping for Suppliers Shutdown
As a husband to a female minority executive in aerospace and a brother to an engineer/executive in green tech, I have to say this is focused on the wrong issues. From what I have seen, qualified women get hired and get promoted. The biggest problem that remains is one of conduct by male employees on the job.

Also, for the life of me, I just can't understand why people want to take a census and say ok, our population is 50%/50% male/female, 50%/20%/15%/5% white/black/hispanic/asian, 80%/9%/9%/2% straight/gay/lesbian/transgender, so let's make sure those magic ratios are equal across all home makers, software developers, the rich, the poor, etc... There is no end to it and it's folly.
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I would like to see some more Windows love than on the first edition.

Bought the ebook, and ended up just reading it as a means to see what changed since the Caml Light days and differences to F#.
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If you know C++ and Qt, shoot me an email. :) I need some help.
Getting Started with Android Wear Security
I think I have never-ever bought something via a banner. I will always read several comparison reviews first. SO ads don't get blocked in my browser for some reason, but the quality of their job ads is very low (e.g. no salary info in 99% cases) and it only works well for open-source-high-rep type of developers anyway. So basically just a timewaster for both me and an ad-provider. Hence block all-around :).
Yes, users care about this but like most things you have to segment the market appropriately. I meet more and more people who are wary of putting all their trust/data/etc into only one provider, be that Google, Apple or anyone else. It's not just a privacy thing but a growing awareness of the sheer dependency on that one company. (Aside: I have to say FB is being pretty clever by buying up apps and letting them stay 'independent' - users don't notice that as much and reminds me of FMCG.).

We don't need most users in the beginning. Just those that are technically savvy enough to understand the landscape and the way the world is headed. From there we can develop more stuff and eventually get it into a state ready for the masses. For example, I can run my personal website as a unikernel [1], which is not suitable for mom-and-pop but great for anyone currently using any static site generators. As more libraries get released I can build on that an eventually run more of my infrastructure this way (my prototypical examples are mail, contacts and calendars).

In terms of the friction for developers, we simply have to make the libraries and tooling fun and easy to use. With well-designed systems it's not necessarily any more friction that what developers have to do now (i.e build their own backend).

> "All that said, I'd love to be proven wrong and see an implementation that is killer enough to solve these problems."

We're working on it.

[1] http://amirchaudhry.com/from-jekyll-to-unikernel-in-fifty-li...
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A computer seeing an instruction, be deciding on its own free will to not follow it, an do something else.
Discussions surrounding threat mitigation and risk mitigation are uniformly one sided on HN, and even the most delicate walk down the line of acceptable mitigation is shunned.

The more interesting point is the inverse position of the community in regards to network and systems security, in which all measures of threat mitigation are encouraged or "required".
> Your implicit assumption is that supply is inelastic. But why should that be the case?

I don't think a large percentage of women completely 100% refuse to enter tech because it isn't using more gender neutral wording and companies don't aim for a 50/50 ratio of applicants and/or hires.

You even admit that it is mostly inelastic and unlikely to change except in a span of years.

Things like pay equality and directly encouraging women to enter Tech [rather than targeting employers hiring practices] makes more sense to me.

> Better benefits and working conditions result in more women being attracted to tech. (Admittedly, there will be a lag here since reputations take a while to change.)

Except, the OP seeks to create those at the expense of women who work in less progressive companies. This leads to a pool of women of whose lives are improved and a separate pool whose lives are negatively impacted. I'm not seeing that as an improvement.

Pay equality and more education would be more productive.

> Sure, the "less progressive" companies are going to have to compete with that, but I don't see the downside in companies competing to treat their employees better.

They actually wouldn't have to even try to compete. They'd simply hire more men because it requires 0 effort on their part. The supply of men isn't going to magically change just because you encourage women. If everything is equal [pay, benefits, etc], they'd be interchangeable regardless of gender.
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Thanks for the article Kevin, but I am afraid that most of your audience will find that just tweaking colors or copy will not produce any meaningful results for their businesses. Let me explain…

We’ve found that a successful approach to A/B testing is really dependent on the type of company you’re operating and product that you’re offering. Small cosmetic changes to the UI or copy often result in equally small changes to click-thru or conversion rates, and so these A/B tests require relatively greater levels of statistical power in order to achieve significance.

For mega-traffic companies like Google or Amazon, these kinds of tests are worth the cost of testing because a sub-1% lift still contributes substantially to their bottom line.

But for everyone else, ‘shallow’ A/B tests of a button color or call to action will often yield inconclusive results. Here’s an article from the founder of GrooveHQ detailing such an experience: http://www.groovehq.com/blog/failed-ab-tests.

If you’re running a small or medium business – or even a larger one that does not have the scalable testing practices of a tech giant like Amazon in place – testing deeper changes to the product, UI layouts or entire UX workflows are what move the needle.
This is what we’re now calling ‘empathic A/B testing’ – where tests are designed with empathy for users.

If you ask the questions: What changes can I make to my product or website that would motivate my users to take the actions I want them to take? What are they looking for? What do they care about? And why? More often than not, I think you’ll find that the answer is not ‘a different button color’

In the end, A/B testing is really a very unsophisticated way of answering the question ‘What works better?’ because you are sending a fixed proportion of your users to a suboptimal variant for the duration of the test. We’ve done a lot of research into better solutions to this problem, and have found that a dynamic approach using a learning algorithm always leads to faster results and higher average conversion rates. You can read more about that here: http://splitforce.com/resources/auto-optimization/
Cool. Before I drop a huge (!!) $3.99 on this app, any idea whether the text in the PDF is selectable?
OK. So here is a question that is bothering me: how did you test this? How did you ensure that this application will reach the 911 SMS service?
> It gets to a point where being friendly to women is so strenuous that it becomes hostile to men.

This is a good point. If you get to the point where people are scared of expressing their thoughts for fear of offending someone who took them the wrong way, you have a serious problem. Most people are not going to put in the effort; they're just going to keep their mouths closed and dodge the confrontation entirely. This leads to bad ideas winning.

Sure, it's one thing about posting a job description. But if you're going to apply that mindset to your job description, you're probably going to apply it to everything from water cooler conversation to official meetings to emails.

And yes, it's important that people are respectful and make your environment a great place to work. But it's a really bad idea to go over the top in welcoming 10% of your workforce and alienating the other 90%.
They're unique while remaining loosely related to the products they describe.

The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%B3calo is the city center (of Mexico City's historical district), a simple and untaken metaphor for a service that "...provides users with a central location for both the documents and files they are...".
Will those ads know that I bought/browsed for something several month ago and still try to sell me similar products that I no longer need?
remember when Microsoft built IE into the OS as an attempt to force everyone to use IE? but it's their operating system!

look up antitrust
>But if you encrypt your traffic on IP and then switch out to unencrypted PSTN then that's completely useless as you'd risk drawing unnecessary attention to your plaintext.

So the solution you suggest is to try to hide in plain sight? Good luck with that.
Not available on Amazon currently, but available on Abebooks:
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Also on Google Books for $9.99: http://books.google.com/books?id=ZMPTAwAAQBAJ
I am unaware of AWS modules discontinued by amazon, but it is also true that the oldest services are the most popular (S3, EC2) while some of the most recent ones have a (apparently?) smaller user base (SWF, Kinesis, AppStream).

I think I remember amazon people saying they are actually dogfooding this stuff so it should stay available for a long time anyway, rather than being a random Google Reader.
>> What happens when the value of a coin is less than the mining costs or ledger maintenance?

> There are transaction fees that go to the block miner.

The issue here is that they go to the person who mined the block originally, but they aren't passed on to those who are simply running the client to maintain the ledger. With the increased difficulty in mining, it's very unlikely for anyone without a large investment in hardware, that you're ever going to make money on the fees. It provides no incentive to run the full client to help the network confirm transactions.
This makes sense, depressing, apathy-inducing sense.
That must be distressing for the families.

As an aside:
Do the SS send letters to dead people born between 1993-1997? You'd assume they'd check for death records or have some way of being notified about that.

For example if a boy is born in 1993 but died at age 5, do the parents get a letter from the SS in 2011 telling the boy to register for the SS?