skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen this argument before, and, while it's true to some extent, it seems like FUD to me. The same exact argument could be used for every single server you host yourself. But how many people here have an AWS machine running HTTP and SSH?

How many of them have been compromised by the Russian mafia?

People are so scared of email, and I just don't understand it.
Meredith Atwell Baker
> Types lead to cleaner programming,instead of shoving random stuffs into an untyped list,a dev has to think about data structures.

Once you've learned to think about types -- as most introductory courses, even those taught in dynamically typed languages, will teach you -- you can do that just fine in a language that doesn't put a gun to your head and force you to.

(And you can do so in ways that most statically-typed languages have too limited a type system to let you do, too.)
The point isn't so much the ordering, but that they are all - across different traditional returns - outside of historical norms. It's more about the grey bar - wherever it is, the asset is below it or at about the bottom.
No, but you have to live there to vote. If a community consists primarily of homeowners, and not renters, the interests of the homeowners are what will be reflected.

Maybe that's OK, I suppose, but in this case it has meant finding a place to rent is very difficult.
Interest earned on asset investments may be getting smaller and smaller but with inflation at 2% or less, investors are still coming out on top aren't they? So, doesn't this only become a real problem if inflation goes up markedly? Also, if it is a bubble and it pops, wont that mean that for many of those asset classes, investing will subsequently be viewed as more risky and the interest offered increased accordingly? And if inflation does go up, making current returns on asset investment unattractive wont that choke investor demand and force asset owners to offer better interest rates?

Apologies for my economics 101 questions. I like finance but don't pretend to know much about it or understand any of it :)

*Note: when I say assets I'm thinking more bonds, treasuries etc. than physical real estate.
3D Opportunity Course: Additive manufacturing primer for business leaders
Most of the time (unless you choose something horrid like PHP) the language doesn't matter that much. Pick one (Python and Ruby are comfortable for learners) and stick to it while you learn the basics. Research on data structures, algorithms and the like. Have fun.

By the way, since it happened to me: if you find Rails to be too complex for what you need, there are more lightweight alternatives. Don't get me wrong, Rails will get you up and running fast; but when I was a beginner, it left me with the sensation that I didn't really know what I was doing. Using more lightweight frameworks, like Cuba or Sinatra, can help with that.
Life Needs a Dream
Berkeley's intro class was entirely in Scheme up until a few years back (2011) when they switched to Python. It switched when the course's professor (Brian Harvey) retired, he wrote a great post of his thoughts on Scheme vs Python http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/proglang.html
True, but the chance of passing an amendment of such a controversial topic is virtually nil, so I did not consider this as a real option. The bar for the Constitutional Amendment is very high.
>The high food costs are because Japan imports most of its food.

You'll find that the highest priced versions of a food are those produced domestically, beef being a prime example.
>People are scared by the carbon dioxyde they exhale

What is that supposed to mean? That it is somehow safe just because we exhale it?

We cannot live without drinking water, but if you drink too much of it , you would die.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication

So it is possible that releasing CO2 by burning huge amounts in huge amounts in the air may be changing climate. I am not arguing that it is, but arguing against "we should not be scared because we exhale it".

>while they eat polychlorinated biphenyl and a thousand more toxic chemical compounds on a daily basis.

Sure, but they don't come close to what climate change can do. If they can be linked to mass deaths, I am sure people will get more scared of those than they are now.

Back on topic, Is the statement "It must be safe because exhale it" deserving of equal airtime?
I wonder how Google will react to this? I already feel betrayed by how apps seem to meaninglessly and without reason request arbitrary information.

Microsoft also seems to be making a trend about "We care about your data privacy."
that would be very confusing to understand for a beginner. PHP you can write <?php echo "Hello world" ?> right in a html file and see it just by refreshing the page.
JetBrains is doing good in this space. You probably lost any chance of getting a response when you offended Emacs AND Vim users there!
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The problem they are trying to solve is wicked. The problem with IMAP is not that it's awfully complicated - that would be easier to fix with a cleaner and simpler library/SDK. The problem with IMAP is that every service provider fucks up in implementing it in new and surprising ways.

It's very hard to write a program to work with Gmail, Yahoo and Outlook properly without implementing their edge cases. Let alone many thousands of other providers, and many millions of privately hosted servers.

IMAP should be fixed or replaced with something that the implementor cannot screw easily. But that will likely never happen so I'm going to use this.
I have thought about this (well not specifically email but the thought experiment) and come to the conclusion it probably would not matter.

I was in Demon Internet from 97 to 02 and had several opportunities to just jump and start on my own. Perhaps with the right push I would have. But I am not sure an email (or more convincing in-person visit) would be the right push

I am not a natural entrepreneur - I am pushing myself to do this, and my younger self did not jump because of a raft of issues - not lack of knowledge that such things were possible

I am a little envious of today's post grads, in a world that almost expects them to go to SC and run a startup - and they are jealous of me having been in it when it was simple and easy.

Neither of us are right. And messages from the future should not change our personalities or our decisions anymore than non-temporally challenged advice from trusted friends
YoMoji – an emoji only messaging platform
tried it and the results seemed random. I entered a well known brand and got a tweet for baby aylesbury ducks that have absolutely nothing to do with my search. I looked at the tweet and the whole timeline & profile for the user and failed to find the keyword anywhere!

aside from the results being random it's an interesting idea. Better still if it tracked sentiment and charted it over time for me.
It might be worth trying to install it on a larger instance, save the image, and re-launch it into a 128 MB instance. It might work that way.
Using Georgia Tech as an example, the two classes mentioned are the introductory courses for industrial engineers and business majors. The article excludes the introductory course for CS majors (1331) which is taught in Java and the introductory course for most engineers (1371) which is taught in Matlab .
Color choice is a great addition.

Actually you could make it to where people write and it looks like a letter. I think it is a worth while venture. I would just make a page that simulated a typewriter.

And give the option to delete a page you created. I know it will take MySQL coding but I think it is also worth the effort.

Add the basic tweet, email, send, ...
I don't have any concrete numbers, but I can say with reasonable certainty that 60k/year is standard entry-level income at a couple large studios.
Apparently a lot — http://shazow.net/
Anthropologist Graeber mentions neoliberalism. But he claims that even though funding for blue-sky research shrank since 1970's as percentage, it's still ahead in absolute numbers. So there's also another factor: (http://thebaffler.com/past/of_flying_cars)

"What has changed is the bureaucratic culture. The increasing interpenetration of government, university, and private firms has led everyone to adopt the language, sensibilities, and organizational forms that originated in the corporate world. Although this might have helped in creating marketable products, since that is what corporate bureaucracies are designed to do, in terms of fostering original research, the results have been catastrophic."

"The growth of administrative work has directly resulted from introducing corporate management techniques. Invariably, these are justified as ways of increasing efficiency and introducing competition at every level. What they end up meaning in practice is that everyone winds up spending most of their time trying to sell things..."

Also mentions other factors, like concentrating resources into a handful of big projects (like The Human Genome Project).
>>> Should they stop and give equal time to the Flat Earth Society

You seem to miss the point. The point is not who deserves and who does not deserve access to the market. The point is the whole questions stated like this is a problem. Everybody should have access to the market, that's the point. If FES wants to be on idea market, let them be there. If nobody would buy their goods - their imaginary idea store would wither and fall into disuse. That's how it should be done, not by some committee that decides who gets equal share of centralized resource and who does not. You talking about "being demoted", that assumes centralized external control of who is promoted and who is demoted. Right now you laud this model because you sympathize to the point being promoted and despise the point being demoted. But this model is inherently not healthy, as it has control of what is discussed and what is not in the hands of the central power and not in the hands of the people. I was thinking people on HN would get why such centralized system is problematic, but looks like the cheerleading for their team obscures their vision.
Why I chose the LG G over the Samsung Gear Live
Relevant work in the area is Log Hash Chaining as described in RFC 5848, which at least has been through some peer review.

I don't know why they chose to ignore that, let alone what their design is really supposed to guard against. Their design allows an attacker a window of 15 minutes where they can rewrite the log at will.

So the short of it is: Keep using remote logging. Authenticate that. Don't rely on journald.

(I too have had Drepper vibes about the whole situation for quite some time. But a new init standard was long overdue and if distros can finally rally around systemd it might be worth it.)
Why is College so Expensive These Days?
I don't think you should feel any more comfortable attributing malice to Ed than to me. In fact, you should feel less comfortable; Ed's more sincere and thoughtful than I am.
I'd be happy with that but it doesn't match the experience I have with the my credit card (or my debit card but I barely use that at all).
I know, right?

Ahem. All kinds of things, maintaining a bunch of open source libraries and tools (https://github.com/shazow), bootstrapping a service that emails you analytics summaries (https://briefmetrics.com/), building random apps that I happen to need (a partial list on http://shazow.net/).

I suspect your underlying question was whether I am employed full-time—I am not.
This problem exists at all levels of governmental agencies if you ever have to interact with them. Even been to the DMV?
The prosecution is lying about sentences. Those press releases are deceptive. Knowingly amplifying a lie, without context, is wrong. "True enough" isn't good enough. NPR is better than that.
Neo900 reorganization explained
You can download without being a member. There is a Download Standards page that anyone can download from. It's pretty straightforward.

(on the HR Open Standards Board of Directors)
The Android Screen Fragmentation Myth
The geology building at Colorado School of Mines (a few miles west of Denver) used to have a display case in the main hallway with a Geiger counter running 24/7, and posters explaining what different spikes meant (ie, uranium decay made the needle move to such-and-such number). Sometimes I'd stand in the hallway between classes and watch. It was never more than about 15 seconds between decay events.
What does a computer science curriculum have to do with web development?
Author here. Thanks for your comments blahedo. I'm a bit short on time right now, but I will convert some parts of this response into more coherent form and edit my article accordingly to clarify.

I'll address each of your paragraphs in turn:

1.) Re: CS0 vs. CS1. Like you mentioned, I was very upfront about the methodology for this analysis. And I am very aware that most CS majors do not ever take a CS0 course. But please also be aware that there are a minority of CS majors that do take CS0 before moving onto CS1, usually because they feel ill-equipped to take CS1 right away. I harp on this point because even though this is a minority population, it's a very important one since those are students who, without CS0, would not major in CS. These students are more likely to be female or from underrepresented minority groups. On a related note, a larger and larger fraction of non-CS majors are taking CS courses because they recognize the value of programming and computational thinking. (Again, these non-CS majors are more likely to be female and from underrepresented minority groups.) So I would argue that CS0 is just as important as an "introductory programming" course as CS1, if not more important, due to the rise of the non-software-engineers-who-want-to-learn-programming population. [Edit: And I think that a CS department's choice of language to offer to the CS0 student population is still very significant, and a decision that is not made hastily.]

2.) Re: Python CS0 and Java CS1. You are absolutely right, and in my original article, this sentence appears in the discussion section: "Some schools have fully switched over to Python, while others take a hybrid approach, offering Python in CS0 and keeping Java in CS1."

3.) Re: AP exams using Java. Thanks for the clarification. I will remove "it's unclear whether that will change anytime soon." from the article.

[Also, as to cyorir's comment that the chosen data may have been cherry-picked, please rest assured that I tried my best NOT to cherry pick. If I had cherry picked, wouldn't I have made Python look even better? ;) Any incomplete data is strictly due to human error or oversight on my part, and I gladly welcome any correction requests via email.]
Apparently, it's not just an idea:
http://www.inf.usi.ch/phd/wettel/codecity.html
Go to Amazon.com and search for laptop 1080 or laptop 1080p or your preferred resolution

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1/177-6303522-8868339...

The Lenovo T440 is a good choice because you can have up to 12GB of RAM and its two batteries last "up to 17 hours" (the second battery is swappable). Screen resolution is 1600 x 900.

The standard processor is a 2.6GHz Intel Core i5-4200U, which isn't very fast (but is ultra-low voltage). You can upgrade the spec to an i7-4600U.

There's a review at http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Lenovo-ThinkPad-T440-20B...

I don't like the new Lenovo ThinkPad keyboards as much as the old IBM ones, but views differ.

HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G1 is also worth a look.
5 ways data can inspire better marketing ideas
You really need to hire a designer :S

Or buy a premade template and adjust it to your needs (if you want the cheap).
> You seem to miss the point. The point is not who deserves and who does not deserve access to the market. The point is the whole questions stated like this is a problem. Everybody should have access to the market, that's the point. If FES wants to be on idea market, let them be there. If nobody would buy their goods - their imaginary idea store would wither and fall into disuse.

The BBC is not "the idea market". The BBC is a participant in that market (a distributor that spends resources picking up ideas from idea suppliers, packaging them and bundling them into consumer-focussed idea-delivery products -- shows -- and delivering them to consumers.)

The issue isn't whether the climate denial should be banned from the market, the issue whether the BBC is wrong in a decision to stop stocking it.
I really like the changes they are making here.

One that stands out that I think will cause plenty of issues is the "Block Cookies not from Current Website". This should basically block all tracking, like, +1 etc... buttons, right?

I think it will even impact the SSO that Google has across its properties.
Yomoji – An Emoji Only Message Platform
Please provide evidence we are in a depression that is grounded in facts, not anecdotes.
"In the old days there was a respected profession of application programming. There was a minority of elite system programmers who built infrastructure and tools that empowered the majority of application programmers. Our goal was to allow regular people without extensive training to easily and quickly build useful software."

There are lots of people writing software today (probably the vast majority) who are not "elite programmers". Here are just a few examples:

1. All over the academic world, you'll find grad students in physics, biochemistry, etc. hacking together research software in Python (using numpy/scipy), R, and many other languages.

2. All over the business world, you'll find non-programmers writing programs in VBA and other end-user oriented languages to slice and dice data from databases.

3. The average CRUD code that powers today's web startups usually doesn't require anywhere near an elite programmer to create. Think of all the articles on HN written by a "non-technical founder who learned to program in two months and created a site that makes thousands of dollars".
Working on a problem you care deeply about with great people is already a pot of gold. It's something that money literally cannot buy, and much harder to create than than cash in one's bank account.

And as for control, maybe I should just say it explicitly: we have raised investment but are still in full control of the company (aside: it'd be nuts if we weren't at the stage), and plan to keep it that way going forward. In fact, our investors decided to invest explicitly because they believe our team is the best able to make decisions on growing a sustainable business and solving the developer platform challenges. No matter how good the VC, they obviously don't have the background+skills+focus to design APIs (and likewise shouldn't).

One of our investors likes to say, "We're in your corner, but not in your kitchen," which I've always thought framed the relationship well. I know there's lots of cynicism in the tech world with buyouts/acqui-hires and swarmy VCs, so I can understand where this reaction comes from. And unfortunately I don't have a solid rebuttal other than saying "trust me" with the test of time. Clearly that doesn't work for the HN skeptics. :/

It's also worth pointing out that not all acquisitions are terrible. Google Docs came from an acquisition. So did Google Earth. Facebook continues to run Parse, and Instagram, and Beluga via FB Messenger. Sometimes these acquisitions legitimately make sense, but I think the important thing is keeping the right people in positions to make those decisions when the time comes, and not the people who are just looking for the immediate financial return.
I've been working on a protocol for this, not specific to bitcoin:
https://github.com/mleonhard/hipp
I thought I made clear what the distinction is: "In the specific case of crowdfunding, there's not too much worry that someone is going to blow large amounts of money on a Kickstarter if all they're getting out of it is a couple of Oculus Rift headsets. But if that Kickstarter could promise 1000x returns, that might be bad news for someone's college fund."

Put another way, although the risk profiles for crowdfunding and equity may be similar for any given amount of investment, the limited return on crowdfunding keeps any one investor from taking on too much risk.
Csv,conf
"Subjective" means "based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions." Whether or not the choice of theories is subjective on this definition depends on whether or not you care about the truth. Consider:

Proposition P: Anthropogenic climate change is a myth.

Suppose I subjectively choose a Bayesian prior for proposition P to be very close to 1. I can turn the crank on that and come up with models that are consistent with all the available data. Of course, this will lead me to conclusions that some would consider bizarre ("conspiracy theory" is the pejorative term) but because my feelings, tastes and opinions are just as valid as anyone else's (qua opinions) there is no subjective basis for preferring or rejecting my conclusions. But, of course, there is an objective basis for rejecting my theory because it has more explanatory loose ends than a theory that doesn't have to invoke conspiracies.

Perhaps you want to use subjectivity to choose among theories which are objectively "equivalent" in some sense, i.e. similar explanatory power, agreement with the data, etc. There's nothing preventing you from doing that, but what would be the point? The best you can say objectively is that there is no basis for preferring one theory over another and there's more work left to be done (c.f. string theory). You could pick one theory over another because you think it's "prettier" but so what? If there was anything actually to be gained then (again, by definition) you could have made the selection objectively, not subjectively.
It's unprofessional for a restaurant or a mechanic or a pet groomer to have their Facebook/Google page as their official web presence?

How can it be "unprofessional"? That's simply not their profession. Why should we judge them on that?

What an odd comment.
Don't buy a 1080p if you can afford not to. These will be obsolete in a year or two as the whole industry moves over to UHD.
No music for me.

Are concerts on the ipod graphic available for play (I can't get the concerts to play). I just get a Soundcloud icon to pop up but no sound.

Briefly explain the requirements to play the music (e.g. do I need to download Google Play if I'm on a laptop?)
Amazon recruiters lying about hiring managers so they can trick candidates
A Constitutional Amendment is where the legislative effort on the issue in Congress is focussed now; if MayDay.US is successful in pushing the legislative balance farther in favor of efforts to reverse the effect of Citizen's United, I hardly imagine that the effort would shift to less powerful remedies than those that are already the focus.
The way rich men thinks
"In mid-May 2011, four months after voting to support the merger of Comcast and NBC Universal, Baker accepted a job with Comcast as "senior vice president of governmental affairs for NBC Universal" beginning June 3."

Sickening.
Glad you are doing this. You should just stick this link/info in the footer of all Washington Post pages.
Carter Cleveland Says Art in the Future Will Be for Everyone
I could have sworn there was an ISP in the mid 90s whose canonical hostname for their web presence was:

triple-w.dot.net.au
Universities will do anything to lower the bar and increase tuition
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