skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html

It's very easy to learn, at the same time a very good language to be capable of writing code. It's multi paradigm, so you can learn a lot of different things.
Automatic failover that doesn't require a 3rd party HA tool would be great.
Not scores so much as specific problems.

If I work on it for a week, get frustrated, google for solutions, and can't find any, and you solved it, you're a beast.

Also if you solve 328 tell me how. And no, dynamic programming is not efficient enough.
You're right, if you want to build a lifestyle SaaS type business, you probably don't need to be here.

Folks here have bigger ambitions and want to change the world. Some do, most don't. Lot's are just delusionary.

Changing the world is nearly impossible, but that possibility is sharply increased when living in close proximity to money and talent. You only live once, why not try?
Austin, and the people from Austin, try so hard to make Austin a tech hub. In reality, Seattle is more "Austin" than Austin, it is a larger tech hub, and is much closer to SF.
It won't become a standard unless there are at least two complete implementations in browsers.
Actually, a pure content app like Flipboard I could easily see being developed on Famous/PhoneGap.
As a developer the database tool in Jetbrains' IDE covers the vast majority of my needs, in addition to the golden autocompletion in the code.
I've found pgAdmin to be sufficient for clicking through things here and there, but my sense is that DBA types are expecting more from the GUI than I am. Any insight into what those things might be would probably be helpful.
just wanted to drop this resource my friend made: http://www.30images30days.com to try to learn design, he also came from a very technical background so just went that route.
It sounds like you are referring specifically to PhoneGap. Have you looked at Famous? It aims to handle the things you mention.
Peoples' wants and desires are infinite. As long as there are things to desire, there will be jobs to do.
Under capitalism, it's good to own capital, naturally. You can start by saving a $100.
Renewables are basically already viable, despite what its opponents have been trying to say. It's already more competitive than natural gas in some places, and the next 5 years will be crossing many other such thresholds.
Perhaps if you do not have any apps yet, it goes straight to the new app page.
Ah of course. Thanks.
The problem is that Unity3d is being mis-marketed as a triple 'A' tool-set. It's not.
I find music to be very distracting, I prefer silence while I work but if I must have something on in the background it would be television news. For some reason that is easy for me to drown out and almost hypnotizing.
Maybe this will help someone, as well...we've been trying to collect all of the different tuning and implementation information on the Ruby GC in one place:

https://www.omniref.com/ruby/2.1.2/symbols/GC#annotation=88&...
I was really excited about the Citus column-store FDW...but it took me about an hour of using it before I realized it wasn't going to solve any of my problems any time soon. Queries with data larger than memory were slower than native tables. Compression didn't come anywhere close to the 2-4x improvement that was claimed. It doesn't support insert, update, or delete commands, let alone the insert from select that I was hoping to use. In order to convert a native table into a cstore table, you have to output to a file and then import using COPY, or hack it with a pipe to a COPY command.

After a while, I realized that some of this was just the maturity of the extension, but a huge amount was the limitations of FDWs as a platform. And not only that, it seems that every other 3rd party FDW extension is either abandoned or ignored.

Postgres is quite possibly the highest quality piece of software I use. I rate it higher than the Linux Kernel. But Postgres' historical approaches to extensibility have left a lot to be desired. Reading over this comment, I realize I probably sound like an entitled jackass, but I'll post it anyway. I really do wish I could contribute to Postgres, but learning C well enough to contribute is way out of reach for me at the moment. But I guess all I can say is that my (admittedly vague) wishlist for Postgres 9.5 is to enhance any and all features to support extensibility, including FDWs and Extensions.
In theory thousands of years. http://www.non-hybrid-seeds.com/VAULTlongtermseedstoragesyst...

In practice you lose more over time so it greatly depends on how many you start with. However, you could encode the DNA in another format which effectively means unlimited shelf life assuming you a reasonably close species to work with.

http://genetics.thetech.org/original_news/news129
There are already commercial oilfield tools that use neutron generators with relatively low power input requirements. I'm not seeing how to make a useful weapon out of something like that, though. What can it do that isn't already done better by normal guns and bombs?

I guess you could use it to attack people inside a building without directly destroying the building, but I would figure that if you got a high enough neutron flux to reliably kill everyone inside the building, you'd also get enough activation radiation to render the building uninhabitable for at least weeks. You might well need fancy decontamination, and possibly to demolish the building and haul away parts of it. Seems easier to just use a bomb.
It depends on the storage conditions, etc. Could last for tens, hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of years in a few documented cases.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_bank
I can't recommend this video highly enough - it does a great job of showing the science fact instead of contemplating science fiction, illustrating how technology that we have in development NOW is going to impact our economy.

I have a feeling that this is an issue is going to creep up on us quickly, and I worry that our governments have proven themselves completely incapable of driving the discussion and making the decisions that need to be made.
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Url changed from http://www.scribd.com/doc/130767873/Self-awareness-to-being-....

A related article that fell through the cracks on HN last year: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/business/wearable-video-ca....
Limiting by IP is a horrid (or worse) idea as they are dynamic, esp . nowadays with free wifi access and 3G (or 4G).

There are ways to implement quotas based on certs and revocation but it's too cumbersome to become mass use.
Thanks for taking the time to write and open-source this!
I've gone through that list before, but never find anything compelling enough to pull me away from psql (the built-in CLI client).

I highly recommend learning psql first. It doesn't have every feature you might want, but it gets the basics right and is easy to integrate with your editor and other tools. As far as I can tell, it's what most professionals use.
In the UK there is the Heritage Seed Library where people exchange rare seeds (possibly illegally, its unclear) http://old.gardenorganic.org.uk/hsl/
This is absolutely true. But when money buys power, relative wealth becomes the important measure.
Indeed, Swift feels like a mix between ES6 and AS3 so it's definitely more approachable for frontend devs than Objective-C.
For those of you planning on interviewing...

Having done interviews for a large tech firm, dynamic programming questions are a favorite for weeding out candidates. Anecdotally, it correlates rather well with problem solving skills.
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Blackboards might be obsolute (especially given whiteboards), but free form written math is not. You run into many of the same constraints regardless of if you are writing on a blackboard/whiteboard/paper/tablet.
I am sure others are going say, or have said, something similar:

If you had to learn a second language, the question has many great candidates for answers. Python, Ruby, Scala, or a more functional language. Maybe a rapid prototyping language. If you believe in mobile first, then Swift, or Objective-C, or Java. If you need to manipulate data then Python, R or Julia. If you believe that you should learn the "foundations" first (read: legacy language) you could go back to C. If you like the Microsoft ecosystem, C#. If you work with Excel (what a beautiful product) then VBA and so forth.

But if you want the first language, then I think the answer is simple: Javascript.

I think it is an ugly language, and I wish another language had become to dominant, but history is what it is. Its in the browser, and so it is everywhere. You have to work with it for the most interfaces anyway.

A little sooner, and I am sure this would start a mini flame war, but as it is, this comment is safely tucked down the chain.
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I think it's funny how the same NIMBY policies that all the techno-libertarians hate so much, are the same policies that made San Francisco a more desirable place to live for said techno-libertarians than San Jose and the East Bay.

Personally, I hate NIMBYs but I also hate SF.
> I really do wish I could contribute to Postgres, but learning C well enough to contribute is way out of reach for me at the moment.

I'm sure they accept money in lieu of C skills.

http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate/
It's for fantasizing about a career-change.
Essentially, that is the argument. If the point is to allow students to manipulate the lecture as data, then it must be error-free. That is literally putting a parser between the lecturer and the students.

And your condescending comment does not address my point, which is that a lecture would not benefit from (and is actively harmed by) the "features" being suggested. Real time error flagging would be extremely distracting, and writing mathematics as source code would be tediously slow and again distract from the point of understanding the mathematics.
I discovered how to do this while creating a website and thought others may find it useful for web-design projects.

Any Feedback would be GREATLY appreciated!
The Uncle Meat Variations

Or, y'know, whatever comes on Pandora.
Because success in the US is 90% networking and who you know.
You make an interesting point, but keep in mind that individuals attend university because of what they believe it will do for them as individuals, not because they believe it will benefit society. University is promoted as and widely perceived to be the key to a middle class life. That's why many folks are willing to take on outsize debt to attend university (or send their children), and how politicians justify treating higher education as an entitlement worth of massive subsidy.

While the university value proposition has become less compelling because of rising costs and a harsh economy, Y Combinator and programs like it will never come close to establishing the same type of value proposition for a simple reason: most young people who start businesses with no capital of their own and no domain expertise are not going to be successful.
Depends heavily on how you store them.

Germination rates drop over time. Storing seeds improperly will increase that rate (i.e. even fewer seeds will sprout after a give time). You'll more-or-less always get a few to sprout, but you can't count on getting the vast majority to sprout unless you've stored the seeds properly.

If seeds are stored at high temperatures (room temp or above) in non-airtight containers, they typically have a "half-life" (non exact) of a year or two.

If you store the seeds in an airtight container in the freezer, they'll keep more or less indefinitely. (I'm guessing, but let's say a "half-life" of a decade or so.) There are instances of seeds preserved in permafrost sprouting after tens of thousands of years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_viable_seed

All of this depends on the type of seed, as well. Take my numbers above with several grains of salt. They're from general experience growing up on a farm, not any definitive source.
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I wouldn't call that title linkbait or embarrassing. It's clever, fun, and obviously a joke. It doesn't hurt the article either. IMO in order to be linkbait it must pump up your excitement with very little substance. For example: "French Guy Goes To America. What He Learned About BuzzFeed Will Blow You Away!" would be linkbait. It excites the reader by over promising that they will have a strong reaction to the piece, but the article can never live up to the hype. We are rarely "blown away" by a blog post or news article.

Your title dips below inciting the reader; It's totally drained of any color or interest. It doesn't excite the reader at all. That is also a problem because reading should be fun AND informative.

It's only a title, but I think titles should have fun too.
So long as machines are not far more effective at building (and possibly some day even engineering) those things we desire...
That video was actually briefly on the HN front page. I’m still wondering why some people apparently flagged so that it was quickly relegated to page 3 or so.
"Importantly, there are still somewhat similar cases taking place, despite efforts to stop such behavior through better training and prosecution of rogue officers."

Is this an Onion University study?

Anyway, seriously, while I love the idea of body worn cameras for police officers, in practice they are in control of whether the camera is recording or not, and tend to 'forget' to turn their cameras on more often than not.
> Why does Haskell have a REPL but not Go?

Because no one's bothered to create a REPL for Go.
Nooooooooooo - not machines! :-)

Good luck with your recovery!
First American all-electric supercar
https://greasyfork.org/scripts/3974-hn-new-tab
Thanks, this is the first time I've heard of an active response to linkbait. This could become a web service that maps article titles to their HN replacements, could be used to rewrite tweets via an app or browser extension. Also enables statistics on publishers & topics.
This looks promising. Will this fill the hole in my soul that Google Ants left behind?
Are you full time? And is equity an option for you? Typically cash-strapped startups compensate for low wages with generous equity incentives.

Also, what kind of dev are you doing?
Just bought, thanks for the advice!
That's why we need to move away capitalism before it's too late, if we want to have part in that bright future.
Years ago, Joel Spolsky wrote that it was critical for any interview to at least touch on pointers/references and recursion. I think at many major tech companies dynamic programming is included in that bag as well.
Who said anything about building a lifestyle business?

> Changing the world is nearly impossible, but that possibility is sharply increased when living in close proximity to money and talent. You only live once, why not try?

Talent is available everywhere and for far less than the bay area. Why not live somewhere else and raise funding from CA?
>The researchers emphasize that this idea, though it may sound absurd, is grounded firmly in the mathematics describing space and time. Specifically they’ve used the tools of holography to “turn the big bang into a cosmic mirage.”

embedding into higher dimension spaces (or in general - into more "richer" structures) is a convenient mathematical tool and it works nice ... in mathematics. To work in physics that higher dimension space must really exist. Otherwsie, for all we know, out Universe can be just a 3d surface of a 4d nut that a small 4d squirrel puppy is about to bite into.
Yahoo acquires ClarityRay
My interpretation of this article was that, while there are certainly benefits to having ads as the lowest barrier to entry monetization model, there are also lots of downsides, and we would do well to come up with something else that is easy to do and works well. But nobody knows what that should or could be, or even if it is possible to do, as the other schemes thus far (paywalls, subscriptions, freemium) have lots of trade-offs. I'm personally pretty bullish on micropayments, though a good way to do them hasn't emerged yet.

If there was another option as easy to set up for your little sites that made you a similar amount of maintenance and upkeep money, would you be sad or happy to lose the ads?
Simply throwing money at FOSS will not fix any security bugs. The money will be soaked up by those who are good at soaking up free money and making it disappear, that is all.

If you want to spend money wisely on FOSS, you do that by hiring someone to implement some specific change to a specific program: something that can be estimated, scheduled and tracked to completion.

"Find and fix security bugs in software component X" is not really a specific development task; it's a crapshoot. You cannot put a concrete amount of time and dollar figure on it. A team could burn through months of salary and not come up with anything. On a weekly status report, you could say "All week long, I looked painstakingly through such such directories and didn't find any security issues" even though you spent maybe ten minutes on it, and the rest of the time on HN. Even if someone else finds issues in the same code, nobody can prove that you didn't spend that time; you just overlooked those things. (For this reason, it's better to involve tools: if you cannot easily lie that you applied a certain code verification tool and found nothing, because someone else can run the same tool.)

This is probably why Hearbleed was not found earlier. Even though the software is packaged and "supported" by all kinds of vendors (for instance vendors of hardware who provide FOSS-based firmware and support it for their customers), they don't spend resources on auditing all the FOSS packages that they bundle and they don't do that because they know it is a big money hole. They implement things customers ask for, and respond to outside reports of issues (from customers or elsewhere).
The government telling you what to do? The government is running/financing these schools, and are limiting the funding/size of classes to the apparent demand. Wouldn't you be complaining that the government is wasting your tax dollars on bloated law classes if they were giving the schools too much funding?

Apparently (from reading another comment), who gets into the schools is determined by their "high school" grades. That isn't the government deciding your faith; that is merit.

If you still want to get this kind of education, there seems to be private schools that you can attend (judging from the other comments).
Faster CSV Import with R
I would assume you can tissue culture a seed well past when it's unlikely germinate as well.
All I really want from a database IDE is awesome autocomplete for identifiers and keywords. (I consider SQL Server Management Studio's autocomplete to be great - if I could get that for Postgres, I'd be thrilled)

You can get part of the way there by Sublime Text to run queries and browse results. In Sublime, it's easy - you can create a custom "build tool" with (essentially) just one line of config... you're basically just piping the current file's contents to command-line PSQL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPd4m3PLVqU

Then I use the SublimeAllAutocomplete package. It works just like "regular" Sublime autocomplete except it gives you autocomplete suggestions from all open files, not just the current one - so if you have your DB schema dump in another window it will use that: https://github.com/alienhard/SublimeAllAutocomplete

Obviously, that doesn't really give you the smartest autocomplete ever but it's pretty productive for me. Tons of room for improvement though.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/pointer-eve...
You realize that California is a much larger place than just SF right? It's the most populous state, the 3 largest in mileage, and if it was a country it'd have the 8th largest GDP.
It's astounding that you simply can't imagine that there exists cities that function differently than "the capital of the world" as you put it.
I wrote a Kivy app for a multi-touch table a few years ago as my Masters project in CSE.

I appreciated being able to develop on my Mac, run it on the table using Windows, and even got it running on an iPad.

Getting the environment set up to deploy to iOS was complex (especially cross compiling non-standard Python libraries), but it has been a few years.
Old Muni Buses Are Reborn as Mobile Showers for the Homeless
Every time this data gets pulled up, it's interpreted as a sort of deliberate DoS attack.

Is it not possible that these "recruiters" are simply trying to canvas every driver, so they cancel rides that get picked up by drivers they've already met?
>It was a dark day when Islam met the loudspeaker. All travelers to the Middle East discover that this normally self-assured religion gets insecure in the small hours of night and feels it has to rehearse its foundational beliefs, in public, at 190 dB.

-Hey, wake up. God is great.

Hnnnnghh. What’s happening? Where am I?

-Hasten to prayer! Hasten to success!

Islam, is that you?

-I bear witness that there is no god but God.

Jesus Christ, Islam, it’s four o’clock in the morning!
We are using titan at my job and we will be releasing an open source library for interacting with the graph in PHP via Gremlin call Mogwai (there seems to be a few libs with the same name and purpose, so we might change it).

We like it so far, but are having some issues with the server crashing. I'll update to this release and see if it fixes our issues.
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Because you're going to be implementing the UI twice anyway unless you generate a completely custom one that sits between platforms. As an example, look at the linked article - can you imagine an average iDevice user instinctively knowing how to interact with that UI? There's probably nothing wrong with it per-se, but you've instantly alienated a significant non-technical audience by going off-piste with your cross-platform design.
Here is a decent overview: http://pando.com/2012/04/26/founders-should-give-their-stock...

There are hundreds of pages online you can find that discuss vesting, why it's good and what the tricks are. Also, for co-founders, when we say vesting we really mean buy-back, which is much better than having options.