skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue with this is the efficient way is not always the better way.

If you keep assigning the same menial and crappy task to a worker because they get it done quick, yay efficiency! Except if you're asking the same worker to clean the bathrooms three times a day every day, it's not going to take long before he goes "fuck this, I'm going to work somewhere else!"

The robot will assign the next most efficient person, who's going to be right on the train out too and so will everyone who sees it coming. So you'll either end up with people gaming the system and slacking, or you'll end up with an empty business.

People might like the idea of robots because they don't play favourites or office politics. However, I'm willing to bet that people are going to hate that same robot really quick because it doesn't play favourites or office politics.

If you know you can always count on Joe to cover a shift, if he comes and asks you a human for a day off and you know it'll leave you short staffed for a day. Would you? Yes, because you know the 99 other days you're going to end up short staffed you won't because you've got Joe. You know if you say no that you'll be short staffed those other 99 days because Joe's going to make sure he's busy laying on the couch eating cheerios watching jeopardy because you pissed him off.

The worst managers I've personally faced are either the ones that blame everyone else, or the ones who are there to "do a job and not make friends". The latter is the robot.
None of those links accuse Microsoft of that.

Edit: if you want to point out something that does, feel free, but don't sling mud without.
Thank you very much :)

I honestly appreciate the criticism, and I agree on the problem that exists and we are trying our best to solve it and we believe that we are on our way there, especially with the new DevBoxes. Feel free to try Codeanywhere out and send me/us more (constructive) criticism. Thanks!
I'm a long time cloud9 user and we actually use ace editor in a couple of our own projects. I logged on to check out your diff feature as I thought it was quite neat, but all I got was a bunch of broken menus and misaligned panels.

When I say logged in, I mean that this was the first thing I saw after doing the one-click signup via my google account. I'd advise you to fix your product before advertising it, and let us know so I can have another look.

http://i.imgur.com/ZX9w3rD.png

Google Chrome for Linux	36.0.1985.125

EDIT: Works fine after a couple of refreshes. I didn't know codemirror had that diff mode. Nice.
Sure but Netflix is entertainment. I agree, you may get more users wanting to participate and "stick" with a module if you make the modules smaller and even more up to the user's leisure. By virtue of making things smaller, you make completing an individual unit "easier." I think if your goal is to have a higher "completion rate" per "unit of education" the sure that solves it. However, that is not an interesting metric in and of itself.

That being said, I think MOOCs definitely have their place; I just don't think they displace traditional universities. More often than not, I think for very engaged students, they complement an existing traditional student's education. I think a big problem with the format offered by Coursera is really just this idea of "This course starts this time and ends at this time," which is, like as you say, trying to mimic traditional class structure for not much apparent reason.

What if I did not know there was going to be a Cryptography class on April 10th (I made that up) but I really wanted to go through the course and solve all the problems and get a grade rather than being "penalized" for only finding out about it months later or even after the course completed? Again, though, I see MOOCs as additional education but not a replacement for traditional college education, and probably more beneficial for autodidact learners.
I applied to - and was granted - the TSA Precheck clearance. Let's face it; it's $100 for five years. And the interview took well under an hour including waiting time. Works out to be an almost negligible increase in cost compared to the cost of the travel it covers.

The fingerprinting is a different issue.
That's not the point. Jawbone (and similar devices such as FitBits and Nike FuelBands) can detect whether the user is sleeping or not; this post asserts that the earthquake is the primary cause of the spike in sleep disruption at 3AM, which is a valid and supported hypothesis.

As far as I know, these devices cannot detect the cause of death.
I'm not saying this is specific to America. If you look at corporations setup by these companies in other countries, ie New Zealand they paid $5.5m NZD in 2013.

Given the high tax bracket in New Zealand. For arguments sake:

1x iPhone 5S 16GB was $1000NZD + GST (which is paid by consumer).
iPhone profit margins: 30%
Profit per phone: $300NZD

Now, top tax rate in NZ: 35%

Tax paid on each phone in theory: $105
At $5.5 million, let's assume they only sold iPhone in New Zealand and we'll exclude all other products.

In reality there are more than 52,000 iPhones sold in New Zealand each year. Based on mobile market share, iPhones hold 30%. There are 2.5 million mobile users in New Zealand putting total number of iPhones at 750,000.

Hang on a second, at $105 tax on each phone, shouldn't they have paid tax of a total $78.8bn in New Zealand?

But to-date, the amount of tax Apple Corporation has paid in New Zealand is.. $27m

Don't you think there's something wrong with those numbers?

Oh wait no, because ACTUALLY Apple is just a company setup in Bermuda who pays other companies to make the phones and sells them internationally at 30% profit with no tax. In reality this is more like 11.5% because the bulk of their corporate-to-corporate payments are done through Ireland, but with larger companies this is funnelled through local companies at a 0.5% profit (to keep the lights on).
Link currently leads to a 404.
Getting Founders Some Early Liquidity Can Benefit VCs
Email.

Every inbound message will fall into one of the following categories:

1. Something that I need to remember. This could be some information that will be of future value in a project, or it could be the contact information of the sender. (Help me store it efficiently).

2. Something I need to do. (Help me track what I'm supposed to do so I don't forget).

3. I don't need this. (The delete button works well here, as do filters).

This may be easy (though I doubt it) for rugged individualists, but for those of us who work with a group of people, it's extraordinarily difficult.

I guess I am not really whining about email. I am whining about the interaction of email with project management, task management, calendars, and archives.

And how have I solved this? With a human being. Can your software compete with the $50,000/year price of a person? I'm interested.

(In writing this I realize that I am now advocating the hollowing-out of American civilization by making white-collar workers obsolete, replacing perfectly nice people with machines. Sorry, America.)
Coursera has a few self-paced classes. I've signed up for a few, and I've never come close to completing one. On the other hand, I've completed a few courses with a strict time schedule.

I think they've tested the self-paced idea out and found it just doesn't work as well under the circumstances.
Or reset internet connection if you don't have a fixed IP.
> I've heard of planes getting hijacked and going to Cuba but nothing in the way of mass murders on airplanes.

Now you have:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Air_Lines_Flight_773

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines_Flig...
Check out http://www.snpedia.com/, along with the associated Promethease service. You can download a tool that will help you analyze your 23andMe (or similar vendor) data against snpedia's database of allelic variants correlated across various studies.
I've seen these talks from CCC few years ago, tried that myself (on myself) and SS7 only gave MSC id, which is wayy more coarse than cell tower level -- like, 1M customers per MSC (still a privacy concern of course). But that city block level location thing seems like it is something more sophisticated.
Thank you for the feedback, everyone. I don't envision it as a replacement for PNG, which has features Sxz isn't designed for, gamma correction, CRC, built in compression, fast encoding and more.

An image with a hole allows it's other pixels to not have to carry an extra byte to render transparency allowing for good compression for oddly shaped images. Same reason Sxz supports paletted images with more than 256 colors, hopefully allowing for greater potential compression where PNG and WebP switch over to TrueColor. Most corporate logos use 256 colors and a white background. Why not just remove the background and increase the quality of the image with more colors?

SVG isn't pixel perfect like PNG. Amongst icon content creators, they avoid SVG in order to have precision. Although SVG has good integration with a browser's DOM, while PNG and JPG are merely data blobs. Since Sxz breaks down to chunks, it can potentially be parsed by browsers into DOM nodes allowing CSS interaction.

The target audience would be game developers in highly constrained bandwidth markets such as mobile and browser based games and want PNG's precision with additional features and don't mind the slow encoding.

I will generate more documentation if there is continued interest.
Have not seen that yet, as I just tried it and got this:

http://i.imgur.com/uLvQqic.png

But will look into it. Appologise
Yes, I've been a software developer here for a number of years. You can find something, but you will be a lot more limited in the kind of work you can do, and the salary you can demand. Over the long term this can have pretty serious career consequences. If you just want to come here for a few years as a semi-temporary thing, you'll do fine. But, if you are thinking about putting down roots here, well, good luck :-)
Also, if you spend lots of time outdoors around fertilizer you can set it off.
search for 2323098716 you get this

http://www.joecasaletto.com/joekronos/2012/605/4500_telnet/
This is a link-bait headline - the article is interesting, but could be retitled for HN.

TL;DR: they claim to have found organisms from Earth living in space on the ISS.
> - Disable signup/require COPPA form to be mailed & signed

Somewhat off topic, but I think 13 is considerably above the age where kids have a reasonable interest in being able to actually use the web. When I was a few years younger than 13 (10 years ago...), I once accidentally put my true birthday into AIM, and was subsequently banned from the service I used to communicate with friends from school. Recently, the same happened with one of my sister's friends and Gmail. Does anyone actually think these forms are a good thing?
Bay Area earthquake and data from Jawbone
>The USA has already killed people based on trivial amounts of data such as, "A had dinner with B who is C's relative. Thus even though A is US citizen in a foreign country, we will blow up his car with a Hellfire missile fired from a drone because C is a known terrorist."

Do you have a link for that?
It's up to content providers to honor the header. I can't expect that to happen very easily when explicit content is involved, although the avenues to find that content (such as Google) might be amenable.
Very nitpicky, but part of the landing page copy says:

> NOW AVAILABLE ON ALL PLATFORMS

Now, I guess readers are willing to forgive Symbian and AmigaOS not being in the list the follows, but if you say "all platforms" you have to at least include Windows Phone.

My issue isn't really with OS support however, and it's perfectly OK to skip not-very-popular platforms. But if you put at least one blatant lie on the front page, you don't give me confidence that it's the only one.
To be honest, that exact alert is what made me turn amber alerts off in Android.. I live so far from Charlotte that there is no way it might be relevant..
The `vw` unit is unrelated to responsive images but a new unit type that reflects the Viewport Width (100vw = 100% of browser’s viewport). There’s also a not so good supported vh unit, all specified under CSS Values and Units Module Level 3 (http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-values/).

The `calc()` function is a CSS function that lets you calculate values like 100vw - 100px, similar to what you can do in JavaScript. See more: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/calc
Every time I see these posts pop up about mesh networking I'm more and more intrigued of the idea of a local neighbourhood network. I live on a small island of a few 1000 people. It would be brilliant to extend the sense of community with basic services like a marketplace, events etc. It kind of reminds me of using CB radios in the UK in the early 90s, communicating with local people only.

Is there any defacto hardware out there that one can buy to start the mesh, without a huge setup, that I could then set up for a couple of neighbours without hassle who then automatically join the mesh? For something like this to take off it'll need to be as simple as picking up a router off the shelf and reading a few lines of a manual.
Libertarianism is a sliding scale. Many libertarians are ok with some government regulation and things like anti-monopoly laws. Others believe they aren't necessary and that most monopolies are created because government regulation rather than in spite of it.
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How the web lost its way – and its founding principles
What I often do is sign up for any Cousera class that I could conceivably be interested in. I do nothing when the course is live, since I don't care about the certificate (paid or unpaid). Having signed up for the courses, though, I have access to the content in the future and can pick and choose what to watch. I then come back to the course and can consume it rapidly and with a focus on the materials I care about.

For example, https://www.coursera.org/course/money . I had no idea what in this course and its sequel were important to me. But then a bank mentions how Standard Treasury should understand repo markets, and then I watched the lectures on that topic.

So the idea of consuming courses in modules is very appealing to me, and honestly how I consumed most classes in college: the material prescribed was basically incidental to what I ultimately learned about the topic. I'm the type of person who gets really focused on some applied problem and then teach myself the, for example, CS, stats, measure theory, machine learning, etc, to do what I want on the problem.

Tangent: My only compliant so far is that the (pure) math I can find in MOOCs goes exactly to the point I stopped: advanced calculus and theoretical matrix algebra. I don't expect it to have the types of statistics classes I'd like (I majored in the topic) but I'm annoyed that I can't really find an analysis course...
I've literally spent a night putting on a fireworks show, gotten up and flown the next day, and not set off the alarm. I've also at a different time been completely clean, set off the alarm for gunpowder (I could see the screen), and then had the TSA wave me through.

They don't know, they don't care, they don't do anything. Their sole purpose is to make people more comfortable with invasive government overreach.
Depends on which country in South Asia. I've travelled to Thailand, where they're super lax about security. Their scans can be skipped and their pat-downs (if they occur at all) are cursory. Right next to Thailand is India, where the policy is indistinguishable from the TSA.
Hello Folks, Thanks for sharing your opinion about Linode and DigitalOcean. After reading each comment, I have decided to stay up with DigitalOcean and if faced any problems at linode, I won't wait a hour. Instantly migrate to Linode. So then I can find out the best. After Migration to Linode, If I thought, I again choose the wrong path, then just simply will change the domain DNS to DigitalOcean. Hope This will help me to compare them in the table without losing a single byte of data. Thanks again for joining this discussion.....!
SHRIMP
If you use broadcast messages, the number of subscribers shouldn't matter. There already exists a system like this in the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Mobile_Alert_System

> CMAS will allow federal agencies to accept and aggregate alerts from the President of the United States, the National Weather Service (NWS) and emergency operations centers, and send the alerts to participating wireless providers who will distribute the alerts to their customers with compatible devices via Cell Broadcast, a technology similar to SMS text messages that simultaneously delivers messages to all phones using a cell tower instead of individual recipients.[3][4]
Am I the only one that's finding a bit upsetting the fact that a single overlooking identity could dispose of people's data like that? I know, I know: all the Up wearers have "enrolled" voluntarily, but I wonder if they really like to be part of a giant anonymous data science experiment.
If you can do this with the users' data, you can certainly do the same for more profit-related purposes.
Or maybe it's just me, sometimes I just can't ignore the scary within the scientifically cool.
You can hire private corporations and even pay large sums of money (like 1/100th of this is a very big sum) with a proviso that all the code be published under some Free license. This is not advocating self-organizing cat herding with multiple entities donating developer time.

Hire bigco, publish what they give you so the neighbours can also use it and you're not stuck with bigco for support.
ie you can also fire bigco if they suck once you hired them.
Being cloud based is this "Code Anywhere", or "Code anywhere where you have Internet access"? The latter, in my case, would be "Code in less places than you could with your laptop and standard offline dev tools".
What I've Learned from Two Years Collecting Data on Police Killings
Whenever I try to imagine how a character looks like, I will eventually forget about it and make a new one at the next reading. So, I try to map the character to the person I know, which become a problem when the character grows older.

From a writer's point of view, maybe it is fun to put a lot of details about the world they are trying to describe in a very detailed way.
The problem here is really media portrayal of who should be playing with what. If Lego / KNex / etc. were actually marketed toward girls as much as boys, more girls would eventually try / use them. That they aren't is due to simple top-down cultural re-inforcement of sexist stereotypes.

I suspect that sadly it will ultimately take legislation to regulate media (in particular the advertising industry) to solve the problem, by mandating that gender-specific marketing of a product toward children is illegal, period. (And yes, I mean the toy dump trucks and dolls as much as the technical toys.)

It sounds heavy-handed, but there doesn't seem to be much else that will fix it. Certainly not "niche" small-scale products that are essentially mice attempting to balance against the toy company "elephant". The elephant likes the status quo and will only change if you hit it with a cattle-prod.
and the DoD is only one government department. This is really well replicated.
There's gold in washington available for ramming your blood funnel in anything that smells like money.
It can seem weird until you realize it's to counteract gender biases everywhere else. We need gender-specific ways to get more girls into engineering, to fight against all the other bullshit that's keeping them out. When/if that bullshit is gone, we won't need the gender-specific stuff anymore.
BabyX, an interactive animated virtual infant prototype
Thank you. Signed up!
> Python is probably the worst choice you could make for a desktop application.

Please elaborate.
Deciding Whether to Automate or Emulate Testing for iOS8
LOLed at Tim Cook's photo on the article.
This looks pretty damn good!

Couple of things:

* Have you tried making the tour/tutorial a small toast notification, rather than a modal? (I'm allergic to modals)

* Could I have a button to "Create from github project" which would check my project out into a new workspace/sandbox/devbox?
What kind of questions did they ask during your interview?
Hey fellow belmont buddy! Just curious, about how old is the building that you were in when the earthquake hit?
Talk about throwing the baby out with the bath water.
You can switch between .h and .cpp easily with ff-other-file. Bind it to a key:

(add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook
(lambda()
(local-set-key (kbd "C-c o") 'ff-find-other-file)))

If the .h is in the same directory as .c/.cpp, then Emacs automatically opens. Otherwise, you prompt for the .h file. Once the .h file is opened, subsequent execution of the command switches between the two files.
You bring up an interesting point -- the gender equality efforts really only focus on jobs deemed glamorous or noble.

There aren't many campaigns to get more men into Nursing, AFAIK, although it is a very important profession with an extremely heavy gender skew.
This Guy Just Built a Mind-Controlled Robot
I grew up in South Korea. Believe me, South Korean working condition sucks. As of 2013, South Koreans work 2163 hours per year on average, topped only by Mexico (2237) among OECD countries [1].

For comparison, Japan has 1735 hours, US has 1788, and Germany has 1388 hours.

As for the "success", well, somehow South Korea has experienced near-miraculous economic development during the 70s. Unfortunately, somehow we forgot to understand that economic development is a means of attaining better life: it became an end in itself. We can still find lots of people saying "Vacation? What vacation? How can we become a developed country (like the US or Japan) when we get all the same vacation as they do?"

Argh.

Edit: For extra craziness, replace "vacation" by "weekend". (Not unheard of.)

[1] http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=ANHRS
SwivelCard to release blank stock of USB paper
Next stretch goal ($100K) will open door for blank stock and a custom built swivelPrinter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/812365891/swivelcard-smart-business-cards/posts/958349