skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always gone with the no-contract plans. I pay $35/month for the same phone and unlimited service that one of my family members is paying $100/month for. Really I don't see the point of the contract plans.
Hiring some one who is 50 sort of a problem. They likely know what a salary is supposed to be. 20 somethings work for pennies in the game industry.
Oracle vs Oregon
Apps to Watch: Phonto, Kindly, Camu and Others
Sandboxed applications for Gnome, part 2
+1 for the intro to Egan. Going to look into his work.
Relaxed-Memory Concurrency
http://www.reddit.com/r/mathpics/comments/gk6e2/the_beauty_o...
Is "browser posturing" a typo for something else? That term doesn't ring any bells and there are no google results, and I can't think of what you may have meant. Just using a cookie or something?
For me it's the convenience of being able to throw up various content from every device in the house (either via a dedicated app, or via chrome). It doesn't replace xbmc in any but when you want to e.g. play a youtube video, it's fantastically convenient for the low price.
That's consistent with most of those studies. The next paragraph does an interesting experiment showing a very conservative rate of 3% per year:

>My specific target date is 2070, 60 years from now. As of 10 March 2011, gwern.net has around 6800 external links (with around 2200 to non-Wikipedia websites)4. Even at the lowest estimate of 3% annual linkrot, few will survive to 2070. If each link has a 97% chance of surviving each year, then the chance a link will be alive in 2070 is 0.972070−2011=0.16 (or to put it another way, an 84% chance any given link will die). The 95% confidence interval for such a binomial distribution says that of the 2200 non-Wikipedia links, ~336-394 will survive to 20705. If we try to predict using a more reasonable estimate of 50% linkrot, then an average of 0 links will survive (0.502070−2011×2200=1.735×10−16×2200≃0). It would be a good idea to simply assume that no link will survive.
This is the most hurtful comment I've ever received on HN, and it's the only one that's ever made me want to leave the site altogether.

You didn't even explain how, precisely, I'm a liar.

You know what a liar is? It's someone who deliberately goes out of their way to distort the truth in order to gain some kind of advantage, even when they know they're not being truthful.

Do you think I'm sitting here trying to win this debate merely because I have a problem with being wrong? If that's the case, then I had no idea you thought so lowly of me. This isn't about even about me.

Fact: When a user submits a bookmark to Pinboard and flags the bookmark as 'private,' they have a reasonable expectation of privacy. That includes privacy from the admin: it's acceptable for them to use the data for debugging or to test new features, but not to write a script whose purpose is to delve through data marked as private.

Fact: The owner deliberately wrote a script whose purpose was to go through private data. You can read the original blogpost on the topic. It doesn't matter that it was for an experiment for the betterment of all of the web. The fact is, he didn't seek consent, and users had no idea their data that they flagged as 'private' were being examined by his script.

Now, you can call me a charlatan, a dilettante, or whatever other harmful thing you wish to call me, but I have no idea how this case warrants me being called a liar. Normally, I'd let this drop, but you have publicly targeted my character and reputation. I'd like an explanation, please.
I wonder if x is correlated with y. Here are some citations on z and y. If that's what you mean, sure. You win.

Here's some more data:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/historical_sta...

_____________

edit:

Big quakes are at once relatively rare and over time quite common. The last one happened under the ocean...

0.652°N, 124.692°W

18.2 miles below the surface.

in 2010
Ask HN: Which programming bootcamps do you take seriously?
I am new to the tech industry and was one of the people who got in after doing a rails web development bootcamp. I was honestly pretty disappointed with my bootcamp, but I just wanted some direction with my education and validation with a credential. Now that I'm in the industry I've heard a lot of back and forth.

Rather than ask IF you take graduates of these programs seriously (because I'm sure that's a conversation we have read before) I'm curious which programs you take seriously. This might help me as I meet people who want to get into the industry and have shown they have the willpower to get started on their own.

Thanks for any feedback!
Companies complain there is a shortage. Everybody rushes to fill the demand, including students choosing a CS major over something else. Companies are then over-flooded with supply and get to pick what they want. It's a common tactic in capitalism.

If there really was a shortage, CS students would be recruited straight out of college. Instead, every software company wants years of experience for entry-level jobs. If they afford to put up ridiculous job requirements, they don't really need you. They simply want someone better for less money.
So grab your tablet. Or a laptop and cast the entire tab so people can see it on the TV.
As an Oregon resident watching this mess unfold over the last few years, it seems as if both parties are to blame. The State of Oregon clearly mis-managed the project from their side. On the other hand, Oracle saw this as an opportunity to dump a lot of inexperienced highly-paid consultants on a naive State, and did so. I personally hope that Oregon can recover at least some of my tax dollars that were wasted on this project, but I suspect that won't happen. Oracle probably has better lawyers.
My phone is the one device I know will always have battery, because it is important enough for me that I always charge it. It's also the one device I know I will always have near me.
That's a disappointing conclusion. I think most of us would like to take credit for our success, or if we have not been so fortunate, we hold out hope that we can be successful if we really want to and work hard enough for it. We'd like to believe that we are truly the masters of our fate. The protestant work ethic tells us that our sustained effort will be rewarded. This study suggests it may be more complicated than that, and perhaps we can't take as much credit for our successes as we'd like. On the other hand, maybe we can beat ourselves up less for our failures and relax.
Portraits of Ex-Slaves (1930s)
I usually don't read those, for fear of being drowned in legalese. Turns out, the first few pages are written in plain, readable English. (I expect this is true of most of the rest as well.)

I did not read the whole document, but I believe the first few pages are… unforgiving to say the least. I could already hear the heads rolling.
So in layman's terms it means that one can't say something like "If you spend X hours with deliberate practice you will become an expert." right?
For Microsoft, $93B Abroad Means Avoiding $30B Tax Hit
Here is the preceding Oracle v. Cover Oregon August 8th lawsuit for contrast.

http://media.oregonlive.com/business_impact/other/oracle2.pd...
Back in the days of the classic Mac OS, the Mac Programmer's Workshop included a tool like this, called "commando." One of the neat things about commando was that you could hover over any option to see some descriptive "help" info at the bottom.

http://i.imgur.com/Zxx33DU.png
The study isn't concerned with expertise, but rather with skill or ability, which I think is an important distinction.
This archived course on Coursera: Startup Engineering:

https://www.coursera.org/course/startup

You can still sign up and access the PDFs, which are a goldmine of information.
Looks like they used pdf2htmlEX (https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX)
10 productivity extensions and websites for Entrepreneurs
This is making an unsubstantiated claim; there is no evidence provided: it's just talk. Just sexist talk.
Wow, companies are actually willing to invest in training graduates? Those crazy japanese.
Being able to split one "window" into multiple panes has become an absolute must for me. Once a file get's longer than the screen's height, it's inevitable to need to go hunt something down that's one screen away from what I'm working on right now.
LLVM IR is neither portable nor stable.
I was under the impression pretty much everyone in CS knew what was up. When I graduated, some people I knew went to Accenture, who billed them out at $350/hour immediately. So you'd have a few dozen "consultants" with little to no experience and one or two people who had been on projects before. I assume all the big consulting companies operate that way.

I'm sure the state of Oregon screwed up, but I have little doubt Oracle was bilking them for every dollar they could get. Whether Oregon can prove this in court will be interesting to see, I assume Oracle will settle at some point, since they wouldn't want everyone to wake up and smell the $$$.
Ask HN: Free and open projects aiming disabilities?
I was wondering which VC/Companies, person should approach for who are working over a project/s for Disable people or other social responsibility which are/would be totally free and Open Source.
I love emacs, and use it daily for lots of text-editing, but since I've been learning Qt, I've been using Qt Creator and seems much easier to get certain things (which granted might be available in emacs, or visual studio but haven't checked how).

For example adding function class member in the .h or .cpp file, and then adding the other part automatically. Or changing arguments, and little balloon comes up, you pres alt+enter - and gives you choices how to make the changes.

Then switch between header/cpp (right visual studio doesn't have this built-in) and few other things make Qt Creator a very good choice.
Discussed at great length a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8030459

Also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8058840 (7 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8027446 (7 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8031569 (0 comments)
See this post from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8210235 "Epic Drought in West Is Literally Moving Mountains "
Scala for Android application development
Hosting your own server might not be a scalable solution either. There's a reason why SaaS is popular: it's not that easy.

On the downside: stuff hosted by others might go away. Web pages, web services, apps requiring server side support...

Investing a lot in a service makes it more painful to lose, like the apparently discontinued Amazon Cloud Drive (supposed to be a cheaper Dropbox): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8219257
The current Obama proposal has problems, the suggested metrics (six-year graduation rate, tuition cost and employment after graduation) are problematic and too easily gamed.

Salaries are the biggest expense at a university, you can easily cut those by shifting to more adjuncts. With the shape the academic labour market is in, that is easily done. Quality of instruction drops, but the students don't mind, they are there for credentials, not for an education. What does suffer is the idea of a university.

Graduation rate is really problematic. You can fix that by watering down standards, again the students don't mind, it's more A's for everyone, they are there for credentials, but what you would really like to do is to admit more students and weed those out that can't hack it in their first year, before they are welded to the wrong career track.

As for employment after graduation, look no further than third-tier law schools with their legal clinics that employ their graduates. Such places need to be shut down today.
Just speaking from my own observations here, I don't think this is unheard of in the US. For example I work for Amazon and we hire a lot of college graduates, usually after completing a paid internship. These new hires are not expected to come in with any experience outside of their university work.

From what I can tell, all the other big players do the same.
Yes. I'm saying you've gone out of the way to distort the truth. Exhibit A: your second "fact": not a fact. What the site is actually doing is right there in the link the guy who runs the site showed you.

You have options available to you besides seething about this and leaving the site.

Curiosity: what's your Pinboard account name? Mine's the same as my HN name.
It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.
Japanese's tires in early 2000 were mostly made of orange peel oil.

wasn't a commercial success.

today one brand still has one line that supposedly sell in the usa but i can't find it anywhere.
giffgaff is a great example of this, a very small company that piggy-backs on the O2 network, giving really cheap tarifs. http://giffgaff.com/goodybags
User permission should be required when launching external processes.
I once worked alongsize Accenture on a Siebel integration. They staffed about 100 liberal arts grads who toiled away 80 hours a week like monkeys at typewriters until the system worked. To their credit, it did. They took home $100-200MM filtered through their headquarters in Bermuda, but at least the system existed when they left.
That page seems to be specific to desktop apps. Web and mobile apps are still available.

Edit: before the post title was edited, it suggested that all of Cloud Drive was being discontinued.
Has anybody had experience with both Racket and Squeak that can compare and contrast them for doing things like this article describes?
Actually, that's the "system image caching" mentioned in item #1. :)
Right. But if you have 10s of GB of pictures, documents it is pretty much useless without the desktop sync.
So anyone could just enter the market?

Better question, why would anyone ever build a network if they are prohibited from making a profit?
Lack of global keybindings would keep me off wayland for a long time. At this point I am completely dependent on my keybinds in fluxbox for doing everything from resizing windows to opening programs. If I can't specify real defaults that stupid programs cannot interfere with it will be useless.
I'm pretty sure one of the big enjoyments of such outings as Burning Man is an ability to come back to civilization as soon as it's done.
Beat your kids ass
Holy shit you have got to be joking. Really trolling now, are we? Take a look at things like Shapeless (https://github.com/milessabin/shapeless).
I never quite understood how the majority of agriculture cultivated in the US is grown in an area not suitable for agriculture (Sun alone isn't enough. Having no water obviously is a problem, as can be seen in droughts like these).

America is such a huge country with a huge variety of climates, microclimates and arable land. Why you need to put everything in (basically) a desert is beyond me.
Every company that I have worked at has had disaster plans for things like that. My current company's plan is basically: redundant data centers in geographically dispersed areas and a transportation plan to get critical staff members to a location where they can keep our services running.
No, Wayland only makes it difficult for individual applications to define global keybindings - so, for example, a global Ctrl-Space to play/pause your music player would need some extra plumbing to be implemented. Your WM owns (well, is, in Wayland) the display server, so it can define whatever keybindings it wants.
Nobody ever got fired for buying Oracle, but some people clearly got swindled (though it's pretty clear that whoever was in charge of project management on the customer side should go).
Instructors are not really that large of a budget item at collages. Administrative overhead has continued to grow due to a wide range of factors including such things as the new demand for IT at all schools.
I don't take dev bootcamp graduation seriously because I've never heard of anyone washing out. I can only speak for myself personally, but activity on GitHub and having projects are the two things that I look for.
I've done something similar to this a few times, both in Python.

Once to create a TkInter GUI for an internal command line app, and once to wrap sg3_utils for use in Python scripts.

In general, I think it could "mostly work" a good portion of the time, but it'd be pretty difficult to get working 100% of the time without a lot of tweaking to the parser.
Yokohama? http://www.yokohamatire.com/news/detail/1992
ACM Blames the PC for Driving Women Away from Computer Science
But why do you prefer it over Cython, since it can also wrap "actual, pure C, and dynamically [call] it from Python"?

What is the vectorization problem? Both Cython and Julia allow you to write tight loops and have them perform well.
I'm loving this so much. It's 138 pages, and I intend to read it all. Here's a few teasers for y'all:

One developer experienced in Oracle products called Oracle’s programming “atrocious.” He added that “they broke every single best practice that Oracle themselves have defined. It is one of the worst assessments I have performed * * .” The same developer wrote to Oracle, “You are Oracle people, working on an Oracle hardware platform, with Oracle technology products, on an Oracle solution. * * Oracle should be delivering these environments and products as a solution, like they actually understood the products and owned the solution which has not
been the case by a long shot.”

AND

Oracle’s responses to the Vendor Questionnaire also stated that OPA and Siebel, the foundation of the “Oracle Solution,” could be implemented by business analysts, not software developers, and without customization. Oracle explained that “government subject matter experts (not application developers)” could define rules in OPA “in the terms and vocabulary that they are familiar with and/or as defined in relevant statute, regulations and policy documents. * * * There is no scripting or programming needed.”
The archive these come from is linked at the bottom: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/.
yes, that's what i did. And seems like a logical solution... But still, it doesn't seem quite the right one I think. Example, first a 15k radius includes several different city's here, so i'll have to add all of them. Second, people have to 'pull' my picture because they don't always browse instagram on their city hashtag. I want to 'push' it to them. Like a Tinder feed where you swipe through possible matches.
Doesn't this already exist, albeit in a private capacity, with things like the US News rankings?
breakingnews.com was on it within minutes: https://twitter.com/BreakingNews/status/503489912528969728

I wouldn't imagine many people watch TV at 3:30am anyway.
And why people wouldn't use twitter and other social media to look for updates on breaking news?
Thanks for letting us know. We've fixed that bug now.
The paper only says the evidence available doesn't support the conclusion, i.e., we wouldn't be justified in claiming that deliberate practice is the key. This doesn't mean it's NOT the key, only that we haven't been able to measure whether it is or not so far.

The only certainty is that the evidence isn't in yet. The sociological impact of the Protestant work ethic and whether it's value is supported by evidence will have to wait. :D
My initial thought is a security issue with that app, given the wording
Note that http://www.openannotation.org is working on related standards for anchoring comments.

Is there a reliable way to create audio/video fragment links that work across the most popular sites?
If you plan to keep them for life, training them does make plenty sense.

Of course lifetime employment no longer makes any sense.
Thanks for the feedback. We'll be adding those features sometime during September.
Ask HN: Imagine you can solve one of your own problems today – what would it be?
There have been so many startups lately that seem to resonate with a very painful problem. Dropbox with file sharing. Uber with hailing a cab. Airbnb with finding lodging.

What's the next behemoth?
I haven't worked for Accenture, but a friend of mine did (not on the software side, but on strategy). These recent grads were referred to as "green beans."

Don't know if this is a general term or what, but I always found it both slightly amusing and slightly terrifying.
Chinese eye 'supercavitation' technology as future of underwater travel
International payments. Anybody? Please?
July 2014 Virus Activity Overview
Okay, but you started by saying "no one really has datacenters in the Bay Area anymore", and now you're talking about sole hosting, which is a completely different assertion.
Administrative overhead is growing, but you can't cut there - you need functional infrastructure. So you cut where you can, and that is at the teaching end.

By the way, part of the growing infrastructure is because universities are trying to attract non-traditional students, such as first-generation students, minorities and non-Western students. You can drop a middle-class US guy into a US university, and he will do just fine. But a minority student may need tutoring (because his high school plainly sucked), someone from China will need help with cultural adjustment, and a first-generation student may not even know how to study (his family is of no help). All this is motivated by the need for more bodies paying tuition.
Mobile threats in July 2014
Wow, don't hold back on your thoughts. :-)

I've long suspected that Oracle made and sold solutions that fit this description.
New Android ransomware unlocks devices free of charge
If you don't burn the wood, it will naturally decompose and release the same amount of C02 into the atmosphere. Possibly with methane which is an even worse greenhouse gas.
What about Google Wallet? Venmo? Paypal? Square Cash? Are they solving that problem at all?

https://www.google.com/wallet/send-money/
https://venmo.com/
https://square.com/cash
Researchers Successfully Hacked Gmail Through Gmail Android App
Earthquakes destroy water and power grids, and transmission lines, which is a big deal for the digital infrastructure.
Hyperlocal Mesh Networks
Good to know, and something I have told new comers to development/software engineering/computer science repeatedly. If you don't have the good programmer or developer gene, no amount of practice is going to make you one. If you are not great today, don't waste your time trying to practice and become one, or waste your money buying books or doing courses. The bitter truth.
I totally agree it's possible to be prepared, but if you're talking about the earthquake I'm thinking about from May - http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/shakemap/global/shake... - I don't think it's a great example, since the epicenter was pretty far from central Tokyo and also quite deep (153km) so at the surface it wasn't particularly strong.

Apart from being centered very close to Napa this earthquake was also fairly shallow (10km) so it was significantly more intense (albeit in a small, not heavily populated area) even though it was of the same magnitude. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/shakemap/nc/shake/722...

(I say that based on the numbers, not having first-hand experience with either quake)