skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the "industry-wide accepted definition" you've referred to is the key here. There's greater awareness of precisely what "staying current" means, and there's a more measurable and straightforward way to fulfill those requirements.

That doesn't mean it isn't rigorous - getting through nursing graduate school and getting board certified as a nurse anesthetist is very rigorous! But my guess is that the path is much clearer. You don't end up getting surprise interview questions about the Fourier transform because you claim to know how to interpret ultrasound.
From what I've read, research suggests that children from higher quality daycares had higher vocabulary scores, but worse social/behavioral problems (academic habits, more impulsiveness, risk-taking).

One relevant source:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17381797
Toward an inclusive hackathon culture
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Concerns about errors is another reason they might not do this: extreme corner cases and/or wear and tear might result in incorrect feedback. This would be at least roughly equivalent to the display meters displaying the wrong values; obviously a horribly bad occurrence.
Ouch! Of course I know of Heartbleed, but I didn't stick around for the postmortem... Was that really what caused it? I use conditionals without braces for one-liners frequently, and this one comment is making me reconsider
I would love that feature. Also, An android app would be nice
Which was a user-friendly decision during the period where android phones frequently died after only 4 hours of use.
One minor request: if you could add syntax highlighting to the Guide and API, it would be amazing. Otherwise, nice work!
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> I have an experience...

I think we all do! ;-)

Back in the day, I was a co-founder in a company, started by my advisor's wife. She called us (me and a colleague) to their house, and promised the two of us 20% ownership (and the remaining 60% she kept).

I worked like a dog for about 1.5 years, spending nights and weekends getting it off the ground (the business was website creation and other backend stuff). We managed to get the ear of one of the largest grocery chains in the country, and their VP came over to talk to us. My ideas were the core of the presentation. As soon as it looked like it might take off, she started cutting me out. Then one day, the locks were changed in the office!

As her husband was still my advisor, I couldn't do anything but grumble and continue working on my dissertation.

A few years later, the company was sold for $30MM.
You want something that is immediately visually recognizable -- even on a machine you are just walking by -- from any other normal operation, including "sitting displaying something in a full-screen DOS box".
Also confused me a lot too. Is this basically just putting a list of things you have bought into a checklist in Keep via some API I am not aware of?
It's atikmdag.sys for me. Except on occasion when Netflix kills it with a different message (but IIRC related to video decoding, so possibly the ATI driver's fault there too).
I like this idea... is there anyway to put your own picture in?
Well, it's not that impressive, it says the guy ran 3 seconds faster, how is that useful in any context?
There is no eventual financial benefit to having children for society. Our lives would be much better if the population of the Earth was smaller. The oil would last longer, food would be cheaper as we could farm only the most fertile easily-cultivated land, less competition for housing, etc, etc.
How do you know that Apple receives a fee for the transaction? I'd be curious to see a source.
Were they trying to be ironic, by providing screenshots of the application? For which the messages should have disappeared? I guess there were no obvious identifying cues from the app. But a person could make them in the message sent back. So this suffers from the same problems as other "ephemeral" apps, the "screenshot", right?
Millions of Gmail accounts hacked
Gates Foundation pledges $50 mln to fight Ebola epidemic
Shameless plug: if anyone is interested in helping a startup test out their VoIP infrastructure, let me know (email in profile) and I'll hook you up with a free SIP trunk you can use for a while for both domestic and international calls. Conversational traffic only please, no automated dialers of any kind. To be used with any SIP client of your choice.
I wonder what the OP's app will be called on Android
Friends? OK

But I've been in business with my spouse for over a decade now.
Five million Gmail addresses and passwords dumped online
I fully agree with you, but if you point the argument that way, CM supporters have an easier time claiming that their protest is more important than someone's day off.

They have a harder time arguing that their protest is more important than a CRNA going in to make an emergency c-section possible, where the lives of a mother and child are at risk, or a surgeon going in to perform an emergency craniotomy on a husband, father, and grandfather who just fell off a ladder.
Is that meant to be a real reply? I'll answer it like it is, giving you the benefit of the doubt - your thumbprint is only used to unlock the data store on the device, where the credit card token is kept. Note token, not actual credit card number or CVV code. The data stolen from Target and Home Depot was the real number, where ApplePay will use a one-time token, so even if it's stolen, it's useless once the transaction is complete. But that wasn't a real reply, was it?
On one hand I agree with blueyedlion, but on the other hand the cost of too many small transactions could be overkilling.

It makes more sense, imho, something that collects till a goal and then makes a single bigger transaction. The goal can also be useful for motivation (3 more coffees and you reach your 100$).
Something that is rarely mentioned in these articles it's Germanys regressive policy on dual citizenship (i.e. only permitted in rare circumstances) this makes a country unattractive for long term immigration. While this may not be such an issue for intra EU migration, it certainly seems to cause issues with Turkish immigrants. It's a much bigger jump to naturalize if that means giving up your previous citizenship
Because it's going to have more reach than most open source programming languages. In a few weeks, millions of people are going to be running Swift apps on their phones, tablets, and desktops.
Even in the modern world, starvation and low nutrition among schoolchildren is a major problem. https://www.ted.com/talks/ann_cooper_talks_school_lunches
There's no difference between "allow" and "not disallow"? There's a huge difference.

"Allow" means to affirmatively allow ISPs to charge fees when they couldn't before, while "not disallow" means to not put new regulations in place stopping ISPs from charging fees.

"You can hardly fault them for their language choice" -- to me it's much more than a language choice, it's saying something correctly or incorrectly, realistically or framed in some other reality.

And if saying it correctly "implies avoiding unwanted government interference", does that justify saying it incorrectly? Do the ends justify the means? Is propaganda OK if it's for a cause we believe in?

An analogous discussion for "slow down/make inaccessible" vs. "not speed up". There's no difference between these things? I think there's a huge difference. If I'm a company that doesn't pay the fee, will I get the same service I did before, or will I be slowed down/cut off?

As I read the proposed FCC regs, it's pay-for-speedup rather than don't-pay-and-get-slowed-down. But this "Internet slowdown day" campaign is explicitly saying that sites will get slowed down. How do I reconcile these two things?
Thanks, I will check it out. I am currently reading a book called and about Britain's War Machine, that argues that Britain had much more material (especially tanks) and advanced technology than Germany in WWII. That the Germans got so far was mostly because of superior soldiering and that the new British gadgets did not actually work all that well at the beginning of the war.
Outreach doesn't have to mean "we posted the job description at SWE," but it can mean "we are going to post the job description in more places than just the forums where current employees hang out."

It's silly to say "but our ad doesn't say anything about gender" -- of course it doesn't.

And if no women are applying, there are probably other groups of developers whom you are totally missing out on as well.

Try the following thought experiment: imagine there is a qualified candidate that you want on your team, and they see your job posting for the first time. What are you putting in your posting make sure that this person applies, and what is in your interview process to make sure this person gets accepted and encouraged to come on board?
Do you honestly feel that, in the entire nation of Germany, there are no families that are constrained primarily by money, when considering how many children to have? Given the way population tends to accumulate over time, you only need to convince 15% of those women who have already given birth to have 1 extra child, to raise Germany's birth rate back up to the replacement level. The question then is, are there those families who might like to have another child, if the cost was less of a burden? To borrow a phrase from economics, such policies seek to influence those families "at the margin", that is, those families that are considering having another child, and for whom some extra subsidy might be exactly what is needed to influence their decision in a positive direction. As in sales, there is no need to go after those who would never buy your product. There is no need to go after those women who are happy to be childless. The focus of pro-natalist policies is always to influence those who are open to the idea and who can be persuaded with some form of help.
Presumably you have your PhD now? Why not sue today?
It's a fair point, I was trying to come up with a concise way to refute "but it would also be hugely beneficial for the children's development!" because I'm not sure that's entirely true. There's nothing I've seen saying that, everything else staying the same, a parent at home is massively more beneficial than a child in daycare. The most important thing is parental involvement, and that can be done with or without daycare. A stay-at-home parent who doesn't engage their child is just as bad as two working parents who do the same.
I got this piece of advice from a mentor. "The best developers are not the smartest ones, but the ones who ship most often."
That being said, following a test driven development path will put you ahead of everyone who doesn't test.
Actually, I think the key might be that tech changes while we still need people capable of dealing (in depth!) with the old stuff. You don't have lawyers that need to practice today in the legal system of 20 years ago. Medicine learns better (we hope) ways of dealing with the same thing, but no one needs to remain an expert in the treatments we've discarded. Tech needs some expert COBOL programmers until it doesn't.
The important thing about the way we calculate things here is that there isn't a "scoring well". You might max out the scores on certain groups of answers and it won't get you the job because we're comparing candidates to the top performers, who likely won't max out those profiles - having a more balanced personality could be far more important.

We have done some work pulling in Salesforce data directly so we can assess results - a feedback loop of sorts - once a candidate is hired we directly see the results of their performance. We aren't far enough along to publish results of that feedback loop though because all sales roles take a while ramping up.

What about administrating the tests to current employees, along with details from their bosses about performance. That way you could build a model of the kind of person who does well at that organization, at least generically.

That's exactly what this does.
How to Predict SaaS Customer Churn with App Usage Data
Keep has no relation to Google's app keep or the keep shopping app that is also in the app store. We realize that there are other apps that use the word keep but we decided that we wanted to go with it.
Linked from that page is this article which goes into the design and development of the motor a bit: http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/design/power/dyson-vac...
Did someone just reinvent setf?

Honestly, I've always missed defsetf or a similar construct in languages without macros. Python's __setitem__ and __setattr__ are already nicer than C++'s pretense of using references, but setf gives you nice improtvement.

For non-lispers:

In common lisp, if you assign (setf) an expression, the compiler looks for the corresponding setf-method.

As an illustration, consider

ball.roundness() = true;

where the outermost expression is a .roundness() call, which you could transform into

ball.set_roundness(true)

without much confusion.

Note that this is conceptually more complex if you want to do this in a purely-functional language.
Yeah I knew it was ati(something).sys. Couldn't remember it exactly, most of the time when it happens I'm looking at a blue screen but seeing red because I was in the middle of a game when it shut down.
How does this compare to GSON?
No, as sp332 says, I want something like ssh-agent for the web.
Samsung uses Steve Jobs quote: ‘no one is going to buy a big phone’
Two important factors here are social responses and a financial issues. Anecdotal: my wife is often the recipient of derision when she mentions she stays at home with the kids, as though she should be out working. (Personally I think her job is far harder than mine!)

Similarly, we often meet people who claim to want to stay at home, but can't afford to. Meanwhile they have nice cars, iPhones, etc. In reality they're working to maintain a standard of living, not because they need to. Choices, choices.
Oracle and Microsoft. But their languages (Java and C#) are not platform dependent.

Just an example:

>Microsoft released C# Roslyn source code, announce Linux support with K Runtime this year

They're going to the right direction, maybe someday...

>Apple released Swift, closed source language that runs only on one platform (Mac)

Apple is so awesome, keep innovating guys! Now let's write a webstack and nosql db using Swift!
That's an interesting idea... As we get further along in the process of making payments real in Keep we may discover that batching transactions is the best way to move forward.
Is there a name for statistics that are presented as specific to x which are primarily just a reflection of popular choices in general?
You read 32.5 comments/minute?

That's a skill I'd like to have...
Imagine carrying that extra 11 pounds of weight around all the time, just for occasional use in running. I don't think it's a good concept.
Yes, but a very slight degradation in making an analog copy of some pictures or records won't degrade their blackmail value.
One of my earliest memories of using computers was seeing messages like this, and wishing I knew what the numbers meant.

My dream was to someday understand computers deeply enough that I could see numbers like that any know exactly what was going on. Like reading the matrix.

I know enough now to know what an address is, and while I may not be able to see an address and know what happened, at least I know how to use a crash address to debug a binary. So mission accomplished, I guess. :)
I actually had it in there, upgraded the doc library and highlighting disappeared...

Will get it back though.
Because calling people "hipsters" for liking a new language is juvenile.
But that's how you learn on the internet. Asking questions gets you ignored, you have to put up false claims to get corrected. :o)
Hackaday launches a “General Store” – gateway to the world of (serious) hardware
Really great idea, are you considering porting it for Android?
Is much harder to fork a country if the dictator goes nuts.
It can be easily implemented as a filter[1][2]. If you need to use it via command-line you can save the current buffer as a tempfile[3], call your CLI with the tempfile path and read the tempfile to use as the new buffer.

It's even simpler if your CLI can take a stdin argument, since you can just pass the buffer as a stdin parameter.

Thumbor's filter infrastructure allows you to change the image incrementally.

[1] https://github.com/thumbor/thumbor/wiki/Brightness

[2] https://github.com/thumbor/thumbor/blob/master/thumbor/filte...

[3] https://docs.python.org/2/library/tempfile.html
This story is a dupe (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8015241), was ring-voted and, on top of that, astroturfed. That's a bad trifecta. Please don't.
How to hire your first VP of Sales
They partnered with some more http://googlecommerce.blogspot.com.es/2012/08/use-any-credit...
That sucks. I realize Macworld still exists but won't be the same. Losing a lot of great writers that I've enjoyed for years.
At very least it needs to be able to have directly support for lambda calculus.
I don't have a link right now, but I read somewhere on their bugtracker that they were going to do it after hitting 1.0.
It would be really cool if they were able to eventually create exo suits that'll let me do titalfall-like wall running :) Just cuz its really cool.
Would you recommend taking the iOS7 course before the iOS8?

I do some mobile web development and I was looking to learn about native iOS app dev.
Future objects are the simplest way to write these workloads because they map directly to a very simple 2-step model

1) I want this, get started
2) I'll check when I need this, then I'll wait

This is what I do when I want to order pizza for pickup and it's easier to debug most of the time - they're only annoying when the pizzas ordered were never picked up (& you get a memory leak, eventually).
I'd be willing to bet that the majority of books people cite on these lists they haven't actually read. The list serves as a status symbol and there's no way to verify it anyway.

Also, U.S. citizens will happily list the entire high school summer reading list that they "loved" over ten years ago, which of course they didn't actually read then either.

Just my cynical take on it. Still interesting data.
Apple made a larger iPhone; why did it, and should it have?
Assumably faking a screenshot of text is much easier than of a picture. And the messages are being deleted as a specific needed feature to both of the users; you wouldn't message a journalist with it and not expect other humans to be able to find out about it.
So the choice of editor, hosting environment and operating system are really "conventions"? The end of this list verges on spam.
May be. It also may be that I have a lot less attachment to superficial syntactical similarity than lots of other people seem to -- I see lots of objections to languages not based on substance but based on the lack of familiar superficial structure, and that's not something that's really bothered me (one advantage, perhaps, of having learned -- even if only at a fairly superficial level in some cases -- several languages with radically different syntax in grade school), so "it superficially looks familiar" isn't bypassing, for me, a stumbling block lots of people seem to have.

In any case, yeah, I'm not saying that my personal Erlang vs. Elixir response is anything more than my personal response (or that Elixir isn't valuable; its certainly something I'd like to find time to explore more deeply and I think it has a lot to offer.)
I wish these were hidden for non-US ips. I don't care about US issues and even if I did there's nothing I could do.
How about paying thousands of engineers/designers $100k+ salaries to work on it for the past year?
I was under the impression that this violates CALEA.
I was about the say the same. I installed Google's Keep just this week.

Also, a former coworker of mine works at Keep.com, so that also came to mind.

I guess it's a popular name. His web site does say "Keep – a new, free iOS app" so perhaps it will not be confusing within the scope of Apple's app store and there is no intention for an Android release.

That all said, it looks very nice from the screenshots and I was able to understand the utility being provided from the description. Congrats on the release.
I would rather audio text message. I want something like Glide, but without video. Sometimes a txt doesn't do it, but I don't want to enter into the time-consuming ceremony of a phone call/voicemail.
Yes, they're called demographic studies, studies of the choices of populations. Such studies can be used to find out what populations are likely to do when confronted by various choices. Then there's polling, meant to test one's population theories using actual data.
I'll try to cover couple of them. Hopefully, others can fill in:

- funs have an extra dot in the name: not fixed because that will lead to inconsistency [1]

- send operator: removed earlier this year and the operator is reincarnated as comprehension operator (comprehension being more ubiquitous [2]); although, the proposed syntax wasn't adopted

Not sure about funs and def. It appears that not much was discussed about versions in source file and docstrings inside function definition (module doc is already inside); the later one can be dismissed being a common bikeshed in PL design.

So, yeah, most of the proposals couldn't make it because of complications.

[1] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/elixir-lang-core/_kEBXO0NR...

[2] http://elixir-lang.org/getting_started/18.html
One of the benefits of using token-based auth over Cookies is that you don't have to worry about CRSF:

https://auth0.com/blog/2014/01/07/angularjs-authentication-w...
Echoing Ryan's point. I'm on the last section of Eliot's previous course (http://bitfountain.io/course/the-complete-ios-7-course-learn...) and will be enrolling in this once I finish. Start to finish, the material has been extremely helpful!
Does anyone know how Musk plans to address the lack of Mars' magnetosphere? [1]

As much as I am rooting for him, I don't see how a long term colony is possible without addressing this problem. If we're going to live in underground, shielded habitats, why not just build space colonies and/or Moon colonies?

Furthermore, I don't think we're going to get very far in space manufacturing without a high energy density power source (e.g. fusion).

As such, shouldn't Elon be advocating for increased research funding for fusion?

1. http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/as...
China's going to copy us. Should we care?
We've developed an innovative, unique IP which we are in the process of getting a US patent for. When our customers use the product it's obvious we are leagues ahead of the competition, but we're still small, and won't be at a scaling stage for another year (it's a slow industry).

A partner of ours is using one of our products for cross promotional purposes in China, which will give us a lot of early exposure there. I'm certain someone in China will see our product and copy it. Should we care?

Possible results
A) They copy it and saturate the China market, we get US and Europe, compete for India in 2016.
B) They copy it and do a ton of free research for us in China, so that when we're ready to move there, we can jump ahead of them and retake the market.
C) I'm overestimating the risk and nothing or very little will happen.

Thoughts? Has this happened to anyone else?
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tinfoil alert

your data will flow through google's RTP proxies (see STUN/TURN). Probably in US.
He said "publishers" not retailers.
Well if that's how you're analyzing it, the writer is female -- Julia Belluz.