skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting that it's seen as aid.

If countries like Norway feel that standing trees provide a service to them, they should pay to keep them up.

It's not charity, the trees are providing a marketable good by processing CO2 emissions.

While I'm not an environmentalist, I do believe in markets as a way of solving larger problems and I think it would be interesting if a market was built on resource preservation.

For instance, if a type of tree processes more CO2, they should be worth more than one that does not and that can be expressed in whatever this marketplace would be. If I had more connections at a government level, I might be interested in such an idea but as it stands now the sales cycles would be too long to get a market like that going.
Whatever your personal thoughts are on iOS and Apple, you can't deny that it's amazing how fast Apple can push through new updates which is a good thing for both developers who can rely on a larger userbase for new APIs and security.
It’s a rails world babe and it ain’t magic
Am being I slow? I can't see the source code to the JSON editor.
How going private made Dell more innovative
No RAM for Postgres until you reach $50/m? Talk about profit margins!
The "new better init system" already exists. Several of them, in fact. The only difference? They have no intention of engaging in any shady realpolitik, or consolidating functionality unrelated to their core purpose.

Jupiter Broadcasting are an unreliable source, to say the least. I did watch that episode. When you use such pristine arguments as "Someone reimplemented systemd's D-Bus APIs, therefore systemd is portable!" (much like the Windows API is portable, because Wine exists) and claim that systemd is a "manufactured controversy" while responding to easy straw man arguments, there is a term for that kind of person: a shill.

I was also very amused by the Linux Action Show's coverage of uselessd. They spent the entire time whining about the name, thinking it makes fun of the systemd developers, when in fact it's making fun of ourselves. They also got mad over the use of the word "cruft" and later called us "butthurt BSD users".

Good to see that you bring some new insights, however. Very mature and enlightening.
This is why I loved the Rails Tutorial when I did it about a year ago: it doesn't teach you just writing code, but also testing that code, managing it in a version control system, uploading it to Github and deploying it on Heroku. It's basically an "end-to-end" guide that explains each step of the way thoroughly.

https://www.railstutorial.org/
The PhD of Andreas Gal (now Mozilla CTO) dealt, among other things, with adding a JIT to JamVM called HotPath[0]. The code, unfortunately, is nowhere to be found.

[0] https://www.usenix.org/events/vee06/full_papers/p144-gal.pdf
Nice to see another text summarizer. Do you have any accuracy stats on which categories this is good?
It stays on the ISS while it is emptied and loaded for the return trip. Dragon is the only vehicle with a substantial down mass capability (3000kg) so it can return with things that need fixing and completed experiments etc. Shuttle is retired and Progress, ATV, HTV and Cygnus are one way trips so only good for taking out the garbage. Soyuz is full of people.

They set Dragon free with the arm, Dragon departs, does a de-orbit burn, jettisons the trunk (with the solar arrays), re-enters the atmosphere and parachutes down into the ocean and is recovered.
Here's more info on the arm: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/elements...
I'd wager that in our various parents' generations (no idea how old you are) one of the biggest factors that determined whether you could chat with someone on the phone was whether someone was there to see you do it. If you're at work, your boss can catch you 'using company time to handle personal tasks'; at home, nobody is there to watch you like a hawk.
Boston based Kinvey raises $10.8M
Maybe it's just me, but 'adoption' sounds like a purely voluntary action. Don't mean to sound negative, but is there a word with less negative connotation than 'infection'?
How to bill clients when your time is your product
Ah, context. I used "X-Com" in a deliberate typographical attempt to exclude "XCOM" from the conversation.
PHP: why GOTO instead of recursion?
'Could Reach', what is this Fox news?
Because invading Western Countries would be more effective in doing that than local African authorities?
Mobile Servicing System A.K.A. Canadarm2
It seems simple why historians would object to speculative fictional counterfactionals. Historians are concerned with the real effects of real events. People do very badly separating fictional evidence from true evidence (bring up AI and see how long it takes your conversational partner to bring up Terminator).

As a result, it seems likely that people would discount certain things, or overvalue certain things, based on fictional historical counterfactual evidence.

It's also quite possible to consider the impact of an event without fantasizing about what would have happened if it didn't happen; you can see the actual events that it caused and look at their magnitude and effects.
Introducing the App Store for the Web, a new way to sell web apps
Not much.

Targeted attacks might just be doable.

Legal, they would not be. Deliberately interfering with communications is not legal.
The site was set up as part of a structured learning environment. Any implication that it is suitable for onboarding people with no background knowledge about software development [ if it exists ] comes from the article and it's choice of title.

In addition, if creating a Github account and typing commands into a computer instead of clicking a button represent impassable obstacles to learning programming for some person, then these requirements are appropriate for screening out those whose energy might be better invested elsewhere.

Programming requires interacting with other computers and typing.
Because it's a public goods problem. If one country pays, all countries benefit equally, and the country that pays generally spends more than its benefit from that payment. So each country is better off not paying, regardless of what everybody else does, even though we'd all be a lot better off if everybody paid.
Hell, old compilers? Even modern compilers don't do that. I once fixed a bug that occurred because someone was doing a memcmp() between two structures to check if they were the same, and it was returning false because some of the padding between variables differed between the two. This was in C++ in a modern version of Visual Studio.
Creating a monster: How to build Google-like infrastructure
DEC 64: Decimal Floating Point by Douglas Crockford
This is probably posted with good intentions, but invading a country is not the best way to increase confidence in a crumbling healthcare systems and it would create its own set of chaos. For previous well meaning attempts, see "Restore hope".
Maybe, but the Apple Wave feature alone is worth upgrading! http://i.imgur.com/TX9dbK6.jpg
Why do you believe ios8 is being forced on people?
The Hipster view is broken
No, it really wouldn't. Not even a little bit. Why? Because "invading some African countries" would destroy our relationship with other countries, give the usual aggressors an excuse to continue to pursue their own invasions and probably not actually even help anyone. You don't really even have to invade, it's not like these "African countries" would mind a horde of doctors and health care workers to help them out of this horrible situation.
That's a good way to reduce nationalism in Europe (which has sometimes led to wars).
I sold an iPhone not long ago, one that still had iOS 6. Seems that it sold at a bit of a premium, and that was the likely reason.
That sounds like an excellent plan for containment. Send tens of thousands of troops over to Africa to corral people, bringing them in close contact, then send the troops back to their home countries, nothing could possibly go wrong.
Streak (YC S11) is hiring engineers who love JavaScript
We're looking for people that love Javascript - ugly warts and all. We want people that care about Single-Page App architecture, writing clean reusable code, and spend more hours than is reasonable looking at Dev Tool's CPU profiler.

At Streak we have an incredibly sophisticated SPA that is built on top of another incredibly sophisticated SPA (Gmail), all while never compromising performance. This is extremely challenging technically, and you'll be sure your skills will be pushed to the limits and beyond.

Requirements:

- you love working hard, not just for financial rewards, but for the opportunity to grow personally and become the best developer you can

- have worked on a javascript application with more than 10KLOC (app code, not external library code)

- have been coding full time for at least the past 2 years

- you live (or want to move) to SF and are authorized to work here

Obviously:

- Great compensation and real ownership (both equity and over the product)

- We’ll make your life easier. Our benefits package is amazing

- We’re well funded by great silicon valley investors and are profitable

We’d love to hear from you at javascript@streak.com, please send us some information about yourself and samples of anything you’ve built.
Why creative crowdfunders should learn how to code
Douglas Crockford talks about why he wants DEC 64 in this talk: http://vimeo.com/97419177 (jump to 41m:20s)
Show HN: Branch – Mobile links that pass data through install and open
Full version upgrades always prompt the user.
Military dolphin
“One Indian Engineer Can Make Nine Women Pregnant in One Afternoon”
New – Mobile Web and App Analysis on SimilarWeb
It is nice to have a commercially viable use for compelling technology that is separate from the military-industrial complex though. Even well funded development stage pharmaceutical companies can have a hard time investing in speculative ideas on the hardware/software front.
> The pope once said evolution can still be a fact without changing the belief system of the catholic church.

Off-topic, but was this a good example of a "non-smooth unprincipled adaptation"? I was taught evolution by Catholics and it never seemed incongruous, but I'm not versed in the history.
To Cloud or Not to Cloud: Answering the CIO's Top 5 Questions
Even more amazing to me is the high rate of adoption given how massive the download (~4GB) was. I had to clean up apps from my 64GB ipad to make room (though with 64GB, I tend to carelessly collect apps, and Amazon Instant video will just download tens of GB if I'm not careful). Anecdotally, I can think of a couple friends this past month in which, on a normal day, had to stop taking pictures/selfies because their phone HD was too full...It's easy enough to delete GB of movies, but photos?

It doesn't help that deleting media/apps just from the phone is a pain in the ass, and syncing with iTunes is arcane even to a longtime iOS/Apple user as myself. So I have to imagine this 46% are the folks who happen to have well-maintained disk space...but 4GB won't be trivial for people with 16GB phones that have collected music/photos/video for a couple years now.
These estimates come with a variety of scenarios. 1.4 million is the worst-case one.
iDoneThis is for teams as well.
Sometimes my custom keyboard disappears (using SwiftType). Numeric unlock in Cloud Magic doesn't work; I have to close and reopen. I have 2 apps with swipeable photo-galleries that get "stuck" and cant' swipe (one of which has released a big iOS 8 update and still has behavior). (These may be app issues, not OS necessarily, but that's mostly irrelevant)
People are downvoting you, but your comment seems fair enough to me, since the alternative scenario discussed in the article is that the epidemic could be "almost ended" by the same date. So, could be 1.4 million, could be "almost ended". Certainly seems like a misleading and intentionally sensational headline to me.
what else do you want? "will reach"? This is not an exact science here
Photoshop for Web Design
OrientDB is the most interesting alternative to MongoDB with support for Multi-Master replication and relationships: you can decide to embed or link documents:

http://www.orientechnologies.com/orientdb-vs-mongodb/
CRTC chair clashes with Netflix exec at hearings
I've sent Heroku tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of dollars in business by referring clients over the years. The fact that they've spent 78¢ in AWS fees for my hobby apps causes me to lose approximately 0 seconds of sleep at night.
Yes - it's called jQuery Audit, and it's super helpful when figuring out whether evens are bound, if there are memory leaks etc.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jquery-audit/dhhnp...
What's particularly galling about this is that the anti-HFT narrative benefits the Goldmans and JPMs of the world. The largest technologically aggressive sell-side firms are smaller than the personal wealth of hedge fund principals.

It's almost like a bamboozling.
Hi Nate: I'm somewhat in the same boat. To get my business moving, I will need a CTO partner to drive the ship forward. Getting a minimum-viable-product built though, is all on me. Which I'd gone-out, assuming I could find friends to help me out with. Nope. No time, summer taveling, and everyone's loaded-up with paying work.

I'm a UX'er by trade, a self-taught mechanic/builder by hobby, and languages are my achilles heel with learning. So, I've taken A LOT of flack for many years, for not learning how to code, beyond my basic understanding of how things all fit together, need to support each other, and being able to edit other peoples HTML/CSS.

As a solo-founder however, it's all on me to deliver. Advisors and investors have (as gently as possible) told me that.

https://generalassemb.ly/ is expensive, but it's done a great job in a classroom setting, teaching app frameworks basics to n00bs. When I have the money and the bandwidth, I'm looking forward to taking it. Then there's also https://www.hackerschool.com/about, which is a paid retreat, so expensive on many levels.

I was really impressed with the codeacademy.com experience, and it filled-in many blanks for me that made me feel competent in CSS and HTML, for the first time ever. Using Javascript with JQuery is going to be a much more daunting challenge, because its entire mental model I still don't grok.

But, I'm trying, anyway. I managed to get one critical JQuery piece to work, and the other—I gave-up on but am coding the page, anyway with a static stand-in. I figure that once I've gotten all of the HTML and CSS and what of the JQuery I could do, done, at that point it will be easier to get friends to help me patch the holes. If not, then I will just pay a freelance Javascript person, to spend a day patching holes (and I honestly don't see what holes there will be, taking a day). Remember: Minimum Viable Product, doesn't' need to be fancy. :)

From, a gal who's gone-in kicking and screaming with every bit of learning code... but will probably be a more well rounded CEO, for it.
I'd have no issue with their own investments in the fund being taxed as long term capital provided they have held the investment for a year when the profit is taken.

Here's a simple way to think about it - an ordinary RIA invests money on behalf of their clients. The fees they get for that service are taxed as ordinary income. Why should carried interest be any different when the money is coming from clients? And why should carried interest be taxed at a lower rate regardless of hold time? The simple answer is that these fees aren't any different - and therefore should be taxed at the same rate in my opinion.
Which One Is Better at Making Money with Apps, Freemium or Paid?
JavaScript to Python API Reference Guide – Notes of Maks Nemisj
"Would love to create my own software and start selling it, but everything's been done already"

You need to get this idea out of your head. Maybe a lot of "obvious" ideas have been done already, but there is an infinite amount products to be built. Society's needs change very quickly, in turn, products will built to accommodate. Look at ProductHunt, new products everyday.
The title on this article is very clever. I can just see the journalist leaping up in glee when he figured it out.
If the best and brightest are working on it, what makes you more competent to judge that they shouldn't?
I installed iTunes over the weekend (I don't own a Mac) just to perform the update. It was fairly quick and painless, and saved me from needing to delete a ton of stuff from my 16GB iPhone, which I foolishly did for the iOS 7 update. I uninstalled iTunes as soon as it was complete.
> Norway is not footing the bill as it has no money. It had to take $150M from its citizens pockets.

There is no difference in English. When someone says "Manchester United scored three goals", it is understood that individual players on the team so named kicked the balls into the net. Noone is under the impression that the corporation Manchester United plc pushed the balls using psychokinesis.
Just in case someone doesn't realize it, "Wave" is a joke/troll...
Media is summarizing a 220+ page report of analysis of Erasmus' impact to "1M babies!".

Here's a site with a better summary (http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-1025_en.htm) where you can download the PDF of the report. The executive summary contains some interesting facts.
Here’s Where We Stand with Ebola
Russians or more generally Slavs do not value human life less than western societies do. Their societies and cultures are just more collectivistic and focused on the survival of the state and its people than western societies. (where individualism is stronger)

And this didn't happen by chance. If you take a look at the history of the Slavs, that live and lived on the territory of current Russia, you'll find that it is mostly about having to defend against invasion after invasion for most of the last 1000 years.

If it wasn't the europeans who were invading (France, Germany, Poland-Lithuania, Sweden, Denmark - which all were very powerful at some point in history), then it were the Turks or Persians from the south, or the Mongols from the east that invaded.

This certainly had an effect on the society and their psychology and that's why you will see there more people willing to risk or sacrifice their lives for the survival of their state and their people.

That's the explanation why most liquidators in Chernobyl were volunteers, why the Soviet Union could even fight a total war against Nazi Germany where they lost 30-40 million people (could you imagine France fighting any war in which they lose 10 million citizens? Even under the harshest dictatorship that uses force?) and why a collectivistic ideology like Communism could rise in Russia.

It even explains why opposition has a very hard time in modern Russia (it is often viewed as betrayal against their state and their people), and why Russia is so large in the first place. (they feel the need to have giant buffer zones in case of future invasions and to have a backup plan behind the Ural mountains if the Moscow region should ever fall)
This is the single biggest problem with the Michael Lewis book is that it implies that this is happening without ever walking through it.

What is actually happening is that:
1. HFT is quoting both buy and sell prices on every exchange.
2. A big buyer sends orders to all of the exchanges trying to buy (or sell) all of the available inventory at a given price.
3. On 1 exchange the big buyers order gets there earlier than on other exchanges, triggering a transaction with the HFT.
4. The HFT uses that transaction as a price signal to change their prices on all the other exchanges and if they are faster than the big buyer, the big buyer cannot take advantage of the lower price.

There is no middleman buying from 1 place and selling to another and driving up the price. What this sort of price signaling does is allow the HFT to quote smaller spreads in the more common case, when 1 participant is not trying to wipe out all of the liquidity in the market at a given price point.
Some VCs think we're headed for another dot-com bubble
In fact, the article ends in mostly the same sentiment expressed by the site's creator:

"But she would like to raise money to pay people to improve it. For example, she admits that the site is a bit lack in the usability department. “It’s hard to tell what it is just by looking at it,” she says. “It’s remarkable to me that people have figured out how to use it.”"
I wouldn't take it too seriously. At the risk of sounding pretentious, the skill level of developers on HN and proggit seem to be much higher than average. For every guy who writes a sweet project in meteor and shows it off to everyone there are 1000 Enterprise Java programmers who do it as a 9-5 and scoff at the idea of hobby programming.

If you're passionate and put forth an effort to keep a relevant skill set you're already doing better than most imho.
Hopefully this turns out better for India than their "frugal" Russian aircraft carrier....
No, most fireworks carry their own oxidizer. Otherwise even in Earth's atmosphere their power would be quite limited by airflow.
"...following its current trajectory..."

"In the best-case model...would be “almost ended” by Jan. 20..."

"The current official case count is 5,843, including 2,803 deaths, according to the World Health Organization."

It would be a very smart investment to contain this outbreak of Ebola and put boots on the ground.
I wouldn't worry too much about coding interview questions, especially if you're looking to just enter the profession. The most important aspects are showing a willingness to learn and an ability to think critically about problems.
Can We Train America to Train Its Workers?
Groupon releases their diversity numbers
Interesting read. I've been approached by non-tech founders for CTO roles many times, and the main reason I turn them down is that I don't believe in their products, but don't have the heart to trample on someone else's dreams.

Having worked for a failed start-up before, I'll only go back to that madness for a very solid product offering, and a sizable financial reward given the risks.
Orange – Visual Data Mining Tool
I feel the same way, but I get the impression that "kids these days" love that kind of thing, so the fact that you or I wouldn't use this isn't necessarily a bar to success.
You also have the divers that goes on suicidal mission in this event : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_dis... http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1986/Soviet-Press-Reports-Heroi... and for the value of life. Lot of events and russian friends make me think like this. as always it's my experience and point of view.
I suspect that there are quite a few people like myself who are waiting for a jailbreak to be released before upgrading.
SpaceX Breaks Ground on Texas Spaceport
Well, I like it. It's pretty and it's not just black text on white background.
It's very buggy. I installed the GM and fully expected a second GM because of all the bugs I saw. But nope, they shipped it.
Netflix refuses CRTC demand to hand over subscriber data
At this point, I don't think it has even started prompting; these will be people who either knew iOS8 was available, or saw the little '1' on the settings app. Apple doesn't do mandatory updates.
The scheduling feature missing from Gmail
Mnesia (Erlang in-memory database) and the CAP theorem
In the interest of accuracy, iOS 8 is being forced on people through programs that require iOS 8. However, the historical trend has been to support up to two versions behind unless the program relies on something that is not available in the older versions.
When I was young Von Daniken's book had just come out and popular culture was awash with this sort of stuff. Remember crystal skulls? "Wow look at those things, how could people from those ancient civilizations possibly have made them?" Simple answer - they didn't, they were all made in modern times.
It's so nice to remember those memories. The good old days. Im kindda moved to tears.