skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would define absolute income mobility in terms of some globally comparable good. Dollars, PPP adjusted or not, for example.

Relative mobility to me means mobility within some particular income distribution: Moving from, say, an average household income in the first quintile to an average household income in the fifth quintile.

I prefer absolute mobility as a measure of economic mobility for the same reason that any rational actor would prefer to win a lottery for the difference between the income of an average bottom 20% household and an average top 20% household in the U.S.[1] vs. Sweden[2]. According to OECD, that's $75K vs. $37K.

[1] http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/united-states/

[2] http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/sweden/
The energy is dispersed in all directions through air molecules. At the top it dissipates and at the bottom it is absorbed by the earth. The only extra boost you'd get along vectors parallel to the surface would be reflections of the energy, which other commenters have said is small ... so this term doesn't change enough to get the function out of O(r^-2) does it?
I remember in the 1990s when the FBI and NSA were doing the good work: going after organized crime syndicates on the web, making public advice for US businesses to secure their networks, releasing Linux and Windows security patches, etc.

Times have changed.
It would seem that entirely depends on your definition of feminism. Considering what types of people call themselves feminist, it could mean anything from sane person to misandrist.
You (and I'm assuming you're the person who came up with this) need to think about it from the perspective of email recipients, because they're the ones who are going to be directly affected by this button.

You don't say at all how this works. Do you scrape the email addresses? What does the email look like? Does it have any sort of opt-out mechanism?

How do emails sent by this conform to Canada's anti-spam legislation, or any other country's anti-spam legislation?
Startup Community- documentary about startups in Kitchener Waterloo
Fan is short for 'fanatic' after all.
Arduino to sell 3D printer–$800 in kit form or $1,000 pre-assembled
> I think its asking way too much of someone who wants to join a casual site known for cat pics and meme jokes to read through the couple dozen default sub rules.

But it's not asking too much of that same cat-and-meme based system to be a focusing point for decently written short-stories and a good place to discuss books?

I mean, you're saying that it's asking too much of people that they just click 'unsubscribe' on twox - and that having the barest understanding of how subreddits work is just too much.

And that's the community you're complaining about your seeming inability to farm quality prose from? I'm as tired of stories ending in the "tree-fiddy" in-joke as you are, but maybe there needs to be a higher barrier to entry than 'spends time on reddit' for voting, and while 'is able to read a couple dozen default sub rules' isn't that much higher, it might encourage people to at least read the rules before spouting off.
For those who are not familiar with Lua, or who have heard the prevalent "conventional wisdom" about it, here's a quick clarification:

A. Lua's source code is really really small and extremely well-commented[1].

B. Lua is super easy to integrate... you can literally just throw Lua's entire source code into your app[2] and it'll compile just fine.

C. Lua's C API is super easy to use, and way more thought-out than Python's or Ruby's (no offense to Matz or Guido) -- yes, it is stack-based, but this actually makes its API much simpler and smaller than it would otherwise be. You can probably learn all of it in an afternoon (with the right guide).

D. Lua is uncannily similar to JavaScript in semantics, and the syntax[3] is ridiculously simple to learn. Semantically, it has way less magic to learn than either Ruby or Python.

E. Lua isn't only for scripting video games. I wish this "conventional wisdom" would just die. Yes, it is good for scripting video games, for the same reason it's excellent for scripting anything.

F. Table indices starting at 1 is not hard to reason about, not hard to use, and it's not hard to switch back-and-forth between Lua and languages where indices start at 0. This is a complete myth.

[1]: http://www.lua.org/source/5.2/

[2]: like this: https://github.com/sdegutis/mjolnir/tree/master/Mjolnir/lua

[3]: here's Lua's EBNF in its entirely, fitting on a single screen for me: http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#9
It's not a problem for such big guys as Google or Facebook to create clons of lots of startups. But they usually buy them. Probably because they find them promising or competitory. I guess they are intending to monopolize the market
Felt the same way. I'm wondering what the catch is.
That's not true, mods can opt out of becoming a default and at least in some cases the admins talk to the mods first anyway.

edit: http://i.imgur.com/IbiMa8g.png
Unfortunately, it's Cthulhu rising from the lake, so we're still screwed...
Whenever Reddit fails it will because of the modding system. They should have a mod rotation policy.
I think you two are a minority, that is why Adobe doesn't care.

Most programmers aren't artists/designers.
I'm using Realm on iOS at the moment for a reasonably large application. I originally had a C cross-platform core based on SQLite, but I found it too difficult to maintain and threw most of it out after attempting to make what should've been a minor change that ended up going on for two weeks.

Realm reduced the core size by approximately 90%, and while I've given up the cross-platform part (target platforms were iOS, OS X and Windows; obviously not focussed on Windows at this point), the code clarity and ease with which I can change data structures makes this approach so much better.

Are you guys looking at supporting Windows/C#/.NET at this stage, because while I don't develop much software for it, it does come up occasionally, and it would be good to use it throughout.
Not sure about that.

The majority of the buyer are going to buy on feedback. And a US supplier using fake Netherlands location is likely to get good feedback based on fast shipping (seeing how its fake Netherlands) and gain the benefit of the "positive" Netherlands connotations (Hollywood's view of the Netherlands in the average person's eyes).

4th amendment - true but not relevant to an environment dominated by non-lawyers and buyer's reviews I think.
They probably want to distance themselves as much as possible from the massive flop that has been.
Jackie Akhavan (Professor of Explosive Chemistry) – The Life Scientific
Last you checked, eh? Where did you do your checking?

Let's review some definitions for feminism:

"the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities"

"the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes"

Which part of that do you disagree with that makes you not a feminist?

And, if being a feminist means one supports gender equality (which is what it means), how do you believe it can ever follow that not being feminist doesn't make one sexist? Seems like believing that people should be treated differently based on their sex is the very definition of sexism.
How does digital change this? It is still subject to interference, noise, and bandwidth limitations.
Grooveshark, where employees uploaded thousands of songs, loses badly in court
Not only is his finger on the trigger but the weapon is cocked.
This is very narrow minded. Designing a smartphone is very much a big deal. It has changed my job completely and has directly affected millions of people. It's not trivial as you make it sound.

Scientists, explorers in history have made many many such decisions in the past. This is nothing new. I mean the explorers of the past would leave their family behind and head on voyagers where return was in no way guaranteed. They are basically willingly agreeing to orphaning their children for fame and glory. Following through your logic, 'it is just a piece of land', who cares.
But you gave the person your email address. He wants to send you an email. I just help him fulfill his wish...
I see it more as a state of mind. An angry, angry state of mind.
Its more like saying that a single bomb that kills 500 is on par with an attack by an army in which 500 are shot dead.

I agree with that idea. Apart from the fact that they were single-plane attacks, there was little that set the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings apart from what happened to almost every city in Japan. Yes, radiation sickness is awful, but so are napalm burns on half your skin.

One thing that I wonder about whenever this subject comes up is whether it would have been cheaper to deploy use conventional bombs against those targets. It would have been fairly easy to send a thousand bombers with conventional payloads (or just 200 that made 5 sorties each)
lol you used the word "misandry" seriously
They're purely software. The article does briefly discuss attacks on ATMs and similar devices that use concealed hardware to intercept user data, but the RAM scrapers that are the main focus of the article are just pieces of software.
You Can “Catch” Stress Through a TV Screen
If this is true, then focus groups has failed the marketing team.
Thank you for sharing this fascinating, never before published first-hand diary account of WWI. I very much wish I'd known Sergeant Pierre Minualt.
Transcription is already down to $1/minute. If $60 for an hour-long podcast isn't worth it to the authors, I'm not sure there's much value there.

https://castingwords.com/
Okay, so, how do they harvest live data? Scan constantly? That would have a risk of missing something or of slowing down the system.

I suspect that is just an oversimplification, of course, unless they post the malware in question I can't really say for sure.
Quora looks like a nice iteration on Reddit. Reddit should just do a big rewrite to make it look and feel more like Quora. The data model should be able to remain mostly the same, with just some major interface changes, minor feature changes, and major backend updates. It could probably even be deployed in parallel to the existing implementation. Some items that'd be nice are email updates, weekly digests, topic suggestions, anonymous posts, related topics, etc.
Congrats to Brett, David, and the rest of the amazing Remind team for reimagining how teachers connect with parents and students.
Always occurred odd to me how in NA it's taboo to ask your salary. In New Zealand you could ask that same question of someone you just met, and they'd tell you most of the time. People who earn ridiculous amount might feel awkward revealing it, however for the most part people have no issue.

And if anyone brings it up as "ammo" in a conversation, well you're quickly called a dick and you move on.
This is a state-granted monopoly and it's being abused. The services JPay offers should either be government run or open to free market competition.
A quick preview here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84NI5fjTfpQ
Absolutely. We’re good friends with Unity, know lots of people at Microsoft and have a ton of respect for what Xamarin is doing, so we’d love to support the whole .Net ecosystem soon. We’re a small team with limited resources so we have to prioritize this vs. sync vs. core work vs. improving iOS & Android but we’ll try to all of these things as quickly as possible. Thanks for being a user and thanks for the kind words :)
There's no scraping going on. I'm using Google's Contacts API, with authorization from the user who clicks the button.

Currently the email is plain-text, but in the future paying customers can customize the email sent

You can opt-out simply by filtering out emails sent from your past contacts, who you do not wish to receive emails from.
I must be using a different definition of a type hierarchy.... Don't C# and java both have generics and type heirarchies?
But the article isn't just talking about the NSA and National Security Letters - this is about law enforcement. If Apple and Google claim to be technically unable to comply with LE requests, it won't take long to see whether that is indeed the case or not - unlike national security-related demands, law enforcement won't be able to keep their successes or failures at demanding access to this data a secret.

If this was tech companies claiming to no longer comply with NSL's, I'd be at very least suspicious as there'd be no way to test these doubts short of another Snowden. But this is law enforcement, subject to all kinds of scrutiny in courts across the US. It'll be much easier to see whether Apple and Google are successful at resisting their demands.
Lock-in, that's what the catch is. It's supposed to act as a gateway to more expensive plans.
> "They" in this case is the chief of a metro police department, whose forensic and surveillance resources are more often spent on pedophiles and drug dealers than terrorism. What else would they say?

You're saying "pedophiles and drug dealers" as if it wasn't 99% drug dealers.
Zero to One: A Book Club in Mountain View, CA
At least letting people edit their own headlines/links (possibly with the changes going into a mod approval queue) would be quite helpful.
9 mil is nothing to scoff at. Sell it and start a new company, or work out deal where you continue to work on the product if you simply cannot part with it.

All hypothetical of course =)
If anything I'm more prone to believe this is disinformation meant to allay our fears and draw us into a false sense of security when using our smartphones. xnull's comment nailed it:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8390150
/r/boardgames

/r/diy

/r/mechanicalkeyboards

/r/woodworking

On the fence about categorizing /r/clojure and /r/ece as good. They're not awful, but they need more traffic to be "good". /r/ece is almost an informal 24x7 AMA for EE and CE and the rules are constantly being broken but not necessarily in a bad way (if that makes sense?)

There are subreddits I find interesting to read but probably miss the categorization of "good" by being rather subjective based on your personal opinions of the subject matter.
My check list to switch to Windows:

[x] Multiple desktops

[ ] Command line package manager like OSX's brew

[ ] Unified application install/upgrade center

[ ] Better terminal (tabs, anti-aliased fonts, split view)

[ ] Basic GNU utils (grep, ssh, find)
Subreddit moderators do have input. The admins wanted to make AskHistorians a default and the moderators, who are already work overtime to ensure the posted answers are highly professional, said no. And some moderators have, I think, chosen to remove their subs as defaults.
Reuters is super-unbiased. It does have one bias though, an anti-climate-change bias, which doesn't matter to me as I read more than enough science news to counter that.
I just don't understand anything that Microsoft seems to be doing lately.

Random version numbers, a UI full of mismatched colors and a phone OS that has gone so far from its roots its just confusing. I mean sure they seem to be getting more dev friendly, but my god their end products are getting so far off track.
With ‘Fabric,’ Twitter Aims to Win Back Developers
Becoming default is opt-out.
I would imagine that they are betting that most users will use this to host small static sites with negligible traffic, allowing them to benefit from payed for, but unused resources.
Clearly, you don't!

Once the program has undefined behavior, the compiler is free to optimize it out, so there just is no code left to debug at all!

The danger, is to try to debug what's left. Since you start from wrong premisses, your debugging is bound to be wrong.

You should first define the behavior you want from your program (specifications).

Then write a program with defined behavior.

Then check whether the behavior implemented matches the behavior specified. If it doesn't then you have a bug to debug.

If you don't have a specification, you cannot have bugs: anything the program does, is as good as anything else, without specifications!
So will I get a nastygram if I buy 10 of these and push the whole 1TB every month?

Edit:

So their AUP[1] is full of a lot of crappy policies. Not allowed to use all the RAM you're assigned. Not supposed to use all the bandwidth you're assigned. Not supposed to use all the CPU you're assigned. No crons or background services -- what the fuck? No IRC, TOR, or p2p activity. They have an obscenity/morality clause. Cannot do any webdev that uses custom headers -- would even suggest that running wget or curl with a --user-agent flag is in violation.

Edit2:

And they require a valid address and phone number to even register. Screw off.

Please note that in order to protect the integrity of
our cloud, Atlantic.Net verifies phone and other
contact information prior to account activation. Please
be certain to provide a working phone number where you
can be reached in order to avoid delays in the account
creation process.

No thank you.

[1]: https://www.atlantic.net/support/acceptable-use-policy/
Stories need to be in the queue longer than the rate these were published by different news desks. This is obviously a PR push by skilled people placing stories. That is PR, public relations, press relations, people have a full time jobs getting stories placed.

I'd really like to see the government NOT be able to hire PR firms. This is propaganda.
Nice. I was wondering when something like this will pop up.
I have to ask, how notorious? Is this a documented effect (on Reddit, not in general) or just the noise that people on the site are repeating much like any other meme?

Most accusations of "circle jerking" I hear there consist of shock and horror that certain communities seem to have certain beliefs/thoughts/ideas in common and that they were dared to be disagreed with. (I.e, you really should not be all that surprised when you try to float progressive ideas in /r/republican, or vice versa, and find your comments downvoted)

It's to the point where I almost reflexively downvote anyone on Reddit who brings it up, since 99 out of 100 times, it's a complaint that they were disagreed with, rather than anything that adds to the discussion at hand. (Which, IMO, is the explicit purpose of downvotes)
Salar de Uyuni: A Trip to See the World’s Largest Mirror
Yeah, stereotypically speaking, it's the 90% of bad cops that give the 10% a bad name. Funny, though, the "good" 10% don't seem to have a problem with that.
Great attitude, and don't let assholes convince you that responsible moderation is ever a bad thing. The "freedom of speech" thing is just another trolling approach. Someone has a right to say anything they want, but they don't have a right to say it anywhere they want. If you and your participants have built a community and a culture that is inclusive and respectful, anyone choosing not to participate within those guidelines is opting themselves out of your community.

And, it's worth nothing that HN is a moderated community, and while there are people who find that problematic, the reality is that a significant portion of the best contributors here wouldn't stick around if it were not reasonably moderated. I believe that's true of communities in general, but particularly communities that are controversial (I'm a mod at /r/occupywallstreet; I've seen some shit).
Windows 10sion: what's old is new again, and that's a problem
It was fine for me, although the images were much delayed on loading, so there is some javascript acting there. Are you using noscript?
Mods can opt out of being in /r/all (and from being a default with the same checkbox.)
Grooveshark Found Guilty of Massive Copyright Infringement
> Never seen any tobacco ad with children smoking.

It's more subtle than that. Most of the marketing is underhanded. You can see it in movies. When did you last see a film depicting a negative aspect of smoking? Cancer, bad smell, addiction… I personally can only recall one, maybe two instances. Most of the time, smoking is the reward after some heroic action, a sign of manliness, a classy move, a cool "rebel attitude", or just no big deal.

The studies about that are terrifying. Those films have the power to multiply the likelihood of a kid becoming a smoker by at least three. And I'm talking about kids who already have a smoker's environment (parents, friends…). For those who don't live in an otherwise smoking environment, the multiplier is ten. (Presumably, the initial risk was much lower in the first place.)

So, you don't want your kid to smoke? Turn off the TV, or have strict control over what your kid watches. Don't smoke yourself, and don't let people smoke in front of your kid. You've got to admit, past some point, it's just too much effort. Past some point, collective action is required. I think one of the first steps is to recognise that tobacco is an addictive drug. That, like any other recreational drug, it should be used with extreme care.
Apple may have to repay billions from Irish government tax deal
I can do that on GitHub pages for free...
BH2014 -- SCADA: Why Control System Cyber Security Sucks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km8FZaBqpgg&list=UUbbgnifxfH...
No I didn't. There's nothing stopping someone from finding my email address and sticking it in their contact list. How do you think spammers get email addresses in the first place? People give them their email addresses?
All I care is if I can set the theme back to classic, to resemble grey windows nt/2000 style.

They mentioned that the start menu search is now also going to search the web. Please make an option to disable that!

Also no mention of a clipboard manager. Personally I cannot work without a clip history, I don't understand how can you be productive without it.
A very interesting article. While the idea of using scripting to extend OS functionality has been around for a long time, surprisingly few attempts have been made to implement it.

Of the potential uses, an OS built-in webserver would be especially appealing. Many scripting languages provide tcp server/client APIs so it doesn't seem too much of a stretch to embed this functionality in a kernel. For example, Tcl's "socket" core command makes it very easy to set up a tcp server or client.

If performance or security is an issue, some interpreted languages can also be compiled to native code. There are Scheme implementations that are embeddable in C and can load interpreted or compiled modules.

One thing I didn't completely grasp is the distinction of "embedding" vs. "extending". Are these really disjoint ideas? I found this puzzling:

"... Extension scripts are loaded into instances of a kernel-embedded Tcl interpreter that execute in independent system processes [22]. A set of extension bindings exposes to the scripts the necessary resources for extending the kernel. What distinguishes our approach from [micro]Choices is our support of scripting by embedding the language interpreter, in addition to scripting by extending it." [emphasis is mine]

On the whole, the idea seems familiar and sensible where sane security policies and safety constraints are applied to actions of the embedded scripting language.
This article [1] argues that RAM scrapers are only able to work because the point-of-sale systems are running Windows XP.

Newer versions of Windows make this exploit far more difficult [2].

[1] http://www.dailytech.com/Appalling+Negligence+DecadeOld+Wind...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_space_layout_randomizat...
We are in the process of raising first round of funds for http://whoaverse.com and things are starting to get interesting. We have major plans for both enterprise and private use of the platform and when it comes to giving back to the community - we plan to use the same model big players like YouTube and Twitch have for rewarding content creation (actual money).

This will be a fun ride which currently feels like David vs Goliath, but boy is it fun :)