skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can teach my computer illiterate grandma simply "never do email unless the address bar is green", she can remember that.

As opposed to: Never do email unless unless the address bar is green, except when:
- It's the first time you visit the web site
- You use another browser
- You bought a new computer/tablet/phone, reinstalled your computer etc.
- You accidentally cleared your browser history
- You are on a public wifi the very first time you visit a web site.
- The website changed their certificate since last time you used it.
- You happen to be unlucky and even at home you are under a MITM-attack the very first time you visit the page.

The last bullet is especially troublesome because even a programmer would have a hard time to judge that one.
It looks like they both have Mali GPUs which are very well supported by Linux. I was considering getting an ODroid board from hard kernel which has the same GPU and is able to play tekken, run OpenGL applications etc, but this seems like a much better deal.
Each have their use cases/advantages. & Im not sure that people cling to print solely due to nostalgia/habit.

We have just returned to the UK after three years in a small country that had hardly a bookshop, where we've been relying on ebooks.

First day in UK we took our 5yo to Hamleys (Toy Shop) and Foyles (book shop). It was a revelation to her. But I can't tell you how enthused we all were by the variety and quality of print books.

For me the ebook/interactive app doesn't really offer yet the immersive experience of print (especially for childrens books). Even for technical books/literature, I find it difficult to get wrapped up in an ebook (perhaps because there are so many distractions a swipe away).
The mandatory garbage collection by default in Go would be a good example of a trade-off they make differently.

A rust programmer must be aware of the complexity of memory management. Although they are not forced to use all of it it, the standard library does expose enough of it, to force every rust programmer to be comfortable with the complexity of it.

In return they get the opportunity to write code that can compete with c/c++ in terms of performance, and control over latency, while still retaining safety.

>Would Rust be a bad choice for backend web development (ie, an alternative for Ruby/Python) and why or why not?

Depends on how much you care about maturity and what timescale the code has to run in production.

Rust code will be much faster than equivalent Ruby/Python code, but the memory management of it, will be more complicated. I would argue Go offers a better trade-off in performance, complexity and maturity for those types of projects, even though Rust is a much more interesting language.

So, if you can afford to not micro optimize your allocation strategies and just use a garbage collector, i would always choose to do so. Even with a language design as pretty as that of Rust.
I wonder if this could be used to detect shills and astroturfers.
How did you block youtube?
For that you need better judgment ;)
A couple of other things I've done with her: when she was 2 I'd sometimes ask her what pictures she wanted to look at (usually an animal) then I'd show her the results of Google Image search on a tablet or laptop. The color filter was fun, especially for starfish.

Now she also knows about Wikipedia and will ask every other week whether we can look something up on the iPad, e.g. why do camels have humps; we end up learning a lot of other things. She's not yet able to comfortably read at the level of Wikipedia, maybe next year.

I can see in her eyes she doesn't quite grok it when I say this access to images and explanations did not exist when I was a child. I loved the depictions of The Diamond Age. Wish we were closer to it by now.
Something about this topic disturbs me. I would always have loved computers no matter what, but if my parents had restricted my screen time during my obsessive periods I don't think I would be half the programmer I am today.
The sites uses embedded tweets from Twitter - could it be that a browser extension like Ghostly is blocking them..?
This would be an excellent site to archive in book form to assist in recovering from some sort of catastrophic societal collapse. If I could take one thing back in time to the 1500s, it might be a paper copy of this site.
People have been refusing to pay artists for longer than there has been digital copying.
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Here: http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...

"In order to prevent flamewars on Hacker News, articles with "too many" comments will get heavily penalized as "controversial". In the published code, the contro-factor function kicks in for any post with more than 20 comments and more comments than upvotes. Such an article is scaled by (votes/comments)^2. However, the actual formula is different - it is active for any post with more comments than upvotes and at least 40 comments. Based on empirical data, I suspect the exponent is 3, rather than 2 but haven't proven this."
Supporting Mozilla over Google is definitely an upgrade.
I know what you mean about the Youtube access. Just a few days ago I blocked it on my four-year-old's PC. Anytime she watched Youtube, she would throw a fit when her time's up. So it's best to just avoid it all together. All she would watch on there anyway were videos of kids playing with toys and Minecraft commentary. I would rather she just played Minecraft or with her toys.
> I find this analogous to saying software engineers shouldn't be paid because they like playing with computers.

It's not though. Labor prices are set by the interaction of supply and demand, and quite simply the supply of creativity (especially music) far outstrips the demand for it. The vast majority of the general public would probably be perfectly content with there only be 1000 musicians in the world, so there's not inherently high demand.

On the flip side, there is huge supply. People make music because its fun——lots of people make it as a hobby. Very few people write actual business-ready apps just for fun.

This interaction of supply and demand applies just as much to programmers. Salaries for game programmers aren't lower because game programming is somehow easier or in less demand, but because it seems fun so the supply is huge.

Until you somehow convince most people to not be hobbyist artists (reducing supply) or to listen to way more different music (increase demand), it's going to be impossible to find lucrative business-to-fan business models.
> Hayek explained the problems with socialism in the 30s and 40s. His contemporaries laughed at him; he won the Nobel prize in 1974.

Nobel never created a prize for economics, so Mises did not win a Nobel prize. The bank of Sweden gave Mises a prize.
I have no browser extensions.

Works on Chrome, not on Firefox 34.0
I think that IBM Watson expects a general text no? I admit to having done some personality classification on OKC profiles (around 200) and found that disproportionately to the average population, there were a lot of people that were classified as caring, helpful, social, popular individuals.

It fits the medium. Just like one would expect HN comments to be full of more "head-y" discussions.
Someone posted it further down the comment thread, but anyway, here's a reason post I wrote on why you'll want HTTPS even for a static site:

https://www.bitballoon.com/blog/2014/10/03/five-reasons-you-...
On a smaller scale in the town next mine lies a very large roundabout that I took as an urban design wart. Recently I accidentally learned [1] that it was built to fill the hole left for a national road exchanger. The national road project never completed due to public resistance.

[1] partially thanks to wikipedia
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I'm not surprised that someone else had the idea. Honestly, the fact that it wasn't in the wild yet surprised me. Great code, I'll be looking over it in my free time!

(I'm one of the authors of the paper)
The "Nobel Prize" in economics (more precisely, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) is amusing because it is impossible to simultaneously endorse the "discoveries" of all the winners.
For that matter, LSD was first synthesized by Albert Hofmann while he was working in Basel, Switzerland.
So we measure nothing? As pointed out in your comment, the fix is the consumer of the information understanding it and using it correctly, not avoiding the data entirely.

This reminds me of the debate about improving schools in the U.S. We hear objections from teachers unions how it's literally impossible to measure the efficacy of schools and teachers.

What other industries can afford to not rate their employees' effectiveness, outside of the broken markets of primary education and healthcare?
You seem really defensive about this.

Presumably some employer pays you to do your work as a scientist and a software engineer, and in the absence of that incentive, you would not do identical work.
Now i find myself pondering MO and removable storage in general...
> The bigger problem right now is Android 2.x. But the lifetime of phones is only about 2 years and the market-share of Android 2.x has dropped below 20%.

Below 10% even[1]. Agreed on device lifetime. Unlike PCs that can stick it out much longer, give it another year and it'll be well below IE6 levels. Can't come soon enough.

[1] https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
And they also tend to read shitty fiction, if they read at all. So again, do you also limit 'paper time'?
I like the physical collection you can have with books. Ebooks don't really fulfill that. Also, new books smell awesome.
Then don't tell them it's secure? Just hide the https:// and don't show any padlock-icon, neither broken nor locked.
Your quote is really ambiguous, I can't figure it out at all. Is there something wrong with Seattle black people? Surely not, but then just what exactly does that mean?
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> All of the dependently typed languages, like Coq, that I've seen have not been very good programming languages, in my opinion.

Yeah, that's why I'm looking at Idris - it seems like the only one that's oriented towards practical programming. I did eventually get it installed, but it's tough going doing anything with it when you don't know Haskell tbh.
Unfortunately, "Game Theory" is a huge field. If you want to limit things down to just "Algorithmic Game Theory" there are tons of courses and resources out there...

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mkearns/teaching/cgt/

http://www.math.mcgill.ca/~vetta/CS764.dir/

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs684/2004sp/

http://theory.stanford.edu/~tim/f04/364a.html

http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~naor/COURSE/agt-fkn.html

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~christos/games/cs294.html

http://zoo.cs.yale.edu/classes/cs455/

http://www.daimi.au.dk/~bromille/AGT/index.html

http://www.cs.duke.edu/courses/fall06/cps296.2/

http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/agta/
As the OP corrected, it's Western Union that does 10 tps. But even 100 tps would be easily within reach if the block size is bumped to 20MB, which is not that crazy.
"the majority of use is mindless. Kids get hooked on games."

At least based on my kids (4 and 7) I concur. We give them an hour a day of screen time.
Mass Scanning the Internet is a must-watch.

Edit: it's available youtube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOWexFaRylM
Under iOS, if you want to control access by URLs, see Settings > General > Restrictions > Websites

We disabled the Youtube app in Restrictions when Apple included it in the default setup (up to iOS 5).
And yet we still have artists making art. Why?
We had a very different experience with YouTube. Our daughter would seek out phonics videos and at 5 can write sentences and read words like "maltodextrin" (school has deemed her a "word caller" - intuitive understanding of word/sentence construction). We were kicking ourselves in the ass for not reading enough to her and suddenly she reads an entire book in front of us without any warning that she was picking up words.
Books and poetry? Seems constricting, why not just put your kids in a float tank and let them have free run of their imaginations without the constrictions of words and thoughts of other people. How else will they free themselves of societies biases, man? ಠ_ಠ

Your approach seems almost like saying never take a kid on a trip to the grand canyon or show them a picture or video of it, when you can read them a poem or stage an interpretive dance about the grand canyon instead.
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One idea I picked up somewhere: Give kids screen credit, for example 10 coins per week, each worth 30 minutes of screen time. This allows them to freely manage it (e.g. a little bit every day vs. a long Minecraft session on the weekend), while it's a clear rule and limit at the same time.
What's unfortunate is this attitude of "just face it, everybody stays away from (poor|black|stupid|ugly|martian) people, anybody who denies it is a hypocrite". Speak for yourself, own up to your prejudices, don't project them on others.

I've lived in "half-black" (wtf?? more like just "black") neighborhoods in Brooklyn, and Oakland CA. I prefer it to lily-white neighborhoods. Got carjacked once, have bars on my windows currently, projects are nearby. There's also a vibrancy to the neighborhood, in the music, the clothes, the attitude, that is precious. There are cultural differences, if you talk to folks on the street it's best to be sensitive and aware of nuances of communication. The reward is fresh perspectives, genuine encounters with different people. It's just plain stimulating. And no Starbucks either.

Sure, my ideal neighborhood would be less impacted by poverty, but I would slit my wrists if I lived in Park Slope or the Upper West Side.
Peppa Pig is awesome (check out Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom, by the same team).

Whatever you do, don't ever permit Caillou. A couple episodes of it and our kids were mimicking bad behaviours - "hrmph" to any requests, whining constantly, etc. We banned it and everything went back to normal. http://www.sbnation.com/2014/3/26/5549908/arian-foster-caill...
By 86 lines, do they mean 542 lines?
> Predictors for a school to apply?

First, it was suggested that this test should be used for programming job interviews. Second, why would a school who teaches programming care if students had programming ability? If you answer it is because the school wants to maintain a reputation of producing good programmers (hence adding value to the students' resumes), it contradicts your statement that this test is a better predictor than a resume. Otherwise, people would just study algebra instead of going to that school.
This looks good! My current biggest critique of the soundcloud site is the search itself - I can never find what I'm looking for. There should be an ability to order results by popularity so I don't have to look through 50 random remixes of a song before I can get to the original.
It is not given by the Bank of Sweden just like how neither Alfred Nobel nor the Nobel estate decides the Physics award. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel "is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, according to the same principles as for the Nobel Prizes that have been awarded since 1901", and the funds are based on a donation made by Sveriges Riksbank in 1968.
I've made this point before about search engine ranking. Most of the popularity signals used by search engines can be, and are, faked. I have two papers on this:

"Social is bad for search, and search is bad for social" (2012), or how Google's use of social signals backfired, badly.
http://www.sitetruth.com/doc/socialisbadforsearch09.pdf

How Google's use of social signals backfired, badly.

"'Places' spam - the new front in the spam wars", or how Google's use of "local" information backfired.
"http://www.sitetruth.com/doc/placesspam10.pdf" (2010)

Google's merge of data from Google Maps into the main search engine results created a whole new branch of local SEO spam.

The fundamental problem is that the creation of fake online identities is cheap and easy. This can be partially fixed by taking a tough line on identity, but that's hard for services which are either big or have only a casual connection with their users. Facebook ran into the gay agenda enforcing a real names policy.

The mobile guys can at least make people buy a phone to fake an identity. (A phone number is not enough; you can rent fake phone numbers. See "http://www.attlines.com) An app that phones home with too much user information, though, is hard to fake cheaply. Yelp can tell if your phone has been to the place you're rating.
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simply to have the brain be more active than passive and stimulate imagination.

But this is a free world and everyone to feel what they think is correct. Reading education and brain development materials could help deciding on what is good or not.

Parent of a 7yo and an almost 3yo with no TV at home, no computer time at all, and few iphone screen-time: only screen time is during long flights to Europe or somewhere else, road trips or when they are really sick. And the few screen time is always watching something in their second language (primary is English) as we're raising them bilingual. Again, this is our decision and this is a free world.

Why? because we feel that encouraging imagination development is key for their future as an adult being artistic or more technical. As adults we are constantly using our imagination for thinking out of the box, reaching far in our imagination for creating new solutions, etc.

No judging here and everyone can have is own point of view; and at the end who knows who is right or wrong? My only advice would be for the parents to educate themselves more on brain development and use their own judgement when reading such materials (often really opinionated).
Google is not making impossible to install Amazon App Store
Description is "The Python Dict that's better than heroin.".

Never utter that in front of someone who has serious experience with heroin or the repercussions.

Nevertheless, I was more playing with the fact that the number of drug-named libraries in Ruby was sometimes used for cheap shots at the community.
I feel you. But it is a double edged sword, I think. My parents didn't try very hard to understand computers in the early 1990s and soon I, while barely a teenager, became the expert in the house regarding this wonderful device. If they hadn't let me, as you, I wouldn't have been the programmer I am today, nor would I have the career I have today. At the same time, however, I'd have liked to explore the computer together with my parents and siblings. I would have liked a mentor of sorts to guide my learning trajectory regarding computers. In the end, however much I enjoyed it, I think my "screen time experience" could have been so much more.

Should my parents have restricted my screen time? Sometimes, yes. But more importantly, they should have tried to make my screen time more meaningful to me instead of leaving me to my own devices.
The market is tight for what companies perceive as high-value candidates. The reason why the hiring process is long despite that tight market is that companies can't know the candidate is high value unless several interviews.
The USA still has 300 million guns. This is far and beyond any other first world country, so yes this is in fact related to police in the USA more likely shooting first than they would in other countries which do not have such an insane saturation of guns like the USA.
I think you meant to reply to me. Let me clarify: I do think profit is great for motivating the production of art which is not a thing that I value in and of itself. I don't think it's best for the art. In fact, I find art that isn't produced primarily from compulsion valueless as art.

There's nothing wrong with asking for money for your art, but if you only got into it because you figured you could make money on it I'd rather you had no representation in the scene. Selfish? Yes, always, and I make no apologies. Nor should people asking money for their art.

Jerk though? For having an opinion—and not even trying to convince anyone of it? There are far better reasons to call me a jerk.
We treat the interactive stuff - Angry Birds, puzzles, drawing - as we would their physical equivalents. I don't see an enormous difference between a puzzle on the iPad and a cardboard puzzle. We limit non-interactive things (surfing YouTube) as we would television time.
If I said "talk to me about it tomorrow" and later we're chatting at 1am, are you going to think I meant now?
Since our daughter was three, we have read aloud to each other every night. Like others in this thread, we don't have a TV. When she was younger, she would sometimes draw or play with Playmobil while we read, but still we would always read together. When she became old enough, we would pass the book around and each read a bit. She would typically read one or two pages, a "reading sacrifice," while one of us would finish the chapter. She is now 10. We still read to each other every night, and she herself has become a voracious reader as well as an enthusiastic writer, using google docs to collaborate with friends and share with family and teachers. She reads chapters of her favorite books or her own writing aloud to us. She has her own laptop computer (chromebook to dual-boot linux for Minecraft), which I think she uses responsibly. When she goes online to chat with friends or play on a Minecraft server, she tells us where she's going. Just as we'd want to know if she's visiting a friend's house, we want to know who she's spending time with online. Ditching the TV (who needs it?) and replacing it with family reading has been wonderful for all of us.

There are so many great books that are enjoyable for young and old alike. It will of course depend on your and your child's proclivities, but our favorites over the years have included: The Wizard of Oz books (all 12 volumes, some of which are quite dark, except Ozma's birthday; blech); The Ramayana (seriously); Winnie the Pooh; Stuart Little; Narnia; Hobbit; Sherlock Holmes; Agatha Christie (we read 60 of these together after she turned 7; her favorite is The Body in the Library); Hugo Cabret; The Golden Compass; Sea of Trolls; Treasure Island; Tripods; Wrinkle in Time; Earthsea Trilogy; LOTR; Rumpole of the Bailey; James Thurber; Lemony Snicket (esp. All the Wrong Questions). In addition, she has her own favorites that she's read alone to herself over the years.

She also reads many graphic novels, which have greatly influenced her own storytelling and art. She has loved Amulet, Flight, Delilah Dirk, In Real Life, The Silver Six, Ghostopolis, Bad Island, Zita the Space Girl, Drama, Sisters, Smile, Rapunzel's Revenge, Bone.

For reading aloud, I especially recommend Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, and other crime/mystery books with 19th-century decorum. They expose the crime, puzzles, characters, and social dynamics, while leaving the explicit sex and violence off stage. (She can of course ask about anything she likes.)

I hope people will respond with their favorite out-loud reading books.
> To actually learn it, Mac Lane & Saunders "Categories for the Working Mathematician." seems to enjoy continued popularity.

By the way, it's not two authors; the single author's name is "Saunders Mac Lane".
You seem to assume that there are only 2 kinds of software: "fun experiments" and made-to-order business software. What about mass-market software that's not so fun to write? Who's going to pay for the development effort if everyone can just download it from a torrent site? Or do you think that all mass-market software is inherently fun to write, be it an RDBMS, graphics editor, Web browser, backup software, etc.?