skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can assure you I have no relationship with this company. I have been wanting to learn Python for a while and I just saw the number of testimonials and figured worst thing that can happen is I lose 10 dollars so I assigned up.
The content of the project aside (which is very exciting but early stage), I'm really impressed with the author's overview for how others can take up the project and move it forward. I've seen too many projects die because when the authors move onto other things they just leave an incomplete git repo and no clear plan for what happens next. It'd be great of course if there were someone lined up to take the reins, but the crucial thing is that in this case someone could ascertain the project's state and possible next steps even months after maleadt is out of the picture.
A bit off-topic, but: for an incredibly over-the-top violent-but-funny animated movie whose plot revolves around profitable poo, give Aachi & Ssipak a try: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachi_%26_Ssipak
A Joint Analysis of BICEP2/Keck Array and Planck Data
Well, then you have Amazon's automated warehouses, where humans are already reduced to the role of flexible actuator. The only thing they do is take things marked by a laser pointer, put in a proper container and press "DONE" button. Even the actual product search handles itself, a worker doesn't have to move around at all.
This doesn't indicate that people are taking the exact same job for less pay, but it's still relevant to the general thrust of your question, I think:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=Zqn
"No". That's basically the most effective tactic you can use in a negotiation - walk. You don't need an explanation other than "We're not willing to do a deal at that valuation."

If you want to elaborate in the hopes that you can work out a compromise solution, the description you wrote here is fine, except that you shouldn't reference the 25% guideline as being set by Paul Graham. Instead, go back and read the essay where he laid it out and understand the reasoning behind it, which is probably something like "If we take your money at this valuation, then after the remainder of the seed round and further dilution from further rounds, there is not enough equity left for founders to make it worth our while."
It is rather large to be editing by hand.
So the minimum wages will rise by 2018, and they are closing now (read, March 2015)? Why 2.75 years earlier? Why not wait?
Valencia isn't exactly in the middle of nowhere, I'd be surprised if their rent hasn't been increasing.
> requiring actual mastery of the game as it was intended to be played

I agree here, but I just want to emphasize that Any% speedruns (runs where you purposely exploit glitches or flaws with the game engine to trigger the final cutscene as fast as possible) still take incredible amounts of skill. More skill than playing the game as it was intended to be played, in a lot of cases. The current Ocarina of Time route involves exploiting several glitches that require pressing the correct button combination on a specific frame (N64 games run at 20fps), jumping at just the pixel perfect angle to slide through a model's corner/collision tracking, etc. Much more difficult stuff than beating the game straight through. Super Monkey Ball 2 (Gamecube game) speedruns require pulling off maneuvers trickier than anything the levels were explicitly designed for, the difficulty of which is hard to overstate. That game is hard. Speedrunning a game with true RNG everywhere like Nethack is definitely a beast of its own since you can't memorize routes, but even runs with completely static routes are incredibly difficult to pull off.
I'm so happy I don't work on the files you work on.
Hey Brian,

It was mostly curiosity, but thanks anyway!
We couldn't agree more. Education on its own is not really sufficient to learn a new technology. Everyone need hands on experience, and our goal is to enable people to do so after they have finished a course. At a high level, be the lab for development courses.

Thanks much for your feedback!
> a degree signifies the individual has a certain level of commitment, dedication, and has the ability to achieve goals (aka win!).

Can't you also say the same about a young person without a degree, yet is still achieving levels of success in their field?

In fact, wouldn't this person have more commitment, dedication, and ability, as they have the critical thinking skills to become knowledgeable and experienced, without having to fork tons of money and time to an institution?
Angular 1.x won't magically stop working when Angular 2.0 is released. The upgrade path from 1.x to 2.0 is not available/clear/whatever but that doesn't mean that 1.x isn't the best choice right now.
>However, the large amount of bathwater doesn't mean there isn't a baby there.

Applying generic systems analysis (where it doesn't matter whether it is protein building, network protocol flow or software engineering process) one can easily see that Scrum is a highly synchronous low-latency process (that is the "baby" that management loves) which comes at the cost of dramatically decreased bandwidth. In addition, changing a team's process inside, Scrum indirectly completely changes how the team interacts with up- and downstream teams/components - in particular on practice eliminating any chance for early integration and for any iterations of the integrations.

That became obvious to me during the first day at the first Scrum course, especially after i tried to ask those questions to the teaching Scrum expert from the consulting company and received blank face with some blabbing in response. Some time later, different company with different consultants - that first hand 2 year experience i described in the previous post - the Scrum drawbacks on practice happened to be even worse than i thought they may in theory. We actually have great time right now at our BigCo. as after the Scrum fiasco, and quietly dropping the Scrum company-wide as the result, the management still seems to be kind of "in shock", and they haven't brought up any new fad in the process improvement so far, so we're just doing typical old-fashioned per-feature waterfall, and it just works as usual - which is huge achievement compare to Scrum :)
Thanks for the pointer!

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/07/crib-she...

"A society that runs on robot slaves who are, nevertheless, intelligent by virtue of having a human neural connectome for a brain, is a slave society ... The human society underpinning "Saturn's Children" got into bad trouble, relying on robot slaves as labour and disappearing up its own arse in the pursuit of virtual luxury."
MICROSOFT DYNAMICS ARCHITECTURE – EXTENSIVE OVERVIEW
Flux for Angular js
The Keyboardio Model 01 exists We have pictures
Who is going to support 20 million lines of code other than Microsoft employees as amateurs bungle their way through thirty years of patches for backward compatibility wrapped around stupid and clever things OEM's and third party developers did to get their code to work?

It's not like Linux because there isn't a team of experienced volunteers already working on the code base and the Windows code base contains a lot functionality for business reasons that Torvalds has been in a position to not just say "no" but to add "and go fuck yourself."
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article4340369.ece ... has a few paragraphs with a link for "more photos". Sadly, also paywall protected.
I agree. Same with lots of articles on new sites, blogs, etc.

But for what it's worth this paper was published in the Oct 2012 issue of Communications of the ACM, so it's at least that old.

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2347755
Anouncing MongoDB 3.0
Google Now takes a bite out of your privacy
That's not true. You can call an instance method from anywhere given an object. There's just no implicit 'this' in a static method.
I'm seeing this turning out badly, since you're attempting to market it as a Facebook-sponsored application, even though that's a flagrant lie.
... and then there's some things that probably only make sense if you're very familiar with Nethack:

(def desired-shirt
(ordered-set "T-shirt" "Hawaiian shirt"))
They do, but they're published and very rarely are they significant.
If that was as simple as you write, then we wouldn't have unemployment and there would be no need for welfare - after all, you don't have to go hungry when you're jobless, you can always "do/make things for people with capital or" someone like you closer to them in the chain.
Yeah, running a business like a bookstore is exhausting, and at some point you just hit one too many challenges and decide you're better off giving up and doing something else. I've literally walked in to client appointments and had the business owner break down crying during slow business periods.

And, the unfortunate reality is that if the community thought the bookstore was valuable, then they wouldn't be closing. Which makes me sad, I love bookstores.

I should probably go visit one of my local ones today.
What Medium got wrong about Kim's butt, servers and engineering
what's your criticism?
If you really must use them, make them at least 80% width and height and change the opacity of the black overlay from 0.81 to 0.6. Have the purple header snap to the top, and have it slim down to something like 20px height and hide the title when you are scrolled down.

http://snag.gy/LKED2.jpg vs http://snag.gy/ROfRO.jpg

Also, test those things on mobile. Modals are tricky on mobile.
> It's cute that you have nothing better to do than play forum detective, but take your suspicion and stuff it.

It's bad enough to run a voting ring and astroturf the comment threads, but abusing other users on top of that is right out. We've banned all the new accounts that voted for this story and buried the repost that was on the front page.

If any of you would like to read HN's rules and promise to follow them in the future, you'll find our email address there.
The lack of a testing story for Meteor was what really stalled my side project with it. Since then, Velocity has become the official testing framework but I haven't gotten the chance to dig into it. I'm disappointed to hear you've had a bunch of problems with it, as I was hoping all my testing problems would be solved next time I returned to Meteor.
Any plans to power the device over Ethernet (PoE) for those with existing network infrastructure?
Not sure this business case is as obvious as the Nest Thermostat or Smoke Detector. I found my Time Capsule pretty easy to setup. Router is located in the basement and range is good all around my two story 1500 sq ft house. Performance is pretty awesome as well. Only addition here is Bluetooth which removes need for direct ethernet and passwords for remote administration.
Since the U3 and U6 more or less follow the same trend., it makes sense to keep using the same reported measure for continuity. People know that 8% "umemployment" (aka U3) is bad. If you suddenly start reporting U6, people will think a 8% U6 is bad, when it is rather good.

If you want to use it to measure or model something else, you might have a reason to pick a different measurement.
Mobile ip is the technical term Cisco Airnet stuff has had this for ages.
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Technologies: Full LAMP stack, and even larger affection for front-end tech (JS, HTML, CSS); will pick up the latest framework/library quickly

Particular interest for: Simplicity, UX, UI, design, performance, web standards

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Looking for: Interesting project with skilled and driven team to share with and learn from, on the web and ideally front side of things.
What’s in Those Supplements?
This sounds absolutely wrong to me. It sounds like a government has decided in a backdoor sort of way to taking ownership of a resource deemed to belong to all of humanity.
Groupon Founder's New App Offers Awesome GPS Walking Tours – WIRED
FYI: when I pull up the site on my phone all the text moves to the right and resizes, but the picture of the laptop doesn't change size or position.
The Mindset of a Great Designer and Why the 10,000 Hour Rule Is a Scam
I think of two other imperfect measures - the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and the relative temperatures (Windchill, Head Index).

The S&P 500 is a better index than the Dow. There are other indexes that are even more accurate. Yet the average layman 'gets' the Dow much better. Almost no one knows that the Dow is just a few dozen companies, and that the actual composition of the index changes all the time. Likewise, no one actually knows how windchill and heat index are calculated.

Yet, everyone can compare those things to past experience and 'get' what is going on. Holy crap, the Dow is up 400 points? Wow, it's going to feel like 105 tomorrow? Unemployment is 9%? Something is wrong.

If we suddenly switched to U6 as the 'official' measure, it would take a long time for people to adjust. Is 10% U6 good or bad? I have no idea without looking it up, even though I know what U6 is.

Right now it seems like the fed is working off of the higher unemployment numbers and semi-ignoring U3. I believe that is a good thing. But it is confusing to many.
Amazon Is in Talks to Buy RadioShack Stores, Report Says
This is complete spit-balling here, but:

Does anyone know whether bookstores like Borderlands sell their inventory on consignment, similar to newspaper/magazine stands? Or does the business purchase books at a wholesale price and hold that inventory on the balance sheet?

If it's the latter, it would seem like a wise move to reduce inventory by x% and re-allocate the space/funds towards the more profitable cafe, where prices have a better elasticity.

Another thought would be to re-orient the inventory towards self-published works (where there's no publisher setting a price), rare edition classics (where there's higher markup due to low supply), and pop-culture best sellers (which have high turnover). I think that a brick and mortar bookstore is as good as the people working there: if you can find one with an employee that's engaging, extremely well-read, and can recommend books, you could conceivably make a bookstore geared towards self-publishers work. Bonus points if you could provide services to self-published authors to print their works in a beautiful, professional, yet economical package.
now how does this tell us anything we couldn't learn by looking up "xxx" on wikipedia?

That applies to many things written. Not sure why you're singling this out. If every blog post written had to include original research, there wouldn't be much writing going on...
One Year Later, Obama Failing on Promise to Rein in NSA
They addressed this in the article.
Each hour of talking to customers can save up to 20 hours of product development
'Detroiters stay out': racial blockades divide a city and its surburbs
You can try Duet - http://duetapp.com.

It's self hosted and has a super simple setup process. I'm the developer.
If you can't sustain a business paying people a living wage then the market will find someone who can.

If you argue that businesses can't function without the ability to pay people poverty wages then that's essentially saying capitalism can't function without a permanent underclass.
Completely agreed. Without real proper officially supported SQL db connectors, I don't think meteor will really take off.

I say this as someone who has used it and like a lot of the features. I just can't see myself taking something to production on mongoDB.

Also, now that the meteorJS codebase is stabilizing, I think it may be time for some conventions to mature around it. Right now, it's essentially the wild west of JS.
Goodbye Google: A tale of digital independence
Apache Flex 4.14 Released
I have to agree with Lawtonfogle on this.
"Normal people" (which is a No True Scotsman fallacy, BTW) don't understand U3 unemployment because it's a wonky term with a precise (and possibly even counter-intuitive) definition and the people that "feel" something other than U3 are more than likely to not do basic research, the kind of people that don't bother to take personal responsibility and/or don't bother to find a way to train themselves for a better job (which likely makes them self-selecting for U6 unemployment).
Isn't it more likely that the U3 number is simply a more useful number for the class of people that wonk-talk about employment statistics and set policy? It's more targeted than U6 (which is a catchall for "people who are not currently employed or underemployed and might or might not be looking for work"). It's the same reason the wonks tack on "seasonally adjusted non-farmworkers" when talking about these figures -- those terms mean relevant things and fundamentally change the population of workers you are talking about.
Do the "normal" people concern themselves with the intricate details of Fed monetary policy, growth and yield details of equities, bond yeilds and their effects, foreign policy beyond the large military conflicts that the US is currently involved in? Nope. Why should they know the difference between "U3 unemployment" and "U6 unemployment" if they don't bother to learn?
I agree with higher-raked comments that the U3 unemployment numbers are useful if (1) you consistently use U3 in all reporting (don't jump from U3 to U6 to other metrics), you talk about trends and not the absolute number, and you describe which one you are using and what the caveats are of using that number.
For reference, the Wikipedia graph of U3 - U6:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/US_Unemp...
U3 and U6 track very well with each other. There are permanently structurally "unemployed"/"underemployed" people in the country. It doesn't seem to budge much, whereas the U3/U6 numbers do seem to change over time. This shows that U3 is a decent trend predictor of U6, suggesting that there is little difference between U3 and U6 when talking about trends.
Also note that U3 data goes back MUCH further in time, which is another suggestion that it is a long-standing convention and not "sleight of hand".
Will your cloud services fail?
One thing I was surprised to run into is how basic CRUD operations don't have an out-of-the-box solution, like they did even with Rails many years ago.

When I read the "Discover Meteor" guide and they got to the part about handling submit buttons by writing jQuery handlers with e.preventDefault and all that, I was really surprised. Similarly I didn't see obvious, baked-in solutions to validation, or sharing templates between "edit" and "create" situations.

Then, there's the built-in Meteor accounts stuff, which does not make it easy to create an admin page for users, which again I expected to be a straightfoward task. And, not only that, but once you do start to build that you read more-and-more about how allowing the client to make certain modifications is insecure, and so you should start pushing things back to Meteor methods...

Anyway, a lot of this stuff has given me pause. I love the runtime speed, but the speed of getting something up and running (in terms of dev time) seems considerably slower than the equivalent in Rails, particularly around basic CRUD operations that you just need to get out of the way before you can build the more interesting stuff.
XKCD in LUV and relationships: semantic proximity of similar colors
I haven't said "ROFL" in a long time, but this deserves it!
This is wrong. Wages are rising. And as slack continues to be removed from the labor pool, wages will continue to rise.

From a week ago:

"An important measure of household income rose in December by the largest amount in nearly 8 years, signaling a long-overdue rebound in family earning power."

"Data from Sentier Research show that median household income in December rose 3.3% from the year before, the strongest year-over-year reading since October, 2006"

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/families-are-finally-earning-m...

From July:

"U.S. Wages, Benefits Rise at Fastest Pace in Almost Six Years"

http://www.wsj.com/articles/employment-costs-rise-0-7-in-sec...
> It would be equally "misleading" to just say 11% of people are unemployed by using the U6. There's nuance to these numbers.

How about those on SSDI? Are they included in any of the numbers? My neighbor used to work as a landscaper, but now collects SSDI while doing odd (cash) jobs here and there.
The author is not a dummy. He is CEO of a top tier polling organization. Surely he understands U3 and U6, etc. He may have partisan leanings to the extent that this can be taken as a criticism of the current administration. Current policies may not be helping but I'm not sure that any partisan solutions provide the answers needed.

The bigger picture here is that the US sacrificed some broad-based increase in prosperity over the last 20+ years while helping the developing world to climb out of true poverty. You cannot bring 1 billion Chinese (and to a lesser extent other peoples) into the "middle class" through trade while at the same time sustaining the exceptionally high standard of living of so many Americans -- at least not without some major, hopefully-temporary dislocations.

At the same time, somewhat related to this, we are witnessing the passing of a period in which America enjoyed unique competitive advantages which are unlikely to re-occur in a similar form. No amount of IT innovation can make up for the passing of peak-US-cheap-oil-production (1970s), or the loss or diminishing of the dollar's reserve status and the US's central role in global trade (ongoing), or the temporary advantage of economic competitors being crushed in WWII (50's and 60's)...

The Americans worst affected by these policies were bought off to some extent with cheap imported consumer goods (think Walmart), oodles of credit, the spread of two income households and of course benefit programs.

Now, if you were to try to address this problem sincerely from a position that jobs and employment are desirable social goods you wish to maximize, you might aim for sensible policies that would reduce the cost of living for typical Americans (allowing them to attain desirable, economically justifiable employment at globally competitive wages), increase labor mobility (ability to move for opportunity), and reduce the barriers to employment at the bottom of the employment ladder. Secondary policy objectives might include simplifying the tax system, encouraging household formation, and restructuring education so that expensive college degrees are less necessary.

A lot of this has to do with how people are living in what kind of housing, how that housing is financed and what kind of transport they use to get to work and what kind of shape they are in mentally, physically and perhaps even spiritually to be be productive. I think major changes are needed to achieve broad-based 21st century prosperity growth in the US. Some of these changes would be deeply unpalatable and will only be considered if economic conditions worsen substantially.

Some here seem to think we are entering a post-employment society where jobs will be increasingly scarce because they are not needed and that this is a good thing. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. This kind of thing is the hallmark of privileged bubble thinking. If you really remove the dignity of work from so many, you run the risk of making the people themselves seem redundant.
Data Science can mean machine learning, statistics, "data engineering" (the IT side of Big Data), SQL Monkey, data cleaning, data mining, data analytics, data visualization, etc.

So its like statistics, except there may not be math or statistics. Depends heavily on the role.
Proper pagination in SQL