skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "It's not really about context ... [it] means different things to different people."

The identities of the speaker and audience are part of context. As you correctly inferred, if I'm speaking, an unqualified "America" probably means "the United States". If you're speaking, it probably means "the largest landmass in the western hemisphere". If we're quoting Obama speaking to the Senate, or Morelos during the revolution, we can infer what they mean by "America".

Accept the meaning the speaker intends, when it's communicated clearly enough that you can infer it. That's how communication works.
If you see a paywall, just use your browser's private mode or delete cookies.

> The Guardian is facing questions over its relationship with advertisers after allegations that it changed a news article amid concerns about offending Apple.
...
in July last year Apple bought wraparound advertising on The Guardian's website and stipulated that the advertising should not be placed next to negative news.

A Guardian insider said that the headline of an article about Iraq on The Guardian's website was changed amid concerns about offending Apple, and the article was later removed from the home page entirely.

The insider said: "If editorial staff knew what was happening here they would be horrified."

The Guardian declined to comment on the specific allegation, but said: "It is never the case that editorial content is changed to meet stipulations made by an advertiser."
Ironically, at my yearly review at MS I've got negative response from my manager that I'm not asking for help. If I remember remember correctly he used the word "silo". Second negative response was that at meetings I give solution to the problems, instead of collaborating with team members and help them to come up to solution as well.
It still doesn't actually maximize, at least for chrome. It just expands vertically not horizontally. I also don't understand why fullscreen is the default. I've never once, ever, actually wanted something to go full screen.
Why do we need growth for that? Wouldn't redirecting wasted resources do just fine?
A better link - http://armcontest.elektor.com/

Accepted proposals will receive a free dev board and license for MDK Professional.
AT&T: Putting a Price on Privacy – $29
The addition of "async/await" to ES7 will make things like async DOM APIs practical to use. Until then, you'll be in callback hell forever.
That doesn't look wrong to me, it just looks like multiplication mod n...
Stop thinking of the Apple Watch as a technology product. It's not called iWatch for a reason. It's called Apple Watch and if you think you're going to take it to the Genius Bar to get it looked at, you're dead wrong.
Let's Build synchronized
So .. where to go next?

I've been returning to Slashdot more and more these days .. and lobste.rs is pretty good too, although a bit click-baity as well.

I think its time for a de-centralized approach to this whole problem again - a USENET 2.0 with smart agents would be nice. But the more I think about it, the more I realize that the aggregation isn't the problem - its the content creation in the first place. The communities that band together to create a content platform eventually self-implode into themselves, so there has to be some other way to get technology news and interesting articles out there. Perhaps there is no perfect answer, and that its all just a process rather than a product after all ..
I totally agree with everything you say. Here in Texas a Master's degree gets you about $1000 more a year. And that's still enough motivation to get the degree!
I'm disappointed that I can't find two pieces of information that are essential for me on this website:

* the identity of the author(s)
* a link a repository hosting the source code
Pretty harsh definition of clickbait.
What I Learned After 15 Years as a Java Group Leader
As the story says, The Telegraph has been accused by The Guardian and others [1] of changing content to please a major advertiser. Is this journalism for the readers or revenge for The Telegraph?

The Telegraph was accused of refusing to publish stories about serious corruption in a major bank, HSBC. That's much more serious than changing a headline to look more positive (if the accusation against the Guardian is true).

[1] http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/02/columnist-resign...
Try solar http://www.nedcap.gov.in/PDFs/Solar_Net_Metring/Indicative_C...
When old software has bugs that don't get fixed, that also poses risk (see many recent high-profile security flaws). People just tend to overlook these problems more.

Simply waiting between commits reduces the rate of change, but does not increase the thoroughness of QA. In terms of defects, a project with very good, careful QA (any remotely acceptable strategy for reducing defects) will be at an advantage at every rate of change to a project which is just people pushing to master.

Some forms of careful QA impose a lot of latency between the decision to change and the change actually hitting, but that doesn't necessarily imply a reduction in throughput of changes per unit time, and it isn't the time which is reducing the defects but what is being done with that time.
"If schools existed to provide food instead of education, they'd start by lining up all the kids at the beginning of the week and doling out a single crumb to each. And if those crumbs happened to be rat turds instead of crumbs of bread, they'd never notice. Every once in awhile, the school stumbles across the rare child that is starving, absolutely ravenous.

"How long do you think it'd be before that child started to hate school?"

I just wanted to tell you that was the-truth-that-hurts so much it literally made my eyes well up. I just... it's... sadness. Sickness.
Startup advice, briefly
I still remember the Google IO where I lost my ticket because Google Wallet error'ed out. The JavaScript was really amateur and just left the user sitting at a progress screen forever in the case of an error. I don't really consider it a serious API considering it can't handle load. They should just outsource to PayPal or someone who can do payments right.
Oh, the school/program I went to I was forced to take 436 and 536 (which is a good thing). However, just the general atmosphere was history and french is important, math, meh.
Vivek Wadhwa on TLDR
People keep saying "The DOM is slow", which is true, but they forgot to talk about how "Everything else is also slow". I.e. even with React and make sure every shouldComponentUpdate gets called, we're still getting slow performance. We need to start using all kind of hack to make it faster. Sometimes it's really frustrating to spend a day to make it look native while it'd take 10minutes with native android. I've been trying for years to develop cordova apps to avoid duplicate codebases, but I feel like it's just not worth it. It's supposed to save money and time, but in the end it just take more resources to get a shittier experience. So, definitely looking forward for background task and faster DOM manipulation.

But also, to be fair, if Apple could fix their damn webview, performance would be much much better. I've been told that they're not fixing it on purpose.
I don't think that the current standard of living is ideal and I really hope it will improve a lot. But I don't see that improving the standard of living requires economic growth, I think change will do.
So it's an ALPS/Matias switch. Of which there already exist quiet versions.

Why do you want money again?

The claim that it's easier to get Custom Key Caps for these is an absolute joke. There is very little available in the market for Alps style keycaps vs Cherry MX which is ubiquitous. Injection molding shops would have to have tooling available to make these keycaps. Most of them don't. That's what makes getting custom keys easy or hard, not the mounting shape. I don't even think you can get them in PBT anymore unless you pop them off an SGI Granite keyboard or older Apple keyboards (or with a Japanese layout).

Cherry MX Reds are also not out of wide circulation at all. Reds and Browns are their most popular switch right now! These comparisons are totally disingenuous.

Not to mention Matias switches are super wobbly...Have fun doing those sticker mods.
Startup Worker as Venture Capitalist
I think it would actually be pretty interesting to do some kind of visualization over time with popularity of languages and mentions on forums like this.
Isn't this basically the plot of the movie Deep Blue Sea?
The whole point of the article is that the inside will be like the south side. The north side only works because it is remote—if you set up a gondola from the south side to the north side, then your "just plan a trip to the north side" advice won't work. It's even worse to do that to the real remote area, which is the floor itself.
Pay for mental health therapy with Bitcoin
Interesting, but I was hoping for a youtube link :)
That will get you some. Growth will get you more, faster.
Just had a look at the landing page. Did you guys/gals forget some meta tags? SEO.
The 6 Tools We Use to Run a Company While 500 Miles Apart
> I mean, claiming that the LHC had "minimal potential" after all the "we shall see when the LHC shows the data" is quite disingenious.

The potential for discovering supersymmetry through the LHC was indeed minimal. There is nothing disingenuous about that.

The LHC is conducting a vast number of experiments on a vast array of topics. Perhaps the main goal was to uncover the Higgs boson, which unlike supersymmetry could be disproved if it wasn't found by the LHC.

> The "effor" has nothing to do with cancer

It's an analogy...

> As long as they are not falsifiable, they are not Physics.

They are theoretical physics, though.

Again, I don't know what your overall point is. That we should just all give up and end theoretical physics right now for good?

The bottom line is that if you think people aren't putting in the effort, you're wrong. That's my my point here.
Not quite a straight up math error but my high-school english class had a weekly 10 question spelling/definition quiz. Each question was worth "10%" if you got both the spelling and definition correct and "0%" if you got either wrong. I typically got all the definitions correct but very few of the spellings (a major weakness of mine) scored typically 20-30 "%". At the end of the semester these tests were weighted equally with the 2-3 essays and a aggregate reading comprehension score which I did very well on (typical grades of 98%). The result was me scoring "40%" in a class where I was one of the top participants. No amount of explanation from the principal, my family or me could change the teachers mind on the fairness of this.
DOM implementations have had vast improvements over the past years, vendors these days are working on nanosecond improvements to DOM operations. "The DOM is slow" usually refers to design problems that can't be optimized away, like being 99% synchronous, exposing APIs that invalidate layout at arbitrary times, etc. So yes, a fundamental problem that was exacerbated by the incredible advancement of JS engines over the last few years, causing developers to build more and more complicated web apps.

To be honest, the fact that the DOM is as good as it is today is very impressive to me, considering how old it is and how much the landscape has changed.
Would love to see the numbers on brain drain from the technical fields to finance. Any takers?
There's a big difference between Lenovo selling bloatware rights to an adware company and the NSA (or whoever) bugging some hard drives.

Is that spyware Windows-specific?
What I find most mysterious are the article sources (okay, not that mysterious).

I've never visited smithsonianmag.com in my life. Yet, there are four articles from that site on the front page right now.

Something isn't working...
Talking about thresholds like:

>The 2012 paper suggests that when private sector debt passes 100% of GDP, that point is reached. Another way of looking at the same topic is the proportion of workers employed by the finance sector. Once that proportion passes 3.9%, the effect on productivity growth turns negative.

Does not make any sense. Each economy is different, and the available data is probably not enough to give such accurate numbers.

>Ireland and Spain are cases in point. During the five years beginning 2005, Irish and Spanish financial sector employment grew at an average annual rate of 4.1% and 1.4% respectively; output per worker fell by 2.7% and 1.4% a year over the same period.

Using Spain as an example for "output per worker" is not a very good idea, they somehow broke productivity growth in 1994 and it's been stucked since then [1].

Productivity is affected by many factors, so conducting a ceteris paribus analysis is very complicated if not impossible. There is a really interesting book written by a journalist about productivity: The power of productivity [2]

[1] http://www.gapminder.org/world/#$majorMode=chart$is;shi=t;ly...,

[2] http://www.amazon.com/The-Power-Productivity-Poverty-Stabili...
> inslut

Probably not intended, but this is a great word to use in this instance.
This is bumming me out. I'm really curious about what the exploit is but cannot quite put the pieces together...
Yeah, exactly. This seems to be what the criticism was, but seemingly the OP morphed that into "never ask for help". No, you should ask for help after you've spent a reasonable amount of time and effort going down the obvious solution paths first.

The power of the human species is that we're able to share knowledge. The undisputed best way to learn is through human collaboration. There's a reason why we've designed our education system with teachers/instructors etc. instead of locking students in an empty room with a text book.

The idea that you learn better if you bang your head against a wall for days is just flat out wrong. Perhaps if the person you're learning from is in competition with you, or is a terrible teacher, or doesn't like you, or is in a company culture that is against collaboration, but if you have a competent instructor, learning via collaboration is the undisputed best way to learn. That teacher can (and should) explain to you all the dead-end paths that you would have banged your head against yourself, in a matter of minutes, and you'll get all the same benefits out of it as if you had done it yourself.
This is simple dark jekyll theme using #6DD color, make your static site like a hacker site.
For $50 you can get a bag of 150 keys. That comes out to $0.33 cents per switch which is really close to their estimated unit price without shipping of $0.30.
I think many sex workers with personal standards would be insulted by your comparison with physicians, who seem to be happy to take money (not your money, I guess) to push drugs that may or may not actually help you[0].

I do not object to this notion at all! For one thing, it's not my comparison, it's my co-worker's. Also, an "inversion" of the scale's sign would serve as a sharp and salient commentary on problems in our society.
The CSDM is not a special situation at all. You can go to the townships, Lanaudiere, through every Montreal suburb and find the same phenomenon at work.

The root problem is Quebec's monolingual french speakers have been force fed a diet of anti-intellectual nonsense for so long they no longer see the value of education. Hockey is seen as the way out, but failing that the government will always be guilt tripped into paying welfare for them.
For a moment I thought this was about healthcare.gov version 1.
fixed, apologies :)
I believe the title is misleading. And contains the childish 'rockstar' moniker.

Other than that, it's actually pretty good. People underestimate the value of spinning your wheels at a problem. Usually, you end up figuring out a lot more than you initially though. Even if you do end up having to ask for help - at least you know what NOT to ask.

The thing about wheel spinning is that you'll eventually bury yourself if left unchecked.
danielweber ought to damn well be able to imagine it too because I guarantee beyond a shadow of a doubt that he had teachers that worked like that too.

It's easy to miss when we're kids and we still have that presumption that the teachers must know so much more, but what little left of that illusion I had was shattered when I got to college and on a whim started examining the curricula of the teaching degrees. No, they do not necessarily know more than they are teaching. They may. They can. They may even know a lot more because they really love it. But there are plenty who do not.
Valid question, not sure why you are getting down-voted.

It's mostly related to the animations. I.e. scrolling, dragging. This is what makes the experience amazing.

But also, it's because every time you do a costly operation, ti freezes the screen and the user loses control. This is a solved problems in so many environment, frustrating that it's not there yet while developing cordova apps.
New Rock Band Game Said to Be Developed for Latest Consoles
Mine was a French "teacher". Fortunately only for one year. She normally smelled of stale beer.
Just want to say how grateful I am for Bitbucket
Why is it unfair? The AP courses are more challenging, and therefore get more weight. Isn't the valedictorian (theoretically) the smartest kid in the school?
More a commentary on the web in general than just HN?
Re-Introducing Deployinator, now as a gem
uh, well, you just perfectly described a middleman, and since not everyone qualifies to have a bank account, a gatekeeper.
I'm not sure why you were downvoted but it's possible that your question was too basic from the point of view of a web developer.

To answer your question: one reason is that the developer needs to express how elements on a page place themselves not just on the screen but with respect to other elements as well. As you can guess, calculating this "layout" will occur pretty often, and if you have only one thread running all your code, then your logic and communication with the server can interfere with the rendering of the UI - thus making the response choppy.

On native apps, though some of them have borrowed web-type expressions of placement or layout, the entire calculation runs on a dedicated thread. Not on the same thread that also needs to respond to touch / slide / drag events!

HTH.
No, generators + Promises is pretty much exactly the same thing as async/await, and that exists today.
Don't get me wrong, I'd also be frustrated. However, if you view the grades as cutoffs rather than rounded percentages, I think the professor's view makes sense. The cutoff for an A- is .90 Therefore, if the score was 0.8994, then you did not make the cutoff, and your percentage grade of 89% would be more appropriate.
I have that with my MacBook Air - instead of rebooting, try running this in your terminal:

sudo killall VDCAssistant

Works for me every time.
Maybe. I'm sure the idea is that "I might be fired, better not get that job" is easy to imagine, as is people running away from the industry at high speed if they could be fired. Somehow most other professionals deal with the ability to be fired just fine.

But there are other forces at work that make less job lock good for workers.

First is coworkers. Education is a team activity, where your coworkers screw-up means more work for you. I've worked at places where management refused to fire people who needed fired, because of friendships or pain aversion. It was not fun fixing all their problems. Fortunately I quit and watched them circle the drain.

The biggest is the ease of entry and exit. If the only job available is one of a selected number where you have to wait for the current person holding it to retire, you have a situation like postdocs trying to get tenure track positions in American academia. On the other hand, if there is a flow of teachers moving around in job market -- including people new to teaching, and people stopping teaching to do something else -- there's plenty of room to find openings. It also makes it easy to move around: if your boss sucks, or your spouse wants to move elsewhere else in the country, you can find openings.
Well, I work in a company where the computer automatically shuts down at 6 p.m., and there is no outside email access for non-management.

It's not a software company. Software companies do tend to suffer from that kind of attitude.

However, it does suffer in the "talented developers" and technical challenges area.
"The insurance covers losses due to breaches in physical or cyber security, accidental loss, and employee theft. It doesn’t cover bitcoin lost or stolen as a result of an individual user’s negligence to maintain secure control over their login credentials."

http://blog.coinbase.com/post/95927658922/coinbase-is-insure...

The only major fork that was adopted was because it was a critical bug that split half the network, and the entire network was shutdown in early 2013. This caused even more volatility as people sold. Honest question: Are they shutting down the network to force every enhancement, every change to policy? That's not a feature for a cryptocurrency, or even a currency.

This is just one of the real technical limitations, and even so, bitcoin is more than just a technology. As a decentralized network, the decision making power is distributed across it's many parts, which includes the users who employ it. Your insistence that we only discuss the technical limitations of bitcoin belies textbook confirmation bias.

Your credibility comes into question with your stubbornness in ignoring how currencies and payment processors work, and your No-True-Scotsman fallacy approach to twisting hypotheticals support bitcoin.

It's clear you have confirmation bias even now, and yes, ad hominem is appropriate when you yourself have demonstrated that you are fallacious.
Introducing Relay and GraphQL – Data Fetching for React Applications
I don't think that makes sense; otherwise, why would the thickness of the lens matter at all?
Why negative interest rates won’t save the global economy
It's kind of hypocritical when USA loads backdoors into hardware that VisualDiscovery relies on.
Amplify Your PR Efforts with Social Media: Quick and Easy Cheat Sheet
This should only apply to refracting telescopes, and not reflecting telescopes I think.
This essay follows the format of "Title Phrased in Absolutes", followed by an essay that tempers the absolutes greatly, advocating for a reasonable middle ground.

Please don't do this. A much better title for this essay would be "Good Developers Know When to Ask For Help".
The lifetime of composite rotor blades is shorter than metal based rotor blades that were used in older generations of helicopters.

Example:

The B0 105 helicopter is cleared for up to 3.5 positive G force and one negative. Its agility and responsiveness can be partly attributed to its rigid rotor blade design, a feature uncommon on competing helicopters.

The rotor system is entirely hingeless, the rotor head consisting of a solid titanium block to which the four blades are bolted; the flexibility of the rotor blades works to absorb movements typically necessitating hinges in most helicopter rotor designs. The reliability of the advanced rotor system is that, in over six million operating hours across the fleet, there had been a total of zero failures. One benefit of the Bo 105's handling and control style is superior takeoff performance, including significant resistance to catastrophic dynamic rollover; a combination of weight and the twin-engined configuration enables a rapid ascent in a performance takeoff.

The MBB Bo 105 is the only heli cleared for acrobatic stunt flight and is the work horse of "Flying Bulls" (Red Bull).

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBB_Bo_105
I'd imagine (without knowing anything about it) that it would also have applications in fiber optics as well?
"straight trash" <--- clickbait
This speculation is insane. An Apple watch is no mechanical masterpiece like luxury watches in this price region. No watch lover will pay such prices for cheap Chinese electronics. If Apple pulls that stunt, the are geniuses in marketing.