skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Easier PGP programs would increase the use of encryption, especially post-Snowden. I've walked people through using GPG4WIN/Kleopatra and it took a good half hour of explaining how everything works. People care about privacy, but unfortunately not enough to go through the hassle of manually encrypting everything.
"underinvestment in Biotech"

have you looked at biotech IPO's as of late. I would say the complete opposite.
What makes it totally impossible for me to sympathize with these folks, as opposed to the ones being pushed out by rising rents in SF, is that as homeowners rising property values make it easier for them to move elsewhere. If you bought a house in a sleepy suburb in the 1980's, well now it's worth $1 million+. You can get a wonderful property almost anywhere in the country for half that and pocket the rest. Or you can stay and enjoy your new-found wealth.
It's Time to Break Up the NSA (2014)
Would you prefer public policy that changes at the speed of high-frequency traders on the stock market, or at the speed of long-term investors that analyze at the level of Warren Buffett (true value-oriented investments) and storied venture capitalists (big-play game-changing startups)?
There often isn't much in it when you compare costs (at least in the UK, when you want decent limits).

The killer is when you are on a contract and want to break it early, or forget to upgrade and keep paying your inflated rate after you have paid off the phone.
Or worse, letting them get married. The Republicans have warned us this would happen.
This is is supposed to be a feel-good public relations campaign to enhance Google aubsidiary Boston Dynamics' reputation. The reason they need to do that is because one day these machines will be used against humans. They will oppress and they will kill. Unfortunately science fiction has made it almost impossible for people to consider this issue with the gravity it requires.
Why Mobile App Personalisation Matters
M☉ = Solar Mass[1]. Huh.

> astronomers have the worst conventions in the world (for largely “historical reasons”)[2]

You don't say.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_mass

[2] article
Opera has built in tab hibernation that seems to work pretty well: http://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/comments/2vkdjr/tab_hib...
Like NIN's "mysterious" snuff video:
http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/10/video-rewind-hard-copy...
Cheers, Matt. Also just joined. Been meaning to for a while now. Also based in the Midlands. Will hopefully get a chance to get involved this year.
I can't tell if you are agreeing with me or arguing against me because you didn't get the point of/read all of my comment. In case it's the latter:

>However, assuming either are related to your present hydration is dumb.

That's exactly why I said "a symptom alone never makes a diagnosis" and "you can't assume you are dehydrated/your kidneys aren't working right based on those signs by themselves".
I assume you have contacted an immigration lawyer for your options correct? Sorry to hear about that.
Stifles innovation compared to what? I don't think there's any system that stimulates innovation more than capitalism.
Not quite that level but check out Adioso.com. They have a bunch of natural language search queries that work.
Here's the thing this is just one example of one issue of thousands. And at the end of the day the difference is with Mozilla and Chromium I can jump on irc and talk directly to the people working on those browsers and get their advice for the best way to work around a current issue. I can get insight into whether a fix is in progress and I can vent my frustrations. I can also rest easy knowing that in 1-3 months a fix is likely to arrive... For IE this is all none- existent. The original comment is spot on IMO about the state of Microsoft and IE. Safari, has it's issues and I wish Apple would innovate faster but at least the core of Safari is open via Webkit and similar to Mozilla and Chromium I have someone to reach out to... I have nothing from MS/IE - I don't even target that browser anymore. If a customer complains about the site not working - it means either.

a. they're on Window XP and no worth the trouble.

b. they just need to open chrome.

And yes - this is a much better web than we had with MS/IE
Google flight search seems to be really good at finding cheap routes, I'm looking at SFO -> Rome, Kayak doesn't even show the Delta flight Google shows: https://www.google.com/flights/#search;f=SFO;t=FCO,CIA;d=201...

Delta flight on Google is $1293, $1840 on Kayak
It is my understanding that they contact various providers in real-time, so they give them a time window to come back with their data.
Not sure where you got the idea that customer development calls should be cold calls.

When I teach this stuff, I encourage people to start with their social network and industry events so they can meet people in their target market. Then after you do a solid interview with them, it's pretty easy to say, "Who else in [target market description] should I talk to learn more? Will you introduce us?"

Customer development interviews go way better with an intro from a trusted source who has already vetted you.

(And for those not familiar with Lean Startup jargon, "customer development" is the process by which you figure out both who your market really is and what product will serve them. It is not a synonym for sales.)
I'm going more by there security practices in general, not really one in particular .
https://www.ets.org/gre/institutions/about/security/

I think if academic integrity is huge issue, perhaps we should adopt some formal rules for all tests, rather than being at the whims of different professors, or universities.

Essentially we need some kind of check and balance before we try to discredit students on a metric like the one being described this article.

The GRE's as a specific example have a high degree of trust and a fairly proven track record for being secure and preventing cheating. It might not be that much of stretch to apply whatever they seem to be doing to combat academic integrity issues.

I think I rambled a bit, but I hope that made sense
QR and bar codes are just old technology at this point. Everything is moving towards RFID/NFC now.
Huhwhat? Bitcoin is the most extreme capitalist thing approximately ever. It is by its very nature a mechanism for capitalism to work around democracy, both in the obvious sense of avoiding democratic laws against e.g. drug trade, and as a tool that makes e.g. political bribery a lot easier. Stross is not being at all inconsistent.
Not those living with satelite internet access. 5GB a month is the standard plan right now.
hmmm, at that level of income, you don't PAY your taxes. They are DEDUCTED from your paycheck.
How Loopholes Turned Dish Network into a ‘Very Small Business’
Cheating is a natural consequence of society putting a huge value on grade-point-averages and other dullard measures of achievement.

If I had to sit through a lecture room with 200 students (TWO HUNDRED!) and I was absolutely confident that the professor cannot possibly give a shit about my learning in this crowd, I too would cheat.
Can you name a single counterexample?

HTTPS: You can give up freedom and some security for convenience of 3rd party registrars! You can roll your own which is less convenient and likely less secure… Not really sure of the 3rd option here.
Not the start of another politically correct movement! I got up from my desk and kicked our R2 unit, just because...
In the UK, mobile operators introduced 'SIM only' contracts a few years ago, where you got a rolling monthly contract (you weren't tied in for more than a month at a time), effectively giving you the flexibility of 'Pay As You Go' but without having to bother with top-ups.

Initially, these were much cheaper than the year-long contracts, if you already had a phone. Now, however, they have little advantage over a 'standard' 2 year contract, as they've made them much more expensive (if you want a decent amount of data, which people who own smartphones do) and much less value for money on a monthly contract than a yearly contract.

Now if you 'bring your own phone' - and it's a smartphone, so you want some data, a 'SIM only' contract allows you to choose between not really saving any money, but being on a rolling monthly contract - a bit pointless unless you plan on switching providers very soon or giving up mobile phones forever - or saving having to buy a phone you don't need over 2 years, but still being locked in for a year.

All this said, I've managed to get a year's service with Vodafone UK (unlimited calls/texts, 6GB data) for £9/month effectively, due to cashback and offsetting my Spotify premium that I was paying for.

My phone (that I bought from O2 and had them unlock) is a Nokia Lumia 635, which is around £70 and is, well, 'functional'.
A radical pessimist's guide to the next 10 years (2012)
Relevant (on both counts: killer robots and science-fiction):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMYYx_im5QI
Sadly, the fact they don't have a problem paying $90/month is probably the reason they can't afford the $650.
I had never concerned myself with cell phones since the whole "get a 'free' phone with a contract!" seemed like a total scam, and I didn't need a personal cell phone, so I let my SO "do the needful". Recently I lost my corporate iPhone, and was referred by a colleague to Cricket, which is a subsidiary of AT&T. $35/month unlimited domestic calls/texts + 1GB LTE data (with throttling, not cutoff, if the data alloc is exceeded) seemed like a great deal compared to my SO's Verizon contract deal. I can use any AT&T compat phone. Then I was informed by the Cricket salesman that a $100/month for 5 phones deal was available; we ditched the Verizon contract (paid a small penalty for doing so): 2 kids now have phones, I have 2 (1 work, 1 personal); all MotoG's ($25 ea after rebate). Recently Cricket bumped the monthly data alloc from 1GB to 2.5GB (per phone per month, same price). There may be somewhat better deals, but I'm quite pleased with the current deal, and NO CONTRACT!!! Things can only get better...
I've lived in Boulder for eight years now and I'm excited to see what a major Google presence could do for the tech community here. In general I've found it hard to hire or convince people to relocate, but with Google committing to the area it might become an easier sell.

I also understand the fear long-term residents of Boulder have for a change like this. From their point of view the town has grown from a hippy little mountain town into a very expensive yuppy enclave. Housing prices are extremely high for Colorado, and unless you have a high paying job you usually end up commuting in from the surrounding towns on increasingly congested roadways. Adding >1000 highly paid engineers into the mix certainly won't help to alleviate that.
There's a guide (in development) at eyesonthesky.com[1] aimed at newcomers, who may be using poor telescopes in poor atmospheric and lighting conditions. I've been following it quite successfully from my back yard in Seattle. It focuses on the brightest galaxies and nebulae, interesting clusters, and binary stars.

[1] http://eyesonthesky.com/StarCharts/FirstLightGuides.aspx
A lot of time has been sunk into trying to fix keyboard especially, but it's a horrible, horrible mess — pretty much whatever you do will break websites, given so many do if (UAx) expect_behaviour_x() else if (UAy) expect_behaviour_y() etc., so even standardising on existing behaviour doesn't work. Then there's fact that some of it is down to locales and what the current keymap is… :(
Here a talk about that from the MCE2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC-bYlR8LAU&index=24&list=PL...
To be fair, if you compare IE11's with other browsers at the time of its release, they have stellar support. There is still no other stable browser that supports let, and the only other browser with support for const is Firefox 36 (released yesterday).

For better or worse, Internet Explorer has a far longer release cycle. But right after release IE is often ahead of the other browsers in some regard (CSS calc and the ECMA Internationalization API come to mind).

Safari hasn't done that in a while.
I agree -- visually judging outliers is a pretty poor test of statistical significance. The fact that they sat near each other does give them some weight though.

The big problem is that it only works for people who share a fairly unique answer set. In other words, they need to all have a decent number of wrong answers which correlate. What about people at the bottom-right of the graph who had a high correlation simply because they answered nearly all of the questions correctly? Certainly most of them are innocent, but how would we know? It seems this technique can only finger people who cheat and still end up with a mediocre grade, not those who cheat and end up acing the exam.
Nextpeer launches cross-platform social layer for mobile games
Good. Most of the peninsula is currently held in the grip of NIMBYs who hate trains, hate dense housing, and love freeways and environmentally damaging sprawl. Part of the reason SF costs so damn much is because it's so hard to have an urban lifestyle anywhere but those 49 square miles (and Berkeley and Oakland, which I quite like)
Tricks of the trade
A few years ago, I was an ESL teacher at a university in southern China. As an American I remember having a fair amount of confusion when first talking with one of the Chinese teachers at the university, who had been taught with more British English, and kept using the word "invigilate" that I had never heard of.
It's not hard, really: just use absolute centering [1]. That's actually what "margin: auto" is there for in CSS 2.1; it's a shame they were bad at evangelizing it.

[1]: http://codepen.io/shshaw/full/gEiDt
JavaScript Classes and Instantiation Patterns – Quick Reference
Suitcase with e-scooter can help you make it to your flight on time
To me, running gevent's monkey-patches in production is a sign of desperation for speed over all else. And the desperation isn't necessary, because there are better options now.

Code stability matters.
Why Android took Prezi so long
Apple are frequently silent on things until they start to implement them. They almost never promise to implement things until they are almost done.
Their customers also don't seem to care. AT&T and Verizon have a combined 220 million wireless subscriber lines (or so). This is pretty good evidence that they don't particularly need to lower prices, regardless of whether they can or not.

I'm not sure spectrum auctions are that big a deal, the companies are paying months of revenues for decades of license.
She should suffer because you suffered? I sympathize with you but that's not good logic.
SHMG: Promo #2
ZYNG is holding one hand on a life raft in a hurricane. Their bubble burst as soon as the market realized they were over hyped on Feb 27 2012.

They are the prime example of a company that can do fine in a private market but is getting murdered in a public market.
Metro Atlanta might not be representative, but things aren't too bad for me here. I can get just about any book on the PINES system, and I find most books I want in the local branch's ebook loan program. There are several decent parks (Fort Yargo is the closest). Downtown Athens is a 30-40 minute drive if I need a higher dose of culture.

Things used to be a lot worse, just ten years ago. Winder was a crumbling, traffic-choked hole. It's less crumbly now, and the traffic situation is improving. And the editor of the local paper didn't get run out of town when he endorsed marriage equality, so there's that.
Maybe not enough to drive one mad on an intuitive, functional device, but enough to push one over the edge when debugging on a surface. I feel like I'm being tasked with drawing an idyllic landscape on a grain of rice with only a box of crayons, in that while it will be impressive to the .01% of users that might see it the other 99.99% will never notice nor appreciate the effort.
I feel like a this is a recipe for making some serious spare change: good idea + good design skills + site that sells T-shirts. I remember reading about the person who set up the "I survived the Snowpocalipse" T-shirt site a couple of years back and made a decent amount of money off it.
Lots of very well summarized stuff. But web development has changed so much since 2002 !

While all of these subjects are still relevant : debug, log, memory, unit test, etc. I think nowaday a beginner will rapidly face broader problems in his career :

.Deployment / monitoring / Devops / Cloud

.Frontend VS Backend development

.Mobile development

All these subjects were a lot more isolated 13 years ago.

What he calls "heavy tools" like database, Full text search, they have all become a lot more common today.
I wouldn't be surprised that a young developer will have to experience 2 or 3 different databases the first years he starts working (SQL / redis / mongo, etc)
Create Authentication and Authorization Application in CakePHP
they're on the money, same as Kayak
Worse. You'll probably be forced to marry to dog-robot of the same sex as you. This slippery slope is so steep!
What Art Can Teach You about Software and Programmers
Don't worry, he won't know for about 600 years. And they can always construct a new one.
Try Git Extensions https://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/
It's by far the best UI for Git on Windows.
I don't really understand the reasoning here: because I sign up to a long contract I expect big discounts on calls/data (more so than I could hope to find while shopping around different carriers with a phone I own). If calls/data are the same cost as it would be without signing a long contract then I expect the phone to be discounted instead!

If I could buy the phone and still get the same total cost (or even cheaper) without locking myself to a carrier for 24 months then of course I'd do that?

Not sure if it's a local/EU law or something, but total cost is always listed, and the option to buy the phone without contract is always given.
> For what it's worth, I can get unlimited 4G for $30/mo with T-Mobile.

Are you grandfathered in? On their website[0], the unlimited plan is listed at $80, and even their cheapest plan is $40.

[0] http://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-plans/individual.html
I feel like SourceTree actually only maps every Git command with a button, nothing more.

Contrast this with Github for Windows/Github for Mac. These applications are trying to make getting startet with Git easy. If you're using Git with a GUI, that's the way to go, not with a toolbar full of obscure buttons.
Available as a docker container:

$ docker run imiell/sd_intrace /bin/bash
# intrace
InTrace, version 1.5 (C)2007-2011 Robert Swiecki <robert@swiecki.net>
2015/02/25 16:30:35.797749 <INFO> Usage: intrace <-h hostname> [-p <port>] [-d <debuglevel>] [-s <payloadsize>] [-6]
Here's one job post mentioning scala: http://jobs.walmart.com/silicon-valley/engineering/jobid6945...

walmart.ca is now running play and scala afaik: http://www.nurun.com/en/news/nurun-launches-redesigned-trans...
The best thing about Google Flights is how fast it is. The +/- 3 days (or whatever) options are never really exactly what you want, and while Google Flights also doesn't let you execute really powerful searches, you can at least manually search at a rapid pace (<1 second per search rather than >10 seconds on other sites).
Show HN: Enter height,weight,bodytype and find out what clothing brands fit best
I understand what you're saying - you need dynamic environments. Minor terminology quip (which might make discussion easier in future): that's a very different concern with being 'scene based', which is a specific term the 3D industry uses to mean 'items are located relative to their parents in a tree shaped data structure called a scene graph, and not absolutely positioned in world space'.
> Or you can stay and enjoy your new-found wealth

I am equally unsympathetic, but is that statement true? A teacher buys a house in 1982 for $125,000. That house is now worth $800,000, but while her salary has increased according to cost of living (ideally), it has definitely not accounted for the massive increase in property tax that her new values command.

There's a difference of around $500 a month, just in property taxes between her home in 1982 and 2015, and that doesn't even account for the increase in cost of goods and services as the rest of the economy thrives around her.
Yeah, this is terrible engineering design IMHO. The providers should just provide some kind of firehose of updates to the booking websites which can then cache the data appropriately.

Also they should fix their cache implementations. I've had countless times on the AA website where it says a ticket is available; then when I try to book it it says it's not available; then when I go back to the home page and search again the same fare shows up again. Seriously, where do their programmers come from ...
Creative Scala: A New Introduction to Scala
If your definition of "works" is "is rewarding for the perp", then sure all sorts of things "work". Theft, fraud, and extortion, for example, all work wonderfully well -- for the mafia. Our laws are mainly about things that "work", because if they didn't work, people wouldn't do them enough to matter.

Your mistake is not accounting for the negative externalities. Cold calling and spam both can "work" for the sending party because it lets them find the very small proportion of people who they can sucker into whatever they're pushing. But they impose costs upon other people too, and for them spamming and cold calling definitely doesn't work. Which is why we took the time to outlaw both of them in the US.
Yea, but it is more expensive. For instance, I'm paying $30/month on Page Plus, whereas the cheapest plan I can get from Verizon is $80/month.

(Though admittedly, the Verizon plan gives more data. None of the Page Plus plans give exactly 2GB of data, but the Page Plus plans at $40 and $55 straddle that amount)
That seems to be a formal, properly managed program with a specific need.

I was referring to both sides of the argument: people simply skip the line too, which screws people who stood in an orderly line. So with both sides screwed up (people skipping the line and Americans going "I dont want them but I want the cheap produce and the cheap nanny"), no wonder it is a free for all.
Provided you can afford to pay the property taxes on the newly valuable house. Otherwise, the second option is off the table. I think that's important because we're not talking about the leisure class here, we're talking about people who work. That means they may not be able to move very far away (they must stay within commuting distance). This is especially true since many people are stuck in their current jobs for various reasons; changing jobs would result in a large pay cut.

I'm not saying they have a right to tell anyone else where to live or not live, but I do sympathize with them.
It's not always a scam to do this; Cathay Pacific seems to give you a discount if you spend a day in Hong Kong.
I'm not in a dependency hell. I won't be if I add libraries, either, because there are tools for that.

"Should every library author vendor their dependencies separately too?"

Whatever it takes to produce your end-artifact should be under the control of the relevant organization. Again, let me emphasize, this has nothing to do with Go, and you violate it at your sole and singular peril. When the $PACKAGE site goes down due to DOS, security penetration, or sheer time-based neglect, being angry at me won't help you any.
Staff Software Engineer:
http://jobs.walmart.com/silicon-valley/engineering/jobid7058...

Google seems to be the best way to search for these positions.
It's not that policy should change constantly, but that people who make policy tend to lose legitimacy in a very abrupt way. Transfer of power has to be very rapid, or people will rebel and stop following the leader.