skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It used to be bad, but at least on iOS they are reasonably good now, I've never felt this way. and I am not very easy to please. Which app are you talking about?
Agreed. By using them more often, you're only going to help them improve.
If something is "real", you can't have less than zero.

(For some definitions of " real".)

Right now, the consequences of forgiving a billion dollars of student debt are immeasurable. It's a small amount to spread over so many people, and ultra easy/cheap borrowing by the federal government can delay the consequences for a long time.
This brief clip interviewing Buzz Aldrin about the picture is well worth watching: http://www.cnn.com/videos/tech/2014/07/15/orig-buzz-aldrin-s...
I just read Gabriel's post, and I pretty much agree (and do) with what he says. Due to these shared believes I've been using DDG quite a bit, I even deleted the Google search app from my phone, and instead been using DDG's iOS app as my default mobile search engine.

However, every time I use DDG it hurts a bit. The quality of the results are very far behind from that of Google's. I many times end up doing a Google search in incognito mode because DDG just doesn't cut it. I hope DDG improves, because I haven't seen that improvement during the past year.
You can't get deadlocks and data races on pure code.

Once your code is in a monad, every one of those problems may be back (including memory race).
I suppose I'm more curious about the 'racist' part of it. 'Xenophobic', perhaps, but 'racism' doesn't really seem to be at the root of their statement.

I also worry that sometimes the 'r' word gets thrown around too much and starts to lose meaning after awhile (and 'racist' starts to become an all-encompassing term that doesn't actually mean anything), which is why I'm asking.
Awesome. Sounds good and I look forward to trying it.
'Gerbils replace rats' as main cause of Black Death
Chrome Dev Tools are going to be redesign in Material Design
Awesome! The first thing I noticed was the battery life - 7 days (like the original). I'm buying it :).

In the video, Eric makes a very good point - most smart-watches are trying to replace the phone, but instead should focus on what's critical to a watch - Time.
personally, i don't like wearing my watch when i sleep.
im interested in assisting with a project like this,
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I believe they're referring to [0], where Target's use of buying patterns on a loyalty card led them to send out pregnancy related vouchers to the daughter.

[0] - http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe...
Apache HBase 1.0 released
I have seen Paul Jarvis' site before, and coupled with the teaser for this course, have come away feeling I've missed something.

Great writing, good work, and obviously talented. But...

"bringing in more than $20K a month for over a decade"

"I started freelancing in the ‘90s and [...] had a full client roster and a multi-month waiting list since I started freelancing."

What - not even one month without work set up for the following month/month-after-next? Or one month in 120+ months where income has dropped below $20k? [A decade ago, $20k was worth even more than now]

Now I've freelanced for over a decade, and my best months have been ~$18K - but my average is a lot lower than that. Short of Mr Jarvis having some advantage -- contacts and a foot in the door, ninja networking skills, or a magnetic personality: how are the above two true?

I'm especially curious as his website doesn't show him as an expert in one topic (per @bdunn et al's advice), but more of a generalist like myself. And generalists aren't supposed to make such money.

[Edit: Redid the currency conversion and upped my best months]
It's hard to replicate SV's investor network. VCs in other cities definitely form small communities, but everyone has ties to the valley. If you're in the valley, there is also a critical mass of other companies to provide services -- many VCs use the other companies in their portfolios dogfood each other's products, which helps create networks between founders and engineers as well.

There is definitely a critical mass in SV that's really hard to replicate elsewhere. Not that it can't be done; but it's a lot easier to acquire funding and talent in SF than elsewhere. And I say this as someone whose focus is outside the SF area.
Confident, eh? You're going to still be that confident once it becomes known that all you have to do to get the government to give you $X0,000 is to say your education was worthless?
"Estimated delivery: May 2015"
Two things: not every place has access to excellent broadband and the legal and accounting issues for a distributed workforce can be significant, depending on where your home office is located. It could, for example, for you to pay taxes in that state and account for any sales the remote employee had a hand in. It's not too complex, but it requires a lot of attention to detail. It drives my HR and accounting department up the wall sometimes, too. We had to pay for the healthcare for an ex-wife of an employee in one state, because that state mandates it. (Yes, MA.) Lots of little things that are hard to run down, and can be surprising once you find out.
Yeah. I don't think people will freak out. I can imagine the first few people being freaked out, when it's a novel thing, their names alongside the titles they viewed, but after they see what their neighbor and their boss and their friends watched, they begin to think, "meh".
The Cuba embargo has not been lifted, restrictions have just been loosened a bit.
I always thought that Hacker News !== Reddit

edit: at some point, I agree with commenters. And I personally love to make photos (not selfies). But talking about space selfies -- imho, it would be interesting to know a little bit more, than just looking at a tweet.

At least, something like that:

[wikipedia]
The first known space selfie was taken by Buzz Aldrin during the Gemini 12 mission.[9]

The extra-vehicular activity (EVA) equipment used by astronauts during spacewalks contains a specially designed camera for photography in outer space. The main purpose of the EVA camera is to take pictures of the subjects related to the missions.[10]

There have been many space selfies, some of which use the visor of another astronaut's helmet as the mirror. Early space selfies after the word "selfie" was first used in 2002[2] without assistance from another astronaut included Donald Pettit and Stephen Robinson. Pettit took one during the Expedition 6 in January 2003.[11] Robinson took his during the repair of the Space Shuttle Discovery[12] on August 3, 2005, as part of the STS-114 mission.[13]

Another notable space selfie was taken by Aki Hoshide during the six-hour, 28-minute spacewalk on September 5, 2012.[14][15] Hoshide's photo became a viral phenomenon after Commander Chris Hadfield uploaded the photo to his Twitter account on September 30, 2013.[16] Coincidentally, Oxford University Press, the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary, announced in November 2013 that "selfie" was the word of the year for 2013.[17] The picture topped many selfie lists of the year.[18][19] Another space selfie of Hoshide also showed up on Instagram and appeared on a list of top selfies of 2013.[20]
[/wikipedia]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_selfie
100 days of Growth – eBook
Which translates into about 4 days of heavy use, and over 12 days of no use. I once misplaced my Pebble, and found it 12 days later, and it was still running.
The myth of "partially anonymize" data is infuriating. As an academic exercise I've begun to pore over Privacy Policies for web new services I find, specifically how my account info will be used with third parties.

No new consumer oriented web product in their right mind would advertise "we monetize your data with third parties", but they all include language in their Privacy Policies about sharing "partially anonymize" data. It might make you feel safe and sound when it comes to Company X protecting your identity, but marketers and other organizations don't look at data points in a vacuum, everything is in aggregate, and your aggregate profile represents you to the highest degree of certainty.
Plus one for the seal cartoons on the terms and cond.
Several ES6 features very much resemble the few ways coffeescript syntax differs from older versions of ecmascript. Arrow functions, destructured assignment, string templates.

In context, we were commenting on this:

.attr('transform', d => `translate(${d.x + 1} 0)`)

which looks pretty similar to the coffeescript counterpart:

.attr 'transform', (d) -> "translate(#{d.x + 1} 0)"

Five subtle differences, but it shows how the things that are new/different about ES6 are more similar to typescript and coffeescript than ES5.
What you need to know when working with external APIs in Rails
Right. "h2" is what the final spec should give.
Yes, that is pretty sneaky. Especially since people are used to Kickstarter products including shipping.
I run a help site for an online game, and I used to use CAPTCHA's on our various forms. We had tons of bot problems. So, one day I switched the CAPTCHA to a simple trivia question that only people who play the game would know the answer to. (And helped the people who didn't/were newer by linking to the answer.)

Our bot problem disappeared over night, and we haven't had a problem since. Definitely not a solution for everyone, but it could be a great solution for some.
They are clearly trying to differenciate from Apple by using more sporty apperearance. I would have prefered more business-like layout but ended up ordering anyways. It looks very promising!
think the original pebble used a standard watch band. steel did not (which I just bought a week ago, gah)
If you want jewelry, buy a necklace. Or maybe an Apple Watch. Yeah, yeah, I get it. But I want a functional device as I'm one of those "a Rolex doesn't tell better time than a Casio" types. What's next, artisanally-crafted pocket knives? I'll stick my bland yet functional Victrinox or Case.

To each their own, and may both markets be well-served. For those that would rather pay for function, there's the Pebble that doesn't look all that bad to me. We'll see how well Apple serves the high end.
Smells like a pre-order to me, except with a lot of the downsides and risks pushed onto 'backers'.
That and the 5% they get for funded projects.
Pulsar Realtime Analytics
The most unfair advantage seems to be: be a "foreign" founder with deep connections to a network outside the Bay Area (could be India, but could also be UMich..). Relocate to SF, do your startup here, raise money here, hire initial people either here, or have people from "home" move out for your company.

Later, open an engineering office in your "home" location to take advantage of non-SV hiring possibilities. You can get started on this in a limited way by contracting work back "home", especially for non-core functions.
In regards to pointers and pure functional languages:

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/StaticPointers
>If more employers understood the value of distributed teams, this wouldn't even need to be an issue.

I would say I'm pretty against distributed teams at the moment. Would you mind elaborating on the value of them?
Here's my guess:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2842092/sharp-smartband-lcd-u...

* Original Pebble used greyscale version of same tech from Sharp.

* Available in 1 inch size.

* In production spring 2015.
Probably not far off from its value if it hadn't gone out of business.

For-profit colleges aren't typically known for their deep alumni networks or stellar name recognition, so either way, the degree is basically valued by the education you managed to obtain while you were there.
An honest question about that; since I've heard the "we need people to spend money" a lot, and for the most part think I understand and agree.

However, even if someone saves, (especially if they save via wealth growers like investments to counter inflation) that money doesn't just go into the ground with them when they die. I'd assume the majority of it does go to pay out goods and services in the future, probably nearer to the end of life. As such I'd assume that rather than having everyone buying all the things all the time, you could provide an equivalent effect to the market with only those in the end of life spending at a much higher rate than they would have if they stayed uniform across their lives.

Is there any reason this wouldn't be sufficient to provide the same effect, as well as providing individual benefit? (In blunter words, someone tear a hole in my argument please :) )
This is really good news for a lot of folks who were unable to work previously due to the H4 restriction even with years of experience behind them.
I don't know any XMPP client that uses it, probably because threading is really useful with asynchronous communication, which XMPP hasn't really explored.
A similar feature has been available on mobile FF fore a while now and I use it pretty regularly.
I still feel like Chicago developers miss out on being exposed to the culture of SV or Seattle. I've worked and lived in Chicago all of my professional career, and one of the intangible non-money aspects to this field to consider is how you grow as an engineer. If you love writing software, this isn't a very good place to work compared to SV/Seattle. There just isn't a very large or strong culture of software development here like there is in those cities. Also the tech scene here feels super small and tight knit. If you work for a startup here its hard to interview or talk to people outside your company without somebody knowing somebody from XYZ company who can get the inside digs on you. That's been fine for me in my career, because I think I'm a decent performer, but it makes things awkward when you want to move on.
I think that's a totally fair point. I mean, I was once obsessed with those Casio G-Shock watches (when I was a child until maybe a couple years into being a teenager), so I know people want watches like that. I'm mostly coming at this from my own biased perspective, I guess (and I somehow assume that's the more universally shared perspective with the bigger potential market without actually knowing that's the case), and for me this won't do.

If a watch can convince me at all that's it's worth wearing it I need it to not look functional and techie and my guess is that would be a more widely appealing approach to these watches. Maybe I'm wrong. Or maybe there is just no market at all there and this is just a momentary fad. This will be interesting to watch.
It shouldn't. At least on Windows I've gotten used to killing the plugin container about once ever 2 days.
Firefox itself crashes once per month, maybe less.

Firefox = rock solid. Flash = porous rock, at best :)
I've had crashing problems with both DWB and LuaKit, both on the same set of websites (most notably with Jira). I've also switched to Conkeror and have been pretty happy.
All of the above and more. I do want to be sure I don't come off as claiming that there's no good reason to be a developer, I just don't think that the claims that there is a puzzling shortage of developers hold up when you consider the other options available. If it's hard to hire software developers, that's because the people talented enough to do the job are engaged in a rational, market based decision to do something else instead.

One good place to start is here:

http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/rankings/the-100-b...

And compare salaries in high cost regions, rather than comparing national salaries. For instance, a dental hygienist in San Francisco earns, at the median, $112,970, a registered nurse in SF earns $127,670, and a Software Developer in San Francisco earns $114,400.

So a software developer in SF, ground zero for the worker shortage, earns a bit more than a dental hygienist, and considerably less than a registered nurse. The median Lawyer in SF (not necessarily a good job, I'll admit) is quite a bit higher, and of course Physicians earn far more.

I think that if you look through the data, it's pretty clear that software developers are paid decent but not remarkable salaries. And I'm not complaining about good salaries for nurses and dental hygienists, that's absolutely great by me. I just think we need to stop acting like there's some great mystery behind why people with choice (i.e., whose career options aren't limited by where and how they can get a work visa to the US) aren't going into software development.
I've heard a lot of good things about Pinegrow, although I've yet to try it out. Still, many people seem to really like it: http://pinegrow.com/
How renewables are changing the way we operate the grid
Seems you've been correct all this time.
In theory, sure, you could use any of those languages for real production work. But in practice, it just doesn't happen. Javascript is here to stay, I'm afraid.
Kickstarter is a business too.

They get a kickstart by having successful brands use their platform. You could could call it sad and unfortunate but it is inevitable.
How did you enable this? I'm on 39 as well and I can't find the option?
Infuriating? It's one of the main reasons I've switched back to FF (that, and tab groups)! I didn't like have every single tab reload on restore as I don't need 90% of them until much later.
Demo here https://Userium.com/welcome/demo
By the way, an awesome team behind this!
What if one of those compile to JavaScript languages forked Firefox and/or Chromium and added support to their languages in the tooling?

Would that suffice for you?
Sounds like an interesting possibility. Do you know of any start-ups who have successfully done this?
Change of paradigm
With almost 2BB people with a phone on their pockets, we think it makes a lot of sense not to analyze trillions of contents, but to analyze who actually creates and consumes them in order to recommend valuable stuff to our users. Take a look to: www.commons.fm
Betteridge's law holds.
Specific examples you're willing to share really help us improve. Feel free to send them to us at inbound at duckduckgo.
Kickstarter seems to be considered mostly as a marketing tool by startups nowadays. My friend and his hardware company is in the middle of a campaign right now and he told me that they aren't really hoping for much more than breaking even - they're doing it just for marketing and thus increasing the amount of money they can raise from investors.
But this isn't a "data race", which is what the article is about. Reasoning about data races is different than reasoning about what happens when events happen out of order. I would say the former is harder in general.

The default should be message passing concurrency, as Go advocates -- which of course can be done with simple threads and queues. Unfortunately in C++ that leads to tricky memory management issues.
Or the program takes user input and evals it, which includes unserialize.

This can be the case for admin-web-based smart template editing and such. (bleh)
Hire remote assistent in India or Philipines, offer good pay. Quit school for semester.
Lately I've been very interested in targeting the browser with Haskell, using Haste [0].

It appears that, at least for now, this pretty much always requires some JavaScript FFI work to actually do things in the browser.

This alone is enough to motivate me to keep honing my (functional) JS.

( It's also nice to be able to bang out something quick and dirty with minimal tooling. )

[0] http://haste-lang.org
You can't be claimed as a dependent at age 24.

> To meet the qualifying child test, your child must be younger than you and as of the end of the calendar year, either be younger than 19 years old or be a student and younger than 24 years old. There is no age limit on claiming your child as a dependent if the child meets the qualifying relative test.

http://www.irs.gov/Help-&-Resources/Tools-&-FAQs/FAQs-for-In...
Basically every Israeli successful startup ever. (Eng office in Israel, sales office in the Bay Area or NYC, with senior leadership being very familiar with the US market and often present. Maybe less required now, but still a winning strategy).

I also saw a bunch of YC companies started by foreign (non-US) founders take advantage of deep networks at home.

MIT alumni companies also recruit pretty heavily from MIT even if they move to SFBA, etc. I assume other college alumni networks are the same way.
new interface is probably the basis for touch screen interaction in 3rd gen
To see in realtime the figures increasing like that in the page is sort of scaring.
Leaked files on Iran baseless – Israeli intelligence analyst – Mpelembe Media
Setting up a Raspberry Pi
It does so mostly. And Haskell also provides clever tools to corner the remaining issues. Like state transactional memory (STM).

STM is actually really simple in Haskell, and implemented mostly as a library(!). Have a look:

http://computationalthoughts.blogspot.nl/2008/03/some-exampl...
Beware of the Tech
Late to reply, but thanks for the clarity! I can't help but think this is an unfortunate misstep. First off, I don't think there is such a thing as a "kid friendly" ad, at least not for really little ones (<= 6?). Second, the GOOG is gonna know about my kid's relationship TO ME and what she watches. That gives them plenty of new data to monetize against selling me shit, or whatever other awesome stuff they want to do with that information.

But of course, they'll presumably do that also.. I just wonder what making the product ad-free would do for increasing the user-base (since ads cost me as a user, and presumably I'm not the only one)
Awesome selfie! But what is a "cock camera"? Lol.
It's a technicality. Once you age out you're "not a dependent" for the purposes of educational subsidies/loans.

Getting married has a similar effect, or at least it used to. You could get married, live with one or the other's well-off parents or otherwise be supported by them, but go to school for free or nearly so. Obviously, that's not for everyone :-)
Content Marketing Plan
I'm still rocking my original Pebble. I really wanted to upgrade to the Steel, but I figured I would just wait for the 2nd (3rd?) gen. to come out. Now it looks like I'll be waiting even longer, until they come out with the TimeSteel, or whatever they will call it. Kudos on the awesome updates, but the watch body just looks terrible to me. BTW, they raised a cool $100k in the time it took me to watch the video. That's just crazysauce.
Well, they are shipping to North Korea. A new gadget for Dear Leader, to crush the imperialists!
I knew this would get around to being Americas fault.
>The point is that the target demographic of commercial skateboard culture shrank drastically.

If the previous demographic was 50/50 and each were contributing a similar amount of cash to the sport, therefore supporting its commercial viability, why would such a move take place?
Somewhere between $1.00 and 16 billion
> One minor grievance I have with the Firefox console is the input line is all the way at the bottom. I quite like Chrome's approach of starting at the top.

This is such a small thing but it drives me insane (and keeps me on Chrome, among other things).

> Having to restart after installing an extension is another. Every time I see the request, I can't help lose a bit of respect for it.

Yeah, I've enjoyed the last few years with not having to worry about restarting idk if I could go back...
Some graduates go on to pay more tax, others don't. The question is do we want our doctors/bankers be taxed more to pay for the education of our sport scientists/elementary school teachers?