skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the Census Bureau, it is: http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/06081.html
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Fishing for innovation: Developing a better fishing lure with 3D printing
How does "Cozy Cloud" compare with other open source clouds like OwnCloud?
Very snappy, I wonder which framework it uses ;)
Google Cloud Storage Nearline offers the same durability as the Standard-priced storage offering. See the first paragraph of https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/nearline-storage
TBF, software development itself is only a relatively small part of the whole tech industry - marketing, communications, recruitment, even food supply and whatnot are all part of it. Just because there's more people that want to work for one of the cool companies, doesn't mean they're actually infringing on the domain of the weird nerd hacker/programmer.
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This is, FWIW, an absolutely no-brainer move for almost any SaaS business: if a user signals severe financial stress and needs a one-time discount, give it to them. You have two options: a) future LTV = 0 (they cancel immediately) b) future LTV > 0.

This is not a hard call. I have, incredibly, had some people disagree with me loudly on this.

My usual copy for this is: "Don't worry Bob. I've run a small business for 8 years. We've all been there before. Tell you what, I'm comping you the next three months. You worry about getting things humming again, I'll deal with the accountant. [+]"

[+] A little white lie. My accountant naturally does not ordinarily second guess my marketing decisions, particularly when they're numbered in the low three figures, but injecting him into the discussion keeps us honest about this being a matter of business-to-business professional courtesy rather than personal charity (which doesn't have an expiration date).
I want to start by thanking you for your service to our country. But knowing that, your elitism in the rest of your comment is even more confusing.

Not everyone is going to work on large scale engineered systems. Even companies with those systems are gonna need cheaper mediocre coders to code the app that uses the engineered system as a backbone. So what if a few months at hacker school won't replace a four year degree in CS. Take as much or as little schooling as you want, as long as employers are willing to pay for your skills.
Four person cubes are not quite the open office concept, or don't represent all instances of it. In Japan, open offices include everyone. You look away from your monitor and there is your boss ("buchou" -- department head) looking back at you! If you have to leave before the buchou, you apologize, e.g. "O saki ni, shitsurei shimasu".

If the boss is not there, then it's not quite the open office; it's a slightly strawman version of the open office which doesn't quite include everyone. Even so, the boss can come out peek at the workspace at any time and tell at a glance who is there and who isn't, and who is doing what.
I found David Nolen's talk at React conf useful in understanding the motivation for cursors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hGHdETNteE. See in particular starting around 15:40. Cursors are used when you are strict about global immutable state; whereas Flux (like React itself) is agnostic about this. IMO this agnosticism means you end up with a more complex architecture. David's point in the video is, even with cursors and immutable state atoms, you end up with a parallel set of complications to deal with -- around questions of inter-component communication across nodes of the tree and information hiding. He sketches Om's current solution to this using observable cursors which kind of let you trace data-change dependencies between components - but I have to say without understanding Om better it's a bit hard to follow.
On top of more housing, we need better public transit. Start with running Caltrain every 10 minutes. Change local transit so that it becomes a feeder to/from Caltrain, BART, etc.
And make it cheaper.
I don't agree that the "cool nerds" are impostors and only do it for the attention. I think the difference is more a personality one - extroverts vs introverts. The former in the 'nerd' subculture is the type that goes to ALL the meetups, that likes networking, is highly active on social networking, etc etc etc, while the latter prefers to be left alone with his (literal) devices.
The thing is, home computing is, for the vast majority of people, accessing email, Facebook, and various web information sources 90% of the time. If the Internet's not working, for the most part, they wouldn't be able to do whatever they were doing in the first place, ChromeOS or not.

Using office-type apps at home is not something that's done every day any more - my family do it incredibly rarely on their Windows desktop.
The reason people like to buy Chromebooks to run Linux is that chromeos uses the Linux kernel, so all the hardware has to have Linux drivers available. Most laptops have at least some issues with Linux. Even my thinkpad, a line known for Linux comparability, can't use the discrete graphics card under linux.
Sure, and I understand that feeling very well :).

However, I'm referring more to the "nerds" who are not good at math (or standardized tests or study skills or etcetera). People tend to inaccurately conflate certain personality types with STEM smarties, which is really not fair to either group.
"Getting away with it" == using another solution.

Not knowing recursion for 20 years is more "getting away with it" then just simply "using another solution"

>Disagree. I rarely find someone with a degree to be substantially better than someone self-taught on the job. I've even seen developers with degrees do far worse.

Sure in jobs where the most optimal solution doesn't matter there is no correlation with performance and degrees. This is probably the case for many jobs. However for a job where it does matter, say the programmers behind the V8 engine or people implementing Ruby and the python features, a degree or knowledge about theory makes a huge difference.
Another major problem with mobile devices is it is very hard to hold them without accidentally interacting with them. My Dad has this problem on his Android phone, and I notice this too whenever I try to hand my phone to someone to show them an article or picture. Of course, having a rubber bumper around the phone helps quite a bit, but somehow they need to come up with a way to differentiate a grasp that touches the screen, vs. a deliberate button push on the screen (maybe by filtering out screen presses when a similar pressure is detected on the back of the phone/tablet in the same region?)
Nice simple game, I wish longer chains gave you more points, doesn't seem to be any reason to go for them.

At some resolutions the Time/Score/Best text gets cut off. http://i.imgur.com/fbE3eCb.png

Also completing a game adds it to your browser history, a bit non-intuitive when the url isn't changing.
FriendFeed has good tools for keeping signal:noise high: Hide, like, best of day
Surely, we need more government regulations and programs not less. Removing zoning laws can't possibly be the solution. Maybe we can have the government give housing to poor families, thereby taking housing stock off the market and reducing supply.
The bootloader has never been locked on any ChromeOS device.
+1 My 93 year old Dad uses a stylus for him iPad Air and it really helps him. He also has a Mac Desktop Pro (for his video editing and 3D animation) and has less trouble with mouse and keyboard.

The a good small device skill is the "soft touch" because then only a small part of your finger is making contact with the touch screen. My Dad seems to have problems doing this.
1. Nah, I think he's right. You're right in that most start-ups will never run into the issues that he's talking about, because most will fail, but if you need to take sales national or international then your VP of Sales better be either a domain leader or know a helluvalot more than you. Either way, you have to trust executives at a level that you never have to for average employees.

2. I didn't see him say anywhere that performance has to be measured short-term. Having a noose over your head based on long term results is very possible. Of course you evaluate your executives on their last major completed project/action, it may have taken 6-18 months (or longer) for it to come to fruition, but that doesn't mean a noose isn't over their heads.
"To place an order, you must have a Google Wallet account."

Ugh, really? Can't I just buy the product?

Will these be sold in stores, or outside of Google's ecosystem? Just curious. Andyes, I want one specifically for the hardware, and will be replacing the OS.
Seems to hijack the back button.
> show improvement within 90 days

any (senior) executive who changes things in the first 90 days has got it completely wrong. And if who hired them expect sweeping changes in 90 days then they got it even worse.

Anything that a new hire can do in their first 90 days can be done, and better, by whoever that new executive will report to.

E.g.: if you hire me to fire the people you want fired then there is no reason to wait for me and you should do it yourself. The moment you hire me to get help you have to give me the time to decide for myself who to fire and who not to and it will take more than a few weeks to make sensible decisions.

And yes, that's the exact conversion I had when I found myself in that situation and it's not valid just for SMEs, see 'Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?' for basically the same idea in a place as big as IBM (when he talks about everyone expecting him to come up with a brilliant strategy fast)
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This happens in lots of places. Around the Rocky Mountains there are elk breeders and huge ranches for the same purpose. Depending on the size of the bull (or specifically his rack) the price can reach tens of thousands of dollars.
I don't think energy storage is that big of a deal. Assuming you need only need to store one night's worth of energy, the weight requirements would be about 85 grams/watt for lead-acid batteries, or 25 grams/watt for lithium-ion. For comparison, commodity solar panels are already about 70 g/W.
CSS bug in Firefox unfixed since 15 years
Is there a color-blind mode available?
What is your alternative proposal to prevent malware from propagating via Skype?
My high score is 353. The key is to connect your lines (eg making a square), which is way quicker than trying to do a long line.

Thanks for pointing out the screen resolution and browser history things.
This is cool! I dig this a lot. I personally suck at finding music, and one of my complaints with SC was that I really didn't know what the workflow was like to discover music there. Maybe I just haven't used it enough. In any case, this seems like a great way to just put stuff I might like in one place and leave me to explore.

One quick thing: any plans to change the default user name that's assigned after FB login?
Apple: “DNS error” responsible for ongoing iTunes, App Store outages
Revamping zoning laws probably is the solution. Make it easier to build more housing.
I've absolutely listened to a song on the radio, or heard it while out and looked up the lyrics. Although actually typing out the first bit makes me see the limited (and still fading) utility of that scenario.
Testing it out, I can't find any ads in the New Yorker app. However, the New York Times app has ads on the side near the bottom of articles, and most annoying, inline links to related NYT articles.

The problem with the links to previous articles is that clicking on them (accidentally or not) takes you to the NYT website. Suddenly you start getting the regular annoyances without it being obvious what you did wrong, and you are not automatically logged in so you will also begin getting notifications about using up your allowed number of free articles.
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This may not be too popular, but subsidizing housing for the poor in Silicon Valley will drive up rents for the people in the middle who are not receiving the subsidy.
This may not be the most popular thing to say, but ... Just move?

If you are the head of a large household living in an area where the cost of living is too high to support your dependents, you would do a whole lot of good for them and yourself by starting new in some other part of the country. At the very least it would be wise to relocate across the Bay.

I realize that people have families, social networks, and small-scale culture that they don't want to separate from. It's a sad reality, but sometimes the economic forces that re-balance labor markets require people to physically relocate. If your labor is not as valuable in a particular geographic region, it's time to retrain or move. For most people retraining is not an option...

My sentiment is not classist or elitist. The same argument applies to people of all socioeconomic backgrounds. I have personally relocated for financial reasons three times in my life. I moved away from home for college, I moved to a new location for my first job, then I recently relocated to the Bay Area because this was the optimal place for me to be economically. I did all this with very little money saved up and with no financial support outside my paycheck. It has been easier for me to keep in touch with my family than it would be for these people (I make enough to travel to visit family several times a year). However, I have made sacrifices and relocated for my personal financial well-being. If I had a family to look after, I would have (and arguably ought to have) sacrificed even more.

EDIT: That being said, I fully support relaxing regulation on the construction of new housing. It would be better if people didn't have to move, but I believe that even with optimal housing growth there would not be enough real estate to comfortably house the current lower-middle class population of SV.
> The cause was an internal DNS error at Apple

Anyone know anything more? (Just curious)
Seems like an RSS reader could fix all this. You don't even need a subscription to a service, just download a decent RSS reader app for the iPad and subscribe to a few news sources.

A $5 RSS app aimed at having a wall of text with as few bells and whistles as possible could be a good product idea for someone with nothing to do this upcoming weekend.
Ok, it looks like there's enough server instances now, yay for aws elastic beanstalk :-) Sorry about that...
Mostly vanilla JS/canvas + a bit of https://github.com/Zorium/zorium
> Use these arrows to advance through the story.

Uh, no.
The Foundation Seamount Chain in the Pacific might. It has loads of poorly studied volcanoes, some of which are pretty shallow.
WellDeserved: A Marketplace for Privilege
Hillary Clinton's Email and the Challenges of Data Storage
My biggest pet peeve with using a mobile device on the web is when a site appears to have loaded but it's not, it's just waiting on a crappy CDN so as I'm clicking on something, the page shifts and I click something else entirely. And this is on a fast 4G connection!

It's easy to say I should be patient. Sure ok. But I think designers need to pay attention to the speed of their site.
I didn't mean to say that "cool nerds" are impostors - they have every right and reason to be interested in technology, but the kind of deep love for technical interests seem to correlate more with "weird nerd" character traits. I might be wrong about the actual causation though. Introvert/extrovert seem to be correlated too, but not perfectly.
I don't think the solution is as simple as 'building more housing'(aka giving permits). It would drive down the prices somewhat, but what's to stop more engineers from moving in/shortening their own commutes etc? I think the term we're looking for is 'build low-income housing'. That would make it more likely that people who need it get it.
Anyone claiming that strength is a social construct is either disingenuous or using a different definition of the word.

In terms of physical strength, there are obvious and clear differences between men and women: http://www.powerliftingwatch.com/records
Maybe I'm missing the point here, but why is it reasonable to think that a single mother with a low income should be able to afford to live in San Mateo?
I wouldn't as well, but as soon as that developer would become representative of my company and people would start to bring it out in connection to the company, I'd start to worry about my image.

For your typical standard worker it doesn't really matter what he/she does outside of work, as long as it doesn't damage the company - which is pretty hard unless you really try, since nobody outside gives a damn about some noname employee. For someone very high in hierarchy it actually becomes much easier to damage it, so you have to draw a line somewhere. If your company, supposed to promote messages of equality and taking pride of its supposed openness, elects someone who actively supported means of oppression against minorities as its representative and people start to react, there might be something worth reconsidering in this situation.
Hmm, looks like it might not have been us after all:
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Theoretically this is a web browser not a slide projector.

Its cutesy, but distracts from the message.
I don't think they're unable to - after all, high-volume trading algorithms were made by some of the brightest minds around. What I think is that at least for hacker culture, ethics plays a large part.

Linus didn't make Linux because he wanted to make money (he could've been as rich as Bill Gates by now if he played it right - his OS certainly grew much larger than Gates').

Phil Zimmerman didn't make PGP to make money, or maintain it for the past 25 years for that, he did it purely out of idealistic standpoints - and it required a mention in an interview and an internet donation drive for him to finally get some recognition for his work.

Snowden didn't release secrets to the public because he wanted to make money - he could've made a pretty penny selling them to Russia or the media or whoever, he didn't not release them because of loyalty to their country, ge released them because he thought it was the right thing to do, that mass surveillance was inherently wrong.
Fossil Tells of 520M-Year-Old Creature Like a Giant Lobster
was FreeBSD your first choice, then after abortive attempts you installed Linux?
You can use directional antennas, beamforming and other techniques to achieve sectorization.
In some cases the LTV <0 (when you need to give a refund to a company that might go out of business). That's a harder call.
Gamma Rays May Be Clue on Dark Matter
News sites that offer paid subscriptions, in the main, still show ads to paying users, in much the same way that when you subscribe to a print newspaper or magazine it shows up with ads in it as well.

The reason is the same as in print: ad revenues generally bring in much more than subscriptions do. Here's some data for the newspaper business, for instance: http://ajr.org/2014/02/27/big-shift-reliance-reader-payments... You can see how even with the collapse of newspaper advertising over the last decade, ad revenue is still generally somewhere from 50-70% of overall revenue. So ad revenue is critical, even for subscription pubs.

This is even more true online, because if you make your publication ad-free for subscription users, you're cutting the ads off from the eyeballs the advertisers want most -- the eyeballs of engaged, frequent readers/viewers/whatever, since those are the very people who care enough to buy subscriptions. So doing so drives down the overall value of advertising in your publication.
It costs a lot to move, especially when you are unskilled and have no idea if you will be able to find employment wherever you end up. It is made worse when you are participating in any sort of social safety net because you don't know if you'll have that available when you get wherever the grass is greener. And that says nothing about social and familial networks.
And besides, the subsidies would be crazyyy because of the existing prices. What would help those in need without affecting the prices is building/assigning/requiring certain percentage of new housing projects to include low-income housing (I've mentioned this elsewhere in the thread).
> Untrue: http://edex.adobe.com/projectphotoshopstreaming

Please don't take people for idiots, photoshop won't be running on your ChromeOS.
IMO, if you're "sharing" a password it should be visible to the sharee. Then, if you revoke it just change it - last pass knows how to make passwords
The slide show worked well for the visual content (of which there was a lot), but there was also a lot of content that would be better suited to a regular article.
Is there any way to read the article in a Web 1.0 manner, with paragraphs and inline media? I like that CNN is trying to present content in a new manner but that felt like I was reading the slides of a conference presentation. At some point I even turned on the sound to make sure I wasn't missing the embedded speaker's audio.
Your site says in 2013 one toy was recalled every three days, and you mention 37,000 toys being monitored but have sent alerts about only 1% of them. To me this says by default the recalls are so rare I may never buy an affected product just by chance, I think you need something more if you want $$ every month.

Maybe this would be a better service for kindergartens, schools, daycares etc rather than parents.
> Sure in jobs where the most optimal solution doesn't matter there is no correlation with performance and degrees. This is probably the case for many jobs. However for a job where it does matter, say the programmers behind the V8 engine or people implementing Ruby and the python features, a degree or knowledge about theory makes a huge difference.

Its disingenuous to think everyone needs to obtain that level of knowledge, at substantial cost, when only a few are going to use that knowledge in the scenarios you described. Not everyone needs to know how to create programming language or write a complier.

We should not look down on those who are bootstrapping themselves in the industry without the exorbitant costs of a CS degree lest we retreat to the mindset of ancient guilds.
I take it you haven't heard that exact thing from parents or the sarcasm didn't make it through the wires.

Yes, the reason is the kid doesn't have to worry about paying for it when it breaks, so they don't care.
Tangential, but I'm curious: your comment seems to imply that that are now fewer CS degrees issued per year than in 1985. Is that what you meant? Can you point me to the numbers?
There is one in 1k here: http://js1k.com/2015-hypetrain/demo/2130
The cynic in my thinks this is on purpose.