skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, there are numerous examples of groups that had little power that achieved success, but remember that there's a feedback loop here, as once you achieve success you obtain power. But everywhere you see social mobility, those are cases where people with little power slowly obtained success, which then turned to power.

Examples from the middle ages include grants of knighthood[1] as payment for some unusual service. While usually a knight would only come from wealthy or noble families (or at least a family with good connections) -- hence, from a position of some power -- sometimes knighthood was granted to brave foot soldiers -- i.e. people with little power. Sometimes, the title came with land (and the serfs that worked it, of course).

In non feudal societies, social mobility was usually achieved through money, although some classes were barred from obtaining any money whatsoever (slaves). You can see groups of immigrants, provided the host society did not block their steps too much, slowly gain money, and later recognition and connections. This process would often take several generations.

Analyzing those processes is helped by the fact that often you can observe power directly. Money and nobility titles are very conspicuous forms of power, easily measurable directly. More hidden forms of power such as connections can also be traced directly (a boy of low background would be taken to the home of a merchant as a gift to his parents in recognition of some service; this lets you trace connections across classes); charisma (which in the middle ages was a great way to attain power in religious circles) could be seen in some extraordinary ascetic acts[2] or visions[3]. The latter was one of the few ways women could rise to positions of power in medieval societies (see Joan of Arc), although others would be marrying, and surviving, a man of power. While it was often expected of widows to remarry, some medieval societies were surprisingly relatively accepting widows, recognized their independence, and allowed them to transact on their own.

[1]: http://www.lordsandladies.org/steps-to-knighthood.htm

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Stylites

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Brocadelli
Hi cdibona! I'm primary on-call at GitHub today, and I wanted to say thanks to everyone that worked on https://code.google.com/export-to-github/ and worked with us to load test it before this announcement. It's really cool to see so much work put into making it easy for folks to easily move their data.
I'm not surprised, and yeah, I've assumed code on Google Code is abandoned by default. But, you know, just yet another Google product biting the dust.
Once we saw that Go had moved to Github, we decided Google Code was probably being shut down soon. And now, a week after we moved our own project from Google Code to Github, it gets shut down. Feels good to have called it :)
Your Network Is Both Overrated and Underrated
Today we include packet loss as a necessary
part of the network performance disclosure.

Interesting! Wireless carriers could definitely compete on that..

The 2014 Open Internet NPRM tentatively concluded that we should require
that broadband providers disclose meaningful information regarding the
source, location, timing, speed, packet loss, and duration of network
congestion. As discussed above, we continue to require disclosure of actual
network speed and latency (as in 2010), and also require disclosure of
packet loss. We decline at this time to require disclosure of the source,
location, timing, or duration of network congestion, noting that congestion
may originate beyond the broadband provider’s network and the limitations
of a broadband provider’s knowledge of some of these performance
characteristics.
You're still changing the subject, and now moving the goal posts. I didn't have Python 3.4, or 2.5, to start from in 1995. I had 1.3, and it wasn't possible for other reasons.

Are you really arguing that, in the far-away-in-the-multiverse world where it didn't have to look like Java, I had time to make a safe, FFI-free subset, etc. etc., Python 1.3 in Netscape 2 would have evolved any faster than JS did?

ES1: 1997

ES2, just the ISO version of ES1, pro-forma changes: 1998

ES3: 1999

ES4: mothballed in 2008

ES5: 2009

We had to restart browser competition with Firefox even to get a crack at updating ES3. Competition drives standardization; the IE monopoly stagnation mattered.

Most of the rest of your post is flogging "Blub is better". No one agrees on Blub, and there's no way to replace JS with it. Meanwhile, JS is evolving, not just ES6 but ES7/2016 and beyond.

Betting against evolution on the Web is risky, in my view.

I don't think you're being serious about the work to develop a multi-language-runtime embedding framework. It would not be one patch. You'd have to solve the write barrier cost implied by cycle collection among heaps (see Filip Pizlo of Apple on webkit-dev, I cited this already):

https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2011-December/...

I never refused "as a matter of policy" to embed Dart. Excuses for not working on the real and complex problems with multi-language-runtime VMs are one thing -- making stuff up is another.
> Eggs are one of the most efficient sources of protein there is.

Eggs aren't even one of the most efficient animal based sources of protein [1]. When comparing the energy input in terms of fossil fuels against the energy output in terms of protein broilers have a 4:1 ratio, while eggs have a ratio of 40:1. The same value for corn is 2.2:1. (which goes up to 3.1 when accounting for bioavailability).

Looking at total caloric energy input against output isn't any better (worse for the broiler, better for the eggs). We here get a 6:1 conversion factor for eggs, and 9:1 for broilers [2].

[1] Sustainability of meat-based and plant-based diets and the environment: http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/78/3/660S.full
[2] Land, irrigation water, greenhouse gas, and reactive nitrogen burdens of meat, eggs, and dairy production in the United States: http://www.pnas.org/content/111/33/11996/F4.expansion.html
You're right about the security aspect, which is what Microsoft says OneGet will also attempt to resolve (in effect, replacing chocolatey's repo with theirs, I'd assume).
If those 45000 files are in separated chunks you could try with separated repos, I don't see any other better way unfortunately.
Are the binaries necesary? Can you make an automated script to build them instead and just leave the sources?
It might be a good oportunity to clean that codebase :)

Good luck!
How are children born into poverty in the first place? How many of them are "planned" by their parent, vs how many of them are unplanned consequences of relationships between parents who haven't yet "settled"?

I believe child poverty can be reduced significantly if the society focuses on unwanted pregnancies. Some ideas:

1. Better sex education

2. Cheap / free access to contraceptives - it can be a joint effort with some charitable organizations

3. Easy access to abortions - there will be political opposition in certain parts of the country, but I don't see who opposes it in places like Silicon Valley.
Yes.

Extending this comment, Good Omens is an excellent book, but not anything like the Discworld series.

Small Gods is a good discworld book to start on (the best in my opinion, of course everyone will have their own).
> IBM supported OS/2, released 1992 and a marketplace flop, until the end of 2006.

That's because users paid for it.

Google gave the world high-quality, free open source code hosting for eight years. I don't see how that's anything but a net positive.
http://milankragujevic.com/projects/newtab/
http://milankragujevic.com/projects/newtab/newtab.zip

Here's something I made, since your version doesn't work. It's a rip off of your work, but none of the code is taken and the temperature display works. It's much simpler, doesn't use any fancy JS, and is contained in 4 JS files including jquery and the quotes and the config.
Presumably if Comcast was blocking your perfectly legal torrents, then net neutrality would come into play.
I wish every day is like this!
Report: CIA tried to crack security on Apple products for almost a decade
This is the one thing I'm a bit worried about. I've downloaded several Google Code projects this year so far alone.
Anyone develops with yahoo api? The docs doesn't work
Anyone gets "An internal error occurred" error when click on "documentation" tab in this url (yahoo developer yql)?

link: https://developer.yahoo.com/yql/
Poor countries selling citizenship?

Come on. The US has a visa by investment program where you can invest either $500,000 (high risk) or $1,000,000 (low risk) and get a straight path to citizenship. The UK has a similar plan for $3,000,000. So do Canada, Luxembourg, Austria, and dozens of other very well developed nations.

There have never been borders for the rich. No idea why this is being treated as news.
I had my hopes up that you guys would update Google Code to be more of a contender with GAE and Compute integration.
Looks fantastic. It did take a few minutes to get forked over and modify for location, °F instead of °C, etc. Perhaps a future version could use a config.js or something that would just swap those.

For the record, you want to edit js/scripts/controllers.js and js/scripts/view/dashboard.html.

Replacing Helsinki in the openweathermap.org link with your plain text city name seems to work.

For Fahrenheit, replace the "var temp" line in controllers.js with:

var temp = Math.round(((parseInt(data.main.temp) - 273.15) * 9/5) + 32, 2) + "°F";

I didn't get the github.io pages working in less than a few minutes, so I just grabbed it locally where it'll probably work faster anyway. Thanks also for the great plugin link. Excellent work Jakke, beautiful typography.
Your post makes sense and I don't wanna make it sound like I'm disagreeing with you but can't this be used as a launching point by congress to start deeming new internet content as unlawful?
That's the nuclear option. But for those who still want to benefit from the genuine uses for chat, then having colleagues be mindful of what those are is a help.
Ah so in your view, why was the order flow of retail brokerages worth hundreds of millions of dollars per year to these HFT firms?

Michael Lewis is not the only person accusing HFT firms of front-running trades. Joseph Stiglitz, a nobel laureate in economics, has made similar accusations. Does he too just not understand the market?
I care about production too, and acting quality, and setting. All things I feel a bit out of touch for caring about.

Audio porn is hot, and often quite a lot more intimate than video porn (if you're not a 100% visual person). And gonewildaudio (for audio) and literotica (for stories) are both communities where creators share their work for free, and explore settings and characters off the ... ahem... beaten track.

We're limbically wired for vision, but if you can get past your inner homo-erectus, then there's a lot of goodness in that 1%.
I usually cook about 4 days a week, and usually try and cook something that will last for a day or two.

As cheesy as it sounds, the George Foreman Grill has become essential - I roast nuts and garlic on it for salad, cook salmon burgers and veggie burgers plus buns and onions for them, cook fish steaks or fillets - way quicker than the stove or oven, and it is true that the fat and grease just run off.
I second this motion. GitLab is amazing. It's open source and easy to deploy on your own hardware so you don't need to trust another provider.

Github is really great for the social experience, but I've been debating switching over to GitLab for all of my development projects.
IF you found that annoying you may prefer Daystar's remix of the first few chapters : https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9676374/1/Daystar-s-Remix-of-Ra....
> Consumer and 'free' software is the exception, and it's a recent exception with rapid release schedules. It's just shifting the costs from the vendor (maintaining old products) to the consumer (changing/upgrading).

It's important to note that in many cases, the vendor pays for what is otherwise a free service (Reader, Wave, G+). In the case of some services, they may gather some data from which they can profit from, but that doesn't always pay the bills.

So yes, the customer may have to switch services or upgrade, but unlike enterprise software, they aren't paying four to six figures to use said services.
I think there's a huge difference between continuing support of a product and continuing support of a service. Not the least of which is that products can pick up their own life and unofficial support even after the company has abandoned them. The best you could hope to do for a service is faithfully duplicate it, with all the effort that involves.
It's those people that want to remove gridlines from spreadsheets, because pretty...
Paragraph 3 of the RiverGlide employment contract ( https://github.com/RiverGlide/contracts/blob/master/employme... )

The law entitles You to a minimum of 28 days of paid leave per year. This consists of 8 public holidays and 20 days of paid leave per year. We expect you to take at least the minimum amount of leave each year. We also encourage you to take as much additional leave as you need to maintain the health and well being of yourself and the company, as long as to do so would not cause harm to You, Us or any client We are engaged with.

Basically, we expect our employees to take a minimum amount of time off but we don't track it. Hopefully the other paragraphs make sense to responsible adults too
Yeah. I don't think anyone is surprised by this, and it's very different from a Google Reader situation. The writing was on the wall when Google projects started moving off of it and onto Github.
If someone wants to make an actual serious effort on this, feel free to contact me.
How is this even a failure? Google Code was the best at what it did for several years. Now it's not. That doesn't eradicate the time in the past where it provided real value to millions of users.

A party isn't a failure just because everyone eventually has to go home. It just means even successful things have ends.
This looks really nice, I'm going to set this up. If you want to keep developing this, you should think about packaging this into a convenient addon.

But what I'm missing most right now is a license file! Right now it's just copyrighted without giving anyone the permission to copy or modify it. I don't think that's your intention (If you don't want to think about it, the MIT licence is a good choice)
This is the problem with proprietary cloud services. As long as they're hosted by and run by a single company, you can't be sure they'll stick around.
> the one exception to freedom (and for good reason)

No matter how odious the predicate to such a statement may be, I can't get behind it.
Venture capital has a self-dealing problem
Our tax dollars at work with over-paid over-pensioned government workers trawling YouTube all day long, providing no benefit to anyone other than boosting testosterone levels at the FAA.
Killing reader was a terrible idea. That cut my daily google usage in half and was obviously a key social and relevance asset.

Glass is still very much alive.
And for OS/2, IBM even allowed it to live on by licensing it to a third party:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EComStation
If you mean the company that makes the network cameras, it is kinda nice that you don't have to change your code for every new camera or version of software.

Sometimes what works does not need to be changed,* especially when your talking physical security, where a camera system may be installed for upwards of 20 years. Oh, and guards who still don't know how to operate it.

* In this case I think they have made substantial changes behind the scenes to fix security holes, but the UI remains the same.
I like how the article links to a drone video shot in the US, hosted on youtube.
Do you have any links/resources for the subject matter you're covering in this comment? I'd like to learn more about what you're saying, and I can't seem to wrap my head around what it is you're trying to express with penny bids.
Taste comes down to combinations of 5 basic flavors, but smell is very complex and as far as I know, not well understood. The actual experience of food however, combines both of these as well as temperature, texture, color, and more.
On the last line of the FBI seizure form [1], does it say "Filastine currency"? What do you think they meant by that? AFAIK the Palestinian territories use Israeli currency, so that's probably not it...

[1]: http://motherboard-images.vice.com/content-images/contentima...
While I've been sad to see a lot of Google projects come to and end I think this one is justifiable. I don't know of any active projects still hosted there.
Well, DPRK says "[People] also have freedom of speech, the press, assembly, demonstration and association, freedom of religious beliefs and they are entitled to submit complaints and petitions." [1]

[1] http://korea-dpr.com/citizen.html
ZoomCharts: One of the World’s Most Promising Startups
Thank you for taking questions. Can you give me a rough idea when you'll have the bitbucket migration tools in place?
Reprehensible.
I agree that that seems like a bad choice, or at a minimum, one is choosing to do business with a company that has to internally negotiate an apparent conflict of interest. (Or, vertical integration if one has a generous take on the situation.) I am not so familiar with the layout of ISPs in the UK, but if other choices than Sky are present in a given locale, then, yes, the choice (I would make) is clear.

However, how does the Sky situation differ from the Comcast (content delivery) / NBCUniversal (content production) relationship? Verizon, AT&T, and TWC, as far as I can tell, are only content delivery services. I don't have specific statistics on hand, but I assume that for some people in the United States, Comcast is (unfortunately) the only viable broadband service provider.
Chrome introduces Web App install banners
I think my only serious concern is that even this year, I've downloaded several projects off Google Code. I am worried that a lot will be lost if they are not archived somewhere.
Product TV
It's only WTF if the bounty demands Polynomial time :-)
Panda antivirus labels itself as malware, then borks EVERYTHING
Meanwhile SourceForge just keeps limping along.
A Comprehensive List of the 12 SXSW Events Talking About Accelerators
OpenDNS Acquires BGPmon
He mentions that, most countries its only residency not a passport. For US you can't get a passport without many years of actual residency in the country, which is not what most people are looking to do
Thanks for the love furry! We're seeing more people switch, including many from Gitorious. We try to combine the advantages of a good interface and free repositories.
I've come to the same conclusion. It needs a set of junior consultants to do more basic stuff for a decent amount, leaving the main person/people as the highest cost per day - and only called in if necessary. Someone to setup funding or support structures with companies that need/want it.
> Killing reader was a terrible idea. That cut my daily google usage in half and was obviously a key social and relevance asset.

It sucks for our niche, but ultimately Google Reader was a product that didn't have any appeal beyond said tiny niche. The original goal was to make RSS more accessible beyond technologists, but it failed to reach any kind of mass appeal. Some of this was more to do with RSS/Atom feeds having some ergonomic issues that weren't solved before the social media frenzy took hold.

Failure is when results don't meet expectations, which is what happened to Reader. I don't fault them for closing it, despite it being inconvenient for me to switch. What does a for-profit company have to gain by dumping time and resources into a failure whose window of opportunity has passed? Some goodwill from a tiny, miniscule subset of their userbase?
Killing reader was a bad idea imo. Yes, it was niche but it was social, attracted influencers and measured relevance.

Glass is clearly very much alive.
4 Things That Have Negative Effect on Teamwork – Yanado Blog
Prototype uses a 2032 battery (as seen in some photos) and can run the display continuously for several days. If you run it more realistically with the device going to sleep you gain alot more run time.. When taken to production, battery life is very much a consideration. Worth bearing in mind that the version being shown is a prototype, and the partners involved have a lot of experience in low power computing.
They're really great guys who have already had a very positive impact on the team.
MeetingHero has a ring to it, but I suspect it would wind up with too many Snarky connotations to the person who introduces the software.

What's the big benefit above and beyond using Google Docs?

Again, I'm a big fan of the concept, as fixing Poorly Run Meetings is a solvable problem.
I'd recommend Neil Gaiman; and definitely read Good Omens, a book that Terry and Neil co-wrote.
This was a basic acquihire for talent. They've been working at Docker for many months.
In my experience both Lyft and Uber use surge pricing in NYC. I've seen Lyft as high as 2x, Uber much higher. But I usually launch both apps to see what level they are at.
Published Nov 2014, however seems to share some similarities with a recently released journal article: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11263-015-0812-2

Though the journal paper seems to disagree slightly with this statement:

> Do not force (even by mild assumption) the use of sophisticated algorithms and complex models if the data does not support them. Sometimes much simpler is much better.
I agree with you in principle. After all, "ML" got its name "metalanguage" from the fact that it was explicitly designed to be a domain-specific language for implementing programming languages. It's hard to be a DSL at its job.

At the same time, that has to be balanced with the ecosystem value of implementing your language in a language lots of others knows.

It's a worthwhile investment to implement your language with 4x the code in Python/Java/JS/etc. if you get more than 4x contributions because of it.
Topic Modeling Coming to BigML
Congress does not need a launching point from the FCC; Congress can pass whatever law they want, whenever they want. It might later be found to be unconstitutional, but until then it will be the law.

Congress can overrule the FCC; the FCC cannot overrule Congress. That's why the "lawful" language in FCC rules does not matter much.
Criminal or civil wouldn't matter; both require use of legal infrastructure, though criminal trials are even harder to "opt out of", which makes the process even more choked. (Lock you up for a year just in case you're guilty...)

And you have potential interactions with anyone within a given jurisdiction, the same one over which the infrastructure exists. Sure, you don't interact with them all, but you interact with a fraction of them, so the scaling properties are the same.
I don’t agree that you need to stick with new cars for apples to apples comparison; it’s just a question of value for money.

I agree there is a large bump from a 500$ Junker that's likely to break down and say a 25k used 2013 Acura TL with 15k miles. However, the gap from a 25k 3 year old used car in great condition and a 35k new car of the same model is not that great. And the gap between a 35k car and a 70k or 250k car is again there but not that huge. The 25k is long past the point of not breaking down on the side of the road; it's got heated power seats, heated power side mirrors, auto dimming rear view mirror etc.

Don't get me wrong the next bump is real and say automated cruse control is useful. But, it's less useful than you might think and you can expect that to be part of the basic 25k package before too long.

As to retirement I am saying early retirement on ~5 million where driving a 25k car is a completly reasonable choice is where dimmining returns start to hit hard.