skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've tried both Wealthfront and Betterment and found Betterment to be much more usable. It's out-performed Wealthfront in the past 9 months or so (but over the long-term my guess is that they'll both perform similarly) Have you tried both? http://danielodio.com/betterment-vs-wealthfront-which-one-wi...
It's not especially programming or design related; but I was recently turned on to EconTalk (http://www.econtalk.org/) and it's been very enjoyable. Especially good talks were:

* Nick Bostrom on Superintelligence: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/12/nick_bostrom_on.htm...

* Piketty on Inequality and Capital in the 21st Century: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/09/thomas_piketty.html
>People who (e.g.) pick crops by hand almost certainly work much harder than the people the OP was talking about

The way you phrased this, it sounds like you find this fact to be obvious. The question, then, is why does American culture look down on poor people like they are lazy? Everyone here seems to have respect for the people who work menial jobs, but the policies we have made constantly punish lower income, working adults. Where is the disconnect? What are the people who disagree with you 'missing'?
even one of those amazing ideas will ever see the pre-alpha status that will be a huge win!
At my work, we run a local mirror/proxy for dependencies. It's polite because we're not hitting those external services as frequently, and it has the advantage that we aren't reliant on them to produce builds.
Packages like this are where I find the debate between idiomatic Go usage and general use cases difficult to side on. I would err on the idiomatic side by using stdlib flag.
Show HN: I hacked git.io to shorten any url
Developer Tea is a short, fresh and very interesting programming podcast: https://www.developertea.com/

It's just a delight.
> the evidence is clear to me that you'll never reach the incredible supply levels that would cause prices to drop (why would builders do this anyway?).

It's the same as in any other market, people will carry on doing things while there is significant profit it in. A builder can only stop another builder by forming a cartel.

Also, bear in mind that just because house prices have gone up as decent numbers of buildings have been put in place, it doesn't mean they wouldn't have gone up more if supply had been even more constrained.

There probably is some self perpetuating element to house building - if prices are cheaper than they would otherwise be, more people would move to a city, so that means there is an effwct of supply creating more demand. But I think that occurs at the edges. Most people don't move city or in particular country for the house prices.
Seems like it will be bulkier when folded, but do no have the center split when unfolded.

The MS keyboard seems like a continuation of their Surface keyboard cover.
As a thought exercise, assuming for simplicity that you can isolate the parts you're authoring, so that your changes only involve additions to other people's work: what kind of additional metainfo would you need for this workflow? All defined labels and macros? Available bib entries? What else?
Last year someone was fired by GCHQ for wrongful access of data.

http://stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/11850150.MPs_to_repor...

> In a long-awaited report on privacy and security, the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) reveals MI5, MI6 and GCHQ have disciplined or in some cases dismissed staff for inappropriately accessing personal information obtained through bulk data collection.
Simple. They don't work in India.
http://writeapp.net/write+nvalt.html

I just started using this, so I can't say how effective it is yet. But it captures notes in NValt and syncs via Dropbox.
A common way to get riled up about your favorite cause is to point to the state of the world and say "See? Look how bad things are." Pinker's argument will thus fall into the cross-hairs of almost anyone with a political agenda.
What you're looking for is the word twiddler.
That's fantastic, but please don't ban tor users!
The maximum command line size allowed by the Linux kernel used to be 128kB. This might sound crazy, but that limit was a real constraint for some Google services. My guess is that this is referring to a kernel patch to increase the maximum size.

This is a somewhat educated guess. A long time ago at Google I used to work on the program that was used to launch most jobs on the clusters. To help mitigate the command line length problems, the launcher preferred generating command lines with -nofoo instead of --foo=false, and -foo instead of -foo=true. This saved a few characters per boolean flag. Of course it also caused no end of trouble for people who'd defined their own "three-state boolean" flags that could e.g. be true/false/autodetect. Not the finest hour of engineering, in retrospect.
It's just a saying; a platitude like "get well soon", "just be yourself", or "employees must wash hands". Safety (really security in general) is top priority only after you've already knocked out user acquisition, basic short term financial stability, and product stability. As such, by "safety is a top priority", they really mean "safety is a top priority now".
Search for supersymmetry
For Design topics, check out 99% Invisible (http://99percentinvisible.org/) and Design Details (http://www.designdetails.fm/).
I feel silly mentioning This American Life (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/) since it seems like everyone's heard of it, but the quality of the show is just so incredible I can't leave it out. There's the quality of TAL's storytelling and then there's everything else...
Radiolab is also incredible (http://www.radiolab.org/) for more technical/scientific topics, but it's definitely not specific to engineering/software.
The problem is that the article does not make that link. Because a manager does not remain in the top quartile of his/her PEERS does not mean they necessarily under performed the index...
People insisting that "XYZ is not UNIX", Unix or however you want to capitalize it, is kinda pointless. For all practical purposes Linux is Unix, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and OSX are Unix.

One would think that if any OS would foster the idea of sameness it would be those belonging to the Unix family.

As for old vs new style command line options: that's now Unix in much the same way that Dave Gilmour was a proper part of Pink Floyd and not merely "the new guy".

The original OS we call Unix has not been relevant to the discussion for 20-25 years.
privacy filter is v useful, but technically doesn't prevent shoulder surfing if someone is looking at your keyboard for your password
If that's text, why do some of the letter shapes have jaggies? Screenreaders use the accessibility tree, a subset of the DOM; this "text" isn't in the DOM, it's not real text. Do you think screenreaders perform OCR on pages? JAWS has added an OCR function but it's only for trying to read a single element containing a picture including text (i.e. images) without a real text alternative (e.g. alt attribute).
Well, no.

The actual objective of the hackathon is (probably) oriented around the group more so than the individuals. College applications work exactly the same way – top schools could fill their classes with 2400 SAT, 4.0 GPA, Porsche-driving philanthropist-of-the-year white or Asian males year after year. But frankly, that school would suck.

A better approach would be to focus on the group. Metrics like: how enjoyable the hackathon was, what cool people did you meet, what did you learn from fellow hackers, and ultimately: how many quality submissions were created. This is ignoring any explicit goals of increasing diversity/inclusion in the field, which is a fairly common theme for hackathons.

One can rightly argue that increasing the diversity of their participants falls well in line with their entire purpose of existing. Even if they're single mindedly optimizing for quality submissions, it's not absurd to hypothesize that more diverse groups create more creative solutions.

It's making a decision on overall group performance, with individuals' culture/gender/age/school/languages/years experience/company background being a proxy for their impact in group performance.

If increasing diversity wasn't an implicit or explicit goal of virtually every hackathon ever, I'd agree with you.
I don't understand what you mean. Get browsers to OCR the contents of the bitmap? Or have semantically rich mark-up that allows styling of text? (we already have that, it's called HTML+CSS)
As a front-end developer, I cringed when I saw how much Telescope (or is it Meteor?) relies on global scope. To see what I mean, inspect the window object in their first example site http://crater.io/

Object.keys(window).filter(x =>
window[x] instanceof Function &&
!/native code/.test(window[x].toString()))

120 user-defined global functions, and that is not counting all global variables... yikes!

(edit: if you're using Chrome, `Object.keys(window).length` gives you 260)
Tagspaces: https://github.com/tagspaces/tagspaces
I'd just like to point out that the majority of those are sector funds, so it really doesn't make sense to compare it to a broadly-diversified index like the S&P 500. On top of that, many of the high-fliers in that list are leveraged ETFs, which magnify gains and losses, and would not be suitable at all for long-term portfolios.
I'm willing to make the trade-off.

If we don't have copyright, then I'm okay with people distributing binaries without the source code. We're in a fundamentally different environment, and one that I think gives the correct freedoms. I should be able to make a binary and distribute it without the source. I should not be able to restrict what other people do with that binary, or source, if and when I give it to them. Economic models will evolve differently, for better or worse, but I don't think selecting business models should be the purpose of our laws.

As for DRM -- I don't like it, I don't want it to exist, but I think people should be free to create it and build it into devices that they make and sell. Similarly, I should be free to reverse engineer it, hack it, do whatever I want with my products in my home, and share everything I know with others. No information lockdown.

But instead we have this awkward copyright thing that limits our freedoms all over the place. So I'll abuse it with the GPL to help cultivate an ecosystem of works that protect freedoms, until we abolish copyright, and then we're in a different world altogether.

Edit: Perhaps it was unfair when I wrote that without copyright, the GPL would not be necessary to protect those freedoms. I acknowledge that there are freedoms that the GPL assures to the recipients of a work that would not be automatically available without copyright for the work. However the whole system would be so different that I would no longer consider it necessary for something like the GPL to exist.

Let's acknowledge however that it's reeeally hard to predict how things would evolve without copyright. I surely want it abolished and I surely wouldn't outright abolish it overnight! Slow ramp-up process.
Won't an easier way will be to copy a large text from net, paste it into MS Word. Export each page as image. And then train it using that image and the known text.
I've been using a similar keyboard for months. It's a bit awkward and I get stares at coffee shops, but it's an amazing way to crank out emails on my large screen phone. It's the most portable office I've ever had. http://www.amazon.com/Chocolate-High-touch-Bluetooth-Flyshar...
Open Source is in fact a democracy. The most general definition of democracy is: Everybody in the group has the same amount of power, which is defined by "shared understanding" how things should be, and usually by having an explicit rule in place that enforces the same amount of power for everyone (in small groups, the rule may be just informal).

In OSS, everybody has the same access to the source code. That's the power from the definition, and the OSS license is the explicit rule.

Because of the explicit rule, if someone goes power hungry on one extreme, the rule guarantees that he will be ousted (via forking the source), and other extreme, if someone is not interested in politics (like someone actually working on the code), they won't get screwed, because they will always have the source code access according to the rule.

People in the past tried it, naively, without the explicit power rule. That was the MIT license. But they got screwed (divided and conquered) by people who wanted power, who wanted to close the source. That's why copyleft (i.e. democracy) was invented. (This actually happened on the metagame level - now the BSD type licenses mostly work because people always can fall back to GPL.)
Hmmm..that is an interesting perspective. I have been to plenty of useless meetings, but also to plenty of meetings which were useful. The latter were characterized by a clear agenda outlibg issues, sides that had different understanding of that problem, and a respect for everyone's time.

Maybe I am naive, but I thank that face to face meetings are still the highest bandwidth means of communicating, especially with strangers about goals that are still fluid. Don't get me wrong, they have drawbacks (synchronous, not every one needs to be there the entire time but it is hard to skip in and out).

I have seen plenty of email chains "go off the rails" and waste plenty of time too.
It's both the hardware and the software. For $500, you can get a high quality, well designed piece of hardware tightly coupled with the software and it does everything you need it to do. If the iPad breaks, throw it out and get a new one. But chances are, it won't break (that is, unless you break it).

Meanwhile for $500, you can get a cheap plastic laptop that will break on its own through normal wear and tear. It runs an OS that is far more advanced than what you need. The OS needs maintenance, and you need to pay attention to what you're doing. It's super hard to keep a computer running. You might not think it is, but look at the existence of Geek Squad and how many people are afraid of their computer, or can't do simple things. But they're using iPads like an expert.

That's post-PC. You and I will keep our x86 systems with massive globs of RAM and terrabytes of hard drive space because we need them. And the rest of the world will finally get to use their computing devices the way they want to use them for a change.
BIG PHARMA needs to be off of television
I think using little snitch or similar would be the better way to go. Since I imagine not every url is hard coded as plain text and there are updates all the time, and changes and caches ....

But I definitely agree, OS X phones home (and other places) all the time. Everytime my phone rings my mac tries to connect to some apple server. ...
I can't recommend anything about programming/design, but I listen to Ask Altucher and The James Altucher Podcast. He interviews successful people – mostly entrepreneurs – from all walks of life. It's very interesting to hear all the past struggles and failures. James somehow makes the guests reveal the most intimate experiences. http://goo.gl/bJBMqN
I would think someone this into roguelikes would know it. OP seems to be more focused on the actual graphical representation besides the syntactical/semantic representation though; something DF is very much not known for.
Very cool, some hilarious ones left. Kind of like the "land" no one wants.
Apple locks in IOS developers to OSX - I'm not aware of any practical way of building IOS apps and submitting them to the app store without running OSX. That doesn't mean you need to use it as your regular personal use OS, but if you're spending your days writing IOS apps you don't have any other choice.
vmd [1] is handy for quick previewing, especially if you're editing for GitHub.

If I had to jump out of my regular editor to write Markdown or reStructuredText, I probably wouldn't be using them.

[1] https://github.com/yoshuawuyts/vmd
Yes, they hate racists...
Not at all tech related, but I like to listen to The Unexplained podcast with the British radio profile Howard Hughes. It's a bit out there, but his voice, and his broadcast pedigree makes it very relaxing to listen to, at least for me.

http://www.theunexplained.tv/

Have a great day
Best
Fredrik
You didn't get downvoted for asking. You got downvoted for the way you asked. [citation needed] is incredibly rude.
Maybe you're skeptical but if everyone thought like this, here is a small list of things I wouldn't be able to do which I'm really thankful for:

1) AWS bills me automatically every month for the hosting. I'm totally fine with it and kinda happy they do it.

2) Namecheap renews my domains for me (the ones I've setup on auto-renew). I'm happy they do it because I'm traveling a lot.

3) Paying for services like Uber with my credit card sounds nice. The process seemed really effortless.

4) I'm sure I can think many more things where this is a convenience for the customer.

> Thanks to the RBI I can rest easy without worrying about getting (unsanctioned) charges on my credit card from shady businesses.

There are cheats and there is a system for dealing with cheats. It's the same everywhere (419 scammers are not from India). You don't unplug from the internet on Windows just because there are a tonne of viruses for Windows. You install an anti-virus or firewall for that.

> If you are a business in India try looking into the ECS option:

I know about the ECS option but that really doesn't work very well with online business. As far as I know you need a Void check from the customer and there is paperwork (AFAIK). Also what about international customers, just because you're based here does not stop you from having those.
Part of the beauty of markdown, imo, is its simplicity. If I ever have a question about markdown syntax, I can glance at the original docs and have the answer in less than 30 seconds.
Yes, they hate racism, sexism, and racists and sexists (etc).

There are pleanty of newbie friendly SRS subs, like /r/socialjustice101, or /r/SRSQuestions.
are you suuuuuuuuuure it's thinner?

http://cdn.pocket-lint.com/r/s/727x/assets/images/phpkhkakk....
JMF Skin Treatment Device, Model No: HJ120100 Risk of Electric Shock
The Talking Machines is my favorite machine learning podcast. So far they've had interviews with many of the big names in ML: Yann LeCun, Goeff Hinton, Yoshua Bengio.
I think what sets it apart in my mind is the "needed". In a Wikipedia article aiming to be authoritative and correct it may very well be "needed", but in a HN comment it is not "needed", it is "requested". Perhaps even "humbly requested". And the conflation of those 2 words tend to make the requester come off as judgmental/abrasive.

Everyone gets the reference, but it's not really the same situation.
This article is extremely misleading about the statistics it presents. It claims that you could outperform the funds by investing in random stocks, but the probabilistic model presented in the "source" article (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/your-money/heads-or-tails-...) is a completely different system.

It assumes that every 12 month period, there is a 1/4 chance of being in the top quartile of funds, which is an absurd assumption and also completely unrelated to modeling success of picking random stocks. Sure, there'd be a 1/4 chance of being in the upper quartile of other funds ALSO INVESTING RANDOMLY. But to say you'd have the same chances of beating other actively managed funds makes the assumption that all the other funds are not doing any better than random investment. Big surprise that the conclusion is that funds don't do any better than random investment.
Women’s curves shape-shifting
Invisibilia is new but sure to be a hit: http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/

Also Startup:
http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/

Both dance around our world regularly enough to include them.
> And yet Rust is reliable as fuck even in its current shape.

I appreciate your vote of confidence in the team, but Rust has been in development for five years at this point, while Swift hasn't. :)
I not arguing against the value of diversity. My point is much simpler and can be summarized from your response:

"It's good to take culture/gender/etc as a factor when choosing who can participate and who will be excluded from your event."

Good or bad, that is the only conclusion to draw.
Hacker culture is dangerous.

We are living in a technological Cambrian explosion, and it is certainly very exciting to see the many types of hardware, software, and techniques that have emerged in a few short years.

The power that can be wielded by tying together a few components is enormous. Unfortunately the 'Hacker Way' is to glue components together and declare success if the whole thing 'works'. The glue is normally a scripting language of some sort, and the pieces can be enormously powerful, such as an EC2 cluster or an IP messaging framework.

There was a study a while back called 'The Cloud Begins With Coal'. While some may dispute the specifics, the main point is this- computation requires energy. When you integrate components without regard for how much energy is required to exercise them, you can end up with an enormous and inefficient or dangerous system.

Consider Facebook, a case study of the dangerous effects of a hacker system coupled with large amounts of money. They have built an enormous computational infrastructure to automate the task of sharing pictures over a network. Thousands of engineers and large amounts of electricity are being consumed to execute a process that has no clear social benefit, and for which few of the 'customers' would be willing to pay, other than the surveillance agencies.

Why is that? I propose it is due to non-systems thinking, nobody sat down at the beginning to engineer the end-to-end process (much less the business model). A properly engineered system would require a central piece of telecom equipment, say a typical Ericsson switch, and a git-like protocol that stored content on the client side. Boom, no data center required.

Somebody a few days ago demonstrated the ability to delete arbitrary content from the Facebook data center using a Raspberry Pi. Hacker vs. Hacker.

Another example of hacker culture is the NSA - nobody there thought of the world as a complete system, they just hacked together a whole slew of tools to accomplish one part of their mission (SIGINT) without regard for their ultimate customer, the American people.

We need to declare hacker culture a clear and present danger to society.
I am a premium member of Mixergy. I forget about it for months and then remember again, listen to a random interview and almost always take away something valuable. I like Andrew Warners interview style. He is very kind and respectful but he is still good at asking questions until you get down to the details that actually matter.
If you're interested in Apple stuff, ATP is definitely my favorite tech talk show. The mix of personalities is just perfect.
Ah, very solid example. Thanks!
Your problem reminds me of the "Why would you use Emacs over intellij thread".
Lots of other attack vectors left wide open, remember Thunderstrike?