skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
cities are a lot younger and grew much faster meaning that is not so much the case.

Melbourne, in Australia, is a counter example. It started in 1835, it was the centre of the fastest land grab in history, then the population doubled in ten years during the 1850s gold rush. And today the city centre is world famous.

The local wisdom tends to support the conclusion of the article. The Premier in the early 1990s (who would be called the Governor in the US) committed to making the city a place for people to live, and started changing the laws about planning, business hours and so on that were preventing that. He quickly lost office, because the rural parts of the state viewed him as "the Premier of Melbourne", but the city kept improving.
I've never been in the armed forces and I don't agree with war, but I think Anzac Day is the most important public holiday.

At every dawn service I'm overwhelmed by the number of young families who clearly have suffered their own loss.

For me Anzac day isn't even remotely about nationalism or patriotism, it's about love, families, bravery, sadness.

I don't think you need to criticise Anzac Day, you just need to see it from the personal perspective of those people who are remembering lost friends and loved ones.
Pool heaters take a lot of power. Pumps not so much. You can defer heating until a couple hours before you want to use it.
I haven't used WPF in about that time myself, but Android's XML is a roughly similar experience. No idea about iOS's auto layout.
I don't have an `.app`-ified copy of Emacs around to check, but there is a way to hide apps from the Dock and the Cmd-Tab switcher; see http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2001070119151826... . Specifically, you can add

<key>LSUIElement</key>
<true />

to your app's Info plist (at `$PATH_TO_APP/Contents/Info.plist`). As the other comments point out, this also hides the app's menubar, which may or may not be desireable.
Roger Dingledine was asked about the Tor Project's involvement with the things mentioned in this article. His comment is here:

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-April/0...
>emphasising understanding those losses should help prevent them occurring again

Here is something that always puzzled me. In WWII they sent almost all their troops to fight again in Europe (and North Africa) for a Britain led by Churchill. This time, however, they had good reason not to and should have instead be fighting the Japanese in the Pacific which was a real threat to them.
Many of Einstein's actions were driven by the fact that he detected growing anti-Semitism early on. In fact, he relinquished his German citizenship twice because of this, and it was largely his fear and prediction of persecution that brought him to the US.

I don't think it's a question of Good vs Evil, but rather what was happening at that specific point in time - the fact that Jewish Germans were very publicly discriminated against (to the point where Jewish University academics in Germany were forced to hand in their resignation and barred from ever being public servants almost overnight).
I was giving an example of a context when using something stronger than SHA1 doesn't work even though it is supported. To show that there are sometimes reasons other than laziness and on the off chance that there may be something similar with specific versions of Android or possibly some software that deals with APKs.
It's a means of searching public-facing (albeit cloaked) content, not a means of tracking people specifically.

If anything, it's ethically much superior to what the NSA is doing: law enforcement searches for content that is clearly criminal (child pornography, actual terroristic threats, murder-for-hire services), then requests a warrant after showing the content to a judge. That's how the process should work; identify something illegal at the front, identify probable cause, then go in through the back with court approval. These search engines can only find content that is already accessible to other users.

The NSA is already in the back, looking for justification for already being there, then after finding something, lying and saying they went in through the front.

Of course, this software could theoretically be used to search a database of data unethically exfiltrated without a warrant, but that's not what the stated goal is and there doesn't seem to be any evidence of that.
>We shouldn't condemn them for choosing this lifestyle.

Oh, I'll condemn the ones that choose it. If you're homeless because you have mental or physical problems that's one thing, but people who choose to be homeless because they're too lazy to work are parasites.
Very good point. :-)
Yet, when WWII came around... (see my other reply on this thread)
We're not going to need that capacity anymore, so we don't need the companies anymore.

i.e. when the massive majority of houses and business have their own solar and storage, we don't need to pour billions into coal plants and the grid to have it sitting around waiting for... nothing.
Which still doesn't cover older browsers just prefixes things appropriately for those that support it.
You're right, it's a slow decline. I suppose I mean that if fundamentally, water, electric, public safety, Internet, police response, etc. just didn't work, to the point where you didn't totally count on them, then people would be more upset in the US, to the point where they'd demand change.
It is not elitism.
I know several developers from Epitech that are very very good at what they do. However, they can't be compared with graduates from the top grandes écoles, simply because none of these grandes écoles focus as much as Epitech on training developers. It is a broader education. As a result, graduates from grandes écoles can work pretty much everywhere and most of them don't actually work in tech (usually finance, management consulting, etc...). Epitech graduates can't.

Graduates from Epitech, or 42, are very far from having the same ability with mathematics and quantitative sciences in general. That being said, it probably doesn't matter since most tech projects don't require such skills.
Sure. But the original article is a condemnation of an industry that supports and encourages people like the rude coworker. And it's not wrong.

(I've been in the industry for 17 years, not counting part-time jobs, college and various stuff before. I'm not dismissing blindly or without experience.)
The main difference between a fractional-reserve BitCoin bank and a conventional bank would be that there would be no lender of last resort to use in case of a bank run.

Other than that, you'd still fulfill the basic function of creating liquidity -- any individual depositor has full access to their money, and your creditors also make use of it, so the money supply increases.

Just because there's no BitCoin-denominated lender of last resort also doesn't necessarily screw you in case of a bank run. If your loans are sound, any individual bank could probably find lenders in case of a run: if all of a banks depositors want their BitCoin back at once, the bank would go to other banks or lenders and borrow BitCoin against the value of their loans. As long as there is sufficient liquidity in the entire banking system, the individual banks could survive a run.

You could also get around the lack of a BitCoin-denominated lender of last resort by using a non-BitCoin-denominated lender of last resort: while the accounts may be BitCoin-denominated, you could (in the ToS) give the depositors an equivalent amount of USD if you "run out" of BitCoin and you are unable to borrow BitCoin from other lenders. It'd be more complex because you'd need to borrow USD against the value of the BTC-denominated loans you yourself have, and then insure against the risk of a BTC crash, but that's the sort of think that financial and insurance people do all the time.
Over here in the dynamic languages world (JS, Ruby, Python, etc) I often cry myself to sleep because I spend hours debugging something that turns out to be preventable with a const or a private function or something.
What exactly does it mean for Bitcoin to "not survive"? Like, there are no more exchanges and of the billions of people on the planet exactly zero will exchange goods, services, or currency for bitcoins? Like someone will offer 500 BTC on HN for $1 and no one will care?
Venture Investing Just Had Its Biggest Q1 in 15 Years, Says PwC Report
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9405501
Consider what you just said. People clearly aren't that interested in being downtown if all it takes is a better Highway system to let them move out.

What you are describing is a culture that already dislikes being downtown but is only there because the transit sucks. That's not a sign of a healthy downtown.
It would be better to handle your errors through try{}catch{} rather than using phantom's onError as an exception seems to force an exit.

https://github.com/sotownsend/BooJS/blob/master/lib/boojs.rb...

I threw together a similar implementation in bash with this change:

https://gist.github.com/spence/30d5aa383fec6be8e51e

Looks like

./phantomjs-repl.sh
> missing
ReferenceError: Can't find variable: missing
> window
[object Window]
> console.log('Hello')
Hello
undefined
> !jquery-1.11.2.min.js
Loading jquery-1.11.2.min.js ... done
> $('<span>Hello</span>').text()
Hello
> ^C
I agree, flexbox is refreshing. Couple it with autoprefixer or a flexbox scss mixin, layout a design with it for the first time and you won't go back.

For people that are use to hacks + grid systems, it seems weird at first, but over time you will become familiar with a rich layout system and stop thinking left-to-right, it will become more natural. The language of the spec and the declarations (align/justify distinctions, etc) can be weird at first, but you get used to it.
That sounds closer to what I would expect of such a program, but it apparently works in Utah. Is there something that story leaves out? Are the approaches different?
Bubble predictor?
Lucky for you. For others of us I'd rather do almost anything else. I'd rather clean the house, do dishes, anything other than exercise. Yea, I force myself to do it but I'm massively bored and can't wait to get on to whatever I really want to be doing.

I'd love to know some secret sauce other than luck to head into actually enjoying to exercise.
That's not really true, at least with many people that desire suburbia that I talk to. They want a house in a nice neighborhood with decent restaurants and shopping within a reasonable driving distance.

It's not that common to want wide open fields in front of you. On top of that, it's not that expensive to get a big chunk of land in the middle of nowhere.
I live way out in the country so my gigabit is $99. :(
and you gotta realize the response from the 'band' was most definitely not from Manson et al. but from the same crap ass marketing douche that send the original request.
4G data in the 88-108 MHz band??
Create and share beautiful wallpapers with a swipe of your finger
>> † I've almost come to believe that all the talk of "burn out" in programming is because ADHD is pretty common in programmers—or rather, programming is a pretty common thing to get into for people with ADHD—and so, to someone who has undiagnosed ADHD but to a degree that's normally manageable with self-medication through things like caffeine, a stressful+unrewarding job can heighten the symptoms to the point that it can't just be managed/brushed aside, and has to be addressed as a problem. But, since it required the triggering event (a bad job), it gets blamed on the trigger-condition instead of on the vulnerability it exposed.

This is a really good point. A lot of burnout could be explained by untreated ADHD overcoming the power of legal stimulants.

I wonder if burnout is as common in other professions requiring a lot of focus. Do surgeons burn out? Business people? Lawyers? Others?

Personally I think that they do, but I also think that they have better coping mechanisms available. Surgeons and doctors in general, while having an absolutely bonkers schedule, also periodically get whole weeks off in order to compensate for that schedule.

Programmers, possibly because of said ADHD tendency, seem to never really give themselves time off. It's almost considered improper to even take weekends off. That's when you're supposed to work on your open source projects dummy.
I'm a student at Epitech, 42 it's a fork of Epitech. They have almost the same program. I love the school methodology it teaches you that grades are not important and that learning is your responsability. I think the conventional system teaches students to be insecure persons that are always looking for validation from authority figures.

In this type of system you learn how to search knowledge it changes the pasive role of the student into an active role. Also you learn that healping others and teaching them is good for everyone and never a waste of time. I think the school works really well and one would need to measure the succes of their students in the happiness and sense of acomplishment they have.

The school is not a factory producing identical products. It's a human journey of knowledge seeking and personal developement and everyone developes diferently. At times it's very intensive and people that are not really passionate and motivated drop out.

As an example of what we do this year the first project we worked on was to recode the malloc function in c. To do this we have some videos explaining the basics as well as some introductory excercises. After some research i found that the projects at harvard cs61 are very similar to what we will be doing in the unix module so i used the book they recomend there Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective. I read the relevant section and afterwards i coded a lovely implemenation of malloc. I finished in time the project. Some times it is more dificult, for example for the assambler module i found that it is more dificult to find good explanations online. But this time another student explained some key things and afterwards i was coding in intel assembly.

The most dificult information to come by is with respect to parsing and compiler theory or coding in Ocaml. Sometimes i think that if i had a teacher which was an expert in the field this sort of thing would be easy. But the truth is that learning is a personal journey and no one will solve it for us. Education needs to evolve to generate mature people that study and learn because they find that doing so fulfils them and not because they are searching for validation or an external reward waiting for someone to clasify and rank them. Clasification and ranks are subjective and are only means and not ends.
You cannot just paper over everything. If you're having to resort to tricks due to inherent flaws in your application stack, it may be worth reexamining your application stack.

Also, I wondered who creates that sort of annoyance. Now I know. Having half of mobile webpages have animations all over the place only makes me go "whoa" in the sense of "whoa, how do I disable this and go back to the (relatively sane) desktop site". It doesn't make it "feel" as though it loads in 100ms instead of 1000ms. 900ms instead of 100ms, perhaps, and that's stretching it. But loading in 1/10th the time? Nope.
"But instead of pursuing more complicated pain solutions, which might include eating better, exercising more and, thus, feeling better, too many saw doctors as car mechanics endowed with powers to fix everything quickly."

And what's wrong with that? Opiates have a very low side effect profile, compared to other popular medications (like mood stabilizers, antidepressants). Why should someone unfortunate to have a pain issue also need to change diet and exercise if there's another option?

As far as doctors being mechanics -- eh, almost. This unfair system of medicine licensing means that you need to get paid approval before taking medicine of your choosing. And even then, unless you're wealthy enough to demand service, you're entirely left to the doctor's personal whims. Many of which include an anti-addict narrative influencing their decisions.

This story is rather Luddite in its views. Don't use medicine, find your inner strength; be American!
Show HN: Detect Throwaway Accounts [Firefox Exploit]
Reading (rather, skimming) this sort of analysis makes me wish that advertising had its own internet -- an anti-matter, separate universe sort of place. Depressing to see technology as a pack horse for advertising.
Every 4 years: "lets check if latest css can center dynamic sized things without a bunch of #container_of_container cruft". Just stick with:

<table height=100% width=100%><td valign=center align=center>

And what the hell does "margin: auto" mean? I'd like to hear some print designers using that in normal conversation. "oh and also i'd like these margin's auto'ed".

At this rate the table tag is going live longer than the copyright on mickey mouse.
All the people who are still perplexed by this, have to admit that they haven’t heard of or tried flexbox. It works beautifully (in conjunction with Autoprefixer).
Another writer that had a bead on the way we live now was Debord. I think it's absolutely worth thumbing through The Society of the Spectacle [1] just as an exercise in contextualizing the modern life. Different writers/theorists for sure, but worthy of consideration.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle
The distance from the big island to Oahu appears to be feasible for an underwater HVDC cable (eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basslink ). If the geothermal was cheap enough, this might be worthwhile.
Laziness is an indicator of mental disorder; there is usually some sort of depression, drug abuse, or other problem making the person drop out of society like that, rarely is it just "I don't want to work." Of course, in less prosperous societies, it mostly isn't a choice made willingly.
DDG definitely has sore spots. But the ! shortcuts more than make up for it.
It's estimated that between 1/4 and a 1/3 of the ANZACs were born in the "Mother Country", so their rejection as being not-British was probably a contributing factor to the passing of the Nationality Act of 1920.
Another (popular?) use is for SPA or JS-heavy pages to render themselves for search engines. Crawl the site with PhantomJS. For each page, give it a few seconds to do XHR and render things, then save the HTML snapshot. When you get a request from Googlebot, serve the HTML snapshot instead of the app, which Google apparently still cannot handle. Ta-da!

(And piss off people who hate JS "apps" or still desire the HTTP/HTML document ideal, for better or for worse.)
I don't see how that will ever make sense. The only way you can guarantee your house will have enough power is to overbuild the storage by quite a bit. It's not worth the money.
> (in conjunction with Autoprefixer).

Then not beautifully at all. It would be beautiful if it worked on IE8+ without the use of any 3rd party plugins.
A History of Heart Transplants
Juggling and Flow (2000)
"There's an architecture used in video games for a long time now where rendering and other engine-level functions are decoupled from the game logic, and the two communicate via a local socket."

Is he talking about multiplayer or has anyone ever actually seen this?
I think the point was native mobile advertising (inside the "feed") vs. just mobile advertising (e.g. banners). Facebook doesn't really have a "banners" equivalent, hence, if Facebook is framing mobile as native advertising, and Google is framing mobile as banner advertising, and the growth rates/click through/ROI on each are different, then he's right that they might value mobile materially differently.
Now that you mention it, isn't this just age discrimination?

I would get in serious legal trouble if I posted an ad saying "Hiring software engineers; ages 18 to 30 only." Doesn't the same apply to schools?
No, use divs and table-cell display values if you want to have non-tabular data displayed like a table.
jQuery's API is a whole lot easier to use than native APIs. Just take a look at this site: http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/
the jQuery code is much more concise. This is understandable because jQuery is a middleware built on top of the native API's.

Point is: Unless the native API can address the "saves time and effort" part, people will stick to jQuery (or coffescript or typescript).
NextEra (the energy company that recently bought HECO) is looking to do just this. A Sept. 2013 report by them estimates a capital cost of approximately $600 million for a 200 MW cable connect between Maui and Oahu. (source page 8 of [1])

This is the low end of the scale with other estimates ranging from $553 Million to $1.24 Billion (page 9).

Note that this does not connect the Big Island to the grid either.

The preliminary proposed route can be seen on page 84 of the report.

[1] http://nexteraenergyhawaii.com/pdf/initial_comments.pdf
Most people opt for the worst-in-class and abuse phpbb as a public bug tracker. Especially in the game dev scene you'll see 99% of people doing this. It's a hilariously disgusting user experience for everyone involved, and by extension even for people who never touch it, because things easily get lost in there and never fixed/added.

Personally i use a combination of Uservoice and Github (if open) or otherwise find a way to make the internal bug tracker readable to the public.
Nowhere did I say I support capital punishment. What I am saying is that we as a society harshly punish other types of criminals who prey on the weak (identity theft, molestation, etc.), so why do we continue to make excuses for this category of criminal?

Will harsher penalties deter dealers? Maybe, maybe not. But if a dealer isn't deterred, I'd still rather see them rot in prison than live freely in society.
The secret sauce is intensity. The idea that I could be bored while exercising intensely is absurd to me because all my resources, mental and otherwise, are required just to maintain the pace that I set for myself. When I'm close to the edge of what I can tolerate, I take a rest interval, then ramp up the intensity again before I have a chance to get bored.
The downside of Free is that they fight mostly on price. They did interesting things with mobile plans, but mainly they drive the prices down, and everything else with it (speed, quality, etc.).

France used to have some of the best internet access in the world, only behind the like of South Korea or Japan. Now it's down to #30 [1]. Same (or even worse) for mobile networks: 4G took forever to come to France. Investing in better infrastructures is expensive, and ROI is just not there to be on the cutting edge anymore.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Internet_c...
I also find it crazy how there was a huge campaign to remove use of the table tag for layout. 'It's non semantic! You're mixing layout and content!' people would cry over and over.

.. But then we've ended up with bootstrap and it's grid layout, where we're doing exactly that, and for some reason it's perfectly fine.
That site is completely broken in Safari. Don't think we're ready for flexbox just yet.
This email was released earlier, e.g. on Business Insider: http://www.businessinsider.com/snapchat-ceo-evan-spiegel-has...
The Founder, The Keeper & The Empath (Facebook's “About” Page in 2005)
It was so painful to read that I had to give up, but from experience this isn't particularly rare; these dudes are typically so busy that they're hammering out missives like this as quickly as possible, no time to proof read or grammar check. Speed of response and communicating the core concepts is paramount.
>Laziness is an indicator of mental disorder...

I don't agree at all. Some amount of laziness is normal, and the world is full of people without mental disorders that will do the minimum to get by. This is just the tail end of the curve.

Everybody has problems, and most of us still get up and go to work. Since we're not going to deny services to the ones who don't we should require them to work if they're able.