skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Report early, report often" sounds extremely creepy and intrusive to me. I realize my culture is fully embracing the police state all around me, and I try not to play the Orwell card too often, but how can it not seem eerily Orwellian to suggest that parents should be reported early and often? What's next, CPS monitors in the home?
I think both sides are right. On the one hand, we actually are safer. But on the other hand, our tolerance to risk is way down.

And one of the main reasons we are safer is because we behave more safely. By doing things like keeping children close to adults who can supervise them.
We are at a point in time where the movie Gamer (2009) is approaching reality
Thanks a lot. To be honest, I've already went through the "change" described in the article, but the article helped me see the better picture. I now have a reasonable social life and a happy relationship with my girlfriend. Thanks a bunch for your comment and advice, have a nice day!
This makes no sense. The examples he gives of "double-clicks everywhere" are all instances of the same thing: items that are selected with single-click and opened with double-click.

We're not "trained to double-click anything", unless some particular trainer is extremely misguided.

Double-clicking is used when there is some action available for an item in addition to the single-click action, where the double-click usually leads to both actions taking place: we single-click to select files and double-click to open them, single-click the title bar to activate the window and double-click to maximize, single-click the window menu to view the menu and double-click to close the window (which is one of the options in the menu).

Some examples of things we only single-click: buttons, scrollbars, tabs, menus, dropdowns, text (for selection).

Single-click is everywhere. Everything that can be double-clicked can also be single-clicked. Single-click is the default. If a single-click only leads to an item beings selected, that's a pretty good hint to try double-click if you also wanted it to be opened.

(Incidentally, what do those who double-click everything do when they want to select a file? Do they just open it, close it again (leaving it selected) and accept that as normal?)
Can anyone predict how this will affect Windows Phone?
Thanks! Interesting concept.
Thanks:) That was my intention when building it, empower the user considerably but maintain a minimal learning curve.
Now if someone can just figure out how to get this "watch" app off my iPhone.
TY:)
I agree about marriage, but if you want the experience of dating around, for shorter, medium term relationships, you really have little choice but to hunt as a 'lone wolf.' (You don't want to end up on dates with girls who have 'husband' on the back of their minds, which is often what the settled down social circle delivers... and anyways it can be more rewarding to 'win' someone on your own instead of having them 'delivered' to you.). So seems a little dramatic to say there's only isolation since less committed romantic involvements can be fulfilling too, and some would even argue (thinking "Sex at Dawn" author/ TED talk) that it's what your biology craves.
Does anyone know if preinstalled app are limited in Europe?
As will TLS 1.3, starting from page 3: http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/92/slides/slides-92-tls-3.pd...
I frequently babysat my six year old twin brothers when I was eight.

You should seriously consider the possibility that you are the victim of media sensationalism. The world is safer for children today than it ever has been. Children do not need round-the-clock adult supervision.
Could this be used to collaborate on WordPress Core? I'm interested in start doing that but the setup process (installing VVV, Vagrant, VirtualBox, etc.) is a little cumbersome.
I feel like having internet utility services doesn't undermine net neutrality, so long as the utility provider isn't profiting. So free Facebook 'internet' feels kinda scummy, but in the case of free access to a large amount of news sources it doesn't have the same scummy feel. (just to allow a more informed public)
Well, other than the lack of Gnu in Android.
I feel the headline is quite exaggerated.

It is interesting news. We heard a while ago that Microsoft was investing in Cyanogen, and it turns out that this isn't just a financial relationship. They are also going to have the Microsoft set of apps as an option on Cyanogen.

Still, this isn't "taking Android's future out of Google's hand." The Android code is and has been open source, which is what enables things like Cyanogen to exist, so there is nothing new there.

All that we learned of here is of an option to bundle Microsoft apps on Cyanogen; that might interest some vendors, but it doesn't seem like a game changer. Other apps have been bundled on various non-Google Android devices in the past.
> WITH THE ANNOUNCEMENT that Microsoft would partner with the truly open-source, Android-based Cyanogen OS

...

> A more open Android is on the rise, and Microsoft just provided a powerful updraft.

How it is more open or truly open source when both of them rely on proprietary apps and services?
The title seems a bit hyperbolic. Google still controls the "real" Android; without the Google Apps, Android is missing quite a bit[1]. Sure, bundling OneDrive might help Microsoft take a few users from Google drive, but I would hardly characterize it as taking over Android's future.

[1]: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-...
There used to be much better feedback with the "throbber", i.e. the big animated Mosaic/Netscape/Mozilla logo. But that seems to have gone away with the decrease in size of the toolbar buttons.
The article says there are no plans for Microsoft hardware with Cyanogen on it.

I imagine Microsoft will continue as it has been with Windows Phone. This is just a way to use the Microsoft apps across both Windows Phone and Cyanogen devices that want those apps. There is benefit to Microsoft from growing that ecosystem, so that switching between Android devices and Windows Phones is less jarring.
This article's title is terrible, but just to make clear what confused many in the Ars Technica comment section, Cyanogen Inc is partnering with Microsoft, which is a totally separate effort from CyanogenMod (except that Cyanogen Inc is trying to commercialize it).

CyanogenMod meanwhile has announced that things are going to continue as normal, with no Microsoft apps to be found:

> We are not bundling or pre-installing Microsoft (or any Cyanogen OS exclusive partner apps) into CyanogenMod[1]

[1] http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/microsoft-and-cm12-1-nightli...
Yeah, except crime and injury statistics completely destroys your hogwash armchair musings. Everyone, including children, are much safer now then 30 years ago.

If people want to talk about safety, driving a car is one of the more dangerous activities, certainly more dangerous than walking.
and how is this different than with Nokia X?..wrong title..overblown hypebole
You don't need to jettison print-as-a-function in order to have print-as-a-statement.

>>> print "hello"
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'

If it can print a SyntaxError explaining the problem then it can print "hello".

The only snag is that a tuple would be printed slightly differently, but that is harmless.

People should be upset that a new release of Python breaks their code, because the Python developers acted unprofessionally in expecting all python code in existence to be rewritten to suit their aesthetic fetishes.
Although I wonder if some Microsoft office products appears into Android phones, will that make Android more appealing for enterprise customers.
Obviously, I agree in principle with this, but I would write a cautionary counter-argument:

If you are making agreements and signing contracts without understanding the legal default position, you are doing so from an exceptionally poor negotiating position.

People who do sign contracts should equally be prepared for possible conflict and litigation, and act to mitigate this with good communication skills and an honest commitment to the agreement (and by knowing basic IP principles). Nothing is ever 100% clear upfront; no contract can account for every contingency: no contract can be exhaustive.
I definitely could have cared for myself for three weeks when I was eleven. Maybe many 11yo kids can't, but that's a function of what they haven't been taught, not age.
Microsoft products are already on Android
> The hiring process is profoundly broken.

That's certainly true, and we agree on that. More, you make good and valid points.

Having said that, there is more that candidates can do. They can find out what the company does, for a start. Then if the ad says what skills are required, state clearly that you have the skill and provide evidence.

Those two things along will put you ahead of 90% of other applicants.

"I work well in groups, but also work well alone." - you and every other applicant will claim that. Provide evidence.

Leonardo didn't have a detailed job description to work from, he put in some thought about what his potential employer would want, and then demonstrated that he could provide it.

> we're a leading-edge company working on
> bringing killer robots to the masses!

Then you'll need control systems, real-time software, image analysis, goal-oriented planning systems, etc. Do you have those skills? Say so and provide evidence. You won't know exactly what frameworks they use, but you can demonstrate the ability to move between frameworks taking with you your underlying design and problem solving skills.

I agree entirely that the hiring process is broken, but you can get well ahead by being different and relevant. And if your application doesn't get past the HR wonks, is it really somewhere you want to work?
I'm not sure if I would be good enough host. And even if someday I'm brave enough to assume I am, I'm afraid I would be hosting meetup with myself in Riga, Latvia.
There's tag `label` made for connecting text and input elements. And any correct form should use labels and it'll work in any browser just as you described: click on text label will trigger input activation (toggle checkbox or focus text input).
AOSP is still in Google's hands, and most major companies which ship Android devices are contractually forbidden from using derivatives as part of their membership in the OHA.

It is evident that Microsoft wants to propel CyanogenMod in a more competitive direction for their own benefit, but it is far too early for any conclusion to be drawn here.
A bad a precedent (government sidestepping obtaining a warrant by just shutting down utilities and posing as repairmen) was shot down by a district court despite the magistrate judge suggesting that it didn't violate the 4th amendment because the defendant was not coerced/put under duress into consent. The district judge thought otherwise.
Forgetting the predictions for a moment (I think it is unfortunate and belies the book's real value that this is what everyone is focusing on), Stand on Zanzibar is great SF novel and is still worth reading IMO.
Good. Children today are insanely over supervised. You can't individuate in the presence of an authority figure.
Learn Lisp sooner.
I suspect it won't. MSofties are just hedging their bets. Considering they now have a full mobile stack in-house (from hardware to OS to services), they would be crazy to throw away its centerpiece just like that; but what they really care about is their cloud/services strategy, so they have to make sure device-agnostic ubiquitousness is in place anyway.
Ironical satire news site raises $100 million to disrupt the satire industry.
I think Leo is overselling his chariots a little bit. Looks like resume padding never goes out of style.

I like how at the very end he says as almost an aside, "I'm pretty good at this art stuff too if think you'd need some of that?"
Amazon tried the same thing and has been at best marginally successful, and they went to the trouble of building an appstore and ecosystem around these services.

Just offering Microsoft versions of Google Play Services functionality (maps, games, locations, billing, sync, messaging, etc) only gets you in the door. To actually be successful, you need to make all the apps peolple want work with your services rather than Google's. That's why this isn't scaring Google one bit.

Ars Technica went into a fair bit of detail about this a couple years ago.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/09/balky-carriers-and-sl...

Now if Microsoft came in and decided to fork Android similarly to Amazon, and put their full weight behind it, with their own appstore and such, now _that_ might scare Google. But that's not what they're doing.
Is it just me or is the text size on that RFC a lot larger than on others?
This would be a good way to mount an ergodox.
In today's world The Goonies would never happen!
MS really needs to allow Android emulation on Windows Phone. It's just too painful because so many apps don't exist or have shitty WP hacks only. Controlling a speaker? Playing Go on various servers? Sending secure messages (TextSecure/Signal)? I've no high performance needs, but WP simply lacks the apps I need.

Also, their store is a disgrace of crap, shovelwear and outright scams. They even had a fake Windows 8.1 Update pass their "approval" process. Even when I find a non scam, the quality is usually poor.
Agreed, kudos.
The question at the end wasn't there, when I wrote comment. The default postgresql config is rather conservative. It is more an open source Oracle with many of its (former) unique features. PL/pgSQL resembles Oracle's PL/SQL procedural language. [1]

Most people simply don't understand MySQL. MySQL is unique in as it support many database engines [4], it's like a common SQL layer on top of dozens of database engines. MySQL had a bad reputation because of its old MyISAM engine [2], the former default engine (one of many). The current default database engine is InnoDB [3] which is very fast and is what Facebook and many other huge web sites use.

Instead of repeating myself and others, MySQL+memcached is quite popular, check out the highscalability website [5].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL , http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12622524/postgresql-9-2-1... , http://stackoverflow.com/questions/110927/would-you-recommen... , etc.

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

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InnoDB

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_MySQL_database_en...

[5] https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=site:highscalability.co...
I am wondering other items like integration to Github or how to deployment to a wordpress site etc. I can't see these items on their landing page. Any ideas?
The first reaction a parent should have to "I might leave my child at home for a few hours" absolutely should be "is it safe?"

CPS is not there for parents who know how to assess risk. They exist for parents who by definition are bad parents. Those parents need simplistic advice, with the threat of legal action. The fact that CPS overstepped their bounds in a few cases is bad, and needs to stop, but it doesn't change the fact that the advice needs to be clear and simple.

And government totally should be trying to influence parents. I guarantee that their are some kind loving parents reading HN right now who do not have working tested fitted smoke detectors. Government here should be playing persuasive adverts; subsidising the costs of smoke detectors; providing assistance to fit those detectors; regulating the manufacture of detectors so we know they work.

The thing that has annoyed me about the discussions of these cases is that people are only talking about the disruption to this family's life. The real outrage is CPS wasting time on non abusive parents when so many children are raped and murdered. An estimate 1600 children died as a rssult of abuse or neglect from a primary care giver in 2012; that doesn't count murders by other family members.

I fully stand by my comment that the home is a dangerous place for children. Home is where children are murdered by family members; physically, sexually or emotionally abused by family members (and siblings are the greatest risk of being the abuser); most accidents happen in the home. Children can't get jobs; can't vote; are not held criminally responsible for their actions[1] -- so parents should be thinking carefully before they leave children alone in the house.
It's neither (in modern terms).

A cover letter should address a specific vacancy and explain the relevancy of the candidate to this particular job at this company.
As of version 8 PhpStorm offers that, along with a bunch of other nice stuff for WP development. More details here: https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/PhpStorm/WordPress+...
That doesn't sound very efficient. OP, what is the rationale behind this?
One reason not to use plain text is that you usually need to manually add newlines inside a paragraph. This makes me furious when I have to edit something.
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I'm guessing you are mentioning these points:

- Don't listen to that school counselor; never EVER go to public school

She told me and my family to opt for public school in high school but quality of education was[0] very low and I was already making money as a software developer at that time. Private schools have access; better network for the future and most of them have excellent education.

- Care less about grades more about work

Again, I was in a shitty school that gave me nothing. Working towards a better career would be better choice.

- Leave your parents' house before 18

This is a personal opinion. It was clear that I was going to move to a different city but I've never had to do any chores at home. So, my first year, I failed at some basic tasks in the house since I had no experience. If I was living in a separate house before moving to a different city; somewhere close to my parents, it would've been better.

[0] still very low.

I need to point out that all of these opinions are rare in my country. Combination of a rich family, love for technology, hunger for knowledge and luck is the reason why my opinions are like this.
How much GNU is in the Android toolchain? They're still using GCC to build the kernel at least, right?
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Does this plays nice with a modern wordpress stack like bedrock or any 12factor wp?

https://github.com/roots/bedrock
What about the grizzly bears that could hurt the children?

Springfield has the solution to this issue, the Bear Patrol. There hasn't been a single attack from a grizzly bear whilst the B-2s were over the area. The parents of Silver Spring, MD are expecting the Maryland Air National Guard to acquire the aircraft, wih a cost of $2.1Bn each.

In all seriousness, DC Metro is some of the most patrolled airspace in the country. Several agencies fly helicopter patrols around Silver Spring.

[0] https://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lat1d3Zmf91qzdsi5o1_1280....
Nah, there are lots of people in the Baltics who would be happy to have a cup of tea and talk about life - I was just thinking about hosting in Klaipeda
Wow.

Thanks for pointing that out.
Google has (very effectively) played the "oh noes, it's all machine learning" card. But machine learning is nothing more than codified human judgement (yes, I get that for example the conditional expectation minimizes the expected squared error, but who picked the expected squared error to minimize?) The point is, they wish the ranking algorithm to be seen as some divine choice and hence not subject to criticism rather than a mathematical extension of human choices.

So has google put a finger on the scale to rank google properties more highly? Based on their behavior with the results page (vs yelp, for example), I would be surprised if they do, but not very surprised.

Nonetheless, now that google search results are the internet for many people -- and chrome's address bar is used to help blur that distinction -- it's fair that people outside google, represented by governments, start having a say in who shows up and where. That's what happens when you're a monopoly.

It is slightly ironic that bing is the best thing that's happened to google in a decade. Where it not for Balmer deciding to play search engine, google would be known to be a 95+% monopoly in the US as well. Bing allows them to pretend they aren't (though on my blog, for example, 99.28% of ~7k search referral visitors comes from google.)
I got in to CMU for my Masters. Mustered up the guts to quit my job and do it full time. Because I wasn't a citizen (or PR) back then, I didn't get any aid and had no savings at all. I got myself five credit cards and paid my fees with that and then managed to do balance transfers between them and maintained a low interest rate (< 4%) and paid it all within 3 years.

I mentioned this as my "hack" in one of my YC applications and the few who reviewed my app (prior to formal application) all said, "oh this is a known trick. it has been used before". Anyways, I am still happy and proud that took the plunge, did my masters and I am better for it.
I got the same problem (login: bernat). Running on plain Ubuntu 14.04. I have also tried to unlink the agent to relink them, but "Link new" button gives the landing page where we choose the free/non-free version. So now, I don't have any server instance...

Also, I didn't log with GitHub because I didn't want to give write access to anything. You should give the option to only request the email address.
Cross-platform software packaging with pkgsrc
There's a twitter account to let us know if it ever goes away: https://twitter.com/spacejamcheck
mostly anon user base + limited space to communicate = flaming
How about Google Calendar or similar? When I freelanced I used a combination of Google Calendar for domain and cert expiration/renewal dates and used Quickbooks to remind me when those dates were as well for billing purposes. I had a separate calendar within my calendar just for these dates and would have Google email me with what was due that day and week. You could even tie Quickbooks in to automatically invoice your customers on said date to take the hassle out for you.