skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Ordinary people certainly are the ones pushing for home ownership, for the simple reason that when homes are in a serious shortage

A) No, they're not.

B) Home ownership doesn't solve the shortage problem. Actually, it can exacerbate it because it gives landlords an opportunity to gouge you. Building more council housing might help, but is that on the table? No. Banks wouldn't want that. That's rental income that is not being diverted to their pockets.

>The government is buying electoral support with Help to Buy schemes and Right to Buy extensions;

This is just the most palatable way of giving help to the banks. If electoral support were what they were really after, they would build more homes to offset the shortage.

>the fact the banks also like it is incidental.

You misspelled 'central'.
And what is your explanation then? Please explain how existing data (eg. CMB) supports your theory.
Though not without its costs. The suicide rate at Caltech is disturbing (though I say this as someone who nearly lost a loved one to that).
It seems that the author loves Caltech, give how the table of four-year schools is sorted. It's sorted only by mid-career earnings, and not at all by occupational earnings power (or loan repayment rate). With secondary sorting by occupational earnings power, Clarkson University and MIT would be second and third, respectively, and very close. Just sayin'.
that just sent me down a rabbit hole. came back with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hVuv7mDNqM&feature=share
Bonjour frequently stops working for a wide variety of reasons related to the switch to discoveryd.
> fftw3 C

FFTW is C code, but nobody wrote the C code. The C code is generated by code written in OCaml.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFTW
When one company in the world makes pants that fit me (Bonobos), I call that useful if not technologically innovative. Though I admit that I may well be in the large-butted minority here, and the slick user experience of their conversion funnel + shipping pipeline is really just icing on the pants-fit cake.
Drier skins are tighter. This is before air conditioning and you could have lots of humid weather.
that's the dream but there are some companies which send out their pre-baked "weekend projects" after the initial hr screening and I'm talking about large corporations (the new york times for example) which isn't terrible at first but results in lots of trying to look up what practices the company in question follows and prefers and what they are actually looking for

personally I really need human feedback rather then 8 hours at my desk guessing and searching for what's being looked for

it's one of those situations where I see the value for the interviewer but as the applicant it's completely sucks especially when you have 4 sample projects to write at home while juggling phone interviews and you know having a life/job
Did not expect to have my mind blown this late on a Saturday night. Talk about an amazing example of "teach a man how to fish".
gzip's default is -6, but -9 gives better compression. If you can sort your data or otherwise organize it so that similar data is grouped together, it has a better chance of finding the redundancy. Some implementations get better compression than the GNU implementation. The best one I know of is from the 7zip project.

Other compression formats can give better ratios, if that's an option for your project. bzip2, xz, 7z.
Sure. I don't think any part of the link there claims that daydreaming or losing focus is an inherently bad thing. What they seem to be trying to do is teach you how to focus on command, like using a muscle. Daydreaming is often great. Having the ability to focus at will might be great too.
Most JavaScript developers have tiny computers.
The growing list of global VCs investing in MENA startups
"I took a drug and it had a nootropic effect" does not mean you had a brain disorder. What they give you to treat your "disorder" is amphetamines. Lots of people on Wall Street are enhancing their performance with cocaine. I'm sure this results in plenty of career progress - more energy, more confidence, etc. This does not mean they had a disorder beforehand.
Discussion on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/2vb2fa/no_big_bang...
People think it because (at least up until this research, which is in very early stages from the sounds of it) it was the model that most closely fit with observed data. Why would you say there "can't be" a beginning to the universe? If the big bang did indeed occur, it certainly doesn't mean our current universe is all there ever was or is. Nor does it provide evidence as to external intent or reason, or the lack thereof.

How you could so casually write off any possibility of the universe as we know it having a beginning baffles me.
Amongst STEM, I'd argue Caltech is a big name.
After several years in a test-driven development team, seeing your test directory made me cringe :/
JSON Response Test Between Flask and Django
How is that not what was asked? The phrasing of the question makes it immediately obvious, at least to me, that the OP was looking for a design critique. (Unless of course the question was edited since you wrote your initial comment.)
Because empirically it would not be. There is a great deal of mis-information about them from right leaning media that might create the contrary impression:

That they limit wages, but the screen actor's guild certainly doesn't cap actor's wages.

That they limit outside work, but for example, state employed court reporters do all their transcripts outside working hours and make quite a bit not being paid hourly for that.

Indeed they have protected pilot wages for decades beyond what would have been possible otherwise.

There is no case where an effective professional organization of some sort doesn't make things better for it members. To suppose that you as an individual will ever have any hope of negotiating on an equal basis with a multibillion dollar company because of "market forces" hand waving is utterly unreasonable and the poster child of limiting yourself due to ideology. Your one and only protection right now are few pieces of rapidly diminishing legislation.

For better or worse you live in a society where if you don't have a lobbyist you are invisible and where what is considered bribery in every other country (ie money in politics) is considered free speech. A lobbyist alone would work wonders let alone the other advantages of an organization.
> How typically atheistic, scientific minds could think there is a beginning to the universe baffles me.

Among other reasons, that is the predominant view of the scientific community, so it really shouldn't be that baffling to you why everyone else thinks so. (That is, they pay attention to the scientific community and not to people who believe that something must "inherently" be a certain way.)
Show HN: Turing machine simulator in C
> Most of the big HPC projects today are written in C++

My experience is limited to one single field, but all weather prediction models and climate models that I know of, are in Fortran. And I would count them as big HPC projects.
> Whether a person can become a good coder isn't determined by how he writes code, it's how he reacts to the feedback he gets.

Quoted for emphasis.

My first recursive postgresql function was crap. I recently learned that it became a DoS vector at 3 layers deep because I had horribly flawed logic. I spent an hour the other night refactoring it.

The cruelest feedback comes not from mortals, but from the harsh production environments which do not tell you what is wrong, but merely go offline.
So, you could ask: Would JavaScript make it if introduced today?
Yeah I know I need follow the best practices. I have started writing tests for the next update. But do you recommend TDD for iOS development?
Rose-Hulman (my alma mater) is in Terre Haute Indiana is rated high, with fairly low cost of living.

The General Tso's Index is currently $4.90
> How typically atheistic, scientific minds

I often find those atheistic wannabe scientific minds to be equally or more "religious" than many religious people. Proselytising? Check. Convinced of their own and their "scriptures" infallibility? Check. Etc
Accurate cardiovascular assessment: https://apps.evaliahealth.com/v2/b6075076-eac5-43db-b898-875...
Ask HN: Do you use JavaScript as Unix shell scripting language?
Script languages like Perl and Tcl can be embedded in shell scripts. On WinNT series I have used JScript (WHS) for years.

Do you use JavaScript as your Unix shell scripting language? Can you recommend it? Or do you prefer the sh/bash syntax for glue scripts?

On MDN (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Shells) I found e.g.
ShellJS (https://github.com/arturadib/shelljs).
Although it seems like a potentially useful tool, I am disappointed by the lack of information available on the main page. There is no reference to names of the languages that are available for studying, only a reference to the count.
> Yet Apple continues to produce beautiful devices that people buy for their dopamine hits. I wish Microsoft would seize the opportunity and make an OS X-like OS* that runs common productivity and creative apps so we could not be beholden to Apple, as I am for Mac.

Would you not class devices like Dell's XPS 13 (2015) [1], Microsoft's Surface 3 & Pro 3 [2][3], Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Carbon (3rd gen) [4] as beautiful?

Windows can also run many of the productivity and creative apps that are commonly found on Macs. Which apps do you use?

[1] http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-13-9343-laptop/pd

[2] https://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/products/surface-3

[3] https://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/products/surface-pro...

[4] http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x1-ca...
How long have you been coding total?

Was Design+Code your sole source for learning how to program?
> The police officers in the front of the wagon were taking selfie videos of the crazy race-car style driving and posting to Snapchat stories that they shared with each other and boasted about openly in front of us, laughing.

Mind blowing. The behavior part of the nation is completely up in arms about, they still see fit doing.
And KGB battled back with disinformation -- fake news stories such as "USA created AIDS":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_INFEKTION

I remember hearing it from relatives and friends growing up.
Not useful for obfuscation :( Just remove last ()
A $349 Apple Watch Only Costs $83.70 to Make: IHS
Not really. People are highly influenced in their choice of major by their peer group. Sending yourself (or your kid) someone where your (their) friends are going to be a bunch of mechanical engineers and CS majors is actually a fairly good career move.
For shits and giggles I tried to use the minified version of my open source library. After about 30 minutes of Chrome being frozen I gave up, lol. I was curious how large it would balloon 17kb of JavaScript.
Hello Facebook, Goodbye Privacy: FB's Rogue “Hello Android” App
Google to Hacker News: Not Mobile-Friendly
Ask HN: Do you still purchase physical books?
I ask this because I really enjoy reading content from a physical book. I can read ebooks perfectly fine and don't see a problem with them but I feel like I understand more when I have a physical book, which might be a bad thing depending on how you look at it.
It was on HN 2 years ago with some interesting comments: "JSFuck – Write any JavaScript with 6 Characters: []()!+": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6379732

One interesting question was about the "performance impact"? One reply was: "Vanilla I got 225k ops/sec. JSFuck, 4.5 ops/sec. So about 50000 times slower."
No I have been coding now for close to an year now. But this is my first project with Swift. I have also watched the video lectures of the iOS development course offered by Stanford on iTunes.
This might be the stereotype but I don't think it's true at Caltech these days. There hasn't been a single undergraduate suicide at Caltech in at least the last four years. Mental health resources have gotten much better (though they're certainly nowhere near perfect). We're still a much lower suicide rate than MIT, and a lower suicide rate than what my high school had.
Devil's advocate: I feel like TDD for iOS is a bit of a wasteland, and don't usually bother with it personally, unless there's some especially dense mission-critical business logic that I need to be 100% confident in.
R&D costs money too
Feels good to be too intelligent to be a Cop in the USA.
Have they fixed testing with Swift yet? I am normally a pretty test driven person, but honestly, Apple makes it pretty annoying to use tests with Swift, so I don't blame you for your lonely scaffold.

I'd say overall it looks pretty well written app code, especially if you say you're a beginner. One thing I'd like to point out is that in my (limited Swift) experience, stuff like this:

https://github.com/NikantVohra/HackerNewsClient-iOS/blob/mas...

...where you're force casting/unboxing/whateveritscalled a bunch of things is a smell. Sometimes it's unavoidable because of the weirdness between Cocoa and Swift, so typically your interface builder outlets will be riddled with that stuff, but for your own internal APIs, try and keep things as option-less as possible.

UI code is pretty challenging to keep organized, especially when platforms encourage using things like two-way bindings and keeping state all over the place. I'd recommend checking out Gary Bernhardt's talk "Boundaries" and Andy Matuschak's similar writings (sorry, can't think of anything off the top of my head), as they have some good ideas for demarcating the line between functional parts of your code that should be super clean and the anything goes world of external UI APIs.

Good luck and keep coding!
True.

German Wikipedia article translated to English: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr... (see the Etymology section)
Hn has no place for racists. Go somewhere else if you want to blame any racial group.
Earthrise photo (1968)
Well not quite. I myself have been subjected to brain teasers and puzzlers in technical interviews well within this 10 year window. But yes, I do believe the industry is moving away from the puzzler type interviews slowly... especially after Google publicly disavowed them recently. http://www.businessinsider.com/google-hiring-practices-inter...

I would also like to reiterate the cargo-culting part of my criticism and expand my rant a bit to point some fingers.

One of the worst things that happened is the pernicious belief (mostly popularized by Jeff Atwood in his blog[1]) based on an non-peer-reviewed, and later retracted study[2] that implied that programming ability is a genetic trait, instead of just a skill and a craft like any other. The same blogger is also responsible for popularizing the idea that most candidates for engineering jobs are charlatans trying their best to fool you into hiring them.

To be clear, I'm not implying that this one blogger is responsible for all the ills of the industry recruiting practices. But I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that the interview part of the process for engineering hires in the industry is far more adversarial than it needs to be and those with influential soapboxes who've brought us here have to accept some responsibility.

The state today is, that far from the adversarial process being a necessary evil, it's actually a point of pride for certain companies (some of which I've worked for in the past). One can only hope that these attitudes change over time like those about the brain-teasers.

[1] Here's Jeff's blog

http://blog.codinghorror.com/separating-programming-sheep-fr... published in 2006

[2] Here's the surprisingly detailed and personal retraction from the author of the original study... published last year.

http://retractionwatch.com/2014/07/18/the-camel-doesnt-have-...

I've heard countless people in the industry repeat this belief of a programming gene to me over the last few years. They may all not remember where they originally heard this but those who do invariably point to Jeff's blog rather than the original study itself. I can only hope that Jeff uses his platform to beat the drum of this retraction as loudly as he did for the original mistaken study.
Yes, 120KB uncompressed.
It is statically linked using the VS2013 toolchain.

I test it on WindowsXP and use it on my Window7 dev machine.
And yes, Powershell works as well.

If you use PSReadLine, note that it sets the console to grab mouse events (like Far Manager does for example), so hold the override key (<ctrl>) when selecting or use RevokeMouseInput.ps1 script mentioned here:

https://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/issues/detail?id=1...

see here as well

https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine/issues/197
Once we add Software/Maintenance/R&D/The Infrastructure/Brand + a healthy profit margin it makes all the sense in the world :)
If it's cheaper than ebook.
I'm really hoping that the next release is actually a "No New Features" release. The limitations in upgrading the hardware resources for stuff like iMac and the Macbooks are fine when you have a really efficient OS, but it's really horrible when you have a resource hog in terms of memory. I'm glad they addressed it in 10.10.3 but still, the only real option before that was getting a MacPro and there's no way I'm shelling out close to $4k for something that runs OSX smoothly again. In the end I had to ebay an old gen Mac Pro and upgrade that which really shouldn't be the case. There should be something in between an iMac and Mac Pro.
Wow, its amazing that you developed this. A healthy mixture of too much free time and being clever.
What is wrong with ambulance chasing though? If some drunk bastard smash into me I want to sue him - and that generally requires a lawyer.
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Don't get too excited about NASA's new Miracle Engine
That's good to hear. My ex-fiance was there 2008-12 and it was brutal those years. Took her years to recover.
I was really hoping for a really nerdy video explaining how to electroplate an Apple Watch. Just masking off and spray painting the phone was disappointing.
<quote>Those 20 women - mainly the wives of high-ranking military officers and at least one woman who worked in military intelligence - went on to transform the industry, which is now worth about $8bn (£5.2bn) and is dominated by Vietnamese Americans.</quote>

interesting, so the ones in power managed to get back to power, in a way.
Where is the startup helping me to decode my medical bills?
Flyte: Levitating Light
Indeed! That's why I'm still not used to Haskell. While I can do simple things with the language, the abstractions made by the popular libraries written in Haskell require me to understand a certain concept to use them properly.

However, while the feature complexity can be avoided at least in the standard libraries, I think that's a more general (possibly cultural) problem, considering a Rust developer will have to use any libraries other than the standard libraries at the end.

I believe that's why the Go designers are so wary of adding new features to the language. If there's a feature, library writers will use that feature. Nothing can prevent this.
Tesla’s Home Battery Is Built for a Solar Boom
> I've found the big bang crowd to be almost like a religion.

Have you talked to actual real cosmologists? I suspect you haven't. The big bang theory is our BEST MODEL for explaining the DATA.

How can you explain galactic evolution without positing that the universe was different (younger) many billions of years ago? We can see that the universe was different easily by the types of galaxies that were present.

We know the galaxy is expanding, this is a fact.

The distribution of hydrogen and helium are consistent with a big bang model of the universe.

We can observe clouds of matter which are distinctly different from matter present in active areas of space. These "leftover" remnants are additional evidence of the big bang.

How can you be amazed that cosmologists adapt a theory which can explain all of the above? Can your endless universe model do that? If it can please claim your nobel prize. I don't understand how you can be arrogant enough to make a claim such as yours with no evidence as if it's obvious.

> atheistic, scientific minds

Ah, now I understand why.
We have 60 Macs (Mac Pros, MacBook Pros, and MacBook Airs) purchased from 2011-2015. We see all the problems mrmondo mentioned except the iTunes one (we don't use iTunes).

The true deal breakers for us, though, is the terrible Wi-Fi performance. The Macs get spurious Wi-Fi failures; all Windows, Android, and iOS devices work fine on all our wireless networks.

As a result, about 45 of our Macs now run Windows 7 or 8. That means the users get a worse UI and not nearly so much functionality built in -- with the tradeoff being that the machines run predictably and reliably.

It seems everybody now has their "back in my day..." OS X version when things were stable; for me 10.7 was the last good version. All our problems started with 10.8, and things have been going downhill since then.
This seems like a very bad thing to do. Daydreaming may have a very important factor in how our brain deal with overwhelming amount of information. By interfering with it, you're more likely to mess up your ability to retain information and other things.

If you're that easily distracted, this device ain't going to help, you have a bigger problem than daydreaming. Gotta change the environment around you, not the brain's fault that you keep feeding it too much.
It's certainly a matrix if the other elements are 0. If they have no value then a hash-map or what not makes sense.
Instead of shocking people, why not dim some lenses in front of their eyes?
It's incredibly insulting to call the people who contributed to the big bang theory "atheistic wannabe scientific minds".
I'm a junior at Carleton, #2 on the list. It's interesting to see these rankings come out since I have been under the impression that our graduates don't enter STEM fields through normal channels. Until recently, our CS department didn't have very many majors, and many of the graduates majored in liberal arts areas. These folks found their way into big tech and financial companies or ended up starting their own businesses several years after graduation.

Talking to alumni, I've always heard this is because of the ability to learn how to communicate here, but I think the difficult course load contributes a lot to character throughout 4 years here. I'd be interested to hear how this compares to other institutions.

The additional stats on the Brookings.edu page [1] were interesting as well.

[1] http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports2/2015/04/29-beyond...
Possible unintended side-effect: `taskset -p` might have "interesting" effects on your process.
While that's part of it, the true for no accountability is no feedback mechanism usually present in the market. I can't just unsubscribe from the police department if I'm not satisfied with the quality of services I receive. I can only vote, once in n years. And this usually doesn't change anything anyway.

The only way to make police accountable is to make this a private service. Otherwise people are paying their own money for being harassed on a regular basis.
I like paper books more than e-books, but which one I read depends on the type
of content.

I prefer digital version for technical stuff, because it's often hard to get
hardcopied version (e.g. for documentation) and the content will most probably
expire in a year or two. The only technical books I buy in paper are those
that don't expire, like "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and
Computation" (Hopcroft, Ullman).

On the other hand, I read novels almost exclusively on paper.

It all boils down to this: I only have so much spare place to keep paper, so
I keep in paper only those that I will want to keep for ten years.