skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original name was Startup News.

Somewhere, I created a lobsters.rs account when it was first announced and before it was selective. At that time it was mostly the same stories as on HN with less conversation. I came to the conclusion that anything which broke there would wind up on HN anyway...I like the fixed-point of aggregators role that HN plays.

In fairness to HN, I don't think it is so much the startup culture per se that is driving the drift away from Lua, it's the hotness of computing and the quest for standardization...Google's list of how to become a software engineer is at the top of the page.

What I see with YC is that added features become seen as techniques...$200k worth of cloud computing credit becomes cloud computing is the solution to non-technical problems...it's like C++'s multiple inheritance - a feature looking for problems. Once the decision has been made to solve the problem with cloud computing then language choice becomes less open to aesthetic decisions. Indeed the whole business model becomes less so. The original JustinTV was about strapping a webcam to a person, thinking about cloud computing would have been an utter distraction from the basic concept. Redit was running Common Lisp on a laptop. If the cloud had been in the mix there would have been pressure to focus on infrastructure early rather than the design of the user experience. Spiking the site with fake users is consistent with the faking it implied by laptop hosting. Move it to the cloud and it seems a bit more fraudulent and less hackey.
Go to Sausalito and talk to some of the people who live on houseboats. I'll introduce you if you like.
Because it's not clear that you can actually type in $0 and if you do you are a "cheater". Right know it asks for money, before you even see what it is and what it does.
The message: You don't have to learn much to be a software engineer just master the discrete fields of object oriented programming, web development, ux design, artificial intelligence, building compilers, and cryptography.

If you master one of these fields, you'll be doing well. I agree on taking an intro to each of these, but only to figure out which one you want to specialize in later on and because it's nice to know something about other related fields. You won't master all of these in your career, so don't let the list intimidate you.
The whole thing about my life is that I don't factor anything. I live healthy and without plans, what I have now can be gone tomorrow.
In my belief system is included the belief that I'm never ill and that everything I need will always come my way exactly when I need it. This works for me as I'm indeed never ill and even while travelling/living completely without money for a while I managed to always find shelter, rides, food and love. I keep challenging my belief system and am never disappointed.

It may sound ridiculous to a lot of people, but for me it works and I take full responsibility. In case I get sick I will choose plant based medicine (tested and proven for millenia) anytime over modern medicine (which are a lot of times based on the same plants).

In any way, if I'm old and sick and would become dependent on expensive medicine, then I'd rather die and see if there is something on the other side or not.

(By the way, to anyone in general: I don't want to debate my life choices or beliefs, they are mine and no one can convince me otherwise, except experience itself. I will answer any question, but I'm not going to defend myself.)
Whatsapp is hugely popular in many places, just not here:

http://www.statista.com/statistics/291540/mobile-internet-us...
jQ is only used to generate enough divs that serve as input data. You can remove jQ and add the divs manually.
The Emerald Triangle: a year in the lives of California’s marijuana farmers
"control these OEM's?" it was Microsoft who created this mess. they were executing everybody's favorite business maxim, "commoditize your complements." Microsoft is the only company providing the operating system, which runs on an army of undifferentiated PCs, where the manufacturers can only compete on price. of COURSE they're reduced to shady behavior like this. they have no other way to make money, because Microsoft thinks all the profit in the entire ecosystem should be theirs.

if they try to "reign in the OEMs," then there will be no profit left at all for them. at that point, they might as well get into some other line of products altogether: netbooks, android phones, etc
Bug, and Microsemi/Symetricomm not going to fix: https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/attachments/2015050...
Perfection is one thing. But this is a page on their website trying to help them recruit for engineers? Shouldn't that have a bit of a higher standard?
The greatest enduring benefit of having studied and trained as a journalist is the experience gained as 'the gatekeeper' of information, and therefore the ability to interpret news more thoroughly. That, and the fact most news is depressing garbage as nutritional for your brain as sweetener is for your gut, is why I only skim the news these days.

Most journalists / writers are decent people aiming to communicate as much as they can, as clearly as they can, with overly tight time-frames and (less so online) limited news-holes.

They won't write "may be X" if they can write "is X" - therefore, "may be" (and related modifiers like could, perhaps, up to, close to etc) mean "not definitely" and are usually safe to ignore.

They won't paraphrase someone if they have a direct quote just as specific - therefore, any general comments have been created to attempt to fit what someone said into the narrative angle of the piece. They may be inaccurate (and few things frustrate me more than the outragists of the world turning a newspaper story into somebody's direct quotes).

If the headline / lede seems outrageously unfair and Occams Razor suggests there must be more to the story, then there will usually be additional information in paragraph 5 that makes the story less outrageous and more normal. Genuinely shocking stories (whistle-blowing, massacres, genocide) don't need to lead with the outrage. Genuine stories also stick around for days with new information or different angles - therefore it's safe to conclude outrageous headlines are burying the mundane facts and can be ignored, until they show up many days in a row.

Obviously these are generalizations, they don't account for truly terrible writing like the Daily Mail, gossip magazines, and current affairs television, and anyone who reads enough news with a critical eye probably comes to the same conclusions (ie, nothing special about me). What this awareness gives you of course is the ability to unwind a complex narrative out from a simple story.

So don't "Beware Simple Stories" - rather, develop your own expertise in interpreting them.
Show HN: Explore Brazil through 1 Billion+ visualizations
I believe it's not intended to be an actual product for very long. Its a stepping stone to get consumers to the point where they are making purchases in situ, via the Amazon Echo for example. It's a behavior grooming thing, a social test balloon.
It would not be a tragedy for me. Well-being of these people is more important than an imaginable entity named "company".
I love how declarative style makes the important part of the code practically trivial.

If anyone needs an example to show how functional style is more concise and expressive than procedural, this could be one.
Then assign the JVM less RAM and suffer worse performance -- it's often a simple tradeoff you can make when launching the app. It would still likely be faster than most other choices (certainly all other GCed environments).
A while back, I made something similar to the dashboard over here: http://news.http410.com/
Importance of Empathy in Customer Care at Ipsy
Outside of the US, not everyone has a phone capable of running iMessage or Hangouts. WhatsApp happily runs on feature-phones, because of network effects, many people who can run iMessage/Hangouts and WhatsApp
Because it is a practical skill and hifalutin schools prefer theory and arcana.
>where the manufacturers can only compete on price.

I find this hard to believe and seems to be an excuse for modifications like these (this excuse is quite common in Android). Quality of components, design, battery life/capacity, screen size/dpi, brand, reputation, support quality, etc mean a lot more to Jane Computerbuyer than a slew of Lenovo shit apps she has no idea how to use and probably never will.

>it was Microsoft who created this mess.

Actually it was the Department of Justice that created this mess.
While I don't doubt that Verizon will be able to convert some of those AOL subscribers to faster broadband service, I suspect a lot of them either can't upgrade, or won't upgrade. The dial-up subscribers are mostly a cash cow ($180/yr each, about 12 years to recoup the investment) and everyone is talking about them, but I wonder if there are other AOL properties that Verizon also values that can help justify the premium they paid.
Why a Growth Mindset Is Essential for Learning
I used to use AOL. Before broadband to the home, AOL had lots of modems and local access numbers. I traveled a fair bit and that was really useful, for my monthly alotment of 3 hours....
This was a while ago (AOL was giving away floppy disk before CDs.)

It was a walled garden, and since most people were on AOL, besides email there wasn't much outside communicating. Frankly at the time there wasn't nearly as much on the web. When AOL unleashed their users on the web it was a big deal.

AOL really got killed by broadband to the home, which they couldn't offer.

I hope that this doesn't turn into a onerous add push at Fios and DSL users. Verizon does some strange things like redirecting missed DNS hits to an ad page.
> If Philadelphia truly needs more cabs, then Uber can't be
> blamed for the collapse in medallion prices since it's
> clearly NOT filling a market need.

A medallion has traditionally been a long-term asset. The city sells it to you, and it's yours to keep and use, or sell along to someone else. With Uber/Lyft getting around the medallions by avoiding the need for literal street hailing, the long term prospects for medallions are much reduced. Even if we need more cabs right now, buyers may not be seeing much of a future in the market.
7/11 Remake -Best Ever
Direct sales are better because the incentives are different. A bullshitting salesman who doesn't care about the truth can still make a big pile of money because there are a lot of car buyers out there, and for every customer he screws over, a new victim will walk in the door who doesn't know him from Adam.

Further, people understand that car dealers are independent entities, and that car salesmen are relatively independent actors within them. So if you get screwed over buying a car, you'll think "I'm never going back to Bob the salesman again" which he couldn't care less about because you're probably not buying another car for years, and he has plenty of fresh meat to feast on. At worst you'll think "I'm never going back to Steve's Honest Honda Sales again" which is a bit of a hit to Steve (assuming you tell your friends) but not a big deal.

If you bought directly from Honda they have a much greater interest in making your experience a good one. They want you to come back to them for your next car in five or ten years. They want you to recommend Honda to your friends and family. Even if those friends and family are in another city or even another country, your recommendation directly affects Honda's bottom line.

This won't eliminate scumbaggery, obviously. But it's bound to improve things.
It's not worth it for your stated reason. But, I know of lots of people who did it so they could leverage that to a job in the US.
Lastofus, thanks for reaching out via email. I appreciate the dialogue that we've started via email and welcome further emails from anyone else :) Thanks, Zach
Go is only recently popular, so very few past successful candidates had Go experience, so recruiters wouldn't notice it.
TED sells tickets. Malcolm Gladwell sells books and appearances. They won't do that as well as they do now if they didn't embellish their stories with facts and points that the general masses relate to. On the bright side - Anything these people do to shift the attention of this generation from cars, hoes and money is a step closer to a somewhat brighter future for all of us.
Do you know about WebRTC and Webtorrent? You can do this even without a relay server. Just browser-to-browser.
I'm working on TrackHSA (http://trackhsa.com), a website to manage your Health Savings Account purchases, receipts, and distributions. Launching soon, if you have an HSA check it out.
The recording part is there as well, in particular https://github.com/Khan/live-editor/blob/master/js/ui/record...
These slides give a little high level overview of that: https://speakerdeck.com/pamelafox/teaching-programming-onlin... (slide 26)
I've paid for myself and my mother-in-law (you can pay for a contact's subscription)
I write JavaScript for a living, and I often forget if it's one word or two. It doesn't mean you don't know JS. And yes, we all know HTML isn't a programming language, but it's so essential to releasing software nowadays that it's almost a pointless distinction to separate it. One extra list item to point out that it's a markup language? That groaning sound you hear? It's every intro to programming deck having to laboriously expand by one slide for no good reason.
Do you have a source for this, or are you just guessing?

Samsung phones are popular in China from the mid-market to the high end, and I've never seen or heard of a fake Samsung. (Fake iPhones, yes.)
Doesn't git use hashes also? The old hash could redirect to the new "commit" hash, keeping the cycle and allowing for updates at the same time. One of those updates could be the page "changelog".
It makes sense to me that the government should own "the pipes", and then lease them to competing firms, as these are a vital communication infrastructure.
why did you not submit it then?
Does the advice of "just learn to use a few different languages and build a CRUD app that has a cloud hosted database" not hold true anymore?

A really good learning experience is having a crack at making the same app for both android and IOS (much frustration with objective c) For a newbie stuff like persistence storage, learning MVC, learning objective c, java, android and iOS, sqlite, and all the other stuff in between (Xcode is awful).

aAl of the other CS stuff is valid. Although i feel like you probably won't have the necessary buy in to learn algorithms and data structures well if you don't have a degree / GPA on the line.
3D Print Pills to Adjust Drug Release Rates
Really awesome story. I agree with you wholeheartedly that there is always value in building things!

There may or may not be value to other potential users or even to the employer though and these seem to be the only perspectives addressed by commenters.

If the company's resources could have been better spent elsewhere than that is the company's (and its stakeholders') problem. Please stop discouraging others from creating and sharing because you don't find the creation better or worthwhile right this instant.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD:

Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet"
Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn"
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr"
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin"
Ask HN: Can using OS X be simplified by removing the option to quit an app?
The current approach to starting and quitting apps is very confusing even to a computer scientist!

It's not clear at all when you should start/quit an app with respect to the subsequent impact on performance and usability.
In 2015, are there that many systems out there without a bash.
Congratulations to the Jython team! I do have one question though which I can't seem to find a recent answer for: How's the performance of Jython these days? Especially with the 2.7.0 release. The most recent answers I could find on Google were for 2.5 from a few years back which said it was about comparable with CPython. (if that's still the case, that's fine, I'm just curious about that as Jython could make a nice scripting language on top of a Java project and I'd like to be able to keep performance considerations in mind)
That's a bit of a one true Scotsman. #\L in "HTML" stands for Language. HTML is a declarative programming language. Programmers have voted with their keyboards and it is not to early to predict HTML's landslide victory.

The reason for it's success is declarative languages are great for data-compression. All the low level gore of reaching across the internet from one remote computer to another is reduced to a pair of <a> tags and a little text.
Just because it's illegal doesn't mean it has to stop.

The reality was it was pretty difficult to call it legal with a straight face even before this ruling on 4th amendment grounds (even if congress calls it legal, the constitution supercedes it).

For an authoritarian, the law is whatever they say it is.
Another good value company is PSB, they are made right here in Canada.
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I read your comment first, then I clicked through to see if they really suggesting "mastering" all of these fields (which is nigh impossible as you suggest.) They just say to "learn" them, and if by that they mean "take an intro-level college course on the topic" then I think it's pretty reasonable. It's my opinion that people should wait until after undergrad to specialize (in industry or academia.)
>"You're not allowed to know everything but you have to prevent everything"

These programs have been in place since at least the Clinton years, yet that didn't stop, say, 9/11. Nor did it stop the recent Boston bombers. Cases we do see stopped are often by lone nutters "buying" terror materials from law enforcement agents posing as terrorits. Kudos for catching these guys, but they are completely unsophisticated enemies. The sophisticated ones don't go on AOL chat asking for plastic explosives.

There are probably practical limits with SIGINT domestically. I think the argument that stopping crime is just like detecting a hacker on your network is fairly weak sauce. Our prevention outcomes will probably be the same if we started cutting these programs.
For those that prefer the PDF since instapaper only grabs the first chapter: http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.pdf
Somebody needs to disrupt the Ubuntu deployment.
Instasoap can't kill each other, tho.
FiftyThree Releases Think Kit – Autotune for Drawing
I tried this last week, but I canceled the install because the mini.iso didn't have NIC drivers for what I was installing it on. I decided to use the official Xubuntu image instead. (I didn't see/remember the community core images.) My hope is the proper images will have the same driver set as the official ones.
Because you have guys CEOs like Elon Musk or Steve Jobs that think it's okay to publicly flagellate their employees for missing work to witness the birth of their child.

And unfortunately those brilliant, but cruel, geniuses have inspired an entire segment of unskilled managers and bosses who now think that by cargo-culting dickheadedness they can rise to the top.

The rest of the country can't wait for the bubble to pop in Silicon Valley so we can stop hero-worshipping assholes...
I don't see much about scientific computing, such as the topics covered in the Numerical Recipes books, many of which are relevant to data scientists.
The agent was begging the warrant!
This seems mostly fine, a robust undergraduate education should cover most of those bases.
I once owned a townhouse in South Florida. Here are the sale prices over time:
1999 (built): 99,000
2001: 140,000
2005: 309,000
2010 230,000

I drove by it recently, and can say that the square footage hasn't changed. Don't take anecdote for data, only illustration, but my scenario was repeated hundreds of thousands of times in South Florida alone. (Some) houses are getting bigger, but that doesn't explain house prices.
Your Gut Bacteria Don’t Like Junk Food – Even If You Do – IFLScience
My sister has three children, zero cars and some (OK, about ten) bicycles, including a cargo bike and a couple of trailers. They live in Edinburgh, which has a fair to medium public transport network, and manages to survive. I've travelled around with them and the kids and it really isn't a big deal, including long-distance journeys involving trains. One thing that does require a car is getting to out-of-the-way locations, we had to rely on relatives with vehicles for a trip out to the Museum of Flight, about 20 miles away and not at all accessible by public transport. We could probably have used the 'City Car Club' (similar to 'ZipCar') for that, if really necessary, although with children you then need to provide appropriate car seats, which is a hassle.

Anyway, for day-to-day travel and commuting, even with children, cars are not required in a medium sized city like Edinburgh.

One interesting (albeit off-topic) point she and her husband made to me was that having kids in push-chairs/buggies suddenly makes you appreciate the issues that disabled people in wheelchairs must have all the time for access to buildings.
This somehow crashed my system (caused a black screen). Firefox on linux. Beware.
I once implemented a crude but serverless P2P in JavaScript by using pulse-width-modulating information inside bandwidth usage; anyone on the same Wi-Fi frequency would then be able to stream some arbitrary fixed-bitrate content and observe the drops in their bandwidth throughput to pick up the modulated information. But it was hellishly slow (a couple of bytes a second at best, a couple of bits at worst), and didn't work as soon as there were 3 devices on the frequency.

Would be interested to explore other ways to make pure-JS mesh networking happen. I've thought of using the JavaScript image pinging trick to "port scan" the entire subnet for peers, and communicate by "mildly DDoSing" each other with pings, but haven't actually tried yet.

Another potential method to pure-JS P2P is by using the microphone and speaker and building a mesh network at inaudible frequencies but this requires microphone permissions and won't work beyond the same room, and would be only several hundred bytes per second at best.
Price discovery for directly sold cars would work as it does in any other industry, through competition. If Brand X sells a car for $PRICE while Brand Y sells a basically identical car for $PRICE * 0.75, that discrepancy won't last long.

And really, that's how it works now, it's just more difficult. "Invoice" price is a lie that the car manufacturers and dealers collaborate on to screw you. It does not reflect the actual cost to the dealer in any way. The only reason that number exists is to make you feel like you got such a good deal that you fleeced the dealer, while they laugh all the way to the bank.
More like a story of someone that applied for a job that asks for Javascript skills without knowing Javascript and then blamed the company, and made a blog post/rant about it, because they hired someone else that probably fits that particular position better.
BTW i loved your honest CV.
No exaggerating.
This might be a reasonable argument if there was any direct evidence that all of the billions spent on "collecting it all" had lead to the actual discovery of any plots that would not have been found by other means. But, as with "enhanced interrogation", I am not aware of any credible evidence to that effect, despite the incredible incentive for the government to manufacture some. We knew about the 9/11 attackers before their attack, but failed to put that information to good use.

Trying to know everything does not work. Targeted, traditional police investigation works. Money diverted from the latter to the former is wasted and reduces safety.
Each product has its own button
Dropbox deprecates, Couchbase replicates ;) I made a screencast on switching from the Datastore API to Couchbase Mobile https://www.youtube.com/embed/3es1zpx6vPY?vq=hd720