skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a student, I've gotten laughed at for having a prepaid (and cheap) cell phone. Saves me several hundred a year, easily.

Ditto: I don't drink, and I don't have a car. And I still struggle.

Don't know how some students do it.
Well in particular it cost money due to false positives.
Does the Apple Watch really need a killer app to succeed?
Is the Google Phantom algorithm update real?
Namely that one of those is a security expert whose cash is far more difficult to steal than someone whose funds are sitting in a bank account?

I'm sure Szabo will be fine.
Yes, d3 uses CSS3 selections

https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Selections
How about just using www.proofofexistence.com? Of course you might have expected the real Satoshi to have done this before the site came up.
You are being too kind, generally it best to throw it away and start from scratch again.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted for this. The fact is that individuals act in ways so as to maximize their allocation and use of resources within a particular set of social mores is not new. The fact that social mores change over time to reflect resource abundance, mate availability, technology, life expectancy etc... is also not new.

Times they are a changin', always have been, always will.
Do you have any data that shows that trend? I frequently see threads where people complain about how blatant the effect is and how hard they're being brigaded, usually with 300+ karma
Agreed on all the of above.

However, when the going rate for daycare in NYC is $3K/month per child, you need to make an extra $50K/year (pre-tax) to just cover that (if you were to maintain your pre-kids lifestyle). Then there are other expenses. Point it, kids aren't free.

That's where you need to start making choices (less eating out, etc.)
Yes you can. Both libraries are based on document.querySelectorAll which has the same selectors as you know them from CSS.
A safe space for you, if we are at odds, is an unsafe space for me.

Only if you are determined to be at odds. It's quite possible for an atheist and a die-hard Christian to get dinner together, if they both commit to focusing on the topics they share rather than the ones they disagree on.

Safe space is just code for coddling the first person to claim offense.

seems like a willful misrepresentation of the aims behind the concept.
"No one buys game currencies to hold. They buy them to spend."

Ironically, this means that the game currencies are much closer to functioning as an actual currency than bitcoin.
Sure it is.

I believe it is better to elevate good posts/posts that I like, than silencing bad posts/posts that I dislike.

I think there should only be UPvotes.
Ok, here's the thing. Indian developers are not overrated. The developers that you are trying to hire might be overrated. Very good developers in India mostly work for big product companies or startups. Most good developers do not freelance. And coming to technology consulting companies like TCS, Infosys etc.., hire a lot of new college grads at cheap salaries who have no clue about the work and make them slog.

So, if you want good freelance developers it might be difficult to find good one in India. But, if you are a startup that gained some traction in the US or elsewhere and want to start an office in India, you'll find good developers if you pay well.
I have done both. The devil is in the details, they can meet some guidelines but wiggle out of others. As stated it becomes a game. As such it is imperative that you spend a lot of time coming up with the metrics you will use to determine quality. Be VERY wary of anything that has lines of code in it

Overall it has been my experience that you pay multiple offshore resources to get the output of 1 onshore resource. If you bring them from offshore to onshore their productivity does go up some. The caveat to that is they do have really good QA teams and I wouldn't hesitate to leverage them in that role.
Uhh, I'm not sure that this article is useful.

Plenty of the "men who don't work" are simply unemployed but are not counted on the unemployment numbers because they've been unemployed for a long time. This population isn't depicted in the article, which looks like a major oversight.

The only reason that there was a "rise of men who don't work" is that there was an economic collapse which we haven't recovered from, and possibly won't ever recover from by the pre-crash definitions of recovery.
That is a concern for me, but I don't know if that is widespread (enough for people to not start a family over it) but I am concerned that it is one of those memes that could hit a tresshold and spread very rapidly, (don't date robots comes to mind). That said my treckrecord of predicting the future isn't very good.
For the lazy -

https://github.com/thezbyg/gpick

http://www.gpick.org/
In my experience, a typical person under median income has never owned a pet or an iPhone or had cable or gym membership, or they have already cut those things, just to keep afloat.

It's poor form for a rich person to say "just stop doing [luxury that I consider a social norm]" when a person on median income most probably doesn't do [luxury] to begin with.

You are really saying that poor people are not welcome to those things: cheap entertainment is not for them; the comfort of a pet is not for them; access to communication is not for them. Not having fair access to those things keeps people in poverty.

I would point out that owning a pet, in particular, has major health benefits for the owner - the benefit of owning a pet may easily outweigh the cost.
They certainly do teach Russian. I went through the Russian summer program myself in the early 2000s.

http://www.middlebury.edu/ls/

http://www.miis.edu/academics/language/programs/summer

An immersion program like Middlebury has huge advantages over just moving to Russia for a month. Off the top of my head:

In Russia, everyone with any English will talk to you in English. People want to practice their English - or just communicate more efficiently - more than they want to help you practice your Russian.

In Russia, the people you meet often have no interest in conversing with someone who speaks Russian poorly. (Russians make great friends, but they're not the outwardly warmest people to strangers.)

In Russia, when you do find someone to speak with, that person won't be speaking at your level - they'll be speaking fluent Russian, and quickly.

There's language schools in Russia, but it's unlikely that you'll find one with as good teachers, and the curriculum won't be as intensive.

Living in an unfamiliar country where you don't speak the language can be stressful like you wouldn't believe - it's not the same thing as tourism. Language learning while dealing with all that crap is way harder than language learning while living like a pampered college student in a pleasant little Vermont town.
HTTP over SCTP give you more than what HTTP2 does. I just wish Google would have made SPDY only work over SCTP as a measure to push for widespread adoption. Imagine finally having a seamless connection for every application on mobile devices where it would switch from wifi to 4G without any serious latency or dropped connections.
Complete BS. I've known many men who have sole or primary custody of their children including my sister in law's former husband. I also grew up with some kids who lived with the dads most of the time. This meme has to end because it isn't true. Sure, maybe most of the time the woman gets it but always is a complete lie.
There is no way around it; kids ARE expensive. The bulk cost of raising kids is not all of the unnecessary things, even with all of the crap kids have today compared to prior generations, that is all incidental costs.

The real costs of kids are the necessities. Child care, clothing, food, medical & dental expenses.

I live in the midwest and send/sent my children to a daycare that is extremely price conscious even for this area. It cost me over $7000 per year per child. So when I had 3 kids in day care at the same time; I was paying $21,000 a year just for daycare. For some people that is not sustainable; it is as much or more than they earn.
How well does the team know the domain in which the project rests? If it's a well trod domain, going to a new language (Scala) would do well to keep interest high, while not getting bogged down in the challenges of solving a known problem.

If, however, the problem domain is relatively unknown, I would recommend Java8, so you and your team aren't fighting two unknowns at the same time.
First point is very valid and one I hadn't considered

Second is the one I was arguing against. I certainly don't doubt they did sincerely feel a lot of upset. I suppose I still think it shouldn't matter. It would in that regard have been better had they just never found out.
why is it smooth and speedy?

wouldn't the 3d extraction + reconstruction for smoothness alone be super cool?

edit: Or do they need so much redundancy and variety in the images that they need to have an "oversampled" source?
Doesn't matter. Manager has saved costs on the project and looks good for it. They move on while a new manager handles the support/maintenance issues and the higher ups just become convinced that support/maintenance just happens to cost a whole lot of money.
United Airlines bug bounty program, you could get some free miles
Reddit is a propaganda site and has been for a while now. Many years ago, it was predominantly run by the users ( commenting and voting ). Now it's just a tool for admins and mods to push their agenda/views.

They might as well get rid of the voting system. Reddit is a joke and the sooner it goes away the better.
Out of curiosity, to which parochial center of the Universe are you referring to by "here"?
Historically animals like deer kept meadows open.
I am an Indian developer and I feel that you're onto something there. This needs more discussion.

For eg: An executive an HCL , a leading Indian outsourcing firm called American developers "unemployable" :

>> He says students from countries like India, China, and Brazil are more willing to put the effort into "boring" details of tech process and methodology, such as ITIL, Six Sigma, etc.

http://www.dailytech.com/CEO+of+Microsofts+Indian+Partner+Co...

So basically , American devs want challenging work and technical growth , while Indian devs are happy to even have a job.
That is still a huge risk though. I mean fair enough if the guy is abusive but if she simply runs of and finds somebody else that is not something I want to risk my children over.

And I have seen too many people at work struggling with ugly divorces.
Which was exactly my point. :)

You'd have to basically be homeless to save enough to be able to retire very early on a modest income such as $30,000.
HA! That is one of the poorer hack job photoshops I have seen. The faux shadow behind Jimi's hair is a dead giveaway
Software can be changed.
A Virtual Database Between MongoDB, ElasticSearch, and MarkLogic
It couldn't have anything to do with women risking their lives for 9 months carrying the child to birth in their bellies? Or that they tend to breastfeed their children for months after birth, which men simply can not do?
I guess I could make a comment about the apparent blending of stoicism and mindfulness. But right now I want to give a critique on the site itself - or be a grump, depending on how you view it.

1. The sign-up says that I should enter my email twice. No big deal, but what's really the point? I've heard that this practice is cargo cult programming; is that correct?

2. This password requirement:

> The password must have at least 8 characters, at least 1 digit(s), at least 1 lower case letter(s), at least 1 upper case letter(s), at least 1 non-alphanumeric character(s)

Is a pain. in. the. ass.
A single blow of a hammer to the head may cause a cracked skull and/or massive hemorrhaging. It could be instantly lethal, or cause death even after medical attention is given. Even with survival, there's a distinct risk of later disabilities - mental or motoric.

In this particular ambush, the only right thing is to shoot the assailant. If some cops could handle this situation without their firearm (and they were confident enough this wouldn't risk their partner's life or health), then that would surely be the exception rather than the rule.
> Given Reddit's already unequal application of the site rules (some people can shamelessly vote manipulate, others receive hellbans for merely following links), and the propensities for specific groups to treat mild disagreement as "harassment", this does not bode well.

It's not even mild disagreements. Most of the subreddits are run like cults. If you look at the mods of the major subreddits, most of them are run by a select few users. The same mods on every other subreddit.

Reddit is used as a propaganda tool now.
The good news is that if you're working in STEM, this is probably the worst time you'll ever have.
Contracted code quality becomes a standard to be gamed. They'll have plenty of comments, but how many add useful information? It may pass a lint, but the architecture will look horrible. The database may be normalized, but the people and accounts will both own money, but there will be no way to link people straight to accounts.
They probably just have something on file with gwern.
We're doing an AMA over at Reddit as well:
http://www.reddit.com/r/ecommerce/comments/35zpxh/xpost_from...
I think for it to kill the site, there has to be a replacement waiting in the wings. Digg faded under much more innocent circumstances because Reddit was gaining in popularity. But, this crackdown might prompt somebody out there to launch a replacement.
Exactly. Something like this:

if @foo.save
flash[:success] = "Saved"
redirect_to foos_path
else
redirect_to new_foo_path
end

The standard pattern is to `render 'new'` rather than doing the latter redirect. So I'm complaining that my preferred way isn't "blessed" by the Rails community. Also you need a trick to keep @foo.errors in between requests and load it up in your #new method the second time around.
One factor that increases the difficulty of working with Indian teams is that there is little time overlap between India and the US working day.
letters where sent :)

I'm still amazed at the project, thank you
Generally, propular sites and products will be refreshed much more frequently - as often as every 24 hours
> Censorship should be the subreddit's decision.

It's fun to watch parallels develop between reddit site operators versus subreddit moderators, and federal government versus state's rights. (For anyone not familiar with this long-running American political theme: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States%27_rights)
its not worse than the naming many give to their languages, tools, and such, in the tech community.

light humor sometimes invades work and for that it serves a purpose. I also tend to think a little humor or local flavor improve memorization
The call to action is: we need to move to fish farming not wild caught.
This was my exact same experience where I used to work, where large parts of the company's code base maintenance was moved to India. It decayed really quickly.

The culture we were met with was tragic to say the least. The only thing that mattered to the Indian managers were error reports and statistics, to the point where I was confronted for reporting an error without consulting with them directly first, so they could spoof the numbers...

And some of the developers I had to interface with literally needed to be told, character by character, what to do to fix even the most basic stuff.

And yes, on the other hand, we had Indian colleagues integrated locally which were some of the best people around.

Outsourcing is hard. You will likely not get any top talent unless you really know how to work the market, and then it will likely not be particularly cheap.
Spotify May Cut ‘Freemium’ to Three Months, Sources Say
This headline doesn't seem like it's actually news. Replace "NSA" with literally anything else, and it still makes perfect sense.

People who have financial incentives to keep something around typically try to do so.
Heaven help us, but that might have been the Three Dog Night song "Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog."
There is no silver bullet in security
> But they wanted to have years of sex with lots of women first then when they get older raise children.

Right. The "get it out of my system"-type. Thinking that they want to spend 'the rest of their life' with a person, if they just bang a lot of chicks first.
THIS!

I have two kids, and it's fairly easy (at least before starting school / sports)

1 - Second hands clothes, toys, etc are super cheap
1.1 - Hand me down across the extended family and your family (seriously, they grow out of it in minutes, try not to buy it new)
2 - Your kids don't need a lot of toys and crayons and paper are cheap
3 - GO TO THE LIBRARY
4 - Parks are really fun, and really cheap, as in free

Where it adds up, at least for me, is I now have a 2 & 4 year old in school and that's $1K a month (drops to zero once they hit public schools), but for a few years that's hefty. However, that's also a choice

1 - I chose private school for preschool, so that's costlier
2 - I moved to a specific area for the 10/10 public schools to save money
Actually, the everyday meaning of censorship quite clearly includes the private suppression of speech. Them having the right to engage in it is independent of that.
Crane accident at the port of Baltimore
Savant Syndrome
Anyone know of something (remotely) like this for (self-hosted) GitLab?
No, I'm not confused.

>Sea ice as a whole is decreasing as expected

And no, it isn't.

While it is hard to obtain the number from NSIDC, since they've stopped reporting it since it doesn't fit the narrative:

"Why don’t you publish a global sea ice extent number?

The combined number, while easy to derive from our online posted data, is not useful as an analysis tool or indicator of climate trends." (http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/faq/#combined)

...you can still dig up some charts. Here's a few:

https://nsidc.org/sites/nsidc.org/files/images//arc_antarc_1...

Or here: http://www.cato.org/blog/spinning-global-sea-ice

As it turns out, I have been a bit hyperbolic I'll admit (I was going on memory). But the fact is combined sea ice isn't "decreasing as expected" as you say. It's above average. And the original post I was responding to that claimed "we have incredible sea ice lows" is also nonsense. We don't, we have some loss in the northern hemisphere and gains on a similar scale in the south.

> I easily imagine how this has been spun in certain circles

If you want to talk about "spinning in certain circles", you might want to ask why we hear endlessly about the decline in arctic ice, how it is seen as confirmation of the global warming hypothesis because it happens to fit the predictions, and yet at the other end of the globe we see large sea ice increases being ignored, dissembled and explained away with theories about ocean currents or wind patterns. That's not science, that's confirmation bias.
Is this literal? I've heard that subreddit mods have been caught promoting/demoting content for money. Or even like, Russian propaganda. But I've never had the in to that community to be able to verify these claims.
I was thinking something similar, which is that I felt the article was implying that if these people didn't have a financial connection to the NSA their opinions would be different, and I don't think that is the case.

Until Senator Feinstien had her laptop hacked by the CIA I think she actually took what they said at face value and bought into the narrative.

So I can certainly believe that folks donate money to representatives that hold opinions compatible with theirs. I certainly give money to politicians who I feel will represent my view of how things should be run. But when their opinions change, or they move away from what I would like I simply stop giving them money[1].

So what is the cause and what is the effect? That the NSA funnels funds to people who have both a megaphone and a compatible point of view? I don't find that particularly noteworthy.

[1] and as we're talking small amounts of dollars here I am not sure its all that big a deal for them :-)
That is very interesting, but you would need to know the level of trust the groups have compared to how strong their norms for not breaking the law would be in order to normalize the results (e.g are people of one minority group less likely to trust strangers compared to the majority?) which are factors that you can't know.
About the topic of replacing jQuery I really enjoyed reading "Weaning yourself off jQuery"[0] by James Halliday. It shows how to replace some of the jQuery features with the DOM API and/or with npm libraries such hyperquest[1].

[0] http://substack.net/weaning_yourself_off_jquery

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/hyperquest
I'm not "them" anymore but I'll try to explain what I can.

Safe space used to be a term for a very small group of people who agreed to be positive and nurturing towards one another no matter what. This is important for sexual assault survivors, closet gays, the heavily marginalized, etc. to have a space in which they can actually speak with other human beings about their experiences. This is, in reality, a very important thing.

However, it doesn't scale well. Some people have thought, "Hey, I like these safe spaces...what if we make everywhere a safe space? Wouldn't that be great?" What they miss is there isn't one universal definition of safe space and you can't just force your definition upon others.

In a very general sense, at the reddit scale, "safe space" means protecting those who need protecting. That means protecting the disempowered, the marginalized, the minorities, etc. from the ignorance and violence of the masses. Protecting them from the hegemonic power of the majority, which means the patriarchy in general and if we're being honest white males in particular.

It sounds good in principle but who is "empowered" and who is "disempowered" isn't an easy question to answer. To make things worse the tools of enforcing a safe space are so powerful that the people fighting against oppression often become oppressors themselves. In the case of reddit there are many members who are openly abusive and believe it's morally justified because they're "punching up" and it's only real abuse when you hurt people lower on the social ladder than you. (As an aside, this a big reason to claim victimhood: once you're a "victim" you get to do things you otherwise wouldn't.)
Well, if that's the case we'd better be careful with our definition and use of concepts or we will lose our freedoms.
Consistency has nothing to do with it. In jQuery you could just as well do:

$.find('.foo').find('.bar')

It's just a different way of invoking it. The short-hand is more convenient since it accepts a selector as well as a plain DOM node and converts that to a jQuery elements. This makes things very easy and idiomatic.
Not a pure S-Expression based (it defines its own language), but it is intended for writing books:

http://pkg-build.racket-lang.org/doc/pollen/

practicaltypography.com was made with it.
SSH Communications Security Announces Patent Enforcement Action
Bob Green years ago wrote about going to the "Linda Hop", a convention of boomer women all named Linda. The article traced the name back to a song popular in the early 1950s. As far as male v. female, it seems more common to name sons after fathers than daughters after mothers.
Python already uses alternative representations for Strings since Python 3.3 as much I know. When latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) is enough, one byte per code point is used, when UCS16 is sufficient 2 bytes and 4 bytes in all other cases. So the whole range of Unicode is supported and still the representation is space efficient and because inside one string every code point has the same size, the speed is also acceptable.