jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If I hadn't gone to college, I would have ended up in a dead-end janitorial or factory job, stuck in a small town and never have been exposed to fine arts and web development.
Yeah I go to the "other" school and there were no announcements about it either. I read about it yesterday in an email from Boston startup digest.
He's just going to say you should drop out. Skip it.
My company (an ad network) just had a booth at AdTech (http://www.ad-tech.com/) in New York. I think admission for the public is free, so that could be a great way to reach them all in one place. There are upcoming dates in cities around the world over the next year.
Jordan is quickly becoming a log guru amongst mortals. Keep an eye on logstash! I'm definitely looking forward to an alternative to Splunk, which is great -- but incredibly expensive at large scale.
Downvotes are scary?
@mods - I changed the title from the original "Russian Software Company May Be Entry Point for U.S. Hack" to be more clear, as "Russian Software Company" felt vague and linkbait-y to me. Apologies if this violates the "No editorialized titles" policy.
And during that time they surrounded a federal courthouse... where people were free to come and go and court remained in session...
I'm 30 years into this industry also. We all have a tendency to defend and use what we're comfortable with, which often is what we learned ages ago. I try to challenge myself regularly by looking for my biases and assumptions. (Easier said than done, of course.)

However, I'd say the rate of "tech churn" has become impossible to keep up with in the most popular stacks (Java[Spring], .NET, front-end, Node). If you are in other areas, things tend to move slower.

I think the initiatives for standardization move at about the same rate as they used to, but the increasing amount of industry churn makes it seem like standardization has slowed down.
What does "make daylight savings time permanent" even mean? To stick with daylight savings time all year long and don't adjust for winter and summer?

If so sounds good to me.
Are they different realities or different people with different wants and needs?
Not just yet, it's not.

You sure seem eager to push that POV, though...
That was out of DC guard not the DC units
"A knife can be used to commit murder, but most often it is simply used to cut food."

Most of the time, a knife is used for cutting food and it can be used for murder.

Most of the time, torrents are used for piracy and they can be used for legitimate and legal files.

Search for "torrent" on Google. The majority of the results are search engines for pirated material (and in many cases, direct links to the torrents).

See the difference?
Private schools can fire teachers subjectively. A good private school principal can use gut feel to evaluate a teacher. But that doesn't scale, unless we find a way to identify and recruit very smart, very trustworthy principals on a large scale.
Procrastination inducing apps and hobbyist tinkering apps, that is, as opposed to actual apps and games.
My favorite recent quote:

We all know that successful teaching beyond the infant class involves (a) wide and detailed knowledge of a difficult subject, (b) an enthusiasm for the subject which communicates itself to the class, and (c) a few simple tricks of the trade, learnt by anyone from a single volume and from about three weeks of experience. The art of the Educationalizer is to expand (c) into a mass of pretentious nonsense, fogged by technical terms and psychological twaddle. To do research in Educationalization is to forget about (a) and (b) and make the mastery of (c) seem practically impossible. Those who can, do (it has been said), and those who cannot will teach teachers how to teach other teachers the art of teaching. This is the brotherhood of the Ed.D. and it forms a sort of campus with the campus; an enclave, as it were, of people committed to the study of nothing.

Peter's Predicament, Chapter 7, The Fur-Lined Mousetrap, C. Northcote Parkinson, Leviathan House Ltd, London & New York, ISBN 0 900537 05 I, no date (really!).

(If you ask me, eliminate tenure, break the teacher's unions, and fire the least performing 5% each year measured by before and after tests each year; with 5% yearly "mortality" we could use turnover to retain the good ones. And yes, eliminate pay raises based on continuing education and seniority, neither of which measure teacher effectiveness.

I think knowing how to make a teacher good is an impossible problem, but knowing whether a teacher is good or not is not very difficult, using a combination of peer and parent review plus before-and-after test scores.

But first ... break the unions and eliminate tenure and any special protection for teachers. I am totally pro-union when it comes to janitors and factory workers, but not managerial level staff; at best, it reinforces consistent mediocrity...)
Of course the UK isn't homogeneous - there's obviously an enduring entrepreneurial spirit everywhere. My only point was that (as a social convention) people with aspirations behave differently there than they would in (say) New York.
Django isn't a CMS, but it's a framework that seems designed to build CMSs. I'd much rather build a CMS from scratch in Django than try to bend Drupal to my will.
Is this a joke? iTunes is a horrible app that is way to underpowered and annoying to use, you are limited to syncing which means you can't use it with more than one device or more than one computer, and you can't copy half an album or just a few songs from a playlist.
I'm teaching the class as a part of ESP's Splash @ MIT, a two-day educational outreach program. Thousands of middle and high school students swarm our campus just for this weekend, and MIT students/community/other teach whatever they want. I'm teaching this as a one-hour class, with two sections (that is, two times), for a bit of entertainment and to make this world a minimally more bug-free place... or something along those lines.
You need to become an LLC or sole proprietor to have a DBA right? And Isn't the common advice don't become an LLC or sole proprietor if you want VC money in the future?
"Except in Nebraska!" Does anyone have a reason why Nebraska would be singled out?
Discussion from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21597763
Before reading: "I bet they're using homomorphic encryption to expose patterns in the encrypted data"

After reading: Yup. It makes sense, so long as your resulting model is run against similarly encrypted data, the same patterns will be there for the ML to identify.

Which is, of course, one of the issues with homomorphic encryption.
I suspect the difference here is that Google alleges thar screenshots of the calendar were taken and distributed outside the company. Viewing a shared calendar that happens to include private events that haven’t been marked private is one thing, but sharing screenshots of the same seems to be something different.
I honestly don't notice this stuff at work, and find out about most of it from HN, but I'm a middle-aged white guy in the New York office, so YMMV?

My experience is that Google hasn't really changed much over the last 10 years, beyond a few superficial details (mailing lists -> memegen) and growing in size, with the expected difficulties that brings.
Yeah, that's why I wouldn't have kids in this day and age. Maybe I'd do it back in the seventies when parents could say "Go play at the creek all day and be back before dinner", and you could actually have your own life, and usually only one parent worked.
SAT and ACT score interquartile ranges for Linfield College, according to Common Data Set reporting:

http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.j...
I've watched tons fo Derrin Brown videos. His experiments are pretty interesting. Subliminal advertising and the chess grandmaster ones were the most interesting.

See what happens when you leave a wallet on the ground: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxYCh_p2Mjs
> Most things don't work out of the box, and need some tinkering with. This is not such a big deal, since I love to tinker and after tinkering, they usually work much better than anywhere else. But for many non-development things, I love when programs I install on my machine just work. For that, OS X is light years ahead of everything else, and Linux is dead last.

It depends on the hardware. If you pay attention up-front, it's very easy to end up with zero-hassle just-works-for-everything. Anecdotally, I've been using Thinkpads with Intel graphics drivers as my last three laptops, and the last time I had to manually edit a config file for hardware was back in early '07. With OS X, on the other hand, I can't use my phone to tether without navigating a bewildering driver labyrinth.

Anyway, this stereotype is played out.
There don't appear to be any DDG haters in the threads on this article. There are two people who seem to hate (or at least dislike) Stephen Wolfram, though.

(Disclaimers: I have showdead on, this is accurate as of 9:31 PM, GMT).
Yeah, I have found OS X a lot easier than Linux to get things done with in general (related to development). The lack of general support for commercial apps and the inability of a credit card to solve problems is a huge problem for a lot of problems.

Sure I'll use a virtualized Linux environment for dev now and then, but OS X now is not bad at all for dev.

This goes threefold once you talk about getting anyone else setup like you. It's just so hard to get people not running the exact same flavor of Linux into the same development configuration for many tasks.
Because less competition or means someone else will buy them? If tweet deck gets acquired it wouldn't surprise me to see hoot suite in talks with ubermedia
For me, the constant re-downloading of dependencies was a pain in the ass. I got MacPorts in order to get the apps OSX should have come with, like wget and curl. In the process, it fragged Python to high hell by installing just about every version out there (often several for each package), which broke the bangpath in all my scripts. I'm aware it's probably a pretty easy fix, but a program whose use breaks other programs is a fundamentally broken and Bad one.

I still use MacPorts on occasion if I really need a package, but my dreams of using it to make the OSX terminal as functional as that of Linux is long dead.
I suspect from this reply that you're confused about what rubyspec is. Rubyspec is an executable spec. It is thousands of unit tests defined against the official ruby implementation (MRI).
> University students don't become experts in anything.

You're absolutely right. A bachelor's degree is supposed to be a mark of well roundedness, not specialization.

> English literature students, for example, just leave with some long essays under their belts, they don't graduate as well-read authorities on different epochs of literature.

They're not supposed to be authorities - if they wanted to dedicate time to become authorities, it's well understood that you'll have to specialize in English lit, likely in some kind of subfield, which is what a masters/PhD is for.

> As in, if a member of the public needed any of those skills/knowledge to do their job, they could acquire them privately without much difficulty.

That doesn't necessarily mean that University education is all for naught. University education purports to teach us how to be better thinkers, not necessarily produce people who are skilled in one kind of thing.

The latter definition that I gave above is what the article is trying to defend.
"Sustained software quality is an extremely difficult challenge."
- (from the article)

Quality can mean a lot of different things. Elegant, simple to understand code. Adherence to current best practices. Modular. And the list goes on...

But the most important part of quality for actual users is that your software is solid -- it isn't going to break and cost them time or money. That kind of quality isn't particularly complicated to obtain -- it takes hard work, discipline, and prioritization, but there's nothing magical about it.

"When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through."

- Steve Jobs
> Gnucash allows split transactions, so your case is not a problem. So your check of $100 out of your checking account gets split into 3 different places, e.g. expense accounts.

I'm aware of that, which is what I meant: If you do it this way, then you can't do envelope budgeting using subaccounts the way the original commenter said (and I agree with you that you should not do it this way).

Both the methods you propose involve significant work on my part, which to me means "Gnucash doesn't support it." For the first method:

> In this way if you overspend in one, and underspend in another, it all rolls up into the same total.

Arguably, this goes against envelope budgeting. The whole analogy is mirroring the physical world, where an envelope cannot go negative. In my envelopes, if one goes negative, then I need to move money from another envelope into it immediately. In your first scenario, since you're using real accounts, we should not do that (otherwise we lose real spending habits data).

Your second approach is closer, but it's a fair amount of work (or perhaps I misunderstood it). Using my example above, if I go to the store and spend $60 on groceries, $30 on supplies and $10 on misc, how do you propose I put that in Gnucash using those liability accounts?

There's always some way to hack it, but when you actually do it for a while, those hacks become tedious. As I said in another comment, the mechanics of envelope budgeting are easy to code, and I'd like the SW to handle those details for me.

I did play with the built-in budget tool. It's like the typical budget tool in most such SW: No carryover of excess budget - you have to manually track it and update it each month.
There is no sexism going on here, I would have said the exact same thing if Kim Kardashian was a male. But it's easy to "drown the fish" and accuse people of sexism to shut down any discussion.

I'm starting to wonder if it's a form of subtle ad hominem and internalized logical fallacy /s
Have a look into Nietzsche's master-slave morality distinction, and how Christianity falls into it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%E2%80%93slave_morality. This page is a very short read.
Simple, given the Emacs defn of "simple" :-)
smart. nobody questions it. corporate spends millions making shitty ADs that basically say AI will make our farmers better and therefore help the world. I love when someone asks me about AI and i'm like yeah it's a pile of shit that nobody understands but sells like hot garbage. Now before any hardcode deep learning bros get at me, sure there are cutting edge AI applications and science stuff going on. But i'm talking about commercialized shit that sells AI like a feature. It's just a pile of poop but people gobble it up.
In the Good Friday Experiment they used niacin for the control group.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_Chapel_Experiment
2) I'm not criticizing the idea of funding, I'm saying the amount is small. Google got either $100k total or $100k each from David Cheriton and Andy Bechtolsheim, depending on which article you read. Presumably they had their living arrangements already covered, so it could all go to the company and not to rent.

Even though computing resources are cheaper now, the bar is much higher, so if your project needs a cluster or significant bandwidth it's still expensive in relative terms.

1) A lot of things have the "potential" to work out, but you can only count the ones that actually do.

Besides, even a billion-dollar exit isn't "The Next Google". By Paul's own binary metric, that's still a failure. Let's say they owned 6% but that got diluted to 1/4th from follow-on rounds; their cut would be 15 million before taxes. They (Y Combinator) took $2 million in 2009 and then $8.25 million in 2010 from investors including Sequoia, so it's either going to be divvied up a dozen ways or has to pay back the $10.25 million first or whatever the terms are. Or maybe that's only for 2009 and 2010 startups, so it only has to be split between the 4 partners they had at the time (of funding Dropbox).

It's a win for the founder, but there are other wins that this model can miss.

David Heinemeier Hansson at Startup School 08:

http://www.justin.tv/hackertv/b/259414909
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY
This is why diversity is good. Even in HR (needs more men).
I wasn't talking about Hooter's waitresses and other such jobs, e.g. playmates :-)

Why do you think that in the vast majority of cases appearance will not influence your output? I think this is a clear fallacy: Although you attractiveness may not influence the work you do, the additional qualities you develop over the years because your attractive, like high self-esteem, may be very important and relevant to the workspace.
re: very low cost: how true!

The web app I run on AppEngine 24/7 is a low volume site so I never appreciated how much the daily free quota gets you until last summer when I took one of the Google Buzz firehose reading demos and modified it to extract what I wanted from the Buzz firehose (large volume of Buzz, Twitter, etc. social messages). I just used the daily free quota and my temporary app would run for 5 or 6 hours a day before hitting the quota. Lots of bandwidth and CPU use.

That said, I never mind my monthly Amazon AWS bill because its a good value (and, for a long time it was free because of two grants they gave me).

I also would like a plan from Google where I gave them some money every month; this may happen when version 1.4 is released because I am trying to decide between AWS and AppEngine for a new project. I am curious what having three instances always spun up will cost.
Agreed it seems that it is always the honest students who gets the short end of the stick.

Thats a good thing though - it prepares the students for the real world.
See my answer above but bots really don't change anything about penny auctions. Most allow for placing multiple bids which effectively automates the auto-bids and does what bots would do but better.
Generally this is true. That said, there are founders who've chosen the "work hard" over "enjoy life" choices here. It's just a question of getting connected into that community.
ETag manipulation + HTTP headers, zero-width images combined with browser fingerprints, HTML local storage. I'm sure there are others.
it's great if you like to pair program every day. I get sick of pairing after about 3 hours. So it's not one-size-fits-all but I often meet people who can't imagine disliking pairing and try to convince me that my lived experience is somehow incorrect but theirs is accurate.
It's not a choice between no software updates for old hardware, and bad software updates for no hardware. At least in theory, Apple could have made an iOS 7 update for the iPhone 4 that actually worked well on that hardware. It's not "unfair" to complain that Apple does a bad job of supporting hardware after only a couple of years, when your counter is that they release OS updates that don't work well on them.
> But if tou have one engine going downhill and another engine going uphill they are going to be burning different amounts of energy.

Yes. The goal is to maintain a particular speed.

> so having a method to make sure obese people don't have the fat-encoiraging flora and do have the thin-encouraging flora at least gives people a fighting chance.

Sure, I think that's a very promising line of research that may make it easier for many people to modify their appetites. But for any given gut flora, the basic logic still holds. Just as for any given steam engine, the Watt governor works on the same principle.
> It vexes them in the same way that many with color television sets were long ago bothered by the anachronism of black-and-white films, even carefully conceived black-and-white films.

Is he obliquely saying that the 16:9 version of the wire is going to be like colorized black and white films?
90% of everyone sampled were within 300kcals of the average metabolic rate

http://examine.com/faq/does-metabolism-vary-between-two-peop...
Slightly off-topic; has anyone created programming language who operations are version-control commands?
> The point of React is to mix HTML and JS together.

In React, there are no "templates." There's just JavaScript, and then more JavaScript that looks kind of like HTML (JSX). But it's all still JavaScript.

Also, FWIW, I find that one of the largest benefits of React is to have the logic and the representation of the markup inline, together in the same file. It really helps productivity by eliminating the context switching going from js to markup.

> We didn't need full diffing and batching of HTML

^^^ That's the point of React. You don't have to do the diff in your head (or in your code).
Oh for the.... Could whoever down-voted this please have the decency to chime in with a reason?

If there's anything incorrect with what I've said, please point it out. I'd love to know about other providers that would give me more bang for my buck.

Is it the assertion that spot instances are a viable option for some use-cases? Is it the fact that I compared something to DO?
WhatsApp and Slack are similar applications with totally different user base, so no, WhatsApp will not kill Slack, nor it will "attack" its user at all.
Stopped reading this infantile crap.

"super awesome!" "super difficult"

Like reading the diary of a teenage girl.
You might want to checkout DigitalOcean for hosting your project. I host several projects on their $10/month servers and have had little issue. If you need more storage, you can always get a second server for hosting your assets.
I think the problem is that the west has people in power with living memory of a pandemic - Swine Flu - which was widely criticised as a complete overreaction, to the point that there's no such category as an official pandemic any more.

The reaction here was a significant counter-reaction to the swine flu overreaction.
post hoc, ergo propter hoc.
This, and satellites don't have millimeter-level precision of sea level measurement. Not even close.
I can't find 2.2 mm mentioned anywhere in the study they refer to. Where is that number coming from?

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2020...
Interesting stuff here. I'm glad to see that some of the conclusions I came up to over time turned out to be named and well-understood best practices. But it seems I have more work to do.
I miss my walks in the sun. Also had a short nasty cold like 3 weeks ago which came back yesterday. Might be the coronavirus, might be something else. Gonna stay home unless it gets ambulance call worthy.
2.2mm is an average. What happens is that in some places high tides are higher than that, along with the low tides.
I am so pleased to find that this is a simple personal testimony about the value of professional treatment and support.

I was expecting to find a folksy anecdote or some "hack," and I was pleasantly surprised.
I just started using TeamBox. It's awesome! It's free for the features I need, and if things start getting over the top, I can upgrade my account for something like $12 and get more features.

I tried basecamp and failed.