skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[From the article:]

> For STEM-related majors, average earnings don’t vary much among the college categories.

Perhaps average or media earnings are not affected much, but what about the outliers?

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg went to Harvard. Stanford had Larry Page, Sergey Brin, William Hewlett, David Packard, Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Andy Bechtolsheim and others.

One thing is good state schools have good people coming out of them as well - Bill Joy and Eric Schmidt went to UC Berkeley, Max Levchin and Marc Andreessen went to UIUC. There are some good state schools you see a number of successful tech people coming out of, they're not all expensive private schools. They all have a good reputatiion though, whether public or private.
I wouldn't be too hasty to call him an asshole. Based on his LinkedIn, I think he's just a kid without any work experience and, consequently, without much understanding of professionalism. "FuckPaying" seem to be not that different from one of us wanting to start some kind of Napster when we were young, and I think a lot of grown HN users are probably PopcornTime users...
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I had this problem as well, so now I just get the weekly newsletter of popular Hacker News posts through usepanda.com. I get the top six posts of HackerNews and DesignerNews.
Google uses https as a signal of quality, and Chrome will start shaming sites that aren't:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/google-will-soon-shame-all-...
The Finnish school system has a very good reputation, compared to the US, and they start even later, at age 7 [1]

1: http://eyeonearlyeducation.com/2014/03/19/finlands-approach-...
A lot of this comes down to two things:

1) The range of acceleration and deceleration rates available to a train engineer is much, much smaller than you would think. There is simply limited traction and power available and the weight of the full consist is really enormous. This requires planning everything well ahead, which can be difficult in busy areas where you must both anticipate signals and mind an often large number of temporary orders. Train operations tend to sort of happen in slow motion, it's not about fast responses simply because by the time you try to make a fast response the situation is already unrecoverable.

2) Depending on the exact systems in use, speeding up and especially slowing down a train is more complicated than doing so in a vehicle. You have multiple brake systems available (primarily the dynamic and train air brakes), and the most powerful brake system, the air brakes, comes with a lot of tricky caveats as to how strongly you can apply it (mostly related to applying and releasing it too frequently, which can drain the air reserves). There's a lot of great info on this from a former engineer here: http://www.alkrug.vcn.com/rrfacts/brakes.htm

Certainly the author has decided to dramatize the situation. For these reasons, train speeds are established with a wide margin for error (of course not one of an additional 100%+ as in this incident).
There is one even prime. ;-)
Well consider the number of 3rd party services that would shut or require a significant amount of development to get back online as a result of google shutting down:

https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/

There's a lot of services that depend on Google and changing all that code overnight is unlikely. Apple doesn't have that kind of 3rd party reach.
What I learned at MIT this year
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Gin Lane is a collective of creative technologists working on creating consumer experiences of the future. Some of the partners we've worked with in the past are Sweetgreen, Best Made, Campaign Furniture, Warby Parker and Harrys.

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Your site doesn't accept connections over SSL.
Technically they're not but they afford the same level of prestige and access that an Ivy League does. So maxxxxx's point still stands.
What is the difference between the JIT here and LLVM's own MCJIT (besides the fact that this JIT is currently only supported on 32 bit ARM)?
Flexible Figures – Dynamic Pricing
According to the sample prices of $2-$10 for 5-50% fewer ads, I guess the monthly average for each user is $13-$40?
Extra bytes would have made it not a 1024-bit integer.
Maybe because the aero guys had legal issues with their last product. That being said, as a Bostonian I am excited about this potential internet option.
I am not a programmer, but I am a fan of this. I like transparent markets. With that said the "Michael at" is not part of the email address.
Sorry about that. I hope this link works better:

http://www.amazon.jobs/jobs/227234/amazon-s3-data-plane-seni...
Where Venture Capital Is Invested Around the World
Even until the last few years on Windows, codecs were a shit show. You could download codec packs, but it was pretty hit and miss. VLC was amazing - it would open everything, audio just worked, and subtitles just worked.
Acorns Is Hiring a QA Engineer
Solving the “latest value” issue in Kibana
Maybe it wasn't a big deal for you but it was perceived negatively overall and it hurt Yahoo's reputation (or whatever remnants of that remained at that point in time). If only 200 people were affected then it wasn't worth the backlash it created and wasn't a smart move. Anyone who was impacted by it, e.g. wasn't able to go pick up his kids or stay home for a plumber to come fix his sink, wouldn't be happy and his unhappiness would impact people working with him. These sort of moves can hurt the "spirit" of a company irrevocably.
What, how?
Maltese was excluded too, and falls into a similar position of being unrelated genetically but having imported a lot of vocabulary through Italian and English. It started as an Arabic dialect, but has a very high loanword rate, so a simple sentence is indistinguishable from Arabic, but a complex sentence is easy to understand for a speaker of a Romance language.

It's stuff like that which can't be drawn in a chart like this.
"... and does not portray IMDb, its services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter"

I'm missing why this is unreasonable. Note that if you DO have a legitimate reason to link to factually point out something derogatory, you are protected by fair use doctrine regardless.

They can prevent deep links altogether if they want to.
Blind Twitter – Keeps tweet authors hidden until you like or RT them
As developers, many of us work everyday on increasing page hits, creating more engaging user experiences. What are the ethical implications of this? At what point do we become responsible for users' addictive behavior?
Using Slack as part of the GTD capture stage
Thanks for adding that info...
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I eventually moved to S3+CloudFront so I could host my personal static sites with SSL. The s3_website gem works remarkably well, in my experience.

The cost is probably negligible for typical blogs, portfolios, etc. Amazon's new free certificate service might also be a bonus.
A little know fact about the VideoLAN project is that it was started so that the student organization could justify the need to replace the old networking infrastructure of the campus with a brand new high-bandwidth fiber optics network. They really wanted to deploy a fiber optic network but the school would have never approved it so they thought "OK, we need something that uses a ton of bandwidth, let's make a video streaming app".

They proceeded to start the VideoLAN project, with the VideoLAN Client (VLC) and VideoLAN server, and streamed movies and public television channels to the whole campus.

Interesting how it came to benefit everybody.

Source: I studied there and had a chat with one of the original creators of the project once.
Sorry, I am not familiar with what exactly ivy league is. I hope you will agree that they are the elite schools for tech.
I love VLC's engine, but have never been a fan of its UI, especially the configuration interface. How well separated are the UI and engine? Building a new UI for VLC seems like a fun project.
> If you only consider crazy babblings about martians, sure, but...

Can someone explain me how is "babblings about martians" or lizard men crazier than believing in Shiva, Jehova or any other religion ?

Very few dare consider people who believe in a guy who talked to an "angel" or another one who multiplied fishes and came back to life after death crazies ...

> Do you remember that before Snowden, the whole NSA thing was a tinfoil-hat worthy idea? And what the NSA does goes beyond what moderately tinfoily people thought.

What is fascinating is that it didn't really change anything when it comes to relationship between the government and the people. And a lot of people actually consider Snowden a traitor, when the traitors are those who actually spy on the people and covered it up.

No, it's about authority, some believe the authority never lies and is here to protect them so they have a duty of obedience toward that authority and others who know the authority is only here to protect itself and its power, by any means, at the expense of the people if necessary.
How so? As in they just never hired the best people/created processes that resulted in innovation?
How many times is this story going to be submitted?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11016504

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11015864

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11015692

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11015181

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11014648

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11013086

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11011676

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11011663

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11011654

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11007305
And Google Takeout continues to ensure that won't happen.
My own list is of length 1 as a category of events. Back in July (it's a bit harder now), the odds that someone's calculated sha256 sum solved a new bitcoin block were around 2^-68. This very tiny probability event was observed on average once every 10 minutes.

2^-80 is absurdly small. But that only means something useful if the number of attempts isn't absurdly large.
Stick the number in a code block (4 spaces at the beginning of the line). The CSS here doesn't handle long strings well.
Markdown specifically allows and recommends inline HTML for anything more complex than writing prose [1]

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax (see "Inline HTML")
Cheapest (and most expensive) cities and states to buy marijuana in the  US
- McDonalds is a real estate company
- General Electric is really a bank
- Harvard University is really a hedge fund
- Lebron James is actually an advertising spokesperson

Are the twisted examples above really how we categorize companies/celebrities?

Maybe that's not so twisted. Maybe they are how we should really categorize the above, and the common perception is just marketing/how they made their mark initially.
> People have been buried in coffins for centuries, so why the rise in cremations?
> The Cremation Association took a look at this question

Why would anyone need to "take a look". We don't have room for all the bodies and internment has (always?) been more expensive than cremation.
That's such a neat idea. I'm imagining a Stonehenge like ring of mirror towers with a central platform in the middle at the focus. What an awesome ceremony it would be. "From stardust we all came to the star we return our loved one..."
Whatsapp hits one billion users
The first year of ZeroNet
How did a warehouse company become one of America’s leaders in renewable energy?
Let's assume it's not malice. Can it be a typo? Is there a prime with a low Levenshtein distance in hex of the old no-prime number?

(Is there a always a prime within a low distance from any number?)
If I had a time machine, the first thing I'd do is s/rump/& kernel/ in all old writings. The second thing I'd do is make a case for writing creat with an e.
I briefly operated an audiovisual services company (that lost a tremendous amount of money, but that had nothing to do with VLC), and after trying loads of players, came back to VLC. It allowed all of the stuff I needed and that many other players (including expensive commercial ones) failed at.

It plays literally everything. We regularly had sponsors show up the day of the show and hand me a USB drive with their ad reel on it. With no clue what the format would be, I would always be able to say, "yeah, we can put it in the playlist for tonight".

It has excellent playlist abilities, and excellent means of controlling the playlist. Our shows often included multiple sources (live video, sponsor reel, feature, short, trailers, etc.), and being able to manually select the right things at the right times with keyboard shortcuts was great.

It actually allows one to kill all on screen displays, and can be reliably configured to always open video on the secondary display (projector) and controls on the primary display (laptop). This is shockingly difficult with every other player I used. They would always have problems getting things onto the right display, or would show some kinda bullshit on the screen. This is particularly true of the DVD and Blu Ray capable players; they're an utter shit show, even if you pay a bunch of money for them.

So, thanks! I love VLC bunches. I've donated in the past, and will certainly donate again.
Instead we could go crazy and use like two, even three sentences to describe what a company does, what its incentives are and where its constrained.

What would be your "crazy" characterization of Google?
Hi,

I'm a software engineer at a small startup that makes this open source engine that automates environments orchestration using containers.

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We created a super easy way to quickly (and safely) run applications such as Huginn from source code locally on your own workstation.

It takes little more than just a click.

Go to this fork of the project and click the "Run Project" button:

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The only addition made to the original project is a manifest file about the OS, languages, databases etc. required by the project.

Afterwards, if you want to deploy to DigitalOcean from your desktop, you can do it in very few steps following these instructions:

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It would be great to get some feedback about it. Hope it helps!

Thanks.
Software Engineer | Metric Collective | New York, NY | ONSITE

A little bit about us:
Metric Collective is a holding company based in New York, NY. We are in the business of building profitable, self-sustaining business machines. Sometimes that means taking an idea and turning it into a reality, while other times it means acquiring a solid existing business. All of our businesses are currently run with a 3 person engineering team and a lot of shared tools. We're looking to expand rapidly as our businesses continue to grow.

Check out https://www.metriccollective.com/ for a list of our current businesses:

We're looking for smart, full-stack engineers who can handle taking on projects independently or work collaboratively on internal tools and cross-business applications.

Our stack is mostly Python+App Engine, with a little AWS and other languages/tools where needed. It's completely fine if you've never worked with Python.

Drop me a line if you would like to discuss: max@metriccollective.com
No, the "best and brightest" at a company are interested in the company investing in them at the expense of the dead weight.

They are also not very interested in training, because they don't need it. They want to work on cutting-edge projects.

"Training" is something that the poor performers are going to flock to, because it benefits them. Which is the polar opposite of what the top performers want.
I'm fairly certain spiders are not concerned about the suffering of the butterflies they consume..
Clever (YC S12) - San Francisco - onsite

Right now the market for educational software is a mess. It’s incredibly difficult for developers to get their products into schools, and it’s even harder for them to scale. School districts spend tons of money on learning applications, but they have no way of knowing if students are even using the apps they’re purchasing. Teachers know there’s great software out there, but relatively simple challenges like getting 30 students logged in at once make using it impossible.

At Clever, we’re working to change all that. We provide schools with a free API and single sign-on solution that makes using educational apps a breeze. We’ve grown fast: after three and a half years, we’re moving data for a third of all K-12 students in America (19M kids), and 49,000 schools are using us to manage their education apps. Our goals are much bigger than that, though. We want to be two things:

-a single place where schools can easily manage and analyze all the software they’re using, and

-a single identity that students can use to see everything they’ve learned across multiple apps.

We’re a team of 90 (40 engineers) based in downtown SF, and we’re looking for engineers who enjoy working in (or would enjoy learning) Go, Python and Coffeescript. More generally, we want people who are sharp, adaptable, and passionate about improving the way education works for everyone.

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Looking at the demo without running it yet, that looks amazing. It reminds me a lot of the QBasic game Outer Space Wars that I wrote when I was 14, having taught myself QBasic from reading a book checked out from the local library. I too made a font editor using some crazy string manipulation to make up for not yet understanding the modulus operator at the time. I so need to try to find those disks and take a look back at some of the first code I ever wrote as a fledgling self-taught teenage programmer.

OP, thank you for bringing back the memories.

To younger programmers, Internet access was not quite a thing that I had access to then. Before my dad got AOL, I was only allowed to log into the county library BBS and not any public system. One actually used a modem to dial directly in at that time and no one else could use it simultaneously. Once my family had AOL, I later was able to participate in a programmer chat room on AOL, which was the entry into a whole new world.
The Hague, The Netherlands - Javascript web app developer at H5mag Publishing Platform - h5mag.com - ONSITE

H5mag is the platform to create beautiful online magazines. We're aimed at graphic designers — who often are still focused on print media and have almost no online design experience yet — and enable them to create responsive online interactive magazines. Our platform makes something that for them used to be almost impossible, magically easy — and the enthusiasm we receive from our users when they get empowered is extremely rewarding.

Technically: the H5mag editor is basically a big Javascript web app. Our backend is a relatively simple data store/rendering layer written in PHP/MySQL.

Some concrete things we want you to work on in the coming period...

* Improve the performance of our editor and reader front-end, eliminate layouts and repaints, simplify the editor architecture

* Make our users happy with new, often requested features, such as guides & grids, a new font manager, and undo/redo

* Develop improvements for our editor, such as a new edition management UX and new styling widgets

* Work with us on a system for real-time collaborative editing

* Want to know what moves our users? Participate in our designer workshops and discover their needs.

We're still a small team of developers and UX designers, so you have quite the opportunity to make your mark. Informal atmosphere, an interesting and simply said pretty great team, with time for fun, time to learn from each other — and of course time for hard, challenging work. Want to know more? Shoot off an email to me: joost [dot] schuttelaar [at] h5mag.com and I'd be happy to share!
Julien C. Sprott has a very fun, approachable, and free book on generating various kinds of strange attractor visualizations:

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/sa.htm

It has 1993-era code, which paradoxically might make it good for a coding beginner since you'd have to work a bit to figure out a basic syntactic translation, but the high level idea is already there. You get immediate visual results, and there is a lot of room to experiment and play.
The Great White Fail Whale
Trained eagle destroys drone in Dutch police video
> Having spent time in both the tech world and the politics world, in my experience it is the conspiracy theorists who are naive

Businesses in an oligopoly tend to (actively) collude and fix prices all the time. Don't you think those in power are capable of doing that? there is nothing naive about conspiracy theories.

> But the false part is that there is a small group who is really in control.

There are multiple groups that fight each other for power at every level of governance. And yes, sometimes they succeed in furthering their own agendas at the expense of the people.
We had a small misconfiguration. It's working now, thanks for the comment.
The subject at hand is valuation. The future is more relevant to valuation than the present.
congratulations. as i get older i consider doing the same more and more, or just getting out of tech altogether. seems like it's a treadmill in a lot of ways.
The Wall Street Journal tests closing the Google paywall loophole
DevOps Team Assistant, 1.61.1 released
Must? Must???

Ugly is ugly. No, I don't need to learn to love it.
Is grep AI?
The Trouble with Trademarks
We are hosting a forum at UC Berkeley on this issue tomorrow Tuesday from 3-5 PM at 630 Sutardja Dai Hall. We are most concerned about DNS logs.
I've been working (though it's too slow) on making answer to this question "yes".

https://github.com/thehajime/blog/issues/1