skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a bit of a difference between the training videos the big co's force you to watch and the training required to get certified by the state to do business in a highly regulated industry.

I too created "macros" for the insufferable training they put you through, but it was for training videos on the "new" HTML4 standard and about the "new" invention ajax requests -- all while I was working on a team using angularjs every day.
That's funny, I always got the feeling that almost every civil engineer I know were married to nurses, mid school teacher or childcare worker (and the occasional psychologist). Seems confirmed.
> “We’re the first ones to commodify friendship,” he says.

i have a visceral reaction to this line in particular that i'm having difficulty putting into words.
Cloud9 also supports remote ssh workspaces which is very useful. The default workspace runs inside a container where you have root. They give you a public https route mapped to the container.
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Except, it seems to have the last two in the opposite order?
It seems to be very opinionated but it gets offended when I ask for a source.
That's not necessarily true. Some of it is preserved by the internet archive, but a lot falls through the cracks.

Maybe you mean it's still on someone's home computer. But hard drives fail over time. So do CDs, floppy disks, and flash drives. Over time all this stuff will be lost unless someone makes an effort to preserve it.
>The thing is, most industries begin with a short period of super-exponential improvements, most of what happen in the lab before the products even get sold.

Can you name any of those industries? Because most (if not all) industries and products I know, aside of IT, have none such "super-exponential" improvements at their beginnings, not even exponential ones year over year.

We don't have 100x better cars than in 1950.

Film cameras didn't get x better in their first years -- it was a slow and painful evolution that lasted decades to get to something like the 35mm film and standardized functionality.

We don't have 10x better air-conditioning, watches, guitars, etc.

The only places I can think of where that holds are things like memory, storage, CPUs, GPUs etc -- all IT related. And maybe batteries, though I doubt it.
Doubts about higher dimensions and general relativity is common and a crucial point, so I dont think you should get downvoted.

Some points which might be helpful. We have a way, using the concept of a manifold, for ants on a surface like a sphere or a dougnut to figure this out without appealing to a third dimension. One could imagining say ant geographers making maps of portions of the surface, and noting how common regions covered in two different maps have different labels/coordinates. One can then figure out a definition of when two collections of maps(called an atlas) are equivalent and then show that an atlas for a plane, sphere, doughnut are mutually nonequivalent.

But all this is topology and involves global considerations. What is relevant here is local curvature. We can also do this appealing to an extra dimensions. Now, you used the example of a folded paper and you are correct that for an ant on the surface, the curvature is indetectable. The curvature of the paper is extrinsic and not intrinsic. We say that is isometric to flat space, and its curvature tensor is 0.

On the other hand, if the ant was on the surface of a ball, it could figure out this curvature intrinsically, for instance, by measuring sum of the angles of a triangle or the distance between parallel lines keeps shrinking. Not only is this intrinsic, but it is locally measurable. One cant have maps, even for a small area of the earth's surface, without some kind of distortion because of this intrinsic curvature.

An additional complexity - in GR, spacetime is curved rather that just space. Also, dont take 'curvature' too literally, it is just a way of measuring deviation from numbers that you would get in the flat scenario.

For more read up on manifolds, riemann curvature. John Baez had some essays on the geometric meaning of the curvature tensor in terms of the volume of a ball relative to the usual flat Euclidean case.
HN's API was on the fritz in the first hour or so after I posted, leading to a bunch of missed comments that weren't alerted or tracked for replies. Seems to be working great since. 475 notifications sent so far, and you should get one for this comment.
I often wonder how many high-profile speakers are prescribed anxiety medications or use similar supplements. To stand in front of thousands without some control over the adrenaline response is beyond me.
California is in the US, not Europe.

Your hypothesis is: "If students are subsidized then colleges will lose incentive to provide a proper education".

I showed many examples where that is not true. Some are in Europe. Some were in the US. There are still schools in the US which are tuition free, or in the case of Cooper Union, had no tuition until recently.

Your followup comment now concerns a different topic. While it's an important one to answer, it is only indirectly related to being able to 'provide a proper education' as we have the existence proof that the University of California system provided an excellent free college education.
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I once saw on TV a well-known singer telling about the day he was performing a famous Frank Sinatra song and forgot the words to the opening line. In Las Vegas. With Frank Sinatra himself in the audience.

Fittingly, I'm drawing a complete blank on the singer's name :-)

ETA: Ah! Wikipedia comes through for me. It was Harry Connick, Jr. (I just pulled up male pop singers and scanned the list. I remembered the guy was a "Jr.") -- Aha! Here's a video clip [0] of him talking about it -- though I don't think this is the same one I saw. Okay, I had some of the details wrong. Anyway, there it is.

[0] http://theweek.com/speedreads/589588/harry-connick-jr-met-fr... -- starts at 2:49
I'm not going to do anything with the e-mails except send reply notifications.
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What is wrong with free cars? What is wrong with free houses? What's wrong with free food?

Demand curves are downward sloping, and supply curves are upward sloping.

> but rationing does not affect the core of the issue. The allocation of portions of the supply already produced and available to the various individuals eager to obtain a quantity of the goods concerned is only a secondary function of the market. Its primary function is the direction of production. It directs the employment of the factors of production into those channels in which they satisfy the most urgent needs of the consumers. If the government's price ceiling refers only to one consumers' good or to a limited amount of consumers' goods while the prices of the complementary factors of production are left free, production of the consumers' goods concerned will drop. The marginal producers will discontinue producing them lest they suffer losses. The not absolutely specific factors of production will be employed to a greater extent for the production of other goods not subject to price ceilings. A greater part of the absolutely specific factors of production will remain unused than would have remained in the absence of price ceilings. There emerges a tendency to shift production activities from the production of the goods affected by the maximum prices into the production of other goods. This outcome is, however, manifestly contrary to the intentions of the government. In resorting to price ceilings the authority wanted to make the commodities concerned more easily accessible to the consumers. It considered precisely those commodities so vital that it singled them [p. 764] out for a special measure in order to make it possible even for poor people to be amply supplied with them. But the result of the government's interference is that production of these commodities drops or stops altogether. It is a complete failure.[1]

[1]: https://mises.org/library/human-action-0/html/pp/882
Feel there is really no way to prevent this. This was doubtfully uploaded knowingly (or possibly with ignorance). Data dumps occur all the time. As a file, they can too easily be shared. For sure, the school should work on increasing their awareness of handling secure data. But, in the end, nothing would really prevent this from happing again.
Non-software engineers are really strange:

Mech engineers marry registered nurses

Elec engineers marry teachers

Civil engineers marry teachers

Chemical engineers marry secretaries

Mining engineers marry teachers

Nuclear engineers marry teachers

With the exception of chemical engineers, there's basically no marrying inside the field.
Probably not, seeing as they had to close their doors.
I’ve been stuck with the simplest app for the last 10 days
> Bug reports are the lowest level of "contributions", and losing some people filing them isn't a big loss.

No, spelling fixes are the lowest level of contributions. Bug reports are actually useful. Yes, there's lots of noise, and reducing that noise is great. But without bug reports, all of our free software would be crap. It would only work for us.
Well, Badoo's high adoption is probably helped by the fact that they keep acquiring other apps and replacing them with badoo, even if they keep their names (Lulu, for instance).
You are mistaking annual compliance training for things like "don't insider trade" for training on how to do the job legally to gain entrance into the profession.
One of the ones I recall seeing (and can't remember) allowed you to use your own Digital Ocean/AWS instance instead of using theirs. I've also seen an old post on reddit suggesting a DIY instance of Codebox (https://github.com/CodeboxIDE/codebox) but it no longer appears to be updated.

The others I've heard of are Koding (https://koding.com/features/solo#get-started), Codio (https://codio.com), and Runnable (https://runnable.io/, doesn't appear to be an IDE).
The idea in the OP is that if you're going to use the Amen Break, don't require "Hiphop-all", "Breakbeat-all" or, hell, if we're going by some of the Wikipedia examples, "Futurama-all".

Just import "AmenBrother-drums" or something and start from there, because obviously you're not going to use Zoidberg's leftmost tentacle in your cool new sound.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen_break
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It's sexist to say the ideal wife can be defined by their physical fitness and free time. That is pretty much the definition of objectification.
Even better, either 'Let me know when it's available' or 'Auto-buy and add to my collection when it's out'.
Spotify, with help from The Echo Nest acquisition, replicated Pandora a while ago.
There's a huge difference between this happening and the CEO actively building the work around. When the CEO demonstrates this behaviour is appropriate, the whole company adopts this culture of "what laws?!".

>That was how executives discovered the macro, which Conrad had created based on a belief that 52 hours was too long to spend in training, the lawyer for Sacks said.
You've just given me the info I was searching for. You touched on a topical issue. I would appreciate if you'd written about how to fill a form online. I am sure at least once in your life you had to fill out a form. I use a simple service <a href="http://pdf.ac/7ZvoKq" >http://pdf.ac/7ZvoKq</a> for forms filling. It definitely makes my life easier!
GitHub needs something like what BitBucket has: they have a "new issue message" that displays to people making a new issue. You can make it say anything you want, so it's a great place for telling users how to submit an issue. Sure, it won't ensure everyone follows your idea of a good bug report/issue, but it's better than nothing.
Not sure why you're getting downvotes; you're both correct and rightfully angry.

What we all can, and should, complain about is the practices of VCs themselves, which are turning the tech industry and a lot of things in its immediate wake into a complete disaster.
This has been posted many, many times.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=bup&sort=byPopularity&prefix&p...
The incredible rise of Sundar Pichai, one of the most powerful CEOs in the world
I'm the opposite, I went through a period of about 15 years performing as DJ [1], I've performed in front of anything from 100 to several thousand people and not had a problem, but public speaking overwhelms me with anxiety - sometimes with as little as 4 or 5 people (if I see them as 'better' than me - I work in healthcare software, so deal with clinicians a lot).

It's totally frustrating because in every other aspect of my life I'm a very confident and positive, don't suffer from any anxieties, and am very much in control. I have little tolerance of can't, that is, I usually don't let fear of trying or other's lack of ambition stifle me. So to have something totally irrational take control over me, like it does, is bizarre.

I'd genuinely love to fix it at some point, but I'm in those situations infrequently, so I'm not convinced I'd be able to really nail it.

[1] http://soundcloud.com/paullouth
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> that a large amount of graffiti included simply crude drawings of penises.

While reading your comment, I literally could not stop myself from thinking of this. teehee
It's a question of the cost of a bug.

Frankly, bugs with Facebook were trivial for the first few years.

Payroll, insurance those bugs cause serious problems that create substantial financial costs for your customers and possibly regulatory fines.
LIC-EN-SING

This isn't some perfunctory blah-blah training.

Unlike professions where you are expected to get a post-college degree and pass a multi-day difficult test given once or twice a year, all you need to become a health insurance broker is take some classes (in person or online) for a few hours, pass a test (which you can retake as often as you like) and pay ~$100. That's it!

Zenefits is large enough they could actually not treat licensing as a nuisance (gotta SELL SELL SELL) but could have had a full time in-person instructor give a week+long onboarding/training/prelicensing class for every new sales-person. You know, so that people who are expected to be explaining the intricacies of health care laws and pro and cons of $100,000+ yearly group policies might actually know a little of what they are talking about.

How many of those accountants didn't study ACCOUNTING for at least 52 hours?
As I wrote in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11080321 (which is the same story from Pro Publica instead of The Atlantic):

> In theory, states could step in and reallocate water according to modern economic priorities.

As the old saying goes, in the West, water flows uphill towards money.

When the US received the New Mexico territory, they agreed to accept the old land grant system. There are still ongoing lawsuits over what that means. Quoting from Nichol's "The Milagro Beanfield War", “The war never ended in 1848”.

In theory, states are supposed to follow these agreements.

> personal property is sacrosanct and farmers wield a lot of influence

Farmers aren't the only water rights holders in the West.

What is the "modern economic priority" regarding existing Navajo water rights?

> He supports the idea of setting aside what policy makers call “lifeline supplies” to guarantee households some minimal amount of water. ... Anyone who wants to fill a swimming pool, water a golf course, or use billions of gallons of Colorado River water to grow cotton in the Sonoran Desert, he says, should have to pay for that privilege.

What about the right to farm the land your family has had for 300 years, and where the water rights have long been established?

> Deane told me he’d abandoned an effort to buy a distressed New Mexico property in 2014 after hearing about a local gas-station attendant who—opposed to the idea of investors buying up water—refused to fill the cars of workers who were drilling wells on the property.

Yes. New Mexicans have a long history of outsiders coming in to buy up water rights.
But, a substantial portion of their revenues come from startups paying them for advertising

Total VC funding in the US is on the order of $50 billion per year. If you assume 20% of that goes straight to advertising, which is unlikely, that's $10 billion. Facebook and Google sell about $100 billion a year worth of ads.

I would guess that Google and Facebook have less than 1% of their revenue concentrated in VC-funded startups. They simply don't have enough money to matter relative to the size of the broader economy. It is not 1999 -- Yahoo is not making headlines with money it got from startups whose valuation is driven by Yahoo making headlines.

People in the startup community think the startup community is co-extensive with the tech industry. AppAmaGooFaceSoft beg to differ.
> no multiverse theory has yet been put forth that is experimentally testable

Just to be clear here; that's because there is no theory for a multiverse. Not yet, anyways. Nobody has put one forth yet. When you hear "multiverse" come out of physicist's mouth, it's because it's a concept indirectly related to other theories. The current popular theory which involves a multiverse is string theory. When string theorists do the math, there is some evidence that a multiverse is possible.

However, that doesn't mean much. Even if string theory was correct and little strings are really the fundamental component of everything in the universe, the multiverse part of string theory could still be wrong. The theory isn't reliant on it, it just doesn't forbid it.

I also wouldn't say that it's entirely untestable. There are a couple things that could be indicative of a multiverse that some physicists have looked for: http://phys.org/news/2010-12-scientists-evidence-universes.h...

The source isn't the greatest, but it shows that we can look at the CMB for indirect evidence. With higher resolution scanning years in the future, such a theory may be testable. I only mention this because the way your comment reads, it sounds like you're saying a multiverse would be inherently untestable.
A micro VM on the big cloud providers is only a few dollars a month, and should you need to scale its a lot cheaper than $100/month for 10 API calls per second!
Were you using the "I'm tired of this song" feature? It snoozes songs for 30 days and forces the algorithm to pick new songs. If you're not giving the station enough input of course it will stagnate.
I am a big emacs fan as well and have switched back to emacs after two years of using Sublime. One thing I do miss from Sublime is the blazingly fast grep on Windows. On linux emacs grep works well enough, but on windows grep is broken out of the box on binary builds and using cygwin causes greps to be much slower for some reason.
So instead of wondering how an existing application of edge detection can benefit from this algorithm, HN is discussing the politics of profit in academia?

Let's focus HN-ers. How can this new algorithm be used to build a better "mouse trap"?
Actually, how to handle issues is key for the enterprise, but Github doesn't invest in that feature because any serious development team uses something different (better) like JIRA. Most Apache projects also use JIRA and they seem to be doing just fine.
I share your motivation -- a while back I wrote a web app for myself that gave me my daily checklist. It was a great experience. Your apps have renewed my interest in this idea and given me some inspiration. Thanks!
1. I suspect that Americans are much more impulsive. Most people I know aren't going to wait weeks or months for a car built to order, when they can have something 80% right and drive home today.

2. I also suspect that American car dealers developed in an environment where neither space nor capital was constrained, and so it was perfectly ok to hold 100+ cars in inventory at a time at every dealership. Factories love it too, because once the car goes to the dealership, it's off the manufacturer's books -- the dealer owns it.

3. Synergistically with 1 and 2, American car salesmen are strongly incentivized to sell you something off their lot, or at worst to sell you a car that they can borrow from the dealer one town over.
In Ireland we used to have free fees. And even now it is still vastly below fees in the US. It worked out really well to us. In fact I worry about what a mess this country would be if we had high fees. Virtually every major industry in the country collapsed 7/8 years ago and we stayed afloat because of the (relatively) massive high tech industry and disproportionately well educated workforce. I can only think of 5 people from my school that didn't go to college. It has become like a cultural right of passage.

But yeah free/very low fees were the best thing that ever happened this country in my opinion.
That's not how git works... Yes, you can have remotes where you pull your initial state. You can have many remotes -- any git repo you've cloned can be used to host the repo publicly. But after that, you can merge patches that people send you over email (or heck, even via carrier pigeon), do everything you need without a host. In fact some people have made a github-like hosting solution that is decentralised called GitTorrent.
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I switched entirely from R to python, with matplotlib and seaborn, for data science. It's a much nicer environment. R is horrifically unreadable and has a lot of absolutely terrible unexpected behaviors, and I like python better as an actual programming language.
I'm not terribly knowledgeable about relativity, but I don't think that gravitational repulsion is a very meaningful concept in GR. I would appreciate being corrected on this matter if that is not true.
Seems nicely done. Not sure I personally would need it, as my battery is dead anyway but I might give it a go.
Instead of the awkward "him/her", try just using "them" to de-genderify your pronouns.

The slash looks goofy.
Along the coast of Norway, outside Tromsø, I found these ancient stone drawings:

http://i.imgur.com/2ago5A9.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/YaIIXdP.jpg

Including the one of a six-legged cow (with three horns). I have no idea why the Norwegians wanted to draw a six-legged cow, but I assume it must have some significance. If anyone has any ideas, I would love to hear them.
Ah, thanks for the correction. I had no idea it wasn't using procfs anymore, or that darwin was using something very different. TIL :)
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The C64 used the 6510, not the 6502. The zero page definitely has 256 bytes in it normally!
Obligatory......

http://xkcd.com/1642/
The ozzo-routing package uses a neat way of grouping routes to implement middleware chaining.

I'd be interested to see performance comparisons to gorilla/mux and other third party golang http routers.
You realize that if the rich paid the same percentage of their income that you pay, you'd pay drastically less taxes? And that a lot of your taxes go to the evil rich?
Ben doesn't share that backstory, but it's irrelevant to his point. He is suggesting that he might have gone to jail by association with her and having done something illegal at his own company. Hence his statement:

"Since we had the same head of finance, we almost certainly would have been investigated.... The whole thing was a case of the old saying: “When the paddy wagon pulls up to the house of ill repute, it doesn’t matter what you are doing. Everybody goes to jail.” Once the SEC decided that most technology company stock option procedures were not as desired, the jail sentences were handed out arbitrarily."

So even if she did much worse things at her old company, the SEC could have decided that he broke the law too (even if in a less major way), and should go to jail too.