skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That universities are expensive social clubs, and have a monopoly on the certification process are not mutually exclusive. The certification is a stamp of approval from the expensive social club. The value of certifications vary wildly depending on how exclusive the social club.
Open Standards, Move Over
I think this problem comes from something a little deeper. The U.S. is still very classist, giving prestige to "white collar" jobs, and considering "blue collar" work to be inferior. I think college education is often thought of as a means to "white collar" work.

Anecdotally, I think these tides may be slowly changing. I feel like a lot of people are beginning to see the value in craft (bakers, mechanics, carpenters, beer brewers, etc.)
Costs have increased a ton, so unless the quality has also increased a ton, it doesn't seem crazy to expect a "best in the world" education for substantially less money.

And the whole non-computer world matters a lot, here. Most people go their entire lives without ever having the means to buy two high-end cars. Start paying that when you're 18 and the cost of financing goes up substantially, too.
Good idea. I've used ratemyprofessor and wondered why schools don't just create a more transparent system of providing more info about the professors (not necessarily ratings)
> People aren't stupid for not knowing they can have malware on them.

Yeah, USB vulnerability is an unsolved issue, people are generally uneducated about computer security and this thing ought to be common knowledge.
Node 6.0 is also supposed to come out in late April [1], targeting v8 5.0, which IIRC corresponds to Chrome 50 on the compatibility table. Not quite as nice as the Chrome 52 release, but still covers most of the ES6 features I actually use.

FF48 and Edge 14 don't do so badly either. If you drill down into their missing test cases, it's largely features that few people care about.

[1] https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5766
I'm really getting sick of seeing micro-usb devices shipping in 2016. C is vastly better, the cables and chargers are available, and my god the reversability is a godsend. Almost all my devices are either the current ipad connector or usb-C. Going back to non-reversable connectors is fairly ridiculous. Worse, until more OEMs get on board, we won't be able to get cables and chargers at retail stores. My wife just had this issue with losing her 5X charger and being unable to find the cable anywhere convenient while on a trip.

Also, the short-sightedness of the EU legislating semi-voluntary micro-usb support is asinine. Of course new standards would eventually unseat that connector. How much political inertia needs to be overcome in Europe now due to this?
Of course my profile pic is a chosen ideal of myself. But you know i chose it and it depicts how I want to be seen. This says much more about me, than me monday morning or after a long of work, bored, alone, with the worst lighting conditions (blueish light from my mobile screen from below and neon lights from too far above).
To anyone interested in this sort of development from a general standpoint I can recommend The Brain That Changes Itself.
>Atom is a great example of an editor that is aware of the internet existing. Vim, while my daily driver, is not.

In what way?
How so? As far as I can tell, the mortgage interest tax deduction only "benefits" those buying houses expensive enough for the interest to exceed the standard deduction (or who itemize for other reasons).

And it doesn't even benefit them, because all buyers in the market can afford x% "more house" and hence the housing gets bid up by exactly that amount.
Redux-async-queue
In what sense is it okay? What does "okay" mean? Responding to an action with a life prison sentence doesn't scream "okay".
2016 Walk to End Lupus Now, Crown Point
It makes glad about my zero-photos-of-me-on-the-Internet policy.

Also, the neural net may return a certain percent of false positives and there may be no particular way for this guy to tell. The impact is small here and would be larger in other circumstances.
Fun. Johnny555 is right of course, and it was the Jeep hacked on the Interstate last year that first inspired me. The airplane scenario may be more likely, but I liked the additive nature of so many cars, cars a bit like insects. (You could go further in this direction by conjuring up multiple drone swarms.)

As to movie points: of course Will Smith is the hero, and we'll handle DC rush hour stasis through special effects. ;-)
> This is a really, really surprising post for Sam to write

It's actually not surprising if you follow YC and HN for any length of time. The prevailing tone coming from sama, pg, and the mods at HN is that:

- They and they alone are in a position to speak on behalf of all of "Silicon Valley".
- They are above the law (see for example all of the mental backflips and excuses given regarding AirBnB's clear-cut and widespread facilitation of lawbreaking).

You can see this arrogance peeking out here and there, such as the now-deleted statement you highlighted (side note: isn't it also incredibly arrogant to think that they can simply delete things from the internet and pretend they never said them?). It feels like it's been happening more and more lately. I expect that in the absence of any kind of reality check, it will continue to come out more and more.
I gave it a statue of Joan of Arc and it thinks it is a motorcycle mirror with a neutral expression...
Greater Cholesterol lowering increases the risk of death
Take a look at hitta.se or eniro.se

Basically, an online phonebook, with reverse lookup, addresses, birthdays, neighborhood data, ...
Not surprisingly, if its training material was scraped from the web, it is biased toward cats, as my experiment also indicated:

http://imgur.com/z4zQLzz
"SocialScam" ftfy
I live in LA and have had actor friends tell me that being in the screen actors guild is not very helpful unless you are lucky enough to get a regular role on a series or a big role in a movie. If you're still climbing the ladder, there aren't enough jobs that are union jobs to make it worthwhile. They extra money you make from them is offset by how few of them you're able to get. It sounds similar to our field where there are some high-profile high-paying jobs, but the majority are not those.
I'm not sure how a user can possibly resolve conflicts when 2 libraries are using 2 incompatible versions of some other library. Those need the versions they depend on.

You might not want multiple versions of Angular in your script bundle but multiple versions of small modules like an "extend" doesn't matter much.

But whether it's good or bad isn't really relevant, if you think that people are going to throw out the npm workflow because it doesn't fit into script type=module's semantics I think you're going to be disappointed. More likely they'll just not use script type=module (except perhaps after bundled).
How do you outsource an electrician, or a carpenter?

I have no idea. But a few years ago, you could have said the same about truck or taxi drivers - and now it seems feasible that those jobs will be automated away in ten years.

For electricians, you could imagine that IoT/home automation tech will change a lot: Home electrics could become more complex and more locked-down, requiring additional qualifications. In the worst case, independent electricians could find themselves in a similar situation that independent car repair shops are today.

Or a company like TaskRabbit could employ their own electricians/plumbers/carpenters/etc... (at worse conditions) and decide to roll up the market.

Those are wild guesses. But my point is that jobs may change quickly in the future. having a broad education and additional qualifications gives you a better chance to deal with "disruption" in your area.

I disagree with rhetoric that implies if you don't go to college, you are a second class citizen.

That's not what I wanted to tell. But I don't think we are in a position to decide that. And I don't think it's correct to simply assume that college education plays no role and to conclude from that assumption that it's OK if certain people never get the choice to go to college.
That a lot of job postings make a mistake does not mean you must duplicate it on your resume.

Most places (and probably all places that aren't incompetently managed/places you would want to work at) do not filter resumes on the basis of "Our posting said 5+ years of C++ and nowhere on this resume does it say C++ - X Years! Rejected!". If you break your resume down along the lines of "At FooBar Corp I was directly responsible for frobnitzing the blahblahblah with C++", "At Quux Labs my primary achievement was using C++ to cromlify the flux capacitor" etc, most places won't even bother to total up the years involving a given technology.

X Years with Y are a vague wishlist item that job posting writers unthinkingly cargocult around as a rough signal of whether they want a junior engineer or someone more senior. Don't give them too much thought, never let them convince you to disqualify yourself from a job without applying, and definitely don't cargocult along with them.
You're right, I meant to post this: https://aneconomicsense.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/minimum-...

Also, I don't mean to imply that these events correlate. I was simply saying we have data that shows how these two things correlate. (There is no strong correlation between the two)

https://aneconomicsense.org/2013/03/06/the-impact-of-increas...
I don't think that is true. Intellectual property has value associated with it, and if it hasn't been transferred/compensated then they have some implied ownership.

Specific clauses of a vesting agreement, however, are not implied or 'owed' by default.
Pricing is a difference. But we also think our UX is easier, in general, and a better fit for project, design, and engineering meetings. We made lots of little UI choices that we think add up to a different level of ease and productivity. Here are the big things:

We support two TVs (if you have two), and two simultaneous screen shares.

Our hardware has WiFi, in addition to Ethernet.

You control a Pluot box using your phone or laptop. So our "software remote control" always shows you only options that make sense for whatever the state of the Pluot call is, at the moment. There's no remote control to learn or lose. And we can continually update the "software remote control" to improve and simplify things.

Hangouts can be futzy because of how Google thinks about identity. It's pretty common for people to have trouble getting calendar invites and joining meetings because they have multiple email addresses but the Google Apps/Hangouts don't treat all of those email addresses equally. We opted for a "no sign in" approach, after doing a lot of user testing. Calendar integration and "identity" is great, when it works, but a real pain when it doesn't. Google's tight integration of Hangouts, Apps, and sign-in is a double edged sword.
Ask HN: What Laptop Is the Best for Web Development?
Hi there, I want to buy a laptop for the purpose of Web Development. mainly. Front-end and Back-end both. I can't seem to pick one. I see a lot of developers using MacBook Pro and some use HP and a system such as Linux etc.

What laptop would you recommend me for web development? I want a laptop with high speed performance, good space, long battery life and is not so expensive.

I don't mind paying for a MacBook Pro but is it really worth it if I want to buy for Web Development?

I'm so looking forward to hear from you guys. :)
That doesn't seem like it would work at all. The makeup and hair styles suggested would make you stand out even more! Sure, 1990s-style facial recognition won't work as reliably, but surely today's systems would flag you right away!
US involvement in regime change: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

35 countries where the U.S. has supported fascists, drug lords and terrorists:

http://www.salon.com/2014/03/08/35_countries_the_u_s_has_bac...

How U.S. Economic Warfare Provoked Japan’s Attack on Pearl Harbor :
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1930

A timeline of CIA atrocities:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/a-timeline-of-cia-atrocities/53...

>The fact of the matter is that we rely on oil from the middle east and we are always going to get involved there because it is in our national interests.

Are you so proud of your governments being greedy thieves? Go on then. Continue being arrogant dicks to the planet. It is fair game then that you reap what you sow.

As for WW2, Russia won Berlin. The Eastern Front was orders of magnitude more violent and more destructive to human lives than what Western allies fought for.

As for Asia, if the US had left Korea alone Koreans would have gotten rid of the Kim dynasty by 1980. You fail to remember that South Korea was a dictatorship as well until the eighties.

You also fail to remember that unlike the divided Korean peninsula, Vietnam remained whole because the Communists that you were so scared of won that war. Against the USA. And now the Vietnamese government are also your trade partners.

As for the Middle East, their problems have everything to do with you. From your unconditional support of the blatant theft of territory and resources and the atrocities committed by Israel in Palestine, to the overthrowing of the democratically elected government of Iran which led to extremists taking power there, to the Iran Iraq war where you sold weapons to both sides, to the war against Iraq which gave rise to ISIS, to the war against the Syrian government which strengthened ISIS, you are responsible for EVERYTHING. Every dead body, every lost opportunity for millions of children, that's all on you.

I'm done. Monsters.
Yes this is really the best course on calculus I've ever run across thank you so much for this amazing guide!
Yes, Herb Sutter's blog regarding C99.

https://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-an...

The new C runtime library was re-written in C++ with extern "C" for the entry points.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2014/06/10/the-great...

Vista introduced support for C++ in the kernel

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj620896(v=vs.110)....
According to this comment (https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/4dybvk/i_think_i_di...) the bearded man doesn't do anything during other fights, so this is not a random animation.
US regulators want to bar Elizabeth Holmes from Theranos for 2 years
Based on her twitter it seems like she's right on the young side of the NYT's demographic, which is definitely older than HN's demographic.
I do due diligence for a living (for PE and VC) and you'd be surprised how little diligence is done in VC and when it's done, how much is often missed. Especially in VC when the model is a portfolio approach it's usually not worth the burden.
Yeah, somewhat surprisingly, I find myself sympathizing with Jeremy in this situation (which is not necessarily to say he is in the right; we have very few actual details about the case, so all opinion is fueled purely on personal bias and not on the actual facts, which could substantially change the commentary).

Everyone else in SV, especially guys like sama, is making money hand over fist for doing practically nothing. Sometimes it feels very bad when you're not part of the group collecting free money. I know I feel left out sometimes and wonder I'm not out there nourishing my own magical unicorn that hemorrhages investor money as fast as it gets it while simultaneously being lauded as a visionary. I haven't pursued that because I don't feel it's moral to run a company the way SV people run companies, but my moral reservations have been proven naive before.

It's completely plausible that Jeremy left for a legitimate reason and it's completely plausible that although he was only there a short time, he contributed substantially to the roadmap that took Cruise to acquisition. He should receive some compensation for that, if that is indeed the case. Even if he only did it for a month, it's a lot more than the VCs do. Why is Sam Altman entitled to money from this company but a cofounder who worked for one month isn't? I understand the legal argument that ensures sama will make money on this no matter how much or little one believes he may deserve it, but what about the moral argument that the people who contributed to and built the actual product should be entitled to the majority of its profits?

I guess it just feels bad that Sam Altman feels the need to come out and "defend" a Cruise cofounder's right to deprive another cofounder of some at least semi-legitimately earned equity. Jeremy definitely came closer to the startup lottery in this one than most of us will, and Altman, who controls the startup lottery, doesn't want to let him get anything (because he and his compatriots want it for themselves instead).
Sure, but it will literally take an act of Congress to cause an exemption.

The only time I can think of it happening previously was during the housing meltdown. Normally a short sale/walking away from a house results in a 1099 for the unpaid mortgage principle. It was waived for a year or two. (There was no attempting for "how" the money was spent. So loading up on toys and not paying the mortgage was a strategy that got rewarded (assuming you enjoy the stress of default.))
Legitimate question: is this actually legal? On the surface, it appears to violate anti-discrimination laws with regard to hiring. I'm not sure if these apply to contractors, but I would think so.
Well, that and anti-development policies that result in a complete undersupply of housing. Opening up more housing supply would alleviate that inflationary pressure---so I'm wondering what the analogue is here, from a policy perspective.
> The lead investigators of the trial, noted scientists Ancel Keys and Ivan Frantz, are deceased.

No wonder.
> That said, the Ubuntu setup had one bug that still cracks me up from time to time. I have two monitors, one of them rotated 90°. Sometimes I would get two cursors, one of them rotated 90° and shifted to the side by ~1cm.

I had that one too. From memory it was fixed in 15.04.
Ex-Darpa Head Regina Dugan Leaves Google for Facebook
In the comments to my application, I addressed the need to be significantly better and clarified that we did market research to ensure that what we communicate fits. While my application is in the top five, I've received feedback that it would have fared much better had I more given more confidence that the feature set can be delivered.

I also addressed the conservative nature of the market but maybe what you don't realize is that this is a tremendous pain point for developers and businesses. We already have customers and we're not out of alpha yet. The reason there are so many high valuation exits of nascent database companies (Compose, Firebase, FoundationDB) is another sign of the value of making progress towards those ends. I think the more you learn about databases and their market, the more nuanced view you will have. It's exciting and I would encourage you to learn more.
NBA-approved wearables may hit courts soon
Well, I'm already a sysadmin. So it's already pulling me up!

> You may want to extend your skillset to other (non-tech) areas, as long as it makes you happy.

That's what I'm trying to do, but it takes a conscious effort.
> However, in this instance a previously-unseen software bug was triggered, and instead of retaining the previous known good configuration, the management software instead removed all GCE IP blocks from the new configuration and began to push this new, incomplete configuration to the network.

Always test your crash / exception handling / special case termination+recovery code in production.

I have seen this too often. Most often in in "every day" cases when service has a "nice" catch way of stopping and recovering. Then has a separate "if killed by SIGKILL/immediate power failure" crash and recovery. This last bit never gets tests and run in production.

One day power failure happens, service restart and tries to recover. Code that almost never runs, now runs and the whole thing goes into an unknown broken state.
There is a 13" Sony DPT-S1 reader that is made for technical documents. The only use case is reading somewhere outside for me, I would else prefer a tablet.
Interesting I wasn't aware of it. A bit pricey though.
I read the full details of a Monsanto-vs-farmer court case not that long ago that sounded a lot like the one you describe.

If we're talking about the same case, the missing part of the story is that the farmers knew they had Monsanto seeds mixed in to their crop and then intentionally isolated those seeds and replanted only those seeds for the next year. Specifically, they sprayed with pesticides that kill "organic" crops but that Monsanto crops are engineered to be immune to, for the purpose of having genetically-engineered seeds for the next season without paying the required licensing fee.

Maybe it's not the same case. But it's worth being aware that people do present their side of a case in the most positive light, even when they're clearly in the wrong when all of the evidence is revealed. (This could apply to either side in this dispute, FWIW.)
The rough framing business has gotten a lot more productive over the years. Nail guns and now precut lumber or factory made sub-assemblies or whatever.

A computer can do a lot of the pre-cutting.
Bank can delay payments for few years to avoid that scenario: no payments -> no bankruptcy.
I'm sorry, but this

>* Make their own decisions on what to eat.

is totally unacceptable when you're "making a decision" to enslave, torture, murder, and consume a sentient, feeling creature.
No need for the images to be public. A police state could match images taken by street CCTV to e.g. the drivers license database and track the citizenry in real time.

You could easily reduce the search space to match a face taken by a CCTV camera by using cell phone location data to limit it to people in the general area...
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> do you write JS code professionally?

I'm not.

> the ecosystem is pretty crazy.

I agree. I guess my point is, people should treat js with more respect, it is a powerful language after all.
The lack of standards for sure makes it difficult to learn for beginners like me.
It's misleading to quote only the tuition number. Most people will have to pay for lodging, food, and other necessities, so those numbers are the better ones to use.
Outrageous! I thought we learned that nobody's "disabled" just "differently abled" and they can do _anything_! Why, then, forgive their debts!?
I understand, I think it was explained fairly well. I'm just saying that since the super punch event appears to be an event that is not necessarily random (granted it does to me from memory without researching it), I don't agree that it could be tied to another event that is seemingly random. I guess my main question is whether the super punches are indeed random or the result of conditions with randomness mixed in. If it is fully random, then I agree your explanation is possible. If it is not, then the head nod event should happen occasionally outside of the super punch event.
The link I gave, and others, repeatedly didn't work when I tried them, but now they seem to work!