skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel lucky that my college offers a robotics club (of which I surprisingly, even to me, a turn to man for circuits to solve interesting problems) and a IEEE student branch, which is one of the most active in my section. Apart from that there is always the magazine which is run by students independently.

Boy, if these things were not around I would have died of boredom. There is just so much to do, organize workshops take part in projects. We even opened another club so we can encourage new projects. I am in center of all this and am just in the first year. Sometimes it feels too much to do, and also maintain and improve my grades, but I think all this has made me more mature as well as professional.

One of the main advantages of joining clubs like IEEE is that you get to know other people from different colleges also. Now when I enter other student branch colleges I have a plethora of contacts who can help me.
Yeah, I meant those were additional features. We used a similar setup on Rackspace Cloud, though not as refined (or as secure imo). Tornado really lends itself well to a dyno type arrangement. We used nginx for load balancing and automatic frontend resolution, probably in a similar way as Heroku. Thanks for the tip though, interesting read.

Talking to some other Pythonistas, there didn't seem to be much desire for a Heroku-equivalent system though - most ppl enjoy rolling their own deployments.
I counter this with another question: how many startup bosses/founders transparently discuss with their employees how much money they've left in the bank and how much longer they can actually meet payroll. Usually they tell you this like maybe a month before but there are always signs if you look for them :)
you can't get the college experience of college by being a part-time student

even at parties, townies, part-time students, mature students...they're like lice, no one wants to deal with them because its assumed they greased into the school without having to face the same rigor as full-time applicants
Recurly, Chargify, Spreedly, et al don't actually handle the merchant account for you so you still need an account at Authorize.net or similar.
A dick-map! Great!

This needs statistics: dicks per square kilometre, dicks per million inhabitants …

Edit: There is a surprisingly low number of dicks in this map. Lots of bored teenagers/mid-twenties.
This gives a little background and might help answer some of your questions (I have similar questions to yours): http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=24413138919
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the only downside would be if you are reusing the same javascript code on another page, this would cause the browser to download it again each time. if it's in a separate js file, the browser will (probably) cache it and make for a shorter download of each subsequent page.
Apparently I too am among a small and very lucky minority. I don't even have a high school degree. I did spent a lot of time hanging around my local university though, hacking on their computers on the sly. I had a great time, learned a lot, and met the people who are still my best friends today. Consider going and auditing some classes that sound interesting, that way you get to participate in the college lifestyle but not spend a fortune.
You sound somewhat like me. I coded a huge amount before college. So much so that like you I felt it would be a waste of time to be a CS major. So I took Mechanical Engineering. It is far harder than CS and will certainly give you a challenge. There are complimentary majors (econ, bio, finance, chem E, electrical E, physics, math) you could choose from. Either way you will come out knowing far more math and science that will allow you to do some really cool CS stuff after if thats what you want to do.

I minored in CS and so just took some of the more advanced classes, a graduate class on computer graphics, a grad class on computer vision, one on mechatronics, one on Lisp. I don't think I would have been able to learn that stuff as rigorously without a professor. The other courses I would recommend - Operating Systems and Compilers will teach you a LOT. I passed on them but I know people who took them and got a lot out of them.

Also about your free time, I know it seems like you are pressed for it right now but college is only 4 years. You wil graduate at 22 and have 43+ years of a career. I work 60-80 hours a week on school stuff and find plenty of time for my own side projects, partying, I was even on a sports team for 3 years. You can do it (you don't sleep much though unlike in the movies where everyone sleeps until 3pm). After graduation I'm going to be working exactly 40, max 50, with a 5 minute commute. Thats it. I'm going to have so much free time to do my side projects that I don't mind missing out on them for the last 4 years when I learned so many other things.
Does that cemetery happen to be dead center in the middle of LA?
This is a side projects I started a long time ago (my first JQuery project) and never had time to finish.

Also it is far from being complete, I've decided to release it. Let me know what you think of it, any bug or problem.

Thanks

BTW, I should mention my number one missing feature IMHO is a to do a sort on the domain names found.
What are you willing to tell us about your revenue model and profitability?

I have used your search a few times and like it. Just haven't committed it to muscle memory yet ;). Where is the Chrome plugin that uses duckduckgo instead of google? firefox plugin?
It says something interesting that he can so easily go from making 'six figures' to nothing.

If we exclude the 'blame the economy' explanation, then it seems to me that either:

a) he was never worth 6 figures in the first place; or

b) he has contacted only companies that could have no use for him; or

c) he has contacted companies not covered by b) and they have all made six-figure-scale mistakes by not offering him a job.

My cynicism inclines me to a).
Someone should code up a Firefox plugin that pops up a map with a dot on the person you're chatting with.
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Okay, I don't know about chatroullete anymore. I just came across (on the OP) a girl doing naughty naughty things... maybe this has already been considered, but what if she's not of age? Am I now guilty of possessing kiddie porn? The way current laws are written and enforced, who knows...
College is the new high school. It's a requirement. Not having a college degree will be a crutch for the rest of your life. To level the playing field, its pretty much required to have a college degree.
Actually, require_once is strictly server-side.

It will determine if the file has been included at anytime during that process and only include it if it wasn't previously there. This is a little slower than a direct include() because of the table look up first.

This could be causing it to render slow if you use 'require_once' a lot for the processing of your page. In your example, the lookups could cause your page to load slower. Note that if you type in your javascript via HTML no other processing is done as its treated as part of a text block.

Now with some context, to speed up the load of the page you should use include() instead of require_once. You must insure that this has only happened once per file during the processing of the request, or it will include that code again. This could cause a class redefinition error or bootstrap code to be run more than once.

If keeping track of that stuff gets tricky - its a sign that your PHP program is not structured enough to determine request-flow. Look into interfacing through a dispatcher and brush up on MVC best-practices.

I hope I was of help :)

Edit: After re-reading the question I realized I was answering the wrong question but this is probably a good tidbit about PHP so I'll elect to leave it. The other responders are right on in this case.
Someone needs to expand upon this and make a blog post out of it. I, as a non-sysadmin, feel like I got an education after having read just these few points, but that's just made me feel even more ignorant than before. :/
So I zoom in my geographic area and there's these two points on the map. One is this like 60 year old guy looking at his computer. His neighbor however is masturbating. Imagine if it were my neighbor. Guess it's not so anonymous anymore.
Can't this be done in a non-obtrusive way? Not every site that uses analytics has this type of annoying behavior, so I'm left wondering what additional value they get by overriding onclick.
I agree that school can be tedious as all hell. But the UW CSE program didn't feel like school at all; it was a blast.
Let me ask, seriously - I've done a lot of looking into it, and I'm at this point firmly convinced that socialism is a bad thing.

Really. Have you defined what is and is not socialism in a rigorous, non-subjective manner? Have you conducted empirical studies? Run computer simulations based on behavioral models? Published detailed quantitative predictions based on your understanding of economics? What objective means would you use to test the proposition "socialism is a bad thing"? What scenarios might someone who disagrees with you consider very likely that you would consider very unlikely?

This idea of being "firmly convinced" regarding a question of economics is quite novel, so I'm curious how you've come to it.
And then if someone's doing something nasty just freak them out by telling them their address!
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It's "Godaddy", and not "Godady".
There is. After you flag something, the link that used to say "flag" changes to "unflag".
Not to freak you out or anything, but that may not work out as planned. I have a good friend who had an Associate's in CS from a community college, and got into the Cornell School of Engineering. He flunked out, applied to get back in, flunked out again, applied to get back in, and was rejected. He then got his B.A. in history from Ithaca College.

University of Washington is a good school, and tough. I'm not saying this is going to happen to you, but community college can be a very different place from a top 4 year university.

Also, will your transfer credits count towards your major, or as prerequisites? In many cases, they do not. You may find that despite having enough credits to be a junior, in order to satisfy the requirements of your major you may have to stay at least 3 years (i.e. having a set of 6 mandatory courses to take in which 5 have the previous semester's course as a prerequisite).
Wish we were using BrainTree, as evidenced by a coworker exclaiming that he found a bug in their dev sandbox, and they fixed it in a few minutes and sent him a nice email thanking him. So, anecdotally, they sound great.

Authorize.Net is otherwise stable, though poorly documented, and works when their datacenter isn't on fire.
Perhaps he should have saved something besides rewards points when he was making 6 figures?

It would however make an intriguing plot point in some dystopian movie where everyone's retirement savings plans have been replaced by reward points from various big companies. Be a good consumer all your life and retire happy!
Is this for real or did I just read an article from the Onion?
In a second and real answer to your question, the file should only require the second HTTP request the first time. Any subsequent inclusions of that file won't go to the server to get it.

The downside is it makes each page bigger. If isn't a real small javascript file, you are adding all those bytes to each request. In this case, it would require more bandwidth to transfer the entire page at the same speed.
I found co-founders and first employees in my university (UF). Gates, Jobs, Zuckerberg, Brin&Page, etc all started and found co-founders in school. (whether you decide to drop out later or not)

I recommend something you have a personal interest with, not necessarily something you think you may need for your career. I ended up with a political science degree, but learned all the useful tech startup things by doing, mentors and online (wikipedia and blogs)
I'm pretty sure drunkenness contributed more to being an asshole than clumsy driving in this case.
Are they counting welfare and government subsidies as income? I think not.
...where are all the Russian users?
Metalab should have solved this through private channels instead of in front of everyone.
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Hi sam191,

I'm currently still in college, so I guess I understand a little about your dilemma. However, I am not from the US (from Singapore), so my situation might be slightly different.

Since I'm currently in my final year, I appreciate my education a lot more than before. There are so many fundamentals that I wish I had spent more time on, that are coming back to haunt me now. (P.S. I'm in engineering=))

School gives you an opportunity to meet smart people that forms your future team. You'll be surprised how many projects get started in college. It's pretty difficult to meet people like that randomly. School gives you a chance to work with people so that you can find out what kind of team player you are, your own personal strengths and weaknesses.

Study what you really like and try to be damn good at it.

I'm just starting to learn programming, but I think most people would acknowledge that combining knowledge from other fields makes you better in the field that you choose to specialize in. You also get access to teachers who can guide you along the difficult parts when you get stuck. Find good teachers, and you might not find school a waste of time. =)

School provides resources that are relatively freely available for you to take advantage of. There are funding schemes, equipment, computers, a captive audience to test on, an alumni network, overseas opportunities..

It's really up to you how you manage your time during those 4 years. If you are as smart as I think you are, you would realise that school gives you a lot of assets that you can leverage on easily. If you have been always under-challenged, maybe you should try taking the advanced modules available.

School is not a direct path to a dull job at a large company. You still choose what you want to do at every stage of your education/life.

Unfortunately, to be a founder, you need multiple skillsets which you can only achieve either by being extremely multi-talented or by forming a team.

Lastly, you might end up not knowing what you don't know if you don't go to school formally.
Ask HN: Your opinion on GWT vs raw JS
Im considering starting a new web app and want to know more about GWT vs just Javascript (GWT compiles Java to Javascript). Does GWT offer productivity gains over just using JS? Any tips on using GWT?
I disagree, they're augmenting the current impact of a super-human level of concentration displayed by an "uberhacker" by giving the fruits of that capacity to everyone. Automating a super-human level of concentration in one part of the development process will free up brain cycles for use elsewhere. The best developers won't instantly cease to be the best developers because of a mind-mapping IDE.
I have friends who are very smart, decided to Fore-go college and opted for a career. They turned out weird.

Remember, College is not an all day, all night venture like High school is. You can book your schedule to go to class only 2-3 days a week and the rest of your days you can spend programming at a Startup or for yourself.

If you think college will be a waste of time, you should re-think how you are approaching it. Don't major in CS and just take classes that generally interest you. Get an edge on programmers in areas where they like such as finance, communications, english, etc. Become well rounded, it's a better way to live.

Lastly, college is an awesome place to meet girls. At the college i went to, there is some crazy stat that 70% of the students end up marrying someone that went to the school. It's a lot harder meeting girls in the real world. Let me rephrase that, meeting quality girls. The best of the crop get picked off in college. Seriously, it's true. Good luck Sam!
Web log, March 10th. Today I have become 29kyu. I still lose to my sensei with 13 handicap stones, despite the fact that these are tutoring games. May God have mercy on my soul.
The terms of loans so advantageous, and there are so many scholarships and financial aid opportunities which don't require repayment. The majority of students don't pay anywhere near full price at expensive private colleges. And the returns, on average, more than pay for the cost.

I went to a school which ran around $40k a year at the time, half of which the school paid for me on my behalf, purely based on financial need not scholarship. I worked hard, got a bunch of outside scholarships, and then landed a TA job my final year which paid for my final year of school. I graduated with around $40k in debt, which I've barely made a dent in two years later, but it's obviously the best money I've ever spent.

For one, I met my cofounders there, and started a company that I love working at. I also learned how to program. I went in to school never having written anything other than a calculator app for my TI 83. Maybe I could have learned everything I did on my own, but I doubt it would have been as effective or as efficient.

Your posts in this thread have been spot on.
Arguments about subjects involving real depth tend to be confusing when people misuse the terminology.
it wasnt really answering my question but this is definitely information that will help me improve the efficiency of my coding. thanks!
I'd really like a generic app store backend/framework that I can drop on a server and with a little glue code use it to serve apps to whatever platform I want (desktop, mobile, web-enabled TV...). In other words, it would be cool to commoditize the app store concept, like OSes and frameworks are now. I could use it for my current project, or maybe I'll make such a system if I can't find one and/or my current project proves infeasible.
I feel the same way about drunk assholes shooting the caprocks off of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasha-Katuwe_Tent_Rocks_Nationa...
Ad hominem isn't always a fallacy. Now, I don't know if this analysis of the author is necessarily accurate, but it smacks of plausibility to me because I've seen it before. As people, both men and women, remain single as they get older, they grow more and more accustomed to thinking almost entirely about their own concerns. This kind of self-focus makes it harder and harder to establish and maintain relationships. If you can't get your focus off yourself and off "the relationship" and onto the other person, you're going to have a hard time finding any lasting relationship at all.
University gives you two benefits:

1. Free time. You will never have as much time to hack and experiment with stuff as you do now.

2. Other people who also have lots of free time and similar interests.

Honestly, the people you meet in all night hacking sessions, bull sessions and such, are the biggest reason to stick with college.

My advice: regard the classes as ammunition for your real education that occurs usually in the wee morning over pizza and a keyboard.
I think you could get well into the "people are paying money for this service" stage of a hosted Django hosting platform without ever having to touch C. Python is fast enough to do most of the systems-level programming you'd need for such a beast, especially since so much of the standard library (socket, struct, asyncore, subprocess) sits directly on top of the fast POSIX syscalls you'd be invoking to do the same work in C anyway.

Going down to the metal may help squeeze the last 10-20% out of your hardware, but the the really interesting and challenging work in coming up with a scalable hosting platform is elsewhere: security, monitoring, process spawning/reaping, deployment, et. al. If working in Python gives you a time-to-market advantage, then go for it. You can hire a C hacker when you have enough business to make the improvement in your hardware utilization efficiency pay off.
Since coffeescript was mentioned, the Ruby andand library is also frequently mentioned when this comes up. (I only ruby for Rake).
Not everyone is a machiavellian networking pro. Some people just show up, do the job, and go home.
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We use Chase Paymentech, but probably switching to BrainTree after speaking to them several times.
EDIT: tl; dr: the people who made this want you know it isn't ready for prime time.

Hey folks, Jonah here from the Almanac. Although Aditya very kindly published our survey, it's still rough as everyone here has pointed out. We assumed it wasn't going to be seen by too many people at this stage, but of course one should always be careful publishing information to the web, especially about something as contentious as global warming. However, given that it IS now out in the open, I might as well take this opportunity to respond to people's thoughts.

The main thing I would caution is that part of the point of this survey is how inadequate six questions is to cover a persons' footprint (thus that huge other). The main service we want to develop goes into a lot more detail about peoples' consumption, and will track this information automatically.
I presume this site is created by the Chatroulette people themselves, as surely they'd be the only ones with access to the IPs of users?

[Edit: Just tried Wireshark with chatroulette and you can see the UDP packets going to/from the other user, I guess this isn't always the case if you're both behind NAT gateways]
Day care? The wife either works or she doesn't. In the latter case, day care is unnecessary. In the former case, you've got enough extra money for day care.

As for food, I eat far better than beans and rice, and I probably only spend about $150/month (ignoring restaurants). I'm a 100kg man who eats a lot. $500/month is easily plausible for a family which does not have large teenage children. (This of course assumes a non-working wife to prepare food from scratch, but again, if the wife works, more money to play with.)
Chicago's pretty dead, too.
They look great - but - seems that they require a US presence
I don't see what the big deal is. We already fingerprint people when they're arrested. This seems like the natural extension of that. Why should law enforcement not be allowed to keep up with advances in technology?

Looking at past histories of many crimes, both solved and unsolved, there are many cases where, had the technology been there and DNA been available, it would have greatly aided in both convicting and clearing individuals of the crimes they had been charged with.

Yes, you can get "more information" from DNA than you can a fingerprint. Big deal. 99% of the time it wouldn't matter, and for those rare instances where it would, we can create laws and regulations on how that information is used.
I'd actually say that Leo is horrible except for the one feature that makes it amazing (outlines). I find myself wanting to implement outlines in Vim but knowing I never will.
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His Twitter account: http://twitter.com/HomelessThomOC

When I was reading the article I thought "Now if it were me I'd try to avoid branding myself as homeless, as I don't really think that helps one land a high-paying job and eventually you're going to be Nr. Used-To-Be-Homeless, but maybe he'll be able to spin it in such a Purple Cow manner that it could actually help."

The Purple Cow angle seems to be a wee bit underutilized.
If you're looking for a Canadian company, look to Beanstream:

http://beanstream.com/

They're based out of Victoria, BC - my hometown! They're supposed to be good, although I can't speak from personal experience.