skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure that Windows Forms in C# is still pretty lenient in this regard. It'll give you an .exe file that, if you only reference a single project in your solution, you can copy directly onto a target machine and run. If you're referencing multiple projects, it'll compile DLLs from them and you'll need to copy over those as well.

I love Windows Forms for prototyping stuff for this reason. There's much less overhead and GUI prototyping is super fast. It falls apart if you have a complex application that needs to be maintained over time by multiple people, but it's great for just getting some simple task done. I think the current generation of web programmers miss out on some really useful tools by always thinking in terms of client/server. It's not always that you want or need a webapp to solve your problem.
I doesn't actually matter whether what you do is illegal or not. What matters is whether the SEC or, more likely, a DA/AG thinks they can benefit from charging you.

Exhibit 1: Preet Bharara's misguided pursuit of US v Newman: http://www.wsj.com/articles/bhararas-supreme-court-miss-1444...

Even the Supremes are itching for a good case to clarify the law: http://www.wsj.com/articles/scalias-insider-trading-invitati...
Yeah you are right... I didn't take into account if there is more than one element with that class, I was just trying to show that jQuery should not be the default solution when the language itself provides one
I read this when it was first published and while it's impressive for sure this is easily overlooked:

> Decades earlier, in 1982, Vaudreuil received an associate’s degree in aeronautical engineering, but didn’t pursue his chosen career in the struggling airline industry.

So he had significant prior training in a related field.

Also, maybe that's my European bias, but I'm not so thrilled about this story because to my mind it shouldn't have been so hard for him in the first place to get that education, and some more aid after a normal failure in life.

I mean, are we making lives hard so that we can then celebrate the few(!) successes as if they prove anything? Like, that making lives in one of the richest countries in the entire million year history of mankind hard is a good thing?

This is like a Roman circus, we throw people into the arena and then celebrate the few who make it out again as "heroes".

"Are You Not Entertained?" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsqJFIJ5lLs)
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This one too:
https://github.com/agocorona/Workflow
Daydream VR devs will need to hack together their own headsets
It's such a pity that microsoft did not provide a path forward for the applications written in vb6.

Further, at a time when they are open-sourcing so much they still keep vb6 closed source so that no-one else can either.

It's almost sadistic.
It think that gets a lot of it. If everyone has loan money, universities get less out of competing for students than students get out of competing for spots at universities. So the universities stop competing (financially) for students (that's a euphemism for charging the maximum).

To me it makes sense to limit the support that students see to competitive grants that only cover most of the cost of tuition (like 75 or 80 percent). Then universities have some reason to keep tuition lower (students will be somewhat price sensitive), students have motivation to examine whether they should go to school. There's probably some fairness issues to address with that, I guess the competitive aspect of the grants could be the size of the grant, with every student having some access.

edited in the (financially) in the first paragraph.
Go read the description of the statistical analysis or just view their R notebook:

https://github.com/propublica/compas-analysis/blob/master/Co...

Their own analysis shows that (p ~= 0) that high and medium risk factors are predictive. They also showed that the racial bias terms (race_factorAfrican-American:score_factorHigh, etc) are probably not predictive (p > 0.05).

Your quotes are not evidence of bias, though I see how they might confuse an innumerate reader. It's interesting how good a job this article is doing confusing the innumerate - it's almost as if it was written to mislead without technically lying.

For example, black defendants being pegged as being more likely to commit crimes can be caused by one of two things: bias or perhaps black defends actually are more likely to commit crimes. According to ProPublica's own analysis (see race_factorAfrican-American), the latter is actually the case. This is true with p = 4.52e-06 - see line [36].
I thought the part where her device was rebooted was chilling. I had never considered that a fully augmented reality could lead to a real world stripped of all its aesthetics to make room for AR target images to support the graphic overlays. And if everyone is lost in their own audio visual world, why should a grocery store even play background music anymore? It would be a sterile, alien world with your visor or whatever turned off.
What is the point of comparing Rails to Elixir? You can compare Phoenix to Rails. Elixir/Phoenix has obviously a smaller community (but very welcoming and supportive and growing extremely rapidly). There are classes of problems you can not solve with RoR period.
Who comes up with a $700 Wi-Fi-connected juicer?
All of what you mention is doable in VB.net.

VB.net introduces a few rough edges, everything is class based, you have namespaces, lambdas, etc. But honestly the step from VB6 to VB.net is a pretty modest step, and when you have tasted generics, linq and its collection extensions functions (OrderBy, First, Last, Max, etc), a consistent collection indexing (VB6 switches between 0 based and 1 based), got rid of that useless "set" keyword, made all function parameters byval by default, which avoids having to write byval before every parameter, used lambdas (there are quite many problems where it is just nice to give a callback as a parameter), type inference, initializing a variable on the same line it is declared, multi-threading, etc, you won't go back to VB6.

I fully accept the non backward compatibility of the code argument. If it's a big project, and it's working, and it's in VB6, I can understand not upgrading it. But in term of functionality VB6 is way behind modern VB.Net.
It gets worse:

(...) Desperate for something to feed my jones, I snaffled my other sister's abandoned flute. And wow! I was a natural...immediately better with it than with the guitar I'd been hacking at for months. I was commuting to college at the time, and took it with me. I'd play as I walked between classes. Six weeks from a cold standing start I sat in with a professional jazz band for the first time...and they liked it. This was delightful but mystifying. All I'd had to do was learn to play a scale, and this amazing river of music poured forth with barely an effort on my part. It seemed almost as though my hands and lips had always known what to do, had been waiting for me to pick up the flute. (...) Until I realized, finally, belatedly, what had been happening to me. Until the Great God Pan reached out of my hindbrain and thundered "YOU!" And his gift is music and his chosen instruments the pipes and flutes. And his, too the power of joy; magic so strong that when it flowed out of me, even before I knew what I was doing, it amazed people into awe and incoherence and poetry. [1]

And worse: http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/sextips/bedplay.html

[1] Strong vibes of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CYF9Ge2JL0
The college debt crisis is not so much about specifics like the rising cost of education or that more women and minorities are attending now than in the past. It's really about corruption.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac got big after the saving and loan scandal in the 80s, orchestrated by Neil Bush:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Bush

Sallie Mae got big after Reagan largely defunded public universities, switching to student loan based funding with the goal of moving those loans over to private institutions.

So what it basically comes down to is each generation keeps getting fleeced by these private firms while the government looks the other way, and taxpayers pick up the tab.

Just watch as this thread fills up with thousands of comments blaming this or that. They have us all distracted bickering amongst ourselves so we don't see who is profiting. If we want to fix higher learning in America, we need to go back to pre-1980s policies and get private financing out. Universities should be funded by endowments set up by the alumni who have profited greatly by the quality educations they received. It's no wonder that people are doing the math and opting out of college because the loans are too expensive. It was never supposed to be like that in the first place.
Not every request from the customer makes sense.

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” -- Henry Ford.
This whole thing is making fun of asking fizz-buzz to a senior programmer, but yet I've found it to be one of the best phone screen questions possible.

For someone who is truly a senior programmer, they knock it out in about 30 seconds and we move on. For the ones who pretend to be senior programmers on their resume, it trips them up and I know right away that their resume is either a pack of lies or their previous coworkers were helping them a lot more than they let on.

If I had actually had this person, I would have probably laughed as soon as he did the imports, said, "clearly you think this is a silly question" and then explained why I ask that question. Hopefully we could have moved on from there.
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I find it a bit chilling that you put ESR alongside RMS. RMS highlights the political aspects of software; ESR is just your run-of-the-mill disgusting internet misogynist[1], homophobe[2] and xenophobe[3] who once advocated open source.

[1]: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6907

[2]: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=26

[1]: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=129
Well, compensation in general.

I agree with your later point about not wanting to be surrounded by people who are _only_ in it for the money. In fact, I took a small pay cut when I left me last job because I was (and still am) very excited about my new company's projects and aspirations. In my experience, though, "we don't want people who are motivated by money" has always been code for "we pay like ass and we're going to Stockholm Syndrome you into feeling like the privilege of working 12 hours a day is worth our $30K below market salary".

If I didn't need money, I wouldn't be looking for employment. I'd be hiring other people to work on my dreams instead. All else being equal, yeah, I'm going to the place with a bigger check.
Do you have some examples of interesting code ? I'm curious now!
Well the people that built those cathedrals generally kept the techniques of masonry a secret. Sure, people were free to use the fruits of their labors (for various shades of free) but that knowledge wasn't generally made available to all when the cathedral was finished. If you wanted another cathedral you had to go to the same (or similar) people who built the first one.

Masons of the time closely guarded their secrets, like source code from a vendor like Microsoft, Oracle, etc...
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The rationale against unsigned integers in C++
I had exactly those thoughts too, but I've just watched this and it's changed my mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTMxfAkxfQ0

We may have to wait a long time before we get this vote again, let's get out of the EU now then get our own house in order. I know it's not the ideal way to do it, but at the very least we will have restored more of our own democracy in the meantime.
Not just "wizardry", but straight up Dungeons and Dragons. Record of Lodoss War WAS a dungeons and dragons campaign. The campaign notes were then compiled into a novel, then an anime.

The D&D spirit influenced both "Final Fantasy" and "Dragon Quest", two of the biggest selling games of 80s in Japan... which eventually grew into big games in the US as well. Tower of Druaga series also was D&D based IIRC. Legend of Zelda is very D&D-esque as well, Hyrulians are basically Tolken elves (magically inclined, pointy ears, "beautiful") while Kokiri are elves classic (magically inclined, short forest dwellers who help Santa build toys). Redead are your classic Zombies, and Wizards and magic items are the norm.

Its much like how the origin of "big eye anime characters" are actually traced to Mickey Mouse as the root of "big eye cartoon characters". There's a lot of influence from US to Japan, and vice versa (Lol Power Rangers)

The "strange" part is how language barriers seem to emphasize different parts. Like slimes in Dragon Quest are a major thing, but oozes / slime monsters have lost cultural significance in western D&D spin-offs like Diablo or Skyrim.

But go back to Bestiary 1.0 of D&D, and you'll see the significance in both Western and Japanese RPGs. Its just the different parts that the two cultures remembered about the book I guess.
I was wondering if that site was some sort of aggregator and amazed that it would carry over the code examples so well from the actual article. This explains so much.
>>Time was you'd go to college, get a job, and get trained while you work.

You got trained while you worked because most people stayed at the same company from the day they started until the day they retired. So it was easy for companies to justify investing time and money into training: barring unusual circumstances, they expected that person to remain an employee for a long time.

Nowadays though, job-hopping is the norm. If the company cannot expect you to stay for longer than X years, they're going to adjust their hiring practices to make sure new hires are "safe", i.e. have degrees from prestigious colleges. Of course that still doesn't guarantee they will have the necessary skills from the get-go, but if things don't work out the hiring manager can at least cover his/her own ass by saying, "well, he/she was a <prestigious college> graduate..."
VBA is still shipping in Office 2016
Makes sense that the states will have to lead the way. And if those programs don't accept federal funds, then that becomes a powerful vote against the current paradigm.
Have any HN members met here and collaborated on a project?
With the abundance of talent and ideas on HN one would think that readers/users would by now have formed viable teams of founders and gone on to conquer the world.
So, has any of you done so? Tell us your story.
Also if you would like to meet a collaborator / co-founder here, by all means reach out.
This is going to sound flippant, but I mean it seriously: The advantage to fungible electricity seems to me that we've already solved the hard parts of charging infrastructure. We have electric grids that reach just about every building, and with modern lighting standards most parking lots and parking facilities too.

Certainly there are "last mile questions" like number of charging devices and type of charging plug(s) and adding plugs to circuits/stringing new circuits near building exteriors and in parking lots and figuring out who to charge for that, but none of them have particularly "hard" problems left to solve at this point.
You're right that the SEC does like to prosecute people. They are not winning their cases though.

Anyway, the NYT did an article about this recently (with respect to Phil Mickelson's insider trading case)

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/21/sports/golf/in-the-clear-p...
I don't think the movement has collapsed, rather the movement was successful on the labeling front. It's not that people are inherently anti-GMO, but rather people simply want GMO foods labeled. After the defeat of the Roberts bill in the US Senate to preempt the Vermont mandatory labeling law, the whole issue has gone silent. I don't exactly see people marching for GMOs. This article is awfully skewed and misses the bigger point of the GMO movement.
The hololens can already last 5.5 hours so it doesn't seem that impossible of a problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AADEqLIALk. The dealbreaker right now seems to be resolution and a narrow field of view where it "is like standing 2 feet away from a 15″ monitor".

As someone not in this field, I have no idea if the remaining problems are going to take more than another few years to solve but I hope not!
An associate's in AeroE would amount to nothing beyond a few calculus and physics classes. All of the important stuff is in the second two years.
Reminds me a bit of how New York's MTA handled realtime arrival information for their bus system[1]. Rather than bringing on an external company with a (typically) large contract, they hired a small team of tech-savvy MIT grads full-time to manage the project more like a startup.

The MTA gave them a small budget (at least, relative to other MTA projects) and limited the scope to what the team could actually accomplish. The team itself was in charge of designing the system and bringing on specialists/contractors where necessary.

What's notable is that the project accomplished more in the span of a few months than what many of MTA's major contracts accomplish in years.

[1]: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/why-do...
I don't recall the US nuking anybody recently. Did I miss something?
(Replying since out of edit time window) One more contemporary link I'd put on such a list is "My Heroku Values" https://gist.github.com/adamwiggins/5687294
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Thanks! Was looking for a comment about this. So many of the long surviving 'myths' seem to be traceable back to an advertising campaign.
Aw, you people downvoted this? It was the perfect take-down to my damn-kids-get-off-my-lawn comment. Sorry, @josephmx. :(
Regarding the gambling in your number 5, wouldn't the house generate a secret number (as randomly as it wishes), encrypt it, post it to a gambling contract, let people place bets on it, and finally reveal the decryption key to the contract?
Well with all due respect, you yourself didn't address OP main point in your answer : Did you or did you not try to rightfully incentive your main coder? It seems to me that many founders want early employees to take the risk of a co-founder but with the reward of an employee.It always amazes me that some people don't realize that being mad a someone for acting in his best interest is actually selfish.
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Well if Joe in HR can throw it together in a weekend, surely a 'proper' programmer like you could replace it in one?
I think checksumming of addresses was very early there, at least it was in late 2010 when I first used bitcoin. It is quite basic thing and easy to implement. It should help people avoid losses and possible problems caused by trivial mistakes.
Carers, i.e. people who take care of legacy code or careers?
The math doesn't add up. In the US alone there are 300M+ people. That would be 1% of 30B, many times more people than there currently are in the world.
I did a lot of programming in Classic Visual BASIC and VB 6.0 was my favorite version of it. I was disapointed with the changes made in VB.Net because I had co-workers that didn't know how to program and VB 6.0 was easier for them to learn and be trained by me to use.

If you want to convert some VB 6.0 code to another language consider Jabaco:
http://www.jabaco.org/

It will compile to a JAR file and it is based on VB 6.0 syntax. People asked Microsoft to open source VB 6.0 but Jabaco is as close as you can get to that without being sued by Microsoft.
The problem is that Docker, and more generally using stacks of binary disk images, is fundamentally flawed with respect to security and reproducibility. It's nontrivial to inspect these images for vulnerabilities because there is nothing that specifies the precise set of software that is in that image. Some stuff is compiled from source, some stuff is installed via one or more package managers, each of which may bundle additional software that one may not know about if they didn't inspect each piece of software carefully. Furthermore, one cannot even verify the image reasonably because the results are different depending on when it was built.

In short, container images as popularized by Docker are insecure by design.
Not the poster to whom you posed the question, but in my experience as a prof

* Self discipline

* Study skills/how to study

* Motivation for learning, not just getting credentials.
Please don’t organize ‘fun’ activities at hackathons
This is the most off the wall and hilarious thing I've seen in a month. For calibration: I spent the whole weekend at Maker Faire.
Does it need to rest on any moral basis?

>Or do you disagree with a progressive code?

Depends very much on the country, but in many cases yes. I believe that it can create a situation that disincentives paying taxes altogether.

In my case instead of paying almost 50% tax rate I've moved all of my income into a friendlier legal climate where I only have to pay a tenth of that (something a lot of people can do for only a few grand).

Although it's also worth noting that I've got ethical issues with financially supporting the Finnish government, and those have played no small part in my decision. I'll gladly expand on that if you want.
"we" don't have allergies. you ninny sissies who jump at shadows have allergies, because you are ninny sissies who jump at shadows.
FDR in effect broke the gold standard in two ways:

1) First since gold was illegal to own, Federal notes were effectively no longer redeemable for gold

2) The dollar was inflated from $20.67/oz to $35/oz

This meant two things; first the dollar was backed in gold by name only since you couldn't actually take advantage of that fact in any quantity. Second the Government was able to change the dollar/gold ratio at its whim. This breach of trust meant that the dollar was not and would never again be as good as actual gold.
That was a pretty content-less post. Care to elaborate? I don't even have a guess as to what you'd think millennials would have to say about it. Student loan debt, or something?
Let me begin by saying that I am a Christian.

Generally speaking I am a big believer that much of the Bible needs to be interpreted, and in general I don't buy into the idea that it is infallible. That said, I don't think I could get a chip implanted in my right hand for payment purposes! It's just so on the nose with what the scripture actually says.
It's far easier to hide an agenda behind verbiage and anecdotes. Go read the author's actual statistical analysis:

https://github.com/propublica/compas-analysis/blob/master/Co...

In the statistical analysis (unlike the verbiage) she is completely unable to hide the lack of bias and the accuracy of the algorithm, all of which are clearly on display in line [36]. In contrast, her verbiage somehow conveys the exact opposite impression.
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