skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My freshman dorm had a computer lab. One third of the computers were macs, and two thirds were PCs. The macs were for Marathon, and the PCs were for people doing homework. Except for the month when all of the computers were for watching "The Spirit of Christmas" over and over.

While I'm dating myself, let me add that we could print for free on the dot matrix printer, but the laser charged against our print quotas.
I'm not sure it's so much that jobs have migrated but that a fair number of new startups and branch offices of firms tend to locate in Boston/Cambridge rather than the suburbs. Companies may continue to expand in the suburbs but new offices for both new and existing firms are more likely to be in or near the city.

You're also correct about the shuttle buses. Those were unheard of when I first started working at a computer company on 495 in the 80s. Boston and Cambridge, as well as attitudes about city living, have changed a lot in the past 2-3 decades.

When I first moved back to the area after grad school, some people I knew lived in the city but not many. It certainly wasn't the norm.
Seems like this article messes up definitions of employment, freelance and entrepreneurship. Being entrepreneur is not about getting money from the sky, it's tough. It's about getting higher risks for greater benefits. But you need to pay for it: plan your budget, time and efforts, be accountable and disciplined, try to balance your risks and invest your time/money wisely.

This article is more about "employment is better than freelance". Seems like the author had no passion neither as a full-time employee, nor as a freelancer. It seems like the author don't know what passion really means or simply has no priority for it in her life.

That's ok unless you say that entrepreneurship is "bullshit" for working class. Sounds like a very biased statement. Everyone has their own way. There is nothing wrong with people who have passion to something different than full-time employment.
There are several existing laws that can be applied in a scenario like that, e.g. anti-syndicate, anti-collusion, anti-bribery laws etc.
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This is a good example of an important general point: human social instincts are a really huge security vulnerability. The price we pay for adaptability is that we can't have a hardwired instinct of what's normal, so the solution evolution came up with was to program us to take our cue on that from the people around us. The downside is that if we put ourselves in an environment where people are doing bad things - working overtime, doing a PhD, taking drugs, bullying, working for a totalitarian regime, basically anything whatsoever - it won't be long before our brains start telling us it's perfectly normal and finding excuses for the harmful effects. Look at this guy: he admits it ruined his life, but he still thinks it was okay because he liked his initial group of co-workers.

Conclusion: do not put yourself in an environment where the people around you are doing bad things. If you are already in such an environment, talk to someone outside it, get their view on the matter, and take it seriously. And if you think you aren't in such an environment, consider doing that anyway as a reality check.
Right. This is a security product. Any security product that makes things worse (and there are all too many of them) has no right to exist.
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I wish I could play the game. I have the same java applet problem. Hopefully I'll be able to play later.

A few words on quantum mechanics - it is very tricky. Someone doesn't understand quantum mechanics by taking a class in it or in getting an undergraduate physics degree. I am sure even many (or all) physics professors have limitations in their knowledge. It's not that the rules are complicated, it is the implications when it is applied in the real world. You do seem to have gained a good level of understanding though.

I have a comment on the nature of a wave function, as described in the section "It's wavelike, but not watery". It states that wavefuntions can act like particles. This may be wording that I just do not understand, but I would want to clarify it.

Take the wave function for an electron - this is not a wave of "electon". It is a wave of probability (sort of) for an electron. The electron itself is always a particle. The motion of the electron is described by the wave. In this way the electron has wave properties.

To take an example, let's shoot an electron gun at a target. Suppose the resulting wavefunction of the electron has a uniform amplitude over the target when it "hits". What is the damage to the plate? Is it uniform damage? No. The damage is always at a single point of impact. We see the result of the electron hitting the target, not the wave function hitting the target.

Now, if we shoot lots of electrons, the damage will be pretty uniform, since they will be distributed all over the plate. But it will still consist of a bunch of point impacts.

I just wanted to be clear about differentiating the wave function from the object whose state (position, momentum, whatever) is described by the wave function.
Ask HN: HTTP Proxy pool as a service – Should I bother with this idea?
For one of our project we have built a HTTP proxy pool that inteligently routes the HTTP requests to a proxy server which accessed the target website host the least.

By doing this we can rate limit how much each proxy server in the pool can access specific website in a period of time to avoid abuse and ban.

I am thinking about extracting this part of the project as a paid service.
The service would be for companies that do a lot of web scraping, web data analytics and processing.

What do you think about it?
For DSPS sleepers it can be up to 5hrs.
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> "${SUBJECT} exhausted me"

I don't think that a correct analysis of the sentence. The exhausted is an adjective, similar to I am tired, but saying "Something tired me" would have a totally different meaning, because it's a different, unrelated sentence. ("I am covered in green paint." also doesn't seem like it's passive voice, but maybe I'm wrong.) As far as I can tell, "our work here is done" is indeed passive voice, but it is also perfectly fine English, and thus must not be highlighted.

"I was exhausted" absolutely does not "lack clarity". What could it possibly be unclear about?

Looking at http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/passive_loathing.pdf, I'm also suspicious of your definition of passive (p.7):

> ...passives do not always contain be and
do not always contain a past participle. They also do not always obscure the role or responsibility
of the doer. They may or may not have a subject (the passive clause in any monument defaced by
vandals does not), and they may or may not have a by-phrase (The president has been assassinated
does not). Sometimes they specify the agent of an action very clearly (as in It was thrown at
them by hooligans), and sometimes not (as in It was thrown at them); sometimes they specify the
undergoer (as in A surfer was attacked by a shark) and sometimes not (as in Being attacked by
a shark is no fun). Often (as in (3)) there is no action whatsoever, rendering the strange phrase
“receives the action” inappropriate.
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Ha that's clever
True! Though in this case, after months of fighting the problem, not so fun, and more a sign of my impending mental collapse :P
I say it is interesting. It's from the same guys from 'Watch a machine-learning system parse the grammatical structure of sentences'. AFAIK, here they are implementing automatic summarization, aided presumably by the accuracy of their parser. I signed up and I look forward to trying it.
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Wait, people still use Windows 95?
I'd be really interested in an anonymous hackernews drug survey...maybe I'll make one...
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The variable pricing is pretty interesting. In one session I got $1, $3 and $5, while another gave $5, $12, and $20.
$5 felt like a good deal considering what I pay annually for Grammarly. I'd be curious what their average is.
I was checking out Urbit before, and it's an amazing idea. I can highly recommend anyone investigating it a little, just to get a notion how things could be.

I need to check the current progress. I hope the previous "invitation/ticket" I had is still working. :)
> because something like post-scaricity isn't binary, it doesn't just occur at one point in time

It doesn't occur at all, and the problems you point to aren't problems that are even related to an absence of scarcity, they are problems stemming directly from scarcity.

> we'll grow in that direction slowly and problems will arise long before we get there due to rising unemployment, but I think you know that and you're just being obtuse.

No, we won't "grow in that direction". You seem to be be unable to comprehend the idea of someone disagreeing with your basic premise, so instead you assume that I agree with you and am being obtuse.

There's no route from here to there, and there's not even any there to get to.

We'll continue to progress toward greater abundance, but the basic economic problem that relative abundance does not alter the basic nature of scarcity will not be affected. Its sort of a perennial mistake to confuse greater relative abundance with the absence of scarcity.
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Transistors are not becoming much smaller. Moore's law is stagnating, due to a host of reasons. Multiple patterning is very expensive, EUV is not available - and even if it comes, it will be really expensive with a host of technical challenges for everyone. And then it will very quickly hit a wall as well. The future of computer chips is dim. I think Intel is smart to diversify into other markets.
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That response is crazy. If he's so set at keeping the homepage http, then make a download.keypass.com site and keep the downloads on there, with https required.
"From 4.5 B to Zero" a new book by Elizabeth Holmes. https://twitter.com/aficiomaquinas/status/738079483081547777
Uber Just Raised $3.5B from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund
I was a Dell employee at the time and the consensus feeling at the time was that Michael Dell got the company for very cheap. Just compare the Dell stock price with its closest competitor HP. You'll see that between Dec 2012 and Dec 2013 HPQ doubled its stock price while Dell just went up by the ~35% premium that Michael Dell paid.
A deep dive into how data is stored on Cassandra rings and how to use this knowledge to give your operators notice before cluster issues become site issues.

Any feedback is super welcome. If folks like this we may consider working on upstreaming the approach into nodetool.
> Amazon managed to get $2.3 million per job out of the State of Texas.

That $2.3mm number ignores the 2,500 jobs and $200mm in capital investments that Amazon agreed to pay to wave off the $269mm in uncollected sales tax. [1] They've actually gone above and beyond those numbers (3,500 jobs and $300mm invested as of 2014) in addition to actually paying sales tax in the state, which yielded another $327mm in sales tax revenue just from 2012-2014.[2] So discounting the tax revenue that they're now receiving, Texas paid $16,571 for each of those 3,500 jobs.

[1] http://comptroller.texas.gov/news2012/120427-Amazon.html
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So wait, so this project that I use to store my passwords and that always seemed to take security and encryption seriously is leaving a public vulnerability unfixed because of "lost ad revenue"??

I'm baffled.

I completely understand the need to support the project financially, but this answer leaves me feeling very uncomfortable.
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I'm actually one of those "elusive" people you seem to be searching for. My day job is as a tech lead for an ed tech company (we are in the same industry). I fit all of your requirements and more. But to be honest, the blog post made my spidey sense tingle. I know hiring is hard (I'm in charge of hiring), and that you will get 99 "junior" programmers for every "senior" one. Its all part of the process. What has worked for me is to focus on creating an environment to attract other experienced people. Its not easy! But so worth it. This is a not a criticism. More of a call to read your blog post as an outsider. How would someone who doesn't know about 2U feel after reading it? Right now, it feels a bit off. Not sure why. I hope this only helps in your hiring process and not taken as an insult. It sure isn't. :)

PS. I will be at ISTE 2016. Email me if you want to meet up there. It would be nice to learn more about what you do in 2U.
Well, without all the whitespace, it is ;)
I believe so, the treatment dose is small enough that the physical stimulant effects are typically very minor, even for new users. I don't have numbers, but I recall that people abusing it for the stimulant effect use 3/4x the ADHD prescription dose, which results in very different effects.
Even without persistence it has its uses. I have a couple of proxy services on heroku that would fit, for example.
If the blockchain is useful in those areas where [almost] no trust exists, Urbit has the potential to be useful for essentially everything else.

To give a concrete example, this would be useful for any Ethereum app that doesn't want to store data on a central server (which most cannot do whether for legal, security, or ideological reasons). The idea to me is that the internet wasn't built very well to run decentralized apps [which is definitely the case if you've ever tried building one without having to rely on central servers for caching, storing accounts, comments, etc.]. It's, imo, a nice complement to blockchain tech like Ethereum and Bitcoin. Long term once it's out and running I see dapps like Augur [a decentralized prediction market which I work on - http://augur.net] using it so users can securely store their private keys, report data, market data, trade history, etc. and easily go across/between devices as opposed to just using localstorage [which is a pain to migrate using] or fetching it from ethereum every time [which is very time consuming and has lots of overhead].

If we're going to seriously move in this direction of decentralization, at scale we need something like urbit.
No one else is really tackling the same set of problems.

Came across this quote on it by Alan Kay: "They have verve, and that's generally a good thing. In this case there are a lot of details that need to be grokked to make any reasonable comment. The use of combinators (a kind of dual of lambda calculus) harks back to an excellent thesis by Denis Seror at the University of Utah in the 70s that produced a safe, highly scalable and parallel implementation. I haven't looked at it more deeply (and probably should)." [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11810177] - very cool!
No, no one uses proxies nowadays, you should aim for a VPN service which does the same. That is, if you want to profit.
I remember Half-Life as the demarcation point. Before that, we didn't have as many games and the scene wasn't as vibrant as it was on the PC, but we had high-quality stuff, often Mac-exclusive. When the Half-Life port was killed, it felt like we were definitively left behind. Stuff still showed up, but it felt like we were getting the dregs, late or poorly done or just not very many of them. Around this time, classic Mac game development houses like Ambrosia, Bungie, and Graphic Simulations folded, jumped ship, or just went into long decline.

The Mac has seen a lot more games in recent years, and a big part of that is Valve's presence on the platform with Steam and, after all these years, Half-Life.
Most of the Salesforce purchases seem to be about opening up new marketing channels.
Yes, that is the idea. Torus block is like EBS. Torus "library" could be used by other applications like an append only log, object store, etc.
Giving something away for free is not an excuse for it to provide negative value by exposing its users to MitM attacks.