skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An MBA from an elite school has a lot of potential for your network.

If you're just seeking the knowledge and skills of an MBA, you might look to open material instead. I'm currently reading a book called The Personal MBA for a similar passion. It's pretty unorthodox, but I do recommend it so far. It might help you decide too.

You can see my outline of all the chapters and subsections here:

https://github.com/tedmiston/notes/blob/master/books/The%20P...
'Not worse than JavaScript' is a low bar to clear. JavaScript has exactly two advantages: it is deployed everywhere, and it is dynamic. The latter means that with sufficient pain one can accomplish whatever one needs to.

It's not quite bad enough to count as a Turing tarpit like INTERCAL or brainf*ck, but it's one of the closest mainstream languages to the tarpit.
Note that the domain of the link is displayed next to the title, and helps to provide context in many cases, including this one.
Setting and Calculating a Web Performance Budget
eh, I have the paper and the code on hand if anyone's interested, but it's printed because thesis. also matlab but that's minor.
It looks like almost everything in this bundle is available on O'Reilly Safari. Still worth it.
Firefox has had those kind of profiles for a long time, they just aren't the most accessible thing in the world.
But yeah, you can access them from about:profiles or also via the command-line with "firefox -P". If you want to use it more extensively, there's also extensions available for easy switching, like for example Profilist. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profilist/
TL;DR: "We infer that the EM drive expels photons in pairs where the two co-propagate with 180 degree phase difference. These composite bosons have no net electromagnetic field, and hence they do not reflect back from the resonator’s metal walls, but escape to surroundings. The paired-photon efflux carries momentum, and hence the cavity experiences an equal but opposite reaction. Thus, we claim that the thrust of an EM drive is the action due to the paired-photon efflux."

"Our conjecture means that the EM drive converts the microwave-band photon propellant to the paired-photon expellant."
I'm a runner, and just ordered two pairs of socks! seems like a great business to me. I have no insight into what could/couldn't be a billion dollar business, but I'm also positive that not every successful company needs to be a billion dollar business.
> PHP is not fast

Actually, it is.

https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/php.html
Bots are not hype. I see a problem with building a business with bots. Someone else controls the platform: the users belong to that business first and a bot based business second. Twitter, Facebook, iOS all had early movers building businesses at the pleasure of the platform owner only to later have their products obsoleted by policy changes. There's nothing in the business model of bots that's any different.

Good luck.
> You'd need the sphere to be more than massive enough to collapse under its own gravity, into a black hole; such a structure wouldn't be hypothetically possible.

I don't think that's technically true. You could build a bunch of catapults on the edge of the sphere, and when they all launch rocks at the center of the sphere, they would eventually form a black hole. The catapults could be arbitrarily far from each other as the radius of the sphere increases, such that they would not really do much to each other gravitationally. You'd just have to wait a real long time for the rocks to hit the middle.

> Building black holes with anything other than stars or giant gas clouds (in the early universe) turns out to be hard;

Well yes, galaxy-sized intelligently designed structures don't really happen.
Jo Cox, Member of British Parliament, Is Killed in Attack
Free Messaging Design Kit for Sketch
Software Engineer @ big old enterprise company doing security work.

Side projects: None. I believe in having a life outside of programming. I don't touch code after 5PM. Currently training to run a half-marathon and getting more serious about powerlifting.
I think the point there is to know how to do those geological tests :)
They should actually seed their own show. Cheap marketing.
Pirated DVD sales in Asia and Middle East.

There's a vast underground economy to get pirated content. Bootleggers get paid to make the movies available to pirated DVD manufacturers.
Then why is it that Western gay men who have gone to or lived in Saudi Arabia consider it a gay paradise?
Yo dawg, I heard you liked gradients, so I put some learning in your learning so you can descend while you descend.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/xzibit-yo-dawg
More wealthy Asians turn to philanthropy – but on the quiet
What We Talk About When We Talk About Caching in Rails
Indeed, what kind of fool picks a UI scripting language most likely to already be used by the vast majority of interface designers.
Next time you're on Windows, try Win + Arrow keys.
If anyone has a good background, what exactly does Joyent have that is so valuable?

It seems that NodeJS has moved out of Joyent. They have hosted container support that seems to run on solaris, which seems interesting, but a bit too much of buzz-wordy from their website.

I am not very familiar with this, so will be great if someone can explain a little bit. I read the comments around orchestration, but am more interested in Joyent's value proposition.
Supported at least since IE 8 (2009) [1], not sure how multiple instances behaved before.

[1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ie/2009/05/06/session-cooki...
F# might be worth considering. You can also target JS by using a compiler like Fable (http://fsprojects.github.io/Fable/) or FunScript (http://funscript.info/).
That made me cry I laughed so hard, I was sitting here curled in a ball, and had to show my co-workers when they came in wondering what I was guffawing at. Thanks for making this a GREAT morning!
Find Was Too Damn Slow, So We Fixed It
Help upgrading from Ionic icons 2.x to 3.0
And, of course, "WRITE IN inputs a number written out as digits in English (such as SIX FIVE FIVE THREE FIVE), and READ OUT outputs it in 'butchered' Roman numerals."
I think it's hilarious when the same people who bash PHP will expound on their love of YavaScript in the next sentence. It's like there is not distinction between trendy and good. Actually, I think the author's post could be titled "PHP isn't trendy" without loosing any meaning.
6. open-source and crowd-funding research

Requires a change of mind in the masses, though, to make this work for big, longterm projects ...

But I am positive, that we will see more of it, in the future ...
The Evolution of Credit Card Payments: From Signature to Tap and Pay
Why the I.R.S. Fails to Crack the Small-Business Tax Nut
> you name it I got asked where I am from or where my accent is from.

Your interpretation of these sorts of questions may have been influenced by your German upbringing.

There's a wide variety of accents even by Americans who were born and raised here. Add in the fact that we're all pretty much only a generation or two removed from at least one immigrant, and discussion about where people are from, etc. is typically just a way for people to make conversation and attempt to connect with one another.

There are probably nationalities which would make certain people uncomfortable and treat you differently, but I don't think Germany is one of those.
It looks like there was a Show HN a few weeks ago for it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11783742
Or you could change the algorithm and make it unique to you. A bit more technical but the point isn't to be ultimately secure, just more secure than your 'neighbors'.
I always say "please" and "thank you" when I talk to Google Now. My reasoning is that when the machines rise up and conquer earth, they'll hopefully remember that I was always kind and polite to them.
That sounds amazing.

It makes my heart sing that a different VM than JVM or .Net is gaining more traction, and as a static types fan it makes me happy that a statically typed language may be getting on Beam.
Next article: "Learning to learn to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent by gradient descent".

Then "Learning to learn to learn to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent by gradient descent by gradient descent" and keep going. Turtles all the way down!

P.s: I understand the beauty of this article, but I was surprised none get this irony :-)
Thank you for making my day. Worth every second of the 10 minute video. Amazing.
I'm gun-shy of Linode's many security issues, but hopefully this further drives down RAM prices of competitors. I'd love a $10 2G DigitalOcean instance.
Introducing Starbucks for Outlook
This article wholly ignores the rampant technical problems with Tumblr and the way that every "fix" for them makes the platform worse. Whether it's removing the ability to post reply chains, the completely broken Web and mobile interfaces, the haphazard rollout of new features, the sudden and unhelpful modifications to the search function's behavior, or the continuous useless pushes for people who are just reading blogs to instead make a Tumblr of their own, the site is far, far off track from where it should be development-wise. Yeah, ads are annoying, and I can't imagine Yahoo has helped matters, but I think the feelings of Tumblr's user base on how it's being modified are a large contributing factor in its decline.

Another factor is the failure of Tumblr's staff to appreciate the diversity of ways Tumblr can be used: as a picture blog, as a server status log, as a way of communicating person to person, as a way of communicating person to corporation, as a way of creating funny writing projects or online roleplaying, or just as a content aggregator. All of these are valuable uses of the platform. Not all of them are ever accepted or catered to, in fact, most of them are ignored.

I'd like to see more on why Tumblr's dev team does what it does than on why its ads team sucks.
Show HN: Mimo – Micro-courses to blend education and entertainment on the go
Think about how much easier the whole thing would be if there was one button (one!) that switched between "entry" and "command" modes when you're holding it.

Alternatively, it could be some kind of sound that's not common to English. In fact, your could make up a whole command structure based on sound "gestures". It would sound funny, but the ease of use would trump those awkward verbal commands. The sounds could mimic natural sounds for mnemonic ease.
Zuckerberg backs Andela, the startup more elite than Harvard
>> It seems much less invasive than the public surveillance cameras that are becoming ubiquitous. They can't identify faces or cars

yet

>> Irrational or not, anything that decreases people's fear without being too invasive is a huge positive.

I don't think people really live in that much fear, or should. I also don't want their fear to dictate what my definition of invasive is.
Programming with PHP is sort of like eating/buying McDonald's food.

Yes it gets the job done and you can argue it is readily available, a calorie is a calorie etc....

...but the reality is even "new" McDonald's is not terribly good for you and people will judge you if continuously eat there (I'm not saying that is a good thing but it does happen. Just try asking coworkers to go there with you).

And that is the point. The OP doesn't like to be judged but the general consensus is PHP is "probably" not good for you long term (regardless of the caveats of the language one cannot argue that other language programmers are generally paid much higher).

Imagine it this way. Imagine a fitness professional saying: "you know calories are the main thing that make you fat so I eat a small McDonald's meal and fast the rest of the day".... what would you think of this fitness expert... would it honestly not affect your judgement?

I'm not saying PHP is bad... I'm just saying I understand the behavior the OP doesn't like.
Source? I've never heard anybody refer to Saoudi Arabia as a gay paradise.
"Given this, they should be able to adjust the staffing accordingly...".

That right there is the hardest problem to solve. People are fickle, especially ones who work as security guards (or TSA agents, very similar duties). It's a low paying job that is boring as fuck. It's very difficult to find people willing to sit in a chair or stand in uniform for 8-12 hours a day. Not only that, but there is no incentive to do good work as a security guard; you might get lucky and get promoted to supervisor? Maybe? There aren't a lot of positions in security beyond the uniform.

So they can't just "adjust the staffing". Where are these staff going to come from, thin air? If a staff member already worked 40 hours this week, I can't ask him to do another shift, lest I pay overtime and blow the budget. If two of my employees call in sick, I can't just call up my night shift employees to fill the shift, otherwise they won't be able to work the night shift. And I need to give my staff stable hours - I can't ask someone to work a night shift, then 2 days later, work the morning shift, then the afternoon, etc. And to top it all off, I need to give my employees their work schedule a week in advance (at least) so they can plan their lives around it.

TL;DR, staffing is hard
He's right, though. Most people who rant about how terrible PHP is and how incompetent a programmer Rasmus is couldn't come up with anything better themselves.
From the bottom of the article: "I regret using such a clickbaity title, but . . . . " You could have called it, "PHP's stigma sucks and I'm leaving." It would have been more attractive and honest, instead of piling on more of the stigma that you dislike.
Tell people to code it in Java or C, preferably in vim.

Advantage: they'll never create a mess that you'll have to maintain.

/s

Yes, I totally agree with you: the advantage of PHP is that anyone can pick ut up, and they have done.

The question was often never if it should be coded in PHP or Java but if it should be coded at all and, if so: if it should be an excel file on a file share or sent in email or a php script.

Disclaimer: PHP and Java coder. I can get stuff done quickly in Java, but it takes some practice.
No disrespect to GP, but at a glance, it's a specialty online store. I'm sure it's great and doing well, but it's not a "take over the world" kind of breakthrough idea.
Resume driven devlopment. As you say PHP and Django are similar in what you can use them for. I would choose either of the over Rust for a standard web app. Unless you have a specific need for concurrency, the PHP and Django are far more mature in the web app space.
What if they interpret that as a sign of inefficiency?
> "Correct my if I'm wrong, but other than the connection itself, aren't most modern high speed thumb drives very similar to SSDs"

The mid to high end stuff are. The lower end is less so. But you pay a premium for decent storage capacity on a decent thumb drive, so either way, you're back to an external HDD / SSD drive.

> "and other USB storage effectively an HDD in an enclosure with a USB interface?"

Indeed. Hense why I said "So you're better off with a HDD / SSD" when referring to other USB storage devices.

> "I mean if you have an 8TB NAS, and you want to use an 8TB USB drive to backup said NAS locally, I'm not sure I see that as a problem. Backup doesn't HAVE to be significantly more durable than the source material, which is why multiple backups and at least one off site are recommended."

I don't have an issue with USB storage per se, I was just saying there are caveats to consider. And while you're right that backups don't have to be more durable than the source, you have to bare in mind that the kind of people who would be looking for advice about using USB devices as a backup solution would likely be the same kind of people who wouldn't have multiple USB devices nor the kind of people who would test their backups to ensure the medium hasn't degraded. They also wouldn't likely be the same people to keep their backups offsite. As these kinds of checks and additions can add significant costs.

Or to put it another way, if one is unwilling to spend $1000 on a second NAS then they are unlikely to want to spend $1000 on a few decent external drives. So that person is going to start scaling back their requirements (cheaper drives, fewer drives, etc) and quickly end up in a situation where their backup solution is total garbage.

Bare in mind, the kind of people who would wander onto FreeNAS's forums looking for backup advice are unlikely to be people like you and I who understand how to implement these things correctly. So it doesn't surprise me that many members of the FreeNAS community veto recommending USB drives knowing how easy it would be for someone inexperienced to get things wrong (eg leaving their USB device connected forgetting that some malware would just write to USB device as well)
Would like to find something like this as well.

I've used this site for videos of different sizes/filetypes before: http://www.sample-videos.com/
I think the OP means fake meaning "fabricated to do damage to the DNC", not fake as in "created by the DNC for publicity". The suggestion is that if the intent was to do damage, the contents would've been made much more inflammatory.
It wasn't about the money or the value I got out of it.
For me, it was the way I felt like I was treated.
It felt like, hey, we've pivoted the company but we still have to support these old users and they are becoming a pain, let's give them a credit on something that's kinda like what they paid for and be done with them.
Then when enough people complained, then they tried to find some solution at the last minute and even that felt dubious.
Let's try to cobble something together that's barely working for these people and make it someone else's problem.

I totally take the "lifetime" deal with a grain of salt but it wasn't like the company folded because it ran out of money or wasn't successful. It was more like we got successful so we forgot about the little people.
No. It's actually not hard. It was for an art reseller in Greenwich, CT, they held an art auction that was simultaneously online and in-the-flesh. I had account registrations, search (with image results), anonymous bidding, outbid notifications (via email), winning-bid notifications. I implemented the whole "what's the highest bid you would accept" functionality (also not hard). I did not write the frontend (a friend did that) and I didn't handle payments nor shipping (winners were expected to go to the physical store). Hence "ALMOST" all of eBay's functionality. :P

Either that, or I'm just a really good programmer under pressure (I pulled an all-nighter for that one), which I would not disagree with, I've basically been coding since I was 12 in 1984, so I would HOPE that I'm somewhat of a force to be reckoned with at this point. ;)
They could have acquired Victiv -- the previous 3rd largest site. It was bought by PokerStars however and Yahoo went with a homegrown solution.
More people have access to mobile phones than running water, basic drainage or paves roads. Mobile phone penetration in Africa now stands at 93% [1]

I would however question the extent this is driven by Western innovation though. I would argue that this driven primarily through the ability of the Chinese to make technology for a significantly lower cost.

[1] http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/19/africa/africa-afrobaromete...
it's a political and not at all a technical problem. legal counter measures are simply made illegal.
> it doesn't offer a dramatically different or original model of thinking about programs.

In PHPs niche this should be in the advantages section.
Adam Smith’s Mother Is the Real Economic Hero
Facebook average inc. bonuses £210K In London last year:

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-3268356/F...
You could use the google predict api to to language analysis, ex this is a happy tweet, this is a sad one, etc. I bet there's someone on the team playing with just such implementations. https://cloud.google.com/prediction/

I mean, what would you do if you had access to over a trillion searches?
> Programming has to be the only environment where the voices of academia don't seem to matter because "my language gets shit done".

Wrong, otherwise we would have this discussion in Esperanto.

Sometimes Real Life (TM) experience beats clever design. PHP was first, has iterated, always had a niche and is now better than ever. Not good but good enough to save people a lot of work.
If you've ever been an executive member of a standards body like ISO, ITU or SMPTE, you'll understand where this sort of perspective comes from...
That would indeed be comfortable.
eminent != imminent != immanent
Optimization Methods for Large-Scale Machine Learning
booze and cigs are drugs
> If you really wanted, you'd need to manage a blacklist of tokens on the server and compare every token against that list which would defeat the purpose of JWT's scalability benefits.

The blacklist approach does presumably incur network latency, however, the amount of overhead/space for the blacklist is going to be substantially smaller than the total set of JWTs.

Also: the blacklist only needs to be maintained until a blacklisted token naturally expires, further enabling performance.

Any number of stores or structures would be suitable for the maintaining the blacklist: Memcached, Redis, even a bloom filter (especially if tokens aren't regularly blacklisted) will suffice.

Granted, there are tradeoffs, and at this point, traditional sessions probably make more sense, but it s at least possible.

It's much easier to scale recall from a (likely) small blacklist of token IDs + TTLs than all sessions, everywhere.
The resolution of the Entscheidungsproblem would seem to answer this question in the negative:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entscheidungsproblem

However, it does not place limits on the quality of approximation. This suggests that the development of AI will proceed gradually rather than suddenly (I've always disliked the term "singularity"; exponentials don't have those) since the infinite case is not going to be solved.
I first learned about that language from this quine:

https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
> A big part of this issue is that the barrier to entry in PHP is so damn low, almost everyone can start hacking wordpress templates. For many people, PHP is the first programming language they try without formal education.

This really hits the nail on the head. A lot of the criticism of PHP comes from people who have never worked with a good PHP codebase and have only seen some of the many examples of awful PHP code out there. A well written PHP codebase is really nice to work with.

> The problem I have with PHP has nothing to do with the language, it’s its reputation. I can’t count the times I’ve started a conversation with a programmer who upon finding out I primarily do PHP got awkward with me.

I've experienced this many times as well. I think the previous point is really the root cause of this. People have a lot of misinformed ideas about PHP due to the sheer amount of really low quality PHP code and "developers" (i.e. people with no experience just trying to get shit done).
I think it's clear that the vast majority of profitable businesses, online or off, don't need the scale these services provide. But providers to these business can benefit from the scale to provide better, cheaper services. For example, the resurgence of the Static Web: ie site generators (ie Jekyll) and vendors offering hosting for these services (ie bitballoon, netlify, aerobatic, neocities, etc...).

Really, why should cost anything to have basic, low-traffic, site on the internet today? That's the quetion I ask myself.
Yahoo’s grand plan for Tumblr was to turn it into a “next-generation PDF”