skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember that google did something else in China when it became clear that they weren't going to see eye to eye with the local government.
I've been using Sinatra for a while and loving it. So much easier to understand your code than Rails imho.

However I have one question- is there much to making it scale? Not in a Twitter-like way, but I know there are a ton of books and documentation on making Rails work for larger sites. Does Sinatra hold up ok?
What you say holds in a micro sense but not in a macro sense. No individual has a right to a certain type of employment. It is no great tragedy if an individual does not find work doing what they love doing. However, if too many people are unable to find work doing what they like doing (or are content doing) then this is bad for society.

Before the present fiscal crisis a friend of mine justified the validity of liar loans on the basis that they are an agreement between two consenting parties. Of course an individual has the right to make a bad decision and of course 20 million bad decisions can affect the entire nation.

Would you make the same argument that you made if the underemployment rate for Ph.D.s in electrical engineering was 25%? There is a point where this becomes a big deal. I'm not saying we are at this point but the existence of such a point should not be denied.

It would be a very bad thing for this country if, in general, advanced degrees required too high an opportunity cost.
What the healthcare bill means for small businesses
Well it is not surprising the SEC are getting that order, as they created the whole accredited investor stuff from whole cloth to begin with.

But I do not think you are correct that this is a grant of authority. The SEC have always had the authority to change those numbers; as I mentioned, they created them to begin with. This proposed law actually orders the SEC to raise the numbers to account for inflation, but it gives the SEC broad discretion on how to do it.

But it is worth noting that the SEC have not changed the numbers from 1982, although they had the power to. Also from various SEC papers I have read it seems very unlikely they will suddenly double the requirements. Most likely, they will start accounting for inflation in the future.
Exactly, I am absolutely incapable of getting my brain not to interpret what a speaking voice is saying.
Welcome to HN, Reid. I'm a pretty big fan of what you guys are doing over there at echo nest. Any plans to beef up the documentation (i.e. tutorials) in the near future?
Ask HN: Help a Highschooler with His Resume
learninfreedom.org/resume.pdf

I'm looking for a job or internship to hack at this summer. I'd like to get feedback from this group, because I'd enjoy being at a start-up or similarly challenging technical environment.

Right now my resume is tailored more to seeking a typical summer internship at a large company, I feel, but I'd like to know what you want to see more of. I was weighing mentioning skills like Rails and Node.js but I feel like just about anyone can claim experience. I'm leaning towards only listing skills I can currently demonstrate with a code sample.

To that purpose I'm working on open sourcing a handful of the components I've written for my project/start-up idea. The first of these is a high accuracy sentence tokenizing library, but it's of limited use until I release the HTML text sanitizer that goes along with it. (The full capability is taking Markdown or Textile and tokenizing those into fully formed sentences with the markup intact. There is a good amount of contextual logic that makes sure inline <code> and such niceties are recognized as part of the sentence, and correctly interpreting links, etc.)

I'm still working on open sourcing more of my code, but meanwhile I think I need to get into the job market for this summer. What do you think I should do?
I'm sure PS CS5 will be great. Illustrator and Dreamweaver CS4 are massive failures. Unless Adobe strips out features and dramatically improves performance... There is no hope. As of CS4 I have started migrating to other applications for my development needs.
Btw, it worked - beepl's now fast like a rocketship!
Ultras rock. There is no better experience than running as the sun goes down knowing you've been running since it came up. And all your friends have awakened, watched reruns, eaten pizza, and gone back to sleep while you've been running ;)

That and they give out awesome t-shirts :D

But, aside from the "masochistic" part of it, the community is unbelievable and the atmosphere at races is what got me into them to begin with. It's like one big family in a way. One big family that gathers at the most beautiful places in the country before sunrise so the
If you read the original email, which is two nodes back in the list, it's clear that the reader is voicing frustration with the possibility of having to spend $300 with no guarantee of fixity. It's not an easy pill to swallow, psychologically.

If the customer had AppleCare, hopefully the diagnosis would have been free. But he didn't. In Blackjack insurance is a sucker's bet but in the game of life, perhaps it isn't.

How's that for a platitude.

p.s. taking suggestions for a single word substitute for "fixity"
> Is it really entitlement to think that you should be able to get a better job with an advanced degree than with barely a high school education?

Yes.

What does your advanced degree tell employers about your ability and motivation to solve their problems? (Yes, the answer depends on the employer and your degrees.)

That's the relevant question because employers don't care about your problems. They care about their problems. (Customers are the same way.)

If someone told you that your degree would say something that it isn't saying, you need to talk with them.
Off topic: It's really distracting when a site overrides the default cursor for no reason.

html, body {
cursor: crosshair;
}

Don't do that!
I have no clue - I haven't read that many profiles yet!
> In the real world this person is probably going to get a writing job eventually and when she does her perspective on life is going to be her most valuable asset.

Probably?

What fraction of folks with that degree ever sell anything that they've written, let alone make a living writing?
It would increase the workload of the SEC, though only very marginally. The SEC proposed (but then retracted) a very similar change about 3 years ago. You can read about it here: http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/2006/33-8766.pdf their rationale is set out on pages 17-18.

tl;dr the SEC was worried that the explosion in house prices during the 90s (which raised many people's net worth above the accreditation threshold set in 1982) and the parallel increase in both the popularity and complexity of private investment offerings were tempting many people out of their financial depth. Large numbers of people borrowing against the value of their home to invest in hot deals without much understanding of the risks involved struck the SEC as a dangerous situation.

Arguably, the events of the last few years proved them correct. The SEC was not trying to strangle startups (nor was it blind to the the possibility of such a result), but to maintain a barrier between overconfident homeowners and glib fund managers whose only business case was that markets tend to rise over time.
I think the underclass of the future will probably be just as well educated as the elite. But they probably won't know the right people. It will be very much a sort of 'work from layoff to layoff' kind of existence.

The well-educated paupers will launch a much-needed revolt. Happily, it can be done none-violently with cyberattacks and property damage-- the people involved will be smart enough-- so we can have French Revolution-style pwnage of the upper crust and Glorious Revolution bloodlessness together.
I'd like to know how this book ties into this:

>>>There is a growing sense that the properties of the universe are best described not by the laws that govern matter but by the laws that govern information.

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24759/

Which also makes me wonder how Shannon's Information Theories tie into all of it.
Full text of the email Jobs was responding to:

“I wanted to write and express my concern about some recent problems that I have had with Apple Care. This week, my MacBook Pro unfortunately sustained water damage. I understand this is entirely my fault but it is still something I would like to get fixed. After three or four calls I was finally able to get a straight answer. While I was happy to get a straight answer, I was not at all happy with the answer. It is very worrisome to me that the only way to get my computer fixed is to pay almost $300.00 up front with no guarantee that this will fix the problem. I was horrified to learn that their is no system to assess the problem and bill once all damage is known. I am reluctant to put money into a problem that could easily grow. I have had three Apple computers in a row. I love using them but I am not sure if my replacement will be one. I feel powerless in the situation and the whole experience has turned me off of the Apple company.”

(That’s not the kind of mail I would write to Jobs address. I would talk it over with the support hotline. Apple is usually tolerant and there is very often at least some wiggle room. It’s also not as if you would have to let Apple do the repairing, right?)
I'm using it as the back-end for an iPhone app on top of Amazon SimpleDB. It's perfect for building little REST APIs.
His point is the conditions are a lot worse than any founder is likely to face - even short term.

Why does that point to choice more than possible depression problems? It is classic depressive behaviour.
> In other words, that 'whoosh' sound you hear is the point of the whole thing going over your head.

That's completely unnecessary and not at all in the spirit of HN.

> How is that message in bad taste?

What about "I'm a really wise person who has come to understand an important truth in the world, that other people are people too." Is that in bad taste? Or "I'm awesome. Really awesome." ? What about "Hey! Approve of me!"

This thread is becoming a bit overly blunt.
Side-Channel Leaks in Web Applications
> Computer science may have seemed like a pointless degree at one point during the 60's.

There weren't many folks with CS degrees in the 60s. (Stanford's department, which is one of the oldest, started in 65 and didn't do undergrad until the 80s.)
Good thing the highly trained professionals on wall street weren't out of their financial depth, eh?
Teaching high school math is, all considered, a pretty good job. I'm not saying that anyone deserves their ideal job, or the "right" job for their IQ level (which for a 140+ would probably be research). I'm saying that something is seriously wrong if people who are smart enough to get advanced degrees are cleaning hotel rooms. Either society is failing, or too many people are getting advanced degrees (obviously, both are true).
"The painter Salvador Dali used to employ the following trick to have the best nap ever:

Hold a coffee spoon (or something else—use your imagination) in your hand.

Sit and relax on a comfy couch or chair with your arm hanging.

When you go into deep sleep (after about 20-30 minutes) your hand will relax and release the spoon, and the sound of the spoon falling will wake you up.

That is the perfect timing for the best nap ever."

http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/08/from-the-tips-box-coffe...
I would like to say that I understand Newtonian physics, but have difficulty creating a physics engine. I understand how to render a 3 dimensional environment on to a 2 dimensional screen, but I also have difficulty coding such functionality. Does this prevent me from creating a rich, 3D game? Not at all.
Why do Rubyists insist on overusing the phrase "DSL" so much? Sinatra isn't a domain specific language, it's just a quirky usage of Ruby syntax to make it more natural to set up routes for a web app. Haml is a DSL; Sinatra is not.
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That's a very good point. I sometimes wish I had been a little older when we started this project because we had some cool little features that even some of the larger players haven't come out with (three-way document merge, for example).
Not far from my old haunt; Leeds. That's a much nicer place all round :-)
No, it's ranting about something completely unrelated to the original reference that he gave. The email to Steve Jobs is from a person that is frustrated with something that a lot of people have been frustrated with at one point or another: "Why should I have to shell out $X (where X is a non-trivial amount) just for you to give me an estimate of how much more money it will take to fix the issue, or even to just tell me whether the problem is fixable or not?" The idea that someone like this is looking for a 'free ride' or to get 'something for nothing' is disingenuous. The people are just looking for "it will cost $X to fix" or "it's not fixable, you're screwed", not, "Well.... I could look at it and tell you what I think... But it's gonna cost ya."
Undelete in FreeBSD
Sounds like a zeroish sum.
I would put the projects and job experience above the classes. Classes are easy and everyone with a (decent) brain can do well in them but spearheading a project and working without getting fired are two things that employers like to see.

Most employers do not care about your research interests. They are selfish beasts. All they are thinking about is can this person help me with a problem I have.

Do not send out a resume without a personalized coversheet. I know this is a pain but you NEED to do some research on the company and show them that you can craft a few sentences that pertain to a solution to a problem that they are having.

Also, If you know how to code, which it looks like you do, you should have no problem getting a job. Most employers are overwhelmed with terrible candidates who do not know how to program at all.

Good luck, I'm sure you will do fine.
The author complains about a cult of personality around Zappos' CEO in the middle of his paen to Apple's.
Wow...Now that is crazy. Add another to the list of where we could have be if religion and science could have co-existed peacefully.
> They need to come to the table with honest intentions and substance and try to be part of the solution.

If Democrats left to their own devices do dumb things, why should we want to let them stay in power?

What's wrong with holding Democrats responsible for their proposals?
> if the underemployment rate for Ph.D.s in electrical engineering was 25%

Probably. I'd say that too many people were getting PhDs in electrical engineering. If possible, we should address the root cause of that.

For example, I suspect there are too many people getting Masters degrees in computer science today. It doesn't show as much because they just go back to the same jobs they had before, but I think it's a big problem that so many people are doing things that don't benefit them and I'd like to see that change. Mandatory outcome reporting in educational institutions might be a good way to combat the problem.
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1214566

The customer appears to have had AppleCare, but AppleCare doesn't cover damage that is your fault.
Hmm... hadn't ever thought about runners needing to pee. How do they go about dealing with this during extended marathons?
> That’s not the kind of mail I would write to Jobs address.

Someone was upset with what seems to be a company policy, so they write a letter to the CEO. Happens all the time. (Or is the RDF supposed to deflect these?)

> It’s also not as if you would have to let Apple do the repairing, right?

Huh?
I did, and I also looked at similar products. I found this (not software): http://www.vth.biz/driver/imusic/products . They have three different products under "Relax, Sleep": ZenMeditate, DeepSleep Suite, MaxRelax.

The samples for DeepSleep are actually pretty nice, especially "Silky Ambient." But for $90(!) I hope it's potent. This is some serious stuff for some people.
People in the upper classes actually can follow their dreams, as can many people in the upper-middle. However, most people misuse these terms and consider themselves a class or two higher than they actually are.

Upper class starts around $5 million per year and requires extensive family connections. It's probably less than 0.1% of the population. What a lot of people call "upper class" is upper-middle. What is usually called "upper-middle-class" is barely middle. Middle class (bourgeois) means that you can have 3 or 4 kids if you so desire (and afford an appropriate house in a big city), you have sufficient help and amenities not to need to do housework, you can send your kids to whatever schools they desire, and have sufficient connections that they can do pretty much whatever they want for work.

Most people we consider middle-class are actually the high end of the proletariat-- working-class, not middle (but not "underclass" either). They do their own housework, can't afford to send their kids to the top schools, are fucked if their health insurer chooses not to cover an expensive treatment, and only can only vacation occasionally, and never for more than 2 weeks.

Below that are the outright poors, who are probably the majority of American society. This society is pyramid shaped, despite peoples' desires to believe the contrary.
Funny I thought Brazil was hosting some sort of big sporting event in a few years - but I suddenly can't find anything about it on Google
PostgreSQL has gained many nice features (windowing queries, parallel restore, moving towards more standardized master/slave replication, etc), but none of them have substantially affected its suitability as a high-throughput/large-data/(relaxed-consistency)/low-latency datastore. (On the other hand, it has become significantly nicer for BI/OLAP workloads.)

Same for MySQL, modulo (possibly) the Drizzle project.

Oracle has a lot of different irons in the fire, but "cheap scaling" isn't one of them. (If you've got the money to burn... TimesTen?)

That's not a knock on any of the above, it's just a different use case.
Megan McArdle: Will Health Insurance Reform Spur Entrepreneurship?
when in fact they'll never really accept you.

This is why we need to get busy fixing society.
I don't think you could ever have an amount of money you couldn't do anything with. Even if you had $100 billion, as Bill Gates shows their is plenty you can do with it.

I think I would head down the spaceX path if I even became mega rich. If government no longer wish to fund space exploration it would be great to take up that role and push humanity forward. You could never have enough money with a pursuit like this.
I'll grant you that there are more details to the user's problems -- that $300 is scandalous, and I grant that too -- but it's still not the point of the post. If you want to say that he shouldn't have posted because he gave an incomplete picture, then I suggest you read some of his other posts to see where this fits in. That's the best I can do. And I thank everyone for posting the material that wasn't in his post.
I think there needs to be a much larger than one year gap between learning programming and teaching programming. It's just too easy to write bad code and not know it, or to think you understand something when you don't (see above OOP anecdote). All those bad habits and misconceptions will continue to rot as they are handed down from one freshman class to the next.

After you've spent years learning, practicing, and mastering a topic and you've tried and failed to find anything more to learn about it, then teach it to others.
I wouldn't worry about it -- the human body is made for long distance running. As long as you keep your limits in mind I'm sure it's fine. That said, I've never really tried running more than 10 miles.
I'd be interested in something like this as well. I'm living in Osaka right now but usually end up going to Tokyo a few times a year anyway.
"When the heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune makes a highly acclaimed documentary about being rich, his father’s unexpected feedback is what sticks with him the most. Jamie Johnson is a documentary filmmaker and the great-grandson of the founder of the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical company."

http://feeds.themoth.org/themothpodcast
It's the same for me. (Only that I do not have a TV.)

Interestingly that trait may not be very heritable, or at least the effect of training/environment may be quite high. My anecdote for that is that my mother always falls asleep at audio books.
First, wise-but-poor people will be able to invest in small businesses as you describe, but will have to satisfy other non-financial criteria in order to do so. (these criteria already exist, and apply if you don't meet the current accreditation thresholds.)

Second, to turn your argument on its head, why not get rid of the limits altogether? Let anyone invest in anything, whether or not the investment vehicle is registered with or reports to the SEC. Sounds great, right? Unfortunately, historical experience with this approach is that people get ripped off left, right and center, and taxpayers end up holding the bag.

True, taxpayers end up holding the bag for a lot of things anyway. I'm not sure how to fix this, but I'm pretty sure that removing all limits on the size of bags ain't it.
Sorry man, but the "last exit in the road to the end of the world" is Acre.

And "The only people that live there are cocaine traffickers (from Bolivia) and the last groups of native south americans that still live in tribes." is also an Acre's reference; I am sure it's not Rondônia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rond%C3%B4nia
You'd hope a simple diagnosis would be covered.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=409Pjtq7jzY
I was confused for a solid 3 seconds wondering how I got my mac into screen clipping mode.
I am not sure it will cost them long term, but I hope that they are forced by something (maybe Android) to open up.
I found that cheap masks are good enough for me. I do not need to block all light--just enough so that my eye lids can cope with the rest.
Apple employees are not the only people allowed to touch Apple hardware. Others can and will repair that stuff, too, and they won’t charge quite so much for mere labor costs (maybe 50 € or less for a check). At least that’s the case here in Germany.

And what possible benefit could you expect from writing such a email to someone as self-rightous as Steve Jobs? Yada yada Symbolism yada yada – but that energy could also be used doing something a little more productive like convincing someone on the Apple hotline or finding someone else who will repair your stuff. Apple’s repairs are expensive – and that’s just how it is. Get Apple Care, don’t drop your device and don’t spill water on it or just don’t buy any Apple hardware at all. Problem solved.
Ironman triathletes train themselves to pee during the race. For instance, part of their training is to pee while cycling at 20mph+ in aero position.
Filling a resume at your age (yes, making an assumption here)/level of experience is tricky, but one the plus side it's easy to stick to the 1 A4 rule.

I'd strip the details of the courses you've followed - people reading the resume will probably know the general details already and use that space to add a section on motivation and interests (feel free to tailor that to whoever you're sending it to). Would front-end development interest you? Backend scalability? Systems automation? Networking? Security? Don't mention specific technologies, just some broad problem domains.

Good luck!