skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm using a Dell PowerEdge 1950 with a Intel Xeon 5345. 32GB RAM and 1TB HDD. It cost me about $400 -- which I think was a good deal.

Then my only cost was the datacenter fees. Which runs about $50 per month -- includes 5 IP addresses and unl data.

Like I said though, I use it for multiple things, not just e-mail/contacts/calendar/storage.

EDIT: I believe the server costs a lot less now.
This may very much be the source of the happiness the author is lamenting about, though.

Status is always there, and it never went away, and I'd posit that it is is something capable of making a person feel miserable even if everything else in their life is great.

If your happiness is strongly tied to status, that is problematic, since status is almost necessarily zero-sum. For it to be significant that one is a Marine, Marines must be rare, and the comparison point would need to be some non-Marine. And, in the past, communities were smaller, you weren't comparing yourself to billions of people. If status is zero-sum or near-zero-sum, and when you can no longer stand out just by contributing to your community as the guy who makes tables or something, because there are quite a few people making better tables than you, so what happens to your status?
This is where the use of "Older" IT people would help. Take all the new ideas and innervation and filter it through the 60 year old IT guy (Knowledge experts).

Explain your ideas well with examples. Lesson how that problem has been solved before. Don't build new ideas on old code. Find shortcuts to the results.

Don't be naive. Ignorant is better.

Naive is not knowing your don't know.

Ignorant is knowing your don't know.
So you want other people to maintain something for you and do it the way you like? Obviously, it's not simple to just fork a project like Go and maintain it but the point is that it is not legally impossible. A group of people inclined enough to "fix" Go for themselves are completely free to do so.

BTW, you might be interested in https://oden-lang.org/
If you care to prove you are 'successful'
Switched everything over to Microsoft, because Google is evil now and Microsoft isn't. Will switch back in a few years when they trade places again.
yes, possible to early exercise an ISO and then elect 83(b).

however, if you definitely want to early exercise, NSO is preferable since an NSO has more favorable tax treatment wrt to timing: for NSO, long-term capital gain treatment starts one year after exercise, whereas for an ISO you need to wait both one year after exercise AND two years after the option grant date.

so, specifically: if you early exercise an ISO on the day it is granted, you have to wait 2 years for LTCG treatment vs. with an NSO, you only have to wait one year after you exercise, even if it's on the date of grant.
Developing React Components and Libraries with nwb
As a parent I will respond with the general observation that what most kids in my city (SF) need is more sleep and less rote work.

I will _opine_ that what they need is more time outside. Out of the classroom. Out of the house. On the beach and in the forest etc etc.

Unfortunately quantity of work [sheets] and number of hours invested are a convenient proxy for 'challenging' in public education.

Fortunately my daughters go to a charter school which is ahead of the curve on contemporary research into education and learning, and compared to their peers in mainline SFUSD, they are relatively insulated from that false equivalence.

The cliché but oft-recounted 'tiger mom' childhood saturated completely by academics sounds to me frankly like hell, and I would work hard to ensure that mirroring its excesses in the US does not become the fad.

Me, I'd far rather we have a generation of rounded kids with experience of the physical (especially, natural) world, than a cadre well trained from birth for knowledge worker jobs which may not even exist when they become adults.
This is too big and strange to be true. Unless it is, in which case, wow.

I haven't seen anybody claiming all of this is a hoax yet, which is probably because there isn't much evidence either way?
> You obviously didn't vendor your dependencies in your project's vendor directory.

You shouldn't have to!

A good dependency management system will produce reproducible builds via dependency versioning without any need to "vendor" anything.
Or pinfo which supports both man and info pages.
The department of defensive funds a lot of science. Don't forget that progress in most of the fields you mentioned came directly from military tagged expendature.
At least a justified suit can be brought before them, no?
The Unintended Consequences of Latency in Analytical Applications
What about implementing something in the likes of https://github.com/josscrowcroft/MotionCAPTCHA ? I think this would be user-friendly for mobile users.
I'm sure there are some outstanding public schools. But the generalization still applies.

As for forcing them to be in slow moving classes, that is not really standing in the way. The student (and I know many who did) can be doing other things at his desk, and certainly a lot of students are doing other things in class :-) Some teachers also allow their highly capable students to spend class time in the school library instead.
The initial questions to build your pitch that are enumerated in that article are also good questions to ask yourself if you should pursue or not with your company.
Polaris is not a serious threat to Nvidia. The GTX 1060 is significantly faster than the RX480 at a similar retail price; the GTX 1060 is considerably more expensive than the 960 was at launch and I expect that Nvidia have retained good margins. The RX480 seriously missed AMD's efficiency targets, hence the PCIe power fiasco. AMD have nothing to compete at the high end and have no serious HPC offering; with PC sales shrinking year-on-year, HPC is a crucial driver of growth.

Polaris is just barely enough to keep AMD in contention. As with their CPU range, AMD are relegated to a value-oriented offering for the low to mid market. This isn't a good place to be. Nvidia can afford to squeeze AMD's margins, because they have a monopoly on the more profitable high end. AMD are also being threatened from below by Intel's increasingly powerful iGPUs.
Can you use reCAPTCHA? Nothing easier than just ticking checkbox "I'm not a robot".
Arabian Black Cobra
A few people have mentioned http://dovecot.org/ combined with either https://roundcube.net/ or http://www.rainloop.net/.
Thank you for that very informative write up!

Very glad to hear the tech basically just works.

I hadn't bothered to look up the dimensions and weight on the Razer Core until you mentioned it though, and realized it's barely any more convenient to move around than my current desktop PC case (SilverStone FTZ01, only about 150mm more in a single dimension), which removes a lot of the appeal it had for my use case, unfortunately.

I honestly wouldn't mind a non-upgradable version that uses one of the laptop cards listed in this article if it means they could make it appreciably smaller and more discrete than a slim-SFF desktop case. I mean, the dock itself is a modular component that can be upgraded as a whole anyways.
They probably want to focus hangouts on enterprise and Duo on consumer market
But it is not whether it should be fixed that is controversial. It is how you fix it. And there's plenty of danger with most fixing procedures.

And yes, there's also some propaganda for not fixing it at all. That's what support voting machines (at least here). But, again, how do you fix the problem that makes propaganda viable?

For the specific problem of voting machines, candidates accusing others may be the best avenue for moving people in the correct direction.
This is pretty cool research, from what I can recall hypoxic tissue is hard to treat for three reasons:

1. It is hard to detect
2. Hypoxic tissue is hard to access as there is little blood supply
3. Hypoxic tissue is hard and physically robust

So according to this release, the work done here should help to address the issues of hypoxic tissue.

Is anyone with deeper subject knowledge able to discuss the viability of this research: how much is hype? Are there any risks or weaknesses to this method? How commercially viable is it to mass produce this?
That's just skill and superior skill.

Both require you to know stuff. And in programming, skill is just knowing more stuff (knowing how to apply things).

In other trades, skills might be swinging a hammer well or being able to chop potatoes really quickly.
I promise this isn't a troll question, but isn't the opinionatedness (which is a matter of taste) one of Go's biggest features? Once you remove that, what do you get over Elixir or Erlang, on a technical level? Static linking and no VM?
Well, Maslov's hierarchy is not exactly a proven concept. I think it's far too simplistic, for one.
The core idea here was good. Re-purposing these villages after use.

Now if only we could do that in the modern day, with support from the IOC, and turn them into something positive. For example turn them into schools, homeless shelters, libraries, something along those lines.
The page without an anchor: http://martinfowler.com/articles/web-security-basics.html
It's basically the storing of a verbatim one-line command as a line comment in a .go source file rather than its traditional home of a line in a shell script or makefile.

Imagine you found it intolerable to have an interpreter-dependant -- not even /bin/sh -- source file in your package directory (said another way, anything but .go source files in the package directory), but at the same time needed to somehow sneak in the functionality of a rudimentary shell script. The answer? Weave it into a .go source file and the Go toolchain will be able to pick up on and execute it (on demand, never automatically).
I've seen this being used by people arguing that it is why they read the papers rather than get their news online, unaware that the articles are written to the same deadlines, so they are simply getting the same information, but late.
Yes I'm 60 with deep knowledge.

Electronics, assembler, system / language / application development, data structures and flow design, protocol design, UI design and now working on AI.
I was pushed ahead a grade, and didn't have many issues in elementary school, until we moved in the middle of 5th grade. Had to deal with a whole new set of people who I'd not grown up with, and that then carried on to middle and high school. No doubt the adolescent period would have been more difficult had I stayed in the original school, but I think it would have had less contributing factor.

I did occasionally get in to some 'trouble' with 'peers' (not really my peers, but others in the school) being 'advanced'.

Example: 4th grade - teacher gets sick - our class is split in to 2 to go sit with 5th grade classes for the last 2 hours of school. "just sit and read". Fine... but the 5th grade teacher was covering math lessons, and was asking questions - "who knows ... (fill in the blank)?". Silence in the room, except for me raising my hand. "I know!" She was thinking I wanted to leave the room, and kept ignoring me, until I spoke the answer. Pissed off the other 9-11 year old kids having a 8 year old answer their math questions (it was something to do with fractions).

I got a scratch-n-sniff pine tree sticker for my answer, and was told to keep reading my book and not disturb the class any more...

Still had that sticker until a few years ago (it didn't smell any more).
In Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, the Supreme Court very unambiguously ruled that a state cannot force out-of-state companies that have no physical presence in that state to collect sales tax. If Netflix has agreed to collect sales tax in Pennsylvania, I think they're either doing it voluntarily for political reasons or because they have some physical presence in Pennsylvania for some reason.
I read that as "there are no grades (levels)", especially as the following point is "there's no holding back a grade (level)".
No, the US is currently at 54% military + 6% veteran benefits, while 6% education, 6% medicare + health, 3% science.

https://media.nationalpriorities.org/uploads/discretionary_s...
The alleged NSA's unit the Equation Group has been hacked
Notifications are possible with Service Workers.
Could be the hackers themselves for all you know.
Outstanding book - should be a must read for any entrepreneur looking for outside money. It's very cheap compared to a mistake in a negotiation. :-)
> Another question for me is: what is the argument for a single grade across subjects?

Prior to middle school / junior high (starting usually between 6th and 8th grade, depending on the particular school system), the norm in the US isn't to have distinct subject-matter classes, but classrooms with a single teacher for all subjects for one grade, which may not use a strict fixed allotment of time slots for each subject, and even where they do it may not be the same time slot for the same subject area in different classrooms in different grades in the same school (and even the set of subjects may change somewhat in different grades.)

This makes per-subject variations in grade level for a student logistically difficult to accommodate.

OTOH, once you get to middle school with per-subject classes being the norm, this is fairly easy to accommodate, and its just a scheduling and resource problem (e.g., in a middle school, do you have enough qualified students to support a Calculus class) at that level.
Except for the kids who'd be ahead in everything - they'd still have a stigma...

I suspect uniform testing at 'grade level' becomes harder to use for comparisons against other schools.
There is a huge difference in rent between the different parts of SV. You have to pay rent, but it doesn't have to be Palo Alto rent.
Now if they could only put the crooks that run the IOC in prison...
At least when you come to the comment sections, you get a whole load of competing individual perspectives, rather than the single one the original article purveys.
And if you think that having money == "success".
Note: Working Paper = not peer-reviewed

The premise seems flawed on its face. If people are able to make a living wage and are happy with what they do, why do they need to worry about an advanced education?

Having a better educated populace regardless of how they choose to proceed from it seems like a positive outcome on its own.

Similarly, if a Danish person can have a good quality of life without having to engage in an American-style employment grind, why would they choose to follow that path?

The scope of this paper seems entirely too narrow.
No, the Debian Platform. That may be one way of exploiting it.
My Startup Generated Almost 2M in Revenue, So I Shut It Down
The reason WhatsApp is valuable is because a chat app is rather useless without a massive userbase. That's not true for file syncing.

Having a massive user base may be all that matters for inherently social applications, but Dropbox is definitely not one of those.
You're really missing the point.
I'm obligated to mention Box's S-1 filing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9407229.

I don't know whether Dropbox is profitable, but Box always seemed like it was abysmally managed from a financial standpoint.
No. Forecast based on the crime rate trend would be more precise than using race as a proxy.
I still don't use dropbox anymore. There are tons of alternatives, many of which are better anyhow.
http://www.drop-dropbox.com/
It's possible I had an old version, but I was trying to do super basic things with PIL on 14.04 LTS; literally just cropping a JPEG and things were failing.

Do I have this problem in Java/Node/Go/Rust? No, I don't.

The reason I don't have this problem is that dependencies are not installed globally, they are defined per-project and often statically linked in, there is no such thing as a conflict between two of those projects.
Generating Hypotheses for Successful Threat Hunting
How to Open and Repair a Creative T4W Satellite Speaker
My wife and I made a decision not to move to SV because we figured the boost in salary wouldn't justify the higher cost of living (I'm in the greater Boston area). But based on this statement I'm not sure I made the right call. My wife and I make barely more than half that even though I'm senior and she has a master's degree in engineering.

But per your point of reference, daycare here "only" costs $18k a year.
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You've really pinpointed your definition of success there.

It's not the same as mine.
Identity theft is possible for the sole reason that privacy advocates consistently defeat proposals to build any system of identification/authentication less broken than forgeable drivers licenses and shared-secret SSNs. People actually get angry when we make it harder to forge IDs! Propose any sort of PKI or .gov OAuth provider or something, and you're basically Big Brother himself. It's like the ability to commit identity theft is considered a right.

Trying to authenticate people by their knowledge of data that's in or easily deduced from the public record (or "shared secrets" shared with every entity they've ever done business with) is an objectively wrong security design and we need to stop using it. Making those public records harder to access is an absurdly circuitous fix to something other than the real problem.
It's actually a rather refreshing marketing move - in past gens the "M"s were often smaller chips - while the 980M had the GM204 like the non-ti 980, the GTX960 had the GM107 (GTX750!)

Now for BS, go to a store and look for a laptop i7 that's actually a quad core... outside of a gaming laptop.
>unexamined privilege

Silicon Valley is famous for its navel-gazing. There's even a hit television show devoted to it. The privilege is well and rightfully examined. That's why, I think, this satire falls flat -- it doesn't say anything that isn't painfully obvious to anyone who has even a casual familiarity with the local culture, and even worse, it doesn't say the painfully obvious in any new way.

It doesn't 'bite' like the onion does, where it comes too close to reality for comfort. It's not zany and off-beat like a Mad Magazine bit. It's just... not that good.
Ah, but it's not that simple. A chicken is not a spherical piece of uniform meat. Getting the temp right and pulling the chicken at the right time (so that the legs are fully cooked while the breast is not) isn't really easy. Techniques like spatchcocking make this easier, but it all trades off time and convnience.

Ultimately, however, brining has outright phenomenal effects on meat tenderness and moisture that simple cannot be replicated by timing and temperature changes. It creates complex chemical changes in the muscle that lead to a far simpler cooking process, and the meat also stays moister longer than cooking. This is covered in detail in cooking chemistry books.

See, for example:
http://modernistcuisine.com/recipes/injection-brining/

"Yet the perfect roast chicken is nearly impossible to achieve in practice. The temperature required to brown and crisp the skin is so high that it leaves the meat underneath scorched and dry. The dark thigh and leg meat similarly need higher heat than is ideal for the white breast meat. Brining the chicken in salt water can help the delicate breast meat retain more juice at higher temperatures, but the brine has the same effect on the skin, which then ends up unpleasantly chewy."

This is basically scientific fact: you cannot achieve what you want without brining without putting in effort and time.
It's just a book review.
The kids who used to go to wall street go to San Francisco now.

Silicon Valley didn't win, they were colonized.
We are moving away from the satisfaction in the action to glamorizing all the other parts such as the result, or even worse the ability to avoid the action altogether. Our values are more aligned with pride and the communal recognition of success rather than the individual notion that you put your full effort and must live with the consequences.

On a separate note, we are seeing a gradual disappearance of the middle class resulting in desperate attempts to rise in status whether superficially or explicitly. In either case, we are losing some self-worth and putting our happiness in the hands of society and rules we don't control.
I've said it before: Amazing that it was Instagram that copied the idea of Snapchat stories.

Facebook has a complete "Post" blogging mechanism.

Twitter is soon going to stop counting urls in the 140 characters.

One of these things is not like the others...
3D Printing: Ready for mass market?
A job in the IT department of a business that doesn't specialize in technology could be a good start. My company will hire interns who have completed only their freshman year of a CS or similar program and give opportunities for real work, but we are not nearly as rigorous with technical interviews. It may not be a good landing point for someone who only wants to be technical, but it's been great experience for many who have gone on to everywhere from Microsoft/Google to start-ups.

I work at a food company in the I.T. department in a development-centric role.
Totally agree. Some US people are not living in a real world
If there's a kid who is ahead at everything, the material is not diverse enough. To some extent competence is a zero-sum game. The likelihood that a student is operating at above-typical levels in sports, art, math, and journalism seems small to me. The early experiences that lead to advanced performance in each of those fields are dramatically different.

The only way I would expect to see that is if the school was tailoring all of those subjects to a certain kind of student. Which, admittedly, is common. But I'm talking about a more universal advancement system where Art 12 really is for level-12 artists, not level-12 math students who want to do something that resembles art, and be graded on effort.

The nice thing about such a system is you wouldn't have to cater Art-12 to advanced level history students just to keep their GPAs up. Those students could stay in Art 4, and get their A there, while the Art-12 students were subject to the higher standard that really only they could handle. You could expect them to spend 20 hours a week in the studio, which would be unreasonable for a student carrying a full coursework burden in another field. And you could even put that burden on 10-year-olds who were ready for it, of which there are some.
We've banned the sockpuppet accounts that voted and commented here.
I've enjoyed Crystal (https://crystal-lang.org/) a lot lately. Others have mentioned Nim, which is quite good. Also, D-lang (http://dlang.org/) doesn't get nearly enough love by people. It's an excellent language too.
yep, that piece hits it right on the head.
Stories about rising through the ranks of business and life
Guest post: Life as an anxious grad student
Linux flaw that allows anyone to hijack Internet traffic affects 80% of Android
All the while feeling as if you are part of a massive unpaid labour force training Google's optical recognition algorithms and adding and verifying Google Streetview metadata (e.g., “select all images containing street signs/store fronts/lakes”).
Sorry, whose private keys did you find a backup of?
Ummm...did you ever look it up?

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

"a young immature chicken (less than five weeks of age), weighing not more than two pounds ready-to-cook weight, which was prepared from a Cornish chicken or the progeny of a Cornish chicken crossed with another breed of chicken"
I'm convinced that stcredzero is intentionally misdirecting you into arguing about logical fallacies.

I'm just convinced coldtea is wrong. The fallacious use of logical fallacies has taken over far too much of public debate.

The common list of logical fallacies entered Western culture from the ancient Greeks but shouldn't be taken with religious fervor.

Sure. Let's apply them with logic.