skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I attended MIT for undergrad as well as master's. Most master's students I knew did not pay tuition (it was typically covered by their lab or through being a teaching assistant). On balance I wouldn't describe MIT master's students as "cash cows" for the university.
There's a big problem with things like stolen bikes and electronics and counterfeit or stolen (and voided) tickets.

Also, there have been numerous armed or strong-arm robberies by fake "sellers" who arrange a sale of a higher-cost item.
They both support Heroku-like buildpacks. Major difference IMO is that Flynn supports databases and other stateful services.

I evaluated Flynn, Deis and Dokku and wasn't entirely satisfied with any of them opting for Heroku instead.

I've promised people a blogpost on this and I will do it once I get time to evaluate RancherOS too.
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I'd disagree. Python abstracts a little too much away, and it's much easier to figure out loop ranges, invariants etc in an algorithm from say Java code.

Python works well when you have to convey your algorithm in a nice succinct functional manner, but that's optimizing for cuteness, not understanding.
> and which people either like or dislike receiving them

That's key. Don't turn people (data) away - re-purpose them (it).
True. Every Fandalism user does get 1 email, from Fandalism, about DistroKid.
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Files are good because virtually anything can read and write them, so they are very portable. I used to work with a really great security guy who created a good system for handling secrets. He had us write them to files, but only to a tmpfs mount, so that they were written to memory and not disk. We also didn't write them to regular files, we used named pipes. This way the application on initialization would read a secret from the pipe and would block waiting for it to be available if it hadn't been written yet. There was a separate process in place to handle the retrieval of the secret and the writing of it to the pipe. As soon as it was written, the application would finish reading and continue its initialization. This ensured things happened in the correct order, and also made the file to be one-time-use.
Top universities (Stanford, MIT, Ivy League) don't have a money problem, and they don't have a supply-demand problem. Prospective students would gladly join and work for free, be they foreigners or US residents. They do pay though, although it's not clear what drives their level of pay. Maybe one factor is that if they paid more, it could end up being counterproductive, as the post about f-u money that has been on HN recently can attest.
Before you try any sort of ML, explore your data [1, 2]. Exploratory data analysis may very well tell you that there is absolutely no point in making a fancy predictive model at all. If a few heuristics get you 90% of the way to an optimal solution, then don't even bother to start on machine learning, unless that last 10% is going to provide significant value.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory_data_analysis

[2] From one of my mentors: http://www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2016/10/practical...
I don't understand this. Do you mean "short-term profitability is not a concern"?

My take was that DistroKid is already taking bare minimum profits, so even if someone enters the market with cash to burn, they're only fighting for a piece of an already small pie, and there's little guarantee that will recoup their burned cash.
I found that tolerance/habituation to L-Theanine built up fast in my case. It's best as an occasional-use nootropic.
I don't know about price. I'm picturing $9.99. Music is a fickle industry. A girl/guy writes a song, or sings, and they think it might be good, "Let's give this new site a shot? It under $10 bucks?" They pay, and no traction for 99.9%. The site just made 10 bucks. (The same business model most Hosting Companies use. The whole unlimited thing.)

I happened to have a girlfriend whom just happened to have two front men in her--"Tell me about your exes?". Yea--I got a bit nervous about the wanba be front men, until I saw their gigs. I thought they were just aweful, but I'm no critic. These bands spent every extra penny on promotion of their bands. I was in my twenties at the time, but was shocked at just how big they thought they were going to be.

I'm glad the owner talked about his site. I don't know if I would with all the Sharks (Google, Amazon, etc.) swimming around. Then again--maybe it's best to get it all out there.
Honestly I don't feel that Fandalism (which is also a one-man biz, too, I spose) added that much to DistroKid's growth. It was mostly some press, some blogs, and a good product. But yes- having a built-in user base with Fandalism didn't hurt.

In hindsight, the other distributors are so clunky and expensive, the bar is super low. Like, if you wanted to compete with Google search it would be hard. But if you wanted to compete with something moderately terrible (with all due respect. i do respect my elder competitors and are thankful for the road they've paved) -- it's much easier to grow.
It's fair if the website has useful content. I've been pinged before for not researching the company after their website basically said "we specialize in absolutely everything".
Ask HN: What do you look for in an internship?
I am anticipating a number of internship offers from a variety of companies for software developer roles.

1. What are some important (positive) things to look for?

2. What are some things (negative) to watch out for?

3. Long internship or short term (get to come back to school and graduate a year sooner vs take an extra year overall to graduate but with more experience)?

4. Big company or small startup? All in Canada if that makes a difference.

5. Going back to (4) graduate sooner... take extra year to graduate and maybe fit in another internship next summer? Or is it more valuable career-wise to graduate right after this internship?
I realize this is somewhat anecdotal, but still...

For MIT EECS (largest dep't on campus; ~700 PhD students) there's no Masters-only people (except MEng students who continue for a 5th year from undergrad). The department only accepts applications to the PhD program and funds its students accordingly. They probably lose money over their international students because none of them qualify for NSF fellowships, etc.
Out of curiousity, did you meet or make many American friends? To me, I enjoy meeting different people from different cultures. I imagine I am not the only one.
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I think you may be thinking of the military or elected officials, Non-elected non-military personnel do not have to make an oath by anything for most cases much less the constitution.
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Numbers ruin a good (or an entirely fabricated)story once again. ;)
There actually is, it is an app called The League.

They solve this problem by putting up barriers to entry, and aggressively banning people.

You either wait for months to get on the app, or pay a bunch of money to skip the line.

And if you behave badly, well there goes your 150$ yearly, prepay membership.

The disadvantages of this app, are, well, those same barriers to entry.....
Since the rise of Trump, first political comments stopped being flagged. Now HN is entertaining daily threads on politics.
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I've heard the same said of getting mammograms started earlier in life: they don't recommend it because the time spent chasing benign lumps is neither safe nor efficient.

This always seemed to me a terrible indictment of how medicine is practiced. Knowing that, do you have to chase down every lump your screening finds? Can you not consider the benefits of investigating further based on the dangers of doing so, the risk factors the patient has, maybe even what you see in successive scans over time?

I am not a doctor, but there seems something unhealthy about a system in which you are advised to avoid learning information about yourself in order to avoid treatment.
>If America cancels visas and closes borders, it will still launch businesses, it will still occasionally produce a unicorn, but it will be crippled in basic science.

Conversely, we saw in the now (in)famous Princeton study that Congress doesn't care what you or I want. They only care what the wealthy want. We need the wealthy to advocate for proper education at the primary and secondary levels. And more to the point, we need them to fund it. This won't happen as long as they continue to have relatively cheap access to foreign labor via loose immigration, H-1B visas, etc. I'm not an advocate of closing the border, but the more we pressure corporations to need better local talent the better. Maybe a nudge in the other direction over time wouldn't be the end of the world.
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Is Rubio part of the apocalypse cult advocating a confrontation with Russia to "punish" it for transgressions for which no proof has been brought forward?

If so, "rational" isn't really his strongpoint.
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I disagree. Money is not the only motivation, but it is the most reliable to model as the primary reason why people work.
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Well, how about this one then: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-12/soros-los...

Losing a billion dollars is easier than you think, because even if you're intelligent, sometimes circumstances conspire against you.
What's with the hostility? I'm pointing out something factual that some users (especially new users) may not be aware of.
The knowledge was not widespread, but people in the field certainly had suspicions and started getting an idea in the late 1980s, at the very latest. The EU conducted an investigation in 2000 and certainly knew what was going on pretty well when the final report [1] was presented in mid 2001. Probably not in too much detail but they certainly had an idea of the [possible] scale.

[1] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//...
The "secret" is to build something useful, go where the people are, and make it easy to buy at a price they are willing to buy. Easy to say, hard to do for reasons.
I sent a laptop from IN to TN, with tracking (back in the 90's) and insurance. It never got there. After several weeks, I filed a claim with the USPS, and they weren't going to honor it. Their records showed that I turned it in to the local post office, then nothing - no further tracking whatsoever. I had to threaten to escalate things before they would pay, and then it took forever to get the money.

They said in the future, if you want to be sure of a delivery, you have to send it registered mail: with that, every time a transfer of any kind occurs, it is done with paperwork, signatures, tracking, and under lock and key. Of course it costs an arm and a leg too.
Exactly. Close friends? I'd guess it's at least 20-25%.

College can be a weird place. Personally I had a lot of people I hung out with for a semester or two, but nobody I liked enough to truly be friends with.
Really resonated with me, also being a micro-startup with a minimalist customer-centric philosophy, albeit in a completely different market.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Identify a poorly served professional segment where the business processes are not the primary task,

2. Automate their processes with vision and passion and empathy for the customer,

3. Make fans for life. Maybe also profit.

Minimum requirements to execute: at least one seed customer; wifi; coffee; time.

Rock on pud.
I'm curious why people don't prefer Chez Scheme to Racket if it is so fast and can make real binaries (I think anyway). Maybe because until recent it was proprietary. Racket is cool, but I already have Python which is similar from a performance perspective. Chez with the Racket ecosystem might be worth a switch.
Yeah. The real issue here is not simply that Flynn spoke with the ambassador. There's a reasonable debate to be had about the Logan Act and such issues. It's that he flat-out lied about his conversation to counter-intelligence agents investigating a very serious Russian intelligence operation. If Flynn felt like he would incriminate himself in telling the truth, he should have pursued other channels rather than flat-out lying to counter-intelligence.

Not only that, but Trump was _informed_ by the FBI about Flynn's lie weeks ago. Yet Trump actively participated in the cover-up, with bald lies of his own! WTF!!!!!!!!!!!

Any complaints about the intelligence community breaching protocol over this are seriously misguided. The whole saga is treachery that borders on traitorous!

Trump is free to pursue a new Russian policy. He's the president. If the intelligence community refused to carry out his orders, then that's a different kind of conversation. But if his administration is going to lie not only publicly, but to Congress, about things in this manner, merely to avoid the political costs of his preferred policy, then that's on him. You can't have a government that operates that way. Maintaining secrecy does not require lying of this sort, not in any way, shape, or form.

This is why modern societies like ours have the 5th Amendment. A system that forces people to lie is not tolerable or sustainable, so we gave people under criminal investigation an alternative to lying--refusing to talk--and expect them to take advantage of that alternative. Perjury and obstruction of justice are, for the most part, punished severely in this country exactly because the alternative exists.

In politics there are similar alternatives to lying. Lying is poisonous. When there's lying the system cannot work. Checks & balances cannot work. The last resort are the honorable men and women in the bureaucracy willing to breach protocol.

I'm also a supporter of Snowden. When General Clapper lied under oath to Congress, that's all I needed to know to conclude that Snowden was justified. Were Snowden's leaks too large in scope? I don't care. Short of leaking our nuclear codes, I'm not going to question his methods in the face of top-level officials breaching not only the public trust, not only hiding information from other branches of the government, but of violating a basic tenet of any functional political system however structured--no lying!
Hey, nothing wrong with self-promotion - it can take you places! Look at POTUS.
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> Honestly, international students are cliquey.

Since we're generalizing here, I'll say the reason for this is, honestly, American students are mean and like to make fun of our accents.
can you tl;dr your post please?
Is it really that hard to believe that the US enjoys a disproportionate number of smart immigrants that isn't sustainable with the US's population alone, and that we are at risk of losing this extremely valuable population? To believe keeping out immigrants won't harm the competitiveness of American talent means you believe that the natives are some how exceptional compared to the rest of the worlds population by place of birth alone. Or do you just not care if smart people live, work and defend another nation if it means people who got here first have higher employment?
Like Objective-C is a realistic choice anywhere but on OSX...

If you play with Apple, you can only ask how high you have to jump. They will certainly not help you write cross-platform code, if they can avoid it. They practice lock-in very aggressively at all levels.
> However, a respected security expert here on HN recently said of Tor Browser

The Chrome browser doesn't respect SOCKS5 proxy settings, lacks stream isolation, and has other all sorts of built in identifiers. There is a reason the Tor team hasn't switched to using Chrome!
> So, if you want to run a small business that brings in ~$2M a year, don't go try raise a huge VC round at a high valuation. That probably would not work out well for either party.

I'm curious, how would that negatively impact the founder?

If the founder still has a controlling interest what leverage do the VCs have to tell him that $2m/year in profit is not enough and to make him risk it for more?
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yahoo has adtech?
> the Indian and Chinese students had networks of past-year students, who'd built up databases of exam questions.

A friend of mine joined a frat and he said they had the same thing.
> Amusingly, people seem to think that these are bad things to say about an application like SecureDrop.

People don't seem to understand what trusted-computing-base actually means.
you do know that many Americans don't focus heavily on American sports and music? As someone who was born in the USA and raised, I have zero interest in sports. Music, I have a fleeting interest due to it's global acceptance.

Financially, not all Americans are rich or come from 2 income households. Alot of 18yr olds+ celebrate independence by moving out, taking a crappy local job at a fast food or retail and still, make American friends.

Introvertness isn't an issue, did you actually try? There are so many clubs that allow anyone to join and be friends. From meetup.com to local bookclubs.

But, we're also forgetting the big issue. Being American isn't like most countries in the world where you're born into a homogenous society. If you've lived more than a decade in the USA, and are a citizen, congratulations! You're a citizen, if any of your friends who aren't native born but also become naturalized, congratulations they're Americans!

Of course, I, know nothing of your background, so the above is all assumptions.

But, I felt like having to write this, as I wrap up spending 6 months in Japan.
I set this up a few weeks ago on a linux vps I'm using for dev. IPSEC with IKEV2 and certificates. Native clients on windows 10 and Ubuntu laptop (needed a network-manager plugin to be built), and took the shortcut and used the StrongSwan app on android.

The process was complex and there are things I still don't understand but it does work and the documentation and examples are quite comprehensive. The only issue I had with them was they assume a fair amount of familiarity with subjects that I didn't have. I'm mainly a serverside developer not a network admin, and whilst I have a vague understanding of how certs work I didn't have much awareness of VPN protocols or terminology so I had to abuse google pretty thoroughly.

It took about a day to do and I had to watch logs from server and client to figure it out, but it was interesting. I'm still pleased with the results and would recommend the product.
I launched with exactly one customer to build my first iteration, and grew from there. So the minimal viable audience is very minimal indeed.

How we grew: Impress the hell out of your customers. Treat them with empathy and humanity. They tell their friends in the same industry. Don't spend a single dollar on advertising, it's grossly inefficient.
There's no hostility. There are plenty of comments from mods, including the discussion on Political Detox Week, that discuss politics on HN, which are actually helpful rather than just observations.

Here's one such comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13522433
Kawasaki’s Law of Pre-Money Valuation: for every full-time engineer, add $500,000; for every full-time M.B.A., subtract $250,000.
Its called going to a place where there are more women than men.
I have to disagree on: "A very obvious example is that alcohol is a large part of Western, and now, some Eastern cultures; but people whose religion and culture strictly abhores it will have a harder time being happy among a group of Western friends."

Alcohol was always big in Eastern cultures. It's just not dominated because it is always considered an old people thing, not what young people do.
Easy. Give money to the EFF, ACLU, etc. Or create a similar organization with that kind of money.
Both of these were immensely helpful resources to me when I did this last month.
Do we know precisely where the leaks came from? Don't CIA officers, for example, take an oath?

In any event, oath or not, I think it's understood that we expect people to breach protocol under the right circumstances. The United States, at least, rejected the Nuremberg Defense. This isn't quite the same thing, but at the very least it's well established that even the lowest-level officials have an obligation to their nation's organic[1] law, as well as to universal moral law, that supersedes their duty to obey supervisory authority.

[1] organic meaning constitutional--little 'c', not big 'C'--that can include both written and unwritten law.
Autocorrect....
I appreciate the response.

I understand that you can model something and constantly improve it, but that still doesn't inspire confidence in the model's predictive ability.

Maybe a better answer would be: "Yes, weather forecasts are often wrong, but climate modeling from 10 years ago accurately predicted today's global temperatures with a margin of error of +/- 0.5%."
A whole season of startup podcast is devoted to following a dating startup and there's much discussion of the dynamics of the space: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/origin-story-season-2-1-2-3-...
What makes you feel that non-enterprise DC/OS is crippled in any way?

Disclaimer: I work at Mesosphere.
High barriers to entry to a dating app would seem to select for desperation.
I know someone who worked there for a while as a software engineer. He says it was fine at first, but eventually the overbearing "alles in Ordnung" culture got to be too much. He decided he didn't want to raise children there, so he moved back.
There's presumably a good story -- Baihe -- it's just not the one they decided to tell.
The blockchain model is able to self fund itself. What is called 'traditional' is undermined by blockchain projects, so every body trying to be an intermediary blockchain service simply subsidizes the building of tools that accelerate their obsolescence along with the industry they were trying to disrupt.

The VC model is a round peg for a square hole in the blockchain space.

As a single datapoint: Melonport's offering was crowdfunded in two minutes today, and that was on top of the Ethereum blockchain. And you should watch what is dubbed the "ICO" space.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I am glad we are talking about this.

Nothing against managers. Just have impression engineers are heavily undervalued.
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