skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My teachers tell me to just solve questions and get good marks so that I can move ahead in the rat race of life.

They are quite awesome, but unfortunately my paradigm doesn't exactly superimpose upon theirs. So, I don't get the mileage I should be getting from their advice. My goals and aspirations are simply too different. The ones that do understand, smile and tell me to just tow the line.

I don't want a job in some big company. Neither do I want truckloads of money. I just want to create beautiful things.
I respectfully disagree, but I also acknowledge that this it is a very subjective judgment. Maybe I shouldn't pull a Roger Ebert and try to argue that something isn't art only to get flamed to death. But for me, personally, even if there's a lot of craft in an ad, to me it's still and ad.
All "states" allow a yearly view for free, because that's actually a Federal law. See this page: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/credit/cre34.shtm

They did stagger that law in by region, but it's completely phased in and has been for a while.

Bear in mind you are entitled to a dump of the raw data they have, but you are not entitled to the final number they call your score. They make you pay for that. In general, it isn't all that useful to know that score IMHO. (At specific times, perhaps, but not in general.)
Near as I can tell, [1] provides virtually no data beyond opinion polls, certainly none showing discrimination. [1] is also an advocacy piece written by people with a vested interest in finding discrimination, since it will get them more funding/chairs/office space/etc.

[2] seems to be a review of psychology, but whatever data they have on discrimination seems to be buried deep within the article (I only skimmed it). I skimmed [3], but it seems to have virtually no data on women in computing at all, and what it has seems concerned primarily with the 90's or earlier.

Then I gave up. I think you should read your sources before posting them.

I don't see a single source which, e.g., shows women outperforming men at the same level, which would be fairly concrete proof of discrimination.
You're normal. It's your expectations for yourself that are wrong. By definition, not everyone can be exceptional. Grow up.
Well if you had already read the academic literature for yourself then you wouldn't have to rely on a "random internet guy" for your health information. But if you're not willing to actually read the primary sources, the best you're going to get is second hand information.

edit: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1280349/?tool=pm...

http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Estrogenic-Phthalate-Esters...
They have a business model and revenue. It doesn't matter quite so much what they use. $1000 hosting costs vs $10k hosting costs for them is 'meh'.

For startups, and Reddit, the difference does(should) matter.
Find good foods that you enjoy and exercises that you don't dread

Regarding the exercise part of that statement:

I've actually come to terms with the fact that the amount I need to exercise to change my body over time isn't going to be pleasant while I'm doing it and I won't want to exercise every day. I've also come to expect that I'll feel great after I work out. If you couple these realistic expectations with a regular exercise schedule, it's easier to force yourself through your workouts and meet your goals/establish good habits.
Yea I think like some the term DevOps makes me cringe as well since people use it as a job title when it should be more thought of like agile development, just another term to describe a process of working.

I use chef because I needed a way to consistently deploy software in exactly the same way every time to multiple servers. A repeatable deployment process that scales. Why did I pick chef over puppet or cfengine? Because I also wanted to learn ruby and the entire thing is in ruby, win. Plus we have a ruby on rails team in the office, if ever I needed a hand, they were there or if they wanted to write recipes to deploy software thats not an issue either.

DevOps is just a new buzz word. My title is System Administrator. I have a depth of knowledge in the infrastructure of all our technologies and how they are interconnected. I know how to deploy, maintain, scale and do it all over again. My knowledge in programming in second to that but is necessary to automate repetitive processes. DevOps I guess is being classed as a way to bring the IT team together, making sys admins and developers aware of each others "agendas" when it comes to running apps on servers. I as a sys admin have to understand what each of our applications does throughout its life cycle, from the browser right down to the database. Because if something goes wrong, I'll be the first to figure out where that happened and relay this back to the developer. By understanding core functionality of the code I can make it clear to the developer, "look you are executing a query on the database thats scanning millions of rows because its not using an index, its occurring in this controller in your code". We are seeing this term DevOps be classified now as more and more startups are emerging, because its essentially alot easier to execute in a startup environment where everyone is talking to each other to roll things out, everyone is trying to solve problems together. In large companies you'll see a massive separation and segregation along with processes to keep people in their place and slow results.

I hope that all makes sense. DevOps as a process is not new, the classification of it as this term is.
You are not the poster who said "casting malloc's return is evil", so perhaps you don't agree with that statement, but I don't see how either of the points you make lead to the conclusion that it is "evil". You say that since void* is implicitly cast to all pointer types, you never need to explicitly cast it, but why would that make an explicit cast evil?
The WELL
According to http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/credit/cre34.shtm , credit reports for the purpose of determining if accuracy changes have been made do not count as the yearly report.

However, bear in mind that covers the report of the raw data. The credit score itself is not covered by that report, and they can make you pay again for that. I don't think knowing their exact score is all that useful, compared to making sure their data is accurate.
There's a Debian package for dopewars, which is pretty much just a remake.
The big 3 are required to give you a free credit report once a year by law. There is also a dispute mechanism for each of them.

Were you not able to use this or was this in addition to that?

(Yeah it's messed up).
A couple of demo videos of noVNC.

Short: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icVpGOvh4tc

Longer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9GauBAaQXI
"Either you make films or make excuses" - ICT and the Nigerian film industry
London, 1993: 56k dial-up isn't cutting it any more, and ADSL is hideously expensive. It occurs to me that cable TV is getting more popular, and that this would provide more than enough bandwidth for most people. An evening of technical research seems to support the idea. I call the business development people at the cable company the following day, but am unable to persuade them that spending money on 'an inter net' might be more profitable than catering to the existing demand for sport, porn and light entertainment.

I was right from a technical standpoint...but they were also right from a content standpoint, though it took me a lot longer to appreciate that.
Yes! It's also important to note that sunlight through glass DOES NOT COUNT.
It might be because you agree to the credit bureau being used (you usually sign something) and the company pulling it pays for it.

It's not published in a public place so libel wouldn't apply (my guess anyway). Now if they put it up in the local bar (like bad checks used to be before they cracked down) then you might have a case.
40 years ago IBM called these guys "systems programmers". That this is a new concept to some people is symptomatic of a wider problem in the industry: everything needs to be shiny and new so every 10 years we reinvent the wheel with new jargon.
This campaign DID come from W+K. So did the "Write the Future" World Cup campaign.
The transition from the terran campaign to the zerg campaign in the original was the only real genius of the plot I felt. Leaving Kerrigan to die was one of the last things that happens before you start playing as the zerg. As the zerg, you have to guard this mysterious chrysalis for the first several missions without having any idea what it contains. It was a real "Oh Wow" moment when out pops zerg-Kerrigan.
Yup. I think I actually played it more often as a door/chain on some local BBSs. (Still, from my 8088.)
Am I supposed to think Kerrigan as the Queen of Blades is sexy, or am I supposed to be repulsed by the... things growing out of her back?

That's a rhetorical question right? :)
I did not see the specs for the systems used to perform the test, If they where using a multicore server, this would surly slant the results in favor of the threaded model. As well, the JVM / Java was designed from the first release as a blocking IO style development language so you have years of development towards that design philosophy.

I just don't see how apples to apples, on a single core, blocking can be faster than NIO. I think C would be a better testing ground, where you don't have built up layers over the years that reinforce one over the other.
Look at the number of products the companies you mention have.

Apple devote their attention to products - and update them when they please.

They don't have to "keep up" with anyone else either, which applies especially in the Windows laptop market.
HUGE market for it outside of SaaS. The things out there are either too complex or just all around garbage.
There is actually nothing but rumors and speculation about the price of the future expansions. Blizzard has said nothing about the price, so it is a little sensationalist to assume they will all be $60.
if there's enough interest outside the U.S., we'll figure out a way to make it work
"daisy, daisy, ..."
When I started taking it, there was a pronounced impact on things like my personality and creativity. I think that was mostly from the drug effect. I was super focused and pretty euphoric for about a week. There was some residual euphoria for a month or two, but always decreasing. Unfortunately the euphoria is why Adderrall is so strongly controlled, people have to keep taking more and more of it to chase that feeling.

If however you use it as prescribed, the euphoria leaves and the focus remains. I honestly feel more creative now, but as mentioned by others, it's a bit different. Before, I felt like I had a thousand ideas battling for my attention all the time. I didn't really notice it though because - well it was like that since birth. When I went on Adderrall, it was as if someone took all the buzzing in my brain and turned the volume way way down. The ideas and thoughts are still there, but they don't dominate my thinking process unless I choose to focus on them.
I want my cologne to be associated with expensive stuff.
I don't want my cologne to be expensive stuff.
Class action lawsuit filed over "overheating" iPads
"Shu's idea is that time and space are not independent entities but can be converted back and forth between each other."

This is not a new idea. This was in my high school physics textbook in 1998, and it was an old textbook.
Sadly I pre-ordered this so long that it's being shipped to my old address. Not sure what to do about that...
Why are people voting this up? This article makes no mention of a control group and many factors can contribute to low iq. I am basically echoing several comments made on the article itself because they are valid.
There is a bit of the same movement in CCP Games where I work, it's not called DevOps here, but there are groups forming in both the EVE Online software team and the Core technology group with an engineering focus on QA, which in practice translates pretty well to the DevOps style of thinking about the needs for this type of development and quality work. Here's one of the advertised positions for example:

http://www.ccpgames.com/en/jobs/job-details.aspx?jobid=101
We have a group (about 4) out of 30+ that have an overall view of what you might call devops

This is called "second line support".
“Instead, she tries to empower herself. She avoids walking through exhaust, doesn’t use pesticides, buys organic foods, shuts her windows to keep air pollution outdoors and uses air filters in her home.”

Does it seem to anyone else like maybe this woman should move somewhere else, instead of trying to isolate her house from its immediate surroundings?

As for the study, isn’t it likely that IQs of children from different parts of a city are likely to be shaped by many factors other than just air quality?
Here & There — a Horizonless Projection in Manhattan
According to Wikipedia's page on W+K, these commercials did in fact come from theme.
"randomly attributing any good campaign to them seems a little strange to me"

That would be strange, and is probably an aid in the interpretive task of reading the post ;)

"In philosophy and rhetoric, the principle of charity requires interpreting a speaker's statements to be rational and, in the case of any argument, considering its best, strongest possible interpretation."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
Get this book: http://matrixeditions.com/UnifiedApproach4th.html and work through it if you want a rigorous treatment of MV calc and intro analysis.

Or this book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0914098918/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp... for regular calculus. Read them, work through the problems, get an answer key, email your solutions to professors asking them to look at them.

You will get a good introduction to analysis (and exposure to many other parts of math) from those two books.
For example a few days ago this teacher wrote this problem in class;

(x^2 - 2x + 2^|a|)/(x^2 - a^2) > 0

I had no clue how to do it. When he wrote the solution on the board only then could I follow it. I didn't understand why I couldn't see the solution on my own. It looks so simple later on and I just can't understand why I couldn't get it on my own in the first place. Can you help me out with that?

Thank you.
Day[9]'s King of the Beta launch party was 12 hours of streaming, and there were 13k+ people watching the stream most of the time.
Uh, actually, his original program (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg00542.html) did restore the stack pointer before returning from main. He "wanted to cut [the example's size] down for the sake of the mailing list", so he left that bit out.
For me it was a Facebook style photo sharing system (2001 - before Friendster and years before Myspace or Facebook). I worked on it full time and turned the code into a CMS to make ends meet.

Though, there are lots of "waves" of technology/change in the market. When they line up you get great opportunities. Napster hit when computers were fast enough to decode mp3 files and people had broadband at home. The key is seeing them with enough lead time and fortitude to paddle and be in the right spot when they hit.

Personally, I want to know what new waves will line up in 3 years.
My experience was pretty similar. Except as mentioned in one of my other responses I had a pretty strong personality change for the first week - probably similar to the robot idea. It went away pretty quickly though. I honestly think I was just so shocked I could think in quiet that I spent more time doing that than I used to, so people thought I turned more robotic. I was genuinely fascinated at how much my internal environment changed, and I did spend a lot of time thinking about it. For me it was so profound and so beneficial that I didn't really care if I turned into a robot, I was staying as long as I could. It turned out to be a non-issue for me though.
As a counter point. It's funny that on a site where the virtues of algorithms are extolled daily (Google, etc), one of the first widely (and very successful) uses of the algorithm (the FICO/credit score) is decried.

Companies use it because it works pretty well or well enough in most cases. Yeah there is some really bad data. However, half of that blame probably goes to the institutions reporting the data. (That's just a hunch)

However, because I've worked in the finance industry for many years, I've made it a point to check my credit and try to keep it clean, because I know the credit bureaus lack the incentive to do it.

I'm cursed because I have a common name and someone with the same name is very bad about paying his bills. I usually end up disputing something every other year or so.
I was thinking that you end up paying more for the service when you buy subsidized phone. I was implying that you can choose between paying-as-you-go when buying phone without contract and paying flat rate when you get contract and subsidized phone. So you spend extra money because (a) you end up paying more for the service you receive (voice talk minutes, SMS, data) and (b) flat rate plan includes more service than you would use paying-as-you-go. At least, that's how things are here in Russia.

Now I see the options in the US are not what I thought. While you get bound by contract, at least the subsidies are real.

As I understand, you normally use flat rate data plans regardless of when you are on contract or not. Are there options for paying for what you use? Are they widely used? Though I understand the reason to have unlimited data on a modern smartphone, paying-as-you-go (and prepaid) is what they normally use here, and I suspect most people will spend less than $40/month using a smartphone. If they make you pay for what you won't otherwise use, you can still count it as a tax for your "subsidy"
people are not taking the time to learn exactly what DevOps means

Now I know that "DevOps" means "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it". Whenever you come across something in IT you think is new, take the time to find out if mainframe shops were doing it in the 1970s... Back then sysadmins wrote assembly language to automate systems tasks and it was just an everyday part of the job!
How is that different from a computer purchase? See: Apple.
It is not going to take long for one or more fake-auth servers to spring up... much like those Windows7 validation-servers-run-locally.
It is from early 2008 though, website looks have changed a lot in the past few years.

(but i do think even for 2008 it was out dated)
My regular doctor prescribed it - he's a general practitioner. It is quite expensive if you don't have insurance.

It's definitely something you'd want to talk to your doctor about, and they will monitor you closely when you go on it. If it turns out that it doesn't work for you, it can have some negative side effects on your personality. People get really angry and irritable, so if that happens you'll want to get off of it.

Definitely talk to a doctor about it if you think it is impacting your ability to work or study effectively.
Well, I hope you make it to the iPhone, but, without Apple's approval it is still only a hope.
"What am I doing wrong?"

You are investing in the outcome not in the process.

http://www.ted.com/talks/srikumar_rao_plug_into_your_hard_wi...
You forget that the same day is not the same for everybody, Dave might just had a bad day that resulted in that response.

We are just humans. Totally unrelated input might result in a change on the output.
I don't think anyone purchased their product just because of the commercial. Rather, these are individuals who possibly did in the past purchase Old Spice products, or Gillette products, or other well known brand name products they trusted. Now, when they go to buy these products again, they make a choice for Old Spice. A product they already like, but never made a real choice to buy.

The commercials and publicity put Old Spice in their mind when they went to buy that type of product.

Old Spice isn't trying to prove it has a good product. We know that. Rather, it's reminding us to make that choice Old Spice.
I would say that little money isnt worth the loss of readership. Let's say the next scheme to save the empire is tee shirt sales. They have lost 90% of their customer base. Driving away customers isnt going to save newspapers.
I wish you the best of luck. I really hope it works well for you, it has been such a positive experience for me that I really have a hard time explaining it without sounding like a "fanboi".
I keep meaning to blog this, but here it how I "outsource" my design. I found a quality designer who is $75 an hour, he does great work and all I ask for from him is a PSD. This is the easiest thing for a designer to create and keeps his time to a minimum. Then I pay a freelancer to turn that into HTML and CSS for about $100-$150 per site, there are lots of people who do this. I use madmarkup (http://madmarkup.com/) because, well, it's my sister. :)

So what do the results look like? Here you go:

http://theloungenet.com
http://rubyrow.net
http://zerkmedia.com
http://infozerk.com
http://adzerk.com/

Most of these sites took between 5-15 hours of my designers time, the logos were a separate expense. I am now using my designer to design the internals of my application, we do a couple pages at a time and it has gone really well. I think it's the next best option to having a designer on the staff full-time.
I'm really liking http://forrst.com/

Its more designer focused and as a programmer its nice to venture out beyond my little niche.
I can't and I couldn't even tell my parents. The thing is that I am intersexed and hence I am socially unacceptable. My parents don't want anything to do with me, and, well, it's a long sob story that isn't worth a damn.

In a way it was a good thing. It taught me a lot about human nature and the implications of our behavior, look don't judge the man. He did it as a joke and didn't mean any harm. So, it is better for me to forgive and forget and just move on. It's human nature to make mistakes and I am pretty sure that someday he will realize this and correct it. So, who am I to judge?
Chevy Volt to cost $41,000 before rebate, $33,500 after rebate.
Thanks for posting this. I thought about posting something similiar. The comments in the thread have really helped me as well (thanks HN!).

I haven't found my solution, but it doesn't seem to be about money. I'm 28 and my wife is also. We started with nothing. We both paid our own way through college while working. I started working at 17. I've had a few good breaks along the way as a developer jumping jobs. I make a little over six figures a year, my wife makes about 60k. We paid off our house last year. We have two new cars and our only debt is on her car. We have 85k in our checking account and about 180k in our 401ks.

I'm active and sleep well. I work out six days a week for 30-60 minutes a day. I don't do much else though besides work out and work. I started reading and tried doing some other things to calm my mind and begin to accept the fact that middle class is OK.

I feel like I've plateued and don't have much to show for it other than a safely padded bank account. I have pretty boring job. My primary satisfaction comes from my marriage - I'm super lucky for that.

The other advice is to focus on meeting people, making friends and acquaintances. Don't spend your twenties working like crazy for someone else. Either work crazy for yourself or don't work crazy. Spend it with other people instead.
SPF means "sun protection factor". SPF 10 is not "completely exposed" it's actually a very high level of protection, it means that it will take 10x as much sun exposure to lead to the same amount of UV-B reaching your skin, more or less.
It's a site that's been around forever. What's the point of this submission?