skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the ones who do get a degree often find it worthless in the real world

While I have no love lost for the for-profit schools, I went to one I know how they operate. I think the above statement is not true. Some of the schools are regionally accredited (the one I went to was). Meaning credits will transfer and other schools will honor the degree when a student seeks a higher degree.

I cant speak for the curriculum taught at all of the schools but I can say that for UOP the curriculum was at a level somewhere between a 4 year community collage and an average state school. I knew the deal going in, an I knew the expense but I was already an executive at the time and needed a degree to move to the CTO spot in the company I was with. It was a no brainier for me. 50k for school was cheap for me so long as school did not interfere with my already overloaded schedule. What sealed the deal for me was the 1 class at a time approach. Instead of 16 week semesters where you take 3-4 classes UOP broke it into 1 focused class over a 5 week period. Given my schedule this allowed me to bank the credits and adjust my schedule. I only needed to plan 5 weeks at a time. And with as busy as I was that was the most I could do. If the next 5 weeks where going to be slammed. I could sign up for the next class when my schedule cooled off.

To say that they are of no value is characteristically unfair, to say that they don't offer a good value proposition to most people is more accurate.

I think the idea of degrees as a job requirement are nonsensical in the first place. If the job falls in a scientific discipline there are already certification (Doctor, Nurse, engineer) that prove (as much as you can) core competency. Legal the same thing (Real Estate, Lawyer, CPA). As well, for the arts it does not matter just because you are study in the arts does not make you good at them.

If people would stop the nonsensical notion that a degree creates a more qualified candidate, we would not have people saddling themselves with debt just to be competitive and the universities would go back to being institutions of repute, where great minds go to collaborate. The rest of us are just getting in their way to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.
Awesome feedback.

1- This is so true! If we had more money / people / time we'd personally like to make videos of each product. Will try to add more in the future.
2- Good call. Added to roadmap. Something similar to https://www.dropbox.com/votebox . For now you can submit any suggestions here: http://www.appsumo.com/opinion/
why do you think my servers are interconnected? I think your conclusions are broken because of many non-always-true assumptions.

In Redis Cluster there is no cluster data communication if not for resharding that only works when the whole cluster is on and is done by the sys administrator when adding a node.

So in normal conditions, a node will either:

1) Accept a query, or

2) Tell the client: no, ask instead 1.2.3.4:6380

All the nodes are connected only to make sure the state of the cluster is up. If there are too much nodes down from the point of view of a single node it will reply to the client with a cluster error.

What I'm sacrificing is only consistency because in every given time there is only a single host that is getting the queries for a given subset of keys.

The exception is in the resharding case that is also fault-tolerant. Or slave election (fault tolerance is obtained via replicas).

As a side note, the clients should cache what node is responsible for a given set of keys, so after some time and when there are no failures/resharding in act, every client will directly ask the right node, making the solution completely horizontally scalable.

Dummy clients will just do always the ask-random-node + retry stage if they are unable to take state.

Edit: there are little fields like this that are totally in the hands of academia. My contribution is from the point of view of a dummy hacker that can't understand complex math but that will try to be much more pragmatic.
Is your point that the residents might not be able to pay the $5000 bills in such a case?
Interesting, each folder can't be mapped to a tag of the same name?
"We decided from the start to make our games incredibly fun and easy so that they appeal to everyone."

For me, that is one of the most important lessons to take away from this. Keep it simple, keep it fun and engaging, and the users will love it.

The rise of Minecraft has reinforced this point of view in my mind.
That seems fair to me, as opposed to simply banning people from living in the boonies.
You are right, everybody should use the tool, he want's to use.
The more interesting part of the article is having a alternative to Javascript in the DOM.
Because by omitting the specifics, you're coloring your interpretation of the event. There were no injuries. Nobody's life was threatened. The structure itself was likely of marginal financial value --- it was a mobile home on unincorporated land. There's "fire", and then there's "fire".
just grabbed it, excellent stuff for our small team and lots of it
Rekeying and picking locks
My point is that absent some actual meaningful obligation, perhaps the fire department didn't have a particularly strong moral reason to engage with this fire. Even in the city, the department might let, say, a garage burn to the ground.
That's confusing, but like you said its probably minimal.

By me, on the course schedule they listed your courses and class numbers. I.e. 2304A, where A represents Whitehead building. How are you supposed to know that?!

The building codes for the most part make sense, but some don't. The classes make sense.
Stealing company secrets: termination.

Stealing company secrets because an FBI agent asks you to: 20 years in prison.

I am beginning to understand the whole "don't talk to the cops" movement.
A "to-do list" is an abstraction, like a triangle, or justice. Each to-do list is an instance of this abstraction, none are exactly alike.

There is a big difference between having good to-do list versus a bad to-do list and a hangover -- just like there is a big difference between the supreme court and a drunken lynch mob.
And when you get sick they'll ensure you aren't in pain by giving you morphine, which of course hastens your death. (Only barely hyperbole.)
It's just a movie trying to cash-in on a facebook phenomenon. Guy made a website that was popular among a certain clique and spread out like a wildfire. There's nothing genius about his "hacking" abilities (I'm pretty allergic to what is stuffed into that term on this site)... he made LOTS of money, geek with money - tension, drama. the end.

I don't get it what is there more to it, except for the fact that most of the people here would like to be that guy, because they are trying to enter the tangential business space he is in.
I'd be surprised to hear that Patrick McKenzie believes in a strong public school system with centralized control, protection for labor unions, or single-payer health care.
I don't know if you are being serious, but the spanish language is defined by the R.A.E, and it is influenced by other national academies, so it is more or less supposed to be country-neutral. If, say, peruvians speak closer to R.A.E's spanish than spaniards, then they are the ones speaking proper spanish. It is also worth noting that for many spaniards the language we call "spanish" is not their first language.
Would anyone downvoting this care to explain their rationale?

Is it because you doubt the validity of my claims (which are all verifiable by a simple wikipedia search http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_M._Lewin)?

Or is it because I made a tie to 9/11 when discussing an article that mentions a country with 9/11 involvment stealing top secret information from the US Homeland Security department?
Received 100% from Rotten Tomatoes top critics:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the-social-network/?critic=c...

Never seen that happen before.
1) Yep. Keyboard only for now (though we're looking into adding UI controls): You can select any shape, then hit backspace/delete. You can also select every shape with ctrl+a/cmd+a. Also ctrl+z/cmd+z and ctrl+shift+z/cmd+shift+z to go back and forth in the history.

2) We've got some ideas about making collaborating easier (revision history, realtime multi-user drawing, wave-style replaying, &c.) What would work well for you?
Dominant language by industry?
Hey guys,
What is the most popular language being used in your industry / sub-industry? Who uses them and why? Please forgive me for my ignorance, but:

From what I know:
Python and R are very popular as of late in the world of quantitative Finance.

Python is also quite popular in astro-physics and my friends tell me that it is replacing Matlab.

Okay, your turn :)

Edit: Looks like C++ is very popular in the quantitative analytics space as well - mostly due to speed and low latency. A ton of jobs ask for C++ and quite a few like C#.
Flagged.

This is a livejournal link, the content of which is a tedious 710 word polemic of no lasting value, zero cited sources and an overabundance of emotionally charged outrage triggers.

Not HN material at all.
I don't know about you, but where I come from, some poor kids get high on glue from a very early age.
Actually my first small, fast program used only the 360 command set because that's what my tech school had taught me. It had lots of moves of variable length data, but my "mentor" at work didn't clue me in about MVCL so I rolled my own variable moves by modifying code in flight. Yikes. Before writing the 2nd program I read more code and more books and learned the right way to do it. Both programs are still actively maintained 25 years later, and that first gets a lot of WTF responses when a new guy lays eyes on it:-)
Russian roulotte game
> my theoretical ex-girlfriend

For a moment there I was wondering what that meant. It took me a whole minute for me to understand you meant something like "hypothetical".
good point - browser compatibility is kinda important if it's meant as a sharing tool.
Handbook of Human Factors in Web Design

Institutionalization of Usability

User Interfaces for All -- expensive but good.

About Face 2.0 -- Good info poorly written I think 3 may be out by now.

Human Factors in Information Systems
Ok then why where these algos selling back and forth to each other?
I don't really see how that could be. Zuck was using emacs, wget, and PHP is plausible ways to accomplish things that a tech-savvy viewer would see as realistic. In Swordfish, Jobson was visually programming a "hydra" matrix-textured rubiks cube and dropping "logic bombs" into the DoD web login forms.
Aargh. 2Checkout.com's instant notification system is a mess.
It will be interesting to see if this type of personal socialism will continue in the future. There is now an entire generation of people exposed to individual “ownership” in the form of failed mortgages, crushing debt, and failed lending institutions.
Lunatik: NetBSD kernel scripting with Lua
The example implementation loses out on what actually putting it in the language would gain, though: causing an error when forgetting to include next; or break;.
This must be true. But then, what did happen? Why were there 27,000 trades in 14 seconds (IIRC)?
Very nice step by step instructions from zero to product. We need more of these.
One question you could ask is :are there any big industries that hasn't used the full potential of the web yet ? the answer is clearly yes: just look at education,health-care, web-video,human-resources and there are probably others.

Another question : what kind of new technologies have the potential to enhance the web ? telepresence,AI, augmented-reality and 3d-printing are probably just a few. every enhancement could easily open new markets.
Did these people choose to have a dysfunctional fire department?

Yes. The people of that county have allowed multiple attempts to set up county-wide firefighting services to fail. They've preferred fee-based out-of-area services from a city that has never had any authority to tax them.

There's no "smaller government" aspect here, there's no conspiratorial back-room change by the GOP. There's just bizarre, partisan axe-grinding by people seizing on a lurid story.
Obviously you've already added it to your list, but just for feedback, this is the biggest thing I'm missing right now too (no cancel or close). The history is amazing and I'm not sure if you've got a limit on it but I did undo roughly 30 times easily. You may want to also consider an undo button for people who don't think to try Ctrl-Z or just some info on possible commands on the info button. Do you support any other keyboard shortcuts (switching tools, size up or down etc?)
I couldn't decide if the movie portrayed him as a sympathetic villain or a tragic hero. Probably more like a real life complicated person going through an amazing journey.

I liked that too. A lot of the dynamics and relationships weren't very black and white at all, which made it that much more engaging and realistic.
How do you make money from it? it's free and no ads
Selling secrets to a foreign government is a very serious crime. Also, note that Akamai customers include NASA, Boeing, and the US Air Force, so the secrets he was selling could include sensitive defense information.

http://www.akamai.com/html/customers/customer_list.html
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I'm a big fan of alternative client side languages (would love to see a ruby version of this project). The problem is wide spread adoption will take forever. You wouldn't be able to use another language in the browser until all vendors ship it and those browser versions become baseline.

What would be cool is if browser vendors implemented client side VMs with a standard bytecode. Then new languages could be developed and delivered over time.
Thanks for the support. I'd love to go into more depth if anyone's got any questions.
Eject scale restrictions to perform 1000x faster
"If there are too much nodes down from the point of view of a single node it will reply to the client with a cluster error."

This sacrifices availability. Remember, the cluster doesn't include only the servers; it also includes the clients, since ultimately the point of a database server is to provide the data to the clients upon request.
>and these days, it's a lot faster too.

I'd love to see some data on this point.
Hitachi's 6.6-inch / 302ppi IPS panel
To me, people who car-share have prioritized access over ownership as a lifestyle. Plenty of people who own cars occasionally rent a vehicle from Avis (say, when they travel or when their car is in the shop)—so that seems a little different than being a Zipcar member.

More directly to your point, the end of the report (PDF) also addresses the evolving notion of what "sharing" means to people these days.
Except, given Facebook's history, I'm assuming we'll have to visit each and every one of those groups separately to unjoin them. That certainly would change my relationship to Facebook as a service if there is increased overhead in cleaning up the effects of unwanted features that are imposed on me.
Odd, I got:

Windows 7 x64:

5531 on Chrome 7.0.544.0 dev

1582 on IE9 beta x64

537 on Opera 10.62

I wonder why our scores are so disproportional. And why Opera was so bad for me?

Edit: a refresh of the page on Opera yielded 4220, making them far more consistent.
Seems to have a bug - on Mac/FF, I generally get the free-form no matter which tool I click on, although at one point I got the circle when the free-form tool was highlighted, and every once in a while I do get the arrow to work correctly - didn't figure out the pattern.
Personally, I prefer subdomains, because I often type URLs into the bar. People who google everything wouldn't know the difference anyway.

Over the last 2 years, every big organization switched to folders (it used to be mail.google.com and finance.google.com, and now it's www.google.com/mail and www.google.com/finance; the only google exception I'm aware of is news.google.com). I remember reading an article about that having something to do with ease of geobalancing or something.
I don't understand this statement. Initially when I saw underscore.js a few weeks ago, I was under the impression it was a light weight js library for when you didn't want to use jquery or something even heavier. Do you use this in conjunction with jquery? Could someone please explain the use case for this library as their is a fair bit of duplication between this and jquery.
I don't think he's missing the point. "Suck" is relative to the user. If your product does exactly what the user and the owner want, it doesn't suck - it rocks. It's an awesome design. Whether it uses Comic Sans and gets snotty designers up in arms is completely irrelevant to its suckage or lack thereof.

Conveying the right expectations is a part of good design. If looking cheap is a selling point, a design that looks expensive is a failure. It's the "nice and clean" design which sucks.
Not that I disagree with the article, but the point of "making something suck" is totally lost if the goal isn't accomplished. His first example is with the Shape-Ups: they don't work. I can't find the specific article for the Skechers shoes but here's one for Nike:
http://naturalbias.com/dont-let-reebok-fool-you-shoes-wont-t...

jakevoytko also brought up Vista's UAC dialogs, which I agree is a Good Thing. In my experience though(especially with my younger cousins despite my repeated yelling), they simply log in as admin and bypass the whole thing.
Hipmunk too
Wealth does not imply intelligence. Some people are at the right place at the right time. People who win the lottery aren't usually geniuses.

I'm not saying intelligence didn't help Zuckerberg, I just disagree that wealth=intelligence. There are plenty of poor geniuses out there, like Grigori Perelman who solved the topological conundrum.
I really appreciated the following quote:

When Dave started, we were focused on creating new games instead of supporting revenue streams from each game. Dave changed that.

Part of the reason why PopCap has been so successful is that they have properly branched their games into new devices and areas, from Facebook games, to iPhone, in-flight entertainment, etc.

I think that is a good lesson for hackers. If you aren't making enough money from your app, perhaps you just haven't expanded enough horizontally. Many of the best apps these days have iPhone/iPad/Blackberry versions so they can be easily accessible at all times.
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Google Code-In Contest announced (for school students)
I'd be very surprised if the Republican party and its voting base were made up of Patrick McKenzie - or even people who agreed with him on every issue.

The blunt fact is that both parties are, in American terms, very, very centrist. If the supporters of either party significantly resembled the outliers that supporters of the other party use as stereotypes, American politics would be wildly different from what it actually is.
Absolutely - I came out of the movie thinking it was one big puff-piece to Zuck and Parker's accomplishments, and wondered what the rationale was for slamming Eduardo so badly. My actual thinking was "No way was Eduardo that lame in reality".

I was amazed to find out that some viewers came out of the movie believing that Zuck had been portrayed in a negative light - I was almost wondering if we had seen the same movie.

I think it's not actually so much technical vs non-technical, as it is awareness of what it takes to build a company from scratch. I've been in the valley for 14 years, and I can share _dozens_ of stories where world-class engineering teams put their sweat, blood, and tears in 80 Hour work weeks for 5 solid years and came out with absolutely nothing (monetarily) to show for their effort beyond a salary. Watching Sean and Mark pivot on _precisely_ the correct elements, while Eduardo fumbled, or otherwise disengaged, just emphasized how important constant flawless tactical AND strategic execution are.
Wow, I found this kind of surprising:

2342 on OSX 10.5.8/Safari 5.0.2

4835 on OSX 10.5.8/Chrome 6.0.472.63
I have interviewed about 15 developers in the last year. None of them had cover letters.
I did say "a close second".
>"And how many of your "friends" are ACTUALLY your "friends"?"

By this token, I feel kind of sorry for those friends of mine who have gotten all MySpace about it and have 1,000 friends. They're the ones who are going to be most affected by this change. Perhaps the net effect will be that people will start unfriending more and honing their friend lists down to those who they actually know or who are not annoying. This would have an added benefit of increasing the quality of peoples' friend lists, or in other words, to more-tightly integrate users with their friends.
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Try Web Design for RIO (http://www.amazon.com/Web-Design-ROI-Browsers-Prospects/dp/0...)
Pretty nice, and it's similar. But, no text tools, and no Safari/Chrome support. Also, MarkUp captures the DOM exactly as it is (including stuff loaded in through AJAX), and kills any javascript.
sure, my tradeoffs are clear, I sacrifice availability in every part of the net where less than M-1 nodes appears to be down in order to win: 1) consistency. 2) latency.

What I did was to stress the tradeoffs that my data model was forcing itself, as Redis handles complex aggregate data and an eventual consistent solutions sucks in this context.

So Redis Cluster users will be a fast scalable consistent solution that will start trowing errors if the network will go down badly, but that will survive if a few nodes will go bad or if there are small network problems affecting a small number of nodes. If this sounds too little available please explain me this:

We have a network with 10 web servers and 10 DB nodes.

The netsplit will split 8 nodes from all the rest, so 10 web servers will be able to talk with 2 nodes.

I wonder how this two nodes will be able to handle all the traffic usually handled by 10 nodes. Netsplit tolerance is a myth if you don't specify very very very well under what conditions.
People have posted a lot of resources here, but are there any resources that talk about how to use specific tools to create webpage designs, rather than just concepts behind designs? I'm not sure which tools I should even use to go about creating a design (other than hand coding HTML and CSS)
I steal heavily from some of the best designers/design shops out there.

Here's some of my favs (look through the portfolios)

http://www.odopod.com http://bigspaceship.com http://barbariangroup.com/ http://codeandtheory.com http://akqa.com http://rga.com
This really isn't what caused the flash crash. The SEC either doesn't have a complete understanding of what happened, or is omitting swaths of data from their report. Nanex did a much better job writing this all up, and weeks before the SEC published their report.

http://www.nanex.net/FlashCrashFinal/FlashCrashSummary.html
To be sure, they're actually demolishing a printer, not a fax machine.
Sleeping is a lot easier on a comfy padded bench than it is on the floor, so it happens a lot less than it otherwise would. Preventing sleeping isn't just to the advantage of the people who want to sit down without having a sleeping man taking up four seats, it's also to the advantage of the people who would otherwise be tempted to take a nap that they know they shouldn't (because they need to catch their next flight).

Oh, and some people do want to sleep in airports -- cheapskates who don't want to pay for hotel rooms. Check out "The Budget Traveller's Guide To Sleeping In Airports":

http://www.sleepinginairports.net/

for far more information than you ever wanted about the best places to sleep at airports all around the world.
Check out Joel Spolsky's UI Interface design. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/fog0000000249.html

and as well as mrshoe, I love The design of everyday things.