skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From this, I can trust that any GA Tech OMS graduate has covered those subjects to the satisfaction of an expert on the subject. Maybe "covered" is kinda thin, yeah, but at least I know they've been covered to at least a sensible minimum.

That vs having to interrogate a candidate on 22 subjects, identifying what constitutes sufficient coverage. I've seen enough self-taught developers who clearly haven't covered the basics to be concerned.
Maybe those German universities should get in on this online action! I could do an online masters from Germany just as easily as I do one in Georgia...
No need, as you provided it.
China are pouring money into Africa, because they need their own China. Africa desperately needs infrastructure and expertise, while China desperately needs future sources of cheap labour and raw materials. It's a messy and complicated exchange that is neither neocolonialism nor a straightforward win-win.
> the world was on its way out as everyone got TV and destroyed their minds watching nonsense.

And it has come to pass!
The lack of signals in Windows is the very opposite of a flaw! - Windows has just never pretended you can get away without a message loop.
Something looks very eerie in that Admiral Grace Hopper picture. Is it shopped?
CO2 levels rise to unhealthy levels (700ppm) within a few hours of a typical bedroom if you keep the doors and windows closed. Its also why Submarines have CO2 scrubbers.
Why There Are So Many Thai Restaurants in America
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Yes? Germany had decades of high unemployment, and low gap growth until relatively recently.
Might be worth staying that this is an AD you’ve built the store to advertise Hubba wholesale service which you’re working for as “growth”. You didn’t start a store to start a store. You started it to market Hubba.
How Music Was Made on Super Nintendo [video]
because just saying haha adds nothing to the conversation. its just wasted time and space; this ain't reddit.
One of the best companies online Fiverr is the world's largest freelance services marketplace for lean entrepreneurs to focus on growth & create a successful business https://track.fiverr.com/visit/?bta=27228&nci=5490
"past" link to include number of past submissions like "past(4)"

This will make it easy to jump to be aware of and jump to earlier discussions.
Much more of it is a trick than David Blaine says so. I think Penn Jillette put it quite well: "Do you really believe a magician who last week was doing car tricks but this week is doing 'real' magic?"(paraphrased).

Remember: Magicians are allowed to lie. Sometimes it's just a simple thing like "I never touched the deck of cards" when actually they were holding them at the start of the trick. Other times it is fake explanation. "I am reading you using psychology" is a popular one with mentalists. Other people on a magicians TV show may lie too.

I don't know the particular David Blaine trick you are talking about, but I wouldn't be surprised if he does not actually chew on real glass.
Likely because it's a magic trick and he didn't really poke it through his arm?
Very interesting. I recently invested into a US based food startup that does interesting stuff and I learned a lot about how hard it can be to get the recipes right and how hard it can be to produce such a product in quantity with high confidence in quality and packaging.

Much good luck with your company, if I could make two suggestions: add a subscription option (or make it the default), and maybe do not appeal to the 'homesick' part as much as you do now, there are a lot more people out there that enjoy Indian food than there are Indians abroad.

Also, it appears you do not sell outside of the United States, maybe make that more clear up-front?
Crytek's Lawsuit vs CIG (Star Citizen) May Proceed Rules Judge [pdf]
TV has become a prestige form of entertainment. We are currently in a new golden age of television.

Rather, it's 30-second meme videos or hour-long YouTube fringe conspiracy theory dissertations that are more problematic. Or social media, which has largely supplanted the trashy reality TV boom of the '00s.

One wonders what future form of entertainment will uplift social media and online videos, at least in comparison.
Iron and titanium in the atmosphere of an exoplanet
"Client XSS, Authentication / Session Management, Secure client/server architecture, defining access boundaries, phishing / social engineering, red team / blue team setup, automated vulnerability regression tests, SSDL, threat modeling, etc. "

^ I am in no way trying to be offensive here. But if you are already a programmer, with the exception of "threat modeling" and "regression tests", it seems all those topics combined would take a week to learn?
In the US, on lakes, rivers, and intercoastal waterways, you can be charged with DUI if operating a motorized boat while intoxicated.
Your list of "things that would help" are topics that (I imagine!) should be covered in intro to security, netsec, or IT security -- e.g. as 1-week or 2-week sections during the respective courses. Very few of your topics should be dedicated courses.
Excellent question! There are a few limitations that we have to place on the ConPty to make it work quite right. Primarily, client apps running attached to the conpty will not be able to have separate viewport and buffer sizes. On *nix, the entire "console buffer" is just the size of the window, but on Windows, technically, the buffer is much larger than the window. (as an example, when you open up a command prompt, there's a giant empty space at the bottom if you scroll down). Fortunately, we haven't came across any apps that _need_ the buffer to be a different size than the viewport, and it's a technically valid console configuration, so apps should have been able to support it before.

Input is also tricky - VT doesn't let you express input with as much fidelity as a console app might be expecting, though this we're working on a solution for :)
I do actually. I lift weights and it's incredibly hard to find shirts which fit my shoulders as well as my waste. That applies to any type of shirt.
I'd really like to see them do this for an undergrad. I never finished mine, which hasn't really held me back in my career except for wanting to pursue a masters. I've looked around, and I've never really found what I consider to be a respectable online undergrad for less than about 50k worth of tuition.
I've read that our lymphatic system needs muscle movement to properly circulate. Is it possible that leg movement has a positive lymphatic response? Could it be that better lymphatic systems == better nervous system health?
Not really. But sometimes they send a patch or two

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2011-March...
super fast broadband is something Germany is... not great at.
> first sentence for example, any engineer knows that strong water jets can precisely cut steel in seconds, much better than any persistent river over several generations.

I agree the whole thing is dubious, but that's a pretty weird criticism to pick out. The sentence specifically says "river" and is true of rivers; the fact that water jet cutters exist is irrelevant.
I'll never be a libertarian; I think it's too important that humans have the ability to live their lives with dignity, and I'm fully aware of how infrequently that happens when government is limited.
I have recently been vaping high CBD hemp flower after a long day of programming. I am fully functional while feeling so much better. There is a mild residual feeling the next day, so I don't have to vape daily. I am dreaming again, nightly. I am waking up refreshed the next morning.

I highly recommend people try it.

Mail order to anywhere in the US seems like a legal grey area. There are two, possibly three online farms supplying the market in the US but this space is going to expand very soon. Prices are very reasonable.
Ethiopia beckons:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17118342
s/things every degreed person learns/things every degreed person is supposed to have learned/g
How does Timescale solve the problem of retention. In InfluxDB, old data is thrown out at every tick as the retention window continuously rolls. In the world of Postgres, wouldn't this mean an explicit cron-like DELETE of rows all the time?
Largely shared debt burden via the federal govt?
cmd is parked for pretty much everything except for major issues. It's a scary codebase that has a LOT of code that's dependent on it, and we can't really add any new features there without the possibility of breaking someone.

This feature is mostly focused on the other end of the communication, on being able to create new Terminal windows to run shells inside of them.
The BB10 phones were just as amazing as the Playbook - the UI was oh so smooth and responsive. I'd still be using my Q10 if it had more native apps or better Android compatibility.
And with war-by-remotecontrol it gets ever closer to looking and feeling like a video game where you go home to your family after killing a bunch of people on the other side of the world.
That is an excellent suggestion, I'll get our PM to reach out :)
Right, but they are not going to be the target audience for this. There are plenty of Americans who aren't Midwesterners from Northern European meat-and-potatoes cultures, and Hungry Man already exists for the rest of them.
If "learn" is "has seen and memorized a checklist", then maybe. Don't expect people that "learned" like that to be able to do much in practice with that though.
That's actually a very interesting idea for a country with socialized education wanting a large academic footprint in the world: also open up your classes to online and service the world. I don't know how expensive it might be, but it's got to be a lot cheaper per student for the university.
Someone needs to update this Onion article about the relaunch and subsequent success of local indie darling The Shop Around the Corner:

https://entertainment.theonion.com/fox-books-files-for-bankr...
Oh, good point. Do you have any statistics handy on how many people are killed and maimed by inattentive pedestrians? It would be useful for contrasting with [0].

[0]: https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/Publication/8124...
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I sure hope so! I can run cmd.exe inside gnome-terminal running on WSL right now - granted, WSL is doing some magic to make that all work, but it should still work for terminator to do it to.
Super interesting.
> strong water jets

The aphorism concerns a river, not an industrial cutting machine.
I don’t think it has to be quite that black and white. It doesn’t have to have “eye candy” and it also doesn’t have to look like a 1998 Delphi project. Strive for the gray area and if that is not achievable... then yes, function over form.
The method of choice, however, does have a significant effect on survivability or reversibility of a suicide attempt (pills in the medicine cabinet are a prime example, many people have been saved after taking a lethal dose of medicine) and the ease of availability also has a meaningful effect on the likelihood of suicide attempts; if people are forced to think about it some more, some of them reconsider (e.g. this very case which was a non-repeating impulse, not something premeditated). A solid example for this is the pesticide-based farmer suicides in SE Asia, where countries that limited availability of human-deadly pesticides significantly reduced the number of farmer suicides.

While there are countless other ways to commit suicide, experience shows taking away just one of the tools can save many, many lives.
It must be great to have friends who are able and willing to bankroll your lifestyle.
Well there's the language barrier but hey, for 10K I'll learn German also.
Update on the Distrust of Symantec TLS Certificates
The problem is real. Not sure this is the best solution, but better than nothing.
So you're saying that all the subsequent communications back a liberal reading of the original twete?
> Is an OMS from Georgia Tech more convincing than "I read some books and here's a good portfolio of personal projects" ? It's a hard sell.

Part of the price is GT's credibility. Someone not familiar with security may not be impressed with a portfolio of personal projects.
The traditional stacking methodology of managing windows is particularly poor. If you have 2 windows open anything will do but it becomes ungainly with more than a handful of windows open unless you spread your windows out among multiple spaces/workspaces/virtual desktops and on each one arrange and resize windows so you can see the windows you want to view together at once.

At that point you have recreated a normal efficient way to use a tiling window manager with the additional burden of doing the tiling yourself instead of having the wm do it for you.

It seems likely that those who have an enthusiasm for this workflow are mostly working on desktop environments like gnome/plasma/lxqt.
very interesting.
Great idea, will definitely check it out. Love Indian food. The packaging looks great too.

I am not sure about the name though. Buttermilk though is consumed in India more than other countries it does not seem to resonate with your product.

Good luck with the launch
They have no such policy, and you have no evidence whatsoever that people are being banned for political views alone.
>This makes our products tastier, fresher and much healthier

Any evidence that your food is healthier? Or even any explanation as to why it would be.

>Our recipes are curated from people in the community

What community? Every recipie comes from someone in a community.

>All existing pre-packaged authentic Indian foods are only available in Indian stores

Not where I live. Walmart even sells pre-packaged desi style food.

>Ours is made completely from scratch

What does that even mean in the context of selling a pre-made food product.
I know this is an online degree, but just going to throw out there that the states has better beer than Europe these days. And Atlanta is one of the new up and coming stars. My brother in law's brewery went home with a silver GABF medal last year.
It's a direct response to the common belief that mental ailments--depression, anxiety, dysphoria--are less "real" than physical ones.

Basically this: http://www.robot-hugs.com/helpful-advice/
You can already have this on window managers like i3wm.
It sounds like there was some very high level discussions with folks in a position to finance. Does that meet you're (overly strict) definition?
Can you? Where is that paper? I only see a title.
Feel free to use the extensive settings Leo has to customize it to your taste. Personally I prefer 'minimal' but I'm sure that if you work hard at it you can make it look pretty enough to suite you.
CMU alum '06, best of luck! I'll certainly be checking this out. Love the design, love the packaging. A little skeptical on the taste and fillingness - that's why I've already bought some chana masala ;) But it'd great to hit home the taste when looking at the product pages. That'd make it easier for me to pull the trigger and spend more money.
As someone currently working my way through OMSCS, I imagine that the incremental cost of adding students is very low. I don't know exactly what ratio GT uses, but the only non-digital scaling they do is TAs. With more polishing of the online content and improvement of the auto-graders, they could probably push the ratio down pretty low. Just have to figure out how to do it without compromising the perceived quality of the education. And TAs aren't expensive in any case, I'm pretty sure they are compensated pretty poorly.
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What side projects have you worked on which you think made a significant positive impact on your career as a software developer?
How did you come up with the idea, and what were your lessons?
I would totally agree with the "playing a musical instrument" as a method to wind down.

My working desk and all my IT gear is on one side of my home office. Behind me, the other half is racks of amps, keyboards and amps. During long compiles, installs or downloads or while waiting for a Slack response from a colleague, I will often just lean back and grab an instrument and play away for a few minutes.

Great way to reset the brain, plus change posture and breathing patterns.
Sure:

Serverless - "Re reimplemented/packaged a code runtime, and jerked off about marketing a bunch"

My Butt - "Run your shit on someone else's computer"

TBF, if the 'serverless' shit was sold as "run functions without needing to fiddle with an os", that's a decent selling point.

It's not server-less, tho.
It's not about cosmetics that can be tackled with a high quality mask - it's also about all the practical functions that the face needs to tackle; e.g. the lip musculature necessary for speech and eating, eyelid/tearduct function, and nose breathing. If you're missing lots of tissue from your face, you will need a transplant (inevitably high maintenance) of some kind, so it might as well be a full-face one.
According to your own source, the median number of books read was four while the mean was twelve. Most people do read books occasionally, but a large proportion of books are bought by a much smaller group of regular readers.
Cavendish experiment
I have to agree with this. You're either writing assembly code yourself, or you're using code that was invented by someone else (and even the assembly code will have been invented by someone!). If using libraries/frameworks is something you do consistently, you can absolutely reach a state of deep work while working with them.

Libraries should help keep the flow going at a high level by keeping one from being bogged down with having to reinvent the wheel. In fact, if they didn't contribute to flow, I don't think we'd use them!
Womens' pockets only need to carry a condom.
Mens' need to hold a wallet.
A lot of schools including GT will accept 3 years' worth of credits from a junior or community college. You can then finish 1 year's worth of additional credits and get the degree from the final institution.

A working person might be able to space out classes so that they can continue their full-time job, but I'm not sure.
Is that supposed to be cheap or affordable? As far as I knew online courses are up to a few hundred to get an official certificate. And I just graduated last week from a similar master's for €2k in a brick and mortar school. What's special about "under 10k" for an online study?

Edit: from elsewhere in the thread, I understand that a degree is more usually more expensive than 10k in the USA? I guess a lot more, since this is making headlines? Is that also the typical case for online degrees?
Founders and CEOs need to be proactive about diversity and inclusion
Technically, any executable that's compiled as a commandline application is going to get a console allocated for it, no matter what on Windows. I don't believe that's something we can fix retroactively unfortunately, that's just a part of how things have to be.

Now, I believe that python could have python.exe compiled as a win32 application, then call AllocateConsole as soon as the script called print() or something. If the app was already running in a console, I believe (don't quote me) that AllocateConsole won't allocate a new console for it, but if it doesn't yet have a console it'll spawn one.
I don't have to look at a chainsaw for 8 hours a day, either.
Incidentally I was talking to Conor about this problem yesterday.

This post, in very short, proposes to flash two devices with the same key. I think this is great for hackers & makers, but not for consumers.

Moreover, it might be convenient on a superficial level, but I think it's fundamentally useless. If we consider the security model, the backup device can only be used if the primary device is damaged. If the primary is lost or stolen, the key should be invalidated, and thus the backup device is useless.

This means that you always need 2 distinct, active security keys anyways.
> I don't think it's fair to blame cities for what is a nationwide problem

In the US, zoning and land use regulations are mostly enacted at a city level, so they're pretty much to blame. Of course, they could be preempted at a state or even national level if the political will were there, but the current mess can be laid at the feet of our cities' regulations.
I always liked the Console API where you can set the color of the text without actually changing the text that is written to Stdout. No issues when piping the output somewhere else. No need to check whether the output is getting piped.
Love that you have experience in the Indian food space! I do appreciate the concern and would be happy to chat more if you'd like, to learn more about your findings.
I am excited to see this, given the shortage of prepared vegan meal services. Most of the ones that do exist are over the top hippy-dippy and expensive, rather than catering to the "lactose intolerant vegetarian from cultures where that's pretty normal" demographic.

I'm interested to see how filling I find them, since that's the problem I often have with prepared meals, but lentils and beans are a good start.
You’re not wrong; the full write up (and the researcher’s quote in particular) makes a much more nuanced statement than the title does. I do wonder if these conclusions are ill-founded, though. Otherwise wouldn’t people who lose a limb or use thereof suffer from extreme neurodegeneration?
Are you referencing the actual study? The article states, “The study involved restricting mice from using their hind legs, but not their front legs, over a period of 28 days.”
I imagine they would just teach it in English. I believe it's pretty standard for Western European students to learn English fluently. Maybe dual language? OMSCS gets a fair number of foreign students from around the world and only teaches in English AFAIK.
My hypothesis — perhaps less informed than yours — is that BCD is a huge efficiency win (a couple of orders of magnitude) for conversion to and from decimal, and a slight loss for internal arithmetic, say about 10% inefficiency. And it avoids worries about fraction roundoff.

So if your data comes from humans and ends up with humans, and in between you have less than a couple hundred calculations, your program is more efficient with BCD, because you don't have to do a dog-slow repeated long division by 0xa to convert to decimal at the end. Somewhere around 1970, this ceased to actually be a big enough inefficiency to matter, but tradition and backward-combatibility kept BCD hardware alive for another 10 or 20 years.
Make it opt-in. Then you give control away to the government deliberately.

All it takes is a simple checkbox to say you want to be a part of it.

It should be easier to receive mailing list spam, than it is to sign over your body, but opt-out makes it the other way around.

Forgetting (or being unwilling to be forced) to sign a checkbox does not make one a willing participant, but an unwitting one. I understand this saves lives, but then again, lots of unconstitional actions may save lives. No excuse. No convience.

You, and only you, as an adult, has sovereignity over your body. Opt-out is a grave breach of this sovereignity. That is the spin "the government wants control over my body": A violation of your human rights and a government-run organ market.
It's a common misconception.