skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also a means to filter out the hundreds of CVs, many of which will be sent "on spec", from people who just send a CV to every job ad, down to a level at which someone can actually read them.

Certainly it is the case that once upon a time, any degree was a "leg up" in your career, back when only 10% of school leavers went. Nowadays, that the last government set out to get 50% of school leavers into college, only Russell Group degrees still have that advantage - everywhere else adds little to your prospects above good A-levels.
Come on. Even in the U.S., the people get to pick between a couple of none-too-attractive choices. It wouldn't be shocking for 51% of Egyptians to pick a theocracy given a bunch of poor choices, but that doesn't mean that's what most people want.
Same thing here in Scotland. However even though we have plenty of good universities, we don't have anything quite like MIT, Harvard or Caltech.
I think they mean the comic "V for Vendetta".
They mention it in their list of influences.

I've been working on a distributed, Venti-like archival filesystem, too. While plan9 never really caught on, it had many great systems within it that really deserve wider exposure.
He obviously is geeky and awkward. It's worked very well for him. For some people there just aren't enough lessons in the world to pull off an unauthentic personality. For most of us we have to learn to deal with it but when you have $50B in the bank I'm sure it becomes less of a priority. I suspect the only reason he's involved in any of these PR efforts is because he calculated that a bad personal reputation is bad for Facebook too. Sometimes you really need to cut people some slack when they're in these extraordinary positions. There's no handbook for 27 year old billionaires. The best advice anyone could give him is to just be himself and let the rest of the world deal with it.

I just hate the idea that the whole world has to be structured to maximize our personal entertainment and comfort. It's part of the problem. Just because someone is geeky and awkward doesn't mean they should be assumed to be a bad person. I know that's not what you're suggesting but it is part of a real problem. We all need to collectively accept the smartest guy in the room might be the one who hasn't spent many mental cycles on being the most lovable person in the room.
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ADsafe: JSLint powered safe JavaScript widget framework from Douglas Crockford
The one way an education at a "big name" university has helped me is that people trust me more. I moved from academia (astronomy) to software engineering and I have no formal qualifications (or training) in what I do for a living. But once people hear where I went they assume the best. I have noticed this several times.

In retrospect I find the way that class and education are linked to be terrible (you could pretty much divide the place up into rich people and smart people, with only a small intersection), but it wasn't a bad experience.
This is too good to not think that it has drawbacks or serious concessions required. But the fact that its applicable to existing internal combustion engine makes it more feasible than electric powered vehicles.
Even better: go somewhere there is a prof you really click with and who would make for a great mentor.

Difficult to imagine a practical way to do this? Congrats, you've stumbled on what's wrong with higher education in the US today!
You are all individuals, Now follow me.
Uh oh. That's what happens when the site suspects abuse. Accounts that have been hell-banned for bad behavior get that message, for example.

You are not hell-banned, because I can read and reply to your messages, but perhaps it's something similar. Have you had an account here before? Has somebody in your house had one? I'm not exactly sure how it works, but the site could have your IP address flagged or something.
Three important questions remain unanswered:

1) How expensive is the equipment to produce this synthetic gasoline?

2) How pollutant is the process?

3) What is the energy yield compared to the oil-based gasoline?
Cognitive bias: Ambiguity effect
Wonderful example of what macros can do.

Just for shit & giggles I'd thought I give it a go in Io (http://www.iolanguage.com):

executeInReverse := method (
m := call argAt(0)
stmts := list() // list of statements (ie. messages)

loop (
rest := m next // rest of messages after current
stmts append(m setNext) // get current message
m := rest
if (m == nil, break) // exhausted statements when "nil"
)

stmts reverseForeach (n, doMessage(n))
)

executeInReverse( writeln("Hi") writeln("Middle") writeln("Bye") )

And I think with a bit more work I can get it to amend its AST rather than rerunning the loop each time it sees executeInReverse.
One thing that's frequently overlooked are the relationships you'll build at school. I went to a very solidly ranked state school (umd.edu), and most of the people I know got jobs at government contractors. I have friends I've met through jobs that went to Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, and they have a bunch of connections at Google, Facebook, and other hot startups. Getting jobs through personal connections is way more effective than combing Internet ads or dealing with recruiters, and the jobs you'll be exposed to through friends seem to be way better at a top-tier school.
You think the chinese system -- with hundreds of millions of people living in squalor -- works?
The $1.50/gallon claim doesn't appear in their own press release. They are just announcing their own launch.

http://www.cellaenergy.com/uploads/press/Filling%20up%20with...
I think this is pretty much expected from Scoble after he was shunned on Quora by bunch of users who didn't like his constant name dropping and pictures in his answers. To be honest I also found his answers quite lacking.

Related discussion: http://www.quora.com/How-can-Robert-Scoble-modify-his-writin...
Thanks for the heads up.

I do have another account, in good standing. I don't want this website associated with that account, so I created a second one. It isn't intended as "spam" at all. But I realize there are challenges in trying to keep the two things separate and not have this account look like spam. I've thought a lot about whether and how to develop this new site and keep it separate from other stuff I am doing and I don't really have any good answers. I imagine in the long run it will probably not remain separate. For now, I want it to blossom on its own.
Nor, worryingly, does the claim that it can be used in existing engines.
I haven't seen this essay for a while. I thought I'd lost it, and I could not find the bookmark which linked to it. Very useful. Thank you, rms.
From where I stood, it sounded like some sort of a conspiracy to keep the people ignorant about what's going on in the world around them.

It's a conspiracy where the people are a part! The media influences expectations. The expectations shape the market. The market holds the purse strings of the media.

With a cycle like that, all it takes is small corrections, which can be undertaken by organizations with sufficient resources, to maintain general control.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent:_The_Poli...
Where does the energy come from? Is it just a more efficient fuel package (or additive)?
CodeIgniter is fairly decent. I'm using http://fuelphp.com/ these days, which is similar but newer.

I also go back and forth between framework and homegrown. I've done homegrown for years. Framework does have the advantage that you get to use a lot of code others spent time on, so I'm sticking with that for now.

I dislike the Yii approach (it generates code based on your db). Don't think it's necessary, I have no problem coding and optimizing some mysql queries, no need to hide that behind a black box.
I can understand people may not agree with my idea to raise finance for the wedding this way. I can totally understand and appreciate that, but i expected people to be a little more civil in their objection.

For the lady that wrote the blog post. Interestingly you make a very valid point and i agree completely that the man pursuing the woman is a failed paradigm.

As for the eloping suggestion. Believe you, me. I would love to do that. I have seriously considered it.

Unfortunately, i come from a very traditional culture, and so does she. It would be considered very taboo. I dont want to upset her or her family in any way.
True, what I've seen of PBS I've liked as well.
Also, people like David DeAngelo and others sell eBooks, host seminars and have other commercial products on this kind of stuff.

I dont see what is wrong with it if it genuinely helps someone?
Because CA is such a large stage geographically and
population-wise

Canada doesn't seem to have any of these problems despite having about the same population and far vaster land. Western Australia gets along fine. Sweden? Norway? Finland? Chile?

The lower ratio of geographic area to population in California compared to something like Norway should make it easier to run California than others because the ration of taxpayers to infrastructure is better.

When people are involved in their governments,
their governments improve

This is popular wisdom, but I disagree. That dynamic attracts different people, but a common stereotype is a divisive, intrusive egootist with grand plans. That dynamic forces good, middle of the road citizens into political participation just to avoid being overrun by the determined nutters. High participation of involvement is definitely not a prerequisite for a nice, functioning state.

I don't see evidence indicating to believe that it could have worked if the state was larger or smaller.
This is how I feel as well, although if I'm honest with myself, I don't think I'd refuse that influx either. Fortunately, my relatives aren't wealthy and I don't pay the lottery, so I'm probably not at great risk of sudden undeserved wealth.
Not that I'm aware of, but their research/stories are cited as sources by a large number of news outlets and their video footage is seen constantly.
Responding is key.

I believe the easiest way to build a successful business (software and/or service business anyway) is to respond promptly. Even if you don't have an answer yet. If you do, your customers will stick with you through almost anything.
Why do you doubt that Bashar has anything to fear from Al Jazeera? Mubarak apparently does and I can't think of why Bashar would be given better treatment than Mubarak. Do you know why this would be the case?

Perhaps because of Syria's pro Hezb Allah stance and Hezb Allah's affiliation with Iran. But Al Jazeera is an Arab, Sunni company based in the Persian Gulf. In that region there is a very strong anti-Iranian stance.

On the surface it would seem that Bashar would have more to fear from Al Jazeera than Mubarak.
Yes? It's not like much/anything has changed.
See, the thing is, you're obviously biased towards Israel and you're endorsing the Israeli side of the story. Now, I don't know anything about this guy, but clearly the Lebanese side of the story is that he's a resistance figure.

> You're comparing guys like Samir Kuntar to Israeli government ministers?

No, you are. You're also implying the Israeli government ministers are "the good guys", which they are not. To put it more objectively, Al-Jazeera is an Arabic channel, supposed to be supporting Arab causes, like Palestine. Israel is the enemy here. So, network X is supposed to be endorsing a cause where A is the hero and the victim, while B is the evil aggressor. Yet, X interviews people from the B side all the time and gives them a chance to voice their views.

I've yet to see any American media outlets do the same. I remember a long time ago, a Hamas spokesman appeared on CNN for a few minutes, and the title was reading "Spokesman of Terror?".
Saying that US Networks do a poor job of reporting because their coverage sucks is exactly like saying that Wal-Mart does a poor job of retailing because they sell plastic junk. It's what the people want.
I think one of the key skills required to be a good programmer is the ability to understand and work with abstract concepts. There is probably even some kind of lower bound (if such a thing can be measured) below which one cannot program at all.

I spent a lot of my formative years studying mathematics and playing chess (amongst other games) and I believe these activities helped to sharpen my ability to work with abstract concepts.

Spending time doing this may not necessarily work for you - particularly if you lack the passion for those things to be able to really study hard.

But anything which could be considered "deliberate practice"[1] in the craft of thinking about problems will likely help you program better. This includes reading and writing a lot of code.

[1] http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=deliberate+practice
I think there are ways to monetize this information but I think you are going about it all wrong. You don't want your families to disapprove or be upset but you seem oblivious to the way you are alienating the business community/your audience. Ask around. Find a more above-board means to make money off this. Win-win.

As for tradition and family: I generally feel they are allowed to set expectations if they are willing to help make it happen. If the expectation is that all the money comes out of your pocket, I don't feel they have any say. But I realize I come from a different culture.

FWIW: My family was upset when they learned of my elopement. My marriage lasted longer than either of my siblings. I think I did the right thing.
It's a good library in theory... but it could and should be condensed to a fraction of its size. Maybe I'm just being too critical and OCD but I feel like there's too much code for what it actually does.

Off topic but... what in the world is up with the lowercase b's, d's, and u's on that site? Haha :)
Complementing that essay somewhat, a list of fallacies:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_falla...

And cognitive biases:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_cogni...

Although not all are equally bad.
True.

How can you compare a nation and it's minions who are conducting a terrible subjugation of an entire group of people who made the mistake of being born there.

Silly.
Agreed, I read the original post too quickly and until I saw this comment, I had the impression that mahmud was the scammer. A clarifying edit would be good.
For a community built off of a word that is almost always misunderstood by "normal people" you guys sure do misuse the word noob an awful lot. noob is negative, the word you want is "newb" or "newbie".

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=noob
With all respect. I think you've slightly missed the point.
There are A LOT of guys out there who can't get a 2nd date, even though they're a great catch.

My post is aimed at them.
Disclaimer: This is very, very impressive and I'm inspired.

But it seems a bit of a stretch to call it a flying car.
The flying car is a prime example of more functionality resulting in an inferior product. It's a mediocre aircraft and a mediocre car. A better alternative is an ultralight you can pack or tow behind a car and use it separately.
I stated in my post that I am open to suggestions. Please help me if you have any win-win suggestions.
Also, that article is full of redundancies. The phrase "The technology has been developed over a four-year top secret programme" appears twice.
Alas I concur in that it sounds too good to be true.
Could I possibly get a screen shot lol

I will have to disagree.

By condensed do you mean the code could be implemented better? Or do you think there are too many useless methods?

Just some things I have noticedl

Backbones Controller/History beats most jQuery plugins and generally Backbone.js will still be smaller then the plugins for example jQuery BBQ or Baluptons implementation.

The Backbone.sync method forces you to route all ajax calls through one gateway which means you have no code redundancy.

Backbone is built to work along side of underscore.js which is also super light weight. Also very fast at manipulating the DOM and includes a default templating system which works great.
>It could, for example, balance it out by recruiting 50% via the Graun's big rival, the Daily Mail, but it doesn't.

I don't think hiring through a tabloid newspaper would help the integrity of the company. You could have at least said the Telegraph.
PS - Time is of the essence
PPS - It would take me way too long and spin-off a whole new conversation to explain the dynamics of my culture and background.
What's the matter with the American student?
I've found that a lot of the listed fallacies can have charitable interpretations.

A strawman argument where A proposes X and B attacks Y instead of attacking X can often be a case where X indirectly leads to Y and person B assumes that it is known that X leads to Y. Or, X is just Y in disguise. So it's not necessarily a matter of being fallacious, but fully formalizing an argument is often not feasible, so you take shortcuts. If you formalized the argument too much, it gets boring and people stop listening/reading.
For what it's worth, I was pulling & pushing just fine while the error was displayed on my repositories, but other people reported commits lost or mangled. Maybe there was something more to the Javascript display error?
Unfortunately, the sum total of my suggestions are above:
"Ask around" or "elope". I don't know the best way to go about making money off this. But it's clear from the comments here that this isn't going over well, so won't likely get you anything.

I've spent a lot of years trying to figure out how to monetize information. My answer: Ads and affiliate programs and good content. Can't say I'm making much yet. So perhaps I'm not a good person to take advice from in that regard.

Best of luck, with your marriage and your business.
The thing is that the human kind has been feasting the last 150 years on energy that is sort of a compressed accumulation of solar energy from the preceding millions of years. Further, it's been so cheap to dig coal and pump oil that the cost of energy hasn't had the time to really be an issue yet.

For any imaginable scale of human history, consider that a one-time opportunity.

It has been observed that the global oil peak was apparently reached a few years ago which means that from now on each year will see slightly less oil produced than the previous year. That gives the tangents of monotonically but slowly diminishing supply and monotonically but perhaps not so slowly rising price.

Natural gas is running out as well. Known alternatives, such as hydrogen fuels, electric cars, solar energy, nuclear power, are and remain alternatives. They're either energy containers (such as hydrogen) or represent energy production that just doesn't scale to replace the humongous amount of W/h that we've so far been able to extract from oil almost too easily.

It's out of the scope of this rant to even start about the countless things made possible by oil, but I think I should mention industrialized mass-production of food which is prevalent in modern countries. Fertilizers and pesticides are mostly made of oil and natural gas. Take away food from people and bad things start happening.

That means that the standard of living, for better and worse, is going to radically change in the coming decades. It doesn't take much more than a pike in the price of oil to cause financial and social havoc, such as the one in the 1970's. Maybe we'll get fusion reactors up and running in 2050 but by then I suspect the world has changed already.

We should start taking this into slow but very serious consideration instead of wearing blindfolds and waiting for some scientific research centre to hand over to us the alternative energy source that is the silver bullet which allows us to continue living like the way we do now.
CloudFwd (http://www.cloudfwd.com) but I'm also biaised :) Best 10 bucks around.
It's someone checking that their spamming software works.

Flag it and move on.
And it would take me too long to explain why I disagree with a great many things about how things are currently handled and see no reason to go along with them -- which is why I started this blog: So I can pontificate at length, partly in hopes of helping others get a bit more free of such burdens.

Again: Best of luck.
They've struggled and dealt with a number of hard engineering problems, which they've blogged extensively about. In particular, their architectural (both hardware and software) changes since leaving Engine Yard demonstrate more than a simple "working knowledge" of how to build large-scale systems.
You got 50 000 spam messages in one month? Is this just for one address or multiple?
His model (Friends Collection) is doing view duty. Shouldnt the addFriendLi method be apart of the controller binding the Friend(s) model and AppView view?
Web services go down. It happens. You make the choice to use them anyway.

In this case, Github is very responsive about outages and clearly strives to eliminate or reduce them as much as possible.
Poll: Thoughts on Google OS and cloud computing? 
I'm conducting a little research for a paper I'm writing and would love your thoughts on Google Chrome OS and cloud computing, as Google seems to be moving towards shifting all their products to be on the cloud.

How do you think the recent erruption of cloud-based systems will lead to new product ideas for Google?
Skeptical about it
I think that the GOOGLE OS will run mostly cloud-based software, such as Google Docs as the office suite
I don't think it'll be really about the cloud-based platform as much as it will be about speed and a portable platform
Other (leave comment)
Is it bad that I read the title as "Minecraft Web Farm Framework 2.0" and got excited?
Also, how much energy we need to create this new gasoline. Do we need to burn petrol to obtaine energy to make it?

At the end, the article compares this gasoline with electricity, meaning that electric cars don't polute when consuming energy, but this energy must be created before somewhere, using oil, coal or uranium.

So, what do we need in raw materials and in energy to create a liter of this new gasoline?
Well, this: https://github.com/blog/530-how-we-made-github-fast

And the fact that they have somewhere north of 5 terabytes of active data, and their job queue is handling many hundreds of thousands of jobs a day, and it pretty much all happens extremely fast with nary a hiccup. I know there are outages, but I'm pushing up changes to them something like 10 hours a day every day, and I've never noticed them.
More to the point, it's actively abused. You can't say people aren't allowed to lie, so they can heavily editorialize or even outright fabricate and still call it news. Because the average person watches the news to be told, not to think, networks that do as above in a way that reinforces people's preconceived notions are rewarded with viewership. In an effort to regain viewers, the so-called "legitimate" networks resort to cheap gimmicks and demagoguery of their own, and the actual news gets lost in the scuffle.

One of the best parts about having an independent public broadcaster is that they aren't slaves to viewership, and by association ads. BBC, CBC, NPR, PBS... all have quality news programs. CNN, Fox, MSNBC... not so much.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue-in-cheek
He was miffed by the following answer being killed: http://www.quora.com/World-Economic-Forum/Is-Davos-nothing-b... (quite amusing, but perhaps not as intended)

It seems like Quora's business plan was (1) get lots of users and then (2) think of some way to preserve quality. I hope they can flesh out the second part before everyone leaves again.
Yeah, London doesn't have transfer tickets. It's annoying.

At any rate, if you take more than 2 buses per day then getting a monthly bus pass/travelcard is cheaper.