skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The system actually seems to work well for the average person.

I think on the basis of international comparisons that the United States school system, at least, is not serving average learners well, because they only reach the achievement levels of BELOW-average persons in several other countries, including countries that were much poorer than the United States only a generation ago.

http://timss.bc.edu/PDF/t03_download/T03_M_Chap1.pdf

(The several national comparison charts in this publication, by the way, are excellent examples of best practice in showing statistical data. The take-home point is that average students in the United States score like bottom end students in the best-performing countries, and even top-end students in the United States score only like average students in those countries.)
That is true, but working at a start up for 2-3 years you will meet all the other employees that work at the start up company. It's those people (not the founders of the existing company) that are fertile ground for starting your own company. It does require a few years of time investment but most of the start up founder teams I know started this way.
My Samsung Android phone (running Froyo) has a SIM Toolkit application and it seems to work. If Google doesn't want to do it surely the handset manufacturers can?
Good to see that they quickly recognized just how poorly this was initially communicated. I'm not sure I'll ever understand how companies keep making these blunders though.

[Almost] a year ago, Linode significantly increased the memory on all plans without increasing prices. I think most people would have agreed Linode was a better value/choice before the increase, and just extended their lead after it. Customers unhappy with this move, or possibly interested in better value (YMMV) might want to consider a switch.
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I graduated a year ago, and I got this job as a software developer.

This company has so much potential when it comes to IT but they're only doing small silly projects that have no innovation. There's only really 3 developers, but there's something like 10 managers.

Example: The project my predecessor started, took two years and I've nearly finished it in under 2 months. However, I know it would take me a maximum of ONE week to redevelop. (it's a simple web-app...)

I know there's heaps of things I could do to help out this company, I have many excellent ideas and I love to keep my hands dirty with new programming languages, at the same time I'm being practical on how it could work for us.

We got a new CIO a few months back, and he has not once spoken to anyone from the development team, only the guy who is the development "team" leader - he literally cock-blocks anyone from talking to CIO or the PROJECT manager. (I'm the developer for this project, and I can't talk to my project manager?!)

I'm stuck. I really want a career, I don't want to be a code-monkey. I know I'm probably just seen as a 'grad' but I've had over 5 years making practical applications that make money.

I thought I could ask the CIO to a meeting, and tell him I could do a re-write for this project at home and bring it in when it's finished... but I don't want to be taken advantage of.

P.S. I'm on a BELOW industry salary, there's NO bonuses, NOR overtime.
P.P.S This company is not short on money ($12m revenue in last quarter... it is healthcare)
I'd like to work on bio engineering. I think it's the new hacking. And the real physical world is the new internet.
if anyone is in a similar situation, the tools you need (for linux at least) are etherape and then wireshark. the first will show you which machine is transmitting lots of data. the second will give you a good idea what that data is (if it's not already obvious from the destination computer shown in etherape).

what are the windows and mac equivalents?
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obviously the technology development outpaces personal development of humans.

Left the mark - got water shot, attacked an ill elk - got lead shot (the fate of Montana wolves what Obama administration allowed to kill)

There are other ways to manage the situation, yet it is the human nature that it always choose the way of violence. Redneck shooting a wolf experiences the same pleasure as a geek shooting water into cat.
You could ask for a meeting with your CIO, and talk about stuff. Humans aren't generally known for biting. :-)
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If they were good, they shouldn't worry about what people will say about them.

While this should be the case, I don't like this argument because it reeks of the "what do you have to hide?" argument used against privacy protections. The problem isn't the good doctors, it's the bad doctors.
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Triunfo del Amor Capitulo 138: El Triunfo del Amor Capitulo 138 that will be aired tonight at the El Canal de las Estrellas be much tells the story of Maria and Maximilliano love relationships. In El Triunfo del Amor Capitulos 138 Max is told to visit Maria's house along with Osvaldo and Victoria.
I love this startups attitude. Awesome!
No, he's only counting interest on the loan, and his wife is paying half. It's not even remotely a fair comparison to a single founder living in the city.

A more realistic "cheap" lifestyle in SF is probably $2500 a month if you're living on your own. And renting is substantially cheaper than owning here, unless you play stupid accounting games to pretend that you're not actually spending money.
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I was responding specifically to the claim that "you still have no business dictating to others what they can and cannot do." As far as 23andme is concerned, if they are not making any medical claims then they should have nothing to worry about. The linked to article linked to another article that said as much.
Thanks for the feedback!

I've changed the title to "Algorithms for Supervised- and Unsupervised Learning", which is definitely more appropriate. Initially the cheat sheet only contained linear classifiers, hence the misleading title.
This looks so much fun. Wow.
Great article, but I think your marketing message needs to be adjusted for conversion a little, which will backward-waterfall into CTR and CPC. Your ad is missing your value prop, it does not communicate what it will do that FB does not do already. Secondly, since you're already talking to moms, so why show moms more moms? If your message is privacy or continuity or whatever, why not show an ad with someone that fits your physical bill having the problem that you're trying to solve so you attract customers (who are having the problem you're trying to solve).

BTW, the photos with high CTRs you describe will alienate family oriented people - that is why very few businesses go there.
I've never had Apple's server down-throttle me, and regularly see around 2M/s pulling down Xcode.

Maybe your ISP is pulling one of those speedboost scams where the first N megs are at a high speed and then everything afterwards is throttled down?
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Do you have any plans for how to handle Bitcoin eventually being made illegal in the US?

Or the other side of the coin --- Bitcoin being devalued when the "miners" sell off thousands of Bitcoins (to cash out)?

It's kind of interesting to think about the implications.
The database server is down at the moment, mirror: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sclient=psy&...
Wireshark. After all, libpcap has been ported to all platforms worth mentioning.

I suspect that JungleDisk is primarily to blame here. Most programs (certainly the Windows search indexer) already know to treat files on network drives differently, otherwise they'd be unusable in business environments where you have a variety of SMB shares mounted on every computer.

If JungleDisk appears as a local drive, there's your problem. This is just speculation though, as I can't be bothered to give them my credit card details just to test that theory.
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I switched from Slicehost shortly after that. They had been stagnating for some time since Rackspace seemed disinterested in maintaining Slicehost.

It's a shame, Slicehost was a good host.
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I think it's a bit presumptuous of you to talk on behalf of all female engineers. I know at least two that would not mind living there.
Perhaps this is a case of a bandwidth cap that's working as intended? If people figure out where they're wasting bandwidth and fix it, that's more bandwidth for everyone else. Without any incentives, who knows how long it would have taken?
At 28.8 I am a better decision maker. I have better life skills, I am better at making friends, making social connections and making business connections.

As a coder, I no longer like coding for the sake of coding. I like coding because it is a means to an end. My powers of abstraction are greater. After 2 years of moderately successful solopreneurship, I fully understand the absolute need to ally with other people.

I am able to cut through people's bullshit easier. When I meet a potential business parter/coder I am more quickly able to see exactly how strong they are, what kind of drive they have, and ultimately I am more quick (and confident) to tell them to fuck off if they are a liability. As a 20-25 year old, I had no confidence and could not speak up for myself.

I focus solely on projects that I enjoy with people that I enjoy working with. My ability to create potentials for happiness and avoid pitfalls is stronger than ever. Physically, I am stronger than ever, and I eat much much healthier.

I am more positioned than ever before to hit a project out of the ballpark.

Finally, at 28.8 I realize that my ageism is just another prejudice that was hindering my ability to take advice. Now, my mind is not closed. It is more open than ever before. Age has worked well for me, and young peers, it will work well for you too.
Except you don't "build" a kid, and they don't turn out the way you expect they will before you have them. I've found that their interests, passions, and abilities seem to have little to do with what I'd like them to be, and are mostly either innate or governed by mechanisms I don't understand.
I have three kids and they are all quite distinct individuals despite being raised in basically the same environment by the same parents.
I'm currently a student at MIT and about to graduate. Go to MIT, if not for the academics, for the people you will meet. Do it for serendipity maximization.
It's most likely going to become illegal when and if people start getting burnt (a few bad eggs spoil the basket), but we're hackers and we don't see obstacles, only speed humps.
allot more partying and girls in the myface movie... that looked pretty smelly and claustrophobic to me, but going by the comments i'm in the minority.

e: just to clarify, you guys are awesome and i admire your work and attitude... just each to their own and when in rome yada yada
Looks interesting, I would try to emphasize what makes your service different than other file sharing services (even if its just a simple bullet list). Addi tonally I would get your service to a healthy beta stage before you post a lot of public details or a larger competitor may simply rip off your unique features before you get 100% up and running.
Yeah, still Wireshark on Mac, though if you wanted something a little user friendlier, you might be able to get a clue from LittleSnitch's network monitor. If you open it up, it shows all the applications that are currently making network requests and where the request is going to. I suspect in a case like the article's, it would show JungleDisk constantly connecting to AWS, and if you knew it wasn't supposed to be uploading/downloading something right now, that would narrow it down pretty fast.
Some college students have money riding on their grades
well said, Joe - author of article
Working with project based learning is not all joy and bubbles.

1) learning is the product of the work
Just wait until you get industrial sponsorship of the project. Learning gets less focus.

2)students learn from doing
Assuming the students have the initiative to DO. Young people often need leadership and direction provided by a leader type figure to drive them to make the attempt. Else, many of them will wander about aimlessly waiting for a peer leader to emerge -- which may never happen and the project stalls.

I am not disinclined to project based learning; but it is not a complete panacea for the current educational system.
I'm actually puzzled by all the Linode-bashing here. I'm not personally a Linode customer (or associated with them in any way) but this seems like a good thing.

To my knowledge (and I may have missed something) Linode is one of the first VPS providers to do IPV6. So I thought this was awesome.

If lots of other VPS providers start doing IPV6, and don't charge for a /64, or charge less than Linode does, Linode will have to change their fees or lose customers. But until that happens, why bash Linode for an as-yet unspecified charge?
LikeALittle hacker home wants you. :) [Hiring]
If you guys want to join the mess, we're hiring :)

http://lal.com/about/the_game
I just don't know what to say to that except I kind of smiled and shook my head. Words can't express people sometimes.
You know, this is going to sound callous, but everybody dies. Any one of us could be killed in an accident tomorrow. All this "live without regrets" is just flatly impossible, and a waste of time to sit and worry about. Every choice has opportunity costs. I can't believe that anyone gets through life not wishing he could take back some decisions he made, but even if this were possible, those changes would have their own unintended consequences.

You are who you are. You love what you love. The world isn't perfect. Don't sit and think your priorities are "wrong" all the time.
Any products that came out of nowhere to change the world?
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Right now my gripes with cloud telephony are not only the lack of transparency which you cover quite well, but also vendor lock in. What happens when your provider goes under, doesn't have it together technically, or decides to raise prices, changes use policy, etc, ad infinitum.

One of the great things about open source telephony (like Asterisk) is how you can actually use multiple service providers at once. If one fails you can drop over to the other, or even use the cheapest one for the call context. It's a nice efficient marketplace.
How much coding can there be that these guys need to live like this?
Check out Stanislaw Burzynski and his son, who claim to cure cancer by deactivating genes that cause cancer and activating the ones that kill it, on a patient-by-patient basis with "FDA approved gene-targeted medicines" http://youtu.be/tXf7r4VBDgk http://www.burzynskiclinic.com/

Blows me away.
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When I saw that Philz, I recalled all the long hours I spent at that table outside working on my at-the-time first iPhone app... the valley is a very special place.
This sounds like an excellent deal for patients. I mean, just look at this contract: http://doctoredreviews.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/piedmont....

Both Physician and Patient will work to prevent the publishing or airing of commentary about the other party from being accessed via Internet, blogs, or other electronic, print, or broadcast media without prior written consent.

So, if Greg Gossip starts blogging about Pete Patient, who has recently signed such a contract, it would appear to be up to Dan Doctor to put a halt to Gossip's careless commentary, or indeed any public commentary about Patient whatsoever. That looks like a minimum of 3 years' worth of reputation management services, and comes without any restrictions on judicial forum or dispute resolution in the event of any disagreement about the issuer's failure to perform.

All I have to do is keep my own trap shut, and I get my very own Internet White Knight/PR agent? SIGN ME UP.
Interesting. I didn't know about the 'do' keyword or the repetition bit with {x,y} returning {x: x, y: y}. Pretty cool!
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I do feel a bit like kicking myself for not seeing that bitcoin would end up where it is today. I first heard about bitcoin on HN when they were worth around .01 each, and could be generated fairly easily by simply running the mining software in the background. I was so busy spotting the flaw in the electricity cost creation argument I missed the fact it wouldn't matter, because the algorithm gets harder so only "professional" miners likely end up generating the majority of new coins, and also that there is a cap at 21 million, so generating coins was planned to stop anyway. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1655202)

I was looking at bitcoins as they might compare to an established currency model, like dollars, where the rate of creation has to be controlled smartly (not that I'm saying it is) and indefinitely. Satisfied I had spotted a money creation flaw preventing bitcoins becoming a dominant new currency I dismissed them quickly, never noticing the other aspects of brilliance it has.

I still see problems with bitcoin becoming a fully fledged sustained and mature currency. Some of these have been articulated here on HN (notably by jerf). However, I believe bitcoins still have developmental stages to go through before failing, and because of this I actually still see upside for them as a speculative (still risky) investment. I doubt I would do anything with them now, but if I had got in at .01 cent, now that would be different.
Sorry, but PayPal has not done wrong here. Credit cards and PayPal accounts get stolen, that's not unusual and simply not 100% preventable.

PayPal/eBay offers, essentially, free insurance against fraud through the Seller Protection Policy. To take advantage of this insurance, you have to ship to the buyer's confirmed address. Whoever took over the account and spent someone else's money can't easily change that address without the real owner or PayPal noticing.

PayPal is completely unambiguous about how this works. It's in the receipts, it's on the thank-you pages, it's in the policy descriptions, it's in the FAQ's, etc. Here's a screenshot of a PayPal receipt for a received payment, if you haven't seen one recently. It's brightly highlighted right up top what you should do to stay within the protection of the free insurance.

http://i.imgur.com/QhrBm.png

The OP got scammed. PayPal got scammed too. They don't have the stolen funds he was paid with. If the payment was funded by credit card, PayPal not only doesn't have the money but also paid a chargeback fee on it. They're actually willing to use their own money on top of that to pay for the stolen items if the seller shipped them to the PayPal account's address -- great! But the OP didn't, so he's in the same place he'd be if he were paid with a bad check or directly with a stolen credit card -- all he can do is take the scammer to court, if he's ever found.

Re the final line: "I urge PayPal to do the right thing and correct this issue immediately, lest I be driven to seek legal options to recover what I believe is legally owed to me." The party that owes him money is the person that placed the bid on eBay, not the means by which he made a fraudulent payment. When someone pays a store with a bad check, it's not the bank that's sued, it's the check writer.
You misunderstood what the problem was. It was not that JungleDisk was downloading backup data, it was that since the AWS 'drive' is mounted as a local drive, when indexing happened (or when the antivirus scanned the files), Windows (or the antivirus) would download all the data they where trying to access. I'd actually go with the antivirus in this case, but it certainly is not JungleDisk's fault.
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Reminds me of every house in Palo Alto. Makes me miss home :)
I'm older than these guys--late 20's, married, no kids (yet). I just don't see this lifestyle bring very practical for married/family folks. But then again, I've never heard any stories of people other than young singles doing stuff like this. Anyone know of any outliers like this in the valley?
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This is definitely a much better communique about how the transition will work. Wish they'd said it in the first place.

As a current Slicehost customer, I also appreciate their candidacy about how the transition itself will work, even if it's not the most seamless transition (i.e IP address change).
really? interesting...any females on HN that wouldn't mind living there?
What do you mean need to live? I'd pay to live their and work on lal. The only thing I didn't see what the coffee machine, hope it's a good one.
Does it block Outlook because thats the real reason I can't get anything done these days.
Yep, that's essentially the moral of the post. While cheap clicks do exist, and you can find them, you need to ask yourself whether it's really worth it for your business.
I definitely like the theme of what you wish to work on (helping people). I myself would like to work on a project like your Friend Finder (really anything to create interactions between people), as I'm always trying to find like-minded people nearby. I have ideas if you ever wish to team up.
I think a lot of the people that feel that their 'priorities are wrong' are people that think that X is important but keep procrastinating X because "I'll have time later." Things like this point out to them that maybe they won't have time later.

Also, all regrets are not created equal. You may regret that you didn't go for some hot girl you had a crush on in HS, but you probably wouldn't regret that as much as ignoring people that you care about because you had tunnel-vision on a task that doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of things.
Hey, Jonathan, learn to read. I said "optional" and I meant it. A dev needs to be able to turn certain "features" on and off to model how various types of users are going to experience a site. How difficult would it have been to implement that, instead of just forcing down our throats?
Apple's priority is to sell hardware. Spotify is simply another great app.
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I don't know anything about aviation..but I did see a show years ago about a new prototype US helicopter...and the first image on Wired, to me, 100% reminded me of it. Googling, I'm sure what I'm talking about is the RAH-66 Comanche.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing/Sikorsky_RAH-66_Comanche

Do a google images search, the thing looks [relatively] identical.
This is interesting to me. How can I put this as diplomatically as possible?

I'm glad that there is a culture like this out there. It espouses productivity and gives a real view as to what folks will do in order to try their hand at a serious venture.

Clearly the guys here are aware of exactly what they're doing by putting this whole thing on film. They're happy, they believe in their projects, and they're not ashamed to put this on the record.

Having said that, I remember my early 20s, too.
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my god man... that's impressive
A slip of the keyboard. Obviously if they received $1 million in funding, the team is smart enough to choose how they live. I'm just saying, it probably wouldn't burn through their funding if they hired a maid to come in occasionally. :)
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