skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having managed (paid) interns and full time employees picked right out of graduation (I'm in a somewhat experimental role and that means the only staff I'm going to get is junior level), I can't possibly restate the importance of not delaying entry into doing something meaningful in life, if I take your meaningful to mean advancing your experience in your desired field.

The best employee I've ever had wasn't a Computer Science or MIS major (I believe he switched later). It was an accident that I even got his resume (coincidentally, a staffing intern at my company mixed it up. It was due for the bin [HR and staffing are for another rant, I'll leave it alone this time]). He was a brilliant guy. He interned for the half of the summer. In a few weeks he went from zero experience with databases and directX, to developing a solution using both technologies (he wasn't a magician, the end-product was good, but required some reworking of code due to his applying knowledge from one language to another, but it was done, usable and with a bit of work supportable). We offered him a full time position on the spot and he declined (he wanted to be in academia at the time, but ended up in industry a few years later).

Degrees are important. Experience is important. Intelligence is important, but being intelligent and having degrees doesn't equate to success or the deserving of success. I used to work with a guy who was the sort of guy you wanted to go out to lunch with (if you're a geek). Very intelligent, had all sorts of ideas, could talk about anything related to his field (networking) and would challenge you to think about things differently. Unfortunately, he could talk all around theory, but he couldn't execute. It was a strange sort of inability to choose between several equally good approaches to solving a problem. Every project he worked on got about 3/4 to completion and then fell flat into failure.

And of course, the story of my two coworkers is certainly not a rigorous statistical understanding of the world. It's my observation mixed with bias. But it's worked so far in finding good, terribly unqualified individuals that can produce far more than they take away from me in time-spend.
Thank you. So the Xen dom0s are using IP Routing and not bridging.

Do we know the details of Heroku's LXC configurations for dynos on their Amazon Domu instances?

http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dyno-isolation

"On the Heroku dyno manifold, each and every process has full isolation from all other processes, including those of the underlying operating system and other processes from the same application. This provides complete protection from either of the circumstances above, and many others."

Based on that, do we presume they are also using routes and not bridges?
If they don't have an API, why does it say "Opps! Look's like I'm Empty!" on the web site? If they show the current balance there, they have an API.
On that same analogy, you need to find a good 'co-parent' that you get along with and also loves the child and has the time/dedication/skills to raise the child to be a happy and successful adult.

Depending on who you pick, the child might be raised better by a single parent than 2 parents..
Unfortunately, I've seen it, with myself in computer programming and systems administration. Not the only field where this crops up; fortunately, we're beginning to have good counterexamples of what black Americans are supposed to be:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPf03T8YN-4
I'm not tptacek, but I think it's mostly clear that a castle in Compton is more secure than a cottage in a village in the Alps, but less safe.
scripting languages weren't really designed for large-scale development efforts involving millions of lines of code. They typically lack the code-reuse abstractions and development toolsets

I find that dynamic languages with first class functions provide much better abstractions and opportunities for code-reuse than languages like C and C++.
It is probably one of those "your results may vary" things.

I know people with the opposite experiences. I know people who are just gutting, cleaning, sledgehammering and etc that are constantly looking for more work, taking it where they can find it, and living paycheck to paycheck. There is a work drought. We're talking people without high school educations who have worked jobs like this for years but have been having a harder time now than ever.

On a higher level, I also happen to know the owners of a construction firm. They make solid money (don't know how much for sure but over $150K/yr) who have complained about how they are dipping into savings, investing more than ever in advertising, and still having problems finding projects to do.

I think there is reason to be suspect about the guy in this article, but that doesn't mean times aren't really tough all over.
I'm sorry, but "it's wrong because a lot of people think it" is plainly stupid, and no better than "it's wrong because fanboys think it". I am only pointing out that it isn't just supposedly fanboy sources stating it.

Insinuating that I think the WSJ could not possibly be wrong and therefore it is right is simple dickery. The point is that the source is credible in a way that some people (certainly martythemaniak) don't think Gruber, et al. are.
It might just say "there's money", not an exact figure like the first card… Who knows, I haven't actually seen the page with the card having any cash on it
In addition to this submission, here are more:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2877771

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2878807

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2879546 <- Much discussion

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2879772 < 2 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2880028

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2881851 <- Dead

I'm pretty sure there were more.
Having read multiple Branson biographies, I can assure you that he had (and has) help.

Edit: Branson may be the sole founder of Virgin Group, which is a holding company. He definitely was not the sole founder or Virgin Records, Virgin Atlantic, or Student.
In the major distros, Fedora and Ubuntu and OpenSuSE, a lot of packages, some of which aren't used by most users, sometimes default iptables rules, sometimes no iptables rules at all.

In newer, less friendly but more tech oriented distros (these aren't opposing forces, but in Linux they're misunderstood to be) like Arch, a lot less.
A much easier idea would be to use something like a teleprompter. That way the camera is looking through the glass, but the image you want to see is reflected up on the screen. Not high fidelity, but it works.
Wow! Just wow! Bookmarked! A mere upvote is not enough for this! Thank you!!!

Questions:

- Is there a site pointing out amazing command line tools like this? (their existence as opposed to usage examples like at http://www.commandlinefu.com/)

- Is there a site listing the OS X equivalents for Linux command line tools? (e.g. what's the OS X equivalent for dos2unix / flip?)

(edit: merge 2 comments into 1)
I can't imagine how bad the guys from Opera must be feeling, when everyone points to them as an example of a pioneer, yet nobody actually uses Opera (a startup once called me "their Opera user")...
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A big challenge will be cross-browser support and last time I checked (March), Mozilla said that they're 'not excited by it'.
Source: http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014716/Emerging-Technologies-R... [~46min]
> does seeing violence around you make you more violent?

My guess is that amount of violence per se is not the issue. It probably is more closely related to the consequences of said violence: someone living in a war zone has a much greater appreciation for the negative outcomes of violence versus someone who has experienced purely the excitement element of violence.

That said, definitely agree that it's less "what" and more "how much".
The real question is why would you write either when there are perfectly good languages that you can already use. It seems insane to me that Blizzard dumped Lua for their own homebrew scripting language. I wonder what the rationale was.
I wonder how high the punishment for using a picture could be? Maybe the damages will be estimated according to market rate, which the BBC would have been prepared to pay anyway?
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Er, as far as I can tell:

• this isn't associated with Jonathan but uses his name

• this isn't associated with Starbucks but uses their logo

• it's already empty

• there's no details to suggest that the previous transfer-balance vulnerability has been closed – only that it's now harder to optimize the attack by knowing when the active card has a fat balance

• the usable card number will change regularly so as to confuse both attackers and users, and putting primarily the site maintainer in full control of all monies deposited

What is this supposed to achieve? Are you really Sam Odio trying to prove another point?
You were modded down for some reason, but wow, you weren't kidding, having read some of those comments. I didn't expect to encounter a clique of barking morons in that particular context. If that's what the majority of the Economist's subscriber demographic looks like nowadays, it's not a good thing for the rest of us.
easy money will be mine :)
A good intuition of what will and will not be on a critical path is also helpful. I will never spend time optimizing a method I know is called rarely, but if I know something is on the critical path then I'll keep an eye on performance and build it in such a way that I can visualise a way to refactor it "the right way" further down the road.
Ahead-of-time compilation of a dynamic language with LLVM will scarcely be faster than an interpreter. This is a very common misconception. Good performance for dynamic languages requires dynamic techniques -- polymorphic inline caches, tracing, dynamic type inference, and so on.
great startup!
Windows XP is still supported, and even if I wanted to run Windows 7, it's too bloated to run on fully a third of the hardware in my organization (and that's just counting x86 desktop/laptops.) Windows XP is a problem, and Microsoft hasn't solved it.
I believe I've seen tptacek say a liquor store in Englewood, Chicago with bulletproof glass in front of the cashier is more secure than a 7-11 in Lincoln Park, but the 7-11 is safer. Or something like that. :)
Yes, I am. I thought it was obvious enough without a disclaimer ;). I don't know who simonb is, though, and I wasn't planning to even answer your question since you want video calls and we only have video for vox.io to vox.io calls. There's no support for 3g video calls.
GPG-encrypted free-form file (though it's fairly structured), edited via vim and a well-known "auto-encrypt/decrypt GPG files" configuration: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Encryption

(Actually, from that page, vim now has built-in blowfish encryption, which I'll have to look at -- yet another argument in favor of sharing tips on the 'TarTubes: you may learn something even when you're sharing your own knowledge).
Oh, hm. Sounds like I was close, then :)
I've found that the more I put off the coding in favor of designing and planning, the more I tend to spin my wheels. Bring it to reality, and then iterate over it. You'll never think of everything from the start, and if you do, it's likely wrong.

So grab your vi/emacs/mate and start coding ;-)
He was only 33 years old in 1990. According to his story, he already had 8 years of experience as a senior engineer at Lockheed, plus two masters degrees in Physics and EE, and more than a decade of computer programming experience, and connections all over the aerospace industry. If he made a choice to not work for the next 18 years, while becoming indigent and sliding into homelessness, that's not something to be solved by the American economy. And he is not the first man with ailing parents, you know.
Have I chance to have open source client? I don't trust blobs on my computer.
Don't rape my analogy. He's not building (in the relevant sense).
Part of what hasn't been mentioned yet in favor of co-founders is that on the right team everyone makes everyone else better. Or, in this case, with the right combo you both make the product better together - over time. When I see someone focusing on the immediate benefits of a co-founder, I wonder if it's short sighted.

For an analogy that may resonate with this community - think about a hacker house or group of programmers that are friends. Those relationships can make each of you better programmers. In effect, you're each helping each other move from, say C or B players, to A players. Imagine if you only thought someone at an equal or higher level than you could teach or help you with something.

You might carry more weight for the first 2 years, your partner's skills may become more valuable for the 2 after that. That's either a reality you accept in creating a true team or a point of tension for you - depending on your personality.

Of course, a solo founder can be a part of a community that helps them become better, just another perspective.
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Why should the town be in the "business" of stopping people from renovating their homes in the first place?
OK. I understand it now... But now I am counting on my points via 'threads' section on the top bar, but it doesn't add up. As of now I have 8 'karma', but when I count, the points should be greater than 8...

So how do I know which post gets point? and which not?

Sorry, newbie questions. I read the FAQ on the HN in regards of the points system, but there are not one clear answer...

Thank you.
With a few additions, it can be an awesome teaching tool
I'm pretty sure if you or me infringe on copyright, the damages aren't estimated according to the market rate... but I'm curious how this works for the BBC.
Several thoughts:

1. While the complaints about error stack traces and documentation are valid, I would personally use a language for a month or two before publicly publicly criticizing it.

2. If you want to learn Clojure and/or Scala, I think that it is worth taking an initial detour and learn a little Haskell. Every time I spend a few evenings studying Haskell I feel like I understand Clojure and Scala a bit better.

3. I think that tool support is very good. I must admit mostly using IntelliJ with the Clojure plugin, but I also use Emacs+Slime for several hours a week.

4. There are many awesome projects and frameworks written in Clojure - to me this is the clearest indication that Clojure is an important language and deserves careful consideration for new projects.
let's better push him to Moon. ;)
Fair enough. But funding is one of the few publicly visible milestones that a startup can achieve. One could argue that it's almost a proxy for success.

Either that or we should all get excited with a press release from Dropbox saying they reached 10 million users. But that doesn't excite geeks (do you care if Apple sold 20 million iPhones this month? No, you care about the iPhone 5).
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That paragraph jumped out at me, too.

I agree with the point, but not its reasoning. The reason why scripting (read: dynamic) languages fall apart at scale is largely because they're too flexible. Abstractions that are convenient in the small can create unmanageable complexity in the large (unless you are extremely disciplined).
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Yes, they have. The solution is called windows 7.

The only problem is people refusing to upgrade from a decade old OS.
The title might be a bit misleading, I thought this was going to be something where I could hook into your api and I could build something fun. Instead it seems to be more of an interview questions style challenge.
Why does it come across as "off" to you? Whatever interest people have change all the time, or the field they initially entered isn't what they thought it was. I also don't see why you think liberal arts to a more "useful" degree is the only legit path.

I've seen all types of changes and there is no reason a person should be stuck in a path they are not happy with just because they picked a different major when they were in college. Some ex: Comp Sci to med school, Neurosci Phd dropout who works in animation, chemical engineer who decided to get a MFA, there are countless examples.
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Any good sources for where I can go or a book I can purchase that delves into this enough conceptually that I can prototype something? It is related to split and A/B tests and web analytics.
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"'We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.' He's not saying to ignore performance."

Totally agree. In fact the rest of his quote is "... is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%."
People tend to overestimate their own abilities and performance.

Especially when they're operating in an impaired state: drugs, alcohol, fatigue, or cult-like communities (which often combine all of the above and then some).

This is very well established in literature particularly regarding management and business:

http://forum.johnson.cornell.edu/faculty/russo/Managing%20Ov...
http://www.capitalideasonline.com/articles/index.php?id=2360
See also: Blindspots analysis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindspots_analysis
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Maybe the point is to simply continue something great. And prevent people like Sam sitting at starbucks with his laptop playing songs every time the card reached a high balance.
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Yep, check out http://onethingwell.org which is exactly that. Software (incl cli) that do one thing well, as according to the UNIX philosophy. It's nicely tagged as well, so you can click the 'osx' tag and get tools just for OS X and so forth.

I actually found dtrx on hacker news though a few years ago, but it's also on onethingwell I believe.
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As crappy as that might have been what would have happened had his mom still been alive?

You are completely right when you're in the position to think rationally. My only thought is that ... it's his Mom. I'm a married man with a few kids and am the sole income provider for my family (by choice not circumstance). I would move heaven and earth to ensure my family (my bride and children) were taken care of. Were I single, I'd live on the street if it meant the difference between my mom being tossed out of her home or me being able to prevent that.

It's completely irrational behavior from a Dave Ramsey standpoint (I'm a fan of his), and I know that elderly care isn't a choice between "stay in your home" and "suffer/die in an alley with dementia", but it's difficult to make sound decisions when dealing with such a serious emotional circumstances. (case in point, I don't even know the meaning of living on the street, but I know what decision I'd make regardless).

There's a bit of hindsight at play here. When I decided to move out, my dad did everything he could to convince me to buy a house rather than rent (throwing your money away! Tax deductions!). From a cash flow perspective, it didn't make sense. I had no savings and would have had to game the system via several different types of loans, but from the conventional wisdom of the time, it was: your house will never decline in value. I rented and I'm glad I did. I'm now a homeowner with a simple 15 year fixed that's nearly paid off.
I think my post was taken the wrong way.

I took the article to say "look at this person, he can't find a job for 14 years, despite all these amazing qualifications".

I have a suspicion that there is more to the story, because I find it implausible that a hardworking competent person would could go that long without finding any work. Add to that the description of him as 'homeless and living at a shelter'. So he can't even find work that he is overqualified for? An office 'tech guy' will get somewhere around $50k in Boston, to install printers and do basic desktop support. People just out of highschool get that job all the time.

So, how did he end up homeless? There is obviously much more to the story that the article completely omits. And that is my criticism, it's misleading to only mention all his good points and use his story as a vehicle to indict our whole economic system.

I don't feel avarice for this gentleman, but I don't feel appalled that he can't find a job, because I believe the story is making several lies of omission.
People usually use "compiled" to refer to languages that lower programs into machine code. Lowering the program into a bytecode isn't sufficient.

Bytecode interpreters must be carefully optimized, and still usually have an unavoidable performance hit from their cache usage patterns (e.g. from bytecode being in d-cache).
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With good living (and good luck), I've seen people very active and happy through their 80s and 90s.

With bad living, I've seen some very unhappy and dead people in their 40s, 30s, or even 20s (Winehouse, Cobain, Joplin, Morrison, et al, of the Forever 27 Club). Frequently death preceded by more than a few years of lower productivity.

Of course, luck plays a part too. I've known a few people who woke up dead, suddenly or otherwise, at a young age for no particularly predictable exogenous cause. But that's still statistically a low probability and for some cases (particularly accidents and violence) largely avoidable with appropriate precautions.
It's not an insult, but a suggestion. You complained that people don't understand you, and that perhaps you should use more words. I think the difficulty is the opposite.
I've never seen the effort involved in making a nice quick-feedback REPL-style affair pay off. Perhaps for certain types of game it would be worth it, and perhaps amortized over a long enough period the result would become value for money. My experience has been that making a script system work that way, and work reliably, and provide a nice interface, just takes up more time than you end up saving.

Anyway, all the programmers I've known would want good debugging facilities as well, like the ones you get in Visual Studio/ProDG/Code Warrior/Xcode/gdb/etc. - oops, only kidding about gdb! This thing really needs a GUI. This all just expands the time-suck further.

That's not to say it can't be made to work, of course! People can do anything, if they set their mind to it hard enough, and if they wait for long enough, maybe it will even become value for money.
Have to be careful with this technique too - most classes tend to have the "overenthusiastic answerer" who will always answer the question given a chance. As a Teacher/TA/Tutor you have to learn to ignore these people (or privately ask them to answer less frequently).