skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here. Getting 1% back on rent is pretty cool.
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http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/degrees.asp

Median starting and mid career salaries by undergrad major. Engineering dominates the top salaries.
My office is more spacious than the ISS, is quieter, safer and probably smells better, but I can't beat their view.

I would trade places with any astronaut without thinking twice.

My best hope is that access to space becomes cheap enough that "willing" becomes "good enough".
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Does any advocacy group (EFF, etc) have info on who the key swing/undecided/"marginal" votes are?

Knowing that we could try and focus dissemination of this to people in those districts.
>Can users only send money to Dwolla members?

No, you can send money to anyone. Only the person sending it has to have a Dwolla account to initiate the transaction. The person receiving it will have to sign up for an account....

LOLWUT

In other words, you must have an account to receive money. Technically different, but that is some lawyerspeak if I've ever heard it.
I think we actually agree. I too feel that computer science these days is gibberish relying on the form but not substance of mathematical proofs to convey superior status, whereas "why" systems worked back then didn't require mathemtical _gibberish_ to explain, but were actually very well rooted in mathematical reasoning.
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Email me (nathan@thinklegend.com). I know quite a few developers in Boise.
I'm living through this right now. I'm struggling through pre-calculus, attempting to learn material I was never exposed to in high school, and the main emotion I'm feeling is profound shame.

Luckily, I've had some amazing research experiences so I know I can do the science; that said, I can easily imagine how differently things could have gone if that wasn't the case.
Oh I wasn't really commenting on Google's decision and whether it was right or wrong. Like you said before: "Time will tell". I was just offering an alternate view to your expressed optimism that Google's demographic (aka everybody) is becoming more tech savvy.
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Thanks for this =)
I was briefly skeptical, but on reflection, I like this for three reasons:

First, email just doesn't work for contacting Congress. They get entirely too much, and it's entirely too easy to get lost in the pile. It's the preferred means of communication for most of us on HN, but it's just not effective outside our industry. Phone is better, but there's nothing quite like flooding someone's office with paper to convey the will of the electorate.

Second, SendWrite is one of the companies that would be hurt by the bill - being able to generate volume like this shows the reach and effectiveness of their lobbying efforts. Sacks of cash are the backup currency of Congress - Votes are still the coin of the realm.

Finally, you guys are putting your cash on the line for this - that's a powerful statement, and I applaud you for doing so.
Yes, I do need to work on search rankings. I've been giving out free copies to educators and speech language pathologists to get them familiar with it. I also have a free demo copy coming out in the next couple weeks.

Thanks for the advice.
And here are the comments from noticiashacker.com

http://www.noticiashacker.com/noticia/julio-camarena-qu-es-s...
Kinda makes me wonder why they don't tighten up the application criteria. Bachelor's degree in something vaguely sciencey plus three years experience? Compare that to the actual CVs of the nine folks they selected (out of 3500) last time:

http://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/ascans2009.html
doh. Gonna miss out on this. Wish I could make it. Have fun all.
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Excellent. Does a great job of clarifying.
We've got a good disclaimer for the few that decide to go down that route. As an aside, I've seen the police use this formula for "back counting" alcohol consumption.
>>My repeated experience with the USPS is that they pay absolutely no attention to mail forwarding requests, ever.

I do find this surprising as for me, forwarding requests have always worked as expected. Could be a management problem in your area.
Ah, yes - thank you, that's who I was thinking of.

iFixit are a fine mob indeed!
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the people that just missed the cutoff for those spots are probably top of their class at whatever regional university they ended up going to.

Entirely possible, but I think that says more about the capricious nature of admissions at elite colleges.
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You are indeed correct. I was searching for inauspicious. Hah.
What would be the alternative to the scare method? How do you get real about substances and the process of addiction?
It isn't the American way of writing. It is the boring business way of writing which says very little.
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I think this is a valuable alternate perspective. Students will become discouraged from time to time and this will vary by field. Frankly, most professors don't care about undergraduate education. I know this from direct experience. They will typically list their priorities as: research and grants, graduate students, and only then, undergraduate teaching. And teaching is hard enough even when it's a top priority. You always lose some students without dedicated effort put into teaching and that will be worse in harder classes. High school doesn't prepare students for a rigorous college experience and if we don't bridge that gap somehow that will be one more reason someone will get out of a tough curriculum.
That character is most often used as a logical negation operator, so it may be confusing to use it as a force-inclusion operator for search.

It's also almost never found on standard US keyboards, which is why the tilde is often used as a logical negation operator in it's place.
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That's probably a mispelling of _analyseColumn.
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they almost always bother to have a go at $saturated_market, since they have enough of a thought-gravity-well to get /some/ people using it
> Are you saying that the caliber of student in the EECS department of Berkeley is so high that even the bottom 13% of the class would have gotten C's or B's at another school?

Certainly not any other school in general, but at your average university, probably yes. That's not so hard to believe given the competitiveness of Cal's engineering programs.
Is this when they slip in another bill that does something even worse? While we are inundated with the news of this bill?
Does Google have a deal with online dictionaries in order to do this?
Hmmm. Well, the "places of interest" it suggested to me didn't look interesting, but it's nearly useful. What it really needs is just to have a "time" column estimating how far each stop is from the last one.

Maybe I just grew up watching too many NSW RTA ads, but I'm a firm believer in the principle that for safety you should stop and get out of the car every two hours. So if it could suggest stops which were spaced roughly two hours apart, it'd be useful to me.
This is a good direction, thanks MS.
Only the person sending it has to have a Dwolla account to initiate the transaction. The person receiving it will have to sign up for an account, but we've been surprised at the conversion there

"been surprised at the conversion" when someone is sending you money?! I think that's pretty much the ultimate dream - one customer paying another person to sign up!
The only thing that's really wrong with Java is the language, and of that there are only 3 or 4 major things wrong with the language, most of which seem to have been addressed reasonably with scala.

The rest of the ecosystem is pretty good.
Nice, now search personalization can be turned off!

> With the verbatim tool on, we’ll use the literal words you entered without making normal improvements such as <...> personalizing your search by using information such as sites you’ve visited before

Personally, I appreciate this more than allowing to search for exact matches. Hopefully ‘filter bubble’ just became less… bubbley. =)
Why are the students afraid of lower grades? If you don't go to a PhD program, does it matter all that much? I think this emphasis on grades is something we should work to undo. You can learn, you can relearn and get extra help, but if the grades cause you to quit too early then grades are not having the effect we want.
"Preventing theft while not punishing users is extremely hard. And so lots of banks and services take the easy route: forcing complicated passwords, OTP's, holds, "sitekeys", security questions, et cetera."

You will always be inconvenienced by security measures. All of the things you described is the company working "behind the scenes".

"tldr; these "security measures" absolutely suck and I can't wait for the service that comes along and says "we did the hard security work so you don't have to"."

The problem is that if you got your money stolen, like you wrote above, you expect the company to pay for it 100%. If security was reduced to the levels you are describing, more money would get stolen and the company would be liable. Why would any company want to take this risk?

For any company or bank dealing with money, image is everything. Customers will leave if they can't trust someone with their money. I know I would.

"This is a common marketing lie. This actually isn't trying to protect his parents. This is greatly inconveniencing his parents in order to protect themselves in a cheaper fashion."

I would gladly start a company with less security if you sign a statement saying that my company isn't liable for any money stolen because of the inconvenience of higher security.
I'm running on a 12-core machine with a high-end GPU on the latest version of Chrome and the parallax scrolling is _still_ hitching. Just sayin'. :)
Great idea! I hope everyone uses this service as soon as possible.
That's hardly true--enabling professionals can easily be more world-changing than catering to people who are not "tech savvy". Plenty of technologies--take SQL, for example--are very world-changing but only ever used by tech-savvy people.
SpaceX is a few bells and whistles away from a human-rated Crew Configuration of the Dragon spacecraft with seating for seven. Their initial contract for unpiloted cargo flights of Falcon 9 / Dragon to ISS charges an average of $133 million per flight. At the same rate, they could sell passenger seats for only $19 million.

That's just a back of the envelope calculation with a gazillion assumptions, but useful for making projections for the next few years.
the story is "they asked for it and were allocated it under the allocation rules at the time". pre-CIDR, you could get a class A, B or C (mostly), and a class-B isn't /that/ many IPs for a large and growing company when effectively no one else used the Internet at all.
This is great. What's the cashflow situation here - how many donations will you/do you need (I'm aware this is obviously demand dependent, but I'm just intrigued about the general situation)
You couldn't build one yourself anyway, because Broadcom won't sell you parts or even talk to you unless you're doing volumes like 100k/quarter. And then you'll probably need to sign an NDA to get the datasheet.

I see the Raspberry Pi project as an attempt by Broadcom to build some goodwill - but they seem more interested in doing so among society at large by producing a super-affordable computer for kids, than among nerds by doing an open source project. That's Broadcom's prerogative and I applaud what they are doing for what it is.

Personally though, as a hardware hacker, I am more likely to buy similar products using TI (BeagleBoard) or Freescale (Chumby Hacker Board) or Atmel parts, as those manufacturers have histories of being a bit more friendly to hackers, hobbyists, and small volume buyers. The BeagleBoard in particular is open source, there's development chatter on an open mailing list, and TI sells the same OMAP SoCs to small volume customers (right down to the possibility of a hobbyist buying one or two through a distributor, although at that volume you'll pay $50 for just the bare SoC).
It can be an economic issue as well.

Spaceship trips existed for 50 years. But it costs $10,000,000 per person. Not enough tourist potential to offset the costs.

Now with many companies and countries entering, it's down to $200,000 per person. And probably going down more. Now, there's enough tourist potential to offset the costs and derive profit.

Other examples; flying cars and jetpacks.
He gives a fairly reasonable explanation in the next sentence:

The reason they allow themselves to get bought via talent acquisition is to be able to easily raise money in the future.
Do you believe the universe came from nothing? I find that absurd.

I do not see what is absurd about the statement "nothing begets nothing".

By the way, you attacked the premise, not the logic of the argument, which is not what you claimed in the first instance.
This really is the most balanced take on this I've seen yet on HN. Thanks.

A lot of times stories like this are received derisively, and it's like some sort of mark of eternal shame to admit that, yes, the gender balance and social scene in my field is important to me.

Sometimes I feel like hackers (and traditional engineers like EE and MEs) aspire to some kind of neo-valhalla. Instead of eternal fighting and mead-drinking it's coding and soda-drinking. This leads to a field that's incredibly flat and simplistic - aka boring.
This is a good idea, it will allow us to use the string interpolation address bar search functionality we all love in our favourite browsers.

In general, nice one google for once again keeping an ear to the ground.
Right, first off, you are citing the brief and claiming that this is the basis on which people are marked. This is the very mistake I stated in the grandparent post and that you are making again. Stop claiming I am making 'assumptions' when you obviously have no clue as to the facts. The mark scheme is found under the 'Detailed unit content' section and that specifies a lot of things you need to do in addition to simply 'making a product'.

> without further information, you aren't in a position to say that he ignored the spec

So if you read between the lines in the student's statement, where in this did he say he did anything other than write some code? And you're accusing me of making assumptions?

> The article's direct statements trump your assumptions.

So find me the statements which show he actually did all the legwork you are required in the class. You are completely wrong here.

> From the spec. on the site you linked to - it seems Unit 4: Creating Digital Products is the relevant unit

It's not in fact the relevant unit, as there are several exam boards he could have used. That was given as an example (was in fact my coworker's unit). The brief actually matches OCR's ICT course (section 2.4):

http://www.ocr.org.uk/download/kd/ocr_31062_kd_gcse_2010_spe...

Note how there is no requirement as to how to implement it. But also note how there is no requirement for candidates to show their code, even!

The student says:

> I argued the case and managed to scrape a pass by teaching him the basics of Objective-C from scratch and by commenting every single line of code I wrote to explain exactly what it did and how it did it (all 3,400 lines, including standard libraries I used) which ended up being a huge time sink.

This kid didn't read the mark scheme or he would know that you are not asked to comment the code, nor does doing so confer any direct proof that you can do any of the things that spec says you should demonstrate.

You're meant to show designs for the different parts of your programs, you're meant to demonstrate that you wrote code and that it does what you say it does, and you're meant to establish a testing procedure and document the outcome, among other things.

What you do NOT do is comment your code and call it a day. I know because I tried doing precisely that in my own project and was told "we don't want code, we want documentation". When the teacher says he doesn't have a clue how it works, it's because he was given a code dump. Documenting it so that a non-programmer can understand what you are doing is tedious but that is what you're being asked here.
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You do mention "focus dissemination of this to people in those districts", and that is key, because unless a Representative/Senator is the head of a committee, an email/letter/etc., from outside of their district is completely discarded.

Also, if you are not registered to vote, your comment goes in the waste bin, too. Trust me, I know plenty of people who work or have worked in various legislative bodies, and the first thing they do when they get contacted by a "constituent" is check to see if they are registered to vote in their district. If not, then the message falls on deaf ears.
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Exactly. Thank you. The student who demonstrates exceptional ability should be rewarded and encouraged, but not with a good grade on an assignment they did not complete properly. Driving toward requirements, no matter how arbitrary or uninteresting they might seem, is an important skill in its own right. Business or career success often requires both technical mastery and discipline.
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Don't forget the classic Open Letter to Hobbyists [4].

[4] http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/gateswhine.html
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+1 or even have the game prompt you to enter your email address to play level 2.
I signed up with a free account and got the email a few hours ago. I had a feeling this would happen because I couldn't figure out how they were going to make money when they were giving away 500GB for free.
You find it absurd, but then believe God came from nothing. I find that irrational.

The universe didn't come from anywhere, the universe is.

Ok, the premise of your argument is flawed in that the very question is not logical.
The best way to prevent any sort of manipulation is a combination of two things: have a "maximum conceivable score" and regulate the scoring server side. Every time a "round" ends (ducks on the screen) send the data to the server, compare the score relative to the previous score and if it's ridiculous (eg: the max score they could get is 500 and it's 10,000) you dump the session for being fake.

The obvious flaw with this is people who just work out what your maximums are and then get the 100% score, but it discourages the ridiculous scores.

edit: one of your people said this below, disregard :-)
I can't say that I do, but my uncle is a hardware engineer and he typically accomplishes an entire day's work in a few hours a day so that he can spend time with his daughter, go to the gym/do yoga, and generally be awesome (like drive around in his Maserati etc..)

He has the life..
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Are you really asserting that it is possible to know in advance what conditions will make the business venture successful? Or even to know in retrospect which ones made them unsuccessful?

I don't know about this. Even if you could say that (for example) a number of ships hit a particular iceberg, which has now melted, so what? The ocean is full of icebergs.

I wonder if, on average, it might be even more advantageous to try something where everyone agrees there's an obvious barrier to success. What if conventional wisdom is wrong even some of the time, or if that barrier suddenly disappears for its own reasons? I'm pretty sure you can see this pattern in a lot of anomalously successful companies.
If an aspect of this is hackability, I'm wondering if a schematic or a datasheet for the CPU will be released. Under "schematic", in the wiki right now I see a pcb "gerber" layout, and Broadcom isn't one of the more open companies with datasheets. But, I figure they're in a pre-shipping crunch right now, so we'll all wait and see...
There's a magic "nfpr=1" flag in the query string that seems to revert back to the old "did you mean" behaviour. Sometimes it randomly fails though. I don't know if this feature is going away with this update.
Really nice of you to have made this free. I would have paid! I wouldn't have sent this if not for sendwrite, just because the cost for me to type, print, stamp, and mail an envelope is too high.
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really good point, lots of room for optimization
windows is definitely easier for newbie developers, but once you start to want more tools, the unix env is still the best place to be. It's like trying to use vim when you've eclipse all your life. Vim plugins have all these "requirements" that make it look painful in comparison to eclipse addons.
His frustrations with getting the correct version of Python and Ruby packages is completely correct. I don't understand why OSX and Ubuntu still bundle a specific (usually old) version of languages to their operating system, and then we (as developers) need to wait until a new package is available for our operating system.

Is there any other good way to decouple the package management of languages (Python, Ruby, Java, what have you) from the operating system? I've used homebrew (edit: and rvm/rbenv) and like it, but it's not an official product from Apple.
you're totally right... feel really stupid that we didn't do it that way in the first place!
any number of cores more than 1 is only relevant for parallel code (or multiple concurrent apps). Which, for this page, is probably not the case.
What about those all enterprise integration tools (visual mappers for xml/relational/web-services) like Altova Mapforce, MicroSoft Biztalk Mapper and Stylus Studio? Oracle and IBM have similar tools.

I haven't used these - but they look like they'd nail this problem. Is there a problem with them?
Well, dwolla is a credit card company. I'm a CTO (and co-owner) of a medium-sized credit firm in Brazil (full stack: processing, credit, gateway, etc). We offer plastic cards, iOS & android apps, NFC, IVR calls, web app, e-CPF (Brazilian electronic "social security" card) as form of payment methods. Guess what? Most people WANT the damn card. We would LOVE not to spend 1.4 U$ on every card we have to manufacture. I don't see Dwolla as the future of payments, they offer a limited solution. My company is planning for a future where there will be many ways to make a payment, fit for every social class and/or preference. In brazil, it takes 3 minimum payments to buy a smartphone. In the US, 49 million citizens are poor. Let's not deny the economic reality we are living in right now.
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So is this challenge over? I submitted an entry using Canvas as well but allowed users to drop image in from their desktop (only works in Chrome/Firefox though). Haven't heard from anyone at Instagram.
"offset somewhat by the bay area cost of living"

This is a much bigger problem than many people realize; Ryan Avent discusses it in his ebook The Gated City (http://www.amazon.com/Gated-City-Kindle-Single-ebook/dp/B005...) and on this Econtalk podcast: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/10/avent_on_cities.htm... . Basically, housing costs in Silicon Valley are eating up all the salary increases tech companies are offering. Avent describes how, in the 1990s when the unemployment rate in the Valley was effectively zero and lots of people who'd read "Learn HTML in 24 Hours" were getting jobs, people still weren't flocking to the area because the cost of housing is so high.

Anyone who wants to address extremely high tech salaries needs to be very interested in housing and urban policy.