skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently talked to an IT engineer at a mid-size financial services company downtown, and he complained that his budget is being slashed every year, as he's expected to do more with less. He's over 40 and sees no chance of getting hired at one of these sexy startups run by 20-somethings and funded by VCs who are younger than him.

That seems like an odd "complaint," since, if you go work for one of those startups, you're going to be expected to do even more with even less. And that will probably be the case whether it's a sexy or boring startup, run by 20-somethings or 40-somethings.
Without a magnetic field wouldn't this new atmosphere be blown away by the solar wind? If so, it seems a little irresponsible to propose melting the poles. It seems like a better idea to dig deep and build cities under the surface.
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There's a also a hidden message - why don't the legions of unemployed/underpaid go into tech? Or why don't occupy wall street people join the 1 percent, ie. get trained in finance/tech and compete in that sphere, take some of the rich folks money from them.
The amount of loyalty ANY employee should give their employer should be the same amount that their employer gives them - which is NONE.

My job is just a contractual agreement. No more, no less. Loyalty has nothing to do with this. Think about it, if the economy is down and they want to lay you off, where is this loyalty? If a re-org is done and you are moved elsewhere, where is this loyalty?

It's not there because it never was there. Sorry to burst anyone's bubble or sound negative. I'm not. I'm just trying to be honest. Understand this, and you'll be much happier with your career and your life.
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(I added explanation of my indexing in previous comment.) Ditch cursive if you're still writing in it. Pick up a $4 copy of "The Italic Way to Beautiful Handwriting."

Remind yourself that the purpose of the notes is to off-load the work of long-term memory from your brain until you have mastered your understanding of whatever you're working on. That's all. Beautiful things are things you publish and we don't publish books full of nothing but notes, no one else will bother reading them unless you die famous. E.g. http://www.englishcompanion.com/pdfDocs/davincinotes.pdf
Most of us will not die famous, so you shouldn't worry about your notes being beautiful. Davinci's notes aren't especially "polished," that isn't why he made them.

Also, (from the pdf that reminded me), leave yourself some white space for future communications with yourself as seen in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Notes
Walt Disney had the same attitude during the 30's. I'm reading his bio (it's crazy how similar he was to Steve Jobs) and he's been quoted as saying the Depression was the best thing that ever happened to their studio because not only did the revenues of their cartoons keep going up (unlike the rest of the industry) but also they were able to scoop up tons of talent that hit rough times at other studios.

Disney's studio did great work during this time and even made a hit song that became an anthem for the Depression, "Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf".
I don't think people are equally good at all things. I mean, I'm good at tech, but I'm not that good at music. If suddenly violinists were the hot commodity, I'm not sure I could transition. I'd probably just keep doing tech for lower pay. Similarly, if writing well became a big thing in 10 years, I'm not sure what percentage of Google engineers could successfully transition. Not sure why we'd expect the other direction to be more doable. Google in particular I think goes out of their way to only hire people who are really techies through-and-through.

As for the latter point, I think the perception is that the 1% overall is about old-boys' networks, scamming, crony capitalism, corporate/government entanglement, and general under-the-table sort of business. Nobody wants to go into that; they want it gone.
Aren't they still applicable to SOPA if they are .com .net .org .us domains such as homeland security taking down domains previous example shows.
"We don't talk about OWS in the valley " != "OWS isn't really something that comes up in daily discussion (in the valley)"

Spare yourselves SF Gate's pontifications and read the source:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/its-always-sunny-in-sil...

Quoted in 3rd paragraph:

In Silicon Valley, all the Sturm und Drang of 2011 seemed as relevant as the Cricket World Cup. High unemployment? Crippling debt? Not in Silicon Valley, where the fog burns off by noon and it’s an article of faith that talented, hard-working techies can change the world and reap unimaginable wealth in the process. “We live in a bubble, and I don’t mean a tech bubble or a valuation bubble. I mean a bubble as in our own little world,” says Google Chairman Eric Schmidt. “And what a world it is: Companies can’t hire people fast enough. Young people can work hard and make a fortune. Homes hold their value. Occupy Wall Street isn’t really something that comes up in daily discussion, because their issues are not our daily reality.”
I can't believe how many people here think this is okay. YES, a web service! Please never apply to a company that I am working for!
Unsurprisingly, I have failed at googling up some other examples, but in recent years it has become common (at least in my circles) to use the word "this" as short hand for, roughly, "this thing here is something which is important/i agree with."

I wrote my comment, rather than simply upvoting yours (the parent), because the parent contained several other points which I either don't agree with, or which I thought clouded the message of the part I quoted. In short, I wished to emphasize that one part of your comment.
Maybe you could argue that it was the right approach at the time. But deciding that the data doesn't matter anymore is not cool, you have to take care of your paying customers or else you lose credibility.
I was going to switch to Google Chrome. Just changed my mind. Please try not to do business with companies that support SOPA
and their affiliates.
Don't know why you're being down voted. Your point is pithy and valid whether or not this damnable bill passes.

Where do we start?
They wouldn't gain any new analytics. As a registrar, Google already has access to the root zone files, they can see what domains are being registered/dropped at every registrar. They already run public DNS servers too, so they don't need to get people to register domains with them and use them for DNS to see DNS activity.
I have a PhD in CS. There's a lot of "drudge work" in the design and execution of experiments. I just spent four days designing, executing and analyzing experiments to see if our model was accurate and my implementation was correct. (Both are, which is nice.) But those experiments will never be published - experiments like them will, but not those. Those experiments are what I call "guiding experiments" - they're not rigorous enough to convince others that what we did works, but it's enough to convince me we're doing the right thing, and give me the confidence that things will work out as expected when we do the full, rigorous experiments.

So, yes, research has its own grunt work. And some of my code will make it into production.
I don't think Schmidt is saying that. I think he's saying there's a specific section of tech where there are different economic conditions at play - he seems perfectly well aware of how the rest of the world is.

And I agree with him. Talk to any startup about how hard it is to hire people and the insane sign-on bonuses/perks/referral bonuses some folks are having to resort to. Or look at the number of LinkedIn messages most people on HN probably get. It's a very small part of the 'big picture' but it definitely exists here in the SF Bay Area.
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How many deaths per second does it take (INSERTs or UPDATEs per second) to bring your database to its knees? Maybe you are using the wrong database?
Please don't copypaste as code. It forces us to scroll from left to right (at least on Firefox).

Same copypaste but more readable:

> Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO), the only member of Congress present at the hearing with any tech experience, having founded several web companies, introduced two amendments: one to exclude universities and non-profits from being subject do having to shut down their own domain servers if accused of piracy under SOPA, and the other to exempt dynamic IP addresses, such as those found on web-enabled printers. Both were voted down.

> Polis pointed out that SOPA and Smith’s amendment already excluded certain operators of sub-domains, such as GoDaddy.com, from being subject to shutdowns under SOPA.

> “If companies like GoDaddy.com are exempt, why aren’t non-commercial domain servers exempt?” Polis asked.
"""Then how do you explain the fact that after GoDaddy change their stance to oppose SOPA, people were still going on with the "who cares, lets get others to continue dropping them" (paraphrasing). Believe it or not, that attitude is still going on."""

Not only I believe, I also approve it.

GoDaddy's hypocritical turn-around means nothing, it's just damage control. The idea is not to "bully them into behavin'", it's to not support a company that doesn't respect our internet rights, period.

They should not have supported SOPA in the first place --especially given that they are a tech company.
I think you risk people skipping over the message without reading the contents, because the title will make them think it's an empty 'happy holidays' message and not a vulnerability advisory...
Other than a novel syntax, what are the advantages of using OCaml over python, perl, or ruby?
Yeah, I think the financial incentives lie at the heart of it. While there are people who are just jerks, a lot of the jerkish behavior is because it's incentivized: if you're thrown into a hyper-competitive environment where you're pitted against other researchers for a limited number of tenure slots and grant funding, it doesn't encourage sharing. You could share that great data set you collected, but all you'll get in return is some fuzzy thanks, while if you keep it proprietary you might get another 2-3 journal papers out of it, which'll get you tenure+grants.

I think fixing those incentives is the key to fixing that. Alas, I see it mostly going in the other direction: universities are moving more and more towards a quantified business-type model, where professors are judged wholly on money brought in and publication metrics, and the competition is only getting fiercer. If someone wants to be open/sharing/generous with research and have a job, it's not impossible, but it's fighting against the system more than with it.
Off the top of my head, one way to do this without rearchitecting everything would be to insert a new record into a very simple in-memory temp table. Every minute, update the appropriate record in the real table by count(*) of the temp table and clear the temp table. As it's being used for a non-critical counter, data loss in the event of a MySQL restart isn't a concern.

That should be sufficient for something of this scale and only requires a minor update to the client SQL, ensuring the temp table is created when MySQL starts, and executing one stored procedure on a schedule.
In good tradition the most critical comment is the top voted on HN. Yada Yada indie life is hard, but no one with a right mind would think of connecting the client directly to the remote master database. This is just so WTF on so many levels, you can't help but wonder how they even managed to produce such a good game after all.
Is that difficult to setup? I like having the ability to edit my HTML files and FTP it to my server. Is it easy to do this with the Amazon Machine image?
That email went to lists which also had 5 vulnerability announcements arrive in the preceding minutes. It was an extra communiqué, not a replacement for the normal advisories.
What are you suggesting? I'm pretty sure we've all been voicing our opinions or at least acting as conduits to expression against such endeavors.

Do the politicians take notice though? Sounds like we may all need to step it up a notch? Apparently power in numbers in is the only thing that counts to law makers and their lobbyists.
I keep hearing that - most people won't have the intelligence to do tech/finance etc. However, a recent datapoint, the stanford ai class had over 1000 brilliant students, but only a handful in class at stanford itself. Watch the recent video chat sebastian thrun, peter norvig, and salman khan had on this topic.

Also, you could go back in history and say the same thing. 200 years ago most be people were "unintelligent" illiterate farmers, and yet today there descendents are literate, many doing highly intelligent work. The implied "genetic potential" arguments on intelligence are all wrong i believe, though i have no data to back it up.

Relative differences matter of course - there can only be one chess world champion - but most of tech or even finance is not in that winner-take-all space yet.
"""Mono VM just demonstrates my point. You can use it to make games with that would have had reasonable graphics 7 years ago but no so much today."""

Native C/C++ will always be better for games than anything else. We are not discussing that.

For one, I actually think most of those game examples are fine, and better that whatever Dart will attain.

For use inside a web browser those are perfectly fine.

It's not like Dart will magically give you something better than WebGL, which is already hardware accelerated anyway...
>> The bankruptcies are from living expenses, not medical expenses.

> Families can generally house other family members. They can't pay $90k medical bills.

The point is that they don't have to. However, living expenses must be either paid or borrowed from folks who are fairly insistent on being repaid. Hence the bankrupcies, and if you're going to file, you claim everything.

>> All poor people in the US are eligible for medicaid. Many don't bother to sign up until they get sick.

> How are poor people supposed to know this?

Poor people don't have to know it because health care professionals know it. It's how said health care professionals get paid for treating poor people.

Also, why do you think that you know what poor people know? When I was poor, I knew things that I don't know now.

How is "there are always treatments that won't be paid for" a silly extrapolation? You even (seem to) admit that it's true...
Wholeheartedly second that recommendation! Red Mars was a really fun Hard SciFi read!
$5 Domains on Media Temple (Transfer from GoDaddy)
Thumbs up for sense of humor. There is little bit about kernels on http://www.ml-class.org

I'm looking for a good implementation of Relevance Vector Machines. One that I could port to R or Python 2.7 (NumPy). I found two interesting C++ libraries and posted them on HN.
I believe that so much of what's wrong in American politics, from the inability to throw out incumbents, to the polarization seen in primaries, can be attributed to gerrymandering.
> And the final point is a ridiculous straw man (substituting "every possible treatment" for "treatments"). You should be ashamed of yourself.

Why? The claim was that someone was dying because they couldn't afford a treatment. That's going to happen under any system that doesn't pay for every possible treatment.

Since all systems limit treatment, we're actually arguing about where the limits should be and it's dishonst to suggest otherwise.
I did a Google search and apparently the bug is fixed in later versions of Fedora, so it's just a temporary situation with RHEL/CentOS I'm assuming.

I think the easiest way to check if your server would be affected is to boot from the CentOS 6.2 netinstall CD, and see if it can access the network. If that works fine, everything should be good.
MySQL locking behavior depends on the table engine/type you use. The old MyISAM format is table-level locking. InnoDB is row-level and supports all the "big boy" RDBMS features you'd expect to be there (like foreign keys...).

Also ideal is to have the client not update the number of deaths on each attempt but only either on completion of the level or at a timed interval. No need for that date to be real-time, so it can be aggregated.
You sound like a very good person who is completely oblivious to all the ways lawmakers and companies fuck us all over. The problem with people like you is that you let feelings and "goodness" get in the way of doing what needs to be done.

We have to be bullies, we have to be aggressive, merciless, unforgiving. Have you seen how companies like Monsanto have hijacked our congress? Make our lawmakers their bitches? How businesses have, over the course of decades, destroyed our towns, freedom, and privacy, in the name of profit.

The way Massey Coal caused deaths of children and contamination of hundreds of streams because they use mountain top removal as a method to mine for coal. They lobby lawmakers to prevent any type of law against it. George Bush signed a law allowing them to actually. Google "mountain top removal" and look at the giant holes they left in West Virginia, then look at the kids going through chemo therapy to fight brain cancer caused by the chemicals in the explosives used for mining.

The way American car companies lobbied congress to prevent higher mileage standards so they profit more without having to innovate. (which ultimately led to them needing a bailout because they couldn't compete with foreign car makers)

The way Car companies bought up and ripped out streetcars and their tracks so more people could buy cars. Now we tax payers are paying billions trying to put them back in to unclog our cities.

The way banks got bailouts then went out, partied, and gave themselves raises and bonuses. (self explanatory)

The way the United States poisoned 10,000 of its own citizens so it can more easily sell prohibition to the public. Yeah, kill people to scare them away from drinking alcohol.

The way oil companies are allowed to have as many oil spill accidents as they want, as long as they pay their

There is NOTHING we will ever do that will ever equal to the bullying that corporations inflict on us for the sake of profit and personal agendas.

These are the lunatics the American public are competing with, with all due respect, grow a pair of fucking balls. Because balls are all we have left.
Do not do this. Committing evil even for the sake of good is still committing evil. Do not spam Godaddy's users.
I have an iPhone but I went with the Galaxy Tab 7 inch tablet because my kids play a good deal of Flash games and I figured that would be a big part of the usage in my house. It was and for that it was a good purchase, but I must say, I don't think I would switch phones, I say that even though a feature I use on my phone a good deal (navigation), is far superior on the Android phones. It's one of the primary features I use but after dealing with dead end upgrade cycles I just can not bring myself to switch. My wife has the Atrix, which has been a good phone for her, and we use it as our navigation device so I don't really feel the pain of needing that feature.

Google really needs to try to align the market and figure out a path to make it profitable for vendors to upgrade these devices, even if it requires purchasing the upgrade. I would pay a fee or purchase a service agreement, if they offered a path to update these systems. In fact I think their may be a business model there, for a pure software company to build out a common version of Android for these devices, provide support, and a time period of upgrade coverage no matter who's device you buy, obviously the hardware would have to support the updates, but I believe that there would be value in it. Hell I would buy it, just to get newer video codecs. I am noticing more and more videos are not working as my Tab is starting to age.
I was lucky, the test server I installed this onto was sitting in my house.
> Our household income is $30-40k above the US median and we have savings, but it’s amazing how quickly your savings start shrinking when your partner is unable to work and you need to take months of unpaid leave to attend appointments and sit in surgery waiting rooms.

Bingo. Heath insurance doesn't address those costs.

> Surely removing the financial and administrative burden of healthcare for business is better than any tax cut congress could come up with?

And you think that Congress knows how to do this?

Medicare fraud is probably close to $100B/year. How are you going to do better AND reduce costs?
You could replace 98% of the earths atmosphere with Methane and it would still be more habitable than Mars. (The only way methane would make it worse is if you turned the atmosphere into a fuel air bomb and a few weeks after the detonation it would one again be more habitable.)
Arguably twice; the failure in the Polyus test payload was not related to the carrier rocket.
The exemption clauses in SOPA are not specifically for GoDaddy or anyone. There is a section that clarifies this as an ISP/host who "voluntary removes" unwanted content, which basically pisses all over due process etc..
Effect of OCs on Healthy Specifications Part 2
At one point in time the OODB's where making quite a bit of buzz but it quickly died down when most of the database vendors added features to allow similar storage options. We used one a long time ago and it leaked memory bad, it was a horrible experience keeping the thing together and running. I am sure they have improved since then, but with the features now available in existing databases, I really don't see the value in investing the effort to go over to a pure OODB.
I wonder if dynamically-typed languages are stable entrants in the IT ecosystem?

Charles Nutter (headius at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3372816) recently wrote about _JRuby_: "I find it a bit of a dodge when a dynamic language has to go to static types for performance. That's not to say I haven't wanted to have that dodge available to JRuby users, but being unable (or unwilling) to unilaterally add optional static types to Ruby, we've been forced to find more creative options."

And Groovy is introducing static compilation (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GroovyJSR/GEP+10+-+Static+c...), having this year added special treatment for primitive types, perhaps encouraged by the Grails team to make Groovy faster.

Is there an overall tendency that once a software product/language has been successfully marketed, the next step is to make what's there faster, even if that means refocusing on static compilation instead of dynamic?
Theres also the president.

In '08, my wife and I sent a decent chunk of change to his campaign. I just wrote them that if he signs SOPA he loses our vote an our support.

At least it's something...
DreamHost Denounces SOPA
This was posted last month, but a clear declaration against SOPA before this whole GoDaddy debacle.
You're missing a footnote, and I'm not sure what you mean by "video" in the first paragraph.
With a web service, majority of the potential abuses would be related to being able to manipulate your own scores and records in the db. That isn't that big of a deal in this use case since we are dealing with games.

Most simply the web service can require a 20 char unique key every time it is taking a request from a client. You can find yours using a sniffer. But it'll be hard to guess others'. This is the most basic implementation.