skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
College as an indicator is like using price as a deciding factor for a non-commodity purchase. It is a shortcut and excuse not to actually think, and do a little work to make the right decision. (Or you just resent the fact that you racked up all that student debt, and feel like others should struggle the same way you do/did.)

Probably the most under-utilized, under-rated, and under-appreciated working class in America is students that either never graduated with an Accredited Degree due to religious school that was unaccredited, or couldn't afford college, or saw through the self-serving system that systematically rejects talent and attracts "Yes-Men."

"we don't need no education. We don't need no thought control." - Christopher Columbus said that, and he discovered America (or something like that, I wouldn't know, I never graduated college.)

My point is, I grew up reading books, I was raised in home that taught me to treat people respectfully, work hard, and focus my effort on personal development.
I might not be perfect, but I don't need a piece of paper to prove my worth. Especially to someone who dismissively rejects people due to systematic and flawed reasoning, just because it makes their lives a little easier.

News Flash Dude, if you are a recruiter, you are playing with peoples lives. Try to take it a little more seriously, and you will see, like everything else in life... You get what you put into it. (I didn't learn that in college either.)

I know how it feels when enterprise companies reach out to you, recruit you, interview you and than ask, "Where did you get your degree from? From yeshiva? what's that? Oh, you learn about G-d and Stuff? actually it is mostly business and contract law? Yup, Yeshiva students spend 14 hours a day studying partnerships, responsibilities in business, and the different types of business relationships...But they are unemployable at public companies because they can't get "a bunch of old white people to accredit them." (Truth is, some yeshivos are accredited, and I did attend some college, but my point is that Mark Cuban is dead on with this post.)
I'm pretty sure this is part of a PR stunt on the part of Blizzard, which is releasing Diablo 3 tomorrow.

The fires of hell on raining on Earth.
Open to questions and all that- you can download the source just by, well, viewing it, it's not obfuscated, and it's totally free to use. If you use it and want to credit, the name's Laurence Smith - and if you do, please link me so I can have a peek at what you've used it on.

Well, anyway; this thing relies on CSS3 transitions with a 3 second linear transition time. JS changes the opacity of every block within a random range every 0.5 seconds, but since it takes ages to transition, it's quite a soft effect.
Certainly, and that's why patio11 has done as well as he has. But it's an easy example of why web startups aimed at a nontechnical audience can succeed even without being terribly complex, and is a supporting point for the idea that some startups can probably succeed without a "rock star" developer.
Your Social Media Presence is Your Legacy - What Will You Be Seen As?
At least one of the Santa Clara county DAs uses it to play back 911 calls in court. That orange cone on his laptop was unmistakable.

Conclusion: VLC is everywhere.
Summary of http://www.geekwire.com/2012/robbie-bachs-lessons-intraprene...
I think his argument is basically the same as the argument that people who put down things like Redis use: You're just slowly recreating SQL. I don't think it's accurate, but that seems to be the argument.
Django's ORM is a piece of junk compared to a proper one such as SQLalchemy, hibernate or nhibernate. I wouldn't go drawing conclusions until you've experienced something else.
It is very interesting, I would love to see the ratings on the same time line, to see if ratings are going up or down.
I've been using pt-online-schema-change for a few months ago. It is a godsend, you have to make sure however that your server can handle the load of copying all the data, IO and memory. Specifically that you have enough buffers to handle duplicating the table.

It's great for rebuilding / reindexing tables.
Then always err on the side of good faith.

There's also another attribute of the smartest people I know: they tend to interpret other's responses given the most intelligent interpretation possible.

In the case of some, though, complete neutrality is the best one can do.
CSS 3D Earth
Exactly. "You no more "die" when the cells or atoms in your brain are replaced than a river dries up when all the water molecules you could see at one point in time flow away." when we find a way to measure this little death relative to the bigger more permanent one we can make interesting arguments. My advice, assume the transporter/uploading-machine will kill you. You will use it anyway for the same reason you use a credit card at the grocery store or corner market, you will be worried that the people behind you will be annoyed by the delay caused from your hesitation and the person who comes out the other side will not begrudge you for creating them.
U.S. Will Be Hard-Pressed to Meet Its Biofuel Mandates
I have had really great experiences inviting strangers into my home during the Eyjafjallajökull eruptions when they were stranded at my local airport, credit cards maxed out and with young kids in tow.

Then I tried Couchsurfing, where vetted strangers sleep in the spare room, and hang out and chat. Awesome, awesome, awesome - I have made new friends for life, people I never would have met otherwise, with different life stories and views on the world.

Even in São Paulo, a rather dangerous sort of city, I've made new and unexpected friends by visiting after a casual invitation, after assessing the risks and discussing it with local friends.

I suspect that most people, in most societies, are good and nice. There are some bad people though, and it is sensible to take reasonable precautions, but do try to ask yourself "what are the real chances of something going wrong?" and compare that to the risk of a car accident during your daily commute.
The only time a server should see a password is when it's generating or comparing against the salted hash using something like bcrypt. There should never be a way for a server to retrieve the plain text password. Ever.
Regarding 3:

I live in a smaller city, and it regularly takes a while for location based web stuff to catch on around here. I sign up for them, but since thresholds of usefulness take a while to be met, I completely forget about the service -- then one day I'll hear about it from someone local, decide to give it a try, and rediscover my existing account. As such I like the occasional email reminding me of the existence of these things. Preferably something in the form of:

Hey, thanks for signing up. We are still waiting for more people in your area to sign up, currently there are only n users, which doesn't quite meet our threshold[1]. We just wanted you to know we haven't forgotten about you. If you have any suggestions on how to get more users near you, let us know!

[1] alternately: n other people are using it, spread the word and get even more!

A frequency of once a week on that seems pretty reasonable, rather than once a day. In this particular situation I think a balance between "forever alone" spam and "hey, we still got your back" emails is a nice goal.
if (getcwd(cwd, sizeof(cwd)) != NULL)
;
else
perror("getcwd() error");

Is that common? What's the advantages over the below?

if (... == NULL) {
perror(...);
}
It hinges not on engineering (the mechanism for inserting an artificial cell and it communicating with an external computer) but whether consciousness is computable in a Turing machine. The new "you" might be deterministic.
Fuck people who bitch about how expensive college is.

You know how much I paid for college? $0.

You know why I paid that? Because in high school I did a lot less than what you outlined above, but it was enough to get a scholarship to go to college. Six great schools looked at my application and offered me somewhere between a discounted rate and a full ride + stipend on top of that. And I was only 20th in my high school class by GPA rank.

If you think that you can match a college degree based solely on self-guided learning, then you should be smart enough to get a scholarship. It's the same damn process. You need the self discipline to stick with a program of learning and working, and you need the intelligence to learn without support. It's just a question of whether you realize that in high school or later in life.
This is the worst kind of puzzle, in the company of "There's a dead man in a cabin in the woods with items x, y, and z. How did he die?". The "correct" answers are completely arbitrary and the rules change as it goes along.
I'm well open to correction on this, since I've not much of a clue, but with all this ORM back-and-forth, and relational databases, why do we not see more usage of graph databases?[1] From the wiki, it says they map more directly to OO applications. Is there a reason relational databases are still used by default?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_database
I understand where you're coming from, but as a side note, I love how everyone is now for IE. It's quite ironic. I almost did this myself yesterday when I saw someone didn't support IE. I wonder how far this trend will go?
Voxel.net and incero.com are some great options - watch webhostingtalk.com for deals by incero.

Voxel is NYC
Incero has Texas and NC locations.

Voxel is larger, great network, great reputation, good prices.
Incero is smaller, insanely good prices, new, reliable and great CS so far.
Germans are known for their efficiency, not hard work. Besides, a rested worker is more productive than an overworked one. Germany has got it right.

Also, starting a business in Germany is much easier than in Greece - it's on par with the US and UK, while Greece is more restrictive for some reason...
Apple is a design culture with engineers and MBAs. Google is an engineering culture with designers and MBAs. Microsoft is a MBA culture with engineers and designers.
This article is very much to the point. ORMs use the wrong abstractions. They try to 'map' 4GL to 3GL. The results are necessarily unsatisfactory.
I like this. It is a good suggestion. I'll look into it and discuss with the team on how to integrate something like that
It may be more appropriate to store the comments in extended attributes rather than in dotfiles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_file_attributes
Ask HN: TWASE - Open Source or something else?
Three years ago I built an anti-spam engine for Twitter - http://twase.com

I've not spent much time maintaining it since, and I have around 3 active users today.

My current plan is to take the source and db schema and dump it on GitHub, but to get it up + running on your own server(s) isn't easy as it's got quite a complex backend.

However, spammers/bots are still rife on Twitter and I can't help thinking that Twitter clients and/or 3rd party developers who integrate with Twitter could license it from me (to pay for my time maintaining it) and I could further extend it, maybe resulting in less annoying spam.

What do you think?
Project Cost Estimating and Control (12 PDUs)
As a Ruby dev I am loving JRuby. It is fast, has access to serious app servers like Tomcat and JBoss as well as java libraries, multi-threading like a madman.

I get warm fuzzies when I do load-testing and see the response times go down on a newly booted at as the JIT kicks in.

Plus it works well on windows when I have no choice but to use a windows server.

With new JVM language frameworks like vert.x and the invokeDynamic etc. additions in Java 7 I really really think the JVM is getting some good mindshare in communities that otherwise would not have touched it due to java.
Every time I see a discussion about university education, the wrong question is always being asked and debated: "Do you really need degree X for job Y?".

Of course domain specific knowledge and further education is a good idea. The 3 questions that need to be asked are:

1: Is it relevant to the job?
2: Could the material be learned quicker and more in depth working on the job instead?
3: Is university overpriced?
Iran banned use of certain foreign E-mail providers
Fewer women in top U.S. tech jobs since 2010: survey
The Revolution from Cyber Terrorist attack to Indian Cyber Security
The assumption that all intangible value is constrained to that which can be expressed through code is flawed. A better argument would be bootstrapping may be infeasible for start-ups producing tangible goods.

>If you’re sincere about getting into startups, start learning to code today.

Tech start-ups, yes, and a diminutive definition of technology at that (you know what you don't need to know for, say, an interior design, drilling technology, or infrastructure start-up?). We all have a tendency to over-articulate our fields - it's in the structure of how normal science progresses [1]. I tend to do it with finance, coding, and engineering. Just as everyone need not know how to tranche out a capital structure or Fourier transform their cat, not every problem need be (nor can be) addressed through code.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Structure-Scientific-Revolutions-e...
How to Use WordPress to Create a Job Board
Many people consider WordPress good just for blogging, but the truth is that thanks to it's flexible structure, you can build a large variety of websites. In today's post you will see how we use WordPress in order to build a fully customizable job board or classifieds website.
I don't understand where this ORM 'divide' is coming from.

ORMs are powerful, because they let you say less and do more. For 90% of the queries out there, an ORM is fine.

SQL is powerful, because you can control and fine-tune your statements. For the remaining 10%, use SQL.

Are ORMs bad? No. Can you them for everything? No.

The same thing can be said for almost every technology in existence.
The main reason I garnered was that the boss didnt understand the danger/inanity in doing so.
OpenSMTPD Meets SQLite
There is an MSR-funded pilot study taking place with 6 labs and startups, http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Parallel_GHC_Project
I didn't know about that shortcut, it's really nice :)

But I still plan to test xmonad and see if it be a good fit for me.
Good Website
Abe, interesting idea and one I would like to run with. @nicholascloud, you make a good point about the “baby-sitting” of documents but I believe it can be resolved by crowd-sourcing the project with a “vested” membership interested in seeing the project succeed. This would also allow for controlling the abuse of the site by spammers. One part of the project would be converting the bloated material into something readable for the average participant. Because the material editor will be working on something he, or she is interested in then it would be a labor that they would happily engage in.

@michael, you make a valid point but I believe a crowd-sourced vested individuals like Wikimedia would work in keeping the problems at bay.

@tobi, I would suggest that the concept be kept private and not government controlled as any government initiative would only create a bureaucracy that would stifle innovation and open discourse.

My country, Mexico is going through a national referendum right now with the drug war as a backdrop and part of the drama. Although it is a national election I call it a referendum because the results will give an insight into what our country wants in terms of dealing with the narco-types. Will we continue with the strategy, increase the engagement or back-off and let them do as they please?

My original idea was to crowd-source political commentary/analysis but your post is making me expand the concept to include your idea.

The initial countries I would like to include are the United States and Mexico as I have a basic understanding of their political processes but I would love for it to include as many countries as possible.

I noticed that there is a lot of interest in this concept/idea and therefore I want to officially put out a call for those interested in forming such a site. I am willing to put up server space, domain name (polit.co) and initial programming. With Abe’s permission and hopefully, his participation I have a created a Twitter handle @polit_co to start the organizing. I look forward to everyone’s participation. Let’s get this going.
Thanks for sharing but it breaks commonly-held navigation conventions.

I know, I know.
I think there's a big difference in investing money in things that will generate more money, and spending it on luxuries that will only depreciate in value. I expect the parent was referring to the latter not the former.
The EU consists of independent countries which have their own governments, their own economic policies, their own banks, ... a real-estate bubble in Greece is fully the responsibility of Greece.

A hot 'real-estate' market not stoppable? Where was it tried?

How about Mexico? Would the US pay for Mexico to prevent a bancruptcy there?
Fictional Plumbing Problems As A Tortured Analogy For Software Engineering
German manufacturing is where German productivity is high, not in services.
I'm reading the transcript of the video and he talks about a form of attack where fake emails are sent from spoofy addresses demanding positive review takedowns and making legal threats. I wonder if that's a possible explanation of the life shield email he got.

In the seomoz article find "It's even more terrifying, but they sent fake emails" to get to the relevant part.
This is cool. And terrifying.
Isn't Google also notorious for being biased towards the "top" schools

They were in the early days, but it doesn't seem to matter anymore. Some regular posters to HN are Google employees void of any college degrees. The change indicates to me that their attempts to filter by education was failing them, which is interesting in itself.
Yes, in -webkit- browsers you can achieve the same effect with this CSS:

&::-webkit-input-placeholder {
-webkit-transition: text-indent 200ms ease-in-out;
visibility: visible !important;
}

&:focus::-webkit-input-placeholder {
text-indent: 115px; /* Change to width of input */
}

If only you could do the same for Firefox...
your workarounds are only needed because you think about individuals (object-orientied) instead of sets (relational).

What if it's better structurally for the program as a whole to think about individuals?
What the U.S. Can—and Can't—Learn From Israel's Ban on Ultra-Thin Models
Coming from an AI background their approach gives me the itches a little bit. The title suggests that they have a system not using 'algorithms' but they score sentiment by hand. I assume they have a system of some kind to finally score the total bag of annotated sentiment data (=algorithm)...

What bugs me the most is that they try to overcome problems related to analyzing text for sentiment by throwing away all the technology that is currently available and using humans instead. Why not try to innovate on automated sentiment analyses and save lots of money and time?
> When I originally wrote my reviews of the LifeShield products and services (March, 2010), they had a referral system in place. If I got 5 referrals, I’d get free security system monitoring for life. They provided a link to give to possible customers. I used it all over my reviews.

I don't understand how you can complain about unethical business practices in the same post that you admit to this.
SENS isn't exactly trying to "cure ageing" they are trying to "make old people healthy". The side effect of that would be that you don't die. All the causes of ageing are things that can be re-framed as diseases of old age, and attacked as such.
4DOS used to have this. It was especially useful back in the day with the 8.3 DOS filenames, which often weren't very descriptive. It's nice to see this feature return.
Hmm, if this was possible, I'd rather rig up an autonomous backup machine that I would periodically backup to and which would start automatically if I miss a scheduled backup (which would mean I'm dead). It would be like using hosted vs self-hosted, buying CTO or pre-built computers.
Hey guys,

This is a follow-up to a recent post on HackerNews called Calculating The 5,000 Most Frequently Used Domain Name Prefixes and Suffixes [1]. This analysis makes use of those prefixes and suffixes to calculate what the most common topics are by domain count.

If you have any questions about the analysis or results, I'd be happy to answer them.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3864501
4DOS used to have a similar feature. It was especially useful back in the day with the 8.3 DOS filenames, which often weren't very descriptive. It's nice to see this feature return.
I've seen it mentioned in the Terms of Use of certain companies (thinking Fox.com) that people are not allowed to link to the company website going back to the 90s, but I've never actually seen anyone try to enforce that.

I don't know whether I find it scary or hilarious.

eta: the Fox terms haven't changed much: "If you are interested in creating hypertext links to the Site, you must contact Company at terms@fox.com before doing so."
>Work hours is not our major problem, it's work ethics that are lacking.

The problem here is that you can't quantify "ethics." Up until today everyone believed your average Greek worked 3-4 hours a day and drank coffee the rest of the day. So your side has been debunked and you come back with "ethics?" Really?

At the end of the day these issues are fairly complex. There are a lot of Greeks who work hard, are far from lazy (as per German characterization), and have more or less been betrayed by their government. I also think its incredibly naive to think they could have a German-like efficiency becuse efficiency in manufacturing can only happen with deep pocketed corporations as well as a technical sector that can produce robotics and a worldwide market for its electronics of cars. We can build a Greek auto manufacturer with big loans today, make it incredibly efficient, etc but there's no market for Greek cars.

The lazy Greek stereotype needs to die. Yes, they have a very young retiree age and their tax system is a mess, but they're probably a handful of reforms away from fixing all this. Oh well, back to your typical stereotype based bashing.
I have seen many greetideas come from Portugal, the challange is getting the ideas out of the door.You can read here about the start up scene in Lisbon http://squaxor.posterous.com/lisbon-the-startup-spirit
Schneier On Security: The Trouble With Airport Profiling
Launching our web app Staff Squared: A recipe for Launch Party Cake
Joi Ito's Near-Perfect Explanation of the Next 100 Years
Facebook login only... will avoid.
How to speedrun Dropbox’s Dropquest 2012 (and get 1 GB extra storage space)
Google has always denied that this is possible. The recent coverage on negative SEO seems to show otherwise.
Ask HN: (Self hosted) App Hosting platform for developers?
I'm a developer who writes prototype apps for various clients in various languages. While there are some great PaaS hosts around, I find that the best option for me is usually self hosting. So that's fine I know how to configure and setup a VPS on rackspace or whatever, but what I really need is something that I can type the domain I want to setup, chose the type of app I want to deploy (djano, RoR, Scala, PHP, whatever) and have it take care of all the web app boilerplate stuff for me (creating nginx reverse proxy configs, DNS setup, installation of language libraries and requirements etc)

Does something like this exist?
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