skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow! Didn't expect to see this here for a while. We've just finished redeveloping the entire Dev Bootcamp website. Still a few kinks to iron out, especially for smaller screen sizes. We'll be making it responsive.

Chris Jennings (from http://chrisjennings.com) did all the creative work.

I'm more than happy to answer any questions about Dev Bootcamp, but I think this does a good job at tackling a few of them: http://www.quora.com/Programming-Bootcamps/Other-than-locati...
Square Closes $200 Million Round at  $3.25 Billion Valuation
Stealing magic: The Honor System
Full Show 9/14/12: Gov. Ventura Vs. Gang Gov't
I'm a bit biased. I had a professor who informed his classes, after the drop deadline, that < 85% on any test meant an F for the semester. I had no opportunity to cheat. All but a few students failed. It was $hundreds wasted for me. He was demoted to a non-teaching position when everyone complained.

In this case Harvard may go overboard on a crackdown, to shore up their reputation that's worth a lot of money to them. In that case the students may need to counter with a lawsuit, to restore fairness.

> what counts as "unfairly" gaining an advantage?

Ultimately it's best for you to decide, as fallible as your judgement may be. Anyone else may have their interests at heart, over yours. Their pet interests may be enshrined in the rules, the law, and/or the public psyche.
Well, we already have a command bar at the top of the window. What about these commands?

http://github.com/username
http://github.com/username/follow
http://github.com/username/unfollow
http://github.com/me/dashboard
http://github.com/me/notifications
http://github.com/username/reponame/search/term
http://github.com/username/reponame/branchname
My feed is very active but no one I know personally is on it. I follow about 10 people and have about 1700 in the hacker news circle.

Posted my resume on their for some feedback, didn't get one comment. Posted on Facebook, 10 comments instantly. I am presuming that is because on Facebook people know me personally.

Dave
Levee (dike) experiments - [Cool GIS stuff built with Django/JQuery/Flot]
Yes, Bill Gates vision of one computer per home was wrong: now we have more than three computers for every family member (notebook, mobile, tablet, e-reader)!
We aren't talking about time travel. So many people confuse the idea of FTL with time travel. General Relativity talks about frames of reference.

Suppose you had a base on Mars and sent a radio signal to it from Earth. It would take between 4.3 to 21 minutes to reach Mars, depending on its distance from Earth at the time.

If you simultaneously jumped in your 10x warp drive and set out, you would arrive at Mars in 25.8 seconds to 1min 26 seconds, again depending on distance.

In this scenario, there has been no violation of causality. You aren't arriving before you sent your radio signal. All that is happening is that you're arriving before your radio signal does. From the perspective of a telescope or radio antenna at the Mars base, you would view Earth in its state 4.3 to 21 minutes before, because it simply takes that long for the electromagnetic waves to get to you.

So yes, you can travel faster than the speed of light without violating causality. If you travel in a relativistic way, i.e. speed all the way up to 99.99999% of light speed, you will most certainly run into time slowing down in your local frame, while it continues at a normal frame back at your departure point.

But with a warp drive that works as described in the article, there is no changing of reference frames. Since you're warping space itself, the spacecraft isn't actually undergoing acceleration in the relativistic way of a rocket. For passengers on board, the clocks are going to run at the same rates as back home.
These are industrial diamonds; nothing Debeers need worry about.
The headline suggested to me (although I realize on re-reading it wasn't about that) that the article would be about how you find that first client. Any tips for the people trying that?
I only found them after I went looking because of your comment. Seems weird not just to have the single horizontal scroll at the bottom, it's too fiddly.

Those of us using multitouch trackpads can scroll by just swiping on the page using N fingers, like scrolling on a touch phone by dragging the page with your finger.
Disclaimer: I'm heading out to DBC to join the Fall Cohort!
The revamp looks fantastic. The home page and the video give a great explanation as to why devbootcamp can be of such benefit. No time wasters needed. People who are willing to put in the hours and get the work done. The FAQ gives a good insight into what it's all about. A coherent well put together targeted approach to learning web development.
I'm sure DBC will be as engaging as the new website is.
Honestly we were confused by the whole partnership. We kept submitting tickets to Dreamhost which they did a poor job of fulfilling. We liked the idea of Cloudflare and we were mostly willing to stick it out. Not only that, but we had several great ideas about how we might leverage your offering against some other things that we wanted to accomplish.

The real reason that we stopped using Cloudflare is that when you were unable to serve the cached page, it throws up a Cloudflare branded page. We thought that those sorts of error pages would diminish our image as an open source publication because it seems to suggest that we can't rely on our own tools and abilities.

If we were able to display a "Powerbase" branded 404 type page, we would have been more satisfied.
The data says you're going to be a psychopath. Sorry.
Cloud-rendering - The importance of Google acquiring Nik Software
Causality, though, is a postulate in the system. If you start with the assumption that faster-than-light is impossible and build a system around that, the system you build around that assumption will always prove that it's impossible -- until something else proves otherwise.
Super efficient search would be great and idea, but slightly delayed searching is perfectly acceptable imo. Especially because I am not necessarily looking for extremely up-to-date changes.
The plural of anecdote is not data. You know that right ? In my case every NoSQL developer I've met had a lot of experience in SQL as well.

But do you have ask why so called inexperienced users are choosing NoSQL in the first place ? Hint: it's because most RDBMS are ridiculously complex and inflexible.
There are pen and paper games that require more or less no rules and tend to degrade (is that really appropriate here?) to simple story-telling.

Really, your frustration isn't targeting pen and paper games, but might be valid against the pen and paper games _you played_ (double emphasis, since most pen and paper games that are played over a significant amount of time end up implementing in-house rules to adopt to the problems that arise, imo).

In other words: You played the wrong system, or the people around you valued rules over fun (usually a system tends to declare that it should be the other way around: Play and fall back to rules if needed).
Great article, totally nails it. No "good" language design should be so ambiguous
Yeah - this sounds more like a problem where someone was using a loosely-typed language that uses "+" for both addition and concatenation.
What is your point? REST is meant to make it easy for machines to talk to each other.
From my experience with both Dreamhost and Hostgator, Hostgator is a much better service overall, and more uptime, too.
Reelsurfer Lands $880K, Launches Orrick Startup Reel Contest
Sorry to hear about your experience.

Kinda like a dumb tech support q.: you're cleaning out the lint filter before each use, right? :)

Second: are you sure it's your dryer? Maybe the washer isn't spinning them as dry as they need to be. Try using a washer cycle that spins harder/longer. Did you replace only the dryer w/o replacing the washer.
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie 2012 is a nice movie.Two guys get a billion dollars to make a movie

http://freemoviesite24.blogspot.com/2012/09/tim-and-erics-bi...
If you're a paying customer, you can fully customize the error pages. Probably easiest if you just sign up directly through us if you want to do something like that. We can get you setup:

http://www.cloudflare.com/sign-up
As far as we know, dolphins, cockroaches, and platypuses are not space faring species. Whether their neighborhood is boring is a matter of opinion, of course.
Retina MacBook Pro Users Still Complaining of Image Persistence
Abraham Lincoln vs Zombies 2012 is a nice movie.As Abraham Lincoln labors over the Gettysburg address, the importance of which he is fully aware, he learns that a menace from his past has returned,

http://freemoviesite24.blogspot.com/2012/09/abraham-lincoln-...
I have situations like this quite frequently where I need to turn vars into members of an object:

title = getTheTitle()
img = (shouldWeGetImg) ? getImg() : "placeholder.jpg"
body = ...
# 8 lines of code to define body, some that reference title and img

# this:
obj = { title, img, body }

# instead of:
obj = {title: title, body: body, img: img}
I'm not the down-voter, but I think you were likely down-voted because this article/discussion is not about time travel. And your first statement is that "you can't have faster-than-light travel..." is precisely what this paper discusses -- that with certain loopholes in physics (and consistent with General Relativity), faster-than-light travel is at least theoretically possible.
Social Interventions Gone Wrong
Just guys like you or me except they build systems with billions of page views a month.
Thanks for correcting, I'm not sure how I arrived at that point—it seems to me I too recognize word at a time. However, I'm not a visual reader as I understand the term: unless I consciously attempt to suppress my inner speech, I silently “pronounce” each word, which slows down the process.

I'm trying to imagine using a writing system in which how a word is written has no connection to its pronunciation, representing only meaning. That would pretty much make inner speech impossible, among other things.
You are not correct. If anything with information travels faster than the speed of light, then there are frames of reference in which that information arrived at the destination before it left the origin.

Furthermore, unless your FTL drive is limited in ways that would make it utterly useless, any FTL drive can be used to make "closed time-like loops", which would allow travelers to meet up with their own past selves.
Oh no! Faux leather!! Just kidding--very nice work.
Be less sympathetic to their lobbying efforts, for example.

Google spends almost 10M per year on lobbying:
http://allthingsd.com/20120123/googles-2011-lobbying-expense...
obviously there are many areas where good relationships with the govt are important. If they piss off wrong people, then part of these 10M will be wasted, since they won't listen to what Google has to say.
Interesting viewpoint.

On the contrary, I would argue that if there was any sign of "self-entitlement" it would be in the case of a software company (hypothetically; not this one) that ignored its customers, the same ones who enabled it to remain a going concern long enough, so that, one lucky day, they could attract the attention of wealthy suitor and "make a grand exit". "Dear customers: Thanks for your business, we being acquired and we can retire now. Internet Ad Sales, Inc. will handle all your further needs. See ya!"

I do not see this as "self-entitlement" in some negative sense. There's nothing wrong with it. It's just how business works.

However, customers have a reason to lament if they lose the utility of a product they like. To accuse them of "self-entitlement" for lamenting that loss does not make any more sense than accusing the business owners of "self-entitlement" for selling their business in order to enjoy a windfall.

If you are like this company, then you cannot make a "grand exit" without customers to get you to that point where someone acquires you. You needed those customers. They are "entitled" to what they've paid for the product/services and nothing more. But if you treat customers poorly you might find they leave you for a competitor. So, some companies may also believe that customers are "entitled" to respect, even though the company is under no obligation to show it. This is because the company realizes it needs those customers.

I wonder if what is the attitude of most web startups. Is it like that of the parent comment?
Incremental improvement is not innovation. Very few of what you listed made a big enough difference in the status quo that I would qualify them as innovation.

I mean, lack of innovation in the computer hardware industry is a big enough problem that a software company is entering the market: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/429111/can-valve-innova...
Is it mine in the sense that it spewed out of my keyboard without much forethought? Yes. But the concept that markets are an unkillable mechanism that seek out money is universal.
Faster-than-light travel allows you to travel backwards in time. This is an essential part of Special and General Relativity. Those who don't understand this and who are not ready to address its consequences, should refrain from speculating on what is and isn't possible.
Legal Abortion or Aback to the Alley? | effectsofabortions.com
DJB gave a presentation on it like... last week. Quick turnaround time on the part of the botnet herders.
GarageGames.com is Broken
Chrome is a bit harder to disable, but eventually I figured it out once, when I got updated without my consent to a version that started breaking key websites that I use.

There is no one right answer to how to update end users.
Yes, MongoDB is more of a general-purpose database with lots of features that remind us of relational databases. It is a purpose-built application database for applications that would otherwise almost certainly be built with a relational database. As they get deeper into their project and find out how some of the trade-offs play-out their self-doubt is always about "should we just go relational" - no one is staying up all night wondering if they should migrate to Riak. If you start out with Riak you almost certainly know why and are using it in a very specific context.
Badly written code is badly written code in ANY language.
Why not :).

I do want to improve those series-specific pages to show related series and more info about recent episodes.
Kindle Weather Display
Using window.matchMedia to do media queries in JavaScript
Looks pretty promising
Email Etiquette – What Makes a Good Email?
It takes 5 seconds to create an account. It takes up to a year to start using it. I would venture a guess that # of posts is the shyest metric and takes a while to gain momentum with new social networks.

But here's a metric which doesn't exist but probably should: how much perceived value are users getting out of a service? On Google+ I can watch a live stargazing session take place complete with through the telescope views. On Facebook I can see what that douche I talked to once had for brunch.
Causality it NOT a postulate of the system. General Relativity fully allows for universes in which causality does not hold. Such universes would either turn out to be either very strange, or actual use of FTL drives would have to be extremely rare.
Its hardly naive, it is optimized for an application that needs to keep its entire working set in RAM, that is why sharding is so fundamental to the design. Not all apps need that which is once again...
Oh not this BS again.

I worked at Napster. I saw well over a hundred people burn out over the course of a couple years when we were being sued by half the entertainment industry. I've known people who have burned out during college too from undergrad to grad school. I knew someone who was so burned out, he moved to a anti-technology cult in Canada ten years ago. This had nothing to do with resentment. It had to do with stress.

Just because a few people like Mayer have no need for an emotional or stress outlet doesn't mean burn out doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Maybe for her, stress doesn't exist, but for the vast majority of the world, it is quite real.

The fact that this woman runs a company full of people who have to have approached or are burned out is, quite frankly, amazing.
"coffeescript: the good parts"
Crocodoc is profitable and dreaming big. Now hiring its first employees.
Interesting to think about the destabilizing effect this might have on the geopolitics of African countries, considering how central diamonds are to many economies there.
The caliber of companies interested in Dev Bootcamp grads is promising for their model.

I'm curious about how employers have felt about the engineers they've hired from such services vs fresh / semi-experienced engineers with CS degrees.
OK, so coffeescript is really slow at implementing "local variables".

Humm...
2D Game Art for Programmers: Emotional Explosives...
I feel bad that I'm not currently paying for Cloudflare; I use it on a few sites but they don't have any traffic worth adding the extra fee for. However it's an excellent service and something I recommend often; hopefully I'll have something to make better use of it in the future :)
May be a little bit outside of the typical start-up fair, but you didn't specify.

"Man's Search for Meaning" by Victor Frankl

Short read, but great perspective from a really inspiring figure.
I'm not trying to troll, but frankly, I don't understand why people who want to use advanced extensions like Vimium/Pentadactyl opt for Chrome and its crippling extension API.

With Pentadactyl, what you describe just isn't a problem: the extension captures the keys and prevents websites from screwing that up, unless you want to access them, in which case you just press C-z to enable 'Pass Through' mode.
Microsoft announces Office 2013, Office 365 subscriptions pricing
yeah I agree here as well, postfix anything is quite annoying to read, especially so when chained, and the absence of parentheses makes this even more terrible
Event Processing at Massive Scale
The time dilation effects don't become large enough to have significant affects on aging until speeds significantly higher than .1C. For example, to age at 1/2 normal rate, you would need to be going ~0.86C. This site has a calculator to play with: http://www.1728.org/reltivty.htm?b0=0.1
both of those look really bad, try reading that sort of indentation when it's already 4+ indentations in, it's terrible
Exactly, CoffeeScript isn't an excuse for writing incomprehensible code.

To make the OP assessment of CoffeeScript fair we would have to apply the same logic to Javascript its self. If we looked at any minimised JS code we would have to conclude that the language is unreadable.
We will consider it. Thanks for letting me know!
Jeff Dickey (http://dickey.xxx/dev-bootcamp), an engineer at TapJoy attended our hiring day. They ended up hiring 7 of our grads.
No, we don't support startup scripts in Acme (you could implement it of course, the code is simple), but you can use the "Dump" command to take a snapshot of your current Acme layout. I'm not sure if that will preserve the status of Indent, but it may at least help you.
Actually, it depends on the platform, it's Ctrl on Windows and Alt on Linux (and Command on Mac).
Yeah. The example is not very good, as it would probably be better to write as switch expression. But on a complex function, returning early can avoid the need to retain a lot of context in your head while reading that code. I find it especially helpful for returning/throwing on error conditions or breaking out of recursion.
Swipe content from device to device, just like in Minority Report… well, almost
Simply because text is entered via the keyboard does not mean that the keyboard is the only way to manipulate text.
Our Ethical Circle is Not Expanding
I definitely agree with this sentiment. I work at a technology-focused software startup, and while we all have Google Plus accounts, it isn't a service that most of us use regularly. Given the fact that I've never even been "added to a circle" by someone who isn't part of a technology-focused university or company, it seems less likely that there are legitimate and massive (400M!) pockets of users floating around anywhere remotely close to my circle of acquaintances.

That said, I'm on the US East Coast, so I could easily have a biased viewpoint. Perhaps all the Google+ users are elsewhere in the world? Or perhaps the little Google+ notification bar at the top-right of the default Gmail interface counts as an impression for the purposes of this study?
1.005 seconds vs the observer at rest [1] So 157 days on the ship (.43 years) would be 158 days back at home.

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=time+dialation+at+.1c
Okay I am so worked up by patio11's talk that I am going to buy this right now!
All this management bullshit might work if your reports were mindless and we didn't live in the age of the Internet; unfortunately in IT, they probably aren't and, well, we most certainly do.

Aping emotions, and playing psychological games (like playing dumb, and pretending to be a friend for the purposes of eliciting information) is a dangerous game in our industry because as soon as your reports detect you are behaving in this way the relationship will go south, fast (and permanently.)

Playing mind games like these will cause you to exhibit behaviors more typically associated with psychopathic individuals - and you will set yourself up for having them played back against you.
No mobile layout? Tsk tsk!
As a Fall cohort myself, this is exciting!
Picplum Gifts
Just use VIM proper; after all, It's All Text! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-text/

(alternatively, use Pentadactyl and press C-i when the focus is on a text box)
Wow, congratulations. I think that one post just about summed up everything I hate about modern software.

It's actually gotten so bad now that I've found myself increasingly hacking together my own small apps and scripts to do some simple things that I want because it's often actually easier to build than figuring out how to use some of the software out there. It's actually an even better investment because I know my own stuff will never magically become shittier because of some update that gets pushed out automatically.
And rackspace + azure should have nearly the same pricing. But comparing to the two i listed, they have 1/2 pricing,although the pricing goes nearly the same after 500TB storage (reduced redundancy) and 150TB bandwidth which is alot.
Help fund the development of a DIY open source space capsule
You seem to be heavily focussed on Github's financial costs, but why should I use this over something like Bitbucket, which provides free hosting for small teams and very reasonable pricing for teams?
Actionscript 3 was very good for this. I haven't done Flash development in a couple years, but i've been writing reams of Javascript (mostly backend). While I absolutely enjoy writing JS, I do miss the ability to declare types for methods, variables and parameters, which is incredibly helpful - especially as a project grows.

My IDE (phpStorm) helps quite a bit with this, currently - provided I document everything well - but I wouldn't mind having a compiler to smack me in the face when things are wrong.
DNS reflection has been known (and used) for years. That is why cloudflare mentions there has been an ongoing effort to clean up open resolvers.
This may be the first time that I've learn any useful information (do) during one of these CoffeeScript scope battles.
Who are these irresponsible network operators that allow spoofed source addresses out of their network? The only way to make a reflection attack like this work is to make the responses go back to the victim. For that to happen, it has to look like they generated the request.

Remember smurf? Spoof-ping a broadcast address for a multiplication effect. It's from 1997 or so. 15 years later and we're still living with that kind of problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smurf_attack