skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I'm sure this won't sound terribly appealing to you, my advice would be to pick a medium size open source project that you're interested in and does code reviews. Start small by contributing bite sized fixes or features that they already have listed as things they want to do - many projects have lists like that for newcomers. If you do that even just a few times and get your code accepted you'll have gained more skills and knowledge about how to build a successful piece of software than almost any classroom would offer. In my experience many projects will be very welcoming to someone like you and yet be willing to hold you to higher standards than most teachers would.

After you did that you'd be much, much more likely to be able to build a successful project on your own.
I don't usually deploy but when I do, I appreciate original website design. You got an upvote.
dire forecast from JLG on HP's future prospects. I still have somewhere one of those classic HP calculators (the 65 IIRC) but no battery to put therein...
How the mighty fall!
The cost of a famous logo
A great book about start-up equity
An amazing story.
Thoughts on Towards a Mathematical Science of Computation by John McCarthy
While timmclean's comment does indicate that he was thinking about keeping your codebase private; most people minify their code to cut down on filesizes... so his questions is still valid.
I was curious about that figure - here's the breakdown:

Percent of adults with hearing trouble: 16.2%
Percent of adults with vision trouble: 9.4%
Percent of adults unable (or very difficult) to walk a quarter mile: 7.3%
Percent of adults with any physical functioning difficulty: 15.6%

The hearing disability is described as:

Overall, 16% of adults aged 18 years and over experienced some hearing difficulty without a hearing aid (defined as ‘‘a little trouble hearing,’’ ‘‘moderate trouble,’’ ‘‘a lot
of trouble,’’ or ‘‘deaf’’). Men were more likely to have experienced hearing trouble than women.

The report is interesting. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/disable.htm
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With altitude. Non-linear with attitude would mean w/ angle of attack, which would be fascinating.
I cringed, thinking this was going to be a rant about startups, but it was actually a great piece of input on customer interaction. Tip of the hat to you.
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We rumbled as well.
Not as practical. We made a Star Trek game.
http://the-glimmer-twins.r12.railsrumble.com/

Good luck!
One of those is spot on: "You've Lost Your Temper So I Don't Have To Listen To You Anymore"

Yes, exactly. I don't owe anybody my time. If you're going to act like a child, I don't care to continue listening to your arguments. I'll listen to the same arguments somewhere down the road from a more rational being.
Luckily great tools have been built for this. We use Opscode Chef and it's life changing. After an admittedly painful learning hump, we're able to completely power our sysadmin via code.

DeployButton is just the trigger button, not the missile :)
I guess the best part is that no government funds were expended in the making of this high-tech extreme sport event.
You would not want to do this if for some reason you wanted to anonymize the sender or at least act as a proxy to protect the sender's information (as you noted). But another reason is publicity/visibility - startups need plenty of name recognition, and having your name be associated with a useful service is certainly one way of doing it (as long as your customers don't end up classifying as "spam" like the OP's customers).
Following antirez on twitter was one of the few really worthwhile sources of real signal there for me. Honestly it is really sad to see him leave, I learned a ton from just reading his feed over time.
Exactly. Anyone determined enough can essentially reconstruct your non-minified code from the minified version.
And Pro Bono work isn't on the table because...?
I don't really get this attitude. So it's okay for me to write a school essay about the women's suffrage movement? Okay. It's cool for me to write about the civil rights movement? Okay.

Why are things going on today special? Do you think that because I'm white and in a suburban basement without any real property to my name I can't talk about the Chinese housing bubble?

I'm sorry, but if you want to claim that an article is poorly written or uses incorrect sources, say so. If your opinion would change simply based on the pseudonym that something is published under, you do not have an opinion tied to reality.
You're not exactly qualified to guess how people perceive things, but can you not relate their words second hand?
Bah, ignore that. Try out the JSFiddle linked for the "Wire up a Backend" example on http://angularjs.org/
It seems more and more companies are going with unlimited/untracked PTO (take it when you need it). I work at a place like this and it's great, but I think it will only work if it's truly not monitored (except to prevent abusive use).
Basecamp and GitHub set From: to something that looks like "Joe Smith" <foo-bar-123124312313@github.com>, which is enough to have GMail display the email as from a "Joe Smith" in the inbox.
You're right about acceleration being an issue. It's possible that altitude is negligible compared to orbital velocity. I'm not sure what you mean by Baumgartner wasn't 10% of the way to the ISS. The ISS is at 370km, and the jump was from almost 40km. Of course there are other technical hurdles to getting there, but I was only referring to pure altitude.
SSH is what you're looking for.
And... the devoutly technical want to convert all of humanity to their side, wherein not viewing things through the same lens is seen as a sign of mental shortcoming.
I won the DV lottery 15 years ago. Got my citizenship five years later
There is always one of these replies in every discussion on this topic, isn't there? Some guy comes in and tries to define 'sexism' for the rest of us with a greatly simplified version and then gives us an anecdote about how some nice guy (he kindly asked her out) gets accused of harassment by a women, and uses this to segue into 'reverse-discrimination' as though that could ever be an actual thing (let alone suggest that it is more prevalent than the discussed sexism) when the oppression only occurs in one direction.

Oh hey, my sexism bingo card is full and I didn't even need the free space.
This is interesting for so many reasons, very good book (both in stories and writing). The most useful bit probably when he explained why the suit inflated, exactly like the way Baumgartner's balloon inflated earlier today when it reached the upper atmosphere.
A good way to sort of wrap you mind around exactly LEO means is to consider that at LEO altitudes the strength of gravity is, for most intents and purposes (9.0m/s^2 vs 9.8m/s^2), the same as on the surface. If you get up that high then let go, you are going to drop like a rock.

If you want to not fall, you have to keep thrusting straight up, which obviously is not practical. The next best thing is to try to move sideways. Sideways fast enough that you clear the horizon before you hit the ground. You have to move fast enough that when you fall you miss the earth.

Moving that fast is pretty damn hard. Any rocket capable of doing it, even if it is already "up there" is going to be far to large to practically lift with a balloon.
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GitHub, Basecamp and Facebook have all been doing the same (eg. "Joe Bob" <blah-2131214241421@github.com>), using the unique identifier in the email address name to figure out what message a user is replying to.

Kudos to the OP for the write-up; there are still too many companies taking the Company Name approach.
Also, within any given year 26% of the U.S. population will suffer from mental illness, and 46% will suffer from it during their lifetime:

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/statistics/1ANYDIS_ADULT.shtml

Within any given year 15% of families are below the poverty line, and 58% will fall below it at some point in their life:

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

Normal is kinda abnormal.
Privileged sounds right. What makes him think that he gets to decide.
There's also Sentry (https://github.com/getsentry/sentry) which works on the server side too (with python, node.js, php, ruby and java)
It isnt, the source maps are what is used to get it back to an unminified state
You gotta love SR-71 stories.
The question is, but it's answered with source maps. The concern that source maps allow anybody greater access to your code is not a valid one.
To be consistent with your opinion; women should write no articles or have an opinion on the challenges men face.

War for instance. No females should be in command positions or authority over the armed forces because they don't know what its like to bleed on a battlefield.

Workplace fatalities are also a predominately male. So OSHA should be run only by males.
You are concentrating on the metaphor too much and missing the main point.

Everyone struggles and is privileged in some ways. All these ways are not equal. I dislike the term "privilege" as it's rarely used in a useful context. But your reaction is the very definition of the word.

"extended a hand out to those who didn't quite have the same privileges whenever possible. I wouldn't really expect otherwise from anyone else"

You expect that from everyone else because you had a "privileged" upbringing obviously. Most people know that this expectation is naive. Extraordinarily naive I must say.
(I am one of the site's creators)

Thanks for the overwhelming response - making the front page of HackerNews unexpectedly. DeployButton was our entry to RailsRumble this year, and it's a solution we created because we wanted something like this for ourselves for our own startup, Lizi.

Over the next few weeks, we'll be updating a few key issues that have been raised in these comments, including the ones about security.

We don't immediately accept that enterprises will jump to use DeployButton, but for a series of smaller consultancies, the security features we will offer will be more than enough.

Thanks again for the support - Sometimes I wish there was a "Whoops, we're not ready for HackerNews yet, don't taze me bro" break-the-glass button that puts us back on after a month's time.
I can easily imagine that my career was influenced by my location/gender/race/sexual orientation, but my "hacker skills", for better or worse, were gained in solitude. There would have be no direct social repercussions for girls my age to do as I did, because in reality nobody ever needed to know. It was something even I kept hidden until I started to become confident in what I was doing, and additionally, wasn't really exposed to anyone else like me until many years later.

All of these discussions seem to centre around the idea of women being discriminated in hacker groups. I won't dispute it happens, but that seems orthogonal to learning the skills in the first place. Maybe it is just my privilege talking, but it is really difficult to imagine social pressures applying so strongly when alone where secrets can be kept. Having to keep those secrets is a travesty in and of itself, but quite different to what you were speaking to.
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You're pandering, but you do raise the point that I should have said "worth considering". All speech is worth defending as free, but our time in life is limited and we must each be selective about what we spend it on. Whether or not you appreciated his post, it is probably a waste of your time to make shallow, unsubstantiated comments regarding it.
All of this and all of what rorrr mentioned should be a primary thought. I always hope people say, "duh, that's obvious" but I've worked too many places where ramp up on a project is a hodge podge of copy pasted scripts, years-old info on a wiki and "good luck, take a few weeks to get setup".

At the very least, all of my projects can be developed on in a live testing environment after one step after check out and it works everywhere the toolchain works. It lowers barrier of entry for developers and for users that want or need to build from source.
Yes and no. So when you are in orbit you're travelling around the planet at a high rate of speed. You have to dump all of the kinetic energy related to your zipping around in order to head down to the ground. Typically something like the shuttle uses orbital manuevering rockets to decelerate such that the orbit becomes eccentric and intercepts the atmosphere. Then when the atmosphere is entered it bleeds off still more energy by colliding with air (which creates a tremendous amount of heat). Once that energy is dissipated it glides down to the ground.

For parachute jump from orbit, first you'd want to dump as much of your velocity as possible while still being outside the thicker part of the atmosphere. You could do that with a retro rocket, or my favorite is a conductive tether tied to a resistive load. In the latter case you use the fact that you're moving through Earth's magnetic field which generates a current in a conductor that is at an angle to the magnetic flux. If you ground short that conductor then it pushes back against the flux much like a shorted motor pushes back against you trying to spin it when its terminals are shorted.

It is entirely unclear to me if you can dump enough energy that way but you can certainly dump quite a bit. Once you are into the upper atmosphere there are a variety of ideas from what are essentially streamers to hypersonic parachutes to slow you further.

If you can't dump enough energy then you won't be able to avoid being crisped by the heat generated by your re-entry shock wave.
Thanks guys for the heads up. I have added synposes to both of my repos.
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As a member of the Gen Y, I particularly agree with the following when shopping:

Trust their peers first and their parents second;
Hates to be sold anything;
Actively researches prices and reads reviews before making a purchase;
Expects exceptional service, like Amazon.com which tells them which products they might like;
Seeks to do business with ethical, environmental companies; and
Values customization, customizing everything from their music to their jeans and soda.

This is exactly what I will do when shopping. However, finding out the root of these above habits can help us find a better solution.

The cause of these so called "Gen Y" behaviour is that everyone who has been exposed to the type of hard-selling and non-ethical advertising, inevitably feel repulsed by the bad ad men as affected by their experience of the past, from time and time again.

But the above actions are not limited to Gen Y, any shoppers who want to shop wisely in today's world will do the same.
These assaults are absolutely not new, but from my limited vantage point, previous assaults have mostly revolved around vulgarity. The new wave seems to revolve around "hate", which is worrisome given how subjective and slippery the term is. The described tale of "Zombie Muhammed" is a perfect example: a light-hearted joke to one person is a vicious act of "hate" to another.

Protecting people's feelings should not be the role of the state.
Way longer than 4 minutes. Station-keeping boosts on Mir were done only a few times a year (and were usually done by attached resupply crafts).

Edit: Here's a cool altitude graph for Mir: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:MirOrbitalMan...
Silk is awesome. I wish the palette wasn't limited and there were a few more symmetry options.
To get an idea of what ST Math (mentioned in the article) is all about, this TEDx presentation is probably the best intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VLje8QRrwg

Disclaimer: I'm a developer at MIND Research.
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But actually, that argument is applied whenever someone disagrees with popular opinion, instantly silencing them even if they presented their ideas rationally. It's nothing more than an ad hominem argument.
Yeah, we will try to get a screen cast out soon. We didn't spend to much on the marketing side of things.
If you find that you must send a long email full of information and questions (a meeting is impossible due to distance or scheduling), please be sure to break it down by recipient/department and bullet point for them! 14 long paragraphs with actions for a person spread around unevenly is no way to communicate.
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Seconded.

A number of these sorts of comments pop up every time something about sexism or racism in tech hits the front page, and all they do is prove the original article's point.
This discussion has little meaning. Everyone makes a call. Author made a call to express his controversial view, and there is no point in saying that his free expression was thwarted by others' free expressions. Others made a call to respond by teaching the author how wrong he is in many constructive and destructive ways. All of this is meaningless, because controversial opinions are appreciated when they are the right call, and hated when they are the wrong call. It's a coin flip for the most part.

Author complains that people are acting badly, but these people are everything that the world consists of. There is nothing else on the receiving end of his message except these (and other) people. Who else to express your opinion to? I'd assume author knows that. When you add salt into your tea, you don't blame your tastebuds for disliking it. Occasionally, however, you dip bacon into chocolate and your tastebuds go "whoa, awesome". This is the risk of controversial opinion. If you make it, just prepare yourself for the inevitable. There is a reason experiments require goggles.

As a community, we should strive to be calmer and more thoughtful about the way we express ourselves, and try harder to make the right calls. If everyone could do that, however, we probably wouldn't have the sexism problem in the first place.
For what it's worth, I'm not pandering ... that's more or less how I feel about his piece. But the point is, neither you nor I can have it both ways: free speech isn't just about protecting speech we like or think is substantive.
Hey - Adam from http://www.binpress.com here.
I'm glad we've been an inspiration :)

Good luck with Rails Rumble - Hope you win it!
I love how Blackboard, despite years of legal intimidation and generally anti-competitive practices, is slowly being picked away at by the competition, not from some monolithic replacement but by smaller, targeted services that do one thing really well. Tabule looks very interesting. Two of my classes this semester are using Piazza for online discussions. What Piazza does to stop spammy emails is let you set a digest to aggregate all messages every n hours, which I really like.
Heroku has already simplified deployment and hosting. I am not sure I see the need to put a further wrapper around it.
Exactly. Near and far IR are different beasts. Not only are the sensors different, but you need to make the lenses out of different material (or use mirrors).
Most of the people who take these risks are people who can afford the losses - IOW they have non-monetary capital.

The most outsized portion of the upside goes to people who have the most capital. So much so it's the name of the game. But I don't think they create value in the same proportion; I don't think the economy is overall better for them getting such a large slice (you need a wealthy middle class to create demand); and above all, it's exasperating to read and hear these people thinking their share is justified by their "hard work", almost like they're blind to the system they inhabit.
He's already said this will be his last jump [1]

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/oct/14/felix-baumgartne...
FWIW, I am not white, nor was I rich growing up. My father was an immigrant and a non-native-speaker. I am straight and male, so I've got that at least.

I'm curious just which attributes you think are more equal than others.
"It's built with simplicity and power in mind -- The simplicity for a non-technical user to be given the reigns to deploy from a master branch to a "staging" server… or to a production server after any tests have passed."

I'm sure there's good reasoning behind wanting to give a non-technical user the rights to deploy code to servers, but I'm afraid I can't seem to conceive of them right now. Can you elaborate why you would want someone without the requisite technical skills deploying code?
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I'm still not sure how it catches all unhandled exceptions. I looked at the source code (http://rescuejs.com/rescue.beta.js) and it only seems to wrap setTimeout, setInterval, jQuery.fn.ready, and jQuery.event.add. What about exceptions in other functions? Or does capturing the e.backtrace have something to do with it?

Would love to know (and if this works out of the box, what's to prevent cross-domain scripts from communicating with each other by raising exceptions?)
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There is a good point made. Which is that email sucks as a long form communication medium. One quickly gets lost (and as a result loses a lot of time) managing "conversations". It is also very hard to get some sort of continuity with email, because everybody uses it differently. People will often reply with multiple emails when asnwering a group of questions that you sent them. Adding their own questions on top of it, and making it a mess of spaghetti.
I'm always amused by the "fire in a crowded theatre" argument, mostly because most of the people who use it don't seem to know that it originated as an analogy justifying the prosecution of protesting the draft during World War I.

War protests obvious aren't of any real value, after all. They just endanger the public . . .
The difference between opinion on the editorial page of the paper and opinion in the world of zero filters. Perhaps one in a million people is a flaming loon but that's over 7,000 people given the world population. Sadly a lot of them have Internet access.

So the folks who are moderate and make up the bulk of the population don't respond, and the ones who are most easily incensed do. In a newspaper the editor would get all the letters that came in as rebuttals to an opinion and print the ones that were insightful or made a reasoned argument, and they would simply throw away all of the letters from folks who were ranting. This allowed for reasoned (if heated) debate to be carried out in the opinion section of the daily paper.

Twitter doesn't 'fix' this, I don't think they see it as a problem, but a bit of moderation goes a long way toward providing a better environment.

It is an unsolved problem to date, perhaps App.net or identi.ca or some other micro-blogging service will take it on and make things better. I expect it would attract quality posts and quickly gain a solid base.
IR sensors don't work by detecting heat changes. They convert infrared photons directly to electrical current.

Now I don't actually know jack about IR sensors, but I would assume that increased temperature means increased noise, as it does with visible-light CCDs. People refrigerate visible-light CCDs too, for taking low-noise astronomical photos.
I think it looks visually appealing and definitely believe that Marissa played a big part in designing it.
Not mine, but it hasn't been posted here yet and it looks so damn nice: http://findthin.gs

(Made by @sutto, @sj26 and @levibuzolic; team page is here: http://railsrumble.com/entries/148-grumpy-cat)
"essentially reconstruct"? That's generous language. You have to somehow determine the use of all variables and functions and what proper names for them would be. Outside of DOM calls, the logic and application layer is close to incomprehensible. See also the javascript of any large webapp.