skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey there -- I'm Shawn, a cofounder at Catalyst.

I have to admit that I was also skeptical when I heard about this model, but empirically, it works. (We're not the first program of this type -- there are several others.) Learning goes really fast when you have a lot of smart, dedicated people in a room, and employers see value in graduates.

Meanwhile, consider the alternatives available to our potential students. My buddy JP is probably going to be one of our first students. He had the most popular Harry Potter fansite in the 90s, and has run websites for most places he's worked in the last several years. He's gone through codecademy, but his last job was as a delivery guy. Do you really think this is going to make his future worse?
The parent's term "passive-aggressive" is spot on.

StackExchange is even worse.

If you only knew their banning practices. They have extremely thin skin. The anti-thesis of "Postal's Law".

When they ban, it's not a warning, it's permanent. One mistake and you are banned for infinity.

"Trolls" (a very subjective term) will never learn to behave as you want them to if you don't steer them toward better behavior. Banning them in knee-jerk like fashion does not steer them toward being better netizens or being more agreeable to your views.

If the thinking is "my forum, my rules" then when the rules become silly (and they often do), we need more forums, run by more reasonable people. This is nothing new. "Postal's Law" is one of those insightful ideas that has greater applicability than was intended (e.g., more than just the structure of packets) and it will continue to seem ahead of it's time, as censorship keeps rearing its ugly head.
Has been for years and it's super stupid for content driven sites like a blog where the entire point is to just get people to read what you've written. I browse with noscript and while I whitelist apps and some sites, random blog links never get javascript enabled. This means if I don't see anything on screen then I just close the tab.
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That sounds fantastic, and it's a good thought---but at a certain point we are all interdependent on one-another. Relative to belief in science and global warming, what Arkansas does with its air certainly affects areas outside of Arkansas.
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Not to mention 12 weeks with 900 hours worth of instruction and projects.

900 / (12 * 7) = 10.7 hours per day including weekends, or 15 hours a day without. These classes better be absolutely riveting to keep a student's attention.
The last time I checked on MCM electronics website, they were selling it for $35
I mostly just go to reddit meetups in Boston, so my perspective is slightly skewed, but I find the biggest problem is usually the venue. Very few places can seat more than 6 people or so together comfortably.
I strongly disagree - 900 hours is plenty of time for the right candidate. Granted, you couldn't put my mom or dad in this course and turn them into a front end dev in 12 weeks, but for the right candidate - absolutely. The program runs from 10am - 9pm, six days a week. That's a lot of commitment, and whoever applies is going to want it. So 12 weeks, absolutely.

It's my opinion that front end devs are born front end devs and don't realize it until they learn to program. The position requires a certain attitude and effective decision-making process that not all programmers possess, and it seems like the Catalyst organizers are screening applicants. A good developer can master any API just by reading the documentation - I guarantee they'll teach them that.
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In discussions with a theorist, they would never tell me that something is O(n^n) if it is not also Θ(n^n). My point is not on what people may say, but on what they do say. btilly made a point about programmers, not theorists.

I added the observation that even theorists - the people who are experts in this area - talk like that, and gave a possible reason why. My reason, which perhaps I did not communicate well, is that the lower bound is generally not of practical interest.
For everyone replying/panicing about this approach:

Google gives you two options when you hit spam,

1) just unsubscribe
2) unsubscribe and report spam.

I'm surprised those with newsletters haven't tested this.

Oh and if you auto-subscribed me for anything other than me specifically adding my email to a "subscribe" form - you deserve to be spammed. Signing up for a site isn't a newsletter opt-in by itself.
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I agree this particular feature should be fixed, however fixing it doesn't solve the core issue of your contacts sharing information about you. This is the core functionality of Facebook I can't agree with, no matter how their privacy controls work.
This just arrived at my email inbox:

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Most people in Waterloo dream of getting out of Waterloo.
The Supreme Court has not evaluated this issue. During Vietnam there were a few cases that looked like they were going to get to the Supreme Court, and the conscripts were released with honorable discharges in order to avoid the court being able to rule on the cases as the issues were made moot through the discharges.
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Better to be twitter with a fail whale than app.ly-ify'r with no users, but awesome scalability.
I'd imagine you'd just be prevented from uploading/syncing anything until you get back under the limit.
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AirBnB owes its multi-multi-milliondollar growth to an email campaign that used fake women's names as the sender.
Most people don't actually understand political campaigns. They just think it's that thing over there that I hear about on occasion, and maybe get a phone call from one day.
I think operationally this is getting more true, but not as much funding-wise, so intelligent control over appropriations is still important. For example, SpaceX is a private company, but largely publicly financed: government contracts provide the majority of their revenue, since they don't yet have significant private-sector clients. If their NASA contract were cancelled (e.g. because a committee cut that program), they wouldn't be solvent as a company.

Also common in the private-sector research world, outside a few big places like MSR that are mainly privately funded. A lot of biotech companies depend on public/private NIH research grants, and the SBIR/STTR programs are also a big source of funds for riskier research in small companies (http://www.sbir.gov/).
I just put together a tool that aggregates developer jobs tweeted on twitter - you can see jobs by area and type.

The best part is that it also shows jobs that haven't made it to formal listings yet.

It's at http://www.jobquacks.com - regrettably I haven't built in support for mobile yet..
I only met Phil once, but it was his suggestion that led to the formation of Underscore, where I now work. I hoped I'd get a chance to say thanks, but now that opportunity is gone.
That's a really good question. I should have been much more clear about exactly what I was talking about. It wasn't about the knowledge gained, it was about everything surrounding that.

What I wrote was in response to an article that carried the subtitle "Are Emily and Brendan More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal?"

And included, just above the fold, these gems:

"Question: How can I use societal prejudices to aid in startup success?"

"Race for Internet Marketing and Startups"

There are many fascinating and extremely valuable studies treating race. You are right, they are often uncomfortable. I love those studies. But this post is not that. It not only has shoddy methodology and would get blasted to pieces by peer review, but its expressed purpose is the application of racism and sexism to the world of startups. THAT is what I was writing about.
Serverless... or Everything Is A Server?

(An app in the cloud is debatably a server, not a client in the cloud. The browser is still needed and still there is a client.)
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pg would probably use logic, experience and a little bit of gut feel to figure out the best way to solve an issue, not refer to a single source of someone else's writings.

Stop worshiping the man like he is a god. His essays are not bible scripture, and in many areas they would actually be the completely wrong course of action to take.

pg's thoughts are only one segment of knowledge that a person should be receiving and performing their own analysis on. If you agree with everything pg says, you have set him up as your personal demi-god and are dangerously ignorant. I suggest reading something other than him for a while.

(Note: replace pg with any particular author or method if you choose.)

EDIT: You can usually tell when you've hit on an uncomfortable truth when the reaction is fiercest. Irony: pump in "Trouble" to the tool under discussion.
>>>I shed tears for the companies that hire the "graduates" of this "start to finish plan."

I'd like to take that (I'm in NYC, tho) and would have no intention of being employed after it. I'd create my own stuff for me.
The way it currently works is that they just don't allow you to upload anything until you're below your limit. They continue to store whatever is there, and do not delete it.
Don't apologize for Facebook's broken group mechanism. Everyone knows it is a broken model.
Phil's ideas on data structures are a critical corner stone in making functional programming easy and practical. Though most people may not have heard his name before, his influence on some computer languages was HUGE.
Wow, this Ctrie looks like a concurrent Swiss Army data structure. Very interesting, thanks.
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Not only that, now that they have that marketplace going you can pawn off your contract unto somebody else if your needs change.

I'm not sure how liquid it is yet. You could also equally go dumpster diving for unused virtual instances, say, if some startup goes under and liquidates.
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Targets for vandalism and other shenaniganery.

How often have you heard of someone picking the lock to a knox box or an elevator control panel? (Probably not very)

How often have you heard of someone hitting the alarm or screwing around with the emergency options? (Probably more)
When I run across one that looks decent I add it to a page on my wiki

This is heavy skewed toward Python and Django gigs, because that is what I do.

* http://thesourcery.com/

* https://www.whitetruffle.com/

* http://hnhiring.me/

* http://path.to/

* http://www.behance.net/joblist

* https://www.api-jobs.com/

* http://jobs.arstechnica.com/

* http://angel.co/jobs

* https://forrst.com/jobs

* http://jobs.pythonweekly.com/

* http://www.develop-online.net/jobs

* http://githire.com/

* http://www.krop.com/

* http://www.djangohire.com/a/jbb/find-jobs

* http://jobs.pythonweekly.com/

* http://www.hiringhackers.com/

* https://www.djangoproject.com/community/jobs/

* http://www.zurb.com/jobs

* http://www.inthedoor.com/

* http://functionaljobs.com/

* http://www.hirelite.com/

* http://www.interviewstreet.com/

* http://www.jobstractor.com/

* http://www.startuphire.com

* http://jobs.usethesource.com/

* http://careers.computer.org

* http://www.corp-corp.com/

* http://careers.stackoverflow.com

* http://www.ITjobline.com

* http://standoutjobs.com

* http://dice.com

* http://job4dev.com/jobs/

* http://monster.com

* http://jobscore.com

* http://jobs.smashingmagazine.com/

* http://www.crunchboard.com/jobs/

* http://www.personforce.com/jobsearch/

* http://jobs.arstechnica.com/

* http://www.recruiternetworks.com/

* http://www.freelancejobslist.com/

* http://www.careerbeacon.com/

* http://jobs.joelonsoftware.com/

* http://www.krop.com/

* http://www.odesk.com

* http://www.devbistro.com/

* http://hotgigs.com

* http://jobs.acm.org/

* http://www.odinjobs.com/

* http://juju.com

* http://www.authenticjobs.com/

* http://www.prgjobs.com/

* http://jobs.37signals.com

* http://jobs.mashable.com/a/jbb/find-jobs

* http://jobs.jsninja.com/

* http://jobs.arstechnica.com/

* http://www.fsf.org/resources/jobs/

* http://opensourcestaffing.wordpress.com/

* http://sologig.com

* http://www.space-careers.com/

* http://www.djangozen.com/jobs/

* http://joblighted.com/

* http://startupers.com/

This is a quality meta job listing site as well

* http://www.maxmasnick.com/articles/jobs/

There are so many opportunities for hackers right now that it we need tools manage all of them

* http://happyjobsearch.com/

* http://www.streak.com/ - streak would also be a powerful easy tool for managing the hiring process
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Hacked up a quick JavaScript implementation of this for anyone to play with: http://jsfiddle.net/soulwire/xKCt4/embedded/result/

It uses Web RTC so you'll need a capable browser (such as Chrome) and will have to allow webcam access when prompted!
I've just spent about 15 minutes reading an article by Paul Graham written in 1993.

This site is terrible for my productivity - very well done you evil person you.
Who are you trying to market this program to? I feel like the group of people who are willing to dedicate 3 months and have $10k-$15k sitting around is alarmingly small.

I think I could benefit greatly from attending this, but only being a few years out of college and still in debt means I would be crazy to attend.
Oh man... come to NYC. Dying here. (If anyone knows of anything in NYC, let me know. I'm out of the loop and search stinks these days...)
However, the shuttle enters the descent carrying over the momentum from its rockets during the launch. The balloon was roughly at rest, rather than in orbit.
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I got a CubieBoard from CubieBoard.org specifically because it came with more RAM and had a faster CPU. So seems RPi is responding well and trying to grow their market.
I would also like to see the effect of East Indian names. My name isn't from India (it is from Thailand), but it is often mistaken for being Indian or Arabic.
Although your advice regarding 'worshipping' a single author/person is good advice, that site is just a tool for anyone wanting a slice of the pg pie.

It's rather well done.
I was slightly disappointed that "drink a refreshing can of Red Bull" wasn't on the pre-jump checklist.
Technical debt is like ketchup
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I have DSL internet with a peak of around 60 KB/s up (thanks to the US telecom monopoly, my only other option is cable for around $80 a month with 300KB up). I couldn't saturate my drive, dropbox, and Ubuntu one accounts even if I wanted to.
Everything was done in python. I wrote scripts to query the HN api for the last 1000 comments by PG as well as scrape his site for his essays. Indexed the documents using helpers from nltk.

The front end is flask which queries a mongo store with a little memcached sprinkled in.

Shout out to heroku for all their awesome free addons!
> that proved that security and functionality are at odds with each other. Thus my basis for my belief that as Facebook adds functionality security will worsen is the underlying theory

You are making a huge assumption that Facebook is as secure as it can be at its level of functionality. It is easy to see that they could add a tiny bit of functionality that barely hurts security and fix the "add any of your friends to groups" bug that their security and functionality would increase.
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Cool!I just wonder how you came up with such a brilliant idea.
I would agree but most recruiting services and even employers still require resumes in pdf, or worse yet, .doc format. Yuck!
>designing a lock that takes 2 completely different types of keys would be very difficult

This is actually fairly common in commercial buildings. The keys have a channel running down the side (the 'grooves' you speak of). The grooves determine what kind of keyway the key can fit into. You can can configure your locks so a certain groove pattern will only fit a subset of your locks, while another kind of groove will fit into all of them. Schlage for instance makes a series of keyways (A, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, XP etc.) that are specified to do exactly this. I always forget which, but I believe it's the L keys that will fit into most of the other keyways.

You can consult Schlage's own books to learn more: http://professional.schlage.com/pdfs/sss/Schlage_Key_Systems... (scroll to the end.)
If a startup is thinking short-term, then they'll ask technical/tactical questions. Explain X command or language/os feature. Find out what the candidate knows now. Like you implied, strategy doesn't matter if you're dead.

If they're thinking long-term, they'll ask theoretical/strategic questions to assess general education level (traditional or self-taught) and ability to adapt. What will the candidate will be like in three to five years? Talking about algorithms and complexity can help there. You don't know what tech/language you'll be using in the future, but fundamentals will still apply.

Neither one should be asking you questions about light bulbs or where to bury the survivors.
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The big affiliate networks are also typically not friendly to small-time sites joining at all. I run a site with relatively low traffic, and most of my requests to join programs on Commission Junction or Google Affiliate Network get rejected, I'm guessing because I'm not big enough and/or don't have enough track record.

Amazon is one exception where joining Amazon's affiliate program is probably no harder than joining refer.ly, though.
What other promotions has Dropbox done in the past?
Props for putting a compelling spin ("WWPGD") on a rather mundane function (searching a back catalog). Marketing FTW! :-)
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It's really just a tool we built for ourselves to get information from a specific trusted source. It helps that he has a huge catalog of work to draw from. We thought the ability to tap into that through a search dynamic would be interesting, it's been very useful for us. We hope it can be useful for you.
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Hey Mike! We'd love to, sounds like fun. In the meantime, try our buddies at http://flatironschool.com/
What if he used a balloon with a capsule attached and just released the capsule? By that definition that would be a sky dive, but it still doesn't seem like a sky dive.
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Why are you assuming they are worshiping him? They simply made a fun little app to search through his essays. Your comment seems rather ill-tempered and misplaced. Did you even try the app out or are you just on a rant about how you don't think people should make decisions based on the information of a single source? Either way, I'm not sure how your comment is a helpful contribution to this particular link.
I think the genius he's referring to is the fact that they're trying to get educational institutions and students hooked on Dropbox, who could then go on to deploying Dropbox for the whole university (unlikely, but it could happen one day) and the students can go on to relying on Dropbox for their future projects, potentially upgrading to Pro at some point.
The first thing popped in my head after reading the title: "Your mom is serverless"
Very fun little tool. It would make it exceptional if you would include a small tidbit of information beneath each listing to say why the particular essay matched the query.
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Can you share the empirical evidence that it works? There is a lot of talk about these programs but not many resources on the outcomes that I know of.
This is just the worst kind of critique. This is a useful tool, I often find myself searching for something I had read that PG had said and having a difficult time. He's written a great deal, this is extremely useful.
>(At atomic level, I don’t know if universe is deterministic or not, but at human level it definitely is not).

That level of certainty demands an explanation. The author seems to come to the conclusion that the complex interactions do not leave room for determinism. I'm not entirely sure why.

The usual idea is that if one were to know the position and velocity of every particle in the physical universe, one could theoretically predict how the universe would change at any given time. That should work as well for four particles as it should for four billion. I don't think complexity in a system can be used to show evidence of true randomness.

That being said, I don't believe the world is deterministic at either the atomic or the macroscopic level. But I wholly dislike the reasons presented here.
Some of those keys look ancient! I don't see how a lock keyed to those could possibly hold up to even an amateur lockpick.
Apparently the stability index is worthless.
"crypto: Reduce stability index to 2-Unstable" from "Stability: 3 - Stable"
9) links followed from https -> http

10) bookmarks
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We have an API for creating links: http://refer.ly/api/docs/links
Yeah, we're keenly aware of the catch 22 here :/ We're working on some creative solutions, but it's very expensive to put on a program like this, and many of our students will need to draw on help from friends and family. It helps that this kind of program can lead directly to a high-paying job.
Might I inquire how/of what? I know it shouldn't matter, but I'm always curious when the cause of death is not listed. I've read too many of these where smart people decide to leave us of their own accord. WikiPedia was no help.