skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying I have paranormal abilities. I'm saying I have empathic abilities, and these can be explained by science. Speech Imitation is a matter of one's frontal lobe processing too much information, and that information becomes immediately actionable (in my case).

This is a matter of neuroscience, not the paranormal; a matter of hypercognition. At the same time, I've been using magnets and nootropics to cognitively enhance and bootstrap various physiological deficiencies I have. I am saying that, for instance, anyone can perform speech imitation. Hu-mans are already highly predictable. I'm not claiming mind-reading or any of this. I am claiming: http://www.ted.com/talks/juan_enriquez_will_our_kids_be_a_di...
When I was your age I was making ~25k/yr. (in today's money) working in a soul-sucking callcenter. Hopefully, you're better off than I was.
I think you're misunderstanding. I think it's exactly that decentralized, networked approach to problem-solving that holds the potential for technologists to fix big problems. The issue is that in SV most are not focusing on those problems. I WANT the tech community disrupting those old institutions, and I'm frustrated we're not doing more of it.
> To say that Marx never spoke of socialism when the academic understanding has been that the terminology maps over is very misleading.

What I was trying to communicate is that Marxism involves socialism, but socialism does not involve Marxism.

> Marx & Engels criticized utopian socialism that was utopian for simply lacking a vision of bringing itself about.

This is what I said. "not being realistic enough."

> They themselves saw the revolutionary state that would midwife the ushering in of Communism as being socialist by necessity. The Paris Commune would later serve to change Marx's attitude about the midwife state a bit though.

I agree 100%.

I really think we have a failure to communicate here, not an actual disagreement in understanding, now. Both me misunderstanding you and you misunderstanding me. You can understand why I'm naturally skeptical of anyone invoking Marx in this place. My apologies.
In the most recent version of Python, the implementation representation is a run-time detail, not compile-time.

If you use ASCII then it's a one byte encoding. Most non-ASCII Unicode strings will have a two byte encoding, and if more than the Basic Multilingual Plane is needed, then Python will switch to a four byte encoding.
That during a double dip recession things can still get worse. A lot of my friends are now jobless.

That my boss wants to hear compliments. Nothing else. Ever.

Reading HN is the closest I'll ever get to seeing a start up grow any larger than 3 people struggling in a tiny office paid for by the EU.

I won't ever pay off my credit cards or mortgage. I'll never own a new car or any new hobby equipment. eBay and freecycle are integral parts of my life.

My performance based quarterly bonuses won't get paid.

America sounds like a bonkers place to live, I hope they (you?) start to do something about climate change.
I'm a "she" by the way :)
>the hordes of people taking music and giving excuse after excuse as to why they shouldn't have to pay for it is pure greed (and entitlement)

I don't know. If you want to separate 'greed' and 'entitlement' I would say that someone pirating a dozen movies is certainly full of entitlement but I wouldn't say they're any greedier than the person that buys the same dozen movies.
I appreciate that. Thanks for the info.
What aliases could be too complicated for Gmail?
Roundcube is an OK web email client, but let's be honest, it doesn't even match up what Gmail can offer you, in terms of integrated services like Google Docs, free phone dialing, video conferencing, etc.
Refactoring one of my old websites (200,000 lines of code). Code was horrible. I think in 5 years I will tell the same story about my recently refactored code =)
I have witnessed this in myself and others, and it is painful to both see and experience.

Of course the question is: what can we do about it?
+1.

SendEnv in ssh_config? AcceptEnv in sshd_config? No specifics cited in the man pages.
GoDaddy Standard SSL Certificate is just 5.99USD
Yeah, as you can probably tell I struggled a lot with the term "Silicon Valley." I meant to describe more the culture than the geographic place, but since I'm based in SF it all kind of got conflated. Good point, I'm going to think a bit more about how to make that distinction clearer.
Probably just trolling the pedantic. Looks like it worked :)
LinkedIn groups (especially large ones) have the potential to be very spammy. I like finding small groups, where there's an opportunity to be of value. Answer questions, and develop relationships.
Yes, there are oil and gas jobs for CS majors / tech people. I went to school at UT Austin, which as you might imagine, has a nontrivial number of these companies recruiting. However, my takeaways from these companies:

- You'll most likely be working in Houston / San Antonio (probably not where you want to be working)

- They pay well by general, non-tech, new grad standards, but don't expect the "standard" 100K salary + 50K signing bonus + 30K/year stock that's become standard fare in the Valley. That said, the cost of living in Texas is significantly lower than the Valley (plus, no state income tax!), so you might come out ahead here.

- Not a ton of startups in the space, due to the large amount of capital required. You're basically working for the big guys. This means that there isn't much upside. WYSIWYG, you aren't going to become an overnight millionaire.

- Culture is much more corporate than Valley companies. So don't expect free food / drink / laundry / massages / gym memberships / rail passes. And you may have to wear clothing other than jeans + flipflops to work.

Major companies in this space recruiting CS people: Valero, Schlumberger, ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Phillips 66.

All the above said, there are some pretty cool technical challenges that these companies face. Where do you drill? How do you analyze seismic data to figure out on a macro level where to explore? What about when you start drilling and find oil, what's the best way to extract it? These companies have massive quantities of data gathered from sensors as they're drilling / exploring, and they need to crunch through it to minimize waste and maximize the possibility of hitting large amounts of easily extractable oil. The oil/gas space is definitely gratifying from a solving-real-problems-instead-of-social-media-BS perspective.
I think, like brk mentioned, the cost of sheets is not terribly high and neither is the burden of washing them. For me to be interested in a service like this it would need to offer some combination of the following:
- Cheaper than buying new sheets (offering expensive sheets at much less than their retail cost per month would be a nice selling point)
- Someone to put them on my bed for me (honestly I don't mind doing laundry, but I hate making my bed. go figure)
- Free upgrade to more pillow cases. I sleep with 8 king-sized pillows and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
- A selectable scent option. If I could get sheets guaranteed to smell like fresh coffee for the week until I get new ones, I'd be seriously interested.
- More colors and patterns. White sheets feel like a hotel, I'd definitely want to mix it up.

You might want to also consider adding in fresh pillows as an add-on, as really nice pillows can be costly and having the pillows themselves be constantly washed and fluffed would be nice.

Cool idea though, cheers.
Response to the Sandy Hook Tragedy
The prevalence of #1 on your list (among other reasons) are why I always have and always will believe that improvements to education yield by far the most return on investment vs any other allocation of resources. Improving education throughout the world is the single best way to increase economic output.

Now, things I did not say:

* "Put more money into our education system as it is."

We are in need of vast improvement, and we should be investing time and money towards innovation and improvement.

* "Stop funding and/or stop using our existing educational system."

Yes, there are many, many flaws, but our educational systems have improved our society a great deal, and are fantastic avenues and methods of distribution for educational innovation.

* "Edtech is the best industry!"

I'm still unsold on the edtech space as a way of improving education. Particularly, I fear that our existing models for business, when applied to education, will exclude the vital underpriveleged demographic who have some of the most potential for growth. Aditionally, much of the edtech I see used in schools does little to actually aid student learning—but it certainly does look good on a quarterly newsletter where administrators list what fantastic things they're doing for their school. Whoever figures out how to make equitable, effective educational technology that turns a profit will be one of the preeminent innovators of our time.

(Note: If you believe you or your company are doing this, I have Ruby on Rails skills, am willing to learn any technology you work with, and I want to work for you.)

In sum: The act of improving the effectiveness of the systems which themselves improve the effectiveness of human capital yields exponential and undervalued economic gains. I hope in the future it receives more focus.
The toolchain and mapping are too difficult.

They aimed high but made too many concessions from a web-developer point of view.
trying to deploy node.js on a private VPS running on CentOS, to say I was in over my head is an understatement but I did find a new appreciation for sysadmins
Babak Parviz, head of the Google Glass project, hints at what to expect next
Malware Pretends to be document from SOPA - locks computer screens
I thought this maybe very useful for some of the developers out there like it was to me.
I've been running kippo (ssh honeypot) with a really weak root password. It's really entertaining to watch people break in and try to muck around.
This is the year I learned that the longer I live, the more people close to me I will lose.
"Give a guy a fish, and he'll have food for a day. Teach a man how to fish, and he'll have food for a lifetime."

This is why I really love the Kiva model: instead of giving money away, you instead become a 2nd/3rd world Angel Investor.

It also makes me think about Hans Rosling's excellent TED talk about population growth and globalization: http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_g...
Thanks for that :) I've read all the srtatup founder stories and they all seem to involve WAY too much work and way too many hours.
Call me when btrfs has parity.
Personally I would have gone with a dedicated server from somewhere like OVH, about the same price as those VPS's with similar resources (but they are dedicated to you...)

As for SSH, just move it on to a port other than 22, that will fix 99% of the bots trying to guess your password.
The FPS demo is just that: a demo. It's not made by a game company. It's not made by iD. It's a demo made to run on as many desktops as possible, unlike anything by iD, which pushes graphics to the limit. Graphics are your issue with this demo? A game company can make an HTML5 FPS with amazing graphics. There is no reason why they can't.

To clarify: the top 10 successful new tech businesses. And not necessarily financially, but that have the most impact. Also, this is a discussion about software. Sure, IBM has made a ton of money compared to Facebook. They have long-term contracts with governments and businesses worldwide; making money for IBM means waking up tomorrow. But they're boring. They're the successful company that makes all the screws; vital to the world, hugely profitable, but boring. I'm talking about new tech software companies you've actually heard of, and use their service every single day. When anyone talks about new startups, they inevitably mean a web-based company.

Okay, so Facebook launches as a downloadable EXE? What about Amazon, or Twitter? Everyone has to install it to use it. There has to be a Mac version, and a Linux version. Then the iOS and Android versions. Everything is native apps. This is a terrible ideal world you live in.
Once things get screwed up enough, you need pretty specialized exercises to correct it. My glutes barely engage anymore, so typical lifting and gym exercises don't work. You feel like a dork doing the clam at the gym, but it works.
Route53 is a much better alternative to running your own service. I used to have a similar setup for taskup.com and other sites that I'm hosting but for the $0.20 that I pay every month to Amazon, I get weighted DNS responses based on the region that the request comes from and requests get served to the local server for that region, redundancy in 12+ zones, etc. The latency alone for a DNS lookup from India was about 300ms to our server in PA, but now it's under 30ms.
Having said that, it's a good learning opportunity.
I haven't used the FUSE one extensively but the native one kept leaking memory until the system was exhausted. (Specifically it did this whenever I messed with a large number of files, I'm sure it works fine for media storage as StavrosK says.)
Oops, fixed! :)
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Trying to do both.

"How many of us think less of PG because HN uses tables?"

I understand your point, but I think that is more of a implementation of features, rather than which features make it in for first release.

Its a valid point that if the first few users are the majority then you are in trouble. I would hope that the first few users/adopters however would become my biggest cheerleaders thus contributing to a snowball effect of new users.
I agree with a lot of what you're saying. I think one issue is actually Silicon Valley's model of "disruption" — ie new solutions replace old ones. For example, instead of fixing public transit in San Francisco (or SF -> SV) we now have all of these new private infrastructures for transit within SF (Uber, Lyft, Cabulous, etc) and SF -> SV (all those shuttles, see: http://stamen.com/zero1/).

What happens then is that the people with apps, the people with jobs at Google, Apple, Facebook, live in a completely different urban landscape than ones who aren't in the ecosystem. When we can't see the problems of MUNI we don't feel them, and when they aren't problems for us we won't feel like fixing them. I'd love for us to have more of a civic sense as well, vs this complicated and classed (but faster to build!) layering of private infrastructures.
I'm actually based out of Houston so it would be an easy transition. I'm used to that sort of culture. From the limited amount of searching I have done I have seen mostly SCADA type work. It doesn't seem to be solving the 'real problems' that are far more gratifying.

In other words, I want to be solving interesting problems like you cited, and not debugging a reporting tool.

I actually went to a UT satellite school for my MS.

I'll take a look at the companies you've mentioned. I have quite a few contacts at many oil and gas companies so I'll leverage those.
There was a line of iOS apps (*-foo) that were exactly this. I'm pretty sure they couldn't make it successful enough though, and closed up shop a year ago.
Get passionate about what you want to do. Skive, make time, lie cheat and steal to do what you want. Make your hobby/free time important to you.
It's easy to talk about using political power for good purposes when you don't have it yet.

If Silicon Valley actually tried to become a political force, it might discover that the tech community doesn't agree on what the nation's most important problems are. Or that there is little correlation between the ability to make a lot of money putting advertisements on people's screens and the ability to find practical solutions to complex social problems. Or that the rest of the country doubts the goodness of its motives.
Yeah $10 is alright, between the packs and the sales that's about what I pay anyway. Digital rentals look like a scam to drive purchases, there's no reason they should even exist anymore just sell us a film or a subscription.
Less late night gaming.
One more un-closed tag and I quit!
Holy moly...great thoughts! Thanks for the feedback jgj.

Most people I've talked to about this in the past few hours have more than two pillows. Turns out I'm the only sucker with not enough pillows :).
I wrote "quietly" released in my original HN title (since edited by mods) because Resig neither made a blog post nor even tweeted about its availability, which seemed very odd to me, especially for something 4 years in the works.

He did write a bit about the status of the book back in July, if anyone is interested: http://ejohn.org/blog/secret-omens/

edit: John just tweeted: https://twitter.com/jeresig/status/285858421029347328
I can understand that if a facebook login is required, but offering it as a choice shouldn't be frowned upon.
This is a pretty reasonable goal. I suggest you also consider learning FORTRAN (starting with 77) and a solid scripting language like Python or the more niche IDL (used extensively in space research)

You can get your foot in the door with some more high level programs doing things like data processing and visualizations, and once you are there you will be able to find the opportunity to get your hands dirty with space code.

I worked in a group doing solar physics research and although my code didn't get pushed to a satellite, I did get to do a lot of awesome analysis on data sent back from the satellite.

You should browse sites like the AAS Job Register as well: http://jobregister.aas.org/

The Science Engineering and Support/Technical staff positions are often open to people without a PhD and offer a great opportunity to work on space science.

As an aside: How are you selecting your man pages? Do you have a specific group in your sights, or will you pick day by day?
You do know that any country party to the Berne Convention agreed to a minimum copyright term of 50 years? Good luck convincing Obama he wants to back out of that.
The problems are in the core implementation of Jython, not in using Jython to solve problems. For example: http://bugs.jython.org/issue1634167
It's been so long that I'm not sure if I bought it already or not.
There are large budgets for geological data analysis, but in contrast to most businesses the oil and gas industry actually has physical constitutive models for the phenomena they track; so, instead of domain-agnostic data mining, they are much more interested in being able to solve partial differential equations that model oil flows through various materials so that they can identify useful areas to explore (or optimize a drill insertion etc.). Traditional data mining of the form "when variable x is > 5 and variable y is < 10, expect z to be 42" is not nearly powerful enough in its current form to compete with domain models derived from physics.

Silly aside: you might find that the wide variety of non-CS engineers in the oil and gas business will be amused by the idea that "tech jobs" means software jobs ;-)
> And please none of this "Rent for $3.99 or rent for $4.99 in HD". Just give me one price and the best quality version that you can.

As perhaps a reason why they'd do this. Some of us are on bandwidth caps. Watching/downloading too many HD movies can put you over your monthly cap pretty easily.

I actually like that they give the user the choice.
ZFS is great, possibly the closest to perfection available at any price today.

But theres a word beginning with "O" and ending with "racle", they are so focused on the short term buck they are massacring their potential revenues with their short sighted approach of keeping Solaris out of everyone's hands.
>With mirroring, the mirror drives would take over when a disk failed.

The mirror drives that also have bad sectors? Then you go even longer without noticing you have problems.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja#Outerwear

"Clothing used was similar to that of the samurai, but loose garments (such as leggings) were tucked into trousers or secured with belts."
No matter how much effort and thought is put into writing quality code, looking back in a year or two I will cringe at it. Second, I recently saw the accepted answers per tag on broken down by average age on stackoverflow. Just realized I am over the hill (as far as software development goes)...
Now you're just splitting hairs about the definition of QoS, which again is defined in standards and fits in with the standardised definition of IPTV. I'm not going to quote it all because the chances are there is another standard with slightly different wording that can be construed to mean something else.

It doesn't change the fact that the article is describing an "over the top" network where content is delivered over the public internet which isn't suitable for a broadcast-like television experience (start torrenting on another machine and you'll see why). It also ignores the fact that the content will almost certainly be delivered in low-bitrate/poorly encoded and half-framerate (for full frame/field rate material) like every OTT service out there. Try watching sports at 25/30fps on a television and your headache will tell you that it's not a television experience.
Steve Job's life in 9 sentences
This post sucks. There are a lot of reasons for sucking, such as describing a non-problem. That's not this posts problem. This posts problem is that it describes a very real problem, and then basically throws up it's hands in defeat. That's actually worse than not saying anything at all, as it leaves the reader upset, but with no balm for the wound.

Thanks for wounding me and not giving me a bandage. Or, as I've heard it put, "If you're going to show someone a pile of shit, you better also show them the shovel."

So, taking my own medicine, here's the shovel for a post like this: stop writing posts describing problems that you have no ability, no ideas, and no real capability to solve. Otherwise you're just indulging in self-centered, self-hating navel gazing which does absolutely nothing for the world. I realize that sounds harsh, but it's a useful filter to apply to yourself. Only share actionable anxieties.
I think what you say is true.

However, that appears to support the premise that having a management structure actually is more effective.

Imagine how hard it would be to run a company if 200 people had to agree on every little decision. Ever been on any kind of committee? If everything had to go through committee, very few businesses could prosper.

So having a management layer lets the owner select, over time, those people that he wants to share in the decision making. And that seems like a solid benefit of maintaining a management layer.

Whereas Chomsky/Noble seemed to be saying (if I understood them correctly) that the management layer was actually a detriment, but that business owners chose it to maintain class separation.
Completely 100% agree with you, and have been mildly obsessed with Uber and other ride-sharing apps since I moved here because of their conflict with city government and the implications they have for public transportation.

One of the most jarring San Francisco experiences I had when I first got here was getting off Mission/16th BART and then walking a block to Valencia street. The difference that block makes is a good metaphor for what I'm trying to describe in this article, but I'm not creative or articulate enough to describe it in this context and have it make sense.
I've grown so dependent on Kindle that if I don't find a book on there I never bought it. I've waited years for the release, I'll wait a bit more for the kindle version.
Worked perfectly, thanks! Total with shipping was $25.24. The price without shipping is about the same on Amazon.