skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he's referring to adding links when you're writing, much like you would bold, and italics. As it happens, its the first ticked I'd created in github - https://github.com/tholman/zenpen/issues/1
Protecting a Home Office from a Natural Disaster
Apple trademarks its retail store design
How American Express Screwed Me - I Need Your Help
Introduce reasonable pricing along with an easy to use web app. And remember that existing technology (such as Netflix) is not yet available outside of the US.
As much as someone just out of med school, yes. At an absolute bare minimum you still need to do your internship for a year before you can practice.

On your first point; most people don't use most of what they learn in college once they leave it. This is substantially less true of medicine than many other fields. At the same time most doctors do a pretty thorough job of forgetting math and physics and a reasonable job of forgetting chemistry.
Yeah that's the only kind of PE I've met. As a profession they do not impress. These guys are incapable of imagining anything they haven't done before a hundred times, let alone doing it and putting their seal on it.
> It's actually seen as a kind of liability, that a great person could generate leverage to effectively demand more money or leave and take unique institutional knowledge with them.

this begs the question - _just who exactly_ is the entity that is seeing this as a liability instead of an asset? I suspect its not the owner of the business, but a middle manager who needs to make themselves valuable, and their only value is in managing other employees. A self directed, motivated employee who has large leverage could pose risk to the said middle manager.

Of course, all this is just speculation.
very true. let me think of a way to fix this while keeping it simple. thanks for the feedback!
in addition to NYT story, Seattle Times, which has a reporter fulltime on aviation

http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2020241162_7...
You are allowed to build and prepare before hand. The Idea is to get a bunch of smart interesting people together in a room, make cool thing and have fun. I would guess by looking at some of the ideas so far that the hackathon will be just a part of some designs that could becomes companies. Others will be really great projects that will be done almost entirely in the event. Do you have an idea of what you want to work on?
I feel the same way about discrete math and numerical analysis (a mix of calc 2 and algorithms). These are the first things I look for on a transcript.
All right. I program and I speak English all the time, how's that for credentials?

I mean this in the nicest possible way but this is like saying a whole lot and nothing at the same time. I think if I heard this as a verbal response to the original article, I would think the speaker just wants to hear himself speak.

You haven't really stated counter point by which to justify any kind of disagreement. It's seems to be like a promissory note of "well if the language conformed to some subset dialect like legalese that could be great." I think there are very big problems for English-like programming languages that this sort of skirts over and dismisses. Just because you think people that think a phrase like "Me ain't got no dollas" is horrible grammar are just fuddy duddy "prescriptivists" doesn't really solve the problem of English-like programming languages.
Anything that goes into a new model of jumbo jet should have reams of test documentation. Multiple people at Boeing would have examined and approved this stuff. If they were fooled they shouldn't have been.
Even if the engineers at Boing are REALLY good (and that's not guaranteed by any means) then you've still go the subcontractor problem to deal with. Boeing didn't design, engineer, fabricate, test and qualify these batteries in-house.

Saying that they have advanced degrees from prestigious institutions makes it less likely that they have made mistakes is a non-starter. There ARE PROBLEMS with the batteries FULL STOP. The degrees of those involved make no difference anymore. How seriously they take things doesn't matter.

I don't see that any Tesla cars have caught on fire according to Google (probably not accurate) but in terms of any metric you'd like to see, they're doing much better. Fires per passenger mile, fires per car per year, etc.
US-Iran Cyber Conflict Ties to Economic Warfare
> Sarandos: The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us.

Good plan.
Back to monospace we go! Thanks for the feedback.
44 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4930652

I think it's fairly safe to say that by the time something gets a writeup in the Sydney Morning Herald the majority of readers of HN will already have heard of it.
Regardless of how 'fun' something is you're choosing to risk your time and money on an idea (rather than another idea or another job). I have a ton of fun at my day job. That doesn't mean they should pay me less, because then I could go work for someone else who appreciates my value and hopefully have fun there and make better money. Fun or how much I love it is a separate issue.
Excellent stuff, thanks a lot for sharing. The Airbnb tech talks have been great, you guys are breaking some great ground and it's cool that you're so enthusiastic to share your discoveries.
> While I may not have children, I have close friends who do and family that does. So what? I communicate with them just fine and share bday photos like everyone else without a problem and without being tied to facebook.

How does everyone else do this? How do people get both sets of grandparents checking the same photo sharing site where mom can take pictures at the playground and share instantly? What photo site is easy enough that the grandparents can snap photos on their smartphone (that they barely know how to use) that lets them easily upload them?

> It is not the only means of communication or file sharing.

Of course not. The network effect makes it easy to push the last few missing family members onto it for a narrow purpose.

> If you have a problem with annoying photo's without facebook, then may I suggest telling those involved with sending you too much info/photo's to maybe limit it a bit?

I would never tell new parents that. Luckily, some forms of sharing are easy to rate limit.

> For such a "social network" people have trouble communicating with each other, it seems

That's just it. Email isn't really a social network.
It's very orange. But overall it's very nicely designed and looks very professional. Maybe make the links in the footer a little darker? But I'm pretty sure that's not the best use of your time. :)
Eh, it's details. Something that really wasn't important or big. But, I do agree with you. It did stand out.
appreciate you responding to my somewhat snarky comment. for the record, while i appreciate that facebook's concurrent user and database/data challenges are complex problems, the actual product itself isn't that sexy to me in terms of what the user gets for all that effort (i'm thinking about the news feed, photo storage, etc.) But i don't use much on the site so maybe i'm missing out.

i think robots picking artichokes would be cool in terms of both high tech and reducing the dependency on exploitative labor conditions. but moving robots and object recognition are tough problems, and when there's other "low hanging fruit" (excuse the pun) to be found in other startups the technically difficult stuff can get pushed off.

exec may also have longer life as a viable business than facebook. it fills a need that won't go away, whereas facebook has a major risk of having the fad end, or alienating users through ever-increasing invasion into people's personal data driven by the need to justify a ridiculous valuation.

only risk i see to exec is what happens to your quality labor pool if the job market tightened, but that doesn't seem like a big risk for a while. with 8+ million people dropping out of the labor force over the last four years, there's a lot of slack to pick up.

i agree that credentials are not necessarily indicative of on-the-job effectiveness. alternative and cheaper ways to hire people, like using programming tests (we use them at my company), are tricky and can risk running into discrimination lawsuits if they are not directly job related, esp at bigger companies. however, for some reason using tests to filter people out is considered OK if it is done through a university, and then employers hire on the back end, which leads me to think that it is partly employer laziness and partly fear of liability that keeps the credentialing system intact.
It's a smart PR move in either scenario. It's unlikely this will matter if he is wrong.

If he is correct, this will become an even larger main stream news story and there is a good chance that his prescience will be picked up and included in how it is reported.

More importantly, if this becomes a major story, he has preempted the inevitable look at other products (tesla) which include li-ion batteries by describing the distinction between the two. This could become a major shitstorm that Tesla gets rolled into but by making this statement he's getting out in front of it and shaping how that story will be told.

If he is wrong, the batteries are fine and there is no story.
Note to self - John Supan, CFO of Adbrite, is a serial liar.

Funny his profile says CPA, California (Inactive)

http://flgpartners.com/partners/supan

I guess the CPA gave him the boot!

From penny stocks to startups. What an illustrious career! Shaddy character indeed.
Yes, I am very disappointed. I cannot comprehend how the handling of large files hasn't been addressed yet. I really hope at least there is a setting for toggling the syntax on/off based on file size, if nothing else. I mean seriously, DOS' EDIT.EXE is better than Sublime Text in this regard. It almost makes me want to punch a wall or something, all because of a text editor.
Does Pivotal Labs really not care about non-US customers?
I tried Pivotal Tracker today but found that the dates are in US MM/DD format and not configurable.

The issue has been ignored for more than four years:

http://community.pivotaltracker.com/pivotal/topics/please_allow_for_non_us_dd_mm_yy_date_format

Are they really so short sighted?
Maybe a little OT but:

By law, no one can practise as a "professional engineer" in Canada or the United States without a licence. The BS is just one part of becoming a professional engineer.
So the battery seems to be very important when you're somewhere with no ground generator.

Like in the sky? After your engines have stopped for some reason? That could be exciting!
Agreed. But since I wasn't expecting anything new in terms of information from a standard news outlet, I was pleasantly surprised.
This is very awesome! I actually wrote a couple of paragraphs upon first try, congrats!
"Computers will die. They're dying in their present form. They're just about dead as distinct units.” ― Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis

even the word "computer" sounds hopelessly old-fashioned
I, too, chuckled at this.
but being on the internet, what tax rate would it be if i purchased from another country that has no sales tax?

I think taxing sales is the wrong thing to do - you must tax the entity recieving the money. So if amazon decides that the US is too high a tax rate, they can move their HQ to the caymen islands, and pay effectively no sales tax. This should lead to optimal tax rates across the board hopefully, whilest lowering prices.
Do you seriously think you can get any kind of reasonable compression using only operations that are data-independent?
Yea, but then they'd also have to do a maps interface via the browser when they're really just trying to move their extremely profitable hardware.
Yes, thats right. Thanks
I wouldn't say that is "natural language like." I would just say that is a very loquacious programming language. I contend the C equivalent of that is more readable. You're using the same sort of constructs in typical programming languages but still lacking anything like the kind of fluid reading and understanding one would expect from the promise of English like programming languages.
I've been looking for resources on when to use rails vs when to use node.js. I've been programming in ruby/rails for 2 years and picked up node about 9 months ago. Any tips or resources to learn which tool to use depending on the problem?
Gasoline is not all that dangerous in the vast majority of failure modes. Li-ion is both corrosive and easier to set on fire which is a real issue for hybrids and aircraft.
>unless there was something so obviously wrong with the design that a conclusion was inescapable

Isn't that exactly what both Musk and Professor Sadoway are suggesting in the linked article?
If anyone wants to email Yale's incoming President Peter Salovey to let him know why this is not OK, his email is Peter.Salovey@yale.edu
The Japanese create the geekiest drink ever: #c0ffee
Why would a REST API require Apple to do a maps browser interface?
Dell Founder Said to Seek Majority Control Using Personal Funds
CS enrollment numbers are way up in every school. Yale is complaining about 200... at Princeton our intro course has over 500. At Stanford almost every undergrad takes a CS course at some point.

We have a good number of lecturers in addition to tenure-track faculty members (at Princeton CS). They are extremely good and greatly decrease our load, so we haven't faced burnout so far. That said, enrollment was up so sharply this semester that we had to hire lecturers on a month's notice, which is kind of insane. Also, we have a new industrial Master's program which lets us increase our number of TAs.

In spite of having adapted in all these ways and money not being a problem, we know that this won't continue to scale because enrollment growth shows no signs of slowing down. We're not sure what the long-term solution is going to be. Online education is part of it (and we're on Coursera), but so far we're not using it in a way that decreases our teaching staff requirements.

Strange times.
>Founder of Pen.io.

Well, that explains it.

Why are you talking about your own creation in that detached sense?
Marissa Mayer Aims Yahoo’s Guns at Google Search
How do they pay their bills with 'no pay'. The trust fund?
Ugh this sounds familiar.

Back in 2008-2010 I was one of two sitting students on the Computer Science curriculum committee at Rensselaer Polytechnic University (RPI).

Three topics were always present:

1. What do we do about kids who come in knowing inadequate math and how does this keep happening?

2. Should we consider switching out C/C++ as the default for Java as the default. (The answer to this was almost always no, but many professors at RPI accepted assignments in multiple languages, usually whatever the TAs were familiar with. I used a lot of python later in the year instead of C/C++/Java)

3. God damn it we are understaffed.

I hate to say it but #3 was always brought up near the end of every meeting and was visibly discouraging to all the teachers involved. RPI at the time was on the war-path of cutting professors in every single field who did not participate in research (so called "clinical faculty") which included letting one of the best CS professors go.

That teacher for you RPI alum was Dave Hollinger. They let him go(?) at the end of '08 but he taught a single class in '09 before leaving for good. Everyone loved him. http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=100535
Not sure if people are feeling it is somehow unkind to speak about the facts here but for those who wish to know they have been reported by local news in Las Vegas.

http://www.8newsnow.com/story/20784172/ecomom-co-founder-ceo...

So sad.
Odd. I consider it common decency, not "walking on eggshells."
Update: I emailed timeSpace about the subject and the swiftly replied with the following:

" for this first iteration of timeSpace, we will not be offering funding. While that may unfortunately limit the pool of applicants, it is the most viable way to efficiently launch the program and get entrepreneurs on board as soon as possible. We will reevaluate for future iterations.

Very sorry that this poses a problem for teams based outside of NYC.

Best,

the timeSpace team"
I read the link and came here also to ask this question. I cant find it on google anywhere where anyone has any info about this.
For me the requirements would be:

A flat monthly fee of less than $120AUD

An open API so apps like XBMC, Boxee, Plex etc. can integrate the service.

NO ADVERTISEMENTS! - this is a must I refuse to pay for something and have to watch ads.

Shows are available as soon as the first airdate in all regions(If you air a show more than 48 hours after first airing in its country of origin you will never compete with piracy)

The ability to download DRM free SD versions of content so I can watch them while travelling on planes etc.(This may seem far fetched but if you seriously want to compete with piracy you need to match its functionality, people could easily do this illegally now anyway so why not just make it part of your service and actually make money)

It is a must to match the ease of use and functionality of piracy to compete with it, piracy allows you to watch a TV show within an hour of it's first airdate anywhere in the world at the quality of your choice with no advertising or DRM. At a minimum you must meet these requirements to compete effectively.
"I design a cell to not fail and then assume it will and the ask the next 'what-if' questions," Sinnett, [Boeing's 787 chief project engineer] said. "And then I design the batteries that if there is a failure of one cell it won't propagate to another. And then I assume that I am wrong and that it will propagate to another and then I design the enclosure and the redundancy of the equipment to assume that all the cells are involved and the airplane needs to be able to play through that."

OK, maybe part of this is bravado, and it seems that the failure of one cell certainly has spread to another, but so far at least no plane has crashed as a result. I think Boeing's engineers should get some credit for that? One could imagine worse results than we've seen, especially in fields of engineering that don't have aviation's safety practices.
I just tried it in Montreal. There seems to be an unusually large number of attractive females. Every second girl is gorgeous.

Granted, I'm in Montreal, which has a surplus of attractive females. But local OK Cupid usage is pretty low.

Anyone know if Tinder has system generated fake profiles?
I'm a CS student at the University of Washington.

We do something [that I consider] interesting here to staff TAs for courses, which is hire undergraduate teaching assistants. Generally, a course will have one head TA who is a grad student, and multiple undergraduate TAs. I've TA'd for a while as an undergraduate, and it's been a really great experience for my career.

Especially in the intro courses and lower level courses, I don't think that it's necessary to hire computer science gurus -- it's actually easier to find undergraduates who are capable and passionate for teaching than it is to find graduate students (partly because there are more undergraduates).

Some documents produced by one of the lecturers who I work for as a TA.

http://www.cs.washington.edu/public_files/publications/msb/h...

ftp://ftp.awl.com/cseng/authors/roberts/cs1-c/documents/ugradtas.txt
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SendHub (YC W12) is looking for an Android Developer.
Skills: Java (2 years experience), Android (1 year experience)

Nice to have: Experience with Google Guice (Or other Dependency Injection Framework). Experience with Cordova/PhoneGap. Javascript

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SendHub has over 60k customers across the US in SMBs, politics, faith groups, sports, education and many more; making hundreds of thousands of calls and sending millions of texts each month.

The Role: You’ll be involved in every part of the software life cycle from specs discussion to implementation to testing and releasing. You’ll work on challenging problems that require deep knowledge of the tech stack and work with fun technologies such as VoIP and Bluetooth.

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We're based in downtown Menlo Park, CA (very close to the caltrain station). If you're interested, please drop us a line: jobs [at] sendhub [dot] com.
Cos someone else built the current PenZen for the company as a side project, but we host it
No, to be honest they should just learn to program then. Maybe what you're talking about would be great if all programs were 100 line simple things but that's not reality. If we want to solve the "lawyers need to read and understand computer programs for legal reasons" problem, it makes more sense to just educate lawyers on programming. In some ways this is like saying lawyers need to be electrical engineers, civil engineers, etc. We need physics to more Englishy and less Mathy. :) I jest but I'm serious. For business rules, perhaps this simple case could be expressed with a specialized DSL or config depending on your needs but I think this is a little tertiary.
Chief Designer leaves Zynga
'Epic Citadel' tech demo now on Android
Emacs keybindings appear to be messed up: C-a, C-e, C-k, C-y.
Reminds me of the "death of programmers" that I've been hearing is right around the corner for that last 3 decades. You know, computers will understand what you want and just do it. Except that 90% of programming is not translating ideas into computer cyphers, it's figuring out (or guessing at) what the user really wants.

For example, what should happen if the network drops out in the middle of a save? Should it save a copy locally? Where? No, not the temp directory; that will be erased if the computer is rebooted. And so on.
We actually made something similar sometime back - http://solitarydesigns.net/write/

Also planning on adding features like Save+Share, etc. soon (just not getting enough time).

It's also open sourced on github - https://github.com/kushsolitary/Write
Furthermore, hindsight is 20/20. It's easy to rush in after the fact and make up reasons (even if those reasons are legit) to explain what is retrospectively obvious. Where was this warning before the incidents? As you stated, it's completely opportunistic and out of line to make this kind of claim without the due diligence.
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I do this every night for a few hours. Always neat to catch up on humanity's progress/decline when I read the newspaper in the morning :)
What is the relationship between CPU tick and hertz?
Maybe part of the problem is the misnomer of the whole field itself. CS is not really science, it's math. It's about tools that every professional and scientist will later need. And as such, I'd argue that teaching is actually more important than research.

Of course, these tools need to be researched and developed as well, but more importantly do we need very capable teachers in order for people to build their foundation. IMO every Master of Science should have a good overview of which tools in math and "CS" there are available, and they should be proficient in at least two of each.
Yup. I remember you. Was it racetrack or HoJos?