skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ihave no idea if UT Austin is a good comp sci program or if you're being sarcastic. This is the first I've heard of it.

UT Austin actually does have a wonderful CS program.* The reason you likely haven't heard about it is that it is notoriously difficult for out-of-state students in the US to get into UT Austin, so you don't have as diverse a student body (geographically speaking) as you do at many other top schools. Less than 10% of undergrads are not Texans.

* I didn't go there myself, but I've worked with people who did, and they are top-notch.
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and (from the article) if you do use safe mode, MongoDB is a lot slower and can no longer finish the entire benchmark suite in the time allotted.
I think the cornerstone of this discussion centers around what, where and how non-university educated developers can excel.

Everyone seems to have a certain implicit sense that, sure enough, a CS education isn't crucial to work in certain sub-sets of software development. Likewise, it's well understood that such a foundation is necessary in others.

> For example, if you're doing anything with machine learning, you might want people who understand statistics. Oh, and if you're designing aircraft, you might want someone who's studied aeronautical engineering

Exec, of course, is neither doing cutting edge work in machine learning nor designing aircraft. Neither, if we are honest, are most startups or software companies hiring developers (including those who emphasize & prefer pedigree).

The question being posed (continuously) is :

To what degree is being self-taught (or, non-university taught) a hindrance in positions that do not explicitly call for it? If it's not a major hindrance, then is limiting the hiring pool in fact irrational?

I do not see this being answered adequately and directly. More often than not, we default to pointing out edge cases where a university education in CS/robotics/engineering/bio-engineering/what have you is necessary to perform the basic job functions. This isn't particularly productive.

Data should resolve discussions, not corner cases or anecdotes. Is there anything actionable or quantifiable that we can work with, or will this discussion inevitably lead down the path of opinion?
Yes, they'd have to come up with something else to get equivalent results from minification, like a special minified dialect where whitespace characters are replaced with another unused symbol (perhaps a canary-type header like the coding: thing). If this is determined infeasible they'd probably just have to accept that the whitespace needs to be transferred, which honestly I wouldn't really consider a bad thing.

Minification should not be considered as a major reason to forgo the benefits of alternate scripting languages.
Oh! Oh! This is something I actually know something about! So, if you're willing to use something like FontSquirrel (http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator) to convert a single font file into four different formats, and if you're willing to store all four formats on your site, then you can fix your font problem by loading the .eot version of it first in your stylesheet, followed by a "?". Like so:

@font-face {
font-family: 'Crimson Text';
src: url('/style/v6/fonts/crimsontext-regular.eot?') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('/style/v6/fonts/crimsontext-regular.woff') format('woff'),
url('/style/v6/fonts/crimsontext-regular.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('/style/v6/fonts/crimsontext-regular.svg#svgFontName') format('svg');
}

The browsers I've tested on so far will only load the file they're interested in, so it doesn't add much overhead in requests.

There's a breakdown of the hows & whys of this method at http://www.fontspring.com/blog/the-new-bulletproof-font-face...; I think that's the most current method in use. It seems to work well.
You aren't allowed to grunt when lifting weights at Planet Fitness? Why?

I thought it was well known that sharp breathing can increase strength for a short amount of time. Besides, sometimes when you're doing something really exhausting, you'll grunt involuntarily...
No, it does an absolutely horrible job supporting anything that resembles class-based OO. That's why so much JavaScript code is utterly unmaintainable. It doesn't offer the functionality that developers want and need, so they have to fake it, and this can only be done very poorly.
This is why it is so hard to buy a raspberry pi. Google has bought them all up.
Neither. Build up a mailing list of prospects while you build and keep them updated on your progress. On launch day, spread the news among the mailing list.
I like that.

Possible to add a button that brings up the save dialog in a particular directory (as opposed to cmd-s and choose directory?) Or just the button (just happen to prefer to cmd key myself)?
It would be something on the web. Often I just want an example or a quick run through, and I don't want to have extra clutter. Probably more likely to be true for newcomers.
Another issue this raises is the likely hood of most to all free space being used up and the impact this will have on the life and performance of the SSD and the Surface Pro is a whole.

Do we know the specs of the SSD? What controller type it's using? TRIM support?
The “W” Screen, the story of an Easter Egg
It is a computer. It's sold as a computer. It runs REAL. WINDOWS. It is not an iPad.

When I buy a computer, the OS takes up some of the space, despite what size the storage lists.

MS disclosed this BEFORE anyone purchased the system.

Where's the complaint?
Ah, ok, I don't disagree with that. I had read the anti-credential argument as being against formal education entirely. I do agree that the finer distinctions of university rankings are unimportant, especially at the undergraduate level, and serve mostly as a pedigree. I wouldn't differentiate at all among, say, the top-20 CS schools, and I'd differentiate only weakly between the top-20 and top-100. To the extent I would, it's mostly in that the top-20 tend to have "harder" programs, since they typically accept stronger students, so their curricula can often be designed with higher expectations and covering more material. But there are plenty of solid programs at non-Ivy-League places like Cal Poly Pomona or Purdue.
Man, so many jobs in CA. Where are all the NY jobs being posted?
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This + Ruby syntax highlighting.

https://gist.github.com/4666256
The one feature I thought that made more sense to me when I learned it was Branches... the more about branches and pull request the better. That and rm --cached as well
Incomes are not the same in Atlanta and SF! The same person at an equivalent job will earn MUCH more money in SF.

Let me break down the math (all approximate):

SF: $100k/year income, $24k/year rent, $45k/year taxes, $31k/year disposable

Atlanta: $50k/year income, $8k/year rent, $20k/year taxes, $22k/year disposable

So if you live in SF, an iPhone is 1.6% of your disposable income. In Atlanta, it's 2.3%. That makes it "cheaper".

However, $24k/year in SF probably buys you a lot less house than $8k/year does in Atlanta. The SF real estate market is stupid.
The Ins and Outs of the Latest Apple TV Upgrade
a little more on the analog design end, but I like:

The Art of Electronics by Horowitz & Hill

Integrated Electronics by Millman and Halkias (There was allegedly a newer edition published in 2001)

Electrical Engineering 101: Everything You Should Have Learned in School... but Probably Didn’t by Darren Ashby

Microelectronic Circuits by Sedra & Smith (Look around for a 4th edition)
Makes sense, and I like the simplicity of the design quite a bit. Maybe one way to augment it would be to add a button that throws the content into a gist/pastebin.something similar, so it could be more easily shared or preserved? Of course, it's a fine line between that and having social media buttons all over.
I'm not sure the mixed metaphors are a problem. Cherry picking and pulling from upstream both make sense, and understanding one doesn't interfere with the other. I also doubt there's any set of metaphors you could come up with that would have the kind of consistency required by the author. I am typing this in a box on a page in a window on a desktop on a notebook, and it doesn't seem to bother me.
rubbish. their job is to allocate funds and if they aren't competent enough to do that themselves then they need to hire expertise. FFS, they are spending millions and can't afford to spend a few grand on hiring their own technically literate representative? seriously, you're representing yourself in court next week? hhmm get back to me on how that works out for you. it's a level 0 mistake. i could cut you some slack that a lot of people don't kknow how to select a competent representative but that's a good discussion to have and certainly one that you should spend time and effort on _before_ writing the big cheques...
Why is it necessary to use a proxy?
To be fair, most people who are using the high end ships aren't getting their funding by grinding anymore.

Its much easier to play the market and/or prey on new players moving expensive stuff in areas they think are safe.

Incidentally, probably the most fascinating part of Eve is really the economy. It's by the closest thing to a 'real' market ever created in a virtual setting.
I think concerns of resource depletion are - and were proven numerous times in the past - very premature. We've had all kinds of Erlich-like extrapolations by which by now the society should have been disintegrated and we should be scavenging rotting ruins of our civilization looking for scraps of food. Instead, we spend our time liking pictures of cats on facebook, more resource-rich than ever, and that includes not only the golden billion but more remote locations too. Obviously, naive extrapolations don't work and haven't worked ever. Resource depletion is not a thing that is on immediate agenda. Of course, "sooner or later" our sun would explode or implode or whatever should happen to it and we'd better get off this planet by then. But given we're talking about timeframe much bigger than any experience of any civilization, we have no slightest idea what "we" would mean by then, if anything, so concerning about it seems useless now. While all these finiteness arguments are correct in principle, their practicality as for immediate agenda is not obvious, and rarely proven - usually it goes as "resources are limited, population is growing, so we'll be out of resources eventually, so we better start making laws right now that do whatever my political persuasion instructs me to do". It seems to me, the transition from theoretical limit to practical urgency needs to be proven first.

That doesn't mean simple efficiency of using resources - doing more with the same or less - shouldn't be on the agenda. On the contrary, this is the primary way of staying ahead of the game. But let's not panic and get into "our golden age has passed, we're all screwed now". We're not and we did not offend our Mother Nature and it has not doomed us to eternal Hell of resourcelessness. We just need to keep being smart and inventive and work hard at using available resources with maximal efficiency.
I love amazon and think they're probably a good investment, but it is really funny to see the different reactions to this vs. Apple.
Yeah, I can only imagine.

Though, my own recently re-ignited interest in astronomy has taught me that you can actually see quite a bit, including satellites in even thoroughly light polluted areas as my back yard rates red on these charts [1].

1: http://www.jshine.net/astronomy/dark_sky/
Geany has a built-in scratch pane, as well (along with a Terminal and some other handy panes that come included).
Worth noting, we actually did that as well. I believe we got 7-8 conversions on launch day from the ML.

Built from ~6 months of email capture on the landing page + 4 months of active customer discovery interviews.
Wow, nice work guys. For what it's worth, I think you've got some interesting ideas on tackling online forums; I hope you get enough activity to see how they work out.
Interestingly enough, this appears to be an Intellectual Ventures product (idea?). I might even be tempted to tolerate their existence if this thing works as advertised and becomes available on the cheap.
> Identifying strength as solely being a 'manly' attribute is pretty sexist.

No, you're missing this completely.

Let me try something different, but analogous. Back when I was in high school, I ran track. My sister (in 8th grade at the time) was fast enough to have been 4th on the men's varsity team. So people told her, wow, you're as good as a guy! Did we value speed as a "solely" male attribute? No, it was valued separately in its own classification (men and women race separately). However, the fact that my sister was good enough to actually compete with the men (who are overall much faster than women), came across as a compliment.

I would go so far as to invoke "isomorphic" as the most apt term in describing the type of compliment involved in mine and scrapcode's scenarios.

> Taking attributes and ascribing them to gender is useless at best.

Useless at best? I see this phrase a lot on the internet lately, and it must be a fad because it wasn't in popular usage a few years ago.

Men and women have different traits. It is a completely, scientifically, undeniable fact. Men will be better at certain skills, and women will be better at other skills. The latest social trend cannot change that.

If a woman is good enough to play in the NFL, great for her, we'd all be glad to see that! But that doesn't change the fact that the odds are ridiculously stacked against her being capable of doing such a thing. Maybe start a separate women's NFL? Alright, but since no one's done that, let's use common sense and say football is a man's sport. What is an activity that's typically only associated with females only: ballet dancers. Sure, there are male ballet dancers but until the ratio is close to 50/50, the term "ballet dancer" will continue to be associated with females, and for good reason.
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Re: Non-US cities - we aren't keeping track of what currency job postings are in, so the data for non-USD job listings would be confusing. Some people are posting in USD, others in euros, etc.

For now, you can see what jobs we have in London, or anywhere else by going to angel.co/jobs and then filtering by location.
I think it's unfortunate that much in the way of technology and infrastructure to manufacture products from that technology, is being treated as something we can assume we'll always have access to in the future. The fact is that just because the world is a place today where there are sufficient incentives for products made in one jurisdiction to be available in another does not mean it will always be the case. Indeed this has not been the case for most of human history.

There are many reasons a fair-minded person could accept as plausible for believing that the coming decades could see a rise in conflict in the world rather than a continuation of trends towards more international co-operation. Some might argue this has process has already begun. Peaking of resource availability including energy resources; impacts of climate change.

In a world of increased conflict having strategic competitors controlling the only realistic and timely access to technology and production is indeed a matter of national security, and a risk which we are likely to regret not taking seriously at some point in the future, IMHO.
hacker news black listed the ip address of my server after scraping 1 post's comments about once every fifteen minutes for a day. The best way I could think to get around this was an http proxy.
There is a web app, just like the regular app.
Not surprised. Windows in general is extremely inefficient with disk space. It keeps multiple copies of every patch and system dll under the Windows folder for defensive purposes.
Recent releases have added "restore points", winsxs, csc, and SoftwareDistribution\downloads, to the original dllcache.

I'm not joking when I say you can easily free up 10GB+ on an installation that has been around a while; 100GB if a service pack has been installed. And it only grows unless you actively manage it.

This is the shitty design these NT based tablets are facing. It could probably be solved by moving all this crap out of the system folder and into its own folder with an expiration date.
Anything she accomplished went nowhere? One has to be complete fucking career whore to entertain that thought for a second, otherwise it's a non-sequitur; anything she accomplished was accomplished, period, and the only loss you can complain about is that she can't stick it in her resume now, like someone else could have done. Hence career whore, and I know this is going to be killed or worse but I don't care. The fucking nerve of your post, really, to call a person a poison without a second thought. The irony of it, actually.

You have NO idea where she is going. Fucking up and learning from it gives you insights and even strengths you cannot have from not fucking up. Who knows, she might one day help people in similar situations, whatever.

had those opportunities gone to legitimate people, they could have advanced.

Right, and because of her, they are now stuck forever. Is that what you're arguing? Because it has to be either that, or that "any penny matters, time is money".. either way, this is a human talking about human stuff, what makes you think you even are competent to reply? You could have used the time you used to write that post to further your career, and now that moment evaporated forever. Better get hustling.
Sounds like you worked for idiots. Better employees would have noticed your seriousness and helped you develop your interest in the work I think.
There is nothing wrong with code that looks like english. The problem is that you can take that too far, or just sometimes not learn the actual syntax and try to use English instead. That isnt a problem for many languages. I really havent seen a lot of code where an attempt to make it read more like english was.making it less readable or causing other problems.

Also, there is a system for logical rules called Attempto Controlled English which I think has some proven use cases for business rules.
GNU Emacs April Fools' joke (2006)
Cool! Hope you keep working on this. Lots of ways to slice this data.
are you going to internationalize the salary for non US locations.

£ for the Uk and Eros for the Eurozone countrys (BTW for some eu countrys you need to mention if you get the 13th Month or not)
I agree with your intent. I do. If you're a high-profile site, or you're storing extremely sensitive customer data, this is absolutely something you need to be doing.

But your audience here is startups. Almost always, these startups are cash-strapped, time-crunched, and have zero dedicated ops guys. Ideally, even these types of businesses would prioritize security to the level you're asking.

In reality, as I said in my previous comment, almost none of the startups I've worked at have had the ops capacity necessary to handle this. Even with package management, servers go months without having critical security patches applied. Asking these types of companies to do something that increases the ops overhead necessary to apply patches is going to result in a worse outcome. Keep in mind that it's not simply compiling from source and having infrastructure to apply security patches across multiple boxes. It's also keeping an eye out for reported vulnerabilities — and not all projects have dedicated security mailing lists. Not all projects even report this information via mailing lists.

I wish it were different. I understand where you're coming from. But the incentives are set up ass-backwards, and until companies start having serious liability for data breaches, protecting customer data simply isn't going to be a priority. In the meantime, encouraging them to set up their infrastructure in a way that requires even more ops effort when they're already struggling to keep up is going to have an adverse outcome.
(I had edited my comment so that your quote doesn't apply any more- apologies)

This is an apples and oranges comparison. In your example, people were saying quite specifically that "you can run as fast as a man, and men tend to be faster runners than women". The OPs post said nothing of the sort.

You are inferring that they were referring to strength, but there's nothing to indicate that. Living by yourself in the woods is apparently manly. Maybe it's physical strength. Maybe it's mental strength. Maybe it's tool making. Maybe it's hunting. But saying that she is "more of a man" basically puts any and all of these things under the bracket of "man's activities", which is indeed, sexist.

To use the inverse, would you have said that someone who tried to live in the wild and failed was "more of a woman than any woman I know"?
AWS is contributing significantly to the revenue numbers:

"Other" revenue, which largely consists of AWS, had annual sales of $2.52 billion, up from $1.58 billion in 2011. "Other" sales were $820 billion in the fourth quarter, said Amazon.

http://www.zdnet.com/amazons-q4-falls-short-of-estimates-out...
Did you mean: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_board ?
They've been struggling with the issue of multi-thousand player fights for a while now, and have moved towards both of these solutions but are obviously not quite there yet.

For instance, the article actually talks about having said huge machines. There's a way in EVE to inform the GMs about anticipated big fights, at which point they'll do the reinforcement preemptively. In this case, there wasn't such a convenient warning.
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I think Wittgenstein demonstrated how much can be said in a language that doesn't have direct meaning when it comes to a logical framework. I think it's also underestimated the computing horsepower our brain uses to merely handle the ambiguity inherent to language. Given that to execute a program language needs to fit into some kind of logical, causal, framework, and that computers don't deal well with ambiguity, it's not surprising that this is a problem.
You can always use the inedible parts to make vegetable stock
I said "far more sensible", not "unflawed". Please don't misquote me.

And, yes, C is a far more sensible programming language than JavaScript is. C may not be perfectly defined, but at least it isn't full of stupid gotchas like JavaScript is. C doesn't bungle such basic things as equality checks, for instance. C also doesn't include idiocy like semicolon insertion.

C can be risky to use in some cases because it offers an extremely high degree of power and flexibility to the programmer.

JavaScript is risky to use in all cases because it is rife with design mistakes and other inherent flaws that make it much too difficult to write reliable, maintainable code.
We don't track of what currency job postings are in, so the stats for non-USD job listings would be confusing. Some people are posting in USD, others in Euros, etc.

It's something we should do.

For now, you can see what jobs we have in any location at angel.co/jobs (filter by location).
If he doesn't take it personally, as he shouldn't, then it doesn't matter.

The best quote I've read on the subject was that if people care enough to complain about your product, that means you did something right.
I think Iced CoffeeScript's await and defer are nicer.

There is also LiveScript which has backcalls:

x <- map _, [1 to 3]
x * 2
# => [2, 4, 6]

data <-! $.get 'ajaxtest'
$ \.result .html data
processed <-! $.get 'ajaxprocess', data
$ \.result .append processed

I think the LiveScript syntax is awesome.
Hmmm...I like it, but it's slightly broken. Also, what is with the insanely long URL? Stop that.

http://www.zenpen.io/#TU+7DoMwDPyV27og+gOIsRJTF/oBhhgSNSQSNk...