skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought this comment there summed up the entire article succinctly.

A contrarian comment based on the interestingly paradoxical fact that our sub-20K PhD found his path to happiness (if, indeed, that's what heading the American Enterprise Institute represents for him) by recognizing he might best pursue such a goal by becoming a tenured professor at a $45K per BA year institution. I remain unimpressed by today's tutorial
What are your thoughts on Meteor? I'm still learning JS and frameworks, but it looks pretty interesting.
That's great advice - the confluence of the opportunity, the team, and personal circumstance made this the perfect time for me to go after my dreams.

Cheers,
John
You can keep a plane flying straight and level while they go and find out. They know that there's a plane in distress and can route traffic around it, and get someone on the horn.
Haven't watched it yet, but I don't see how it being a political drama automatically makes it "bland"?
Not particularly informative. I worked on an assembly line for four months during the aftermath of the DotCom collapse building Mercedes M-Class SUV's. I've never ridden in a Mercedes much less driven one.

Of course I could if it was a life goal but I still wouldn't waste my money on something like that.
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These are really nice. I had wanted to get into angular and after watching a few of these I've already had many 'aha!' moments. Thanks for the hard work.
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Well, every situation is different so it's hard to say what the procedure is, but generally what I outlined above is the correct way of preventing / mitigating a stall. I should've mentioned that what I wrote above is for single engines, I'm not rated on multi-engine aircraft and can't say anything about the procedure for those. Keep in mind I'm not suggesting putting the airplane in a dive to recover altitude, the nose should perhaps be just a little above or at level attitude. Pilots who have their airline transport pilot certificates(basically, the people who fly commerical for FedEx or United, etc.) are trained to recover within 100ft or less during a stall.

I will say though, if you're close to stalling in a King Air such that putting the nose down will cause imminent danger, you're already in a lot of danger if a stall about to occur.
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Yes. So we've now covered the range of cases and in each of them your suggestion is wrong. Light aircraft pilots should pitch down first, then add power, regardless of CG. Heavy aircraft and jet pilots were previously taught to add power first, but are now taught to pitch down first, then add power.

That's it - you always need to pitch down first, and then add power. The airplane doesn't care where your nose is pointed, and CG really doesn't matter here.
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>If anyone is interested in this sort of preparation, I'd recommend taking a $50 intro flying lesson or - better - signing up for the AOPA's "Pinch Hitter" course, which is designed to teach non-flying spouses of pilots how to do just this. It's saved a surprising (alarming) number of lives - a lot of private pilots are fat old men who get heart attacks.

I suggested this in another comment, but I wanted to thank you for mentioning it as it should get more visibility.
Some modern small aircrafts (think Cessna instead of 747) actually have a full plane recovery system: a chute for the whole thing :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_Recovery_Systems#Pro...
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Computer. Hello computer. A keyboard? How quaint.

Seems better than transparent aluminum. Reality trumps 1980s science fiction soon? I can't wait.
Your statement does not make sense unless you have never watched or heard about House of Cards until now. I highly recommend investigating it before passing judgement -- it's not just another political drama.
That's the whole point of taking a sample across a big population, we're talking about the average, not how life is for one particular group or another.

Everyone in America is impacted by the choice to put corporate profits ahead of public spending.
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To answer the question when STM is hard to use, you can imaging any case of simulation. Few years ago I worked with engine for real-time brokers trading simulations: thousands of independent players accept different information streams and make deals. Each deal is several steps of negotiations with two-phase commit. Plus different monitoring tools, timers, generators and randomizers.. Whole system was written in Erlang, and you know... two-phase commit is really hard to implement in right way without potential deadlocks and other problems. But it's looks good and "natural" (as to say) in Actors language. I used to try to do something like this with STM and I quickly gave up with mess of unreadable code.
A smart attacker would install a backdoor and update rails.
I Am 500 now and I can downvote, but only comments not stories.
I have a ~10K degree from UC Berkeley that I got in 2004.

Spent 2 years at Cabrillo College, in Aptos, CA - Tuition Cost: ~$1000

Spent 18 months at UC Berkeley, taking 16-21 credits per semester, including a summer quarter, after a small scholarship ($4000) - Tuition Cost: $10,000

So $11,000

My strategy: Go to community college for 2 years, do well, get the Berkeley Alumni Scholarship ($4000/year), take lots of classes, finish early. I have $0.0 debt. Due to tuition increases not sure you could replicate this, but I bet you could get close.

For those who get snobbish re community college, it really depends where you go! At Cabrillo, a lot of my profs had Phd's from reputable schools and the students were pretty sharp. You get great access to profs in the small classes. Once I got to Berkeley I had no problem walking right up to the profs there, was not intimidated. Plus you get a better perspective of the world in Community College sitting next to the pregnant single mom, the retiree, the recent immigrant and the lawyer turned Plummer in your Philosophy of Mind class! Interesting discussion!
Bland might be the wrong term. It lacks a clear hook for those who haven't watched it (other than "has Kevin Spacey") as compared to "serial killer of other serial killers" or "blonde cheerleader fights vampires".
The problem you are trying to solve is not a software problem. the part which you are trying to solve is the easiest part of the process. What to give free, how to get them engaged etc etc are more difficult than just setting up a landing page on wordpress.
I give you California goernment jobs in Web 3.0 (tm):

spb_vacancy_list.ttl.xz (http://gaia.ecs.csus.edu/~bransone/opengovernment/spb_vacanc...)

spb_vacancy_details.ttl.xz (http://gaia.ecs.csus.edu/~bransone/opengovernment/spb_vacanc...)

scrape-spb.py (http://gaia.ecs.csus.edu/~bransone/opengovernment/scrape-spb...)

The California State Personnel Board (the civil service of California) vacancy listings as linked data in Turtle (N3) RDF. A weekend hack from years ago given new meaning by the recent death of Aaron Swartz.

I hope to use the UK Civil Service ontology when I get a handle on the data. Publishing job vacancies as RDF is a breakthrough. I hope our own government officials notice this and follow suit.

This is only the beginning. Help me. Help us.

http://gaia.ecs.csus.edu/~bransone/opengovernment/
Have you also considered HBase?
Does nobody know the answer to this?
I was slightly disappointed a list that was long enough to have two references to understanding legalese(1) omitted stuff as basic as "incredibly aware of your market" and "customer-need oriented"

On the other hand I love the fact that you've underlined Raw charisma is drastically over rated by technical founders.
Very true, and very important, especially if you're selling complex b2b products to the sort of audience that usually will do deals with the socially-awkward stereotypical geek that understands their needs and won't do it with the beautiful, bubbly person that wants to take them out for a delightful long lunch to distract from the detail.

(1)useful, but you hire lawyers to ferret that stuff out and bizdev guys to come up with propositions compelling enough to discourage the other party from weasel-wording their contract clauses
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How many iPads could a (foxconn) worker have bought before China became a technology manufacturing hub is the real question?

Hell of a lot less I'd image. A lot less medicine and school for their kids as well I'll guess.
Ok, there's lots of backlash to this on here but I think the focus is a little wrong.

No, it doesn't make sense to use the cost of the manufactured item as a benchmark - it's not completely relevant as has already been pointed out.

You could look at it a different way. We are in a very privileged position - I'd bet almost everybody here could walk out and buy an ipad right now if they wanted to. The people in these factories are not so lucky.

The numbers just give a little perspective to reality of what's going on.
Just listened to the NPR Fresh Air Interview with Kevin Spacey and David Fincher in regards to this show. The soundbites seem to indicate another brilliant performance by Spacey. I've been a huge fan of his for a long time and needless to say, I'll be tuning in.

Definitely worth listening to the interview, link below:

http://www.npr.org/2013/01/31/170465471/spacey-and-fincher-m...
21 of 22 articles is not chance, it seems however

the verge.com, slate.com, gigaom.com etc.

are not the purely sketchy sites one would expect
I don't take this as the author making a protest about the Chinese workers being exploited (and I'm not getting into an argument about any potential exploitation.) If anything this article is just the author highlighting the living and working wage disparity between the east and west.

Honestly, I just took this article as a guy doing some maths about an interesting situation without any judgement about it.
Oh, I had a lot of fun with (spinning) stalls in light planes, they certainly exist ;)
Ok - only had time to watch the first 5 minutes this morning, but I'm hooked. I wonder if this will end up having an anti-sorkinization effect - http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/04/aaron-sorkin-west...
I really enjoyed the first 2 episodes. I wasn't sold after the first episode but after the 2nd I became a fan. The character development and pacing is great. It has this sense of foreboding and everything is always moving quickly. Since they expect you to binge watch there are no catch ups. If you're a fan of breaking bad you'll love house of cards.
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Notch on being wealthy.
Although I can't speak for the new Netflix version. The original British version is anything but bland.
I've watched the UK series and the first episode of this new version. It's more risque than the UK version (violence and sex), and more stylish visually.

I would say it was on par with a David Fincher movie (who directed the first couple episodes). Maybe that's not cutting edge, but it's not bland. Lilyhammer was bland, though, I agree.
Who are you to attack this man's accomplishments and demean his work?
I love that Netflix is doing original content, but releasing them all at once seems weird. Part of what made Lost, BSG, etc, so addicting is having to wait to find out what happens next. And though it can be fun to come to a series late and blow through the whole thing, it kills a lot of the initial public excitement about the series, and the water-cooler talk that makes others want to come onboard.

Still: looking forward to watching this.
ATC should be trained to get you the help you need if you're a passenger piloting a plane with a disabled pilot. They can get a pilot to come up in the tower, or get one on the phone.
I agree that it could have been phrased better (dorkitude's post seems to suggest a causal relationship) but I don't think that's what he was really saying.

As people have observed elsewhere in this thread, there's a natural human tendency for the privileged to underestimate their own privilege, and to overestimate the power of other groups. There are several comments in this thread that try to put the blame on women for not defending themselves more effectively, or even for contributing to the problem of sexism (see dizzystar's opening volley). This is flawed in the same way that it would be flawed to shout-down critiques of institutional racism by saying that minorities are as much to blame as white people. Of course there are sexist women and racist minorities. But they and their actions are not on an equal footing with those of the dominant holders of power in this country.

The fact is, in situations of social power imbalance, blaming the victim is an easy, shitty way to avoid addressing hard problems. The very defensiveness being displayed in this thread is further evidence that the members of this community need to calm down, look in the mirror, and consider their own privilege.

(And no, I'm not saying everyone in the HNN community is a straight, rich, white guy, but I think it's pretty clear we have a stilted demography).
No, I think this would fall under the Table category, as it, and most table charts, exhibit the quality of "small multiples"
I don't think there will be one clear winner in the crowd-design/manufacturing space, I think there is room for a site for each niche.

For example, http://www.unbrandeddesigns.com/ is gaining traction as "Quirky for furniture". I see many advantages. The submissions and participants are more focused and passionate since they're only dealing with the type of product they care about. And the team can source, build, sell, and distribute more effectively because they are only working within one industry.
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On small planes, landing gear is not retractable.
I tried to illustrate with the rest of my comment, but I guess I didn't do a good job. When I say "bland," I mean "does not stand out from other shows at a glance." In the sense I'm using it, shows are "bland" by default unless they do something to make themselves stand out.

It's not the fact that it's a political drama, but the fact that there's nothing immediately remarkable about it. It's not obviously quirky. This doesn't mean it's bad, but it strikes me as an odd way to try and build your brand given that historically quirk seems to win out.
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Thanks for this post! I'm diving into clojure (currently a python dev), and I'm starting to get that tingly anticipation of being able to use these kinds of tools. It was really useful to see how you iterate through your solution.
> in my experience, "Open network" never means "just connect and it will work". At best, you have to agree to a few terms of service

Nope, an office/research park around here has one, in the central building with restaurants and shops, that you just pick from the WiFi list and are on with no fuss.

I've seen McDonalds' networks like that, too (though some have user/pass to fill in a login screen, but with keys printed in the the same screen). Depends on the setup supplier, I guess.
Wasn't that what caused Air France's 447 crash?
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As someone who watched many episodes of LOST in a single sitting every night for weeks, I can guarantee you that waiting for the next episode is not what made LOST addictive.

edit: I agree though that it might kill some of the "watercooler-talk" or the "figure out the mysterious symbolism in last weeks episode" stuff. But those things are just gimmicks meant to keep you watching the show anyway. If they're releasing the whole thing at once, maybe there's no need for them to help market the show.
What is the semantic difference between data which does nothing meaningful and lisp code that does nothing meaningful?

Or to be Wittgensteinian about it, point to the part of a datum which is the meaning.
Thank you very much for the feedback, I've updated my post with a little section on what this means.
I'm curious about why this particular show is being talked about so much in tech circles. Is it just because its a Netflix original production? The premise isn't personally interesting to me, but I'll watch the first episode to give it a try.
Hypervisor overhead for hardware-assisted virtualization is worse than OS-level preemptive threading? Why bother with an OS at all and just run mobile apps in a hypervisor with system service ACLs?
Perhaps English is not your first language. "Ima Hoare" means "I am a whore".

Do you believe in parents' unassailable right to name their children in this fashion?

You're speaking in generalities, and I'm asking for specifics. If you keep dodging the issue, I'll just assume you're trolling.
That still does not change that your presentation of the data is not consistent in all parts, namely the language comparison.
The 2013 Bentley Continental Flying Spur Speed carries a $209,600 base price (with options can go to $245,440)[1]. How long would it take for a Bentley factory worker to buy one of those?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentley
My instructor, an old F4 pilot, put us in a spin shortly after practicing stalls in our C152. First we did plain stalls, no big deal. Then uncoordinated stalls (which easily rolls the plane full over on its back). After that, he demonstrated a spin entry and recovery and had me do it. I probably had ~5h at that point. (But easily hundreds of hours in desktop simulators.)
This suffers from one of the same problems as most live editors: try typing `while(true) {}` in the javascript editor - the UI thread will block and freeze up the whole page. Worst of all, you'll lose unsaved work (unless you're persisting to local storage on every character).

This problem is partially solved in the Khan Academy CS editor using a web worker - the code is evaluated in a web worker with most of the side effects stuff mocked out (which is going to be difficult for general javascript) and timed - if it takes more than a couple ms, we kill the execution and give an error. (Try `while (true) {}` in http://www.khanacademy.org/cs/new)
Thank you very much for the positive feedback. I thought I'd just present the numbers and let people interpret them, but I guess I should've been more concise.
I'm curious as to where exactly this guy got the funding from. ASICs are not cheap. Even at a um process node, it would still probably come out to around $1m.
I apologize in advance for being off-topic, but the quality of comments on this post is really disappointing.

This article has only gotten 8 upvotes so far, but nearly as many complaining comments with pointless analogies about building sports cars or airplanes.

If you're going to complain about an article being pointless, you could post some useful fact or insights, instead of comments that are entirely devoid of any information.
Willing to wager that the HN archetype pays close attention to who is creating a project.

In this case, both novel 'long-tail' approach and David Fincher are possible draws?

“Netflix offered total creative control of the production,” says Media Rights Capital CEO and co-founder Modi Wiczyk. “Everybody believed in Netflix.”

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/02/creative-freedom-cord...
You mean a VM instance is a lightweight process? With hardware-assisted virtualization, multiple cores, and no preemption, shouldn't an OS-less VM be lighter than a general-purpose kernel-scheduled process?
Indeed. It also has an interesting and hilarous history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Beams

"The Battle of the Beams was a period early in the Second World War when bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) used a number of increasingly accurate systems of radio navigation, developed by Johannes Plendl, for night bombing in England. British "scientific intelligence" at the Air Ministry fought back with a variety of their own increasingly effective means, involving jamming and distortion of the radio waves."

"Thus the beam was "bent" away from the target. Eventually, the beams could be bent by a controlled amount which enabled the British to fool the Germans into dropping their bombs where they wanted them. A side effect was that as the German crews had been trained to navigate solely by the beams, many crews failed to find either the true equi-signal or Germany again. Some bombers even landed at RAF bases, believing they were back in Germany."
It's the story for a simple reason: the American population is getting old and retiring.
An inexperienced person at the controls could very easily lead to an immediate landing.

But really, when all is said and done, I think everyone would forgive inexperienced people for not respecting differences between countries when it comes to correctly using MAYDAY and PANPAN.
Really? That's ultimately your beef? "It ruins my social life."
Livestreams of a game develpment sessions are very popular in the indie game scene[1]. It's just a trendy way to communicate things about your process to help other people who might benefit from the information. Think of it like a "tips and tricks" article for game development, in a form more suited for the media-focused game dev community.

Game jams such as Ludum Dare heavily encourage participants to stream their sessions and include tutorials on how to get the whole thing set up.

[1] http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/tag/livestream/
I work at an algorithmic trading shop and have spent a fair amount of time studying equity market structure. It's great to see an open source trading platform, but I think it's important to stress the following: Equity markets are highly competitive. If you choose to use this platform for trading, you will lose money on average. As a retail trader, you face numerous disadvantages that many market participants do not face. By increasing your trading frequency, you will increase your costs and decrease the likelihood that you will make money. Good luck!
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Mesh networks aren't immune from power-grabs. For example, Congress could pass a law allocating all available radio spectrum to corporations, thus making it illegal for private citizens to transmit on those frequencies. They could pass draconian laws making people criminally liable for any illegal content that passed through their nodes.
Two separate reasons:

1. It's one of the first times a content streamer has produced a high-profile series and premiered it online. Remember that "real" networks like AMC also wanted this show. So as a first, it's worth seeing how it pans out.

2. The BBC show it is originally based on is, for real, one of the finest pieces of television ever made. Anyone who got hoked by it is bound to be curious about this one.
Your elitism is breathtaking. What have you done with your life that makes you so special?
The moral of the article's story, and my experience interviewing lots of folks, is that the quality of the student's desire to learn supersedes the perceived quality of the institution.

Funny enough, I took "C Programming" at Thomas Edison (mentioned in the article) the summer between 7th and 8th grades. I learned at home and took proctored exams. 5 years later, Rutgers honored the 3 credits (though I also had AP credit) for an intro programming class.