skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a Princeton graduate ('12) that is currently a graduate student at Harvard.

I have a few thoughts on this, but first I wanted to share an experience I had during a mandatory course I am in on "TA'ing at Harvard". The professor of one of the largest undergrad classes discussed with us how it is very, very clear that the students' #1 priorities at Harvard are _not_ academics, but rather their extracurriculars. Despite this, they will still curve the class up so that a very large percentage of students get A's (I don't have a number here, but I was told that in his class, the median grade on an exam is curved to a B+, and that is very harsh by Harvard's standards). At the very least, I think that this small tidbit falls inline with "The Fall of Academics at Harvard".

Personally, I think one thing that has to change is this perception that many overachieving highschoolers bring with them as they become undergradautes at these universities: that is, that college is a stepping stone to a prestigious, well-paying job. Furthermore, these historically high-achieving students aren't going easily let go of their stellar grade track record. Together, I think it's then easy to miss part of the point of the undergraduate experience all together, and there's an incentive to cheat.

Lastly, I wanted to include that I think this is also largely a cultural issue. I agree with others in this thread that there is this mentality of just feeding into these "prestigious" jobs (Finance, Consulting, etc.), and I think that greatly contributes towards the degradation of the school's ability to foster an academic environment.
"One way encryption" == hashing. Maybe not the best term, but it's pretty obvious what they mean.
"Over the next 100 years, the importance of creativity will trump systems thinking due to the rapidly escalating power of computers."

Right, because more technology has always led to less demand for math/technical skills. And where are the numbers to back up such a claim? Oh wait.. well at least there are pictures..
You never hear about Amazon "going to war" with other companies. Whilst other companies, e.g. Google and Apple, are constantly bickering amongst each other, Amazon just stays in the background, doing it's own thing. I personally think that's a breath of fresh air.
OK, I'll bite: which are the silly neoliberal ideas?
What smart hobbyists are doing now is part of the picture. There are other elements that are needed for a "thing" to become a "big thing" that the whole world uses.

Tech hobby trends need to conspire with other trends in business and society (and also have the right timing) to become a future industry and a widely adopted technology.

Two counterexamples off the top of my head: MUDs and ham radio.

I think the original "seed" of the hobby is just one building block needed (of many).
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This is confusing to me, what is taking up your time?

The way I see it people choose what they want to spend their time doing. Sometimes they choose research, sometimes they choose game playing, sometimes they choose reading Hacker News :-) but there is generally enough time for folks to do what they want to do.

Research is especially easy if you know what you want to research. But it's not a simple matter of "Hey I'm in research, lets blue sky something!" People in research have some passion that they are following, like parsers, or graph theory, or AI, or network coherence, or something. Some area where they have lots of questions and no answers.

Keep a notebook. One for each topic if you want, they can be the cheap composition ones that go on sale during 'back to school week' or really nice lab notebooks. But they are like pitons and rope to a climber, they anchor where you have been and where you are going. Write the questions you investigating into the first few pages after the index. Start writing down what you know, what you can prove, and what you don't know. Invent experiments or ways to discover the answers to the questions you don't know.

I've got a notebook with a couple hundred pages devoted to making carbon nanotubes. I know lots of ways you can't make them and several ways you can. Sometimes you can scrounge equipment for stuff, sometimes you have to invent (did you know that you could use a bottle of propane and a chunk of copper pipe as a way to do vapor deposition of carbon? You can! And if that copper tube rolls off the stand onto your wooden deck when its hot it leaves a big black mark? :-)

"Research" doesn't need a government funded lab, it needs good laboratory technique. Careful note taking, documentation, exposition and analysis. Software research is even easier these days because of how cheap computers have become.

In general, having a job doesn't prevent you from asking questions or doing experiments (aka "research") but if you're tired after working all day and just don't want to think any more, that is a different problem. Some folks I know get under demanding jobs just so they can do it easily without straining too hard during the 'day.'

One of the things I did as a kid that drove my Mom nuts was read every scientist biography I could, I tried to re-create their experiments because anything an adult could build in the 1800's I figured I could build as a kid in the 1900's. But what it really taught me was how these people pursued the questions they had.

Bottom line, "money and free time" isn't an excuse, its a rationalization. Why are you denying yourself your own research?
Don't use phrases. Use one really strong password that you can remember with a tool like KeePass. Generate random long passwords (30 characters) for everything and store them in KeePass.

I've recently converted all my accounts to that - my passwords are practically unbreakable, at least with the current tech. I feel way more secure than with the shit I had to memorize before.
It's jarring because there's a much more famous Murray river "over east".
I'd find that a compelling statement if they didn't update bin_steamdeps.py every time the application updated.
Got it, Start up a bunch of day care centers (People seem to love to play with their kids on the weekend).
Did you read what I said? He's being held in protective custody because they fear, rightly, that he may kill himself. And if God-forbid he succeeded in doing so, what would you and the rest of his supports say then? That they killed him to shut him up, to send a warning to other would-be whistle-blowers, or some other nonsense.

And Manning isn't a victim. He released an enormous cache of classified information, directly violating an oath that he took not to, placing ISAF Forces in jeopardy and undermining the ability of the State Department (you know, the agency that tries to affect positive change in the world without the use of force) to do its job. What wrong-doing did Manning uncover; what crimes? All he succeeding in doing was harming the State Department and endangering ISAF personnel and the Afghans who aid them.
They have, but not as well as a rule.

Plus, not every country has every resource. Even the vast internal resources of the USSR needed to be supplemented by goods and services purchased on the open market (and vice-versa, the USSR got most of its hard currency by selling oil).
This is exactly what I wonder about for newer users to WordPress, as it started out with a very clear direction, but currently is very non-linear.
Yeah, most of his stuff is pretty great but always read them before making the assumption that they are right. It is very easy to think everything is perfect if the output seems reasonable. Take Java method calls, the scripts that track method calls don't take into consideration method overloading at all. For an example of what you need to do take a look at http://www.osdev.org/dtrace/hotspot_extras/j_calltime2.d
Tchnologically true, but I think the larger point is that there has been a long evolution based on the fundamental human desire to look at funny cat pictures.
A Rap Genius take on Andrew M's good bye note.
Fundraising when you are just starting out
Just my observations...it's okay to pitch a vision, but it's much better to pitch a vision + team + product
I agree if the sentiment is just: everything which is today popular was once more of a niche, experimental activity. But that is not so exciting a claim, is it? The more difficult part is going in the other direction, and figuring out which of today's niche hobbies will be popular tomorrow. Taken at face value, the article is claiming that it will be all of them, at least if they were niche hobbies of the "smartest" people. I think that is clearly incorrect.
"True" templating would be very interesting in WordPress, and it's not impossible that this may happen (someday). Nonetheless, a good theme author would keep the intermingling of PHP in the HTML to a minimum.
I have a feeling they're sending them in batch emails. I just got mine this evening after a lot of other people.
Fair enough. I'm just tired of seeing these articles pop up constantly and I have no downvote ability.
Yeah, but people don't hear about that. Amazons got all sorts of stuff going on, like the article starts to go into. Their public facing image, though, is just simple retail.
"all-hands" meetings are an artificial attempt to instill a social-heirarchy, by elevating the presenters over the rest of the staff. Being invited to speak at an all hands is attempt to award social currency, by telling the presenter that they are special. All-hands have no value, with one exception:

If they provide an open mic for questions, it's a rare opportunity to put an exec on the spot in front of everyone.
Let's all pat ourselves on the back with a fluffy blog post about how jolly wonderful we are. In about 10 years everyone else will be doing the same.

Just kidding. Every profession I have even a passing familiarity with is absolutely chockers with self-congratulatory fluff. And it's usually hilarious to the outsiders who can see the narrowness of a profession's vision.

Out of the professions I've seen, who have been the widest thinkers outside of their own field?

So far: lawyers. I'm serious.
It's amazing to me that anyone could argue that this income inequality is the "way it's meant to be".

Some people suggest that people won't be motivated to achieve if they can't have more than a billion dollars. I can't believe that it would make a noticeable difference.
It's worth noting that using some of these features bump you up into a different pricing tier. And last time I checked the usual way to achieve a recursive query was with the non-standard "CONNECT BY" syntax. I have found rlwrap does a lot to mitigate the pain of sqlplus, but I still use it (and Oracle) as little as I can possibly get away with.
Pulse, yes, as is demonstrated in the video. Blood pressure, in a calibrated sense, is a lot harder to measure without directly tapping into a vessel or putting a cuff on a patient, both of which are invasive and/or annoying over a long period of time or for chronic / long-term patients.

But a few derivative measures of circulation should be determinable. Both skin color and temperature will relate to blood oxygen levels and circulatory efficacy. It should be possible to note when a patient's circulation is no longer effective, a low blood-pressure situation or heartbeat irregularity.
Right on. I couldn't have put it better than this.
Being rigorous does not mean that something is a science. In the case of computing science, it is (in my opinion) clearly a branch of mathematics.
Facebook to roll out new News Feed on Mar 7
Cool infographic explaining UX design
In fairness, steam videos don't work for me even in Windows. Something about wrong flash version. I really wish they would just embed a normal video player.
What's happened to aptiverse.com?
They had a post make the front page of HN just a few days ago. Now, every URL pointing to them just says that they've been acquired by "Trustfinity", which Google knows nothing about, and I can't find cached versions of anything anywhere. Apparently they've got a robots.txt file that prohibits it. Anyone know anything?
Good point, but I think the average person who has reservations about some military functions isn't necessarily wholesale opposed to all functions of the military.
I find it amusing that most companies are irritated by recruiters (Yes we can be annoying) trying to sell them their services. Have you ever stopped to think that the organisation you are in, or work for drives people mad trying to sell it's products also? 90% of companies use cold calling as a mechanism to generate sales.
I love working at the office but not the whole 8 hours. I love it in the morning but when it's afternoon, I find myself more productive elsewhere, maybe a cafe.

This is an interesting approach that allows experiments. Would love to see how this will turn out. :)
You missed the bit that says
> "[Ed: This is completely untrue, in case this fantastical point seems plausible at first. I installed a hot tub (non-functioning) as a conference room in Facebook Seattle. Interviews are never done in them.]"
Fuck your logic; Facebook is free, then why the hell do you expect it to be secure? Because any service whether free or not, that has YOUR personal information is supposed to keep it secure. And your (possibly dumbfuck) argument that paying customers should get more security than free users is like saying it's ok to kill people who have no insurance for themselves, but not ok to kill the ones who have taken insurance.
The criticism isn't out of place, and frankly, I think the author of the article is a little short sighted in her dismissal.

Sandberg is writing an article about the modern "problem that has no name" in business today...isn't it fair to say that if she's writing a book, she thinks her analysis has a fairly broad application? Her analysis of this "problem" must apply to women in business, and it's a little presumptive to assume that "women in business" means white, wealthy, and "afraid to ask for more money." How can she assume to speak for a group without consulting its members? The author of the article says sarcastically that Sandberg should just write a book that includes and pleases everyone including the black working class women. The book, she states, is applicable to women at the top of the workforce and that's useful. In my opinion, that's overly simplistic. The issues that Sandberg is trying to address are not simple, and can't be addressed via the "women at the top" without actually distorting the entire analysis. It's like running a study with 18 different confounding variables and ignoring them for simplicity's sake. If you're attempting to make any type of statement or analysis, why don't you allow your analysis to approach the complexity of the real problem?

Additionally, the "problem that has no name," in Betty Friedan's historical coinage, means a problem that is inside women. Sandberg apparently implies that these factors; the social, political, and psychological, can be isolated and analyzed as disparate elements. It's ridiculous to assume that societal barriers play a role that's different from the psychological or even political: the entire point is that these forces are subtle and interrelated-- like a birdcage.

And to close, Sandberg wants to make women more ambitious, more "out of the home" and into the office, less likely to stay at home and "leave before you leave" oriented. She's essentially saying "I want women to be as ambitious and work oriented as their male counterparts so they can see the same benefit." My argument is that she's essentially using a "white male" yardstick to measure female values and achievement, and that in and of itself is oppression. Why the "manstandard" of obsession and aggression? Why not throw out that system and create one anew? Because Sheryl, let's be frank here: even if men are in fact asking for more money, and you get some women to do it too, is anyone going to be "happier?" Does the extra money really make life 100x more worthwhile? No. Striving for the equal paycheck is a dumb thing to strive for, it's not worth it. As PG had said in one of his essays, this is but a subset of a greater problem-- that "superset" problem is that what we're striving for actually sucks.
I'm not Heroku's biggest fan, and haven't used it for more than a couple of one-off fiddles to play with the platform.

But, my sympathy is going to them, because what I see coming from Rap Genius looks like classic blame-game. So a vendors documentation was unclear and your server sucked publicly for some time? Shameful. You didn't know about it because you expected your vendors to give you extra hand-holding? That's really rough. Instead of fixing the issues and moving on, you make it the one thing that everyone thinks about when your company is mentioned... that might not be in your best long term interests.

After this, I would be hesitant to enter into any sort of relations with Rap Genius, and I'm not that sure of what they do or what their product is.
Google Drive/Docs has surprisingly poor search capabilities compared to the native Evernote client. Almost everything about Docs is sluggish and clunky compared to Evernote's lightweight simplicity.
Money back guarantee is an extremely powerful marketing tool to establish trust with a faceless corporation far away over the net. Trust is the basis of a long lasting business relationship. Customers simply trust Amazon won't screw up and will bend over backward to make it up if thing goes wrong. Customers just go back to Amazon because of its trusting brand.
I clicked the link thinking of another article having opinion of how Facebook is becoming more like Microsoft(not hot, not cool).
After reading the article though, it felt good that people working there have good feeling about Microsoft. I have lots of senior friends going to Microsoft this year.
1. I know I'm getting a reasonable price.

2. With Prime I know when I'm getting my stuff and I know it will be fast.

3. I don't have to be afraid of getting screwed over, even by third party merchants through amazon.

4. Their no hassle return policy.

5. Their going out of the way to make it right.

6. Multiple ways of getting customer service. One of the best experiences you can have today. As opposed to, Netflix, for example. The worst service I have experienced.

7. Ease of browsing and window shopping combined with good reviews and meta-reviews (comments and ratings on each review that is). Amazon reviews seem to be MUCH more unbiased than any independent reviewer for that product that you may find elsewhere.

8. Prime freebies like Instant video etc.

They're doing everything a customer expects, right, and that is pretty much why I love Amazon.
Are you angry about this?
I never quite understood how orbital kinetic bombardment was supposed to make sense.

I mean, say you have a satellite in orbit with a ton of nice depleted uranium or tungsten rods to skewer things with. Standard "spears from heaven" setup or whatever.

It can't just "drop" them, if it lets go they will just stay in orbit. No, it has to fire them 'backwards' fast enough for the rod to deorbit itself and then the satellite has to apply some orbit correcting thrust. In order to keep it accurate you basically need to construct a full reentry vehicle around the thing, both to guide it through the atmosphere and to just rocket it away from the satellite fast enough and accurate enough. Before you know it your DU spear becomes so complex that you may as well just make a proper MIRV system with real warheads out of it and be done with it. Get the most bang for your buck that way.
I wanted to say something almost identical. I am also at Pomona, and the culture here is nothing like that described in the Crimson article.
Startup Bus is Not a Joke
Thank you, this article is pointless, why is this news? Technology is the result of people trying to make money, solve a problem, or tinkering in their free time. Yes, people with a hobby fall into the group that like to tinker, and they have more free time outside of work, on weekends. Gasp. HN has some of the most mundane articles on the homepage at times. I mean, you can write an article about how a two hour lunch break equals success, or why the most productive hours of the day are from 11PM to 3AM, or why standing on one leg while working promotes creativity, or how 3 people is ideal number of partners for a startup, and people just eat it up.
It's funny how often objective measures are irrelevant in The Real World.
Making your own bread can be much tastier than store bought loaves. Especially if you catch your own sourdough, and the alternative is buying British bread.
I made a library called async.js (https://github.com/eligrey/async.js) that makes it even easier to abstract away all callbacks with yields, so all you'd have to do is yield to.sleep(5); continueFun(); for your example.

More complex things are also easy to do as well, such as implementing a node.next(event) method, so you can simply do var click = yield document.next("click"); instead of the whole event listener shebang. The feedback example (https://github.com/eligrey/async.js#asking-the-user-for-thei...) shows how much of a difference using yield can be versus callbacks or even promises.
You know, the truest thing about this is that it takes time and effort to really make things happen. It is the engineers and the hobbyists that are taking the time and nights to solve problems. There is a lot of good, unexpected stuff coming that is being cooked up in people's studies and garages. Looking forward to it.
Also, here : http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/31827/stack-over...
I was thinking of trying that and Serious Sam 3. CS Source and TF2 have run great!
Is there a way to download your Evernote data? Not to say that I find this an opportunity to bash Evernote, but I am terribly disappointed that a service that advertised you to keep really personal stuff, even your tax info on their servers just got hacked.

I think I'm going back to creating .txt files on my desktop which no one else has access to (physcially and programatically), which despite having no encryption or whatsoever is still secure than having them on a third party server that could get hacked like this, because they advertise one thing and do exactly the opposite.
Alcohol Language Corpus: The first public corpus of alcoholized German speech
So you only care about the logical ordering of the columns. It seems trivial then to add a column mapping layer in the metadata to map the user-defined apparent order to the physical order so that select * would return the order you want.

In relational algebra the ordering of the rows and the ordering of the columns are undefined. It's up to the database to arrange it in the best way possible. The ordering of rows and columns is specified when queried.
In the Second Amendment, you are correct -- there is nothing limiting you to arms that you can carry. Since then, however, the Supreme Court has, on more than one occasion, defined "arms" to mean "man portable arms".

I believe this narrow definition (and FAA monitored airspace) that would prevent you from owning your own drone (even if you could build it), and is what keeps us from owning missiles, rocket launchers (even though many are in fact man-portable), etc., despite the fact that the Revolutionary War was won with cannons and ships that formed our militia and navy, all provided by the citizenry at the time.
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