skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We were only able to add packages that we use ourselves for now. It will take some time but we are going to expand the list.
> Talking about patterns - yesterday I saw the phrase "strong track record with MVC" in a job listing. My head almost explode

Ha, I hesitated mentioning design patterns. So much of it is bogus and overblown, but there's definitely some skill at organizing an application that must be learned.

Also, I vote for learning JavaScript. I think your point on learning slightly different skills is great. It might be like trying to re-read a book you started and stopped and have no idea where you left off. Why not pick up a new book?
Who hasn't wanted this type of education? This new campus isn't driven by radical new ideas, it's being driven by what students and businesses have been crying out for for a long time; a practical, hands-on education with the bullshit cut out. The story makes me really sad because it's Cornell doing it with a class of 8 people. The chances this "ground-breaking" "innovative" program will be open to or have any effect on me? 0. But queue the hype-machine, lets drown Cornell in good press and praise.

I will be rooting for the online education platforms to provide this level of education.
On iOS I can deny permissions one by one: I can deny the Facebook app to access my location, contacts and photos. It runs just fine without all of those.
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A fantastic example of horrible information visualization. Those bar charts are almost useless. The colors don't seem to correspond to anything, the ranking is apparently random, and the x-axis scale varies wildly, making cross-country comparisons an exercise in mental arithmetic.
The culture of protecting existing businesses is becoming infuriating to read about. Businesses are there because they're the most efficient way to solve the needs of a group of people. If circumstances change and a better solution presents itself then both new and _existing_ businesses have an opportunity to take advantage of it. There's absolutely nothing to stop the existing utility companies being the companies that lead the charge with solar power.
I never noticed the overbearing desire to fit in when I was at uni in Britain and Germany.

There is this idea that conformity is valued highly in East Asian cultures, and I have never been there and consequenly can't tell if this is true. But in America there is this talk of freedom, individualism and stuff, and it just simply isn't so.
I'd not expected that sharp drop in audio quality already after the first copy...
If you can't audit in person, in a lot of cases you can audit courses online. Many university CS programs publish all their course materials on their department websites. Then there are the MOOCs--Massive Open Online Courses, like Coursera, edX, and Udacity. Coursera in particular has some great programming classes right now.
When you choose a framework, surely you have a responsibility to thoroughly review it to ensure it meets your needs? Your needs might include professional support. If none was advertised and you still chose it, why bemoan the fact it's missing?
Not to mention lumen per dollar increase rate of LED lighting, tablets that consume 4 watts, refrigerators that use half the power of the average installed fridge, etc.

The falling prices of solar PV panels has been incredible. Most expected the price of $0.72 per peak watt to be reached in 2028, not 2013.
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He's not talking about using open source code, he's talking about contributing to open source in his own time.

I have a gut feeling I know which company he's talking about, because I used to work for them too. All contributions to open source, even off company time, must pass through the approval bureaucracy.

The worst part about it is that said bureaucracy is staffed with people permanently afraid that they will sign off on something that might at some unforeseeable point in the future come back to compete with the company, and their neck would be on the line for it.

The result being that they're incredibly risk-averse and not inclined to approve anything, even if it has zero relationship with what the company does. In other words, open source contributions are de facto banned throughout the company, but the company gets to make a lot of noise about how they're open to the idea.

I have one colleague who quit his job because of it, one of the best coders I've ever met. No surprise that the company overall has an attrition rate easily in the 20-25% per annum range.
I just generally see that as useless hoops to jump through. As a manager I'm always evaluating my people. I don't need a big event made out of it or need to solicit feedback from all sorts of people. It's a basic function of a manager and they seem to have delegated that function to the employees themselves and other teammates.
"But Mr. Ford, we already have a method for building horseless carriages, why would you develop a new one?"
Why is it a prime example of why HN should not be about just tech/entrepreneurialism? Because you found it entertaining?

Is HN the only web site we all have access to?

I like pictures of cats doing funny things, but that doesn't mean that HN is a good place to post links to them.
As a small part of this information revolution, may I suggest a (free as PDF) book on the energy problem and the varying efficacy of its potential solutions, available from here: http://www.withouthotair.com/.

It's an eye-opening read for the most part and uses real-world figures for its estimates to show just what might and might not work in replacing fossil fuels around the world.

I wouldn't have been as interested in reading it myself if the Economist/Bill Gates hadn't given it their approval.
There's a large body of work from economists in this area. My impression is that the answer seems to be that the effect on high-skill workers is positive, and the debate is over the magnitude of the positive effect. But, even putting that aside, it seems to me that it's hard to make either a practical or a moral case for restricting immigration of engineers more tightly than we do now.

First, the practical case: when I was in college (2000-2003), none of the Indian or Chinese people wanted to get a job back home. And, they were some of the best people in school: the more advanced the class, the smaller the proportion of native born Americans; graduate level classes were mostly full of foreign-born students, and most of the top of the class consisted of foreign-born students. The U.S. didn't let most of them stay in the country, forcing them to go back home. If you take a bunch of smart people, and force them to live in their home country, they aren't going to go dig ditches; they're going to start industries. Those industries have done so well that many of my classmates (and others) who have spent time working in the U.S., and have a legal right to work here, want to go back home. They, naturally, want to be near their families. A decade ago, there wasn't enough industry to find a job that was both interesting and well paid. By forcing the people who wanted to stay here to go back home, we've forced them to create good companies, and hence, good jobs.

And then there's the moral case. This is less relevant for high-skilled workers now, due to what's happened above, but it still applies for many countries and most industries [1]. If we reduce the wages of engineers in the U.S., we're reducing the wages of a relatively well off group in one of the richest countries in the world. We're talking about reducing the wages of someone who is, on a worldwide scale, in the 99th percentile. If we let someone in from a poor country, we're increasing the income of someone who might be below the 50th percentile into the 99th percentile. It's awfully hard to make a case that we should be enriching the richest people in the world at the cost of the poorest.

[1] Total factor productivity [2] in the U.S. is so high that unskilled Mexican laborers become three times more productive when they cross the border, and, globally, Mexico is one of the richer countries in the world.

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_factor_productivity
Did you know Robin Popplestone designed a type system for Forth? It involved what I think he called 'regular types' (like regular expressions), IIRC, to handle (disciplined use of) words like ?DUP.
What I learned from a week of investing in Bitcoin
Poor product decisions, unsustainable work pace, decisions/sales made by people incompetent in the field

I've suffered under this.
At some point I'm either starting my own product or join a company who's decisions I can get behind. Software engineer run. Even designers should be developers.
Why I'm signing up for Gittip
To me, it's much more constructive to visualize what a huge amount of money can buy, not the money itself. (One of the other commenters is right that it only makes sense to divide a trillion dollar debt over 300 million people. But I think numbers in the millions or even a billion should be visual because projects of this size are local, and so are not split over every American.)

$1 million is roughly how much a median-wage American ($40k/yr) can save by living modestly above subsistence levels ($18k/yr) over a 45 year career. I call it "a life's work".

Now, this isn't just a hobby or side project. Most people happily and rightfully include raising their children as their proudest life's accomplishment. It's "what can one do in a human lifetime after paying for room and board".

Anyways, this helps me think harder when our local government wants to spend $5 million on a project. Is it really worth 5 life's works? Maybe, maybe not.
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pushd without an argument will cycle through the directory stack as well.
>50% of high growth companies are funded with less than $50,000

What is your source for that?
WebP with Python Pillow(PIL)
The language in the Atlantic blag is out of control. The free language study used 60 families from each region, so maybe 120 descriptions.

So the difference between 5% and 10% is 5 or 6 or 7 of the participants, not "far more likely" and such.

A reasonable conclusion from the study is that people don't particularly use common descriptions for their children.
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These are great ideas for things to improve in Ember, but I don't understand how someone could start an Ember project without understanding 1) It's very new, and therefore very raw. And 2) You're gonna have to dig into the Ember source if you want to do anything beyond what you can see in the tutorials.

If you want a framework that can be used for a large, complex project without you having to do infrastructure work yourself, then you have to use a framework where someone has already done that, and there's an established organization that's in the "fixing little bugs caused by slight variations in developer use cases" stage. End of story.
Couldn't read the article since the 'sharing' pane blocks the left ~15% of the text on mobile.
not sure this is the message you want to send out there. Use our app, so that you never pay attention to ANYTHING
I just watched two people enter their PINs at a Domino's Pizza somewhere in London. The camera in question has historic playback, too.

WTF.
"I also think it's up to individuals to grow a tougher skin"

What makes this line of thinking so utterly useless is that you can't force someone to "toughen up" versus bullies/assholes if they lack the capacity at a particular point in time. The attitude only empowers the bullies and assholes.
Any chance you could add salt stack generation as well?
He's probably upset at investing in a pre-1.0 software (apparently he spent "weeks" making pagination work) and then finding out -- gasp! -- it isn't completely stable yet.
Tanglu -  new GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian, designed for human beings.
Thanks for this, not being an iOS user I was unaware of this. This seems a much more sensible approach to take. Hopefully others will follow suit.
I don't see why this is "bad" other than depending on jQuery to do something not directly related the browser. That could easily be fixed by swapping jQuery out for Underscore, since it would then work in browser and in Node.
Siftlinks: All the links from your Twitter account as an RSS feed
"Never before in history was there anthing like bitcoin"

The problem here is that you believe that bitcoin is being treated differently than anything that's come before. Its booms and busts are a sign that it is being used/abused for its familiar qualities, and not as much for its novel ones.

"Just like Gandhi say - first they ignore you, then they fight you, then you win"

Except for the many, many situations where "they" ignore you, then they trample you. There is not necessarily any step 3.
I'm not gonna lie, I like using facebook, but I unplugged it from my phone a while ago and haven't regretted it. Social networking is a fun diversion but a terrible lifestyle.
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GitHub's search or Google's search? I was only able to find it using Google and "site:github.com DESOLEE"
I haven't gone through much of the content, but I was expecting a site about single page apps...to be a single page app. I mean, I understand that there is probably a wealth of information on the site, but it not being a single page app is kind of a bummer. It feels a little less credible, but more importantly, it feels like a missed opportunity to show "What You Could Build If You Read This Site".
I've found this description so far (German): http://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/OpenStack

It is a basic start, but not too much.
Ways to Solve the Wi-Fi Authentication Issue for Devices
What part of the US are you talking about? This hasn't been my experience at all (DC metropolitan area).
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I was really surprised by that as well. I would have also guessed that it would take more than 8 generations for it to turn to black and white.
This is what I think

WordPress

1) Beginner friendly

- One doesn't need to be a coder or mess with cmd to use it.

- Abundance of tutorial(text/audio/video)

- You can host it anywhere, even for free. FTP? I know that from work.

- Hosting provider even install it for you

- Expert support is all over the web

- Drupal and Joomla can't beat WordPress new user adoption, why? They're made to be customized(more developer-centric). Too much option is apparently not good for new user.

2) Features

- Need something? there's plugin for that

- People/visitors loves nice design/layout, WordPress have thousands of themes

- Secure. Attacked by some random ddos/script kiddies? Hosting provider will take care of it. Malicious code? same case.

Static site generator.

1) Beginner friendly

- Yes, at least if you're familiar with cmd.

- Most tutorial suggesting Amazon S3/CDN/cloud etc. Well those service are inaccessible to many.

- Write new post, generate, upload...complicated!

- Lets embed image/audio/video with one-click...nope!

- Lets edit old blog post... oh why art thou so hard

- Lets try it on my phone, nope!

2) Features

- I want to add Facebook comment, how? Read the manual, download that, configure...blabla. No thanks

- Lets add analytics code. Edit template and insert this javascript, save and regenerate...blabla. No thanks

Conclusion : it might be a piece of cake for you but not to most people. Remember "most user are idiot"?. If I want to have simple static blog with nice editor I would use Blogger. Dumping random text? I have pastebin for that. Static site generator sure is attractive but we are just not there yet.

I have a feeling that 'campaign' to promote static site generator to WordPress user is strikingly similar to Windows-to-Linux campaign. It just never going to happen for most user, at this rate.
This is nice if it leads to a switch to cheaper localized non monopolistic electricity. However, I wonder if the chain reaction could lead to widespread utilities bankruptcies and maybe even cascate to another debt crisis affecting the already fragile financial and government sectors.
Canada's Guide to patents
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You're not investing, you're speculating.
I personally wouldn't focus so much on your career. If you're doing well in your CS program and internalizing that material (and learning how to program), you'll be fine there.

Instead, I would do something "out there" that interests you. If you're like most people, this is about the only time you'll be able to learn about philosophy or literature directly, in-person from subject-matter experts. I've studied philosophy a bit on my own, and with others, and let me tell you, it's a very dense, difficult subject for self-study. It might not benefit your career, but it will benefit your life.
I believe the official RSS feeds (along with all other unauthenticated endpoints) are going away imminently.
Why art history over philosophy? Just curious.
I'm not try to avoid paying taxes. I'm simply trying to understand if its cheaper to do business elsewhere. A web site can be hosted anywhere; especially if your visitors are global. Just as people choose to incorporate in a different state, I am wondering why you wouldn't do the same on an international level.

BTW, my combined federal, state, and city tax is over 40% of my income, so please don't preach about being a respectable member of society.
The revealing module pattern is an antipattern. Instead, just document which of your methods are private or protected,

/** @private */
MyClass.prototype.foo_ = function() {}
If you are a US citizen and planning this for tax purposes then forget it.

As a US citizen you have to pay tax on your worldwide income. Even if your offshore company don't pass the income to you, you have to pay tax because of something called Subpart F income (google it).

So tax wise the best you can do is to relocate to a no-tax state like Florida or Texas and save the state income tax!.
The features of the console is not really a usability issue.
I remember this page from 2005 or so. Good to see again indeed.
What an ingenious understanding of security ;)
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1) Login Lockdown

2) WP Better Security

3) WPScan (https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan)

Should be sufficient for most small/medium installation
Can anyone suggest resources for finding a 1:1 programming tutor?

A great programmer is not necessarily a great tutor.
The relative ethnic homogeneity in those societies is a factor here, I think. I might be harder for an outsider to appreciate the diversity of what superficially seems to be a very similar group of people.
You were right about my Flash being out of date. I upgraded, and now it kind of works. A video loads, but it only plays if I click on the link that takes me to Youtube in a new window or tab.

Even if that’s a tiny bit inconvenient, it’s still neat that I can write one little rhyme about probabilistic estimators, click Freestyle 16 times, and then hear a song about buying whores from a store, going to war, poverty, prison time, heartbreak and exercise. All to the beat of “Hate it or Love it”, by The Game. Or maybe instead to the beat of “You Don’t Know My Name”, by Alicia Keys.
Clothing choices is one of the least consequential places for there to be a lack of individualism, and I hardly think it's a good proxy for judging how a group values freedom and individualism in areas that matter. I know a lot of people (myself included) whose dress is influenced by prevailing trends, but whose ideas, values, priorities, etc are not (or are to a much lesser degree).
I wish him well for finding balance, though I wonder if someone like himself can shut up long enough. I mean, he initially thought he was ~helping~ his career with all the attention.
somebody will soon discover some murder or something
The only thing generated from a hospice is sadness...
Was this done intentionally by the VCR manufacturers on the part of the MPAA?
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Insider trading is not ok, unless you happen to be a Federal employee
Putting your kids on a schedule is probably the best thing you can do as a parent to ensure your sanity and to keep your kids happy. Kids really do like repetitive behavior, and a good schedule is one of those[1].

There are few things that help you cope with those really challenging parenting days like knowing your kids are going to be in bed at 8pm, with 30 minutes of relaxing parent/child time before that. Knowing you get a break is immensely empowering.

I cringe for the kids when I see them walking around the grocery store with their parents at 11pm. It doesn't surprise me that so many kids are unable to concentrate[2] when they are sleep deprived, overly stimulated, and jacked up on sugar (Lucky Charms is 40% sugar. Baby formula has more sugar than Coke.).

All that said, my kids are smart. ;) But what really excites me about my kids is watching them find and explore their interests. The word I would use to describe them is "unique".

1. Sorry, no academic research to back it up. Lots of anecdotal experience from my own kids and those of others who have come to my wife and I for advice. Also, just look at how many times a kid can watch the same movie over and over again. :)

2. My wife works as a pediatric nurse. I have no doubt there are many kids (and adults for that matter) who are wired very differently and need help to fit into society's notion of how a kid should behave. I also think that we are doing massive damage to kids by all the sugar we feed them, especially in liquid form, whether it's milkshake formula or Mountain Dew, and that damage is showing up as a slew of problems, from obesity and Type II diabetes to cognitive issues. However, those are going to be exceedingly difficult to prove, and powerful interests (from the USDA to food producers) will do everything they can to distract people from proving it.
Why do they have to be mutually exclusive? An investment is a speculation. Long term I speculate one thing, short term I may speculate something different.
I work in the homehealth/hospice software industry and I will say: Change your name.

Hospice is end of life care. Hospice is understanding that death is coming and approaching it painlessly, intentionally and hopefully as happily as possible. To get into hospice you must be certified by a doctor as being terminal, (generally) less than 6 months to live.

Hospice is about bringing a life to a close with as much dignity as the illness allows.

The people in that industry are amazing, magical individuals and I do not know how they have the strength and tenacity to face every day like they do (although their amusing brand of dark humor seems to help).

Seriously though -- why would you want your product associated with terminal end of life diagnosis and care?
I have to agree with you, if nothing else because existing debugging tools just aren't very good at dealing with the privacy-through-closures pattern. In many cases, it's essentially impossible to inspect the state of a variable that is made private this way, and it's not clear how you would even design a debugger that gave a reasonable interface for doing so.