skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"College isn't worth it."

I got the complete opposite message from this article. The Phish guys basically spent their college years creating the platform for their future success - would that have ever happened if they'd gone into the workforce instead? Or if they'd had the pressure of "I'm a full time musician" rather than "I'm at college, it's cool if I just want to jam for 8 hours a day because I love it".

Just because people drop out of college or don't use their degree, doesn't mean it's not worth it.

All of your points on debt though are excellent. Be aware that there is such a thing as good debt, but it's not a common experience whereas your lessons are well worth sharing.
First level .ce-Domains are not available for registration. The domain name is not that important anyway. Residen.se is fine in my opinion.
or china for that matter
That's _exactly_ right, you nailed it. At least for me, that describes my motivations perfectly.
I wouldn't pay $180 for a book either, but most people who buy textbooks don't have a choice.
New app keeps Icelanders from sleeping with relatives
Could you go into some more detail about what being 'packaged correctly' means? What's wrong with a git clone deployment, why is deploying as a package better, and how does one implement it correctly?
"In real-world use, this tech will probably be used to equip consumer devices with batteries that are much smaller and lighter — imagine a smartphone with a battery the thickness of a credit card, which can be recharged in a few seconds."
NYC law firm employee convicted of stealing $376,000 worth of copy machine toner
Had exactly the same experience a week ago. Mad me yearn for Rails!
how recent was this alpaca run? it's kind of a thing lately. also: http://firealpaca.com/en did you try adding a bowtie?
Bitcoins via credit card
Amazon reportedly buys Siri-like voice control app
There's both. They are often fighting the last war, though.
I wonder if it mimics the demographics of radio stations. The station has a targeted range and you as a listener travel through that range as you age/change. First, liking it, then finding it passe and repetitive. Those who are growing out of Reddit, and others, move to where their older peers are/were, bringing with them their ways. Like when new hires still act like college seniors, college freshmen still act like high school seniors, and high school freshmen still act like junior high kids.
IMHO, it's more important to get residense.com than residen.ce

I have a site that uses the '.se' and the (non tech) people who are my target market keep asking '.com?'
20 miles
No feeling in the world is worse for an entrepreneurialy minded person than seeing a severe problem, knowing how to fix it to the point of demonstrating the solution, but being forbidden from doing so because of trivial politics.

You will find this by the dump-truck full at BigCo.
Though I have reasonably good vision under some conditions, I deal with
one of the mild variations of ocular albinism. I can see pretty good but
I can't handle some things very well like bright lights, flickering, or
some areas of the spectrum, such as older florescent lights. Most of the
web where black text is put on a white background is painful for me to
read, but luckily I know how to configure my browser to override the
default display colors.

Over the years, I've set up many computer systems for people with
various types of vision limitations, including text-to-speech, special
magnification, color pallets within visual range, alternate fonts, and
Braille display systems. Sadly, I can't read Braille by touch, and when
I check systems to make sure they're working right, I do it visually.

Text-to-speech is helpful, but there are many textual clues which are
never vocalized. For example, on a UNIX mailing list one user was having
trouble understanding some of the emails due to the fact that the
convention for indicating a manual page is to put the name of the manual
page followed by a left parenthesis, then the number of the manual
section, followed by a right parenthesis. His screen reader just sort of
skipped over the parenthesis, so he never realized he was being directed
to the text based manuals.

The major problem with Braille displays is their cost. Most of them are
heavily protected by patents, insanely expensive, and extremely limited.
Braille is tough to do well on most modern computer systems. Most modern
graphical user interfaces are just not designed to give an alternate way
of interacting with the system.

I've always wondered if it would be feasible to create a pin display?

The idea would be basically replacing the pixels of visual displays with
pins to create a tactile display. Graphical elements, even pictures,
could be represented with raised or lowered pins. The text could be
translated to Braille, or rendered as raised pins in a touch-readable
font.

It would not solve the issue of Braille illiteracy exactly, but from my
ignorant view as a sighted person, I believe it could help in a lot of
ways, including literacy.
I toured a US missile sub a few years back with a group from Microsoft. We went into the launch control room and saw a Windows PC running NT 3.51 (or maybe 4) on the control desk. Our reaction was, let's just say, extreme surprise.

The two guys in the room (I'm guessing that room is always manned, even during a refit) immediately understood our concern. "No no," they said, "that's not the missile computer. That's the missile computer." They pointed behind us at a giant grey metal cabinet. I imagine the technology was from around 1980, but from the look of it I wouldn't have been surprised to find vacuum tubes inside.

We were all quite relieved to find that nuclear missiles are controlled by an old computer that presumably doesn't receive security bug patches on a weekly basis.
Sucks to be you. Money is important. But is is not everything.
I am glad that I got a chance to connect even in a minor way with someone I view as a fellow traveller. If it means I "enjoy" HN a little less, so be it!

This is not a cartoon for your enjoyment, it is part of real life. You can go back to grubbing for money any time you like.
No, I completely agree. While this is incredibly interesting -- the video a few comments down is absolutely crazy -- this is not a Hacker News article.

I'm sure this is due to Boston. Seeing another "explosion" headline is likely to peak interest (at least it did with mine). But again, doesn't really fit in with what a Hacker News article should be.
Quite the startling fallacy there, even if disguised in symbols.
> Markets do not predict the future, they only represent the current state of mind about the future.

I never said markets predict the future.

I said they are a good forward looking indicator. Major difference ;)

> The fact that U.S. bond rates are so low does not mean that "something else is at work and the situation is not as bad as it seems." It just means that right now, folks can't think of a better place to put their money than in U.S. bonds.

Well....implicit in my example was that what people tend to do is to complain about America's debt-to-GDP and then suggest some other asset class that investors should be putting their money in - like gold or w/e. Given the large gold sell off a few days ago, I am sure many of those guys are pissed.

Either way, my point was simply that as a general rule, the sovereign bond markets are usually good, forward looking indicators about the health of the economy of a country (relative to others). That's all I was saying - which is contrary to what politicians tell the people. But because they don't know any better, they accept what they hear as gospel because it fits a narrative in their head - bankers are stealing the wealth of the world.
First, you imply that underlying intention behind the Fiber deployment in Provo is to make surveillance a piece of cake by practically serving up data on a platter. You admit no other possibility, since this "only helps support" your thesis.

Then someone calls you on it, and you back off and say you weren't implying anything, just that [the NSA] has an interest in building up infrastructure there.

Did you even consider the possibility that both parties might be coincidentally interested in Provo for entirely different reasons?
From the POV of the bank, no. Their primary function is to make money on the carry trade between money borrowed and money lended. Your deposits are borrowed funds.

Generally, in the case of fraud, the bank is the one who is on the hook. They must make good on, for example, a chargeback.

When your entire business model is built around making 2-3% on large pools of money, it's critical to squash risk. The losses from one fraud event can wipe out the LTV of a small business account.
> 2. Your controller is meant to be simple glue between model and view - if you're putting tons of code in there, you're doing it wrong.

Yes, fat models are the way to go. This is just a good rule of thumb for any MVC framework. I feel like no framework docs actually explain this. Newbies end up shooting themselves in the foot because they don't understand the reason for separation or understand where logic should be implemented.
High school continuation students creating a RPG - Halaal: The Frozen Sword
Even curl does the right thing for basic auth
What country were you born in?
Wouldn't you save on power bills (not to mention space) by replacing this with a router running custom firmware?
Provable Programming provably requires non-Turing-complete languages.

Which isn't an insuperable barrier, to be sure, but it's a big piece of evidence against its practicality in actual commercial environments.
Guessed 30 (I'm on regular mouse/desktop). I'm 38.
Millennials are the least entrepreneurial generation
I can easily believe in companies as big as Samsung and as profitable as Samsung a lot of people don't know what their suppliers/sub-contractors are doing. Bigger organization is, more chance somebody sleeps at the wheel, somebody takes shortcut, somebody is lazy, somebody just doesn't care. And if the money is abundant, there's less control over how exactly every cent is spent, so it could very well be that somebody hired this sleazy company to get good numbers for his annual review and his superiors were distracted by something else and didn't know a thing. I'm not saying that's what happened, but the size of the company makes it more, not less, likely. Sometimes big corps and big bureaucracies are evil, but many times they are also stupid.
Copy toner is the new cocaine!
I'm getting sucked into an argument I don't really care about because I actually like South and use it in production for some things.

But I mean idempotent SQL takes care of the vast majority of all this stuff you mentioned. Write your SQL properly and it doesn't matter whether or not it's been applied before.
Responsive Web Design in Africa: why it’s time to adapt
Finding Friday
Cute, but think twice about making this the focus of your time as people have advised above. Finding a cofounder is a pain point for many people (myself included) but the market can't be very large. You will also have to address a challenge that regular dating sites have, namely that those who successfully find a match will no longer use your service. Unlike regular dating sites, cofounder-matching sites seem stacked with people looking for help with their idea, perhaps because those willing to work for someone else already have a job and aren't as driven to get involved. Are there really an equal number of people who think "I'd love to work on a startup but don't have an idea of my own that I am passionate about"?

That being said, none of the cofounder-matching sites I've used have solved my problem so I suppose there is room in this space. If you did take a cue from OKC and institute a system of curated user-generated Q&As you might be on to something. The services I've used were primitive in their matching ability (e.g. I am a developer looking for a designer, which tells you nothing about values, principles, working style, etc.) so hey, maybe you could make it work.
Thanks for responding!

I hope that screenshot was useful. I just wasn't sure if I was the only one who was having trouble navigating.
Don't over think it — try and keep it simple: At first it's sink or swim — then worry about gold medals.
WTF is Rippln?
I'm getting a lot of BS being shared by my closest friends on some cool new way to share content. I want to know if any of you guys have been receiving the same nonsense?
What is the best transaction processing network out there?
pip freeze has always been horrible for me. I've been better off managing my requirements manually.
"We know you're clean and well-established with us, but this use of the account with two incoming transfers a day is outside of our risk parameters, so you've got 30 days to move off it for your business use. We don't want this business"

This is a good example of why we need Bitcoin. The bank tells you that you cannot use your accounts a certain way? Fine. Use Bitcoin and nobody can stop you from receiving as many payments as you want.
Couldn't disagree more. I think I know the co-founder market quite a bit: I ran the co-founders meetup in Silicon Valley for a few years, and ran foundrs.com to get people to work together on startups.

1. As a business, targeting broke founders is not a get-rich-quick approach. I did it for love of entrepreneurs.

2. Finding a co-founder is hard. Over the years, I became convinced that personal chemistry is very important (that's why I moved from an online site to in-person meetups). And it takes time. Think 1 month of working together, minimum, before you even should consider someone as a co-founder.

After ~3 years of effort, the one very successful result fro my efforts is the co-founders equity calculator. That is something that a lot of people use, learn from, and solves an immediate issue. If you are curious, it's now the only content on the home page of http://foundrs.com
The main thing I wish I had known is that the ORM is rather limited (or, at any rate, it was too limited for my app), and while you can use raw SQL, it won't let you get model objects out of your own queries, which makes it impossible to integrate with the rest of your app that uses the ORM [1]. The first thing I'd do if I had to use Django again would be to eschew its ORM and use SQLAlchemy instead.

[1] This was a few versions of Django ago; if they fixed this since then, I welcome corrections.
I started reading about Django recently so this is a noob question, but what's the controller in Django? All I've seen with with a lot of code is models, views, and templates. It's kind of annoying how tutorials talk about MVC but it doesn't seem like an MVC framework.

Also, if I want a user to input numbers to do calculations, where does the computationally heavy code go?
"Bitcoin is not a bubble. It's a way to move money efficiently on internet."

The two are by no means mutually exclusive.
The link doesn't seem to go through to the article. Here's a direct link if the one above didn't work for you either:

http://qz.com/74937/how-to-become-internet-famous-without-ev...
Yes and no: it is just a question of habit. You will no more need some physical coffer. You will just need to remember a big password (or just a small coffer where you put a unique printing of your password). The protection of your property will be cheaper.
Well, I think they've noticed the blip, and are at least pretending not to be concerned:
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/04/17/bitcoin-doesnt-sca...
Funny, I was expecting it to be both things the author didn't like and was trying to awkwardly mash together.
The Lemonade Stand
A clever coming soon page.
>Anyway, these are my notes to send back to 2009.

A 25 year-old lamenting the mistakes of his youth...

Seriously now, these are some good points that too many never learn, particularly being afraid to say “I don’t know” and understanding that "everyone is not like you"
'Could you patent the sun?' Inside the Supreme Court case on patenting DNA
There was a corruption scandal in Australia where government employees were recieving sizable kickbacks for ordering 40 years worth of toner at 3 times the retail price
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/260705,vic-govt-stung-by-print...
Erlang/OTP seems the most important middleware the author of this post probably hasn't heard of ... there isn't even a single mention of it while mentioned all the things copied from it (supervisors for ex)

> Akka is designed to be bulletproof. ... It’s actually very hard to write a system using Akka that isn’t fault tolerant.

That is why you use something battle tested, build from ground up concurrent platform -- Erlang/OTP, not some new fangled experimental library.

The only way Akka is interesting if you _need_ to access Java libraries and there is just no other way.
Not sure when it was added, but is this what you were after? https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/topics/db/sql/#perform...
How I was temporarily banned from computers in high school
Toosell blog | Way to Install a Wireless Mouse on your Laptop
>>Money is important. But is is not everything.

People generally say that when they have all the money in the world. Or they have never felt a deficiency of it.

>>Sucks to be you.

It sucks to be without money.

You are right.
My theory is that the only reason businesses think Twitter is big is because of the large number of fake people. Of people that I personally know, only about a dozen are active Twitter users.
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/siteshwar/Ce...

For anyone else having problems finding native packages for Linux, I am building packages for several Linux distros at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/siteshwar/
Imagine shorting this capacitor.
Which is good and bad, if banks don't want to take business of people who have questionable transactions it becomes more difficult to run scams. Bitcoin is the wild west, it's always better if you're the one taking the money.
Giveaway – 20 Full Copies of WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe.
Yeah . . . 20 years ago. If I'm not wrong, I saw Phish in Winston in '92ish in a small downtown venue, with something like maybe 500 or 600 people - tops - in the audience. My brother was very wired into the up and coming jam band scene then as well as being a student at App State (thus my attendance at the Boone show).

Winston had an interesting music scene back in those days (80s/90s, can't speak to since then). Phish, Widespread Panic (in the chapel at Wake Forest!), Dave Matthews, Leo Kottke, Alex DeGrassi (there was a guitar society that was active in promoting acoustic artists). Many of the MTV up and coming metal/hair bands seemed to pop into Baity's (a long closed Winston spot) for shows on their way to becoming bigger venue acts (all pre-grunge). Sometime in the late 80s and early 90s a number of blues guitarists would roll through the Triad area as well.

In hindsight, it's kind of interesting to consider just how many quality musicians came around central NC. I worked in a guitar shop for a summer and there were actually a surprising number of highly skilled amateurs playing. But for some reason, this translated into few active bands.
Cuttlefish - FOSS email manager like Mailgun/Sendgrid
I do this as well. It's funny when you've struggled with a problem for an hour or so the day before and then the next day you sit down and figure it out in 10 minutes.
I'm an emacs lover myself, but for that use-case it seems like all you need is rlwrap: http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/rlwrap/#rlwrap
Hm, when reading articles about Apple or Samsung, I tend to read the comments as well on Yahoo!. I notice within the first couple of hours, the comments are all pretty much Apple bashing. There are hundreds of comments in support of Samsung with tons of flaming going on. Reading this, it all makes sense.
I definitely have more posts where this happens and I delete it than actual posts. It works great.
I second this. I was just about ready to plop down a profile..
Money from unknown sources (aka "online services") coming in daily doesn't seem outrageous to be an outlier for fraud. Especially if the account was being used as a float of sorts (a small balance kept).
Forgot to add this:

"Tax evasion, bribery and price-fixing: How Samsung became the giant that ate Korea"

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/tax-evasion-bri...

"Samsung's rocky legal past paints a picture of scandal and corruption"

http://www.theverge.com/policy/2012/8/7/3226651/samsung-lega...

"Samsung Bribery Probe Points to Pattern of Graft in South Korea"

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a...
LinkedIn's New Mobile App
Wondering what this looks like on GNU bash (version 4.2.25 i686-pc-linux-gnu)? Wonder no longer:

$ ./bashtime.sh
🕤
sorry, when I said 'paid for the privilege of being able to buy them', I meant that literally.. almost like a purchase option.

people who attended Google I/O last year were given the opportunity to preorder an Explorer device.
A lot of this boils down to: it's hard to follow links.

Someone's massive Twitter following is simply a large list of links to follow up on...and determining their fakeness is algorithmically but who has the time to check each follower's activity level? Most social media "professionals" I know have no clue except to trust a paid-for black box analysis service.

And many well-accepted Wikipedia articles have plenty of dead links in their footnotes, even though such cruft should be easy to red flag. What's harder to diagnose are footnotes that refer to information in print. If I told you that, among my accomplishments, the story of how I built my fortune is referred to on pages 106-118 of one of Malcolm Gladwell's early, more obscure titles...how many Wikipedia editors would bother to look that up? Or maybe I just make up a book and enter in a random ISBN.

It's still all-to-easy to avoid examination by promising that the original source of the info is just one click away. As long as you don't inspire anyone to vet you out of jealousy or spite, you could go undetected for a long while, despite the power of the hyperlink
Unreal rocks! My son put me onto Sunvox, pretty cool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Row2VYpz2pY
Wait for the other shoe to drop.

The pattern is raise the speed, then wait 60-90 days and raise all the prices.
The site's a nice WordPress implementation.
FUSE can be really ugly sometimes though, kernel modules are better if you need any real reliability.
I don't know how old you are or your profession, but as a 24 year old in the creative community, literally every single person I know is an active Twitter user, and many have replaced it with texting. I live in Richmond, VA so not exactly a tech hub.
Linkedin redesigns IPhone, Android, web.
LinkedIn Updates Mobile App, Experiments With Ads
Texas Explosion caught on Youtube before Cable or Broadcast
qz.com? I personally really loathe it but whatever. I'd rather read almost any tech site (design-wise) than QZ.