skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Dropping the critical context of "mandatory" and "public"...hard to take that seriously.

....it was implied. Add "mandatory" and "public" to the same sentence and my views and overall point do not change. Whenever someone refers to the education system as a whole, they are generally speaking about public schooling, and so was I. My intent was not to mislead, here.

>What is the alternative again?

Non mandatory? Then there's no point. There is a certain section of population that would rather see their kids doing something other than going to school every day, probably the ones that need it most. Inner cities where education is poor and money is tight, farms where there's more impetus to have help doing the work rather than getting educated, single working parents, etc etc.

Non-public? We already have private schools, they're almost completely the domain of the wealthy.

No education? .. don't think anything needs to be said here.

>leaving it to the machinations of local, state or federal political will and self-serving bureaucracy

What is the alternative? Schooling is arguably a type of infrastructure, and privatizing infrastructure seldom ever works out in the public's benefit. It's one of those high cost, low margin, delayed return activities that don't look good on a corporation's balance sheet.

>That said, since the original article was about mass media, this is precisely what mass media's goal also is, once the pupil's graduate; provide the same ordering of knowledge and socialization of issues, and common responses to predetermined stories.

I guess I don't see what you mean by this. I don't recall going to an "Everybody panic!!" class in elementary school, nor do I remember any sort of conditioning along those lines. Heck the only thing that felt 'off' about public school were the lockdown drills a couple times a year, and those have a valid purpose.

Your analysis completely smacks of unjustified paranoia, at least to me. I see no connection whatsoever between public education and the utter broken-ness of the mainstream media. Both are broken, but for different reasons, in different ways, in different degrees.
Get Ready for Disposable Hardware
The page looks like a wreck. It's like it's trying to look cool and tripping over itself.
Sadly, it doesn't matter since we are now in the ethereal "War on Terror".
VIDEO: How H.Bloom Invests in Its Employees
Hm, I get a similar error when trying to download the whitepaper on the fifth page. I can change pages fine, but when I try and click on the link it does a "download microsoft" Bing search...
Gold is heavy, easy to counterfeit with (cheap) tungsten, difficult to take across borders, easy to steal, etc.

Bitcoin won't be so volatile after it has been more widely adopted.

And the "advanced crypto stuff" of Bitcoin can never collapse. It is already partially post-quantum and was designed to be easily upgradeable to fully post-quantum algorithm set.

You would do yourself some good if you took a minute to learn some things about crypto.
Actually there were PC's in the 70's. But they weren't cheap. I had a kit; a Heathkit I built with my grandfather. Much cheaper then the Apple's or other systems available then. And man did I learn a lot building that thing.
The point was sarcastic. Our political system seems unable to take meaningful action unless there is a crisis.

Between this and the misinterpreted claims that Krugman actually called for the Bush administration to initiate a housing bubble are really weak ad hominem attacks.
The Challenges of Controlling Java Exploits
While there may be no scientific basis, I do like the explanation I read on another site: Mating calls. While we can certainly form relationships without music, music does often seem to play a large role in our mating processes.
Immigration reform : The Dream Is Now documentary
Like security, hacking is a process. Every step you can take to hide the payload increases the change of execution. For example, take a business that scans files that come thru the firewall and email, they think their firewall does the job well enough so they don't focus on keeping A/V on the computers up to date.
Ask HN: Easy way out or hard way freelancing?
I left my high payed job 2 months ago and now I got an offer that is even better than the previous payed job...my dilemma is to take this job or continue freelancing and working on small projects for myself and looking for projects. The thing is it wasn't bad since I left my job, I have done some freelancing work and also some side small projects but the thing is I do not really like the part of freelancing where I need to look for clients and when I do find clients most of them do not have the kind of projects I am looking for. So I wouldn't really take this job offer but it is a lot of money and since my savings are going really fast it looks like an easy solution. What should I do? Should I post that I am looking for work on HN, because I think it is the best place to find good work and fun projects and not having to work for clients that have crappy projects and do not understand how the industry works. The thing is I am not sure how much long time work I would get from HN and how fast and that's why the easy way out to a high paying job looks like a good solution.
Is the paragraph commenting system on Medium a new thing?

Haven't noticed it before.

EDIT: Introduced April 10: https://medium.com/about/8304190661d4.
An Open Letter To Mozilla Corporation
Doesn't look like it'll happen any time soon. Many graduates seem to be doing degree courses focused around games rather than general CS.

The number of games jobs as a % that I see advertised is pretty high as well.
The games industry is populated by young, inexperienced people and that has two effects:

1. A belief that any obstacle can be overcome, any deadline met

2. One tool in the toolbox: I can personally make this happen by writing enough clever code

There is very little:

a. Has this been done before?

And even when that is present, a total absence of

b. How long did it take them?

As is said in the article, management selects people from the first group, and actively punishes anyone who asks questions.

Now, this latter may be true in any large industry where there's more money than sense, but so far my experience is that only in the games industry is this coupled with insane hours and a hit-driven industry that makes failure a guarantee of layoffs.
I had originally commented saying that this was a great read. I was only half-way done though. After finishing the entire thing, I agree that it could have used more details.

Overall I do think it's a good read (so, you know, some of you should read it instead of just posting about the layout of the site..). It just could have had a little less fluff and more details. You do end up getting a solid sense of how useful this could be to other companies.

I thought the whitepaper linked on the fifth page might be a good source for more information, but unfortunately the link didn't work for me.
Looks like smart building and smart city concept is a continuation of the things that were happening in his previous work at Cisco. Great potential and a good vision. Only seeing this moving at any speed in small patches, but a real difference when you have it.
I generally use Heroku for an alpha deployment, but then migrate to DigitalOcean for stable production deployment. I feel Heroku can get too expensive as the application scales up.
Thanks for taking the time to write that out. It's very useful. I need to work on getting into my "zone"...
Perhaps the segment the Segway aspires to is that of the skateboard. Alas, an order or two of magnitude heavier and more expensive. Great for relatively short distances you're not really keen on walking, but too heavy to carry and too expensive to leave outside.
jha: then stop selling ads on this very page
Reply by mikecane: I don’t. WordPressdotcom does so I
can use it for free. I don’t see any of that money.

Oh boy. Where to start...
No, I mentioned in a day. Sometimes you mess with all that kind of code in a day (I mentioned C and C++ as base)
Applying Graphs to Solve Real World Problems (presentation)
This has generally been my experience, but even the best product manager I've worked with will occasionally do something, well, dumb.

Just like engineers do sometimes.
For PHP, why would we use your service over PHPCPD and PHPMD?
Yes, it is interesting, when you are becoming highly concurrent the penalty for context switching start taking its toll, but that's only when the rest of your trading system is already optimized.
>>killing hundreds of children in one drone strike

Hundreds of children? Why? When? How -- where they put in a pile?!

>>you are no longer in a position to drone the shit out of entire villages of children and women at your whims(very soon)

The point with drone strikes is that they are targeted, not like artillery which do wipe out villages, etc.

I stopped reading. Please increase your trolling quality.
On a mission to provide primary education for all
> The point that you're missing is that just because some meetings add no value doesn't mean that no meetings add value.

The fact that some meetings add value doesn't mean all or even most meetings add value.

My analogy holds; page fault handlers add value. They also incur a heavy cost and you want to avoid faulting if it at all possible.
Presidential Policy Directive 20
I would even say that the vast majority of both producers and consumers of creative content have bad taste.
nice one, Ken!

All-- having worked with Ken, he's indeed awesome.
BlueHost/HostMonster/FastDomain sites down due to 2 simultaneous DDOS attacks
The second ever bitcoin story on HN, 999 days ago
That's why employees should get a Microsoft Surface Pro.

They get the full-featured operating system that they're used to and they can operate the full OS via touch, pen, keyboard or mouse. I've got one and I love it. No walled garden for me, thanks!
You can vote, but you can't change anything. If voting could actually change anything, they'd make it illegal.
Too bad its NSFW. One of those things I'd love to forward around.

Overall, awesome concept.
The problem with this article is that it doesn't actually say much new. The idea that it would be good to have more women in technology, as an end in itself rather than a means to some further end, is fairly widely accepted already.

The next question is how to bring that about, and this is where the arguments bog down, because this is where most of the disagreements are really happening anymore. We can't "move past rhetoric" until we agree on how to move forward, but that agreement is going to require rhetoric in its own right.
If that's a city of the future, then I don't want any part of it...
Quick Update: My mongo instance on the code analysis server failed. Need to restart it. Sorry for the lack of results. Working on it.
The Constitution doesn't say who they're held by; the only reference to "right" in there is actually a place that calls out my error: it does grant one right, which is copyright/patent. Oddly.

A document that might indicate who rights were considered to be held by is the Declaration of Independence, but it says "all men", which I would take to mean every human. Obviously not all the signers viewed it that way, given that slavery was still permitted. Since the US didn't exist at the time when these rights were already viewed as being operative, though, I think we can safely exclude that they were intended to apply only to US citizens.

Edit: spelling.
Perhaps you're right that the connection is becoming tenuous. I, for one, was not assuming that the pdftohtml result was "objectively the correct one"; just that it's obviously more relevant than some, or many, of the results that are ranking higher than it for the query. And it's so common for less relevant or spammy pages to rank higher than more relevant, higher-quality results that I no longer expect the best results to be near the top, nor even on the first page. There are probably many reasons for this, and one reasonable theory is that Google is attempting to increase their profit by driving people to pages that might earn them a commission. Or it might just be that their ranking algorithms, despite being still perhaps better than anyone else's, are fundamentally flawed, and attach too much importance to linkage and not enough to other signals of quality.
I think that's changing a bit, though. There are a lot more independant developers and people who are skipping the mainstream publishing/dev-studio industry and finding better success. And if they're both irrational choices, why not?

Some examples: the game that swept the GDC Choice awards was Journey, made by a small independent studio with an exclusivity deal rather than a more traditional publishing relationship. Minecraft is one of the best-selling games of all time: the XBox 360 version alone sold more than Gears of War 2, to give you a point of comparison. The average indie game won't see this level of success, of course, but neither will the average big-publishing mainstream game.
Yup. He responds to the "pot, kettle, black" observations with a whining "it's not my fault! it'd be better if I had my own server!" (someone point him to a cheap server, please).
> stumbled over the navigation to the next page, which gave me this error

> I get a similar error when trying to download the whitepaper on the fifth page.

So... first time you two have used a Microsoft product then?

Well, in case you're wondering, pretty much all Miscrosoft software is a stolen design wrapped around a buggy core when first released.
to add to Piskvorrr's point, if population isn't a bubble waiting to explode I don't know what is ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Population_curve.svg
The Corporate System is actually collapsing. That doesn't mean that corporations themselves are going to go out (that won't happen for another 100+ years) but they're no longer an efficient way of turning human efforts into salable work.

The value of managed human work is going to zero (anything that a manager can tell a person to do, a person can program a machine to do) and independent creative work's value is going up exponentially-- but there is a massive unsolved problem of how we pay people for the latter, given the high skill requirements and intermittency of payment. What kind of insurance system must we build?

Convexity will end the Corporate System for good. See: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/gervais-macle...

Unfortunately, we have a regime in which the Satanic Trinity (housing, healthcare, and tuition fees) have not only eaten the middle class, but have left people utterly dependent on a monthly income. Also, we have generational creative poverty. There is generational poverty, which is cultural as much as it is physical. Then there is the American middle class, which lives not in material poverty, but in a de-culturized zone that annihilates human creativity. That is generational and hard to reverse (parental and peer expectations). We have millions of people bred to be middle managers and junior executives that the world no longer needs, because the grunt work is increasingly being done by machines.

The generational cultural poverty, coupled with actual material scarcity since 2008, has left a generation unable to survive as the Corporate System ceases expanding and begins its decline.
We did this in collaboration with UofC, using our Algo trading platform (http://www.optionscity.com/event/uchicago-midwest-trading-co...) and it was really fun.

Hm, I wonder if there is an interest to make this a more open event :)
Compared to the fundamentally CRUD-like nature of most startups?
Where did you get the district map of India? I know jvectormap that has the states[1] but it excludes the areas our government claims but does not administer (aksai chin, pok) which might not be appreciated in official circles.

[1] http://jvectormap.com/maps/countries/india/
Really interesting thread I was thinking of post something like this myself. Tons of good info thanks guys
you'd be surprised.
Maybe. But I think the act of making it public is an important distinction. I don't post to my blog very often (and traffic is essential zero), but when I write I try to make it worth reading. I'm certain I would not take the same care with a diary entry that would never see the light of day.
A New HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles
Gold does not glitter
Is it necessary for a user to log in separately on every forum or how do you keep people authenticated?
If you are born as a creative person, like Bukowski, you will create this time and space, no matter what. For the rest of us, Cleese tells us about the importance of creating them - while Bukowski warns that they're just a tool, not a solution. Likewise, you buy a set of pencils because you have an urge to draw; not the other way round.
Keep in mind that your job might look bad in your resume. Given the bad rep gaming companies have, only people that are inexperienced/not that good, or clueless go to the industry.

I know you have to start your career somewhere, but keep that in mind.
There may be a bit of a filter here on HN: it's very startup web dev heavy, so you won't see many people wasting their time (yes, it would be a waste of time for them) going down to the hardware level. Try working in a more applied domain, such as industrial, where real-time low-level hacking is a daily occurrence, and you will find many extremely competent low-level programmers, who don't work insane hours, because it's more important to get the code right (lives depend on it), than it is to keep to some market driven schedule. Sure, it's not as glamorous, but it pays the bills. It also doesn't very often have the challenges of maintaining one codebase across multiple platforms, but you learn pretty quickly when each new project is a whole different architecture, with a different assembler, IDE, buses, memory model, register layout, etc, etc. On top of which you have to know your domain at least well enough to get requirements from your users . . .
Bukowski is talking about something different. Cleese is talking about how to get into the creative or 'open' mode, whereas Bukowski is talking about people who use their circumstances to justify their lack of performance. Cleese only suggests an hour and a half a day of alone time which is completely doable for even for many people who have a job and a family and the drive to create something.
Yeah, agreed, it was not clear why calling out White was useful in the title.

"Youth" and "maleness" were relevant. Younger people tend to be more "desperate" and willing to trade time and health to "make it" in their career of choice. They are also less likely to have young children. Males tend to be more passionate about the gaming industry.

But what is it about White people that makes them more likely to go into the gaming industry? Nothing, right? So it's not relevant to call it out in the title.
Unable? I don't think so at all... Have you tried a Surface device? I got the Pro - it's a full operating system in a device the size of an iPad, with Intel i5 CPU and graphics. What's not to love?

I predict that Windows is going to be increasingly more available on smaller mobile devices. Not much of a prediction because to me it's obvious that's the direction they're heading in.
One of the defining characteristics of a bubble is that a threshold-clearing percentage of people don't know it's a bubble.

Thus, there's no such thing as "a bubble that didn't burst", there are only either things that weren't bubbles in the first place... or bubbles that haven't burst YET.

An example that comes to mind is petroleum. There are those who believe that oil-based energy, which is a key underpinning of our economy, military, lifestyle, etc., has been part of a "long boom" following coal but has reached a peak and will cause our economy to burst like a bubble when it finally retracts... and there are those who disagree and think we'll find economical substitutes as incentives warrant our doing so.
Just ping me if you want more info, my email is in my profile.
"There are so many settings in which notebooks and desktops aren't practical, but tablets are. Places where specialized software is required. Tablets deployed in retail, healthcare, defense, airplanes, hospitality, parcel delivery, onsite sales and repair, city councils, classrooms, elderly homes, etc etc."

This is partially what I meant by "non-consumption." In few if any of those environments are tablets replacing desktops. They're making those jobs easier to do by integrating software where previously it wasn't possible. Perhaps it's replacing a clipboard and pen, but not really a desktop.

"Also, even productivity software works better on tablets in some cases. Nowadays, I use OmniPlan for iPad instead of Microsoft Project and Apple Numbers for iPad instead of the OS X version. I make website mockups on the iPad instead of on the desktop. For what I need to do, it's faster and more convenient."

This may be true, but I would argue that this is what would be defined as a niche market. People in corporate America using Word and Excel is not.

However I do recognize that this might not always be the case. The tablet may come to surpass the desktop in enabling productivity which is why I said that if manufacturers ever halted desktop production, he/she would likely not be using desktops for productivity anymore, either. Chances are what he/she does isn't all that unique compared to the overall market.
> LOTS of legacy COBOL still has our financial and insurance markets working smoothly.

Is there any proof for such a statement? Has anyone seen business applications written in COBOL running on any thing then maybe a few mainframes in a few US agencies/corporations that haven't been replaced simply because they aren't broken (yet!)?

I know there's tons of Fortran and some PL/I code that will never be translated in any other language anytime soon because it's just good the way it is, but COBOL? I'm starting to think that this whole "COBOL will still be around in 100 years" is an urban myth...
Hey there! First off, really sorry this happened to you but it looks like you're definitely on the path to recovery - you're not just wallowing in depression and actively looking for solutions! Stay strong and keep it up, soon this will all look like a bizarre dream. :)

Where are you based? You mentioned you're in US, if you're in the NYC area give me a shout! I'm a gal coder too, would definitely meet up for some "coding sessions". I'm currently also learning some web stuff like JavaScript so we'd be in the same boat and help each other. I can also do Skype/chat sessions if we can't meet face-to-face so let me know!

Stay strong and try to look on the positive side. Things will definitely just go up from here! If not, there's always lolcats to lift the mood :)
The internet doesn't suck. People's lives suck around the internet.
Peter Norvig's PyData 2013 Talk
The share of Americans working for enterprises larger than 500 employees is rising, not falling.

I think this analysis is more wishful than factual. It'll get upvoted because of course tuition and health care are satanically expensive.
In one building garage, exhaust fans had been mistakenly left on for a year (to the tune of $66,000 of wasted energy). Within moments of coming online, the smart buildings solution sniffed out this fault and the problem was corrected.

And also why this work is important. Environmental and conservation arguments aside, it means $66,000 worth of product and services had to be sold to pay for one simple mistake.

In large organizations, these types of mistakes occur every day and can add up quickly.

The article was light on specifics, and the ROC control room doesn't seem to bespeak a 500 acre campus, but actively pursuing the problem looks very interesting.