skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board is the authoritative body as far as I'm aware and in order to title yourself an "Engineer" you need to be a member of your provincial regulatory body since the title "Engineer" is a protected title under law. It isn't really enforced in any way but to call yourself a "Software Engineer" without having P.Eng. in Canada is technically illegal.

EDIT: Its pointed out in a different post that "Engineer" as a protected term is not concrete and varies province to province while "Professional Engineer" or "P.Eng." is however protected.
Or http://github.com/ajacksified/Mediator.js :D
How are things improving?
Can someone explain why this is important or interesting?
Curiosity killed the cat or something like that. I'm not into anything controversial but if I was, I'd probably leave the country before playing Cloak & Dagger with my computer. I'm currently reading Spook Country and there's a character who "never sleeps in the same grid square." I enjoy William Gibson's distillation of our crazy world. What I do think is interesting, your credit score can drop for shopping in the wrong neighborhood. William Gibson also has a book about a data analyst that is interesting, I think Pattern Recognition is the book but I'm not sure.
I love the idea and it's a beautiful site...which quickly brings my browser (chrome) to a grinding halt.

Hopefully I'm just an edge case while the project is young?
Have you considered putting yourself out there. What I mean is that have some project that you can show as your own work. With your name on it. Work hard towards making that successful. Be it an app, a website, an open-source project, it has to be recognized as primarily your development work.

This could some day become a business or a side project as a hobby but for now it will give you a load of credibility when you go for interviews and will also give you the confidence that you need.

Good Luck!
Small generators rarely have emissions control systems anywhere near as good as the main engine (and it most cases, far worse). They usually have a completely open-loop fuel mixture control: a carburetor set to provide an adequate air/fuel ratio when the fuel tank is half full.

So, saying that only the generator is running isn't a very effective way to argue that these trucks are low-polluting.
For me it is not that difficult, but I am not saying that it is a better desktop interface than in Win7, and I can see how people with large monitors may find it a bit jarring.
I think it's the tech savvy crowd that doesn't bother to put their computers to sleep...just ctrl-alt-delete lock and go to lunch...like a phone it will (hopefully) goto sleep, and if it doesn't, not my power bill.

I guess if I had a desktop PC at home, life would be different, but I haven't had one of those since 2001.
LOL the "meta" business of food trucks is convincing people to convert home equity loans into temporary small businesses at a roughly equal rate to former operators going bankrupt.

That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with customers. That's just the normal trajectory of small businesses.

Also .gov sponsored food truck alley is located between two office buildings. They'll likely never totally starve, but they'll never be a huge hit. Like subsistence farming, but selling lunch.

I often walk around town at lunch and in the winter very few trucks show up. I don't know if that implies they outright close, or migrate, do they re-open in spring or new owners every spring?
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Free spreadsheets have been available for many years. Excel was feature complete in 1998. Monopoly perpetuates it.
I agree, I'm speculating that by looking at a star wobble or it's brightness decrease that method of detection would bring up all these systems with close orbiting planets that would be bigger than "normal".
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>Reactions that involve essentially trying to pretend that technology doesn't exist or can be suppressed will never and have never worked.

It's not a matter of availability of technology, but essentially of values - for example, a technology for murdering people cheaply and effectively (guns) exists and yet murder is not ubiquitous precisely because people agree that it's wrong. The privacy folks are just arguing that being under near-constant surveilance when in public space is also wrong. I'm not saying that I necessarily agree with them, but saying that if technology exists, then its use cannot be (to a large degree) prevented, is just incorrect.
Be thankful that Vista and later requires ACPI to boot.
This looks awesome for game development and creative coding!
Hmm. There could be significant impact on videogames, like Diablo III?

"Creates a unit of convertible virtual currency": Plays long enough to obtain a legendary item and...

"sells those units to another person for real currency": sells the legendary item on the real money auction house.

That's a very scary statement indeed. It's too broad, and could be brought to bare against too many concepts in the digital world.
I think it is great news for BTC. This sort of coverage can only legitimize it. It is a complete fantasy if people think the USG will not wet their beak in the BTC trough. If they find themselves unable to tax and regulate BTC transactions then they will probably find it necessary to destroy it instead.
I submitted this link because I fervently disagree with the blog post. I started a Econ PhD but left soon after as I realized that much of the economic theory which is taught is not realistic and not even a good proxy for how economic systems work. Computer Science has allowed researchers to build much more realistic models using agent-based modeling. When looking for econ PhD programs, make sure this is something they will allow you to research.

The best skills you can get out of most traditional Econ PhD programs are econometrics and programming skills. Outside of that it is pretty much a waste of time. Yes, you can probably get a job quickly, but you will spend a lot of the time learning none-applicable skills.

I want people to read it and hopefully we can start a discussion about it on HN.
So you want to become an Entrepreneur...
The difficulty in finding information just makes you more interested in it. Growth hacking 101.
I wanted to like Windows 8, I did. I went "all in" - a Surface, Lumia 920...

But I'm out. The OS is unreliable in annoyingly simple ways: my laptop will regularly not re-connect to the network (wired or wireless) when it comes out of sleep, and not only that, the entire "Network/ Sharing Center" tray / charm app won't even respond for minutes.

Other network issues too - the Windows Store app will show updates (eventually), but will regularly respond "not connected to the Internet".

I dislike, immensely, switching desktop modes. I tried using Start8, but still no.

Inconsistency: why does clicking the Settings Charm in desktop mode give a Control Panel option, but in full screen mode, no?

Live Tiles work a bit better on the phone, but on the desktop and laptop? Not unless you want to keep the computer on the Start Menu full time.

So, for better or worse - and I know there are both - I am moving to the iEcosystem.
Eric Schmidt has called for measures to delete information from the internet
>- To put monetary compensation second to doing quality work (the reason the ring is worn on the pinky finger far away from your gold wedding band - which it will destroy)

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this incorrect? The ring is to be worn on your dominant hand as to have it rub against the engineering drawings you create/stamp in a more traditional sense of the engineering discipline (before computer aided design).

We were instructed to wear it on the dominant hand. I know with 100% certainty this is true but the reason why is not so certain.
You have to decide whether to take HTP at their word that they deleted credit cards.

Don't we also have to take them at their word that they even had decrypted CC's? I haven't seen any proof yet that they obtained the decrypted private key, just their statement saying they grabbed in-memory keys.
I've never doubted that the Toyota engine is reliable. If Lotus made a car with reliable electronics, that strikes me as revolutionary. :)
I didn't mean nginx parser and state machines in general as mutable states, but rather state changes in variables across multiple functions and files. They are impossible to keep track of and nginx is full of them.
May I toot the horn of http://somafm.com/ here? An excellent SoMA-based internet radio station. I'm especially fond on the GrooveSalad channel, http://somafm.com/groovesalad/
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I've run my core business as an agency over the last few years and I have to say that it really gets in the way of trying to do your own products. The problem is that even the smallest client tends to require handholding, and the key to being a good agency is that it really is a service driven business — so it tends to be a real time sink.

Unless you have clients who don't care or don't need handholding (which is very rare) running an agency can eat up your life. The problem is that then when you do to do a product you're constantly in stop-and-restart mode.

You might want to think of having another option: Like working for a client project, banking as much money as you, and then live off of that while you do your product.
I still remember the developer preview that still had the start menu, which reminds me of this (see responses by Brandon Live in particular):
http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1081755-do-you-like-or-hat...
Taking up the sarcasm cape:

It explains the development of all the NSA datacenters lately - they want in on bitcoin mining!
If your goal is non-compiler analysis, like refactoring or verification, it's often more flexible to use a framework specifically designed to analyze source code and give you a nice AST with various options, rather than pulling the parser out of a compiler front-end. For languages with reasonably simple grammar there are usually one or more such packages, usually pretty well debugged. For example, for Java you could use http://spoon.gforge.inria.fr/
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What OS are you running on?
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This is a grand example of our infinite hubris.
Wait, do you mean NOW or do you mean when he was 18? :)
Well heck, he probably didn't have the dev environment set up on his machine. I'll bet it's 90 minutes to find the bug, ten minutes to fix it, and the rest for test+deploy.

I can scratch my toes a lot faster than you can - you don't even know where my toes are right now.
It's been like that for awhile now...
That's pretty great.
My girlfriend calls it a cult -Which is partially true if you were to attend the ceremony-. There's an unspoken bond with most engineers that we can get along quite easily when we recognize the ring which adds to the "cult" persona
>> It’s how the human mind is designed to operate: looking for connections when there’s not enough evidence to support a connection, jumping to conclusions

Psychologist and Nobel econ prize winner Daniel Kahneman has written about this in his book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" [1].
I am currently halfway through this book and it's been an insightful read so far.

[1] - http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/...
Maybe it just is the developer's bible :-)
Only if it doesn't provide that much value. In the cases where you use it, if you can't do without it or use another tool, or you view the one time cost of learning another tool too high, then it's worth it. If this pricing makes you re-examine whether you really need to use Photoshop and switch to something cheaper, all the better, since you will probably be happier with something that accomplishes your needs that you feel isn't costing too much (and I imagine whatever you do in Photoshop so infrequently isn't hard to accomplish in many other programs).
I like this attitude:

Everything I have ever achieved in life has started with a panel rejecting me, YC was just another notch.

Think I will subscribe to her blog.
Interpreting a statement that uses a word with many definitions by looking at what Google's autocomplete comes up with is the height of fucktarded.
I see. Sounds like an interesting project.

Sure, MRI is boring, but it's the best implementation right now (though some may argue that JRuby is better), and it's in desperate need of VM innovations.

Any new compiler/VM starting from scratch will be years away from being available for use in production environments. By the time it's finished, we'll all be using Go. (Sigh.)
Every web site I sign up to these days, I'm 100% certain that from that point forward I will now be spammed by them on a regular basis.

That's mighty bad luck. I signed up for a site called Hacker News, and I don't get any spam from them at all.

You know what I want? For them to never send me any email unless I specifically request it.

Does that include not sending you a written copy of, say, an order you've placed on Amazon?

Another example: We're going to be sending a minimum of one e-mail to all new customers for my company, because we're required by law to provide certain details under European e-commerce rules and e-mail is the most practical and non-intrusive way to do that.

Basically, I take your point that people being all chummy and sending you loads of junk mail because you once visited their site is out of line, but I think your position as stated is based on hyperbole and unrealistic.
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There's a serious beer-compass already: https://untappd.com/
I'm about 90% certain he actually said "shadow currency" and it's been transcribed wrong.

He uses the term "shadow currency" elsewhere.

Of course, that's still intended to make it sound scary.
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Just found this today. Is this some sort of Easter Egg?
Ask HN: When should I read HN?
I'm trying to get into the habit of batching my nerd reading (HN and reddit.com/r/programming). I want to be efficient, but I don't want to miss-out on important information. Has anyone analyzed submission popularity trending over time on HN to recommend a reading interval?
I'm going back and forth about how smart it is to reply to this seeing as the point I was trying to make was not "Wah YC rejected us because we're different!!!"

For the record, I've always really respected YC for being honest and up front about biases. I find it very refreshing, because most everyone else is too scared of being accused of discrimination to admit it. Everyone has biases. Every VC and angel is going to try to match what's in front of them to something they know when assessing the potential value. I have no doubt that YC will accept a great company that doesn't fit the "type", we spoke to lot of companies like that before we came out to SF.

What I'm curious about is YC's habit of "fund without idea" or "fund for new idea" ... how likely is it that someone against the traditional startup type would be given that opportunity? I don't know the answer because there's no data on what ideas people came into YC with, vs what they left with ... but it's an interesting question to me because cognitive biases are an interesting topic to me.

The people who think they are smart enough to think their way out of their own biases are usually the ones who fall victim to them the most often. So I've always really seen YC's honesty about this as a GOOD sign, not fodder for criticism.
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In addition, as someone mentioned elsewhere in the comments, the cost of failure in software doesn't often result in death.

That's nice; perhaps you should tell it to the victims of the Therac-25. Or maybe I'll remember it next time I'm writing some real-time software to control something silly like missile guidance. More and more software every day goes into controlling vital systems in our world . . .

And how often do certified professional engineers design something critical? Does every circuit that goes into a consumer electronics device need to be ultra-safe?

I'll grant you, there are a lot of shitty "software engineers" that have no business writing critical software. And many CS programs are severely lacking. But I picked up electronics in high school in my spare time, which makes me about as much an EE as your self-taught development skills make you a software engineer or architect.

What gets me is the arrogance, in particular since the Iron Ring is supposed to carry with it a reminder that everyone is fallible, and to have humility in the face of that. More often than not, things like the iron ring set people apart, for better or for worse. There are plenty of hard things that people's live depend upon that nobody gets accredited for. Having some humility, and empathy, would go a long ways towards making Professional Engineers not just better people, but better Engineers.
What life lessons can we learn from the people who have lived the longest?
Wow! My guess, reading the menu, is that they are blending their own Provel cheese out of the three cheeses it's formed from. If so, then it's probably pretty close, but not quite, as the factory-blended Provel somehow seems to meld the base cheeses slightly differently.

But however they are doing it, I'm delighted to see it showing up in California. Thanks for sharing.
We had 0 connection with past alumni and we got an interview.
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True, but occultations are also very biased towards planets with small semimajor axis, because the solid angle that produces an occultation goes roughly as 1/a.
This is similar to a product I've been thinking about recently. Is there anything I can use to take emails from a server I trust (my company server say) encrypt them and move them to a server I don't necessarily trust (gmail for instance) and have the emails decrypt with the standard gnupg extensions that are available for most email clients?
Bitcoin is like cash. If someone steals a bunch of cash from you, you're likely to be out of luck.

You could build a complicated banking system on top Bitcoin too, that could do things like reverse unauthorized transactions, but that would get rid of the reason some people are really interested in Bitcoin.
There's a discussion to be had about the "velocity of money" but this isn't really the place for it. The point is that if an economy is hydrolocked and nobody is spending, "throwing away" money can benefit everyone if it unlocks things.
There's a new-ish one called Endless Space, which I would describe as Gal Civ inspired.

It's a little weird in that all players take turns simultaneously (you still have movement restrictions, etc, but it adds a real-time component because you want to wait to react to your opponent's movements, but also there's a time limit).
The impression I got was that it was a way to speed up gameplay (less sitting around while others make their moves).

But it's a cool little game, lots of race customisation (with a few truly unique race benefits), interesting four-category tech tree (and equivalently, four ways to win), custom ship classes built out of components (like Gal Civ).

The combat is a little weird, they have some card-game-like thingy that can significantly influence battle outcomes.

EDIT: Not a turn-based game but there's also this: http://triton.ironhelmet.com/

Neptune's Pride is an always-on real time game played over several weeks in matches of up to 12 players. The mechanics are refreshingly simple, and there's a focus on diplomacy and betrayal in order to come out top.
It may be relevant in the context of their recent and controversial acquisition by Facebook, which many took to mean that Parse's future was at odds, or at least would be taken in questionable directions (e.g. making data available to Facebook.) This move to simple web hosting might mean that Facebook is branching out into infrastructure (like, say, Amazon) with the acquisition of Parse, rather than shutting it down or milking it for it's main product.
I think YC has reached a point where anything PG says is likely to be interpreted in the worst possible light.

That's unfortunate, because YC really doesn't have a type. I don't think there was a single Zuckerberg clone in our batch[1], a large portion of the batch had a foreign accent (me included), there were several awesome women led teams (Shoptiques, HireArt, TheDailyMuse, 99Dresses...) and we all got in.

As I told a friend somewhat indelicately recently, the best attitude to have post YC-rejection is "Screw YC, we are going to go gangbusters on this anyway". Ironically, this makes you more likely to get in the the next time, should you choose to apply. If not, you still win. Mbellotti clearly got that part right with this: "Everything I have ever achieved in life has started with a panel rejecting me, YC was just another notch." So godspeed to her!

[1] The closest may have been Jason Freedman, and he looks nothing like Zuckerberg http://42floors.com/team
I'm also taking the class. Just finished the logistic regression programming assignment. Great stuff. You can take those algorithms and kind of add a bit of magic to your software.
Nope, got sucked into the US for its tech jobs & stayed: Boston > Minnesota > California > Minnesota.
Does a license plate, legally speaking, have to be visible when the car is parked? If not, then covering it would be a stop-gap against cops driving through a parking lot and collecting the info on who is in that area.
She also agrees with the main point of the original article, which is that our solar system is probably unusual. (From 6:47 to 7:00.)
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It is illegal to wear the ring in any fashion if you are not a practicing engineer (as you should have been told when you were obligated).
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The author doesn't like that it is written in tcl/tk. I have no idea how this would matter at all unless he plans on modifying the source. I happen to like gitk and use it often. What language it's implemented is of little concern to me. At one time I used tig(it is pretty old at this point), but it never really caught on for me. Perhaps I didn't give it enough of a chane, perhaps it's much better now.
I'm glad you posted this. I vehemently disagree as well. I dropped out of a top 10ish econ phd program.

"The risk of failure is low."
Yeah right. Even his own statistics don't back that up.

"which doesn't force me to work 80 hours a week"
But if you're a tenure track professor, you most certainly still will be.

I have many other examples of disagreements, but don't have time to point them out right now.
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OK, so what methodology do you propose for determining whether the word "chattel" is more commonly used in the context of discussing slavery, or is instead used most often when talking about things unrelated to slavery?