skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2GB? Seriously? Wow. Maybe I'm old, but I still feel like 10MB is too much for a mouse driver...
Thanks for the detailed perspective. I've never been a part of an acquisition and I wasn't thinking about it that way.
Thanks in advance for reporting back! Saving the thread here, to read it later..

As the teacher said, the focus should be on the survey, not his acts. Of course, provided that he doesn't suffer any unfair and ridiculous disciplinary actions.
To be fair, Git is probably arcane to quite a few 'technical' people as well, and a lot of the people who do use Git probably fall into the set including myself who would be lost beyond the basic 'init, add files, branch, merge, push to remote' stuff.
But why? Is it just to prove you can (then fair enough) or is there a good reason to use this that I'm missing?
This post struck a chord with me as I'm from the central NY region, not too far from the OP. I get back to my hometown every year or two and the decline is more apparent every trip. Everything from my youth- the places I worked part-time, the schools I went to, the places I used to hang out at, the major local employers, they're all gone or in major decline. Many houses are boarded up, abandoned, and are being slowly reclaimed by nature. Most of my school friends have moved away, and most of those that have stayed around have basically wasted away. In my own lifetime I have seen long-term economic decline happen and it has scarred me in a way that is difficult to articulate.
Assertion? Do explain your authority on Africa to me.

As someone who has family in Africa, right now, and more going within a month, I am confident in my assertion that Africa is a failed continent.

Everyone on earth has tried to civilize, ahem, "bring online" Africa and failed beyond resource extraction. It is a money pit and there are no rules.

There is significant precedence for failure if you open any history book. It is arrogant to think you can influence anything meaningful there. Show some humility and invest in your own back yard where you have a slightly higher chance of making a meaningful impact.
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You miss the point: It's not that all the
versions of Islam and Islamic governments
are alike. Instead, it's that in the more
backward Islamic countries, Islam is essentially
all the culture there is. And Islam is not
just a religion but is also into law,
government, education, etc. So, in such a country, Islam
is about all the culture there is and can
block, actively or just passively by default,
essentially all progress.

As you point out, there are still some differences.
But what is in common is that Islam, in whatever
flavors, is so strong, and not just a
religion, and essentially all the
culture there is, is able to block progress.

Look, to be more clear, the problem is not
just Islam. Instead, the Roman Catholics ran
everything in Western Europe for hundreds of
years, were corrupt, blocked progress, and
finally Europe got out of it, after religious wars,
etc.

The point is not that Islam is a bad religion,
even if it is. Instead the point is that to
run a good society, need a good culture, and that
culture needs to come from much more than just
some religious clerics. A religious state,
Roman Catholic, Islamic, or anything else, just
will not be a successful state. In the countries
where Islam is the only culture, Islam needs
to shrink back to being just a religion, hopefully
one of several, and let the culture have other
inputs besides just religion. Got it now?
This is why I'm very reluctant to buy a million dollar shack here in Silicon Valley. What if the tech industry goes on the same trajectory as the automobile industry, and San Francisco ends up being the Detroit of the 2020's? Is there something intrinsically "magic" about the Bay Area, or is it just the coincidental clustering of tech companies that makes this place special?
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How does that really work though? If you're arguing for BitCoin to become the next PayPal, in what way is it not a worse PayPal? (Fees for senders, confirmation delays, no fraud protection, etc)
Does this kind of survey make any sense? Why should somebody answer honestly if the survey is not anonymous and you don't want to admit something? If you want to admit something, such an survey may at best catalyze it. Therefore I would expect that the result of such an survey just does not reflect reality.

You could cross check answers of a well designed survey to get an indication if the answers are honest or not but this does not nearly bring the result close to an anonymous but more honestly answered survey.
I don't really buy it, based on my personal experiences, which play out exactly opposite of what you're saying here. I think you're wrong. It's been very strange watching your evolution as an online persona.
The problem with an upload is that you rely on someone to re-upload when they change their Gems. Changing the locked Gems means a re-check is needed, as they might have switched to bad versions.

Making this automatic is the key part - if you don't get burned very often, you'll eventually forget to do the right thing manually and open yourselves to badness.
Is it naive of me to think that subsequent "book releases" of the software would be best encoded as patchsets against the original release? It seems wasteful to re-print and then re-OCR the entirety of the codebase.

While I was typing that, I thought of a second point: would it still be a munition if it were only diffs? E.g. Could one put the patchsets on a public server without legal woes, because it's only the full source that's problematic?
It's copyrighted information. How much could be released under "fair use" is questionable. Schools abuse copyright in some ways, and probably compensate by being rigorous in others.

Further, if it comes from a company that also offers more conventional achievement kinds of tests, it may come with bloodthirsty NDAs, as a matter of habit for such companies.
Sometimes, leaving stuff to experts is wise.

http://examine.com/blog/soylent-is-made-from-hype/

We complain when non-programmers tell us how to do our jobs because it takes a lot of study and experience to do it properly.
Africa will be bigger than both India and China combined. There are whole cities waiting to be built.
Check out the Solow growth model: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoclassical_growth_model
Irrelevant. Two numbers with the same number of digits when expressed in base 10 will necessarily be within a factor of 10 of each other. This is just a different way of saying these numbers are close.
Engineer salaries are not "extremely high". Compared to cost-of-living, they're more than adequate and on the high side by historical standards, but not "extremely high". In fact, most engineers make less than all those supernumerary non-technical VPs and product managers for nonexistent products that plague VC-funded companies.

"Extremely" high starts around $350k per year for a mid-career (10 years) engineer and things aren't at that point right now.
Reddit has a subreddit just for that.

http://reddit.com/r/blind
Probably rather accurately correlates to a professional review of the product.
I've started working as a developer for my country's government (Argentina) very recently.

I discovered that each and every website I build must be fully supported by screen readers and it must be entirely accesible.

There's this blind fellow that sits right next to me, with the task of checking out every single thing I do, in order to verify it works correctly for him.

He's very smart and a gadget freak. He walks around with his iPhone everywhere and loves to dabble in discussions with us about current technologies.

I'd be glad to hook you up. I'm not familiar with his English skills, but I'm willing to bet he'd do alright in a conversation. If not, I can surely act as an intermediary if that's ok for you.

Let me know!!
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It basically says that in the article. It's not completely unequivocal, but close.
Isn't the actual meme "Don't build your own crypto", rather than "don't use crypto"?

I remember at least 10 years ago getting (and seeing a lot) the advice "use SSL for data in transit, use GPG for data at rest". Those two principles, combined with the somewhat more recent "just use (b|s)crypt" for password hashes would still provide your average non-crypto-expert developer with a pretty good fundamental starting place.
You forgot full time day care or one spouse quitting their job.
You're creating a false dichotomy between Perfect Cooking and No Cooking.

Many tasty meals can be prepared quickly. Many can be prepared without supervision. You can also prepare meals in bulk and reheat them when you need them.

Are some meals elaborate and time-consuming? Yes. Just don't make those ones.
> students will now feel unsafe telling the truth about troubling events

That's the idea -- helping those students is a significant and easily ignored cost center.
If this is all true then there is nothing noble about hiding the companies name.

Furthermore I would say most of big pharma is evil. Not on a personal level but as a whole.
a) Chicago is pretty cheap.

b) Why do you have to be downtown? There are lots of suburbs and regional towns connected with good rail.
Gmvault + cron makes the second part pretty easy: http://gmvault.org/
Location is basically an extortion racket enabled by the economic collapse of the U.S. outside of a handful of star cities. With NIMBY policies, people in economically vibrant locations keep supply artificially low. This way, a class of people who've ceased providing value can still enrich themselves on a self-sustaining pattern of clueless talent rushing in for the gold rush.

What we see is that most of the country is dying-- that's why the real estate is so cheap in places like Jamestown-- but that's driving the costs in the few not-dying stretches to obscene levels.
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I zoomed in on google map, was hoping for streetview [ in which I fantasized seeing Jack Reacher walk past for some reason ]

From the OP, I assumed this would be literally 100 miles from the nearest drugstore/711.. but its bang in the urban grid of a small town.

Shouldn't some of the bailout money be towards loans for people to do up cheap homes like this? It would seem a good investment for the future at low cost to enable more people to pick up these low end deals. Are the banks now so stupid they cant get people into homes and paying interest.. instead of this foreclosure fire-sale nonsense ?

Assuming this place can get internet installed, it would make some family a great home which they could gradually renovate, after which they would look after the place and contribute to the town.
Some People Will Do Crazy Things for a Rent-Controlled Apartment in NYC
I keep seeing "pure html templates" in many comments about AngularJS, but they don't seem to be completely "pure" from my perspective. Couple of questions for you...

1. AngularJS directives do not seem to conform to valid HTML. Does this matter to Google from a search perspective? I realize that single-page applications quite often have other SEO problems, but valid non DSL HTML templates seem like they would be of value for all the reasons you outline above.

2. I quite often see the following type of examples in an AngularJS tutorials. How is this different from Handlebars or Mustache? This still ties my template directly to AngularJS, no? Also, this is usually not understood by designers tools.

<pane title="Localization">
Date: {{ '2012-04-01' | date:'fullDate' }} <br>
Currency: {{ 123456 | currency }} <br>
Number: {{ 98765.4321 | number }} <br>
</pane>

Not saying JSON templates are better; they look extremely hard to maintain. The Transparency project (http://leonidas.github.io/transparency/) does work with pure HTML templates, but it is just a rendering engine and not part of a larger framework.
The story is still being written... happened a week ago. I had the same feelings as him a few years ago though and I ended up getting tons of offers and finding an amazing job where I was promoted twice within a year.
Cooking being enjoyable/rewarding is subjective. I could find it neither.

Recipe for mental illness? One could argue the potential time-savings could prevent some illness(s).

Maybe soylent-enfused-polyphasic-sleep-pomodoro-lifestyles suit the Hacker of Tomorrow.

Devil's advocate aside, we need long term studies & regulation around these products. And, well, regulation should be up to your local government.
History of Mathematics links from Professor James Stewart
Not from anyone I've known.
Supply, Demand, and Bitcoin
So they were running a little internet startup. Perhaps instead of trying to segregate them from the internet, we could make use of their entrepreneurial spirit?
Talking about printing 3D meat as a foodsource. foul.
Cynical-me thinks this is ideal education - proper preparation for "the real world": Answer every question not with "the truth", but instead work out what "the expected answer" is and give them that...
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Shameless plug: We wrote a backend app, Checkpoint, that works similarly to this. It's open source [1] and in use with a number of production apps. Admittedly it does not have the JavaScript stuff, but that's easy enough to add.

Basically, Checkpoint is a facade that abstracts authentication into a simple API. You set up Checkpoint with your OAuth keys (for, say, Facebook), then just redirect your app to /login/facebook. Checkpoint will do the OAuth interaction and return to your app with a key that can be used to access the login session.

Checkpoint abstracts the notion of logins into identities and accounts. An identity corresponds to a user, and can have more than one account associated with it. Identities are logically partitioned by "realm", so it's ready for federated installations.

[1] https://github.com/bengler/checkpoint
I don't really buy it. The hallmark of shantytowns is everything is "half-assed". I can't see tech workers breaking out the saws and sandpaper and building quality neighborhoods in their spare time, and nobody will invest real money and labor into something you intend to bulldoze in 3-5 years. You will also get a domino effect; people with money and the desire for a nice place to live will automatically avoid your shantytown, filling it with people that don't mind living in squalor, leading to a more squalid shantytown- thus looping back on itself.
I feel like people probably said this same sort of thing about making fires or washing clothes by hand.

Cutting on sleep is bad I agree, but cooking doesn't feel like something worth thinking about on a regular basis.
Build your own projects and do freelancing on the side. Doing this will make you a better programmer, allow you to compile a portfolio, and earn you some cash.
I understand Rob Rhinehart just playing around, some initial self-experimentation, that kinda thing. There's no reason to get the experts from the get-go. But when he got serious and made started his crowdfunding, and hired a bunch of marketers and finance people, a customer relations guy and only one scientist that isn't even a food scientist, you wonder -- is he really serious about the nutrition thing? His team might as well have been hand-picked for a social-networking startup.

Not saying that it's impossible for people outside the relevant field can't make breakthroughs, but to assume that such a result were a much more than improbable possibility, such that you didn't even need to hire one guy with the relevant credentials? That's chutzpah.

Good luck with the 300k. Hopefully they hire a few food scientists/nutritionists.
I think we'll see this. I don't think anyone knows for sure where the future is, but it's not in New York or the Bay Area. High housing costs mean that the wrong kinds of people are winning to have innovation or to build the future.

I still have faith that Real Technology will make a comeback when this social media bubble blows up and, after that happens, we're going to start to see an outline of the future emerging.

I hope there won't be a single "winning" location. I don't think that's a good thing for society.
I don't really know what any of that means. Compare yourself to other companies and show the value that way.
Youre bias is substantially more harmful and ignorant than anything in soylent. This may be snake oil with protein, but the idea that someone is challenging a very deeply ingrained accepted truth (humans need food) creates a process that leads scientific progress and promotes at least an opportunity for innovation.

Not to be harsh, but your diatribe is exactly the opposite of what HackerNews stands for. Your armchair quarterback position offers nothing

That said I am passing on this until there is way more information.
Yep. Frozen veggies with pesto is under 1 minute to get into the microwave. After heating, sprinkle on some cashews.
In many occupations, unpaid vacation doesn't exist, as employees don't choose their shifts.

"Paid" vs "unpaid" vacation is an accounting illusion. What matters is annual income and time spent at work.
You sure about that? That'd be downright idiotic.

My school did something similar, but the surveys were anonymous and simply used for aggregate statistics - which sounds infinitely more effective than what this school is doing, anyway.
I'm glad you liked it. I believe I (and other people from the area) look at the world differently than those from more prosperous regions.

There is a constant thought in the back of my head that this could all be temporary. Boom towns go bust. Industries go bust. But I also think I've left opportunity on the table because of my fear.

I've come to realize that the difficult part of life is balancing the upside with the downside -- knowing when to be conservative and when to be risky.

If I could give advice to anyone leaving school or home for the first time it would be: remain cognizant of the downside, but don't let it prevent you from taking advantage of the upside if it presents itself to you.
> The point of the original comment was that you can't have "move into management" as the default career track for people in their 40's. There just aren't enough management positions.

Totally agree. The thing is that that applies not only management but to senior development positions as well. Most firms have no need for a workforce that's 100%, 80% or 60% senior devs. There is a LOT of grunt development that needs to be done and the older you are the more money you're going to want.

We can call them managers, senior devs, whatever, but the truth is that there's not enough room for everyone to constantly be moving up and making more money. Engineers have created a very egalitarian workforce and in most cases it's great but this is one of those cases where it doesn't work. Industries that have been around longer have already figured this out (law, banking, etc) where you have the "up or out" mentality. There's been a lot of work and research done showing how and why this works and how to create the proper balance depending what sort of work you're doing. The more cutting edge work you're doing the more senior devs you need but the lower percentage payout the partners get.

It's not a matter of moving people to management or not but a simple fact of we can't all be at the top of a firm and if you're not moving up it's better to replace you with someone younger and cheaper who can do the same thing.

Check out the book Managing the Professional Services Firm for more, it's a great read and really applies to software.
In many places, people of a minimum level of affluence hire maids, cooks, and butlers to handle the day-to-day tasks involved in running a household. Finding alternative means to offload tasks you're not interested in doing is not a bad thing if it allows you to employ your time and resources more productively.

Mental illness? Give me a break! Just because YOU don't like it doesn't mean that everyone else must meet your arbitrary standards.
There's a ton of maltodextrin in this according to the nutrition facts. Can we really say it's a good idea to have that much maltodextrin for carbs compared to whole wheat breads, whole grain/whole wheat pastas, or other "cleaner" carb sources? I'm no nutritionist, but all those bodybuilding supplements and nutritional drinks that are full of maltodextrin don't get a good rep from the health community. Correct me if I'm wrong.
>Not to be harsh, but your diatribe is exactly the opposite of what HackerNews stands for.

Says who?
>People say it all the time.

Perhaps you can stick to what the real people to whom you are replying here are actually saying vs. what those imaginary people are saying somewhere in the universe. That was probably the most obvious straw man I have ever seen on HN and definitely the first admission of having constructed one.

>The mechanics of peope are remarkably stable...the underlying dynamic...mechanically similar...

No. None of that. I mean those words really sound great when strung together that way, but you've just repeated yourself and it is no more true now than before. You have already acknowledged that technology has changed, but you don't want to acknowledge that so called "keeping pace" by the government can and does amount to additional privacy intrusions. You just offer up a blanket, "oh, it's all the same", as if sniffing every packet of every electronic communication would be the same as human beings reading addresses on postal envelopes. Sorry. Still silly, no matter how many action-packed adverbs you throw in.

Of course, your tutorial on how infrequently the actual word "privacy" appears in the Constitution is silly as well. Obviously, much of what the Constitution expresses in so many ways with regard to protection from the government rolls up under "privacy". That you are arguing the privacy word count is spurious. Citizens simply cannot have protection from the government or liberty itself without privacy, including the right to communicate with other private citizens without having virtually any or all such communications intercepted and analyzed by the government. How you can divorce such basic, common sense tenets from the very spirit of the Constitution is remarkable.

But, I guess when it became clear that enhanced capabilities do amount to a further intrusion on privacy, your only recourse was to redefine privacy and the Constitution itself. It is amazing watching you contort and move the goal posts, as much as it is a frank admission that your position is not tenable.

I seldom agree with the usual rayiner posts, but at least the arguments are somewhat cogent. The rayiner posts on this thread, however, make me wonder if the "regular" rayiner is on vacation and someone else is running the "privacy-destruction advocate" account.

I kid. Of course.
I'm curious why no one mentions Unimix, memorably described by Roy Blount Jr as "Purina Famine Chow", made and distributed by disaster relief organizations. This stuff has been done before.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unimix
Yes, for a while, parts of Afghanistan
started to look modern.

But the point is, to have a good country,
need a good culture. But about all
Afghanistan has is Islamic culture, and
it is more than just a religion -- it
is also about food, clothing, education,
laws, government, etc. Just can't have
a good culture, good enough for a good
country, from just a religious culture.
E.g., people in Afghanistan do not have
enough information to have any good
reason to believe in democracy so don't.
So, the Taliban with Islam and Mafia
techniques can run the place better than
the elected government the US helped
set up.

Right, the Taliban are not 500 years old,
but Islam is. If Islam were just a religion,
then the 500 years might not be so bad.
But with Islamic culture, also get Islamic
laws, education, and government, and those are
500 years out of date and bad.

Talk to a guy 500 years ago about US
democracy in the 21st century, and he
will think you've been smoking funny
stuff. Well, that's about what the
US faces in Afghanistan.