skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would you suggest to a non-CS undergrad doing a Masters in one such cash-cow program where there are hundreds of similar students? How does one get the maximum out of it?
Solar Industry Anxious Over Defective Panels
> Taking advantage of the infrastructure, market, and support of one country only to flee to a tax haven abroad is neither moral nor respectable.

A thief comes into your home and takes half of your property. He's done the same with your neighbors, and down the street, he's handing out some of the goods to whomever stops by.

Is it moral or respectable for you to go down the street, get something back, and then move out of the neighborhood because you don't like being robbed?
That would work for a sufficiently broad definition of common. You're welcome to try. The challenge is that it'll take a long time unless you have incredibly fast hardware or are very good at guessing.
You are dismissing the emotional factor; I think this is a fantastic gift. It is most certainly easier to send someone a free "e-card", so why are good old "dumb" paper greeting cards still in vogue?
One more thing from someone who survived a couple startup bubbles: Don't value shares as more than a dollar or two unless the company is the equivalent of Microsoft in the 1990's. It's easy to talk yourself into a "small" valuation of $10 or $20/share when the shares are much more likely to be worth $0.
New Zealand is in the midst of a six-month long earthquake
All the same reasons as Portland, Oregon... except that it's not balls cold in the winter (though the rain can be draining).
Here is a quick tip, especially for those non confrontational types. When the company makes an offer, just say "Hmm.." and pause for a bit. If the person offering the job is insecure in what they are proposing, they may think you are about to decline and this may provoke them into upping the offer.

If they don't up the offer, it's easy to just say yes after whatever they say next. So, you aren't really risking anything.
I'm not sure about that... Aesthetically it looks like something from 2005, and it's incredibly cluttered.

The light blue and lack of underline on the result titles makes it really difficult to read or skim them. The results are also vertically very close together. Sliding panels are weird, it feels like it's hiding relevant information. Three different fonts that don't go together. The two icons in the search box are different shades of gray. It doesn't feel like a website that an actual designer put together.

Also from the perspective of actually using this as a search engine, I can't really figure out what advantages there are over Google. It seems like the only difference is that things are grouped into categories. And the categories aren't even relevant. Look at a search for Arrested Development (http://blekko.com/#?q=Arrested%20Development) (one of the suggested searches on the homepage). Some links are categorized into "Movies", others "TV". Also, "Top Results" is for some reason second from the top.
do I have the responsibility to pay for the healthcare of someone who chooses to smoke? Or should we ban smoking altogether? Is that fair to the person who has a set of genes that prevents them from getting smoking-related negative health consequences and chooses to start smoking to prevent parkinson's disease?

Why should someone who has huntington's (a dominant autosomal disease that kills the patient before age 40 in many genetically testable cases i.e. 60-100+ CAG repeats) be forced to pay into an insurance or healthcare system that cares for other people's eldercare?
Actually talking to a taco truck owner >>>> Random Guessing about a domain you have little knowledge of.

But, what I think his point was, make a list of things that taco truck owners spend time/money on.

Marketing, food ingredients, labor, gas, deciding where to post up for the lunch rush, food prep time, etc.

Pick something out of the list that you have braninstormed, and drill down into how can software solve this problem for less money or in a positive ROI money for time tradeoff, than the current solution (I think in a lot of areas of industries, it will turn out, that you just can't).
Sorry to hear that. I am part of Nexmo helpdesk and we are here to help you address any issue you are seeing. Can you share with us more info on the issues? message IDs? phone numbers? account? best is that you drop us a ticket at nexmo.zendesk.com and we would love to assist!
A web app built with Ruby, not JavaScript
one humble question: why is not popular?
No, I'm not countering DannyBee. I'm collecting the list of legal arguments that might be used if/when this is litigated.

Lovely as it is that Microsoft didn't mean for it to work like this, they're the one who will get the service of process saying "please appear in court and defend your position," if/when this is litigated. That is the kind of complaint they might actually "hear" that would get a response.

I don't care about their good intentions. Get out of my hardware, get out of my life, Microsoft.
I have no formal education beyond H.S. and simply don't list education on my resume... At this point I have about 18 years of experience in Software Development, so take it with a grain of salt. For the most part, education has been a poor indicator of how well a given developer works. I've have seen quite a few interviews where people will look at your github contributions (I have very little).
Can you explain what this means exactly: "I'll navigate to any URL you send me while logged into the site."

If I give you a URL what exactly are you going to do?

Also, when logged into the site, are you logged into the account where the note with claim instructions was made?
html based diffs might be a special case, but the report is very interesting, thanks for the link.
" if you're gunning for the top, isn't it rational to give yourself the best possible shot by choosing a field where you won't have the challenge of fitting into a male-dominated culture in addition to all the challenges you'll already have?"

But you won't end up in the top, right? You'll end up somewhat high in a different spot--which is fine, but then you can't complain about not getting the top spot having voluntarily given up the chance to pursue it.
Where is this data coming from? I'm assuming you have law school admissions data from somewhere?
Most software companies in silicone valley. There are parts of the world that are not California and in which the hunger for talent is less severe.

In that case there shouldn't be a gender imbalance among engineers in Silicon Valley, but that is clearly not the case.
The Most Important Slide in Mary Meeker's Internet Trends Deck is on Healthcare
Compare humans to pigeons, for example. Human gender differentiation is much less exressed.
I'm lost. What are you trying to say here?
My point is that there is nothing about programming that should make it more appealing to men versus women, given that a very similar field, accounting, has an equal representation of men and women.
That's what the Gmail Labs is for: testing features before some of them being released to everyone.
I studied at University of Washington in Seattle.

That said, it was different than Computer Science. Besides one introductory programming course, there was no programming required. Even for our capstone projects, wireframes were sufficient. We didn't actually need to code anything.

To give you an idea, here's the curriculum: http://ischool.uw.edu/academics/informatics/curriculum

My main concern with doing an MS in CS is that I wasn't exposed to a lot of traditional computer science concepts, such as operating systems, hardware, compilers, algorithms, etc. And the highest level of math I've taken is Calculus I (and a 300-level statistics course which was frankly a joke).
Shame you stopped there...it was an interesting analogy. A little white noise (no pun intended) didn't affect the conclusions.
> Her heroes bear little resemblance to the vast majority of businessmen... who tend to more closely resemble her villains.

I think this was the point.
The "Pre-Reqs" piece is not right. You really don't need to have another job offer or a current job to negotiate. A while ago I wrote up this script for how to negotiate a job offer with no leverage at all when you intend to accept it no matter what: http://bit.ly/1185CGm

Most job offers come with leeway for negotiation, regardless of your situation. All you really have to do is ask.
> It's also messy and expensive to counter offer once a resignation letter has been sent.

Not to mention that accepting a counter offer is a bad move. The offer might just be to keep you until they find a cheaper replacement. Even if that is not the case you will be perceived as risky - no investment in you, first to fire during tough times.

On top of that it perpetuates the crappy tactic "pay peanuts until they threaten to leave". Nope, counteroffers are for suckers.
If you're going to get a pico projector, do yourself a favor and grab one of the MPros from 3M; I reviewed a few when these were in vogue and the Optomas (edit: actually, not those but the laser-based Microvision PicoP ones) had a shimmery effect due to their projection method. The MPros cost a bit more and are a bit chunkier, but still fit in your laptop bag easily and produce a better image IMHO:

http://www.amazon.com/3M-Pocket-Projector-MPro160/dp/B00452V...
This is a very cool app. Carousels always remind me of this poignant bit from mad men: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suRDUFpsHus
I miss http://tiddlywiki.com/.
It is definitely true that universities are using MS degrees as a way to fund the programs. It is a shame though because it seems to deteriorate the quality of the program when they load up as many MS students as possible.
On the subject of code reading: are there specific areas of the linux kernel (or minux or ...) that someone would recommend to read?
they are suppose to be in asteroid mining business, that they said could bring trillions of dollars in profits. Why do they care about the public? There is something fishy going on here :)
I like it too. I can write multiple emails at once, and a chat box will never be in the way of the composer. Maybe there should be a "snap back into page" button thing, but people seem to forget that there is a pop out button if you want a more mono-tasking email style.

Additionally, with this interface, it could be more integrated with hangouts and cross google's services (maybe easier send email pop up on andriod tablets?).
I think this could be really interesting. In my opinion, Login with Facebook creates a little bit of anxiety for customers. Everyone has been burned by unanticipated sharing & with this there is no social network to share to. I need to read the documentation (from a quick glance) it didn't seem like allowing people to checkout with Amazon on your site was possible but I bet that isn't far behind. That to me could be great if they are reasonable on commission rates.
Going to add that I love the new compose. What makes you say that it's obnoxious?
The ideal Founder Duo: Product Guy & Engineer by Fred Wilson, Partner at USV
No, as there is a base price. It's PWYW, but "what you want" > 0.
Brilliant essay on how important the balance between product & engineering is and why it makes sense to have a product & engineering founder composition.
say you were building an accordion, you might want
.adn {
.adn-header {}
.adn-tab {}
}

instead of the below which is just recreating the dom. This allows you to meaningfully target the elements you want instead of just blindly applying styles everywhere.

div {
a {}
div {}
}
it also gives me the ability to have more than one compose window open side by side.
That article provides a very solid argument for javascript crypto having no advantages over server-side crypto and being harder to do without errors.

But just because it has no advantages doesn't mean it won't work. A three wheeled car will still get me from point A to point B.
Agreed - as an experimentalist specializing in precision gravitational measurements, their lives just got worlds harder. Now they're not fighting challenges within their instruments, but they have to ensure that they know each clock's depth in Earth's gravitational potential. Atomic clocks are small and elegant things with a pristine heart. They're now irreducibly sensitive to a very messy world.

Earth tides (dirt, not water) are larger than centimeters. With further improved precision, they'll be sensitive to small changes in the locations of local gravitational sources, even big ones at long range. In our gravity lab in Seattle, we see the effects of annual variation in water table. All of these things must be properly characterized in order to compare two clocks that are not co-located.

These are good problems to have, and are inherent to measuring time at this precision, but they're very daunting. Not insurmountable, but often frustrating.
> The software source for stuff like /usr/bin/ssh is a thing that has some serious infrastructure, well-established procedures and well-organized people. Right from the start the trustworthiness of that source is higher than average, arbitrary site.

I agree. That doesn't change my point: JavaScript or binary packages, if you're running crypto you need to be able to trust the source of your software.

> Running JavaScript is like downloading new software to your home directory on a regular basis and executing it; you don't need to compromise the software source for /usr/bin/ssh, you just need to compromise a less trustworthy bit of software and then make that bit modify the in-memory behavior of /usr/bin/ssh (because JavaScript doesn't have the kind of security the OS gives processes).

This analogy is strained. It only really applies if your site is vulnerable to XSS attacks. After that, JavaScript is generally far more restricted than your average userland code. JavaScript from one site can't modify javascript from another (well-constructed) site. Whereas you correctly point out that once you can execute arbitrary code with user level privileges, the game is usually up.

In particular, x session keylogging means you can grab a sudo password from a user once you can spy on their session, which any userland program can do. JavaScript from attack.com can't monitor keypresses on trustedbank.com unless it's explicitly included (which can happen by accident via XSS).

Look up the same origin policy to see the kind of constraints that are usually placed on JS code.
You would hardly know how the typical consumer is going to use/like it from that data though (not that I do not agree that that might be a good idea, maybe they just want to get it out soon).
Lobby governments to increase copyright terms into perpetuity?
Their prices are too expensive for SMBs.
I also wish they would give us a tool like Google analytics. The combination would probably make it better.
Next : the CRM market.
The instructions are in a note.

If I understand your attack, you'd need to set up a clone website that resends the password in the clear, have a malicious network redirect me to it and get me to enter my password. I'm happy to enable to you to demonstrate that it works. The hardest part is presenting a valid SSL certificate. As I warned in the initial post, "I won't promise to log in if you can't provide a valid SSL certificate."

Email me and we can arrange the details.
Very cool, man!
That analogy is a fantastic failure. I was going to try to rebut it with some sort of home owner's association analogy, but why bother. The idea of the tax man as a thief in the night is just silly.
Elephants can swim. Like, really well.
Half of the cribbing about the new compose is unfounded. You see the slanted arrow above the new compose box? Click that. Now you have a whole window to write your message. But the benefits that the new compose gives are quite important for me and many others.
I think he's probably underestimating his responsibilities and overestimating those of the other employees. It also sounds like he has to deal with things he doesn't want to deal with, not that he has nothing he has to do.

The details of the sale aren't public either, and he's now an "adviser" to The Magazine. He may still have some equity in the company. One could also analyze the profits from a sale compared to estimated profits down the line, and feel that they would rather cash out now, to pursue other interests. A lot of "savvy" business-people and businesses divest themselves from businesses that they feel have outgrown them or are not a part of their core business model.
The Mathematics Pre-Service Teachers Need to Know [pdf book]
Why startups fail, pg
Well, that's not just some textbook on computational complexity, it's the textbook on computational complexity.
I'm unreasonably excited about it. For $25 I get to have a picture of my choosing taken in space!
Yes. Amazon itself is undoubtedly data mining your purchase history, but at least they're not spewing your personal info to every random Serfville/PirateWars "games" that one of your friends signs up for (yes, I know that you can turn most of that off, and I have; most people don't).

Everything I've heard and experienced indicates that Amazon is pretty tight with customer information. Certainly you don't get any personal information on customers when you sell ebooks through the Kindle store. Apple is also pretty good about that.
Dropbox + Email = Automatcially upload Attachements
I'd be fascinated to see what the impact is if you give the user an indication of what the next user(s) will have to pay if they adjust the price scale. Down? They get guilted by seeing the next users will end up paying more. Up? Nice pay-it-forward aspect.
I think some people might think that there is too much clutter in the "background" with that list of emails and all. But, this is not so much a problem if you have a cleared CSS-edited pretty unread/important/read gmail like mine.
I went looking for some examples of male privilege. These might be helpful in understanding why the escalators are going the directions they are: http://sap.mit.edu/content/pdf/male_privilege.pdf
But you still stick to it, so it doesn't show up in numbers to them - otherwise they'll change it back to what more people liked - or may be it already is that way?
domain.com/artist for seo and easier handling. If you are allowing user generated content and logins, than go for artist.domain.com because it is the only way to isolate cookies.
Did you miss the part where they tested and confirmed that the IPs in question have better latency to the "right" datacenters, and are still being sent to the wrong ones? GeoIP is not the problem, route53 is.
You're trying to put words in my mouth. My point is, nobody gave men possessions, or land, or people, or a business for virtue of them being men. Maybe it was easier for a man to own land or run a business, but he still had to work for them. Whereas our metaphorical escalator gives good things to its riders, whether they do anything or not.

So, mostly point being, I think the escalator is a flawed analogy.
So you're pro-"inspire" but anti-"influence"?

Not to go all Webster on you, but the primary definition of inspire is to influence:

in*spire

verb (used with object)

1. to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting
influence: His courage inspired his followers.

2. to produce or arouse (a feeling, thought, etc.):
to inspire confidence in others.

3. to fill or affect with a specified feeling, thought,
etc.: to inspire a person with distrust.

4. to influence or impel: Competition inspired her to
greater efforts.

5. to animate, as an influence, feeling, thought, or the
like, does: They were inspired by a belief in a better
future.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/inspire

BTW: You do realize your entire thread has been an argument of influence, advocating your point of view?
That scene was actually the inspiration for the app (if you notice in the photo I posted, it's actually the first image from the Mad Men presentation).
My startup is by (most) accounts "succeeding", but it still is not something that I would eagerly do again. It's quite hard.

That is to say, don't think it's all peaches and cream when you're making millions in profit and growing like a weed.
I love this quote from the end:

"Once you see the property and the location you’ll likely be thinking the same thing as me: This is like buying in Napa Valley or Santa Barbara fifty years ago, but with all of today’s modern amenities, and none of the modern day headaches."

If the best analogy for your Randian utopia is California, then we must have read different editions of Atlas Shrugged (although, to be fair, I listened to the audiobook and it might have been abridged).
What if the falsehood results in a libel claim? Now you're talking about significant legal involvement (and costs).

Liability insurance (http://www.authorsguild.org/services/media-liability-insuran... for example) would help to mitigate this risk. I can't find premium cost info for a writer's policy, but our premiums for engineering general liability and E&O are a few thousand dollars. I don't imagine a writer's policy could be significantly more than that (our policies cover injury and death).
To be frank, I don't understand your comment. Even if there is an "obvious difference between men and women," it is clear that there are still social pressures [1] and other problems making it harder for women to get jobs in technical fields — and these are what the article is about, not whether or not women and men have "different mentalities." Even if women are fundamentally less inclined to work in technology, issues of harassment and women being ignored simply for being women are still a problem.

You say "I bring these things up because there are inherent differences between men and women that people seem to forget," but the fact is, differences between men and women (true or not) are emphasized all the time. This holds true for toy advertising [2], discussion of career options [3], or political speech [4]. The idea that men and women are different is hardly forgotten — it's ubiquitous.

I think the question of whether differences really exist is too much to address in one comment and probably off-topic [5]. But I suggest that you consider the possibility that "there will always be a difference in our mentalities because of our gender" is, in fact, part of the problem.

[1]: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/01/14/0910967107.full...

[2]: http://youtu.be/oe65EGkB9kA?t=8m56s

[3]: http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/01/04/gendering-on...

[4]: http://mediamatters.org/research/2008/10/08/la-times-debate-...

[5]: Though there is certainly evidence that differences are exaggerated. See: http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/03/07/the-truth-ab...
Gmail Gets A New Inbox And Automatic Sorting To Help Fight Information Overload
Didn't Iran get a valid SSL certificate for *.google.com a while ago?

Edit: Found an article, by cperciva no less: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-09-01-Iran-forged-the-w...
without any margins, i ain't gonna read that. try again.

-bowerbird
I'm genuinely curious, why do you think inversion of control is an unqualified Good Thing™?
Eh, whatever key derivation algorithm you are using is running in a browser, and isn't throwing any long-running JS exceptions. And I didn't see my browser block. So it can't be that expensive.

From an academic viewpoint, it's not really strong encryption if your AES key is derived from a password. Your key space is limited to ASCII characters, and 99% of users will not choose a strong password. So from my perspective, if you sent me a DB dump, I could read almost everything.
"I worry that the Data Scientist role is like the mythical 'webmaster' of the 90s: master of all trades"
- Aaron Kimball, CTO at Wibidata

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoftenterpriseinsight/archive/2...
I love Chris Coyier for everything he's done for the front-end community, but between his CSS-Tricks layouts and Codepen.io, his aesthetic is much to be desired.