skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm finding it intensely amusing that most of the people around here don't realize that there are pay-for-use botnet services out there, that they are the most likely people that will own your server, that they're continuously on the leading edge of discovering and exploiting security vulnerabilities, and that it's not an "option" to continue to use a software version that has security vulnerabilities.

If I had to guess, I'd assume that Hacker News is frequented by a lot of programmers running startups who don't have and don't know any operations/infrastructure people. Here's a budget item: You can't afford to not have and not know any ops/infra people. Those people should be part of your team from the beginning so that they can put their foot down when you want to roll something that won't scale or want to avoid updating software versions because it might break something and you're crunching. If you think you can get away with those things, you're setting yourself up for a fall, and your customers' data will be exposed when you fall. If more VCs did diligence at the technical level, would more founders be likely to pay attention to infrastructure and operations as anything besides an expense that "can't be that difficult" to avoid by DIY?
A shantytown full of rich (at least, in earning potential elsewhere) startup/burningman type people which grows around convenient fiber might be different than one full of labor surrounding a mine.
Did they risk manage this survey?

What do they do if a student reveals an alcohol problem? Or sexual abuse? Or criminal behaviour?

It's potentially a good idea, but they should have thought it through a bit more before.

EDIT: The company selling the tests have a lot of product available. (http://www.mhs.com/Education.aspx)

EDIT: I might be annoyed if schools are buying these tests instead of textbooks.
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Unless it's well-covered by other sources, I would kindly ask you to blog your observations and share them with us :)
Interesting idea, it looks like you scan the Gemfile.lock (or equivalent) at "deploy" time.

My preference would be to upload that Gemfile.lock to a location, and then it could be scanned as and when new vulnerabilities were detected.
> After 5 minutes with Git I don't see how anyone would want to stick with FTP…

You're assuming you're dealing with someone at least a bit technical. To them, FTP is drag and drop, git is either 'hacking' or magic.
The point of Soylent isn't to never think about food again. It's just a default so when you're not thinking about food, you don't start eating badly. The creator says he goes to get really good sushi a few times a week because he does enjoy it. But if you're preoccupied or pressed for time for some or most of your meals, you can just have Soylent instead of defaulting to fast food or whatever crap is laying around your apartment.
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Paraphrasing from their pitch video: "If you can eat out with friends, you should. I love food. But I don't eat twenty-one good meals a week."

I've seen before this idea that people would lose the ability to enjoy cooking or eating if it weren't literally required to survive. It's utterly nonsensical to me. Where does that idea come from?
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> Islam is not as powerful in the "Islamic world" as you portrayed. Taliban is the exception, not the rule.

Sure. But I was talking mostly about Afghanistan. And
the US got 'impatient' with the Shiite/Sunni fighting in
Iraq. And the Shiite yelling and screaming, "Death to
America" from Iran is difficult to respect.

For the connection between the clerics and the economy in
Iran, there was an article in, maybe, 'Forbes' long ago
explaining that basically the clerics get a 'cut' of
nearly everything in the economy, control who gets to
do what, etc.

But, why? That is, why are the Islamic clerics in Iran
running the economy with a short leash and
running an aggressive military and foreign policy
at great cost to their domestic standard of living?
Is this just religion? No. But Islam is not just
religion and, instead, is often also economic, legal,
military, foreign policy, etc. That's not new: The
Roman Catholic church was doing that in Europe for
hundreds of years. They owned a major fraction of all
the farm land in France which has a major fraction of
all the good farm land in Western Europe. They built
little things like the cathedrals, while the people
were living in, what, mud huts? They built the Bishop's
Residenz in Würzburg, awash in some of the fanciest art
and architecture in all of civilization -- not cheap,
and built by citizens in, what, mud huts? The Roman
Catholic church was running everything. E.g., to be
a king, had to have the Pope tap you on the head or some
such. And they were corrupt. So, they had the Protestant Reformation, religious wars, etc. Lots of blood. Finally they learned their lessons about religion. In the US, we
borrowed those lessons -- the state will establish no religion; there will be separation of church and state; there will be freedom of religion. Done. Iraq, Iran, and
Afghanistan still have to learn these old lessons.

Sorry about the Shah; he was a pawn in the Cold War. The
US had just finished WWII and, thus, took the Cold War
seriously. We spent a LOT of money, and blood, winning
the Cold War.

Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the other Arab oil
states, should all do the same thing: Cool down. Relax.
Embrace peace. Get the clerics into religion only.
No more clerics measuring the lengths of women's skirts
or censoring the Internet.
Pump oil. Enjoy life. Then work on culture, good
government, education, technology, and a strong economy
for when the oil runs out. And stop shouting "Death to
America". Want nuclear power for electric power, taking the
salt out of water and growing vegetables? Fine. Just
accept the usual international rules, safeguards, and inspections, and light up your cities and have
fountains and big swimming pools of pure water.

All this fighting is over nothing, wasteful, and absurd.
I certainly will.
"JS can be evolved far more easily than it can be replaced." - this sums up everything :)
It is an example of ageism to assume that "the older you get in general, the more non-work priorities you have." Basically that is what's implied by the "ism" part - assigning the characteristics that may be present in some members of a group to all members of that group.
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You seem to have confused Afghanistan with Iraq.

Afghanistan is not a major oil producer. There are large estimated reserves there, but they are not tapped. (And indeed the main contract to develop fields there was signed by the Chinese.)

However Iraq looks exactly like you said. And indeed the initial name for the invasion plan was Operation Iraqi Liberation. But there seems to have been a power struggle between the neocons in the Bush administration (open up the taps, crash the world market, see the economy take off) and the people from the oil reserves (shut the taps off, see the price skyrocket, make oil countries happy). The latter contingent included Condoleezza Rice (Chevron named an oil tanker after her), Dick Cheney (former CEO of Haliburton), and George Bush himself who had worked in the oil industry, and been bailed out by Saudi Arabian family friends.

Unsurprisingly the oil industry won that political fight.
I worked for a company that built products for the blind.
I did a quick search on the optacon, a product I did some work with, and came up with this site of a user:
http://www.blindcanadians.ca/publications/cbm/6/support-opta...
The company I worked for became "freedon Scientific". THis company makes a variety of enabling technology.

I work with a couple of pioneers in the industry, I would be glad to either check out your idea, or pass it on to my friends.
It's better for well established players to move to low cost areas. Startups need to be in places where there is abundance of talent. Engineering salary are extremely high as-is, it would be nigh impossible to make them move to the middle of nowhere.
> Japan is quite lucky because much of the island is unsuitable for habitation pushing many of the cities into a narrow band

Lucky? How is that lucky? I believe this is the first time I have ever heard someone describing a lack of habitable land as "lucky".

It's true that in the last 50 or so years, the USA has become extremely suburbanised, totally reliant on cars for transport, which makes it hard to pick "winners" as to where gets a station, but you can't just use that as an excuse to do nothing!

> At Shinkansen ticket/pass prices? Really? Depends if we can become as rich as the Japanese.

The Japanese are far from "rich". Anyway, a commuter pass pass from, say, Utsunomiya to Tokyo only costs a few hundred, and is anyway paid by employer. The alternative is spending several times that on housing, in a situation of intense competition for limited housing stock in a viable commuting range.

> if you work in SF, why not just live in SF? Do we really need to build a 150km-away bedroom community?

I don't understand this answer. Obviously, not everyone can live in the CBD of the city they work in. That's the problem fast transport solves in this situation. What's your better idea?

Anyway I'm not blindly recommending anything the Japanese do. I'm just saying that fast transport has the effect of greatly expanding the viable urban living of a major city.
I had to google it, might be useful for others:

2900 miles = 4667km

3100 miles = 4988km
FTP: lots of graphical clients available for all OSs, your host can probably give you a bookmark to drop into one for a Windows client and a Mac client, and if they don't it's pretty easy to make a new bookmark pointing to your server with your login/password. You're done, start uploading stuff!

Git: Hi! Let me teach you about version control! We'll start with the command line version. Also you may have to ask your host to turn on Git access to your files. And the likelyhood of them making it easy for you to just drop one file into a simple graphical Git client is close to zero.

Who in your life is clueless about computers? Imagine you're them.

Which one looks more appealing? Which one looks scary and intimidating and demands that you learn a thousand new things on top of learning all the stuff you'll have to learn to get a website up?
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> The unlucky who buy in declining cities have a huge part of their wealth eroded leading to virtually impoverished retirement.

This is where my fear of the downside comes from. My parents actually met in the 60s in LA, but decided to move back to WNY. I don't regret the fact that they did, but they had much different economic experience than they would have if they remained in California.

They now live on a property on about 5 acres. My Dad did much of the work on it, and it is beautiful place, but they will probably never get the money the put into out of it -- especially inflation adjusted.

If you end up on the downside of one of these economic decisions, it can really change your financial outlook for potentially the rest of your life.
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Detail: the flight distance from SFO to JFK and the distance from LHR to BGW are about the same - between 2500 and 2600 miles, depending who you ask.
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I like the tip of the hat to Terry Pratchett's L-Space (http://disc.osiris-web.com/mediawiki/index.php/L-space) idea of large quantities of books warping space and time.
I shit you not. He was a bona-fide nudist, though he preferred the term "naturist." And yes, he worked from home four days per week. He put some sweats and a t-shirt on when he came into the office, but I'm sure he was going commando.
> To the second question, buying a house rather than renting it generally increases your options by about a hundredfold -- many, many more houses are available for sale than for rent. And while property tax can be painful, it's generally substantially cheaper than what you'd pay in rent on the equivalent property. So you get to save a lot more of your income, or at least apply it to paying down your mortgage.

It also reduces your options, in the sense that your mobility may be drastically reduced.

To me, though, the main advantage of home ownership is the promise of one day not having a rent or mortgage payment at all. That's one of the main steps towards retirement.
The population of California has a perception of growth, while the Rust Belt has a perception of decline. This must effect the collective psyche to point where taking risk becomes less socially acceptable. Taking entrepreneurial or financial risk when you are gainfully employed is less tolerated when many people around you (and in fact entire industries) are struggling to get by.

I think there's something more subtle going on here. If the economy as a whole is doing well, risks tend to pay off; if the economy as a whole is not doing well, risks tend to not pay off. You don't even need any social pressure to make people in the rust belt take fewer risks than people in silicon valley; you just need people who use past performance as an indicator of future returns.
I would say that your worldview is extremely spiritually deficient, if you do not consider that musicians and composers can achieve greatness. Music at its best is extraordinarily enriching, as beautiful and intellectually thrilling as the deepest mathematics, while also speaking to us of all the lightness and darkness of our human condition. At the lowest and most challenging times of my life, it has been music that provided solace and inspiration to find a way forward. I cannot express how impoverished my human condition would be without music.

Computers have not surpassed humans in terms of musical ability. Only someone tone-deaf, unable to let music into their heart, would say so.

(I have read articles saying that computers can now produce compositions indistinguishable from Mozart's, but the context of comparison is always on the level of silly, childlike little themes from very early Mozart pieces, more like extracts from nursery rhymes. And in terms of performance, there is nothing to rival our leading humans.)
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\Design by Committee, sometimes even Design by A/B Test vs. the singular "vision" of a startup website. Several stakeholders compete for the real estate on the site, which gets cluttered quickly. Legal departments demanding disclaimers and trademark symbols galore. A desire to develop a unique style vs. just using Twitter Bootstrap plus a Lobster font logo (okay, that last one was a bit tongue-in-cheek).
I'm a ferry ride away on Galiano; could possibly make some meetup. avi@stripe.com.
My guess is that the survey was bought from a private company on a contract that says it is that company's property and not to be shared. Therefore if the school released the form, they could be sued by said private company both for violating copyright and contract. (And the company would want that because they want to resell the survey to other schools.)

Stupid, yes. But I think it is likely that the school has a real legal barrier to sharing the survey.
Is it just me who finds it sad that the majority of open source game development energy goes into cloning existing proprietary games.

Yes, I understand that designing a game from scratch is a lot more work, but I would much rather lower number of original games than a larger number of worse versions of existing games. I also suspect this would have a larger positive impact on open source software as a whole.

Where's the creativity?!
The idea is not to "sacrifice" food as you put it. Soylent is food and is probably fairly healthy. Eating traditional healthy food can be very expensive as fresh fruit and vegetables are usually expensive and also go bad quickly. If you dont feel like cooking dinner I believe soylent would be a much healthier and cheaper alternative to a take away pizza or frozen lasagna or somesuch.
Why not typing up a large percentage of the net worth in housing? What is net worth for beyond the cash needed for basic living? If the cash part of the net worth has already covered all/most of your needs, why not putting the rest in somewhere else? Like housing.

Of course you should do asset allocation to balance out the risk involved with each asset class, housing being one of the classes.
If you do your homework, a house can be:

- A big piggybank.

- A safe, stable living environment for your family.

- A way to get a quality education for your children at a bargain price.

- Tweakable in a way no rental can ever be.

Home ownership isn't necessarily a burden. It can be a liberating experience in many ways.
I am 46. I was trained - Marines - in COBOL.

Although after I left Quantico they put me in a billet working with dBase III, I could just as easily been assigned to a billet at a RASC where I would have been using COBOL.
Per the school's zero tolerance policy, students who reveal alcohol or drug use are expelled at no risk to the school. I don't agree with their method but it is pretty simple.
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But if this is true and can be demonstrated, I guarantee that there are people who will want to try to commercialize it.
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Those were added in Symfony2.2; my last experience was with 2.1. Also, I understand that neither of those is default; one should be.
This is an excellent question. First, note that you will always need a place to live. If you rent, you have no option but to pay market rents forever. Another way to put this, in the language of finance, is that you are "short" housing. Purchasing a home covers this short position - a homeowner must pay their mortgage, but need not be exposed to market fluctuations in the cost of housing. In this sense, the purchase of a first home is a risk reduction technique.

Second, market forces keep the cost of owning a home below the cost of renting a home (in most markets).

Third, there are substantial legal and financial benefits to owning at least your primary residence. Home sales are usually free of all capital gains tax; mortgage interest and property tax are tax deductible; and homestead exemptions exist in many states in the case of bankruptcy.

Finally, there are only so many other places to put your money. It is difficult for an employee of a corporation making in the low six figures (i.e. for a typical reader of this website) to shelter more than around $30,000 of earnings a year from taxation. Because of the advantages listed above, once you max out your retirement accounts and have an emergency fund set up, there is often no better investment than the purchase of a primary home. Also note that paying down your mortgage early is equivalent to investing your money in a savings account that earns a rate of interest equal to the rate of interest on the note (at this point, this rate is much higher than the rate you can earn in a savings account). This is on top of all of the other benefits.
FTP is a vastly simpler process to accomplish what it does -- transfer files from point A to point B. And if all you would be using Git for is, essentially, pushing the contents of a repository to a remote server, then it can sort of be akin to driving a Lamborghini Murcielago around to the corner store.
Hit up @Jennison and @kevinrj on twitter — I've seen them both do talks at conferences and they really know what they are talking about.
Wow. Are the students told that beforehand?

I think a shocking consequence is students will now feel unsafe telling the truth about troubling events (abuse, etc.)
It's OSX only, but this app should float your boat: http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/
I do wonder what the long term effects of eating this would be. Ive read some of the creators blog posts and I get the impression he doesn't know what hes doing. He has no education or experience in nutrition.
He seems to have this reductionist view of the human body and eating.
For instance he will say I was feeling a little X today so I added a few grams more Y and today I'm fine! Basically he is being incredibly unscientific about it.
Buying in the Bay Area is not that bad. It's a matter of trade-off, as with many things in life. You won't get huge lot or huge house for the cheap for sure, but there are other factors making up for it. For one thing the weather is fantastic. The food are amazing. It's closer to the tech center if that's your priority.
I've had this problem and have stopped using them. Since then I've been using localbitcoins and that's been fine. It's surprising to me that after $5 million in investment they are unable to figure out transactions.
This was 1996, so I think my nudist predates Po Bronson's.
The hypercompetitive culture makes SV a series of silos. We may be working workstation-to-workstation, but just as you drive along the interstate, it's a series of anonymous silos of farmers loosely affiliated, if that.

And any shoplifting guide worth its weight will tell you that those farmers are screwing you over in at least 3 different ways via strict affiliations with government and taxation, price gouging the market, and transportation costs, along with manipulative garned relationships with the GroceryStoreCartel(tm), all while you fancy the philosophical scenario of whether they're interested in your problems.

You as a driver should move along, or learn the road.

The only response to "Does some large group X care about me?" is Hanlon's Razor.
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My SO is a licensed engineer and there's little or no ageism there... Just as you report, they're valued even more as they age, even if they remain a line engineer.
Have you looked at the PyPI codebase? ;)

The real answer is I have. I'm a PyPI administrator now and have been enacting a lot of these benefits on PyPI itself. Just this weekend I've deployed a CDN in front of all of PyPI so that package downloads have sped up by 1-3 orders of magnitude depending on location.

Previously I had pushed hard for getting a real valid and trusted SSL certificate on PyPI, moving the user provided html/js from packages.python.org to pythonhosted.org in order to prevent CSRF fixation attacks.

Like I said Crate is an experiment. One that has enabled me to push for good changes in PyPI.
I may be influenced by living from 2004-2010 in either bombed out wrecks or "camps" in warzones, where this kind of stuff is routine.
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Haters gonna hate, builders gonna build. When's the last time the economist was correct with a prediction of the future?
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> Are the students told that beforehand?

That would defeat the purpose of the survey.

I guess if there's a time for someone to learn the hard way when to keep private info private, high school is better than later.
I love to cook, but it can be extremely time consuming, especially when paired with the time to cleanup. A lot of dishes also require an amount of inactive time that is simply impossible for a weekday meal that you need to squeeze between coming home from work and going to sleep.

In a perfect world, I have time to shop for and prepare elaborate meals. I'd be able to sit down and enjoy these meals with loved ones. Reality is a bit different for many of us. I'm fortunate enough to have the financial means to eat or take out every day if I wanted, but that's not a terribly healthy solution.

The fact is, most of my meals are "utility" meals where I am eating to live. That said, it does not preclude me from living to eat. Food would never cease to be one of life's joys, for me at least. I am pro-Soylent, but I won't participate any time soon. I want to see how it plays out, because putting my body on the line is not in the cards. I hope it works out, because getting back an hour or two every day sounds fantastic.
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