skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would assume after threatening to leave.

Here's a thread from a while ago discussing counter offers:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4970843

From what I gather when you dislike it enough to quit you start to resent little things. No more free coffee, no vacation, too many hours, office politics/culture. Not the money.

Not always the case but when you get to the tipping point it's because things went too far already.
I understand your point. Like you, I disagree with xemoka's assertion that "you agreed to live and earn in the society." It's not quite right (and a little naive) to say all government is voluntary because you happen to live in the countries boundaries. Anarcho-capitalism addresses this with the concept of actual opt-in governments, rather than asserting "you agree to this" whether you do or not.

With all of that said, he's still used/using the infrastructure of other countries to make money. Whether he agreed to build the roads with tax or not, the fact is that they are built and maintained with tax. One cannot pretend that government offers the rich NO benefit whatsoever.
You will never be a failure.
Challenges Accelerate Your Personal Evolution
Doesn't that mean that we'd still get knee-jerk reactions from people who are latecomers to the article?
From a New Cosmos to Galaxy-Print Leggings, Space Is Having a Moment
Son of a bitch that is a lot of debt. It stresses me out just reading about it. I guess few people do the math correctly when they go get a degree.

Can anyone here who opted to take a student loan for a technical degree speak to whether it is daunting to them or they are comfortable with the trade?
... the couple thousand dollars on the table during the discussion is virtually meaningless.

Perhaps in relative terms? After living on a grad student's salary for years, it's clear that even a thousand dollars can be rather powerful.
Start Button Is Back In Leaked Windows 8.1
> For $25 you can get a picture of yourself in space. That's pretty crazy.

Well... A picture of a picture of yourself in space.
Yeah, that's true for mammals, which happens to be the case.
The SI unit for temperature is kelvin.
> OP simply assumes what she wants to prove (men have a steady rise to the top).

The author is pretty clear that she isn't trying to prove that men have a steady rise to the top. From the first paragraph she sets out to explain why criticisms like "Why do women try to get ahead by pulling men down?" are incorrect.
Thank you. Initially I sent this to people I knew, and the responses were to be included in a book to be distributed to people interested in hearing stories from programmers. Some of this is mentioned on the survey itself.

I'll make a new survey with less questions that address your concerns and takes less time to fill out.
On SEO: Authority vs Originality
That sounds very reasonable but it actually isn't true see this MIT study: http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/workingpapers/157-07.pdf
It's not necessarily about users liking them as much as just getting the features out before as many eyeballs and browser/system combos as possible before introducing them to the whole world.
Looks fine to me. We use it the same way in India.

And both celsius and Kelvin are SI units.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system#Conversion_and_ca...
Right, so, like I said, don't use deficient platforms. Your users' security is more important than your ease of use.

And 'peppers' don't do anything of significant value in such an environment, either, because your app's going to get owned before your database is.
RailsConf videos posted from Confreaks
I'm with you - I don't quite get this considering the Facebook stance on "fake" users. Was a losing battle to fight? Will they now allow parody accounts a la Twitter?
The future of package management in Fedora
> Whereas our metaphorical escalator gives good things to its riders, whether they do anything or not.

That's not what the author says:

> There are also some men who are just standing on the escalator, simply letting the luck of the draw propel them up. Most of these men won’t make it to the room.
Google Compute Engine open to the public
I'm guessing they were building this for pages which desperately need it and decided they'd roll it out to select profiles too while they were at it.
That's the same way we do it in Hebrew, actually.

20 is "esrim", meaning tens, which is actually a special case because Hebrew once had a grammatical dual form. Then comes "shloshim", meaning threes. "Arba'im", fours. And so on. So 22 is "esrim ve'shtayyim", tens and two.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation - see "formal definition". The core of it is one sentence in english, and it's even shorter if you choose to use only mathematical notation.

All you need to know in the context of applying this to algorithms is that there has to be some notion of "size" for the problem, and the time it takes for the algorithm to complete is a function of that size.

Once you internalize that, understanding complexity analysis will be much easier. You don't have to memorize complexities of common algorithms.

I'm not really sure why it's so difficult to wrap your head around this concept, but apparently it is difficult. This is the second time I'm seeing this link on HN in the past month, I think.
Repost. Very extensive earlier discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4782905
The Myth of Geek Culture
I'm not sure what sort of choice she has, besides not working again. You can't clear student loan debt through bankruptcy, so unless she decides to not work again, I'm not sure what her options are to never pay off the debt. Maybe this is a negotiation tactic with the debtors to pay a fraction of the loan instead?
MUMPS. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS)
I don't deliberately practice playing by ear. I also don't deliberately practice sight reading as a singer. And yet I am good at both, better than most people.
To me, this is the flip side of the "predatory lending" coin: People who did it to themselves. I'm not even sure what the point of the article is supposed to be, if not a warning against financial irresponsibility.

This person made mistakes. Yeah, we all do that, and some people's have worse consequences than others, but we're all pretty much stuck with them. In this case, someone went to law school, made some very contradictory life decisions (having kids -- and failing to prevent having more -- kind of takes away whatever victim angle might have been there), realized they were doing very poorly but kept going anyway, and then... for years and years... did not pursue a career that could possibly have any chance of addressing the debt before the rates ballooned.

So we end up with someone who screwed up, screwed up some more, and then decided she'd screwed up so much that she's going to screw up again, by just not even trying to address the negative results of the previous screwups.

Not very responsible, in my opinion, and certainly not a good lesson to pass on to your kids (along with your debt, because guess where that's going when you die, since you've decided not to pay it off?).

I guess I'm still just not sure what the article is going for.
INFOGRAPHIC - 9 Steps To More Website Conversions #CRO
An interesting infographic to help get more conversions from your website.
Understanding XSS – input sanitisation semantics and output encoding contexts
I much prefer the new Compose, it unobtrusively let me create an email whilst browsing through my history.
It was the worst thing I ever did. I'm not as bad off as this women but I have around 80-90k in debt for school loans and whats worst is one of them is a private loan so it has some ungodly high interest rate compare to my others.
Samuel L Jackson is going to record a 300 word monologue on Reddit
From a comment on the linked post:

"Both Google DNS and OpenDNS implement the (Google-proposed) ecdn-client-subnet DNS extension, that basically forwards the higher part of the client IP to the authoritative DNS for the specific purpose of latency-based routing...

I assume you're not using latency-based routing for static data (otherwise a CDN would solve it). In that case, you're out of luck because it looks like Route 53 doesn't support ecdn-client-subnet"
All of which brings back memories of Loglan[1] which was specifically designed as a tool for testing Sapir-Whorf, although in the end and after many years of painstaking development it was never used for that. Loglan has a successor Lojban[2] which is still a hobby project for a small community.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loglan
[2] http://www.lojban.org/tiki/Lojban
Why I’m Going to India
Which is a shame, because effort spent in medicine doesn't scale.
This is a pretty fluffy article. It says she borrowed $26k/year during law school, even though she was on a scholarship with tuition paid, and took out another $20k in private loans.

Hard to judge anything just based on this article, but I'd have to say that if you have a full tuition scholarship and still need to take on 100k in debt you might want to rethink it. Also she had 3 children within 3 years of graduating, which would make it impossible to pay off anything unless you get a much higher paid job.

A friend of mine and his wife took out something in the neighborhood of 100k/each, so they have(or had, been paying a bit now) 200k of student loan debt recently. I think it was a bit of a bad investment, since I think they could have gone to cheaper schools, however they stayed in NYC and make enough for this.

Short story: If you want to take on a big student debt, paying it off is going to require you to go where the high paying jobs are. If you want to raise a family and work for the state, don't take on the debt, your life will be easier.
That's really interesting. You don't even label emails you've archived? I like to chuck "invoice" on everything that represents money changing hands: actual invoices, e-purchase emails (congrats on buying this game / software, here is your key), stuff like that. I also have a few others about specific topics.

In terms of labeling emails that need replies for me if it's still in the inbox if it needs a reply / action. If I'm done with an email I archive it.
Your anonymity checkboxes need to be converted to either a single checkbox or a set of radio buttons. Right now you can select either or both options, which doesn't make sense.
I think it'd be really fun if voting revealed the username and the score. It'd massively drive up voting, which may be good or bad though. Perlmonks solved this by adding a null vote option (+1, -1, +0)
I haven't really thought of marketing myself that way, but that is a great idea, Thanks.

I guess I've never thought about it because I'd imagined that it'd be such a niche skill that it would be difficult to build a consulting practice around it. People are always looking to build new things. But, they're maybe not as welcoming to talk about their failing projects.

Anyway, I have probably (inadvertently) turned around a good 12-15 projects that way. So, I definitely have results. But, the results aren't typically super pretty. That is, it gets people to the next step, to the next set of funding, to the horizon, at least. Some of these projects and companies that I've helped have been sold, and resold, because of these types of efforts, though.

As for adding a developer to the testing role - it is an interesting idea; I've never tried it. Typically, at this point people are scraping the bottom of what they have left to spend. So, it may be a hard sell. I could try it.
Disclosure: I work at Google and have been dogfooding this on my personal account for a while.

I draw a distinct line between my work e-mail and my personal e-mail. In my work e-mail I have a lot of rules, filters, automatic labels, and use multiple inboxes. I also need to read and deal with most every e-mail I receive. In this inbox I don't (and frankly wouldn't want to) use the new Gmail inbox. Based on many of the threads here on HN, this is the perspective many have in mind.

However, for my personal inbox it's been a godsend. The automatic labeling is highly accurate, and where it's not you can correct it and it learns/adapts. I can live in my "primary" inbox and only venture into the other tabs (social, updates, promotions, forums) only when I want to. I used priority inbox, and this is an improvement on that, in my opinion.

So while I have a bias here, I've really, really enjoyed having this for at least one of my inboxes. :)
I have no interest in doing a startup the way the article describes. It just seems way to stressful.

But I think too much attention is given to these go-for-broke-all-or-nothing kind of startup endeavors when, as software developers you're in a unique position to concentrate more on micropreneurship and/or bootstrapping ... a less taxing way of starting and running a business that focuses more on increasing your passive income while maintaining a job and living a healthier lifestyle.
Clojure is a great language, but there really is a difference between functional and "pretty" functional; e.g. as in, I know 100% sure that this function has no side-effects.

Static typing can do a lot of good, but the stricter semantics of Haskell also goes a long way into writing code with fewer bugs.
Because accounting and law has an fairly even split between men and women then every other field (where physical differences don't come into play) "should" have similar representations too? Are male hairdressers trying twice as hard as their female counterparts to get to the same place? There is nothing about styling and cutting hair that should make it more appealing to women versus men. And yet we see huge imbalances there.
Its sorta obvious this article won't go down well with the HN crowd. This is a site where everybody either believes they can code, or learn to code in a week, or teach somebody else to code via codecademy or what-have-you.
fwiw, I strongly agree with the article. Natural talent & inclination triumphs practice everytime, and while that doesn't mean you shouldn't practice, it does mean that you'd be better off pursuing avenues more closely aligned to your natural talent. Here's how you can convince yourself of the same - lets say you are the typical HN reader - lots of programming experience in one or more languages. How soon can you become an expert in oh I don't know BRST cohomology ? My advisor has a PhD in that, & he can't program his way out of a paper bag. Its easy for me to laugh at him & say, hey he should just try Ruby or JS for a week, but hey, how do I just try BRST cohomology for a week ? Where do I begin ?
I think it's a little unfair to overly judge them over one mistake. Also, I didn't like the original redesign, but they've toned it down since then and brought it back so they do seem to be corrective.
Can you lower your private loan interest rate with something like lendingclub.com ?
> ... leaders ... are ... good-looking, villains are ... unattractive

Neither true of Howard Roark nor of Keating. She described them several times in Fountainhead.

> Nowhere in those books will you find an intelligent argument in favor or utilitarianism or moderate altruism.

And why would you her expect to do that? Those were not her positions.

> Rand was guilty of disingenuous representation of opposing views.

Rand was guilty of inaccurate representations of all kinds of views, scholarship was not her forte. And you are guilty of disingenuous representation of Rand.
Arrested Development Pirates Skip Netflix Out of Habit
Although this thread is pretty old, I just saw something that reiterated my earlier point, Sony's insurance arm accounts for over 60% of the company's profits:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/28/business/global/sonys-brea...

There's no way a stock movement of that size had anything to do with the Xbox.
My favourite example of what seems like talent actually being a damn lot of work: Derek Silver's 15 years of vocal training that took him from a mediocre singer to a the type of one that people would say 'had a gift' http://sivers.org/15-years
This is pretty awesome!!!
Fair question. No, I didn't, because I had no way to do so; I don't know him, there's no way to comment on the article linked to in the OP, and he doesn't appear to be posting here on HN.

So all I had to go on was the linked article and the context of how he used the word "influence" in it. I have said, several times, that my reaction is my personal judgment and that others' judgments may differ. (I also said I agree with his general point that tools for thinking have much more impact than particular solutions to particular problems.)

And as regards the substantive question: do you disagree that he is trying to move people to take actions that they would not otherwise have taken? That he is trying to get people to spend time and energy on developing tools for thinking, instead of something else?
Definitely relative -- this is a reference to 'most software devs reading this article'. That being said, once you reach a compensation level that lets you cover your expenses, it's wise to start thinking in these terms, even when the relative percentages rise.

Happier workers tend to perform better, which in turn make meritocratic performance bonuses greater, raising the overall compensation of those workers. Enjoyment of one's job and compensation are tied much more closely than some people realize.
I'm neutral about it, overall. I find the window ridiculously small (or ridiculously big if you maximise it), and I hate the hidden formatting bar - I use formatting a lot, so the extra click to reveal it and then the hassle of it covering content is a pain.

So how about making the window sizeable, and remember the user's preference? And maybe when it's over a certain size the formatting bar gets permanent screen space.
Using his same attack, it's easy to spoof the js crypto libs to be insecure/have a backdoor, while the site appears unmodified to the user.

Even worse is that the attacker only really needs to spoof the JS assets once, and set an extremely long expiration date in the response cache headers, and then he's poisoned your site until the user forces a reload or kills his cache.

tldr; you owe mox $1000
I have two displays, my secondary with my email browser on it is to the right of me. With the new compose, writing emails is confined to the utter right most corner of my work area.

As you might have guessed, I hate the new compose...
> She graduated in 1994 with more than $100,000 of debt. Within three years, she had one daughter, a surprise set of twins, and was earning less than $50,000 per year.

3 kids while earning < $50k and trying to pay off > $100k in debt? If that's not the embodiment of America's dire lack of financial and family planning skills, then I don't know what is.

> "I’ve stressed to my daughter the importance of not borrowing any money."

Maybe she should just teach them to make responsible decisions instead? Borrowing money can be the right thing to do, but you need to carefully measure the costs and benefits.

Also, it would help not to have 3 kids when you're up to your ears in debt and only earning enough money to support yourself.
The consensus here seems to be that, unless you want to do research and publish papers, a Bachelors in CS is a terminal degree. Is there really no room for formal exposure to advanced application of what the researchers are researching?

If I think machine learning sounds like an interesting approach to solving problems, are my choices really limited either to seven years of academic research or to teaching myself this stuff from whatever materials I can cobble together in my spare time?
> But the weird aspect here is the prominence of the button.

Whichever tabs you choose to have (and if you use the layout, you choose which of the tabs are active) are available as views into your email. This both makes them out-of-the-way when their subject isn't what you want to view, and available when it is.

> The point of filtering out spam (given the more pleasant name "Promotions" now)

Not the same thing: spam (unsolicited commercial email) is still spam. Promotions are for promotions that aren't spam. The reasons why you might not want them in your normal email box are similar, but the probability that you will at some time want to review promotions for more than "did something get here by accident".
You know about this site, right? http://ilearnedtoprogram.com/
Google updates Gmail to organize messages into different categories
If you do well, it's also possible to negotiate once you are already employed. You'll probably be more valuable to the company after a year, since you'll know how things work, and chances are good that your alternatives will have improved. I've always brought it up in a positive way ("I think I've been contributing significant value and would like to find a way for my compensation to reflect that"), but the managers understand the subtext ("now that I have a year's experience here, other companies are calling me at home.")

Success will depend on the company, but it can work.
And it all aims towards a good cause!
The key is derived by PBKDF2 with 1000 iterations. For weaker passwords, I suspect a couple of order of magnitude strengthening would be required.

Your point about weak passwords holds in both ordinary clients and in the browser. It's just a matter of degree. There are plenty of sufficiently strong passwords that are memorable. Since the degree of weakness tolerable is logarithmically proportional to the hashing time and JS is usually within an order of magnitude of native code, the additional entropy required is small given equivalent hashing time.
Yes, there was the password / CC breach fiasco, but have you really had a horrible track record?

I'm genuinely curious. I've been hosting with them for a couple years and have had zero problems and amazing support response rate otherwise.

If there's some kinda of a nightmare scenario waiting for me, I'd love a heads up.
Or even better, Bacon.js

https://github.com/raimohanska/bacon.js
Drupal.org compromised
My wife and I each came out of our undergrad education with around 50k in college loans. But, we majored in Computer Science and both paid them off within the first two years of working and are now doing quite well <knocking on wood>. So we're quite comfortable with the trade.

That said, you shouldn't need to take those kinds of loans anymore. We went to a top-10 school for CS back when you still had to get loans for them. These days, there are nominal costs, but all of the top-tier schools I know of cover any difference between you/your family's ability to pay and the tuition. I would personally be somewhat skeptical of the lifetime earning potential you are getting from any institution whose alumni have not given so much money that they can easily afford to cover any gap you have in your tuition payments.
This story is mostly about TERRIBLE money management, not the cost of education. Her parents paid for her undergrad in full and she got a full scholarship to law school. So really, none of this money went directly to education.

Apparently she couldn't work and focus on school at the same time, so she started taking out loans to cover living expenses. She took out $26k in federal loans each year (starting in 1994) to cover these expenses. Factoring in inflation, that would be like taking out a loan for nearly $41k/year in 2013 dollars. I think it's a hard argument to say that was even close to reasonable.

The article doesn't say how long she was in school, but if I'm doing the math right, it took her at least three years (isn't that a long time for a full time law student with no other job?).

Then, after school while she's studying for the BAR, she takes out another $20k in private loans to cover living expenses ($31k in 2013 dollars).

She screwed herself, plain and simple.
Because they are benefiting from those past actions.

Which brings us to the whole "sins of thy father" question.