skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correlation does not imply causation.

While this article may portray the trend as "universities that produce successful startup founders", it's very possible that it may actually be something like "prestigious universities attract people that come from well connected families who have an easier time creating a successful startup".

I have very little faith in higher educational institutions' ability to actually educate and prepare people like potential startup founders for the real world. This trend of successful startup founders coming out of prestigious universities makes a lot more sense when you consider that high-end unis tend to attract people from affluent, well connected backgrounds.

This isn't to say that rich kids have an easier time creating startups. Rather, I think that affluent families typically become affluent through the ability to form business connections with people, and the ability to form a vast contact network. Through parental influence, these attributes are passed to the children who go on to attend prestigious universities, and eventually create a business for themselves.

</endarmchairpettheory>
Can I ask which service it was where this happened? It's possible this is a bug or an OAuth setting that's specific to the site in question. Feel free to email if you prefer (address in profile)

edit: grammar
I think you're missing something. I don't see anyone enforcing anything. What if people like differentiation? Your comments imply that it's bad.
I come from a family with adopted siblings. My siblings are very similar to their biological parents, who were unknown to them (and all of us) until they were 20+. Let me put it another way... They don't just share similar genes in their "appearance".
From where I sit, nurture plays very little in shaping a person in a benevolent environment. I have decades of case study around me to support that view.
I also believe that part of human socialization is about mimicry. Why do most people wear jeans? Why do we bother with pleasant looking hair-styles? Why don't men wear dresses?
These don't define who I am, and I believe have little influence on the way I think (to the best of my knowledge).
If girls want to wear pink, it's not a bad thing, nor should it be seen as so.
What's even more bizarre is that we have a single-payer system that's wildly popular among the 48 million people it serves and has demonstrated an excellent ability to control costs. It's called Medicare. It's currently restricted to those over 65 and certain people with disabilities, but expanding it to cover everyone would be a relatively easy task, it seems to me, compared to the gyrations we're going through trying to fix the private insurance system.

It's not just that many Americans have been persuaded that a single-payer system works for the old and disabled, but for some reason isn't right for everyone else. Rather, many Americans have been brainwashed into simultaneously supporting Medicare and opposing a generalized single-payer system, with equal fervor, without noticing the contradiction.

(Yes, really. I saw a photo a year or two ago of a protester at a rally carrying a sign that said "NO SOCIALIZED MEDICINE / DON'T TOUCH OUR MEDICARE", or similar language.)
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Personally, I just see that we're in a world where super-elites decide when and how to allocate resources. Many don't have a right to life, except to the extent that it fits in a framework acceptable to elites.

For instance, with healthcare, Gates explicitly supports intellectual property regimes, like medical patents. This is in keeping with his decades-long ideologies, and vital to how he went beyond his wealthy parents. (http://newint.org/features/2012/04/01/bill-gates-charitable-...)

Or with education, helping push privatized schools. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundati...)

I'm not really discussing Gates himself. (Despite him putting his name in the forefront of his actions and press releases.) I imagine his charity is far better than how the Koch brothers allocate their wealth. Rather, these points apply to depending on the benevolence of elites in general.
true. small agencies and freelancers dont have funds to do design research like huge companies have. max they can do is do some a/b testing if they are 'good ones' and choose between one of the latest trends the big guys have set.
Fundraising ideas
I wonder if it would be possible to only eat as much of the animal as you will consume in one sitting, leaving the animal alive and just removing extremities piecemeal for consumption.
Pretty nice, though would be better to use CodeMirror or Ace instead of textareas.
The impression I've gotten is that he isn't interested in centralized logging, as that is outside of what he is trying to do.

I could be wrong though.
What tptacek, rdouble and james_madison said is accurate.

Hmm? I love being accurate but I didn't post anything to this thread.
I didn't take a screenshot, but I can confirm there was a message. Viewing my browser history, it apparently linked to this page: http://ubuntuforums.org/signaturepics/Sput.html

The top was a splash image that linked to this twitter account: https://twitter.com/Sputn1k_

Below was some text (scraped from Chrome's history database):

Shoutout to @rootinabox.

None of this "y3w g0t haxd by albani4 c3bir 4rmy" stuff.
Straight up, you dun goofed. It's as simple as that.

@rootinabox linked to this page: http://wedtm.com/blog/2013/07/11/cubeworldforum-dot-org/
Sports Media Revenue Bubble Is Going to Burst at Some Point
In the recent HN discussion about whether the Department of Homeland Security should be abolished...some commenters wondered why that would be any improvement compared to moving its components into other existing Departments...bureaucratic details aside, I think one thing that DHS has going against it is its paramilitary nature that is not quite military, not quite FBI, and sometimes literally, just some guy with a badge feeling you up at the airport...and that is why some people think it's more reasonable to just do away with the DHS, even if its components are preserved (and keep the same authority and deadly force to enforce laws and security)

It's that lack of "real" authority that makes DHS seem less desirable than its parts being moved into "real" departments.

In other words...think of your reaction when a police officer has a gun in your face telling you to place your hands slowly where he can see them...and a mall cop who is bellowing at you to put your hands in the air "or else". The former situation is materially less pleasant, but you may psychologically be OK with it because "the cop is doing his job and cops put their lives on the line, and also, he has the power of the Law behind him, and, Law & Order is a great show"...whereas with the mall cop, your life is never in danger and yet you have contempt with someone trying to assert authority in his small pathetic world.

With DHS (in some people's opinion), and seemingly, these Chinese rule enforcers, you could have the worst of both worlds...a poorly trained government official who oversteps his very limited authority and yet has the ability to ruin your life, legally.
The Sports Cable Bubble
Google Apps allows domain owners to disable G+.

Will this option vanish?
For $10 a month, people who really love Facebook (and can afford it), could see no ads. Maybe some special features too. If 10% percent of Facebook signed up, that’s $1B a month in revenue. Not too shabby.

Odd to see Biz Stone, out of all people, making this type of argument.
It was hacked, and Canonical IS cut it off from the outside to diagnose the issue.
Fairly sure that the US have fairly low level of low level corruption and high level of political corruptions. If you offer a bribe to a police officer in the US, I am sure that 90% of the time, they would just haul you to jail.

The fact that insane prosecutions against people is occuring is probably a result of our democratic institution's perverse incentives("TOUGH ON CRIME", "3 STRIKES LAW", "THINK OF THE CHILDREN") and lack of forethought and rationality on the part of the electorate.
A general point: learning higher mathematics is still quite difficult today, in part because there is a chasm between how easy it is for a computer to give feedback when a student learns programming vs. how difficult it is for a computer to give feedback when a student learns math. (In particular the proof-checking part) Sadly, there is little incentive for anyone to develop innovative teaching methods for, say, potential theory in the complex plane or group representations in probability and statistics because these are not considered "useful" beyond the academic realm and industry niches...

If any enterprising hackers happen to read this comment, please know that there is a small but devoted community of amateur mathematicians who would be overjoyed at the opportunity to spend some of their free time learning esoteric branches of higher math with help from the computer, if only the right tools were available...
Right, there is a syntax. No punctuation, is what I should say.

Again, the DSL I gave is not optimal. It would take a few iterations.

My argument is that the few idiosyncrasies of zone file syntax are not trivial. Road signs are trivial. Hundreds of millions of people can see a sign and get it right away. My argument is that DNS could be trivial, and my prediction is a Space based DSL will emerge that makes it so.
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Unix domain sockets are the way to pass open file descriptors between processes, though (why? I don't know, it just is). I think that because of that, the mechanism was extended to also pass along the PID, UID and GID. I did use the open file descriptor with SO_PEERCRED options to implement a Linux-only daemon to open privileged sockets on behalf of a process: https://github.com/spc476/ipacld (something I'm surprised has never been written before).
So nice, some weeks ago there were some news about CSS Zen Garden's birthday. Now knowing it's been relaunched is great.

BTW, here's the design I sent... 8 years ago o_O

http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=185/185.css
That is a simplistic definition. You exclude actions or systemic patterns, just to name a few things to think about. Go to implicit.harvard.edu for a couple of eye opening experiments and tests.
Breaking: IsoHunt now in the market for a movie filter written in brainfuck or INTERCAL.
This guy is a pharmaceuticals shill — of course he denounces his competitors.
From those top tens for females and males, five out of ten are countries with populations less than 12 million each. It would be interesting to see the US statistics by state.

Smaller networks (small population of a country, or by state) could be a factor here.

Could you find the original study?
something that was not necessary. Init scripts can be nice and clean [1]. And yes, I'm all for a init replacement. Something new, nice and clean. But I take the shell script hackery over a dbus dependency. But that's just my personal opinion.

I have neither used it nor looked at the code, but [2] seems to be what I want. It's by the libdietc author, so i expect the code to be small, elegant and not maintained very well.

[1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/rc-scripting/rcng-dum...

[2] http://www.fefe.de/minit/
That'd be the admin panel on their vbulletin installation which has been publicly facing for more than a year.
The set of practices known as Crew (or Cockpit) Resource management formalize this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_resource_management#Commun...

So in this case, the proper action would be:

1) Get attention: "Captain ..."

2) State concern: "I'm concerned that a visual approach is too risky in this weather."

3) State the problem: "Visual approaches only work in low wind (or whatever conditions), and the weather report says we're not within those conditions."

4) State a solution: "I suggest we change plans and prepare for [alternate landing method], starting with [first step]."

5) Get buy-in: "Do you agree with that course of action, Captain?"

(Note that the pilot did just the first two ... or maybe only half of the second or third.)
...corn? What? The yellow stuff I eat at dinner??
Chrome vs. Internet Explorer Audience
At the bottom there's a link to this:

http://www.theweedblog.com/new-mexico-corrections-officer-fi...

A parody of some sort?
(I don't think they are actually talking about corn.)
I don't expect offering children a preference is a particularly useful thing to do. In all except a tiny minority of cases (where the person has some form of mental illness, or possibly genetic abnormalities) gender and sex are equivalent. The abnormal cases are generally going to become apparent through behaviour anyway, and can be dealt with then.
This is awesome, that site has launched a lot of careers and made the web a better place overall I think.
Well, this seems to be a kind parody, or an argument in favour of legalising cannabis by drawing a comparison with corn.

I don't understand the point, though, since apart from being flowering plants, they have little in common at any level, it seems to me.

Edit - by the way, before clicking the link I was thinking it was going to be an article about GM corn, or something like that.
So far they are handling this better than Apple.
Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/15u3X7V.png

HTML source: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=7JXk5s1F
Am I the only one who doesn't find this terribly interesting, due to thinking that "funding != success"? Raising money is a step on the path to success (and potentially an optional one at that), so a chart of "which universities graduates raised the most money" doesn't strike me as terribly valuable.

Of course, I imagine it would be a lot harder (and maybe more subjective) to come up with a different metric for success, since not all startups wind up publicly traded (and therefore required to report their financials) and some are acquired in deals where the terms aren't reported, etc.

Anyway, even if we use funding as the metric of success, what are we supposed to do with the data from this analysis? Is it supposed to suggest where one should choose to go to school, or to suggest that other schools should try to mirror aspects of the schools listed, or what?
I know I must sound like a broken record, but life expectancy is a poor proxy for quality of healthcare. There are many factors which impact life expectancy which have nothing to do with healthcare. For example, if you correct for the number of car accidents (which is high in the US due to the number of cars on the road), the US comes out near the top in terms of life expectancy.

The other thing is that to say that the US ranks 50th in life expectancy is useless without showing numbers. From what I've seen, the #1 country and the #50 country difference by less than 3 years. So is the number 50 ranked country really that much worse than the #1 country.
I think some better marketing will be needed as well.

It might seem strange and off-putting to eat bugs but eating lobster, shrimp and crawdads has similar challenges and these have become commonplace - even delicacies - for most.

How long until we have a Squeaky Cricket or Brown Roach right next to Red Lobster?
https://meanpath.com crawls the source and server headers.
Really? Medicaid outcomes are actually pretty dam good considering the population that is being treated!
> However I want to argue that not all software should cater to everybody.

The issue here is that the Linux kernel developers are starting to make decisions that assume systemd is being used. For example, the (proposed?) new cgroups API is being built with the idea that systemd will manage it, and anything else that wants to interact with it will go through systemd.
> people often get snagged into some 'holy grail' vitamin (free radicals being the newest)

Why would somebody want to eat free radicals? Do you mean antioxidants, which are supposed to destroy free radicals?
NYC always had the finance industry, which conveniently happened to boom like crazy from the 1980's-2000's.
I think the easier way is to create the socket with high privileges, then drop down to lower privilege.
Gladwell notes how military culture differs from civilian culture in Korea. Surely, differences of similar magnitudes exist in the US.

I wonder how the US military has changed culturally over the past few decades. As an outsider, I have presumed that the purpose of degrading training programs, continual demonstrations of the power of officers (parade reviews, etc.), and required social proof of the officers' power and authority (stand and salute upon the officer entering a room) all were designed to avoid argument, hesitation, or doubt when an officer tells his soldiers in battle to charge forth toward an enemy firing upon them. To win an infantry battle, such obedience probably is necessary. Imagine if only a small fraction of the soldiers were willing to advance -- they would likely be much worse off than if all the soldiers advanced at once.

However, this nearly blind obedience surely comes at a price. Can a junior guy tell an officer that he is unsure of a drone target's validity? It strikes me that a modern military operation is much more like a large scale construction project or perhaps software development than traditional trench warfare. In these civilian endeavors, the price of hesitation to consider alternative opinions likely is low compared to the cost of being wrong. Has the military changed?
i could have a need for this type of service as well, but it's not clear what benefit it provides over PhantomJS. is it just the alternating of the scraping IP?

a free trial would be helpful, but before i sign up, i need to know what i gain from the service. it seems like i still have to write all the same logic, but tubes.io just takes care of making the web request. if that's all, it's not exactly something i'd be willing to pay for.
> $ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh encbox@your.vps.com "mkdir ~/.ssh; cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"

$ ssh-copy-id encbox@your.vps.com

Much easier, IMO.
Great code example simoncion! Thanks for taking the time to write up that comment.

You're example does indeed show a simple reader of BIND-style zone files.

But, to write that, you brought to the table an understanding of BIND that I'm sure took you a long time to develop.

A good Space DSL does not require a lot of domain knowledge to pick up.

In other words, while the current BIND zone format uses punctation to indicate meaning, which then requires domain knowledge to read/write (or a textbook by your side), a good Space DSL is self documenting. So, my example using things like A and CNAME and TTL would be bad. Better would be something like this:

breckyunits.com
ip4 123.123.123.123
ip6 ::ffff:192.0.2.128
updateEvery 3600seconds
Low specs don't matter, but actual features for users do
"Where a company can differentiate is by providing actual useful features for the user. It's not necessary about how powerful the device is, but rather what this piece of tech can do for you that the other device cannot. This is how Motorola will set itself apart from Samsung and HTC. And on a broader point it speaks to Google's future for computing where the specs are obviated and what's of utmost important is the user."

Discuss.
I originally found this article confusing as "Uppsala" is a way to say "Ohh, oops" in German, along with the discovery being by accident.

Still not entirely sure whether it's a real finding.
The biggest factor I found was to turn off ajax-based workers and switch to cron. Also, disable any apps you aren't using.
I think that's an unfair characterization. I'd rather describe his statement as "Korean airlines have bad pilots, and this might be why".

It's not as broad a generalization as you make it sound, but I still find Gladwell's cultural reasoning highly specious.
There is an inconsistency in naming: you call it "flags" at the top but "options" at the bottom. I think you should also say "Regular expression quick reference" rather than "Regex quick reference" for the same consistency since you use "regular expressions" everywhere else.
Maybe I'm a curmudgeon but to me the vast majority of these examples are outright painful to the eye, they remind me of myspace pages and the like. Can anyone really imagine spending any significant amount of time reading / exploring a website that is based on one of these designs? The exception is the main landing page, I like that one.
> On the one hand, there are some huge, monolithic packages like Xorg that have split in to many smaller, more independent packages.

You should note that this is generally looked at as a bad move. Creating two separate packages for each protocol (one headers, one implementation), separate packages for each individual app etc. lead to a lot of unnecessary overhead for everybody (developers, release managers, package maintainers etc). Over the last couple years people have suggested to merge some of the packages back into the main xserver repository.
As a young web developer, I had been using tables and frames to organize my layout. CSS Zen Garden taught me to separate style and content. I credit this site for making me a better web developer.
I didn't (couldn't) go through all the math, but it would seem to me that the lion would get closer and closer to the man on each turn, while never touching (assuming points without width). Kind of like the graph where the line approaches zero without every reaching it.
Where is data that link political persuasion and clothing preference? I see all kinds of people at Babies'R'Us making the same color choices.
I'm seeing other people's photos in my Dropbox account on the iOS Mobile App
Ummmmm, while scrolling through images in my Camera Uploads folder I'm seeing other people's photos in my folder as well! How do I know if other's aren't seeing my folder? I was wondering if someone was using my account, but these photos are nowhere to be seen on the web or any desktop running Dropbox.

Has anyone encountered this? Seriously thinking of removing important / unencrypted documents off of Dropbox.

This is for version 2.3.1 on iOS.
Good! Transit directions coming to Apple Maps. That's great news for bus-takers everywhere.
Netflix will be the next big cloud technology company
Define magic.
I'm not nostalgic about the old, low-resolution monitors though. The content in those design fits into 630/700 pixel wide columns and the 11 pixel text in Orchid Beauty looks tiny on my screen!
The best pesticide is an army of biological robots evolved to hunt down insects. Aka, the Chicken!
I take issue with 'ad hominem'.

If a police officer is found to commit perjury or otherwise tamper with evidence on one case, We the people find just cause with all of their cases.

The same goes for powerful people whom sit on drug panels in a company whilst holding a federal position requiring drugs. Because he held a dire conflict of interest, I do not see how we can trust him.
Not OP, but in my experience I always shoot for inbox zero - So I only need my inbox, archive, and starred folder really. I sift through my emails and archive everything that doesn't need my attention, and star anything that does - After I have nothing left in my inbox I give any emails in my starred folder attention.
Strangely enough, neither did the other two...