skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is debatable. And it think being able to see a project through the end is much more important
That was not my experience in regards to math.
>The plain reality here is that we don't yet know the full effects of a diet high in soy has on the body

you could replace the word 'soy' with 'meat' or 'eggs' or 'bread' there and the sentence would be equally true, and equally useless.
Yea, I'm not sure how can they compete with other "research-based scientifically-proven nutrition" products for example from the healthcare division of Danone: http://www.nutricia.com/our-products/nutrition-for-elderly/f...
Probably the story will sell the Soylent and not the product itself.
Many fields can succumb to a compartmentalizing of ideas and getting lost in leaky abstractions, and economics is possibly one of the most egregious. To very loosely paraphrase Alan Kay, anyone serious about economics will also study psychology, anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary biology. These fields are deeply interconnected in the same sense that calculus, physics and chemistry work together to create an understanding of complex physical systems. (For a good start, see Dan Ariely's behavioral economics.)
<quote>Change your SSL cipher settings to this:
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</quote>. SSLv2 is flawed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#SSL_1....).
He should disable it.
They could, but Hootsuite pays money for access.

Hootsuite is also not just for Twitter; they allow access and control of multiple social profiles. Granted most people use it only for Twitter, but the fact remains, they have a product people are willing to pay for.

I can't really envision a scenario where Twitter killed them, but if you can, please share.
Um, Google+ doesn't have subscription fees. It was a joke.
I agree completely.

I took Ethics as an elective during my C.S. undergrad and I think it's still in the top 3 of the most-formative individual courses of study I've ever undertaken. I'd highly highly recommend people take ethics or philosophy classes, if only to see how even the simplest scenarios can have complex dilemmas.
You never know, upon entering the inner sanctum, you might be the one set to work on a Microsoft Excel macro.
I'm 23 years young and I cannot read your text. Why is your background white and your text light-gray?
> The main problem ... is that you're modeling a physical thing inside an app for no good reason.

There is a very good reason to model the physical card. On the assumption that most folks enter their CC information by taking the card out of their wallet & copying the information from the card into the form. Then for those folks following the physical object makes it easier for the user to locate the expiry date & CCV code on the back.

I assume that folks like us that use CC auto-fill tools are a minority. And yes for us this is totally unnecessary.

PS.
Do any non-tech savvy people disable JS? And if so, why?
The data base has errors and faulty assumptions, yes. I have some too, but I do not allow names entered into a big medical system to be anything other than the persons name, minimum of first name and last name, but I go over every record that passes through our scanners and enter middle names too. We have an AKA field where the patient can be called what ever the want, characters and numbers allowed. This is not stuck into medical image dicom headers but appears on the information system which is used when talking to patients or browsing records. Dicom files area transmitted across hospital, out information system data isn't but does transmit reports with a limited amount of patient data on them. Screw ups with identification happen too often already (once is too many) and matter too much to have a load of bad data in the system. Abbreviate anything at great risk. We have lots of people with the same name and same date of birth already, so extreme care is needed.
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>> ...C++ Exceptions are "thrown" without operator new...

Reading this reminded me how dependent I am on intelisense for a lot of languages. I work in C++ and Java all day every day, and if you asked me how to throw an exception in either, without sitting at a computer (where I'd remember or grope for it), I'd give the syntax for the wrong language 50% of the time.

Maybe assessing people by putting them in front of a computer with an IDE would be useful?
This could be done by printing the calendar on a strip of paper/fabric, then sticking the ends together to make a continuous loop around two vertical rollers.

This would also have the effect of making the calendar less wide, so that it took us less wall space, at the cost of making it thicker.
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I love this. couple of things you may want to test - either show all the fields (cc number, exp, name etc) by default, or dont show the name, expiration fields until the credit card number has been filled... its slightly surprising that the other fields show up after entering 5 or 6 digits... also, it is not very clear that I can click and enter the name, expiration date (as it was for cc number)... you may want to move the user directly to the next field after they have entered the previous field.
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Yeah, I've heard rumors that lot of those blacklists are shakedown operations. We're following our customers' lead on which transactions are unwanted -- if we're getting phone calls where people are saying (e.g.) that they signed up for a free sample and got billed 40 dollars of shipping and handling... well, I don't much care about what the company says, the point is, our customer feels deceived and our customer is who we work for.
Meet Bob. Bob got a job working on a random system through an NSA subcontractor. After several weeks on the job, and having gone through rigorous training, Bob was starting to feel uneasy with the work requirements and amount of details he knew. Bob had a TopSecret clearance however, and couldn't tell anyone - not even his wife. After a few more weeks, he decided to try his luck at another employer. Bob was damn good too, one of the best in his field - he was guaranteed a job anywhere for competitive pay.

Except word got out about Bob's employer - and specifically the subsystems Bob was responsible for implementing. After the negative press, the NSA didn't renew Bob's company's contract which forced said company to let Bob go. That's okay, Bob thought, he had enough experience in the field, right? Everywhere Bob looked was disgusted at his previous job and the moral choices his superiors' superiors made. But they took it out on Bob. Bob was never offered a job anywhere for close to the amount of money and psychological income he had at his former job.

Must suck to be Bob.
After the last number is entered, you should auto focus the NAME field, then EXP DATE or the purchaser won't know what to do. People may think... hey, it guess my card type, how come it's not automatically showing my name?
That's a fair point, but there are less ad-hoc ways to accomplish that result. For example, if you get rid of reasonable royalty damages and force patent holders to prove actual damages, it'll become very hard for trolls to go forward with a suit.

The alternative I favor is adding an element to infringement that requires some evidence of copying, reverse-engineering, or appropriation. Since the plaintiff has to plead the elements of a suit up front, this will shift the fact-intensive part of the litigation over to the plaintiff unless they can offer some evidence of bad conduct by the defendant.

This changes the nature of a patent completely, but I think not in a bad way. If your patent is really worthwhile, independent invention should be negligibly probable.
SICP carry some baggage I believe. Abelson and Sussman are Electronics Engineers, fond of mathematical way of thinking and culture thus applying computing to think about these fields. I think that's one reason behind the creation of How to Design Programs (HtDP, by Felleisen) which deals with abstractions and recursive problem solving but without involving complex maths or physics. Later on, you might appreciate SICP problems with less resentment.
GREAT CATCH! Thank you. I totally missed Maestro Card as a product. I'll get it added ASAP. The fallback is a good idea, too!

Glad you liked it :)
Great illustration of a great point.
Either other schools have terrible CS programs, or I'm in the minority of people who really enjoyed all my CS classes. I thought learning the ins and outs of how a computer worked was a big thrill. I always wanted to know how a bunch of transistors could turn into a complex processor. How networking worked. Most of my classes are still relevant to me today. Being able to understand data structure. The laws behind optimizing branching logic. Everything I took was either very helpful in becoming a well balanced programmer, or was so interesting that I didn't care if it was relevant or not. It worries me that there's a trend of people just wanting to know the basics of what they need to know to build apps, and not the fundamentals of computing.
Yeah, that's sort of true... but I think people do see these snacks as real food. Pop-tarts are marketed as a breakfast food - this makes it seem as though you could eat pop-tarts in the morning before you start your day instead of a fruit salad or something more "time-tested"
No it isn't. People shafting consumers for a quick buck is why we can't have nice things.
Agreed. And I'm not literally running a marathon every day. A more accurate analogy might have been a triathlon or decathlon. I just wanted to paint the picture of somebody who's achieved success in something, but if you looked at them at the point end of having just done something exhausting... big surprise, they'd look exhausted.
Let me speak to you as someone with some hindsight on this issue. I'm going to be 40 in November. I am in my final weeks of my final class of a Business Management track. On August 19th I will finish school. I started college in 1992. And it has been on-again off-again... for many years. Absolutely no regrets about not going straight through.

My only regret is the major I picked. If I had it to do all over again, I would have done Computer Science, and learned how to program.

Along the way, I had many opportunities like the one you're being presented with, to work in SF for that company. I took them. It has led to a successful career. I'm currently in Europe for my employer... third such trip.

Personally, I think you are making a HUGE mistake in not taking the offer from the company. MASSIVE.

A quote attributed to Mark Twain... "Don't let schooling interfere with your education." and I think he was SPOT ON.

Your greatest education isn't going to come from the halls of a school/university. It will come from getting your hands dirty (so to speak) in your vocation.

And with the right experience, which I'm guessing you'd get at this firm... a degree matters even less and less.

I think you should reconsider. Seriously.

In any case, it's your decision, and I wish you well. If you have any questions, and want to talk more... feel free to drop me a line. My user at G mail.
I think the question is incompatible with the constraints. From a founder's point of view, there's no reason to master any language, let alone a new one. What matters is being just good enough at something to start iterating.
Thanks Bane for your detailed and informative reply. What you say makes a lot of sense.

It seems to be that contracting comes with a lot of job security risk due to funding variability and getting a full-time role in one of these MegaCorps or with the Feds directly comes with lots of politicking and competition since everybody wants to live off the largess of the US taxpayers.

I wish you the best in your endeavor whether that may be living off the US tax-payers or otherwise.
God damn. Not all defense contractors work on the NSA spying technologies. Personally, I think it'd be cool to work on anti-missile guidance systems or fighter jet avionics.
When the goal of that project is to get a great job, it doesn't make sense to turn your back on a great job to go back and finish your project and then go out again and try to get another great job. He always could have returned and finished out his last year if needed holding his head high knowing he took his shot at something awesome.

Anyone can apply and go to college, not everyone given a real opportunity to shine.
He was a famous Arabic mathematician, a pioneer of algebra and algorithms (both named after him).

(Just kidding. I also didn't know the answer, not having read SICP, this would be my guess, but I believe axblount is right.)
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If Moto's management can convince Google that having tens of thousands of employees making a nice but not special handset is a worthwhile use of Google resources, then yes.

But, in isolation, hells no. The moment this product was revealed, the product management process at dozens of 2nd and 3rd tier OEMs swings into action: "Make one like this, but faster and cheaper."

$200 is a nice price, but it isn't a stunning price. Moto isn't going to drive anything out of the market except, maybe, the Lumia 900, also $200, made by that other legacy high-cost OEM scrambling to stay in the top 10. Perhaps the lesson of Moto X is that it is a phone Nokia could have been making.
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Expensive green technologies aren’t as clean as they seem
Naysayers aside I think it'd be neat if it went even further and switched to an IIN-specific layout.
why not just eat a banana?
Wondering what Bill Gates and Warren Buffet could offer to the community (kaizen up!)
Unless they are employed by a university. In Sweden, employees of universities always own the invention even though universities function like companies in most aspects.
Exactly. With et meaning "and".
This is a great reply :).
Hi. My team is responsible for the checkout process at a large company. I won't give exact numbers, but more than $100m goes through our teams two pages.

>by the time I'm entering my credit card details, I'm already "converted".

Our numbers say otherwise. Optimization of our checkout page is a huge deal any change, even text, comes under scrutiny, and for good (i.e. measurable) reason.

Would I put this demo on our page? If the bugs and confusion can be fixed, I might try it for a very small test group and see what happens. Not sure the confusion can be fixed though.
And we learn the importance of commas

Defense subcontractor posted a job listing for XKEYSCORE, 2 weeks ago

Defense subcontractor posted a job listing for XKEYSCORE 2, weeks ago
> I can't really envision a scenario where Twitter killed them, but if you can, please share.

They enter the market with a competing product.
Probably true... but they didn't end up full-closing.
It's the CEO's fault. It's a business decision to allow un-checked code in ads or to not assign enough resources to properly check the code.
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This is really cool, and I hate to nitpick, but comparing "up to 90 minutes" with a "average wait time of 18 minutes" is misleading, wrong, and annoying. Let's compare average to average, not max to average.
That example came along fast. I didn't expect an Anglo-American example (assumption based on links) and I wonder about the origin? The lack of a period makes it somewhat simpler for system handling, but I wouldn't bet on it sailing through without issue.
I think blind people / screen readers might have difficulty with this interface, too. It's important to keep accessibility in mind when designing futuristic interfaces.
All people who work in marketing are dishonest. You literally can't trust any of them.

Edit: I guess sarcasm should be mentioned.
That's not right. Just because there's a startup boom now and plenty of people without degrees can get hired doesn't mean it will always be so. The very existence of any given startup is a fragile one, and all the larger size employers have a STRONG preference for educated applicants.
Exactly, it's diarrhea.
D'oh! Just wrote you back. My bad.

So the vetting we do is somewhat extreme. We ask you to sign on as an enterprise customer to run ads like that. Making things more official tends to weed people out pretty quickly and leaves us just the well-intending players.
Oh, yeah. It took me a while to process what they said, because I did put myself in their shoes... Am I really tired looking? Does my team think that? Am I putting off a negative tired vibe, or an excited about the hard work vibe, etc.

At the end of the day, and having talked to my team and family, I decided they just took a thin slice of experience and used it to make it into a negative... perhaps instead of being adult enough to say the real reason they didn't believe in me, the business, etc.
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Take this with a grain of salt, but IMO the reason some people who try to learn programming end up with this type of mindset is because they have a wrong mindset to begin with: they believe learning to program should be relatively easy and have an obvious and relatively simple path to mastery. From my experience, this is not the case at all. If you read any math textbook, generally the last problems in a section are the most difficult to understand and answer, unless you've mastered all the concepts in that section. Pure Computer Science is harder than pure math in many ways; 1) because unless you master all the concepts in a section, you won't get too far, and 2) computer science in general, but specifically this textbook is geared toward people who have already somewhat mastered mathematics, so all or most of the problems will be like the last problems of a section in a math textbook.

"If it comes easy, then you're not doing it right."
Google launches real time Analytics API
I wouldn't hire Bob because he's the kind of person that does not clean up after a mistake, instead try to pretend it is not in his powers and move on to let other people fix it. I would never like a person like this in my team.

I would hire bob snowden, or Bob manning though.
Because the NSA is dedicated toward detecting and gaining intel on organized terror collectives abroad.

Domestic terrorism is domestic and therefore under the FBI's purview. And despite what Snowden seems to think about mind-reading programs, unless either brother put out on the public Internet or phone communications what they were planning to do, there would have been no way for NSA to pre-emptively detect it even if they were warrantlessly monitoring all domestic communications.

So in a way your question is equivalent to asking why ASLR didn't stop that CSRF attack on the web page you just viewed.
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You could two-way bind this with a traditional payment form and end up with something that's useful in the traditional case (feedback about whether the data you're typing is going in the right place), and may delight users who understand what they're seeing and choose to interact with it.
essentially free of homeless

I feel it's worth mentioning that other cities and even other states have long had an unofficial policy of sending their homeless/crazy people to places like SF. This has now become the subject of lawsuits - see for example http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/12/first-lawsuit-fil...

As a fellow Euro, I agree with your overall argument, however.
The problem with some of these minimalist sign-up pages: I have no idea what's being pitched to me. I mean, yes, "track my trips" (or, in the About section, track my driving). What does that offer me that makes it worth trying?

If the product has any value, the page isn't illustrating it to me. The point of a minimalist page isnt' to throw just /any/ one-line slogan/summary at you, it's to throw a one-line that captures the value the product is offering you.

(By the by, I'm not being at all facetious - I still don't know what that app is supposed to do. Is it a mapper? A timer? Does it link photographs to GPS to track roadtrips? All of the above? None of the above? "Track" is just too vague).
In vim, ">>" and "<<" will indent and dedent the current line. It doesn't work with spaces and tabs mixed in with the line though. Bonus is you can do things like "10<<". This works even better with ":set rnu" turned on.
I can't wait to see this, I'm hoping you can get data about individual visitors. I'd love set up an instance to check out correlations and patterns, but it's much less useful on summarized data.
What's even stranger is that "OK Google" is the hotword for the Chrome Voice search thing they recently launched at IO.

Retconning "Google Now" into a voice assistant is weird because at IO they were saying how they wanted Google itself be the assistant, by modelling it after the Star Trek computer.

Also what happens when the actual, predictive Google Now comes out for Chrome?
She was just being direct and honest. She knows Yahoo's reputation precedes her.
I find PDF formatted books so difficult to use, I will reach for the paper version first :( But as discussed above, SICP does seem to be available in a convenient digital format.
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American culture is becoming so sad, especially when compared to what it used to be. Now everyone might turn each other in for suspecting they are terrorists. It reminds me of the communist days when people turned each other in for speaking against the Party or the President. Such culture is a lot harder to remove than one single tyrant. Very sad.