skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I meant the universities are accepting free money and that's why they won't reduce prices. If the government refuses to make "underwater" loans on degrees that are not worth the cost, we should expect prices to go down.
Except, governmental delusion aside, the existence of Area 51 was not actually secret. Everyone knew the place was there, and the most reasonable explanation for it (spy planes) turned out to be correct.

Also, A only implies B when there is some actual connection between A and B.
With a widespread adoption more security-related issues and bugs get discovered, with new security-related issues and bugs comes new fixes, and those fixes (especially the security-related ones) IMO are the incentive to update.

Whenever you release a new version with backwards-incompatible changes you discourage your audience to update and they fragment.

Your product exist because it solves a problem, and the moment your product gives more problems than the ones it solves, you discourage your users to use your product and they begin to look for options, and if an option that meets their needs doesn't exist they will stall (ex. Windows XP).

This means extra effort, since you have to maintain at least the most used major versions, and at the very least provide security updates to your users. Fragmentation is a 
headache
 migraine that you want to avoid whenever it's possible...

With a widespread adoption you have to evaluate deeply whether the fragmentation troubles are worth the value the backwards-incompatible changes will provide. It's not the same trouble having a hundred users, than having a billion users.
Yeah, the download of Irises is only 998x768 px.

And many of the others are similarly sized, almost all I've looked at under 1000px in either direction.
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Excellent! Didn't know about web components. Are there any big blockers that would prevent libraries like jQuery Mobile moving into this?
Is there a way to do this without installing addons to vim?
Heard it on IRC, but I guess it's trivially verifiable by comparing the code

Edit: it wasn't IRC, it was the comments here: http://lwn.net/Articles/560424/
This article has been reworded by blogs since 2010 some time:

http://calabarboy.com/2010/10/11/the-true-size-of-africa-kai...
I'm sure manufacturers keep an eye on some minimum standards for battery life over product life - they do have a financial incentive to do so, both from a brand quality perspective and in terms of the cost of each visit to the Genius Bar / warranty claim. I replaced the battery on my MacBook twice under warranty, I can't imagine that laptop ended up being profitable for Apple.
Would $5/mo be more reasonable?

All the competitors charge $10/mo or more at their starter price, and their free tier is all but unusable (some include ads).

I understand that $10/mo might seem unreasonable for some use cases.
Really?

I opted out of it. The temporary opt out expired. I've now been forcibly opted in to the new theme, compose, etc. And was not offered any alternative.

How do I tell it that I want to go back to my old version, complete with the custom theme chosen so that I had a fixed width font? Any suggestions?
I can’t believe Foreign Policy didn’t black out Y.

Apart from that, if these people are allowed to use Twitter to spread their messages, they shouldn’t be treated any different from any other account – so the question is whether to allow people to spread such messages using Twitter, and from my outsider-like perspective, it appears that Americans usually have a rather strong opinion regarding freedom of speech.
Thanks for using BloomThat! The impact of sending flowers in the moment just to say thanks is really powerful. It's great to see people use the service for things other than the twice annual obligatory flower sends.
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> version -1.0.0.

Version negative one? I don't think I've ever seen that before. Usually, the very earliest versions of software are numbered like 0.0.1 or something like that.
you can decide, you just have to train gmail a little. When you drag an email into a new tab it'll ask if you want all email in the future to go into that tab.
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Fortunately, a more nuanced solution is possible. Want a STEM degree from an efficient school? Sign here for the loan. Want a degree in culture studies? No loan for you.
Yeah, uh, I didn't mention that you are only employed as long as the employer thinks you are useful because that's obvious, and is true across all fields. Dressing nice doesn't change that, except to the extent that dressing nice makes you more useful in your job role.

My point was just that if you are in management or sales, it seems that having expensive clothing and an expensive car are part of that 'being useful' - Appearance is a huge part of those jobs that are primarily human interaction. Appearance is a hugely important when dealing with other humans. I mean, I'm not saying that social skills and appearance don't matter for the technical individual contributor; they do, but it is not everything (like it is for management and sales.) It is possible to be technically good enough that people are willing to employ you in spite of your poor social skills. Obviously, that isn't the case for sales and management (as those jobs are, in a very real sense, social skills in and of themselves.)

Also note: If you are dealing directly with VC, you are more sales/management than an individual contributor.
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Same. I made the switch when KDE started supporting the Ctrl+Alt+Arrow Keys to spin my desktop around on a six-sided cube. So much handier to flip between sides. I really miss that in Windows.
Many of them look like they are out of copyright anyway, although not all.
Wow! Thanks for that link!
- here actually negates the ordering of the numbers in the list. -1.0.0 === 0.0.1.
I love the promotions tab for exactly the reason that marketers hate it. If I haven't opened an email in the promotions folder after a week, I've begun unsubscribing from it.

And now a few weeks later my inbox's without the tabs (phone and tablet) are a lot cleaner and more sane.

Newegg and Groupon and other mass marketers _have_ to hate this.
Except, I didn't mean A51, I meant the Locheed stealth plane programs.
Spot on observation IMO
The peters projection doesn't solve the size problems, it just moves them around.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map

If you are interested in a size-accurate map, you can't get much better than that.
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I'd be more interested in Area 52.
I have had a problem where people sign up for stuff using my email address. Yes I can (and do) unsubscribe, but it is really nice that these are now pretty much all filtered out of my inbox automatically.

I've never seen a marketer verify email to make sure it was actually the requester who owns the email like other web services do.
If you have AdBlock, it's fairly simple to block the distracting images by clicking on them. Otherwise, you can inject a little CSS into the page using JavaScript on the console. I agree that the GIFs were very distracting. Static GIFs probably could have captured the feel of the game era just as well.
The resounding question in my mind is why this, when there is Stackless Python? What's better about this greenthreading impl? http://www.stackless.com/
> - here actually negates the ordering of the numbers in the list. -1.0.0 === 0.0.1.

Well, I've certainly never seen that before.
Whoops, got my noun and tenses mixed up. Updated, Thanks!
I think michaelochurch was pushing for things like open allocation and taking responsibilities for things like performance improvement away from HR.
>That's why I didn't tell you to read the blog. I told you to look at the sources

If you're fast and loose with stats and terms you can prove anything. As I read the post, I was struck by the way the writer weaved in disparate studies, terms, and references. I'm very sure there is quite a bit nuance in her claims and because this was written by someone with such a huge conflict of interest (her position literally exists to further private college interest and would she would never, ever argue something that would be counter to those interests), I have to ignore it. There's only 24 hours in a day, and because I don't have the energy to fact check her, I have to dismiss it.

>Most importantly, a simple increase in demand: Students need to do something to give them an edge in the job market. The safest way to do that is still, by far, to go to college.

That's your guess??!?!?! Of course kids want to go to college, just like all kids want a luxury car and fly first class everywhere, so no, demand isn't a great answer. If tuition is high, and you don't have money and you can't get a loan, you don't go to college. Responsible lenders certainly wouldn't lend to everybody, regardless of credi score or repayment ability, but they do. Does that not sound like it could be a problem?

What I don't understand from your perspective is how you can not even imagine that $1.2 trillion in outstanding federally back loans (with around half of it NOT being repaid) would not contribute to the increased tuition costs?!? That's over a trillion dollars that may otherwise have been available if the private lenders had to take on all the typical lending liabilities. That's over a trillion dollars to divvy up between all the colleges and universities (and lenders)! It's insane that tuition outpaced all other costs, including medical costs which are crazy. It looks clear as hell that there is a huge market distortion happening.
I'm of the opinion that the entire discipline is in need of a reboot. History has shown that most of the research into the management science bits is of an extremely poor quality and the field is in such a state of denial that they simply can't accept this.

One of the major issues is the concept that a person, with no specific experience of understanding of a certain industry can take a couple years of generic administration courses and get slapped into a VP role in any given company. This concept extends down to the worker bees in that the assumption is made that workers are fungible.

I think this is a fundamental flaw in current management theory that needs to be burned out of the entire field with extreme prejudice. It colors the entire field and I believe is the root cause of most of the major failures in the field.

The case of John Scully is a particularly notable example.

There are some schools that have toyed around with industry focused management degrees, a step in the right direction. You can learn how to manage a business in a particular kind of field...managing professional services in a software vertical is unbelievably different from managing the R&D division for a major cosmetics company, managing a small company is unbelievably different from managing in a megacorp.

I think also that MBAs simply shouldn't be available until a person has a few years of industry experience under their belt -- much like executive MBAs are today.

I think at the very least, because of the damage a shitty MBA student can do in the world, it should require industry specific professional certification that needs to be maintained and has an ethics bar like becoming a lawyer to self-censure particularly bad apples.
That's better, but what you will end up with is colleges pricing their "good" degrees higher and higher until they have captured almost all of the wage surplus that workers get from going to college.
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Just a warning, flickering light near the bottom. No idea how epilepsy works but best to be safe...
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Regarding who is supposed to use it...
If you like deploying your apps to a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) like Heroku, Google AppEngine, or DotCloud, but wanted to run it on your own infrastructure, then Docker could be for you!

It's designed to be a key building block for anyone who wants to create their own PaaS-like service or environment. Why would you need your own PaaS? You might have unique security requirements forcing you to run an app in-house, or you might not want to pay the high prices of a commercial PaaS if your app gets popular.
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I decided to start a consultancy instead of going into the startup world. For me, it was an easy decision.

I enjoy working with clients, and have been fortunate enough to cultivate a great client base. The clients I work with are involved in various public-interest areas. To me this is much more motivating and fulfilling than 98% of startup ideas. (That said, the other 2% are breathtaking).

The income side is quite nice. I'm consistently pulling down $30-$50k monthly. Much of what I don't spend gets invested and generates additional investment income. I have another muse business that I put some time into and I also invest in the businesses of a few friends.

Better still is that I took no outside money. I have complete control over the company and our decision-making.

I can be honest with the people around me about how things are going. I don't need to keep up appearances that "we're crushing it". When things are challenging I can share that with the people around me. I have an incredible group of mentors and people who provide support in various ways.

I have control over my time. I work a lot of hours, usually in the range of 70-90/week, but it's all of my own choosing. Nobody pressures me to pull all-nighters, or do death marches for deadlines. I can take time off during the days. It's great to be able to go for a hike or our for a drive on a Tuesday afternoon. I usually start my workday around noon, take a break in the evening and do another block of work in the night.

This lifestyle is much more compatible with having a fulfilling personal life. I'm able to spend more time with my family and friends, and really be present for the people that I care about when they need me. Dating and relationships are orders-of-magnitude easier.

I'm able to personally capture the value that I create. No fractional equity wing-and-a-prayer. No hoping that my work gets recognized come bonus time.

I have complete location independence. I was in 20 countries in 2012. So far this year (mid-august), I've been in 11. I'm writing this from São Paulo.

One of the most amusing things to me is that I still get contacted by recruiters telling me about "exciting opportunities" at "well-funded" startups with "competitive salaries" and such benefits as foosball tables and free snacks.

I have many friends in the startup scene. Once in a blue moon, I consult for startups. Mainly in the healthcare and knowledge management spaces. I respect the game, the hustle, and particularly the challenge of building something new and breaking into the market. I'm a big fan of Eric Ries, Steve Blank, and HN. I also find that many of the insights from lean startup, customer development thinking are equally applicable or adaptable to the world of consulting.

Maybe some day, I'll get the infection of a startup idea so inspiring that I decide to drop everything to pursue it. So far, I seem to be well-immunized against that.
I overall agree with you, but the vast majority of mortgages are being backed by the Federal government right now.
[spoiler alert] Jiro Horikoshi's life has certain parallels with that of the other (more famous) (weapon) developer, Feynman.
You've obviously never read any Mencius Moldbug [1].

[1] http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com
one of the possible way would be to follow the French model, where all secondary education(university-and-higher level) is free, but is agonizingly difficult to pass. If I remember correctly, the French universities fail 75% of first-year and second-year students in yearly exams, with only one chance to re-take the exam; in other words, you get only three shot of writing an yearly exam, which you must pass twice within 2 years. Only when you prove yourself worthy(of national investment) and get to the third year do you get the respect you deserve. If you fail twice in your area before the third year? Too bad, you can't study your degree in any school from the country and have it paid by the country, ever.

It's rather harsh 'weedout' system that may be unfair in some regard, but the point is that you only let those who are dedicated enough to climb up, to walk home with a diploma which they deserve.

Nowadays it seems as though the diploma isn't a sign of distinction, but a norm; in other words there are simply too many university graduates. This should change, in my opinion. Someone mentioned the era of baby-boomers, and I partially agree; back then, entering the job market with a college diploma meant that you were promised a prospect for a house, a car, and a life with a backyard: the middle-class American life.

A point I'd like to make is that in the era of baby-boomers, a college diploma was worth it because there hadn't been many with higher education. Besides, what parent wouldn't want his/her children to have a worse life than him/her? If you spent your twenties to forties with the benefit of diploma, or have watched others' life with the benefit, wouldn't you want your children to live with the diploma, the promise you hadn't got?

This resulted in a vastly high supply of college/university graduates; and as the law of supply-and-demand dictates, the value of diploma has now been in steady decline. The problem isn't that the university is too expansive; it's that the university education is too expansive compared to the benefits it promises.

If I were to suggest the solution to this problem, I would suggest to make diploma really, really worth it. We already have mandatory weedout courses in computer science: Generally one with pointers or operating system, the one most kids without the aptitude simply can't pass. Reduce the number of graduates we produce, either by capping it, or making the graduation impossible without the aptitude or dedication.

Is it unfair to some people? Yes, to the slackers who treat university as a away-from-parents paradise with fun and booze. Liberal arts or English majors shouldn't be made fun of because of their life choice, but should be respected for their dedication to the studies. If you ask me, I'd say there are simply too many kids graduating with Lib. Arts major who don't deserve a tenth of the elaborate philosophy.
I really liked fish, but as someone who is still learning bash/cli scripting, it makes things difficult when instructions from programs come only in Bash syntax, which does not work well with fish (some things with homebrew were an absolute nightmare to install).
scanning all 65,535 ports of a /16 subnet in 45 min

...or in other words:

scanning all ports in the reserved Class C range,
from 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255, in 45 min
"... perspective is everything."

Indeed.

If, for example, Rolling Stone were to approach this story as others have approached stories about the high cost of healthcare in America, i.e., by comparing the costs there with the costs in other countries with similarly high standards of living, it might produce a more interesting perspective. Readers might see that there are students in certain other countries who are having their educations financed under far more financially-friendly terms than those now presented to American youths.

When a journalist shows the reader the healthcare costs in her country compared to those in other comparable countries, maybe it sends a powerful message to the reader. Journalists covering education costs should perhaps consider this approach.
"Indeed, while there are your typical use cases like boyfriend-forgets-anniversary"

What about girlfriends sending flowers to boyfriends? I'll bet that majority of purchases to a significant other are made by a male, which is not really gender equal.

I've never given a SO flowers, such a practise seems pretty silly. It's like paying for caring.
The Philippines is a perfect example: "But, while Mt. Pinatubo provided a visible excuse to abandon the air base, U.S. officials were increasingly coming to view the facility as too expensive, as well as unnecessary in a time of tight budgets and easing post-Cold War tensions. Philippine political hostility to the continuing U.S. military presence and acrimonious negotiations with Philippine officials also made retention of the facility less attractive." (http://articles.latimes.com/1991-07-18/news/mn-3381_1_clark-...)

Dick Cheney said, "We have made a decision ... that we simply do not want to go back in and try to reuse Clark Air Force Base. The cost of doing so would be several hundred million dollars. It's in an area that is still threatened by continuing eruptions by the volcano."

> So what?

Indeed, "so what?" is our common reply to people's wishes to get our military off their land, as with Cuba's Guantanamo Bay and the Middle East in general.

I already mentioned one obvious alternative to occupying Okinawa against its residents' wishes. But as usual, "so what?" is the response.

> We "let" Japan do things to the same extent we "let" other countries do things.

Yep, ask people in the Middle East, Cuba, etc. (That's it from me, given that I cite evidence rather than merely repeat vague snatches of politics we can get from propaganda sources. I wish others would show us the same respect.)
A slightly late reply on my part, but when I went on the page initially, the link wasn't there. :)
It's interesting to see that this supports pushing to redis lists, which is clarified as being an 'output module.'

https://zmap.io/documentation.html#extending

Very good, very extensible.
This may help explain the difference: http://blog.golang.org/concurrency-is-not-parallelism
I saw the image of a million bookmarks as the problem it sought to solve, which is great. So I bookmarked it.
The web components spec is precisely what AngularJS has been anticipating since Angular's inception. I believe the idea was (and still may be) to integrate web components once they are officially adopted by the major browsers.
Well in addition to not having a problem with callback hell I also haven't used a debugger in more than three years, so I guess I'm just weird.

As I said I like to write unit tests with my named callbacks. This allows me to test the callbacks as well as the root level functions that make use of these callbacks to ensure that everything is working perfectly.

When I follow this model it is extremely rare that I ever encounter any issues that would need a debugger, and if a problem does arise somewhere the relevant unit test can quickly expose which callback is having a trouble, and precisely what is wrong.

I'm not saying callbacks are perfect. My goal is just to share my technique for organizing my code in Node which I feel has led to some very well organized, testable, and maintainable code.
For what it's worth, I really loved Google Buzz, and all the techies I knew used it, but we didn't migrate to Google+ when Google Buzz was discontinued. We were just very sad.
It sounds like you're more of a proponent of Hacker doing a work-for-hire or one off freelance project for a fee -- as a way to avoid the inherent employer/employee antagonism from the get go?